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CHRISTOPHER M. AKERS (AB '91) is a chemical sales representative with Harcros Chemicals, Inc. of Kansas City, Missouri and currently living in Mobile, Alabama. Before joining Harcros, he was awarded the "Dare to Achieve Award" for outstanding sales with Bonded Chemicals, Inc. of Columbus, Ohio. In 1995 Christopher married Valerie Thompson of Gladstone, Missouri and they have a son, Nicholas.

LESLIE ANDREW (PhD '54) had her history of the Johnson County Seat, "The Test of Time," issued by the Johnson County Commission in spring 1998.

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ROBERT S. BABCOCK (MA '86) became the Dorothy Weier Creigh professor of History at Hastings College in 2005, where he is also chair of the department. He has presented and published various papers on Anglo-Norman Wales and Ireland, and is at work on a book-length study of the relationship between King Henry II of England and Rhys ap Gruffudd, a twelfth-century Welsh prince. He has also presented papers from work toward his next project, a study of "Man and the River" in medieval Europe. His wife, Tamara, is Director of Development Services and planner for the city of Hastings. They have two children, Sara and Carl.

DANIEL B. BAGLEY (AB '94) graduated with a Juris Doctor degree from Oklahoma City University School of Law this May. He is also a member of the Oklahoma City University Law Review.

LARY BAKER (AB '60) attended the Scholars Conference on the Holocaust at the University of Washington, Seattle, in February, 1998. He presented a paper at the "Social Science 2000 Conference" titled "Industrial Technology and Economics, A Multidisciplinary Approach," April 23, 1998, at the St. Louis Science Center.

SCOT BARKER (M Ed '94) is working at IDX Systems Corporation as Manager of Information Systems, Burlington Support Center.

KELLY A. WOODHURST BERREY (AB '92) earned an MS.Ed. in 1997 from Central Missouri State University and is now a social studies teacher. Kelly and her family recently moved to Iowa in June where her husband accepted a position.

ROBERT L. BEVAN (AB '50) recently became counsel at the law firm of Stinson, Mag & Fizzell in Kansas City, Missouri after 38 years in Washington, DC where he worked for 12 years for Missouri senators Tom Hennings and Ed Long, the American Bankers Association for 15 years, and the law firm of Hopkins and Sutter, as a partner, for 11 years. In addition, he was chair of the American Bar Association Banking Law Committee for 4 years.

DONALD F. BITTNER (PhD '74) received the first sabbatical given by the Marine Corps Command and Staff College. Most of this was spent at the Royal Naval College, Greenwich (1997) and the Royal Marines Museum, Eastney (1998), the former Royal Marines Artillery Barracks, Eastney, Portsmouth, New Hampshire.

BRIAN K. BOAGARD (AB '90) is a graduate of the University of Illinois College of Law and is employed as an attorney in Jefferson City, Missouri, in the Governor's office.

DENNIS BOWMAN (PhD '98) has accepted a position as a full-time Instructor at the Eastern Michigan University.

DANA RENEE BOLYARD (AB '94) earned her JD from University of Missouri-Kansas City in 1997.

LEON E. BOOTHE (MA '62) "With the death of my beloved wife of 36 years on January 27, 1998, I retired as President of Northern Kentucky University (effective July 1, 1998) and am now President Emeritus. I still hold my professor of history rank but I am now working as Senior Advisor for the $100 million Underground Railroad Freedom Center project to be built on the Cincinnati waterfront."

RICHARD E. BOYER (PhD '60) is retired; teaching half-time and - traveling.

HENRY BRADSHER (AB '52, BJ '52) His second book on Afghanistan's Communist period, titled Afghan Communism and Soviet Intervention was published by Oxford University Press. His first book Afghanistan and the Soviet Union was published in 1983 by Duke University press, second edition came out in 1985 and was the best-selling academic study during the Communist war period.

LOREN BROADDUS (MA '90) received an M Ed in 1994 from Drury College and is certified to teach social studies and English. "I have been slugging it out in the trenches of public education for the past four years. I teach 7th grade at Study Middle School in Springfield. I look back on my time at the History Department with great fondness."

JAMES E. BROSHOT (AB '72) is Assistant Editor of The Europa Magazine, a military history and conflict simulation journal published by Fr/D in Grinnell, Iowa.

SUSAN H. BURTON (AB '69) has been employed by the city of Portsmouth, Virginia for 28 years. Earned MSLS in 1975 from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and has served as Library Director since 1996.

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JAY S. CARLETON (AB '94) is an attorney for Brown & James, PC in Kansas City, Missouri.

STACEY CARUTHERS (AB '96) is working at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, on staff with the Campus Crusade for Christ.

TIMOTHY C. CAUGH (AB '89) is currently working as a product manager for a manufacturing firm in St. Louis, Missouri. He received his MBA from Webster University in fall, 1998.

LAWRENCE O. CHRISTENSEN (PhD '72) published a History of Missouri, vol. 4, with Gary R. Kremer. The volume received the Missouri Conference on History Best Book Award. In 1993 made Distinguished Teaching Professor of History at the University of Missouri - Rolla, a continuing appointment.

DAVID COCHRAN (PhD '95) has taught at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale since 1996. His article "Low Budget Modernism of Roger Corman" appeared in the Winter, 1997 issue of North Dakota Quarterly.

PAOLO E. COLETTA (PhD '42) translated from the Italian, Raimondo Luraghi's History of the Confederate Navy in 1996 and was awarded a prize by the U.S. Navy League. 1997 brought Bold Eagle: Admiral Marc A. Mitscher and U.S. Naval Aviation, Lewis, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, Admiral William A. Moffett and U.S. Naval Aviation. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, and The American Heritage, 4e Lanham, MD, University Press of America.

SHAWN CONNER (AB '01) currently serves as Assistant Director - Marketing and Recruitment for the Kelley School of Business Undergraduate Program at Indiana University-Bloomington. Conner completed a master's degree in comparative literature at Indiana University in December 2006, with a focus on African and South Asian diasporic literatures in the Americas. Conner studied Spanish, Portuguese, and French, and he was the recipient of a Foreign Language Area Studies fellowship for the study of Hindi. He will travel to Brazil in March 2007 to assist with the Kelley School's emerging markets course, and he also assists with Latino/Hispanic student recruitment through the development of Spanish-language print and online resources.

JOSLYN SPARLING CONVERSE (AB '53) is retired.

KENNETH COOPER (PhD '47) "I am enjoying retirement and like being kept up-to-date with the doings of my friends and the Department of History."

MICHAEL CRANE (AB '91) is Director of Community Relations for the Fulton City School District. In 1997 he won the Distinguished Journalist Award from the Educational Press Association (EdPress). He also has two publications pending (will share information after they're reviewed).

SHELLY J. CROTEAU (PhD '92) is District IV Coordinator History Day in Missouri; Board of Directors, Executive Board, Missouri Center for the Book; Board of Directors, Missouri chapter of the National Association for African American Heritage Preservation. Croteau is currently at work on a prosopographcial study of a Jewish community in Northeast Missouri.

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FRED A. DAHLBERG (MA '60) is retired. Fred writes inspirational articles for "Christian Church Newsletter" and continues to pursue his interest in following Civil War reenactment activities in Missouri.

JEFF DANIEL (MA '96) is an art critic for the St. Louis Post Dispatch.

