Transition Magazine Fall 2014 by Prescott College

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TransitionS Publisher Richard A. Ach Editor Ashley Mains Designer Miriam Glade Contributing Writers Ilse Asplund • Larry Barker • Joan Clingan • Matthew Einsohn • Anita Fernández • Lisa S. Garrison • Sam Henrie Ashley Mains • Lucy McNichols • Robert Milligan • Todd Mireles • Ben Olsen • James Pittman • Peter Sherman John Van Domelen • Lisa Zander Staff Photographers Denise Elfenbein • Miriam Glade • Aryn LaBrake Ashley Mains Photo Contributors 365.0rg • Academic Search • AmazonSmile.com • Walt Andrson • Arizona Serve • Larry Barker • Ilse Asplund Geoff Barnard • Joel Barnes • TheBestSchools.org • Dan Boyce • Beliz Brother • Peter Evans • Anita Fernández Roxann Gallagher • Lisa S. Garrison • Amber “Cricket” Harrington • Derk Janssen • Michelle Lanzoni • The Launch Pad teen center • Brian Leibold • Luna Martinez • Ben Olsen • The Online College Database • Courtney Osterfelt Prescott College Archives • Prescott College Art Gallery at Sam Hill Warehouse • The Princeton Review The Raven Review • Mark Reigner • Mike Rooney Elizabeth Schwartz • Jerry Secundy • Sierra Magazine Skyview School • StartByBelieving.org • Bradley Swain Sean Thomas • U.S. News and World Report • James Walsh Shawna Weaver • Wikipedia • Ken Ziesenheim • Lisa Zander Chief Advancement Officer Richard A. Ach (928) 350-4501 • richard.ach@prescott.edu For Class Notes and address changes, contact Marie Smith • msmith@prescott.edu Send correspondence, reprint requests, and submissions to: Ashley Mains Prescott College 220 Grove Ave., Prescott, AZ 86301 (928) 350-4506 • amains@prescott.edu Transitions, a publication for the Prescott College community, is published two times a year by the Office of Institutional Advancement for alumni, parents, friends, students, faculty, and staff of the College. Its purpose is to keep readers informed with news about Prescott College faculty, staff, students, and fellow alumni. Transitions is available online at www.prescott.edu. ©2014 Prescott College Prescott College reserves the right to reprint materials from Transitions in other publications and online at its discretion. Prescott College is committed to equal opportunity for its employees and applicants for employment, without discrimination on the basis of race, color, creed, sex or sexual orientation, age, disability, marital or parental status, status with respect to public assistance, or veteran’s status. This policy applies to the administration of its employment policies or any other programs generally accorded or made available to employees.

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Women’s Studies at PC: The Beginnings Ratings and Rankings Combating Gender/Sexual Disempowerment Arizona Serve at Prescott College Larry Barker: From Prescott to Moscow Courtney Osterfelt: A Life of Service Honor Roll of Donors: Fiscal Year 2013-14 Welcome New Alumni Board Members

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President John F. Van Domelen at AZ Veteran Certification Ceremony, 2014

President’s Corner Wikipedia defines volunteering as “an altruistic activity intended to promote goodness or improve human quality of life. In return, this activity can produce a feeling of self-worth and respect. There is no financial gain involved for the individual.” It has been my good fortune to travel extensively in this world. I have managed to visit or live in more than 40 countries, and I have been struck by the fact that volunteerism is far less prevalent as a cultural norm outside the United States. I am sure that this is because the citizenry in those countries look to their governments to provide essential services. In the United States charitable groups staffed with volunteers provide many of these services. The founding of our nation was greatly enhanced through the use of a volunteer army and navy against a British military conscripted into service or mercenaries paid to fight. It is true that our volunteers were eventually paid, but pay was secondary to the belief that they were serving a cause important to their family, their friends, and, ultimately, their greater community and future nation. In the last century this sense of serving a greater cause led thousands to volunteer for the Peace Corps. Again, there is compensation for members of the Corps, but at a very modest level. We are fortunate that we are a nation of volunteers and givers. It has enriched the lives of many of our citizens who receive services and goods they may otherwise not have been able to aspire to (through no fault of their own). I truly believe the benefits of giving work in both directions; that those who have volunteered or given of their wealth have had their lives enriched by being involved citizens and making a difference in the world around them. I volunteered for military service long before there was a draft in force. After leaving active service I volunteered in the Vermont Air Guard.Yes, I was compensated for both activities, but at a far lower

Prescott College Volunteer Board Members Walt Anderson Faculty Trustee

Richard Ach’73 Volunteer, Chief Advancement Officer

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Geoff Barnard Retired, President, The Grand Canyon Trust

Dan Boyce

Roxann Gallagher

Financial Planner, Center for Financial Planning, Inc.

Attorney, Sacks Tierney, P.A.

Peter Evans Independent Consultant

rate of remuneration than I would have earned as an engineer. For me the true pay was the sense of service to my country, despite its many warts. As an educator I volunteered for just about any service group available. I served as an accreditation team member, then chair, and then finally as a member of the board of the New England Association of Schools and Colleges. I served on numerous committees and boards for the State of Vermont and then the City of Boston—too many to list. But I am not atypical. Almost everyone I’ve known has volunteered for something that would help their community, their state, their country. I have used the multitude of good examples surrounding me and tried to emulate them. I have tried to be charitable with what wealth I have and with the time I have. I volunteered for the Prescott College Board of Trustees because a good friend, Dan Garvey, said he needed me, and when the President left during the middle of last academic year, I agreed to serve as president until a replacement could be found because I knew the institution needed me. The College was clearly in need in many aspects, so I have and continue to serve in this position without pay. It is the largest charitable contribution I have ever made to an organization and the one that has brought me the greatest satisfaction of any volunteer effort I have ever undertaken. My wife, despite an ongoing illness, encouraged me to take the time to serve the College, in essence sharing her precious time with me with the College as well.

between self-fulfillment and service to others.” Each of our students is instilled with a sense of obligation to enhance our world community and environment, and equipped with the skills to make a living making a difference. Not surprisingly, many of our graduates go on to work in the nonprofit world, at NGOs, in conservation, teaching, and in the fields of counseling and psychology. Even beyond altruistic forms of employment, many still find the time to volunteer in their communities and give from what means they have to organizations acting on worthwhile missions every day. I am proud of my service on the Board and as President of Prescott College and hope it helps in some small way to encourage a sense of volunteerism in our graduates, and reinforce it in our alumni. There is no gift as special as your time. Thank you,

John F. Van Domelen, Ph.D. President

Prescott has graduated and continues to graduate students who care about the quality of life the members of their society enjoy. At the core of our mission we state: “We regard learning as a continuing process and strive to provide an education that will enable students to live productive lives while achieving a balance

Jim Pittman ’97 Staff Trustee, Director of Sustainability

Ken Ziesenheim Retired, President, Thornburg Securities

James Walsh

Elizabeth Schwartz ’15

On-Campus Student Trustee

Retired, Attorney

Mike Rooney

Jerry Secundy

Attorney, Sacks Tierney, P.A.

Vice Chairman, State Water Resources Control Board of California

Shawna Weaver, Ph.D. program ’16 Limited-Residency Student Trustee

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College News Prescott College Commits to Fossil Fuel Divestment

The Prescott College Board of Trustees has approved a landmark Fossil Fuel Divestment Resolution, making a commitment to shift endowment investments from the 200 largest fossil fuel corporations to clean, green energy companies and other socially responsible investments aligned with institutional values. The divestment initiative at Prescott College was first developed by recent graduate Kara Kukovich ’13, who prepared a report on the ethical, financial, and environmental reasons for fossil fuel divestment. The proposed action gained widespread support from students, faculty, staff, and executives at the College, and was approved by all major internal governance committees within a few short months. “We are excited about the Divestment Resolution—it reaffirms our commitment to environmental responsibility and social justice,” said President John Van Domelen. “These have been our core values from inception nearly a half century ago, long before the emergence of the sustainability movement.”

Arizona Gives Day

Prescott College participated in the second-annual Arizona Gives Day—a statewide, 24-hour, online giving campaign—with our very own Cowboy Dollar Drive on April 9. Drawing on the history of the College and with a generous $5,000 matching gift from President John Van Domelen, the Prescott College community raised $13,750 in 24 hours! Big thanks to everyone who participated in one form or another.

Raven Review Transformed

Under the auspices of Social Justice and Human Rights faculty member Todd Mireles, the student staff of Prescott College’s student run newspaper, The Raven Review, launched an online-only version of the publication with a dynamic new photo-heavy design and user interface (www.ravenreviewnewspaper.com). According to Mireles, who earned his undergrad degree in journalism, it’s not just the look and format that are different. He sees the new Raven Review as a year-round publication accepting article ideas, photos, and complete story submissions from the entire Prescott College community. Got an idea? Submit directly online at www.ravenreviewnewspaper.com/submissions. (See story on page 29.)

River Studies Leadership Certificate

The River Management Society has partnered with five colleges and universities, including Prescott College, to offer the River Studies Leadership Certificate. The certificate is designed for undergraduate students and requires completion of approved river-focused coursework and a river-related professional project. Faculty will collaborate with each student to design and complete a personalized academic program that should address real world challenges facing rivers in the U.S. Each student will receive a one-year membership in the River Management Society that includes a subscription to the RMS Journal and the opportunity to attend national and regional chapter events, including the national symposium or workshop (held in alternating years). In addition to coursework and professional experience, students must present about an aspect of their studies at a professional conference or contribute an article to the RMS Journal to complete the program. Prescott College faculty member Joel Barnes and Faculty Director of the Water Center at Colorado Mesa University Gigi Richard were instrumental in developing this certificate.

Earth Day Turned Earth Month

Prescott College turned this year’s Earth Day into an Earth Month with collaboration among groups and individuals on and off campus. Events included: Earth Day at the Courthouse Plaza, a Rachel Carson Chautauqua, a presentation on climate change by Rev. Michael Dowd, a movie screening of More than Honey, a campus conversation on Spiritualism and Nature, a presentation called “The Path of Natural History” by Tom Fleischner, and the One Man’s Treasure Up-cycled Art Auction. As part of One Man’s Treasure, the College participated in a month-long display at the downtown Prescott Public Library during the month of February. The largest event each year by far is always Earth Day at the Courthouse Plaza, which Prescott College co-sponsors along with the Prescott Open Space Alliance. Our five booths on the Courthouse Plaza represented several groups on campus including: Admissions, Advancement, Natural History Institute, Sustainability Council, Butte Creek Restoration, and ECOSA Institute.

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Media Resource Center Expanding Scope

The Prescott College Media Resource Center is radically expanding its scope. For years the Center filmed colloquium keynote speeches and graduation ceremonies, and in the beginning this footage was relegated to DVDs held in the Library’s collection. In the rapidly expanding age of online video streaming, the Media Center is coming of age. Graduations and Baccalaureate will still be filmed, even streamed live or viewed and downloaded directly from the Prescott College website. But, the fun doesn’t stop there. Center staff is interviewing faculty and students about their passions and their experiences at Prescott College.Video cameras are in the hands of students in field courses. Wilderness orientation will be coming to your screen soon! These very short programs will be shared on the College website, the official Prescott College Facebook page, and soon on a dedicated Media Center Blog. All of this activity focuses on connecting Prescott College with likeminded people who might want to attend themselves, send their children here, or invest in the College. Check out these shorts, share them with friends, and let the Media Center crew know what you think at media.center@prescott.edu. A growing collection of videos is already available for direct viewing and sharing here: http://vimeo.com/prescottcollege/videos.

Southwest Writers Series Hosts Poet Laureate at Prescott College

Alberto Rios, Arizona’s first Poet Laureate, came to the Art Gallery at Sam Hill Warehouse on April 30 as part of the Southwest Writers Series. Rios has published 10 books and chapbooks of poetry, three collections of short stories, and Capirotada, his memoir about growing up on the Mexico-Arizona border. Rios has received the Western Literature Association’s Distinguished Achievement Award, the Arizona Governor’s Arts Award, fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, the Walt Whitman Award, the Western States Book Award for Fiction, six Pushcart Prizes in both poetry and fiction, and inclusion in the Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry, as well as more than 200 other national and international literary anthologies. At the lecture in April he gave readings of his poems “When Giving Is All We Have” and “Nani” and spoke about several topics, including teaching at Arizona State University and coming from a family of storytellers.

Biological Collections Back on Campus

Alumna Audrey Clark ’05, digital herbarium specialist at the Pringle Herbarium at the University of Vermont, coordinated the donation to the College’s Natural History Institute of about 140 western plant specimens, a dozen of which were collected by the famous and prolific botanist Cyrus Pringle 130 years ago in what is now northern Mexico. Shortly after the Pringle Herbarium donation,Yavapai College transferred its entire herbarium—containing approximately 8,500 specimens—to the Natural History Institute in May. Since then a group of dedicated volunteers and student workers have been tirelessly processing the specimens so that students, researchers, and community members can access them.

Town-Gown Sustainability Consulting

A team of sustainability consultants from Prescott College funded by the Sustainability Council completed a rapid sustainability assessment of the local Skyview Public Charter School (founded 15 years ago by Prescott College staff with a vision for more progressive and holistic educational offerings). The assessment was led by Prescott College faculty member Peter Sherman and his wife Mariana Altrichter. Other members of staff and a team of undergraduate field assistants provided management support and subject matter expertise. “The Skyview Sustainability Assessment offers a model for blending experiential education with sustainability consulting services and providing the blend of services to the local community,” Peter says. “The assessment model may provide opportunity for similar projects in the future.”

Start By Believing

President John Van Domelen signed a proclamation this spring committing Prescott College to the Start by Believing campaign against sexual violence, and recognizing Arizona’s status as the first state to adopt the campaign. The premise of Start by Believing is that your reaction makes a difference. When someone tells you they’ve been raped, there’s a simple response. Start by Believing. A friend or family member is typically the first person a victim confides in after an assault. Knowing how to respond is critical— a negative response can worsen the trauma. Learn more at www.startbybelieving.org.

