Sept. 30, 1996 Contact Pauline Austin (541) 346-3129 EUGENE--A Pulitzer Prize winning author, a United States District Court judge and the first Oregonian to climb Mount Everest will receive the University of Oregon College of Arts and Sciences highest alumni award at the Profiles in Achievement Awards Banquet on Friday, Oct. 3. The college also will bestow Distinguished Professorship Awards to honor a professor in each of the three disciplinary areas in the College--Humanities, Natural Sciences and Social Sciences. The 1997 University of Oregon Alumni Fellow Awards will go to Douglas Hofstadter whose book, "Godel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Gold Braid," won a 1980 Pulitzer Prize; United States District Court Judge Helen Frye, the first Oregon woman appointed to the federal bench; and Luther Jerstad, world renowned mountain climber, author and lecturer. Thomas Mossberg, director of the UO Chemical Physics Institute and a professor of physics; John Orbell, professor of political science; and Steven Shankman, director of the UO Humanities Center and a professor of English will receive Distinguished Professorship Awards. The college gives the distinguished fellow award to UO alumni who have distinguished themselves in their chosen professions within medicine, science, the arts, industry, public service and academe. The award was formerly called the Dean's Distinguished Alumni Award. The distinguished professorship awards recognize scholarly achievement by senior faculty. Hofstadter is director of the Center for Research on Concepts and Cognition at the University of Indiana. He is a Guggenheim Scholar and has published seven books. In 1972 he was awarded a Masters in physics at the UO and earned a doctor of philosophy in physics from the university in 1975. President Gerald Ford appointed Frye to the 9th District Circuit Court in 1979. She has issued rulings on sex discrimination in higher education, voided the incorporation of Rajneeshpuram and has issued landmark decisions protecting spotted owl habitat on United States Bureau of Land Management forest lands. She received a bachelor of arts from the UO in 1953, a master of arts in 1961, and a bachelor of laws from the UO School of Law in 1966. Jerstad shot the first motion pictures taken from the summit of Mount Everest during his historic 1963 climb. His company, Lute Jerstad Adventures, leads mountain climbing, trekking and game viewing tours of Nepal and India. Jerstad is the author of two published books and numerous articles. He received a doctor of philosophy in theater arts in 1967. Tickets for the Profiles in Achievement Awards Banquet cost $25 per person. For reservations, call the College of Arts and Sciences Development Office at 346-3950. -30- #P-6015/Local,OrDailies,OrLaw,PDX