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2017年P奖获得者.E. Macallister Distinguished Alumna Award for Service To Carroll

牧师. Dr. Deborah Block recalls her years as a student at Carroll as a time when her professors said, "Yes" while others discouraged her pursuit of a non-traditional vocation for women. She enrolled in religious studies and looked toward a life of ministry in a world where she found support at Carroll. “那就是‘装备’。, along with everything I learned in the classroom, that I could continue to see positive, 肯定抱有希望," 她说 in a 2016 interview with the 校友活动办公室. "The message from Carroll was, 'We're here for tomorrow'."

She has been saying, "Yes" to her alma mater ever since those student days. She presently serves as a member on Carroll's Board of Trustees and has willingly given her time and talent as a member of numerous committees and provided her wisdom as keynote speaker for several university events through the years.

Dr. Block graduated from Carroll in 1974 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in religious studies. She was among a small group of women at the time that pursued ordained ministry. She received a master's degree from Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary in 1977 and a doctorate from McCormick Theological Seminary in Chicago in 1989.

She is the pastor and head of staff at Immanuel Presbyterian Church in Milwaukee. 她在教堂的角色, 她说, positioned her to be nominated to the Carroll Board of Trustees, a service that the senior pastor of Immanuel Church had traditionally rendered. Her terms on the board include 1998-2007 and 2008 to present. She served as a 信任ee on the Mission Statement Task Force and was instrumental in helping to re-write Carroll's current mission statement.

Dr. Block said she was proud to step into the role as board member but the experience has become more personal. "It became something that was really future-oriented and positive and affirming of Carroll's foundation in the Presbyterian tradition," 她说 of joining the board. “我们教育整个人. Part of the whole person is our spirituality and ethics.毫不奇怪, with Block expressing such sentiments, President Doug Hastad asked her to lead a review of spiritual life on campus and recommend ways to deepen spiritual engagement.

That led in 2009 to the creation of a 25-member 精神生活 Advisory Board. Their work resulted in a resurgence in the ways Carroll's mission embodies service in our communities. Her work continued as head of a committee creating an Ethos statement, 或者道德准则, 对于卡罗尔. 作为委员会主席, which began its work in September 2015, Block navigated the group working towards the creation of core ideals such as respect, 信任, and integrity on campus and how we strive to work together. The 博天堂官方入口登陆登录 Ethos was officially approved by the Board of Trustees in October 2016. "It's to say what it is we want to aspire to being as a community," 她说. "Students learn not just in the classroom, in the laboratory, or from their computers and books. But they learn from what they are experiencing in campus life over four years and that's a big part of the takeaway."

Dr. Block was on the Presidential 搜索 Committee as the university sought a successor for Dr. Hastad's tenure and served on the previous committee that brought Dr. 哈斯塔德致卡罗尔. Her many other contributions on campus include: serving as Director of Counseling Services (1977); teaching a course in women and religion; Founder's Day keynote speaker (2014); Commencement keynote speaker (2014); offering the Baccalaureate sermon (2016); serving on the search committee to fill faculty positions in the Religion and Philosophy department; and serving on the search committee to identify/select Carroll's new chaplain (2016).

Dr. Block is part of a Carroll legacy family. 她的父母, 艾尔和卡罗尔, graduated from Carroll; and her brother, 大卫, 是1976届的校友吗, and also professor emeritus of environmental science and geography. 2011年，Dr。. Block and her brother traveled to Ribe, 肯尼亚, to celebrate the Carroll Water Project and the dedication of a school built in their mother's memory.