March 4, 1997
SDSU president, music lecturer to receive Peacemaker Awards
CONTACT: Rosemary Gladden, 594-2585
SDSU President Stephen Weber and music lecturer Ron Gillis will receive
two of the five 1997 Peacemaker Awards presented by the San Diego Mediation
Center.
Recipients are being honored for exemplary contributions to positive conflict
resolution in the San Diego region during the past year. An awards ceremony
will take place at 5:30 p.m. on March 19 at the San Diego Princess Resort
in Mission Bay.
Weber will be honored for his efforts when three SDSU engineering professors
were gunned down on the SDSU campus last August. Gillis, a lecturer in
SDSU's School of Music and Dance, will be honored for his musical composition
Requiem in Memorium, Oklahoma City, which premiered on the first
anniversary of the city's bombing as a positive response from the arts
community to a tragic violent act. Gillis is also musical director for
San Diego Choral Artists, Inc.
Awards will also be presented to Luis Herrera-Lasso, Consul General of
Mexico, and Alan Bersin, United States Attorney for the Southern District
of California; Joseph Gotkowitz, local director of Operation Understanding;
and Kathleen Wellman and Ann Fait, founding and current presidents of Caring
Residents of Carlsbad.
Endorsed by the San Diego County Bar Association, the San Diego Mediation
Center is an independent, non-profit corporation that provides alternative
dispute resolution services to the local community. This is the ninth year
the Peacemaker Awards are presented.
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