Seen & Heard

QUOTE/UNQUOTE "If you put too many in one place, you get a memorial ghetto." DICK FRIEDMAN '6}, NEW CHAIRMAN OF THE NATIONAL CAPITAL PLANNING COMMISSION ON MONUMENT CONGESTION IN D.C.

Gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson recently expressed dismay to HollySorensen '86, president of production for the film studio Shooting Gallery. Seems the author was irked that development of the film Rum Diary, based on his first novel, was taking so long. "Okay, you lazy b—h," began the expletive-laced memo, excerpts of which turned up in magazines across the country. Says Sorensen: "Oh, the fun of being friends with Hunter. It's actually very sweet; he just has a pretty extreme bedside manner." The movie is scheduled to be shot this winter, she adds....ErichKunzel '57 will shoot some musical fireworks this summer. Having conducted the Cincinnati Pops orchestras Pops Holiday:Fourth of July From the Heartland last year, Kunzel will celebrate Independence Day in Washington, D.C., conducting the Na- tional Symphony on the Capitol lawn. The concert will be broadcast live on PBS from 8 to 9:30 p.m. on July 4....Matt Kramar '00 composed sacred music that was performed by the Dartmouth Chamber Singers in May 2000. His OMagnumMysterium—a liturgical Christmas text celebrating the mystery and wonder of Christ's birth—was then picked up by England's Canterbury Cathedral for last year's Christmas morning service. Kramar is now pursuing other mysteries as a meteorology student at the University of Oklahoma.... Pundit Laura In graham '85 is getting her own radio show. A former speech writer for Ronald Reagan, Ingraham, a self-described politicial conservative with a quick wit and an irreverent view of pop culture, is as likely to roast lame TV shows as she is Hillary Clinton, the subject of Ingraham's book The Hillary Trap:Looking for Power in All the Wrong Places (Hyperion). You can hear The Laura IngrahamShow on WRC-AM in Washington, D.C., Boston's WTKK-FM and KBIS-AM in Dallas....Staying strong in todays pressurized workplace takes drive, and for T.J. Rodgers '70 it also takes sweat. In a story explaining how CEOs find the energy to work endless days, The Wall Street Journal revealed Rodgers s secret The CEO of Cypress Semiconductor doesn't break for lunch; instead he runs five or six miles. To push the workout an extra mile or so he'll forgo changing back into a suit and run the company in his wet running clothes.... Also sweating on the job, former Big Green offensive end Adam Young '99 just finished a year on the New York Giants' practice squad. He hopes his longevity on the five-man practice squad will translate into an active position at tight end....Caleb Moore '01 is also keeping his fingers crossed. Dartmouth's offensive guard and captain was signed as a free agent by the Tennessee Titans in April, becomming the fifth alum to earn playing time at a summer camp in the past three years....Dave Shula '81 has gone from the gridiron to the grill.The former Dartmouth wide receiver and Cincinnati Bengals head coach has become president of Shula's Steak Houses, a chain of 22 restaurants named for his father, former Miami Dolphins coach Don Shula.... Shula won't be serving shark, thanks to Julie Williams '88, an attorney-advisor with the National Oceanicand AtmosphericAdministration. Williams won the U.S. Department of Commerces Bronze Medal last October for her work developing and implementing the Spiny Dogfish Fishery Management Plan for the Northeast to save the small coastal shark from destruction. By restricting the harvest of mature females, her plan effectively eliminates the dogfish from commercial fishing.. ..Row, row, row your boat right into Hanover High. Julie Stevenson '94 recently started a girls' crew program in Hanover. It proved so successful that 23 boys showed up for the first meeting of the 2001 season. Stevenson, who teaches social studies at the high school when she's not on the river, has 60-plus kids rowing for her. She recruited Laura Gillespie '86, Carin Reynolds '84 and Martha Beattie '76 as assistant coaches....Developer Dick Friedman '63 is making waves in Washington, D.C. As the new chairman of the National Capital Planning Commission, Friedman will manage D.C.s 100 monuments and juggle proposals for dozens more during his six-year appointment. "They can't all go on the Mall," he says. "I want to site them in less active places, where they can be a trigger for new development."...The economics of expansion drove California to deregulate its power industry 10 years ago. During California's well-publicized outages earlier this year, the heat was on Stephen Frank '63, CEO of Southern California Edison. Working nonstop, Frank has kept the company humming amid allegations that it was the industry's enthusiasm for deregulation that caused California's problems in the first place....Taylor Keen '91 is powering a cultural connection. He's using his Boulder, Colorado-based site, Black Shoulder. com, to "start educating the broader public about Native communities and cultures," says Keen, whose mother is an Omaha Indian and father was a Cherokee. Keen's site currently features 12 artists and 50 works of art that range in price from $75 to $5,000. He plans to branch into books, music and other Native American artistic endeavors by partnering with a major commercial group to form Native net.... tiveNet....Ski magazine's March 2001 issue honors winter artistry in a lavish story about Tuckerman's Ravine on Mt. Washington. Alums figure prominently in the story: Fred Harris 'II made the first ascent of Mt. Washington on skis in the early 1910s. In 1931 John Carleton '22 and Charles Proctor '28 first skied Tuckerman's, a glacial cirque carved in the side of the mountain. Three years later Dartmouth ski racer Dick Durrance '39 competed in the Eastern Slalom Championship in the Ravine. And Brooks Dodge 'sl, son of storied Tuckerman hut care taker Joe Dodge, pushed the limits of possibility during the 1940s by developing a technique for skiing ever-narrower chutes and gullies. As the decade closed, Dodge was methodically notching first descents of terrain that remains demanding even by todays standards....Alumni and professors from the Medical School and English and comparative literature departments joined forces to offer the course 'Alcohol, Addiction and Health: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Key Literary and Medical Texts" on campus this spring. A highlight was the lecture by William De Jong '73, director of the U.S. Department of Higher Education Center for Alcohol and Other Drug Problems, on students' roles in preventing alcohol abuse. The course also featured a panel of alumni and students speaking about their experiences. "You'll look to anything else around you as the problem, not the alcohol," says one undergraduate. "I was operating under several myths. One of them was that if my grades were okay, I was fine." The course was sponsored by the Dartmouth Alcohol and Drug Education Fund, established by alumni in 1993....Acorrection: AishaTyler '92, the Talk Soup comedy queen we pro- filed in our last issue, is not a lawyer though she does curl up with attorney husband Jeff Tietjens '91 She's also curling up with Eddie Murphy this summer, as they film the upcoming Murphy/ Robert DeNiro movie, Showtime. And this fall, rather than hosting a television show called Blind Faith, she's slated to serve as in-studio commentator for the reality based Universal show Fifth Wheel.

