Three staffers win 2019 Amy J. Blue Awards

Three members of the Stanford staff have been selected to receive 2019 Amy J. Blue Awards, which honor staff members who are exceptionally dedicated, supportive of colleagues and passionate about their work.

Amy J. Blue, associate vice president for administrative services and facilities, died of brain cancer in May 1988. An award in her memory was established to honor staff members who are exceptionally dedicated, supportive of colleagues and passionate about their work. (Image credit: Stanford News Service)

This year’s Amy J. Blue winners are Laura Dominguez Chan, associate dean of career education and director of career communities at Stanford Career Education; Heidi M. López, finance assistant and graduate fellowships coordinator at the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity; and Mary-Peck Peters, head teacher at Bing Nursery School.

President Marc Tessier-Lavigne will present the awards at an April 30 reception for the winners and their families, friends and colleagues. The ceremony will be held from 3:30 to 5 p.m. on Tuesday, April 30, in Lagunita Courtyard, located on Santa Teresa Street across from Roble Field. Refreshments will be served.

Profiles of the winners will appear in Stanford Report before the ceremony.

The Amy J. Blue Award includes a $4,000 prize.

The award was established in 1991 to honor the life and work of Amy J. Blue, associate vice president for administrative services and facilities, who died of brain cancer in May 1988, about a month before her 45th birthday.

Stanford created a garden in her name, a small oasis of flowering trees and shrubs located near Memorial Church. It has four wooden benches, including one that rocks, and a sundial with an engraved motto: “Count only sunny hours.”

Blue was known as a whirlwind of a woman who brought excitement, intensity and novelty into every undertaking. She also was known as an extraordinary leader – a woman of incisive intelligence, abundant energy and unrelenting honesty.