| Number 29 | John L. Burmeister, Editor | August 2002 |
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A vintage Delaware blue and gold day greeted the members of the Class of 2002 for their traditional rites of passage. Almost 200 relatives, faculty members and friends gathered in Pearson Hall at 2:00PM to congratulate the 41 BS/BA, 8 MS/MA and 9 Ph.D. recipients. Highlighting the ceremony was the presentation, by President David Roselle, of the University of Delaware Medal of Distinction (the University's highest award) to Prof. Burnaby Munson. The featured speaker for the occasion was one of our Department's most distinguished graduates: Dr. Sally Camper (BS77), Professor of Human Genetics at the University of Michigan Medical School in Ann Arbor. As has been our tradition for over three decades, the entire throng then moved to Brown Laboratory for our post-convocation reception.
| 2002 B.A. CHEMISTRY AND CHEMISTRY EDUCATION GRADUATES | ||
|---|---|---|
| Timothy D. Bloom | Lacey D. Cluff | Jennifer A. Macielag (XCE) |
| 2002 B.S. BIOCHEMISTRY GRADUATES | ||
| Eugene V. Antipov | Donald W. Jones, III | Jaimie S. Robinson |
| Jennifer M. Crocco | Ernest R. Lada | Lynn M. Schiavoni |
| Taylor M. Dickerson, III | John T. Mondick, Jr. | Paul J. C. Shall |
| Bart J. Fennemore | Joost W. Monen | Jeffrey W. Smith |
| Brian Gillespie | Jennifer B. Morris | Catherine M. Visintainer |
| John K. Heiss | Allison Olszewskia | |
| 2002 B. S. CHEMISTRY GRADUATES | ||
| Michael R. Berseth | Wayne E. Gosnell, Jr. | Brandon R. Koffel |
| Scott E. Buzby | Gaetano Gravino, III | William J. Morris |
| Fedele J. DePalma | Rebecca L. Helm | Kristine A. R. Nolin |
| Valerie J. Dzubecka | Michele L. Jablonski | Gene M. Rossi |
| Heather S. Eichert | Eric C. Johnson | Matthew J. Swierzbinski |
| Melissa A. Fennemore | Grant E. Johnson | |
| David W. Finnerana,b | Robert P. Kiefer | |
| aHonors Degree with Distinction bEnvironmental Chemistry Concentration | ||
| 2002 M.S. AND M.A. GRADUATES | ||
| Shyroine R. Anthony (MA) | Gang Li | Anka N. Veleva (MA) |
| Nicole M. Glynn | Kristen L. Mello | Jennifer L. Yamarik (MA) |
| Lawrence J. Kennedy | Jeffrey V. Mitten | |
| 2002 Ph.D. GRADUATES | ||
| Peter DePhillips | Protein Retention on Cation Exchange Adsorbents | Thorpe |
| Alicia Glatfelter | Solid-State NMR Spectroscopy of Lead(II) Halides and Coordination Complexes of Lead(II) Halides | Dybowski |
| Dione Kampa | A Study of the Isolation, Characterization, and Function of Chicken Janus Kinase 3 in T Lymphocyte Signaling | Colman and Joan Burnside (Animal & Food Sciences) |
| Leonard A. MacAdams III | The Synthesis, Structure and Reactivity of ß-Diketiminato Chromium Complexes for Olefin Polymerization | Theopold |
| Peter M. Palenchar | Elucidating the Biosynthesis of 4- Thiouridine: A Study in Sulfur Biochemistry | Mueller |
| Vidya P. Prabhu | Role of P53 in Branch Migration and Resolution of the Holliday Junction | Chen |
| Chuleeporn Puttnual | Homogeneous Olefin Polymerization with Organovanadium Complexes and Synthesis and Characterization of III-V Single-Source Precursor Molecules for MOCVD | Theopold |
| Derrick J. Swinton | Single-Molecule Probing of Adsorption to Heterogeneous Interfaces | Wirth |
| Zhaoqing Zhang | ATP Hydrolysis and Strand Exchange Reaction Promoted by RECA Protein from Escherichia Coli | Chen |
Fedele (Fred) DePalma, Penn State Medical School, Hershey <fedele7@hotmail.com>;
Taylor Dickerson, Pace University (forensic chemistry) <taylordickerson@yahoo.com>;
Valerie Dzubeck, University of Texas, Austin (organic chemistry); Heather
Eichert, University of New Hampshire, Durham (analytical chemistry) <heathereichert@yahoo.com>;
David Finneran, University of Delaware (physical chemistry); Wayne
Gosnell, St. John's University School of Law, Queens, NY <wayneg262@aol.com>;
John Heiss, UCLA (biochemistry); Peter Kiefer, Boston College
(MAT); John Mondick, University of Maryland, College Park (pharmaceutical
sciences) <mondickjt@netzero.net>; Joost Monen, University of California,
San Diego (biomedical sciences); William Morris, Northwestern University,
Evanston, IL (inorganic chemistry) <dutchmb@aol.com>; Kristine Nolin,
University of California, Berkeley (organic chemistry); Allison Olszewski,
University of California, Irvine (organic chemistry) <aolszews@uci.edu>
<bluehen2002@hotmail.com>; Jaimie Robinson, Uniformed Services
University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD (emerging infectious diseases);
Catherine Visintainer, New York Medical College <cathyv10@yahoo.com>.
