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U of U Giving Alumni James S. Hinckley, BS ’71, MS ’77 and Lyn Hinckley, BS ’73
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March 3, 2023

James S. Hinckley, BS ’71, MS ’77 and Lyn Hinckley, BS ’73

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2023 Distinguished Alumni Award

James S. Hinckley, BS’71, MS’77 is chairman of the Hinckley Institute of Politics Board of Directors and Investment Committee, positions he has held since 1990. He was a member of the Chrysler Corp. West Region Dealer Council 1982 through 1990 and the Chrysler Corp. National Truck Advisory Board from 1988 through 1992. Jim was president of the Utah Automobile Dealers Association from 1988 through 1989 and was inducted into the Utah Automobile Hall of Fame in 2013. He is a sustaining member of the U’s National Advisory Council, and has been a member of the National History Museum of Utah’s Board of Advisors since 2018.

Lyn Hinckley, BS’73 has been an avid supporter of the Hinckley Institute of Politics since 1973, and has served the institute in a variety of capacities over the years. Lyn is a community advocate for the McCluskey Center for Violence Prevention and is deeply committed to furthering the objectives and mission of the Natural History Museum of Utah. Lyn was previously an elementary school teacher and worked with the Junior League of Salt Lake City.

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U of U Giving Alumni Anke Friedrich BS’90 MS’93
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Anke Friedrich BS’90 MS’93

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Anke Friedrich BS’90 MS’93 is an endowed professor of geology at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich where she established a Master’s degree program in geology, led international student field trips involving U students, and set up student exchange programs with several international institutions, including the U.

She is an adjunct professor at the U’s Department of Geology & Geophysics and in 2019 she received the department’s Distinguished Alumni Award. She played a crucial role in establishing one of the world’s first continuously operating space-geodetic networks, which served to monitor the tectonic activity around Yucca Mountain, the then-proposed nuclear waste repository site. Anke volunteered for the Salt Lake Olympic Games before moving to Potsdam and helping to establish the first research group in Active Tectonics at a geological institute in Germany. As a student, she was a member of the U’s alpine ski team, earning All-American honors by winning three individual NCAA championships in giant slalom and slalom.

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