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ALUMNI HONORED FOR ACHIEVEMENTS AT HOMECOMING |
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September 25, 2009
GROVE CITY, Pa. – Three Grove City College alumni will be honored with Jack Kennedy ’37 Memorial Alumni Achievement Awards during Homecoming weekend 2009. The awards will be presented at a 7 p.m. ceremony Oct. 2 in Carnegie Alumni Center.
The achievement awards were established in 1964 by the Grove City College Alumni Association to recognize alumni who have made significant contributions to their fields and to society. The awards were later named in honor and memory of longtime Director of Alumni Relations and Career Services Jack Kennedy ’37. The program has recognized 154 alumni.
James Henderson ’65 is the vice chairman of the Lahey Clinic and chairman of the Middlesex Community College Foundation. He was the CEO and president of Analytical Systems Engineering Corporation in Burlington, Mass., for 25 years, a company that provided communications, information technology and security installation for the U.S. government and other countries. Henderson remained in his role through several mergers and was president at Affiliated Computer Services Defense until 2001. Henderson served as a captain in the Air Force and graduated from Harvard Business School in 1972. Board positions have included Middlesex Community College, Baybank Middlesex, Alpha Industries, North Suburban Chamber of Commerce and president of several industrial associations. He and his wife, Eileen, reside in Massachusetts and have two daughters.
Catherine (Dalecki ’75) Thornberry is the founder of Export Procedures Co., Inc., which provides consulting services for exporting to industrial and high-tech companies. Thornberry has federal appointments to the U.S. Department of Commerce and the U.S. Department of State and serves on the Western Pennsylvania District Export Council, National Council on International Trade Development, Society for International Affairs and the Ohio Foreign Commerce Association Board of Directors. She is an adjunct faculty member at the A.J. Palumbo School of Business at Duquesne University and has authored the textbook “Export Procedures, An Interactive Guide to Export Documentation.” Thornberry was named one of Pennsylvania’s Best 50 Women in Business for 1998. She has a son, a daughter and three stepchildren, and she and her husband, Ed Barth, live in Zelienople, Pa.
Raymond Wile ’56 currently serves as a trustee with Fork Union Military Academy and was recognized by that institution as a Distinguished Alumnus. Following his graduation from Grove City, he was employed by Armstrong Cork and later the NCH Company. In 1970, he cofounded the Dymon Chemical Company with sales in both the domestic and international markets. He served as president and obtained several patents that supported a line of more than 450 products. He sold the company in 1998 and retired to Williamsburg, Va., where he is active in many charitable causes and has served as an elder in the Presbyterian Church. Wile and his wife, Marty, have been married for 53 years and have five children: three daughters and two sons.
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