Carr to receive Bridge Award

Carr

Jeff Carr, founding vice chairman of Cumberland Region Tomorrow, will receive the 2001 Bridge Award from the Vanderbilt Institute for Public Policy Studies (VIPPS) at its annual dinner on Nov. 5.

Carr, vice chancellor for university relations, emeritus, and general counsel, emeritus, is being recognized for creating Cumberland Region Tomorrow, a non-profit organization focusing on planning for regional growth.

"He took issues and suggestions raised in the 'Peirce Report' and found funding, recruited a board of directors and brought people together from 10 counties in Middle Tennessee to discuss current and potential growth problems and find possible solutions," said Cliff Russell, director of VIPPS. The 1999 "Peirce Report," an independent analysis of how Middle Tennessee is handling growth, was co-sponsored by VIPPS and The Tennessean.

Cumberland Region Tomorrow works with the Greater Nashville Regional Council and others in the public sector to help maintain quality of life while planning for growth in a 10-county area.

The Bridge Award was established in 1990 to recognize people who help VIPPS in building bridges between policy research and education and the community at large.

Carr served as vice chancellor and general counsel at Vanderbilt from 1976 until 2000 when he retired.

Previous recipients of the Bridge Award include Dr. Thomas Frist and the HCA Foundation; Nashville Mayor Bill Purcell, former Tennessee House majority leader; John Seigenthaler, founder of the Freedom Forum First Amendment Center at Vanderbilt; Keiichi Komiya, senior executive vice president of the Toshiba Corp.; Masashi Yamada, president of the Yamada Corporation and chairman of the Yamada Group; and May and Herb Shayne, longtime supporters of VIPPS.