In 1992, in honor of Arnold Eddy, who served as Permanent Master of the Society from 1942 to 1955, the Skull and Dagger Society established the Arnold Eddy Volunteer Service Award. The award is presented annually at the Initiation Breakfast to a current member of the Society who has demonstrated exemplary volunteer service to the University of Southern California.
The 2006 recipient is Joe Enloe ('60):
Leslie Joe Enloe (Class of 1960), along with his wife Joan, has been an active
USC volunteer for over forty years primarily in the Northern California Bay
Area. He has served as president and founding member of a number of alumni
organizations, including the East Bay Alumni Club, the Contra Costa Alumni Club,
and the Associated Alumni Clubs. He was elected president of the USC General
Alumni Association in 1994 and served on the USC Board of Trustees from 1993 to
1998. He continues to serve as Chairman of the Bay Area SC Weekender.
Joe was born on a farm in Greenville, Illinois and may explain his uncanny
likeness to President Abraham Lincoln. He attended college at Mt. SAC in Walnut,
California. He graduated in pre-med in May 1955 with honors, while lettering in
track and working in the evenings at the railroad docks in East Los Angeles. He
was named Mt. SAC Alumnus of the Year in 1994.
He attended USC School of Medicine and graduated with his MD with honors, having
served as President of the Student Body. He was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, Phi
Kappa Phi and Alpha Omega Alpha. Upon graduation in 1960, he was selected for
the Skull and Dagger Society.
Dr. Enloe spent four years in the Army Medical
Corp and then was appointed Assistant Chief of Surgery at Kaiser Permanente’s
Oakland Medical Center, where he served, ultimately as Chief of Surgery, until
his retirement in September 2004. He is a member of many medical professional
societies, including membership as a Fellow of both the American and
International College of Surgeons.
In addition to the USC organizations mentioned above, he served, among others,
as a member of the USC General Alumni Association Board of Governors from 1984
to 1992, as Chairman of the Northern California Regional Board from 2001 to 2005
and as a member of the Alumni president’s Council since 2002. He received an USC
Alumni Service award in 1987.
Joe is married to the former Joan Eleanor Rose (whom he met at USC and married
in 1958) and they have four children (Leslie, Tracie, Sean and Gregory), three
of whom attended USC, and nine grandchildren.
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