Class of 2010:
Marquis Mason was an outstanding athlete at East High School, driving winning seasons for the basketball and football team.  He was recruited to the Wisconsin Badgers football team and earned a degree in non-profit management.  Since graduating, he has founded a program for mentoring young and gifted students on Madison’s north side.  This is based at the Kennedy Center on the north-side, and aims to support young careers for middle school boys. He was recognized by the Madison magazine by an M-list award in 2015 for contributions to local culture and economy.

Class of 2007:
Alex Eagan is a Naval officer, specializing in the Special Operations Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) division.  He graduated from the US Naval Academy in Annapolis, with further training in Engineering and Robotics to gain an MS from Pennsylvania State.  Subsequently, he has trained in underwater diving, high altitude parachute, helicopter insertion, land navigation, and tactical and combat training, and can render all types of explosives safe.  In 2014, after almost two years of rigorous physical and technical training, Alex and members of the platoon under his command were awarded the coveted EOD “Crab”, and were assigned to various EOD units around the world.  Alex is currently stationed at the US Naval base in Djibouti, Africa, where he is responsible for maintaining the safety of the harbor and training local forces in defusing of explosive devices.

Class of 2002:
Derek Johnson is an educator and mentor for students, currently working as the Director of Freshman Admissions at Edgewood College, and also the manager and lead mentor for Phredum Mentoring, aimed at developing new resources for connecting youth and their families to positive community resources and educational opportunities. Derek founded the organization Generation SPOKEN! which seeks to help young people express themselves through the art of spoken poetry. He graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater with a BS in Sociology and Criminal Justice and then was awarded an MA in Education from Edgewood College. As an undergraduate at UW-Whitewater, Derek was a Ronald E. McNair Post Baccalaureate Scholar, and conducted research on the role of positive role models for African American males.  He has many awards for his professional service, and serves as a board member of the Goodman Community Center and Families and Schools Together (FAST) program.  He was recently featured on the cover of Capital City Hues.
 

Class of 1998:
Trevor Easton is a local micro-brewer and entrepreneur.  He attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he majored in Industrial Engineering.  When he graduated, he worked as a Lean Engineer for the Red Cross (an engineering discipline aimed at increasing the efficiency of engineering processes), both in Madison and Chicago.  With an MBA from DePaul University, he came back to Madison to start a business focused on the production of a non-traditional product, namely gluten-free beer.  This idea arose out of his wife’s diagnosis with celiac disease, and sells to an ever-increasing number of customers who prefer gluten-free products. His business is called the ALT brewery, currently at 16-barrel capacity, and his beer has recently captured the attention of beer aficionados, illustrated by a recent silver medal award at the Great American Beer Festival.

​Class of 1984:
David Mooney is a BioEngineering Professor at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University.  He graduated with a BS from the University of Wisconsin in 1987, and a PhD in Chemical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1992.  He studies how cells in our bodies communicate with their environment.  He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, and the National Academy of Medicine.  He leads a group that is developing new materials and delivery mechanisms for stem cell-based, regenerative therapeutics and immunotherapies against cancer.  For example, he recently showed how to encapsulate injected stem cells and provide them with a raft of growth and anti-inflammatory factors so that they survive and proliferate (published in Nature). His team has also created the first biomaterial-based, therapeutic cancer vaccine, currently in a clinical trial for melanoma.