<b>Kenneth Bacon '66</b><br>Former Pentagon Spokesman<br>Bacon is currently the chief executive officer of Refugees International. Prior to that he was U.S. assistant secretary of defense for public affairs, where he acted as Pentagon spokesman. He also worked as a reporter, editor and columnist at The Wall Street Journal.

<b>Curt I. Civin '70</b><br>Pediatric Oncologist<br>Professor of Oncology and Pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Civin is known for his invention of a biomedical process to transplant stem cells. He is an expert on the blood and immune systems, leukemia, gene therapy and childhood cancer.

<b>Ted Conover '80</b><br>Writer<br>A Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for his most recent work "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing," Conover is the author of nonfiction works, including "Whiteout: Lost in Aspen" and "Rolling Nowhere: A Young Man's Adventures Riding the Rails with America's Hoboes."

<b>Hiroaki Fujii '58</b><br>President, Japan Foundation<br>Fujii has a long and distinguished career in the Japanese foreign service, culminating in assignments as ambassador to Thailand, to the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development and to Great Britain. He is currently president of the Japan Foundation.

<b>Medal for Eminent Service</b><br>R. Thomas Green '59<br>Green was the chairman, president and CEO of the Oglebay Norton Company. He served on the executive committee of the Alumni Association, works for the capital campaign and served as president, agent and co-secretary for the class of '59.

<b>Gabrielle Kirk McDonald</b><br>Special Counsel<br>Former presiding judge and president of the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in The Hague, civil rights lawyer and U.S. District Court Judge, McDonald is now special counsel to the Chairman on Human Rights for Freeport-McMoRan.

<b>Peter Nadosy</b><br>Trustee and Banker<br>Nadosy has been a trustee of the College since 1988 and has served as chairman of the Trustees' Investment Committee. He is currently a managing director at Morgan Stanley Asset Management.

<b>Morton O. Schapiro</b><br>President, Williams College<br>

A professor of economics, Schapiro is currently the president of Williams College. He was previously chair of economics and then dean of the College of Letters, Arts and Sciences at the University of Southern California; he is an authority on the economics of higher education.

<b>Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick</b><br>Professor of English<br>Sedgwick teaches English at the CUNY Graduate Center in New York and has written several books of criticism and poetry. Formerly an Amherst faculty member, Sedgwick helped to establish the College's women's and gender studies department in 1987.