AROUND THE GREEN

Fred McFeely Rogers '50, creator and star of the Mister Rogers' Neighborhood television series, delivered the main address at Commencement ceremonies June 9 on the Green. He also received an honorary degree, as did Marilyn Gaston, former U.S. assistant surgeon general; Yuan-Tseh Lee, a Nobel Prize-winning chemist; Evelyn Stefansson Nef, a writer and polar researcher; E. John Rosenwald Jr. '52, Tu'53, vice chairman of Bear, Stearns & Cos. and a former College trustee; Arthur Mitchell, founder and artistic director of the Dance Theatre of Harlem; and Gerda Lerner, a professor of history emerita at the University of Wisconsin.

Economics professor Douglas Irwin and history professor Bruce Nelson have been awarded two of the 184 Guggenheim fellowships distributed this year to scholars across the country. Irwin, whose Guggenheim project will investigate the history of U.S. trade policy, is also a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and has served as an economist in the international finance division of the Federal Reserve Board. Nelson's scholarly interests include labor unions and civil rights; he plans to use the award to complete a book exploring the relationship between Irish nationalism and anti-colonial sentiments in the early 20th century. "I'm elated, but I'm also humbled," he says of the fellowship award.

In April the lightweight men's crew participated in the Biglin Bowl in Boston and came away with something it hasn't had in more than 60 years: a defeat of Harvard. The last such victory came in 1941. Meanwhile, golfer Lee Birchall '04 became the first Dartmouth golfer to earn first team All-Ivy honors in four consecutive years. He finished third at the Ivy League championships in April, while the Big Green finished third as a team.

The Dartmouth College Library is offering a new, free online service to alumni. Called the Digital Library for Alumni, it offers alumni access to more than 70 million articles from more than 7,000 journals, magazines and other sources, as well as an impressive, innovative search technology to make sense of it all. To sign up or get more information, click on www.northernlight.com/ dartmouth.

Cancer specialists from around the world met at Dartmouth in late April to discuss the second most common type of bone cancer, Ewing's sarcoma. The researchers were joined by experts from Thayer School of Engineering and DMS's Norris Cotton Cancer Center. Support for the symposium came from the Nearburg Foundation, which was founded by Charles Nearburg '72, Th'74, and his wife, Dana. Their son has been fighting the disease for more than eight years.

On October 4-6 the Dartmouth Gay and Lesbian Alumni Association (D-GALA) holds its first all-class reunion on campus, featuring a keynote address by Beth Robinson '86. For more information, you can e-mail D-GALA at dme4law@aol.com.

Heidi Williams 03 has been named a 2002 Truman Scholar, which comes with $30,000 to finance two or three years of graduate study for students interested in government or nonprofit careers. "It's such a rush of confidence," says Williams, who based her Truman application on improving women's access to math and science education. The math major has already published a paper in a national journal on mathematical cryptology. She also attended the Semester in Mathematics program in Budapest, Hungary, where Williams "witnessed the beautiful interplay among group theory, field theory, geometry and number theory," she says.

Dartmouth Alumni Magazine won a goldmedal in the national 2002 Circle of Excellence Awards presented in May by the Council for Advancement and Support of Education. Judges named the magazine tops in its circulation category (35,000 to 75,000) for the second consecutive year.