Anthon S. Cannon, Jr.

Tony Cannon, a senior partner in the law firm of PillsburyWinthrop LLP, an international law firm with 800 lawyers and 22 offices in the United States and abroad, has maintained strong ties with the University of Utah despite living and working in Los Angeles for the past 28 years. Tony "grew up" on the University of Utah campus where his father was a professor and his mother was president of the University Women's Club. Tony received his undergraduate degree in political science from the University of Utah in 1962, a J.D. degree from Harvard University , and an LLM (Taxation) degree in law from New York University . Tony specializes in business law with particular expertise in tax planning and litigation for international and domestic clients .

At the University he was President of the ASUU Student Senate, Captain of the debate team and was elected to the Beehive Honor Society among other activities and honors.

Currently, he is a director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Association, serves as Honorary Chairman of the 2003 Hollywood Bowl Gala, is a member of the National Advisory Council of the Utah Symphony and Opera and is a member of the Pacific Council on International Policy, the Western Affiliate of the Council on Foreign Relations.

In recent years, Tony has served the University of Utah with energy, wisdom, and distinction. He has been a member and past Chairman of the University's National Advisory Council, a member of the Humanities Center Advisory Board, the Sesquicentennial Endowment Campaign Committee, and the Advisory Cabinet of the Hinckley Endowment for British Studies. He also is involved with the Steffensen Cannon Scholarship Endowment at the University, an endowment which has granted over 250 full-time scholarships at the University during the past 13 years.

Stan Katz

Stan Katz is a man of many accomplishments who has balanced his life's priorities with enviable agility. He has been a professional jazz and classical musician, owner of Stan Katz Real Estate Company, and president of the National Title Insurance Company. Stan grew up in Brooklyn , New York where he helped support his family by shining shoes and selling candy bars and newspapers in the streets. He graduated from Abraham Lincoln High School , the same high school that produced Joseph Heller, Arthur Miller, Neil Sedaka, Neil Diamond, and Mel Brooks among other notables. With the help of an older brother, Stan took drum lessons, and the drums developed into a passion for him. By the time he was 18 years old, he was traveling the country performing with some of the biggest bands during the big band era. During World War II, Stan served in the headquarters company of the entertainment section of the Pacific Division of the US Army and traveled throughout the South Pacific entertaining the troops.

In 1948, Stan was recruited from New York to play percussion with the Utah Symphony by Maestro Maurice Abravanel, then the artistic director. Stan moved to Utah at age 26 and shortly thereafter enrolled in the University of Utah . He supported himself as a student by playing with the Utah Symphony and for six evenings a week at the now-defunct Hotel Utah, doing free-lance photography, and teaching drum lessons.

Dorothy B. Watkiss

Dorothy Berntson Watkiss has been an active Ute for almost all of her life. A 1947 graduate in home economics, she was a very active and popular student. Dorothy has carried that energy into her post-graduate days, serving the University of Utah as co-chair and founding member of the College of Social and Behavioral Science Advisory Board, president of the Emeritus Alumni Board, and as a member of the College of Law Alumni Association Board of Trustees, the Family and Consumer Studies Advisory Board, and the National Advisory Board. She has generously supported student scholarships in the Department of Family and Consumer Studies, the College of Social and Behavioral Science, the Hinckley Institute, and the College of Law.

Dorothy's service has been a benefit to all aspects of the community as well. She has been a leader in the Salt Lake County Bar Auxiliary, the Utah Bar Auxiliary, and the Utah State Coordinating Council for Higher Education. She has represented the state of Utah at the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education. Dorothy has also energetically supported Radio Free Europe, the Women's Legislative Council of Utah, the South Salt Lake Council of PTA, the Oratorio Society of Utah, and the Assistance League of Salt Lake City.

Afesa Adams

Afesa Adams received a B.A. in Psychology from Weber State University and an M.S. and Ph.D. in Psychology from The University of Utah. She has held faculty and administrative positions at the University of Florida, The University of Utah, and the University of North Florida. Currently she is Senior Research Associate for the Florida Institute of Education and Emeritus Professor of Psychology at the University of North Florida.

Here at the U of U, Dr. Adams is known as an inspirational educator and leader. She helped pioneer the transition of Home Economics to the contemporary Family and Consumer Studies Department. As Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs, she initiated the Martin Luther King, Jr. and Days of Remembrance activities. She was at the forefront in establishing the Math, Engineering and Science Achievement (MESA) consortium whose purpose is to increase the number of under-represented women and minorities in those fields. She is active in community affairs and holds leadership positions on the governing boards of many nonprofit organizations.