Dick Friedman '63

Taylor Keen '91

Quote/unquote. "No one is safe from our vicious, tasteless parody, not even me. I'm [Don] Immus with two lungs and slightly better hair." RADIO SHOW HOST LAURA INGRAHAM '85

club awards The Club Officers Association honored four clubs and two alumni in March. The Dartmouth Club of Sarasota, Florida, earned Small Club of the Year honors for maintaining a bustling luncheon schedule, interviewing 100 percent of the area students who applied to the College and building a scholarship fund of $230,000. The Dartmouth Club of Long Island was named Large Club of the Year. Among the club's achievements in 2000 were the creation of a Web site, presentation of 33 book awards to high school juniors and a dinner to welcome members of the class of '03. For the third consecutive year, the Dartmouth Club of Cape Cod earned Medium Club of the Year honors. Most notable was the club's ongoing effort to support the local Boys and Girls Club, including paying membership fees for 25 youths. The Metro Club of the Year, the Dartmouth Club of Washington, D.C., organized 30 events last year, raised $8,500 for its scholarship fund, counts 35 alumni participating weekly in an "Alumni in the Schools" tutoring program, and continues to honor alumni service with its prestigious Daniel Webster Award. Andrea Lordan'86 of the Dartmouth Club of Greater Boston was named District Enrollment Director of the Year. An enrollment volunteer since 1988 and district enrollment director since 1993, Lordan also serves as club president. Under the leadership of Club President of the Year James E. McFarland '86, the Dartmouth Club of the Midwest nearly doubled its number of dues-payers, hosted Dartmouth sports teams and delivered Dartmouth T-shirts to every admitted student in the area.

Contributors: Jennifer Kay '01 and RandyStebbins '01