
Seven alumni recently returned to campus to be inducted into the Alumni Wall of Fame, based upon their distinguished public and professional achievements. This year's inductees are from left: front row, Charles Lewis, AS '75, founder and executive director of the Center for Public Integrity, a nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization in Washington, D.C.; Carol Hoffecker, AS '60, UD Richards Professor of History, author of numerous books on the history of Delaware, the University, women in Delaware and Familiar Relations: The du Ponts & the University of Delaware to commemorate the recent 200th anniversary celebration of the du Pont family's arrival in America; Raymond Eid, AG '59, of Wilmington, Del., who while working for the Du Pont Co., managed the introduction and commercialization of crop protection products and technologies in more than 50 countries; and back row, Thomas Gutshall, EG '60, chairman, CEO and founding member of Cepheid, a diagnostics company that emphasizes micro machined systems and components for use in DNA testing; Larry Pike, BE '74, chairman, president and CEO of Union Central Life Insurance where he initiated the concept of one-company marketing to provide customers with full-service insurance and investment counseling and products from one location; Wade Catts accepting for his father, the late Elmer Paul Catts, AG '52, AG '57M, forensic entomologist and UD faculty member from 1962-78 who worked on more than 50 homicide cases with police, using his knowledge of insects to determine the length of time a body was deceased; and Richard J. Hutton, AG '48, chairman of the board of the Conard-Pyle Co., one of the top 25 production nurseries in the United States. Established in the 1980s, the Alumni Wall of Fame is located in the Alumni Room in the Perkins Student Center.