The Biscuit

September 2004

Hello, alumni!

We're in full swing here on campus with RDP students back to school, the Crossroads Center looking better each day, and heated plans for this year's alumni Coming Home Weekend, October 22-24.

We are still soliciting photos from alumni for the Alumni Slide Show. Please send in any old snapshots, or current photos with updates about what you are doing.

The PCAA Board along with all of us here on campus are excited to welcome you back to town this fall for an exciting weekend. During Coming Home Weekend, we will also be hosting parents and prospective students on campus, so we hope that you will be able to join us!

Registration materials will be in the mail later this month, along with an online registration site. Be on the lookout for more updates!

Rachel Yoder

Director of Alumni Relations
ryoder@prescott.edu
toll free 1-877-350-2100 x 4502
local 928-350-4502

On Campus

Book Brigade

The Prescott College Library is moving across the street to the new Crossroads Center. To illustrate that, we have planned a "book brigade" for Thursday, Sept. 9, at 10 a.m. We have invited the mayor of Prescott, other politicians, and members of the media to attend and
participate. The Prescott police department will close Grove Avenue for 10 or 15 minutes while we stage a book brigade crossing Grove. This is a symbolic event only to spread the word that the library will be closed during the actual move (Sept. 13-30). We would like everyone to help us in this effort to demonstrate Prescott College community spirit. Please arrive about 9:45-9:50 at the corner of Grove and Sheldon.

Prescott College Film Series

4th Film Series, Fall Quarter 2004, Sept. 27 to Dec. 10

"Political Satire in U.S. Film"

Wednesdays at 6 pm. at Prescott College Chapel or Student Union. Contact Nicanor Dominguez for more information, ndominguez@prescott.edu.

Sept. 29 - The Great Dictator (1940), dir. by Charles Chaplin (124 min., b/w), Charles Chaplin (Adenoid Hynkel, dictator of Tomania/A Jewish barber), Paulette Goddard (Hannah), Jack Oakie (Benzino Napaloni, dictator of Bacteria)

Class Notes
Visit the new Class Notes website at to read about your former classmates and post your own message.

Christopher Glade (RDP '99) and Miriam Reuss (RDP '03) were joined in a civil union amongst a small gathering of family and friends just north of Johannesburg, South Africa on July 3, 2004. We plan to have a REAL wedding in Alaska sometime in 2005. We shall keep you updated. Just wanted to share to good news!! Chris: glade@blackwateroutdoor-ahc.com

Sarah Fitzgerald (RDP '02), Casey King (RDP '03), Mike Spayd (RDP '02) ran into
one another at a chalet in Glacier National Park. The sign in the background reads: "Every dollar you spend at Granite Park helps keep alive the dream of directionless college graduates." Casey: caseyk78@hotmail.com

Carol Anderson, MAP ‘98

Hello fellow alumni - A quick note for my friends and other MAP associates: Since graduating I have worked primarily as a bereavement counselor in hospice, for an AIDS foundation, for a geriatric psychiatric hospital unit, and currently with low-income elders through the Pima County Community Services program. I have discovered that the Masters degree I earned opened more doors than I imagined, and I am still exploring my next adventure. Isn't life-learning a beautiful thing? The forthcoming Prescott College PhD program is of great interest for me; I'd like to continue to pursue aging studies, death and loss, and related topics (such as the dramatic increase in HIV infection in elder women). I am currently taking an online writing course in Feature Writing - I have some ideas of where I want this to go but will save that for the next installment. I would so enjoy hearing from my fellow MAP alumni of 1998! To all who read this: being a member of the Prescott College family is a matter of enormous pride for me. Thanks one and all. Go and find your dream. rubysroadhouse@msn.com

Anne Kretschmann, RDP ‘00

After a brief stay in the pacific northwest, I have returned to the desert of Arizona. I am working as a biologist for Arizona Game and Fish. I work with endangered fish (razorback suckers) on the Colorado River and other areas of the state. Occasionally, I am able to get out to help with other animals as well. I am extremely happy to be putting my PC training to 'work' for me in doing what I love and believe in. I welcome PC 'kids' to contact me when in the Arizona area! aneni@hotmail.com

Ed Miller, RDP ‘75

I can't believe I've worked for NASA for 25 years! Mentally, I'm afraid I never progressed beyond the 18 year old who volunteered to join the first post-collapse (PCAE) Prescott board and stuck around Prescott for a few years to wait tables, organize the first PC reunion in '77 (with Ted Rosenberg and others) and be a PCAE board member. Maybe that's a good thing. I was always a space geek, and somehow landed a job at JPL in 1980, where I work on scientific instruments for various kinds of space-based science investigations. Right now, instruments I worked on are orbiting Saturn on the Cassini spacecraft, and a new one just launched last week (called AURA) that is an Earth atmospheric science mission that will map human sources of air pollutants as they move through the atmosphere; its objective is to trace the causes of global warming. I'm currently in charge of the scientific instruments for the Dawn mission, which will visit the two largest (Texas-sized) asteroids in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.

I married Karen Tate Miller in 1995; she's an expert in public relations, media relations, and in general a wonderful writer. She's also an ordained Zen buddhist priest. We have a beautiful daughter named Georgia Grace, who will be 5 next month and is the source of all joy and happiness. Life is good. Would love to stay in touch with all of my dear friends from Prescott College. And I need to get out in the woods more often! cmdred@earthlink.net

Kristin (Day) St. Clair, RDP ‘72

After Prescott , I continued my varied interests, first my ballet in New York, then the music business in New York and London, marrying an Olympic skier and raising 3 fantastic children in the Rockies in Colorado. And after getting a medical degree in 1995, I worked Medicaid on the Navajo reservation. Now I have an 'NGO' which is involved in HIV/AIDS education with the Masaai in Tanzania near Mt Kilimanjaro. I feel as though Tanzania is my first home. aidsedu@earthlink.net

Geoffrey Gadow, MAP ‘03

Geoff has accepted a Therapist position with Homme Youth and Family Programs in northern Wisconsin, a residential treatment facility for adolescent sex offenders.  He is incorporating adventure therapy into the existing treatment program, and anticipates significant progress.  Geoff and his family now live in Wausau, Wisconsin. geoffgadow@earthlink.net

Heather Edwards, RDP ‘00

Hello Prescott people! I live in the Western mountains of Maine in Rangeley. I have a year-round job as a lab tech at the little dentist office here, which is kinda funny because they let me take x-rays and use hand-pieces! In the winter, I baby-sit and work at Saddleback Mountain and in the summer I work on a wonderful organic farm. There is plenty of time to play and frolic. I miss the desert and my gang. Love to all and sweet dreams! chuttlecheese@hotmail.com

Lib Randall, RDP ‘81

Still here in central New Hampshire. Teaching chemistry to young ski racers and freestyle competitors in the winter,  and doing a variety of things in the summer. Kids are busy. Lucy is finishing up summer reading in preparation for 10th grade and Seth is excited about 8th grade and being a top dog at the middle school. Had a great visit with Jerome in early August. I sincerely hope it is just the first of many. Let me know if anyone is headed for New England. libr@aaahawk.com