Molly Melching (General Curriculum ‘71, French ‘79) has spent more than 25 years in Senegalese villages promoting literacy and education.

Ed Cupp (Entomology ‘69) developed an environmentally safe, successful method for controlling the spread of river blindness, a parasitic disease that affects millions of people in Africa and Central America.

Robert Novak (English ‘52) is a nationally syndicated journalist and commentator for CNN.

Roxanne Decyk (English Literature ‘73) is a top executive at Shell Oil Company who is shattering the metaphorical glass ceiling for women in corporate America.

Phillip A. Sharp (Chemistry ‘69) shared the 1993 Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology for research that was important in understanding RNA splicing and the biology of tumor causing viruses.

Eugene Hamilton (General Curriculum ‘55, law ‘59) is renowned for accomplishments as chief judge of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia in reducing domestic violence and streamlining adoption. He is also father to nine children and foster parent to more than 40.

David Donald (History ‘42, ‘46) won two Pulitzer Prizes in Biography. He received the first in 1961 for Charles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil War and the second in 1988 for Look Homeward: A Life of Thomas Wolfe.

John Micetich (Psychology ‘69) is the successful owner of a financial investment firm. He returns to campus each January to teach an eight-week course in financial planning—pro bono—as one of his ways of giving back to his alma mater.

Jean Driscoll (Speech Communication ‘91, Rehabilitation ‘93) won the Boston Marathon eight times and a gold medal at the 2000 Paralympic Games.

Rolando Hinojosa–Smith (Spanish ‘69) earned Latin America’s highest award for fiction, the Premio Casa de las Americas, and is a recipient of the National Award for Chicano Literature. He is one of the few U.S. citizens to be named a member of the Royal Spanish Academy for Spanish Language.

LAS offers a tribute to its alumni.
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