1972
Paul St. John (MA) retired in January 2011 after 25 years as a deputy counsel (civil attorney) for the County of San Bernardino, California.

1977
Miriam E. Joseph (AB) just completed her 32nd year as a reference librarian and member of the library faculty at Saint Louis University's Pius XII Memorial Library. Recent service at SLU includes a term as Faculty Senate president. Currently, she chairs Saint Louis University’s Self-Study Steering Committee, which is preparing for institutional continued accreditation with the Higher Learning Commission (HLC) of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools (NCA).

1982
Stephen Easley’s (PhD) daughter, Ellyn Riley, graduated in June 2011 from Northwestern University with a PhD in communications disorders.
Linda Nichols (PhD) reports that two of their caregiving interventions at the VA Medical Center in Memphis, Tennessee, are being rolled out to all 153 VA Medical Centers: REACH VA dementia caregiver intervention and Spouse Telephone Support intervention (for spouses of returned Iraq and Afghanistan veterans).

1985
Neathery Fuller (MA) attended the national meeting of the AIA and ran a hands-on public archaeology program entitled the "Archaeology of Knights and Castles" with Michael Fuller (1987).

1987
Michael Fuller (PhD) continued on the lecture circuit for the Archaeological Institute of America; he presented lectures at the University of British Columbia, Princeton University, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He attended the national meeting of the AIA and ran a hands-on public archaeology program entitled the "Archaeology of Knights and Castles" with Neathery Fuller (1985). A revised version of his SAA paper on the "Turtle Shelter Rock Art Site" was published in the Missouri Archaeological Society Quarterly. Michael taught "Field Methods in Archaeology" during the spring semester at St. Louis Community College; field projects included mapping a segment of the Trail of Tears in the Ozarks for the National Forest Service, surveying a wildness area in Jefferson County, and excavating a two-meter deep test trench at 700 North 1st Street in the Laclede's Landing area of downtown St. Louis. Both the St. Louis Post Dispatch and St. Louis Journal carried articles on the excavation results.
Diane O'Rourke Bennett (PhD) Diane O'Rourke Bennett is still teaching in New Zealand at Victoria University of Wellington, her first job after completing her PhD (1987). Her current research and advocacy work is with refugees resettling in New Zealand. She recently returned from a trip to Dubrovnik for the wedding of one of her students.

1991
Julia Schiller (AB) recently co-founded SchilMil Games. She and partners have invented a card and a German-style board game, and they are currently trialling prototypes and researching manufacturing options.

1992
William T. Whitehead (AB) is currently working with Emily Stovel of Ripon College and Michael Deibel of Earlham College on an archaeometric project in San Pedro de Atacama, Chile. He is working at Ripon College and University of Wisconsin, Fond du Lac as visiting/adjunct lecturer.

1994
Phil Reno (AB) started last year as an assistant professor in the anthropology department at Penn State.

1995
Elisa Vinson Borah (AB), director of research for STRONG STAR at Ft. Hood (www.strongstar.org), currently manages three clinical trials evaluating treatments for PTSD and insomnia for returning active-duty soldiers. She is also engaged in research to enhance the implementation of evidence-based practices among behavioral health treatment providers. Her husband, Adam, a psychiatrist, also works at Ft. Hood. They enjoy time away from work with their two children, Madeline (8) and Zachary (6), and a menagerie of dogs, cats, and fish.

1997
Min Park (AB) recently completed a six-month deployment (November 2010-May 2011) as the staff neurosurgeon (one of only two U.S. military neurosurgeons in the country) at the NATO hospital in Kandahar Air Field, Afghanistan.
Ian Colquhoun (PhD) has been appointed to a three-year term as chair of the Master’s of Environment and Sustainability (MES) graduate program, a one-year, interdisciplinary co-op program in the U. of Western Ontario's Centre for Environment & Sustainability. His duties as MES Grad Chair began September 1, 2011, coinciding with the arrival of the incoming cohort of 2011-12 MES students.

1998
Rebecca Rogers Ackermann (PhD) and her husband, Kurt, celebrated a decade in Cape Town, South Africa, by welcoming their son Zane Rogers Ackermann to the world on February 22, 2010. They are now learning how to juggle careers and an extremely verbal child. In addition to motherhood, academic research, and teaching, Becky is sitting on the Board of Trustees for the West Coast Fossil Park (Langebaanweg), where she is overseeing the building of a multi-million dollar education and research facility. She has also recently graduated two PhD students of her own, and has four more graduating soon.

2001
Megan Styles (AB) graduated with her PhD in environmental anthropology from the University of Washington, Seattle in August 2011.
Kayje Booker (AB) received her PhD in environmental science, policy, and management in 2011. Her dissertation work focused on market-based approaches to developing and disseminating green technologies for the global poor.

