Alvords win UW Recognition Award

Nancy and Ellsworth C. Alvord

Ellsworth (Buster) Alvord is a professor and head of neuropathology in the UW School of Medicine. Nancy Alvord was a founding member of the UW Foundation Board of Directors. The Recognition Award honors their exceptional commitment to the University. The Alvords’ volunteer work and their philanthropy includes a wide range of human service, educational and arts organizations. Nancy has served on numerous boards. In addition to her work on the UW Foundation Board, she has served on the UW Libraries Visiting Committee and the History Visiting Committee, as well as helped raise funds for the Solomon Katz Professorship in the Humanities. In addition to his community work, Buster has served on the Meany Hall Advisory Board, the 1994 Salute Harborview Committee, the Henry Art Gallery Board of Trustees and helped raise funds for the Arthur A. Ward Professorship in Neurological Surgery. Their contributions to the University have included many generous gifts, which now total more than $4 million. An endowed fellowship in the humanities bears their names, and they have supported campus programs, including Meany Hall, the Henry Art Gallery, the Department of History, the UW Libraries, the Educational Opportunity Program and KUOW. The Alvords were honored as Outstanding Philanthropic Family of 1995 by the Washington State Chapter of the National Society of Fund Raising Executives. They were recognized as Seattle King County’s First Citizens in 1991.