3 to be honored as Distinguished Alumni

Grand Island Dispatch, March 7, 2008

The Distinguished Alumni Committee of the Grand Island Foundation will hold its second annual awards ceremony on Friday, March 7. Grand Island High School alumni Kathryn Hug Anton, David J. Conboy and Karl J. Kreutz will be recognized at a ceremony at 10 a.m. in the Grand Island High School Auditorium. A small reception will follow in the school library.

Kathryn Hug Anton

Kathryn Hug Anton is a 1987 graduate of Grand Island High School. She currently is a special agent for the Federal Bureau of Investigation and is working in the area of negotiations.

She earned her Bachelor of Arts in hospital administration from Ithaca College and then completed her Masters of Business Administration at Temple University.

After completing her first assignment in Salt Lake City, she was then transferred to Billings, Mont. She has the distinction of being the first female FBI agent in the state of Montana.

She was instrumental in spearheading the formation of an organized Drug Enforcement Task Force in 1989. In 2000, she was awarded the Director’s Distinguished Service Award.

In addition to her professional duties, Anton is a community speaker. She now is stationed in Chicago where she lives with her husband, an ATF agent, and her two children.

David J. Conboy

David J. Conboy is a 1980 graduate of Grand Island High School. He currently is chief of technical services of the Buffalo District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

He earned his B.A. degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Notre Dame, and then graduated with his master’s degree in civil (environmental) engineering from the University at Buffalo. He also is a licensed professional engineer in New York and is certified as a project management professional.

Conboy is also a colonel in the U.S. Army Reserves and served in Iraq in February 2004 as a civilian with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. He returned to Iraq in September, 2004, when his Army Reserve’s 98th Division was mobilized. At that time, he worked as an advisor to the Deputy Chief of Staff of the Iraqi Joint Forces. He currently is the deputy commanding general of the 98th Division.

He is a member of the Knights of Columbus and the Veteran of Foreign Wars. He is a resident of Grand Island with his wife and two children.

Karl J. Kreutz

Karl J. Kreutz is a 1987 graduate of Grand Island High School. He currently is an associate professor of the Climate Change Institute and Department of Earth Science at the University of Maine in Orono. He earned his B.S degree in earth science from the University at Buffalo and then graduated from the University of Maine with a Master of Science degree. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of New Hampshire.

In addition to his duties as an associate professor, Kreutz has been the director of the Stable Isotope Laboratory since 2000. His professional work involves glaciology and recovery of ice cores from polar and alpine regions. One of Dr. Kreutz’s areas of research is to understand the fundamental processes controlling the Earth’s climate system. His research has taken him to Antarctica, Greenland, South America, Asia and the Arctic.

Kreutz has had numerous articles published in such journals as “Annals of Glaciology,” “Science,” and “Journal of Geophysical Research.”

He resides in Orono, Maine, with his wife and two children.