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Bachelor of Arts

1960s

S. Joseph Cerniglia 1963

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Roger L. Findlay 1963

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Jerilyn K. Lappin Koskan

Ms. Jerilyn Lappin Koskan raised five children and now has five grandchildren. She and her husband have traveled Europe and Asia. They plan on traveling Russia soon. E-mail (3/01)

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Irene J. Jaroma Zaluski 1964

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Timothy G. Buchanon 1965

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Joy C. Bullis 1965

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Donna M. Hanneman Kerr 1965

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William C. Lusk 1965

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John C. Malony 1965

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Philip S. Rhoads 1965

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Letha M. Schwiesow 1965

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Dan E. Davidson 1966

Dr. Dan Davidson earned his MA (1971) and PhD (1972) in Slavic at Harvard and taught at Amherst College before going to Bryn Mawr as an associate professor in 1976 and full professor since 1983. He has also served as executive director of ACTR since 1980, and as president of American Councils for International Education: ACTR/ACCELS, since 1998. E-mail

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John H. Gilbert Jr. 1966

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Kenneth E. Henson 1966

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David J. Hutchins 1966

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James Hyland 1966

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Neil Johnson 1966

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Donna J. Buckmaster Webb 1966

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Byron L. Costley 1967

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Rick A. Harrington 1967

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Suzanne Rouse Harvey 1967

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Kay Orth Kendall 1967

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Anne M. Sigmund 1967

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Carol Lynne Sullivan 1967

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Brown Forrest Walworth 1967

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Kenneth R. Gray 1968

Mr. Kenneth Gray left the Department of Agriculture's Economic Research Service in 1997 to return to academia, in Kiev. At ERS, he headed research on agriculture in centrally planned economies and often worked on technical assistance programs in the FSU, serving 2 years as USDA consultant to the Kazakh Ministry of Agriculture. Since leaving USDA, He served as interim resident director of MA in economics program at Kiev Mohyla Academy for the Eurais Foundation. Kent Lewis was administrator and Professor Bob Campbell was founding director (both KU grads) were his colleagues. It is amazing how many KU graduates there are out here. For two years, his wife Kristina and he were Fulbrighters in Kiev and this year he is academic dean of a new private college here in Kiev. He is having the time of his life. In 1997 he returned to Kazakshtan to teach. He and his wife are now living in Astana, the new capital of Kazakhstan, where he is conducting research on the transition in agriculture, 15 years after he was here working in technical assistance for the Kazakhstani Ministry of Agriculture E-mai (4/10)

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Frank A. Janzen 1968

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Robert R. Love 1968

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Rose A. Marino 1968

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Gregory P. Agderian 1969

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William R. Haxton 1969

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James L. Hohnbaum 1969

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J. Russell Mills, Jr. 1969

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John H. Westerhoff 1969

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Nancy Richey Williams 1969

1970s

Raymond R. Adams Jr. 1970

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Thomas W. Black 1970

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Jon P. Hauxwell 1970

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Khristine L. Hall 1970

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Edward N. Higgins 1970

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John J. Mason 1970

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Dwight G Rickman 1970

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James A. Rose 1970

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Mark Scott 1970

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Martha P. Caldwell 1971

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David Michael Cover 1971

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Philip C. Lacey 1971

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Richard R. Pine Jr. 1971

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Dennis Reynolds 1972

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Agnes E. Strasser 1972

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Stephen L. McFarland 1973

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Gregory F. Stock Jr. 1973

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Robert T. Burkhart 1974

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Anne P. Friauf 1974

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Anne M. Gorham 1974

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Daniel J. McGovern 1974

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Christine M. (Davis) Ege 1975

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Bradley K. Hansen 1975

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Kurt A. Harper 1975

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Mary Mulfich-Vezilich 1975

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Stanley C. Bark 1976

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Craig Barto 1976

Craig Barto wrote to us in February 2005: "After retiring from a career as a cryptologic and intelligence officer in the United States Navy, a field where my degree obviously served me well, I am now a professor of English at Charleston Southern University in Charleston SC. The courses which I found most valuable and applicable in my career in the intelligence community were Prof. Stammler's Main Currents of Russian Thought." (3/05)

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Guy B. Hardesty 1976

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Nina A. Malyasheva 1977

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Marvin A. Misemer 1977

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Annette L. Brooker 1978

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Mary T. Brown 1978

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Judith D. Dziedzic 1978

After completing her BA at KU, she attended Jagizicllonian University in Krakow for one year and then the summer studies program in teaching Polish at Maria Sktodowska Curie University in Lublin. Her seven-year-old daughter, Julianna, is in her 2nd year of performing with Baltimore's Polish National Alliance Krakowiski Dance Troupe and began studying Polish language in January 2001. (3/01)

