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ACHIEVEMENTS AND HONORS

Lee Spelke '55 won the 70+ U.S. Squash Racquets Association National Hardball Doubles Championship in Chicago last March. Spelke, who plays out of the University Club in Boston, went on to place second in the world doubles in Philadelphia in April.

Donna Soave '91 has been named director of research at securities broker-dealer and investment bank Merriman Curhan Ford & Cos., based in San Francisco. She was formerly the director of thought leadership at Cisco Systems Inc.

Robert Garry '80 has been named Youth Program Administrator of the Year by U.S. Lacrosse. He was honored for his work with the Larchmont-Mamaroneck (New York) Youth Lacrosse Program, which he started in 1998 with his wife, Leigh Miller Garry '84. It now serves 600 children.

Philip Larson '58 joined the board of governors of the Churchill Centre in Washington, D.C., devoted to the legacy of Winston Churchill. Larson, who lives in LaGrange Park, Illinois, helped revive the Chicago chapter of the International Churchill Society.

Three Big Green athletes represented the United States at the Olympics in Athens in August: Kristen Luckinbill '01 was the back-up goalie for the gold medal-winning women's soccer team; Adam Nelson '97 earned his second consecutive silver medal in shot put; and Benji Lewis '05 was a member of the kayak squad.

Rukmini Callimachi (formerly Sichitiu) '95 earned a Journalism Award from the South Asian Journalists Association for her work on "Passage from India," a five-part series on the culture of Indian immigrants in Chicago. The series ran in the Daily Herald of Arlington Heights, Illinois, where she is a reporter.