The six graduates of the College of Human Services, Education and Public Policy honored March 14 with the CHEP Alumni Association Outstanding Alumni Awards for 2002 were (from left): John C. Carney, '84M, lieutenant governor of Delaware; Beverly Stewart Cox, '79, '84M, owner of Back to Basics Tutoring Service in Wilmington, Del.; Sibusiso Vil-Nkomo, '83M, '85PhD, a dean at the University of Pretoria in South Africa; Valerie Woodruff, '71M, Delaware's secretary of education; David Rubin, '92, owner of A Spice of Life catering business in Boulder, Colo.; and Melissa Deifer Hicks, '88, a child-life specialist in Austin, Texas, and president of the national Child Life Council. The awards were presented at a reception attended by about 250 CHEP alumni, faculty and community members. The event also included a lecture by James Hiebert, Robert J. Barkley Professor of Education, on his research concerning how Americans teach mathematics, why it's so hard to change teaching methods and what can be done to improve math teaching.