Paul Kim wins Sterling Award for volunteer service
Paul Kim of Arcadia, Calif., has won the Stanford
Alumni Association's 1997 J.E. Wallace Sterling Award for
outstanding volunteer service.
The graduating senior in biological sciences received
the award at the annual Senior Class Day luncheon on June
14. Warren R. Lyons '67, JD/MBA '72 and chair of the
Alumni Association Board of Directors, announced Kim's
selection.
Kim served for two years as director of Alternative
Spring Break, an opportunity for Stanford students to
work on service projects during the spring vacation. His
work was recognized recently at a national Alternative
Spring Break conference at which Stanford's program was
singled out for its excellence. Kim also served as chair
of the Student Advisory Council of the Haas Center for
Public Service, and as chair of the Committee on
Nominations of the Associated Students of Stanford
University (ASSU).
The Sterling Award cited Kim for "his impressive
initiatives and instincts as director of the Alternative
Spring Break project and his insistence on superior
standards that transformed this Stanford endeavor into a
national hallmark of community service," and
"for often artful, frequently stoic and usually
uncelebrated efforts in student government and his
significant upgrading of student participation in
university governance through his stewardship of the ASSU
Committee on Nominations."
The Alumni Association presents the Sterling Award
annually to students who have demonstrated dedication to
volunteer activities for the university and the
community. Book awards - gift certificates redeemable for
books of the winner's choice - are presented to
finalists. Rene Spicer, coordinator of the awards, said
that a very strong field of nominees led to the naming of
five book award finalists this year.
The Book Award winners were seniors Brooks Allen,
Peter Gifford, Eileen Lai, Rula Razek and Sarah Wolf.
The Sterling Award has been presented annually since
1979. It is named for J.E. Wallace Sterling, who served
the university as president from 1949 to 1968 and as
chancellor until 1985. SR
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