Steve – Your life has been filled with superlative service outreach. ● From 1978 to 1986, you practiced at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. You ran the pediatric department’s internship/residency program and were the primary instructor of residents in pediatrics. ● You began international public health work in 1986, joining CARE International in India as director of CARE’s Primary Health Care Unit, a post in which you served until 1994. ● You then spent seven years in UNICEF’s New Delhi office, managing health programs. You played an integral role in India’s polio eradication effort. ● In 2001, you became the advisor for health and nutrition in UNICEF’s East Asia and Pacific Office in Bangkok, Thailand. You worked with more than 20 countries to improve the impact of programs that focused on children’s rights to access quality health care. ● After the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, you went to Banda Aceh, Indonesia, for six months as UNICEF Indonesia director of emergency operations. ● You were honored with the Outstanding Lifetime Achievement Award by the Alumni Association of Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Yeshiva University; and a Dartmouth College Social Justice Award, the Lester B. Granger ’19 Award for Lifetime Achievement. ● Returning stateside, you kept your hand in public health via a three-year appointment as the health officer of Vershire and West Fairlee, Vermont. You also initiated free pop-up clinics providing Covid and flu vaccinations. ● For your unceasing efforts to improve the health of mankind, your classmates are proud to present you with the Class of 1968 Give A Rouse Award.
Michael – After graduation from Dartmouth and the Harvard Business School, you enjoyed great success in the business world, holding senior positions at leading multinational corporations and KKR. ● Your professional experience includes four decades of major responsibilities in private equity funds in Latin America and the United States, and operational roles at the CEO, CFO, and Vice President levels, and as a partner in Pegasus Capital, a private equity fund based in Buenos Aires. ● You became President and CEO of ACCION International, a private, non-profit corporation that operates in the United States and across the world. The organization seeks to combat poverty and unemployment through financial inclusion, pioneering access to capital by especially the self-employed poor. ● You were the cofounder and managing director of IGNIA, which supports early-stage start-up businesses in Latin America. ● Having become an expert in the delivery of social impact through business models, you taught this subject at the Harvard Business School where you were a member of the faculty for over two decades. You also served on the board of the World Justice Project, an independent, multidisciplinary organization working to create knowledge, build awareness, and stimulate action to advance the rule of law worldwide. ● In addition, you served as a Trustee of Dartmouth College and received a D.B.A. honoris causa from Bryant College. ● For your long-term service to those less fortunate around the world and to our alma mater, your classmates are proud to present you the Class of 1968 Give A Rouse Award.
John – Upon your graduation from Dartmouth and commission as a Navy ensign, Admiral Rickover, father of the nuclear navy, selected you to join our nuclear submarine fleet. You completed the naval nuclear power program, reported for duty aboard a nuclear submarine, and earned your dolphins. ● After multiple tours as a submarine line officer, you decided to return to Dartmouth to study medicine and continue your naval career as a physician. ● During medical school, you co-founded a marathon that became a Boston Marathon qualifier and developed a 13-mile run from Lyme to the Ledyard Canoe Club for veterans and non-marathon runners. ● After medical school, you completed a residency at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda and remained to become chairman of the Department of Internal Medicine. In 1994, you became Attending Physician of the U.S. Congress and a rear admiral. ● For the next fifteen years you were responsible for the medical welfare of 540 members of Congress, nine Supreme Court justices, and some 90 congressional pages. You were also responsible for providing emergency care to thousands of Capitol Hill employees and millions of visitors to the Capitol annually. ● Ever the loyal alumnus, you returned to Dartmouth often to attend meetings of the Medical School Alumni Council, participate in career days for aspiring physicians, and simply to reconnect. ● It is with great pride and deep gratitude for your leadership and service that your classmates present you the Class of 1968 Give A Rouse Award.
