Howard Wolf, president of the Stanford Alumni Association, and senior Jack Trotter, winner of the 2012 Sterling Award
Graduating senior JACK TROTTER received the Stanford Alumni Association’s 2012 J.E. Wallace Sterling Award for outstanding service to Stanford.
HOWARD WOLF, president of the Alumni Association and vice president for alumni affairs, announced the award at a private reception on Thursday, May 17.
Trotter, who will graduate with a bachelor’s degree in economics and a master’s in management science and engineering, has been actively involved in campus life. He was a member of the men’s basketball team and the Cardinal Council, the student-athlete advisory committee. Most recently, he served as senior class president. Trotter has been integral in outreach efforts to the 6th Man Club, the student basketball fan club, and to creating events and programs to build class affinity and cohesion for the Class of ’12.
One of his nominators described Trotter’s service to the campus community this way: “His support of others, whether on or off the court, shines through his humble exterior. We think of him as ‘Mr. Stanford’ and suspect many other Stanford students do as well. It takes an extraordinary person to maintain such balance and to achieve such success.”
The Sterling Award cites Trotter “for exemplifying the greatest traditions of the Stanford student-athlete … while at the same time remaining a ridiculously dependable and refreshingly humble ‘go-to’ guy on all things off the court” and “for having a sense of Stanford spirit that is exceedingly palpable, disarmingly honest and wonderfully infectious.”
The Alumni Association presents the Sterling Award annually to a graduating senior whose undergraduate activities have made an impact on campus and demonstrate the strong potential for continued service to the university and the alumni community.
The award is named for the late J.E. Wallace Sterling, who served as Stanford’s president from 1949 to 1968.
