Three LAS alumni honored at VEISHEA
The ISU Alumni Association will recognize five individuals with its highest honor given to alumni by Iowa State, including three LAS graduates.
The Distinguished Alumni Award honors ISU alumni who are nationally and/or internationally recognized for preeminent contributions to their professions or life's work.
The individuals will be recognized Friday, April 11, at 2:15 p.m. in a public ceremony in Curtiss Hall Auditorium.
Honorees include:
David J. Drury
BS ‘66, Mathematics
Urbandale, Iowa
David Drury's is a classic Iowa success story. After graduating from Iowa State, he entered the workforce as an actuary. With his farm-raised work ethic and commitment to integrity he quickly rose to become the leader of one of Iowa's largest companies and transformed it into a FORTUNE 500 leader.
By the time Drury, who was named president of Principal Financial Group in 1993, retired from his post as CEO in 2001, Principal had grown from a $35 billion mutual insurance company into a $115 billion publicly-traded global retirement services corporation.
Principal's initial public offering was held just weeks following the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, but Principal's strong stock carried it through hard times and has since tripled in value.
It was not only Drury's actuarial background and natural business acumen that led him to success at Principal. Loyalty, work ethic, and a commitment to employee development are characteristics widely attributed to Drury's leadership - leadership that laid the foundation for Principal's current standing as the 250th highest earning company in America and a five-time FORTUNE magazine "100 Best Companies to Work" listing.
Charles T. Manatt
BS ‘58, Rural Sociology
Washington, D.C.
Ambassador Charles T. Manatt has committed his life to serving his country and promoting the causes of justice, philanthropy, and education.
An attorney who earned his J.D. from George Washington University in 1962, Manatt is the founder of the law firm Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP. The firm started out specializing in legal services for the banking community but today has grown to offer international legal and consulting services for a variety of industries in 10 locations, including California; New York; Washington, D.C.; Mexico; and Brazil.
Manatt founded First Los Angeles Bank and served as its chairman from 1973-1989. He entered politics at 15 and was chair of the California Democratic Party before being elected chair of the Democratic National Committee in 1981. In 1992, he was co-chair of the successful Clinton-Gore presidential campaign, and in 1999 President Clinton appointed Manatt as the U.S. Ambassador to the Dominican Republic.
Manatt's distinguished career in law, business, and politics is not only highlighted by professional achievements. He has given widely of his time and talents to organizations such as the National Legal Center for Public Interest's Board of Directors, the Mayo Clinic Foundation Board of Directors, and both of his alma maters: George Washington University and Iowa State. He recently served as chairman of George Washington's Board of Trustees. An Emeritus Governor of the ISU Foundation, he is a national vice-chair of Iowa State's Campaign Destiny.
Trudy Huskamp Peterson
BS ‘67, English, history, and speech
Washington, D.C.
History is Trudy Peterson's life. In her distinguished career as an archivist, which included an appointment to the post of Acting Archivist of the United States during the Clinton Administration, Peterson's commitment to preserving and exploring records of every kind has made her a respected national and international authority.
After receiving her master's and doctoral degrees from the University of Iowa, Peterson joined the staff of the National Archives in Washington, D.C., in 1968, rising by 1987 to the rank of Assistant Archivist of the United States before being selected to fill the nation's highest archival position in 1993. From 1992 until she retired in 1995, Peterson served concurrently as Acting Archivist and POW commissioner of the U.S.-Russia Joint Commission on MIAs/POWs.
In her role, Peterson staunchly defended the historic mission of the organization and led advances in electronic records preservation, advocating strongly for impartiality and open access to archives.
In 1995 Peterson was appointed founding executive director of the Open Society Archives, an organization headquartered in Budapest, Hungary, that works to preserve archives in Eastern Europe. She later worked in Geneva, Switzerland, as director of Archives and Records Management for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. She advised the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa on the disposition of its records, then wrote a book to guide other truth commissions on preserving their records, followed by a study of preserving the records of temporary international criminal tribunals, such as the courts for Yugoslavia, Rwanda, and Sierra Leone.
Beginning in 2005, Peterson repeatedly traveled to Guatemala to assist the Human Rights Ombudsman with the management of records from the country's brutal National Police, helping to document government atrocities that led to the death of 150,000 in Guatemala's 36-year civil war.
David Drury
Charles Manatt
Trudy Peterson
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