Haverford College Alumni Award recipients
Haverford College will present its 2020 Alumni Awards on Saturday, May 30 as part of Alumni Weekend at the College. Below is a list of alumni student-athletes and coaches who will be honored over the weekend. These recipients were selected in recognition of their service to the College, society, and their professions.
Chris Norton '80 P'08 P'11 – The Kannerstein Award
The Kannerstein Award honors the legacy and memory of Greg Kannerstein '63, an honored and revered alumnus, and a friend and mentor to many. Greg served Haverford for many years as director of athletics, dean of the College, and as a professor. This most distinguished award given by the Alumni Association honors alumni who, in a variety of ways, have provided loyal and active support for the work of the College.
Chris Norton '80 P'08 P'11 is president of the Washington Center, an organization that provides residential internships in public policy and public service to college aged students, for academic credit. He is a retired managing partner of the Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. after nearly 20 years with the company, and he served as chairman of the board of Loomis Chaffee School. Chris earned a B.A. in history from Haverford in 1980. As an alum, his long and distinguished service to the College spans decades. Among other significant contributions, Chris served on the Board of Managers for over a decade, including an executive role as vice chair, as well as chair of the Development and Long Range Planning Committees. He was also an effective and longstanding fundraising volunteer in the Educating to Lead, Educating to Serve campaign and a co-chair of the Lives That Speak campaign for Haverford. A generous advocate of the College, Chris contributes to several endowed funds, including his own newly endowed Norton Family Professorship in Music. Chris is married to Carter Norton and the couple have five children, including Kate Norton Magovern '08 and Kiley Norton '11. Chris also shares his family connection to Haverford with his father, Nicholas Norton '52, brother, Andrew '84 and uncle, D. Norton Williams '39. Chris and Carter reside in New Canaan, Conn.
Norton was a senior captain and four-year member of the Haverford College men's lacrosse program. He was honored with the team's Founers' Award (MVP) following his senior season.
Carmen Crow Sheehan '00 – The Forman Award
The Forman Award goes to Haverford athletes who, professionally or voluntarily, have devoted a significant amount of time and energy to the betterment of society. The award honors Lawrence Forman '60, one of the outstanding athletes in the history of Haverford College, who committed his life both to the betterment of humankind and to international understanding.
Carmen Crow Sheehan '00 has worked for the Peace Corps since 2012, in Washington DC, the republic of Georgia, and most recently Albania where she is currently based as regional safety and security officer. She also served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Ecuador from 2000-03. Carmen has spent her time post-graduation dedicated to humanitarian aid and development largely in the international sphere, having also worked for the American Refugee Committee in Darfur, the International Medical Corps in northern Uganda and Mozambique, and Jhpiego in support of health programming in 30+ countries. Carmen received a B.S. in biology from Haverford in 2000, and as an undergraduate played on the women's basketball team. She also studied abroad in Australia during her junior year. Carmen went on to receive an M.S.W. from Tulane University in 2004, and an M.P.H. for International Health and Development from Tulane in 2005. Carmen is joined in Tirana by her husband Colin and their two daughters.
Crow Sheehan was a four-year member of the Haverford College women's basketball team and was selected to the Centennial Conference Academic Honor Roll three times during her career.
Tom Donnelly '09 – The Friend of Haverford College Award
The Friend of Haverford College Award is given for exemplary and sustained service to the College, and loyal and active support for the mission of the College, by a member of the greater Haverford community.
Tom Donnelly P'09 is the head coach of Haverford's men's track and cross country programs. A 2014 inductee into the USTFCCCA Hall of Fame, Tom enters his 45th year with Haverford in the 2019-20 seasons. Tom has taken Haverford to 76 Middle Atlantic and Centennial Conference championships, including 64 titles since the 1993 season. His runners have earned 172 cross country and track & field All-American awards since 1980, including 29 individual NCAA championships and an NCAA championship relay team. Tom's career reached a coaching pinnacle when Haverford won the 2010 NCAA Division III Championship, the first team in College history. On top of his coaching abilities, Tom fosters a culture of excellence and leads by example. He represents everything that Haverford strives for and cares just as much about shaping better students/people as he does about creating better runners. Prior to Haverford, Tom was an All-American in cross country and track at Villanova University. Tom has two sons, Patrick and Edward Donnelly. Patrick graduated from Haverford in 2009.
Nominations are being accepted for the 2021 Award cycle when the Classes of 1946-2016 will be celebrating Reunions. Nominees do not necessarily have to be in a Reunion class; however, it is particularly meaningful to receive an award while celebrating with classmates. All nominations must be submitted by Monday, August 10, 2020, for consideration in the 2021 cycle.