The Biscuit

April 2005

April marks the last month of the RDP quarter, the coming of spring in Prescott, the beginning of our "race to the finish" for our fiscal year and Annual Fund goal, and a whole slew of other news that you will find in this month's Biscuit.  I hope that some of you will be able to join us for the Alumni River Trip this summer; it's going to be a lot of fun!!

News from Prescott College

PC in the LA Times

Prescott College was featured in the LA Times last month in a feature about colleges and universities with outdoor education programs. Read the Article (PDF)

Crossroads Cafe

The Crossroads Center Cafe and Chef Molly Beverly were featured in the Canyon Country Fresh News Newsletter in March. Read the Article (PDF)

Annual Fund Phonathon

This year's Phonathon has raised over $28,000 in donations and pledges for the Annual Fund, the unrestricted fund at the College. (Last year we raised $23,000.) 

If we didn't reach you during our calling efforts, and you would like to support Prescott College and help us reach our fundraising goal this year for the Annual Fund, please visit our online giving site at www.prescott.edu/giving, or return the donation envelope included in Transitions.

Thank you to all the alumni who have supported the Annual Fund this year!  I hope that if you haven't given a gift yet this fiscal year, you will consider doing so now!

Rachel Yoder

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

From the Admissions Office

Call for Volunteers: Community-Based Recruiting

The ‘Roadrunner’ Model
Typically Admissions Offices employ admissions representatives ‘roadrunners’ to travel from town-to-town visiting ‘target’ schools once a year for 30 minutes – not the ideal way to develop relationships! Imagine the state of your personal relationships if they consisted of a once-a-year 30-minute visit to prospective friends!

A Different Model for Prescott College: Community Based Student Recruiting
An alternative to the ‘roadrunner’ model is community-based recruitment using alumni, parents, board members, and even staff to develop relationships with schools in their own communities. Being local they get to know counselors and teachers at their schools and even meet parents of interested students.

Get Involved
Do you have 30 or more hours a year to get to know the people and schools in your community? If you do, then volunteer. It’s that simple. Don’t say to yourself,” I could do this but I’m sure that somebody else will step forward.” They won’t!

The Deal
Build relationships with 10 schools in your community next fall for a modest honorarium plus expenses and the knowledge that you helped PC and made a difference in someone’s life.

READ MORE!

More Info (PDF document)

Contact Tim Robison, Director of RDP Admissions, for more information or if you are interested in volunteering at trobison@prescott.edu or by calling (928) 350-2103.

Class Notes
Because of the amount and length of class notes that we are receiving, we are usually not able to post all new notes in The Biscuit.  To read all new postings, and/or post your own message, please visit the Alumni Website.

2000s

Read more 00s Class Notes.

Jennifer Sauter Sargent (RDP ’00)

Hello, Prescott community far and wide. Wanted to send an update since our family grew to four on October 3, 2004.  Ivy Therese was born at home, underwater with her poppa, sister Willa, grandma and two amazing midwives in attendance. We are living in Ashland, Wisconsin surrounded by the beautiful national forest and Lake Superior.  I am thrilled to finally find a place in Wisconsin where I can venture into the wilderness and not run into anyone, something I was introduced to in the wilderness of Arizona. I spend most of my time with my girls, along with doing some volunteering in the community. My husband, Andrew, works at a local marina and is a recent graduate of Northland College. We love exploring the land and water wilderness, especially the Apostle Islands by boat and the woods by snowshoes. We have been thrilled to find an awesome community in the north woods of Wisconsin and in the next few years we look forward to building our own house on land we recently purchased in a town on the south shore of Lake Superior, Cornucopia. We are having fun researching alternative and sustainable building methods and solar and wind potential for our area. We look forward to attending a welcome home weekend some October in the future at Prescott, such a good reason to venture west! Please do not hesitate to find us if you are traveling our neck of the woods. jennifer@sauter.com

Jean-Francois Camson (ADP '03) was featured in an Arizona Daily Star article on his electrical contracting work with renewable energy and resources.  For more info, you can visit his website at www.techniciansforsustainability.com, or read the article (PDF).

Aaron Atkinson (RDP ’04)

After taking a long leave of absence, I finally completed my senior project in the spring of 2004. I continue working for The Arc of Baltimore as the Assistant Director of Community Living East, perhaps the largest community living program for intellectually disabled adults in the country. Spring is upon us here in Baltimore, but I took advantage of the winter by doing a lot of snow boarding, including a great two week trip out west to Colorado and New Mexico. Looking forward to this spring’s fly fishing…nothing like the east coast during the spring. I still stay connected to a few people from the fall class of 95, and of course would love to hear from anyone that would like to give a shout.

aatkinson@arcofbaltimore.org

College Calendar

For a complete listing of events, please visit the Prescott College Calendar of Events.

Wednesday, April 6: Ecological Footprint--Lovable Limits. Bernardo Aguilar, professor of cultural and regional studies at Prescott College, will present this program. The Ecological Footprint is a measure of the productive land and sea that would be required to support each individual's current lifestyle forever. Come have fun and learn how to measure your footprint and take a lighter step on the land. 7 p.m., in the Crossroads Center at Prescott College. This event is free and the public is invited. For more information, contact Cindy Scott at (928) 776-9550 or highlands@cableone.net.

Wednesday, April 6: "Sustainable Agriculture in Arizona and the new Native Seed Bank in Prescott," a presentation by Tim Crews, environmental studies faculty member and Heather Houk. This presentation is part of the lecture series A Sense of Place sponsored by the Aztlan Resource Center. 7:30 p.m., in the Prescott College Chapel, located at 220 Grove Ave. For more information, contact Sarah at slaunius@prescott.edu or 778-0935.

Monday, April 11: "The Natural History of the Southwest," a presentation by Tom Fleischner, environmental studies faculty member. This presentation is part of the lecture series A Sense of Place sponsored by the Aztlan Resource Center. 7:30 p.m., in the Prescott College Chapel, located at 220 Grove Ave. For more information, contact Sarah at slaunius@prescott.edu or 778-0935.

Friday, April 15: Prescott College alumnus Brad Dimock will be one of two authors to participate in OneBook Arizona 's celebration of books at the Sharlot Hall Museum amphitheater. Author Lisa Michaels will appear with Dimock. Dimock, author of Sunk Without a Sound, and Michaels, author of Grand Ambition, will give their unique perspectives on the disappearance of honeymooners Glen and Bessie Hyde on the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon. This free reading/talk/booksigning with entertainment and campfire starts at 6 p.m. in the amphitheater and campfire area at Sharlot Hall.

Saturday, April 30-Sunday, May 1 : Building Our Sustainable Futures: Spring Conference to Save the World. Tucson, Arizona. For more information contact Esther at (520) 319-9868.