From an email to the Class of ’68:
Mr. Paulette, Chair of the External Relations Committee, reported on the meeting of the Selection Committee of the Jonathan Myrick Daniels ’61 Humanitarian Award, which he also chairs, held 3 February in Lexington. The Selection Committee reviewed eight candidates and unanimously recommended to the External Relations Committee that Dr. Paul V. Hebert ’68 be the third recipient of the Jonathan Daniels Humanitarian Award. Dr. Hebert, who holds a Ph. D. in Environmental Engineering from the University of North Carolina/Chapel Hill, has spent his life in humanitarian and development efforts working for the Near East Foundation, the World Bank, and the United Nations throughout South East and South Asia, Iran, the Philippines, Nepal, war torn former Soviet Republics, Sarajevo, Serbia, Montenegro, Kosovo, and Ethiopia. He was Head of the UN Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs and Deputy UN Humanitarian Coordinator in Yugoslavia (2001-2003) and in Ethiopia (2003-2008). He currently resides in Nairobi, Kenya with his wife Dr. Mayling Simpson-Hebert where is assisting Catholic Relief Services as a consultant and is also advising and supporting humanitarian conferences and training in East Africa and the Gulf States. Since 2008, he has been helping in a private capacity to raise funds to support a large primary school for children living in a major slum of Nairobi.
A motion was made by Mr. Paulette, seconded by MG Hickerson, that the Board of Visitors approves the recommendation of Dr. Paul V. Hebert ’68 as the third recipient of the Jonathan Myrick Daniels ’61 Humanitarian Award, the award to be presented during Academic Year 2010-2011. The motion passed.
Previous winners were President Jimmy Carter and Ambassador Andrew Young.
Here’s a link to the page on Jonathan Daniels and the award: http://www.vmi.edu/archives.aspx?id=14481
