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QUOTE/UNQUOTE Joel Sternfeld '65 "photographs with stealth, cunning and an uncondescending sympathy for the outcasts among us." —THE NEW YORK TIMES ON AUGUST 19, REVIEWING STERNFELD'S EXHIBIT OF PORTRAITS AT THE SAN FRANCISCO MGMA

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events, Bradley Wall '02 spent the fall with the Australian ski team in Colorado before heading to Europe for the World Cup circuit leading up to the Olympics. In August Alpine skier Bryon Friedman '02 returned from Austria to the U.S. ski teams Colorado training grounds. Jessica Smith '99, Barb Jones '99, Scott McArt '01, Carl Swenson '92 and Nina Kemppel '92 (also see page 96) trained for cross-country skiing events in Alaska, Montana and Utah. Februarys Games could be Kemppel's fourth Olympics—she'll know for sure when the U.S. ski team announces When the 2002 Winter Olympics get under way in Utah in February, there should be no shortage of Dartmouth alumni on hand. Big Green athletes going for thegold include Correne Bredin '02, who'straining in Calgary, Alberta, for theCanadian women's ice hockey team, and Stacey Wooley '91, training for the U.S.biathlon team in Germany and Swedenuntil Christmas, when she returns toUtah for the Olympic trials. Preparing forthe slalom, giant slalom and super G final cuts in January....Sarah Billmeier '99 is training in Colorado and Utah with the U.S. ski team for the 2002 Paralympics for physically disabled athletes, to be held in Salt Lake City two weeks after the Olympics. In her 10 years on the team Billmeier has won 13 gold medals, including first-place finishes at three Paralympics and two World Cups. She's back training after taking the 2001 season off to complete her Dartmouth degree in biology modified with chemistry. "I needed to rejuvenate the competitive vibe," she says. "I was getting burned out and I wanted to finish school and take classes in the fall, which I hadn't been able to dobefore." Februarys Paralympics are likelyto be Billmeier's last, as she heads to medical school next year....Behind the scenes, two men with strong Dartmouth connections have emerged as leading candidates for the position of chief executive officer of the U.S. Olympic Committee. Among the four finalists are ScottBlackmun '79, a leading candidate after serving in the post on an interim basis, and former Dartmouth athletic director Ted Leland, now head of athletics at Stanford University....Chief U.S. District Judge Ernest Torres '63 is taking on what promises to be one of the biggest trials in Rhode Islands history: The United States versus Vincent Cianci Jr. (a.k.a. the Plunder Dome case). Providence mayor Cianci, charged with racketeering, is the second mayor to come before Torres in the past decade: In 1990 the judge sentenced Pawtucket mayor Brian Sarault to 5 ½ years for corruption, saying the sentence sent "a message that abuse of the public trust will be dealt with severely."...Hopes of keeping inner-city youth out of the court system motivated Zack Lehman '95 to form Metro Lacrosse, a non-profit organization using lacrosse to draw Bostons atrisk youth into community service, education and enrichment programs. A Harvard Law grad, Lehman left one of the city's biggest law firms to organize the program, tapping alums as coaches and board members. "I loved the law," he told Lacrosse Magazine, "but there was no question in my mind. This was an opportunity to change the lives of thousands of kids." Find out more at www.metrolacrosse.com ....Mark Chavaree '84 is sticking with the law. As the attorney for Maine's Penobscot Nation, Chavaree is arguing that tribes and tribal affairs are co- sidered "internal" and therefore immune from state jurisdiction and the states Freedom of Access Law. Chavaree is also fighting to keep the Penobscot governor and the two governors of the Passamaquoddy out of jail for refusing to turn over tribal council documents. A decision that could have far-reaching implications for tribal sovereignty is expected from federal and state courts in a few months....The obscure biotech company CyThera Inc.