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36 centralight winter '10 36 Alumni News centralight spring '15 Alumni award nominations due April 1 Each year, CMU recognizes alumni and friends who have made signifi cant contributions of their time, talent or fi nancial resources to help advance and bring positive recognition to Central Michigan University. These individuals are honored each year at the annual alumni awards banquet. Help us celebrate those who make us all proud to call ourselves Chippewas. Nominations for the 2015 awards are due April 1. Find the form online at cmich.edu/alumni/engage/Awards/ alumniawards/Pages/Alumni-Award-Nomination-Forms.aspx • A Chippewa led ESPN's coverage of the most-watched event in cable TV history January's inaugural college football national championship game delivered the highest overnight rating of any live event in the history of ESPN. Ohio State's 42-20 victory over Oregon averaged more than 33.4 million viewers, making it the highest-rated and most-watched event in cable television history. It turns out Chippewa John LaChance, '86, took care of the eye- popping technical coverage as director of remote operations for ESPN, based in Hartford, Connecticut. LaChance, who cut his broadcasting teeth at Moore Hall TV sports, orchestrated it all, delivering a "megacast" experience for the fans inside AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, and the millions of TV viewers. "I have been on Super Bowls, World Series, Olympics," LaChance tells Sports Video Group. "This is by far the largest-magnitude event that I've had the privilege of overseeing." LaChance has worked on every college football championship game ESPN has covered. "The pure scale and the magnitude of the technical presence is huge," he says. "I was very proud to be a part of the BCS history." • Kulhavi to serve second term on forestry nonprofi t board John Kulhavi was re-elected to a second three-year term on the board of directors for the U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities. The Endowment is a not-for- profi t corporation established in 2006 at the request of the governments of the United States and Canada in accordance with the terms of the Softwood Lumber Agreement between the two countries. It is one of three entities designated to share in a one-time infusion of funds to support "meritorious initiatives" in the United States. It has been endowed with $200 million under the terms of the SLA. • Show us your plate Are you a proud CMU alum? Have you taken your Chippewa pride to the next level by adding the CMU alumni license plate to your vehicle? We're looking for alumni with CMU vanity plates to possibly include in an upcoming Centralight story. Send us an email with a quick explanation about how you chose your personalized plate and a high-resolution, close-up photo of your clean plate, to ilovecmu@cmich.edu. We'll need your email by April 1 to be considered for our story. •