Seen & Heard

QUOTE/UNQUOTE "There aren't too many 6-foot, bleach-blond males wearing a billowing cape, red tights and red boots tromping around New Hampshire." MATT STEMBRIDGE '99

Sculptor Howard Wheatley Allen '63 met former President Jimmy Carter when Carter was presented with Allen's bronze Descending Dove sculpture to mark the successful completion of the Habitat for Humanity Jimmy Carter Work Project in Sumpter County, Georgia. This was only the latest of 25 sculptures Allen has created for leaders in 16 countries. During his December 1998 trip to the Middle East, President Bill Clinton carried two of Allen's Peace Dove bronzes to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat in recognition of their efforts on the Wye Peace Accord. Clinton had already given Peace Doves to Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and King Hussein of Jordan in 1994. And Aliens Snow Goose delighted Mikhail Gorbachev, who received it during his visit to the United States after the fall of the Berlin Wall. This year Aliens skill will also touch another part of the international community. He is donating 50 percent of sales to the worldwide housing organization Habitat for Humanity. View his art at www. wheatleyallen.com....Jon Cooper '73 is practicing the culinary arts at his awardwinning restaurant Asinocotto ("The Cooked Donkey," named after a children's ditty) in Trastevere, the historic center of Rome. Since Cooper and partner Giuliano Brenna opened the restaurant in 1998, Asinocotto won a Bib Gourmand from the Michelin Guide, an Oscar for best quality for price from Italy's prestigious guide Gambero Rosso and a Medallion from the Touring Club Italia. The house specialty features ravioli with eggplant, sardines and zucchini. The wine cellar (located in a part of the building that dates back2,000 years) holds more than 250 labels from all over Italy. And from one of the 35 seats in the intimate dining room you can catch the song—or slurs—as Brenna works the stove. But bring an Italian dictionary: "When someone orders something absurd, like one plate of pasta to divide among three people, invectives fly from the kitchen, and your Italian has to be very good to pick up all the nuances in the criticism," says Cooper....While rummaging through the bookshelf for your Italian-English dictionary, consider clearing out those titles you no longer cherish. Tom Brackett '75 and his family collect books—hundreds of thousands—but not for their private library. The Bracketts have been delivering dumpster-size containers of books to needy schools around the world and at home in America since 1995, when they launched their charity, Bridges of Learning. Bridges resulted from a family trip to Jamaica three years ago. The three el- dest Brackett children spent a day at a local elementary school in Hanover Parish. Shocked at the paucity of books and materials, they asked their parents what they could do to help. On their next trip, the Bracketts lugged a thousand books to Jamaica. The charity has grown to a multi-national operation. It delivered 100,000 books just last year and expects to send 200,000 this year. Ongoing projects include several schools and libraries in the Philippines, Belize and Jamaica. Brackett's goal is to place a $40 textbook in the hands of a needy child at a cost to the charity of under $1. To help, send books or a check to Bridges of Learning, 22 Brackett's Point, Greenland, NH 03840; (603)431-2270; brackettgtbay@aol. com....Also reaching out to humanity is costumed eco-superhero Captain Climate, who has traveled back from the year 2050 to educate society about the disastrous effects of unchecked global warming. His alter-ego, Matt "Stemmy" Stembridge '99, hatched the "visibility tactic" of a costumed eco-superhero two weeks before last winter's New Hampshire primary as part of his work on the Global Warming 2000 campaign of the environmental action organization Green Corps. At his debut—during John McCain's visit to Dartmouth January 24—Stembridge was surprised when the senator welcomed him to the podium. "There aren't too many 6-foot, bleach-blond males wearing a billowing cape, red tights and red boots tromping around New Hampshire," admits Stembridge. As McCain told him: "You're dedicated enough to dress like that, let's talk." Captain Climate has achieved his initial goal, as major presidential candidates have outlined a plan to combat global warming. "But America needs to hear more about this," says Stembridge, who received the College's Downey Family Prize for dedication to environmental issues while at Dartmouth. He's keeping his cape at the ready....Friends and admirers gathered in Dorchester, Massachusetts, last summer to dedicate and celebrate the Paul R. McLaughlin Youth Center. Prose- cutor Paul McLaughlin '75 was gunned down in September 1995 after taking a train home to West Roxbury; a gang member is serving time for killing McLaughlin, who was about to try him on other crimes. The new $4-million, four-story building in Dorchester will be staffed by the Colonel Daniel Marr Boys & Girls Club and includes a computer classroom, arts center, library, digital media center, meeting room, fitness center and an infant/toddler center for young women with babies. "Paul was a helluva young man, a very able lawyer, a courageous guy," his father and the oldest district attorney in the state, EdMcLaughlin '42, told The Boston Globe. "He was good at what he did. He did it to his detriment, in the final analysis. One of my sons said at the end of the trial, 'That was Paul's last case.' He won it, but he died in the process."...Another alum is remembered—this time in Dartmouth's Alumni Gym. To honor the memory of Charles "Stubby" Pearson '42, a portrait of the former football captain, basketball captain and class valedictorian now hangs in the main-floor hall of the gym. "Stubby was a very distinctive fellow," says painter John Goode '43. "Many students looked up to him." The portrait shows Pearson in his white U.S. Navy uniform, as the bomber pilot looked when he headed out to the Pacific theater of World War II. The aviator and his plane disappeared in 1944 somewhere over the Palau Islands... .Six other alumni were honored recently, this time by the Alumni Council for their service to the College. James Collins '84, editor of Yankee magazine in Dublin, New Hampshire, has served as acting editor of the Dartmouth Alumni Magazine, club secretary and president, Alumni Council member, book award chairman and member of the Ad Hoc Committee on Young Alumni Relations. Todd Cranford'85, senior counsel for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, has hosted parties for incoming students and served as D.C. representative for the Black Alumni of Dartmouth Association and member of the D.C. club, class executive and reunion committees and the Alumni Council. Mabelle Drake '86, instructor and studentlife coordinator with the American Indian Program at California State University, has served as recruiter for the Dartmouth Native American Program, Orange County young alumni representative and member of the Tucker Foundation board and the Alumni Council. Boston lawyer Mark Harty '73 has served as Alumni Council president, area coordinator in the Will to Excel capital campaign, Aquinas House overseer, president of the Friends of Dartmouth Tennis and class vice president, secretary and head agent. David Hilton '51, TU'52, sales leader with Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Cos. in Winnetka, Illinois, has served as a member of the Alumni Council and the Campaign for Dartmouth Leadership Committee and as class vice president, bequest chairman and chair of the 50 th reunion gift campaign. Harry Lewis '55, TU'56, head of his own investment firm in Denver Colorado, has served as Denver club officer, Alumni Council member, class agent and executive committee member. Reginald Pierce Jr. '46, TU'48, owner of Pierces Inn in Etna, New Hampshire, has served as class president, secretary, newsletter editor and agent.