Don Lewon

Don Lewon has been an exemplary leader in and supporter of the University, the College, and the community. He received a B.S. in Geography from The University of Utah. He is President of Utah Metal Works and has served as president of his industry's national council. Among his civic contributions are his longterm participation on the board of trustees for Wasatch Academy, also his alma mater, and his support of the Ronald McDonald House and the United Way. He has served many terms on the vestry of St. Mark's Episcopal Cathedral. In 2002 he was named "Father of the Year" by the Utah Diabetes Association.

Here at the U of U, Mr. Lewon has been a supporter of the Sam Rich Scholars in Global Affairs program and the Middle Eastern Lecture Series. A founding member of the College of Social and Behavioral Science Advisory Board, Mr. Lewon served on the Board for ten years and as the chair from 1998 to 2000. Each year, he and his wife generously support four Honor Roll Scholarships in the College.

Ann P. Maughan

Ann P. Maughan has lived in quiet and compassionate service of others throughout her life. In 1930 she graduated from The University of Utah with a B.S. in Home Economics, now Family and Consumer Studies. Following graduation, she worked as a demonstration agent for a public utilities company. She married and had a daughter and son. She has been a widow for many years. Her son died at age twenty-six, leaving behind a wife and two children; Mrs. Maughan has played an active role in their lives. She is known by many as a loving mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother.

Mrs. Maughan says she has always felt drawn to those "who are shy, afraid, discouraged, and in need of a spirit to lift them." She has assisted in countless fundraising drives for the Cancer Society, Primary Children's Hospital, and other organizations. A scholarship was established in her name in the Family and Consumer Studies Department in the early nineties. In October she will turn one hundred years old.

Betty Glad

Betty Glad is the Olin D. Johnston Professor of Political Science at the University of South Carolina. She graduated magna cum laude from the University of Utah in political science. While at Utah, Glad was the first woman to chair homecoming. She is also a member of the Beehive Honor Society.

Glad went on to earn a Ph.D. in international relations from the University of Chicago. Glad has presided over the Presidency Research Group and served as vice president of the American Political Science Association. She has also been the president of the International Society for Political Psychology.

In 1997 she received the Harold Lasswell Award of the International Society for Political Psychology for a lifetime of outstanding contribution to political psychology. In 2000 the American Political Science Association recognized her contributions to the field of political science with the Frank Goodnow Award.

Glad taught at the University of Illinois from 1964-1988. While at Illinois, she had visiting appointments at New York University, the Brookings Institution and Purdue. Glad joined the political science department at the University of South Carolina in 1989 and teaches courses on the U.S. presidency, foreign policy making process and qualitative methods.

A prolific author and editor, Glad’s books include Striking First: The Preventive War Doctrine and the Reshaping of U.S. Foreign Policy (co-editor and contributor); The Russian Transformation: Political, Sociological and Psychological Aspects (co-editor and contributor); Jimmy Carter: In Search of the Great White House; Charles Evans Hughes and The Illusions of Innocence; and Key Pittman: The Tragedy of a Senate Insider. Recent articles include analyses of the leadership styles of six American presidents, Mikhail Gorbachev, Boris Yeltsin, Wilhelm deKlerk and
Nelson Mandela.

J.D. Williams

J.D. Williams earned a bachelor’s degree from Stanford in political science and went on to Harvard where he earned a master’s in public administration and a Ph.D. in political science and economics. Professor Williams began his career at the University of Utah in political science in September, 1952. He
was the first president of the Model United Nations, the founding director of the Bureau of Community Development, and the founding director of the Hinckley Institute of Politics.

J.D.’s most important forum at the University during his forty years was the classroom. There, hundreds of students would catch fire with the love of liberty, equality and the politics of democracy. One student said, “I studied for a teacher at East High out of fear. I studied for J.D. out of love.”

Many of J.D.’s lectures were legendary and garnered significant attention. He presented the 48th annual Reynolds Lecture titled “The Miracle at Philadelphia” in 1986 and delivered a three-lecture series on the bicentennial of the Bill of Rights in 1989. J.D. received both the College of Social and Behavioral Science Superior Teaching Award and the University’s Distinguished Teaching Award in 1983.

