Knox College will honor four alumni with Alumni Achievement Awards at the 2018 Founders Day Convocation Ceremony on February 16. The event begins at 5:00 p.m. in the Muelder Reading Room of Henry M. Seymour Library and is free and open to the public.

Receiving Alumni Achievement Awards will be cardiologist Greg Duick '68, HIV activist Steve Gibson '88 and artist Harvey Sadow '68. Stephen Herzog '09, international security scholar, will receive the Young Alumni Achievement Award.

The Knox College Alumni Achievement Award, established in 1938, recognizes outstanding career achievements by graduates who attended Knox or Lombard College for at least one full academic year. The Knox College Young Alumni Award, established in 2004, is given to one alumna or alumnus 35 years of age or under who has exhibited exceptional work in a field or endeavor, community, state, or nation. This year's Convocation will celebrate the 181st anniversary of Knox's founding in 1837.

Greg Duick '68

Dr. Greg Duick spent 33 years as a cardiologist, including 20 years as chair of the cardiology department at Via Christi St. Francis Hospital in Wichita, Kansas, before retiring from clinical practice. The Skokie, Illinois, native is still president and chairman of the Kansas Heart Hospital, a facility he helped co-found in 1999. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has continually awarded the hospital its highest rating for overall quality and patient satisfaction. Duick served as a member of the Knox Board of Trustees from 1992 through 1996.

Steve Gibson '88

Steve Gibson helped change the conversation about HIV. He worked for many years as a community organizer in San Francisco at the STOP AIDS Project. In 2003, he founded Magnet, the first integrated sexual health services and community center. Designed to serve 1,000 clients annually, the program now serves 10,000 and operates through the San Francisco AIDS Foundation. Magnet has become an internationally recognized model of sexual health. It inspired similar centers in Peru, Spain, France, Australia, and India.

Harvey Sadow '68

Ceramics artist Harvey Sadow's work has appeared in more than 100 juried and invitational exhibitions, and he has held numerous solo exhibitions in museums and galleries around the world. His work is part of the permanent collections of dozens of museums, including Boston's Museum of Fine Arts, The American Museum of Ceramic Art in Pasadena, The International Museum of Ceramic Art in China, and the Canberra Art Institute in Australia. His work can also be seen in collections at The World Bank, The Bureau of National Affairs, and The White House Collection of American Crafts.

Stephen Herzog '09

While completing a master's degree in security studies at Georgetown University, Herzog became a nuclear arms control and nonproliferation researcher at the Federation of American Scientists, a think tank founded by former Manhattan Project scientists. From there, he joined the U.S. Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration, where he led U.S. technical delegations around the world to support the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty. For four years, he traveled to dozens of countries to help them build their nuclear test monitoring and geophysical hazard mitigation capabilities. He is currently a Ph.D. candidate in political science at Yale University, focused on international security: nuclear weapons proliferation, arms control, and domestic sources of foreign policy.