Ellen Mavec Receives CWRU's President's Award for Visionary Achievement
May 15, 2026
May 15, 2026
CLEVELAND, Ohio, May 15 -- Case Western Reserve University issued the following news:
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Ellen Mavec receives CWRU's President's Award for Visionary Achievement
In 1997, when Ellen Mavec became president of The Kelvin and Eleanor Smith Foundation--a philanthropy launched more than 40 years earlier by her grandfather Kelvin Smith (CSAS 1922, HON 1947)--she wanted to be thoughtful and strategic about how she would carry on her family's legac . . .
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Ellen Mavec receives CWRU's President's Award for Visionary Achievement
In 1997, when Ellen Mavec became president of The Kelvin and Eleanor Smith Foundation--a philanthropy launched more than 40 years earlier by her grandfather Kelvin Smith (CSAS 1922, HON 1947)--she wanted to be thoughtful and strategic about how she would carry on her family's legac . . .