MSU Alumni Association Honors Briggs Alum Michael VanRooyen ('84)
This is the highest award bestowed by the MSUAA and is presented to MSU graduates who have demonstrated outstanding volunteer service and who have achieved the highest level of professional accomplishment including special honors or recognition and who demonstrate personal integrity and character.
Dr. Michael VanRooyen is honored for his internationally recognized reputation for excellence in humanitarian assistance and disaster relief. He has worked extensively in humanitarian assistance in over thirty countries affected by war and disaster, including Somalia, Bosnia, Rwanda, Iraq, North Korea, Darfur, Chad and the Democratic Republic of Congo. As a physician and policy advisor he has worked with numerous relief organizations including CARE, Save the Children, Physicians for Human Rights and Samaritan's Purse International Relief. He has served as special advisor for the World Health Organization and as a member of the United Nations Inter-Agency Standing Committee's Health Cluster. Domestically, Dr. VanRooyen has provided relief assistance at the site of the World Trade Center in New York on September 11th with the American Red Cross and helped to coordinate the American Red Cross public health response to Hurricane Katrina, sending over twenty physicians from the Harvard system to hurricane devastated regions.
The MSUAA Award Banquet was attended by:
Dr. Paul Parker, Emeriti Professor in Physics
Dr. Ronald Hamelink, Emeriti Professor in Mathematics, and his wife Myra
Sandra Conner
Dr. Steven Spees, Acting/Associate Dean
Christie Tobey
Sue & Robert Rose
Phyllis & Dave Stoker
Diane Barker, LBAA Co-Chair
Nathan Tykocki, LBAA Co-Chair
Rick Moote, classmates of Dr. VanRooyen
Rev. Ron Richards, classmate of Dr. VanRooyen
Drs. Gary & Heidi Swanson, and their son Ben, classmates of Dr. VanRooyen
Mary Sheridan, and her friend Jack Holland
Dan McKean, LBC Director of Development & Alumni Relations
Michael, and his wife, Julia, also gave talks to Briggs students, faculty, and staff.
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