Melissa Fennemore, advanced internship in chemistry, Disney's Living Seas Lagoon/Animal Kingdom, Orlando, FL <fennemore@hotmail.com>; Gene Rossi, DuPont Experimental Station.
Last January, I received the following (abridged and annotated) "memoir" from Robert J. Wilson, Jr. (BS56): "I was an indifferent chemistry major in my day (1952-56). With a few mental handicaps: left- handedness, which made me an eternal klutz, beginning with Dr. Betty Dyer's freshman chemistry laboratory; color-blindness, which made me helpless in freshman qualitative analysis, in having to observe phenolphthalein end-points, to the despair of Bill Watt (MS52, PhD55) and Vince Rolleri (MS55, PhD58); poor memory, which Dr. Glenn Skinner's huge, mimeographed organic textbook helped to reinforce, math-dumbness, which put me at the mercy of Dr. Harold Beachell's quantitative analysis. Nonetheless, I survived those first two years to go on to Dr. Cecil Lynch's physical chemistry, Dr. John Wriston's biochemistry, and even Dr. Quaesita Drake's history of chemistry. All I had to do was to get by Dr. Harold Kwart's advanced organic chemistry, and senior research projects for Dr. Skinner and Dr. Bill Mosher. Somehow, I made it, after promising Dr. Mosher that I would never take a job as a bench chemist." [Ed. Note: It is somewhat sobering to me, as a 1959 F&M graduate, to note that John Wriston is the only surviving member of the professors mentioned above.]
"I gravitated to the world of advertising and public relations for 25 years, beginning with a stint at Union Carbide's HQ in New York City. I've been semi-retired (from MultiKem Corporation) in Stamford, CT, since 1990.
We 1956 B.S. graduates were a tight bunch, and several of us used to meet weekly at the Deer Park. We called ourselves the ‘Amalgamated and Condensed Chemists Club.' Over the years, we went our separate ways, but have recently found each other again, and plan a reunion in the summer of 2002. Other club members include Dr. John J. Baldwin (chief science and technology officer, Pharmacopeia, Inc., Cranbury, NY), C. Lewis Hoffner, Esq. (lawyer and judge in Plano, TX), Dr. Walter Lafferty (senior scientist with NIST, Gaithersburg, MD), Maurice (Mario) LePera (president of LePera & Associates, Woodbridge, VA), Dr. Glenn Skinner, Jr. (dentist [one of Dr. Skinner's sons] in Sunnyside, WA), and David P. Jordan (retired in Thomaston, CT)."
The Amalgamates did, indeed, make it back to the U of D on 6/22/02, minus Drs. Skinner and Lafferty (see picture). [John Wriston and I had planned to share their reunion, but we were both out-of-town at the time.] They marveled at Brown Lab's ability to sprout two wings, and how Drake Hall and Lammot DuPont Laboratory now existed in what had been unused space in their time. The recently renovated Deer Park looked quite different than it did in 1956, and, most distressing of all, their beloved Carling Red Label Ale was no longer available for sale. Nonetheless, a great time was had by all, and an encore is planned for 2003. Look for an article on the Amalgamates in a forthcoming U of D Messenger.