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Arthur Safstrom Service Award
The Fresno State Alumni Association presents the Arthur Safstrom Service Award to an alumna/s, faculty, staff or friend of
California State University, Fresno, who has given outstanding service to the Fresno State Alumni Association and/or the
University.
For 29 years, the late Arthur Safstrom served as the University’s director of educational related activities and was
instrumental in the building of the University Student Union in 1968. A conference room in the student union is named in
his honor. He was the student body president of Fresno State College in 1931-1932, a member of the Fresno State Alumni
Association Board of Directors, and the 1960 Distinguished Alumnus of the Year.
NOMINATION CRITERIA
* Current Fresno State employees must be nominated for reasons outside of their actual job description.
1. Each school/college, the Division of Student Affairs and Enrollment Management, Graduate Studies, Library, and
Athletics, will receive copies of all alumni nominated from their area, as well as nominations for the Distinguished
Alumna/us and Arthur Safstrom Service Award. The school/college or area will review and submit the names of its top
three candidates (in unranked order) for each award to the Fresno State Alumni Association by the end of March.
2. The Top Dog Selection Committee will meet and review all nominations. The Committee shall have the discretion to
accept or reject any of the candidates in each area.
3. The Executive Director of the Fresno State Alumni Association will notify the winner of the award.
4. The Arthur Safstrom Service Award recipient will be honored at the Top Dog Alumni Awards Gala, hosted by the Fresno
State Alumni Association. The recipient will also be hosted in the President’s skybox during a home football game, and
will be invited to return to campus to share their expertise with students, faculty, staff and administrators.
SELECTION PROCESS
Nominees for the Arthur
Safstrom Service Award shall be
alumni, faculty, staff* or friends
of California State University,
Fresno.
Service to the Fresno State
Alumni Association and/or the
University will be the prime
factor of award eligibility.
The Arthur Safstrom Service
Award recipient must be able to
attend the awards ceremony.
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