2021 Give A Rouse Award  Recipient Citations

Gerry - your first days at Dartmouth were not auspicious. A member of the infamous Moosilauke 8, at our first Class meeting Dean Al Dickerson stated that those Classmates did not belong at Dartmouth. • Over the next 57 years, you have proven time and again that you do belong at Dartmouth, and both the College and the Class have benefited significantly. • You have served the Class in a variety of capacities – as reunion treasurer on several occasions, Class agent for the DCF for many years, Class vice-president, Alumni Council representative, mini-reunion chair where you organized and led for over 15 years the annual western ski trip, and more recently a somewhat smaller eastern ski mini-reunion. Most importantly, you chaired our highly successful 50th Reunion. • In addition, you were of great service to your community while living in Maine. You served as Treasurer of the Board of Directors for the Casco Bay Island Transit District, volunteered for the Maine Handicapped Skiing and Make-A-Wish Foundation at Sunday River, and were an organizer of the Midland 15K Run for Charity to benefit the Midland School for Developmentally Disabled Children. • Following your move to Vermont several years ago, you became a popular columnist for the local newspaper. Your acerbic wit and unique insight on a variety of subjects makes your columns required reading. • For these achievements your Classmates are proud to present to you The Class of 1968 Give A Rouse Award.

John “Bear” Everett - you may have been the first recipient of “double secret probation” at Dartmouth. • Service was the guiding star of your too-short life. As a Navy officer you served in Vietnam, and as an attorney you first served the State of Maine and then the Federal Government, working with the Social Security Administration. • After retirement in 2005, you became a workhorse of service for the Upper Valley, the Class and the College: as chairman of our 40th Reunion in 2008 and later the lead helper on all the logistics for our 45th; you attended every Class of 68 Committee meeting held in Hanover; you served on the Board of the Dartmouth Club of the Upper Valley, and on the management team of the Upper Valley Special Olympics; and the Information Booth on the Green was your volunteer home two days a week. • You were impressively candid and honest about aspects of your life, the early PTSD and alcoholism, which led to healing and a lifelong passion for the outdoors. Whether biking, back-packing or hiking, you took solace from being in the natural world. You attempted the Appalachian Trail at least twice before your knees said no thanks, and you left us on October 4, 2016 while hiking the El Camino de Santiago in Spain. • For your service to the Class of 1968, Dartmouth College, the Upper Valley and the Country, your Classmates are proud to honor you posthumously with this Class of 1968 Give A Rouse Award.

Jim - when you retired in 2016 after a successful business career and returned to your hometown of Lancaster, PA, you jumped into volunteerism both feet first. • For the past four years you’ve been deeply involved with two non-profits, the Lancaster Cleft Palate Clinic and the Lancaster-Lebanon SCORE (Service Corps of Retired Executives) chapter. As a member of the Board of Directors for the Cleft Palate Clinic, you’ve spent numerous hours at Finance Committee, quarterly Board and other meetings. • The Lancaster-Lebanon SCORE chapter provides mentoring services and support to start-up, newly established, and older small businesses. Mentors are assigned to clients based on career experience and areas of expertise. You average between eight and sixteen hours a week mentoring small business owners with one to twenty-five employees and annual revenues of $50,000 to $1,000,000. At the beginning of 2020 you had 30 clients. Your SCORE chapter was recognized as #1 out of 364 chapters nationally in 2019, and you were named the chapter’s Mentor of the Year. • When the pandemic struck and the CARES Act was passed, your mentoring workload increased dramatically with SCORE clients and yours were awarded $2.7 million in Federal grants and loans as well as $99,000 in local county grants. Your workload also increased markedly for the Cleft Palate Clinic, as you assisted the Clinic in obtaining CARES Act, State of Pennsylvania, and county funding. • For your dedicated service to others in your hometown, your Classmates are proud to present to you The Class of 1968 Give A Rouse Award.

Sherwood - to you, it seems it’s all about serving others: through politics; teaching; Peace Corps volunteer and senior staff work; Legal Aid service; non-profit board membership (most in Massachusetts) covering theater, higher education, elder services, rural lands stewardship, and your church; legal support of immigrants; and international development. • You served in the Massachusetts legislature for four terms; formed and chaired a countywide Democratic committee; helped form the “Four Freedoms Coalition” to promote Franklin Roosevelt’s famous Four Freedoms; and established the Rural Freedom Network, a PAC supporting Democratic Congressional candidates. • You and your late wife Carol served as Peace Corps volunteers in a poor rural area of Panama, an experience that changed your lives and worldview. You both returned “home” to Panama four decades later. In 2011, you created the non-profit Fund for New World Development to provide people in developing nations with the skills, confidence, and opportunity to improve their health, education, and economic well-being by breaking the poverty cycle. • The Fund supports sustainable projects meeting important community needs. In 2012 and 2015 it opened and still operates two Computer Learning Centers that teach computer literacy and creative, analytical thinking. The centers serve as learning and teaching resources, hosting speakers, workshops, science fairs, and programs covering workplace skills, job training, environmental protection, community safety, and more. Your Fund’s work continues, ensuring sustainability and expanding your community development model with more centers. • For these achievements your Classmates are proud to present to you The Class of 1968 Give A Rouse Award.

