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Angela
Garner, San Diego, CA
RDP 1972,
Center for the Studies of the Person (Psychology/Education)
 After
graduation from Prescott College in 1972, I returned to San
Diego and began investing in real estate. I began with single
family "fixer upper" properties and later bought several apartment
buildings which we still own and self manage. I also spent
a great deal of time working as an instructor and guide for
various outdoor schools and river companies such as The Boojum
Institute, Sobek Expeditions, Georgie White, Oars, and many
other groups and organizations. I have done quite a bit of
"adventure travel" all over the West and Baja, in addition
to Europe , Ecuador , Costa Rica , Canada , Newfoundland ,
Labrador and a year backpacking through Africa . I am married
to Steve Huemmer, another Prescott College alumnus, and we
have three daughters: Zosha, Anna and Madison , ages 20, 17
and 13. We also have a niece, Rosy, age 18, who has lived
with us for much of the last five years. I have held various
leadership positions on school boards, committees and clubs
associated with my children's schooling.
I'd
like to serve on the board and contribute to the continuing
success of the Prescott College education model. Attending
Prescott College was a life-changing experience for me as
I know it was for so many other alumni. I'd like to do what
I can to help bring those people together for good times and
to support the College. We are in close contact with many
PC alumni and faculty, and annually organize a fairly major
river trip of almost all Prescott College friends.
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Doug Hulmes,
Prescott, AZ
RDP 1974, Education
After receiving
my master’s degree, I gained invaluable knowledge and
experience working as a park ranger and interpretive naturalist
at Canyonlands National Park. I returned to Prescott College
in 1978 to help administer a Youth Conservation Corps program
and also assumed the responsibilities of teaching in the Environmental
Studies program where I designed the program emphasis in environmental
education, and have instructed at the College ever since.
During the past
20 years I have worked on numerous environmental issues, including
the 1984 and 1990 Arizona Wilderness Bills. In 1990 I was
co-recipient of the National Wilderness Education Award sponsored
by the U.S. Forest Service and the Isaac Walton League. During
the fall of 1991, I spent my sabbatical in Norway teaching
at Olavskolen Folkehogskole. In 1994 I received the Educator
of the Year Award from the Arizona Association for Learning
In and About the Environment (AALE). In 1996 I was the guest
professor at Telemark College where I instructed in Norway’s
first interdisciplinary environmental studies program. Since
1992 I’ve been performing John Muir under contract with
the Arizona Humanities Council. In May of 1998, I received
an award for outstanding presenter at the National Wilderness
Rangers Conference.
I have always held
a deep regard for nature and reverence for life. The friends
I have made and the landscapes and diversity of cultures I
have experienced as a result of Prescott College, both as
a student and an instructor, have given me lifelong inspiration
and passion for my work. Prescott College has been a major
part of my life since 1970 when I first enrolled as a student.
I would bring a perspective of continuity to the Alumni Association
that connects the past to the present and a commitment to
the future.
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 Layne
Longfellow, Prescott, AZ
Former
Faculty
Dr.
Layne Longfellow was Academic VP of Prescott College, and
Director of Executive Seminars at The Menninger Foundation.
Currently, he is the Longfellow Poetry Ambassador of the Friends
of the Longfellow National Historic Site, serves as Advisor
to the PCAA Board, and is President of his own company, Lecture
Theatre, Inc. His publications range from a children's book
to a "Science" article to a chapter of a linguistics
text; he was elected to the Speaker Hall of Fame in 1986.
He has remained involved with PC since 1970, he says, because
of the abiding integrity that characterizes the College in
its steadfast commitment to ecological values.
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 Lee
Stuart, Bronx, NY
RDP 1975,
Environmental Studies
I spent
the first ten years after graduation preparing for and starting
an academic career as an ecologist. I received my master's
degree from San Diego State and Ph.D. from a joint program
between San Diego and UC Davis. My primary area of study was
systems ecology and soil/plant relationships, particularly
in the Alaskan arctic. During my dissertation and particularly
as a post-doctoral research associate, I helped create what
became an international food aid and community development
program (SHARE - Self-Help and Resource Exchange). The success
of this program led me in 1985 to the South Bronx , where
I have spent the last happy 20 years, helping transform it
so that it is no longer the national spectacle of urban poverty
and mayhem. After establishing SHARE in the South Bronx ,
I helped raise about a million dollars for arts education
for St. Augustine 's School (also in the South Bronx ) and
then went to work for South Bronx Churches. At SBC we caused
major problems and then breakthroughs for a whole host of
city agencies by creating our own bank to finance the first
and largest homeownership development in the South Bronx (974
homes), by organizing parents to demand excellence in secondary
education for their children and forcing the Board of Education
to start a new high school (since replicated) with a 90% college
acceptance rate. Now I am helping other communities in fulfilling
their dreams for housing, education, or whatever. In short,
my whole career has been about the grassroots - first in a
very literal sense in terms of the soil-root interface, and
then in the creation of powerful organizations at a very local
level to deliver a local agenda.
Why would I serve
on the Board of PCAA and what I think I could bring to it:
I have been invited to consider serving by people I respect
a great deal (Matuschka and Layne Longfellow). I think PC
is a wonderful institution, and would like to contribute to
its mission. I have tremendous organizational skills and lots
of experience in strengthening the relationship between people
and institutions.
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