Shirley Skorr Piepho, assistant director of event and meeting services at Minnesota State University, Mankato, received the 2010 Distinguished Alumni Fitterer Service Award from the university last week.
Piepho, of Mankato, is one of 12 alumni who are 2010 award winners. She was honored at an April 23 dinner and ceremony hosted by the Minnesota State Mankato Alumni Association.
The Fitterer Service Award goes to graduates whose efforts have preserved, promoted and supported Minnesota State Mankato.
Piepho, who calls the campus her “second home,” came to the university in 1972, earning a bachelor’s degree in business education. She has worked at the university ever since.
In 1979 she was one of the founding co-chairs of the annual Campus Fund Drive, rallying fellow faculty and staff members to pledge money to support of the university. She is an advisor to the College Republicans and chaired the 2007 and 2008 Maverick Women’s Walk for Women’s Athletic Scholarships. She also helps raise funds for the ROTC program and is a former Alumni Association director.
She says her work with students – supporting, advising and mentoring student workers and leaders – is her most important contribution. “I have always encouraged students to have a disciplined ownership in whatever they do,” she says.
Piepho has worked in several campus offices, including Alumni Affairs, Upward Bound, College of Education, Registrar’s Office and Public Affairs. She also chairs the Greater Mankato Area Convention and Visitors Board, serves on the boards of the Schola Foundation and Greater Mankato Growth, and is a member of the finance and stewardship committees for St. Joseph the Worker Catholic Church.
She has received the Jaycee Ten Most Outstanding Young Minnesotans Award, the YWCA Leader Award, the Book of Golden Deeds Award and Sertoma’s Service to Mankind Award, and was named Convention and Visitors Bureau Volunteer of the Year.
Those who want more information about the awards may go to http://www.mnsu.edu/alumni/daa/2010awards.html.
Minnesota State Mankato, a comprehensive, doctoral university with 14,950 students, is part of the Minnesota State Colleges & Universities system, which comprises 32 institutions across the state.
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