J.D. received the B’nai B’rith Award in 1963 for promoting human brotherhood. The Utah Bar Association gave him the Liberty Bell Award in 1963 for his contributions to a free society under law. The Utah Library Association presented him with a Certificate of Merit for his defense of freedom of speech and the press in April 1992.

For a lifetime of serving American democracy and inspiring 15,000 students over forty years, the University of Utah gave J.D. two of its highest honors, the Joseph Rosenblatt Prize for Excellence in 1992 and an honorary doctor of laws in May 1996.

J.D. retired in June, 1992, loving his students, the University of Utah and the blessings of freedom.

Parry Mead Murray

Parry Mead Murray graduated magna cum laude from the University of Utah in 1977, earning bachelor degrees in Anthropology and Psychology. Additionally, Parry took undergraduate and graduate courses in Folklore and Media Communications with an emphasis on Documentary Photography. In 2001, she completed a master’s in Museum Studies at San Francisco State University.

Parry is a third generation grape grower in Napa Valley, Calif. The family property, known as "Mead Ranch" is 1300 acres – 590 acres are in grapes, 30 acres for home sites and roads and the rest under a conservation easement with the Napa County Land Trust. Following a devastating fire in the summer of 1981, Parry arrived to help bring in the harvest that year and stayed for another 21 years as the ranch and vineyard manager – a position she turned over to her sister Jane in 2003.

While managing the ranch, Parry became immersed in the wine industry and, through viticultural studies at the University of California Davis and field experience, took pride in producing fine Zinfandel and Cabernet Sauvignon varietals. Simultaneously, she served in a number of organizations dedicated to resource conservation, sustainable agriculture, environmental protection and land use issues.

These organizations have included the Napa Valley Grape Growers Association, the Napa River Watershed Force, both the Archer Taylor Preserve and the Planning Committees of the Napa County Land Trust and the Nanakila Institute in British Columbia. She has also been curator and co-curator of exhibits at the Napa Valley Museum and served on several museum committees.

Philanthropically, Parry is a vice president and board director of the Giles W. and Elise G. Mead Foundation where she has served since 1981. The Foundation has endowed a College of Social and Behavioral Science Honor Roll Scholarship, awarded annually to a graduate student in Anthropology. She was recently nominated to the board of the Native American Scholarship Fund in Albuquerque where she now resides with her family and looks forward to many years helping to broaden educational opportunities for Native American students pursuing graduate degrees. She states her greatest pleasure comes from a love of her family, friends, and in following her passions.

Earl S. Skidmore

Earl S. Skidmore earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of Utah where he majored in Sociology and Anthropology and earned minors in Zoology and Chemistry. Earl’s studies at the University were interrupted by two years of service in the U.S. Navy. Later in his career, Earl returned to higher education earning a Ph.D. in Chemistry from Stanford University.

Earl entered the University in 1942 and was a freshman member of the Assembly Committee. He played for Utah’s basketball team in 1942-1943 and was active in Sigma Chi. In fact, Earl’s wife, Elies, was the “Sweetheart of Sigma Chi.” The two were married in 1947 following Earl’s graduation.

Earl began his career working for Phillips Petroleum in Spokane, Wash. After three years, he moved to the San Francisco Bay area and eventually owned and operated four gas stations – Skid’s royal Stations. In 1958, Skidmore sold the stations and began Pressure Vessel Service – a chemical company specializing in handling corrosive chemicals and creating a variety of chemical solutions. Earl devoted over 30 years to PVS and to the chemical industry, serving as president of Esbro Chemical and president of the Northern California Chemical Association.

Three examples illustrate the array of work Earl did at PVS. His company created a sanitary wash still used today to clean pre-packaged vegetables. When Boeing first constructed the 747, PVS provided a solution in which the landing gear struts were bathed. Perhaps most interesting, the company worked with NASA to improve the performance of panels on the space shuttle as it reenters the earth’s atmosphere.

Earl has been a leader in professional and community associations throughout his lifetime. He was president of the board of directors for United Stations while working in the retail gas industry. He was on the board of directors of the San Carlos Chamber of Commerce and president of the San Carlos Optimist Club. Skidmore also served on the boards of three Silicon Valley electronics companies.

Earl and Elies have given scholarships to CSBS students for several years. In 2007, they created an endowment that will award CSBS Honor Roll Scholarships to several students each year in perpetuity.