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2007 BASC Gem Awards

Each year, over 5,500 Brown alumni around the world take on the challenge of interviewing thousands of Brown applicants from every corner of the globe. The volunteer/applicant pool is divided into 16 broad geographic areas. The Gem Awards (Diamond, Ruby and Sapphire) recognize those geographic areas in which volunteers contacted at least 90 percent of applicants. In the 2006 – 2007 admission cycle, more than half of the award winners contacted 100 percent of the prospective students in their regions!

Congratulations and thank you to the volunteers listed below for their significant accomplishment!



Region A - Northern New England (MA, NH, VT, ME)

DIAMOND AWARD WINNERS (for BASC Regions, presented to Regional Directors)
Jay Candelmo ’99

RUBY AWARD WINNERS (for BASC areas with 100 applicants or more)
Allison Baird ’91
Samuel Docknevich ’74
Lisa Greenberg ’80
Jim Koch ’01
Indrajit Sen ’00
Andrew Shen ’99
Michael Strickman ’83
Sara Whitford ’81
David Whitford ’79

SAPPHIRE AWARD WINNERS (for BASC areas with fewer than 100 applicants)
Kate Acheson Kerkam ’97
Alice Brown ’82
Scott Corin ’79
Harriet Goldman ’76
Sue Hagerman ’76
Debbie Hilbert ’79
James Ross ’86
Susan Youngwood ’80

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Region B - Southern New England (CT, RI)

DIAMOND AWARD WINNERS (for BASC Regions, presented to Regional Directors)
Tracey Scheer ’78

RUBY AWARD WINNERS (for BASC areas with 100 applicants or more)
Wendy Jacoby ’76
Joseph MacDougald ’87
Brian Murphy ’67

SAPPHIRE AWARD WINNERS (for BASC areas with fewer than 100 applicants)
Olafur Gislason ’74
Milena Gomez ’79
David Kalla ’79
Linda Kansao ’81
Sue Simpson ’76
Carder Starr ’74

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Region C - New York State

DIAMOND AWARD WINNERS (for BASC Regions, presented to Regional Directors)
David E. Aaron '86

RUBY AWARD WINNERS (for BASC areas with 100 applicants or more)
Can Bakir ’03
Adrienne Camesas ’78
Susan Corkett ’82
Zac Cunha ’98
Heather Diddel ’77
Michelle Fatibene ’80
Scott Ingber ’82
Barry Kriesberg ’76
Tracy Elias Lehman ’93
Meredith Matthews ’96
Robin Meehan-Halloran ’86
Valerie Phillips ’98
Jeff Sider ’78
Lily Wang ’02


SAPPHIRE AWARD WINNERS (for BASC areas with fewer than 100 applicants)
Liz Cho ’01
Dick Emmert ’70
Alan Goldberg ’85
Brian Hunt ’88
Tobi Klar ’76
Jim Kramer ’85
Arif Shaikh ’01
Teresa Shelley ’72
Tim Stevens ’83

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Region D - Mid-Atlantic & Puerto Rico (NJ, PA, DE, PR)

DIAMOND AWARD WINNERS (for BASC Regions, presented to Regional Directors)
Joan M. Brown '76

RUBY AWARD WINNERS (for BASC areas with 100 applicants or more)
Kenneth Citak ’82
Carleton Clinch ’72
Julie Flood ’03
Chip Frost ’73
Lauren Fryefield ’86
Al Gerstein ’54
Carol Herts ’79
James Hirschfeld ’91
Adam Irgon ’84
Debbie Karpel Leon ’92
Debra Kauffman ’91
Eileen Kupersmith ’73
Pat Maier ’77
Karen Misler ’77
Jim O’Grady ’80
Marc Roelke ’83
Debra Roelke ’83
Mateusz Saykiewicz ’02
Nan Silver ’80
Meryl Smith Raskin ’66
Barry Swirsky ’78

SAPPHIRE AWARD WINNERS (for BASC areas with fewer than 100 applicants)
Stacy Gasteiger ’83
Jimmy Grossman ’80
Jennie Kerson ’00
Paul Oberbeck ’84
Jabari-Jason Tyson-Phipps ’05

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Region E - Europe, Africa & the Middle East

DIAMOND AWARD WINNERS (for BASC Regions, presented to Regional Directors)
Marlena C. Corcoran PHD '84

RUBY AWARD WINNERS (for BASC areas with 100 applicants or more)
Region E - Europe, Africa & the Middle East
Karen F. Conway ’84
Kasia Kowalska ’93

