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Give a Rouse

Sept/Oct 2004
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Give a Rouse
Sept/Oct 2004

ACHIEVEMENTS AND HONORS

Chicago-based Wall StreetJournal reporter Thomas Burton '71 has won the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism for uncovering and explaining the surprising prevalence of aneurysms (which annually claim more lives than AIDs).

Violist Raphael Hillyer '36 celebrated his 90th birthday in April by playing quintets by Mozart and Dvorak with his friends in the Muir String Quartet at Harvard, earning rave reviews from TheBoston Globe music critic Richard Dyer.

Lisle C. Carter Jr. '45, who served as deputy assistant secretary of Health, Education and Welfare under Presi- dents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, was awarded an honorary doctor of humane letters degree at this year's graduation at Cazenovia College in Syracuse, New York.

Jon Meyer '60, associate professor of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions in Baltimore, has begun his two-year term as president of the American Psychoanalytic Association.

Charles "Trip" Dorkey '70 has been named chair of the Hudson River Park Trust, the corporation charged with designing, building and maintaining the 5-mile park in New York City.

Marve Anne Fox, ftdv '74, is the new chancellor of the University of California San Diego. She is a noted chemist and the former chancellor of North Carolina State University.

Astrophysicist Rob Duncan '77 of the University of Texas at Austin has earned the Bruno Rossi Prize from the American Astronomical Society for detecting ultra-magnetic stars.

The Arizona Cardinals hired John Idzik '82 as senior director of football operations. He spent the previous 11 seasons with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, the last three as assistant general manager.