Newsmakers

Quote/unquote "Kenny, your country needs you. -PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH TO KEN WILSON "69 ON A 6:45 A.M. PHONE CALL JULY V, ASKING HIM TO WORK AS ADVISOR TO TREASURY SECRETARY HENRY PAULSON '68

As the nations financial meltdown reached crisis mode in September, headlines everywhere noted the work of three alums trying to sort out the mess: Treasury Secretary Henry "Hank"Paulson '68, dubbed "King Henry" by Newsweek; Goldman Sachs chair KenWilson '69, whom Paulson enlisted to serve as an advisor through January 1 and was called "one of Wall Streets most powerful bankers" by The WallStreet Journal-, and New York Fed president Timothy Geithner '83, who led the bailout and sale of Bear Stearns to JPMorgan Chase last spring. This Big Green triumvirate was instrumental in proposing the controversial $700 billion bailout package that was eventually passed by Congress Filmmaker Tracy Deer '00 was named one of Canada's "Rising Stars and Deal- makers" by Playback magazine in July. A Mohawk who grew up in Kahnawake, Quebec, Deer recently released the documentary Club Native, which examines the impact of mixed marriages on the Mohawk community. "I don't seek to be controversial," Deer told Playback. "I don't set out saying, 'Here's a juicy subject.' The issues I make films about are the ones I grew up with and the ones I see my friends and families dealing with."...She's a new Dartmouth trustee, the managing director of investment firm Wolfensohn & Cos., chair of the Hudson River Park Trust, and N.Y.C. mayor Michael Bloomberg's significant other. Now Diana Taylor '77 can add style icon to this list—she was one of 10 women named to Vanity Fair's "International Best-Dressed List." "She understands business and economics, and has a beautiful frame for wearing clothes," according to special correspondent Amy Fine Collins in the September issue....In HBO's acclaimed Generation Kill, the character Lt. Fick gets in trouble for questioning inane orders from his superiors while leading his platoon in the 2003 invasion of Iraq. The character is based on NathanildFick '99, who served as a Marine infantry officer in Afghanistan and Iraq and wrote the bestseller One Bullet Away. The seven-part series that debuted last summer is adapted from a book by RollingStone contributing editor Evan Wright, who was embedded with Fick's unit and "provides a searingly intense, clear-eyed look at the first stage of the war," according to The New York Times. "They did a good job with the story, but it's entertainment, not documentary," Fick told DAM. "No one was as virtuous or as evil in real life as they come across on the screen. My own portrayal? Let's just say that my Dartmouth and Marine buddies got a real kick out of seeing me played by an actor who looks about 12 years old."...Designer/recycler Elisabeth Delehaunty '93 makes her clothing line, Elisabethan (www.elisabethan.com), from what she calls "rescued" fabrics that range from thrift store finds to old tablecloths. Last December in an article about "green" holiday gifts, Salon.com featured Elisabethan's mittens, which she makes from old wool sweaters. In July she described the line as "a little off-the-wall, but fun" to TheDaily Sentinel in Grand Junction, Colorado, which is about 70 miles from rural Paonia, where the clothes are produced.... Bruce Beasley '61 wasn't thinking Olympic rings when he began working with the large steel discs that eventually came together in Gathering of the Moons (shown on the previous spread). But the Olympic connection is fitting, as the 17-by-17-foot sculpture commissioned by the Chinese government now stands permanently in Beijing's Olympic Park. As a teen the Oakland, California, abstractionist wanted to build hot rods professionally, but his folks insisted he go to college. He went to Dartmouth to study engineering—"Rocket scientists are just grownup hot-rod- ders," he told the San Francisco Chronicle in August—but soon realized he wanted to make things and transferred to UC Berkeley to study sculpture....When 3,000 people ran in a July race in Connecticyt to benefit the Petit Family Foundation, Dr. William Petit '78 was there to thank participants before joining in the 5K himself. Since the shocking murder of his wife, Jennifer Hawke-Petit, and daughters Hayley, 17, who had been accepted early admission at Dartmouth, and Michaela, 11, in their Cheshire, Connecticut, home in July 2007, Petit has devoted himself to charitable work and challenged others to make a difference as well. State Rep. Alfred Adinolfi told the New Haven Register in July that Petit s commitment to charitable causes "gives him some relief that some good is coming out of something so horrible." The Petit Family Foundation has raised more than $500,000 for a number of causes, including multiple sclerosis, from which Hawke-Petit suffered, and Petit's Dartmouth classmates are also raising money to name a gallery for the family in Dartmouth's new 1978 Life Sciences Building....After EverBank Financial Corp. of Jacksonville, Florida, announced it had received a $100 million capital investment from