Newsmakers

QUOTH/UNQUOTE "The single most impressive thing to me was the hunger or the people for' the opportunity to choose their own government.... It might be contagions." —KICHARD MAIXAKY '49, AN OBSERVER IN THE RUNOFF ELECTION IN UKRAINE.TO THE VALLEY MEWS JANUARY 2

Bill Spring '57, DMS'59, was part of a fourperson medical team dispatched to Sri Lanka in early January by Northwest Medical Teams, an Oregon-based humanitarian organization. For the next few weeks he was treating sick and injured people in a country reeling from December's devastating tsunami. After he spent last September on a demanding volunteer stint in Liberia with Northwest Medical Teams, the semiretired internist from Seattle had promised his family he'd pass up international assignments for a while. But the tsunamis fallout, in terms of deaths, injuries, displacements and potential epidemics, makes the catastrophe one of the most devastating natural disasters in history—and impelled him to act. "I knew I wouldn't be comfortable if I was just watching this on TV, sitting on the couch," he told The Oregonian....Business Wire reported last fall that popular San Francisco singei/songwriter Austin Willacy '91 will be the first artist featured in an online partnership between management company Pure Music and SVC Financial Services, a provider of secure, Web-based electronic payments. Willacy's music has been described by the San Francisco Examiner as "an edgy adult contemporary sound that goes down easily and speaks to the heart." He was scheduled to play in Hanover at the Collis Student Center on February 25 with his band, House Jacks. If you missed him, listen at www.austinwillacy.com .... Daniel Adel '84 painted the cover of Time magazines Person of the Year George W. Bush. Also in the December 27 issue,'71 lawyers John Hinderaker, Scott W. Johnson and Paul Mirengoff—mentioned in this column in the Jan/Feb issue—were named bloggers of the year for putting Dan Rather in the hot seat over the authenticity of CBSNews documents on Bush's National Guard service. Their Powerlineblog.com "dethroned an icon and turned the mainstream media upside down," reported Time....Since retirement from Duke University in 1988, Jack Preiss '40 has developed hundreds of low-income apartments in Durham, North Carolina, for the homeless and those suffering from physical disabilities, mental illness or drug addiction. In late November the 85-year-old former sociology professor and co-founder of the North Carolina Low-Income Housing Coalition was presented with a lifetime achievement award by the North Carolina Interagency Council for Coordinating Homeless Programs. "I fyou look at life as a three-legged stool, you have to have a decent education, a decent job and decent house," Preiss told the The News & Observer. "You have to have all three to make it work."...Even the most experienced climber can get into trouble, as ChristopherBoffoli '97 learned the hard way last October on Mount Rainer. As detailed in the Worcester (Massachusetts) Telegram andGazette in early November, the Worcester native slipped on the ice as he and a friend began their descent from the Muir Snowfield and, in the ensuing slide, Boffoli broke his leg and ankle and tore both major ankle ligaments. "I'm embarrassed that this happened," said Boffoli, who used his cellphone to call for for help. "I did everything wrong. I had no ice ax, and was wearing waterproof nylon pants, which just slid over the snow with no resistance. It was poor judgment and bad luck."...Horse-lover Michele Roush '89 always dreamed of competing in the Olympics. Unfortunately, the sport this North San Juan, California, veterinarian ultimately focused on—endurance riding—is not an Olympic event. However, Roush and her mount Tallymark qualified for the sports' Olympic equivalent, the World Endurance Championship, held in Dubai in late January. Endurance riding is a fast-growing sport in which riders and their horses test themselves against not just other competitors but also against the clock and difficult terrain on 50- to 100-mile courses. "This is my Olympics,"Roush, one of six members of the U.S. National Endurance Team, told her local Union newspaper. "Yes, I dreamt it. But did I really think it would be a reality? No. I still can't believe we've made it this far."...Syracuse Univer- sity athletic director Jake Crouthamel '60, who helped form the Big East basketball and football conferences and oversaw the building of Syracuse's famed Carrier Dome arena, announced his retirement last November. During his 26 years at the helm, Crouthamel "lifted a program out of the collegiate Stone Age and built a sports empire that became the pride and signature of its home city," according to The Post Standard in Syracuse. The former Dartmouth head football coach (1971-77) and All-America halfback led a Syracuse athletic department that won a national championship in men's basketball, earned 14 postseason football bowl appearances and won nine NCAA mens lacrosse titles. Crouthamel will retire in June to his home on Cape Cod....After besting more than 500 contestants to win the Chrysler Million Dollar Film Festival in late 2002, Jeff Wadlow '98 used his prize—a $1 million feature film deal—to direct Cry Wolf, which is slated for a spring 2005 release. The movie, which he also co-wrote, was filmed in his native Virginia and stars Jon Bon Jovi and Jared Padalecki. Additionally, an animated short film directed by Wadlow, CatchingKringle, which explores how Santa Claus copes in a world rife with security systems, was voted runner-up in the favorite animation short division at the Palm Springs International Festival of Short Films last November. "He's a rising filmmaker who's clearly going places," Richard Herskowitz, director of the Virginia Film Festival, told the Roanoke Times & WorldNews....On other filmmaking fronts, actor/entrepreneur Andrew Shue '89, a first-team All-Ivy soccer midfielder who led Dartmouth to the 1988 Ivy title, will star in and produce a movie about the sport. Finding Grade, which the former Melrose Place star co-wrote with his teammate Ken Himmelman '90, is inspired by Shue s sisters struggles to compete on boys' soccer teams as a teenager in the late 1970s while grappling with a death in the family. Shue is funding the movie outside the Hollywood studio system and pro- moting the project through the country's extensive youth soccer network, as report- ed last December on the U.S. National Soccer Players Web site. For details on the movie, go to www.findinggracie.com.... When former Dartmouth swimmer P.H. Mullen '91 underwent surgery to remove a carcinoid lung tumor last spring and lost nearly half his right lung, his doctor warned he "might have to face the possibility of not being able to make it up two flights of stairs," Mullen told the South Bend Tribune last December. But Mullen, who in 1995 swam the English Channel in the eighth-fastest crossing, has slowly resumed competing in triathlons, road races and swimming events. "I think my physical conditioning over the years probably literally saved my life," he said. "I was blessed with the tools to respond to this." Now cancer-free, Mullen is finishing his second book, a Depression-era love story set in South Bend. His first book, Goldin the Water: The True Story of Ordinary Menand Their Extraordinary Dream of OlympicGlory, was published in 2001....Since hanging up his Dartmouth football and track spikes, John Campbell '03 has been working for San Diego-based Encode Corp. by day and freelance writing for ESPN.com by night. You can check out two of his November pieces, "Top 10 Most Colorful List" and "Don't Hate the Playa, Hate the Game," respectively, at www.sports.espn.go.com/espn/page3/ story?page=campbell/041027 and www. sports.espn.go.com/espn/page3/story? page=campbell/owens ....Eight years ago, when former Dartmouth football standout Kevin Cooper '89 took over as head football coach of Bonny Eagle High School in Standish, Maine, 16 players signed up for the team. "We've come a long way from having to get players," Cooper told the Portland Herald Press in late November. By the end of November the Scots at Bonny Eagle, the high school Cooper's father had warned was "a dead end, not a football school," had clinched the Class A state title. "Thank God he didn't listen to me," said dad Cooper, now his son's assistant coach.

Christopher Boffoli '97

Michele Roush '89

quote/unquote "Frankly, the union has really stepped up on this because the players wanted it. It will be the best program in [professional] sports." ROBERT DUPUY '68, PRESIDENT AND COO OF MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL, ON THE LEAGUE'S NEW STEROIDS POLICY