Newsmakers

QUOTE/UNQUOTE "The difference between us and the Republicans is, one, we don't claim a monopoly on God. We don't try to be dogmatic about this or make it a litmus test. For us, values come from different places." LEAH DAUGHTRY '84, DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL COMMITTEE CHIEF OF STAFF AND PENTECOSTAL MINISTER IN CHARGE OF MANNING THE DEMOCRATS' CONVENTION

Three alums celebrated the Boston Celtics June NBA championship with special enthusiam. Richard Aldrich, Tu'82,Steve Lewinstein '63 and Bill Helman '80 are among the 18 members of Boston Basketball Partners, which bought the Celts in 2002 for $360 million. "I'm a live-and-die guy (with the Celtics)," Lewinstein, who snuck out early from a 45th reunion event to watch Game Three at the Hanover Inn, told the Valley News...Anne Gibson Burkholder '97 may have a degree in psychology, but Nebraska Farmer magazine in March called her a 'driving force for the Nebraska Cattlemen's Beef Quality Assurance program." Burkholder is president of the cattle feed business Will Feed Inc. in Cozad, Nebraska, where she lives with husband Matthew DavidBurkholder '94, Th'97, who operates an alfalfa dehydration business. As chairwoman of Nebraska Cattlemen's technical advisory board, Burkholder is working to improve feedlot safety, cattle transportation and the quality of beef nationwide. "I come at this issue from a different perspective, from the angle of a consumer raised in a large urban area," the Florida native told Nebraska Farmer last March. "The foodsafety issue is critical for the consumer and will become even more so in the future."...Since returning to competitive swimming in 1999, former Dartmouth swim team captain Charles J.Urstadt '49, Tu'51, has won more than 15 national titles. The Greenwich (Conn.)Time newspaper featured the Bronxville, New York, resident in early June after the 79-year-old broke the world record for his age group in the 50-me- ter breaststroke last April. Urstadt, the chairman and CEO of Greenwichbased Urstadt Biddle Properties Inc., swam the event in 45.92 seconds, besting the record set in 1992 by more than a second. He moves up to the 80-84 age division in October. Beyond that, "I think the next age group is deceased," he joked....During a three-day period in April, 750,000 Facebook members added the hot Animoto ap- plication, which allows users to turn their photos into music videos. But the company's co-founders—president Jason Hsiao '98, CEO Brad Jefferson '98 and CTO Stevie Clifton '01—weren't concerned that this sudden user surge would crash their servers. As Clifton explained to The New York Times last May, "cloud computing," similar to the old concept of time-sharing (thank you, John Kemeny), enabled them to rent additional space on Amazon.com's server to handle the user increase. An unforeseen perk? Amazon invested in Animoto a month later....Three alums were mentioned on the front page of the Valley News arts section on June 12. Daisy Freund '08 was featured because her play, Perigean, had opened at a local theater three days prior to her Commencement. She wrote the play as a freshman, and Edward Albee was impressed when he read it as a 2006 Montgomery Fellow. Freund intends to continue writing, and will gain some experience by working in advertising or PR. "Everything I've written has come from my life, and I've reached the point where I feel like I've reached the bottom of the well," says Freund, who won Dartmouth's Dodd playwriting award. Kiku Langford '06 was cited for curating an exhibit called "Art Cards: A Mail Art Project," which ran from May through late June at the nearby AVA Gallery and Art Center in Lebanon, New Hampshire. And Mark Irish '86, who has a role in the new Sigourney Weaver film Girl inthe Park, was highlighted for playing Don John in the NorthEast Shakespeare Ensemble performance of MuchAdo About Nothing at the Lebanon Opera House in June....As Microsoft's head of legal affairs, Bill Neukom '64 won several high-profile cases for the software com- pany. Now he hopes to help his favorite baseball team win a World Series. Neukom is stepping down from his partnership at Seattle's Kirkpatrick and Lockhart Preston Gates Ellis to take over as managing general partner of the San Francisco Giants, effective October L "I'm trying to be very clear with the fan base, team and the press: I'll spend whatever time and energy it takes to do the best job I can," the lifelong Giants fan and Bay Area native told The SeattleTimes last May. "No compromises, I'm not a caretaker and I'm not going to do it nonchalantly or remotely. I'll be an active CEO, because that's what it takes."