Alumni Accomplishments
William
A. Barclay ’92, Pulaski, N.Y., has been
promoted to partner in the Syracuse office of Hiscock & Barclay,
LLP. A specialist in business law and municipal finance, he is a New
York State Assembly member, representing the state’s 124th Assembly
District. He earned his JD at Syracuse University College of Law in
1995. He serves on several community boards, and has been an active
alumnus of St. Lawrence, as a fund-raising volunteer and member of
the Alumni Council.
Mauri
E. Maroney ’81 was appointed postmaster in Canton, N.Y.,
in April 2002. A native of Canton, she was acting postmaster at the
time of her appointment. Her brother is postmaster in Potsdam, N.Y.,
her sister is a rural mail carrier, and her father retired as postmaster
in Canton after 36 years with the Postal Service.
Daniel
E. Schmidt IV ’71, principal of Dispute Resolution Services
International, has been elected chairman of ARIAS•U.S., the AIDA
Reinsurance and Insurance Arbitration Society. Previously president
of the organization, he has been actively involved in reinsurance arbitrations
for over 17 years and has served on over 200 panels since 1987. Prior
to retiring from 25 years of corporate life in 2000, he held various
legal and executive positions. He lectures on reinsurance matters and
was a contributor to Reinsurance Contract Wording (ed. Robert W. Strain,
1992). He received his JD from St. John's University School of law
and is listed in Who’s Who in America.
William
L. Fox ’75 has been named president of Culver-Stockton
College, Canton, Missouri. He assumed his duties June 15, overlapping
with Edwin B. Strong, whose contract runs through Dec. 31. He had been
special assistant to the president at Goucher College, Baltimore, Md.,
since 1999. He had also served as the college's acting vice president
of enrollment management, acting associate dean for graduate and professional
programs, acting director of institutional research and director of
foundational relations.
“Culver-Stockton College is no different from any other small,
liberal arts college nationwide. Enrollment is a critical concern for
us,” Fox
said. "It has to leverage what it has to its best advantage.”
Fox
taught history at Howard University in Washington, D.C., 1992-99
and at Claremont (Calif.) University 1988-92. He earned his doctorate
in history and religion from George Washington University and a Master
of Divinity from Harvard. He is an ordained minister in the United
Church of Christ, the National Association of Congregational Churches
and the Unitarian Universalist Association.
E. Jeanne Draper
Jenkins ’68 is the winner of an Outstanding
Service Award from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute’s Air Force
ROTC detachment. She joined the RPI staff in 1979 and is director of
enrollment management (formerly admissions.) She has been an outspoken
advocate for the ROTC program, and was honored for helping the detachment
recruit many students. A history major at St. Lawrence, she is married
to E. Kent Jenkins ’68. They have two daughters, Caroline ’98,
who as a media relations specialist at RPI took this photo of her mothers,
and Kelly Jenkins Renaud ’96.
