Alumni News & Notes
Past National President Harry Wiggins retired in January after serving in the Missouri State Senate for 28 years. An alumnus of Zeta Chapter and a1953 graduate of Rockhurst University, Harry is now Of Counsel to the Kansas City law firm of Blackwell Sanders Peper Martin, LLP. Among the many highlights of his legislative career, Harry served as the senate's first Majority Floor Leader from Kansas City, chaired the Ways and Means Committee for 16 years, authored more than 400 bills that became law, and holds what is believed to be a national record of never missing a roll call vote - a record that stood at more than 17,000 such votes at the end of his final term.
Mark A. Newell, alumnus of Lambda Chapter and a 1977 graduate of Loyola Marymount University, received LMU's Distinguished Alumni Award for Humanitarian Service at the annual grand reunion held on campus in June. Mark began his career in civil engineering in Alaska, where he created an alternative energy generation
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( Harry Wiggins, Past National President )
program for remote villages and also helped native tribes install wind-based energy generation systems.
After working several years for IBM, he retired in 1993 after contracting ataxia, a degenerative disease similar to multiple sclerosis, and is now confined to a wheelchair. Despite his condition, Mark went on to create NetDay Alaska, a volunteer program that connected virtually every public classroom in the state to the Internet for free. In 1998 he was honored with the state's "Volunteer of the Year" award.
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