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College News

Continued

Two New Endowments

The Endowment for Environmental Education at the Prescott College Kino Bay Center and The Endowment in Support of a Place-Based Environmental Education Faculty Position, both to be named for their founder, Douglas F. Hulmes ’74, were established toward the end of the 2013–14 fiscal year and are tied to a planned gift. The Endowment for Environmental Education at Kino Bay will be used to support place-based environmental education for the indigenous populations the Prescott College Kino Bay Center serves, such as the Seri Indians. The Endowment for a Place-Based Environmental Education Faculty Position will be used toward the employment of a member of the Prescott College Faculty who teaches environmental education, environmental history, and environmental philosophy. The intent of the position is to continue the work Doug Hulmes has developed with Miller Valley Elementary School and Prescott Creeks.

Annual Report Wins APEX Award

The Advancement Communications team of Miriam Glade ’03 and Ashley Mains M.A. ’11 won an APEX Award for Publication Excellence for the 2012–2013 Prescott College Annual Report. The APEX awards program recognizes excellence in publications work by professional communicators based on graphic design, editorial content, and the ability to achieve overall communications excellence. With nearly 2,100 entries, competition was exceptionally intense. One hundred Grand Awards were presented to honor outstanding work in 11 major categories, with 832 Awards of Excellence recognizing exceptional entries in 122 subcategories. Didn’t get a copy of this award-winning publication last year? Check it out online: http://www.prescott.edu/give/annual-report/index.html.

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Prescott College, Tucson Hosts XITO Conference

The Xican@ Institute for Teaching & Organizing (XITO), a sponsored program of Prescott College, hosted its summer institute from July 10 through 12. Over 35 educators, activists and organizers from around the country participated in this intensive professional development training on the pedagogy and philosophy of the acclaimed Mexican American Studies Program, which has been outlawed in Arizona. XITO’s three-day institute included workshops by former Mexican American Studies teachers Sean Arce, Curtis Acosta, Norma Gonzalez, and Jose Gonzalez along with Prescott College Tucson Director Anita Fernández and El Paso activist Georgina Perez. An evening event featured graduates from the Mexican American Studies Program and a performance by the Los Angeles theater group the Chicano Secret Service. Proceeds from the Institute went to support young urban teachers’ travel to Tucson, with additional funds held for scholarships for high school students taking XITO’s college-credit-bearing courses. For more information on XITO visit www.xicanoinstitute.org.

Presidential Search Update

During the summer months 65 applicants submitted letters, resumes, and references for consideration by the Search Committee. The Committee, with assistance of the consulting firm Academic Search, reviewed all of these materials and evaluated the applicants according to criteria that reflect the values of Prescott College and the needed qualities identified for an effective president. The pool included outstanding and accomplished men and women from both academic and non-academic backgrounds, and in August the Committee narrowed down the list to nine people to be interviewed at an off-site location. Additional vetting and reference checking continues. Following the off-site interviews, there will be a selection of three finalists to visit campus in October. There will be opportunities for both formal and informal communication with each finalist. Keep your ears and eyes peeled for your chance to meet these finalists!

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Sommer Fellowship Winner 2014–15

The Frederick & Frances Sommer Foundation and Prescott College are proud to announce Amber “Cricket” Harrington has been awarded the 2014–2015 fellowship. According to the Foundation Trustees, “Her application package was well written and showed a remarkably diverse and evolved set of artistic skills and interests. She is truly an interdisciplinary artist.” Cricket is primarily a writer, but will be using the cabin to complete her Senior Project “Flying and other Memories: Telling Stories Through Performance Art” using multiple media. She is looking for motivated local community members to participate in her project this fall. Specifically, she’s looking for people with interesting life stories that they would like to share as well as artists of any kind (dancers, actors, musicians, film-makers, etc.) willing to participate. Cricket can be reached at aharrington@prescott.edu. The Foundation is considering opening the fellowship to students in other program areas/disciplines within the Liberal Arts in the future.

SHIFT: Ten Years of Work from Matthew Moore

Prescott College Art Gallery at Sam Hill Warehouse was pleased to present SHIFT:Ten Years of Work from Matthew Moore on view August 30 through October 18, 2014. Matthew Moore is a fourth-generation family farmer, a working artist, and a food activist. Moore farms outside of Phoenix and exhibits his video and installation artwork internationally. Through his artistic practices he addresses issues of ecological, cultural, and economical sustainability and the potential loss of small independent farms. “The Gallery is extremely proud to be exhibiting such a relevant and up-and-coming artist,” said Sam Hill Gallery Coordinator Jen Chandler ’00. Moore’s work has been exhibited at the Phoenix Art Museum, the 2010 Sundance Film Festival, the Walker Art Center, MassMoCA, and the Confederation Centre and Nuit Blanche in Canada. Moore lectures on art and agriculture at conferences and universities across the country; he has been published in Metropolis Magazine, Dwell, and Architecture Magazine, as well as Mark Magazine and Dazed and Confused of Europe; and he is featured in Phoenix: 21st Century City, a book by Booth-Clibborn Editions. “Having this show is a big deal, not just for the College,” Chandler explained, “but for the entire Prescott area.”

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Women’s Studies at Prescott College: The Beginnings By Lisa Stewart Garrison ’75

Lisa S. Garrison, 1972

y the late 1960s and early 70s, as feminism swept the healthcare, sexuality, and self-defense. Heather’s commitment to country, dramatically changing what women expected embodiment through improvisational dance and the inward of themselves and each other, the seeds of the women’s journey set a distinctive tone for our explorations. She invited movement were taking root at Prescott College. With its slogan special guests to meet with us, such as the ritual and ceremony “the personal is political,” feminism was primarily impacting urban maker Elizabeth Cogburn. Heather’s grounded presence in a centers. Few would have predicted that young women at a secluded turbulent time of intense social awakening demonstrated for us college campus in the chaparral country of the Granite Dells of what it is to be an emotionally courageous woman. Central Arizona might be emboldened to develop courses of study The provocative influence of feminist theory and the and ways of living and talking together that would contribute to the Peggy Rourke and Sarah White, 1972, by Beliz Brother intellectual firepower of broader movement and transform the lives of those of us involved. confrontation were alive In many ways, fertile ground for women’s empowerment was and well among women in place by 1968 when Prescott College formally launched its at Prescott College in signature three-week Wilderness Orientation Program. The first the early 1970s. A femicadre of young women participated in intensive hiking, kayaking, nist critique of the river rafting, and mountaineering; faced physical challenges, took Orientation Program began to emerge. Give risks, and engaged in cooperative teamwork, gaining newfound confidence in their strength and problem solving abilities. Three us experiences that lead days spent alone in the wilderness nurtured qualities of self-reliance us out of our comfort and a sense of spiritual connection with nature. zone, by all means. But Yet as classes formally began, women Outward Bound’s creed Women’s students quickly learned that experiencing then—“To Strive, To competence in wilderness settings and Seek, To Find, and Not Literature at knowing how and when to use words to To Yield” (Alfred Lord Tennyson)— Prescott College was my confront sexism were very different things. evoked a summit mentality, a push for entry point to everything. What the peak, and an unwillingness to surAt Prescott College, in that era, men greatly outnumbered women on the faculty and in the we read and talked about, where render that was increasingly discomfiting syllabi. Out of a faculty of 37, only three were to women. we met, who we understood women. As women students we embraced A group of us set up a feminist Prescott’s philosophy of taking individual ourselves to be, opened the door dorm. Hot-off-the-press feminist responsibility for directing one’s own educamanifestos, forwarded to us by my to what I would study, whom I tion. We were learning to read maps and to sister in California, were coveted like map out our lives. But we were also searching would love, how I would live contraband. Dog-eared copies of the for role models and determined to find faculty women’s newspaper Off Our Backs were and work. on campus to help us articulate our insights. passed from room to room. We were —Melanie Lohmann ’75 yearning to read literature by women Prescott College’s first women’s consciousness raising group met at the and to find heroines whose journeys might inspire our own. school’s newly opened Center for the Person on October 19, 1970. We found In the fall of 1971 fellow women students approached me to our faculty mentor in Heather Keen teach the College’s first women’s literature class. We organized (now Heather Starsong), who had ourselves as an Independent Study with Heather Keen and arrived on campus to teach modern literature professor Dr. Stan Witt serving as faculty advisors. By dance and establish ayoga program. the following spring, 25 women were enrolled. A group of 12 to 15 of us met weekly, We supplemented a syllabus of novels by women with throughout the year, verbalizing readings of feminist theory and criticism, acquired through feelings and perceptions previously pilgrimages to bookstores in Phoenix and Berkeley. We were left unsaid, grappling with our increasmaking our way through the writings of Shulamith Firestone, Kate Millet, and Robin Morgan. The poetry books of Sylvia Plath, Anne ing anger, and finding our common Sexton, and Judy Grahn were on perpetual reserve for us in the ground as women. Although at first reluctant to serve in an advisory capacity, library. Throughout the spring of 1972, we met each Monday evening in an old grey farmhouse off campus (then home to a Heather stepped in, on condition that we accept her as a fellow learner, since she didn’t claim this issue to be within her area of group of Prescott students and their small herd of goats). Inspired by our readings, our conversations ranged from expertise. Feminism was focusing on women and their bodies at women’s changing identities, to women loving women, and that time, but the emphasis was on reproductive rights, access to

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conflicts between conventional gender and sex prescriptions and unconventional lives. Ardent discussions of books were interspersed with poetry readings, dance, songs from the newly emerging genre of women’s music, and meditations on visual art. Beliz Brother ’72 shared with us a slide show she created about the artist Georgia O’ Keeffe, whose paintings played with scale and abstracted from nature to produce a distinctively female iconography. At an all-night meeting dedicated primarily to discussions of Our Bodies, Ourselves, we viewed clips of a baby being delivered in an ambulance from a film borrowed from the Yavapai County Sheriff ’s Office. In those days before Lamaze had gained national prominence, it was the first time any of us had witnessed a woman giving birth. Central to feminism, as we understood it nearly 45 years ago, was a vision of a world in which every mother could count on having adequate childcare and all children had the right to an education devoid of gender stereotyping and cultural bias. In the summer of 1971 a group of Prescott students and community members founded the Funny School at Groom Creek, a program that provided a socially conscious, multicultural, and non-sexist environment for children. The Funny School served as a precursor to the Primavera School, which opened in 1972 on ten acres in Copper Basin, with six students and the involvement of many Prescott College volunteers. Prescott alumna Becky Ruffner ’75 would spend the next decade developing Primavera into a stellar example of progressive education and the first accredited early childhood program in Yavapai County. The intimacy of our time, meeting together at Grey Farm, talking about books, forming friendships, experiencing what it might be to live an activist life, sensing ourselves as part of a “women’s culture” and a global women’s movement, would have a seminal influence on how we moved into the next phases of our lives. Yet each of us took different things from the experience. Melanie Lohmann ’75 would concentrate on studies of women’s literature and creative writing throughout her undergraduate experience at Prescott College, eventually completing advanced studies at the Women’s Writers Center in Cazenovia, New York. Peggy Rourke (Gavillot) ’74 followed her studies at the University of Chicago with travels in Africa and the Middle East. She lived for well over a decade on an island off the coast of Madagascar before returning to Arizona to teach. Sarah White ’74 saw feminism as a framework for understanding social dynamics. She would eventually explore feminist socialism, participate in women’s apprenticeship programs, join a union, and culminate her career in the Engineering Division of the King County Department of Wastewater in Seattle. Artist Beliz Brother credits her studies of women artists while at Prescott with making her unafraid to undertake large-scale public art works or be the only woman working in a given field. Beliz’s monumental works can now be found in the Tech Museum of Innovation in Silicon Valley, at Seahawks Football Stadium

“Farmhouse gals,” Grey Farm, 1972, by Beliz Brother

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Funny School at Groom Creek, 1972, by Beliz Brother

Melanie Lohmann and Lydia Black, 1972, by Beliz Brother

and City Hall in Seattle, and in healthcare facilities throughout the country. I finished up my degree at Prescott College in Mexico City as a representative at the 1975 International Women’s Year Tribune, held in tandem with the United Nations Conference to launch the Decade of Women. With 4,000 attendees from 90 countries, it was also the unparalleled networking opportunity for launching my career. Feminism opened doors in our lives. We were uniquely prepared to build community as entrepreneurs, adventurers, agents of social change, and lasting friends. But feminism also made an enduring mark on Prescott College. A nearly unbroken line of continuity exists between what women intently sought and did in the College’s first decade and the courses and collaborations that lie at the heart of the school’s Women and Gender offerings today. Living in New York City in the decade following my graduation from PC, I would meet many of the authors whose books and poetry we’d read in the women’s literature class. In a conversation with Alma Routsang (pen name: Isabel Miller), she recalled having 25 copies of her book Patience and Sarah sent “to the middle of nowhere in Arizona,” when all book orders to date had come from major coastal cities. “I looked you up on the map,” she told me, “And I did wonder – ‘What could possibly be going on out there?’” Lisa Stewart Garrison is a story teller and consultant in the philanthropic and not for profit sectors. She is currently developing a project on Quakers and the Underground Railroad.

