Worldview Magazine - Fall 2007 - (Page 40)

Community News Recent achievements of our Peace Corps community edited by JoAnna Haugen Fountain is also active in African development issues as chairman of the board of Africare and chair emeritus of the Corporate Council for Africa. He received the corporate executive award at this year’s Keepers of the Dream awards ceremony honoring the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Don Axtell (65-67), one of Saskatchewan’s top tennis players, was recently inducted into the Saskatchewan Sports Hall of Fame and Museum. He won 39 provincial indoor and outdoor tennis championships in singles, doubles and mixed doubles in 33 years, and he also won Western Canadian titles and represented Canada in six international competitions. IRAN ANTIGUA e Mathematical Association of America elected David M. Bressoud (71-73) president for two years. He is a professor of mathematics and computer science at Macalester College and an international expert in analytic number theory. BENIN Brenda Jarra (72-79) is the coordinator for women’s facilities and special programs with North Carolina’s Department of Correction. Jarra was superintendent of the North Piedmont Correctional Center for Women. GHANA Sam Goldman (01-05) is chief executive of D.light Design, the producer of Forever-Bright, a small box used as a light and power source that lasts ﬁve years, is re-chargeable from any power source and operates other devices. Goldman’s design began as a Stanford University class project and will launch in India and Pakistan. COLOMBIA Lisa Carrico (81-83) is the new superintendent of Tumacacori National Historical Park in Arizona. A 22-year veteran of the National Park Service, Carrico most recently served as chief of administrative services at Big Bend National Park in Texas. GUATEMALA Partners for Just Trade named Carrie Hawthorne (02-05) executive director. e group cultivates partnerships between impoverished artisans and conscientious consumers through Fair Trade craft sales and education. Stephen Handelman (70-73) was appointed director of the Center on Media, Crime & Justice at City University of New York’s John Jay College of Criminal Justice. e author of Comrade Criminal: Russia’s New Maﬁya and co-author of Biohazard, Handelman has won many prizes for his reporting including the U.N. Correspondents Association Award for Distinguished Foreign Reporting. INDIA Shawnee State University history professor John Lorentz (61-63) is the author of the Historical Dictionary of Iran, a dictionary of Iranian history with a focus on the 19th and 20th centuries and published by Scarecrow Press, an imprint of Rowman and Littleﬁeld. KOREA Carol Cochran (74-75) was named School Nurse of the Year by the Oregon School Nurse’s Association. She is a consultant for four school districts and a nurse for two school districts in the Salem area. COSTA RICA Kathleen Wright (73-75) spent a month in Korea studying the country’s culture and society this summer on a program sponsored by the East-West Center at the University of Hawaii. Wright teaches international literature, contemporary novel and freshman English at the State University of New York at Orange. LESOTHO e U.S. Agency for International Development named Todd Amani mission director for Mozambique. Amani has worked for USAID in Guatemala, Nicaragua and Egypt and was instrumental in developing a $300million reconstruction program in Honduras after Hurricane Mitch. GAMBIA Lisa Reimer (00-02) received a $2,000 grant from the African American and Africa Studies Program at University of California-Davis to conduct research on insecticide resistance of the malaria mosquito in Mali this summer. W. Frank Fountain, Jr. (66-68) is senior vice president of external aﬀairs and public policy for DaimlerChrysler Corp. and president of the DaimlerChrysler Corporation Fund. He spoke in June at the Wharton Global Economic Summit in Costa Rica on the role of emerging technologies. Matthew Orosz (00-02) is a graduate student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a member of the Solar Turbine Group, a non-proﬁt dedicated to providing a cost-eﬀective, renewable energy solution for oﬀ-grid communities that is simple enough to be manufactured in a developing country. ey are currently working in Lesotho on a $129,000 World Bank grant and plan to jump-start the Basotho-run manufacture of the product and replicate the venture in India. David Chard (86-90) is the ﬁrst dean of Southern Methodist University’s School of Education and Human Development. He 40 Fall 2007

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Worldview - Fall 2007 Contents Presiden'ts Note Lafayette Park Introduction Interview Commentary Editor's Note Letter from Rumbek, Sudan Listings Letter from Yekaterinburg, Russia Letter from Codaesti, Romania Letter from Catia La Mar, Venezuela Letter from Gumare, Botswana Letter from Ridder, Kazakhstan Letter from Rincon, Cape Verde Letter from Port Au Prince Another Country Community News Giving Back Opinion

Worldview Magazine - Fall 2007

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