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Home > News & Events > CLA Today Archive > Spring 2001 : Alumni/ae Awards & Accolades

Alumni/ae Awards & Accolades

Annette Van Dyke (Ph.D. '87, American studies) was elected president of the National Women's Studies Association.

Mildred Jeffrey (B.A. '32)—a founder of the National Political Women's Caucus and participant in the 1965 civil rights voting march from Selma to Montgomery, Ala.—received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian award.

Gene B. Sperling, (B.A. '82, political science) joined the Brookings Institution as a guest scholar in the economic, foreign policy, and governmental studies programs. Sperling was President Clinton's national economic adviser and director of the National Economic Council.

John Finnegan Sr. (B.A. '48 journalism, M.A. '65 mass communication), former executive of the St. Paul Pioneer Press, was one of ten people inducted in March into the Freedom of Information Act Hall of Fame in Arlington, Va.

Mark Tasker (M.A. '95, Scandinavian studies) wrote the guide for the Smithsonian Institution's exhibit “Vikings—The North Atlantic Saga." Tasker is a founding member of the Maine School of Science and Math.

Erin Soderberg (B.A. '99 summa cum laude English/theatre) published a children's book, Dinosaur Dig.

Scott Magnuson-Martinson (B.A., sociology) is president-elect of Sociologists of Minnesota.