Western Washington University President's Award to Jack and Jo Ann Bowman - 8/20/2011

On August 20, 2011 about Western Washington University 394 undergraduates and 88 master's candidates received degrees for this quarter. Summer commencement included all majors and only one ceremony took place.

The ceremony included the first presentation of the Western Washington University President's Award, the university's highest community honor, to Jack and Jo Ann Bowman of Lummi Island. The award is presented to those who have given distinguished service to the university and the region.

Recipients of the President's Award, Jack and Jo Ann Bowman, met as students at Western in the 1950s and later lived all over the U.S. and Europe with Jack Bowman's rising career in the pharmaceutical industry. Forty years later, when Bowman retired as head of Johnson & Johnson's worldwide pharmaceutical and diagnostic divisions, the couple moved to Lummi Island. They have supported nonprofit organizations such as the Whatcom Community Foundation, the Lummi Island Heritage Trust, the Boys and Girls Clubs of Whatcom County, St. Joseph Hospital, Whatcom Hospice and the Whatcom Museum of History and Art. They also are highly engaged in the life of Western: the couple established the Daniel L. Bowman Presidential Discretionary Endowment at Western and sponsored President Shepard's 100 Community Conversations. They support the Bowman Family Distinguished Scholars in Leadership, the Karen W. Morse Institute for Leadership and the Bowman Distinguished Professorship in Leadership.

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