SAPPHIRE AWARD WINNERS (for BASC areas with fewer than 100 applicants)
Maria-Carmen G. Azpeitia ’58
Cathryn Cluver ’99
Alexander Contovounesios ’86
C. Valerie Dabady-Liverani ’89
Froukje De Jong ’86
Krista Despotovic-Jacobson ’86
Eric Egan ’90
Sarah Francois-Poncet ’80
Martin Götz ’00
Jarmo Kankaanpaa PhD ’96
Margaret Kaufer ’91
Patrick Maley ’67
Mary Lynn Raggenbass ’83
Sue Rosenstein Reiss ’78
Sherri Spelic ’87
Charles Stephenson ’72
Lucienne Thys-Senocak ’83
Henrik von Sydow ’82
Robin Wittusen ’68

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Region F - Asia, Oceania & Indian Sub-continent

RUBY AWARD WINNERS (for BASC areas with 100 applicants or more)
Peter Chang ’93
Helen Cheung ’83
Christina Leong ’83
Sukjin Lim ’92

SAPPHIRE AWARD WINNERS (for BASC areas with fewer than 100 applicants)
Nicola Bliss Winn ’90
Ronna Chao ’89
John Deidrick ’80
Judith Ann Herd ’87
Patricia Huen ’99
(Alice) Milica Ilich ’78
Anne Marie Mabilangan-Ozaeta ’88
Supawan Lamsam Panyarachun ’77
Betsy Rogers ’93
Jacob Roth ’97
Kyle Smith ’93
Celia Yu-Chien Wu Sophonpanich ’83
Takashi Takenoshita ’93
Vivian Tang ’01
Eric Wai ’85

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Region H - North: Canada

DIAMOND AWARD WINNERS (for BASC Regions, presented to Regional Directors)
Jeffrey M. Dennis '80

RUBY AWARD WINNERS (for BASC areas with 100 applicants or more)
Jim Lawson ’80

SAPPHIRE AWARD WINNERS (for BASC areas with fewer than 100 applicants)
Marilee Garrett ’63
J. David Holmested ’70
Steven Kathol ’96
Adam Lazarek ’04
Robert Lucas ’75
Bibi Malek ’78
Andrew McFarlane ’99

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Region H - South: Central and South America

SAPPHIRE AWARD WINNERS (for BASC areas with fewer than 100 applicants)
E. Grant Gibbons ‘74
Scott Hunter ‘75
Janet Kemp ‘75
Linda Lam ‘93
Ilana Locker ‘84
Irzio Pinasco ‘88
Santiago Roca ‘88
Maya Westcott ‘00

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Region 2 - Mid-Atlantic & Southeast (DC, MD, NC, SC, VA, WV)

DIAMOND AWARD WINNERS (for BASC Regions, presented to Regional Directors)
Michael Dempsey '79

RUBY AWARD WINNERS (for BASC areas with 100 applicants or more)
Jeffrey Anderson ’84
Karen Dates ’86
Lorrie Giventer ’91
Rashmi Kudesia ’04
Woo Lee ’95
Lara Manzione ’91
Christian Mester ’94

SAPPHIRE AWARD WINNERS (for BASC areas with fewer than 100 applicants)
Jeff Brown ’74
Dwight Carlson ’90
John Cuellar III ’77
Timothy Monnin ’86
Jay Oakey ’90

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Region 3 - The Southeast (GA, FL, AL, MS, TN)

DIAMOND AWARD WINNERS (for BASC Regions, presented to Regional Directors)
D. Porpoise Evans '99

RUBY AWARD WINNERS (for BASC areas with 100 applicants or more)
Anthony Alfieri ’81
Jason Alperstein ’04
Lola Brown ’01
R. Tyler Day ’52
Lara O’Neill ’01
Sam Randall ’04
Jill Simmons ’76
Shannon Tan ’01

SAPPHIRE AWARD WINNERS (for BASC areas with fewer than 100 applicants)
Joel Barone ’03
Malcolm Carmichael ’70
John Carroll ’84
Amy Goodblatt ’82
Thomas Hunt ’80
Burton Lamont ’65
Karen Lamont ’67
Laura Leff Becker ’72
David Loeb ’81
Paul May ’76
Katherine Oxnard ’87
John Rebrovick ’80
Russell Rotondo ’80
Jonathan Sherman ’86
Ted Zateslo ’78

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Region 4 - The Midwest (KY, OH, IN, MI)

DIAMOND AWARD WINNERS (for BASC Regions, presented to Regional Directors)
Maura Hughes ’90

RUBY AWARD WINNERS (for BASC areas with 100 applicants or more)
Matthew Carroll ’86
Andrew Conway ’79
Deb DeCarlo ’88