DICK DAVIES (Ph.D. '63) is a professor at the University of Nevado-Reno. I received my Ph.D at Missouri under the tutelage of Dick Kirkendall and Allen Davis in 1963. In May 2009, I was named the one recipient of the Distinguished Faculty for the University of Nevada for 2009 - a sort of a lifetime achievement award and only one person is named each year. Being selected out of a faculty of nearly 1,000 was gratifying. I keep in touch with Dick Kirkendall and Allen Davis at the annual OAH meetings and remain in close contact with Frank Mitchell (Ph.D. '64) who is now retired from USC and living in his home state of Iowa. He and I took our comps together in 1962 and did a readings book together for Recent US history courses with John Wiley & Co in 1969.
After spending the years 1972-1987 in various high level administrative positions (college dean at Northern Arizona, Provost at Nevada, and Interim President of Northern Colorado) I settled into my professorship at Nevada and have continued to teach courses in American history and do engage in my research and writing. By chance I branched out into the emerging field of sports history in the 1990s which has resulted in three books and with another one in press. I will formally retire in June 2011 but continue with my writing. I was most fortunate to select Missouri for my graduate work and the program in American history in the early 60s was superb. My only regret is not having done any work with Lewis Atherton; I know he would be pleased to know my 1998 book Main Street Blues, The Decline of Small Town America, used his 1954 Main Street on the Middle Border as a starting point. For additional info, see: http://www.unr.edu/cla/history/people/davies/index.html

RICHARD DESHON (AB '57) is President of the Artesian Ice & Cold Storage Company. He represented the Small Business Legislative Council to serve as delegate at the first 1998 Congressional Small Business Summit in Washington, D.C. He is also involved with several civil and community organizations: Heartland Regional Medical Center - Chairman of the Board; Pony Express National Memorial - Board of Trustees; St. Jospeh Regional Port Authority - Chairman; St. Joseph Riverfront Development Corporation - Vice President and Chairman, Design Committee.

KIMBERLY A. DILLON (MA '96) whose area of concentration is in antebellum southern social and cultural history. Her applied field is museum studies.

DEBRA L. DORNFELD (AB '88) was the media intern for the Missouri Historical Society in the summer of 1995 and received her MA from UMSL in May, 1996.

KENT E. DUNCAN (AB '94) took the Master of Arts in Theology degree (with Honors) from the Aquinas Institute of Theology in St. Louis, Missouri, with concentrations in Historical Studies and Systematic Theology. He also took the Juris Doctor degree from St. Louis University School of Law where he was the Senior Articles Editor of the St. Louis-Warsaw Transatlantic Law Journal.

JOE P. DUNN (PhD '73) is the Charles A. Dana Professor of History & Politics, Department Chair, and Director of Summer Programs at Converse College in Spartanburg, South Carolina, where in 2009 he completed his 33th year. His recent books include Southern Women at the Millennium: A Historical Perspective on the Twentieth Century (University of Missouri Press, 2003), with co-editors Melisa Walker and his wife Jeanette (former secretary in the University of Missouri history department); the second edition and printing of his Vietnam memoir, Desk Warrior: Memoirs of a Combat REMF (Pearson, 2004); A Good and Ordinary Life: A Memoir of the Rural Midwest, a memoir of his mother's life to be published by Southeast Missouri University Press; and the forthcoming I Have Done the Work: The Times and Life of James Hutchison Kerr. He has articles in the last two years in the Great Plains Quarterly, Missouri Historical Review, American National Biography Online, Teaching History, The History Teacher, and a number of entries in The Encyclopedia of Modern Middle East Wars. Other activities include visiting professor at the University of Iceland; executive director of the Carolinas Committee on U.S.-Arab Relations and editor of its newsletter; director of the Southeast Model Arab League; board of directors of National Model NATO; workshops on international terrorism at the Pugwash conference in Andalo, Italy, and the Summer Workshop on Teaching about Terrorism, at the University of Georgia; Gilder Lehrman Summer Seminar on the Cold War with Ernest R. May at Harvard; CIEE seminars in Jordan, Croatia, and Bosnia; and delegation leader for missions trips to Cuba, Ghana, Costa Rica, and Peru. He has been cited for the Curricular Innovation Award, Scholarship and Creative Achievement Award, Model League of Arab States Lifetime Achievement Award, Above and Beyond Award for Service to Students, Teagle Foundation Award for Service Learning, South Carolina Distinguished Professor, and semi-finalist as the Carnegie Endowment U.S. Professor of the year.

DANIEL DUSSEL (PhD '81) coaches the Coconut Creek High School wrestling team which ranked in the top 10 in Florida in 1997-98. The team won the District and Regional Championships and qualified to wrestle for the State championships as well.

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RORY ELLINGER (MA '68) continues to serve on the University City School Board and has just completed his second term as Board President. Has an extensive legal practice centered in St. Charles County.

BRIAN ELSESER (MA '93) "I am working on a book chronicling the last 100 years of St. Louis history. If anyone comes across photos or anecdotes, please call me at 314-531-0940." Brian is also the General Director of the French Exchange Program featuring Mississippi Valley history as well as an adjunct faculty member at St. Louis University and St. Louis Community College, Forest Park. "Warm regards to Gerry Clarfield and Charles Timberlake."

DOUGLAS C. ELY (AB '64) retired in 1987 as a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army with two tours Germany and two tours of Vietnam among other assignments. Currently a court bailiff to a domestic relations judge in Cuyahoga County (Cleveland, Ohio). He is president of the USO (Bob Hope's favorite charity) of Northern Ohio and is also secretary and ROTC liaison for the local chapter of the Retired Officers Association. Additionally, he volunteers as a dispute mediator for the city of Lakewood, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland.

MATTHEW ROYCE ENGLE (MA '96) is currently working on his PhD in Geography at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

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LISA SERVIA FINLEY (AB, BFA '87) has returned to graduate school at Virginia Commonwealth University in Art Education (Richmond, Virginia), where she is working with the Virginia Museum of the Fine Arts, Richmond, combining history, art, and teaching.

ROBERT W. FRIZZELL (AB '69) after twelve years as Director of the Library at Hendrix College, I will become Director of Libraries at Northwest Missouri State University in Maryville, Missouri. My duties begin October 1, 2001.

PAUL D. FOSTER (MA '86) is taking full advantage of an MA in Ancient History. "On the professional front, I continue in the investment management industry, having joined Delaware Investments (in Philadelphia) in February 2000 as Vice President, Consultant Relations. Much to my chagrin, one of my parochially educated colleagues speaks better Latin than I ever did, but at least my investment knowledge is better. I still try to dabble in my "former life" when time allows. Of course, sometimes "dabbling" means seeing "Gladiator" again! Oh, to what depths I have sunk to get my fix...

JEFF FRIEDMAN (MA '78) his second volume of poetry Scattering the Ashes, was published by Carnegie Mellon University Press in April, 1998.

MARTIN FROST (AB '64) has been a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, 24th district, Texas since 1979.

DUANE S. FULKES (AB '64) is Associate Director, Human Resources, at the University of Central Florida, Orlando.

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JEFF GALL (PhD '93) left high school teaching in 1997 to begin a career in higher education at Truman State University (formerly Northeast Missouri State) where he teaches U.S. history, Missouri history, and works in the training of future high school instructors. "In 1996 I was presented the National Educator Award by the Milken Family Foundation. The award is a $25,000 cash prize to honor excellence in education. This was a shock to say the least."

H. BAILEY GALLISON (AB '84) has has served as the Executive Director of the Community Campership Council of San Diego (A 501-C-3 tax exempt charity that raises money to send low income/poverty-level children to one of 21 camps in San Diego) for the past 12 years. He is also past President of the Kiwanis Club of Los Angeles, past Lieutenant Governor of Cal-Nev-HA Kiwanis, President, Ky-Cols of Southern California, past president of the Gillispie School, La Jolla, California and holds a lifetime membership in the MU Alumni Association.

ROBERT L. GANGWERE (MA '77, AB '75) is now serving as the Deputy General Counsel and Designated Agency Ethics Official of the U.S. Small Business Administration in Washington, D.C.

