Volume 13, No. 3/2005

Wall of Fame inducts 5 alumni

The distinguished graduates added to the University’s Alumni Wall of Fame on May 6, in addition to Sandra Morris, include Charles A. Genuardi Jr., BE ’70, J. Patrick Kelly, AS ’67, Terry F. Neimeyer, EG ’77, and Karen A. Stout, AS ’82, CHEP ’95ED. They were inducted in a ceremony at Bayard Sharp Hall. The wall, located in the Alumni Lounge of the Perkins Student Center, recognizes outstanding professional and public service achievements by
UD graduates.

Genuardi served as chairman, president and CEO of Genuardi’s Family Markets since 1990, working with other family members to strengthen the company and develop strong philanthropic ties with the community. The family business, which began more than 80 years ago selling produce door-to-door, became one of the top supermarket retailers in the Delaware Valley, employing more than 7,000 people in its stores in southeastern Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware. The family sold the business to Safeway Inc. in 2001. Genuardi and his wife, Patricia, live in Wayne, Pa., and Scottsdale, Ariz.

Kelly is a professor at the Widener University School of Law in Wilmington, where he joined the faculty in 1984. He has served as director of international programs and director of graduate legal studies. While teaching there, Kelly has been responsible for developing the Nairobi International Law Institute in Kenya, an exchange program with the University of Nairobi that allows students from both universities to explore the nuances of law in different countries. Kelly and his wife, Victoria, live in Landenberg, Pa.

Neimeyer is president, CEO and chairman of the board at KCI technologies Inc., an employee-owned, multidisciplinary engineering firm, headquartered in Hunt Valley, Md. After becoming president of the company, he successfully launched two subsidiaries, KCI Wireless Services Inc. and KCI Construction Services LLC. Neimeyer and his wife, Mary, live in Parkton, Md. Their daughter, Erin, is a sophomore at UD.

Stout has been president of Montgomery County Community College in Pennsylvania since 2001. Over the past two decades, she has been an educational leader at four community colleges. With campuses in Pottstown and Blue Bell, Pa., Montgomery County Community College enrolls 16,000 credit and 11,000 noncredit students each year. Under Stout’s leadership, the college has formed key partnerships with several other colleges and universities, launched a comprehensive honors college and built a health careers suite at the west campus location. Stout lives in West Chester, Pa.