Santa Clara Superior Court Judge Leonard Edwards ’63 received the 2004 William H. Rehnquist Award for Judicial Excellence from the National Center for State Courts. NCSC President Mary Campbell McQueen calls him “one of the most effective and progressive trial judges in America.” In fact, under Edwards the juvenile dependency court in Santa Clara County was named a “national model” be the National Council of Juvenile and Family Courts Judges. Edwards has also received the Judicial Council’s Distinguished Service Award, and in 1966 the California Wellness Foundation declared him the recipient of the California Peace Prize Award.
Richard Hartzell ’65, founder, head of the voice faculty, and artistic director of The Musical Theater Center in Rockville, Md., was honored by the Cultural Alliance of Greater Washington with the Tony Taylor Award for his outstanding contributions in arts education for young people. In addition, he is the current vice president for membership of the Maryland State Music Teachers Association and has been on the board of directors for 15 years. He holds a master’s degree in vocal music from Catholic University in Washington, D.C.
H. Eugene Stanley ’62, professor of physics and director of the Center for Polymer Studies at Boston University, was elected to the prestigious National Academy of Sciences. In addition, the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics awarded Stanley the Boltzmann medal to honor outstanding achievements in statistical physics. He was also selected for the Nicholson Medal by the American Physical Society, as well as for the Tersiana Medal (an Italian prize) in complex systems research.
Alberto Ibarguen ’66 was elected president and CEO of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, which makes grants to promote excellence in journalism worldwide and invests in the vitality of 26 U.S. communities where the Knight brothers operated newspapers. A newspaper executive since 1984 and currently publisher of the Miami Herald and the Nuevo Herald, he had served in the Peace Corps and holds a law degree from UPenn. Columbia University honored him with their Maria Moors Cabot prize for his work to protect journalists and free speech in Latin America and George Washington University recently awarded him an honorary Ph.D. The foundation chair describes him as “a recognized leader with interests that are a perfect match with those of the foundation.” Ibarguen, who served on the Wesleyan board, concurs: “I feel as though my life has been training just for this job.”
Frank N. Judson ’64, M.D., has been named to the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS. Selected by Secretary of Health and Human Services, Judson is active in national and international AIDS organizations. He is chairman of the board of the American Social Health Association (ASHA), as well as the president of the International Union Against Sexually Transmitted Infections (IUSTI) for 2003-04. Judson, who received his M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania, is director of the Public Health Department of Denver, Colo., chief of infectious diseases for the Denver Health Medical Center, and professor of medicine and preventive medicine at the University of Colorado. The author or co-author of more than 240 scientific publications, Judson has also been an epidemic intelligence service officer with the CDC.
Donald Clippinger ’66, an award–winning writer with wide experience in the racing industry, was named communications consultant for the National Steeplechase Association (NSA). He had retired as editorial director of Thoroughbred Times Company. Clippinger, whom NSA President Guy Torsilieri praised for his “thorough knowledge of steeplechase racing and its participants,” had been the racing writer for the Philadelphia Inquirer and editor of The Thoroughbred Record. In 1996, he won the Eclipse Award for an article that appeared in the Mid-Atlantic Thoroughbred. With Curtis L. Barrett, Ph.D., he is the co-author of Winners! The Story of Alcohol and Drug-Abuse Programs in the Horse Racing Industry. Clippinger is a founding director and treasurer of the Winners Federation, a nonprofit dedicated to combating addictions in the horse racing environment.
Bob Coleman ’68 received the “Distinguished Eagle,” awarded by the national Boy Scout organization to those former Eagle Scouts who have proved exemplary in both business careers and community service. An executive director of Morgan Stanley in San Francisco, Coleman also is president of the Piedmont Boy Scout Council, president of the Piedmont Language School, as well as president of the American Fondouk Animal Hospital in Fez, Morocco, which provides free medical care to more than 20,000 animals per year. At Wesleyan, he was a College of Social Studies major; he received his MBA from Harvard.
John H. Coatsworth ’63 was appointed dean of the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University. He had joined the Columbia faculty in 2006. He is the author or editor of seven books on the history of economic development and international relations of Latin America. Previously he served as the founding director of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard?now the largest center of its kind in the world. A past president of the American Historical Association, he is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and president-elect of the Latin American Studies Association. In 2005, he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Jim Devine ’68 received the 2004 Edward deLuca Lifetime Achievement Award for Professional Excellence from the International Economic Development Council, recognizing his “leadership, innovation, and exemplary service to the economic development profession.” Devine, the current president of the Lee’s Summit, Mo., economic development council, is the past chairman of the International Economic Development Council, as well as the longest serving, elected board member of the IEDC, beginning in 1986. He holds an M.P.A. from Syracuse University’s Maxwell School of Public Administration, and earned the Certified Economic Developer designation in 1979.
David Dixon ’69 received the American Institute of Architects’ Thomas Jefferson Award for demonstrating “a lifetime of commitment and significant achievement in advancing the public sector’s mission to create more livable neighborhoods, vibrant civic spaces, and vital downtown and main streets.” A resident of Boston, Dixon has also been working extensively on urban planning for downtown New Orleans and a number of highly diverse neighborhoods closer to home. At Wesleyan, he majored in the College of Social Studies and then earned his master’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania.
