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Dr. Bill Boyle '59, who has worked at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center since 1970, has been named the 2003 New Hampshire Pediatrician of the Year.

John "Rafter Jack" Patterson '60, a builder in Norwalk, Connecticut, completed a 2,168-mile hike from one end of the Appalachian Trail to the other. He hiked the first 164 miles in northern Georgia in 1999 and in March 2002 started off where he had left off, finishing last fall on Mount Katahdin in Maine.

Hector Motroni '66, Th'67, chief staff officer and chief ethics officer at Xerox Corp. in Stamford, Connecticut, has been named to the Top 50 list of most powerful Hispanic executives in technology in business by Hispanic Engineer &Information Technology magazine,

David Mangelsdorff '67, a psychologist and professor with the U.S. Army-Baylor University graduate program in health care administration, has been awarded a Fulbright scholarship to participate in the German studies program in Berlin to examine demographics.

Mitchel Wallerstein '71, previously vice president of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, has been named the new dean of the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University.

Vernon Baker '75, senior vice president and general counsel of automotive supplier Arvin Meritor Inc. in Troy, Michigan, earned the Minority Corporate Counsel Associations 2003 Trailblazer Award for efforts to promote diversity in his corporate law department.

Valerie Steele '78 is the new director of the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City. She has served there as chief curator since 1997.

Heidi Crebo-Rediker '90, managing director at Bear Steams, U.K., was named one of Europe's Most Successful Businesswomen (at No. 23) in 2002 by The Wall Street Journal Europe.