ROBERT L. GEIGER (AB '48) Phi Beta Kappa, Alpha Chapter, 1948. Reporter, Assistant State Editor, Sports Editor for the Newark (New Jersey) News, 1948-1972; Army Corps of Engineers, New York City, 1972-73, Copy Editor, the New York Times, 1973-84; retired in 1984.

LYNN WOLF GENTZLER (MA '73) is Associate Director of the State Historical Society of Missouri and co-editor "I Well Remember: David Holmes Conrad's Recollections of St. Louis, 1819-1823," Missouri Historical Review, 90 (October, 1995 and January, 1996)

RALPH GERHARD (MA '56) has been retired since 1993 after teaching history for 35 years at Moberly Junior College (now Moberly Area Community College). He is still living in Moberly and spending time researching Moberly and Randolph County history. The Randolph County Historical Society has published three of his books on the history of early Moberly and he is, at present, working on three more books dealing with coal mining, prostitution, and baseball in Randolph County and Moberly history. "My wife, Carol ('61) and I also spend a good deal of time traveling."

DONNA M. GRADY (AB '95) is a field marketing representative for Sonic Industries.

LOEB H. GRANOFF (AB '49) became a practicing attorney in Kansas City, Missouri after graduating from Michigan Law School in 1952.

H. ROGER GRANT (PhD '70) is finishing his second year as Chair of the Department of History, Clemons University. This past July he became the Chief Faculty Reader for U.S. History AP, a program of the Educational Testing Service of Princeton, New Jersey. His most recent book publications include: Ohio in Historic Postcards: Self-Portrait of a State (Kent: Kent State University Press, 1997); Railroads in the Heartland (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1997); Richard C. Overton: Railroad Historian, ed. (Lexington Group in Transportation History, 1998).

DEBRA FOSTER GREENE (MA '88; PH.D. ’03) appointed head of the Department of History, Political Science and Philosophy at Lincoln University in Jefferson City, MO where she is an Associate Professor. She has authored and co-authored several articles including "Joseph E. Mitchell," African American National Biography (2008); "Just Enough of Everything: The St. Louis Argus – An African American Newspaper and Publishing Company in Its First Decade," Business and Economic History On-line (2007); "Quasi Free Negroes in Colonial America" with Antonio Holland (PH.D. ’84) in Blackwell’s Companion to African American History; “Black Banks and Bankers” in Encyclopedia of the Great Migration (2006); "Nathaniel Allen Sweets, Sr," in Missouri Biographical Dictionary (1997). Debra served on the Governor’s Commission on Unmarked Human Burial Consultation from 2001-2005 and was recently appointed to the Missouri Civil War Sesquicentennial Commission. She has completed the National Register nomination for the Lincoln University President’s Residence, the former home of Hugh and Bessie Stephens, which was designed by Evart Tracy and Egerton Swartout, the architects who also designed the Missouri State Capitol building.

R. DALE GRINDER (PhD '73) is a historian for the U.S. Department of Transportation.

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LARRY J. HACKMAN (MA '65) delivered the commencement address to the first graduating class of Blue River Community College. Larry received an honorary degree from the University of Missouri-Kansas City in May, 1998. He presented a professional paper at the American Association for State and Local History in Denver, Colorado in October, 1997. Mr. Hackman is the Director of the Harry S. Truman Library in Independence, Missouri.

PETER HAMILTON (AB '71) "I continued my education at Northwestern University and earned an MAT in 1972. For the past 25 years I have been a teacher and administrator in the Portland, Oregon Public schools. I have been a principal for 15 years and, in February, I was promoted to Director middle School Student Achievement. I am responsible for 20 middle schools; my primary focus is to help these schools design and implement School Improvement Plans to increase student achievement in a standards-based system. I was very happy with my undergraduate education at the University of Missouri, and I especially enjoyed my history classes."

SUSAN M. HARTMANN (PhD '66) in 1994-95 received an ACLS Fellowship to complete a book on feminism in male-dominated organizations. She has also had published: "Women's Issues and the Johnson Administration" in Robert A. Devine, The Johnson Years, Volume 3 (University of Kansas Press, 1994); "Women's Employment and the Domestic Ideal," in Joanne Meyerowitz, ed., Not June Cleaver: Women and Gender in Postwar America, 1945-1960 (Temple University Press, 1994).

JIM HARTUNG (AB '91) graduated from the Harvard Business School June 4, 1998.

SHIRL HENKE (MA '66) has a four book contract with St. Martin's Press for historical romances: Bride of Fortune, 1996; Deep as the Rivers, 1997, The Endless Sky, 1998, and Sundancer, 1999. Previously, Shirl has had ten books published by Dorchester Press (all historical romances) as well as six books published by Warner Books (historical romances) and two mysteries in contemporary settings published by Severn House and Penguin Books.

DONNA C. HENNIGH (MA '92) is an active political supporter.

RICHARD P. HENRICK (AB '71) wrote the original story for the movie Crimson Tide that made its network television premier in 1998. His 17th novel, Attack on the Queen (Avon Books) was published in April, 1998. It concerns a G-7 summit aboard the ocean liner QE2, and the subsequent hijacking of the vessel by Chinese terrorists.

EMILY HOLT (AB '96) "I am currently working on a masters degree in Education. I am a graduate hall coordinator for MU's Department of Residential Life. Overall, life is good."

HARRY D. HOLMES (PhD '73) is Associate Vice President, V.T.M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas; Executive Committee member, National Comprehensive Cancer Network; President, Houston Higher Education Finance Corporation.

ANGELA HOWARD (AB '97) has worked, since graduating, as a production assistant at KOLR-10 Springfield, a CBS affiliate and is currently working in the city of Springfield, Missouri Office of Public Information, Independence, Missouri.

ERIN HUSCHLE (BA '98) is prospect research manager in the capital campaign office of the Saint Louis Art Museum. She and her husband, Don, have a 4 year old son, Christopher, who knows exactly what to yell back if we say "M - I - Z."

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ROBERT M. JENNINGS (AB '48, BJ '49 ) "I am retired after 40 years in the daily newspaper profession as reporter, columnist, performing arts editor. Am now writing a retrospective of experiences as 19/20 year-old rifleman in France, Germany, Austria during World War II."

ROGER L. JUNGMEYER (PhD '88) is currently an associate professor at Lincoln University in Jefferson City, Missouri. Jungmeyer has been chosen as recipient of the 2001 Governor's Award for Excellence in Teaching.

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JOHN M. KALB (MA '66) is the Director of Institutional Research at Southern Methodist University, having retired from Florida State University in 2003, after almost 30 years, as well as President of the Southern Association for Institutional Research.

ANDREW N. KAMINSKI (AB '97) received his teaching certificate in May, 1998.

WALTER KAMPHOEFNER (PhD '78) was promoted to full Professor at Texas A&M University in 1995. He was awarded a Fulbright for the 1998-99 academic year to lecture on immigration and urbanization in transatlantic perspective at the Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies at the University of Osnabrueck, Germany. Walter is married to Anja Schwalen and is the father of Sandra, age 2 1/2 (already fluent in German), and Thomas, age 3 months and babbling bilingually.

KARL F. KAMPSCHROEDER (AB '71) earned his PhD in Marketing, May, 1998 from the University of Houston. Karl is currently Assistant Professor of Business Administration at the University of Texas - Brownsville.

DAVID KATHKA (PhD '76) retired in 1994 - Director of Wyoming Parks and Cultural Resources (Wyoming State Historian, SHPO, State Archivist, Executive Secretary Wyoming Sate Historical Society). Since 1994 - Director of the Sweetwater Board of Cooperative Educational Services and Adjunct Professor of History, Western Wyoming College and the University of Wyoming.

