1970 Bio Book (Final File)
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1 5th Reunion, 1975 Contents Class Stories .....................................................3 In Memoriam ............................................... 174 Class Listing by Major .................................188 Class Directory .............................................192 Class Name Cross Reference ....................... 212 Geographic Listing .......................................216 2 10th Reunion, 1980 Class Stories. 3 Elizabeth (Adams) Chun One week after graduation, Peter Chun (’69) and I married and headed off to Hawaii. My grandfather wrote in his autobiography for our family that his life was divided into two EQUAL parts – that which happened before 18 years of age and that which happened after. I couldn’t agree more. In 1972, after earning an M.Ed. in educational psy- chology with a special education focus, I became a preschool special education teacher, center director, and a Head Start trainer; wrote training books; and, taught teachers throughout the Hawaiian Islands, Palau, Saipan, and Guam. In 1976 our fi rst son was born while we were living ing Hawaii’s availability and quality of early child- in Grinnell, Iowa for Peter’s exchange teaching hood programs. This work involved becoming year. While we loved being back in a small college liaison to national initiatives, funders, and advocacy town – we returned to Honolulu in 1977 to raise organizations. A true highlight was when testifying our family. In 1979 and again in 1986 two more in Washington before a Congressional subcommit- sons joined our family. While staying home with tee on early childhood education- I looked up and our three sons, I developed a nation-wide business saw Congressman Rush Holt in the room! focused on providing early childhood materials and In 2012, after a few health issues Peter and I decid- training to families and consultants. This experience ed to relax more and travel! So, we both retired! We even involved assisting with an education business now spend up to 3 months a year off island visiting startup in Japan. our sons and their families– and journeying around In 1993, it was time to re-start my professional life the globe with multiple trips to Japan, China, British - I joined Hawaii’s Governor’s Offi ce of Children Isles, Iceland, and Europe. Yearly we return to the and Youth sparking my interest in advocacy and Midwest to be with family plus visit our Carleton policy work on behalf of young children. In 1997, friends. This also brings us closer to our summer I became the Executive Director of an intermedi- home on Stormy Lake in northern Wisconsin – a ary policy and advocacy organization charged in special place for all our Hawaii raised family to legislation to coordinate Hawaii’s early childhood gather, swim, paddle, and relax! system. We spearheaded a multitude of research Our three sons continued the family tradition of projects and policy eff orts with the goal of increas- a small liberal arts college education. Our oldest son, Chris graduated from Whitworth College in Spokane, Washington. He is a physical therapist and with his wife, a teaching assistant, are settled in Spokane with their three children. Our youngest son, Stephen, who graduated from Beloit College works as director of marketing for a local hospital. Stephen lives in Hawaii with his doctor wife. They are expecting our sixth grandchild in November – a special treat for us to have them in our little part of the world. Our middle son, Jon (Carleton ’02) and his wife, who is a physical therapist, and their two children live in Minneapolis where he works in sup- ply chain management. Interesting to have each of our sons’ families so involved in the world of health care. Sign of the times. Read more about Elizabeth in the online version of our class’ website. 4 William Allendoerfer Much to my Draft Board’s disappointment, I drew #335, so they weren’t going to get me. So I sud- denly had to fi gure out what a Carleton math major wanted to do with his degree. Deciding that com- puters were fun, I went to grad school at Purdue University in Computer Science. While there, I met (and married!) fellow CS grad student Beth Keller, and we both accepted jobs at aerospace company TRW in Redondo Beach, California. As a System Engineer at TRW, my most visible assignment was as the lead System Engineer for TRW’s Science Op- erations Ground Station for the Hubble Space Tele- scope – all those great pictures you’ve seen over project … Digital Image Processing!!! TRW (part the years started from our product (and no, we had of Northrop Grumman by then) moved us to Den- nothing to do with the faulty mirror … except we ver and Maryland (as Operations Director) before briefed NASA on how we could inexpensively fi x it we fi nally retired to Beth’s home town of Chicago. on the ground with digital processing - sort of a pre Retirement has led to a photography hobby (ground Photoshop solution - rather than the very expensive based photos, now, not space based) as well as space repair they eventually went with). volunteering at the local hospital. Carleton ties continue, as our son, Rick, and his wife, Michelle I don’t know how the (Goodsell Observatory based) Giacobbe, are both 2001 Carleton grads. Carleton Math Faculty knew I would end up doing this, but guess what they assigned me as my senior 5 David Anderson After graduation I spent about a month and a half helping out on my parent’s small farm, await- ing word from the draft board on my application for conscientious objector status. My draft lottery number, 198, provided no assurance that I would or would not be drafted, so grad school or any long- term employment that might well be yanked with little warning seemed like poor options. I had been enough of a pest at the local draft board, updating my fi le with any and all evidence of my subversive activities in opposing war, that my application was accepted with no further questions asked. Having no objection to alternative service, I volunteered to for three cars to pass in front of me to make a left spend two years in Boulder, Montana, commencing turn onto Boulder, Montana’s, main street is heavy July 22, 1970, working at the state’s facility for per- traffi c. Really. sons with developmental disabilities. I retired from the facility on December 31, 2001. As it turned out, Not to get too far ahead of the chronology, Jan back in 1970, selective service only drafted to 195. Nininger ‘73 and I married in June 1973 and remain happily so 46 plus years later. Jan retired a year ago At any rate, all eight diff erent positions I held of- when we sold our business, a community news- fered both rewards and frustrations, but we thor- paper. She worked hard and well, earning many oughly enjoy living in southwestern Montana, and awards for her journalism. As a small operation, we hope to spend the rest of our lives here, with oc- didn’t replace her part time assistant when we put casional excursions to see our children and grand the paper on the market. Our buyer replaced her kids who all live in urban areas. It’s wonderful to with fi ve people to do the work she did alone for see them, but I have no interest in spending large two and a half years. chunks of my golden years negotiating LA area traffi c, or trying to fi gure out how to get across the Our two sons, Daniel, a mechanical engineer in river in Portland when the bridge I intended to use medical device development, and Paul ‘01, a gas- is suddenly closed ten cars ahead of me, and the troenterologist, and our grandchildren get us far streets I’d like to take to get to an alternative all enough away from Boulder to appreciate home, seem to be one-way the wrong way. Having to wait usually a day or two before our travel concludes. We spent Thanksgiving week with Paul and his family on Kauai and look forward to a trip to Brea to see our oldest granddaughter appear in a produc- tion of Annie Jr. later this month and to spending Easter week in Europe with Dan’s family. 6 Mir “Tamim” Ansary Looking back, I see that my life as been a series of abrupt turns. I started out in Afghanistan, awkward among Afghans, because my mother was American, the only American woman married to an Afghan in the country. In short, I was a freak. At age 16, I came to America and became the awkward Af- ghan kid among Americans. I stood out – and not in a good way. I went to Carleton for two years and then transferred to Reed College on the west coast. Around that time, millions of people my age were beginning to identify themselves as “freaks”. I couldn’t believe my ears. “You guys are freaks? At last! My people!” And so I spent the next half- dozen years as part of the counterculture movement history programs (in the textbook world, they’re of the 60s-70s, working on a collectively owned and never just “books”, they’re always “programs”) and operated newspaper (which forms the backdrop for became something of an expert on learning theory a novel I am working on currently, called Sinking and eventually a freelance educational writer and the Ark.) columnist for Microsoft’s Encarta. Along the way, The year Carter was elected, I went to San Fran- I married Debby Krant, the love of my life. We cisco one week as a lark and decided to move there.