The Yale Science and Engineering Association confers three awards every year at its annual dinner held at Yale in the Presidents' Room in Woolsey Hall. On April 25, 2001, at the annual dinner, all three awards were conferred on Engineering alumni. AWARD for the ADVANCEMENT OF BASIC AND APPLIED SCIENCE to Ralph T. Yang, MS '68, Ph.D. '71, for your scholarship, innovation and contributions to the engineering and science of separations You joined the University of Michigan in 1995 after serving on the faculty of the State University of New York (SUNY) for 17 years. You have also served as a Program Director for the National Science Foundation, and as a Director of the Separations Division of AIChE. You received the SGL Carbon Award from the American Carbon Society in 1999 for the Most Significant Contributions to the Science of Technology of Carbon Materials. You currently are a Director of the International Adsorption Society. We are pleased to recognize your outstanding contributions to the engineering science of separations. Your book, Gas Separations by Adsorption Processes, published in1987, presents both fundamental and applied aspects of separation science and is the touchstone for this field in both industry and academia. You have invented cycles for pressure swing adsorption and advanced our understanding of this process by both modeling and experiments; you have invented new adsorbents for gas separation; and you have developed the theory for designing new adsorbents and for modeling adsorption, all of which is documented in some 300 academic publications and patents. You are widely recognized by your scientific colleagues in separation science and by the American Institute of Chemical Engineers by several awards for your work. AWARD for Distinguished Service to Industry, Commerce or Education to Henry B. Schacht '56 B.S. Henry Schacht, you graduated from Yale University in 1956 with a B.S. degree from the School of Engineering in Industrial Administration, and received a master's of business administration from Harvard University in 1962. In between, you served in the United States Navy for four years. For more than 30 years you held management positions at Cummins Engine Co., Inc., starting as vice president Finance and serving as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer from 1977 to 1995. Soon after retiring from Cummins, you were named chairman and CEO-designate of Lucent Technologies, overseeing the launch and first two years of the independent company. After serving as chairman of Avaya Communication, you returned to Lucent in October 2000 as its chairman and chief executive officer. Currently, you are on the board of directors of Avaya, Johnson & Johnson Corp., ALCOA, The Chase Manhattan Corporation and The Chase Manhattan Bank, N.A., The New York Times Company, and Knoll Inc. In addition, you are devoted to community service, having served as a trustee and chairman of the Ford Foundation, a trustee of the Rockefeller Foundation and of the Urban Institute. You also have served as a member of the President's Commission for National Agenda for the '80s, and of the Advisory Board at the Yale School of Organization and Management. As well, you served as a member of the Yale Corporation. Henry Schacht, in recognition of your outstanding business career and leadership of philanthropic and community-minded organizations, the Yale Science and Engineering Association is proud to present you with its Award for Distinguished Service to Industry, Commerce or Education. AWARD for MERITORIOUS SERVICE TO YALE UNIVERSITY to William Henry Oler II 1945E Bill Oler entered Yale in September of 1941 and graduated as a member of the Class of 1945 from the School of Engineering. He served in the United States Marine Corps from 1943 to 1946 and was discharged as an officer. After graduation, Bill began a working career from trainee through the executive ranks with various corporations in the engineering, textile and other fields. While pursuing this career, Bill always found time to contribute his considerable energies to matters concerning his community and especially Yale. Bill's concern for engineering at Yale was evidenced by his membership on the Board of the Yale Science and Engineering Association for over forty years and his leadership as its President or committee chairmanships during that tenure. He has honorably served as Secretary for the Class of 1945 for the past decade. Bill was a delegate, then elected to the Board of Governors of the Association of Yale Alumni where he was Chairman of Assembly X and other Association Committees. In his home area, he has served as President of the Yale Alumni Association of Greenwich. He also has been past President of the Yale Glee Club Associates and the Whiffenpoof Alumni. If you ever want a song, just ask Bill! Because of life long commitment to Yale, Bill Oler was awarded its highest honor, The Yale Medal in 1981. Bill, in all the years since your graduation, you have served Yale tirelessly and with complete dedication. You have been an inspiration to all who have worked with you in your many endeavors for Yale. It is with great pride that the Yale Science and Engineering Association presents you with its Award for Meritorious Service to Yale University.