Class of 1970
Class Chairs:
George and Irene
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Class Notes:
Liesel Dreisbach-Willams
Liesel Dreisbach-Willams was recently featured in the Alumni Spotlight.
(Posted July 15, 2009)
Gene Sunnen
Gino is now Gramps. My son Karl and his wife Joel had a baby girl, Brianna. I can't wait to take her to the ballpark and teach her how to heckle opposing players when she's 7 or 8 years old. That's what Gramps are for, right? Teaching life lessons? ;>)
(Posted May 22, 2009)
Mary Rose
I am Co-founder and director of NBIS - Network for Business Innovation & Sustainability, based in Seattle, WA. We are a membership organization that provides strategic consultation, training and professional development/networking to individuals working to implement sustainable business practices in their places of work. Our emphasis is "Profitable Sustainability" and we work with green teams and change agents to create effective, strategic approaches to transforming their businesses for success in the changing global marketplace and within the context of engagement with local economies and ecosystems. We also work with municipalities on sustainable economic development strategies.
(Posted May 21, 2009)
Stephen Eckstrand
Since January, I have been the acting director of the Office of Fusion Energy Sciences, whose mission is to carry out fundamental research on high temperature plasmas to develop the knowledge needed for a fusion energy source. The writing skills that I learned at Earlham are very helpful, since most of the work of our office involves preparing plans, budget justifications, reports, etc. The job has been both exciting and challenging, but I am looking forward to getting back to having just one job in the summer.
(Posted April 28, 2009)
Petur Williams
I have worked in and about politics since I dropped out of Earlham in 1968 to follow the Gene McCarthy for President Campaign around the country. I have lived at least part time in Washington, D.C. since 1968, and I have never before seen a celebration there like the one had January 20, 2008 for President Obama's first inauguration. I think there were an extra almost two million people there, and it is reputed there was not a single arrest associated with that crowd, though we were herded and corralled in places as if we were cattle to be contained. It was cold outside, but I have a picture of those few days as being filled with smiles and laughter. That is not the Washington, D.C. that has been displayed over the past eight years. May things go well enough that the smiles continue.
(Posted February 24, 2009)
Dave Eaton
1968 Eastern European Foreign Study Reunion –Classes of 1969 and 1970
On the morning of August 20th, 2008 NPR broadcast a report on the 40th anniversary of the invasion of Czechoslovakia by the Warsaw Pact troops. This report prompted a flurry of phone calls and e-mails among 14 Earlham alumni who had participated in the Eastern European foreign study during the summer of 1968.
Forty years afterwards, the experience of the Eastern European foreign study group is still very much alive. Eleven of the fourteen group members recently gathered to reminisce and share how their lives have been influenced by the exposure to other cultures in a time of great international turmoil, including the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia.
Will Austin ’69, Roger Blaine ‘70, Dave Eaton ’70, Jane Gruenebaum ’70, Cathy Heiden Stewart ’69, Ed Hinkley ’69, Jane Hutton ’69, Jane Isley Thesing ’69, Allen Kratz ’70, Judy Morgan ’69, and Jean Sharf ’70, gathered in Washington, DC to share memories, photos, and travel diaries (edited of course). The gathering became even more remarkable with the presence of Landrum Bolling, Earlham College president, 1958-1973, who personally accompanied the group during our stay in Prague.
In 1968 this group participated in meetings with “professors, journalists, government officials, students…” but most memorably with Landrum. Forty years later we were again treated to Landrum’s vast store of experiences, clarity of thought, and prescient ideas. Forty years earlier Landrum had summed up our experience in the Summer 1968 publication of The Earlhamite:
“Those of us who shared those days will never forget them, nor the courageous and open spirited Czechs, nor the shadow of Soviet repression which, like the unseasonable cool, wet air mass, hung over the country. We all got away before the mood changed and the Soviet tanks rolled in—but not before something had happened to us.” This experience was “an intense immersion in another culture—in a time of tension and crisis—it was the kind of experience, broadening and humanizing, that is at the heart of liberal arts education.”
