b'Four Alumni Receive Recognition AwardsThe 2025 distinguishedthe utilities team co-leader indozens of other countries toAbbigail Rosewoodalumni award winnersthe San Francisco office of Frostquickly identify how studentsDistinguished Youngselected by the SOU AlumniBrown Todd, a firm with lawlearn. Alumni Award Association Board ofoffices across the U.S. Jason Atkinson This award is presented to a Directors include CatherineSue Teele Stan Smith Alumni recent university graduate who Meulemans 85, JasonAlumni Excellence inService Award has demonstrated distinction Atkinson 92, AbbigailEducation Award The Stan Smith Alumni Servicein career, civic involvement Rosewood 13, and Sue The award recognizes careerAward recognizes alumnior both. Rosewood received Teele MA 69. achievement in education,who have demonstrated anher bachelors degree at SOU Catherine Meulemans service to community andoutstanding commitment toin 2013, focusing on creative Distinguished Alumni Award commitment to SOU. Teelethe community and servicewriting, then earned her master The Distinguished Alumniearned a bachelors degree fromto people. Atkinson earned aof fine arts degree in fiction Award recognizes someonethe University of Redlands,bachelors degree in historyfrom Columbia University whose personal and professionalthen received a teachingand political science at whatin 2017. She won the Michael achievements have significantlycredential from the Universitywas then Southern OregonBaughman Fiction Award benefited humankind andof Alaska before accepting aState College in 1992, then awhile at SOU. She has written brought distinction to theteaching position in Medfordmasters degree in businessnumerous essays, reviews, university. Meulemansand enrolling in a graduateadministration and publicarticles and creative works for graduated magna cum laudeprogram at what was thenadministration at Willametteonline and print publications. from SOU in 1985 after servingSouthern Oregon College. SheUniversity. He started aHer debut novel, If I Had Two as an exchange student at theearned a masters degree inconsulting business, thenLives, was published in 2019 University of Massachusetts,1969, taught at the junior highwas elected to the Oregonby Europa Editions and her Amherst. She earned her lawlevel for 11 years, then spentLegislaturefirst the House ofsecond novel, Constellations degree from Georgetown36 years as a higher educationRepresentatives and then theof Eve, was published in 2022 University, then co-founded aadministrator. Teele wasSenate. He took a sabbaticalby Texas Tech University Press. multi-state boutique law firmresponsible for 50 differentto make the film A RiverHer works have appeared in that specialized in complexeducational certificate and stateBetween Us, documentingpublications including TIME business litigation, real estateapproved credential programsthe Klamath River restoration,Magazine, Harpers Bazaar, and civil appeals. She conductedthat served 12,000 educatorsand ultimately worked onSalon, Elle U.K, Pen America, a high-profile investigation ofannually while at UC-Riverside.the project for three decadesBOMB and Cosmopolitan. several Las Vegas city officialsTeele has written three booksbefore dam removals beganRosewood has been nominated on behalf of the Office of theon teaching and learning,in 2022. Atkinson also servedfor the Pushcart Prize, Best Nevada Attorney General, andand developed an assessmentas a commissioner for theof the Net and Best American managed the litigation portfoliotool, the Teele InventoryOregon Department of Fish &Short Story 2020, and she for a $4 billion privatelyfor Multiple IntelligenceWildlife and was named a herowon first place in the Writers held international real estate(TIMI), which has been usedof conservation by Field andWorkshop of Asheville Literary brokerage. Meulemans is nowthroughout the U.S. and inStream. Fiction contest.TH AAIDD FFAALLLL22002255 17TEH ER R I EERR17A'