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Rand Beers '64 has become special assistant to President Bush and senior director for combating terrorism. He was formerly assistant secretary of state for international narcotics and law enforcement affairs.
Curt Welling '71 has been named president and CEO of AmeriCares, an international and domestic disaster relief and humanitarian aid organization based in New Canaan, Connecticut. In May AmeriCares was preparing to deliver more than 80,000 pounds of medical supplies and clothing to Baghdad.
Lawyers Weekly USA newspaper has named Rhode Island lawyer John Tarantino '77 one of its 10 Lawyers of the Year for 2002.
Bloomfield High school history teacher Wendy Nelson Kauffman '83 was named the 2003 Connecticut Teacher of the Year. Her superintendent of schools, David Title '79, was chosen as Connecticut s Educational Leader of the Year in 2002.
Ford Motor Co. marketing communications manager Richard Stoddart '85 of Northville, Michigan, was inducted into the American Advertising Federation's Advertising Hall of Achievement last November.
Deutsche Bank's Sue-Joe Shin '92, director of Korean equity sales in Seoul, and Michael J. O'Flynn'91, director of Japanese equity sales in Tokyo, were named best stockbroker salesperson in their markets in the 2002 annual Asia Money magazine survey of institutional investors.
Two-time Olympian carl Swenson '92 skied to his sixth U.S. title in the 10-kilometer freestyle at the U.S. cross- country championships in Rumford, Maine, in January.
Sarah Rubenstein '01 earned a "laurel" in the January/February Columbia Journalism Review for reporting on conflicts of interest among public officials considering a highway north of Atlanta, Georgia, where she is staff writer for the Atlanta Business Chronicle.
