The Luncheon includes a PANEL of distinguished alumni. FOLLOWING introductions, THE alumni will join attendees IN SMALL GROUPS to share a personal best leadership story.

William Rappolt ’67

Bill Rappolt graduated from Lafayette with a BA degree in Economics. He then enrolled at Columbia Graduate School of Business with a major in International business and banking and expanded his study of the foreign exchange market. After leaving Columbia he joined the US Navy and received a commission as a Naval Officer. In 1969 he was assigned to the USS Carter Hall, an amphibious warfare ship, where his detail was as 1st division officer. His combat roles included boat group officer leading a wave of boats filled with Marines during amphibious landings. Next, Bill was assigned to shore duty at the Naval Station in Brooklyn where he was in charge of Fleet Services for the 3rd Naval District and St Lawrence Seaway. In this role, he supervised a department of 200 military and civilian staff, including a number of tugs, and other craft.

Following his service in the Navy, he got a job with Brown Brothers Harriman and Company as a Foreign Exchange Trader. After several years at Brown, he moved to establish an F/X trading department at First National State Bank of New Jersey. Three years later he left for the United California Bank (UCB) to be the Head F/X trader. When UCB closed its operation in New York he moved on to become Head F/X at Fidelity Bank in Philadelphia. He eventually rose to Senior Vice President in charge of all trading which included F/X, US Government Bonds, and Municipal Bonds.

By the mid-eighties, Bill was approached to become the Executive VP and Treasurer of a small bank in Buffalo New York called M and T Bank. While at M and T, Rappolt developed a working mathematical model of the bank which was used to manage the bank’s risk profile. He used multivariate statistical analysis including Monte Carlo simulations to manage interest rate risk. During his tenure at M and T Bank, he was also president of the US Association Cambiste Internationale and represented US Banking at several international conferences. He was appointed to the Federal Reserve’s advisory committee on Foreign Exchange and served on that committee for 20 years. During that time he delivered several papers on standards to be used in F/X operations and the development of options trading in F/X at a symposium in Singapore of central banks.

After retiring from M and T Bank, Bill continued to serve on a number of subsidiary boards of the bank. He also traveled to Russia for the bank to investigate a World Bank program to upgrade the Russian Banking system and delivered a final paper on the project. He has served on a number of charitable boards including the Board of Trustees of Lafayette College where he was vice-chair of the finance committee. Bill left the Board in 2004. He continues to serve as Vice President for Investments for the Delta Upsilon National Foundation and is also a Trustee of the U.S. Field Hockey Foundation.

Dave Reif ’68

For forty years, Dave Reif, Esq. was a trial lawyer in a variety of settings, ranging in size from his own two-partner firm to, at the time of his retirement from practicing law, a regional firm of approximately 425 lawyers. He spent his career trying civil and commercial cases to judges, juries, and arbitration panels in a number of locations in the U.S. and elsewhere. For the last six years, he has been a full-time arbitrator and mediator, focusing primarily on commercial, franchise, professional malpractice, estate, and construction/development cases. At Lafayette, Dave was a Government and Law major and a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon and Phi Beta Kappa. After graduation, he attended Harvard Law School, graduating in 1971. This was followed by a clerkship for Hon. William H. Timbers of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. He has maintained Lafayette ties, including service as president of the Alumni Association and a Trustee of the College. From 2019 to 2021, he was an adjunct professor at Quinnipiac University School of Law, teaching Civil Procedure to first-year students. He also writes and lectures on arbitration and mediation topics. He has been Chair of the Litigation and Franchise Sections of the Connecticut Bar Association and the Governing Body of the Tort, Trial and Insurance Practice Section of the American Bar Association. He is a board member of CLICC, a non-profit which connects people who are imprisoned and their children through reading; Vice President of the Board of the New Haven Legal Assistance Association, which provides free legal services to those who would otherwise be unable to afford representation; and a member of Connecticut’s Client Security Fund, which is funded by a fee on lawyers in the state and reimburses those who are damaged when a lawyer misappropriates their funds. He is married with three children, one of whom went to that place down the road in Bethlehem.

Darlyne Bailey ’74 (participating virtually) 

Darlyne Bailey

Dr. Darlyne Bailey is Professor and Dean Emeritus at the Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research (GSSWSR) and Special Assistant for Community Partnerships to the President at Bryn Mawr College. Darlyne is also the Founder and Director of the Social Justice Initiative.

