Paul R. Doyle '85

Daniel E. Weeks '83 received the American Public Health Association's 2001 Mortimer Spiegelman Award, which honors a statistician age 40 or younger for an outstanding contribution to the field of health statistics. An associate professor of human genetics at the University of Pittsburgh, Weeks has contributed significantly to methodology development in statistical genetics. He was recognized for discovering innovative ways to map susceptibility genes involved in genetically complex diseases such as autism, diabetes, endometriosis and macular degeneration * Connecticut Banking Magazine called Paul R. Doyle '85 "a thorough and thoughtful lawmaker." A fourth-term Democrat in the Connecticut General Assembly, Doyle earned plaudits in his first term as House chair of the Connecticut General Assembly's banks committee, which has authority over all state chartered banks and many statutes affecting federal banks * Worcester (Mass.) Magazine ran a lengthy interview with Dr. Gregory R. Ciottone '87, commander of the Central Massachusetts Disaster Medical Assistance Team, one of 25 Level 1 teams in the country's National Disaster Medical System. For 12 days after the World Trade Center tragedy in New York City in September his team treated search and rescue people. "[T]here were hundreds of people on the outskirts with signs, jumping up and down, clapping, 'Thank you,' 'God bless you.' It's a very moving thing," he said. "I've seen New Yorkers really pour their souls out in every way."

Births: A son, Philip Wheaton Bligh, to Lisa A. Spollen '85 and Raymond W. Bligh '85 * A son, Sean Callahan Pratley, to Phillip and Lorin Haughs Pratley '88.

Marriages: Brian M. Kennedy '87 to Evanthia V. Brickates in Portland, Maine * Robert J. Coupe Jr. '89 to Johnna Rozen in Johnston, R.I. * Brad J. Mitchell '89 to Lori E. Stephens in Portola Valley, Calif.

Deaths: Sue-Ellen Whelan '80, September 18, 2001, in Charlestown, Mass., at 43 * John W. Mutterperl '84, August 20, 2001, in Massachusetts at 39.