JOHN KATICH (AB '72) is Associate Professor of Journalism at the University of Kansas. "Professor Timberlake, as a professor, I know, too well, that you can't remember me, but I want you to know I immensely enjoyed your classes. Because of you and Professors Zguta, Alexander Thelen, Rice, and Cunningham, I have retained my passion for history. I have even regained some of it (e.g. Semistvos swaddline and Ruriks). You have left a footprint with me."

DOMINIC KIRJAWA (AB '95) will be attending law school in January.

STEPHEN H. KLAWITER (AB/BS '96) is a Social Studies teacher: Ancient history, Medieval history, and American conflict and policy for Lafayette High School in St. Louis, Missouri.

EDWARD J. KNIEST (AB '81) has been working, since December, 1997 for the Missouri Division of Medical Services as a Program Development Specialist on the Health Care Options Plus Project. For 3 years prior to that, he was a program development specialist with the Missouri Division of Data Processing, working on the development of Missouri's Electronic Benefits Transfer (EBT) card for welfare recipients. Edward lives in Jefferson City with his wife, Rebecca and their son, Andrew.

J. KEVIN KOCHLER (MA '90) is currently a professional sales representative for Mercke & Company, Inc., with a territory in western Kentucky. He and his wife, Melanie have two sons: Nathan and Braxton.

ENNO E. KRAEHE (MA '44) is the William W. Corecran Professor Emeritus, University of Virginia (retired '91). He was a participant in a symposium in Urbana, Illinois to examine Paul Schroeder's theses about the political transformation of European politics 1763-1848 ( Nov. '97). Intermittently at work on Vol. III of Metter NichÕs German Policy.

KAREN ORDAHL-KUPPERMAN (AB '61) earned her PhD from Cambridge, in 1978 and became a Professor of history at New York University in 1996. Her book Providence Island, 1630-1641: The Other Puritan Colony (Cambridge, 1993) won the American History Association's Beveridge prize in 1995. Her edited collection, America in European Consciousness was published by the University of North Carolina Press for the Omohndro Institute of Early American History and Culture in 1995. Karen is currently at work on a book on English perceptions of American culture in the first decades of contact for which she has a contract with Cornell University Press. She is also engaged in preparing the second edition of he book, Major Problems in American Colonial History (D.C. Heath, 1992) which will be published by Houghton Mifflin.

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GRETCHEN LOVETT LAMONT (FORMERLY MCKEE) (AB '57) was formerly a copywriter at Ogilvy & Mather, New York City. She moved to Wilmington, North Carolina in 1995 and is now a features writer.

JOSEPH A. LAPAGE (MA '54) has retired from the Kentucky Labor Cabinet.

TRACY LEBRAND (AB '91) "I have written songs recorded by the acoustic trio Columbia; written a screenplay entitled "Pity the Angels" and am working on a novel trilogy."

ELLEN GOODMAN LELAND (AB '91) completed an MS Ed degree through Old Dominion University in December, 1997, three months after welcoming her second child, Michael Patrick Leland, Jr., who was born on September 4. He joins sister, Merry Kathleen, age 3."

FRANCESCA JANTORO LHOIR (PhD '88) won the Helen M. Woodruff/Archaeological Institute of America Rome Prize in Classical Archaeology in 1997. She was a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome and has recently finished the manuscript for a second book: Hidden Agendas: Subliminal Verbal Messages in Tacitus Annales which the University of Michigan Press has asked to read.

TARRANT H. LOMAX (AB '69) is a partner with Rhodes, Dunbar and Lomax.

BENNO P. LOWE III (MA '80) is currently associate professor of History at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, Florida where he teaches courses in early modern European history at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. Recently published Imagining Peace: A History of Early English Pacifist Ideas, 1340-1560 (Pennsylvania State Press, 1997). Current research is on social policy and religion in Edward VI's reign.

JAMES L. LOWE (PhD '62) "I started at the University of Missouri in 1931 and about all the time I attended, there was only one campus for the University and Columbia was it. I probably attended the University over a longer period of time than anyone else. However, the Depression came in to play for about five years and I was in the military service in World War II for about five years. I worked for the Western Historical Manuscript Collection for one year. I retired in 1979 after teaching twenty years at Northwest Missouri State University at Maryville. I taught high school for two years in VanBuren, Missouri, and taught an additional ten years at Trenton Junior College in Trenton, Missouri. After retiring to Mountain Home, Arkansas, my wife's home town, I became President of the Baxter County Historical Society, the Twin Lakes Chapter of the Arkansas Archaeological (sic) Society, and Chairman of the Baxter County Red cross. I taught one course at the local community college for several years. It was good to move to Imogenes home town since she has many relatives living there. We have been married nearly 55 years. One of the noteworthy things that I did here was to act as Baxter County campaign manager for the infamous Jim McDougal and also we campaigned for Bill Clinton, I have not received a subpoena yet. There are several letters in my recent autobiography, Striving Upward, from Clinton and McDougal. Also, you can read about some of the history professors at the University in the 1930s and 1940s, including the legendary Jesse Wrench, Elmer Ellis, and Francis English."

THOMAS V. (TOM) LOY (AB '84) was married November 14, 1997 and is a Senior Systems Analyst for Healthcare Credentials Management Systems (HCMS), Inc., As a Product Development Specialist he wrote Using Gupta SQL Windows S (Que Publishers, 1995)

JUDITH SAPPINGTON LYNCH (AB'62) is a psychotherapist in private practice with a Master of Social Work Degree from Wayne State University.

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VERONICA MANAHAN (MA '96) is pursuing a JD degree at Georgetown University Law Center while working for United Parcel Service, Public Affairs office.

MAURICE M. MANRING (PhD '96) has just had published Slave in a Box: The Strange Career of Aunt Jemima, University Press of Virginia, April, 1998.

LINDA FRENCH MARIZ (AB '70) has had published (Avon Books) the first book of her new mystery series in paperback. Talking Rain (April, 1998) which features a young historian as a sleuth. Her character, Professor Teddy Morelli is a spunky northwest historian who is aided by her eccentric Italian family in solving crimes involving puzzles about the past. Linda writes under her maiden name.

ANDREA L. MAZZA (AB '96) is in her second year of Law School at UMC.

THOMAS F. MCCARTHY (M Ed '89) was selected as a "Who's Who Among Americas Teachers for 1996". He is currently teaching U.S. History at St. Louis University High where he has initiated and teaches a senior-year elective course in Missouri history. In addition to teaching, he is the head track and field coach.

BARBARA MCCORMICK (AB '70) "Nothing new to report -- still at same job. Having a lot of fun navigating the WWW. Sometimes wonder if the WWW counts as a primary or secondary source. Cannot imagine how students today manage."

DANIEL J. MCGUIRE (AB '69) was appointed director of Parks, Recreation, and Forestry for the City of St. Louis, September, 1998.

STEPHEN MCINTYRE (PhD '95) has been an Assistant Professor, Department of History, Southwest Missouri State University since 1996.

DAN MCKINNON (AB '56) is President, CEO, and founder of North American Airlines. The airline started operations January 20, 1990. North American is a niche carrier providing domestic change-of-gauge feeder service for ElAl and other foreign carriers, plus Caribbean and Mexican charter flights for Club Med, other charter operators, the White House Press Corp, and the U.S. Military with new modern B757 and MD83 aircraft. From 1981 to 1985, Dan served as Chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Board and presided over some of the most turbulent years of commercial aviation and deregulation of the airline industry, including the bankruptcies of Braniff and Continental Airlines. He became the first and is the only person to ever close a government regulatory agency. For 23 years, Dan has owned and operated country music stations KSON AM and FM in San Diego and he presently has minority ownership in three television stations in Texas and California, including KUSI-TV in San Diego. He also served as President of the Country Music Association in Nashville and was on the Board of the National Association of Broadcasters. He was the General Chairman of the 1976 Billy Graham Crusade in San Diego. Mr. McKinnon is a former Navy pilot and holder of the Navy peacetime helicopter rescue record with 62 air-sea saves and currently serves on the Board of Governors of the Wings Club in New York City. He is also author of the best selling Bulls-eye-One Reactor also know as Bulls-eye Iraq, the story of the Israeli Air Force raid on the Iraqi nuclear bomb factory in 1981 - an "Aviation Book of the Year." He also authored Words of Honor, Everything You Need to Know Before You Are ,Highjacked, The Good Life, and The Ten Second Message. He and his wife, Janice have four children: Holly Jean, Sherri Lynn, Clinton Scott, and Lisa Caroline.

