The Cal Aggie Alumni Association (CAAA) of the University of California, Davis, will present awards for outstanding achievement to 10 UC Davis alumni and one former UC Davis staff member during Homecoming Weekend, at a ceremony on Friday, Oct. 16. The event will be held at 5 p.m. in the UC Davis Main Theatre and will be followed by a buffet dinner in the new Walter A. Buehler Alumni and Visitors Center. The public is invited; tickets are $25 and can be reserved by calling the Alumni Office at (916) 752-0286. Ronald A. Enomoto, a 1964 graduate, will receive the Jerry W. Fielder Memorial Award for service to the university, its alumni association and the UC Davis Foundation. Co-owner with Nancy Enomoto of Enomoto Roses Inc. and Eagle Express Flowers in Half Moon Bay, Enomoto was president of CAAA in 1988-1990 and in that capacity served on the UC Board of Regents. Enomoto has also been on the UC Davis Foundation board since 1988 and was a member of the Alumni and Visitors Center Committee, the volunteer group responsible for ensuring the center was built. Clarence W. "Spider" Jones, a 1939 UC Davis graduate, will receive CAAA's Distinguished Achievement Award for lifetime distinction in community and public service. Jones, a farmer in the Firebaugh area for the past 40 years, was director of the Western Cotton Growers Association and Agricultural Labor Bureau and a member of the California Water Commission and California Chamber of Commerce board of directors. He is currently president of the San Luis-Delta Mendota Water Authority, the Firebaugh Resource Conservation District and the Las Deltas Mutual Water Company. In honor of his services, he was named the California Irrigation Institute's 1986 Man of the Year and was recognized with resolutions by the California Water Commission and the California Legislature. Jeffrey L. Tanji, who received his M.D. degree in 1982, will be named Young Alumnus of the Year for outstanding contributions to his profession, community and the university. An associate professor of family practice in the UC Davis School of Medicine, Tanji is director of the sports medicine fellowship program, a member of the UC Davis Medical Center's Bioethics Committee, associate director of the family practice residency program and a team physician for the Sacramento Kings basketball team and the Sacramento Special Olympics. He was instrumental in the development of the medical school's alumni association, serving as its president for two terms. He is still a member of that board and also serves on the CAAA board. The Emil M. Mrak International Award will be presented to Joe Roger Held for his distinguished service outside the United States. Held received his bachelor's degree from UC Davis in 1953 and his D.V.M. in 1955. Working in the 1980s for the Pan American Health Organization, a division of the World Health Organization, Held coordinated its Veterinary Public Health Program and was director of its Pan American Zoonoses Center in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where he was responsible for the control of rabies throughout a large part of the Western Hemisphere. From 1972 to 1984, Held was a member of the U.S. Public Health Service, attaining the grade of assistant surgeon general, serving as the organization's chief veterinary officer and helping formulate an important guide ensuring the humane use of test animals used in biomedical research. He is now serving as administrative director of the biotechnology group of Microbiological Associates Inc. in Rockville, Md. Seven Citations for Excellence will also be presented to individuals who have brought distinction to the university or service to their community: • Deborah Butterfield '71, M.F.A. '73, is an internationally renowned sculptor whose "found-object" horse sculptures are part of the permanent collections at New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Israel Museum in Jerusalem. A recipient of Guggenheim and National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, Butterfield has exhibited extensively throughout the United States. • Michael L. Campbell '68, an active leader in his community of Clarksburg, founded the "Clarksburg Run" -- an event that has raised more than $200,000 to fund youth-oriented charities -- and helped establish Clarksburg Recycles, one of the few community-based, volunteer-run recycling programs in the state. Campbell, winner of CAAA's Young Alumnus Award in 1979, is a development officer at UC Davis. • Timothy H. Fuller '81 has made the Peace Corps his life's work, first joining the organization in 1982, helping establish aquaculture facilities and collaborative housing projects in Ecuador and Paraguay. He is now chief of operations for the Inter-America Region, comprising 16 countries throughout Central and South America and the Caribbean. • Ramona J. Garrett, J.D. '80, a judge of the Northern Solano Municipal Court, is the first woman and the first African American to be named a judge in Solano County. • Robin L. Hansen, M.D. '77, a UC Davis associate professor of pediatrics, is the founder and director of UCDMC's child development program and a researcher working to learn more about the effects of drug abuse by pregnant women upon their children. • Douglas Mar, M.D. '75, devoted 10 years of his life to serving refugee camps in Thailand and Cambodia. Working through a Christian organization, Youth with a Mission, Mar returned repeatedly to Khmer refugee camps to serve populations numbering up to 150,000, battling malaria, tuberculosis, measles and starvation in this population. • Erna Strobel Thompson provided skillful service to the UC Davis Department of Plant Pathology for more than 30 years. Though she retired in 1983 she has continued to contribute to the university and the community, serving in numerous volunteer capacities for the local hospice program, Picnic Day and International House. She also helped ensure the successful Alpha Gamma Rho campaign in support of the new Buehler Center.