Phillip B. Swain '37, elected president of the National Association of State Boards of Education
Alden E. Loberg '39, elected vice president of the mid-Atlantic region of the Navy League of the United States
Miles L. Lasser '43, nominated by Governor Cuomo to the board of trustees of the State University of New York
Robert G. Reed 111 '49, awarded the George Washington Honor Medal of the Freedoms Foundation
Robert E. Fiertz '51, named president of IGENE Biotechnolgy Inc.
Edward K. Isbey '51, named director-at-large of the American Academy of Ophthalmology
Philip E. Benton Jr. '52, named president and chief operating officer of Ford Motor Company
Kenneth Roman '52, elected executive vice president, corporate affairs and communication, of American Express Company
Robert A. Poor '53, named executive-on-loan to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children
John O. Parker '58, elected chairman of the board of Lesley College
Charles F. Pierce Jr. '58, appointed president of the Florida Hospital Association
Walter W. Vail '58, honored with the Alumni Award of Dartmouth College
Richard W. Bailey '61, recipient of the Distinguished Faculty Achievement Award of the University of Michigan
John R. Stephens '62, named senior executive vice president and chief operating officer of Eastern Utilities Associates
Jeffrey O. Sund '62, named president and CEO of Richard D. Irwin Inc., subsidiary of Times Mirror Cos.
Frederick Meils '64, named president of Pepsi-Cola Western Europe
John S. Macdonald '65, appointed medical director of Temple University Comprehensive Cancer Center.
William B. Hayden '66, appointed commanding officer of the carrier USS Abraham Lincoln, the largest U.S. Navy ship in history
Wayne W. LoCurto '66, named president and CEO of Actmedia Inc., a subsidiary of Heritage Media Corp.
Michael R. Darby '67, confirmed as Under Secretary of Commerce for Economic Affairs
Jonathan Newcomb '68, promoted to executive vice president of Simon & Schuster
Mark D. Waterhouse '68, appointed dean of the University of Oklahoma's Economic Development Institute
John P. Spooner '69, named an area vice president/general manager for the Frito-Lay division of PepsiCo Inc.
Russell A. Mittermeier '71, named president of Conservation International
David J. Gustin '72, named senior vice president, marketing, for the Frito-Lay division of PepsiCo Inc.
Michael E. Kapuano '73, elected mayor of Somerville, Mass.
R. Harrison Marks 111 '73, named head of retail banking administrative services at First Wachovia Corp.
Mark R. Wiley '75, appointed extension specialist for the University of New Hampshire Sea Grant Cooperative Extension Atlantic Salmon Restoration Project
George V. Grune Jr. '77, appointed head of Kidder, Peabody & Company's new asset-management group
Allison Grant Williams '77, named a partner of Brinson Partners, Inc.
Larry Ramin '83, promoted to vice president, creative affairs, at Light motive
Charles J. Wheelan '88 named speechwriter for Maine Governor John R. McKernan Jr. '70