Newsmakers

QUOTE/UNQUOTE “AIG now stands for arrogance, incompetence and greed.” —Rep. paul Hodes ’72, d-N.H.

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WWII veteran Lee Van Voorhis ’49 recently sent an essay to his congressman calling on the Obama administration to create a secretary of peace cabinet post. U.S. Rep. James McGovern, D- Mass., co-sponsor of a bill to create a department of peace, discussed the proposal with Van Voorhis in January. “The road to war is just plain old easy. The road to peace is very difficult and challenging, but we have to take that road,” he told the Worcester Telegram & Gazette.…New Yorker editor david Remnick told The Wall Street Journal in February that he anticipates a new story from Daniyal Mueenuddin ’86 “the way I would something by J.D. Salinger or Philip Roth when they were writing short fiction.” Mueenuddin’s debut collection of stories, In Other Rooms, Other Wonders, is garnering rave reviews for the former New York corporate lawyer, who now runs his family’s farm in rural pakistan. “I crawl out of bed about 6 and have some tea and immediately meet my (farm) manager,” Mueenuddin told Time in February. “Then they go off and do their thing, and I write until 2.”…singer-songwriter Lindsay Mac ’01 told The Berkshire Eagle last January that empathy led her to switch from piano to cello as a fourth-grader. “I felt really bad for the cello since no one was picking it,” said Mac, who now accompanies herself by strumming—not bowing— the cello (“it’s a coordination thing,” she says). Her second CD, Stop Thinking, was released last fall.…Erin Maxwell ’01 juggles world-class sailing with a career in finance (she is a commodities trader for Louis Dreyfus in Wilton, Connecticut). Her balancing act paid off in 2008 when she and teammate Isabelle Kinsolving won the 470 Championships in Melbourne, Australia, the first time in 17 years that an American team has captured the title. Maxwell, who narrowly missed a berth in the 2008 Olympics, told Greenwich-Post.com in January that she hasn’t decided if she’ll shoot for the 2012 olympics. “I just got married and started a new job,” she said. “The whole reason for getting into training is to win a gold medal. To come off a world championship, I know that I can be the best.”…When ellis Cose published The Rage of a Privileged Class in 1993, Harvard law school graduate Wallace Ford ’70, then New York City’s commissioner of business services, confirmed in the book the author’s thesis of a glass ceiling for black professionals. Following the inauguration of President Barack Obama, Cose revisited many of the original interviewees for Newsweek. Ford, now the president and COO of GoodWorks International and author of two novels, told Cose there has been “a very real opening up of opportunities. Disparities are still there, but not as pronounced.”…In 1980, when Muaj Lo ’92 and his family arrived in Minnesota from Laos by way of a Thai refugee camp, the only word of English the 11-year-old knew was “chair.” Now a family medicine physician, Lo last September joined Luther Midelfort in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, becoming the hospital’s first Hmong doctor. “He sees his role as a medical provider,” lo’s wife, Sophia, told the Associated Press last January, “but I think his knowing the language and culture will also help him be a bridge” for the Hmong community, an ethnic group from the mountainous regions of southeast asia....When he went to South Africa in 1989 to finish a novel about two black Dartmouth classmates, Frank B. Wilderson III ’78 could not have predicted his future. “I did not know that I’d become a member of an armed insurgent group, I’d be an elected official of the [African National Congress], that I’d be there for five years. I just knew that this context that I was encountering could not be forged into the novel that I had thought,” he told NpR’s “News and Notes” last January. The resulting book, Incognegro: A Memoir of Exile and Apartheid, won a 2008 American Book award.…When u.s. army “ski troopers” launched a surprise attack on the Germans by scaling northern Italy’s Mount Belvedere in January 1945, H. Newcomb “Newc” Eldredge ’50 helped lead the charge. “I was a first scout. In combat that was not a very desirable position,” he told The Boston Globe last February in an article that celebrated the legendary 10th Mountain Division. “You have a feeling of infallibility as a young guy. When our regiment attacked Belvedere you started looking left and right, and that’s when you came to grips with this being pretty scary.” eldredge, who enrolled at Dartmouth after World War II, was awarded two Bronze Stars and a purple Heart.…In a Wall Street Journal opinion piece last February trustee Todd J. Zywicki ’88 made the case against House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers’ bill to address the mortgage meltdown. “If Congress wants to deal with the rising number of foreclosures, it should not create a new mess by converting the mortgage crisis into a bankruptcy crisis,” wrote Zywicki, a professor at George Mason university law school.…aBC News named Milton ’04 and Fred Ochieng ’05 “persons of the Week” on January 30. The brothers were honored for opening a medical clinic, which has already treated 30,000 people, in their AIDS- ravaged village in lwala, Kenya. “To whom much is given, much is expected,” Milton ochieng told aBC News.… The Library of Congress has chosen a home movie by Robbins Barstow ’41 for inclusion in its 2008 National Film Registry. Disneyland Dream documents his family’s 1956 trip to disneyland and is a “beautiful historical record of disneyland and L.A. in the year 1956, but just as importantly also a priceless record of the 1950s,” library of Congress program coordinator Steve Leggett told the Wethersfield (Connecticut) Post. See it at www.archive.org/details/bar- stow_disneyland_dream_1956.... Vanguard Ceo William McNabb ’79, a former crew member at Dartmouth, recently likened business to rowing in The New York Times: “The sport attracts driven, competitive people, but team members must be willing to let their egos be subservient to the boat.”

Daniyal Mueenuddin ’86 “inserts luminous glimmers of longing, loss and, most movingly, unfettered love” into his short stories, says The New York Times.

Robbins Barstow ’41 enjoyed Disneyland shortly after it opened.