Begun in 1992, the award honors alumni of the last 20 years who exhibit great promise in their professional careers or public service activities.

1992

Patricia E. Abernethy ’75 ’76M, superintendent of the city of Burlington (N.J.) Public Schools

H. Raye Rice Avery ’77, executive director, Christina Cultural Arts Center

Lisa Eline Best ’80 ’86M, teacher at Ross Elementary School and 1990 Delaware Teacher of the Year

Keith R. Booker ’78, director of community services, Kingswood Community Center and president, Wilmington branch, NAACP

Laurie Blom Chouinard ’73, ’77M, technical sales representative of Gore-Tex, medical products division, W.L. Gore & Associates

Katharine Holderness Cole ’76, researcher, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health

Cari DeSantis ’78, vice president for corporate development, St. Francis Hospital

Robert E. Dickerson ’73, president and chief executive officer, Baltimore Trust Co., and president, Delaware Bankers Association

Brian T. Downie ’78, director, Western Development Corp.

Richard J. Gannon ’87, quarterback, Minnesota Vikings

Anthony R. Goland ’83, principal, McKinsey & Co. Inc.

Marc L. Greenberg ’86, president and co-owner, Small Systems Management Corp.

Stephen E. Hammond ’85, associate principal/interior designer, Duvall Hendricks Inc.

Mark W. Hopkins ’80, senior research engineer, Du Pont Co.

John A. Howell III ’73, commander, U.S. Navy

Peter C. Johnson ’72, senior corporate vice president, International Management Co.

Diana L. Klug ’86PhD, development supervisor, CFC Alternatives, Du Pont Co.

David S. Kohut ’73, program director, drug and alcohol services, Life Guidance Services Inc.

Robert S. Mayer ’75, personnel/public relations manager, Nationwide Insurance Companies

J. Everett Moore Jr. ’72, partner, Moore & Ruit law firm

Steven J. Mosteller ’76, assistant conductor, New York City Opera and music director, Berks Grand Opera Co.

Robert E. Palmer ’80PhD, senior policy coordinator, Committee on Science, Space & Technology, U.S. House of Representatives

Carol A. Randolph ’73, founder and executive director, New Beginnings Inc.

Jacqueline Richter-Menge ’79, ’82M, research civil engineer, U.S. Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory

William J. Wade ’73, partner, Richards, Layton and Finger law firm  

1993

Mona Boyd Browne ’83, president, Nutrition Communication Services, and author of Healthy Start: Food to Grow On

Theodore H. Carski ’86PhD, senior research chemist, DuPont Co.

Steven A. Combs ’88, opera singer, Metropolitan Opera

Jeffrey S. Cooper ’75, head trainer, Philadelphia Phillies

Michele Grosseibl Dorrell ’86, vice president of human resources, American Express Centurion Bank

James M. Dougherty ’76, ’78, president/CEO, Fidelity Bond & Mortgage, and director, Hansen Savings Bank

Scott C. Fleetwood ’74, marketing manager, American Cyanamid Co.

David R. Helwig ’73, vice president of nuclear services, Philadelphia Electric Co.

Martha Hoe Ireland ’88M, president/owner, Altering Disordered Eating

Gregory E. Johnson ’86M, project manager, EA Engineering, Science and Technology Inc.

Linda C. Jolly ’73M, president, Salem Community College

Linda Laskowski Jones ’83, ’87M, trauma clinical specialist, Medical Center of Delaware

Michael L. King ’81PhD, vice president, North American Operations for Pharmaceutical Manufacturing, Merck Manufacturing, Division of Merck & Co.

Teresa Barkley McLaughlin ’78, draper/patternmaker, Perry Ellis International and quilt artist

Stephen M. Mosko ’78, vice president of television syndication, Columbia Pictures

David G. Raymond ’79, entertainer, Phillie Phanatic

Barbara L. Sheppard ’77, pre-school director, Peoples Settlement Assn.

Abbie Brockwell Small ’83, vice president of crafts and home decorating, Simplicity Pattern Co. Inc.

Timothy D. Stark ’81, assistant professor of civil engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

James B. Tillinghast ’80, vice president/creative group supervisor, The Weightman Group

1994

Arthur W. Boswell ’88M, administrative assistant to the mayor of the city of Wilmington, Del.

Stephen J. Ceci ’74, recipient of a National Institutes of Health Research Career Development Award and two-time recipient of Senior Fulbright-Hayes Fellowships

Mark J. DiNardo ’83, director of electronic media at The Spectrum in Philadelphia

Theopalis K. Gregory ’74, attorney and Wilmington, Del., City Council member-at-large

Frank W. Hatch ’77PhD, director of the Analytical Sciences Department for the McNeil Consumer Products Company in Fort Washington, Pa.

Laura Lee Hickman ’79M, accomplished artist and instructor

Charles R. Lewis III ’75, founder, chairman and executive director of the Center for Public Integrity in Washington, D.C.

Valerie Zingler Martin ’78, director of the Ministry of Caring's Child Care Center for homeless children in Wilmington, Del.

