Ameenah Lloyd ’03, a student at the University of Virginia Law School, was recently awarded the Reed Smith Fellowship by the firm’s Philadelphia office. The award is given to a first-year law student who demonstrates excellent academic achievement while overcoming economic or social adversity in pursuit of a law degree, in addition to demonstrating a commitment to community involvement. The fellowship entitles Lloyd, who served in the Peace Corps, to summer employment at Reed Smith. At Wesleyan, she majored in sociology.
Josh Lockwood ’93 was appointed executive director of Habitat-NYC, a leading affiliate of Habitat for Humanity International, which builds affordable homes for ownership in New York City’s five boroughs. He joined the organization in 2006 as chief operating officer and was appointed acting executive director in the spring of 2007. Prior to joining Habitat-NYC, Lockwood was a principal at HR&A, focusing on affordable housing and strategic planning. A government major at Wesleyan, he received his master’s degree from the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University.
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.
Touching Snow, the debut novel by M. Sindy Felin ’94, was selected as a finalist in the Young People’s Literature National Book Awards. A sociology major while at Wesleyan, she has said that she drew inspiration for this work from her own experiences and those of other Haitian immigrant households in the suburban New York community in which she grew up. The first member of her family to be born in the United States, she was also the first woman in her family to attend college. Her book was published by Atheneum Books for Young Readers, a division of Simon and Schuster.
Christianne Meneses Jacobs ’95, founder, publisher, and editor of Iguana, a Spanish language magazine for children, was one of only 10 Latina business women throughout the United States honored with an Anna Maria Arias Award, named for the creator of Latina Style Magazine. A government major at Wesleyan, Jacobs is a native of Nicaragua; her family moved to the United States in 1988. Now a second-grade teacher and the mother of two, she holds a master’s degree in education. She and her husband, the creative director, founded the magazine to fill a gap they noticed as their first child began to read, and they found very few Spanish language texts geared to children. “The dream for my daughter, and for all Latino children, is that they will continue to read in Spanish, to feel proud of being bilingual, and to never forget their roots,” she writes. To see the magazine, go to www.IGUANAmagazine.com.
Bob Glasspiegel ’77 was chosen by the Wall Street Journal as one of the best life insurance stock analyst in a recent survey of the master stock pickers from each industry. A co-manager at Langen McAlleney in Hartford, he was an economics major at Wesleyan, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He earned his MBA from Harvard University. This is the sixth time the Wall Street Journal has named him in its listing of top analysts.
Susan McFarland ’90 has been named the director of environment, health, and safety at Carrier Corporation, a division of United Technologies Corporation. She has been working in environmental compliance and occupational safety for 17 years. A molecular biology and biochemistry major at Wesleyan, McFarland earned an MS in environmental sciences at the University of New Haven and an MBA from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
Charlie Hill ’46 was made an Officier in the French Order of the Academic Palms at a ceremony conducted by the Cultural Attachée of the French Embassy in New York. The order was established by Napoleon as a means of recognizing accomplishments in teaching and research, and in promoting the study of French. In 1979, he had been named a Chevalier of the order. He earned his MA and PhD at Yale and taught there, as well as at the University of Rhode Island, at Skidmore College, and from 1962 until his retirement in 1992, at Brooklyn College, CUNY, where he was also department chair for 11 years. He served many years on the boards of the American Association of Teachers of French and the Société des Professeurs Français et Francophones d’Amérique. He is the author of a book on Jean-Paul Sartre, several articles on various aspects of French and Francophone literature, and many reviews and encyclopedia articles.
Lawrence Green ’74 was elected chair of the Board of the American Jewish Society for Service, a national service organization that sponsors summer community service camps for Jewish teens. Founded in 1950, AJSS has served more than 140 impoverished communities in 46 states, as well as in Canada and Israel. Green served as a camper and counselor for AJSS for three summers and has served on the AJSS Board since 1977. He is a partner with Burns & Levinson LLP in Boston, where he serves as co-chair of the Business Litigation Department. At Wesleyan, he was a College of Social Studies major; he received his JD from New York University.
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.”
