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>>> James Taylor ’57, M.D., who worked with homeless patients for 11 years after leaving private primary care practice, has earned the 2015 Massachusetts Medical Society’s Senior Volunteer Physician of the Year Award for his work at Duffy Health Center in Hyannis. Taylor practiced in Geneva, New York, before moving in 2000 to North Eastham on Cape Cod.

>>> Denis O’Neill ’70, author of Whiplash: When the Vietnam War Rolled a Hand Grenade into the Animal House (excerpted in the Nov/Dec 2013 issue of DAM), was named a finalist for a Northeast USA Regional Excellence Book Award. The awards honor books that take readers into the “heart” of a place.

>>> Phil Langley ’59 has been elected to his fourth consecutive term as president of the Columbus, Ohio-based U.S. Trotting Association, the national registry for Standardbred horses. He oversees the 25,000-member nonprofit and its efforts to license par- ticipants and formulate rules in the sport of harness racing.

>>> Dylan Gray ’91 has earned two Indian Documentary Producers Association Awards for Excellence—a gold for direction and a silver for script—for his film, Fire in the Blood, which reveals the devastating effects among people in Africa and Asia who cannot access affordable antiretroviral drugs to treat HIV/AIDS. Gray’s film also won honors at the 2014 Montreal International Black Film Festival, the In- ternational Film Festival of Kashmir and the 2014 White Sands International Film Festival in New Mexico.

>>> Susan (Weiss) Spencer ’81 has been named Reporter of the Year by the New England Newspaper & Press Association for her work as a reporter with the Worcester Telegram & Gazette in Massachusetts. She also earned individual

first-place honors for stories on a jurisdictional dispute between local and state police (general news); a contractor who left a trail of broken promises at various school construction projects (investigative reporting); and a prescription painkiller abuse crisis (health reporting).

>>> Kabir Sehgal ’05 earned a Grammy Award for Best Latin Jazz Album for The Offense of the Drum, by Arturo O’Farrill & The Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra. He served as the album’s executive producer and wrote the liner notes.