Major League Boots

Two '99 soccer stars have joined Major League Soccer franchises. Defender Bobby Meyer became the first Dartmouth player to be drafted by the three-year-old league as he goes to the Colorado Rapids, while goalie Matt Nyman signed as a free agent with the Dallas Burn. Both had been all-Ivy.

• Philip E. Lippincott '57, elected chair of the Campbell Soup Co. board of directors

• Sumner Sharpe '58, elected to the Fellows of the American Institute of Certified Planners (he also received the 1994 Distinguished Service Award from the American Planning Association and the 1988 Distinguished Leadership by a Professional Planner Award from the Oregon chapter of the APA)

• Kenneth Cohen '76, named chevalier of the National Order of Merit by the French government

• U.S. Navy Commander Chip Swicker '77, selected to command his own ship

• Ozzie Harris '81, named director of Dartmouth's Office of Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action

• Timothy Geithner '83, named Treasury Department undersecretary for international affairs, to represent the United States at behind-the-scenes meetings of deputy finance ministers of the Group of Seven industrialized nations.

• Juan Carlos Navarro '83, elected mayor of Panama City, Panama. He has also been selected by Time Magazine and CNN as one of the "Latin American Leaders for the New Millennium" for his environmental efforts; he recently published PanamaNational Parks and was named the first InterAmerican Conservation Fellow by The Nature Conservancy's Center for Compatible Economic Development and the MacArthur Foundation.

• Julia Sorzano '94, current U.S. national champion in sprint kayaking. She's ranked seventh in the world and is training for the 2000 Olympics.

• Obianuju Anya '98, recipient of the Irene Diamond Fellowship, awarded to encourage minority students to pursue graduate studies, for the doctoral program in Portuguese and Brazilian studies at Brown University. The Nigerian native was the first Dartmouth student to write an honors thesis in Portuguese.

Nyman '99 nowdefends theDallas Burn net.