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We're putting together an ALUMNI SLIDE SHOW that will feature photos of alumni, along with their own reasons of "Why I Love Prescott College" which will be an ongoing theme for this October's Coming Home Weekend.
We want you to be part of the slide show!
If you're interested (and I hope you are!), please send us:
1. a photo, digital or hard copy (We will, of course, return any photos that we receive in tip-top condition.)
2. a statement about what PC has meant in your life (i.e. why you love PC!)
3. an update about what you are doing now - family, job, etc.
This slide show will play during the weekend at events, for alumni, students, faculty and parents to see. Even if you can't make it to Coming Home Weekend this October, we want you to be involved! The more alumni involved in the slide show, the better. Our goal is to showcase all the talent out there in alumni world, so please send in your photos today!
Happy July to you all!
Rachel Yoder
Director of Alumni Relations
ryoder@prescott.edu
toll free 1-877-350-2100 x 4502
local 928-350-4502
Visit the new Class Notes website at to read about your former classmates and post your own message.
 Jay Krienitz, RDP ’01/MAP ‘04
I just returned from a 3-month trip to Southeast Asia after completing my PC-MAP degree in Environmental Studies-Public Land Conservation. I explored Thailand and Cambodia, delving into meditation, travel, and cultural experiences to boggle an American paradigm. I'm back working for our Arizona Wilderness lands with the AWC (check out www.azwild.org) and am spending my last summer here in Prescott. I am also finishing my two-year service as the Prescott College Student Trustee and I hope to help out with our Alumni Association in the near future. In September, Jennifer Nishwitz and I will be moving up to Minnesota 's North Shore. We will be immersing ourselves back into North Country with a trip to the Boundary Waters Canoe Area. Want to come? Does anyone have any job opportunities in the area for an experienced and impassioned wilderness advocate? I may be presenting at our Eco-league affiliate, Northland College, about wilderness for the 40th anniversary of the Wilderness Act in September. Never hesitate to reconnect ; I'd love to meet some Midwestern PC folks . Peace, Love and all that. jay_onewhowanders@yahoo.com
Watts Barden, RDP ‘97
Hello PC faculty, friends and family. Checkin’ in from the Tetons and Snake river which I continue to call home. It’s great to hear and see all the great things happening at the college and in your lives. If anyone is in my neck of the woods, please look me up always happy to share my fire and swill a pint with an old friend! Contact me online at whiskyfish@tetontel.com, and as Spock would say, live long and prosper. Peace!
Jenni (Whitmyer) Pardi, RDP ‘97
WOW! It is great to read what everyone is up to! Since graduating from Prescott College I have run a science program at a children's museum, been a sea kayaking guide, worked as a campaign coordinator for an animal rights organization, managed a veterinary hospital, and now I am a mom!! I married my high school sweetheart in May 2000, and had a beautiful baby boy named Dominick on May 28, 2003. I live in the beautiful Marin County where I can hike a different trail with my dogs and my baby every day. Life is good. I miss Prescott and its community and faculty and all of my friends, would love to hear from friends who come through the bay area. Give a call anytime.
Sherry Barnes, RDP ‘99
Mark White and I are going on our three year wedding anniversary this July! We are living at almost 9,000 feet in the Central Rockies of Colorado in a little old town called Crested Butte. We had an amazing winter with three snow-filled valleys minutes from town to explore on skis. Please contact us if we've lost touch with you: sherry_l_barnes@yahoo.com, or Mark White, rivergrizzly@hotmail.com.
Jen Steitz, RDP ‘98
For the past six years I have been living a semi-subsistence lifestyle in Alaska: growing vegetables, fishing, selling baskets, and doing a couple wilderness trips every year. In August, Larry Landry and I are getting married on a river trip. I am also starting a practice as a clinical herbalist and acupressurist. I have sporadic internet access, our e-mail: mtavens@hotmail.com
Lib Randall, RDP ‘81
Still here in central New Hampshire. Teaching chemistry to young ski racers and freestyle competitors in the winter, organic farming in the summer. Kids are busy. Lucy finishing a very successful first year of H.S. and Seth doing well in 7th grade. They are both heading out to Oregon for a month this summer to participate in a theater program with their half sister. Always glad to hear from PC folk. Especially ones that just moved back to New England. Did you get that Jerome?