JOHN C. MCMANUS (MA '91) received his doctoral degree from the University of Tennessee in 1996. His dissertation, "The Deadly Brotherhood: The American Combat Soldier in WWII," was published by Presidio Press in June, 1998 and was a main feature selection of the Military Book Club. He is currently serving as Assistant Director of the Center for the Study of and Society at the University of Tennessee and is also teaching U.S. and military history.

ROLAND G. MCREYNOLDS (AB '94) is Senior Editor, Eli Research of Durham, North Carolina, a publishing company offering legal and business journals covering post-acute health care markets and medicare reimbursement. He received his J.D. Degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, May, 1997 and was admitted to the North Carolina Bar in August of that year.

STUART MILLER (MA '87) is Technical Assistance Coordinator and Soil Scientist, Land Reclamation Program, Missouri Department of Natural Resources. Lead instructor, Fundamentals of Acid-Forming Materials -- U.S. Department of the Interior, Office of Surface Mining. Author of the Missouri Department of Natural Resources Abandoned Mine Land technical bulletin series. Certified Professional Soil Scientist, Soil Science Society of America. Native plant propagator, tree farmer, and prairie restorationist.

PAMELA MINER (MA '88) is a grant administrator for the Missouri Local Records Program. She has served as vice-president and is currently president of the Missouri Alliance for Historic Preservation and is also a Certified Archivist in conjunction with the Society of American Archivists.

FRANKLIN D. MITCHELL (PhD '64) The University of Missouri Press published Harry S. Truman and the News Media. Franklin read a paper based on his book at the May, 1998 University of Washington, Department of History conference honoring Richard S. Kirkendall upon the occasion of his retirement.

CHAD MOEN (AB '93, JD '97) is a member of the Missouri Bar.

JAMES J. MOLLENKAMP (AB '60, JD '62) has been employed by TWA for 33 years in Kansas City and has been Associate General Counsel since 1973.

GEORGE C. MORA (BA '48) retired in 1986. He was an employee assistance professional, Certified Alcoholism and Drug Counselor. Memberships include the League of World War II Aviation Historians, Over the Front Association, Great War Society - Aviation Section, American POW Association, and the Center for Civilian Internee Rights, Inc. (Board of Directors). He was Co-founder and Director of the Bay Area Civilian Ex-POW Global Alliance for Preserving the History of W.W. II in Asia.

DOUG MORGENTHALER (AB'95) is now living in Redlands, California.

JOHN E. MORRIS (PhD '93) is teaching high school at Coronado High school in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

HARRY M. MORROW (MA '66) is a financial planner.

MATTHEW F. MULHERN (AB '85) is an attorney for Harris, McCausland and Schmitt, P.C. in Kansas City, Missouri.

KEN MULLIKEN (MA '90) completed his coursework toward an Interdisciplinary PhD at UMKC. His dissertation will be "The Artificial City: An Interdisciplinary Perspective of Anthropocentricity in Western United States Urbanization." Ken is a full partner in an executive search firm, expecting to gross $400,000 this year.

CINDY MILLER MUSTARD (AB '65) is Executive Director of the Voluntary Action Center, Columbia, Missouri, Co-Chair, Community Connections, Board member of several local organizations including The Women's Network, Arts Commission, Caring Communities, Friends of Rusk, Boys & Girls Club of Columbia, Missouri Volunteer Agency, and the MU Advisory Board for Service Learnings. She is also a past board member of the Rotary, Chamber of Commerce, and the Boone County Extension council.

JAMES D. MYERS (AB '94) received his Juris Doctor degree from University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law in May, 1997 and is now an Assistant Regional Counsel for the Social Security Administration Office of the General Counsel.

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JAMES NEUABUER (AB '65) was a Navy fighter pilot, 1965-1970; Vietnam combat, 1968-1970; Eastern Airlines pilot, 1970-1988; UPS Assistant Chief Pilot Captain on a B-747.

CHRISTOPHER P. NEUSE (AB '94) is an associate with the law firm of Brown, Parker, and Leahy, LLP in Houston, Texas.

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DENNIS O'BRIEN (PhD '74) On July 1, Dr. O’Brien, joined the Advisory Board of Global Capital Strategic Investments, New York,, which manages emerging market funds which focus on the BRIC countries energy finance and development. He will advise on strategy issues and provide assistance in the developing business relationships for GCSI. Dr. O’Brien is the John A. and Donnie Brock Chair in Energy Economics and Policy and Director, Institute for Energy Economics and Policy, Sarkeys Energy Center, University of Oklahoma. He is also managing Director, ENERADV/petroad, a Dallas based consulting firm.

JENNIFER OSBORNE (AB '95) is Director of Broadcast Services at the American Stock Exchange in New York City where she oversees the television studios, news organizations, and all broadcasts. She also puts together television pieces. Jennifer formerly worked with CNN in China.

ROBERT L. OWENS (MA '57) is managing a federally funded survey of historical resources of the town of Cole Camp, Missouri and is also involved in creating an area (Cole Camp/North Benton County) museum. Several excellent collections have been assembled. The museum is to be a museum of the history of the community from its founding in the 1830's to the present.

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WILLIAM E. PARRISH (PhD '55) retired from the department of History at Mississippi State University June 30, 1996. His book Frank Blair: Lincoln Conservative was published this year. Another book, The History of Phi Gamma Delta, 1925-1996 was published this summer. Dr. Parish has also served as President of the Mississippi Historical Society, 1995-96.

WILLIAM E. PEMBERTON (PhD '74) recently had a book published: Exit with Honor: The Life and Presidency of Ronald Reagan. He attended a festschrift conference for Gary Fink in March. "It was wonderful to see the respect that friends and colleagues have for Gary and Mary and their life and work together. Dr. Richard Kirkenhall attended and it was good to see him."

WILLIAM W. PHILLIPS (PhD '58) "Retired from Arizona State University History Department on July 4, 1987 -- there was a great national celebration! After many years and scores of addresses for the Arizona Humanities council (Const., B&R, Presidential Assassination of Lincoln, etc.). I turned to gardening and golf with time allotted to spend in quiet contemplation of the sun's journey across the sky. I have not turned wholly away from the profession for I continue to dig into the secret activities of an almost unknown W.W. II outfit known as the "Ghost Army." It was composed largely of artists, architects, and humanists whose m.o. was to confound the enemy. They excelled."

STEPHAN PLATTE (M Ed '73) is currently a high school teacher of Advance Placement, U.S. History at Kirkwood High School in Kirkwood, Missouri.

ELMO G. POOLE (AB '50) has retired from the U.S. Department of State, Foreign Service as Director of the Chicago Passport Agency, serving the Central United States.

JOSPEH C. PORTER (MA '73) earned his PhD at the University of Texas at Austin in 1980. He was public historian, working in museums; his latest museum position was Director of Publications, Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, 1992-93. After leaving St. Louis, Joseph was on the faculty at the University of Texas at Arlington. He is now an adjunct faculty member the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where he teaches United Stated history and Native American Studies. He has published widely in the field Western American and Naive American Studies, and has worked on various museum. "I am currently writing a biography of the Oglala Lakota Chief, Crazy Horse."