Community Building in Prescott More than 1,100 alumni of Prescott College have remained in Northern Arizona, living, working, and contributing to our community in ways large and small. The following is a brief glimpse at the businesses, nonprofits, and schools that our alumni and other PC community members have played a key role in establishing in Prescott: • Aboriginal Living Skills School, LLC • Adaptive Technology Support • Advanced Networking Solutions • Beyond Words Graphics • Blue Bird Design Studio • Center for Addiction Nutrition • Design Research • Donovan Building & Restoration • Ebarb Law Firm • Goodman Law Firm • Granite Mountain Outfitters • Hitching Post Mobile Home Park • In Recovery Magazine • Ironclad Bicycles • J. Clapp Properties • Joy of Life

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• La Tierra Community School • The Launch Pad teen center • Milagro Arts • Nick’s Feed Your Face • Northpoint Expeditionary Learning Academy • OK Create Design Studio • Pangaea Bakery • Powersports Outlet • Practicing Presence • Prescott Creeks • Prescott Green Real Estate • Prevent Child Abuse Arizona • Primavera School • Raven Café • Rubicon Outdoors • Salon St. Martin • Skyview School • Women’s Empowerment Breakthrough This list is by no means exhaustive, so if you have started a business, nonprofit, or school that is still serving the tri-city/Northern Arizona community – let us know at transitions@prescott.edu!

Prescott College Receives High Marks National Media, ratings, and rankings list Prescott College among the best and greenest The Princeton Review Best 379 Colleges Prescott College is one of the country’s best institutions for undergraduate education, according to the Princeton Review. The well-known education services company features the school in the 2015 edition of its annual college guide. The College is also one of the institutions the Princeton Review recommends for the Western region. The book includes ranking lists of top 20 schools in 62 categories based on the Princeton Review’s surveys of 130,000 students attending the colleges. Once again, Prescott College has ranked in the top 20 for LGBT-friendly campuses, alongside the likes of Stanford University, Sarah Lawrence College, and the University of Wisconsin, among others.

Guide to Green Colleges The Princeton Review also selected Prescott College for inclusion in the third annual edition of its free downloadable book, The Princeton Review’s Guide to Green Colleges: 2014 Edition. The guide is, according to Princeton Review sources, the only free, comprehensive guidebook profiling institutions of higher education that demonstrate a notable commitment to sustainability in their academic offerings, campus infrastructure, activities, and career preparation.

U.S. News and World Report – Best in West and Top for Veterans Prescott College is featured in the 2015 U.S. News and World Report guide to the best colleges as one of the top Liberal Arts Colleges in the West. U.S. News also developed a new ranking this year to help veterans pursue a college education under the Post-9/11 GI Bill. Prescott College was named one of only 234 schools on the inaugural Best Colleges for Veterans list.

Sierra Magazine’s Cool Schools The annual Sierra Magazine Cool Schools ranking pegged Prescott College as one of the “cool” kids. We should be able to improve our rating year over year with all the current investments in sustainability through our campus housing, land and resource management, energy and water conservation measures, and activities of sustainability advocates across campus.

TheBestSchools.org The Best Schools, a website devoted to finding the best education for a student’s needs, ranked Prescott College as one of the top 100 colleges in the nation. The ranking presents the best four-year liberal arts college and the best full-fledged university in each of the 50 states. In Arizona, the University of Arizona in Tucson also ranked among the top 100 colleges.

Arizona Certified Veteran Supportive Campus Prescott College is the first private college in Arizona certified by the Arizona Department of Veterans’ Services (ADVS) as a Veteran Supportive Campus. Arizona post-secondary institutions may request certification if they demonstrate that they have identified the needs and issues of student veterans, faculty, and staff to help develop programs that best support student veterans. Such programs include student veteran orientation and sensitivity and awareness training on military and veterans’ culture, as well as peer mentoring and support programs for student-veterans.

Colleges Shaping the Next Generation Prescott College has been recognized as a top college for teacher education. The Online College Database (www.onlinecollegedatabase.org) has a new ranking, Top Colleges in Arizona Shaping the Next Generation, honoring the post-secondary institutions in the state that graduated the most education and teaching professionals in 2012.

Rainbow, Dosie Pit area burn, 2013

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Prescott College Combats Gender and Sexual Disempowerment Women’s Empowerment Breakthrough, 2007

By Lucy McNichols On-campus Undergraduate program ’15

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PC women see need for gender and sexual empowerment, create community solutions

rescott College student Rosalie Whatley ’15 is working to facilitate a dialogue between those who identify as women. She created an Independent Study and then a workshop on menstruation, which featured a lesson in anatomy and physiology. Equally important to Whatley was the space for discussion to talk about what feels like, for many, a taboo topic. “As women we are not educated about what is actually going on with our bodies,” said Whatley. “I don’t know anyone who can say they had an empowering sex ed class. There is a combination of misunderstanding and fear.” As part of her continuing efforts, Whatley helped bring Isadora Leidenfrost, a documentary filmmaker and spiritual activist, to Prescott College with a screening of her film Things We Don’t Talk About — Women’s Stories from the Red Tent. Although the Red Tent movement sprang from a practice of women spending time together while they menstruate, Whatley hopes to make this space inclusive to more identities than just those designated WEB, 2007 female at birth. “It is important we begin to celebrate qualities associated with femininity that have been devalued in Western culture,” said Whatley. “This movement, as I’ve read about it, talks a lot about this desire to be inclusive and create a space for whoever wants that, and whoever desires that.” Another woman who is working to break down patriarchal structures is Zoe Caras ’15. Caras is working with the Queer Student Union and the Launch Pad, a new local, inclusive teen center. She is doing this work because she sees an urgent need in the community for safe spaces and support networks for teens. The city of Prescott used to have a Pride Center, which supported the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community, but it lacked finances and shut down in 2012. “My senior project will be a support group for teens who experience gender- and sexualitybased oppression,” said Caras. “In addition I’m going to start going into Gay-Straight Alliances in high schools and do ‘know-your-rights’ type trainings, because there have been a lot of controversial politics lately in Arizona, especially for transgendered students, and there are a lot of places where they are marginalized.” Some of the legislation that marginalizes transgender students includes only allowing a change to one’s gender assigned at birth after a sex reassignment surgery. This includes affecting the gender listed on one’s driver’s license. Also, gender identity is not included in hate crime legislation in Arizona, and lawmakers continue to propose discriminating legislation that targets LGBTQ people on a state level. Women’s Empowerment Breakthrough (WEB) is another nonprofit in Prescott. WEB works to help teen girls reach their goals in a supportive environment. Started a decade go as her Senior Project and led by Courtney Osterfelt ’06, M.A. ’11 (also founder of The Launch Pad teen center), WEB seeks to create female solidarity and make up for the lack of comprehensive sexuality health education that existed at the time. “To make women feel valued,

heard, and wanted in their community not only empowers them but creates solidarity through recognizing shared experience and by raising one’s own self-worth,” Osterfelt said. “I could have benefitted from something like this as a teen. Not that a bunch of academic information would have saved me from my troubles, but understanding that my experience was part of a broader system would have been liberating. It would have meant that I wasn’t crazy for feeling the way I felt, that I wasn’t alone.” WEB hosts a three-day retreat at Mingus Mountain that brings between 40 and 70 girls each year. This retreat creates a space of support for young women to gain empowerment in solidarity with each other. The retreat brings the girls together to “learn about things like positive body image, comprehensive sex ed, leadership, female solidarity, the media, youth activism, self-expression through art and movement, and lighter things like how to make chocolate, nutrition, how to change a tire on your car, women and the outdoors, circus arts, this list could go on and on,” said Osterfelt. Amber Harrington ’14 got into Women’s Empowerment Breakthrough in 2012 to support WEB’s mission. Harrington has given workshops at two of the retreats in songwriting and comedy improvisational theater. “I think its important for young people to have role models and have outlets and have people even just listen,” she said. “Women need to be proud for being women.” Harrington also performed a reading at Prescott’s Vagina Monologues event this spring. The Rev. Jacqueline Ziegler, interim minister at Granite Peak Unitarian Universalist Congregation, helped create this event and also hosted a screening of a film about Judy Chicago’s art installation, The Dinner Party, a celebration of the Sacred Feminine and representation of 999 forgotten women in history. Both of these events were hosted in honor of Women’s History Month during March. Ziegler hopes The Vagina Monologues, a live reading of stories of womanhood written by Eve Ensler, will spread the belief that women have inherent worth. “That’s something lacking in our world,” Zeigler said. “We should remember these traditions associated with women and femininity.” Amber Harrington with WEB teens at the Grand Canyon

This story was originally written for and printed in The Raven Review, a student publication of the Newspaper Journalism Practicum course at Prescott College. Lucy served as the editor of Raven Review and is at Prescott College studying Social and Environmental Resiliency. She loves hearing stories and interviewing people but loves bacon and her red fur coat much, much more.

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Arizona Serve: Affecting Poverty AmeriCorps VISTA program finds home at Prescott College, success

In her first five years Maggie increased the VISTA program aster of Arts alumna Maggie Garvey ’11 founded Arizona Serve in 2009 as an outgrowth of her origifrom two to 46 individual members in service. Over her tenure nal one-year commitment to the national AmeriCorps with the College she managed more than $5 million in CorporaVISTA (Volunteers in Service to America) program. AmeriCorps tion for National and Community Service (CNCS) funding to VISTA is a national service program designed to engage Americans support anti-poverty work throughout Arizona, and established a in a full-time year of service to supplement efforts to fight poverty second location for Arizona Serve in southern Arizona at Prescott in low-income communities. College, Tucson. Maggie was recently hired by CNCS as State Maggie moved to Arizona after completing a bachelor of arts Director for Kentucky. She has passed the reins of her brainchild program in political science at Simmons College in Boston, to her colleague Ben Olsen, who has been working in Tucson for spending her year of service writing curricula and facilitating more than a year. intergenerational programming throughout rural Arizona to fight “Addressing systemic poverty is one of the greatest challenges poverty and address the methamphetamine epidemic. of our time,” Ben—current Director of Arizona Serve—says. Garvey is not “Arizona Serve an unfamiliar name empowers communiat Prescott College. ties to address poverty Maggie is the niece through hands-on of President Emericommunity service.” tus Dan Garvey, Currently hosting which is why she a 25-member team, already knew our Arizona Serve places school would be a AmeriCorps VISTA perfect partner for members with comher next endeavors: munity organizations establish a regional that are working to AmeriCorpsVISTA address food insecuprogram in Yavapai rity, homelessness, and County, then deimproving educational success. velop a state-wide Tucson Mayors Day of Recognition for National Service, 2014 program. At the same “Rather than proYavapai Serve Volunteers at Yarnell Hill Fire Cleanup, 2014 time Maggie was viding direct services, VISTA members help building a partnership develop programs, syswith Prescott College through the Institute tems and strategies that expand our communifor Sustainable Social ties’ capacity to address Change (ISSC), poverty,” Ben explains. where she is a senior fellow. VISTAs develop The College volunteer programs, originally extended research and evaluate its 501(c)(3) status so new program models, Maggie could apply and develop new funfor large grants. She draising strategies for a started with a variety of community organizations. “This National Service Planning Grant and emphasis on capacwas awarded more ity building leads to a than $400,000. She increased partnering organizations from five more sustainable approach to addressing poverty.” to more than 30 sites, implemented a statewide Summer AssociIn Tucson,VISTA members work with Mayor Rothschild’s ofates program, and hosted nonprofit leader roundtables that were fice to support the Mayor’s Commission on Poverty. The Commisattended by more than 40 organizations. Maggie ran a Youth Count sion comprises a variety of community leaders who are developing grant and an American Recovery and Reinvestment Act grant, the a framework to reduce poverty in the city and surrounding areas. first awarded by AmeriCorps VISTA to Prescott College. VISTA member and Prescott College graduate Katharine Adair “The VISTA grant managed at Prescott College is the largest Brown ’11 was recognized for her contributions to this anti-poverty in Arizona,” Maggie says. “Arizona Serve became identified as a initiative and was awarded the Tucson Mayor’s National Service best practice model nationally and has been funded to consult with Award earlier this spring. According to Ben, work in Tucson is critiother VISTA program directors.” cal, as it is currently the eighth-poorest large city in the country.

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Vanessa Silverstein In 2012,Vanessa came to Arizona as an AmeriCorps VISTA member serving with the Coalition for Compassion and Justice (CCJ), a Prescott-based poverty-relief center. Following her VISTA service Vanessa happily took on the role of Arizona Serve’s AmeriCorps VISTA Team Leader for the Tucson region, working closely with VISTA members as a professional coach and mentor, and organizing all of Arizona Serve’s National Days of Service in the Tucson region. While originally from the beaches of Northern California,Vanessa enjoys exploring the beautiful desert of Arizona.Vanessa recently made a transition to the role Program Manager for all of Arizona Serve.

Vanessa Silverstein

A key success for the program this year was helping to open the first family shelter in Northern Arizona in partnership with Prescott Area Shelter Services and the local Disabled American Veterans chapter. Prior to 2014, homeless families in the Prescott area were split up and sent to different shelters according to the specific demographic each was willing to accept. “A year with VISTA is an incredible opportunity to make a difference in the lives of low-income individuals while developing practical skills for the future,” Ben says. During the past year,VISTA members with Arizona Serve mobilized over 6,000 volunteers serving more than 70,000 hours, raised more than $1 million in cash resources, connected more than 12,000 economically disadvantaged youth with services, and helped open the first family shelter in Northern Arizona. With Maggie’s departure and the imperative for anti-poverty work in and around Tucson, headquarters for the Arizona Serve project have essentially flown south to join Ben and Team Leader Vanessa Silverstein. For more information about Arizona Serve, please contact Program Manager Vanessa Silverstein at vsilverstein@arizonaserve.org.

Meet the Players Maggie Garvey

Ben Olsen Ben moved to Arizona from New York in 2009 to serve as an AmeriCorps VISTA member with US VETS helping develop a job placement program for homeless veterans. In 2011 Ben joined the Serve team as the Program Coordinator in Yavapai County, where he assisted with recruitment, member management, and developing a Certificate in Civic Leadership designed to support working professionals, increase civic engagement, and inspire collective action. He moved to Tucson in 2013 to lead the expansion of the Arizona Serve VISTA program to Pima County. Previous to moving to Arizona for VISTA, Ben attended the State University of New York at New Paltz, where he graduated with a degree in economics. He is currently Director of Arizona Serve.

