Article

Give a Rouse

DECEMBER 1997
Article
Give a Rouse
DECEMBER 1997

Robin Robinson '24 was awarded the Boston Post Cane, given by the Town of Hanover to its most distinguished older resident. Mr. Robinson is perhaps best known as former registrar, math professor, and director of the G feat Issues course at the College. The engraved cane, part of a program of recognition which began throughout New England communities at the start of the century, was formerly held by Ort Hicks '21.

• Dirk Frankenberg '59, author of The Nature of North Carolina's Southern Coast: Barrier Islands, Coastal Waters, and Wetlands (The University of North Carolina Press, 1997)

• Jack Zipes '59. Co-editor of the Yale Companion to Jewish Writing and Thought in German Culture 1096-1996 (Yale University Press, 1997)

• Gary Spiess '62, elected president of the Boston Bar Foundation, the charitable affiliate of the Boston Bar Association

• Andrew P. Smith '66, author of The Moment of Truth (University Editions, 1997)

• Michel Zaleski '68, Th '69, named to Thayer School of Engineering's board of overseers

• John Major '78, co-author of The New Lifetime Reading Plan (HarperCollins, 1997) and co-editor of World Poetry: An Anthology of Verse from Antiquity to Our Time (Norton, 1997)

• Julie Kaewert '81, author of Unbound (Bantam Books, 1997)

• Gretchen Ulion '94 and Sarah Tueting '98, selected to play for the U.S. national women's ice hockey team in the 1998 Winter Olympics

Robin Robinson: Cane and able.