Worldview Magazine - Winter 2007 - (Page 44)

service to connect North Carolina farmers with the chefs in the Charlotte, N.C., area. He is executive director of Foothills Connect Business and Technology Center. Rock climber Amy Reynolds (9092) and her sister Polly are creators of Climb On!, a line of natural skin-care products. e sisters currently sell three products: a cream for cyclists which prevents chaﬁng, a bar form used by rock climbers to soothe roughed-up hands and a lip balm. MADAGASCAR is the second most common cancer among American women, the second most common cancer among women worldwide and the leading cause of years of life lost from cancer in the developing world. WASHINGTON D.C. Baltimore community health nurse Aisling McGuckin (00-02) launched Community Leadership Education for Asylees and Refugees, oﬀering free, community health worker training to create a safe home environment, negotiate the American healthcare system and learn how to prevent prevalent chronic diseases. MALAYSIA eodore Wolﬀ (65-67) is co-author of e Mosquitoes of New Mexico, published by e University of New Mexico Press. Wolﬀ performs community outreach at Sandia National Laboratory. MALI Richard F. Celeste (79-81) has been appointed senior advisor to the board of directors of the U.S.-India Business Council, a business lobby seeking to strengthen U.S.-India commercial ties. He is president of Colorado College, served as the U.S. ambassador to India for four years, governor of Ohio for two terms and director of Peace Corps. Celeste was a Rhodes scholar and Yale graduate who taught urban economics at John Carroll University. YEMEN Alexander Rundlet (93-95) is a litigation lawyer with Podhurst Orseck, Rundlet and was recently elected treasurer of the Wilkie D. Ferguson Jr. Bar Association, formerly known as the Black Lawyers Association. Rundlet worked as an assistant public defender for the 11th Judicial Circuit of Florida in Miami-Dade County. NICARAGUA Susan Neumann (80-82) received the Kentucky Conservation Teacher of the Year award this year from the Kentucky Association of Conservation Districts. Neumann teaches life science, anatomy, environmental science and photography at Model Laboratory High School in Richmond. ZAMBIA Carley Lovorn (99-01) is the director of El Centro in Tupelo, Mississippi. e Hispanic resource center intregrates Spanish-speaking residents into American culture. TONGA University of Washington epidemiology professor Laura Koutsky (76-77) is credited with developing the world’s ﬁrst human papillomavirus vaccine along with Dr. Kathrin Jansen. e vaccine is the ﬁrst to combat cervical-cancer, which Josh Swiller (94-96) recently published his ﬁrst book, e Unheard: A Memoir of Deafness and Africa. e book is a memoir of Swiller’s service as a deaf volunteer in the disease, poverty, violence and friendship of Munungu, Zambia and is published by Henry Holt & Company. e book was recently ranked No. 31 on the New York Times list of non-ﬁction paperback bestsellers. Send your news of professional achievement to JoAnna Haugen at 44 Winter 2007 http://www.brynmawr.edu/postbac/ http://www.brynmawr.edu/postbac/

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Worldview Magazine - Winter 2007 Contents President's Note Lafayette Park Note to Readers Commentary Letter from India Commentary Letter from Botswana Letter from Ha Teboho Letter from Jumbi Valley Letter from Mununga Letter from Medellin Giving Back Community News

Worldview Magazine - Winter 2007

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