Each year, Carthage alumni are asked to submit their nominations for the Distinguished Alumni Awards. After extensive deliberations, the Alumni Council selects the recipients.

2005 Distinguished Alumni Award Recipients

Hoyt Harper II

Hoyt Harper II, '77, Cohasset, Mass., will receive a Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award. Harper is senior vice president, brand management for Starwood Hotels and Resorts, White Plains, N.Y., and a 25-year veteran of the travel and hospitality industry.

This year, Harper was selected by Black Enterprise magazine as one of the 75 most powerful blacks in corporate America. He is responsible for all operational aspects of Starwood's Four Points by Sheraton brand, including standards, product development and owner relations.

Harper previously served as senior vice president of business development and marketing programs for Starwood Hotels and Resorts Worldwide; and as Starwood's vice president, marketing. In that post, Harper oversaw the 1999 launch of Starwood's preferred guest program, rated the nation's best frequent-guest program by USA Today. Prior to that, Harper was an executive with ITT Sheraton and received the Harold S. Geneen Award, ITT Corporation's highest achievement award for marketing, in 1992.

Harper serves on the marketing advisory committee of Suffolk University's School of Management in Boston.

John Seal

John Seal, '72, Arlington, Va., will receive a Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award. Seal is chief management and human capital officer of the Pension Benefit Corporation, a self-financing government corporation that insures private sector, deferred-benefit pension plans.

Seal served as acting executive director of ACTION, the federal domestic volunteer agency, in 1981 and 1982, after beginning his government career with the Office of Management and Budget. He has also held positions with the U. S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the U. S. Department of Education.

At Carthage, Seal graduated summa cum laude. He has credited Eric Olson, a professor of political science, with reinforcing his desire to enter government service and encouraging him to pursue graduate studies at Cornell University. Seal earned a master's degree in public administration at Cornell.

Seal has been named an Outstanding Young Man by the U. S. Jaycees; is listed in Who's Who in American Politics and Who's Who in American Universities and Colleges; and has received several federal recognition awards, including the 2003 Meritorious Executive Award.

Dr. John Jeanmaire

Dr. John Jeanmaire, '75, Akron, Ohio, will receive a Distinguished Alumni Service Award. He is an anesthesiologist for Summa Health System of Akron, and an assistant professor of anesthesiology in the Division of Clinical Sciences at Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine in Rootstown.

Dr. Jeanmaire graduated from Carthage summa cum laude. He received his doctor of medicine from the Medical College of Wisconsin and was awarded membership in Alpha Omega Alpha (the honorary medical society). He did residency in anesthesiology in Milwaukee. He has gone on to complete acupuncture training through the University of California Los Angeles School of Medicine and is a member of the American Association of Medical Acupuncture.

In addition to numerous medical lectures, he also has given many Christian witness talks at retreats and on missions.

Dr. Jeanmaire is currently a medical director for missions to Peru through Medical Ministry International, a Christian organization that delivers medical assistance to Third World countries. He helps plan, organize and lead missions to Peru. His most interesting trip was with mules at high elevation in the southern Andes of Peru to remote "old Inca" villages.

Dr. Jeanmaire would like to thank his parents and his superb teachers at Carthage, such as Dr. Evelyn Crump, Dr. Kenneth Hamm and former president Alan Anderson, '50, for providing an excellent Christian education.