Sageview Capital LP in July, The Wall Street JournalOnline's "Deal Journal" blog revealed a Dartmouth connection between the dealmakers. Rob Clements '85, chairman and CEO of EverBank, is an old friend of Sageview founder Scott Stuart '81. "Deal Journal" reported that Louisiana natives Clements and Stuart met at a popular New Orleans hangout as kidsbut failed to uncover another connection: both were Psi Upsilon brothers.... An annual worldwide investment of $170 billion in energy "efficiency opportunities" during the next 13 years "would be sufficient to cut projected global demand by at least half," Dan Reicher '78 told Congress' Joint Economic Committee in August, according to an op-ed in The New York Times. "From cars and homes to factories and offices, we know how to cost-effectively deliver vast quantities of energy savings today," said Reicher, a former assistant secretary at the Department of Energy and current director of Google's climate change and energy initiatives....Chuck Wooster '89 left a Boston desk job in 1995 to apprentice with a farmer in western Massachusetts. Fsur years later he bought a farm in Hartford, Vermont, to start Sunrise Organic Farm LLC. Now he's written his second book about farm life, Living withPigs: Everything You Need to Know to RaiseYour Own Porkers. Wooster told the ValleyNews in August that he's especially fond of piglets, because they're smart and extremely entertaining. He said the piglets will run around and then "suddenly freeze in place as a group, stock-still, all eyes on you. It's like walking into a basement, flicking on the light and finding a bunch of teenagers all staring at you, having just whipped the beer bottles be hind their backs and managing to look both innocent and guilty at the same time."...Thanks to James Sham '05 the Empire Grill in Skowhegan, Maine, will now treat one randomly selected diner each day to a free muffin—in perpetuity. The sculptor began collecting donations for the Sham Foundation Muffin Endowment while studying at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in nearby East Madison. "He put the money in a five-year CD at 3.2 percent, almost $9,000," to give a muffin away a day at cost, Empire Grill coowner Thomas Miller told the KennebecJournal & Morning Sentinel in August. "I wanted to do something real simple and create an ongoing gesture of kindness that would last forever," says Sham, who is now doing a residency at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, Texas....Two years into Dartmouth Bryan Battey '46 was sent to Colorado to learn to speak and read Japanese, one of a select group of students asked to undertake an intensive program during World War II to learn the languages of the nations enemies. "Motivation was high," he wrote in a private memoir. "Failure meant Ok inawa or Iwo Jima." In an obituary for Battey, who died May 5 of congestive heart failure, The Washington Post detailed how the Phi Beta Kappa scholars early studies led to a lifelong passion for the Japanese language and culture, which he retained long after his career in the Foreign Service ended. His linguistic skills landed him with the U.S. Information Agency. He served as director of the American Cultural Center in Tokyo during the 1950s and at postings to Saigon and Tokyo before retiring in 1974. "His unique, multi-layered personality endeared him to all, and he made countless friends for his country," retired ambassador William Sherman told the Post....Fortune named Gail Boudreaux '82 one of the 50 most powerful women in the country in September. A newcomer to the annual list, Boudreaux last spring be- came president of United Health Care, one of the largest health insurers in the country, responsible for $40.3 billion in revenue. It was a huge move for Boudreaux, according to Fortune, who had previously run another division, Healthcare Service Corp., which included oversight of Blue Cross and Blue Shield plans in four states....Timothy O'Leary '97, executive director of the Opera Theater of St. Louis, Missouri, became the company's general director on October 1, according to a June item in The New YorkTimes. O'Leary, who was president of Dartmouth's Glee Club, previously served as managing director of the Gotham Chamber Opera in New York....When the College Football Hall of Fame inducted Reggie Williams '76 in July, the Cincinnati Enquirer reported that former Big Green teammate Gray landCrisp '76 drove him to the ceremony. The legendary Cincinnati Bengals linebacker, who played in two Super Bowls during his 14 seasons in the NFL, is unable to drive or walk due to complications from osteomyelitis, a bone infection he developed after having both knees replaced in 2006. Doctors implanted a replacement artificial knee in August, according to the New York Daily News, and Williams expected to work on rehabilitating the knee through the fall.

Bruce Beasley '61

Elisabeth Delehaunty '93

Chuck Wooster '89

Bryan Battey '46

Quote/unquote "I wanted to make things with my hands that came out of my head." —SCULPTOR BRUCE BEASLEY '61, WHO CREATED GATHERING OF THE MOONS FOR BEIJING'S OLYMPIC PARI?