The Northern Michigan University Alumni Association recently honored four award recipients during Homecoming weekend. The recipients and their awards are, from left: Curt Tucker, 1982 and 2008, of Saginaw, Alumni Service; Bruce Remington, 1975, of Dublin, Calif., Distinguished Alumni; Jeannie Thoren, 1968, of Duluth, Minn., Alumni Achievement; and Fred Stonehouse 1970 and 1977, of Marquette, Distinguished Alumni. Tucker is an alumnus of NMU’s industrial technology program. He founded his own auto-racing safety technology company, TeamTech Motorsports Safety Inc., which is based in Saginaw. Remington, a physicist with the Inertial Confinement Fusion Program at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, has conducted groundbreaking research there since 1988. Thoren is credited with changing the way the downhill skiing industry thinks about female skiers. She developed the “Thoren Theory” after 30 years of retrofitting her own equipment as a method of improving the technique of women skiers through modified equipment. Today, Thoren and her husband, Tom, own and operate the Jeannie Thoren Women’s Ski Center in Vail, Colo. Stonehouse is a well-known educator, award-winning author and active community member. He is recognized as a prominent Great Lakes maritime historian and national expert on U.S. Life-Saving Service and the early U.S. Coast Guard. Stonehouse is a founder of the Marquette Maritime Museum and has served as an adviser or member for the Marquette City Commission, the Harbor Advisory Committee, DeVos Art Museum, Beaumier U.P. Heritage Center, the Iron Ore Heritage Trail Committee and the NMU Alumni Association.