I'm working as the staff archaeologist and historian for the Blue Ridge Center for Environmental Stewardship. In recent months, I've been taking care of my recently broken and reconstructed front teeth, visiting Canada , and eating cheap yet wholesome food. I'm also writing songs and playing music at various places in the Frederick , MD , Washington , D.C. , and occasionally Baltimore , MD vicinity. Hopefully I'll be recording a pseudo-album within the next few weeks, as long as I can hole up in my bedroom for two or so days consecutively to get it done. Here's to the
D-I-Y ethic...

I also claim 1/4 ownership of a dog named Scout, who loves belly rubs and chasing squirrels. I'll be visiting Hungary with the Koros Regional Archaeological Project again this summer, so if you want post-cards, send me your address post haste.

Cheers.

hello,
my projects have changed a bit here in peace corps bolivia. im now working with an indigenous group (the chiquitano) in the community of san juancito. i have proposed a coffee tour, an ethnobotany tour and a local museum. at the moment, potential funding sources include UNDP. Plan Misiones (a Bolivian and Spanish NGO) and FCBC (another Bolivian and Spanish NGO). Not much else is changed. i've almost finished the PC Bolivia Emergency Action Plan and will giving training sessions to PC staff and volunteers in the upcoming months. I'll send some photos of site soon. take care and give my best to  everyone in the department. 
regards

I´ve spent the last 12 weeks living with a host family in a pueblito my the name of Marquina. It´s at the foot of the mountains about 15 km outside of Cochamba. During the past 12 weeks our schedule has been full of training sessions that dealt with: language (5 hours per day), culture, safety/security, capacity building and community development  and  specific technical areas (for me tourism, but we also have volunteers working in ag business and micro-enterprise development).

We´ve also been working within the host communities in capacity building. etc. as part of our training.

We swear in as volunteers next week and will then move to our assigned sites. My site is in San Ignacio de Velasco in the frontera near Brazil. The site is actually quite nice as it´s on the Jesuit Mission Circuit and near Parque Noel Kemp (the national park that inspired the novel ¨Lost World.¨) I´ll be working in a variety of projects, but as they are not fully predetermined I cannot give you a completely accurate listing. During my first 3 months I´ll be performing needs assessments, etc and all subsequent projects will of course be based on the findings of my needs assessments. My primary project is to work in tourism development. I do know that I will be working with the Alcaldias office, the tourism office and an international NGO in interpreting and implementing a UNESCO plan that was developed a few years back. I will also be working with the local high school's ecology club to teach concepts related to sustainabiility, tourism, working as a tour guide, etc. There is a great deal of opportunity, so its just a matter of choosing the projects wherein I see the greatest opportunity and in which I have sincere interest.

After completing my PhD in May 2003 at the University of Arizona, I packed up my desert life and my dog, Lucy, and moved to central New York to work at Hamilton College. So far, I love my job--the students, the colleagues, and the classes.

I'm team-teaching a class (kind of works like Heritage) called American Society, and I'm
also teaching a writing-intensive Sociology of Sexuality course. My dissertation, which I'm currently revising, focuses on the case of the
Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission as a study of how political elites reconstitute power and legitimacy when faced with disruption. In other words, the dissertation looks at how
the Commission shifted from the stalwart defense of segregation to the reluctant promotion of moderation in order to maintain legitimate power for white elites. I'm also adjusting to cold, dreary weather, as fall is here and winter is approaching!

Jenny Irons, class of 1996, assistant professor of sociology at Hamilton College

Carla Shirley, class of 1995, assistant professor of sociology at Rhodes College

Robyn Ryle, class of 1996, assistant professor of sociology at Birmingham-Southern College

Lea Pickard, class of 1995, assistant professor of anthropology at Luther College

Hi, this is Bonnie Kraybill. I was Bonnie Mitchell when I graduated in 1999. I got married in '01 to Kevin Kraybill of Albuquerque, NM and we have a son, Daniel, who is 19 months old. I have been living in Albuquerque, NM for over 3 years and am currently in my first semester of clinicals for my R.N. I was recently elected Vice President for the Student Nursing Association.

Thanks for the updates!

All the best,
Kevin

(Also, check out Kevin's website at http://www.sarc.msstate.edu/gstudents/kjm72/ to see the awesome results of combining archaeology and computational media. --Doc)

We now have an email address for Shane Townsend, listed below. Check it out and drop him a line!

Here's an update on what Shane has been up to lately:
"I just completed my Masters in Urban & Regional Planning at VA Commonwealth U. and will be doing an International Diploma in Humanitarian Assistance with Fordham U and the U of Geneva. I will most likely be working out of the DC area."

Also check out the scholarship Shane recently won, discussed below.

Jeff first began working in our Sports Information Department as a student in 1996.He was hired as our SID in the spring of 2000.Since that time we have seen our visibility within the community and state improve vastly as a result of Jeff’s rapport with the media.We have also had a record number of our student-athletes receive player of the week and post season honors in the last two years. We will miss Jeff’s high degree of professionalism and his passion for Millsaps and it’s athletic program."

-- Ron Jurney, Millsaps Athletic Director

I'm looking forward to seeing the Alumni Bulletin Board.

I will be getting married in August. My email until that time will be annahm2@hotmail.com. My future husband and I will be attending the University of Alabama. He will be going to the Law school, and I will be earning a Masters in Social Work.

When we find our new home, I will let you know my new address and phone number - and my new email address if it changes.

Please give my regards to Ming, Dr. Larsen, and Dr. Bey!
Best Wishes,
Annah Marshall

Posted by: Ben Witt
wittba123@aol.com

Summer plans:

Working on project in the Republic of Georgia through UNT and Harvard. Consulting and designing GIS elements of regional project and intrasite analysis of Dmanisi.

ok, have to run. here is a pic with two other millsaps grads - anna catesby
and chris gunn. i also attached a pic of what i would rather be doing right
now. and finally, one with me and two dishes.

rebecca

i couldn't fit one of erol in the last email. still the most important one, of course!

6 April 03

Jason “Shane” Townsend is the recipient of a $1,000 scholarship that was provided through a dedicated grant from DRI International, an association that administers the industry’s premier global certification program for qualified business continuity and disaster recovery planners. Townsend is a full-time graduate student at Virginia Commonwealth University working towards a Master of Urban and Regional Planning degree with a major in hazards planning. Townsend’s thesis, “Campus Emergency Preparedness: An Evaluation of the reparedness Levels at Mississippi’s Colleges and Universities,” is a natural outgrowth of his work in emergency management. While pursuing his graduate planning degree, he has also worked at the Virginia Department of Emergency Management and has served as an emergency response volunteer with the Red Cross. Last fall, he was the recipient of FEMA’s Award for Service in the Attack on the Pentagon.

Click here to view a .PDF copy of the IAEM newsletter announcing Shane's accomplishment.

Posted by: Doc Billingsley
billidm@millsaps.edu

Hey Alums! Send us your contact information and we'll keep you posted on departmental news, opportunities for presenting your work, and interesting stories from the world of social science!

To facilitate communication between Millsaps grads, we've provided our growing list of alumni contact information right here on the new Sociology/Anthropology website.

This bulletin board was designed as a forum where alumni could leave messages for each other and for the entire Millsaps community. Feel free to send a shout out to your former profs and classmates!

Alums: If there are any other resources the department can provide for you, we'd love to hear your ideas. Thanks for stopping by!