Past Larry Forman '60 Award Recipients
2008 - Jamal Elliott '96 (Basketball)
Since graduating from Haverford, Jamal Elliott has spent his professional career as an educator. After Haverford he helped start the Family Charter School in West Philadelphia where he taught kindergarten for five years.
Elliott then moved on to Ursinus College where he worked in the Admissions Office as Coordinator of Minority Recruiting. After two years at Ursinus he was offered the Dean of Students position at Wissahickon Charter School in the Germantown section of Philadelphia. Wissahickon Charter is a K-8 school serving 405 students. Its mission is environmental education, peace education and parents as partners in the learning community. After two years as Dean of Students, he was promoted to Co-CEO and is in charge of the school with Co-CEO, Kristi Littell '94. Elliott finished his playing career at Haverford with 1,136 career points and helped guide the team to its first ever Centennial Conference playoff berth in 1996. During his senior season, Elliott was second in the league in scoring, seventh in steals in Division III and 10th in assists in the nation.
One of the finest point guards ever to wear the Scarlet and Black, a number of Elliott's records still stand. He holds the career record for steals (227) and demolished the career record for assists (486) before it was broken in 2006. Elliott holds the single season record for assists (168), assists per game (7.3), steals (78) and steals per game (3.4). He also set the single game record for steals (12 ) and assists (13).
At the conclusion of his senior year Elliott received the Haverford College Alumni Varsity Cup, an award given to the outstanding athlete in the senior class. He shared the award with teammate and fellow 1,000 point honoree Chris Guiton '96.
Elliott and his wife, Moneek, have been married for three years and make their home in the Germantown section of the city. He is the proud father of three boys, Jamil and Jalil age 11, who have dreams of being NBA stars, and Masai age 5. Elliott is still connected to the game by coaching AAU basketball, and the Wissahickon Charter School team. He also stays active, playing competitive basketball in Philly, and at Haverford on Sunday mornings.
2007 - Robert Bollinger '79 (Lacrosse)
Robert C. Bollinger, MD, MPH, is the Director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Clinical Global Health Education. He is a Professor of Infectious Diseases in the Department of Medicine of the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, with a joint appointment in the Department of International Health of the Bloomberg School of Public Health. He has more than 28 years of experience in international public health, clinical research and education in a broad range of global health priorities including HIV/AIDS, malaria, tuberculosis, leprosy and emerging infections. His initial experience in public health in India was in 1979 and included field work with a leprosy control project in rural Bihar. Over the past 15 years, he has initiated and conducted a large collaborative Indo-US HIV research program in Pune, with the National AIDS Research Institute/ICMR and the BJ Medical College. His ongoing public health research includes additional collaborative projects in Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Dr. Bollinger is also the Country Director for the Hopkins Fogarty International Programs in India and DRC, which has provided short-term and degree public health training to more than 200 visiting scientists at Hopkins, as well as in-country training for many more scientists, since 1992. Additionally, he is Director of the Immunology Core Laboratory for the international NIH-sponsored HIV Prevention Trials Network, responsible for technology transfer, training and oversight of clinical and research laboratories in 17 institutions, in 13 countries.
Dr. Bollinger is an active clinician/educator, who provides and supervises HIV and infectious diseases clinical care, in the outpatient and in-patient settings at Johns Hopkins Hospital. In addition to his teaching, research and clinical responsibilities, Dr. Bollinger has contributed to many public health training programs, expert committees and consultations in the US, Bangladesh, Botswana, Brazil, India, Japan, Pakistan, Panama, Senegal, South Africa, South Korea, Thailand, and Uganda. He is a member of the US Presidential Advisory Council for HIV/AIDS (PACHA), where he also serves on the PACHA International Sub-committee. He is Board Certified in Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases from the American Board of Internal Medicine, having received internal medicine training at the University of Maryland Medical Systems and a Post-doctoral Fellowship in Infectious Diseases from Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Dr. Bollinger has been on the faculty at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and Public Health since 1992.
Bob graduated from Haverford with degrees in chemistry and philosophy. He received an MD from Dartmouth in 1984 and his MPH from Johns Hopkins in 1988. He played lacrosse while at Haverford and is a member of the Varsity Club.
As to his athletic career at Haverford, Bob was a standout midfielder and four year letter-winner in lacrosse. Former athletic director and lacrosse coach Dana Swan could attest to Bob's outstanding athleticism, excellent skills, and selfless team play which made Bob one of the mainstays of a truly remarkable team that included an NCAA Division III All-American and a national scoring leader. Lacrosse teammate Chris Norton '80, now a member of Haverford's Board of Managers, also regards Bob as eminently well-suited for The Forman Award because of his superior athletic accomplishments at Haverford and his subsequent career of remarkably energetic and fruitful service to society on an international scale.