February 28, 2006

Carrie and Conrad to Receive UIAA award

It gives me great pleasure to announce that the University of Illinois Alumni Association will be presenting two CUPPA alumni with the 2006 University of Illinois Constituent Leadership Award.

Conrad Pomykala, MPA 91, one of the founding board members of our CUPPA constituent group, will be recognized for his outstanding contribution over the years on our board. Though he stepped down from the board in 2003 to pursue other volunteer activities, his leadership on such issues of great importance as our board bylaws, will live long into CUPPA Alumni Association history. Conrad also served as liaison to the Chicago Constituent Alumni Advisory Board and was the CUPPA representative on the Constituent Management Committee. Conrad remains in touch with the CUPPA Alumni Board and still serves informally as our UIC campus ambassador.

Carrie Makarewicz, MUPP 01, our current board president, will be recognized for her dedicated service to the alumni group. As president, she has facilitated relationships among alumni, faculty, staff, and students in many valuable ways and she has played an instrumental role in the institutionalization of our CUPPA Life-long Learning Day and our annual Spring Speakers Series. She serves on and attends almost every single committee meeting of the board and represents the board each time she is called upon by the college and the university.

Congratulations to Conrad and Carrie!

A formal recognition will take place at the UIAA Leadership Awards Dinner at UIC on Thursday, March 30, at 6:00 p.m. in UIC's Student Center West. Tickets for the dinner event are $25 and can be purchased by March 10 by using the attached form.

Two of CUPPA's current students, Noel Henderson-James, MUPP, UPPSA president, and Tara Childs, MPA, PASA president, will also be recognized as student leaders at the event.

Thank you.

-Jodi White Jones, Assistant Dean for Advancement-