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From first grade through senior year, I was in Plainfield schools the entire time. In the first grade, Minnie Bee Parson's class took a field trip to our family farm. I've got a collection of thank you letters/pictures that classmates sent to my family after the field trip. A sample is posted in my scrapbook section on this website.

When I was in the 7th grade, we left our family farm and moved to Stanley Road, just south of Plainfield. Rather than 7 miles from Plainfield, I was only a short distance from town.

From PHS, I went on to Earlham College, graduating in 1967. There I played basketball my Freshman year, majored in chemistry, and participated in the 6-month foreign study program in Germany and Austria. Subsequently, I performed draft board approved alternative service teaching math and chemistry at the Quaker schools in the Israeli-occupied town of Ramallah on the West Bank of the Jordan River, and received my masters degree in 1971 from Ohio University in chemistry after solving a molecular and crystal structure using x-ray diffraction techniques.

I then taught math and chemistry at Westtown School in Westtown, Pennsylvania from 1971-75. I also coached Freshman basketball and some track & field events -- high jump and discus.

From 1975-78, I was editor of a National Council of Churches' newsletter. From 1978-85, I was publisher of The Mideast Observer in Washington and an accredited journalist reporting on Mideast-related policy activities via direct reporting on Capitol Hill, the White House, State Department and the Pentagon.

In 1983, I met my wife -- Henriette -- at a church dance. Our two children are: Scott -- 16 years old in 2003 and Allison -- 13 years old. As a family, we have particularly enjoyed our vacation trips together. Among the most interesting were our trips to South Africa to revisit Henriette's childhood home and to the Netherlands to visit her relatives there. We've also enjoyed frequent trips to Indiana to see my Sister (Evalyn, PHS '61) and my Mother (Carolyn) who's now 92 and living at Robin Run Healthcare Center in Indianapolis.

For the past 18 years, I've worked at Development Associates, a government consulting firm in the DC-area. Initially, I was employed as a writer, but, as computers began to be used more and more, I have increasingly worked with computers. As the firm's computer coordinator since 1991, I developed and installed computer systems in our offices in Guatemala, El Salvador and Jamaica. Recent projects have included a web-enabled database for the Border Health Initiative in San Diego, California; a web site for a regional energy project based in India (www.SARI-Energy.org); and a web-based survey for the U.S. Labor Department’s WIB One-Stop Centers.

With a group of us who call ourselves the "Aging All-Stars," I still manage to get in some basketball once a week in the Fairfax County, Virginia, recreational program.

It was great seeing so many of you at the 40th reunion!