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Give a Rouse

Nov/Dec 2000
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Give a Rouse
Nov/Dec 2000

Joseph Marceau '34 was recently lauded for 61 years teaching Vermonters about dental hygiene. The first orthodontist in the state, Marceau helped start Vermont's school for dental hygienists, sending a corps of hygienists around the state to give away toothbrushes and teach children how to use them. He also urged towns to fluoridate their water and was an advocate for funding to send poor children to dentists.

I Dodd Wilson '58, DMS'59, was named chancellor of the University of Arkansas medical sciences campus. He has been executive vice chancellor there since 1994.

Stephen Bosworth '61, former chair of the Dartmouth trustees, has been named dean of Tufts University's Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. Bosworth, a career diplomat, leaves his post as U.S. ambassador to South Korea.

Kul Gautam '72 has taken up the No. 2 post at UNICEF headquarters in New York City, where he will be responsible for the relief organization's global advocacy, resource mobilization and inter-governmental and UN relations. The appointment makes him the first Nepalese national to become a UN assistant secretary general.

Timothy Flanigan '79 director of infectious diseases at Brown University Medical School and two Rhode Island hospitals, was honored with the national Community Health Leadership Program Award from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. He fashioned a health-care network for people with substance-abuse problems and AIDS and then expanded it throughout Rhode Island's prison system.