Caitlin Dean, Andrea Maikovich and Brian Goldman, three members of the Yale College Class of 2005 who have been remarkably active in the Yale and New Haven communities, were awarded the Roosevelt L. Thompson Prize during Senior Class Day ceremonies on May 22.
The Thompson Prize is given to members of the senior class for commitment to and capacity for public service. Recipients are outstanding for dedication to public service—service to “the team, the college, the community,” as Thompson expressed it himself. Like Thompson, they should exemplify great human warmth, commitment to fairness, compassion for all people and the promise of moral leadership in the public sphere. Mary E. Miller, chair of the Council of Masters Committee on Awards, master of Saybrook College, and the Vincent E. Skully Professor of History of Art, presented the awards at the Sunday ceremony.
The award citations follow:
Caitlin Dean dedicated herself to Women’s Rugby even after a shoulder surgery sidelined her during senior year. She has shown the same level of dedication to all her other interests, from the global to the local, from Habitat for Humanity to Girl Guides, from Troop Middle School tutoring to the Model UN. In her majors of Political Science and International Studies, she has performed at the highest level. Her devotion to Branford College itself is unparalleled.
Andrea Maikovich has been an academic star of the Psychology department, but she has also been in the forefront of those who apply psychology, working with the Yale Child Conduct Clinic and the Clifford Beers Clinic, and writing along the way a teen therapy workbook, the “Adolescent Mood Manager.” An aerobic “box, fit and step” instructor at Payne Whitney Gymnasium, she has been elected to Phi Beta Kappa and is serving as a marshal at Commencement.
Brian Goldman is a distinguished young scholar who has devoted himself to the pursuit of health, education, freedom and justice in the developing world. As a 2004 Bates Fellow, he studied HIV/AIDS among military populations of the Russian Federation; he also won a 2004 John Heinz Government Fellowship to serve on the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS relief. A star of both Political Science and International Studies, he unites his academic interests with a compelling social conscience.