Kathrine Adair Brown with Tucson Mayor Jonathan Rothschild

Ben Olsen

Maggie Garvey, M.A. ’11 Maggie moved to Arizona in 2006 after completing a bachelor of arts in political science and carrying out what would be her first formal activist role as an intern and assistant campaign manager to the first Latino city council candidate in Boston. While incubating/managing Arizona Serve, Maggie completed a master’s degree at Prescott College, focusing her work on campaign politics and political studies. She served as an adjunct faculty member in the undergraduate Cultural and Regional Studies program at Prescott College, teaching courses in civic leadership, grant writing, grant management, and nonprofit leadership. Maggie is currently the Director for the Corporation for National and Community Service in the state of Kentucky.

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A Long Way from Prescott to Moscow By Larry Barker ’73

h, the life of an investigative reporter. Traveling the world in my journalistic quest, I’ve tracked down fugitive spies to Moscow, chased international swindlers through the back streets of London, and exposed vicious cop killers hiding out in Havana. I’ve been uncovering corruption, exposing government waste, and catching con men in the act for nearly four decades. So where did this seemingly glamorous career begin? At a tiny Prescott radio station churning out country and western tunes. Consider the times. It was the 1970s. Watergate was breaking wide open. The nation was wracked by political scandal. And enterprising kids across America wanted to don a trench coat to follow in the footsteps of Woodward and Bernstein. Never mind that journalism usually ranks as one of the least prestigious professions in America. I caught the journalism bug while at Prescott College. I loved the innovative outdoor educational experience, but for me there was one thing missing: journalism. I had the burning desire to be the next Mike Wallace but had zero experience to pull it off. Prescott College did not offer a single course in journalism, so I was on my own. What to do? Well, in true PC fashion, I made my own way. Hello, KYCA. My broadcast career began at the tiny radio station at a time when local Larry Barker with Ed Howard in Moscow news consisted of disc jockeys reading items ripped out of the local newspaper. But in 1972, change was in the air(waves). Prescott was about to be introduced to a new voice. I designed an independent study program and wangled a gig as KYCA’s first “ace reporter.” I had visions of Edward R. Murrow uncovering scandals and political intrigue. The reality, however, was a stumbling weekly newscast exposing science fairs and 4-H banquets along with a late-night shift spinning records. Well, you have to start somewhere. Fast-forward 20 years to a bitter cold February afternoon in Moscow’s Red Square. With the Kremlin looming as a backdrop, I’m strolling through a snow-covered Red Square with an international spy. Edward Lee Howard had a story to tell and I had the interview of a lifetime. In 1985 Ed Howard was working as an economist for the New Mexico Legislature in Santa Fe. No one knew that the CIA had recently fired Howard or that he had been selling national security

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secrets to the Soviet KGB. However, before the feds could arrest him for espionage, Howard fled the country and disappeared. The accused spy showed up in Moscow a year later and defected to the Soviet Union. I was working as an investigative reporter in Albuquerque. Ed Howard was a reporter’s dream interview, which I pursued for a decade. My dogged search for the fugitive spy paid off 10 years after Howard disappeared from his Santa Fe home. One day I received an email from Howard himself. He said, “Come to Russia and I’ll tell you my story.” Over the course of three days Howard discussed his life on the run. We talked in his spacious Moscow apartment, at his country dacha, and on a stroll through Red Square. In March 1995, “A Traitor Speaks: Ed Howard in Moscow” was broadcast in New Mexico as a weeklong series. The journey from Prescott to Moscow has been an adventure in continuing education. I obviously didn’t study journalism in college, so my training has been on the job, learning by doing. My first lessons came after graduation where the classroom was on Capitol Hill. I was hired as a staff assistant to U.S. Senator Tom Eagleton. Here I was, a kid right out of college, with a front row seat on the inner workings of government. During my two-year stint at the Senate I found time to sit in on the Watergate hearings, and when I wanted to attend President Nixon’s State of the Union address, I called the White House and asked the Iron Springs Road, postfire, 2013 President’s secretary, Rose Mary Woods, if she could spare an extra seat. She said no. In 1975 I moved to Albuquerque to pursue my dream profession. I still wanted Mike Wallace’s job. I papered local TV and radio stations with resumes, but no one wanted to hire a kid without a journalism degree or much experience. So I volunteered to do weekly news reports at a small Albuquerque FM radio station. One report in particular caught the attention of a local television news director. He eventually hired me as a full-time producer to work at the ABC television affiliate in Albuquerque. And so, in 1976 I graduated from radio to TV. Over the past 38 years, I’ve reported hundreds of news stories, crisscrossing New Mexico, digging for facts in search of the truth. Both my peers and professional organizations have honored my work. I’ve received 29 Rocky Mountain Emmys, a handful of regional Edward R. Murrow awards, and dozens of honors from the New Mexico Broadcasters’ Association, the New Mexico Associated Press Broadcasters, and the Albuquerque Press Club. My most memorable investigation turned into an international

“The journey from Prescott to Moscow has been an adventure in continuing education.” — Larry Barker ’73

Saint Basil’s Cathedral in Red Square, Moscow, Russia

adventure. In 1971 three men murdered a New Mexico state policeman and then hijacked a TWA jet to Cuba. Thirty years later the fugitives were still hiding out in Havana, protected by the Cuban government. A photographer and I flew to Havana and tracked down the killers. One of them, Charlie Hill, agreed to talk. In a wide-ranging interview, Hill admitted taking part in the murder of Officer Robert Rosenbloom. The next day, the Cuban Interior Ministry ordered us out of the country. Our subsequent investigative report was later honored with a Rocky Mountain Emmy award. For the past decade I have worked at KRQE-TV, the CBS affiliate in Albuquerque. Our award-winning investigative team, which includes a fulltime producer and editor, produces about 25 investigative reports each year. We’ve tackled everything from schools that ignore safety violations to the illegal drugging of race horses. We’ve exposed flying saucer hoaxes, odometer rollbacks, pork barrel politics, emergency room wait times, fraudulent Native American jewelry sales, handicapped placard fraud, and political abuse of power. Our story ideas come from a variety of sources. There are phone calls, emails, and letters. In an average week we receive nearly one hundred tips. At any one time we may be working on two dozen active investigations. It’s a time-consuming job to check and verify each fact, set up interviews, write, and edit. Investigative projects are scheduled only when they are complete. Sometimes the process can take a matter of weeks. More often, however, we will spend many months investigating. Our mandate is simple: Be accurate. Be fair. Be clear. I love solving puzzles. Today it might be an unlicensed contractor ripping off unsuspecting homeowners. Tomorrow it may be a government boondoggle involving millions of dollars. It sure is a long way from Prescott to Moscow.

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A Life of Service In Prescott Courtney Osterfelt ’04, M.A. ’11 came for a bachelor’s degree and stayed to serve youth in Yavapai County By Joan Clingan ’11, Ph.D.

ourtney Osterfelt’s Senior Project was an educational conference for teenage girls in the Prescott area called WEB (Women’s Empowerment Breakthrough). She designed a curriculum to cover topics such as positive body image, awareness of sexual assault, leadership, and family relations. Eleven years later WEB is still running and Courtney has grown into an essential member of the wider Prescott community. “I thought the conference would end and I’d move to Jackson or some place. Then all of these girls wrote on their evaluations ‘We will be back next year,’” Courtney says, still looking a little surprised at her legacy. “There is a level of accountability if you come into a community and start something that’s about creating change.You either hand it over to someone else or you stay. I certainly didn’t think I’d be here for more than a decade.” WEB began as a weekend retreat and is now a nonprofit educational program that offers the annual conference as well as a weekly leadership group for teenage girls, monthly workshops on topics like yoga, dance, and self-expression, and bi-annual workshops on body image, women in the media and pop culture, and building community. Courtney also completed a master’s degree at Prescott College with a concentration in Social Activism and Educational Justice. Her thesis focused on organizing and implementing a teacher development program for those who wanted to learn about critical pedagogy and the potential for more democratic methodologies within the Prescott Unified School District. In the years since Courtney first came to Prescott, she has been a Comprehensive Sexuality Health Educator for Yavapai County Community Health Services; for three years she supervised the Ripple Project in creating and maintaining a Community Thriftique, which donated all of its proceeds to service learning projects and nonprofit community organizations; she has organized community events for International Women’s Day, Women’s Equality Day, and World AIDS Day; she organized LunaFest, a women’s film festival and fundraiser for the Breast Cancer Fund and WEB; and, as an adjunct instructor at Prescott College, she taught gender and sexuality studies, multicultural education, peer counseling, and the College’s Community Based Orientation. Most recently Courtney founded and serves as director for The Launch Pad, a nonprofit teen center in the Quad-City area that is in partnership with many schools, organizations, and businesses. “Our desire is to become a one-stop shop for youth. They can walk through the door and get direct services like mental health, tutoring, and support groups, and also have community-building

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opportunities like dances and movie nights.” Courtney gives credit to the College, recalling a transformative moment at her undergraduate orientation: “Jack Herring said, ‘You need to decide on your Senior Project like your life depends on it.’ How often do you have an organization with people who will stand behind you and be your ‘yes people’ and cheer you on? You just don’t get such a huge opportunity with low risk like that very often.” And with that inspiration Courtney offers her work to local teens like someone’s life depends on it.

Launch Pad teens paint banner for Martin Luther King Day March, 2014

Launch Pad Director Courtney Osterfelt at Community BBQ, 2014

Real World Preskitt: A Life Skills Adventure Camp, 2014

Honor Roll of Donors

Fiscal Year July1, 2013, through June 30, 2014

Whether you attended Prescott College or are a friend who has come to know this community of likeminded individuals in another way, your investment makes you a partner in our mission to educate students of diverse ages and backgrounds to understand, thrive in, and enhance our world community and environment.

Thank you for investing to ensure Prescott College’s long-term resilience! Gold and Turquoise Circle $10,000 and Above

Charles Franklin Parker Legacy Society Anonymous (7) Richard Ach ’73 Jim Antonius Betsy Bolding Dan and Sue Boyce Brad and Ruth Bradburn Susan N. Coleman Trust James Decker ’99 Jess Dods ’70 Mark Dorsten ’99 Henry A. Ebarb ’84, ’09 Decedent’s Trust Kristi ’96 and Dale Edwards Albert Engleman Dan and Barbara Garvey Mark ’73 and Gwen Goodman Hulmes Family Legacy Dean and Verne C. Lanier David Meeks ’73 Kathryn “Kate” Hughes Rinzler Ericha H. Scott The Secundy Family Marjory and Frank Sente James Stuckey and Beverly Santo ’84 Andrew Sudbrock ’91 and Elizabeth Clayton ’91 Mary Trevor ’95 and Toni Kaus Merrill Windsor Nora Woods Fulton Wright, Jr. Sharon Yarborough ’73 Ken and Diane Ziesenheim

* Matching Gift Donor

Anonymous • BHP Billiton Matched Giving Program* • Julie Bondeson • Lee Caldwell ’73 and Marcus Randolph • Susan N. Coleman Kino Bay Scholarship Fund at the Arizona Community Foundation • The Columbia Association, Inc. • Peter DeSorcy • Ty Fitzmorris ’10 • Frankel Family Foundation • Leo and Rhea Fay Fruhman Foundation • Hemera Foundation • Robert H. Kieckhefer Fund at the Arizona Community Foundation • Marisla Fund of the Orange County Community Foundation • National Audubon Society, Inc., and Toyota TogetherGreen Fellowship Program • National Park Service – United States Department of the Interior • The David and Lucille Packard Foundation • Eleanor and Scott Petty • Prescott Charitable Fund at the Arizona Community Foundation • TechFoundation, Inc. • Norman and Carol Traeger at the Norman and Carol Traeger Foundation, Inc. • United States Fish and Wildlife Service • United States Geological Survey • Wallace Research Foundation • Sam ’90 and Tillie Walton – The Walton Family Foundation • Ken and Diane Ziesenheim

President’s Circle $5,000-$9,999 Anonymous • Richard Ach ’73 and Carey Behel • Daniel and Suzanne Boyce – Boyce Family Charitable Fund • The Anne Sterling Dorman ’74 LGBT Fund of Horizons Foundation • Peter and Melissa Evans • Rose Fleischner • Neville and Patricia Henry • The KAKATU Foundation • Jesse King ’75 and Lisa Capper ’75 • David ’73 and Grace Meeks • Raytheon Company* • Gerald and Donna Secundy • Josh ’98 and Kate Traeger Fund at the Vermont Community Foundation • John and Naomi Van Domelen • Michael ’78 and Julie Zimber

Humphrey’s Peak Society $2,500-$4,999 Anonymous • Thomas Barry ’92 • Cleo A. Bluth Charitable Foundation • Betsy Bolding • Paul Burkhardt and Zoe Hammer • JoAnn Copperud • Lake Puett ’75 and Rod Davis • Dr. Henry Ebarb ’84, ’09, and Liisa Raikkonen ’84 • Matthew Frankel • Margaret and Robert Huskins • Robert and Barbara Mariano • Stephan Meyer and Sharon Salveter • Mary Orton • John W. Russell, Jr. • Peter and Margie Stern • James and Judith Walsh • James and Linda Wilson

