Pryor Scrapbook Clippings, 1945-2000

National College Honor Society for All Fields-Box 12249 Harding University, Searcy, AR 72149-0001 Astronaut from Nebraska named 1 01 top alumnus Clayton C. Anderson, a NASA astronaut and mission specialist who graduated from Hastings College in 1981 , has been selected to receive AlphaChi's DistinguishedAlumni Award at the national convention nextMarch in Savannah, Ga. Anderson, who was nominated by the Nebraska Alpha chapter, majored in physics and went on to study aerospace engineering at Iowa State University, where he received the M.S. degree in 1983. In that year he joined the Johnson Space . Center in the mission planning and analysis division for early Space Shuttle and Space Station missions. In 1988 he served as a flight design manager leading the trajectory design team for the Galileo planetary mis– sion and was backup for the Magellan plan– etary mi sion. In 1989 Anderson was chosen supervisor of the mission operations directorate ascent flight design section, and in 1993 was named chief of the flight design branch. In 1996 he became manager of the emergency opera– tions center and served there until accepted as an astronaut candidate in 1998. Having completed extensive training, Anderson now awaits future assignments as an astronaut and mission specialist. A native of Nebraska, Anderson enjoys officiating high school and college basket– ball, playing a variety of sports, and singing, writing and playing music. At Hastings he competed on the football, basketball and track teams and received the Bronco Award. The chapter's nominating letter concluded, "Clay Anderson has spent his life exempli– fying the values Alpha Chi promotes and continues to be a model of the standards and ideals of Alpha Chi." The award will be presented during the society's convention March 20-22. Clayton Anderson Two wins for Hastings . Clayton Anderson is Nebraska Alpha's second Distinguished Alumni Award win– ner. The first, Dr. Mary Wheat Gray, was honored in 1995for achievements in higher education, mathematics scholarship andhu– manitarianworkwithAmnesty International Doctoral student in psychology wins -Pryor Fellowship Brandon Gaudiano Brandon Gaudiano, a 1999 alumnus of Saint Vincent College's Pennsylvania Nu chapter and now a doctoral student in clini– cal psychology atMCPHahnemann Univer– sity, has been named to receive the Joseph E. Pryor Alumni Fellowship for 2000-01. He will u e the $5,000 award to continue his Ph.D. work at the Philadelphia institu– tion, where his special interest is the rela– tionship between the social anxiety disorder and depression. Gaudiano completed the B.A. at Saint Vincent with a 4.0 average. His goal is to create a private clinical practice with an emphasis in a sessment and testing, and also to teach at least part-time in a university. As an undergraduate, Gaudiano co– authored a paper published in the Psi Chi Journal ofUndergraduate Research for the psychology college honor society Psi Chi -and was a student affiliate of the American Psychological Association. He also was active in Amnesty International. In his graduate study in the Social Anxiety Treatment Program, he is- a research assis– tant and co-therapist in a study of the effec– tiveness of cognitive behavioral therapy for social phobia in adolescents. He also main– tains the program's Web site. The alternate for the Pryor Fellowship is Mary Elizabeth Barton Long, a 1997 gradu– ate of Ouachita Baptist University and an alumna of the Arkansas Beta chapter. She is a doctoral student in English at the Univer– sity of Massachusetts. The alumni fellowship is named in honor of Dr. Joseph E. Pryor, retired executive director of the society.