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The 2014 Winter Olympian medalists included hockey player Gillian Apps ’06, who earned her third gold medal for Team Canada; alpine skier Andrew Weibrecht ’09, who claimed a silver medal in the super-G (adding to the super-G bronze medal he won in 2010); and defending gold medalist and freestyle mogul skier Hannah Kearney ’15, who won a bronze medal. (For more on these athletes, see the DAM Jan/Feb cover story.) Additional honors went to cross-country skier Sophie Caldwell ’12, who finished sixth in the freestyle sprint event, the best Olympic finish ever by an American female cross-country skier, and to the biathlete team of Sara Studebaker ’07, Susan Dunklee ’08 and Hannah Dreissigacker ’09, who finished seventh in the 4-by-6-kilometer relay, the best-ever Olympic women’s biathlon relay performance for the United States.
Wallace Darneille ’73, of Lubbock, Texas, has been elected National Cotton Council chairman for 2014. Since 2004 Darneille has been president and CEO of Plains Cotton Cooperative Association, a cooperative focused on cotton marketing and warehousing and denim production in Texas and apparel production in Guatemala.
Gib Palmer ’75 of Midlothian, Virginia, has been elected the 35th president of the Virginia State Golf Association and will lead the association’s professional staff, committees and volunteers who serve nearly 80,000 golfers and 310 clubs in the state.
Charles Morrison ’83 has been named president of Boston-based Fidelity Investments’ asset management group. Morrison, who has been with the company for 27 years, will oversee investment divisions that manage almost $2 trillion in assets.
Walter Ellis ’83 earned a Modern-Day Technology Leader Award during the 2014 Black Engineer of the Year Award conference. Ellis works for the Mitre Corp., a nonprofit that operates research centers sponsored by the federal government, and has recently been involved in projects supporting the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and the U.S. Census Bureau.
Nick Boucher ’03 had his jersey retired by the Fort Wayne (Indiana) Komets hockey team. The former Dartmouth goalie led his teams to five championships, first with the Tilburg (Netherlands) Trappers and then four with the Komets.