Fitch Even intern Reed McBride will be traveling to the University of Illinois in Champaign on Monday, April 30 to be honored as a Bronze Tablet Graduate. This is the highest academic recognition given to undergraduates, granted to those graduating in the top 3% of each college at the University. Each year, the recipients have their names cast into a bronze tablet with other honorees for that year, and the tablet is placed on permanent display in the University Library. Reed's tablet will hang alongside those of his grandfather, Frank M. Shappert (1953) and Fitch Even partners Timothy Maloney (1988) and Rudy Kratz (1990). Reed completed his degree in seven semesters and graduated from Illinois in December 2006 with a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering summa cum laude.