February 12, 1999

Middlebury College Dining Services

Nominated for Restaurants and Institutions Magazine’s Ivy Award

College is the Only 1999 Vermont

Nominee

Middlebury College dining services

has been nominated to receive Restaurants and Institutions (R&I)

magazine’s Ivy Award, which honors foodservice establishments

for excellence.

Each year, past winners of the award

nominate eating establishments across the country for two categories—the

restaurant category and the institutional category. The latter

includes colleges, universities, and hospitals. Magazine readers

will vote on the winners using a ballot printed in R&I, which

will announce winners from each category sometime during the first

two weeks of March.

The College is the only 1999 Vermont

nominee.

Peter Napolitano, director of dining

services at the College, said, “I feel very proud and honored

that Middlebury has been nominated for this award. It’s a reflection

of all the work dining services has done over the past one and

a half years.”

According to R&I, the 28-year-old

award is unique to the industry because only former recipients

can make nominations. The 1999 nominees range from such New York

City restaurants as Smith & Wollensky and The Four Seasons

in the restaurant category to Massachusetts General Hospital of

Boston and Stanford University of California in the institutional

category. Other university nominees are Michigan State University/Kellogg

Center, University of California at Los Angeles, and University

of Missouri.