2022 Give A Rouse Award  Recipient Citations

Peter – your life has been filled with service to others, including your 1965 civil rights work in North Carolina as a sophomore at Dartmouth. ● Since graduating from the University of Washington Law School in 1973 you have been providing pro bono service to “the underdog.” ● In October 2019 you travelled to Yelapa, Mexico which had been wiped out by two flash floods, organizing and coordinating on-site relief efforts. ● In March 2020, when the State of Washington imposed a COVID quarantine, you began personally preparing and delivering 100 meals a day. Over a year this grew to delivering 150 meals from a community kitchen to three homeless camps, seven days a week. ● Your next project was assisting Portland activists with gas masks and protecting the Wall of Moms and the Wall of Veterans from tear gas with your high-powered leaf blower. ● September 2020 found you in rural North Carolina for the general election. You went to the rural area where you had done your 60s civil rights work to support and energize local leaders and provide voter protection. ● After the 2020 general election, you arrived in Georgia to design and supply specialized signs to grassroots activists from numerous ethnic groups for the January 2021 special Senatorial election. ● In 2022 you continue your support of a village in Mexico fighting to block damming of its life-sustaining river. ● For your decades of service to others, your Classmates are proud to present to you The Class of 1968 Give A Rouse Award.

Tom – you are a leading authority and activist in the academic study and teaching of disability narrative. After studies at Dartmouth, Oxford and Brown, while teaching at Hofstra you noticed an upsurge in "life-writing" narratives (memoirs, diaries, and other forms) of illness and disability and the presence of disabled students in your environment. ● You became Director of Disability Studies at Hofstra and until retirement taught two required courses, Introduction to Disability Studies and Disability in Literature. ● You also specialize in Native American literature and led a Class Webinar on Samson Occom. ● Since retiring, you have lectured across the globe and your written works are required reading at numerous universities. Your work explores ethical issues involved in disability memoirs, the rhetorical patterns they frequently employ, and the complex relationship between disability narrative and disability law. One of your books was influential in the creation of the Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies. ● As a volunteer, you are very involved in the work of New London Landmarks, the city's preeminent historic preservation organization (another Class Webinar), and currently serve in your second term as president. You devote considerable time to title searches documenting older buildings for NLL’s plaque program, and have done well over 100 in the past 5 years. ● For your initiative, creativity, concern for your fellow human beings, and respect for learning and the organizations that foster it, your Classmates are proud to present to you The Class of 1968 Give A Rouse Award.

Peter - from your time at Dartmouth, service to others has been your hallmark. You recruited classmates to donate blood and started yourself (216+ pints and counting). ● For two summers you worked at a camp for underprivileged, emotionally disturbed children. ● Your Peace Corps experience (1969-1971) informed your career and volunteer decisions. ● Your public, non-profit, and private sector work encompassed land and water planning, groundwater development and protection, environmental impact statements for controversial projects, affordable housing, alternate energy, and educational assessment. ● In Canterbury, NH, your long-time home, you served on the Conservation Commission; as a leader of a multi-year, school district planning effort; and as town chair during a gubernatorial election. ● Moving to Lee, MA in 2013, you soon headed the local environmental committee, whose achievements include plastic shopping bag and polystyrene container bans, zero-waste events, the installation of water bottle filling stations, and support for the town’s first community garden. You helped organize a statewide conference on plastic bans and assisted others striving to regulate plastics. You even received a regional environmental leadership award. ● Serving the Class and College, you were our first post-graduation President; for years recruited 40+ Dartmouth College Fund fraternity agents; and as a Ripley Society member are a DCF solicitor. You spawned and help shepherd the Class’s Community Service Project, and served during the Give A Rouse Award committee’s inaugural year. ● For the passion to serve that inspires everything you do, your Classmates are proud to present to you The Class of 1968 Give A Rouse Award.

Richard - you have been creative, energetic, and generous in your efforts to improve the lives of others living in Providence, RI. ● Your endeavors have included: chairing and serving on the Board of Providence’s Downtown Improvement District; serving on the Board of the Providence Foundation; and founding Providence Promise, where you were Board Chairman and continue to serve actively on its Board. ● Providence Promise’s (PP) mission is to promote high educational aspirations and more equitable opportunities for public school students by advocating for college savings accounts and family engagement, increasing financial literacy, and reducing the financial burden of higher education.  Currently, PP serves 597 children of whom 86% identify as Latino/Spanish or Black/African American. ● At the time of enrollment, PP seeds each child’s Children’s Savings Account (CSA) with $100 and secures the parents’ commitment to contribute an average of one percent of their income to their child’s CSA.  PP’s goal is to build a college-going culture so that the children can fulfill their dreams and the dreams of their families. ● In addition, following in your father’s (Class of 1937) footsteps, you have made generous contributions to Dartmouth and are a 1769 Society member. ● For your lifelong commitment to helping those less fortunate to secure a college education, your Classmates are proud to present to you The Class of 1968 Give A Rouse Award.

Henry - you earned your M.D. from Cornell Medical College and completed your internal medicine internship and residency at New York Hospital and Johns Hopkins Hospital. ● In New York you saw one of the first cases of AIDS and published one of the earliest papers on the syndrome. You were recruited to the National Institutes of Health to establish a critical care medicine department and an HIV/AIDS program with the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. You are widely known for your expertise in the management of HIV and ICU-related infections. ● Your department attained international acclaim for leadership in the areas of sepsis, emerging infections, HIV/AIDS, and sickle cell disease. You co-chair NIH Guidelines for Management of HIV-Related Opportunistic Infections, and NIH COVID Management Guidelines. ● You lead the District of Columbia Partnership for AIDS Progress, a collaboration between NIH and the D.C. government aiming to create an urban model for decreasing the impact of HIV/AIDS on underserved populations. ● In 2021 you received the Daniel Webster Award for Distinguished Public Service from the Dartmouth Club of Washington, D.C. The award recognizes alumni with records of significant public service and/or public policy accomplishments made during employment by a government or nonprofit organization in the D.C. area, demonstrating exemplary personal values and leadership qualities. ● For decades of leadership in the fight against AIDS, and for developing cutting-edge health programs benefiting all Americans, your Classmates are proud to present to you The Class of 1968 Give A Rouse Award.

Hank - in 1970 when 90% of the peregrine falcon population in the American west had disappeared and the species had vanished in eastern America, you joined the fight to save this cherished bird. The Peregrine Fund, working with scientists, universities, and government agencies, led the falcon's recovery and removal from the endangered species list in 1999. ● A lifelong conservationist and birder, you’ve chaired both the Peregrine Fund and the Nature Conservancy, and founded the Nature Conservancy’s Asia-Pacific Council. ● While Chairman of Goldman Sachs, you oversaw the donation of 680,000 acres of forest in Tierra del Fuego. You founded the Latin American Conservation Council; and co-founded the Risky Business Project, a non-partisan initiative that addresses the economic risks of climate change in the United States. ● You founded and chair the Paulson Institute, an independent non-profit focused on US/China relations, especially in regard to environmental and economic issues. You are also executive chairman of the $7 billion TPG Rise fund, dedicated to commercializing climate technologies and building the outstanding climate companies of the future. ● In addition, you founded and co-chair the Aspen Economic Strategy Group, a bi-partisan initiative to enable more Americans to share in our economic success. As Treasury Secretary under President Bush from 2006 to 2009, you helped mitigate the effects of the Great Recession on our nation and stabilize the global financial system. ● For your extraordinary contributions to our nation and the world, your Classmates are proud to present to you The Class of 1968 Give A Rouse Award.