Laurence Wiseman ’69 has earned the 2010 Legacy Award from the National Arbor Day Foundation, given to “an individual whose outstanding work and commitment to trees and the environment has left a legacy for future generations.” Wiseman, former CEO and founder of the American Forest Foundation, currently chairs the Obama administration-appointed National Urban and Community Forestry Advisory Council and consults on greening initiatives for such clients as National Audubon and the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Robert Hatch ’60, Tu’62, chairman and CEO of Cereal Ingredients of Leavenworth, Kansas, has accepted the Governor’s Exporter of the Year Award for international marketing success. His company creates 250 food-related products (such as the chocolate chips in cookie cereal, the topping on toaster pastries and the cinnamon that makes the swirl in swirl bread) and exports nearly 30 percent of its products to 19 countries.

Mitch Wallerstein ’71 has been named president of Baruch College, one of the most competitive senior colleges in the City University of New York system. For the past seven years Wallerstein has served as dean of the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University.

Brigid Pasulka ’94 won the 2010 Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award for a distinguished first book of fiction for A Long, Long Time Ago and Essentially True, a tale of Polish peasants and their granddaughter’s life in Krakow 50 years later.

Justin Heather ’96, a litigation associate with the law firm of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP in Chicago, earned the National Outstanding Young Lawyer Award from the American Bar Association young lawyers division. In his eight years of practice Heather has logged more than 4,000 pro bono hours.

Tyler Stableford ’96 has won the top prize in the “extreme” category of the annual American Photo Images of the Year contest with his shot of a firefighter working a controlled burn in Colorado. Stableford is an adventure photographer based in Carbondale, Colorado.