CHUCK PRICE (AB '86) is a social studies teacher at Eagle School in Madison, Wisconsin.

TAMMY PROCTOR (AB '90) completed her doctoral degree in European History at Rutgers in 1995 and then took a position as Assistant Professor of History at Lakeland College in Sheboygan, Wisconsin. In fall, 1998, she will be moving to a new position in the History Department at Wittenberg University in Springfield, Ohio. In April, 1998, an article of hers appeared in History Workshop Journal.

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KARL D. QUALLS (AB '93) completed his dissertation in Russian history at Georgetown University.

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WARREN ("SKEETER") RANKINS (AB '95, BS Ed '97) is waiting for a position to open up in social studies (7-12) in the Wichita area. Currently, he is subbing and working at a Sylvan Learning Center and coaching track and cross-country as well. Married, May 16 to Rebecca Neal, an engineering graduate from MU ('97).

GAIL KENNETH RENNER (PhD '73) retired in 1990.

CHERYL RENSHAW (BS '95) is a missionary in Lithuania.

MARVIN LEWIS RICH (AB '56) graduated Harvard Law in 1959 and returned to Kansas City to practice law with an emphasis on corporate and tax law. He has been on the Board of H&R Block for more than 35 years. Marvin established a Law School prize for UMKC Law School second year students. "I still love history and read it. My wife is a history major and our daughters took degrees in Classics. I still practice law - work six days a week. I love to travel -- just returned from the Orient. History is the best discipline for knowledge."

DAVID RICHARDSON (AB '57) is a frequent contributor to the Missouri Historical Review. David and his wife have moved to 130 Hazel Trace, Hazel Green, AL 35750, and would enjoy hearing from fellow alumni.

ARTHUR J. RIEDESEL (MA '47) published a limited-edition history booklet of his World War II army unit in 1992. In 1994, he compiled, for local public library, a collection of area news stories and personal, local editorials regarding a huge Army Corps of Engineers dam proposal that was ultimately defeated (in 1970).

Julia Link Robets (AB '62) was recently named Distinguished Professor at Western Kentucky University where she is a Professor of Teacher Education and directs the Center for Gifted Studies.

JOHN L. ROMJUE (MA '63) has written short fiction over the years under the name Nickell John Romjue (Nickell being a Missouri family
name) for a number of American literary journals, including The Missouri Review. He has recently collected sets of my serious and humorous published stories and brought them out in two recent volumes: Out of the Riven Century (2001) and Witches of Devon (2002). He is also completing a set of humorously serious fiction stories about a Missouri congressman and his grandsons, set in post-World War II Macon County, Missouri. John has been a prolific writer whose most recent publications include The Army of Excellence: The Development of the 1980s Army (Government Printing Office, 1993), American Army Doctrine for the Post-Cold War (Government Printing Office, 1996). Both of these books were reissued under co-imprint by the U.S. Army Center of Military History, Washington, D.C. In 1997 John presented the paper, "The Evolution of American Army Doctrine," at the Origins of Contemporary Doctrine Conference, Larkhill, U.K., March 1996, reprinted in Militaire Spectator, the military journal of the army of the Netherlands, October, 1996, and the Origins of Contemporary Doctrine, ed. John Gooch, Occasional Paper No. 30, Strategic and Combat Studies Institute, Ministry of Defense, United Kingdom, September, 1997. He retired as Chief, Historical Studies and Publication, Military History Office, Headquarters, U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command, Fort Monroe, Virginia, 1985-1998 after 35 years of federal service, January, 1998. He was awarded Department of the Army Meritorious Civilian Service Award.

PAUL RORRIG (PhD '93) is still employed at Central Methodist College (since 1992) in Fayette, Missouri. Most of his time is taken up with teaching duties. He teaches all the U.S. survey courses and four upper-level courses (the Presidency, Contemporary America, U.S. Foreign Policy, and the Vietnam War). His teaching has been recognized by both his students and his faculty colleagues. He has received two student awards (a Gold Chalk in 94-95 and the Chester Hanson Award in 95-96). In addition, he received a grant from the curators of the college (the Faculty Scholars Program) for a brief summer research trip to Britain where he examined foreign policy records from the early 50s at the Public Records Office in London.

LAURA C. ROGERS (CADGER) (AB '92, JD '95) is currently a litigation attorney with Santin, Poli, ABll, & Simms, PLC in Pheonix, Arizona practicing insurance defense and commercial litigation.

JAY MACEY ROSENBLUM (AB '49) earned a JD degree from the University of Missouri at Kansas City and is currently a practicing attorney in that city.

JOHN ROWE (AB '58) is currently running the Senior Executive Group of Chicago which is 25-30 senior P&L CEOs, Presidents, etc, who have run $10mm to Fortune 250 companies. "I own Talon Holdings, a graphic arts supplier and am looking for a new business. My interest is honest history of the U.S. No spin doctors, no Camelots, etc. but the truth. There is too much political error and not enough stand-up writing."

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STEVE SAGARRA (AB '95) I am a freelance journalist/historian based in St. Louis, MO. I continue to contribute editorial content for a local newspaper, West Newsmagazine, covering such topics as education, politics, and current events. I received my Master of Arts in history from the University of Missouri-St. Louis in 2003, and have had several articles and manuscripts published in a number of publications and online. My first work of fiction, "Provident Wind," was published in the February 2006 issue of Sacred Twilight magazine. I am currently working on a biography of St. Louis mayor Henry Kiel, as well as other projects.

JAYME SALINARDI (AB '94) is currently a second year law student at MU.

PAUL HERBERT SCHLOSSBERG (MA '61) earned his PhD in history from the University of Miami (Minnesota) in 1965.

MARK SELBY (AB '80) is a CPA and financial analyst for Alvey Systems in St. Louis. The company is a leading provider of material handling solutions.

ROBERT A. SHADDY (PhD '90) From 1992-2002, Robert A. Shaddy served at the University of Toledo as Associate Professor of Library Administration and Director, The Ward M. Canaday Center for Rare and Special Collections and Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies and Chair, Interdisciplinary Studies and Special Programs. From 2002-2006, he was University Librarian and Chair, Special and Area Studies Collections, George A. Smathers Libraries at the University of Florida. He was recently appointed Professor of Library and Chief Librarian at Queens College (City University of New York). His publications have appeared in journals such as The Book Collector, The McNeese Review, Library History, The Missouri Historical Review, and The Gissing Journal. Two books have been published by the Edwin Mellen Press: Books and Book Collecting in America, 1890-1930 (2001) and Essays on Books and Bibliophiles (2003). Currently, he is working on editing a collection, "The 'Paris Stories' of James T. Farrell."

JAMES MARK SHEA (AB '50) "Since January, 1997, I am Emeritus Professor of Journalism and former Vice President, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania."

DONALD L. SHUGHANT (BS '49, JD '51) started practicing law in 1951 with the firm of Schughant, Thommson, and Kilray and is still practicing, specializing in estate and property/business planning. He has been Chairman of the Corporation Committee of the Missouri Bar Association and the Kansas City Bar Association and has been published in "Who's Who in American Law." One of the original founders and President of the defense Lawyers Association; on the board of Directors of Rockhurst College and the Committee of Planned Giving.

ROBERT SIMMONS (AB '72, MBA '76) Robert is Vice President and General Manager of the Office Document Products Division, Xerox Corporation, Chicago, Illinois.

IKE SKELTON (AB '53, LLB '56) is a Congressman from Missouri's 4th Congressional District. He was awarded the Franklin D. Roosevelt Award for the Society for History in Government in March, 1998.

