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Achievement
Day Highlights Alumni Accomplishments
The honorees for the 64th anniversary celebration
of Achievement Day, a signature college event,
include:
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Carolyn Edison,
R.N., Ed.D., P.N.P. '74
Advanced Pediatric Nurse Practitioner
Children’s Mercy Hospital
Kansas City, Missouri
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Carolyn Edison has recently retired as an advanced
pediatric nurse practitioner at Children’s Mercy
Hospital since 1988. She has also held faculty appointments
at the School of Nursing and the School of Medicine
at the University of Missouri-Kansas City and the School
of Nursing at the University of Kansas. She served
as associate professor in the Department of Nursing
at William Jewell College. She was also the owner and
president of Family Health Care, Inc. She created the
first private nursing practice in the country. Carolyn
was a graduate of the first nursing class at William
Jewell in 1974. She also received a B.A. in communications
from Baylor University; an M.S. in education from Troy
State University; and an M.N. and doctorate in education
from the University of Kansas.
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Douglas Enderle
'78
Senior Costume Designer for Walt Disney
Entertainment, Costuming and Cosmetology
Belle Isle, Florida
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Douglas Enderle has been a "cast member" with
Walt Disney Entertainment, Costuming and Cosmetology
since 1982. He has created designs for a wide variety
of venues in his role as a Senior Costume Designer.
Highlights of his work are designs for Hong Kong Disneyland,
Tokyo Disneyland and the Walt Disney World Resort in
Orlando, Florida, where his creations are on daily
display. Douglas received a 1992 Emmy for his costumes
for the ABC telecast of the "Walt Disney World
Very Merry Christmas Parade." He earned a B.A.
in Communication and the Missouri Certificate of Secondary
Education from William Jewell in 1978. He was awarded
a Master of Fine Arts in Theater Design and Technology
with an emphasis in Costume Design from the University
of Missouri-Kansas City in 1981.
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James Rucker '77
Chairman and CEO
Commonwealth Bank & Trust Company
Louisville, Kentucky
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James Rucker has served as Chairman and CEO of Commonwealth
Bank & Trust Company in Louisville, Kentucky, since
2005. From 1994 to 2005, he served as Executive Vice
President and Retail Division Manager for Commerce
Bancshares, Kansas City. In this capacity, he was responsible
for a business line comprising $500 million in loans
and $2.1 billion in deposits, including 57 branches
with 516 employees. He also served as Chairman and
CEO of Commerce Bank of Clay and Platte County and
as Senior Vice President with Boatmen’s Bancshares,
where he was responsible for all aspects of banking,
including retail, commercial and operations. He received
a Bachelor of Science in business administration-economics
from William Jewell in 1977 and graduated from the
University of Wisconsin School of Banking in 1983.
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William Edward
Sharp, III ‘62
Chief Technologist and Engineering
Manager for the Space Systems Division
ITT Corporation
Fort Wayne, Indiana
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William Sharp recently retired as Chief Technologist
and Engineering Manager for the Space Systems Division
of ITT Corporation. He managed a team of system engineers
who provided technical leadership for Business Development
Advanced Programs proposals, assessing state-of-the-art
technology that could be used for space instruments.
From 1977 to 1997, he served as research scientist
and project director for the University of Michigan,
Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Science.
His historic accomplishment was conducting the first
successful measurements of the composition and temperature
necessary to understand oxygen-hydrogen chemistry in
the upper atmosphere. He received a B.S. in mathematics
and physics from William Jewell in 1962; an M.S. in
physics from the University of New Hampshire; and a
Ph.D. in astro-geophysics from the University of Colorado.
Michael Beschloss to be Achievement Day speaker
Michael Beschloss is an award-winning historian and the author of
nine books, including Presidential Courage (2007) and the acclaimed
New York Times best-seller The Conquerors: Roosevelt, Truman and the
Destruction of Hitler's Germany, 1941-1945, which was the best-selling
history book in America in 2002.
Newsweek has called Beschloss "the nation's leading Presidential historian." In August 2005, he was appointed the NBC News Presidential Historian, the first person with that title in the history of NBC. He makes regular appearances on "Meet the Press," the "Today Show" and other NBC network programs. He also regularly appears on PBS's "The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer."
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Achievement Day Speaker Michael Beschloss
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Beschloss was born in Chicago in 1955. An alumnus of Williams College, he is also the only nationally known historian with a degree from the Harvard Business School. He has been an historian on the staff of the Smithsonian Institution (1982-1986), a Senior Associate Member at Oxford University in England (1986-1987), and a Senior Fellow of the Annenberg Foundation in Washington, D.C. (1988-1996).
Taking Charge (Simon & Schuster, 1997) was the first volume of Beschloss's highly praised trilogy on President Lyndon Johnson's secret tapes. The Wall Street Journal called it "sheer marvelous history." The second volume, Reaching for Glory (Simon & Schuster, 2001) was called "an incomparable portrait of a President at work" by the New York Times Book Review. Both volumes were national best-sellers. Beschloss won a 2005 Emmy Award for his work as host of the Discovery Channel series "Decisions That Shook the World."
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