1999 Alumni Fellows
CAS Honors Three Alumni for Distinguished Achievements

Each fall, the UO College of Arts and Sciences honors three outstanding alumni who have distinguished themselves in their respective careers. This year's Alumni Fellows Awards will be presented at a special Profiles in Achievement Banquet in November. The program provides today's students with an opportunity to learn from people outside the academy who have taken active roles in shaping our society. Award recipients will hold informal seminars, discussing their career paths, learning opportunities and types of skills most relevant to the emerging educated citizen. This year's Alumni Fellows:

Ollie Chambers BA '69 (Economics) is the vice president of Finance Administration and Information Technology for Pharmacia & Upjohn.

Chambers came to Eugene from Tennessee in 1964 to attend the UO. He worked night shifts in the Southern Pacific Railroad's accounting department in order to attend the university during the day. After graduating with an economics degree in 1969, Chambers received a fellowship to attend Indiana University School of Business, where he obtained his MBA and then was hired as an accounting and finance trainee for the Upjohn Company in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Chambers quickly worked his way into the management ranks. In 1982, he attended the post-MBA Executive Program at the University of Michigan with primary focus on multi-national competition and international finance/marketing. He put what he learned to immediate use: in 1983, he was given complete responsibility for International Financial Analysis and Planning for the Upjohn Corporation.

Chambers married his high school girlfriend, Jo Ann Thompson, in Eugene in 1968. Their son, Michael, works for a pharmaceutical company as a chemical operator, and their daughter, Patricia, is a marketing associate for the International Division of Nestles Corporation.

Dr. Frederick Fraunfelder BS '56 (General Science) is a professor of ophthalmology at the Oregon Health Sciences University in Portland. Fraunfelder became the youngest chairman in academic ophthalmology in U.S. history when he became chairman at the University of Arkansas School of Medicine in 1968. He then accepted chairmanship at Oregon Health Sciences University in 1978 until his resignation in 1998. On his shoulders, the Casey Eye Institute was constructed on OHSU's campus, and Fraunfelder became its director when it opened in 1991. The Casey Eye Institute is an academic regional eye center dedicated to preventing blindness through research and to bringing advanced technology to the Pacific Northwest through continuing education of physicians.

Fraunfelder, who has specialized in ocular oncology, cornea and external disease, is the author of three texts, two of which are in their fifth edition, Drug-Induced Ocular Side Effects and Drug Interactions and Current Ocular Therapy. He is the author of almost 200 peer review scientific papers, president of numerous academic and scientific national societies, and he has served as associate editor or on the editorial board of most major scientific eye journals. He also is consultant to the FDA, World Health Organization, United States Pharmacopeial (USP), and most major pharmaceutical companies.

Nora Terwilliger Ph.D. '81 (Biology) is an associate professor in the University of Oregon Department of Biology and the Oregon Institute of Marine Biology. She joined the UO faculty after obtaining her doctorate in biology from the UO in 1981. Terwilliger studies respiratory proteins and their role in oxygen transport in marine invertebrates. She is interested in the relationship between the structure, respiratory properties and physiological functions of these hemoglobins, hemocyanins and hemerythrins. Her research interests include how expression of these oxygen transport proteins during development is influenced by internal physiological factors including hormones and external environmental factors such as temperature, food and salinity, and the molecular phylogeny of crustacean hemocyanin and several related members of the hemocyanin gene family.

Terwilliger has given lectures and seminars about her work in many countries. In addition, she has served on the editorial boards of the Journal of Experimental Zoology, Cahiers de Biologie Marine and Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology and as a reviewer for numerous journals including American Zoologist, Marine Biology and Biochemistry.