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Alumni

Visit Park Tudor's online alumni community   Park Tudor is proud to welcome you to our online, password-protected Alumni Community for all Tudor Hall, Park School and Park Tudor alumni, as well as current and former faculty members.   The site enables alumni to register, find contact information for classmates, post information by class year, submit class notes, interact with blogs, maintain a personal page, upload photos to shared photo galleries and much more! The site is only open to registered alumni and faculty, so you will be able to interact without the worry of your information being viewed by outside parties.   Click here to register for the Park Tudor Alumni Community. Click here if you already have registered and wish to log in.

2008 Distinguished Alumni Recipients

Dr. Anne Pelizzoni Lanier '58
Medical epidemiologist Dr. Anne Pelizzoni Lanier is the director of the Office of Alaska Native Health Research with the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium, a tribally managed and operated nonprofit organization responsible for providing statewide health services within the Alaska Tribal Health System. Dr. Lanier has conducted extensive research and published several papers regarding the high occurrence of cancer, diabetes and other disorders among Alaskan natives. Her work has been a vital tool in helping identify cancer patterns among Alaskan natives. She has been instrumental in developing the state’s first comprehensive cancer plan to address the physical, psychological, social and economic burden that cancer places on individuals, families and communities.  

After graduating from the Washington University School of Medicine in 1966, Dr. Lanier began her medical career as a physician with the Alaska Native Medical Center in Anchorage, Alaska. As her appreciation for the nature and beauty of Alaska grew, so did her dedication to its people.  After leaving Alaska to obtain a master’s degree in public health from the University of Minnesota, she returned to dedicate her career to improving the health of the native Alaskan population. Dr. Lanier and her colleagues coordinate all research statewide involving Alaskan natives. They identify health research needs and priorities, secure funding for research and maintain a database of health research. 

Steve '51, Paul '53 and Ralph '55 Colwell
Steve, Paul and Ralph Colwell are the musical founders of the international educational program “Up with People,” creating the second-longest-running musical show of the 20th century. To date, 20,000 young people from 60 countries have performed with “Up with People.” The Colwells and their associates invented the first Super Bowl non-marching-band half-time show format in 1976, when 400 cast members performed at Super Bowl X. “Up with People” was the first international performing group to visit China after the Cultural Revolution, among the first in Russia as the Cold War began to thaw, and was frequently invited to Ireland and Northern Ireland during the years when sectarian violence there was at its most intense.

The Colwells were city boys who strummed and sang their way onto bluegrass and country stages at ages 14, 12 and 10. On weekends, working around their demanding homework and sports schedules as students at Park School, they performed throughout the region. Columbia Records put the Colwells under contract in 1952 as the youngest group ever signed by a major label, and they released five records that year. To the surprise of many, Steve, Paul and Ralph reoriented their lives to public service and humanitarian goals, a choice that would lead them to 60 countries on six continents. They would sing in 37 languages and dialects, in presidential palaces and remote villages. They worked with Moral-Rearmament, a not-for-profit focused on international reconciliation and conflict resolution, demonstrating the power of music as an instrument for bringing people together. Their careers took another major turn in the mid-1960s, when along with their colleague Herb Allen, they became the musical founders of “Up with People.”

Dr. Allison Brashear '79
Dr. Allison Brashear, professor and chair of neurology at Wake Forest University School of Medicine, was the first to show that Botox relieved the spasticity in wrists and fingers that often plagues stroke patients, publishing her findings in “The New England Journal of Medicine.” She has been the principal investigator in multi-center trials using Botox in the treatment of cervical dystonia, in which neck muscles contract involuntarily, causing abnormal movements and posture of the head and neck. She has published numerous peer-reviewed journal articles on the use of Botox for the treatment of both disorders. She was formerly a professor of neurology and vice chairman for clinical practice and program development at the Indiana University School of Medicine. 

Dr. Brashear is a member of the Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center Board of Directors.  She has been selected to participate in several leadership programs, including Leadership Development for Physicians in Academic Health Centers at the Harvard School of Public Health, the AAMC Mid Career Leadership Program, the American Academy of Neurology Leadership Program, and recently as a fellow in the Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine (ELAM) program.  She is the past president of the Indiana Neurological Society and is a fellow of the American Academy of Neurology, the American Neurological Association, the American Association of Electrodiagnostic Medicine and the Movement Disorder Society.

