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Band Director Everett receives award for longstanding service

Making music as director of bands at Harvard since 1971, Tom Everett recently received the Alice B. Tondel Award from the Harvard University Band Foundation. The plaque, presented for longstanding service to and lasting beneficial influence on the Band, salutes Everett's 25th anniversary here, praising him for "leading us up the street and down the field, keeping our heads up and guiding us right," while teaching classics of the wind repertoire, commissioning new works, bringing jazz luminaries to Harvard, and doing it all with an infectious blend of "intelligence, humor, patience and dedication."

Everett founded the Harvard Summer Pops (which soon marks its own 25th anniversary) and the Jazz Program at Harvard. He has long worked closely with the Office for the Arts. Everett has also soloed on trombone and guest-conducted around the world, and he has helped judge numerous international competitions.

The award commemorates the Band's official "Mom," a Cambridge resident who avidly supported, advised, and donated her artistic talents to the Band from 1956 until her death in 1993.

Knoll to receive honorary degree, deliver Crafoord Lecture Andrew H. Knoll, chairman of the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, will be awarded an honorary Doctor of Philosophy degree by Uppsala University, Sweden, on May 31. Knoll, a paleontologist, is being recognized for his contributions to understanding the early evolution of life on Earth. Knoll will also deliver the inaugural Crafoord Lecture in Paleobiology at Tübingen University in Germany while he is in Europe. Knoll is a professor of biology and curator of the Paleobotanical Collections in the University Herbaria.

Senior Chung wins British Commonwealth Scholarship

Senior Patrick S. Chung of Cabot House and Toronto, Canada, has been awarded a British Commonwealth Scholarship to study at Oxford University next year. He plans to pursue a master's degree in environmental policy there.

The scholarship funds postgraduate study for any citizen of the

commonwealth to study in any other commonwealth country. Nine such scholarships were awarded to Canadians to study in the United Kingdom this year. The scholarships are intended "for men and women of high intellectual promise who may be expected to make a significant contribution to their own countries on their return from study abroad."

Chung also received the Paul W. Williams Scholarship to study at Cambridge University, but he has decided to enroll at Oxford instead.