Thumb Butte Society $1,000-$2,499 Anonymous (3) • Apple Matching Gifts Program* • Jane A.S. Cook • Imogen Daly ’05 • Frederick and Paula Dick • Sterling Dorman • Sally and Joe Dorsten • Jan and Teren Ellison • Angela Garner ’72 and Steven Huemmer ’73 • Granite Peak Unitarian Universalist Congregation • Melanie D. Guldman ’74 • Lydia Stevens Gustin • Friends and Family of Dr. Douglas B. Hanson ’74 • Joan Hiller • Douglas Hulmes ’74 • Laird Norton Family Foundation* • Charissa Menefee and Kenneth Cook • David Moll ’85 • Tom and Cookie Obsitnik • M. Chris Overby M.D. ’73 • Steve Pace and Barbara Wood • Mark and Jeanne Polzin • Liza Prunuske • Tom Robinson ’73 and Joan Wellman • Michael and Ruth Rooney • Peter ’75 and Gillian Roy at the Rice Bluff Charitable Fund • Janis Rutschman ’73 • Beverly Santo ’84 and James Stuckey • Marjory and Frank Sente • Service for Peace • Sugahara Foundation • Nancy Swenson • Peter and Mary Ann Wilson – Wobb Family Fund at Marin Community Foundation • Kristin Woolever and Lynn Walterick • Yavapai Prescott Indian Tribe • George ’70 and Jorie Yen

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Founder’s Club $500-$999 Anonymous • Rick Alexander ’83 • W. Graham Arader • Claudia Bach and Philip Smart • Will ’69 and Jill ’70 Beckett • Jay Beckner and Eileen Sweeny • Bridges/Van Dyke Family Fund of the AYCO Charitable Foundation • Dan and Judy Campbell • Cathy Church • Sara ’74 and Dan Connor • Eli Lilly and Company Foundation, Inc.* • Craig and Glenanne Engstrom • Mr. and Mrs. Miguel Fernandez • Joanne ’79 and Dan Fitz • Thomas Fleischner and Edie Dillon ’07 • Catherine Galley • Lynn Garney ’74 • Leslie E. Gerwin ’72 and Bruce R. Leslie • Harry W. Greene • Bill and Judy Hinkle • Pauline Ireland • Marie Jones • Lucy Khoury • Christina Lee ’74 • John Leslie and Barbara Clarke • David and Edith Lowell • Steven Mackie ’92 • Richard and Marjorie Marks • Anna McWane • Karen Meltzer • Alex ’01 and Christina Muro • Jeffrey Napp and Sheryl Shapiro • Jodi Padgett • Margot ’72 and Rick Pantarotto • Brian and Amy Sajko • Marjut Schreiber • Michael Schulte ’75 • Anne Scofield ’70 • Ismat Shah and Cynthia Morgan • Stephen ’91 and Shahnaz Winiarski

Bradshaw Mountains Club $250-$499 Anonymous (2) • Laurie Back • Alexander Barron ’98 • Peter and Helena Benton • Lee James and Truly Bracken • The Brett Family • Leslie Cook ’09 • Steven and Traci Corey • John and Lucy Douglas • Edith Dillon Edson • Christopher Estes ’71 • Steve Finucane ’75 and Marjorie Bernardi • Norm and Jane Gagne • Paul and Jo Glaves • Mark ’73 and Gwen Goodman • Dianne Greenley • Kathryn Higgins • Joel and Debra Hiller • Susan and William Humphreys • Kathleen Hunt-Abene • Dave and Kay Jenner • Michael Kiefer and Carol Solomon • Ed Lennihan ’75 and Jennifer Addas • Matt and Marci Levine • Suena Lew Lo ’93 • Stephen and Janet Lockton • Jan Marshall ’89 and Joe McShane • Evan Maslack • Steve ’72 and Jeanne Matthews • Howard Mechanic • Frederick Medrick • Gary Melvin, M.D. • Elizabeth Meyer ’76 • Tish Morris ’79 • Deborah Morrison • Cathy Mullan • Eli Murray • Ben and Britany Nelson • China and Pierre Neury • Steven and Lisa Padilla-Jones • Chong and Gary Patton • Jon ’73 and Vicki Yeager Patton • Brian and JoAnn Peterson • Jonathan Sachs and Susan Bakewell Sachs • Alan Weisman and Beckie Kravetz

Ponderosa Pine Club $100-$249 David and Ketta Abeshouse • Lou and Jack Adams • Lee and Ian Alexander • Kerstin Alicki ’94 • Jami Allred ’05 • Leo Arellano • AT&T Higher Education Cultural Matching Gift Program* • Mark ’73 and Kathie Bach • Virginia M. Barden • Larry Barker ’73 • Geoffrey S. Barnard and Diane Vosick • Elizabeth Bradley Hadden • Duncan Bremner • Douglas Brew • Robert and Gail Breyer • Melvin and Janet Brownold Fund of the Foundation for Enhancing Communities • Monica ’87 and William Buzbee • Holly Byron Nagie ’81 • Timothy and Patricia Callard • Frank Cardamone ’07 and Joan Clingan ’11 • Carol Chamberlain • Andrew Christensen and Dana Oswald • James Christopher • Megan Clark • Margot Clarke ’73 • Kathie and Billy Clyde • Gregg Coodley • Steve and Linda Corson • Anthony Culpepper ’11 • Roberta Culpepper • Rosemary Dixon • Peter and Linda Doran • Jasper Eiler ’00 • Reuben Ellis and Linda Dove • David and Susan Fago • Anita Fernández • Janice Flores • Linda Fortner and Robert Grondin • Herbert and Joan Friedmann • Joan ’10 and Sam Gabriel • Lisa Garrison ’75 • Mark ’70 and Marlene Gebhardt • Holly Gellerman ’90 • Stephen Gillespie • Robert and Kathleen Glosser • John Goodman • Google Matching Gifts Program* • Tracey ’99 and Gabriel Grossman • Pablo and Judy Guerrero • Dale and Sue Guzlas • Kurt and Kim Haigis • William and Ann Hannig • James Hartline • Susan and Brian Harvey • Richard and Mary Hatch • Paul and Andrea Havenar • Kathryn Healey • Lawrence and Jean Helburg • Constance and Alfred Robert Hogan • Susan and Tom Hopkins • Chris and Leslie Hoy • Carolyn J.L. Huddleston ’12 • Matthew Hyde ’09 • Carmine and Tina Iosue • Anna Johnson-Chase • Kathryn Keller ’72 • Laura Kenig ’88 • John and Joan Kimball • Richard Kipling • Ralph Hueston Kratz • Belinda ’74 and Bradford Lambert • Armene Lamson ’98 • Kimberly Langmaid ’97 • Jamie ’96 and Amy Lantz • Mark Lewis and Elaine Cornelius • Richard Lewis • Eunice Lovejoy • Katherine ’71 and Wayne Lunceford • Joseph and Kathryn McKee • Ruth ’99 and Peter McMillan • Chris Meador ’08 • Gregory Miller ’95 and Lisa Fisher • Richard and Linda Miller • Bill and Cathy Munsell • John H. Murphy • The Bill Muster Foundation • Thomas Nehil III ’71 and Gail Walter • Susan and Robert Northrop • Claire Oberst and Dave Irvine • Irene Ogata • Pramod Parajuli • Jeffrey Patnaude • Donna ’74 and Bill Patterson • Derek Peterson • William Pittman • Marianne Pyott ’92 • Bob Ratcliffe ’78 and Sharon Timko • Carol and Donn Rawlings • Karen Reichhardt ’74 • Sue Rennels ’75 and Mike Grisez • Carolyn and Eric Riedlin • Brent and Denise Roberts • Sarah and Larry Roybal • Brian Rubin ’08 • Susan Sanford • Marilyn Saxerud • Brian Scavone ’04 • Ted ’72 and Cynthia ’72 Schleicher • Jeffery Schwartz ’74 and Janice Platt • Holly and Peter Scott • Peter ’74 and Daryn Sherman • Daniel ’02 and Michal Shuldman • Sarah Silver ’06 • Michael Spayd ’02 • Rebecca Stahlnecker • Michael and Carol Stajduhar • Daniel Stansbury • Dr. S. Dhruva Stephenson ’75 • Nikk Stevers • Bill Stillwell and Anne Gero-Stillwell • Gary Stogsdill ’86 • Dr. Lee Stuart ’75 • Andy Sudbrock ’91 and Elizabeth Clayton ’91 • Jerry Tello • Lorenzo Thomas • Andrew Thompson • John ’72 and Elizabeth Thrift • Sue and Al Timpson • Dr. Marilyn Vache ’72 and Graylin Grissett • Jane Van Horn • Jimmy and Gina Wahbeh • Kathleen Wheeler and Dr. Robert Broad • Mary Hume Whitney • Zoe Whyman ’95 • Robert Widen ’96 • Karen Williams McCreary ’93 and Kent Alderman • Connie Woodhouse ’79 • Mary Yelenick ’74 and Elizabeth Broad • Vicky Young ’95 • Jaime Zaplatosch ’00 and Joe Sutton

Granite Club Up to $99 Anonymous (3) • Kurt Andersen • Susan and Allan Anderson • Walt Anderson • Corey Archipley ’11 • Max Armour ’95 and Louise Kyhlstedt • Cathy and Jay Armstrong • Ilse Asplund ’87 • Gay ’95 and Greg Austin • Kurt and Marty Bachman • Steve Badanes • Joel Barnes ’81, ’88 • Bill and Elaine Barney • Grace Bean • Sondra Bechhoefer • Michael Belef ’99 and Denise Howard • Patricia and John Bennan • Andrew Bernier • Barbara and Douglas Berson • Michele Bevis ’77 • Carolyn and James Borowski • Jean Boyd • Molly Brennan-Sheehy ’13 • Kaie Brewer • Larry and Deirdre Brickner-Wood • Mathieu Brown • Sigrun Bynum ’93 • Diane Cady ’74 • Noel Cox Caniglia ’92 and Thomas Caniglia • James and Annaliese Caputo • Gus and Charlene Carlson • Richard and Doris Cellarius • Doug ’86 and Genevieve Chabot • Andrea Chadwick ’88 • Jen Chandler ’00 • Janet Chichester • Paula Childers ’08 • Jane Lee Childs • Nadia Chornodolsky ’04 and Patrick Arnold • Karleen and Philip Clarke • Kathleen ’73 and Geoffrey Condit • Anna Cook • Vicky ’91 and Jim

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Cook • Kenneth and Nancy Costello • David Craig • Ryan ’99 and Colby Crehan • Maria Cunha ’06 • Iris Cushing ’06 • Aaron ’02 and Elaine Daly • Laurie Dameshek ’08 and Philip Frank • Carol and Warren Darrow • Roger Dempsey and Linda Chase • Alan Dewart • Pete ’00 and Chris Deyo • Brenda Donis Lemus • Dr. Peter Donovick • Suzanne Dulle • Terry and Cathleen Eckhardt • Dr. Susan M. Elliott ’73 • Maggie Ellis ’04 • Jeanne Ernst ’71 • Tina Evans ’11 and Dennis Lum • Elizabeth Faller ’99 • Elizabeth and Terence Fawley • Mary I Floyd • Lisa Floyd-Hanna and David Hanna • Deborah Inch Foehring ’73 and Robert Foehring • Roxann Gallagher • Peter Galvin ’90 and Cynthia Elkins • Sheryl Gifford • Christine Griffin Goehring ’74 • Philip and Eileen Goldberg • Steven and Margaret Goldberg • Dave Gordon and Joan Jakiela • Gail Gorud ’74 • Andrew Gosnell • Kara Gournaris ’08 and Heather Holmes • J.D. Greenberg • Ellen Groves • Misty ’95 and Peter ’93 Groves-Benedict • Jean and Hugh Halsell • Janet Hammen • Brett Hartl ’04 • Patricia Hawkins ’98 • Madeline Helbraun ’72 and Robbie Trischer • Christopher ’91 and Roxanne Hill • Edward and Leigh Hill • Laura Hitt ’12 • Ben Hobbs ’74 and Julie McDill • Dava Hoffman • Suzanne Holland ’72 and Bob Alonzi • Chris Hout ’92 • Wendy Howe • Jessica Hudson ’11 • Frank Hunter ’95 • Deborah Iadevaia • Kelly Jacobson ’06 • Lee James • Anne Jenks ’90 • Martha Jensen • Melissa Johnson ’84 • Kristy Johnsson • Elaine G. Jordan • Jodi and David Jordan-Huffman • Jody Karr-Silaski ’91 • Patrick Kell • Bill and Lisa Kelly • Kerry Kelso • James Kessler • Joshua Keultjes ’12 • Dr. Kenneth Kingsley ’72 and Amy Gaiennie • Robert and Susan Kirwan • Richard and Anne Klein • Aryn LaBrake ’09 • Anne LaBruzzo • Jim ’69 and Carol Landis • Michelle Lanzoni ’01 • Lindsey Laret • Kathleen Lauerman ’72 • Tory Laughlin ’12 • Stephen ’01 and Johnnie LeFaiver • Melanie Lefever ’10 • Ken Leinbach ’99 • Samuel Leslie ’09 • Naomi Lewis and Charles Apkarian • Siobhan ’96 and James Lidington • Christine Loftin • Sarah Long ’12 • Dr. Layne Longfellow • Margaret Lott • David Lovejoy ’73 and Amparo Rifa ’89 • Seth Lucas • Megan ’09 and Erik Lyster • Ashley Mains ’11 • Steven Mares • Janet Markham and Bill Otwell • Taide Martinez Gomez ’14 • Norma ’93 and Dan Mazur • Steve and Katie McAllister • Linda McBride • Lorayne Meltzer • Anya Metcalfe ’12 • Melanie Mildrew ’98 • Christine Veldman Miller ’97 and Eric Miller • Lynne M. Minton • Denise Mitten • Brian and Teresa Monksfield • Linda A. Morelli • Kimberly Morton • Judith and Jimmy Mowrey • Stephen Mudrick • Karen ’08 and Terry Murphy • Beth Nawrocki ’09 • Aaron ’71 and Page Newton • Karen Nulton • Mab Nulty • Justin ’00 and Elizabeth Olenik • Mary Kaye O’Neill and Eugene Steffen • Norman Oslik and Madeleine Golde • Sandy Paris • Anna Pauline Parker ’80 and William Pennell • Ann Pendley • Wanda Peters ’80 • Jean Phillips • Ralph and Darcy Phillips • Kristine Preziosi ’97 and Tom Donovan • Rev. Darrel W. Price • Dolores V. Price • James Tracy Puett ’92 • Dr. Robert Pyle • The Raven Cafe • Michael and Susan Reardon • Marylee Reeves • Carla Rellinger ’05 and Suzanne Beeche ’07 • Angela Ridlen ’09 • Mark Riegner and Veronica Behn • Laura Roche ’13 • Peter and Cook Rodgers • Charles and Evelyn Rose • Shannon and Paul Rosenblatt • Janet Ross ’74 • Cirien Saadeh • Chelsea Sallans ’14 • Robert W. Sanford ’79 • Mark Schiewetz and Judith Buckley • Ernest ’71, ’03, and Marianne ’01 Schloss • Diane Schmidt ’75 and Frank Morgan • Chris Schreiner ’11 • Emily Schulz • William and Yolanda Schwartz • Terril Shorb ’09 • Thomas and Janice Siemsen • Cara Michelle Silverberg ’08 • Susan Skach-Bejarano ’03 • Kendall Smith • Marie and Tim Smith • Nathaniel Smith ’13 • Zachary Smith • Gregory Spungin ’09 • Gregory and Julie Stajduhar • Jenna Stajduhar • Lawrence Stevens ’74 • Michael and Sarah Stiff • Jean ’94 and Bobby Stover • Vicki Stoyer ’00 and Robert Janus • Marietta Strano ’84 • Mary Stuever • Linda Svendsen ’73 and Kent Madin ’75 • Adele Swan • Dorothy Teer • Nancy and Phillip Timper • Mary Trevor ’95 and Toni Kaus • Nancy Van Alstine ’75 • Cheryl Van Demark • Wayne Van Voorhies ’78 and Laurie Abbott • Abigail Vorce ’09 and Nick Johnson ’11 • Joyce Walsh • Craig and Beth Weaver • Shawna Weaver • Jeremy ’96 and Deva Wheeler • Anne ’75 and Denis White • Michelle Whitman • Sue Ellen Wilson ’73 and John Gaumer • Penelope Wong • Benjamin Wurzel ’05 • Terry Yazzie ’12 • Tina Yont • Eve C.Yorke • Dan Young ’72 • David Young and Nancy Rinehart • Lisa Zander ’12 • Martin Ziebell ’07

