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Ecos Alumni Newsletter
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| Prescott College
Office of Alumni Relations
220 Grove Ave.
Prescott, AZ 86301
877-350-2100 X4502
928-350-4502 |
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Inside this Issue
PCAA Board
Call for Candidates
Outdoorbaby.net
RDP Student
Showcase
The Poetry of Learning
by Michael Shay
Rafting the San Juan
Alumni Gathering
& Lectures
ADP News
Class Notes
Nominate a Desert Star
CESLL
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The Prescott College Alumni Association (PCAA) is issuing this “Call for Candidates” from among its Active Members for consideration for nomination for five seats on the PCAA Board of Directors. Each seat will be for a three-year term beginning July 1, 2008 and ending on June 30, 2011. As stated in the PCAA bylaws all Directors must be (a) former students of Prescott College, (b) over the age of 21, and (c) of good moral character. Every individual that has ever graduated from or attended classes at Prescott College (RDP, ADP, MAP) is considered an alumnus and is eligible for active membership status in the Prescott College Alumni Association (PCAA).
Deadline to submit names for nomination is May 15, 2008. Names need to be submitted in writing or via email to: Prescott College Office of Alumni Relations, 220 Grove Ave. Prescott, AZ 86301, alumni@prescott.edu
or FAXED to: 928-776-5228 along with a personal background and a brief statement as to why you would like to be on the board. The final ballot will be compiled by the end of May and the election will be held in June.
Please consider serving on the PCAA Board and helping us to continue the connection among Prescott College alumni!
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Prescott College
Alumni Volunteer NetworksAlumni Recruitment Network
Alumni Writer’s Network
Alumni Legacy Network
Alumni ASK (Alumni Sharing Knowledge Career) Network
Alumni Orientation Network
For more information
contact:
msmith@prescott.edu
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A message from RDP Alumnae Heidi Ahrens, RDP '99
I am very excited to let you know that I am launching a new website:
www.outdoorbaby.net
Outdoor baby.net is a website for families that enjoy the outdoors. It is a place where families can post a tip on great outdoor practices that they have tried with their children. In this way I hope to create a community that shares information on how to better support our adventures with little ones. This way maybe more children will become lovers of the outdoors and more parents will feel more supported in their attempts to venture outside with their children. One of the goals of this site is to also get families that may not be 100% sure on how to proceed in outdoors be more comfortable with their adventures. We will also have information about great trips to take.
For this new project to work for me, it requires the support of my friends and family. Please visit the site and post pictures and tips that could help other families like you enjoy the outdoors. If you can invite some of your other outdoor enthusiastic friends to visit and participate in the tip sharing, it would be great. So please send your friends a link to outdoorbaby.net and let them know how great this site is. If you want to help me further let me know and I can send you some promotional material that you could place in your local outdoor stores, etc.
Thank you so much for your support,
Heidi Ahrens
P.O Box 1536
Carbondale, CO 81623-1536
Fax: 1-970-963-5957
info@outdoorbaby.net
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Information on the science of global warming, presentations by local businesses, organizations, and activists, and workshops on political activism. Learn about concerns about development in the Prescott area, attend workshops on identifying and reducing your personal carbon footprint, and get to know Prescott College's plans for becoming carbon neutral. Take part in small-group discussions on community solutions to climate change, attend a tree planting and Biofuels demo, and much more!
Prescott College
Crossroads Conference Center
4:00pm
Join RDP '05 Alumni and Verde River Bald Eagle nest watchers, Audrey Clark and Santiago Glavis as they share their experiences and address the impact of recent policy changes.
Did Wilderness Orientation change your life? We would like to hear your story - see your pictures - and reminisce with you. Please send your testimonials to Ecos for the September 2008 Issue. Time to circle up and debrief!
Send Ecos submissions to:
alumni@prescott.edu
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By Matt Hart
moonshinephoto.googlepages.com
As a student at Prescott College I am often presented with some very unique opportunities that many people don’t get the chance to see and experience. I see this unique opportunity as both a blessing and a gift that I have the ability to share with others. One of the things that I really try to focus on as a photographer is creating simple, clean and straightforward images. All pictures are of a single moment in time. In my photographs I try to create an image that allows the audience to place themselves in the scene, an uncluttered and straightforward image that doesn’t need to be studied in order to be understood. The other thing that is especially important to me in my photographs is that they are authentic. Although I might have some clever and unconventional methods of getting angles and perspectives on certain shots, the things that are going on in my final photographs are 100% real. I have a rule for myself that if I can’t capture something as it is happening, then I shouldn’t try to recreate it on my own. I see the majority of my photography as an opportunity to give people a viewpoint into a different world: a chance to see the amazing places that are often unvisited, the struggle before the summit, the people that do it all, and everything in between. I think that one of the most important things that photography offers me, is the opportunity to share an experience or a feeling. I often find myself on the top of a mountain, or backpacking through a wilderness area, or simply sitting at home and wondering what other people in the world are doing at that very moment. My photographs are my contribution to fulfilling that curiosity in other people.
