Joseph M. Jabar '68

Pulitzer Prize-winning presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin '64's "authoritative, steadying insights" in her frequent television appearances during national crises have "taken history off the shelf and put it to work in real-life lessons, reassuring the nation that it has survived worse and flourished," according to People magazine. Said Goodwin, who has sold the movie rights to her current research on Lincoln to Steven Spielberg, "If you get people to care about characters, they'll go willingly with you into this past time" * Morgan McGinley '64, editorial page editor of The Day in New London, Conn., received the Stephen A. Collins Freedom of Information Award from the Connecticut Council on Freedom of Information. The award honors a Connecticut journalist who has made a long-term commitment to citizens' right to know what their government is doing * Northern Illinois University General Counsel George M. Shur '64 was honored with the Distinguished Service Award by the National Association of College and University Attorneys for extraordinary service to the group and to higher education. NACUA is the preeminent professional organization in North America for attorneys who work on behalf of higher learning * Business People Vermont featured Kurt M. Swenson '67, who "started in the quarries" in his family's granite business and today is chairman, president and CEO of Rock of Ages Corp. in Barre, Vt. The 1.5 million cubic feet of granite Swenson's company sells each year are destined for such uses as headstones, sundials, statues and rollers for paper manufacturers * Democrat Joseph M. Jabar '68 was tapped by Governor Angus King to be a Maine Superior Court judge. An attorney in the Waterville firm of Jabar, Batten, Ringer & Murphy, where he has practiced since 1979, Jabar has served in the Maine House of Representatives, as a prosecutor with the U.S. Justice Department and as district attorney for Maine's Kennebec and Somerset counties.

Deaths: Kalman S. Sinofsky '68, September 10, 2001, in Worcester, Mass., at 54.