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Take my job...really
If you've ever wanted to come back and work at PC, now's your chance to apply for the primo job on campus - Alumni and Annual Giving Director! I'm headed off to graduate school this fall, and we're looking for a talented, energetic, and fun person to come in and take over the fundraising and alumni relations duties. Check out the Job Listings section in this Biscuit or the PC Human Resources page for more details about the job and how to apply. Our first review of applications is at the end of the week, so get those resumes in if you are qualified and interested!
If you're in Prescott this weekend, we also have a great MAP Colloquium planned with keynote speaker, Susan Griffin.
And finally, congratulations to our newest bunch of RDP alumni who just graduated last weekend! Welcome to the PC alumni ranks.
Rachel Yoder
Director of Alumni Relations
ryoder@prescott.edu
toll free 877-350-2100 x 4502
local 928-350-4502
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.
Read more 70s Class Notes
 Robert Miller (RDP '72)
Countryman Press, a division of W. W. Norton, has just released (May 3, 2005) my book, Kayaking the Inside Passage: A Paddler's Guide from Olympia, Washington to Muir Glacier, Alaska, by Robert H. Miller, $18.95, 460 pages. It is available from both the publisher and Amazon.com; I'm not sure, at this time, who will carry it locally. It is also being nominated for a National Outdoor Book Award. mrh10@qwest.net
Douglas Hanson (RDP ’74)
Since graduating from Prescott in '74, I worked for a bit at the Museum of Northern Arizona and then moved on to graduate school at Cornell University where I received a Masters in Biological Anthropology and finally a Ph.D. in 1988. During all those intervening years, I did bioarchaeological fieldwork in the Midwest, New York, the Southwest, and Micronesia where I spent a good part of my early career doing mortuary archaeology and bioarchaeology in the Mariana Islands. Much of this work resulted in a collection of papers published in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology back in '97. In 1985 I began doing NIH research in skeletal biology at The Forsyth Institute in Boston. My work has taken me as far north as Iceland (whale bone) and as far south as Krueger National Park (elephant bone). And I have managed to make my way as far afield as Angkor Wat in Cambodia (a boyhood dream) and the glaciers of South Island, New Zealand. It has been an exciting and fulfilling career. I am still at Forsyth, in my 20th year here, but doing less research and more administration, primarily as Chief Technology Officer and Head of the BioInformatics Core at the Institute. I have been married once and divorced once to a woman who is now one of this country's leading number crunchers (also an anthropologist) in human engineering at DOD and with whom I share a spectacular daughter (Katherine, "KT" to her friends). She is now aged 15 with anthropological leanings and is currently preparing for a summer of Spanish immersion in Segovia, Spain. Right now I am enjoying my life as a single male again but with a new woman in my life who harkens from West Virginia . As I look towards "retirement" sometime in the next few decades, I have my sights on a little spread with Appaloosas somewhere near Sonoita, AZ. Although I love Boston, I am anxious to get back to my Southwestern roots and closer to Mexico. Where is Peter Sherman, Steve Sessions and the rest of my Center for Man and Environment colleagues?
Read more 00s Class Notes.
James Reinhold (RDP ’00)
Hello, all. I hope spring is finding you were you want to be! I know it is for me. I have found myself bouncing all over the country and think I have found a landing zone. The last couple of years I have been in the beautiful Southern California mountains as the program director for a small camp. I got myself married to an amazing woman on the beautiful Island of Catalina, off the southern coast of California. But, oh, how the Maine woods keep calling. I have moved again and accepted a job as the camp director for a new summer residential camp near Bar Harbor and Acadia National Park. There is a lot of work to do to get this place up and running for 2006, but it is a lot of fun! I highly recommend anyone to come and visit Acadia and the Down East region and stop on by the camp. Canoe, kayak or hike around the area. You can find us on the web at www.campperegrine.com or give me a call at (207) 565-2195. Take care, and have an awesome summer! reinhold_james@yahoo.com
Bill Wesselink (RDP ’04)
Tara Powell and I are doing well. Liam David was born June 3rd, 2004 and is adjusting to life in his new environment. Tara was accepted to graduate school at Alliant University in San Diego, and we will be moving there in August. Always waiting for news from our friends, please contact us at wwesselink@prescott.edu. Thank you all and hope all is well.
Aimee Miller (MAP '05)
To San Francisco Bay area alumni: I am a recent environmental studies graduate relocating to the Bay area and seeking employment. If anyone has suggestions, contacts or ideas for a job/housing it would be appreciated. Or if anyone wants any more info you can contact me at blueprintearth@gmail.com.
For a complete listing of events, please visit the Prescott College Calendar of Events.
