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For the past 15 years Jan Seidler Ramirez has been at the heart of museum action in New York City. First she was a senior curator then deputy director at the Museum of the City of New York, and after 12 years decided to check out the scenery on the other side of Central Park, at the New York Historical Society, the second oldest historical society in the country. Jan served there as director for five years, during which she enjoyed the fun of mounting a contemporary-era collecting program as well as the sobering challenge of trying to collect and interpret materials generated by and after the attacks on the World Trade Center. Jan left the historical society last summer and now is working as an independent curator and consultant to the exhibition design firm planning the interpretive center at the World Trade Center site, which is scheduled to open in 2009. She has also returned to work on a longneglected book manuscript on a long-neglected American sculptor. Jan is in her second term on the Hood-Hopkins Center board of overseers, which she views as a great pleasure and privilege.

Mark Harty, who is the managing partner at Morrison Mahoney in Boston, was identified pictorially and in writing in the November 2004 issue of Boston magazine as a Massachusetts "super-lawyer." Disclaiming the appellation, Mark notes the magazine was "very generous."

In celebration of Black History Month, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton hosted her annual African American Heritage Celebration in Harlem on February 6, honoring several distinguished African-American business and community leaders, including Lorna Mills Hill, founder and Executive Director of Ujima Company Inc. (www. ujimatheatre.org), the oldest professional repertory theater company in western New York. Established during Senator Clinton's first year in office, the African American Heritage Celebration aims to acknowledge the contributions of notable African Americans to New York State by honoring individuals and organizations that are successful in a wide variety of fields—from government and science, to business and entertainment. Ujima, a multicultural membership organization, is dedicated to providing a vehicle for African-American performers, theater crafts people and administrators. "It is a great honor to present this award to Ms. Hill. For the past 25 years she has served the African-American community as both a role model and advocate of art, culture, women's and children's issues," Senator Clinton said. 'A renowned actress, poet and playwright, Ms. Hill and her company continue to be trailblazers providing a multicultural vehicle for expression." Lorna's acting experience includes stage, feature film, television, commercials, industrial films and voice-overs. She is also known as a storyteller par excellence. Her best known play, Yalla Bitch, was performed as part of the first Women Playwright's Conference in 1986.

Jake Crouthamel '60, who succeeded Bob Blackman as Dartmouth's football coach in 1971, retires at the end of June after 27 years as athletic director at Syracuse. He led Dartmouth to three Ivy titles in seven seasons, including 1971 (sharing with Cornell), 1972 and 1973.

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