Great Scot Alumni Awards Show Possibilities for Students

Dr. Carrie Dahl Tibbles is an assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, the associate director of the Harvard Affiliated Emergency Medicine Residency Program, and the associate director of Graduate Medical Education at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. But amidst this mouthful of titles, there is one that hits home: Gordon grad. Tibbles ’93 is one of eight alumni that will be honored at the Great Scot Alumni Awards this Homecoming Friday, October 8^th, at 7:00 p.m. in the Ken Olson Science Center. The event will begin with hors d’oeuvres, followed by the presentations at 7:45 p.m., and will close with coffee and desserts.

“The awards are an opportunity for the college to honor alumni who have impacted their work places, communities, and the lives of those around them,” said Adrianne Cook, Director of Alumni and Parent Relations, “work that is often done faithfully and selflessly, without fanfare.”

Alumni are nominated by faculty, staff, fellow alumni, friends, or family via the Gordon website. This year, there are six awards. Tibbles will be awarded the Alumna of the Year Award for her outstanding accomplishments in the medical field. Owen Webb, a graduate of '03 who has already achieved great success in his career field, will receive the Young Alumnus Award. Jason Revilla ’01 and James Grumbine ’01, co-owners of Faith & Fortune, a clothing company that helps promote non-profit organizations, will receive the Jack Good Community Service Award. As missionaries in France for years, Robert ’97 and Heidi Walker Winslow ’97 will be awarded the A.J. Gordon Missionary Service Award. A high school chemistry teacher for the duration of his career, Harry Hesketh Jr. ’63 will receive the Winifred Currie Alumni Award in Education. Professor Theodore Wood, winner of the Lifetime Achievement Award, taught for 30 years at Gordon in the Business and Economics Department and was the founding director of the Center for Nonprofit Studies as well as founder of the academic minor in Nonprofit Organization Management and Philanthropy.

The awards represent a wide range of possibilities that come with a Gordon education. It’s a chance for current students to see how their time spent at the college can affect the rest of their lives.

“It’s easy to put blinders on and focus only on the next paper or test or game,” said Cook. “Hearing the stories of these alumni serves to take those blinders off and expand the scope of what students think is possible.”