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ACHIEVEMENTS AND HONORS

Lt. Gen. Richard Trefry ’46 has been honored by the Army with the creation of the Lieutenant General Richard G. Trefry Lifetime of Service Award, recognizing a lifetime of extraordinary service to the Army. Trefry’s 30-plus-year career included work as the Army inspector general under three Chiefs of Staff and Secretaries of the Army, chair of a group that resulted in the establishment of the Army Force Management School, and in the White House as military assistant to the president.

Christine Morris ’77 is the new executive director of Ronald McDonald Charities of Montana, a nonprofit that supports programs to improve the health and well being of children. Morris previous served as executive director of the History Museum in Great Falls, Montana.

Andrew Urban ’71 has been named a Diversity Hero by Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly. Urban, a managing member of Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, PC, founded the Boston Law Firm Group to assist in the recruitment and retention of minority attorneys to Boston law firms.

Chris von Eckartsberg ’84, a principal at BCV Architects in San Francisco, has earned a Retail Design Institute Award for designing Press Club, an urban wine-tasting room in San Francisco. His design won in the specialty food shop category and also took an award for most innovative lighting.

Amanda Anderson ’81, the Johns Hopkins’ Caroline Donovan Professor of English Literature, has been appointed a Guggenheim Fellow. Anderson specializes in critical theory and 19th-century British literature and culture.

Joseph Jiampietro ’87 is the new senior advisor for markets to the chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. (FDIC). He had been managing director of the J.P. Morgan financial institutions group in New York City.

ACHIEVEMENTS AND HONORS

David North ’85 is the new chief financial officer of New England Confectionery Co. (NECCO), America’s longest running, multi-line candy company, based in Revere, Massachusetts. He previously was vice president of Cookson Electronics, a $1 billion division of Cook-son Group Plc.

Laura Sankey ’86 has been named senior vice president of marketing and sales of the Green Bay Packers. Sankey most recently was executive vice president of marketing and communications at Qwest Communications, working with a range of sports entities such as the Seattle Seahawks, Denver Nuggets and Minnesota Twins.

Freddie Fu ’74, M.D., the chair of the orthopaedic surgery department at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, has been named president of the International Society of Arthroscopy, Knee Surgery and Orthopaedic Sports Medicine.

Eleni Tsakopoulos-Kounalakis ’89 of San Francisco has earned the Medal of St. Paul Tsakopoulos, the highest honor a layperson can receive from the Greek Orthodox Church of America, for her work as a church and community leader. She is a member of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocesan Council and California Blue Ribbon Commission on Autism, trustee to the World Conference of Religions for Peace and as an advisory for the International Society for Stem Cell Research.

Peter Campion ’98 and Susanna McFadden ’98 have won awards in the 113th annual Rome Prize Competition, which include stipends and residency at the American Academy in Rome. Campion, a poet and assistant professor at Auburn University, will work on El Dorado, while McFadden, an assistant professor of the history of art and music at Fordham, will work on “Articulating Power and Status in Late Antique Rome: A Study of Late Roman Pictorial