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Give a Rouse

May/June 2007
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Give a Rouse
May/June 2007

ACHIEVEMENTS AND HONORS

Richard Mount '55 of Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, has earned the Gardner Ward Chase Memorial Award, from the U.S. Tennis Associations New England section. Mount, who has been involved in tennis for more than 50 years, also received the associations 2001 William Freedman Award for his contribution to the development of junior tennis in New England.

Elizabeth Arledge 73 won the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Ribbon of Hope Award for "programming with a conscience" for a documentary she produced for ABC News called Out of Control:AIDS in Black America. She is the producer of numerous documentaries, including The Hidden Epidemic: Heart Disease in America, The Forgetting: A Portrait ofAlzheimer's (which won the National Prime Time Emmy for Outstanding Nonfiction Special) and Cracking theCode of Life (on the Human Genome Project).

Noel Fidel '66, associate dean of students at the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law at Arizona State University (and a former judge), has been awarded the school's Judge Learned Hand Public Service Award for his contributions to the advancement of equality and democratic principles through his work in the nonprofit and public sectors.

J. Alan Groves '75 was honored in December when the school renamed the Westminster Hebrew Institute the J. Alan Groves Center for Advanced Biblical Research in Philadelphia. Graves, who died on February 5, had been executive director of the center, which applies computing and related technology to the study and teaching of the Hebrew Bible and language.

Steve Hafner '91 founder and CEO of Kayak.com in Norwalk, Connecticut, a comprehensive travel search engine, has been named "Best of the Web" by Business Week and U.S. News & WorldReport.