2007 Distinguished Alumni Recipients

Susanah (Susie) Mayberry Mead ’65   
Susie became the first woman and the first graduate to lead the Indiana University School of Law when she was made Interim Dean in June, 2005. A 1976 graduate (summa cum laude) of the IU School of Law-Indianapolis, she joined the faculty in 1978. Her academic appointments included director of legal writing, assistant professor, associate professor, associate dean for Academic Affairs and professor. She has published several articles examining issues in constitutional tort law and products liability law. From 1976-1978, Susie clerked for the Honorable Paul H. Buchanan Jr., chief judge of the Indiana Court of Appeals and a 1994 recipient of the Park Tudor Distinguished Alumni Award.  

Susie serves as trustee to the Pension Fund of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, Local 30. She also has been elected to membership in the Indianapolis Garden Club and is currently a chancellor of Christ Church Cathedral. Susie and her husband, Jack, are parents of Park Tudor alumni Holly ’88, Edith ’91 and Sybil ’94 Mead. 

Mr. John Neighbours ’67 
 John repesents employers throughout the county in all aspects of labor and employment law. As a partner in the Indianapolis law firm Baker & Daniels, John advises employers throughout the United States concerning maintaining union-free workplaces. This 1971 graduate of DePauw University and 1974 graduate of Indiana University School of Law is the current board chairman of the United Way of Central Indiana and the Charles A. Tindley Accelerated School, a public charter school devoted to lifting inner-city youth to higher education through an accelerated learning program. John has served the school since its formation in 2002 and raised much of the funding needed to sustain the school’s operation from 2002 through 2006.  

John held board memberships with the Indianapolis Zoological Society, the Christian Theological Seminary, Noble of Indiana, Marion County Commission on Youth, the Indianapolis Symphony and Penrod Society, and was instrumental in creating the Prelude Awards and the International Violin Competition of Indianapolis. John and his wife, Sharon, have three children. Their daughter, Emily, is a 2000 graduate of Park Tudor School.

John Atcheson ’77 
John is president of the National Charitable Network (NCN), a Seattle-based nonprofit focused on increasing charitable giving through the creation of a new electronic platform for giving. Prior to founding NCN, John spent over 20 years as an entrepreneur and advisor in the field of media and technology. John is former CEO of Ads.com and former vice president and general manager of Media Publishing at RealNetworks, a role that involved the oversight of all media-related web sites, the negotiation of strategic alliances with media partners such as NPR, Warner Brothers and Sony, and the acquisition of media properties such as Film.com. Prior to joining RealNetworks, John spent seven years as the founder and CEO of MusicNet, a pioneering interactive services company, after earlier serving on the executive staffs of both Digidesign and Macromind (now Macromedia).  

John serves as board chair of Sightline Institute, a Seattle-based think-tank on sustainability. He also serves on the board of the Seattle Symphony and is a section leader and occasional soloist with the Seattle Symphony Chorale. He received his B.A. degree from Brown University and his M.B.A. from Stanford Business School. John has two teenage daughters and lives in Seattle. 

William (Billy) Baker, M.D.  ’74 
Billy was one of the nation’s foremost physicians addressing the high incidence of prostate cancer and mortality in African American men. He was founder of the African American Prostate Cancer Initiative. Billy was killed in a tragic boating accident on August 20, 2006. At the time of his death, he was a urologist at Kaiser Permanente Medical Group in Stockton, California and president of the Urology Section of the National Medical Association. He served on the faculty of the University of California at Davis, as the chief of urology for the Veterans Administration Healthcare System from 1998-2005, was the founding director of the California Prostate Cancer Coalition and served as chairman of the Prostate Committee for the American Cancer Society.  

Billy excelled in both academics and sports while attending Park Tudor and Brown University. He earned his doctor of medicine degree in 1982 from the University of Louisville Medical School.

Established in 1987, the Park Tudor Distinguished Alumni Award recognizes alumni who have made substantial contributions to a field of endeavor, their community, and/or the school.

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