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Community News Recent achievements of our Peace Corps community edited by JoAnna Haugen International Physics Olympiad in July in Isfahan, Iran. Stanley is chairman of Beloit’s physics department and senior coach of the American Physics Olympiad team. GHANA BANGLADESH omas McMahon (61-63) is running for a second four-year term as mayor of Reading, Pennsylvania. He founded an environmental engineering consulting ﬁrm and a software engineering company and is a founder and past president of Friends of Bangladesh. BENIN County commissioner from 1978 to 1986 and has advocated for wilderness area for 16 years. CAPE VERDE Claire Beckett (02-04) is exhibiting two shows of photographs, “In Training: Soldiers before War” at Fine Arts Center Galleries at the University of Rhode Island in Kingston and “Simulating Iraq” at the Bernard Toale Gallery in Boston. Beckett received a 2007 Massachusetts Cultural Council grant for artists and teaches at the Massachusetts College of Art and at the University of Connecticut. BOLIVIA Casey Maugh decided to stay in Cape Verde and open English Unlimited, a school where Cape Verdeans can learn the English language to better their job skills needed in global communication. She also volunteers at a local orphanage where she works with 12- and 13year-old boys. CHAD Julia Demichelis (82-84) received the University of Oregon’s Ellis F. Lawrence Medal from the School of Architecture and Allied Arts. Her career is devoted to rebuilding communities destroyed by war and she is currently chief of party on a project strengthening the Moroccan legislature’s committee structure and their role as watchdog of government spending. Demichelis received the NPCA’s Sargent Shriver Award for Distinguished Humanitarian Service in 1999. Bill Buzenberg (68-70) is executive director of the Center for Public Integrity, a Washington, D.C.-based investigative reporting organization. He was senior vice president of news at American Public Media/Minnesota Public Radio, founded Public Insight Journalism and was vice president for news and public aﬀairs, an on-air international aﬀairs correspondent and London bureau chief for National Public Radio. Buzenberg launched Talk of the Nation, expanded All ings Considered and has received the Edward R. Murrow Award, public radio’s highest honor. BRAZIL Kevin Mullally (Chad 7173, Niger 73-74) is the new U.S. Agency for International Development mission director for Senegal. He has worked for USAID in Burkina Faso, Niger, Haiti, Bangladesh, Mali, Ethiopia and Rwanda. DOMINICAN REPUBLIC Matthew Lauer (94-96) is now an assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology faculty at San Diego State University. Lauer is currently performing research among the Ye’kwana people of southern Venezuela and in the Western Province, Solomon Islands. EASTERN CARIBBEAN Claire Beckett’s exhibit, Simulating Iraq, is on display at Boston’s Bernard Toale Gallery. HONDURAS Will Metz (88-90) was named supervisor of the Cleveland National Forest by the U.S. Forest Service. Metz’s career began as a ﬁreﬁghter in national forests in California prior to his Peace Corps service. He is currently deputy forest supervisor of Six Rivers National Forest. FIJI Bob Decker is the executive director of the Policy Institute, a progressive public policy advocacy group in Montana. Decker served as the Lewis and Clark Peggy Goebel (73-75) spent a month aboard the U.S. Navy hospital ship, USNS Comfort, as a volunteer with Project HOPE, providing nursing and medical care to people in Belize, Guatemala and Panama. She teaches nursing at Dominican University and Santa Rosa Junior College. HONDURAS Paul Stanley (85-89), a physics professor at Beloit College, led ﬁve high school students to the 38th Tim Will (Honduras 77-79, Fiji 7980) has created an Internet brokerage WorldView 43

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