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Four new names on UDs Alumni Wall of Fame
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JoAnne Ross Barnhart |
11:39 a.m., May 14, 2004--A top government official, prize-winning agricultural researcher, a distinguished art historian and a leading engineer were added to UDs Alumni Wall of Fame on Friday, May 7.
JoAnne Ross Barnhart, '75 AS, Chester "Chet" T. Dickerson Jr., '62, '64M AG, Joan Mastrangelo Marter, '74 Ph.D. AS, and Donald R. McCoy, '75 EG, were honored during a ceremony at Bayard Sharp Hall on the Newark campus.
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Chester T. Dickerson Jr. |
The wall, which recognizes outstanding professional and public service achievements by UD graduates, is located in the Alumni Lounge of the Perkins Student Center.
Barnhart was nominated in 2001 by President George W. Bush and confirmed by the Senate as commissioner of the Social Security Administration, an independent federal agency with 65,000 employees. She is a former member of the Social Security Advisory board, assistant secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services and served as the late U.S. Sen. William V. Roth Jr.'s legislative assistant and campaign manager.
Dickerson retired as director of agricultural affairs at the Monsanto Co. During his tenure at Monsanto, he was responsible for the emergence of the chemical glyphosate, an herbicide commonly known as Round-Up. He later marketed Round-Up, expanding its use beyond the cornbelt to $1.2 billion in sales in the U.S. and the United Kingdom. Dickerson works closely with UDs Cooperative Extension Service and provides his property for UD agricultural research.
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Joan Mastrangelo Marter |
Marter is a distinguished professor of art history at Rutgers University in New Jersey. She is president of the Dorothy Dehner Foundation for the Visual Arts and serves on the board of the Ora Lerman Charitable Trust. Marter has assisted many UD students in securing fellowships and internships at the Metropolitan Museum, the Guggenheim and the National Gallery of Art.
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Donald R. McCoy |
McCoy is the deputy associate director for weapons physics at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. He served as technical director to the director of the Department of Energys testing division and received the DOE Award of Excellence, Nuclear Weapons Program, in 1986, 1989, 1990, 1992 and 1993. McCoy has helped UD graduates find jobs at Los Alamos.
Article by Martin Mbugua
Photos by Kathy Atkinson
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