Sara Sherman, RDP ‘01
Hi all! I was excited to see this board and see fellow graduates happy in their lives. I am most happy living out my dream here in MO. My biggest piece of news is Oliver Matthew Schwab. Matt Schwab and I welcomed him into our lives on 7/19/04 (2 weeks late!). He is an amazing human being and being a mother is quite wonderful. I am running a therapeutic equine center. We program doing equine experiential learning, equine facilitated psychotherapy, therapeutic riding/vaulting/driving and much more. We have been supported by the MO state tax credit program and our brand new indoor, 4-season arena is being built as we speak. Life is good, we miss AZ, but are really enjoying the color green and water. Hope all are doing well, drop me a line at sara@horsesofhope.org. And if you’re ever in MO . . .
Tony Chiaviello, RDP ‘74
Since leaving Prescott and graduating from Oberlin College in '76, and U. Denver in '81 (M.A. in mass communications), I've been in and out of high-tech publishing and public relations, finally landing in college teaching as a profession, earning my PhD from New Mexico State U. in '98 and tenure at U. Houston-Downtown this year. I credit PC with imbuing me with a lasting commitment to environmental issues, did my dissertation on the rhetoric of the livestock grazing issue in the American West, and am now interested in developing a species of ecological ethics, based on new scientific principles emerging from the study of ecology. (In fact, I applied for the recent environmental studies position at PC, but never heard back, so . . .). My late wife, Lori Wehman (who died in '87); my son, Eli (now 32); and I traveled wide and far, living in Hawaii, Cincinnati, San Francisco, Denver and Boston, and now Eli has settled in Seattle and I in Houston. I'd most like to hear from John Annerino, Chris Parks, Paul Potenza, and any of my colleagues on the Manti-La Sal wilderness orientation trip of fall 1974.
Ann Higgins, RDP ‘75
Rehab tech. Triathlete/Iron Man qualifier, ranked. Traveled the Midwest circuit for 15 years. Currently available as a triathlon coach in Seattle, WA.
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We are happy to have four new and incredibly talented board members join us this year in governing the PCAA: Jen Chandler (RDP '00), Angela Garner (RDP '72), Jeff Kiely (RDP '73), and Lee Stuart (RDP '75).
A huge thanks is owed to outgoing board president, and former secretary, Matuschka (RDP '75), for her commitment to PC and her creative involvement with the Board and Alumni Office over the last three years. Thanks also to Carol Young (ADP '00) for her involvement with the board for the past two years.
October 22-24, 2004
more info coming soon!
updates at www.prescott.edu/alumni
The Wells Fargo Home Mortgage Sharing Advantage Program provides funds to non-profit organizations like Prescott College. Borrowers who purchase or refinance a home can direct Wells Fargo Mortgage to contribute $300, in their name, to Prescott College. It's easy and won't cost you a cent (well...except for your mortgage).
For more information, contact Rachel in the Alumni Office, your local Wells Fargo Home Mortgage office, or, if you're in Prescott, Dicy Apperson and Prescott Wells Fargo Home Mortgage, 778-7665, diana.apperson@wellsfargo.com.
To see more alumni websites, and for added information and photos, visit the alumni website for a compilation of alumni pages at www.prescott.edu/alumni/web_sites.
Jen Dingman, MAP '02
www.birthpaths.net
 Birth Paths offers individualized support to
women and families on the journey of
pregnancy and birth. Jen, an educator, mother and doula, provides Antepartum, Labor
and Birth, and Postpartum Doula services.
Clyde Score, ADP '92
www.arizonaentertainment.info
 Clyde currently teaches guitar and percussion at Yavapai College, as well as performing on the Grand Canyon Railway and producing a wide variety of musical shows around the state. Visit his website for more information.
Steve Dieckhoff, RDP '74
www.stevedieckhoff.com
 Steve combines his proclivities for rock climbing and art, and exhibits beautiful oil paintings, drawings, prints, and water colors on his site.
 The PCAA Board of Directors and Prescott College have launched the 5 for 5 Crossroads Center Campaign! Visit the website where you can make your gift/pledge online, or download a pledge form. Read more and get involved at www.prescott.edu/alumni/5for5.
To date, nearly $2,000 has been raised in gifts and pledges through the alumni 5 for 5 program. Thanks!
 One Man’s Pass, Taking the Waters, and Mother Egypt (at left) are the most recent digital collages by Walton Mendelson (RDP '69). Cut and Paste Collage in the Digital World, a 13 page, non-technical, article in Adobe PDF featuring the assembly of a similar image, The Return of Arthur, is available free at wm-arts.com. Click: Cut & Paste for article link. This article was written by the artist for publication in Artella Words & Art.
...that there is a Prescott College Desert Stars web page that features alumni and their accomplishments? Desert Stars are honored for carrying the Prescott College mission forward in their lives and careers. You can nominate a fellow alumnus for this award using our online nomination form.
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