Band Honors Outstanding Student Musicians

Three members of the Class of 2000 recently received awards from the Harvard Band. Trumpeter Alex Caram and oboist-percussionist Shalla Santos won 1996 Malcolm Holmes Scholarships. Trumpeter Rachel Cheung received the 1996 Stephen D. MacDiarmid Award.

Caram served as vice president of his high school band and president of the Pennsylvania Youth Honors Concert Band. His many musical activities included playing lead trumpet in a jazz band and attending the 1994 Pennsylvania Governor's School for the Arts.

Santos' band activities date back to junior high school, where she played principal clarinet in symphonic band and percussion in the pep band. Later she took up oboe. She regularly held official positions and took part in Florida district and state festivals for soloists and ensembles.

Since starting on trumpet in eighth grade, Cheung has played in three all-county bands, two all-county orchestras (Washington County, Md.), and the Maryland All-County and All-State Jazz bands. At Smithsburg Senior High School, she won the Louis Armstrong Jazz Award.

The scholarships are named for former Band Director Mal Holmes '28. The MacDiarmid Award commemorates a Band member of the Class of 1977 who died shortly after Commencement. The prize goes annually to a new member of the Harvard Wind Ensemble who displays outstanding and diverse musical talents.

B. Leonard Holman and Ferenc Jolesz are the first physicians to receive the honorary doctorate degree of Pannon University, awarded to them this fall for their long association with the Faculty of Animal Science in Kaposvar, Hungary.

The occasion was the 200th anniversary of Pannon University. Holman is the Philip H. Cook Professor of Radiology at the Medical School and chief of the Department of Radiology at Brigham and Women's Hospital. Jolesz is professor of radiology and director of magnetic resonance imaging.

In 1991, the two physicians worked with the Pannon University of Agricultural Sciences to establish the Center for Collaborative Research. This joint effort has resulted in training of resident staff staff at Brigham and Women's Hospital and onsite research at Kaposvar in their Magnetic Resonance and Computed Tomography Center. This collaboration has extended these two imaging modalities to the study of animal disease and to development of techniques to evaluate breeder stock using noninvasive imaging.