David – With values influenced by the Holocaust and by living in post-War Europe in your youth, you have devoted your life in service to others. ● While still in high school, you joined the Congress for Racial Equality, participated in boycotts and demonstrations, and assisted in planning the 1963 March on Washington. ● At Dartmouth, you co-founded the prison counseling program at the Vermont State Penitentiary and organized forums in Cutter Hall. ● After Dartmouth you served in the Peace Corps for two years in Kenya, studied anthropology at Brown and returned to Kenya to conduct your PhD research. ● Subsequently, you managed and taught in an adult degree program at the University of Rhode Island’s Providence campus. Many of the students were mothers just entering the workforce. ● You joined and later became president of a Providence non-profit called Stop Wasting Abandoned Property, which promoted home ownership through sweat equity for low-income families. ● You performed research for a regional heart health program and worked for 15 years for Plan International, one of the world’s foremost child-centered NGOs, operating in over fifty countries. And then you consulted for other international NGOs. ● Along the way, you taught yourself filmmaking and for 25 years have made films focusing on art, international development and community organizations. ● You have served on the board of your neighborhood environmental organization, managing its website and supporting a local tree inventory. ● For these good works (among several others), your classmates are proud to present to you the Class of 1968 Give a Rouse Award.
Joe – What happens in New England, stays in New England – in your case that has been a lot. ● Your undergraduate years at Dartmouth were characterized by outstanding scholarship and service: you were a Phi Beta Kappa English major, graduating Summa Cum Laude as class salutatorian and a Rufus Choate scholar. You served the College and class as a member of the Green Key Society. ● Immediately after graduation, you taught high school English for 2 years before graduating cum laude from Harvard Law School. A distinguished law career ensued: Assistant Attorney General for Massachusetts, then becoming a justice of various Massachusetts courts culminating with Associate Justice of the state’s Appeals Court. When a judge, you were known for intelligence and fairness, despite recognition by your Western Ski Trip classmates as “Hanging Judge Joe Grasso.” ● Dartmouth and the class of 1968 benefited from your service on the Dartmouth Alumni Council including the Presidential Search Committee, as class president, Dartmouth College Fund agent, memorialist and 15th reunion chair. The Dartmouth Alumni Award recognized your service to the College. ● Your dedication to community was reflected in your membership on the Town of Andover Conservation Commission, the Family Service Association of Greater Lawrence, and as a teacher of Catechism in Andover’s St. Augustine Parish. ● For your remarkable contributions to community, college, and class matched by an outstanding career in law in which you dedicated your life to the service of justice, your classmates are proud to present you the Class of 1968 Give A Rouse Award.
Richard – You’ve always exhibited a deep commitment to social justice. You were a Tucker Foundation Talladega Project participant, and taught at Miles College in Alabama. ● Among many notable achievements, your first job after Oxford was as a Junior Fellow at the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, then one of the country’s most prominent liberal think tanks. ● You were cofounder, editor, and publisher of Mother Jones, America’s largest progressive publication. ● You boosted Greenpeace’s membership from 2,000 to 700,000. Through Parker/Dodd, your strategic consulting firm, you raised over $300 million for Ted Kennedy, George McGovern, John Glenn, the Sierra Club, Friends of the Earth, PETA, People for the American Way, the ACLU and others. ● In thirty years of teaching at Harvard’s Kennedy School students repeatedly named you “Teacher of the Year.” ● You were national president of Americans for Democratic Action and still serve on the editorial board of The Nation. You helped negotiate Greece’s unprecedented $200 billion rescue package after Lehman’s bankruptcy spread America’s Great Recession to Europe. ● You are the author of three books including a celebrated biography of John Kenneth Galbraith. In retirement you’ve joined the board of March for Our Lives to help David Hogg, a former student, and his Parkland shooting survivors limit gun violence, and you still run a grantmaking foundation that has given over $50 million to support progressive change. ● For an exceptionally productive life in service to others, your classmates are proud to present you with the Class of 1968 Give A Rouse Award.
David – across the years, you have been deeply and broadly engaged in service to your College and local and regional communities. Your good works are so abundant and of such long standing that we cannot do more than briefly identify them here given space constraints. ● In service to Dartmouth you have filled many positions and participated in many activities including: For the Class of 1968 – President, Secretary, Alumni Councilor, Arts Legacy Committee Chair, Give A Rouse Committee, 20th Reunion Chair, Co-Memorialist, Dartmouth College Fund solicitor, Travelogue Committee (an initiative you authored and regularly contribute to) and Webinar Series Committee. ● For the College – Ripley Society, Admissions Ambassador and Dartmouth Book Award coordinator. ● For your adopted hometown of Plymouth, Massachusetts your activities include – Town Building Committee Chair, Town Zoning Board of Appeals Vice Chair, Town Meeting member, Charter Committee and Commission, Church of the Pilgrimage Choir, Pilgrim Festival Chorus, Pilgrim Hall Museum Trustee, and member of the New Plimmoth Gard, reenacting the town’s historic militia. ● And let us not forget you are the retired Director of Facility Planning after 30 years of exemplary experience at Boston Children’s Hospital in health care master planning, programming, space management, architectural design and project management. ● For these laudable commitments going back decades, which represent remarkable expenditures of time and energy to College and community activities, your classmates are proud to present to you the Dartmouth Class of 1968 Give A Rouse Award.
