Newsmakers

QUOTE/UNQUOTE "I search my own identitythrough poetry. Each poem is a milepost along the way." PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING POET AND DARTMOUTH PROFESSOR EMERITUS RICHARD EBERHART '26, WHO TURNED 100 ON APRIL 5

The goal of Andrew Edison '91: To collect every trading card ever made of a Big Green athlete who played in the pros. "I didn't think it would take that long to complete the collection," he told the Valley News recently. "How many Dartmouth cards could exist?" Try more than 400, starting with a 1909 card honoring John T. Meyers, class of 1909, who pitched for the New York Giants and Brooklyn Dodgers. Edison's quest has taken him to eßay, card shows and yard sales across the region, and his collection is up to about 325. The self-described "pack rat" has 91 different Jay Fiedler '94 football cards issued since the former Big Green quarterback made it to the NFL, seven major league cards issued between 1958 and 1963 for Dartmouth southpaw Pete Burnside '52, and all four cards put out in 1992 when Dartmouth hockey defender Dave Williams '90 played for the San Jose Sharks. He has no plans to sell any. "I have told [my wife] that when I die, my Dartmouth card collection is going to go to Dartmouth College," he says. ...Sports cards were an early interest of Dr. William Ehrenfeld '56, but he has since become a renowned collector of Asian Indian art. The professor emeritus of vascular surgery at the University of California in San Francisco has seen his collection of 115 vintage 19th-century photographs of India on exhibit at San Francisco's California Palace of the Legion of Honor. That show was preceded by two scholarly exhibits based on Ehrenfeld's collection gathered in part during lectures and medical conferences around the world—"Indian Miniatures from the Ehrenfeld Collection" in 1985 and "Interaction of Cultures: Indian and Western Painting, 1780-1910" in 1998. "People would say my vocation was collecting Indian art, and my avocation was vascular surgery," Ehrenfeld told Indolink.com, an Indian e-news service. "Collecting is really about the great people one meets."...As an active child, Dorian Wilson '77 was no stranger to the emergency room. His various broken bones and other injuries made him a familiar face to the doctors at Jersey City Medical Center in New Jersey, where the boy spent so much time that he became interested in a medical career. He is now a liver transplant specialist, one of just 19 African-American transplant surgeons in the United States. He was featured in a March Bergen County (New Jersey) Record story about a conference held by 18 of these men to discuss their work, encourage minorities to pursue careers in health care and talk about the importance of African-Americans becoming organ donors. (Nationwide, they make up 30 percent of organ recipients but only 20 percent of donors.) "This is a terribly, terribly important responsibility," Wilson told The Record. "This is a responsibility we all share regardless of your age, the color of your skin or the place where you were born."...During World War II U.S. Army Major Bob Button '36 attended a private party while stationed in England.There he met his future wife, Decima, an American stage performer known for her work in musical revues—and in need, that night, of some musical accompaniment. "They needed a piano player so she asked if anyone could play the piano and I volunteered," he told The Greenwich (Connecticut) Post in February. "We had a great rapport." More than 58 years later the happily married couple continues to make music together. "I have been playing the piano since I was 5 years old," Bob says. "People always want to hear music and I love playing for them." The couple does that now in weekly performances in southern Connecticut as well as annual summer concerts at local parks....Perhaps one of these days they can collaborate with Mike Markaverich '71. Markaverich, like Button, has had a devotion to the piano since he was a youngster. Markaverich, however, has become renowned for his playing despite being blind. Markaverich first knew he wanted to devote his life to piano while a freshman at Dartmouth, of course. "I remember it was in the dead of winter. I came right out and asked God for a sign that I was making the right decision," he told the Sara- sota (Florida) Herald Tribune. "I heard a voice telling me, Michael, this is what you should be doing. You should be studying and learning as best you can. I know it will be difficult, but I will provide the help and means for you to do this.' "Goodbye, French and government major. Hello, jazz piano career. Those of you in central Florida can catch Markaverich Tuesday nights at the Summer House in Siesta Key and Thursday and Friday nights at Caragiulo's in Sarasota... .Another man who received his calling at Dartmouth is Enrique Salem '87. Growing up, he had little exposure to computers, save a few adventure games on an Apple II back in 1980. He arrived at the College on the Hill prepared for an education that would lead him into law school, but the lightbulb went on in his first computer class during his first term. "In that class I realized—forget this law thing—it's all about computers," Salem told The SiliconValley Biz Ink. Nowadays he is CEO of Brightmail Inc. in San Francisco, and says, "I couldn't be happier with the field I'm in. I can't imagine anything more fun than what I'm doing.".. .Before Timothy Frawley '70 was appointed to the Sacramento County (California) Superior Court as a judge by Gov. Gray Davis in 2002, he spent almost 25 years as a prosecutor. It gives him a unique perspective on the other side of the bench. A competitive and athletic man, Frawley told The San Francisco Daily Journal, "In sports, how hard you work can translate into how much success you have. It's not luck or who you know. I'm sure that's why being a trial lawyer was so appropriate for me; it's having a goal and working toward it."...Teaching a 35-year- old going back for a B.A. means a whole separate set of requirements to make sure it's convenient," Robert Silberman '80 told The Washington Post recently. That means providing classes during the day, evening and weekends—even online—to working adults. As chief executive of Strayer Education Inc., a $1.3 billion firm, Silberman has watched those tactics pay off: Enrollment increased 31 percent last year, revenue vaulted 26 percent in 2002 and 2003 and campuses have expanded across six states and D.C. The ultimate plan is to become a nationwide university. "There are very few limits to growth of a financial nature," says Silberman. "Maintaining the academic quality of the product is the real challenge."...Golf fanatics may have caught Craig Pawling '96 finishing third on the Golf Channel's reality series, The Big Break. During his Dartmouth days Pawling cut his teeth not on the Hanover fairways but rather the Red Rolfe Field baseball diamond.... Be on the lookout for Ben Stiller to star as the unnerving Hollywood antihero Sammy Glick in a movie version of the Budd Schulberg '36 classic WhatMakes Sammy Run? The film is in development at Dreamworks, according to TheNational Review. Schulberg, who was recently honored on campus with the 46th Dartmouth Film Award, is working on a script with Spike Lee for a film about boxer Joe Louis called Save Us. "Young people today seem to admire Sammy," Schulberg told The Review. "I do find it rather disconcerting."

Decima and Bob Button '36

QUOTE/UNQUOTE "You deserve a break today." ADVERTISING JINGLE CREATED FOR MCDONALD'S BY WARREN PFAFF '51, WHO DIED MARCH 12