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Cassandra J. Neff 1978

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Nicholas I. Novosel 1978

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Robert E. Boyd 1979

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Randy S. Brooke 1979

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Michael T. Fein 1979

Mr. Michael T. Fein bought his first home and enjoys being the coordinator of Library Services at Central Virginia Community College in Lynchburg, Virginia. His children, Gordon (11) and Irina (9) are growing fast. E-mail 1 or E-mail 2 (3/01)

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Beverly Hougland Krueger 1979

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Mary Orazem Martins 1979

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Douglas W. Sims 1979

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Terry J. West 1979

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1980s

Nancy A. Budimlija Cora 1980

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Marc Jones 1980

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Cynthia J. Kleinsorge 1980

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Beverly Hougland Krueger 1980

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Rachel MacFarlane 1980

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Mary L. McCartor 1980

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Patricia Cain Rodewald 1980

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Cynthia J. Skillman 1980

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Roseanne Smith 1980

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Leah McCartor Batty 1981

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Kitty L. Holland 1981

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Brandon D. Hunt 1981

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Anthony S. Backus 1982

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Bradley M. Bauman 1982

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Anne E. Harrison 1982

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Lawrence J. Metzger 1982

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Victoria S. Wigglesworth Mitchell 1982

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Linda K. Mufich-Knopp 1982

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Brenda K. Weddle 1982

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Kathleen M. Wood 1982

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Michael Donald Anderson 1983

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Susan Warman Bridges 1983

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Marina Khait Gross 1983

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David Michael Hall 1983

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Charles J. Kulp 1983

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Michael A. Nugent 1983

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Kristina E. Paquette 1983

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Rebecca M. Alexander 1984

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Neal Duncanson 1984

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William J. Griffiths 1984

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Robert P. Kisling 1984

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Kathryn E. Lancaster 1984

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Stana Lee Chucovich 1985

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Stana E. Eager 1985

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Paulette K. Falk 1985

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Barbara Decker-Lindsey 1985

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Robert DeBauge McMullen 1985

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William B. Throne 1985

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Larry Wahl 1985

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Michael Birger 1986

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Alexandra M. Becker 1986

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Michael Birger 1986

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Eric W. Fisher 1986

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Carol A. Gartland 1986

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Tom Skrljac 1986

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Ann E. Tilson 1986

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Brian James Adams 1987

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Teresa A. Black 1987

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Theresa A. Ekengren 1987

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Andrew D. Hutton 1987

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Denise D. Krause 1987

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Louis H. Kreuzer II 1987

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Alexandra M. Becker Sieflaff 1987

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Johnathan M. Slusher 1987

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Candan Crawford Spellman 1987

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Lisa M. Walther 1987

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Paul B. Anderson 1988

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Karen K. Cathcart Bronshteyn 1988

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Sean E. Crews 1988

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Stephen M. Dickey 1988

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Laura Eversole Rolander 1988

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Paul F. Joern 1988

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Laurie Hanson Phillips 1988

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Jeanine L. Rodgers 1988

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Jane Alane Ungerman 1988

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Gabriel Al-Salem 1989

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Amy S. Garwood 1989

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Amy M. Humphrey Hays 1989

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Jill F. Lally 1989

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Viktor Leier 1989

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Scott W. Palmer 1989

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Stephanie Bonnett Rebein 1989

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Stanley M. Scott 1989

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Ashley McMullen Shaw 1989

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1990s

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Gabriel Al-Salem 1990

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Steven M. Boruckyj 1990

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Lisa G. Bushnell 1990

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Andria Lynn Dibbern 1990

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Philip A. Mason 1990

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Theadocia F. Millich 1990

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Louise U. Redford 1990

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Kevin L. Warrick-Ritchie 1990

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Mark S. Rush 1990

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Mark D. Sheeks 1990

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Emily P. Leonard Tock 1990

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Donovan J. Anderson 1991

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Annemarie Sydney Chilton 1991

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Peter A. Genet 1991

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Juliet L. Messmer 1991

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Max M. Miller 1991

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Bryan P. Montgomery 1991

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Dan R. Neice 1991

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Erik T. Ostermeuller 1991

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John C. Pfister 1991

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Eric J. Roedel 1991

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Claude R. Sasso 1991

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Andrew J. Smith 1991

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Scott J. Stephens 1991

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Michael T. Thibault 1991

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Timothy S. Thompson 1991

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Jeannie M. Sampson Deveney 1992

