Jenifer McKim ’88, an investigative reporter at the Orange County Register, was selected as one of 30 journalists to be a 2008 fellow at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard. Established in 1938, the Nieman program is the oldest midcareer fellowship for journalists in the world. The fellowships are awarded to working journalists of accomplishment and promise for an academic year of study at the university. McKim, an English major at Wesleyan, will study the problem of child prostitution and the related issues of gender, family, and sexuality that put young women at risk.
Royal Hartigan, M.A. ’83, Ph.D. ’86, received a Fulbright-Hays research and teaching award from the Council for the International Exchange of Scholars and the U.S. State Department. Hartigan, an associate professor of music at UMass-Dartmouth, will research the indigenous kulintang gong and drum ensembles of southern Mindanao and the gangsa gong ensembles of the northern Luzon mountains while he is in residence at the University of the Philippines this fall. His interest in world music developed while at Wesleyan from 1981-1986 and he writes that “Wesleyan is a psychic, physical, aesthetic space where the life of the mind and heart is celebrated.”
Delcy Ziac Fox ’81 was named director of marketing at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y. Most recently, she was assistant director of marketing. Prior to joining Rensselaer in 1999 as senior account executive, she was with marketing services agencies in the New York-New Jersey area. She received a master of science degree in management in May 2003 from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and also holds a master of arts degree in anthropology and biology (1983) from the University of Albany. She is the chair of the Wesleyan Annual Fund National Committee, the Class Agent for the Class of 1981, and a Wesleyan Alumni Admission Volunteer. She lives in Niskayuna, N.Y., with her husband Bill, son Liam, and daughter Alta.
Daniel S. Lynch ’80 was named chief executive officer and director of ImClone Systems, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company. He had joined ImClone in April 2001 as vice president of finance and chief financial officer, and he had been serving as the senior vice president and chief administrative officer and acting CEO since April 2003. The chairman of the board noted, “Dan’s stewardship of ImClone Systems during one of its most critical and challenging periods has been exemplary,” and cited his leadership qualities, management skills, and his experience in finance and the international pharmaceuticals business. Lynch majored in mathematics at Wesleyan and earned a master’s in business administration from the Darden Graduate School of Business.
Majora Carter ’88, executive director of Sustainable South Bronx, joined New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, environmental activists, and other elected officials to mark the opening of Hunts Point Riverside Park in the Bronx. The groundbreaking signaled the beginning of a $3.2- million project to transform an illegal dump in the Hunts Point section of the Bronx into a park. Carter, whose organization helped spearhead this latest effort in the South Bronx riverfront recapture effort, spoke at the ceremony, saying, “Today, this has become the first waterfront park here in 60 years, and to date, the small $10,000 seed grant that we received has been leveraged more than 300 times.”
Alexis Maniatis ’87 was elected president of The Brattle Group, a worldwide economic consulting firm. He will maintain his practice in the firm’s Washington, D.C., office. Previously he held positions in the firm as director of the Washington office, the London office, and leader of the Brattle Group’s litigation practice. He has testified in federal and state courts in cases involving the estimation of damages, option valuation, and allocation of environmental liabilities. He has also written more than a dozen articles and has worked with clients in the United States, Europe, Latin America, and Australia. He holds an M.B.A. from Yale University. He majored in economics at Wesleyan.
Emilie Marcus ’82 was appointed editor of the bi-weekly life sciences journal, Cell. Previously the editor of Neuron, one of Cell’s sister-publications, Marcus received her Ph.D. from Yale in neurobiology. She was a postdoctoral fellow at the Salk Institute in California. In an interview with the Boston Globe, Marcus said, “My main goal is for Cell to be a driving force in promoting interdisciplinary research.”
Fred Maynard ’80 is one of six partners to develop a new country club along Rhode Island’s southern coast, the Shelter Harbor Golf Club. Maynard and his partners have fulfilled their goal of conserving open space by creating an environmentally friendly golf course without adjacent homes. Maynard is a principal of HarbourVest Partners and serves on the advisory boards of several private equity partnerships. He maintains a summer residence in Westerly.
Bruce C. McKenna ’84 recently won the 2003 Writer’s Guild Award for Best Adapted Long Form, for his episode in the Band of Brothers miniseries, “Bastogne.” McKenna has written or co-written three of the ten episodes of Band of Brothers, which was based on the book by Stephen E. Ambrose and produced by Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks. The miniseries has won numerous awards, including a Peabody Award, a Christopher Award, a Golden Globe and an Emmy. McKenna was nominated along with the show’s other writers for an Emmy.
Patricia Head Minaldi ’80 was appointed federal district judge in the western district of Louisiana in June. Previously she served for six years as a state district judge in the 14th judicial district court in Lake Charles, the first woman to hold that seat. A cum laude history major at Wesleyan, she graduated from Tulane Law School and began her career as a prosecutor in Orleans Parish of Louisiana before moving to the Calcasieu parish, where she spent 11 years as an assistant district attorney. She was also the first woman to serve as president of the Louisiana District Judges Association.