SAPPHIRE AWARD WINNERS (for BASC areas with fewer than 100 applicants)
Elizabeth Bonanno ’84
David Dintenfass ’92
Jonathan Edwards ’78
Martha Good ’72
Timothy Konieczny ’79
Tony Pan ’98
Richard Whipple ’67

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Region 5 - Midwest/West (IA, WI, MN, ND, SD, MT)

DIAMOND AWARD WINNERS (for BASC Regions, presented to Regional Directors)
Alexander J. Rein '96

RUBY AWARD WINNERS (for BASC areas with 100 applicants or more)
Sarah McGee ’97
Kim Miller ’97

SAPPHIRE AWARD WINNERS (for BASC areas with fewer than 100 applicants)
Dan Buroker ’94
Molly Smith Cross ’97
Eileen Stone ’96
Mariana Szklo-Coxe ’91
Haruki Toyama ’93
Catherine Woodman ’81

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Region 6 - Midwest/Great Plains (IL, MO, KS, NE)

DIAMOND AWARD WINNERS (for BASC Regions, presented to Regional Directors)
David Sholem ’75

RUBY AWARD WINNERS (for BASC areas with 100 applicants or more)
Bridget Burkhardt ’95
Alexander Cavallo ’94
Giovanna Cavallo ’94
Nancy Free ’89
Jane Friedrich ’81
Luz Alicia Gonzalez ’00
Mark Lindgren ’82
Rebecca Parkhill ’89
Carolyn Suh ’97
Hilda Vega ’97

SAPPHIRE AWARD WINNERS (for BASC areas with fewer than 100 applicants)
Glenn Grayson ’79
Joel Schlessinger ’83
Margaret Tretbar ’86

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Region 7 - Texas/South/Great Plains (TX, AR, OK, LA)

DIAMOND AWARD WINNERS (for BASC Regions, presented to Regional Directors)
Patrice O'Donoghue '82

RUBY AWARD WINNERS (for BASC areas with 100 applicants or more)
Annmarie Perez ’96
Marianne Quoyeser ’83
Sudeep Reddy ’01
Jessica Resnick-Ault ’02
Benjamin Salazar ’94

SAPPHIRE AWARD WINNERS (for BASC areas with fewer than 100 applicants)
Deanna Dorsey ’85
Chris Gill ’82
Margaret Kelley ’94
Cristina McQuistion ’86
Roy Mellor ’80
Sarah Powell ’95
John Sabra ’95
Nancy  Scholar Adams ’73
Mary Swerczek ’98
Carmelita Teeter-Lechowit ’91

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Region 8 - The West/Southwest (CO, WY, ID, UT, AZ, NM, NV)

DIAMOND AWARD WINNERS (for BASC Regions, presented to Regional Directors)
Barry Fagin ’82

RUBY AWARD WINNERS (for BASC areas with 100 applicants or more)
Gwen Burak ’91

SAPPHIRE AWARD WINNERS (for BASC areas with fewer than 100 applicants)
Jim Carter ’87
Veronica Ho ’82
Adam Husney ’86
Patrick Kelleher ’92
Dee Dee Sturr ’82

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Region 9 - West Coast (HI, OR, WA, AK, CA)

DIAMOND AWARD WINNERS (for BASC Regions, presented to Regional Directors)
Ed Sheets ’72

RUBY AWARD WINNERS (for BASC areas with 100 applicants or more)
Adam Carson ’96
Anthony Cheng ’95
Anjolie Chidambaram ’93
Tuneen Chisolm ’84
Julie  Evans ’79
Ilene Gannaway ’90
Elena Gerli ’90
Randy Haykin ’85
Libby Heimark ’76
Gordon Hollingsworth ’70
Brandon Hoshiko ’01
Monica Madan
Gail Mathabane ’84
Laila Mehdi Hilfinger ’81
David Morris ’88
Susan Neville ’71
Marvin Pannell ’90
Moore Rhys ’92
James Schroeder ’92
Meredith Shaughnessy ’94
Ned Sherman ’90
Joe Spicer ’02
Peggy Tormey ’84
Carmen Vargas ’98
Lindsay Wolfington ’01
Naeem Zafar ’81

SAPPHIRE AWARD WINNERS (for BASC areas with fewer than 100 applicants)
Teresa Abrahamsohn ’85
John Campbell ’85
Terri Cristy ’75
Fred  David ’71
Leilani De Courcy ’94
Ralph Duerre ’65
Lorelei Greenfield ’83
Laura Haynes-Collector ’83
Shirley Kawamura ’94
Leslie McShane ’78
Susan Osborn ’67
Robert Pucci ’69
Bruce Richard ’74
William Rozell ’65
Henry Stoll ’71
Mandy Tachiki ’95
Jodi Shin Yamamoto ’93

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