Andy - since 1997 you have participated in and led ten mission trips abroad, primarily to provide high-quality medical assistance in underserved areas. • You led five Institute for Latin American Concern trips to the Dominican Republic where for a week you provided ENT medical and surgical care to peasants in remote villages. Each volunteer team pays its own way and you have helped pay for medical equipment the teams brought with them. • You participated in two Resource Exchange International medical service trips to Vietnam in 1997 and 1998. Each trip included a week in both Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City. The 10-15 otolaryngologists on each trip had the goal of “teaching the teachers” current otolaryngology techniques. The group also brought donated equipment and performed surgery with Vietnamese surgeons. • You have also done three mission trips with your church. The first of these was to Soweto Township in Johannesburg, South Africa. There was no medical work on this trip - the team painted buildings for a week. Your second church trip was to Guatemala with Habitat for Humanity - a week spent building houses. In January 2020 your church mission team went to Angola where you conducted a hospital survey, ENT consultations, and saw 112 patients in four and a half days. • Ten mission trips abroad in 23 years and counting. For your humanitarian work on three continents, your Classmates are proud to present to you The Class of 1968 Give A Rouse Award.

Jim - you have made many sustained and valuable contributions to Dartmouth College and the Class of 1968, including critical contributions to the startup and operations of the Class Community Service Project; construction and upgrading of the Class website for which you were named Webmaster of the Year; service as Class Treasurer and Class Agent; serving as District Enrollment Director for 30 years in northern Nevada and northeastern California; and significant efforts relating to our 50th Reunion and the 40th Reunion book. • Your impressive athletic accomplishments include championships at two US Masters National swim meets, which among other feats led to your induction into the Wearers of the Green. • Your community service includes holding senior positions for many years in Sierra Nevada Masters Swimming, a non-profit organization that promotes adult fitness and competition, and Reno Aquatic Club that promotes youth competitive swimming. • Your professional achievements as a physician specializing in pathology include building from modest beginnings a large and highly regarded pathology practice with numerous offices. • For these achievements your Classmates are proud to present to you The Class of 1968 Give A Rouse Award.

Mark - for five decades you have dedicated your life to caring for Spaceship Earth. After Dartmouth you looked for people doing innovative work – ecologically and personally – since you were convinced new ways of thinking, living and acting were urgently needed for our planet’s health. • In 1973 you co-founded the Institute of Ecotechnics (US/UK), to harmonize ecology with technology. In the following decades Ecotechnics started cuttingedge projects around the world, and built the Heraclitus, an ocean-going research sailing ship. • You started an organic farm on overgrazed land in New Mexico and planted an organic orchard which you still continue to develop into models of regenerative agriculture. • In northwest Australia you started the Institute’s ongoing tropical savannah research on improving pastures and reversing desertification. • From 1991-1993 you were one of eight biospherians who learned to live within the mini-Biosphere 2 during its first closure experiment. • Your team created “Eden in Iraq” in the historic Southern Iraqi marshes, to bring ecological wastewater treatment creating lush gardens for the Marsh Arabs, one of the world’s oldest cultures, in Western Civilization’s birthplace. • Your work helps Tropic Ventures Research and Education Foundation in Puerto Rico develop deforestation alternatives by showing the sustainable use of tropical secondary forests through enrichment line-planting of valuable hardwoods. • For your lifelong work changing how people think about their relationship with Earth’s biosphere and demonstrating new ecological approaches in challenging environments, your Classmates are proud to present to you The Class of 1968 Give A Rouse Award.

