Citations

Text of the Presidential Citation  from the Association of Alumni and Alumnae of MIT to the MIT Club of Great Britain - The Planning Committee for the Jubilee - received by Linda Morecroft in September, 2000

This eight member committee planned a spectacular celebration to mark the 50th anniversary of the MIT Club of Great Britain.  A weekend of festive activities held June 9 - 11, 2000 included a welcome reception at the elegant United Oxford and Cambridge University Club, a technical tour of the Thames Barrier followed by a gala black tie dinner in historic Ironmongers Hall, and finally, a tour of the American Ambassador’s residence, Winfield House, led by Ambassador Philip Lader who joined the group for brunch.  In addition to planning this complex series of events, the committee solicited substantial corporate support to help underwrite event and advertising costs.  Impressive by any standards, this celebration was all the more so because it was completely run by the volunteers, many of them new volunteers for MIT.  This committee did a remarkable job of celebrating the club and engaging the alumni in Great Britain in a new and dynamic way.

The committee comprised

    Marek Banasiak
    Catherine Downard
    Eric Feltin
    Shayne Gary
    Sarah de Leon
    Belden Menkus 
    Linda Morecroft
    Simon Stokes

Text of the Harold E. Lobdell ’17 Distinguished Service Award presented to Linda E. Morecroft EE ’86

Over the past two years, Linda has proved herself to be a tremendously effective volunteer and leader for the MIT Alumni in Great Britain.  While she has been active with the MIT Club of Great Britain for some years, the work she did to ensure that club events were well-run was very much behind the scenes.  In February 1999, Linda stepped forward to take on the club presidency and begun the huge task of building a volunteer structure for the club in a society where such activity is not common.  By the fall of 1999, she had enlisted a complete Board of Directors, assigned responsibilities to volunteers and was producing programs.  Linda managed to radically change the governing style of the club, resulting in a new and stronger MIT presence in Great Britain.