In-Kind Gifts Anonymous • Walt Anderson • Josephine Arader ’07 • Pamela Brink • Andrew Christensen and Dana Oswald • Brad Christensen • Audrey Clark ’05 • Lee and Mike Cohn • Karyn Finnell • Thomas Fleischner and Edie Dillon ’07 • Mary Gendron • Sharon K. Hager • Dick Hanna ’77 • Chris Hout ’92 • Mark Kalimian • Bill Mason • Robert Miller ’72 • Denise Mitten • Carl Olson • Jim Rubin • Ralph and Darcy Phillips • Elisabeth Ruffner • Marieke Slovin ’13 • Patricia Sperry • Frank and Linda Tikalsky • University of Arizona Entomology Department – Dr. Bruce Tabashnik and Dr. Wendy Moore • Robert Widen ’96 • Edward Williams • Yavapai College - Scott Farnsworth, Ruth Lillie, and Phyllis Lewellen • Vicky Young ’95 • Jo Zutell

Memorials In memory of Ralph and Marian Bohrson by Alan Weisman and Beckie Kravetz • In memory of Frank J. Cardamone, Sr., and Annie Saliba Cardamone by Frank Cardamone ’07 and Joan Clingan ’11 • In memory of Warren Fleischner by James and Annaliese Caputo, Edith Dillon Edson, Rose Fleischner, Constance and Alfred Robert Hogan, Naomi Lewis and Charles Apkarian, Mark Lewis and Elaine Cornelius, and Judith and Jimmy Mowrey • In memory of Deborah MacCallum by Donna ’74 and Bill Patterson • In memory of Bridget Reynolds by Ralph and Darcy Phillips, and Marjory and Frank Sente • In memory of Hogan Smith by Dr. Layne Longfellow

Attributions In honor of Josephine Arader ’07 and Thibault Delille by Anna McWane • In honor of John Barkhausen ’12 by Eli Murray • In honor of Jean Bremner by Duncan Bremner • In honor of Noah Brickner-Wood by Larry and Deirdre Brickner-Wood • In honor of Charles I. Carroll ’01 by Pauline Ireland • In honor of Jeremy Glosser ’96 by Robert and Kathleen Glosser • In honor of Zach & Alex Goodman by Mark ’73 and Gwen Goodman • In honor of Amalesh Parajuli ’12 by Pramod Parajuli • In honor of Marjory Sente by Jane Lee Childs • In honor of Carl Tomoff by Norm and Jane Gagne • In honor of Liza May Yorke ’12 by Eve C.Yorke

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Welcome New Alumni Association Board Members! All Prescott College Alumni Association (PCAA) Board Members serve a three-year term. The aim of the PCAA is to build a stronger and more connected Alumni Association.*

Michelle Lanzoni ’01

Since my time at Prescott College, which I remember very fondly, I have remained committed to the educational, social, and environmental ideals the school embodies. I graduated from PC with a Bachelor of Arts in conservation biology.Years later I earned a Master of Science in environmental studies and environmental writing from the University of Montana and an M.Sc. in water science, policy, and management from the University of Oxford. I am currently a Rotary scholar and doctoral candidate in the School of Geography and the Environment at Oxford. I study desert rain events in the American Southwest. Currently, I am building a water monitoring station near Alamosa, Colorado, where my long-term goals include the creation of a Drylands Research Institute. Dryland issues affect water and food security globally and especially in much of the Middle East, Africa, and dryland Asia. In 2010 my work on water reuse in the Palestinian Territories received a Clinton Global Initiative grant that was administered through Prescott College. Thank you for the opportunity to become involved in advancing Prescott College’s mission.

Luna (Taide) Martinez ’14

I graduated from Prescott College in May 2014 with a double competence in Environmental Science and Environmental Policy. Before coming to Prescott, I co-founded and ran an NGO for three years that worked with Zapatista indigenous communities in Chiapas, Mexico, on various social justice and sustainability projects. I also directed a theater company for more than three years and toured various countries. I’ve worked with different organizations on animal liberation advocacy and outreach, including awareness tours in Mexico and Europe. During my time at Prescott College I served in a range of positions, including as an officer at the Student Union Board and as a student representative on the Board of Trustees, and (although I already graduated) I am still serving on the Presidential Search Committee. I believe that I have an understanding of how Prescott College is run on an administrative level, while also having a direct experience of how major decisions affect the student body. I lack this kind of understanding and experience in terms of alumni participation, representation, and involvement at the institution. I think that alumni play a very important role as active advocates of the College and that our voice should be effectively recognized and represented in decisions that affect the school’s direction in major ways.

Bradley L. Swain ’73

I’m one of the “old-timers” (graduated in May 1973 with a double major in the Center for Man and Environment, with concentrations in Cultural Anthropology & Southwest Archaeology, and Center for Arts and Literature, with concentrations in Theater Arts and Comparative Literature). The experiences at Prescott College and the lifelong relationships formed there laid the foundation for, and have been fundamental in, my life wanderings. After graduating I ventured into real estate sales in Prescott, then migrated to Scottsdale and eventually Carefree/Cave Creek, but decided that I needed to get some formal business training and earned a “mini-master’s degree” from Thunderbird (American Graduate School of International Management) in December 1983. In the mid-1980s the position of Western U.S. Manager for a Japanese photographic manufacturer brought me to Southern California, where my family and I remain (so far). In 1995, I made another life change and entered the world of investments, pursuing my altruistic goals of helping others by working as a financial adviser with brokerage firms in the San Diego area ever since. I look forward to the opportunity to serve and give back to the Prescott College community, interacting with fellow alumni, faculty, staff, and students for the betterment of Prescott College, its vision and its future! Other Members of the Board include: Maggie McQuaid ’75, Board President, Bisbee, Ariz.; Gus Tham ’71, Board Vice President, Novato, Calif.; Michael Keane ’90, Reno, Nev.; Ken Kingsley ’72, Tucson, Ariz.; Joshua Keultjes ’12, Prescott, Ariz.; Dr. Layne Longfellow (former faculty member), Member Emeritus, Prescott, Ariz.; and Marie Smith, Prescott College Alumni Director/Office Support. *Every individual who has ever graduated from or attended classes at Prescott College is considered an alumnus or alumna and has active membership status in the PCAA. Members of the PCAA enjoy benefits such as voting for or serving on the PCAA Board of Directors, as well as inclusion in the PCAA Alumni Directory. Although we do not accept dues for membership in the Prescott College Alumni Association, we do encourage alumni to support the Annual Fund for Academic Excellence.

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1970s Chris Wuehrmann ’73 Chris and his wife, Rita, recently moved back into Prescott after living for 37 years in Chino Valley, Ariz. He continues to teach and lead field courses part-time for Yavapai College and play music at Unity of Prescott.

John Flax ’74 John’s project, Theatre Grottesco, has just received a national grant! Theatre Communications Group (TCG), the national organization for theatre, with funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, has just announced 10 new recipients for its Global Connections program, encouraging reciprocity and cultural exchange throughout the world. Theater Grottesco’s award will support a three-week tour of teaching and performing its current lecture-performance, Consider This…. in four Colombian locations this fall. Colombian actor Gonzalo Carreno will translate and the artists will explore the subversion of the translation into a new play particularly poignant for South American people who have been dealing with years of warfare. The new play, titled The Translator, will be available in Spanish and English with subtitles.

Nevada Wier ’74 Nevada taught a workshop, Digital Infrared with Nevada Wier, at the Los Angeles Center for Photography (formerly Julia Dean Workshops) in July 2014. She also hosted two Santa Fe photographic workshops, one in August and one in September 2014, titled Infrared Photography and Creativity and Travel Photography, respectively.

Kent Madin ’75 The Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Ulaan Baatar, Mongolia, reappointed Kent for a third term as Honorary Consul of Mongolia for the Northern Rockies. Kent was first appointed to the position in 2005. Honorary Consuls are U.S. citizens with longstanding expertise and experience plus business, social, or educational ties to the country that selects them as Honorary Consul. As an “HonCon,” Kent works to promote all forms of exchange between the United States and Mongolia. Kent’s appointment is associated with his work in Mongolia through Boojum Expeditions, an adventure travel company run by Kent and his wife, Prescott alumna Linda Svendsen ’75. While he doesn’t stand on formality, he should be addressed as “Your Honconsciousness.”

Diane Schmidt ’75 New Mexico Press Women (NMPW) awarded Diane with a first place in the enterprise-reporting category for her articles “Who You Gonna Call, Ghostbusters?” and “Con Man Posing as Native Fools Merchants, Media,” both published in the Gallup Independent. Diane also received an honorable mention in the NMPW columns/personal award category for her “Spiritual Perspectives” column, also printed in the Gallup Independent. Diane was honored at the annual conference held in Las Cruces, N.M.

1980s Robert Alexander ’83 Robert authored and self-published a coming of age/adventure book called Dirtbag, a fictional, modern-day adventure tale about two young men during the summer between high school and college. They take a road trip around California in a restored Volkswagen van, visiting iconic nature spots such as Big Sur, Joshua Tree, and Yosemite. They spend their time surfing, skateboarding, camping, rock climbing, whitewater rafting, backpacking, and getting into a bit of mischief. Two-thirds of the way through their journey a storm rolls in that has unexpected consequences, immensely changing both of them forever. Get your copy of Dirtbag at the Prescott College bookstore today!

Melanie Bishop ’86 Alumna and former faculty member Melanie Bishop’s young adult novel My SoCalled Ruined Life is out, selling well, and receiving positive reviews. It features

Prescott College, and she promises the College will play an even bigger role in Book Two of the series. Melanie is Skyping for free with book groups who choose to read and discuss the book. Let her know if you are interested in setting something up at mbishop@prescott.edu.

Bob Tremblay ’86, M.A. ’04 Bob sends word of a job opening at a public school that involves physical education with extensive outdoor adventure program electives, such as wilderness survival, backpacking, rock climbing, etc. He previously held this position at Arlington High School in Arlington, Mass., for 10 years and is now moving on to another high school to do even more of the outdoor adventure work. If you are interested, email Bob at mountainlynxinfo@yahoo.com.

1990s John Donohie ’91 John sends news of guiding jobs available in San Francisco at Point Reyes Outdoors in Point Reyes Station. Paddling experience is a must! Guides are needed for sea kayaking tours on Tomales Bay and Drakes Estero. If you are interested, call (415) 663-8192.

Drew Dellinger M.A. ’97 Drew’s newest article, “Martin Luther King: Ecological Thinker,” appeared in the April issue of Common Ground Magazine. You can read it online at http://www.sopdigitaledition.com/archive/ commonground0414/#/1/.

Brian Drourr ’97 Brian’s photography was recently showcased in the Burlington Free Press.You can see his beautiful night sky pictures and read more at www.burlingtonfreepress.com – search for “Capturing the Night Sky.”

Michelle Senzon-Anderson ’97 and Joseph Anderson ’99 Joseph, Michelle, and their three children spent the last year traveling around the country, staying the summer in Prescott. Read about their family adventure on their blog titled “5 and a Roof Rack” at http://5andaroofrack.com/.

Dazzle Ekblad ’98 Dazzle is happy to announce she has completed a dual master’s degree program. She is now the proud holder of a Master of Arts in public administration from the Maxwell School at Syracuse University and a Master of Arts in natural resources policy and management from the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry. She is now seeking employment in the field of watershed management.

