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CSU LIFE
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FACULTY & STAFF
By Bruce Hallmark Each year, the Alumni Association honors Colorado State University alumni and friends who have brought honor to the University by excelling in their professions and making significant contributions to their industries, communities, and the institution. Winners of the top four awards – the William E. Morgan Alumni Achievement Award, the Charles A. Lory Public Service Award, the Jim and Nadine Henry Award, and the Distinguished Graduate of the Last Decade Award – are highlighted below, along with award recipients from each of the eight colleges and Athletics. CSU honored the winners during the Distinguished Alumni Awards celebration on Oct. 7 during Homecoming and Family Weekend.
commercial real estate companies before she began serving as general counsel and senior vice president for B.F. Saul Company, a major Washington, D.C., real estate development and investment firm. Throughout his career, Phillips has been a passionate advocate for the creation of vibrant and sustainable cities. After graduating from the College of Agricultural Sciences, he completed graduate degrees in landscape architecture from the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry and in public management and finance from Syracuse University’s Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. After a brief stint in academia, he began a career focused on urban development strategies for cities, developers, and investors.
partnership, as well as the CU-School of Medicine/CSU Medical School relationship. As a catalyst in transforming the healthcare industry in Northern Colorado, Unger received the prestigious Robert S. Hudgens Memorial Award for Young Healthcare Executive of the Year in 2009. Stacy Bond Unger moved from her hometown of Gibbon, Nebraska to Fort Collins to finish her degree at Colorado State. She also has a Master of Science in psychology from the University of Nebraska. The Ungers met at CSU and were married in 1993. After living in the Denver area for several years where Stacy Unger worked at the Aurora Mental Health Center, they returned to Fort Collins to raise their family. Stacy Unger serves on the boards of several local organizations that assist those in need William E. Morgan Alumni Charles A. Lory Public Service Award and was a founding board member of both Achievement Award Stacy (B.S., ’91) and Kevin (B.A., ’92; the local Young Men’s Service League, Inc. (YMSL) chapter and Women Investing in Debra Stencel (B.S., ’78) and Patrick Ph.D., ’13) Unger Strategies for Health (WISH). YMSL is a Hospitals are a great example of public Phillips (B.S., ’79) national nonprofit that teaches leadership service, and the name Unger has become Debra Stencel and Patrick Phillips believe synonymous with them in Northern Colorado. and life skills to young men in high school access to higher education is transformative. It was for them. They both grew up in Aurora, Kevin Unger is a Fort Collins native who was while offering them and their mothers service opportunities. WISH is a giving circle that born at Poudre Valley Hospital. He earned Colorado, and met while attending CSU. educates, empowers, and inspires women two of four degrees from CSU (his master’s Stencel is a first-generation student who degrees in health administration and business philanthropists. graduated from the College of Business. She administration are from the University of went on to attend Syracuse University Law Jim and Nadine Henry Award Colorado in Denver). Unger has been with School in New York, and after graduating, Linda (B.A., ’70; M.A., ’72) and Bob PVH/UCHealth since 2001 and currently became a partner in a Washington, D.C.(B.S., ’55; M.E., ’70) Cates based law firm working on real estate, finance, serves as the CEO of Poudre Valley Hospital and Medical Center of the Rockies. He’s also Born and raised in Lusk, Wyoming, Bob and commercial transactions. From there, been working with CSU on the Asia medical Cates loved playing basketball and played her career path led her through a series of