Dick - you have been an activist since you were a teenager. In high school you led your school’s Young Republicans, though that role was not a harbinger of your future political activities. In 1968 you enlisted in the Army, spending three years stateside when you were active in the GI anti-war movement. You ran a union/community newspaper in Racine, WI for seven years, then headed to Detroit and the International UAW where you edited the union’s national political magazine Solidarity. • Your Class of 1968 service includes Representative to the Alumni Council, Class Secretary and Dartmouth Alumni Magazine columnist. However, your signature impact on our Class was your exceptional leadership as editor/writer/proofreader/chief cook and bottle washer for our remarkable 40th Reunion Book. • For years you have been deeply involved in Democratic politics in Michigan. You were engaged in the successful effort to remove redistricting from the clutches of partisan politics and place that essential task of our democracy in the hands of Michigan citizens. In 2021, for the first time, Michigan’s electoral districts will be redrawn by a thirteen-person citizen committee. In the 2020 election, you and Deb signed up for a Democratic Party voter hotline that provided a variety of information to voters regarding precinct locations, calendar deadlines, and information about voting by mail and absentee ballot. • For your decades of service to Class, College, state and country, your Classmates are proud to present to you The Class of 1968 Give A Rouse Award.

Brother George - civic leader, teacher, and mentor of young people. You grew up in a New Jersey farm town and guided by values instilled by your mother, your north star, you have dedicated your life to helping others. • You were one of only 12 Black students in our Class, a founding member of the Dartmouth African American Society, and a loyal brother of Chi Phi. • After graduating from Dartmouth, you left the corporate world and became an innovative and committed educator helping communities in New Jersey, Connecticut, and South Carolina. • You really hit your stride when you moved to Cape Cod. There you received wide recognition as a teacher, principal, mentor to those in need, and community and civil rights leader. • As principal, you saved a failing East Falmouth elementary school and were an inspiration to your faculty. • For years, you were the driving force behind the Cape Cod Concerned Black Men - volunteers dedicated to mentoring underprivileged young men and women. • You were founder and guiding light of Cape Cod No Place for Hate, an Anti-Defamation League group promoting communication, harmony, and equity between groups. • As Town of Falmouth Equity and Affirmative Action Officer, you served 16 years solving problems of equity in policing, housing, workplaces, civil rights and the recruitment of teachers and administrators of color. • Brother George, for your accomplishments and lifetime of ministering to others, your Classmates are proud to present to you The Class of 1968 Give A Rouse Award.

Ron - the great American icon, Mae West, once said, “you only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.” You personify someone who has done it right. As a result the Class, Dartmouth College, and western Massachusetts where you have lived most of your life, have benefited enormously. • Your service to the Class and the College includes: Class Treasurer (20 years), Reunion Treasurer, Class President, President of the Dartmouth Club of the Pioneer Valley, President of the Class Treasurers Association, Class Officers Association Executive Committee, Alumni Councilor, and a longtime Admissions Interviewer. • You have served as President and board member of the Springfield Symphony, and are a violinist with the Pioneer Valley Symphony. • In 1991 you helped found the Community Foundation, an organization dedicated to enhancing the quality of life in three of the four counties of western Massachusetts. From its modest beginnings, this Foundation has succeeded by encouraging philanthropy, developing a permanent and flexible endowment, assessing and responding to emerging and changing needs, and serving as a resource, catalyst, and coordinator for charitable activities. • Fittingly, in 2018 the Advertising Club of Western Massachusetts presented you with the Pynchon Award for a life and achievements typifying the ideals of promoting citizenship and the building of a better community in western Massachusetts. • For these achievements, your Classmates are proud to present to you The Class of 1968 Give A Rouse Award.

Michel - since you arrived in the US as a young immigrant whose parents survived the Holocaust in Poland, you’ve always wanted to give back to those less fortunate. You have - in SPADES! • An extremely generous donor to Dartmouth and Thayer School Overseer for 17 years, you’ve also been involved in many non-profits and service organizations. As long-term chair of the Soros Economic Development Fund, a charity engaged in helping build businesses that employ, provide services to and train the poor in 20 countries transitioning to stability and democracy, you’ve roamed the girdled earth giving back. • Your greatest accomplishment, in 1995, was founding, funding and managing a broad, highly effective education program in the Dominican Republic. The non-profit Dominican Republic Education and Mentoring (DREAM) Project’s long-term goal is for all children and youth in the DR to have equal opportunities to learn and realize their full potential through transformative education programs combating the effects of poverty. • The Project builds and operates schools and programs currently serving more than 9,000 children, youth, and young adults in over 25 indigent, primarily rural, communities. The largely Dominican staff (DREAM is a key trainer and employer) and local and international volunteers run 14 wide-ranging programs covering early childhood education, high quality primary education, holistic youth development, arts, culture, and community enrichment. Tens of thousands of Dominicans have benefited from your efforts! • For your persistent, exemplary service to others your Classmates are proud to present to you The Class of 1968 Give A Rouse Award.