  David L. Hyman, J.D., a partner in the law firm of Kleinbard, Bell & Brecker LLP, was elected president of the Philadelphia chapter of the American Jewish Committee, whose goals are protecting the rights and freedoms of Jews around the world, combating bigotry and anti-Semitism, and promoting human rights. Hyman is also active in other aspects of the Philadelphia community, serving as the mayor's representative to the Philadelphia Industrial Development Corp., board member of the Greater Philadelphia Tourism and Marketing Corp., secretary to the Association for Independent Growth, board member and former president of Operation Understanding and vice president of Congregation Kol Ami. John Nesbitt, Ph.D., a faculty member at Eastern Wyoming College in Torrington, published his sixth western novel, A Good Man to Have in Camp (Endeavor Books). Nesbitt has also written five other westerns, four short story collections and many articles. Barry Shuster is vice president of marketing and business development for Divers Alert Network Inc., an affiliate of the Duke University Health System. Shuster holds a law degree from North Carolina Central University School of Law and an M.B.A. from Pepperdine University. He and his wife, Susan, live in Cary, N.C., and are expecting twins inOctober.
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Gene Endicott has been named manager of Worldwide Public Affairs for Agilent Technologies, a new company created from Hewlett-Packard's former measurement and components businesses. Endicott is based in Roseville, where he lives with his wife, Trisa, and their 4-year-old son, Andrew. Paul Ferguson, Ph.D., recently moved to Las Vegas to begin his new position as the dean of the Graduate College of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Suzanne Lehmer works as corporate counsel for Convergys Corp. in Cincinnati. After graduating from Davis, she received a law degree from New York University. Lori McNicholas is conducting research in community health and serves as an adjunct faculty member in the School of Public Health at San Diego State University. McNicholas completed her Ph.D. in education this May through a joint doctoral program at Claremont Graduate University and San Diego State. Her thesis examined the empowerment of Latina women through health promotion programs. Anthony Mendoza was ordained as a priest in June after completing his theology studies at St. Charles Borromeo Seminary in Philadelphia. Mendoza now lives in Corpus Christi, Texas, where he serves as a transitional deacon for the local diocese. Mary Stuckey recently received the Elsie M. Hood Outstanding Teacher Award as top teacher at the University of Mississippi. A professor of political science, Stuckey has been teaching at "Ole Miss" for 11 years and specializes in the American presidency and political communications. Elizabeth Tom, M.D. '86, was elected to the Elko Chamber of Commerce board of directors, for which she serves as second vice president. Tom was also elected to the national board of directors of Alpha Phi Omega National Service Fraternity and is the director of Region X, which comprises chapters in Arizona, Nevada, Utah, Hawaii and California. Sue (Dawson) Wilhite is currently the host of her own radio show, "Positively Success with Sue," on San Francisco Bay Area station KEST AM1450. The combination talk and call-in show broadcasts every other Thursday 9–10 a.m. and covers issues relating to the mind, body and spirit. She
Nadine S.I. Aguilera, who received an M.D. from the Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences in 1987, was awarded the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology's 1999 John Hill Brinton Award for excellence in pathological research conducted by a junior staff member. Aguilera, a major in the U.S. Air Force and the assistant chair of the Department of Hematopathology at the institute, co-authored an award-winning article, which was published in the December 1998 issue of the American Journal of Pathology. Aguilera is married to Arnold Aguilera, a neurologist with a private practice in Virginia.
Charles Higgins received a master's in social work from UC Berkeley in 1998 and published a book, Bike Traffic, about a nonprofit organization he founded to train urban youth to repair bikes. Higgins can be reached at bcp@igc.org. William Schillinger, M.S., was recently promoted to associate professor at Washington State University's crop and soil sciences department.
Tom O'Brien was named deputy director of Gov. Gray Davis' Washington, D.C., office. He is responsible for the office's agricultural and trade issues. O'Brien joined Gov. Davis' administrative staff after working for five years as a political appointee with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, under the Clinton administration. He lives in Alexandria, Va., with his wife, Natalie Nielsen '87, who is pursuing a Ph.D. in education.
Anthony Saponara, a management consultant at Environmental Resources Management, recently co-authored a how-to book on developing management systems that conform to ISO 14001, international standards that ensure effective environmental management. Elizabeth Ward, M.F.A., holds a principal role in the Broadway musical The Scarlet Pimpernel and has also been seen on Broadway in City of Angels and Passion. Ward has been in other productions such as national touring companies' performances of Les Miserables, The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Singin' in the Rain. She married actor Ken Land in 1998 and lives in New York City. Mark Wilson was named assistant vice president of investments at the Phoenix, Ariz., office of Bancorp Piper Jaffray. Wilson previously worked as a financial consultant at Merrill Lynch.
