Seen & Heard

QUOTE/UNQUOTE "It is with regret that I can't offer a design that satisfies everyone." —MICHAEL ARAD '91, DESIGNER OF THE WINNING WORLD TRADE CENTER MEMORIAL

The Ground Zero memorial envisioned by New York City Housing Authority architect Michael Arad '91 includes a grove of trees above two deep reflecting pools within the outlines of the Twin Towers. His design, Reflecting Absence, was the winner of the competition held by the Lower Manhattan Development Corp. for the memorial that may someday grace the area formerly occupied by the Wo rid Trade Center. "[The design] has made the gaping voids left by the towers' destruction the primary symbol of loss, [resulting in] a memorial that expresses both the incalculable loss of life and its regeneration," jury chairman Vartan Gregorian, president of the Carnegie Corp. of New York, told The New York Times in January. Arad's design was one of eight finalists selected from an initial pool of 5,201 entrants and was modified at the finalist stage with the help of Peter Walker, a former chairman of the landscape architecture department of Harvard's Graduate School of Design. In an attempt to resolve the call of victims' families for space to display artifacts that would exemplify the horror of the attacks, Arad has modified the design to incorporate such objects—including pieces of the towers and destroyed fire trucks and a large stone container to hold the unidentified remains of victims—in an underground center at the site....When Michael Jackson was charged with molesting a 12-year-old boy in December, prosecutors in Santa Barbara County, California, were bolstered by a state law written by Quentin L. Kopp '49.The legislation stems from another child molestation charge brought against Jackson a decade ago. In that instance Jackson paid the boys family a handsome sum to settle a lawsuit. The criminal investigation of the accusations was later dropped when the boy stopped cooperating with the authorities. Outraged by the perception that Jackson had bought the silence of his accuser, Kopp, a superior court judge in San Mateo County who was a state senator at the time, wrote legislation that made such arrangements illegal. "I thought it was against public policy for a sexual assault victim to be subject to being silenced by reason of a payment of money," Kopp told The New YorkTimes in December. "I wanted to prevent it from occurring again." ...When the Web site College Club.com ran a story last fall about self promotion in the job market, it tapped Alex Berger '02 as its poster boy. The story humorously explained how Berger, nearly a year out of college and with limited writing to his credit, went for the managing editor opening at National Lampoon's online magazine. Berger was able to convince NationalLampoon it needed his energy and new-school originality....Eight years ago Hillary Smith Goodridge '78 was kept outside a hospital room while Julie Goodridge, her partner of 16 years, underwent an emergency Caesarian section to deliver their daughter, Annie. The only people allowed inside, a nurse told her, were the spouse and immediate family members. Last November the Massachusetts Supreme Court determined Hillary and Julie could become a family in every sense of the word, ruling 4-3 that homosexual couples deserve the same right to marry as heterosexual couples. "While I think social support and public recognition of relationships and weddings is great, I am way past the time in my life when that would mean a lot to me personally," said Hillary, who along with Julie and six other couples filed the suit that led to the historic decision. "Civil marriage to me is about having the economic and social security other families take for granted." The court agreed, ruling that all the legal benefits of marriage—inheritance, custody of children, family health insurance, tax breaks and countless others—can no longer be denied to couples because they are of the same gender. "We are absolutely no different than anyone else," Julie told Newsweek. The Massachusetts legislature has until this summer to rewrite the states marriage statutes so couples like Hillary and Julie can say their "I-dos."...Lorna Hill '73 says founding and running the Ujima Theater Company in Buffalo, western New York's oldest repertory theater, is "a religious experience." Under her guidance, Ujima has spawned a number of subdivisions, from Spider- woman (a Native-American female theater) to Racies Theatre Company (a Latino group). "My tendency is to respond to a vacuum," she told Spree magazine of Buffalo, New York, in September. "When I see something missing and it screams to me as an injustice, I can't help but respond." Hill, one of the first females accepted to Dartmouth (as an exchange student in 1971), did not foresee a future on stage while she was in Hanover but found her calling after graduation. You don't do it for the money," she says. "You do it for the contribution to civilization; the redemption of your community is tremendous."