 Each fall, the UO College of Arts and Sciences presents the CAS Alumni Fellows Award to three outstanding alumni who have distinguished themselves in their respective careers. Alumni fellows are honored at the annual Profiles in Achievement Banquet held in November.
The awards program also 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, where they will discuss their career paths, learning opportunities and types of skills most relevant to the emerging educated citizen. The Alumni Fellows for 2000:
2000-2001 CAS Alumni Fellows
 Paula Gunn Allen ’66 (English), M.F.A. ’68 (Creative Writing) is a renowned poet, fiction writer, lecturer and scholar. She has written numerous books, including a novel, several collections of poetry, a collection of essays, and a collection of traditional and contemporary American Indian myths that she retells.
After receiving her M.F.A. degree, Allen returned to her home state of New Mexico, where she earned a Ph.D. in American Studies at the University of New Mexico in 1975. In 1978, she received an NEA creative writing fellowship, followed in 1980 by a post-doctoral fellowship to study Native American women’s writings. Her strong interest in Native American studies derives from her childhood in Cubero, New Mexico, where she was influenced by the Laguna-Sioux-Scotch heritage of her mother. Allen is a major founder of American Indian Literary Studies and has written, lectured and taught a variety of subjects concerned with American Indian Studies. She is an emerita professor of English at UCLA. She also has led workshops and seminars at arts venues across the U.S.
Allen is the recipient of many prestigious awards, including the Native American Prize for Literature in 1990 for her life’s work.
 George N. Fugelsang B.S. ’62 (Political Science) leads Desdner Kleinwort Benson North America Inc., a global banking corporation, as its president and CEO.
After graduating from the UO, Fugelsang attended the American Graduate School of International Management in Phoenix, Arizona, where he earned a Bachelor of Foreign Trade degree with honors and was class valedictorian. His career in banking began after he completed military service in 1964 and joined Citicorp/ Citibank, where he held positions in the United States and in Latin America and assumed responsibility for Citibank’s activities in Central, Southern and Eastern Europe. In 1986, Fugelsang joined Morgan Stanley and became a managing director in Morgan Stanley’s Investment Banking Division in London. Nearly ten years later, in February 1994, Fugelsang joined Dresdner Bank AG as president of Dresdner Securities (USA) Inc. He quickly was named senior general manager of Dresdner Bank AG and chief executive, North America, on April 1, 1994.
Today, Fugelsang serves on many boards, including the Board of Trustees of the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies. He also acts as a director of the Foreign Policy Association in New York.
(Note: Barclay Slocum died on April 14, 2001.)
Barclay Slocum ’61 (Physics), M.A. ’66 (Education) brings relief to pets and owners alike as an innovative veterinary surgeon at the Slocum Clinic in Eugene, Oregon.
After graduating from the UO, Slocum earned his D.V.M. at Colorado State University in 1970 and followed it with an internship at the University of Saskatchewan Veterinary School in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. From 1972 until 1975, he was resident staff surgeon first at Davis, California’s Veterinary Medical Teaching Hospital, then at Ohio State University. He returned to Eugene in 1975 to open the veterinary surgery practice from which he currently still operates. Specializing in veterinary orthopedics, Slocum treats animals with maladies such as hip socket conditions and hip dysplasia, a degenerative joint disease.
Aside from writing dozens of professional articles, Slocum has patented several surgical devices and procedures. He developed special plates for the triple pelvic osteotomy, a surgical procedure to help correct bad hips in dogs and also devised the tibial plateau leveling osteotomy (TPLO), a procedure that rotates the top of a tibia to work properly with the femur.
Slocum has received many formal recognitions for his work, most recently the Hap Paul Award for Outstanding Contributions to Veterinary Orthopedic Research and Education in 1998.
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