Three exceptional staff members to receive 2011 Amy J. Blue Awards
The awards ceremony will take place from 3:30 to 5 p.m. on Tuesday, May 17, in Lagunita Courtyard.
This year, staff members in Student Housing, Undergraduate Advising and Research, and the Department of Computer Science will receive Amy J. Blue Awards.
Now in its 21st year, the awards honor staff members who are exceptionally dedicated, supportive of colleagues and passionate about their work.
The honorees are Manuel Bautista, a plumber who was recently promoted to a lead position in Student Housing; Dean A. Eyre III, program assistant for the research advising team in Undergraduate Advising and Research; and Peche Turner, the department manager in the Department of Computer Science.
The awards were established in 1991 to honor the life and work of Amy J. Blue, an associate vice president for administrative services and facilities who died of brain cancer in May 1988, about a month before her 45th birthday.
Stanford also created a garden in her name, a small oasis of flowering trees and shrubs now located near Memorial Church. It has four wooden benches, including one that rocks, and a sundial with an engraved motto: "Count only happy hours."
The original Amy J. Blue Garden was located in the Serra Complex, which was torn down to make way for the new Knight Management Center.
Blue was known as a whirlwind of a woman who propelled excitement, intensity and novelty into every undertaking. She also was known as an extraordinary leader – a woman of incisive intelligence, abundant energy and unrelenting honesty.
Bautista, Eyre and Turner will be honored at a ceremony that will take place from 3:30 to 5 p.m. May 17 in the central courtyard of Lagunita Court (on Santa Teresa Street, across from Roble Field).
All of this year's nominees and those who nominated them are invited to the event.
The award includes a $3,000 prize and an "A" parking permit for the 2011-12 academic year.
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