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John Fuson and Amy Henderson, '93 - John graduated from the U. of Pennsylvania Law School last spring and subsequently received a clerkship with a newly appointed Federal Circuit Court of Appeals judge in San Francisco. So John and Amy have moved to San Francisco for the duration of the clerkship. Amy will start work on her doctoral dissertation in art history out there.

Phil Lyon, ‘93 - The latest issue of REECAS NEWSLETTER, a production of the Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies Institute, University of Washington (Seattle), includes an article by Phil Lyon '93 entitled "A People Still Divided." The article reports on a recent journey that Phil took to Bosnia. Phil, who completed both a history major and a concentration in Russian and East European Studies here at Grinnell, received an M.A. in History from the University of Washington after spending a postgraduate year or two in Europe. He is currently enrolled at the School for Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University.

Gabe Rodriguez, '00 - moved to Chicago after graduation and has been enjoying a great metropolis with a Midwest feel. After leaving an absolutely intolerable corporate job after seven weeks, he found a fantastic job as a grant writer for Casa Central, Chicago's largest Hispanic-serving non-profit organization. His official title is Assistant Director of Development. His office is a fifteen-minute walk from his house, and he loves the people he works with. He wishes that he had figured out sooner that working in non-profits does not necessarily mean not being able to make a living! He is learning a lot, and gets to write all day long. He is enjoying an office that is 85% female and 95% Hispanic - perhaps, he thinks, the best place for him after leaving maternal Grinnell. He has many good friends living there, and his apartment is pretty much a hostel for Grinnell kids.

Seth Meisel, '84 - presented a paper at the AHA convention panel devoted to "Contesting the 'Imagined Community': Popular Narratives of National History in Post-Colonial Latin America." He now teaches Latin American history at the University of Wisconsin at Whitewater. Nancy Appelbaum, who taught Latin American history here a few years ago on a temporary appointment and now teaches at State University of New York at Binghamton, also presented a paper at this session.

Will Lee-Ashley, '99 - returned from Italy where he joined the folks over there in January and batted around with some art and various jobs until May when he started guiding bike trips. The guiding was an interesting interlude; great for the places he saw and the food he got to try, and ultimately a little straining as a job. Nonetheless, he is about to embark on more serious endeavors in Denver where he has accepted a job with the Rocky Mountain Farmers Union. He will be doing legislative work, research, and lobbying as well as fieldwork. Behind the Farm Bureau, they are the second largest farm organization in America and much, much more progressive. It should be exciting; at least. He is proud of putting his Grinnell years to work.

Marshall Poe '84 -just published a book through Cornell University Press: "A People Born To Slavery": Russia In Early Modern European Ethnography, 1476- 1748. Poe is currently visiting Asst. Professor of History at Harvard University. Last year he published his first "e-book," editing the reissue of Samuel Collins, The Present State Of Russia, originally published in London in 1671, and now available at http://www.russianhistory.org/Sources/Collins.pdf.