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2 Receive Alumni Awards

Timothy J. Creem (MF’66) and Paul W. Parker (MEM’97) have been selected to receive alumni awards from the Nicholas School.

Creem, recipient of the Ralston Distinguished Alumni Award, is “a longtime and generous supporter of the school,” according to Peggy Dean Glenn, associate dean for new initiatives at the Nicholas School. He served on the Board of Visitors from 1989 to 2004.

He established the Timothy J. Creem and Anne G. Creem Scholarship Endowment Fund to support master of forestry students, and he was an early supporter of the Norman L. Christensen Scholarship Fund, established in honor of founding dean Christensen. Glenn says that he was “an adored member of his class” who organized reunions and stayed active in alumni groups.

Creem is a retired partner with Creem & Creem, a brokerage firm, and he lives in Bridgeton, Maine.

Parker, executive director of the Cape Cod Commercial Hook Fishermen’s Association, has been given the Rising Star Award for young alumni. Under his leadership, the association has grown from 200 to 2,000 members and has developed a strong reputation for grass-roots advocacy to protect fishing communities in New England through practices that encourage sustainable harvest of fresh seafood. Parker’s staff includes several Nicholas School graduates, and almost every summer, at least one master’s student interns for the organization.

“The secret of Paul’s success is that he is just as effective in the halls of Congress as he is on the water,” says Amy Schick Kenney MEM’98, president of the Nicholas School Alumni Council and a marine policy consultant. An avid scuba diver and lifelong sailor, Parker also is a commercial fisherman.

The awards will be given at a ceremony during the annual student banquet on April 7.