Martin D. Casey was named legislative and policy coordinator for the Washington state Human Rights Commission, where he supervises the agency's legislative and regulatory programs, coordinates budget and policy development and maintains the agency's Web site. Casey also serves on the Thurston County Council on Cultural Diversity and Human Rights. He lives in Olympia, Wash., with his partner, Brian, and his stepson, Brian Jr. Bill Edwards graduated from the Combined Arms and Services Staff School at Camp Dawson, W.Va. An Army National Guard captain, Edwards is the commander of Headquarters Company, 1-104th Aviation in Johnstown, Pa. An 11-year military veteran, Edwards earned his commission as a second lieutenant in the U.S. Marine Corps as an aviator in 1987. He lives in Upper St. Clair, Pa., with his wife, Rachel, and their three children. Heidi Haugen received a Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching, the nation's highest honor for math and science instruction. A physical earth sciences and biology instructor at Florin High School, Haugen traveled to Washington, D.C., for an awards dinner and received $7,500 from the National Science Foundation for math and science programs. Thomas Longstaff, M.S., Ph.D. '91, is head of research and development for the Computer Emergency Response Team's Networked Systems Survivability program at Carnegie Mellon University's Software Engineering Institute in Pittsburgh. CERT is funded by the Defense Department and is charged with advising Congress, the Justice Department and the White House on matters relating to computer security and computer crime. Before Longstaff's arrival at CERT, he worked at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory as a technical director of the lab's Computer Incident Advisory Capability unit. Longstaff is married with one child. Christina Taylor-Simmons works in marketing for the Zoological Society of San Diego, preparing press materials and video. She received an Emmy for production of a locally aired television show in 1998.
Gregg Foster was appointed executive director of the Redwood Region Economic Development Commission, a 22-year-old Joint Powers Authority that provides business loans and economic development services in Humboldt County. He lives in Ferndale with his wife, Beth (Holcomb) '87, who is an elementary school teacher, and their two sons, Riley and Will. Henry Krull completed his residency in orthopaedic surgery at the Los Angeles County–USC Medical Center in June and moved to Kenai, Alaska, to open a private practice in general orthopaedics. He and his wife have three children, Anton, Elan and Alyeska. Nancy (Hanks) Reis recently completed a Ph.D. in elementary education, with a specialization in teaching and curriculum at Auburn University and is now living in Colorado Springs, Colo. Alicia Ritter, a partner with Deen and Black Public Relations, has been elected president of the Sacramento Advertising Club. Susie (Geoffrion) Wasson received an M.S. in exercise physiology from the University of Colorado and is teaching human anatomy and physiology at Front Range Community College in Westminster, Colo. Wasson and her husband, Mike, a computer instructor, welcomed their second son into their family in January. Robert Clark Young, M.A., published a novel, One of the Guys (HarperCollins Publishers), a Navy-set tale of adventure and self-discovery. Young's short stories have appeared in Bless Me, Father (Penguin Books) and literary journals, and have won a number of national prizes.Wang Zheng, M.A., Ph.D. '95, recently had her first book published, Women in the Chinese Enlightment: Oral and Textual Histories (University of California Press), which focuses on the life stories of five Chinese women activists born in the first decade of this century. Zheng is an affiliated scholar at Stanford University's Institute for Research on Women and Gender and lives with her husband, John, and their two children, Xiayi and Liya.
Sabrina Isé Lovell, M.S. '92, received a Ph.D. in agricultural and resource economics from UC Berkeley in 1997 and works as an economist at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in Washington, D.C. She and her husband, David, a professor at the University of Maryland, live in College Park, MD. Glenn and Michelle (Goodrich) Millar '88 moved to Philadelphia, where Glenn is executive vice president of Sodiaal North America. Both lifetime CAAA members, they celebrated their 10th wedding anniversary this summer and "would love to hear from friends" at gemillar@concentric.net and mmillar@concentic.net. Melinda Milligan, M.A. '92, Ph.D. '98, recently accepted a position as assistant professor in Tulane University's Department of Sociology. She begins this fall. A.J. Thomas received his law degree from the Thomas Jefferson School of Law in San Diego. While at Thomas Jefferson, Thomas was awarded the American Jurisprudence Bancroft-Whitney Award for his administrative law class and was on both the school's honor roll and the National Dean's List. Sonja Wamsley recently received a doctor of medicine degree from Thomas Jefferson University's Jefferson Medical College and holds a master's of public health from Johns Hopkins University awarded in 1997. Wamsley has now begun a one-year internship in internal medicine at St. Mary's Medical Center in San Francisco, to be followed by a residency in ophthalmology at the University of Wisconsin Hospital in Madison.