Bernard Parks is a Los
Angeles City Councilman and
the former Chief of Police of
the Los Angeles Police
Department

William Bamattre was the
Chief of the Los Angeles City
Fire Department for more
than 10 years and served as the Mayor of Dana Point for one year.

Patrick Healy has been a reporter for KNBC
in Los Angeles since 1984 and has been
a regular on the 11:00 p.m. newscast for
over a decade. He has been nominated for
several Emmy Awards and earned
Golden Mike Awards in 1987.

Craig Chretien spent over 25 years with the Drug Enforcement Administration, where he retired as the Assistant Administrator of Intelligence, one of the most senior positions in the agency. For a number of years, he was responsible for all DEA activities in 54 foreign countries as Chief of International Operations. He managed complex international narcotics and money laundering investigations as well as designed and implemented sensitive national security level intelligence programs.

Mario Martinoli is a celebrity
chef with a very illustrious
career.

Bishop Alexander Salazar.
Ordained on November 4,
2004 by Cardinal Mahony
and appointed Episcopal
Vicar of the San Pedro Region.

Stephen K. Sham was elected a member of the Alhambra City Council in November of 2006 and represents the First District. He was also awarded the Business of the Year Award by the Alhambra Chamber of Commerce in 2006.

After graduating from Daniel Murphy in 1981, Brad Wright went on to play basketball for the UCLA Bruins as well as the NBA's New York Knicks and Denver Nuggets.

One of the leading players of the 1970s and one of the greatest doubles players in the history of tennis, Bob Lutz won 44 Open Era doubles titles and was a finalist in 29 other events.

A member of five championship Davis Cup teams for the United States, with an undefeated record in the Challenge Round finals. Besides his doubles titles, Bob netted nine singles titles during his career on the pro tour.

Joining forces with Stan Smith, this acclaimed team won the US Open four times on four different surfaces, grass, clay, hard, and indoor! They won the Australian Open once and were three-time Wimbledon finalists. With an impressive 13-1 winning Davis Cup record they are considered to be one of the top 10 teams in the history of the sport.

After victories in the US Pro Championships in 1972, Lutz's distinguished career was interrupted by knee injuries. He returned to the tour to win three titles in 1980.

In tribute to his determination, talent and accomplishments, Bob Lutz was honored as comeback player of the year.

Lutz's earned All-American honors at the University of Southern California, winning the N.C.A.A. singles title in 1967, and teamed with Stan Smith, won the doubles titles in 1967 and 1968. In 1972 Lutz was briefly the World No. 7 ranked male player in the world. Between 1967 and 1977 he was ranked among the top-10 American players 8 times, with his highest ranking being number 5 in both 1968 and 1970.

Frederick A. Howes Scholar Award

Frederick Anthony Howes was the program manager for the Applied Mathematical Sciences (AMS) Program in the Department of Energy's Mathematical, Information and Computational Sciences (MICS) Division. He had held that position for eight years.

Howes earned bachelor's and doctoral degrees in mathematics from the University of Southern California. After receiving his PhD (in 1974), he held teaching positions at the University of Wisconsin and the University of Minnesota. In 1979, he moved to the University of California, Davis, where he was a member of the faculty until 1991. In 1989 he began a two-year term as a rotator at the National Science Foundation, working in the applied mathematics program of the Division of Mathematical Sciences. In 1991 he moved to DOE.

During his career as a university mathematician, Howes was a prolific researcher in the area of asymptotics. He was the author of 72 refereed papers and two monographs.

One of Howes's responsibilities was oversight of the Department of Energy's Computational Science Graduate Fellowship program. Margaret Wright, another former president of SIAM (1995-96), has served for the past nine years on the selection and advisory committees for the program.

Gualtiero Negrini descends from a long line of operatic personae, his great-uncle Carlo Negrini having premiered in the role of Gabriele Adorno in Simone Boccanegra for Verdi himself. After being chosen as one of the winners of the 1980 Lyric Opera of Chicago Auditions, at the tender age of 19, he went on to make American operatic history with that company when, at the age of 21, he replaced an ailing Gosta Windbergh as Ferrando in Cosi fan tutte thereby becoming the youngest tenor to ever sing a leading role in a major American opera house.