- headed by Michael J.Ross '71—emerged at the end of August as a big player in the stem cell world, The New York Times announced on August 28. The company, which was not known to be working on human embryonic stem cells, turns out to have derived nine colonies of human embryonic stem cells, according to the National Institutes of Health. That could mean that CyThera will be sought out by federally financed scientists who are eager to begin work on cells they think can be used to grow heart, brain, liver and other cells to repair damaged organs. But CyThera, based in San Diego, said it was not quite ready for the limelight. It is privately held, with only $2 million in venture financing, and it has only 10 employees. "We're sort of blushing brides here," Ross, the company's president and chief executive, told the Times. He says the company's goal is to grow insulin-producing pancreas cells that can be implanted in patients to treat diabetes. Ross said it would take tens of millions of dollars and several years to advance to early clinical trials, which will try to prove that the concept can work.... Matt Trusch '94 is towering over the Chinese entertainment world. Fluent in Mandarin, Trusch left an investment banking career with Merrill Lynch's Hong Kong operations to make movies in Shanghai. "What else is a 5-foot, 9-inch Jewish guy from Texas supposed to do?" jokes Trusch, who is gaining attention from the media and casting directors for his latest Chinese film, X-Roads. In the film he plays Blondie, a good-hearted but up-to-no- good bartender, a comic-relief role in which he "juggles bottles just like Tom Cruise in Cocktail."... Marty Staff '72 has been dubbed the "Master of Party-Hearty Marketing" by the Daily News Record menswear magazine. And with an increase of 51 per- cent—to $135 million—in U.S. sales in the past two years, the president and chief executive of Hugo Boss USAhas much to celebrate. Much of this celebrating is with the high-profile men that Staff is wooing to infuse the Boss label with a heady whiff of hep, including Sylvester Stallone, whose latest flick, Driven, Boss helped premiere. "This concept of event marketing, which we've latched onto, is one of the most effective things we've done to build a business," he says. "We're so good at events that I feel like I've been an event my whole life.".. .Public education is under fire throughout the nation, but high school principal Cleve Penberthy '70 is getting re- lief from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foun- dation. His school, West Valley High School in West Valley, Washington, was chosen as one of 16 schools in the state to receive almost $500,000 from the foundation and gain a shot at a $100 million pot of scholarships for low-income students. Penberthy will use the money to re-create the school into four small schools-withina-school.... Diana Golden Brosnihan '84— credited by Sports Illustrated magazine as "most likely to be remembered as the woman who, perhaps more than any other athlete, brought crossover credibility to the disabled sports movement"—died of cancer August 25. She lost a leg to cancer at 12, and went on to win a gold medal in disabled skiing at the 1988 Calgary Olympics. In addition to all the medals—she won 10 world championships and 19 U.S. championshipsshe was known for her motivational speaking and advocacy, which prompted the U.S. Ski Association to pass the Golden Rule allowing disabled athletes to compete in topflight able-bodied races. She will be missed dearly.

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Contributors: Michael Glenzer '01, JenniferKay '01 and Randy Stebbins '01

QUOTE/UNQUOTE "It's impossible to overestimate what Diana Golden ['84] meant to the handicapped-athletics movement: She was its Babe Zaharias; its Babe Ruth." —ROBERT SULLIVAN '75, IN THE ESSAY "LOVE WAS A REASON TO LIVE," AT TIME.COM ON AUGUST 31

a lightweight celebration During the class of 1951's 50th reunion in June, classmates and the College christened a new eight-pared shell the PeterCummings as part of the celebration of the men who brought lightweight crew to Hanover: Dave Wiggins "51 and Pete Cummings"51. The "150-pound crew" Was a collection of students organized by Wiggins. He borrowed boats from the heavyweight team (in existence since the 1800s) and arranged for practice time on the water,, then approached former freshman rower Cummings to coach the team. "Those men were honored as the founders of our program, Wiggins as their inspiration and Cummings as their first coach and leader," says head lightweight poach Dick Grossman.