Ogden Kiesel ’98 The Juvenile Court, Community, and Alternative School Administrators of California (JCCASAC) have selected Ogden as the 2014 Teacher of the Year. He also recently wrote an article about compassion in the classroom that is going to be published in JCCASAC’s statewide journal. Congratulations, Ogden!

Sarah (Mitchell) Cavallaro ’99 Sarah has been living in Jackson, Wyo., since graduation. She has a wonderful husband, Andy, and an almost three-year-old named Callie. Her work home is at Teton Youth and Family Services where she can see change for children and families in their community. Sarah writes, “This organization is a wonderful place for people who may be looking for an option after college to develop their wilderness therapy skills or other skills related to working with at risk youth.” If you are interested, feel free to contact Sarah at skcavallaro@gmail.com.

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Tracey (Finch) Grossman ’99 Tracey lives in Boca Raton, Fla., with her husband, Gabe, and their three boys, seven-year-old Noah, six-year-old Asher, and four-yearold Micha. Tracey is involved with the AntiDefamation League (ADL), a Jewish organization that fights for civil rights for everyone. Tracey plays many roles in the leadership of the organization, but the two that she enjoys the most are the anti-bullying and diversity awareness workshops that she facilitates for middle and high school students in the South Florida public and private schools. In addition, Tracey is ADL’s national co-chair for young leadership and helps encourage other young leaders to participate in ADL’s national events and to view philanthropy and giving back to one’s community as important aspects of successful lives.

Suzanne Porter ’99 Faculty member Lisa Floyd-Hanna ran into Suzanne and her husband Dave at the Farmer’s Market in Roseburg, Ore. Suzanne and her husband run a very successful organic vegetable farm called “Biglick.”

2000s Colin Khoury ’00 Colin and colleagues are doing some important work conserving crop plants’ wild relatives as a genetic resource for helping modern crops adapt to climate change. Read more about it in a recent open access publication at tandfonline.com and search for Colin K. Khoury. Colin was also featured in a National Public Radio article at NPR.org; search “Colin Khoury.”

James Reinhold ’00 James has recently been promoted to camp director for all of Hale Reservation, which includes Hale Day Camp. He now oversees Hale Outdoor Learning Adventures (a summer school/camp program, part of a national study on summer learning loss for Boston Public school kids), as well as several other agency camps that operate at Hale. Hale Reservation plays host to over 2,000 campers a day, making them the largest day camp provider in the country. James hires over 140 seasonal staff, most of whom are lifeguards and camp counselors.

Nat Mundel ’02 Nat thought you might like to see a sneak peek trailer of the film he has been producing. He writes, “It’s the Dogtown of climbing films.” Go to YouTube and search “Valley Uprising – Official Trailer.”

James Nez ’03, M.A. ’05 James now practices civil and family law in Kayenta, Ariz. One of his current projects is working with a veterans’ organization to establish a housing complex for veterans. He has also been involved with custody evaluations, policy drafting, and internal rules compliance. He consults with local chapters and government agencies in order to improve services and policies in Kayenta and on the Navajo Nation. James is deeply rooted in Navajo culture. He is a silversmith, a Navajo traditional practitioner who conducts traditional singings, and a peyote way roadman. In his spare time, he is finishing up a doctoral degree in behavioral health with Arizona State University.

Courtney Osterfelt ’04, M.A. ’11, and Aryn LaBrake ’09, M.A. program ’15 Aryn and Courtney recently graduated from the Prescott Area Leadership (PAL) Program. The PAL program is designed for individuals who want to improve their leadership skills and are committed to personal involvement in shaping the quality of life and future of the Prescott area community.

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Jesse Delia ’05 Jesse’s thesis research on glass-frog embryo hatching was recently written about by Science Magazine. Read the article at news.sciencemag.org and search “When Dads Go Missing.”

Caitlin (O’Brien) Gildrien ’05 and Jeremy Gildrien ’06 Caitlin and Jeremy met while attending Prescott College, and fell almost immediately in love. They began farming shortly after graduating. In early 2012, after three years of farming on leased land, Caitlin and Jeremy bought a historic farm in Leicester,Vt. During the 1950s, the land had been used as a dairy and was the home of the Monroe family, who diversified the farm to include vegetables, maple syrup, and beef. Caitlin and Jeremy have always farmed according to organic principles, with a strong focus on building soil health and avoiding the use of synthetic chemicals whenever possible. They are currently in the process of gaining organic certification.You can find them at Gildrien Farm, 490 Delorm Rd., Leicester,VT.

Cristina Eisenberg M.A. ’06 From naming superheroes and luxury cars after large carnivores to hunting them to the brink of extinction, humans have complicated relationships with these creatures that roam the open spaces of western North America: the grizzly bear, wolf, wolverine, lynx, cougar, and jaguar. Wolves in particular have been making headlines for the conflicts they cause between those who fear them and those who want to protect them. In The Carnivore Way: Coexisting with and Conserving North America’s Predators, published in May 2014, Cristina Eisenberg offers a compelling account of the lives of carnivores and their place in our human world.

Sharon Skinner M.A. ’06 Sharon’s third book, Mirabella and the Faded Phantom, was released by Brick Cave Books in March 2014. Sharon received a Master of Arts in Creative Writing from Prescott College in 2006. In addition to writing fiction, she is the grants coordinator for the City of Mesa in Arizona, and was among the first U.S. grant professionals to become credentialed through the Grant Professionals Certification Institute in 2007. She currently serves as president of the Grant Professionals Association’s National Board of Directors.

Leah Titcomb ’06 A few Prescott College alumni met up during the Northeast Naturalist Gathering in Craftsbury,Vt., for the annual “warblers and wildflowers weekend.” Leah writes, “It was a great spring weekend with lots of warblers singing and plenty of spring ephemeral flowers blooming!”

Grant Williams ’06 Grant is assisting with the opening of a new community-driven hostel in Portland, Ore. If you are looking for a place to stay, visit www.travelershouse.org.

Lili DeBarbieri ’09 Lili’s book Location Filming in Arizona:The Screen Legacy of the Grand Canyon State was released by History Press this year.You can find it on Amazon.com.

Deborah Mata ’09 After completing her counseling internship, Deborah has found her niche in the metro Dallas area working as a therapist for a community counseling agency, Child and Family Guidance Center. After graduating from Prescott College’s Master of Arts Program in Counseling Psychology, Deborah has also been an online faculty member at University of Phoenix since 2009. She married her partner of 10 years, Mimi, in January after purchasing their first home. Deborah writes, “Thank you to the staff and students who supported my studies while at Prescott College!”

Ashley Moore ’09 Ashley earned a Bachelor of Arts in environmental and marine studies with a breadth in nontraditional education from Prescott College and most recently graduated from Florida Atlantic University with a master’s degree in environmental education. She has developed Permadigm Initiative, a nonprofit, with her life partner, Zoe Hippel. The word “Permadigm” is a new concept that means

Deb Stone ’09 Deb read her essay “Mr. Potato Head’s Secret Life” for the inaugural Listen to Your Mother Show in Portland, Ore., on May 11, 2014. Deb’s writing has appeared in The Oregonian, the Portland Tribune, and the Portland Upside. Deb is currently seeking representation for her book Mother Up: A Memoir. Stone has been a birth, foster, step, and adoptive parent to over 30 children, and a Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) for another two dozen abused and neglected kids in Oregon foster care. Deb also had her essay “U.S. Foster Care: A Flawed Solution That Leads to More Long-term Problems?” posted at STIR Journal.

2010s Graham Benton ’10 Almost two years after graduation, Graham went to Kenya and is now getting a clean cooking energy project, Takamoto Biogas, rolling. He has been working to get biogas digesters (a clean energy replacement for traditional three-stone fire cooking) into the hands of rural Kenyan farmers. So far 100-plus digesters have been installed. Graham is learning and developing new ways to make sure that Takamoto Biogas is the most reliable supplier in the country. His current challenge is developing a smart meter that works off of a web-based platform and communicates via mobile network. Check out takamotobiogas.com.

Stephanie Obsitnik ’10 Stephanie recently started working at Alaska Airlines as a flight attendant. She can be reached at Sm.obsitnik@gmail.com.

William Crowell Ph.D. ’11 William was quoted in a news release regarding state water testing in North Carolina.You can read the release at http://portal.ncdenr.org/web/guest/newsreleases.

Jessica Hudson ’11 Alumna Jessica Hudson ’11 won an Amazon Kindle Fire HDX for her gift of $25 to the Prescott College Annual Fund for Academic Excellence between July 1 and December 31, 2013. Her studies at Prescott College focused on sustainable jewelry design, and she has continued research related to ethically sourced materials since graduating. Jessica is a member of the Ethical Metalsmiths Consortium and recently returned from a trip to Chala, Peru, where she visited a certified Fairmined mine and made her first purchase of Fairmined gold. “My plan now is to expand my brand—Vipaka Jewelry—to provide handmade, ethically sourced and produced jewelry,” she says. “Much of the networking I did and connections I made while studying at Prescott College helped me to get to the point where I am today. I continue to use the tools I learned in order to further my career goals. Thank you Prescott College!”

Jessica LaPorte Ph.D. ’11 Jessica has earned a doctoral degree, lived in the western and eastern United States, and given birth to two sons. She is now living happily in Vieques, Puerto Rico, with her partner, Margi Laporte, and the boys. Check out the full article in her hometown newspaper at www.cheboygannews.com and search Jessi LaPorte.

Carly Rudzinski M.A. ’11 Carly participated in the Inaugural Scranton Half Marathon, finishing in exactly two hours. The Scranton, Penn., race was Carly’s first half marathon.

Lee Cohen ’12 From children living in Costa Rican garbage dumps to children with disabilities in Miami, Lee Cohen has helped them and many others experience the joy of self-expression through art. Lee is the founder and president of the House of Healing, a nonprofit organization that provides children and their families with an opportunity to express themselves through the transformative power of art. The House of Healing has grown so much that the organization will soon be looking for new space to expand. In the future, Lee would like to focus more on supporting parents, who often suffer from burnout and need the same fun and fulfillment their children find in art.

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“permanent paradigm.” Permadigm Initiative is dedicated to helping individuals and communities create a new paradigm that will nourish people and ecosystems harmoniously. Ashley and her partner are about to embark on a new journey starting in October 2014. They plan to do a trip around the world to learn more about permaculture and traditional farming, as well as social and environmental problems and solutions, while expanding their worldview and connection with nature. If you would like to get in contact with Ashley Moore please email permadigm@gmail.com or go to www.permadigm.wordpress.com.

Jessica Irving ’13 Jessica has just procured a new job as a camp expedition director with Central Coast Autism Spectrum Center. This job is the culmination of the focus of her capstone project and her abiding passion about using art therapy with people on the autism spectrum.

Nicole Farrell ’13 Nicole recently started a nonprofit called DoNation. Check it out at www.indiegogo.com/projects/ thedonationappdonatingmadesimpledomoredogooddonation.

Maria Johnson ’13 The Gulf of California first captivated Maria Johnson in a 2009 field course at Prescott College’s Kino Bay Center for Cultural and Ecological Studies, where the Sonoran Desert meets the sea to create a unique, rich environment that serves as a prime classroom on the subjects of science, conservation, and culture. After taking numerous classes in Kino Bay and receiving a degree in marine conservation, Maria was awarded a Conservation Fellowship in Art, Media, and Fisheries at the Center. Congrats Maria!

Will Scott M.A. ’13 Will was the keynote speaker for the West Regional AEE Conference on May 24, 2014, at the Dorothy Johnson Community Center in Chico, Calif. Will is a teacher, naturalist, wilderness guide, designer, facilitator, and longtime student of the human-nature relationship.

Marna Hauk Ph.D. program ’14 Marna and faculty member Denise Mitten presented “Complex Rubrics for Teaching Complexity: Catalyzing Autopoiesis in Graduate Student Innovation for Ecosystem Sustainability” on a panel, Exploring Learning Processes and Assessment Through Complex Systems Theory, as part of the Complexity and Chaos offerings at the American Educational Research Association (AERA), in Philadelphia, Penn., April 2014.

Chiara D’Amore Ph.D. program ’15 In July 2014 Chiara participated in a panel on family nature clubs at the Children and Nature Network Natural Leaders Legacy Camp at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service National Conservation Training Center in Shepardstown, W.Va. Chiara and faculty member Denise Mitten also submitted a chapter on the connection between care for children and care for the environment to the forthcoming book Pedagogies of Kindness and Respect: On the Lives and Education of Children.

Sarena Randall Gill Ph.D. program ’ 17 Sarena will co-present three sessions: Conservation Educators— Taking our Practice to the Next Level;The Value of Interpretation at Zoos and Aquariums; and Interpretation: HashtagLikeShare at the National Association for Interpretation National Workshop in Denver, Colo., in November 2014.

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Faculty & Staff Notes

Faculty & Staff Notes Richard A. Ach

Lisa Floyd-Hanna, Ph.D.

After five challenging and rewarding years serving Prescott College in a fundraising capacity,Vice President for Institutional Advancement Marjory J. Sente retired in July 2014. Board of Trustees member Richard Ach ’73 has volunteered to handle oversight of the day-to-day operations of the Advancement Office. He can be reached at richard.ach@prescott.edu or (929) 350-4501.

Faculty members Lisa Floyd-Hanna and Dave Hanna with colleagues Bill Romme, Bill Baker, and Dustin Hanna ’06 completed a four-year study of fire history of Dinosaur National Monument. Lisa organized and moderated a session at the Biennial Conference of Research on the Colorado Plateau in Flagstaff on Piñon Juniper Woodland Ecology and Health, and presented a paper on post-fire recovery at Mesa Verde National Park. Lisa, Sasha Reed, Carla Roybal ’12, Jack Herring, and Tim Crews completed a study of nitrogen deposition from power plants at Mesa Verde National Park.