Ed – While modestly “flying under the radar,” you have quietly done much to help people in need and to support advances in medical research and treatment. For many years, you and your family have displayed a deep sense of social responsibility, particularly in the fields of education, public radio, and the welfare of those who are disadvantaged or disabled. ● You have endowed professorships at Stanford and UCSF Medical Schools and you have also created medical research funds at those two schools as well as at Tufts. ● For the disabled community, you have created gardens and picnic areas for their enjoyment. ● You served as Chairman of the Board of Oakland College Preparatory School, and you also sat on the Boards of Public Radio International (now called PRX/PRI) and the Board of Governors of the University of Haifa. ● You have been a loyal Dartmouth alumnus. You stepped up to help pay for the renovation of Webster Hall and for the creation of Rauner Library. Not only have you made generous donations but you have also done such things as hosting large mini-Reunions at your home. These are just an illustrative and impressive sample of your numerous social responsibility initiatives and quiet support for your college and class. ● For these accomplishments (and others too numerous to list here), your classmates are proud to present you the Class of 1968 Give A Rouse Award.
Peter – For decades you provided opportunities for young people aimed at producing leaders and productive citizens of the United States and the world. ● At Keene State College you created a curriculum with core values of sustainable design, learning by doing, and community service. You devised one key course, a “Collaborative Architecture Project,” in which students undertook full semester projects for community non-profits and other service organizations in Southwest New Hampshire. ● Once you grew the program at Keene State, you investigated opportunities to extend your service projects to developing countries starting with a non-profit in Haiti. You set up students with sustainable design projects in India; initiated projects for two non-profits in Rwanda; and established a school in Uganda for the New Hampshire-based non-profit “AfriCanEducate.” ● In Harrisville, New Hampshire where you live, you joined the Volunteer Fire Department for 25 years, becoming a professionally certified firefighter and training officer. ● You served on Harrisville government boards including the Conservation Commission, Historic District Commission, Zoning Board of Appeals, and a citizens’ committee to create a Master Plan for the town. ● You continue to serve on the City of Keene Marketing and Development Committee for the Keene Airport and you serve on the Planning Committee of the Northeast Sustainable Energy Association for their annual Boston conference. ● For your dedication to building lifetime commitments to service in future generations of Americans and your many contributions to the citizens of the world, your classmates are proud to honor you with the Class of 1968 Give A Rouse Award.
Fred – the good works you accomplished in your lifetime will surely ripple across the decades, benefiting not only current generations but future generations as well. ● Your distinguished legal career culminated as a partner for 25 years at the law firm of Ballard Spahr in Baltimore. An accomplished real estate and transactional lawyer, you were widely regarded as a national expert in complex real estate financing transactions. Equally important, you were invaluable to a generation of lawyers whom you trained and mentored. ● You were deeply committed to your community. Over a 46-year span you served three terms as the board chair of the Mount Washington Pediatric Hospital and once as the Hospital Foundation chair. You led multiple transformational expansions of the hospital’s services and clinical research including: an Autism spectrum center; developmental evaluation; feeding disorders; a nutritional rehabilitation center; a learning assessment center; rehabilitation therapy (injuries and disabilities); and a trauma and healing program. ● You also managed a two-step merger process over several years whereby Mount Washington Pediatric Hospital became equally owned by Johns Hopkins Medicine and University of Maryland Medical Systems, resulting in the only joint venture, co-owned hospital in the country. ● You served as chair of the board of Jewish Family Services, chair of the University of Maryland Hillel and member of the board of The Associated Jewish Charities. ● For all you achieved in service to your fellow Americans, your classmates are proud to honor you posthumously with this Class of 1968 Give A Rouse Award.