Give a Rouse

Facing cost's that would make even Ivy League tuition-payers wince, four-time Women's All-America sailor and former Dartmouth sailing captain Whitney Connor '95 has her sights set on the 2000 Olympics in Sydney, Australia. She and her partner on the water, Elizabeth Kratzig, Yale '95, defended their number one position on the U.S. Sailing Team in January by winning preparatory regattas off the coast of Miami for the second year in a row. Connor has since returned to her position as associate consultant at Planning Technologies Group in Lexington, Mass., a job she'll hold until the beginning of 1999. Then she'll devote herself to the demands of a personal sailing coach and a full-time regimen, training in sites ranging from Rhode Island to Hungary before heading to Australia, where Con- nor hopes to coax success from the fickle wind and water of Sydney Harbor. You can cheer Connor on at .

• Richard Goodman '53, lead author of Getting There From Here: School Board-Superintendent Collaboration: Creating a School Governance Team Capable of Raising Student Achievement (Educational Research Service, Arlington, Va.)

• Joel D. Ash '56, author of Potpourri of the Mind: A Collection of Poems in the Limerick Style (Old Pine Books)

• Dick Van Riper '57. who has had a collection of African-American autobiographies named after him at Penn State

• Terry Shumaker '70, named ambassador to Trinidad and Tobago • Jan Kirschner '73, co-author of The Little Goo-Roo: Lessons from Your Baby (Atlas Press). Find excerpts at

• Dr. Gary Schillhammer '77, recipient of the Washington State Rural Health Association 1997 Friend of Rural Health Award

• Tom Kiernan '81. named president of the National Parks and Conservation Association

• Edie Farwell '83, co-author of The Tibetan Art of Parenting (Wisdom Publications)

Whitney Connor '95 sets sail for the 2000 Olympics in Australia.