JAMES O. SMITH (PhD '96) presented a paper at the Missouri Valley History Conference, March 13, 1998 - "The Cisalpine Gauls in Caesars Army". Book review, P. Shafer, Judeophopia, Attitudes toward the Jews in the Ancient World, in Fides et Historia (forthcoming)

THOMAS F. SOAPES (PhD '73) is Chair, Archives Department, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution.

TOM SPENCER (MA '92) was an editor and contributor to "The Other Missouri History: Populists, Prostitutes, and Regular Folk," which was published in 2005 by the University of Missouri Press. Tom, who finished his PhD at Indiana University in 1996, is now Associate Professor of History at Northwest Missouri State University. His first book, "The St. Louis Veiled Prophet Celebration: Power on Parade, 1877-1995," was published in 2000 by the University of Missouri Press. He was president of the Missouri Conference on History last year and currently serves as a member of the Missouri Humanities Council.

LEWIS W. SPITZ (MA '48) is the William R. Kenan Professor Emeritus at Stamford University. He was a history professor at Mizzou, 1953-59, succeeded by Professor Charles Nauert in Renaissance and Reformation history. "I have always felt very close to the MU Department. My recent publications include The Reformation: Education and History (Aldershot, Hampshire GW113R, England, 1997), following upon Luther and German Humanism, same publisher (1996); The Protestant Reformation - Major Documents (St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 1997). I delivered one of The Distinguished Lecture Series at Montana State University, Billings (organized by Professor William Planck, an MU alumnus) and lectured at Heidelberg University last year and at the University of Copenhagen this year."

ROGER L. STILL (MA '90) is Executive Director of The Nature Conservancy, St. Louis, Missouri.

BRIAN STOLZENABCH (AB '97) Graduated from the University of Michigan Law School in 2000 and is now an associate practicing labor and employment law out of the Chicago office of Seyfarth Shaw.

TAYLOR STULTS (PhD '70) is on sabbatical (fall, 1998), will focus on continued Russian history research projects - also will be preparing the 6th edition revision of The Course of Russian History, a college text by myself and the late Melvin Wren. "I continue teaching at Muskinghum College where I have been since 1962."

JOHN A. SWEARINGEN (AB '68, JD '71) is living in Brookfield, Missouri, and spending time practicing law and writing poetry. Occasionally, he researches short stories on railroad lore, then submits this research to magazines. Whenever possible, John like to indulge his hobbies of photography and model railroading. "I also spend a great deal of time suffering fools, none too gladly."

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RONALD S. TAPPER (AB '64) retired after 30 years of service from the Metro-Dade County Department of Solid Waste Management where he was formerly Acting Deputy Director for Administration. He moved to Miami, Florida and, after retirement, to Sebring, Florida.

RUTH W. TOWNE (PhD '53) is an emeritus professor of History from Truman State University, Dean Emeritus of Graduate Studies. Her new book, Myron Smith Towne and the Meaning of Success, 1829-1978, published by Thomas Jefferson Press, Truman State University came home from the printer on March 20, 1998. An article: "A Baking Powder Scandal" is to be in the Missouri Historical Review.

NANCY TURNER (AB '85) completed the Ph.D. in medieval history in May, 1996 at the University of Iowa. Nancy is currently in her second year of a tenure-track position as assistant professor of history at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville. In October, 1997, Nancy delivered a paper entitled, "Jews and Judaism in Peter Aureols Sentences Commentary" at the international conference "The Friars and the Jews" at St. Louis University in St. Louis, Missouri.

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GARY R. UNDERWOOD (AB '67) Underwood Law Firm

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JOHN VACCA (AB '90) earned a master's degree in Integrated Marketing, from Northwestern University in 1995.

WILLIAM PRESTON VAUGHN (AB '55) has been retired from the University of North Texas since 1991. Dr. Vaughn keeps busy having been commissioned to write the centennial history of the Masonic Home and School of Texas (1899-1991). He also edits the Transactions (journal of the Texas Masonic the of Research). "I also do a lot of traveling, mainly to Mexico and Central America, to visit Maya ruins."

PATRICK VLAMING (AB '93) is a member of the faculty opening a brand new $50 million high school in West Las Vegas/Summerlin, Nevada, teaching U.S. History (regular and advanced placement) to 11th grade students. Patrick earned an MA in Secondary Education from the University of New Mexico in 1996.

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THOMAS O. WAGNON, JR. (PhD '70) In addition to his appointment as Professor of History and Department Chair, he serves as the chair of the Waurn University Center for Kansas Studies, which is developing a 30-part television series on the history of the Sunflower State. The series will be accompanied by curriculum materials for university, secondary, and primary education. He is also in his second year as an elected member of the Kansas State Board of Education addressing the needs of improving our schools. "The state board is beginning to revise the curriculum standards for certification. As a member of the National Council for History Education, I expect to enhance history content of these developing standards."

ROGER WALKER (MA '86), is General Counsel for the Missouri Chamber of Commerce, President, Regulatory Environmental Group for Missouri. Still reads history --" but obviously do not teach or write about it. Please keep me on your mailing list. I truly valued the educational experience."

BRIAN WALLER (BS '92, AB '93, JD '96) is an attorney with the law offices of Sotta and Crane, P.C.

STEVE WALTERS (AB '92, BJ'92) is now Director of Avatar Studios Interactive Media group in St. Louis, MO.

JOHN R. WALTRIP (PhD '65) has retired from Glendale Community College in Arizona after serving 20 years as president.

KIP WELBORN (MA '85) "I am currently an attorney for the Van-Chrysler Legal Services Plan and an adjunct professor at Webster University - taught Irish history last fall and have taught courses in the history of protest movements and the relations between law and protest."

LANTZ WELCH (AB '47) Mr. Welch was born and educated in Kansas City, Missouri. He received his A.B. Degree from the University of Missouri-Columbia in 1957 and his J.D. from the University of Missouri at Kansas City in 1959. He specializes in personal injury trial practice in the areas of automobile, product liability, and malpractice lawsuits. All his trial work is on behalf of the plaintiff. His activities include lecture and seminar work throughout the country on the subject of "Trial Practice" for the Association of Trial Lawyers of America, the American Bar Association, The Missouri Association of Trial Lawyers, The Missouri Bar, and the Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association. He a member of the Inner Circle of Advocates and a Fellow in the International Academy of Trial Lawyers. He has listed in the book entitled, The Best Lawyers in America since its conception in 1983. He has brought in verdicts exceeding 1 million dollars for 37 clients. His personal injury verdicts for actual damages in excess of 1 million total 135.7 million, greater than any lawyer in the world.

MARGARET LARKIN WIENER (MA '41) "I taught history and government at Hume-Fogg High School in Nashville for 26 years. I am now retired and enjoying membership in the United Nations Association and the Democratic Party."

REV. HAROLD WILKE (AB '37) Ed.D., L.H.D., D.D. His new book, Angels on My Shoulder will be published by Abingdon Press, Nashville, Tennessee in 1999. The Reverend was commencement lecturer at Western University Of Health Science, Pomona, California and recipient of the "Peace Through Faith" award from the U.S. Department of State. He has also written chapters in The Disability Rights Movement and Programs in International Rehabilitation.

JAY B. WILSON (AB '42) "Still alive at 78."

WILLIAM H. WILSON (PhD '62) has just published Hamilton Park: A Planned Black Community in Dallas (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998).

KELLY A. WOODHURST (MA '92) is teaching 9-12th grade social studies while working on her Masters Degree in Education at Central Missouri State University.

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JON YOUNGS (AB '91) earned a master's in International Studies from the University of Washington in 1994. She is now Coordinator of Scholarships and Special Events for the College of Business & Public Administration here at MU.

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BONDELL DYKES ZEUGIN (AB '55) is now living in Hayford, California.

