Charles M. Beck II (’68B) received the 1999 American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) Lundell-Bright Award for his outstanding contributions to the ASTM committee on analytical chemistry for metals, ores, and related materials. Beck is a research chemist with the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Gaithersburg, Maryland, and has been a member of ASTM since 1987. 

Mary E. Shields (’86B) was recently named one of the four regional scholars of the Society of Biblical Literature for 2000. Shields is an associate professor of Old Testament at Trinity Lutheran Seminary in Ohio.

Les Martin, M.Div. senior, was named "1999 Man of the Year" by the American Hungarian Civic Association of Trenton. Martin, pastor of the Magyar Reformed Church of Staten Island, New York, as well as pastor of the Hungarian Reformed Church of Roebling, New Jersey, was officially honored at the association’s annual picnic July 18, 1999.