Spring 1997

Features

High Priests of Random
When you're doing the huge, long-term trials that modern medical science requires to find out if new treatments work, how do you keep all the data straight?
Leonard Sherp

Rescue the Living, Recover the Dead
After the Alfred P. Murrah Building in Oklahoma City blew sky-high, three medical emergency specialists from GW rushed to the rescue. They won't forget the shock and frustration of those days -- or the warmth of a grateful community.
Jamie L. Freedman, MA '96

Following Protocall
It's an MBA student's dream come true: A class project turns into a thriving, high-tech business. Now, if you want marketing, polling or new-employee screening by phone, just call Protocall.
Hope Katz Gibbs

Departments

GW News

• Three Trustees Join the Board
• Centuries Campaign is Half Way There
• Private Partner Likely for GW Hospital
• George Washington and Mount Vernon
• Together at Last
• GW Hillel Celebrates 50th Birthday
• Work Hard, Play Hard (US News rankings)
• Election Day '96: 11 of 16 GW Candidates Win
• All Revved Up and Nowhere to Park
• Alumni Association Gets new Names, New Rules
• Colonial Women: Deep with Defense
• Judaica Collection Donated to Gelman
• Men's Hoops: Three Score, Need Score
• School's Out, Let's Do Crime
• Scottish Rite Masons Consecrate New Dorm
• AIDS
• In Your Face
• Bright Horizons Daycare Center Opens Next to Campus

Alumni Newsmakers

• Dee Anna Smith, BA '94 (Oscar Mayer Weinermobile)
• Steve Hersey, BBA '92 (Monument Ale)
• Jordan Miller, BBA '90 (Monument Ale)
• Tony and Lisa Simon, (both) BA '88 (Thurston romance)

Alumni Bookshelf

• Allida Black, PhD '92 (Casting Her Own Shadow: Eleanor Roosevelt and the Shaping of Post- War Liberalism)
• Dino A. Brugioni, BA '47, MA '98 ("The Art and Science of Photoreconnaissance")
• Robert W. Chandler, MA '70, PhD '74 (Tomorrow's War, Today's Decisions)
• Anne Brill Chason, AA '52 (Alphabet Belonging to Christ)
• Michel R. Doret, PhD '82 (Fonds Doret 98)
• Ivan W. Fitzwater, BS '55, MA '59, EdD '65 (Time Management for School Administrators)
• Dick Reynolds, BA '64 (short stories)
• Linda Rifkind Sernoff, MA '71 (Research Reports: A Guide for Middle and High School Parents)
• John Darrell Sherwood, PhD '95 (Officers in Flight Suits: The Story of American Air Force Fighter Pilots in the Korean War)
• Carol S. Weissert, MPA '78 (Governing Health: The Politics of Health Policy)

A Faculty for Writing

• Christopher Sten, The Weaver God, He Weaves
• Susan Tolchin, The Angry American
• Emmet Kennedy, Theatre, Opera, and Audiences in Revolutionary Paris

Speak Out and Viewpoint

• Reach Out and Touch Someone Else, Pal
  Carol A. Kochhar

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