Give a Rouse

Is it Clothing or is it Art?

Both, if it's a creation by Susan Reckford '85, an environmental studies major whose one-of-a-kind clothing, such as her "Tree Coat," was on display at the Newark (New Jersey) Museum last winter. Made of boiled wool, the body of the jacket resembles the bark of a tree, while leaves and woolen acorns decorate the collar. "Each jacket 1 make is incredibly time-consuming," says Reckford. No wonderthe coat costs $4,000.

-Jen Whitcomb '00

More Kudos To:

• Dr. John Steel '54, Super Tuesday winner of the Republican nomination foraseat in the California State Assembly.

• Bruce McKissock '66, inducted into the Pennsylvania Lacrosse Hall of Fame. He was a First Team All-American at Dartmouth in 1966.

• James Vincent '73, manager of constituent advocacy for the Rhode Island Housing and Mortgage Finance Corp., elected president of the board of the Urban League of Rhode Island.

• Jack Cushman '76, New YorkTimes weekend editor in the Washington, D.C., bureau, elected president of the National Press Club.

• John Havard '83, TH '87, part of the four-person team that won a Design News Design of the Year Award for developing an automated marking and tagging machine for salmon hatchlings in Washington state.

• Chris Schons '88, namedFlorida Department of Stateinternational affairs coordinator for Latin America andthe Caribbean.