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Kevin M. Faherty 1992

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Sharon R. Goldstein 1992

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Kerrianne Monahan 1992

She has been working at the American Embassy in Moscow since July 1998 for the Department of Immigration and Naturalization as a contract worker through Pacific Architects and Engineers. She deals with the public when it comes to submitting immigration applications (this can be anyone from a refugee from Baku to a granny from a small Ukrainian village to the occasional U.S. citizen wanting to bring over "Svetlana," his new Internet bride.). It's fun, easy, and she gets to use Russian all day long. It also enables her to travel all over the former Soviet Union. Last year she went hiking in the mountains of Kyrgyzstan. This year she hopes to go to the Altai region or Lake Baikal. E-mail (3/01)

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James D. Nine 1992

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Breven C. Parsons 1992

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Jean M. Sampson 1992

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Stacey K. Cooper Scott 1992

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Richard A. Sexton 1992

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Bethany Keidel Smart 1993

Ms. Bethany Keidel Smart gave birth to a daughter, Ksenia Signe Smart, on December 9, 2000. (3/01)

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Johanna Mills White 1992

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Brian A. Armstrong 1993

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Richard B. Cass 1993

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Eric D. Costlow 1993

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Patrick Harsh 1993

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Patrick J. Harshany 1993

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Karin Hosenfeld 1993

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Katrina L. Culp-Heil 1993

Ms. Katrina L. Culp-Heil received a MA in 1997 from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in Scandinavian Linguistics and married in Scotland in July 1999. She is starting a Multiple Subject Teaching Credential Program at California Polytechnic State University. She plans to finish in two years and teach math. E-mail  (3/01)

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Jason Hines 1993

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Jean E. Hix 1993

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Karin E. Hosenfeld 1993

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Jack R. T. Jordan 1993

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William I. Katz 1993

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Michelle Myers Ledford 1993

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Darla L. Brandt Stencavage 1993

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Shannon Peters Talbott 1993

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Michael L. Utchell 1993

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C. Michelle Vierow 1993

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Mary E. Walker 1993

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Deborah Holly Briggs 1994

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Timothy J. Coffman 1994

After graduating from KU, he fulfilled his obligation to the U.S. Army 10th Special Forces Group (Airborn) at Fort Carson, Colorado. He spent 33 months involved in the Bosnian war/reconstruction for IFOR and SFOR and learned first hand the brutal nature of the Balkans. Because of Prof. March's classes, he went into the region prepared for the terrible onslaught of civil/ethnic war based from a historical perspective. He used his language training extensively as he served with the Spetsnaz platoon, 1st Independent Russian Airborne Brigade in Bosnia for a period of eight months. He also became quite adept at Serbian/Croatian in his dealings with local leaders. He is currently a Physician Assistant in the U.S. Army in stationed in Korea and recently passed his medical boards and received his Masters in Medicine from the University of Nebraska. E-mail (3/01)

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Amy S. Dudeck 1994

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Kim Ross Frichter 1994

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Travis C. Hermstein 1994

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Valorie Workman Huynh 1994

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Christopher T. Johnson 1994

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Scott E. McIntosh 1994

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Brian Patrick Mize 1994

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Laura J. Mullins 1994

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James R. Silver 1994

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Dana M. Engel Wade 1994

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Peter B. Berendzen 1995

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Simica L. Dodig 1995

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Jamie McCall Hopkins 1995

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Marijana Juric 1995

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Thomas M. Kirk 1995

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Alex Kolb 1995

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Lewis A. Rusk 1995

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Natalia Vukshich 1995

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Evan C. Watson 1995

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Elisa D. Day 1996

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Thomas R. Field 1996

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Jason T. Hatfield 1996

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Alexander C. Kipp 1996

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Kathleen M. Kraehenbuehl 1996

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Travis M. McMillan 1996

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Lam T. Nguyen 1996

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Michelle Deily Parsons 1996

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William W. Radcliffe IV 1996

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Johannah M. White 1996

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Sarah K. Phillips Fleming 1997

Ms. Sarah K. Phillips Fleming is working as a marketing manager at DeStefano & Partners of one of Chicago's largest architectural firms. She primarily writes promotional texts for brochures and coordinates all responses to requests for Qualifications/Proposals. She likes it a lot. She also just got married on November 4 to Ken Fleming who is also a KU graduate. They live in the Lincoln Park neighborhood of Chicago. E-mail (3/01)

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Angela D. Warren Hood 1997

She is currently working as a Program Analyst at the American International Health Alliance in Washington, DC. AIHA is a non-profit formed in 1992 to improve healthcare in Eastern Europe and Eurasia. She received a Master of Arts in Russian Area Studies from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University in May 1999. She married Matt Hood on Sept. 23, 2000. She and Matt met in beginning Russian class at KU in 1993 and again in 1997 in Washington, DC. (3/01)

