Playing Fidel

Melinda Lopez '86 returned to the Hopkins Center stage in August to playmore than ten characters ranging from her great-grandmother to Fidel Castro. Her play God Smells Like a Roast Pig on a Summers Day recently received a Boston Theatre Award for Outstanding Solo Performance of the Year—a promising beginning to a play that's not quite complete. Lopez spent a few weeks in Hanover reshaping the story and writing new material as one of almost 3 0 artists associated with the New York Theatre Workshop in its eighth summer residency with the College's drama department.

• Doug Zipes '61, a cardiologist at the Indiana University School of Medicine, elected vice president of the American College of Cardiology. He raised $3 million for the organization last year as chairman of the development committee.

• L. Pendleton Siegel '65, named chairman and CEO of Potlatch Corp., a forestproducts company that employs 6,800 and has annual sales of nearly $1.6 billion

• Robert J. Soltess '73, recipient of the NASA Exceptional Achievement Award for his role managing the International Space Station's $2 billion budget

• Andrew Schader '9B, recipient of Dartmouth's Jonathan B. Rintels '27 Prize for his honors thesis "Why War: A Study of Chinese Use of Force"

• April Rasala '99, awarded a fellowship in the Lucent Technologies Graduate Research Program for Women (the computer science major has already co-authored two papers on computer science and received the Computing Research Association's 1998 Outstanding Undergraduate Award)

Lopez '86 performs Cuban history.