CLAS Honors Outstanding Alumni
At its third annual Outstanding Alumni Awards Brunch held during homecoming
weekend in November, CLAS honored some of its most exceptional alumni.
The following were presented with a glass plaque featuring a crystal alligator,
in recognition of their many accomplishments: Raymond W. Alden,
III (PhD, Zoology, 1976), executive vice president and provost of one
of the fastest growing universities in the nation—the University
of Nevada, Las Vegas; William R. Burkhart (BS, Political Science,
1987), senior vice president and general counsel for Timken, a world leader
in the bearings and steel industry; Fredric Chaiken (BA, Religion,
1978), who has been a trial lawyer in Atlanta, Georgia for nearly 25 years
and is a partner in the firm Chaiken Klorfein, LLC; Thomas J. Davies
(BA and MA, German, 1979 and 1982; MA and PhD, English, 1984 and 1986),
a senior partner with Kekst and Company, Inc., a New York-based corporate
communications counseling firm; Ronald Jaszczak (BS and PhD, Physics,
1964 and 1968), a professor of biomedical engineering at Duke University;
Wallace W. Prophet (BA, MA and PhD, Psychology, 1951, 1952, 1958),
an accomplished aviation psychologist and retired vice president of Seville
Training Systems Corporation of Plant City, Florida; Bruce Stone (BA,
Sociology, 1971), a Miami attorney named one of the 45 Best Trusts and
Estates Attorneys in the US by Town and Country Magazine in 1998; Aase
Duelund Thompson (BA, French, 1986), managing director of the C. Frederick
Thompson Foundation, a non-profit corporation in Gainesville established
for charitable, scientific, literary and education purposes; S. Richard
Turner (PhD, Chemistry, 1971), director of the Macromolecules and
Interfaces Institute and a research professor in the Department of Chemistry
at Virginia Tech; Richard E. Witmer (BS, Physics, 1962; MS and
PhD, Geography, 1964 and 1967), a senior management consultant with the
US Government Consulting Group and a 1990 winner of the US Department
of the Interior’s Distinguished Service Award.
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(Left to right) Ronald Jaszczak, Aase Duelund Thompson,
Fredric Chaiken, Bruce Stone, S. Richard Turner, Richard Witmer and Wallace
Prophet attended the 2004 Outstanding Alumni Awards Brunch. |