A first-generation college student, Darlyne was among the first women to attend Lafayette College. With an AB in Psychology and a certificate in Secondary Education, she went on to complete her master’s degree from the School of Social Work at Columbia University. As a clinician and then joining others to start a community mental health center, Darlyne later earned a doctorate in Organizational Behavior from Case Western Reserve University and joined the Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences.

Darlyne’s journey in academic administration began in 1994 when three weeks after receiving tenure, she was appointed Dean of the Mandel School — a position she held until 2022. During that same year, Darlyne was selected to become a Fellow in the WK Kellogg Foundation’s National Leadership Program. This three-year journey as part of Kellogg’s “Group XII” furthered her committeemen to a life of service through leadership. A desire to ‘payback’ her birthplace of Harlem NYC led to being VP and Dean and then Acting President at Columbia’s Teachers College. IN 2006, Darlyne went to the University of Minnesota as the first Dean of a new multidisciplinary college. In 2009 she returned east as the GSSWSR Dean.

In 2017 Darlyne was acknowledged as a “Social Work Pioneer” by the National Association of Social Workers ( NASW). That same year she stepped- aside to join the faculty. In that position, Darlyne has been teaching courses on leadership and engaging in participatory community-based research, and writing both articles and books with students and neighborhood residents. She has also continued to provide leadership to several national projects as well as boards of directors, including chairing the Board of Trustees of the Ultimate Medical Academy, an online associates degree-granting institution serving ~13,000 largely BIPOC first-generation students each year.

Since 2018, Darlyne has served as  Editor-in-Chief of the 27 year- old multi-disciplinary journal Reflections: Narratives of Professional Helping. In 2021, Darlyne was awarded the “Phyllis Black Lifetime Achievement Award” by the Pennsylvania Chapter of NASW. Amidst all of her accomplishments to date, Darlyne believes that her greatest achievement will always be having made her parents proud.

Marybeth Browne Wallace ’94

Dr. Marybeth Browne is the Surgical Director of the Lehigh Valley Reilly Children’s Hospital, Chief of the Division of Pediatric Surgical Services, and an Associate Professor at USF Morsani College of Medicine.  Dr. Browne grew up in Allentown and is a proud graduate of Lafayette College.  After completing her medical school education at MCP-Hahnemann School of Medicine, Drexel University, Dr Browne did her General Surgery Training at Northwestern University in Chicago.  She received her fellowship training in Pediatric Surgery at Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital in Chicago and received her Master’s in Health Care Quality and Patient Safety at Northwestern University.  She was the Director of Surgical Quality at Lurie Children’s and an Assistant Professor at Feinberg School of Medicine of Northwestern University prior to her arrival at LVHN in 2015.  Her clinical interests are in Pediatric minimally invasive, neonatal, chest and GI surgery as well as Pediatric Trauma care.  Academically, Dr. Browne focuses on quality improvement and the adaptation of best practices in Pediatric Surgery diagnoses.  Nationally, she is a member of the executive committee of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) Section on Surgery and is a Chair of its Liaison committee. She is a fellow of the American College of Surgeons (ACS) and the AAP.  Dr Browne lives in Center Valley with her husband and 9-year-old twins.  She volunteers at their school and as a grade school basketball coach.

Kamaka Martin ’04 (participating virtually)

Kamaka Martin, Esq. is the Senior Vice President of US Client Services at Legility, a new law company. Kamaka has over 18 years of legal consultation experience and has worked with several Fortune 500 corporations advising on best practices when using software as a service, artificial intelligence and bespoke managed services offerings to manage complex litigation. Kamaka has expertise in Technology Assisted Review, advanced analytics and has been instrumental in the development of workflows that utilize core predictive analytics features. Kamaka also speaks regularly about inclusion and diversity in the legal industry and the importance of fostering an equitable environment for professionals and clients to thrive. In 2020, Kamaka founded Better Insight Consulting and developed a leadership workshop called, Lead The Way Positively for new, seasoned and aspirational female managers looking to enhance their leadership skills. Kamaka resides in San Francisco where she remains connected to the Lafayette College Community by serving as the President of Bay Area Alumni Chapter for the past 7 years. She is also a member of the West Coast Advisory Council (WCAC) for 7 years and in the last year took on the role of Chair of WCAC. She has also served as an AAR representative since 2005. Kamaka graduated Summa Cum Laude from Lafayette College with a B.A. in History and Government and Law with Honors in 2004. She also received her J.D. from the University of Melbourne while living abroad in Australia.