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The Millersville University Alumni Association (MUAA) has announced the three individuals to be honored on Saturday, April 28 during the University’s annual Honors and Awards Convocation.
This event will be held at 10 a.m. in Marauder Court of the Student Memorial Center on campus.
Patricia DeGrandis Doll, of Lancaster, has been named the 2012 Distinguished Alumni Award recipient. This award is given to a graduate of Millersville University. Doll, who graduated in 1982 with a degree in speech communication, distinguished herself as a successful entrepreneur, businesswoman, volunteer and humanitarian. In addition to founding Publicity Works, an award-winning advertising and marketing agency, she has been mentioned as Top Forty Under 40 and the Governor’s Pa. Best 50 Women in Business. She has also received numerous honors and awards including the “Volunteer Spotlight Recognition” from the Greater Reading Chamber of Commerce; a Pa. Governor’s Proclamation for her “SOS – Save our Strings” outreach initiative; the David Rockefeller distinguished BCA Award: Top 10 Companies Supporting Arts in America and a nomination for the national Mr. Holland’s Opus Board.
Dr. George F. Stine, of Lancaster, has been named the 2012 Honorary Alumni Award recipient. This award is presented to a living individual (non-Millersville University alumnus) who has performed continuous exemplary service to the University or made significant contributions of time, talent or wealth to the University. Stine, a Millersville University professor emeritus (1966-2004), served as assistant dean of men and a faculty member of the sociology/anthropology department, was one of the founding members of the sociology department and played a significant role in the gerontology program at Millersville by offering courses and supervising student internships at local retirement communities. Stine has chaired the Millersville Employees Dedicated to the Advancement of Learning Fund program and worked with the University’s annual fund campaign, the Millersville University Foundation Board and the Noonan Endowment Fund Committee. He also assists Millersville’s alumni services office in keeping alumni, retirees and friends connected within the Lancaster and Naples, Fla., areas. He and his wife Helen have also established a freshman sociology scholarship.
William Martin, of Lititz, has been named the 2012 Outstanding Volunteer Service Award recipient. Martin, a 1981 graduate of Millersville University, served as president of the MUAA from 2009-2011, providing exceptional service to his alma mater in various capacities including serving as an advisor to the Millersville University Council of Trustees. He currently serves as an alumni representative to the Millersville University Foundation Board of Directors and is a member of the MU Black and Gold Club; he continues to be an active member of the Alumni Board of Directors. He previously served as chairman of the Association’s Student Advancement Committee, where he rejuvenated a program that advocates the positive influences of Millersville students, events and alumni in area businesses and was the impetus to the establishment of the Association’s Information Technology Committee. One of Martin’s major efforts was to increase the amounts of the Association’s athletic and legacy scholarship endowments to provide meaningful help to deserving students, in addition to his funding support to other measures on campus including the library renovation project and erecting the bronze Marauder statue on campus in 2011.
These three awards are sponsored annually by the MUAA. For more information on the 2012 Honors and Awards Convocation, contact the alumni services office at 717-872-3352.
