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From left to right: John C. Topping Jr. ' 64, Beth Robinson '86, and Miranda Johnson '97
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Miranda Johnson '97 A vigorous activist while on campus, Johnson helped organize a rally in response to California's Prop. 209, spoke out openly and often against sexism, homophobia, racism, and other forms of oppression, and participated in guerrilla theater to raise awareness about sexual assault. She was involved with an impressive list of campus organizations- Women in Politics, Student Assembly, The Dartmouth, and Sexual Abuse Peer Advisors, to name a few. In recognition of her significant contributions to the quality of life for women at Dartmouth, she was presented with the annual Hannah Croasdale Award; she also received the Samuel Aronowitz Award for commitment to social change through service. She has worked for Senator Carol Moseley Braun, the Feminist Majority, Freedom Summer '96, Dartmouth's Women's Resource Center, and the Dartmouth Environmental Network. After college, Miranda taught social studies and math at Eagle Rock School, an alternative high school in Estes Park, Colorado that serves as a tuition-free residential facility for students who had difficulty succeeding in traditional high schools and either had or were likely to drop out. She then headed for Tanzania on a Fulbright Scholarship, where she conducted extensive field research on small-scale women's income generating projects. She is now a Programme Officer for Activism, Lobbying, and Advocacy with the Tanzania Gender Networking Programme.
Beth Robinson '86 Beth Robinson is a partner at Langrock Sperry & Wool in Middlebury, Vermont. Along with law partner Susan Murray and co-counsel Mary Bonauto from Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders in Boston, Robinson represented the three plaintiffs in Vermont's groundbreaking freedom to marry case, Baker v. State. Before litigating the case, Robinson and Murray co-founded the Vermont Freedom to Marry Task Force, a public education organization which continues to educate Vermonters about the freedom to marry. After Baker v. State was decided, Robinson and Murray led the lobbying effort that ultimately led to the passage of Vermont's landmark civil union law and then ran a political action committee to support pro-civil union legislators. Robinson graduated from Dartmouth College in 1986 and from the University of Chicago Law School in 1989. Her practice focuses on workers' compensation, personal injury, domestic relations, and gay and lesbian civil rights.
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James C. Strickler, M.D. '50, DMS '51
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James C. Strickler, M.D. '50, DMS '51 Dr. Strickler has devoted much of his career to helping underserved populations around the globe, making significant contributions to the cause of human rights. He was instrumental in starting the successful Dartmouth Kosovo Project and recently visited Prishtina, Kosovo to oversee the project and the implementation of a new large grant that will develop primary care training centers in Kosovo and establish a learning resource center. An alumnus of Dartmouth College (DC '50), Dartmouth Medical School (DMS '51), and Harvard, where he received his medical degree in 1953, Dr. Strickler is Professor Emeritus of Medicine and Community and Family Medicine and Dean Emeritus at Dartmouth Medical School. Following his tenure as Dean, Dr. Strickler spent a year regaining proficiency as a clinical internist and working in a Cambodian refugee camp in Thailand sponsored by the Cornell Medical College and the International Rescue Committee (IRC). After returning to Dartmouth, he was elected to the Board of Directors of the IRC and continues to serve this organization as co-chair of their board. He also served on the Advisory Board of the U.S.-China Educational Institute and on the Governing Board of the National Council for International Health. Through the IRC, Dr. Strickler visited many refugee programs worldwide including recent visits to the former Yugoslavia, the Thai-Burma boarder, and Moscow, where the IRC sponsors a medical program for elderly survivors of the gulags. Dr. Strickler continues to contribute to the Upper Valley and Dartmouth, teaching and espousing geriatric medicine to medical students, residents, and colleagues.
John C. Topping Jr. '64 John Topping has been active his entire life in social justice movements, whether involving civil rights, minority rights, public health, or environmental issues. As a student at Dartmouth he was involved in the Civil Rights movement, gathering signatures on a petition to Senator Cotton to vote for cloture to end the southern filibuster against the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Cotton provided this vote and the Civil Rights Act passed. As a student at Yale Law School, Topping was an activist for passage of the Voting Rights Act and prepared a proposal for the negative income tax. He went on to serve as Chief Counsel in the Department of Commerce's Office of Minority Business and received the National Bar Association's President's Award for contributions to the minority legal profession. In the 1980s he became involved with the Environmental Protection Agency and since that time has focused his energies on environmental initiatives such as removal of lead from gasoline, assessment of chlorofluorocarbons that threaten to deplete the ozone layer, and banning smoking on U.S. airplanes. He is currently president of the Climate Institute and frequently consults with foreign governments on how to make their national policies more environmentally friendly.
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