"New Englander of the Year"

Dartmouth President James Wright speaks at the New England Council’s 2007 “New Englander of the Year” awards dinner on Oct. 1 in Boston after receiving one of three such awards the council presented this year, for work he is doing to help U.S. military veterans wounded or injured during service in Iraq and Afghanistan. Wright has been visiting such veterans in military hospitals since 2005, and has subsequently joined with the American Council on Education (ACE) in Washington, D.C. to create a higher-education counseling program for veterans.  U.S. Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., and Peter Meade, executive vice president for corporate affairs at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, also won “New Englander of the Year” awards this year for work they have done in other fields to help promote higher quality of life for many. Formed in 1925, the New England Council is an alliance of businesses, academic and health institutions and public and private organizations throughout New England working to promote economic growth and a high quality of life in the New England region. (Photo by Joseph Mehling ’69)

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