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This is an incomplete list. Additional information is being gathered
about those alums listed. Other alumni/ae are being contacted for permission to
include here. If you're aware of others, please let us know!
Among Dartmouth College Alumni/ae contributing to a greater
understanding of alcohol and other drug use are:
- Clark M.D., Theodore, Class of 1947.
- DeJong, William, Class of 1973.
- Erdrich, Louise, Class of 1976.
- Gleason, David, Class of 1954.
- Kleber, Herbert, M.D., Class of 1956.
- Koop, C. Everett,
M.D., Class of 1937.
- McCulloch, Jr., Norman E., Class of 1950.
- Russell, Howland, Class of 1954.
- Smith,
Robert Holbrook, M.D., Class of 1902.
- Swenson, Carl, Class of 1955
- Wren, Christopher, Class of 1957.
Among Dartmouth Medical School Alumni/ae contributing to a greater
understanding of alcohol and other drug use are:
For information about Samsom Occom and Elezear Wheelock, see About the Center:
Dartmouth History.
Biographies
Theodore Clark is an internationally-acclaimed authority on alcoholism and
other drug dependency. As a psychiatrist, he served a the first medical
director for Alcoholism Services of Greater Springfield, Massachusetts. He was
also the Medical Director of the Detoxifaction Center at Springfield Municipal
Hospital. He was named to the faculty of the World Conferences on Alcohol and
Drug Abuse.
William DeJong serves as director of the U.S. Department of Education's
Higher Education Center for Alcohol and Other Drug Prevention, which is based
at Education Development Center, Inc., in Newton, MA. The Center assists
colleges and universities as they develop, implement, and evaluate new programs
and policies to reduce substance use problems on campus. Dr. DeJong is also the
principal investigator for the Social Norms Marketing Research Project, a
five-year randomized trial funded by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse
and Alcoholism. Dr. DeJong is the author of over 300 monographs, book chapters,
and academic papers in substance abuse prevention, health promotion, criminal
justice, social psychology, and the use of media to change social norms and
behaviors. In 2000 Dr. DeJong received the College Leadership Award from the
American Public Health Association (Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drugs Section).
Dr. DeJong graduated from Dartmouth College in 1973. He received a doctorate in
social psychology from Stanford University in 1977.
Louise Erdrich is an internationally acclaimed author whose works help bring
about a greater understanding of the integral role of alcohol use in the lives
of those she portrays. The nature of alcohol and other drug use become
particularly evident in Love Medicine, The Last Report on the Miracles at
Little No Horse and in Four Souls. One chapter of Love
Medicine, "Crown of Thorns," is included in the anthology The
Invisible Enemy: Alcoholism and the Modern Short Story, edited by Miriam
Dow and Jennifer Regan.
David Gleason served on the Board of Hazelden Foundation for over fifteen
years. He worked from 1981 to 1987 in the Northern Ohio Regional Council on
Alcoholism to secure federal funding for treatment centers, halfways houses and
residential facilities serving recovering alcoholics. David also served as
founder and chair of Willows Foundations three-quarter houses, serving 25
recovering people in long-term programs. He is the founder and chair of New
Directions, Inc., a long-term inpatient residential facility for adolescents
which today serves 75 people in Pepper Pike, Ohio.
As chair of Dartmouth's Board of Trustees, Norman McCulloch was a staunch
advocate for alcohol and other drug education initiatives on campus. He served
on the board of the Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies at Brown
University. He is now involved in a number of major community efforts in Rhode
Island.
Howland Russell served on the national board of a nonprofit foundation
concerned with the effects of alcohol and other drug issues on family
members.
Christopher Wren worked as a reporter and editor for The New York
Times for 28 years, living 17 years abroad as a foreign correspondent. He
has been the Times' bureau chief in Moscow, Cairo, Beijing, Ottawa,
and Johannesburg. For a number of years, Mr. Wren was assigned by The New
York Times to cover stories related to alcohol and other drug use and
recovery. Mr. Wren is the author of five books, including The Cat Who
Covered the World and Walking to Vermont.
A non-alcoholic member of the first Board of Directors of Alcoholics
Anonymous. In his work with Eastman Kodak, Dr. Norris created the first
Employee Assistance Program, establishing a model not only for corporations,
but also for school systems worldwide. He is also credited with stabilizing
A.A. after the death of one of its co-founders, William Griffith
Wilson.
- Founder & first Executive Director of the Nashua Pastoral Care Center,
Nashua, NH
- Past Chairman, Mayor's Task Force on Alcohol & Other Drug
Abuse/Addiction, Nashua, NH.
- Founder, Treasurer, Volunteer Staff, NH. Teen Institute for the Prevention
of Alcohol & Other Drug Abuse/Addiction
- Past Director of Keystone Hall, recovery center of the Greater Nashua
Council on Addiction
- Board Member, Friends of Recovery, NH
- Past Board Member, Vice-President, Rape & Assault Support Services,
Nashua, NH
- First President, Nashua Area Shelter for the Homeless, Nashua, NH
- Member, Past Vestryperson, Church of the Good Shepherd (Episcopal), Nashua,
NH
- Married, 3 children, six grandchildren
- Interests - Photography (www.swenphotoonline.com), canoeing,
kayaking, gardening
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