Alumni Association . Mission Statement . Distinguished Alumni Award Winners Robert Dodds of Cortland and Lisa Doran of Marathon have been named the recipients of the 2000 Distinguished Alumni Award at Tompkins Cortland Community College. The honors were announced at the 10th Annual TC3 Distinguished Alumni Awards Gala. The Distinguished Alumni Award honors individuals who have achieved recognized success in their business, profession, or other vocational undertaking.
Recognized success is defined as performing a major leadership role in one s chosen career.
Dodds and Doran were chosen from six nominees. Dodds, who received a travel and tourism degree in 1983 and a hotel technology degree in 1984, has been an instructor at Syracuse University since 1996. He teaches Spanish and Latin American culture and geography, and was named the 2000 Teacher of the Year by Syracuse University. Previously, he was an adjunct faculty member at TC3 from 1995-98, earning a nomination for the SUNY Chancellor s Award for Excellence in Adjunct Teaching. Robert is one of the best instructors we have teaching at SU, wrote Dr. Gerald Greenberg, chair of Syracuse University s Department of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics, in his letter supporting Dodds nomination.