'C' CLUB HALL OF FAME

Standout basketball player Mark Wandmacher '84, a two-time all-conference selection, is Carleton's leader in single-season and career rebounds. He set school records with 317 rebounds his senior year and 838 rebounds during his career, an average of 12 per game. Over the course of his Carleton career, Wandmacher scored 1,356 points, ranking him in the school's all-time top 10. After graduation, Wandmacher played semiprofessional basketball in Australia, earning most valuable player honors in 1987 for the Perth Redback Spiders.

National champion sprinter Aminah Ricks '94 won the 100-meter national title in 1994, capping a career in which she earned nine All-American citations in the 100 and 200 meters (outdoors) and the 55 meters (indoors). In those three events combined, she earned All-MIAC honors each of her four years competing and still holds school records in all three events, in addition to holding the 200- and 300-meter indoor records. She was named the MIAC's most valuable athlete at the end of the 1994 indoor season.

Football player Adam Henry '94 is Carleton's all-time leading rusher and a three-time All-MIAC selection. He led the Knights to the 1992 MIAC title and the team's only appearance in the NCAA playoffs. His 3,482 rushing yards, 26 rushing touch downs, 1,743 kickoff return yards, and 6,151 all-purpose yards are Carleton career records. He also holds the the Carleton record for most all-purpose yards in a season (2,035). He earned the team's C.J. Hunt Award in 1992 and the Lippert Award in 1993, and was the team's most valuable player in his junior and senior seasons.

IN THE SPIRIT OF CARLETON AWARD

Marc A. Walwyn '89 of Bethpage, Tennessee, is a trial lawyer specializing in immigration law. Walwyn earned a JD degree at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1992 and worked from 1993 to 1996 for the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services. After two years of private practice, specializing in criminal and family law, Walwyn was an administrative law judge in Illinois, hearing cases centered on allegations of abuse and neglect and on appropriate placement of children. Walwyn has contributed much to Carleton. He has been an Alumni Admissions Representative since he graduated, is a former chair of the Alumni Admissions Board, and was on the Alumni Council from 1996 to 2001. During his time on the board, Walwyn coined the phrase "4,000 by 2000" and helped the College achieve the ambitious goal of 4,000 applications for admission that year. He is married to Priscila Walwyn.

EXCEPTIONAL SERVICE AWARD

Barbara Kaercher McCarthy '49 of Vero Beach, Florida, was Carleton's alumni admissions coordinator for Indiana for more than 30 years. In that role she led a team of 10 alumni representatives in recruiting prospective students for the College. McCarthy also was a member of her 50th reunion gift committee and organized Carleton Club events for many years. She continues to work on behalf of the alumni admissions program in Florida, where she lives with her husband, Harold "Mac" McCarthy '50. They have two children, Susan McCarthy Weiner '81 and David B. McCarthy '77.

Margaret Ann "Ranny" Towsley Riecker '54 of Midland, Michigan, has served on the Carleton Board of Trustees since 1987. The board recognized her leadership and wisdom in 1999 when its members elected Riecker the first female chair. She chaired the search committee that brought President Robert Oden to Carleton and in the 1990s co-chaired the Assuring Excellence campaign, which resulted in gifts to the College totaling $158.6 million. Riecker holds honorary doctorates from Central Michigan University and Albion College. In addition, sher served as vice chair and in other leadership positions with the Republican National Committee for several years, and as honorary chair of the Midland Center for the Arts in 1992. In 2004 the Girl Scouts of Mitten Bay selected Riecker as a Woman of Distinction, and in 2002 the Midland Rotary Club named her an honorary Paul Harris Fellow. She and her husband John have two children.

Carol Jo Johnson Kent '59 and Jay F. Kent '59 of Portland, Oregon, have been active Carleton Club organizers for years in the Portland area, where they have served as steering committee members, chairs, and even coordinators. Jay was a member of the Carleton Alumni Council from 1992 to 2002. He represented Carleton at presidential inaugurations at Lewis and Clark College and Willamette University and served on the 45th reunion gift committee. Carol Jo was a co-chair of her 40th reunion and also helped plan a Class of '59 mini-reunion in California. Carol Jo and Jay have been assistant class agents for the Alumni Annual Fund. The Kents have two sons and four grandsons.

