Hollander Award
The Hollander Women’s Leadership Fund was established by Barbara Stone Hollander ’60 and Thomas Hollander, Esq. to support initiatives that encourage the preparation of Chatham College for Women of Chatham University students as public leaders by bringing outstanding women leaders to the campus and by providing grants for student activities related to leadership development. Previous student activities include attendance at the Beijing Women’s Conference and internships with the Gore Presidential Campaign and in the Irish Parliament.
Thus, there are two awards given through this fund, the Hollander Award for Women’s Leadership and the Hollander Student Leadership Prize. Metamorphosis, the sculpture featured to the right was created by artist, Jerry Caplan and made possible through the generosity of Thomas Hollander, Esq. in memory of his wife, Chatham alumna, Barbara Stone Hollander ’60. It is located in the Metamorphosis Garden behind Mellon Hall.
Hollander Award for Women’s Leadership
The Hollander Award for Women’s Leadership is given biannually to recognize a woman leader who has made significant contributions to her community and who serves as an exemplary role model for other women. Part of the award includes a funded visit to campus allowing the recipient the opportunity to meet with students and help them appreciate and explore the potential contributions they can make to society.
Past recipients include: Joan Blades, co-founder of MoveOn.org; Lieutenant Governor Kathleen Kennedy Townsend; Former Congresswoman Marjorie Margolies Mezvinsky; The Honorable Cynthia A. Baldwin; and The Honorable Monica McWilliams, member of the Northern Ireland Parliament and co-founder of the Northern Ireland Women’s Coalition political party.
Hollander Student Leadership Prize
The Hollander Student Leadership Prize is awarded annually to a student seeking practical experience in leadership development (e.g., a government or community-based internship, a formal leadership education program, a community service project where the recipient may provide direct leadership). Past Recipients include: Susan Homer ’96, Kristin DeLuca ’01, Bridget McNamee ’02, Geneen Taylor ’04, Maureen Mayo ’04, Juliana Cohen ’05, Kari Smith ’08, and Cathleen Colbert, ’09.
The Hollander Women’s Leadership Fund is a permanent part of the Chatham University endowment. If you are interested in supporting the Hollander Women’s Leadership Fund at Chatham University, please contact the Office of Institutional Advancement at 412-365-1516 or you may send a check payable to Chatham University/Hollander Women’s Leadership Fund to: Office of Institutional Advancement, Chatham University, Beatty House, Woodland Road, Pittsburgh, PA 15232.
Anne Garrels Receives 2007 Hollander Award
In recognition of her global and influential career in journalism, often in locations in conflict, Chatham University will presented the 2007 Hollander Award for Women’s Leadership to National Public Radio (NPR) senior foreign correspondent and author of Naked in Baghdad to Anne Garrels. The Hollander Award and the Hollander Student Leadership Prize were presented at a private dinner on Wednesday, March 28, 2007. A free public lecture by Ms. Garrels, presented in conjunction with the World Affairs Council of Pittsburgh, was held on March 29th in the College’s Eddy Theatre. A book signing immediately followed.
Anne Garrels is a senior correspondent for NPR’s foreign desk. She has spent the past four years in Iraq covering the country under Saddam Hussein’s regime and through the U.S. invasion and its aftermath. She earned international recognition in 2003 by being one of 16 U.S. journalists to remain in Baghdad during the initial phase of the war. Her vivid, around-the-clock reports from the city under siege gave listeners remarkable insight into the impact of the war and the violence to come.
As U.S.-led forces advanced on the city, Ms. Garrels remained at her post, describing the scene on the streets and reactions from those she encountered. Her experiences in Baghdad are chronicled in Naked in Baghdad (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, September 2003). Since Sept. 11, 2001, Ms. Garrels has also reported from Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the Middle East. Before covering the Middle East she concentrated on the former Soviet Union and its successor states for many years, earning an Alfred I. Dupont Award for her coverage of diverse topics ranging from social and economic challenges to military and cultural developments. From Tiananmen Square to the battlegrounds of Chechnya, from Bosnia to Kosovo, Israel to Iraq, Ms. Garrels has put a human face on conflict, combining experience in the field with a sharp understanding of the policy debates in Washington.
Ms. Garrels’ work in Iraq has been recognized with the George Polk Award, the 2004 CPB Edward R. Murrow Award, the Courage in Journalism Award from the International Women’s Media Foundation, the Alfred I. Dupont-Columbia University Award, the University of Missouri Medal for Distinguished Service to Journalism, and awards from Interaction and the World Affairs Council. For her contribution to NPR’s coverage of the Gulf War in 1990 Garrels shared an Alfred I. Dupont Award. In 1999 the Overseas Press Club honored Garrels with the Whitman Bassow Award for a series she did on global water issues.
Her reports can be heard on All Things Considered, Morning Edition, Weekend Edition Saturday, Weekend Edition Sunday, and Day to Day.
Before joining NPR in 1988, a move she says which allowed her to “spread her wings,” Ms. Garrels was the State Department correspondent for NBC News. Prior to that, she worked at ABC holding a variety of positions over the course of 10 years, including serving as Moscow bureau chief and correspondent until she was expelled in 1982. From 1984-85 she was the network’s Central American bureau chief.
In 1996-97 Ms. Garrels spent a year as an Edward R. Murrow Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. She is a member of the board of the Committee to Protect Journalists. Ms. Garrels graduated from Harvard University in 1972. When not on assignment she lives with her husband Vint Lawrence in Connecticut.
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