RDP Student on the Mogollon Rim during
Wilderness Orientation Fall 07
Students hiking Sahale Glacier in the
Boston Basin of the
North Cascades, WA
Adventure Education Class on the San Juan River
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Please contact your Annual Fund Manager, Judy Lewis in the PC Development Office:
jlewis@prescott.edu
Phonathon Dates:
Late March-April
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Don't forget to check out full-time regular job opportunities for students AND alumni posted at:
https://workstudy.prescott.edu/
Some examples of jobs posted include:
Massage Therapist, Environmental Education Program Coordinator, River and Destination Program Coordinator, and Sales Representative
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"It's time we start living more responsible - to our home and planet."
-Eirik Martin '06
Your gift allows Prescott College to continue its important mission to create future leaders like you - agents for making a difference in our world.
Making a Difference...
In Sustainable Futures
"Our culture has forgotten that the word ecology comes from the Greek word Ecos, which means Home. Ecology is the study of the Home, while economics is the management of the Home. How can we possibly understand the relationships of ecology and economics if we have lost the meaning of Home?"
~Doug Hulmes '74, Faculty, Education and Environmental Studies
If you have questions or need more information, please call the
Prescott College
Development Office at:
(877) 350-2100 X4505 or
(928) 350-4505
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by Michael Shay, ADP '07
I am a performer. Or so they say. Being a musician supposedly means I get up on stage, and do my thing in the spotlight for other people to see. It is no accident that my first performance under my own name, rather than as an accompanist, was at the Butte Creek Café at Prescott College. Call it experiential, call it trial by fire, call it a learning experience…for me it was a nightmare!
Many of the most sticky of my inner-workings were present in that “performance:” biting off an ambitious helping, losing my breath to my need for control, being late, procrastination, distraction… but most of all, the nervousness I remember experiencing was rooted in my desire to please others, rather than please myself. Looking out and seeing the dismay of the audience as it got to be an hour after the professed start of the show, as well as being probably more tuned into their own state of concern about the sloppy performance as it progressed than I was to my own pulse, my own voice. Read more...
The Prescott College Office of Alumni Relations is pleased to invite you to a gathering of alumni, parents, and friends of Prescott College in Santa Fe, New Mexico and Ashland, Oregon for a public lecture and conversation with Prescott College President,
Dr. Daniel Garvey.
 Dates: April 16, 2008 Santa Fe, NM 6-8pm
"Social with Dr. Dan Garvey"
Home of Alumna Brigette Buynak, RDP '93
918 Don Gaspar Ave.
Home Phone: 505-988-9697
Light Refreshments 6-8pm
April 17, 2008 Santa Fe, NM 7:00pm
Lecture
Santa Fe Community College
6401 Richards Ave., Room 216
April 24, 2008 Ashland, OR 7:00pm
Lecture
Southern Oregon University
Stephenson Union, Rogue River Room
Dr. Garvey's approach is rooted in the belief common within experiential education that all members of society, from student to public leaders, are resources for social transformation. "Prescott College has always challenged our students and faculty to think confidently and creatively about what it is we can do to make the world a better place," he explains. "Our students leave here with a solid grasp of the creative thinking and collaborative, practical action needed to make positive, lasting change."
The lecture will inspire dialogue around:
What biases and assumptions do I hold about different generations?
How can I facilitate communication and cooperation across generations?
What are the problems our next generation will face?
How can we assist future generations address sustainability issues?
What part can I play in creating a sustainable future?
RSVP by April 11th to Marie Smith, Office of Alumni & Parent Relations, msmith@prescott.edu or
877-350-2100 X4502
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If you know a Prescott College alumnus that you would like to nominate as a Desert Star, please use the online nomination form or contact the Alumni Office at 877.350.2100 ext 4502, or alumni@prescott.edu.
This name, "Desert Stars," is inspired both by the incredible Northern Arizona night sky that is a treasured memory for every student who ever stargazed in the Southwest, and also for Monoptilon belioides, a tiny sunflower native to Arizona. The Desert Star program recognizes distinguished Prescott College alumni whose contributions have changed a community - large or small -
for the better.
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Faculty & Alumni
Publications
The Girl from Charnelle, by RDP Faculty K.L. Cook, Harper Collins, 2006.
The Way Out: A true story of ruin and survival, by MAP Alumnus Craig Childs, Little, Brown and Company, 2004.
The Segregated Origins of Social Security: African Americans and the Welfare State, by RDP Faculty Mary Poole, University of North Carolina Press, 2006.
For more information, contact the Prescott College Bookstore at:
928-350-4307
Visa and MasterCard accepted.