James E. Johnson '64 of St. Paul has volunteered with Carleton's Career Center, alumni club steering committee activities and fund-raising efforts. Long before the formal establishment of the Alumni Annual Fund, Johnson offered his employer's headquarters as a site for Carleton alumni phone-a-thons. He served from 1987 to 1990 on the Alumni Board and from 1999 to 2003 as a Carleton alumni trustee. He was also a key member of the search committee that brought President Robert Oden to Carleton.

DISTINGUISHED ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

Donald H. Elliott '54 of Brooklyn, New York, was chair of the New York City Planning Commission from 1966 to 1973. Elliott led the commission's effort to publish New York's first comprehensive plan. He helped to shift city housing policy from large-scale urban renewal projects to small-scale projects with an emphasis on community participation and renovation of existing structures. Elliott's work in the area of development rights transfer resulted in the designation of a Grand Central Station as a landmark. With his late wife, Barbara Burton Elliott '56, he has three children and five grandchildren.

C. Alden Mead '54 of Savannah, Georgia, is credited with two significant discoveries in gravitation and quantum mechanics. Early in his career, Mead proposed a fundamental length (the "Planck length") that ultimately limits how small a distance can be measured. More recently, Mead and collaborator Donal Truhlar discovered a subtle quantum effect known as the geometric phase effect, which expanded quantum theory of molecules and has current applications ranging from fundamental chemical reactions to quantum computing. Mean holds a PhD in physical chemistry from Washington University; he is professor emeritus at the University of Minnesota. He and his wife Karin have two daughters.

Marlou Garbisch Johnston '64 of Bourbonnais, Illinois, is a professional violinist who earned a master's degree in music performance at Northwestern in 1966. She pursued postgraduate violin study at Juilliard, Northwestern, and Northshore School of Music. She has recorded albums with Mannheim Steamroller and performed on stage as a backup musician for Smashing Pumpkins. She also has been concertmaster and concerto soloist with the Kankakee Valley Symphony Orchestra and guest artist with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. In 1996 Johnston co-founded Trio Chicago, a group that travels each year to Third World countries to perform European and American masterworks. She lives with her husband, Ken Johnston, and has two children, Nancy Johnston '92 and Charlie Johnston '95.

Minor Myers Jr. '64, formerly of Bloomington, Illinois, succumbed to lung cancer at ago 60 in July 2003. Myers was the 17th president of Illinois Wesleyan University, where he presided over a $137 million capital campaign; construction and renovation projects included a new library, student center, recreation center, and science hall and a sharp improvement in the university's academic profile. Myers earned a PhD in political philosophy from Princeton University and served in teaching and administrative capacities at Connecticut College and at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. He wrote eight books, several musical plays, and numerous articles on topics ranging from the history of baseball in New York State to crime and punishment in colonial Connecticut. He is survived by his wife Ellen and two sons.

Jane Hamilton '79, of Rochester, Wisconsin, is an author whose novels have become international best-sellers. Her first novel, The Book of Ruth (1988), won the PEN/Ernest Hemingway Foundation Award for best first novel and was an Oprah Book Club selection, as was her second novel, A Map of the World (1994). Her subsequent novels are the The Short History of a Prince (1998) and Disobedience (2000). Hamilton received Wisconsin Arts Board Fellowships in 1988 and 1992 and National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in 1992. A sought-after awards panelist, Hamilton has been a reader for the PEN/Hemingway prize, the PEN/Faulkner prize, and the NEA Fellowships. She and her husband, Bob Willard, have two children.

Joy Pryor '79, of Minnetonka, Minnesota, is one of the foremost urological specialists in the United States. He earned an MD in 1983 from the University of Minnesota Medical School and an MS in 1989 at the University of Virginia Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Pryor helped to establish one of the world's largest male infertility clinics and currently is looking to develop a state-of-the-art prostate cancer center, which will be one of the first multidisciplinary centers of its kind. His 2000 book, It's in the Male: Everyone's Guide to Men's Health, is credited with broadening public awareness of men's health. He has been chair of the University of Minnesota's Department of Urologic Surgery since 2000 and is currently president-elect of the Society for Study of Male Reproduction. Pryor and his wife, Laurie Stevens Pryor '79, have three children, including Tom Pryor '05.