Neil Marc Paige ’90

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Planning and implementing major campus events with outstanding success is the forte of Neil Paige, whose powerful organizational skills have impressed all who have worked with him. One of Paige’s biggest projects was directing all aspects of the 1989 Homecoming Parade, which many agreed was among the best ever had. He also organized the 1988 – 1989 UCLA Blood Drive, which was the largest in Los Angeles County, with excellent results.

As a premed student majoring in English, Paige combined his literary and medical interest by initiating The UCLA Poet-Physician Anthology, which explores how the insights of literature can help counter the trend toward depersonalization in health care. The response to the idea was overwhelming; Paige and co-editor, Thomas Alloggiamento, who has also been named Outstanding Senior, were literally deluged with submissions of poetry from medical professionals from all over the world. Paige received a prestigious UCLA Chancellor’s Undergraduate Research Fellowship to pursue the anthology project.

A number of other achievements demonstrate Paige’s creative energy. He edited the UCLA Personal Development Handbook, an integrative self-help guide for undergraduates and co-edited the UCLA Programs and Activities Handbook. He has also volunteered his time as an emergency trauma technician at the UCLA student-run summer camp for underprivileged children. Throughout, Paige has been praised for his compassion and his well-developed interpersonal skills. He leaves UCLA a better place than he found it.