... Mead Metcalf '54 shuttered the Crystal Palace, Aspen, Colorado's renowned musical emporium last April, after 51 years of business. "This has been his life," general manager Nina Gabianelli told the Rocky Mountain News. The former Glee Club president and his crew of singing waiters and waitresses (which once included noted Amazonian bird expert Mario Cohn-Haft '83, featured in Nov/Dec 2007 issue of DAM) had performed Broadway show tunes and satirical revues for diners since Metcalf opened the establishment in July 1957. Metcalf performed his legendary song, "The Peanut Butter Affair," for the last time at the Crystal Palace on April 12 and prepared for the buildings $l3 million sale on June 1. He is moving with his wife to Crested Butte, Colorado....Kansas City media and sports bloggers went wild when popular former Chiefs kicker and longtime bachelor Nick Lowery '78 became engaged last spring after a whirlwind six-month courtship. Lowery, a seventime All-Pro placekicker and host of Headgames Radio on Sirius, is engaged to former San Diego television news anchor Phoebe Chongchua. "He writes me a poem every day. I never would have guessed that a football player wrote poetry," Chongchua told the Kansas CityStar last May. An early 2009 wedding is planned....Dr. Thomas Marlowe '95, the medical director of Dr. Marlowe's Weight Loss Institute in Charlotte, North Carolina, and a specialist in nonsurgical bariatric medicine was featured last May in Today's Charlotte Woman magazine. "So many people pick a fad diet or exercise program that is not meant for them and they fail," Marlowe told the magazine. "But we tailor the program specifically for each patient, which leads to our high success rate."... "The Dartmouth position offered me the chance to work in a place where you can make concrete changes on the ground," Kathy Lambert '90, recently appointed Dartmouth's second sustainability manager, told the Valley News last May. Lambert has a masters in hydrology from the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and has worked as a staff scientist and as the director of a nonprofit....For the past year Kimberly Marable '05 has been dancing and singing like it's 1985 as a cast member in the first national tour of The Wedding Singer, the Tony Award-nominated Broadway musical. "I get to dress up like Tina Turner every night, and that's pretty hard to beat," she told the Bushnell Blog ( www.bushnell.org/blog ) prior to the show's opening at The Bushnell in Hartford last June....Recent political and economic upheaval in Zimbabwe has slowed the work of the Zienzele Foundation, founded by Jim Clark '70 and his wife, Nancy, forcing Nancy to delay until September her biannual spring trip. The foundation ( www.zienzele.org ) supports AIDS orphans and the women who care for them through fundraising, donations and the sale of their handcrafted baskets, which Nancy brings back to sell in the United States. "We know we could grow this much faster than we have if the infrastructures were just there to help us do that," Jim told the Valley News last April....Bag Borrow or Steal, an etailer that rents luxury goods to consumers, received an unexpected plug when it was mentioned in June's hit movie, Sex and the City. "It was an incredibly successful PR moment," Matt Mcllwain '87, managing director of Madrona Venture Group, an early investor in Bag Borrow or Steal, told Venturewire....At age 87, Scott Mitchell '43, Tu'46 is the oldest member of a group that plays doubles three times a week at the Catawba College courts in Salisbury, North Carolina. The Salisbury Post wrote a feature on the tennis foursome last May. Mitchell, who has been ranked as high as No. 2 in the state in his age group, coached the Catawba tennis team from 1987 to 1999....Governing magazine named Maricopa County, Arizona, manager David Smith '68 Public Official of the Year in 2001, and he's now credited with turning around the nation's fourth largest county in population, which was once $64 million in debt and considered one of the country's worst-run counties. "Now their national reputation is outstanding," Phoenix city manager Frank Fairbanks told Public Management magazine last May. "They're seen as leaders among counties across the nation. He is the biggest single change over there."

Foreground (left to right) Jason Hsiao'98, Brad Jefferson '98 and Stevie Clifton '01

Charles J. Urstadt '49

Kimberly Marable '05

Jim Clark '70

QUOTE/UNQUOTE "It seems like I'm more popular now than when I was playing. Miami fans have had a rough go of it the last few years... a lot them say, It was too bad you had to be compared to Marino. " FORMER DOLPHINS QUARTERBACK JAY FIEDLER'94