2000 Recipients

• Edwin F. Flowers
  Judge and University Administrator
  
  Former WVU Student Body President Edwin F. Flowers earned his bachelor's degree in political science in 1952. During his undergraduate years, he was named to Phi Beta Kappa, Mountain, and Sphinx, which was then the senior men's honorary. He went on to graduate from the WVU School of Law and served as a judge advocate in the U.S. Air Force. He later practiced law for 13 years in Hancock County, W.Va. He served six years as commissioner of the state Department of Welfare (now Health and Human Services), was Federal Bankruptcy Judge for the Southern District of West Virginia, an served as a justice on the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals. He returned to WVU in 1983 and served as vice president of institutional advancement until his retirement in 1997. He will receive the Alumni Recognition Award at the Eberly College's 104th anniversary celebration on April 27.



• Addison M. Fischer
  Owner, Fischer International Systems Corporation
  
  Addison Fischer, class of 1970, received degrees in mathematics from WVU and has been involved with computers since 1966 when he started working at the WVU Computer Center. His studies were interrupted in 1972 when he took a "temporary" assignment with an outside consulting firm which resulted in countless business opportunities.
  Fischer became President of a software company that specialized in computer security and data integrity software for corporate uses with large IBM mainframes in 1973. Following his retirement and selling of his company in 1980, Fischer helped found the Community School of Naples and became a director and co-partner of Duquesne Capital Management.
  Realizing in 1982 that retirement did not suit his temperament he started his second software company, Fischer International Systems Corporation. Based in Naples, Florida, the company focuses on computer security and office automation for large corporations. He is the co-founder of two silicon valley venture capital firms that specialize in high-tech startup companies; a founder of Verisign, which has become the acknowledged leader in certification for Internet based security; the founder and chairman of Smartdisk Corporation, a company which became public in October 1999; and is the founder and board member of Xcert Inc., a digital certification company providing software for high-volume digital certification.



• Margaret Clay Hambrick
  Regional Director, Federal Bureau of Prisons
  
  Margaret Clay Hambrick has broken down barriers to the advancement of women in the federal prison system. Currently she is Mid-Atlantic Region director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons. Her first position, after earning a bachelor's degree in secondary education at WVU in 1972, was as an adult basic education instructor at the federal prison in her hometown of Alderson, W.Va. She went on to serve as warden of the federal correctional institution in Morgantown, becoming the first woman to head an all-male federal correctional facility. While working full-time, she earned a master's degree in public administration from the Eberly College in 1982. She received the Alumni Recognition Award at the Eberly College's annual Certificate of Achievement Ceremony in January of this year.



• Steven C. Hayes
  Professor of Psychology, University of Nevada
  
  Steven C. Hayes is professor and chair in the Department of Psychology at the University of Nevada, Reno. One of the 30 most cited psychologists in the world, Dr. Hayes has published 15 books. He was named researcher of the year at UNR in 1997. He earned his master's degree and doctorate in psychology at WVU in 1974 and 1977 respectively. He is currently the principle investigator on a $1.2 million research project funded by the National Institute of Drug Abuse. Dr. Hayes received the Alumni Recognition Award on April 8, during the Behavior: Theory and Research Conference held in honor of WVU Centennial Professor Hayne Reese.



• The Honorable M. Blane Michael
  Federal Judge
  
  Sitting on the bench of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, in Charleston, W.Va., Judge M. Blane Michael hears important cases that often proceed directly to the U.S. Supreme Court. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of WVU with a B.A. in political science, Judge Michael served as student body president and went on to study law at New York University. After graduation, he worked at the prestigious New York law firm of Sullivan & Cromwell for three years and served one year as assistant U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York. When his father became gravely ill, he and his wife returned to West Virginia to care for him. Judge Michael served the state as special assistant U.S. attorney for the Northern District of West Virginia and as counsel to Gov. John D. Rockefeller, and then was offered a position at Jackson & Kelly, the state's largest law firm. He was appointed to his current position by President Clinton in 1993.