The 2007 Social Justice Awards Ceremony, organized by the Martin Luther King Celebration Committee, took place in Collis Common Ground on Friday. Four alumni received awards at the ceremony. Thomas W. Wahman '60, the founder and president of the internationally oriented Resources Development Foundation, was one award recipient. Karen Kramer Hein DMS'68 received an award for her role as former president of the William T. Grant Foundation and founder of the United States's first adolescent HIV/AIDS program. Jim Butterworth Tu'91, founder of Incite Productions and producer and director of the film Seoul Train, and Paul D. Holzer '00,director of Higher Education at the Latin American Youth Center in Washington, D.C., also received awards. The Summer Enrichment at Dartmouth program and the Mascoma Clinic were also recognized at the event.
Faculty gathered to attend this weekend's event, New England and Afghanistan: Building Paths of Understanding and Collaboration Across Borders. The event, free and open to the public, included lectures, presentations, discussions, film screenings and performances focused on Afghani development, education, culture and law. Programs included a film screening of Kabul Transit by David Edwards, a faculty workshop on legal reform in Afghanistan and a discussion of international development work and workers in Afghanistan. "What I take away from this conference is learning," geography professor Jennifer Fluri said in her closing remarks. "We need to continue to be open-minded to learn from the Afghans here today."
In the hope of introducing students to fields within business aside from consulting and investment banking, the Dartmouth Black Business Association held a pubic relations and marketing panel discussion Friday afternoon. The discussion was co-sponsored by Career Services through the "All Dreams Are Welcome Here" fund. The event, attended by approximately 50 students, featured three panelists who discussed their experiences in the marketing world and fielded student questions. The panelists included Allison Zeilinger '04, who works for Lippincott Mercer, a brand strategy and design consulting firm; Carl Strathmeyer '70, a technical marketing consultant; and Andrea Perez Garcia Tu'08, a current Tuck student who has worked as a product line manager and marketing coordinator for Nike in Mexico.