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In Memoriam 		 

BAILY BIRKHEAD (MS '50) passed away December 21, 1996. He taught several different subjects in the University city schools for 35 years. He retired in 1972. Since retirement he enjoyed working on his farm near St. Louis. He was an active Christian and did much volunteering. He is survived by his wife, two children, 6 grandchildren, and 14 great-grandchildren.

JAMES F. CREWS (AB '61, JD '63) passed away February 4, 1998 in Sacramento, California

BRIAN DONBERRY passed away October 29, 1995

RICHARD EARL BISHOP (MA '62) passed away in October, 1995 in St. Louis, Missouri.

GARY FINK (PhD '68), died on August 7, 2008. His contributions to Georgia State University, its Department of History and the history profession were immense.

Born in 1935, Gary grew up on a farm in eastern Montana. After high school he entered the U.S. Army where he had his intellectual conversion experience hiding in a boiler room at Fort Lewis, Alaska while trying to escape KP duty. He overheard a conversation about American literature between two other, college-educated, soldiers, and decided that sounded interesting. After leaving the service, Gary attended the University of Montana, taught history and coached for a while in Oregon, then went on to receive his Ph.D. at the University of Missouri. He taught at Mankato State University before coming to Georgia State in 1970 where he stayed until his retirement in 1998.

Though originally trained as a political historian, Gary developed a national reputation as a labor historian, eventually authoring or editing nine books in the field, along with two works on Jimmy Carter. He was a pioneer in the field of southern labor history. Along with Merl Reed of the Department of History, he co-founded the Southern Labor Archives of Special Collections, which grew into one of the nation’s preeminent labor history repositories. (He was also co-founder of the Georgia Government Documentation Project, a joint effort of History and Special Collections.) In addition, he helped organize the Southern Labor Studies Association whose biennial conferences from 1976 through 2003, almost all held at Georgia State, featured both renowned historians and younger scholars ready to make their mark, and the Seminar for the Comparative History of Labor, Industry and Technology (SCHLITS).

In others ways, too, Gary played an active role within the profession. He worked closely with the Carter Presidential Library, conducting seminars and conferences there. He was a leader within the Georgia Association of Historians, serving as president in the 1980s. He was honored by the GAH in the spring of 2008, where he gave his last public presentation, a warm, humorous, insightful reflection on his career as a historian. In recognition of his contributions, in 1998 he was presented with a Georgia Governor’s Award in the Humanities.

LOUIS G. GEIGER (PhD '48) (LHD (honorary) '85) retired as a Professor Emeritus from Iowa State University in 1979 where he was Chairman of the Department of History from 1972-1977. He died in 2002.

JAMES W. "JIM" GOODRICH (1939-2007). Jim died October 24, 2007. He served in various capacities during his very fruitful life, including that of Executive Director of the State Historical Society of Missouri to which he left a rich legacy. He was a co-editor of "I Well Remember: David Holmes Conrad's Recollections of St. Louis, 1819-1823," Missouri Historical Review (October 1995 -January 1996); author "J.T. Beckhart: Father of the Big Lake Call," Decoy Magazine (July-August 1996); and co-editor and contributor, Marketing Missouri History (Columbia, Missouri, 1998). He wrote dozens of articles and gave hundred of talks. He initiated an oral history program within the Society and supported the Society’s sponsorship of History Day in Missouri. In addition, he served as a member of the Missouri Board of Geographic Names; Executive Committee, Missouri Mansion Preservation, Inc.; Member, Columbia College Sesquicentennial Committee; Member, Missouri Lewis and Clark Bicentennial Committee; Member, 6th Regional Disciplinary Committee of the Missouri Judiciary; and President, 1998 Missouri Conference on History. He also served as chair or panelist for sessions at the American Association for State and Local History; Missouri Valley History Conference; Mid-America Conference on History, and Missouri Conference on History.

The James W. Goodrich Fund was created when Jim retired. The Fund supports a graduate research assistantship in Missouri history and, in fall, 2008, announced the first James W. Goodrich Graduate Research Assistant in the Study of Missouri History.

LINDA JEAN HENRY (MA '66), Archivist.
Linda Jean Henry, 64, recently retired from the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), died March 30, 2008, of cancer at the John and Arline Mandrin Chesapeake Hospice House in Harwood, Maryland.

Henry was born in West Plains, Missouri and earned both a B.S. and an M.A. from the University of Missouri-Columbia. Early in her career, she taught history at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, but she lived in Washington for the last 30 years of her life.

Ms. Henry retired from NARA in the summer of 2007 after over 23 years of service there. When she retired she was a senior archivist in NARA's Electronic and Special Media Records Services Division. She served in a variety of NARA units responsible for appraisal, archival training, educational programs, and electronic records. Prior to joining NARA she worked as an archivist at the Schlesinger Library at Radcliffe College, the National Council of Negro Women, and the American Psychiatric Association.

Ms. Henry was very active in the archival profession, at both the national and regional levels. She served as treasurer of the Society of American Archivists (SAA) and as a member of its council, as well as on numerous professional committees, task forces, etc. Her contributions were honored by the SAA when she was named a Fellow of the SAA in 1987. A 1998 article by her in The American Archivist, “Schellenberg in Cyberspace,” which challenged recent ideas on managing electronic records that overturned traditional archival theory and practice, remains required reading in many college programs training archivists. A certified archivist (C.A.), Ms Henry was also a member of the Academy of Certified Archivists.

In addition, she was an accomplished seamstress who made many of her own clothes, and in recent years, a jewelry designer.

Survivors include her sister, Susie Wightman of St. Louis; her twin brother John Henry of Springfield, Missouri; a niece, Laura Henry and a nephew, Timothy Henry; as well as many colleagues, friends and neighbors in the Washington area and elsewhere throughout the country.

MARTHA MARY "MARTY" HUSSEY. Marty died on August 16, 2008. In addition to graduating from Mizzou with a Bachelors Degree in History she was a volunteer member of the University of Missouri President James and Vera Olson's Hospitality staff  in the 1980s.

The Rev. Dr. JAMES D. MARRS, who received a Ph.D. in History from M.U. in 1978, died on October 1, 2007, at Rapid City, S.D., at the age of 78. He was ordained to the Episcopal clergy in 1954 in the diocese of South Dakota, served for several years in Indian mission churches and in the 1960s was a naval chaplain attached to the Marine Corps. His dissertation was “The Florentine Principle of Church Union” and analyzed the efforts of the Council of Ferrara-Florence (1438-39) to negotiate a reunion of the Greek and Latin churches. After completing his graduate studies here, he combined a career of teaching history in colleges of the Lakota Sioux with service as an Episcopal priest in parishes in Iowa, Nebraska, North and South Dakota, a prison chaplain in South Dakota, and an administrative assistant to the Episcopal bishop of South Dakota. After his retirement in 1992, he and his wife Jean moved to Rapid City. His wife Jean and three adult children survive him.

GEORGE H. MATSUMOTO (AB '57) passed away February 4,1998 in Sacramento, California

MARY W. MCCUE (AB '26) passed away in September, 1995. Whiteside, Missouri.

JAMES V. MEHL (PhD '75) passed away October 17, 1998. He was a professor of humanities and chair of the Department of Communication Studies, Theatre, and Humanities at Missouri Western State College where he had been a member of the faculty since 1972. He is survived by his wife, Jan, and two sons.

MRS. J.B. (KIEL) MOORE (AB '35) passed away April 14, 1997

MRS. JEANNE MCCRACKEN PARKS (AB '29) of Long Grove, Illinois passed away July 26, 1993.

JANET MARIE RODGER (AB '48) passed away in Cincinnati, Ohio.

MARY ANNE SHUPE (AB '71) passed away February 2007. She is remembered lovingly by her husband Russell, sister Suzie and close friend Linda Cohen (Lederman) BA'71, MA'73.

LELAND R. WHITE of Annapolis, Missouri, passed away recently.