Alumni Achievement Awards to Honor NU Grads
Twelve University of Nebraska alumni will be honored with Alumni Achievement Awards April 25.
Honor class recipients of the awards, which recognize service to one's community, state and nation, include:
Non-honor class recipients of Alumni Achievement Awards include:
The University of Nebraska Alumni Association will present the Alumni Family Tree Award to the Warner/Filley/Schwartzkopf family during its annual awards banquet April 25 in the Nebraska Union.
The Alumni Family Tree Award honors a family that has a tradition of attending the University of Nebraska. The recipient family must include a minimum of three generations of graduates. At least two of the family members must have records of outstanding service to the university, the alumni association, their community or their profession.
The Warner/Filley/Schwartzkopfs have been affiliated with the University of Nebraska for more than 100 years. The Warner/Filley and Schwartzkopf families were brought together by the marriage of Dorothy Filley and Ed Schwartzkopf in 1946. Sixteen NU graduates are members of the family and descendants of Amos G. Warner, class of 1885, whose family settled in Nebraska in 1864 and who was the first member to graduate from NU. Twenty additional graduates are connected to the family through marriage.
Family members hold eight advanced degrees and one honorary doctorate. Four sororities, three fraternities and the Palladian Literary Society are represented on this family tree. Four family members were selected for membership in Mortar Board; three to the Innocents Society. Several have been elected to membership in their college scholastic honoraries. Three family members lettered in football - all were starters and were named to all-conference teams; one was an All-American. And an East Campus building, the former Dairy Industry Building, is named for family member H.C. Filley, class of 1903. Two family members currently attend the university.
Among its ranks, the Warner/Filley/Schwartzkopf family claims a former state legislator (Filley), NU regent (Ed Schwartzkopf, '46), Lincoln mayor (Sam Schwartzkopf, '40) and four-time Nebraska Women's Amateur Golf Champion (Christie Schwartzkopf Schroff, '70).
The Nebraska Alumni Association will recognize four outstanding young alumni during its annual awards banquet April 25 at the Nebraska Union.
Young Alumnus Awards are presented annually to NU alumni who have provided exceptional service to the university through volunteer efforts and/or have distinguished themselves in their career or community.
This year's recipients are Corrine Brown of Omaha; Ralph "Bud" Cuca of Lincoln; Will Shields of Overland Park, Kan.; and Laura Tietjen of Evansville, Ind.
Brown, '86, is clinical veterinarian at Omaha's Henry Doorly Zoo, where her leadership in a cross-country collaboration led to the first test-tube baby in the gorilla world. After completing veterinary school at Ohio State University, including training stints at zoos in Dallas and St. Louis, the Leigh native returned to Nebraska in August of 1990 to begin her career at Doorly. For the last three years, Brown also has volunteered in the rehabilitation of injured waterfowl for the Nebraska Wildlife Rescue Team.
Cuca, '80, '84, is president of the Nebraska Motor Carriers Association. A former student government (ASUN) president and student regent, Cuca has also worked for Ameritas Investment Corp. and Nebraska Gov. Kay Orr. He is on the boards of Lincoln Food Bank, Lincoln Lighthouse, Lincoln Friendship Home and House of Hope and maintains his connection to the university through the College of Business Administration Alumni Association, the Nebraska Alumni Association board of directors and the Rebounders' Club.
Shields, '93, plays for the Kansas City Chiefs. Recipient of the 1992 Outland Trophy, he was selected in the third round of the 1993 National Football League draft and has been a starting lineman since the second game of his rookie season. The Lawton, Okla., native established the "Will to Succeed Charitable Foundation" immediately after being drafted. Through the foundation he has initiated innovative projects serving battered and abused women and children in the greater Kansas City area. He also is a generous supporter of Lincoln's annual "School is Cool" jam.
Laura Tietjen, '81, is athletics director at the University of Evansville and is one of only 18 female directors of athletics in the 306 NCAA Division I institutions. At NU, Tietjen was a member of the women's basketball team and earned the 1980 Harmon Award as the Cornhuskers' outstanding female athlete. The Byron native taught and coached at the high school level for five years before going to the University of Nebraska at Kearney in 1986 as a coach and instructor. Tietjen joined the Evansville staff in 1995.
-Andrea Cranford, Alumni Association
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