Howard Wheatley Allen

Tom Brackett '75

Matt Stembridge '99 with John McCain.

Todd Cranford '85

"Where you live changes how you see and who you are," says (Catherine Shortridge '96, who grew up traveling with her geographer parents (her dad is James R. Shortridge '66). In Sweeps (previous page) she recollects Iceland, "where I spent a cold and windy winter on a Reynolds Grant. I was fascinated by the harsh elements that brush across the Icelandic landscape." She recently completed her M.F.A. at Indiana University and is seeking studio space and commercial work in Kansas City, Missouri.

club news Anticipating the next Dartmouth club holiday dinner? Along with the eggnog, add a little spice to the occasion with a Barbie doll, Pokémon or your favorite Dr. Seuss book—in a Toys for Tots collection. So says . former president of the Washington, D.C., club, which last year donated hundreds of unwrapped gifts to the program, a longstanding effort run by the Marine Corps. Participating in Toys for Tots is easy, says Mont. Just contact your local Marine Corps Reserve unit. "The biggest problem, and I use that term loosely," he says, "was hauling away the boxes and boxes of toys!"

QUOTE/UNQUOTE In the United States, only the Bible is read more than Theodor Seuss Geisel '25. UNIVERSAL STUDIOS

Contributors: Michael Glenzer '01, HeatherKillebrew '89, Liam Kuhn '02, Casey Noga'00, Kevin Whitcher '99, Jen Whitcomb '00and Courtney Cook Williamson '93