The College began its third century by establishing a new honor for alumni the Eliphalet Nott Medal.
The medal will be awarded to alumni who have achieved outstanding success in their professional fields. It is named after Union's great nineteenth-century president, Eliphalet Nott, who served the College from 1804 to 1866, the longest tenure of any American college president.
President Roger Hull, who had the idea for the honor, presented medals to six alumni during the Founders Day convocation on February 25. Recipients were:
Baruch S. (Barry) Blumberg '46, Fox Chase Distinguished Scientist at the Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia and winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine in 1976;
Robert I. Chartoff '55, president of Chartoff Productions, a film production company in Santa Monica, Calif.,
and producer of such films as the Rocky series, The Right Stuff, Raging Bull, and others;
A. Lee Fritschler '59, president of Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pa., and former chairman of the U.S. Postal Rate Commission;
Michael J. Fuchs '67, chairman and chief executive officer of Home Box Office;
Robert A. Laudise '52, adjunct research director for chemistry at AT&T Bell Laboratories;
Kathleen M. White '72, editor-in-chief of Redbook magazine and the former editor of McCall's, Working Woman, Child, and Mademoiselle magazines.