Baylor Honors Four Graduates With 2005 Distinguished Alumni Award
(L to R) - A.T. ?Gus? Blackshear Jr., Dr. Ray Perryman, Dr. Sally B. Kilgore and Dr. John M. Lilley.
Four notable Baylor University graduates received the Baylor Alumni Association's Distinguished Alumni Award -- the highest honor given to members of the Baylor University family -- during a gala banquet Jan. 21 on the Baylor campus.
This year's recipients were: A.T. "Gus" Blackshear Jr., partner and retired chair of the Houston law firm of Fulbright & Jaworski LLP; Dr. Sally B. Kilgore, president and CEO of the Modern Red SchoolHouse Institute, a non-profit organization based in Nashville, Tenn.; Dr. John M. Lilley, president of the University of Nevada, Reno; and Dr. Ray Perryman, a Nobel Prize-nominee widely regarded as one of the world's most influential and innovative economists.