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Heinz Alumna Deborah Kelly to Receive CMU Alumni Award
Release Date: Oct 26, 2009
Deborah C. Kelly (HNZ '94) will receive a Carnegie Mellon Alumni Award as part of its Homecoming Weekend, Oct. 29-Nov. 1. The Alumni Awards ceremony and reception will be held from 5:30 to 9 p.m. Friday, Oct. 30 in the University Center's Rangos Hall. The following are brief descriptions of the award recipients. Carnegie Mellon University will honor 15 alumni, students and faculty for their achievements and service to the university.
The Andrew Carnegie Society (ACS) has benefited from more than 10 years of contributions from Kelly, the founder/principal of the Creative Marketing Strategies firm in Pittsburgh. She has served on the ACS Executive Board since 1998, holding multiple leadership positions, including scholars program chair, annual celebration chair, president and liaison to the Alumni Association. As marketing chair, she coordinated production of the video "A Conversation with Herb Simon," which is screened at annual university events such as Orientation and Family Weekend. Kelly also established programs to engage ACS student scholarship recipients in philanthropic projects benefiting the university community.
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