Friday, May 6-Sunday, May 8: The Prescott College Master of Arts Program Colloquium. Presentations begin at 1 p.m. on Friday and continue through Sunday morning. Keynote speaker is Susan Griffin, a writer and poet, at 5:30 p.m. on Saturday, May 7 (see entry below for details). The complete MAP Colloquium schedule is available online at: http://www.prescott.edu/students/map/index.html.
Saturday, May 7: "The War Against Nature and the Nature of War," The Prescott College Master of Arts Program Colloquium keynote speaker Susan Griffin will talk about newspaper stories that present a picture of the world that is increasingly grim, a sense of despair and disempowerment grows among us. What should we do? Should be more worried about global warming or World War III? The answer to both these question is that each of these threats are linked to deeper causes, and that authentic hope can only be reached through deeper understandings. The philosophical assumptions, social structures, and underlying psychologies that have played a major part in shaping our disastrous ecological practices have also lead us toward increasing international violence. Through her reading of history, popular culture, national policy, and various fundamentalisms, including rigid ideas about gender, Griffin explores the dimensions of this destructive consciousness. She also speaks to the profound change our society has and is experiencing, as evident in a wide range of new ideas, forms of consciousness, and ways of existing that have been arising over the last decades. Griffin is the author of many books, including The Book of the Courtesans, a Catalogue of Their Virtues, Woman and Nature, What Her Body Thought, and A Chorus of Stones, which was a finalist for both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Award and won the BABRA award in 1992. The complete MAP Colloquium schedule is available online at: http://www.prescott.edu/students/map/index.html.
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June 13-17, 2005
$100 deposit to reserve your spot due by May 16. Only 6 spots left.
Join us for the Alumni River Trip on the San Juan River, June 13-17, 2005.
Our leisurely journey will be from Sand Island to Mexican Hat and will feature multiple interpretive side hikes and plenty of time for relaxation. Trip leaders include Rachel Peters '04, Doug Hulmes '74, Stewart Lasseter (current MAP student), Mike Lewis '91, and Matt Brown '96.
$300 04/05 PCAA members
$325 non-members
Reserve your spot early by registering online at www.prescott.kintera.org/river, or contact Rachel Yoder at ryoder@prescott.edu or 877-350-2100 ext 4502.
For more area job postings, visit the PC Job Posting Website.
Come back to PC!
ANNUAL GIVING/ALUMNI RELATIONS MANAGER
Position directs, oversees, and manages the annual fund campaign of the College. Responsible for increasing the level of contributions and the number of donors through the annual giving process. Process includes donor identification, cultivation and gift renewals and upgrades. Directs, oversees, and manages all aspects of the Prescott College Alumni Association including the PCAA Board, giving programs, and alumni events. Administers and oversees the Development Database and gift processing, Development Office volunteers, Alumni and Parent volunteers (local and remote), and student workers.
Requires Bachelor’s degree and two years experience in non-profit administration required. Personal commitment to the principles of the Prescott College mission, knowledge of alumni relations/annual fund practices and a well-developed sense of humor preferred.
To Apply
Submit letter of interest, resume and the Prescott College application ( Acrobat or Word format) to Human Resources at Prescott College, 220 Grove Avenue, Prescott, AZ 86301. EEO
Position available July 1, 2005 and first review of applications to begin May 6, 2005
Calling all PC Alumni MOMS!
From Marisa Lopez, MAP '03
Let's build a community! It is time to unite Prescott Alumni to network about our experiences as mothers and women!
My lovely daughter, Summer Rose, was born a mere two months after wrapping up my Masters thesis and officially graduating from MAP. Our circumstances led me to a place where I was isolated from the
progressive, interesting, outdoorsy folks I'd met at Prescott College. Although it is not always the case, it is easy to become removed from the inspired, independent woman you once were pre-motherhood.
My idea is to coordinate a Quarterly newsletter for community of like-minded women who also happen to be mothers. Please submit ideas or advice to Rachel Yoder in the Alumni Office, ryoder@prescott.edu. Let's get this started!
What's with the name?
"Biscuit" is a nickname for Prescott that locals often use. When out-of-towners visit, you'll often hear people explaining the proper pronunciation of "Prescott" as, "'Preskit' sounds like 'Biscuit'." “The Biscuit” was chosen from among eight names by alumni vote in February 2003, and was submitted by alumnus Michael Shay (RDP ’99).
Read recent and current issues of The Biscuit online at www.prescott.edu/alumni/biscuit
Prescott College Alumni Office
220 Grove Ave. • Prescott, AZ 86301
1.877.350.2100
928.350.4502
Fax: 928.776.5228
alumni@prescott.edu
www.prescott.edu/alumni
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