Vol. 17, No. 33	May 28, 1998

Medals, degrees
 UD to recognize achievement, public service

The University of Delaware Board of Trustees voted to bestow honorary degrees on two individuals and to present Medals of Distinction to six persons, at its semiannual meeting May 26 on the Newark campus.

Selected to receive honorary degrees were John Clifton Bogle of Valley Forge, Pa., and Edmund Nelson Carpenter II of Greenville.

Bogle serves as the chairman of the board of the Vanguard Group Inc., one of the two largest mutual fund organizations in the world, which he founded in 1974, and each of the Vanguard mutual funds. A magna cum laude graduate of Princeton University in economics, Bogle has been named, in recent years,"Fund Leader of the Year" by Fund Action Magazine and has received the Humanitarian Award from Magee Rehabilitation Institute. Bogle has been named to the Market Oversight and Financial Services Advisory Committee of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and also serves on the Independence Standards Board. The author of several articles on investing, he has written a widely acclaimed book, Bogle on Mutual Funds: New Perspectives for the Intelligent Investor.

A graduate of Princeton University with a law degree from Harvard University and a U.S. Army veteran, Carpenter was an associate, partner, director and president of Richards, Layton & Finger until his retirement. He also served as deputy attorney general for the state of Delaware in 1953-54 and special deputy attorney general from 1960 to 1962. A fellow of the American Bar Foundation and the American College of Trial Lawyers, International Academy of Trial Lawyers, American Bar Foundation, Carpenter has been a trustee of the Wilmington Medical Center, the University, Princeton University and the Delaware Bar Foundation.

Chosen to receive Medals of Distinction were

• Robert H. Bolling Jr. of Greenville, founder of the R.H. Bolling Jr. Co., a consulting engineering firm, and president of the Welfare Foundation Inc. since 1979, who has served as a director of the Wilmington Trust Co., vice president and director of the Community Service Building Corp. and trustee of the University of Delaware Research Foundation and Blue Cross/Blue Shield Delaware;

• Mae Reidy Carter of Newark, the first chairperson of the University's Commission on the Status of Women and a founder of the University's Office of Women's Affairs, who was inducted into the Hall of Fame for Delaware Women and honored by the University's Mae Carter Award for returning adult women students;

• Yetta Chaiken, AS '43, of Wilmington, an innovative junior high history teacher, who has been active in the community and who, with her late husband Frank, contributed a special gift for advancing Jewish studies at the University, which established the Frank and Yetta Chaiken Center for Jewish Studies, and helped in the building of the Hillel Student Center;

• Carol E. Hoffecker, AS '60, Richards Professor of History, of Hockessin, the author of numerous books on Delaware and University history, including Delaware: A Bicentennial History; Corporate Capital, Wilmington in the Twentieth Century and recently, Beneath Thy Guiding Hand: A History of Women at the University of Delaware, who has served as president of the Faculty Senate and as associate provost for graduate studies, was inducted into the Hall of Fame for Delaware Women and received an honorary degree from Goldey-Beacom College;

• Nancy Bradford du Pont Reynolds of Greenville, a sculptor whose work has been exhibited at the National Museum of Women in the Arts and Corcoran Gallery, both in Washington, D.C., at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City and at regional museums and galleries, who also has served as president of the board of directors of the Children's Bureau, a trustee of Children's Home Inc., as a member of the University's Architecture Visiting Committee and on museum and institutional garden committees; and

• Ann Dugdale Wick of Greenville, an active volunteer who has served on the boards and as an adviser for several local organizations, was the recipient of the the 1997 Philanthropy Day Award from the Brandywine Chapter of the National Society of Fund Raising Executives in recognition of her efforts in the renovation of Rodney Square in Wilmington, who was a volunteer for the University's 150th Anniversary Capital Campaign and who was instrumental in establishing the George W. Laird Merit Fellowship, honoring her late husband.