Ten alumni were honored in October as 1999 recipients of the University’s Presidential Citation for Outstanding Achievement. Beginning in 1992, the award honors alumni of the last 20 years who exhibit great promise in their professional careers or public service activities. Recipients are (front row, from left) William Oberlander III, AS ’81, creative director/partner of Kirshenbaum Bond & Partners, one of the top five creative advertising agencies in the country; David L. Warnock, AS ’80, founder of Cahill, Warnock & Co., a recognized leader in venture capital; Suzanne Thomassen-Krauss, AS ’82M, conservator and project manager of Smithsonian Institution’s Star-Spangled Banner Preservation Project; Bakhtier Farouk, EG ’79M, ’81PhD, Drexel University professor and acknowledged authority in the fields of heat and mass transfer, fluid mechanics and combustion; and Janice Mitchell Mintz, AS ’81, commissioner of personnel for the state of New Jersey; (back row, from left) President David P. Roselle; Kevin M. O’Neil, EG ’79, a pulmonary medicine specialist and fellowship director for the Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Fellowship for the National Capital Consortium; William E. Lowe, BE ’85, a ship pilot active in his community of Lewes, Del., and instrumental in founding the College of Business and Economics Alumni Board; Jack E. Rechcigl, AG ’82, a University of Florida professor and premier soil scientist who has won national and international recognition for his research; and Alan C. Schroeder, AG ’82, ’84M, a foremost expert on locust control currently serving as technical adviser for the U.S. Agency for International Development. Not pictured is Tyrone J. Jones, AS ’90, organizer and first director of the Wilmington Department of Youth and Families and community advocate recognized by the National Coalition on Juvenile Justice, the Delaware NAACP and the Department of Services for Children, Youth and Their Families.