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1960s

Adrienne Hall Bodie, MA'64, is living on a farm with her husband Charles, PhD'75, in the Valley of Virginia. They are raising Angora goats. She works part time as an administrative assistant at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Va. Her e-mail address is bodie@rockbridge.net.

Suzanne Haims, MA'67, is president of Products Organca. She wrote the textbook French: A Self-Teaching Guide, published by John Wiley & Sons Inc., New York, in 1986. She is now revising a second edition. She lives in Walnut Creek, Calif.

Michael E. O'Donnell, MA'68, is a faculty member, director of administration, athletic director, and dean of students at Clinch Valley College in Wise, Va. He and his wife, Jill, live in Virginia.

Margaret L. Moses, MA'69, PhD'74, has a tenure track position on the law faculty of Loyola University in Chicago. Her husband, Michael, is on sabbatical from Seton Hall Law School. They live in Evanston, Ill.

Jane (Juergensmeyer) Stuart, MA'71, PhD'71, has written a book of poems, Journeys, published by Summit Poetry Press. She has had poetry published recently in Pembroke Magazine, Ginger Hill, Bellswing Ark, and American Poets & Poetry. She wrote an essay that appeared in Blood Root and an essay published in New Thought Journal. She is working on another collection of poems with Ruth Morton. She lives in Greenup, Ky.

1970s

Susan (Spahr) Thomas, BA'70, is the founding board member of the International School of Indiana, located in Indianapolis. Now in its fifth year, the school has grown from 38 to 267 children. The academic curriculum is taught in immersion French and Spanish. She and her husband, Macklin, BA'65, live in Indianapolis.

Michael L. McCafferty, BA'71, MA'85, is an instructor at the IU Center for English Language Training. The Indiana Historical Society has awarded him a Clio Grant. The grant will enable McCafferty to prepare a book-length manuscript on Indian place names in Indiana that will be of interest to historians, linguists, and the general public. Previously, he has worked as a fifth-grade teacher with the Alamo Navajo School in Magdalena, N.M., and was a foreign student advisor at IU. He also offers an elective course on the Prehistory of Indiana to students preparing for graduate work. He lives in Bloomington.

Florrie Binford Kichler, BA'72, is president of Patria Press. Patria Press publishes the Young Patriots Series of fictional biographies for young readers. She and her husband, Mark, BS'73, live in Carmel, Ind. Her e-mail address is makichler@iquest.net.

Bruce Colglazier Pappas, BA'73, MS'75, is employed by Education Minnesota, a newly merged teachers' union, as a field representative/union organizer. He lives in Minneapolis.

Shawn E. Rosscup, BA'73, is an attorney with Rosscup & Kragh in Polson, Mont. She is married to Thomas A. Kragh.

Barbara (Sirvetz) Alushin, MA'75, MS'77, teaches French and Spanish for Montgomery County Public Schools in Maryland. She has directed an exchange program for her school with a school in the Paris area for the last nine years. She has also been a soloist-in-residence of the Capital Hill Choral Society. She has been a cantorial soloist in the Washington, D.C., area for many years. She and her husband, Michael, live in Hyattsville, Md., and her e-mail address is alushin@erols.com.

Faye E. Tippy, BA'75, MBA'77, is an adjunct professor at IU Northwest in the school of business and economics. She started Braintrust, a management consulting company specializing in marketing and public relations. She volunteers with SAIL (Study Alternative International Languages), a four-week summer language camp in the Gary Public Schools.

David M. Koon, BA'79, is a network consultant with IBM. He is married, with two daughters, Erin, seven, and Annie, one. They live in Portland, Ore.

Carl L. Shutoff, MA'79, PhD'80, is the technology coordinator and computer literacy teacher at High Point Elementary School, Seattle. Prior to that, he taught deaf and hard-of-hearing students. He plays clarinet in the Freylakh Klezmer band, playing Jewish instrumental folk music of Eastern Europe at weddings, bar and bat mitzvahs, and various other festive occasions. He and his wife, Frances Bish Pennell, a policy and funding specialist at the Washington Assistive Technology Alliance at the University of Washington, have two children, David and Soo Kyung, 16 and 12 respectively.

1980s

Julie M. Sneed, BA'80, is a public relations writer for Burk Advertising and Marketing, Dallas. She writes mainly for Celaness, a chemical company with 27 plants in Europe, Asia, and North America. She writes two company newsletters, which are translated into French, German, and Spanish. Prior to that, she worked in radio as a news and sports anchor/reporter. Her e-mail address is julie@wambam.com.

Maureen L. Killila, BA'83, MSE'89, counsels children at Trend Mental Health Center in Brevard, N.C. She is a licensed professional counselor. She and her husband, Jon, MM'95, who is director of jazz studies at Brevard College, live in North Carolina.