2002
Julia Sybalsky (AB) is a fourth-year master's candidate at the Conservation Center, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, where she is specializing in objects conservation. She was recently awarded a conservation fellowship at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, where she will spend her final year of studies working on the renovation of the North American Mammal Dioramas, a 14-month project that began in February 2011.
Melissa Husby (AB) earned an MPA in financial management at New York University's Wagner School of Public Service in May 2010, and now works at the Museum of the City of New York. In July 2011, she married her partner of 10 years, Tom Helleberg, in her hometown of Fairbanks, Alaska.

2004
Joseph Langub (AB) graduated this past May from medical school with an MD, and is starting his residency training at Harbor-UCLA medical Center in Los Angeles. His specialty is family medicine.

2005
Sally Zweimueller (AB) graduated from Emory University's Rollins School of Public Health in May 2010 with a concentration in global health and development. She then joined the Peace Corps as a health volunteer in Malawi. She is working with FHI/Malawi on an orphan and vulnerable children program in Salima District.
Joanna (Eggert) Ratner (AB) recently married a WU alum, Stephen Ratner, and moved to Miami, where she is volunteering with several nonprofit organizations. She is looking for a nonprofit sector job in which she can put her master’s in public service to use!
Beth Leonhardt (AB) just completed a Master of Arts in International Development at American University's School of International Service.
Laura Abulafia Kooby (AB) recently married Dr. Michael Kooby.

2006
Erin Jones (AB) recently completed the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists Fellowship in Applied Epidemiology. She is now the study coordinator for a tickborne disease research collaboration between the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene in Baltimore.
Amy Gjesdahl (AB) was married on April 30, 2011, in Birmingham, Alabama.
Alyssa Bobst (AB) just began a one-year master’s program in Near and Middle Eastern Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London University, London.
Seth Dobson (PhD) and Kathleen Muldoon (PhD 2006) welcomed their daughter Genevieve Marie Dobson on March 16, 2011.
Veronica Thomann (AB) and Daniel Katz (WU A&S '06) were married July 30, 2011, in Portland, Oregon.

2007
Amish Desai (AB) is a medical student at UIC, and also had the opportunity of being a student and participant of the Harvard GHE (Global Health Effectiveness) Program in Boston during the summer of 2010. He was selected among 34 other participants to a three-week intensive summer program investigating a curriculum focused in epidemiology, management science, and global health delivery. He was awarded a certificate after successful completion of 5 credits (Epidemiological Methods for Global Health, Introduction to Global Health Care Delivery) and one seminar (Principles of Management in Global Health Delivery). This program was co-sponsored by Harvard School of Public Health and Medical School, under the Global Health Delivery Project. It was taught by senior Harvard faculty, including Dr. Joseph Rhatigan, Dr. Paul Farmer, Dr. Joia Mukherjee, and Dr. Rebecca Weintraub.
Andrea Holmes (AB) received her master’s degree in anthropology from Northern Illinois University this past spring. She is continuing her studies at Purdue University, where she focuses on regurgitation/reingestion in captive lowland gorillas and its relationship to diet and the nutritional content of food items.

2008
Camille Fisher (AB) is recently engaged and plans to marry in the fall of 2012.
Alana Leviton (AB) was awarded a summer research fellowship to study the psychology of youth who have committed hate crimes and is in the process of developing a violence prevention curriculum promoting tolerance and teaching conflict resolution skills to school-age youth.
Allison Walton (AB) is in her second year of medical school at the University of Pittsburgh, in the Clinical Scientist Training Program (SCST), a five-year dual-degree MD/MS program. She was doing research in child psychiatry this summer.

2009
Rachel Wigen-Toccalino (AB) moved to Lawrence, Kansas, in June to begin a new job teaching science to 6th- and 8th-graders at a local private school. She is excited about the change in location and hopes that it will further her focus on education as she is looking toward graduate school in the next five or six years.
Vanessa Hildebrand (PhD) started her position as a tenure-track assistant professor in fall 2010. She is enjoying the work very much. She reports that Ariel Cascio (AB 2009) is now a graduate student in her department and says it is great fun to have another WU graduate in her department! She began a new research project in Indonesia this summer. This research wil focus on the education of midwives. Gareth Barkin (PhD 2004) and she are also finishing a small research project on the use of radio for the training of midwives who work in rural areas.
Gwen Leach Nordman (AB) was married this summer to fellow 2009 Washington U. graduate Matt Nordman.
Stephanie Hebda (AB) was recently accepted to the Indiana University — Purdue University Indianapolis Graduate Master's program in Museum Studies for the fall 2011 semester.

2010
Mariah Pittman (AB) ran the 10-mile Great South Run in Portsmouth, England, in October 2010 and raised nealry $5,000 for Motor Neurone Disease/ALS research.
Robin Meyer (AB) became engaged to Michael Hirshon, WU class of 2010!
Stephanie Larchanché (PhD) is the coordinator of research and training at the Françoise Minkowska Center, Paris, France (www.minkowska.com), which caters to immigrants and refugees residing in the Paris region. She is also the lead researcher on a project funded by the National Association for Cancer in France (INCa) on the role of interpreters in hospitals.