Lynmar Brock, Jr. '55 Tu'56 recently published "Must Thee Fight," a novel for young adults. According to BookSurge LLC, Brock's publisher, the novel centers around the protagonist, Thomas Pratt, in the 1700s as he attempts to reconcile his pacifist Quaker upbringing with the call to arms during the Revolutionary Era. Brock himself dealt with a similar conflict in his own life as both a Quaker and an officer in the United States Navy, which he joined after graduating from Dartmouth. Brock, who is the president and CEO of Brock and Company Inc., is currently involved with a number of philanthropic and community organizations. A former director of Rotary International, Brock is a member of the Willistown Friends Meeting and the Welcome Society. He resides in Pennsylvania with his wife, Claudie, and has two sons.
A CNN film documenting Teach for America played in Carson Hall Monday as part of a recruiting session for the program. Teach for America is a federally sponsored organization that seeks to enroll recent graduates from prestigious colleges and universities as public school teachers. Yuki Kondo-Shah '07 and Dana Walker '07, Dartmouth liaisons for Teach for America, organized the film viewing.
"We are trying to make people aware of the educational inequality and achievement gap in our current education system," Walker said. "For example, low-income fourth grade students are, on average, already three grade levels behind their high-income peers and are seven times less likely to attend college. This CNN documentary highlights why it is so urgent that more of this country's top leaders, which of course include future Dartmouth graduates, enter the classroom and impact change on the ground level."
"Scholars, Dollars, Budgets and Bills," a seminar focused on teaching students about the financial world, was held Tuesday in the Rockefeller Center. The seminar, sponsored by the Young Alumni of Dartmouth Activities organization, was run by Monster.com's Making It Count program.
"The goals for the event are to provide students with information regarding the appropriate use of credit, the basics of banking, how to control and address student loan debt and avoid identity theft," said Abigail Drevs '03, program manager for Young Alumni, Students and Diversity.