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RDP May 3, 2008
ADP June 7, 2008
MAP June 23, 2008
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Contributed by:
Vicky Young, Ph.D.,
ADP Core Faculty, Coordinator for Native American Students,
and Life Experience Coordinator
The Adult Degree Program (ADP) teacher education faculty and staff spent a considerable amount of time this past year and the early spring preparing for the Arizona Department of Education (ADE) site review team's visit. The team gave the College's teacher education programs a very favorable review. Watch for an official announcement from the President and Deans about the updates on our teacher certification programs, including Early Childhood Education offerings.
In March ADP alumni Dessa West was nominated for the Yavapai County New Teacher of the Year. She is a first year teacher in the Prescott Unified School District. Dessa had worked for many years as a paraprofessional before earning her degree and certification.
Vicky Young (ADP '95), ADP Core Faculty, serves on the Navajo Nation Teacher Education Consortium (NNTEC). The spring NNTEC meetings will be held at Dine College in April and in May at Northern Arizona University. The NNTEC's goals are to ensure that Navajo students enter teacher education programs of study that embrace and incorporate the students' Navajo language, culture, and history.
Furthermore, NNTEC is striving to ensure that Navajo students undertake appropriate research projects in their communities that honor Navajo traditions. The NNTEC has hosted an Institutional Review Board (IRB) symposium last year. It will sponsor another IRB forum this spring.
Also Nancy Mattina and Jan Kempster may want to contribute information about the wonderful contributions that they have made to the College with Moodle and the Writing and Learning Center. |
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Don't miss out on:
Email your full name and
email address to:
alumni@prescott.edu
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I hope that you enjoy this month's e-newsletter. If there is something you would like to see in next month's issue or if you would like to submit an article, please let us know. Thank you for your continued commitment to and support of Prescott College.
Please send your submissions to alumni@prescott.edu
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Anna Marie Marriott, ADP '04
My life is divided between Ecuador, my home since the 70’s and California. I am the grandmother of a lovely spiritual being (Isabella, 2 ½) and presently awaiting the arrival of her brother. Since graduating from the ADP program in 2004 I am dedicated to community service. No more paid jobs for now! It is time to give back. When I am in Ecuador, the Damien Foundation is my focus. My efforts are concentrated on crafts, counseling and recreational therapy. I always walk away feeling that the patients themselves give me far more then I can possibly give them. This confirms my belief that our lives become more meaningful through service. My life is filled with gratitude for those educators at Prescott College, who encouraged me and gave me the confidence to achieve my goal. I would love to hear from others, especially those involved in human service work and invite you to visit Ecuador. Please see my email in class notes on the PC website.
John Sheedy, MAP '05
This is a big week. I just opened Gallery La Quintera here in Alamos and Monday is our big fundraiser here for the Tijuana Project. We are planning to resume production of the film this Spring. If you know anyone in Alamos please pass on the word that the fundraiser will be at the Hacienda de Los Santos and there is more info on our web site: www.tijuanaproject.org. Please enjoy the pictures of the gallery and come visit. I will be down here for part of every year.
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Come explore the San Juan River with the new Extended Studies Program —5 days on the river, tasty meals, sleep under the stars, hikes and geology, ruins and beautiful scenery, opportunities for yoga, meditation and reflection. Includes shuttle from Prescott to our start location in Bluff Utah. All gear, great food and educational opportunities. Trip led by Prescott College folks including faculty member Liz Faller.
Tuition: $895. Small group experience—open to 14 participants.
www.prescott.edu/cesll
The "Alumni" San Juan River Trip will be scheduled for Summer 2009.
Dates will be forthcoming.
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"Prince William Sound: A Celebration of Life and Landscape" Join Prescott College Professor of Environmental Studies and world naturalist Walt Anderson in an exploration of one of the most visually stunning and ecologically interesting environments on earth. Walt will team with renowned Captain Dean Rand of the Discovery as they share their unique perspectives on Alaska’s great natural beauty and abundant wildlife. Participants will be traveling in style, while having intimate contact with the natural world and learning from these experts. Our Classic Discovery Voyage samples the natural wonders of Prince William Sound. Years of travel and exploration in the Sound have resulted in a destination list of "favorite" places for the Discovery crew and we’ll take full advantage of their insider's knowledge. Wildflower meadows, rainforest trails, calving glaciers, whale watching, photography, shore side hikes, kayaking, sightseeing and a whole lot more await you on this classic encounter with the world-class beauty of Prince William Sound.
Our small group experience (only 12 clients) is a very unique opportunity to enjoy Alaska. The trip includes hiking, kayaking, photography and lots of nature interpretation and educational classes. We’ll live onboard the MV Discovery for 6 days with fabulous gourmet meals and wines at dinner and opportunities to explore this amazing location with a dedicated and passionate crew. Tuition for the 8-day experience is $3850 and includes double occupancy in the 6 client cabins. Also included are 2 nights in Anchorage and a welcome dinner. Registration will begin on March 12th. Contact CESLL for more information: (928) 350 – 4110.
Jill Hewins,
Director, Center for Extended Studies and Lifelong Learning (CESLL)
jhewins@prescott.edu
Prescott College
(928) 350 - 4110
www.prescott.edu/cesll
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