Joel Barnes ’81, Ph.D. On-campus faculty member and Director of the Graduate Teaching Assistant Program Joel Barnes had an article titled “River Studies and Leadership Certificate” published in the summer issue of the River Management Society Journal. In August at Peregrine Books in Prescott, Joel was one of five speakers on an expert panel to discuss local and regional water issues, along with author Jack August, Yavapai County Water Advisory Committee coordinator John Rasmussen, and Yavapai County Supervisor Chip Davis.

Catherine Boland The CFO of Prescott College stepped down from her position this summer after 14 years with the school. She was recognized for her invaluable and long service to the College at the June Board of Trustees meeting. Good luck Cathy!

Grace Burford, Ph.D. Faculty member in Global Studies Grace Burford’s chapter titled “I.B. Horner and the Twentieth-Century Development of Buddhism in the West” was published in Buddhists: Understanding Buddhism Through the Lives of Practitioners. Dr. Burford also participated in the Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion’s 2013–14 colloquy Religious Commitments in the Classroom. She also conducted a collaborative project, Inclusive Language in Recognizing Religious Commitments in the Classroom, funded by an additional grant from the Wabash Center.

Mary Frances Causey Director of Financial Aid Mary Frances Causey continues to serve on the board for the Arizona Association for Student Financial Aid Administrators (AASFAA). For the 2014–15 year, she is the Treasurer.

Becca Deysach ’99 Instructor and alumna Becca Deysach put together an online anthology of some of her students’ writing from the Fall Limited-Residency Undergraduate Writing the Wild class. Check out “Wild Hearts Speak” at http://wildheartspeak.wordpress.com/.

Fred DuVal, J.D. Former Board of Trustees Vice Chair Fred DuVal is a gubernatorial hopeful for Arizona this year. For 35 years, DuVal has been involved in state, federal, and foreign policy. His activities have focused on health care, education, economic development, and natural resources. He is a vice president at Clean Energy Fuels and is responsible for creating strategic partnerships that help individuals and businesses—specifically large haulers, trucking companies, and airport, transit, taxi, refuse, and school vehicles—transition to natural gas fuel. He is often called upon as a bipartisan public policy negotiator through private employment and appointed roles.

Nina Ekholm Fry, M.S.Sc. Nina organized the Best Practices in Equine-assisted Learning and Equine-assisted Mental Health Conference held in Prescott, April 2014.

Anita Fernández, Ph.D. Faculty member Anita Fernández recently published an article with Sean Arce, former Director of Tucson Unified School District’s Mexican American Studies Program and co-instructor of the Tucson Social Justice Education Semester at Prescott College, titled “Barrio Pedagogy: Praxis Within the Tucson Social Justice Education Semester” in the spring 2014 issue of Regeneración, the journal of the Association of Raza Educators.

Tom Fleischner, Ph.D. Faculty member Tom Fleischner was one of eight coauthors of a paper on grazing and climate change: “Reducing Livestock Effects on Public Lands in the Western United States as the Climate Changes: A Reply to Svejcar et al.,” published in Environmental Management.

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J. Ron Hennings J. Ron Hennings, Adjunct Faculty in Teacher Preparation and Master of Education, Principal Certification Program, visited both the University of Hawaii’s Maui Language Institute and the Hana Indigenous School (K–12) this past June. Ron and his wife, Joy McCabe Ph.D. program ’16, explored innovative dual language ESL and heritage language sustainability programming.

Doug Hulmes ’74, M.S. Faculty member and alumnus Doug Hulmes has enjoyed his sabbatical. Last August, Doug visited Jared Silverman ’08 in Edinburgh, Scotland; Jared just completed a master’s degree at the University of Edinburgh in history of psychology. After teaching his course Explorations of Norway Nature and Culture, Doug spent two months continuing research on sacred trees of Norway and Sweden. He was invited to give a lecture on his research at Bømlo Folkehøgskule, and he gave two performances of John Muir at Stord University College and Sogn Folkehøgskule. He was also invited to speak on the value of the Folk High School system at a regional meeting held at Bømlo Folkehøgskule.

Allison Jack, Ph.D. Former Environmental Studies faculty member Allison Jack published research on sustainable disease management in aquaculture from her National Science Foundation postdoctoral fellowship in the Netherlands. Titled “Deciphering Microbial Landscapes of Fish Eggs to Mitigate Emerging Diseases,” the report appeared in the International Society for Microbial Ecology Journal.

Sue Knaup Former instructor and Director of the One Street international bicycle advocacy organization Sue Knaup has written a book titled Cures for Ailing Organizations. She is currently fundraising to publish this first-aid manual to help good organizations out of common problems. “I wrote Cures for Ailing Organizations not just for bicycle organizations, but for any group founded to benefit our world,” she says. Find out more at www.onestreet.org.

Nancy Mattina, Ph.D. Nancy Mattina, faculty member in the limited residency programs, was selected as one of five 2014 Artists-in-Residence at the Hubbell Trading Post National Historic Site in Ganado, Ariz. During her 12-day stay in April she wrote and presented an illustrated essay, “Women of the Desert at Hubbell Trading Post.” In June she was endorsed by the Ganado and Cornfields Chapters of the Navajo Nation for additional research she will carry out as a volunteer in the Hubbell Archives this fall.

Denise Mitten, Ph.D. Master of Arts Program Adventure Education Chair Denise Mitten coauthored a book, Human Health and Natural Environments, that has been published by Cabi Press. She also presented a keynote address, Connections, Compassion, and Co-healing: Ecofeminism in the Anthropocene, at the Precarious Times: New Imaginings for Sustainability Conference at the Centre for Educational Research, University of Sydney, Australia, June 2014. While in Australia Denise also presented a daylong workshop for the Outdoor Recreation Industry Council of NSW, Australia.

Gary Stogsdill, ’86 M.A.

Faculty member Steven Pace was the main editor for the recently published Manual of Accreditation Standards for Adventure Programs. Fellow faculty member Denise Mitten was a coeditor. The first four editions focused on standards for all types of adventure programs. The fifth edition added standards for therapeutic adventure programs, and this sixth edition adds standards for programs that are part of an undergraduate or graduate program.

Limited-Residency Undergraduate faculty member Gary Stogsdill published two articles: “We Can Do It: Experiential Learning Activities in Mathematics Courses for Liberal Arts Undergraduates,” in Global Journal of Science Frontier Research, and “Being Reasonable: Using Brainteasers to Develop Reasoning Ability in Humanistic Math Courses,” in Journal of Humanistic Mathematics.

Pramod Parajuli, Ph.D.

Loren Thomas, Ph.D.

Faculty member Pramod Parajuli gave a presentation, Learning to Garden and Gardening to Learn, on April 8, 2014, at the Crossroads Center of Prescott College. The talk was attended by members of the Slow Food Prescott Chapter, Farm to Food, and Arizona Food Plan initiatives.

Director of Professional Preparation Programs and newly named Chair of the Ph.D. Program at Prescott College Loren Thomas presented at the AERO National Conference at Long Island University in June 2014. The topic of his presentation and workshop was Preparing to Teach in an Alternative or Democratic School. AERO is the Alternative Education Resource Organization.

Mark Reigner, Ph.D. On June 30, 2014, Mark Riegner, Professor of Environmental Studies, gave a talk titled Feathers and Beaks, Bars and Streaks: Form and Pattern in Birds at the Bird Conservation Society of Thailand (BCST) headquarters in Bangkok, Thailand. Mark and his wife,Veronica Behn, were travelling throughout Thailand this summer, accompanying 16 Thai bird watchers to Mae Wong National Park for a three-day excursion sponsored by BCST—the Thai equivalent of our National Audubon Society—continuing on to Khao Yai National Park, which is ranked as one of the top five national parks in the world. (See photo below.)

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Steven Pace, M.S.W.

Vicky Young ’95, Ph.D. Faculty member Vicky Young was an invited participant at the 2nd Annual Northern Arizona Health Care System Community Mental Health Summit on Friday, August 15, 2014.Vicky was on the Veterans and Family Members Panel sharing her decades of experiences as both a military wife and mother. Her oldest son is active-duty Navy attached to a helicopter squadron deploying through mid-2015 to the Persian Gulf.

Martin Ziebell M.A. ’06 Prescott College Equipment Warehouse Manager Martin Ziebell has accepted the position of Station Manager for the Prescott College Kino Bay Center for Cultural and Ecological Studies in Sonora, Mexico.

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In Memoriam

In Memoriam Derk Janssen M.A. ’99 Submitted by faculty member Sam Henrie

erk was one of the important leaders of Prescott College who helped us create the second iteration of the school where it stands today, in town. From the late 1970s through the early 1990s he fulfilled several roles. As Director of Marketing and Admissions he was responsible for developing our iconic logo and the Prescott College motto—a version of which we still use today. He captured and communicated our uniqueness deftly, winning prestigious awards for his work. Derk was an enthusiastic and creative educator who helped create ECOSA and other projects; he was a sought-after academic adviser among students, and he occasionally taught courses. Faculty, administrators, and board members often sought his support and advice as well. He was an advocate for the College

when we needed it most. When he left Prescott College he returned to his original educational vocation, as a teacher and coach at the local high school. A well-known and loved member of the broader Prescott community, Derk passed away suddenly while teaching on February 27, 2014. Derk was a poet with a unique and gentle style. He published several books of poems about nature and the goodness of people, as well as ongoing issues in the world. Derk was an educational philosopher, and that is what drew him to Prescott College. We all learned from his insights. Derk was ethically consistent, always trying to live by his educational and life commitments. He lived a good life.

Kenneth Karl Asplund Information submitted by Ilse Asplund

ormer faculty and board member Kenneth Asplund passed away at the age of 74 on February 5, 2014. He was born in 1939, the youngest son of Karl and Kaia (Siggerud) Asplund of Oslo and Trondheim Norway. From an early age he immersed himself in the natural world, exploring and collecting reptiles in the undeveloped lands around his home in northern Pennsylvania. Kenneth completed undergraduate studies in zoology at Yale University and studied desert ecology with the late Charles H. Lowe at the University of Arizona. He received a Ph.D. in biology from UCLA in 1968, conducting dissertation research in remote regions of the Baja California peninsula in the 1960s. Kenneth arrived at Prescott College in 1973 and taught in Environmental Studies. In 1978 he developed a widely popular and visionary course, The Ecology of History, synthesizing the relationship of culture, religion, and environment in shaping human history. He served on the College Board of Trustees from 1975 to 1977 and was a Prescott city councilman for four years. With alumnus Ted Rose ’75 he started a local nursery, the Greenery, and was a founding board member of the Arizona Native Plant Society. His love for and curiosity about natural history was unabated. He was a natural teacher and generous mentor whose support for the curiosity and intellectual growth of his students was of a fabric with his own interests. About his work, Kenneth once said, “There was never a difference between who I was and what I did.” After leaving Prescott College in 1987, Kenneth worked as curator of living collections at the Arboretum at Flagstaff. He then returned to the desert and worked at the Arizona-Sonoran Desert Museum. Kenneth died in Tucson after a lengthy decline. He is survived by three children: Jennifer, Julia, and Adam.

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Anne Scofield ’70

rescott College remembers charter class alumna Anne Scofield: Fellow classmate and friend Kirk Gray ’69 wrote, “Anne passed away [earlier this spring] in Upland, Calif. She was quite the avid and accomplished birder and had a wry sense of humor. I was fortunate to have the opportunity to get to know Anne and to call her a friend.”

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The Last Word

The Last Word By Todd Mireles, faculty adviser for Newspaper Journalism Practicum course

STUDENT PUBLICATION ONLINE ONLY Todd Mir eles

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“The Raven Review is committed to social justice and aligns with the values of Prescott College. As a news source within Arizona, we strive to rebalance statewide media by respecting the diversity and humanity of the Prescott area.We hope that our accessible news gives a voice to students and community members that supports their engagement and activism.” Raven Review Commitment to Social Justice,Winter 2014

his past spring term six intrepid students signed up for the Newspaper Journalism Practicum, and by the end of the semester they had launched an online version of the Raven Review, Prescott College’s student newspaper. This was my first attempt at teaching journalism in a classroom. Although I have experience working at daily, weekly, and studentrun newspapers, I found my most gratifying experiences centered on the publication of small independent journals. My goal was to help create an atmosphere where my students could experience the satisfaction that comes from exercising our First Amendment rights. The Raven was published regularly in the first part of the 2000s as a multi-issue printed newspaper each spring term. Publication fell off and had become irregular over the past few years. We decided to move to a strictly online version for several reasons: • The news industry is moving to the online format. The ability to write for this format and be familiar with industry requirements is key in finding employment post-graduation. • Costs associated with printing, publishing, and distribution have been all but eliminated. Without the limits of print, we would be able to showcase Prescott College’s amazing photography program and its talent up front and center.

• The move to digital allows the Raven Review to accept submissions in multiple formats.

Another big change coming up for the Raven Review will be the creation of work-study positions for students interested in participating in a publishing environment year-round. The creation of a sales department will afford students the opportunity to experience the necessity of balancing finances and the pursuit of social justice. This introduction of sales will be especially important for students’ professional preparation as competition for funding grows stronger and the pool of money available for publications shrinks in the wider market. Placing Prescott College students at the forefront of responsible and ethical business practices is committing in a holistic way to social justice. The Raven Review is committed to the full expression of Prescott College students and members of the Prescott community. To that end we solicit and accept submissions of all types of writing and multimedia. Prescott College has a strong zine tradition, and we have devoted a portion of the website to the housing and archiving of zines produced in the Prescott area. We are looking to develop our section on Senior Projects. This long-time graduation requirement is one of the hallmarks of a Prescott College education, and the good work students are doing should be recognized and showcased. In our current format we can do that in ways that have not been explored before. Check out the new Raven Review at ravenreviewnewspaper.com. Advertise with us, send us a message about what you are doing now and let us do a story about it!

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