Homecoming Award
Founders Award
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The Founders Award committee is delighted to announce that Dr. Nancy H. Blattner, CSJA, Fontbonne University President, has been chosen as the 2024 recipient of the Founders Award. This award is presented to individuals who have demonstrated their commitment and service to Fontbonne University, which was founded on values such as quality, respect, diversity, community, justice, faith, and Catholic presence.
It is fitting that Dr. Nancy Blattner receive this final Founders Award, in recognition of her exceptional stewardship in guiding the University through its closure, a task executed in a manner
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that honors the legacy of the Founders. Demonstrating her commitment to the well-being of students, Dr. Blattner has ensured a smooth transition, allowing ample time for students to complete their Fontbonne education or smoothly transition to other suitable academic institutions. Faculty and staff have been granted the opportunity and time to contemplate their future career paths. At the same time, alumni are encouraged to forge connections beyond the University to sustain a sense of community. This transitional period affords the entire Fontbonne community the chance to say goodbye in a respectful and meaningful way.
Dr. Blattner’s term as the president of Fontbonne University began in July 2020. During her more than 40-year career in higher education, Blattner has served as a tenured faculty member at Southeast Missouri State University as well as the interim associate provost for graduate studies and support programs and the executive director of the Southern Virginia Higher Education Center at Longwood University in Farmville, VA. She previously served for five years as the vice president for academic affairs and dean of the faculty at Fontbonne University before leaving St. Louis for 11 years to serve as the president of Caldwell University, a Dominican institution in New Jersey. Blattner received her BS in Secondary Education and MA in English from Southeast Missouri State University and her Ph.D. in Educational Psychology from SIU-Carbondale. She and her husband, Tim, have three adult children and four grandchildren, two of whom are students at Fontbonne, with graduation dates during the 2024-2025 academic year.
We are honored to recognize Dr. Nancy H. Blattner’s contribution to Fontbonne in this final year with the 2024 Founders Award.
Additional 2024 Homecoming Award Recipients
Homecoming Awards are given to nominated individuals who exemplify the ideals and mission of Fontbonne University. The recipients are alumni or members of the Fontbonne Community whose accomplishments have brought honor to themselves and the University, whose service and leadership have exemplified its ideals, and whose concern for Fontbonne has supported and strengthened the University.
Congratulations to our
Homecoming Award Recipients!
GOLD Award: Lottie Page ‘16
University Service Award: Joan Buxton Falk '65
Professional Achievement Award: Dr. Brian Gant, MM ‘04
Alumni of the Year Award: Dr. Jenna Bollinger Voss '03, MA '04
The 2024 Homecoming Awards will be presented after the Homecoming Brunch on Sunday, October 6, 2024.
Please register to attend.