KUDOS

The Anderson School honored Los Angeles businessman Eli Broad with the Exemplary Leadership in Management Award, the highest honor it bestows upon individuals. Broad will be honored at a banquet on May 13 at the Century Plaza Hotel.... Seven alumni with outstanding records in professional achievement and public, community and university service will be honored at the UCLA Alumni Association's 57th annual Alumni Awards ceremony on May 18. Robert S. Wilson, chair of Campaign UCLA, will receive the Edward A. Dickson Alumnus of the Year Award, while real-estate developer Richard S. Gunther, who serves on the board of directors for KCET-TV and KPFK Public Radio, will receive the Community Service Award. The Professional Achievement Award will go to John R. Fowler, director of the Ephesus Emergency Medicine Training and Research Center in the Republic of Turkey; Andrew Heyward, chairman and CEO of DIC Entertainment; and Asad M. Madni, whose scientific and technical innovations have helped the Department of Defense, NASA and other organizations. Lawyer Sandra Kass Gilman, a leader in Gold Shield Alumnae and the Prytanean Alumnae, will receive the University Service Award, and California State Board of Education member Vicki L. Reynolds, who served on the UCLA Foundation Board of Councillors and as mayor of Beverly Hills, will receive the Public Service Award. Special recognition will be given to Professor Leonard Kleinrock. Also to be honored are the five Senate faculty members receiving Distinguished Teaching Awards: Christopher Anderson, Steven Clarke, Anne Mellor, Lee Todd Miller and Grant Nelson.

ELECTED

Martin F. Shapiro, professor of medicine and health services and chief of the Division of General Internal Medicine and Health Services Research, was elected president of the Society of General Internal Medicine for 2002-03.... Steven Ricci, head of research and study for the UCLA Film and Television Archive, was elected to the post of secretary general of the International Federation of Film Archives, the preeminent nonprofit association of moving-image archives in the world.

APPLAUSE

Joseph Caprioli, chief of the glaucoma division and clinical researcher at the Jules Stein Eye Institute, received a $55,000 Research to Prevent Blindness (RPB) Physician-Scientist Award. In addition, RPB awarded a $110,000 grant to the Department of Ophthalmology at the institute.... Wenyuan Shi, associate professor in the Division of Oral Biology and Medicine, was awarded a three-year, $964,000 grant from Vivadent for the purpose of developing diagnostic tools for cariogenic bacteria.

IN MEMORIAM

Vic Kelley Jr., 88, UCLA sports information director for 36 years, died of prostate cancer on April 17. Born in Muskogee, Okla., Kelley graduated from UCLA in 1937, playing on its golf team for three years. He spent several years in the newspaper business in San Francisco and Los Angeles before returning to UCLA in 1945, when he began his long tenure as sports information director, working with basketball coach John Wooden; football coaches Tommy Prothro, Dick Vermeil and Terry Donahue; and athletes Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Bill Walton and Rafer Johnson. Upon his retirement in 1981, Kelley served as the UCLA athletic department's sports historian and was involved in the development of its first athletic hall of fame, where he served as curator and was later inducted as a member in 1989.