Ms. Denise Wartes

Program Manager of the Rural Alaska Honors Institute, Emeritus

WHEREAS Ms. Denise Wartes has served the University of Alaska Fairbanks with distinction in teaching and service from 1987 to 2019; and

WHEREAS Ms. Wartes has instructed, encouraged and nurtured nearly two thousand high school students during her thirty years with RAHI, and the value of her contributions is illustrated by the more than one thousand of these students who went on to earn college degrees; and

WHEREAS Ms. Wartes has been a highly successful fundraiser for the RAHI program, establishing long-term relationships throughout Alaska’s business community and attracting more than $4.5 million in contributions; and

WHEREAS Ms. Wartes has presented at conferences across Alaska and the nation, where she has shared RAHI’s successes; and

WHEREAS Ms. Wartes received the 2018 Bernice Joseph Education Advocate of the Year Award from the Greater Fairbanks Chamber of Commerce, recognizing her success in helping rural students succeed and in building relationships between rural and urban Alaska;

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the University of Alaska Fairbanks expresses its deep appreciation to Ms. Denise Wartes for her extensive contributions to the State of Alaska and to the University; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the University of Alaska Fairbanks, in further recognition of the invaluable services rendered by Ms. Wartes and as evidence of the University’s desire that her identification with the University be maintained, hereby confers upon Ms. Denise Wartes the title of Program Manager of the Rural Alaska Honors Institute, Emeritus; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that this resolution be appropriately engrossed and signed by the Chancellor as further evidence of the University of Alaska Fairbanks’ esteem and respect for Ms. Denise Wartes, and conveyed to Ms. Wartes on this fourth day of May, 2019.