Oct. 8 - Schutz Highlights Alumni Awardees
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Susan Polis Schutz '66, co-founder of Blue Mountain Arts greeting card, book and Internet company, will highlight a long list of alumni awardees at Rider University's Alumni Awards and Homecoming Dinner on Saturday, October 16 when she receives a 2004 Distinguished Alumna Award.
During Bronctoberfest activities in the afternoon, the University will hold a book signing for Schutz to spotlight her newly-published autobiography, Blue Mountain: Turning Dreams into Reality. The book signing will take place on the Campus Green from 2 to 3 p.m. During the evening, cocktails will be served at 5 p.m., followed by dinner at 7 p.m. in the Cavalla Room of the Bart Luedeke Center.
Schutz's autobiography details her life experiences and the personal story behind the creation of one of the most successful husband-wife teams in publishing. The books explores the unexpected challenges and opportunities a business faces daily, as well as her childhood in Peekskill, NY, and her college years at Rider and as a sister in Delta Phi Epsilon sorority.
In the early 1970s, she and her husband, Stephen Schutz, a Princeton-trained physicist turned artist, started a silk-screen print company, naming it Blue Mountain Arts. Today, the Boulder, CO, based greeting card company is a multimillion-dollar enterprise. More than half a billion paper greeting cards have been sold and more than a billion have been sent electronically through the company's Web site (a service now owned and operated by American Greetings).
Also recognized will be:
- Will P. Stephens '75, vice president of international government affairs for Johnson & Johnson (Conover Award for Distinguished Leadership);
- Gregory T. Steen, Sr. '84, MBA '89, a project manager for the New Jersey State Division of Information Systems, (Gordon C. Pritchard Award);
- The late Bernard V. Vonderschmitt '81, co-founder and chairman of the San Jose semiconductor company, Xilinx (honored posthumously with the Distinguished Alumnus Award);
- Tywannette "Missy" Williams '98, deputy director of constituency outreach for the Office of the Governor of New Jersey (Young Alumni Award);
- Gary M. Nath '66, managing partner and founder of Nath & Associates law firm in Washington, D.C. and member of Rider's Science Advisory Board (Recognition Award for the School of Liberal Arts and Sciences);
- Anthony N. Impreveduto '71, New Jersey State Assemblyman from 1987 to present and deputy speaker since 2002 (Recognition Award for the School of Education);
- Kevin W. Doran '78, vice president of human resources at PQ Corp. in Valley Forge, PA, and chair of Rider's Business Advisory Board (Recognition Award for the College of Business Administration);
- Jatinder K. Deol '02, vice president of credit and collections at Conair Corp. (Recognition Award for the College of Continuing Studies);
- Allen Crowell '59 WCC, the Mildred Goodrum Heyward Professor of Choral Music and director of Choral Studies at the University of Georgia (Recognition Award for Westminster Choir College).