As a group, forty years later, we agreed.
(Posted January 07, 2009)
Julianne Flagg Pittman
After 23 years of working with adults with developmental disabilities, I'm still excited about the changes I've seen in the field, and the ones that are still to come. The most fun part of my job is leading the MARC Martial Arts Club. I'd love to hear from other EC folks who share this interest. My husband, David, continues in fine woodworking although he's pursuing truck driving as a new career. Both children attend Alabama schools; Isaac, 21, is at UAH, and Hannah, 19, goes to USA. Earlhamites wanting to visit the Gulf Coast are welcome to get in touch anytime.
(Posted January 05, 2009)
Gabriel Fraire
Gabriel writes, "For all you Earlhamites dying to read my plays (lol) they are now available on Amazon.com just type my name in the search bar. This coming Dec. Karen Green Fraire '71 and I will have been married 39 years (and you said it would never last). Our daughter Maria, 24, is a doctorial candidate at Virigina Tech and our daughter Elizabeth, 20, is a junior at Connecticut College, currently studying Art in Africa. After 30 years in No. California we have moved to North Carolina to help care for Karen's mom." E-mail: (Gabe) gfraire@triad.rr.com or (Karen) kgfraire@gmail.com
(Posted November 3, 2008)
Obituaries:
Richard Naramore Rice
Richard Naramore Rice of San Jose, Calif. died on December 04, 2007.
(Posted August 06, 2009)
Jerome Secttor
INDIANAPOLIS - Dr. Jerome Michael Secttor, 61, passed away at 3:30 p.m. Feb. 2, 2009, in Community North, Indianapolis. Dr. Secttor was a 1966 graduate of Marion High School. In June of 1970 he received his B.A. in Political Science from Earlham College. In August of 1973 he received his M.A. in American History and in 1979 he received his Doctorate in Educational Administration and Curriculum, both from Ball State University. Then in December 1998, Dr. Secttor graduated Cum Laude with his J.D. from Indiana University School of Law. He was a member of Indiana State Bar Association, Fellowship Indiana, and Human Rights Campaign. From 1970-1978 Dr. Secttor taught at Marion High School. He was a Doctoral Fellow at Ball State University from 1978-1979. He was the assistant principal at Merriville High School, Merriville from 1979-1982. Dr. Secttor was the principal at Yorktown High School, Yorktown, from 1982-1988. From 1989-1991 he was an Adjunct Professor at Ball State University, Muncie. From 1994-1998 Dr. Secttor was the Superintendent for Mt. Pleasant Township Community School Corp., Yorktown. Dr. Secttor was the Program Director/Training Officer for the Indiana Department of Revenue, Indianapolis from March 1994-1999. In March of 1999 until September of 2005 Dr. Secttor became Legal Division Deputy Administ-rator of the Indiana Department of Revenue, Indiana-polis, and from 2006-2008 he was an instructor at Ivy Tech, Indianapolis. Dr. Secttor received several awards; Labor Law Award for Outstanding Labor Law Student, 1997-98, Dean's Tutorial Society, Indiana University of Law, Spring of 1998, Dean's List, Indiana School of Law- 1995, Louis Ingelhart Friend of Journalism Award Recipient, Indiana High School Press Association, 1991 and Administrator of The Year, Indiana Music Educators' Association, 1986-87. Survivors include mother, Ann K. Secttor, Marion; sister, Dianne (Charles) Smith, Marion; brother, Stuart A. '74 (Debra) Secttor, Springfield, Ohio; nieces, Sara (Ryan) James, upland, Rachel A. Secttor, Chapel Hill, N.C.; and great-nephew, Oliver Stuart James, Upland. Dr. Secttor was preceded in death by his father, Julian V. Secttor.
(Posted February 12, 2009)
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