Newsmakers

QUOTE/UNQUOTE "Horses don't do what you tell them to. People break their leg and they can rest it or use crutches, but a horse has to walk on it, so they're putting their recovery at risk at all times." —DR. DEAN RICHARDSON '74, WHO OPERATED ON BARBARO, THE COLT THAT BROKE ITS LEG AT THE START OF THE PREAKNESS STAKES, IN THE BALTIMORE SUN, MAY 23

Thirty minutes after Barbara fractured a hind leg in the first furlong of the Preakness in May, the horses digital X-rays arrived in the e-mail inbox of Dean Richardson '74. Richardson, the chief of surgery and the Charles W. Raker Professor of Equine Surgery at the University of Pennsylvania's Widener Hospital for Large Animals at New Bolton Center, is considered one of the country's preeminent equine surgeons and has written all the major textbooks on equine-fracture repair. "I think all of us in this job who fix horses for a living know that Dean is somewhere in another space," Patricia Hogan of the New Jersey Equine Clinic told the Philadelphia Inquirer last May. Richardson repaired Barbaro's three "catastrophically" broken bones, including the pastern bone, which had broken into more than 20 pieces. "It would be like if you broke a china bowl and you try to put it back together but you're missing a lot of pieces," said Richardson, who inserted 27 screws and a 16-hole steel plate during the seven-hour surgery. As of early August, the medical updates seemed encouraging. "I'm happy he is doing as well as can be expected," said Richardson....When his running mate of two months abruptly withdrew from Maryland's gubernatorial race in late June, former lieutenant governor candidate Stuart 0. Simms '72 announced one week later that he would run instead for attorney general. "If he's not the front-runner, he's got to be close," Prince George County State's Attorney Glenn F. Ivey (D) told The Washington Post. "If you were going to create a candidate from scratch, you couldn't do better than Stu Simms." The former Dartmouth football co-captain, who was elected Baltimore's top prosecutor in 1990 and 1994, also served under former governor Parris N. Glendening for six years as secretary of the Maryland Department of Juvenile Justice and as secretary of the state Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services.... ln other political news, Raul Yanes '87 was named assistant to President George W. Bush last May. "Raul has a sharp legal mind and a keen sense of judgment," Bush said in an official statement. Yanes had served as general counsel to the Office of Management and Budget. Yanes' appointment was mentioned in a Bloomberg.com article last June headlined, "Dartmouth outshines Ivy League rivals in Bush's economic team," which detailed the appointments of Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson '68 and Rob Portman '78 as director of the Office of Management and Budget....As a Dartmouth undergrad Charles Swicker '77 dreamed of becoming a marine biologist. But as commanding officer of the Aegis missile cruiser USS Vicksburg, he instead helps to keep the seas safe. "We are working as a coalition with our allies to stop piracy and to prevent international terrorist organizations from bringing their members onto the coast, where they would not be subject to government control," he told The Dartmouth last spring. Capt. Swicker, who received his naval commission from Officer Candidate School in 1982, commands a crew of 370 and likens it to "having several hundred teenage sons." ...Daily Variety reported in June that screenwriter Jay Lavender' 97 and Jeremy Garelick, the screenwriting team behind the latest Jennifer Anniston vehicle, The Break-Up, have inked a deal for two additional pitches that is worth between $2 and $3 million. The pair sold The BreakUp, which was based on an idea by the film's star and producer Vince Vaughn, for $2.25 million....During undergraduate hikes in the White Mountains Richard Clapp'67 developed an interest in preserving and protecting the environment. Now, as a professor in Boston University's School of Public Health, he teaches courses in environmental epidemiology or, as he told The Boston Globe last June, "finding an association between an exposure and an outcome," such as toxic spills and escalated cancer rates in spill areas. One topic that his students are already concerned about is global warming, which Clapp believes can be successfully addressed through international cooperation. "In the 1980s we identified ozone depletion," he says. "Through years of concerted efforts, including the Montreal Protocols, we turned it around."...New York magazine featured architect Michael Arad '91 on its May 22 cover. The article, titled "The Breaking of Michael Arad," detailed the difficulties Arad has encountered in bringing to fruition his 2004 winning design for the World Trade Center Memorial. Endless battles overproposed changes to Arad's original design have delayed the project and construction costs have escalated to an estimated $972 million. Although some city and state officials feel that Arad fails to understand the compromises required to build a public memorial project of this scope, according to the article, Arad feels justified in defending his design, which a 13-member jury deemed the best of 5,201 entries....As chief curator and director of collections for the planned World Trade Center Museum Jan Seidler Ramirez '73 has been collecting September 11 artifacts that will tell the story of the nation's worst terrorist attack. In searching for items that will help convey office life in the twin towers, she told The Journal News (Westchester County, New York) she was surprised to find that items such as business cards and the handwritten log of a water delivery person were more likely to have survived the attack than were things such as computer keyboards and telephones. ...In a June review of the The Tempest TossedFools, a reworking of Shakespeare's The Tempest for children, The New York Times wrote that Tommy Dickie '05 "displays a Jim Carrey-like ease with goofy physical comedy." Dickie performs with the Millenium Talent Group in N.Y.C Milton Ochieng '04 and Fred Ochieng '05 have completed the first phase of construction on the health clinic they are building in the Kenyan village of Lwala, where both grew up. The clinic will provide care for Lwala's 4,000 residents and for the surrounding Nyanza Province, an area that lacks a primary health care provider and has one of the highest HIV infection rates in Kenya. As students at Vanderbilt Medical School, the Ochieng brothers spent part of the summer with members of the Dartmouth and Vanderbilt communities working on the clinic and initiating HIV education programs. "We started fundraising in January of 2005 and by the end of June 2005 we already had $27,000 from friends, families and different connections," Fred told TheDartmouth last May. They still hope to raise another $50,000 to complete the project (www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/root/vumc.php? site=lwala)....While working at Bostons Dana-Farber Cancer Institute as a research assistant, former Big Green Ail-American lacrosse goalie Andrew Goldstein '05 commuted to New York to play weekend games with Major League Lacrosses Long Island Lizards this past summer. "You stay in shape and can be competitive," he says. ...Jim Varnum '62 stepped down as president of Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center last April. During his 28 years as an administrator he helped to integrate Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital, the physicians group incorporated as Dartmouth-Hitchcock Clinic and the Dartmouth Medical School, and was the driving force behind the new DHMC hospital that opened in 1991. Vamum told The Valley News that the hospital often referred to as the "Emerald City," was the "pinnacle" of his 43-year health care career. "Jim will be remembered as someone who designed and engineered a brand-new hospital that is a medical center, a place that represents the conflation of three purposes—education, research and patient care," said John Hennessy, a former hospital trustee.

Charles Swicker '77

Stuart O. Simms '72

QUOTE/UNQUOTE "This is as much a reform as when Joseph Stalin decided to hold elections in Eastern Europe. Voting? Yes. Democracy? Not at all. -TRUSTEE PETER ROBINSON '79 ON THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION'S PROPOSED CONSTITUTION, TO THE NEW YORK TIMES, IN THE JUNE 21 ISSUE