2007 Awards

H. Stanley Eichenauer, MSW '70
Distinguished Career Award

• Retired Senior Advisor Administrator, Mental System Transformation, US Department of Health and Human Services
• Master's of Divinity, United Theological Seminary
• Served as Deputy Executive Director, New Freedom Commission on Mental Health
• Retired President and CEO, Eastway Community Mental Health Center, Dayton, Ohio

Samira Beckwith, MSW '77
Distinguished Career Award

• President and CEO, Hope Hospice and Community Services, Ft. Myers, Florida
• Former Director, United Hospice Grand Forks, North Dakota
• Consultant and Surveyor, Accreditation Program for Hospice Care
• Former Oncology Social Worker, United Hospital Grand Forks, North Dakota
   

Claudia Coulton, MSW '72
Distinguished Career Award

• Professor, Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, Case Western Reserve University
• Co-Director, Center on Urban Poverty and Social Change, Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, Case Western Reserve University
• Associate Dean for Research, Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, Case Western Reserve

   

   

Beverly Watkins, PhD '88
Distinguished Career Award

• Assistant Vice President for Academic Affairs, Savannah State University
• Associate Professor and former Chair of Department of Social Work, Savannah State University
• Former Assistant Professor and Director of Field Instruction at The Ohio State University College of Social Work
• Former Coordinator of Clinical Services, Family Counseling and Crittenton Services

Keith Alford, PhD '97
Distinguished Recent Alum Award

• Associate Professor, Syracuse University College of Human Services
• Principal Investigator of large training grant to promote healthy marriage and family formation
• Former graduate investigator in evaluation of state-wide RITES of Passage Program for adolescent African American males
• Former Treatment Foster Care Supervisory, Search Light C.A.R.E., Inc.