H. Dean McSpadden Jr. ’76, first doctor in the state of Delaware to participate in Doctors with a Heart, the largest doctor-sponsored charity in the world

Mary Ann Mieczkowski ’75, Teacher of the Year in 1993 of the Association for the Rights of Citizens with Mental Retardation on both the state and national levels

Linda Justice Myrick ’77, hydrogen peroxide business director, FMC Corp.

Cynthia Nachtmann Opderbeck ’81, first certified nurse-midwife in New Castle County, Delaware, to be granted hospital privileges for performing normal childbirth delivery procedures

A. Douglas Rothwell, chief executive officer of the Michigan Jobs Commission

Richard W. Schneider ’85PhD, president of Norwich University in Northfield, Vt.

Timothy E. Shanahan ’80PhD, professor of urban education at the University of Illinois at Chicago, where he also serves as director of the University’s Center for Literacy and as coordinator of Graduate Programs of Reading, Writing and Literacy.

Wayne A. Smith ’84, Delaware legislator

John T. Trumble ’74, professor of entomology at the University of California, Riverside and president of the Pacific Branch of the Entomological Society of America

Susan E. Trumbore ’81, assistant professor in of geoscience at the University of California, Irvine

Ann Shepard Visalli ’87, ’90M, director of the President’s Youth Service Awards, sponsored by the American Institute for Public Service

Linda C. Whitehead ’76, ’84M, ’89PhD, executive director of MBNA America’s Great Expectations Children’s Learning Centers

Deborah A. Ziegler ’75, ’77M, ’88PhD, director of the Delaware Early Childhood Center in Harrington, Del.

1995

Rakesh Agrawal ’77M, principal engineering associate at Air Products & Chemicals Inc.

Kurt B. Akeley ’80, vice president and chief engineer of visual systems group, Silcon Graphics Inc

Carole A. Bieber ’76, co-founder and owner of Flapdoodles Children’s Clothing

Christopher Castagno ’83, director of Chestnut Enterprises Ltd., a Hong Kong trading and investment company

Paul Drayton Jr. ’82, executive director of the Delaware River and Port Authority

Devona Goeins-Williams ’76, ’82M, ’92PhD, owner of Goeins-Williams Associates, a management consulting and public relations business

Marc A. Ham ’85, co-founder and president of Flapdoodles Children’s Clothing

Marian Kaminitz ’84M, chief conservator of the National Museum of the American Indian in New York City

Mark A. Kleinschmidt ’81, president of New Castle County Economic Development Corp.

Iran Lawrence ’79, fiber artist

Melanie Lewis ’86, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and school teacher

Michael R. Liberati ’81, senior section manager-geology at the DuPont Co.’s Environmental Remediation Services

Margaret Schulz Maley ’86, oncology nurse and president of Oncology Care Home Health Specialists Inc.

Kyle Elizabeth Skopic ’84, assistant county attorney for Fairfax, Va.

Kirk Souder ’85, art director, co-owner and founder of Ground Zero Advertising

Nancy Hawthorn Wilson ’71, ’88M, ’94PhD, Delaware administrator responsible for developing interagency agreements for early-intervention programs for infants and toddlers with disabilities

Marie-Anne Woolley ’88, veterinarian at Red Lion Veterinary Hospital, New Castle, Del.

Judith D. Zuk ’76, president and chief executive officer of the Brooklyn Botanic Gardens

1996

Kenneth L. Becker ’72, ’76M, a vice president of Smith Barney Inc., an investment banking firm

Virginia M. Burns-Ferrara ’76, kindergarten teacher at Mt. Pleasant Elementary School in Wilmington, who was inducted into the Delaware Association for Childhood Education Hall of Excellence in 1993

Harmon R. Carey ’77M, founder and executive director of the Afro-American Historical Society of Delaware, as well as the executive assistant for African-American heritage in the Division of Historical and Cultural Affairs

Patricia Ann Childs ’76, ’78M, founder and co-facilitator of the M.S. Support Group in Tucson, Ariz., who helped form and chaired the Service Committee of the M.S. Support Foundation of Pima County, Ariz.

Willie Curtis ’77, ’80M, ’83PhD, associate professor at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis

Brian Deleu ’92, director of design for Regarde Inc., a sportswear company located in New York

Jacqueline Edington ’83, senior clinical nutrition adviser for the Ross Products Division of Abbott Laboratories Ltd. in the United Kingdom

Martin L. Klopping ’76, president of Rodney Square Management Corp. (RSMC), an investment adviser and mutual fund service company

Robert L. Lipstein ’77, a partner with KPMG Peat Marwick, a professional services firm

Jeanne McCauley ’76, assistant professor of medicine at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and a fellow of the American College of Physicians

Renosi Mokate ’83M, ’86PhD, director of the Center for Reconstruction and Development, as well as a professor at the University of Pretoria and the chief executive officer of the Independent Electoral Commission that, in April 1994, administered South Africa’s first multiracial election.

