Harvard Students, Staff Receive Awards for Race Relation Efforts

The Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations honored 38 undergraduates for their contributions to interracial understanding and cultural awareness at the University at an award dinner held Thursday, April 23.

The dinner honored the memory of David Aloian, who served as Master of Quincy House and executive director of the Harvard Alumni Association during his tenure at Harvard. Aloian and his wife, Mimi, were early supporters of the goals and endeavors of the Harvard Foundation. The dinner is cosponsored annually by Michael Shinagel, Master of Quincy House and Dean of the Extension School.

Two students, Nana Coleman '98 and Sarita James '98, nominated by the director of the Foundation, the Dean of Harvard College, and their House Masters, received the Harvard Foundation Director's medal for their outstanding leadership and contributions to the improvement of race relations and intercultural life of the University.

Other students receiving awards were Phillip Atiba Goff '99, Dionne Andrea Fraser '99, Mustafa Mohsin Siddiqui '99, Stacye Lynette Baker '98, Mark Alexander Price '98, Lamelle Daile Rawlins '99, Nanaho Sawano '98, Salvatore Gogliormella '98, Rosanna Antonia Orfield '98, Isaac Robert Simon Hodes '99, Thomas Zabuna Lukoma '98, Derrick Nana-Abaka Ashong '97, Alfred Fraijo '99, Daniel Hayden Stephens '98, Jason Daniel Williamson '98, Shatema Annice Threadcraft '99, Belinda Julie McIntosh '99, Jennifer Lee '98-99, Allison S. Feaster '98, and Nicola Alexandra McKinney '99.

The awards were presented by Dr. S. Allen Counter, director of the Harvard Foundation; Shinagel; and David L. Evans, senior admissions officer for Harvard-Radcliffe and member of the Harvard Foundation Advisory Committee.

A number of students received Honorable Mention for their work on the Cultural Rhythms Festival. They are: Caolionn O'Connell '00, Brian Anderson '00, Mahmood Firouzbakht '98-99, Nancy Lin '99, Sukanya Lahiri '00, Kamil Redmond '00, Brian Howard '00, Brian Daigle '00, Marwah Abdalla '00, Sergio Castellon '00, Macarena Correa '00, Weston Eguchi '99, Shin Lin '99, Mohamad Al-Ississ '99, Anita Wong '99, and Devi SenGupta '98.

This year's recipient of the faculty/staff award for notable

contributions in the area of race relations was Dean William R.

Fitzsimmons, Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid. The faculty/staff award, which is voted by the students of the Harvard Foundation, and signed by President Neil L. Rudenstine and Dean of Harvard College Harry Lewis, recognized Fitzsimmons for "his commendable efforts to increase diversity in college admission, and to acknowledge his notable contributions to intercultural and race relations."