For Immediate Release
June 22, 2006

Contact: Melanie McDonald, director of public relations, 574-284-4579
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Chicago Native, Former Northwestern U. Administrator Wins Humanitas Award
NOTRE DAME, Ind.—Leslie Wilson, a Chicago native and Save the Children
Director in Afghanistan, won her alma mater’s Humanitas Award. The
Humanitas Award is presented annually to a Saint Mary’s College alumna
who is “outstanding in her personal and volunteer accomplishments, and
who merits recognition for her concern and interest in the welfare of
her fellow human beings.” Wilson graduated from Saint Mary’s in 1976.

From Kabul, Wilson leads a team of more than 100 Afghan and expatriate
colleagues who help improve the health, education and protection of
women and children in that nation. “At the end of the day, if we have
made drinking water available and safe in one village, vaccinated
children and women in another, and enabled another village’s girls to be
in school a few hours a day, we have done well,” says Wilson, who also
served in the Peace Corps.

Wilson holds a master’s degree in liberal studies from Northwestern
University, and was Northwestern University Medical School’s director of
alumni affairs and annual giving.###
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Photo Caption: Leslie Wilson (left) accepts the Humanitas Award from
Saint Mary’s College President Carol Ann Mooney.Award*

NOTRE DAME, Ind.—Leslie Wilson, a Chicago native and Save the Children
Director in Afghanistan, won her alma mater’s Humanitas Award. The
Humanitas Award is presented annually to a Saint Mary’s College alumna
who is “outstanding in her personal and volunteer accomplishments, and
who merits recognition for her concern and interest in the welfare of
her fellow human beings.” Wilson graduated from Saint Mary’s in 1976.

From Kabul, Wilson leads a team of more than 100 Afghan and expatriate
colleagues who help improve the health, education and protection of
women and children in that nation. “At the end of the day, if we have
made drinking water available and safe in one village, vaccinated
children and women in another, and enabled another village’s girls to be
in school a few hours a day, we have done well,” says Wilson, who also
served in the Peace Corps.

Wilson holds a master’s degree in liberal studies from Northwestern
University, and was Northwestern University Medical School’s director of
alumni affairs and annual giving.

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Photo Caption: Leslie Wilson (left) accepts the Humanitas Award from
Saint Mary’s College President Carol Ann Mooney.