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Three Yale seniors will travel to Oxford next October as recipients of the Rhodes Scholarship, the oldest and most prestigious of the international study awards available to American students. The 32 Rhodes winners from the United States were announced in November; Duke and the University of Chicago also had three awardees, and the United States Naval Academy had four. A top high school football player in Vermont, Nathan Herring spent his first two years of college at the University of Miami on a football scholarship. After transferring to Yale in 2004, he switched his major to psychology and began volunteering at a local residence for mentally disturbed youth, where he developed an outdoor therapy program for troubled teenagers. For Jessica Leight, an internship at the Council of Hemispheric Affairs in Washington, D.C., led to a position as a research fellow and travels to Chile and Argentina, where she has spoken and written on issues of trade, growth, and politics. At Yale, Leight spent two years as national coordinator for the Student Campaign for Child Survival, a children's advocacy organization which now has 20 chapters nationwide. Chelsea Purvis has done volunteer work in the Dominican Republic, Cuba, Haiti, Sierra Leone, and India. Among her extracurricular activities, the history major tutors elementary school children and is a leader of the student group Food for the Earth, which teaches New Haven schoolchildren about food and the environment. Also announced in November were the 43 winners of the Marshall Scholarship for study in the United Kingdom. In addition to Herring, who declined the Marshall to accept the Rhodes, Yale winners include seniors Rachel Denison,Alexander Nemser,Sarah Stillman, and Daniel Weeks.
Stepping Down Two years to the day after signing on as Yale's vice president for finance and administration, John Pepper '60 stepped down on January 1. Pepper, who had planned from the beginning to stay for only two years, is returning to Cincinnati, Ohio, to become CEO of the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, an institution he helped found in 1994. At Yale, Pepper took steps to strengthen labor-management relations and improve Yale's administrative culture. Bruce Alexander '65, vice president and director of Yale's Office of New Haven and State Affairs, will assume Pepper's duties until the administration finds a permanent successor.
Remembered The voice of Yale football for 33 seasons, Dick Galiette, died unexpectedly at St. Raphael's Hospital on October 21 after a short illness. He was 72. Galiette, who anchored ESPN's SportsCenter for a time in the 1980s, was the radio announcer for Bulldog games on various local stations from 1963 to 1988. After a ten-year hiatus, he returned in 1998 to run play-by-play with former Yale head coach Carm Cozza. A graduate of the U.S. Naval School of Journalism, Galiette called Yale's first five games this fall, broadcasting his last at Lehigh on October 15.
Honored History professor John Lewis Gaddis and alumni Richard Gilder '54 and Lewis Lehrman '60 were among the 11 recipients of the 2005 National Humanities Medal at a White House ceremony on November 10. Gaddis, the Robert A. Lovett Professor of History and Political Science, has authored eight seminal volumes about the Cold War era, building on material in the former Soviet archives to reassess the causes of that conflict. He teaches a popular undergraduate course on the Cold War and co-teaches a well-known seminar on Grand Strategy. He is chair of the International Affairs Council at the Yale Center for International and Area Studies. Businessmen with a passion for history, Gilder and Lehrman established the Gilder Lehrman Collection and the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, out of which grew Yale's Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition. They are also founders and sponsors of the Lincoln Prize, the Frederick Douglass Book Award, and the George Washington Book Prize, all of which reward outstanding works of American history. |
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