Jean-Marc P. Authier, MA'84, is the director of the linguistics program for Pennsylvania State University. He and his wife, Lisa A. Reed, MA'87, jointly wrote two books, Structure and Interpretation in Natural Language, and Formal Perspectives on Romance Linguistics. They live in State College, Pa.

Kris H. Earle, BS'85, MA'88, is an instructor of French and Spanish for Bryn Athyn College. She and her husband, Rob, BS'87, MS'91, are raising three young children, Beth, Colin, and James, in Huntingdon Valley, Pa. Her e-mail address is kearle@ship.net.

Christopher J. Callahan, PhD'85, is an associate professor of modern and classical languages and literatures at Illinois Wesleyan University in Bloomington, Ill.

Ann P. Snoeyenbos, BA'86, MA'91, MLS'91, works as a reference librarian for West European social science at New York University. She is also the assistant coach of the NYU triathlon club, and she will be completing her second Ironman triathlon soon. Her e-mail address is ann.snoeyenbos@nyu.edu.

Clara Perry, BA'87, is a real estate agent with Owens Bryan & Reed Realtors. She has worked as a service representative at the office of International Services of IU. She also has worked as a leasing agent and assistant property manager. She and her husband live in Bloomington, and her e-mail address is cperry@obr.com.

Virginia A. Picchietti, MA'89, PhD'95, is assistant professor of Italian and director of the Italian Studies Program at the University of Scranton in Pennsylvania. She has published articles on Italian literature, cinema, and gender studies, and is completing a book accepted for publication about the Italian feminist author Dacia Maraini.

1990s

Kenneth L. Niese Jr., BA'90, is a product and brand manager at Falcon Safety Products in Branchburg, N.J. He has one son, Shahyon Jasper, born on March 17, 1999. His e-mail address is kniese@falconsafety.com.

Ronald J. Hulka, BA'91, is a catering driver for Sunshine Deliwagon. He lives in Eugene, Ore., and is enjoying life with his dogs and cats, brewing beer, climbing mountains, and flyfishing at every available opportunity.

Lee K. Kemmler, BA'92, is an account supervisor at Miller Shanwick Technologies. She and her husband, Cato, live in Boston. Her e-mail address is kemmler@miller.shandwick.com.

James R. Kiefer, BA'92, BS'92, is a postdoctoral fellow at Monsanto Co. He received his PhD in biochemistry from Duke University in 1998. He lives in Chesterfield, Mo.

Stephanie T. Kleine-Ahlbrandt, BA'92, works at the Office of the U.S. High Commissioner for Human Rights in Geneva and is responsible for China and Mongolia. Since graduating, she received a master's degree in international relations from the Graduate Institute of International Studies of the University of Geneva and served for one year in Rwanda with the United Nations Human Rights Field Operation and then for six months in Bosnia and Herzegovina with the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. Her master's thesis, "The Protection Gap in the International Protection of Internally Displaced Persons: The Case of Rwanda," was published by the University of Geneva.

Julie E. Ott, BA'92, is an associate with Barnes & Thornburg, Indianapolis.

Elizabeth A. Brandes, BA'93, studied in Regensburg, Germany, in 1996-97. She finished her master's in Germanic language and literature from the University of Illinois. Her thesis title is The Stasi and GDR Literature. She lives in Indianapolis.

Joy C. Taylor, CB'95, BA'95, is an interactive TV publisher for British Airways. She lives in London.

Aimee D. Dayhoff, BA'96, has spent a year living in Italy and spent a year in Washington, D.C., where she worked for a public policy think tank, the American Enterprise Institute. She is living in Brazil while her husband, David, completes a field assignment with Cargill. She plans to begin law school in Minneapolis.

Jelani Eddington, BA'96, is a law student at Yale Law School, New Haven, Conn. He remains the youngest competitor ever to win the American Theater Organ Society's Young Organist Competition, at age 13. He has toured extensively in the United States and has toured abroad in Australia, New Zealand, England, Holland, France, and Germany.

Marcet N. Spahr, BA'96, teaches French at Logansport High School. She is married to Timothy, BS'94, JD'97, who practices law in Peru, Ind.

Elie E. Zaknoun, BA'97, is a district manager for Cook Cardiology, a pharmaceutical company. She will go to France twice a year to facilitate business with distributors. She lives in San Antonio.

Kimberly S. Nolan, BA'98, and her husband, Brock, BS'97, are currently living in Fishers.

Here is another photo in a series of cityscapes by photographer Elaine Levitt, MA'70, who is also vice president of the H. Levitt Co., a large wholesale industrial hardware supply house in Pittsburgh, Pa. She enjoys shooting riverscapes, towboats, coal barges, flowers, children, and nearby rural landscapes, as well as the city skyline. Last spring, 19 of her photographs were exhibited by the Mount Lebanon Public Library in Pittsburgh. She has already shown her pictures in two art galleries in Pittsburgh. We are proud to include her work in the French and Italian newsletter.

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