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John D. Walton '55, awarded an honorary degree by St. Augustine's College

Roberts W. French '56, presented the 1992-93 Distinguished Teacher Award at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Bruce Sloane '57, named editor of the Rappahannock (Va.) News

Robert K. Staz '57, elected president of the Pennsylvania Association of Milk Dealers

Walter J. Peterson '59, English teacher at Norwood (Mass.) High School, winner of the Edward F. Calesa Foundation's Terrifie Teachers Making a Difference Award

Morton M. Kondracke '60, named executive editor of Roll Call, the newspaper of Capitol Hill

Parker W. Borg '61, appointed U.S. ambassador to Iceland

Russel A. Boss '61, elected chairman of the board of the United Way

Jeffrey E. Garten '68, named undersecretary for international trade at the U.S. Commerce Department

Thomas Ostermueller '70, named executive vice president and COO of the New York Blood Center

R. Nelson Griebel '71, named chairman, president, and CEO of Bank of Boston Connecticut

Thomas J. O'Neill '73, named president of Parsons Brinckerhoff Quade & Douglas Inc., a prominent infrastructure-engineering firm

James Roney '73, awarded the Lindback Foundation Award for distinguished teaching at Juniata College in Pennsylvania

David M. Graham '75, winner of Ripon College's May Bumby Severy Award for excellence in teaching

Robert T. Mortimer Jr. '76, promoted to senior vice president of Kemper Securities

Mary T. Nolan '76, named president of Avrotec Inc., a high-tech start-up company

Linda Hannan '77, recipient of the AT&T Achievement Award for her work as president and CEO of Independent Television News

L. Jeff Walker '84, named senior counsel for Sony Music Entertainment

Louis G. Tassinary, Psych. Ph.D. '85 and asst. prof, at Texas A&M, named a 1993 Presidential Faculty Fellow by President Clinton