Newsmakers

QUOTE/UNQUOTE "Sometimes a well-placed cow's moo is all it. takes to really tie a song together." —BRENT KNOPF '00 OF THE BAND MENOMENA ON THEIR NEW ALBUM FRIEND AND FOB, IN THE BOSTON GLOBE FEBRUARY 13

Kim Ogden '84, who had long dreamed of combining community service with her career, was spurred to action by the tragedies of 9/11. She left her high-paying partnership with the management consulting firm Bain & Cos. and began volunteering with several nonprofits in the Boston area. She met Lynne Guhman, who was working in India with children orphaned by AIDS, and the two teamed up to launch Agape International in 2003 (www.agapeintl.org). Agape now runs three orphanages in Hyderabad, India, to care for 130 children and this year plans to open two or more in the country as well as a hospice. As COO, Ogder runs Agape's U.S. operations from her home office in Sudbury, Massachusetts, and travels frequently to India. "One third of our kids are HIV positive," she told U.S. News & World Report last February "They just want to be held when they arrive, and before long they are laughing, going to school and playing with other children." ...Brian J. White '95 played pro football for the New England Patriots, founded a Boston dance troupe and earned a stockbroker license. Now he's making his name as an actor. "I gave [football] one last shot, came out to L.A. and met with my sports agent in a club—I was trying to go to the Raiders. While we were in that meeting, we were approached by a casting director," White told The Boston Globe Magazine last February. That meeting led to a role on the TV show Moesha and other TV and film roles followed. White had a recurring role on The Shield, appeared in recent films Stompthe Yard and Daddy's Little Girls, and will be seen later this year in The Game Plan with wrestler-turned-actorThe Rock. The son of former Boston Celtics great JoJo White, Brian attended Dartmouth at the encouragement of the late Celtics coach Red Auerbach. ...As undergrads, Lucie Haswell Voves '86 and her future husband, Joe Voves '87, started a small business selling Dartmouth campus photos and art. When Lucie left her executive-track job with Procter & Gamble in 1992 to raise the couples four children, she revived a variation of their student business, Church Hill Classics, in the basement of their Ridgefield Connecticut, home. The new focus, however, was on framing diplomas—with a twist: The colleges gold-embossed name now appears in English (for those who cannot read Latin). "People look at [the text] and say, Where does it say Dartmouth?' "Voves told The New York Times in February. "Who knew that 'Dartmvthensis' was the place in Hanover that costs parents $43,000 ayear?"..."This is an editors dream. Fiction with a nonfiction hook in the hands of a deft artistic writer," Houghton Mifflin senior editor Heidi Pitlor told The Boston Globe last January about working on Charity Girl, the latest book by novelist Michael Lowenthal '90. Based on the little-known World War I story of the U.S. government s arrest and detention of at least 15,000 young women suspected of having venereal disease, the novel also incorporates the 1918 World Series and 1919 flu pandemic. "I think people are going to focus on the historic basis, and there is a part of me that is disappointed, because for me so much of writing is about the sound of sentences," said Lowenthal....As many as 10 million American men may be affected by male menopause, Dr. Geoffrey A. Walford '99, DMS'OS, wrote in a January 15 Newsweek article, "Is Male Menopause Real?" He wrote that testosterone levels gradually start dropping at age 30, and by age 70 more than 50 percent of men suffer from a testosterone deficiency. Walford is a resident at Bostons Brigham and Women's Hospital and on the faculty of Harvard' Medical School...Grade, a film produced by Andrew Shue '89 and starring his Academy Award-nominated sister Elisabeth and Dermot Mulroney, is slated to hit theaters June 1. Based on real-life Shue family events, Grade is the story of a teenage girl who fights in 1978 for the right to play on a boys' soccer team while struggling with a family tragedy. "This film brings together the things we grew up caring about most: family, soccer and having the will to never give up," Shue told Comingsoon.net. The film is dedicated to the memory of his brother Will Shue '83, who died in a swimming accident in 1988....High school students interested in learning more about Ivy League schools may now have their questions answered by undergrads at CodeIvy.org, a Web site launched by Noah Riner 'O6. "I barely stumbled across Dartmouth myjunior year of high school while searchingonline, and I wanted to make raw information more accessible to high school students who, like me, didn't know muchabout schools like Dartmouth," Riner toldThe Dartmouth in February. CodeIvy is about giving others the opportunities to learn about the Ivy League that I didn't have." Riner works as a consultant with Booz Allen Hamilton Inc. in McLean, Virginia, when he's not running Codelvy. ... Jose W. Fernandez '77, a member of Mayor Michael Bloombergs New York City Latin Media & Entertainment Commission, organized a new Latino theater festival, TeatroStageFest, slated to run April 30 to May 13. The festival will include productions from local companies as well as those from Latin America and Spain....Every weekend about a dozen special children participate in the HoliMont Phoenix Adaptive Ski Program that Jim Naylor '76 helped found in 1996 in Ellicottville New York. Last February the program was featured on the CBS Evening News with Katie Couric. ...After 15 years as general manager of the Hanover Improvement Society—which runs the Nugget Theater and Campion ice rink—Tom Byrne '55, Tu'56, retired in January. Credited with balancing Hanover's interests with those of Dartmouth and the commercial community, Byrne was "the glue that held everything together," Hanover planning director Jonathan Edwards told the Valley News.... An article in the March Vanity Fair details how Georgetown Law School professor Neal Katyal '91 (subject of the 2006 cover story) is fighting on, despite Congress overriding his 2006 U.S. Supreme Court victory for Guantanamo detainees' rights. Shortly afterwinning the case of Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, Katyal was-told that President Bush intended to overturn the decision. "I was shocked," Katyal said. "I would have hoped, just for a moment, the president would have thought about the constitutional ramifications of what he did, instead of churning it through the Karl Rove spin machine."

Kim ogden '84

Michael Lowenthal '90

QUOTE/UNQUOTE "Karl Rove never approached you and asked whether he had your permission to disclose your status,, did he?" PAUL HODES '72 (D-N.H.), QUESTIONING VALERIE PLAME WILSON DURING THE MARCH 16 HEARING OF THE HOUSE COMMITTEE ON OVERSIGHT AND GOVERNMENT REFORM