Four distinguished faculty will be honored at the Founders Day celebration to be held Nov. 7 at America's Center in downtown St. Louis. At the same event, the Board of Trustees will bestow its Robert S. Brookings awards on two persons who "exemplify the alliance between Washington University and its community."
Gen. Colin Powell, former chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, will be keynote speaker for the event, the annual celebration of the University's founding. The Washington University Alumni Association sponsors Founders Day.
This year's Brookings Award recipients are the late Paul O. Hagemann, physician and professor at the School of Medicine, and Norman G. Moore, an architect and a pioneer in hospital design.
Paul O. Hagemann, M.D., who died July 2, is the first posthumous recipient of the Robert S. Brookings Award. Hagemann received a bachelor's degree in 1930 and a medical degree in 1934 from the University. His career as a physician, researcher and teacher spanned many decades. He was chief of medicine at St. Luke's Hospital from 1952 to 1962. He headed the medical school's Arthritis Clinic for more than 20 years and established the forerunner of the University's Postdoctoral Primary Care Training Program in Internal Medicine. At the time of his death, he was professor emeritus of clinical medicine.
For nearly six decades, Hagemann was actively involved in the Medical Center Alumni Association and chaired the school's Annual Fund, its development committee and its Eliot Society Membership Committee. He was longtime vice chair of the Alumni Board of Governors for planned giving. Along with his wife, Hagemann established the Charlotte and Paul Hagemann Professorship in Neurology. Years earlier, he established with his first wife the Paul O. and Nancy P. Hagemann Scholarship Fund in medicine.
Hagemann received the University's Distinguished Alumni Award in 1983, a School of Medicine Alumni/Faculty Award in 1984, the medical school's Second Century Award in 1995 and the William Greenleaf Eliot Society Award in 1996.
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Norman Moore, a 1933 graduate of the School of Architecture, has been a pioneer both in hospital design and construction standards. He began his career during the Depression years as an architect for government agencies, beginning with the National Park Service and the Missouri World's Fair Commission, then for the Tennessee Valley Authority and the Department of the Navy. As an architect for the U.S. Public Health Service Division of Hospital Facilities at the time when Congress passed the benchmark Hill-Burton Hospital Construction Act after World War II, Moore found himself in the largest program of hospital construction in U.S. history.
From the 1950s, when Moore established a private practice as a hospital construction consultant, until his retirement in 1979, he oversaw planning for approximately 40 hospitals and medical facilities.
With his sister, the late Ruth Moore Garbe, Moore created the first endowed professorship in the architecture school in 1986. A second chair followed, as well as a visiting professorship for distinguished scholars and practitioners. Moore and his wife have continued their support with gifts including the Moore Challenge for the school's annual fund. Moore received the Distinguished Alumni Award in 1993.
Distinguished faculty awards will go to:
Greenfield has emerged as a leading expert in the field of consumer law. He is the author of a casebook for law classes, "Consumer Transactions," now in its third edition, and "Consumer Law: A Guide for Those Who Represent Sellers, Lenders and Consumers," and has led national initiatives to revise the Uniform Commercial Code.
Greenfield has been a member of the University's Judicial Board, the Faculty Senate Council and the Academic Freedom and Tenure Hearing Committee. He chaired the law school's building committee and was instrumental in developing the design and overseeing the construction of Anheuser-Busch Hall.
Hickman has made significant contributions in the field of hematology and oncology. After two years as a researcher with the National Institutes of Health, he returned to the University in 1974 as a Fellow in Hematology/Oncology, establishing an independent laboratory for the study of cell proteins and antibodies involved in the immune response. He was appointed an assistant professor of medicine in 1977 and then an associate professor of medicine.
Known for his teaching ability, Hickman is the recipient of six teaching awards given in five consecutive years: two Distinguished Service Teaching Awards, three Professor of the Year honors and one award as Teacher of the Year.
In 1993, Schaal was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and in 1997 she was awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship. Schaal is associate editor of Molecular Biology and Evolution and past president of the Botanical Society of America.
Schaal earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Illinois-Chicago and master's and doctoral degrees in population biology from Yale University.
Weidenbaum was named Edward Mallinckrodt Distinguished University Professor of economics in 1971. Deeply interested in studying the impact of government on business, he founded the Center for the Study of American Business in 1975, serving as director until 1995, when he became chairman. He has also served on a variety of University committees.
Weidenbaum's areas of interest cover a range of topics. His most important publications include the textbook "Business and Government in the Global Marketplace," now in its sixth edition; "Small Wars, Big Defense"; and "The Bamboo Network," which has been translated into Japanese, Indonesian and Korean.