Cynthia R. Ryan ’76, associate chief counsel for the U.S. Department of Justice Drug Enforcement Administration

Elizabeth A. Schwenk ’88, lead keeper of the Rare Animal House at the Philadelphia Zoo

Robert S. Slowik ’77, ’85M, defensive coordinator for the Chicago Bears

Gwen L. Stauffer ’93M, director of horticulture at Hillwood, Va., Museum and Gardens.

Shelley Sturman ’79M, head of object conservation at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.

Joan Gracey Thomas ’88M, executive vice president of St. Francis Hospital in Wilmington, Del.

Julia E. Unger ’88, lead keeper of the World of Primates at the Philadelpha Zoo

Sibusiso Vil-Nkomo ’83M, ’85PhD, commissioner of the Public Service Commission in the Republic of South Africa

Jane C. Wright Vincent ’77, ’95M, director of the Department of Real Estate and Housing for the city of Wilmington

1997

Eugene W. Bernosky ’80, co-founder of Applied Chemical Solutions, provider of high-purity chemicals to the semiconductor industry, and owner of a technology investment banking practice

Marcia Bauer Capuano ’85M, principal of IPS-Harshman Middle School in Indianapolis

Nathan Erwin ’81, manager of the Smithsonian Institution’s Insect Zoo

Kathryn Koch Fleming ’79, president of Amoco Chemical China

C. Scott Forbes ’79, a partner of Andersen Consulting, a global professional services firm

Jane G. Govatos ’95M, first nurse practitioner for Milford Memorial Hospital's Georgetown Primary Care Center

D. Charles Herak ’85, ’94M, product manager for Hercules Inc.

John T. Huggard III ’80, chief anesthetist for Halifax Memorial Hospital

Philip M. Jardine ’81, ’83M, a soil chemist/physicist for the Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Velda Jones-Potter ’79, manager of contract manufacturing for the DuPont Co.

Wayne D. Lord ’79M, supervisory special agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation

Teresa Mullett Ressel ’86, ’87M, vice president, national environmental, health and safety, for Kaiser Permanente

Marianne Richter ’90M, curator for the Union League Club of Chicago

Lisa M. Salati ’78, assistant professor of biochemistry at West Virginia University

Margaret Van Heek ’85, principal scientist at the Schering-Plough Research Institute

Melody L. Young ’80, senior buyer with Toys ‘R’ Us

1999

Bakhtier Farouk ’79M, ’82PhD, an acknowledged authority in the fields of heat and mass transfer, fluid mechanics and combustion and professor of mechanical engineering at Drexel University

Tyrone J. Jones ’90, first director of the Wilmington, Del., Department of Youth and Families, an advocate for the accountability of services provided to youth and their families through federal, state and community agencies

William E. Lowe Jr. ’85, one of fewer than 100 pilots authorized and qualified to pilot ships of more than a quarter of a million deadweight tons on the Delaware River and the Delaware-Chesapeake Canal

Janice Mitchell Mintz ’81, commissioner of personnel for the state of New Jersey with responsibility for overseeing 440 department employees and 200,000 civil service workers.

William Oberlander III ’81, creative/director partner of Kirshenbaum Bond & Partners, one of the top five creative agencies in the country

Kevin M. O'Neil ’79, fellowship director for the Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Fellowship for the National Capital Consortium

Jack E. Rechcigl ’82, research professor at the University of Florida and Honorary Distinguished Professor at the Czech Agricultural University in Prague

Alan C. Schroeder ’82, ’84M, technical adviser for the U.S. Agency for International Development's Africa Emergency Locust/Grasshopper Assistance Project, working with African governments, the United Nations and other organization to control locust outbreaks before they become devastating plagues

Suzanne Thomassen-Krauss ’82M, chief conservator and project manager of the Star-Spangled Banner Preservation Project at the Smithsonian Institution

David L. Warnock ’80, president of T. Rowe Price Strategic Funds and founding board member of the Center for Families, Fathers and Work Force Development (an organization for developing the working and parenting skills of urban men)

2000

Robert T. Ashman ’81, assistant vice president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, helping direct the Wholesale Payments Product Office and managing national funds transfer products and technology issues

Lisa A. Bartolozzi ’85, artist whose work has been exhibited in Wilmington, Philadelphia, New York and Italy

Wayne W. Campbell ’84, assistant professor of foods and nutrition at Purdue University, where his research focuses on the effects of nutrition and exercise on older men and women as they age

Robert W. Greene III ’80, owner and president of Bob Greene Enterprises Inc. and author of Make the Connection: 10 Steps to a Better Body and, with Oprah Winfrey, A Journal of Daily Renewal: The Companion to Make the Connection

Robin M. Mayhew ’87, ’92M, community planner for the Federal Transit Administration, assisting the state of Pennsylvania

David P. Murbach ’88M, director of the Gardens Division of Rockefeller Center, which includes the world famous Rockefeller Center Christmas tree

Mylene Turek Pollock ’83, chief creative officer at Long Haymes Carr in Winston-Salem, N.C.

Joseph G. Susan Jr. ’78, ’82M, head football coach of the Wildcats at Davidson College

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January 2002