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Five to Receive Commencement Honors - 11/28/95
FIVE TO RECEIVE SPECIAL COMMENCEMENT HONORS AT OHIO STATE
COLUMBUS -- The achievements of two scientists, a
philanthropist, a social worker, and a business executive will be
recognized with special honors during The Ohio State University's
autumn quarter commencement Dec. 8 in St. John Arena.
The Joseph Sullivant Medal will be awarded to cancer
researcher Thomas J. Dougherty of Buffalo, N.Y., who will deliver
the commencement address. Honorary doctorates will be presented
to scientist Daniel Hillel of Amherst, Mass., and philanthropist
Jeanne Bonnet McCoy of Columbus.
The Distinguished Service Award will be presented to
business executive Charles Y. Lazarus and to social worker
Colleen Clemens McMurray, both of Columbus.
Thomas J. Dougherty, Joseph Sullivant Medal
A 1959 Ph.D. graduate of Ohio State in physical-organic
chemistry, Thomas J. Dougherty is internationally recognized as
the originator and the foremost developer of the experimental
aspects, theory and clinical utility of Photodynamic Therapy
(PDT) for the treatment of cancer.
After a highly productive research career in photochemistry
with the DuPont Co. from 1959 to 1970, Dougherty joined the
Roswell Park Cancer Institute in Buffalo, N.Y., as a research
associate. There, he began an experimental program on the uses
of the responses of chemicals to light for treatment of human
diseases. His research has contributed to the development of new
methods of cancer therapy that are being used along with
traditional surgery, chemotherapy and X-ray radiation.
Throughout the past 25 years of Dougherty's research,
thousands of cancer patients in the United States, Japan, China,
Canada, England, Central Europe and the Soviet Union have been
treated with PDT methods. Some 100 hospitals have major clinical
programs in photochemical oncology and many physicians are being
trained to use laser-activated chemical oncology protocols.
PDT is being used experimentally for malignancies of the
lung, bladder, esophagus, ovary, colon and eye. For such tumors,
light is introduced through the mouth, nose, urethra, rectum and
into the eye by lasers using fiber optics. PDT is effective with
early tumors and is not usable for cancers which are unreachable
by light.
Dougherty holds 14 patents, with three patents pending, and
is the president and research director of the Oncologic
Foundation of Buffalo. He has authored or co-authored some 140
publications and is involved in establishing photochemical
medical systems for treatment of diseases other than cancer.
Established in 1920 by Ohio State Professor of Physics
Thomas C. Mendenhall, the Sullivant Medal offers recognition of
notable achievements by alumni or faculty members.
Daniel Hillel, Doctor of Science
Daniel Hillel, professor of soil physics at the University
of Massachusetts, Amherst, has been a leading force in the
ecological development of Israel through his expertise in soil
science and arid land management.
Hillel received his bachelor of science degree from the
University of Georgia in 1950 and a master of science degree from
Rutgers University in 1951. A native of California who moved to
Israel as a child, Hillel returned to Israel in 1951, where he
conducted scientific studies of desert ecology and hydrology. In
1958, he received the first doctorate in soil physics awarded by
the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.
Hillel was appointed head of the Soil and Water Institute of
Israel's Agricultural Research Service, where he was instrumental
in developing more efficient methods of irrigation and land
management. From 1966 to 1974, he served as professor and head
of the Department of Soil and Water Services at the Hebrew
University. He joined the faculty at the University of
Massachusetts in 1977 and in 1991, was named an adjunct professor
at Haifa University's Environmental Research Center.
Hillel has written or edited 16 books, including Out of the
Earth: Civilization and the Life of the Soil, which won a first
place award from the American Association of Publishers for
excellence in earth sciences and geography, and Rivers of Eden:
The Struggle for Water and the Quest for Peace in the Middle
East, which was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize.
Jeanne Bonnet McCoy, Doctor of Humane Letters
Jeanne Bonnet McCoy of Columbus, in her appreciation for
education and its benefits, has maintained support for Ohio State
for many years. She received her degree in English from Ohio
State in 1937.
McCoy established the Jeanne Bonnet McCoy Presidential
Scholars Fund in 1993 to support exceptional students over their
four years at Ohio State. Her gift will allow the university to
eventually support a total of eight students and will aid
immeasurably in attracting top students to the university.
Jeanne McCoy and her husband, John G. McCoy, have supported
a wide variety of programs at Ohio State, including medicine, the
James Cancer Hospital, and the Historic Costume and Textiles
Collection. She is serving as co-chair for Ohio State's National
Merit Scholarship Initiative during the current five-year fund-
raising campaign.
A long-time leader in Central Ohio's arts community, McCoy
is a charter member of the Women's Board of the Columbus Museum
of Art, and an honorary life member of the Inniswood Garden
Society Board. She is a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority.
Charles Y. Lazarus, Distinguished Service Award
Charles Y. Lazarus has long been a loyal and devoted friend
of The Ohio State University as a charter member of the
Presidents Club, the University Hospitals Board and the James
Cancer Hospital Foundation Board.
Lazarus, chairman emeritus of F&R Lazarus Co., attended Ohio
State and Williams College, graduating in 1936 from Yale
University with a Bachelor of Arts degree. He holds honorary
degrees from Capital University and Ohio Dominican College.
Before retiring in 1981, Lazarus served as chairman and
chief executive officer of F&R Lazarus, the Columbus retail giant
founded by his great-grandfather, Simon Lazarus, in 1851. He
began his career as a salesperson in bedding and linens with
Lazarus in 1936, working his way up as department manager and
division manager before being named executive vice president and
CEO in 1969.
In 1968, he became a director of the Alumni Advisory Board
and served as both a director and chairman of the Ohio State
Development Fund Board and the University Hospitals Board. His
generosity to the university has encompassed a wide variety of
programs, including athletics, medicine, human ecology, social
and behavioral sciences, academic affairs, WOSU, and the
libraries. He is a lifetime member of the Alumni Association.
Colleen Clemens McMurray, Distinguished Service Award
Colleen Clemens McMurray, a 1951 graduate of the College of
Social Administration (now Social Work), has been a leader in the
recruitment and retention of African-American students at Ohio
State.
McMurray is retired from a long career as a social worker,
during which she worked with the Franklin County Juvenile Court,
Boys Industrial Correctional Institution, Franklin County Welfare
Department, and the State of Ohio Department of Human Services.
She has kept close ties to the College of Social Work,
serving two three-year terms as the college's representative to
the university's Alumni Advisory Council, where she serves on the
steering committee. She served on the university's Student Loan
Association Board of Trustees for six years. In 1989 she was the
Alumni Association's representative on the Alumni Distinguished
Teaching Award Committee, and she has also served on the Alumni
Association's Awards Selection Committee.
As the College of Social Work representative to the Alumni
Advisory Council, she is a strong advocate for a curriculum
relevant to the 21st century social worker, and she has worked
diligently to raise funds for college programs.
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Contact: Tracy Turner, University Communications, (614)688-3682.
[Submitted by: Von Reid-Vargas (ereid@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu)
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