2023 Give A Rouse Award  Recipient Citations

Parker – by putting the needs of others first, you empower them to perform at their best. You have spent a lifetime helping students, many the sons and daughters of Dartmouth, to realize a world-class education. ● Following graduation as a member of Naval ROTC with an A.B. in Government, you spent four years in the Navy. You then worked two years as an admissions officer at Dartmouth and subsequently earned a Stanford M.A. in Education Administration and Policy Analysis. ● You have counseled students worldwide, while serving as Stanford’s Associate Director of Admissions and Director of Transfer Admissions; as Assistant Superintendent and College Counselor at Kaohsiung American School in Taiwan; and as Counselor at the American International School of Lagos. ● For 26 years as Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid at Colby College (1985-2011), you opened the door to multitudes of aspiring young people, as well as ensuring they could afford to dream big dreams. ● For Dartmouth, you have served as District Enrollment Director, Alumni Councilor, Class Secretary, and Dartmouth College Fund solicitor, and since becoming our head agent in 2018, you have led your class to three Top 5 finishes in the all-class, all-time, “years out” standings. ● You have served 34 years as a trustee of Kents Hill School and are a founding member of the Waterville Community Land Trust, a nonprofit to expand affordable housing in your hometown. ● For all you do, the Class of 1968 proudly presents you the Dartmouth Class of 1968 Give a Rouse Award.

Bob - concern for others was a hallmark of your illustrious medical career.  You were justly known not only for your considerable skills, but also for the empathy you manifested in caring for and listening to your patients. ● You served as President of the Vermont State Medical Society and in that capacity fought for better, more affordable medical care for all Vermonters. You also worked with physicians in other states and in the AMA to champion reforms, such as medical aid in dying, intended to improve medical care for everyone. ● You founded and led Physicians Services of Vermont, which promoted the idea that health care should be regarded as a human right available to everyone. You advocated for the creation of cooperative physician networks to improve access to quality medical care, rather than having insurance companies decide what patient care is appropriate. ● You served Dartmouth by interviewing prospective students and representing our Class on the Alumni Council. A classmate said about your days as our Councilor, “I thought he should have the position for life, he was so good at it.” ● In defense of the environment, you participated in a group that retained counsel to challenge a proposed solar development that would have despoiled a forest. You endured seven years of litigation, but ultimately prevailed before the Vermont Supreme Court. ● For your dedication to your patients, your community, and the citizens of Vermont, your classmates are proud to present you with the Class of 1968 Give A Rouse Award.

Bob – with Uncle Sam’s draft nipping at your heels in the summer of 1968, you put your law school plans on hold and joined the Peace Corps. In Colombia, South America you did exciting, deeply satisfying community organizing and development work. It was, in your words, a life-changing experience. ● When you returned to the United States, you lived at an organic apple farm in Northern California, and then landed in Cloverdale, a small city north of San Francisco. There you made a career choice to serve others. ● For 40-plus years you served your Cloverdale community in multiple ways. Fluent in Spanish since a high school foreign exchange program and a Dartmouth term in Spain, you taught Spanish at a local community college. ● You led a self-help affordable housing project in Mendocino County. ● For 28 years you were the director of operations at California Human Development, a non-profit where you managed 700 employees, helping thousands of immigrants and (primarily Spanish-speaking) farm workers become self-sufficient after gaining technical and vocational skills. ● You spent 13 years on the Cloverdale Planning Commission, 8 years as chair. ● You also served as the regional United Way manager in Mendocino County. ● You once said, “I never made big bucks, but I slept well and found much gratification with my life choices and in my community involvement.” ● For a career of service to your fellow man that is emblematic of this award, your classmates are proud to present you with the Class of 1968 Give A Rouse Award.

Woody – when you came to Dartmouth, one of a dozen Blacks in our class, you thought that, with a few exceptions, you were among the first black students there. You found yourself discussing what it meant to be Black at Dartmouth. Those conversations led to formation of the Afro-American Society, now a place both within and part of the larger Dartmouth community. You, an excellent student and a natural leader, were chosen its first president. ● A sense of community has been central to your life – growing up in a close-knit family, at Dartmouth, serving as our Class Alumni Councilor, and in four decades as a lauded cardiologist, professor, and associate dean for multicultural affairs at Yale School of Medicine where you helped hundreds of minority students enter the medical and scientific community. ● Your dedication to building community is reflected in your extraordinary commitment to helping Dartmouth appreciate the extent to which Blacks have been significant members of its community throughout its history. Your research into the history of Blacks at Dartmouth, including your biography of Dartmouth’s first Black graduate, Edward Mitchell, 1828, is a gift enabling the entire Dartmouth community, especially its Black students and alumni, to feel a deep sense of pride and a profound understanding of the important role Blacks have played at Dartmouth. Your path-breaking leadership and courage have made Dartmouth a better place for all. ● For these achievements, your classmates are proud to present to you the Class of 1968 Give a Rouse Award.

Charlie – upon graduation you joined the Peace Corps and served in India, where your grandfather was a missionary and your father was born. Helping India’s poor became a life-long commitment for you. ● In 1981, you joined the Illinois Board of Higher Education and began a distinguished career in education policy because you believed education is essential to a functioning society. ● From 1984 to 2003 you worked for the Western Interstate Commission on Higher Education; the State Higher Education Executive Officers association (SHEEO); the Education Commission of the States; and the Minnesota Private College Council. ● In 2003 you returned to SHEEO until retirement in 2015 focusing on academic planning and policy at the state/system levels; student preparation; assessment of learning outcomes; financing, governance and accountability. You wrote multiple position papers impacting decision-making in American education. You represented SHEEO at international conferences on education policy and led United States participation in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development’s multinational Assessing Higher Education Learning Outcomes project. ● Continuing to help villagers in India, you decided to make a gift from your estate so Sanjeevini Trust could purchase a modern ambulance with greatly expanded emergency capabilities. Sanjeevini Trust named the ambulance after you. Your wife, Susan, says that of all your volunteer work, you were most proud of supporting those villagers. ● For your contributions to our nation’s educational systems and your unflagging volunteerism in India, your Classmates are proud to honor you posthumously with this Class of 1968 Give A Rouse Award.