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Did you know we have an Elvis scholar among us? Dr. Vernon Chadwick, an English professor at the University of Mississippi, created and began teaching a college course on Elvis Presley, thought to be the first one in the country. He also codirected the first conference on Elvis in August, analyzing the King's life on- and off-stage.
Vernon says, "He galvanized and represented Southern culture as few individuals have been able to do. Studying Elvis is essential for understanding the modern Southern and American culture in general." After Dartmouth, Vernon earned a master's from Oxford and a doctorate in comparative literature from Yale.
Dave and Barbara Dunbar have adopted two mixed-race children: Evan 4 and Oliver 2. The Dunbars recently participated in a television program on trans-racial adoption filmed for the Japanese version of Good Morning America. Apparently this involved being chased down a highway by a Japanese film crew as the Dunbars were trying to leave town to take a family vacation.
Dave does freelance writing and editing. Barb is features editor at Travel & Leisure magazine. Dave published an article on Charlevois County, Quebec, in the July issue. He has also written for National Geographic Books, and recently worked on a screenplay called Jimmy Got A Wife with a Romanian cinematographer. (I politely refrained from asking Dave what this screenplay is all about). Dave told me he misses team sports, so he plays hockey at 11:30 p.m. in the midnight league at the Sky Rink in Manhattan, and also helps bring hockey to inner-city kids by volunteering in the Ice Hockey in Harlem program.
Bill Cahill was elected chairman of the board of the Business. & Industry Association of New Hampshire in June. The BIA is a statewide, membership-driven association whose mission is to promote the economic well-being of New Hampshire. Billy is also president of Granite State Resource Group in Portsmouth.
Tom Foley is seeking the Democratic nomination for auditor general of Pennsylvania in next May's primary. Tom is currently CEO of EmpCare Inc., a company that specializes in self-insurance for workers' compensation claims.
Tom previously served as secretary of the state Department of Labor and Industry, and as the governor's special assistant to southeastern Pennsylvania. He was also the Democratic nominee for lieutenant governor last year. Tom has a law degree from Yale.
David Rousse directs all marketing and communication activities for Strathmore Paper. He was recently elected chair of the American Forest & Paper Association's Text and Cover group, whose activities are important to the graphic design community.
As chair David will be responsible for coordinating member responses to legislative and regulatory matters, clearly defining the text and cover category within the premium papers market, and sponsoring initiatives to educate printers and graphic designers about the content and use of text and cover papers. David earned business and engineering degrees from Dartmouth.
Dr. Michael Venuti was promoted to the newly created position of vice president of chemistry for Arris Pharmaceutical Corp. in July. The company is engaged in the discovery and development of synthetic small molecule therapeutics. Arris uses structure-based drug design to shorten the drug discovery and development cycle.
Michael will be managing Arris' core chemistry.capabilities in four areas: medicinal chemistry, combinatorial chemistry, computational science and structural biophysics. Michael joined Arris in 1994 as director of medicinal chemistry. Previously he co-founded Parnassus Pharmaceuticals, a start-up biotech company, and also worked at Syntex and Genentech. Michael earned a Ph.D. in organic chemistry from MIT.
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