...David Belden '97 is a triathlete of the highest order, but in 2001 his training began to suffer as he prepared for his first full Ironman. "I was tired-not the kind of tired from training. This was ridiculous," Belden told Triathlete magazine in November. Atrip to the doctor revealed he had colorectal cancer, the second most common form of the disease behind lung cancer. Following surgery to eliminate the tumor and chemotherapy, Belden is back on the bike and in the ocean and in his running shoes. He competed in the Ironman Coeur D'Alene last summer as a means to raise funds for the National Colorectal Cancer Research Alliance, raising $30,000 as a competitor and finishing the race in 13 hours 10 minutes. He continues to post progress reports at www.davidbelden.org His current challenge: earning an M.B.A. from Stanford Business School...Ernesto Cuevas Jr. '98 was the cover artist in the August-September issue of Urban Latino magazine in New York. Cuevas created RedCielo, a graphic design services and art brokerage firm, to unite traditional artistic training with his experiences as a graphic designer. See more of Cuevas' work at www.redcielo.com ...Bob Dupuy '68 is the president and chief operating officer of Major League Baseball, and when he's not presiding over the latest corked-bat incident, he's tracking corks of another sort. According to an October profile in Wine Spectator magazine, Dupuy has more than 2,500 bottles of wine stored in different spots around the country. In particular, Dupuy is a fan of the wine auction scene: "I've liked auctions since I was a kid," he told the Spectator. "There is something about the auction frenzy."...Fly fisherman Matthew Dickerson '85 has been hooking readers of Fly Fish America and the Burlington, Vermont, Free Press "Living Outside" section for the past year. Alums in the North Country know he has a delightful lightful style whether describing his local adventures in Burlington, Vermont, a visit to a dude ranch in northern California or a float trip through Alaska. Dickerson's style has been recognized professionally, too: He was recently named the new director of the New England Young Writers Conference at Breadloaf. The appointment came as he published two books, Following Gandalf: EpicBattles and Moral Victory in The Lord of theRings (Brazos Press) and Hammers & Nails:The Life and Music of Mark Heard (Cornerstone Press)....Larry Lawrence '80, who enjoyed a standout career with the Big Green basketball team and played professionally for many years in France, works for Salomon Smith Barney in New York City. Recently a columnist for the Macon, Georgia, Telegraph wrote: "This is a column about Larry Lawrence. But it is really about his parents, Malachi and Julia Lawrence." What followed was a story, told by Larry and others, about growing up in Macon and the lessons that he and his 11 brothers and sisters learned from a couple who never advanced past the fourth grade. "[My parents] changed the lives of an entire generation," Lawrence told The Telegraph. "Thanks to them, my own children will know a different way of life.".. .Syndicated columnist George F. Will finds Jack Ryan '81 "too good to win." In Sunday opinion pages across the country last November, Will championed Ryan's current run for the Republican nomination for the Senate seat held by retiring Peter Fitzgerald '82. Three years ago Ryan left a partnership at Goldman Sachs to become a teacher at Hales Franciscan High School in the heart of the African-American community on the South Side of Chicago. Now he's hoping to promote education in Congress. Win or lose—Ryan has a 3-1 lead over his nearest rival in a polling of Republicans likely to vote in the March 16 primary—Will predicts the campaign won't end happily. "In the general election he probably will learn the futility of asking African Americans to vote for any Republican, regardless of his views or record, and he probably will lose in this increasingly Democratic state," writes Will. "Or he will win and, being intelligent and impatient, will hate life in the Senate, where grandees such as Ted Kennedy, for whom public schools are distant rumors, get away with blocking school choice for poor inner-city children. The story Ryan is trying to write—doing well in his campaign, then doing good in Washington is too good to be true."

Michael Arad '91

Hillary Smith Goodridge '78 (right) and partner Julie Goodridge

David Belden '97

Matthew Dickerson '85

QUOTE/UNQUOTE "Civil marriage to me is about having the economic and social security other families take for granted." -HILLARY SMITH GOODRIDGE '78, LEAD PLAINTIFF IN THE MASSACHUSETTS SAME-SEX MARRIAGE CASE

QUOTE/UNQUOTE "The story Jack Ryan ['81] is trying to write—doing well in his campaign, then doing good in Washington—is too good to be true. —SYNDICATED COLUMNIST GEORGE E. WILL

MIKE MAHONEY is associate director of athleticmedia services at Northwestern University inEvanston, Illinois.