Most people know Robb Weller, '72, for helping invent "The Wave" at a Husky football game and for spending several years as the co-anchor of the TV show Entertainment Tonight. At the UW, however, Weller is also known as a dedicated volunteer who has been one of the University's best friends, ready to help just about any time the University has turned to him.

Every winter, Weller serves as the emcee for Dawg Days in the Desert in Palm Desert, Calif. Dawg Days brings hundreds of alumni and friends together for a golf tournament, a fundraising coffee gathering and Chow Down to Washington, a celebratory dinner featuring presentations by UW President Mark Emmert, Football Coach Tyrone Willingham and other UW dignitaries.

Weller also provided the voiceovers for the initial phase of advertisements for Campaign UW: Creating Futures, the UW's $2.5 billion fundraising campaign. And in 2001, he produced a video documentary on World War II that featured UW History Professor Emeritus Jon Bridgman. That documentary has been available for purchase through University Book Store and the UWAA.

Weller serves on the UW's Arts and Sciences Alumni Board and the UW Foundation Board. Moreover, he and his wife, Barbara, donated $100,000 to help establish the Jon Bridgman Endowed Professorship in History.

For the past 17 years, Weller, who earned his B.A. in communication from the UW in 1972, has been an executive producer and partner at Weller/Grossman Productions, which has produced more than 3,500 TV programs for 18 different cable networks. He currently hosts the weekly series, A&E's Top 10 as well as two of ABC-TV's popular shows, The Home Show and Win, Lose or Draw.