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Jeffory D. Lonard 1998

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James T. Rexford 1997

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Amy Slotemaker 1997

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Amanda R. Wellborn 1997

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Roger Embree 1998

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David A. Hennessy 1998

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Anastasia E. Nagy 1998

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Michele L. Johnston 1999

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Christopher V. McGee 1999

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Sarah E. Spence 1999

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2000s

Robin Bongers 2000

Ms. Robin Bongers (BA 2000) currently attends the University of Arizona, where she hopes to finish the MA program in Russian Language & Literature in spring 2006. She was recently awarded the FLAS fellowship through Duke University to spend May and June in St. Petersburg, Russia. In the meantime, she is job hunting. She previously attended Ohio University for an MA in Music History and Literature. Her thesis topic pertained to the development of Russian opera, discussing two settings of Gogol's play "Zhenit'ba" (The Wedding). E-mail 1 or E-mail 2 (3/06)

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Blythe R. Bradley 2000

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Robert L. Chromanski 2000

Mr. Robert Choromanski ran for the KS state house of representatives in fall of 2000 in Johnson County against Lisa Benlon (R) and lost to her w/ only 22% of the vote. He ran as a democrat but the KC star said I as more like a Republican and the Republican incumbent acted more like a Democrat. He is currently a 1st year law student at Washburn University Law School, with environmental law emphasis and interns for Kansas State Senator Chris Steineger (D-Kansas City). E-mail (3/01)

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Erik G. Emro 2000

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Blythe R. Glemming 2000

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Matthew W. Howard 2000

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Elizabeth J. King 2000

Ms. Elizabeth King worked several years in Russia directing study abroad programs, and then returned to the States to earn an MA in International Public Health at Yale University and a PhD in the same field at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Her research has focused on HIV prevention issues in Russia and Serbia. She is currently on a post-doc a Yale University. (4/12)

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Matthew P. McGarry 2000

Mr. McGarry returned to KU to earn his MA degree in Slavic Languages and Literatures. He has continued his doctoral studies in Slavic at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. (3/12)

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Matthew L. Rohn 2000

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Cynthia L. Schiffelbein 2000

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Callie L. Barringer 2001

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Stephanie K. Decker 2001

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Meaghan M. Fanning 2001

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Nathaniel R. Green 2001

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Heather Hart Lessig 2001

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James I. Lofts 2001

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Courtney R. Sandgren 2001

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Igor Shkolnik 2001

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John T. Bidwell 2002

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Adrian J. P. Erlinger 2002

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Leigh Ann Fulkerson 2002

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Susannah Sylvester Moran 2002

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Elizabeth S. Simmons 2002

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Allison Linley Smith 2002

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David M. Watson 2002

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Joanna B. Fewins 2003

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Kara L. Gerwin 2003

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Marcie K. Harder 2003

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Adrienne Mensch Landry 2003

Ms. Landry continued her education at Columbia University, and became interested in the South Slavic world. She currently works at KU in the Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies as the Outreach Coordinator. (2/12)

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Maureen Marilla Morton 2003

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Christopher E. Nolan 2003

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Cassandra J. Payton 2003

Ms. Payton has worked and traveled extensively in Russia, Ukraine, and in Eastern Europe in various capacities for American Councils. (2/12)

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Nathan W. Rhoads 2003

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Natalya Stolyar 2003

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Sabra Volek 2003

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Jeremy J. Wade 2003

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Jeffery A. Wormington 2003

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Amanda L. Yoder 2003

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Lindsey Rae Collier 2004

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Bruce D. Fowler 2004

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Emily A. Franklin 2004

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Julia D. Franklin 2004

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Lyle N. McMillan 2004

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Cynthia Vestalyn Stockman 2004

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James A. Boyd 2005

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Conor Cleary Klamann 2005

Mr. Conor Klamann completed an MA in Slavic Literatures at KU, and is currently pursuing his doctorate at Northwestern University. (2/12)

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Abby L. Mills 2005

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James Wendell Sneed 2005

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Joy R. Stortvedt 2005

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Brian Witham Alfers 2006

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Robert D. Blaney 2006

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Rebekah A. Heacock 2006

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Mark A. Lanfranca 2006

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Scott A. McKenzie 2006

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Alexander C. Melin 2006

Mr. Alex Melin is currently a student at KU's School of Law. (2/12)

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Marcy R. Rutan 2006

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Jeffrey R. Shouse 2006

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Jack L. Stejskal 2006

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Jeffery D. Dutton 2007

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Kelly E. Logan 2007

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Terri A. Pohl 2007

Ms. Terri Pohl lived in Armenia for two years as a Peace Corps volunteer. She taught English there and is now looking at a career in non-profit organizations. (2/12)

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David J. Stevens 2007

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Ryan D. Stoops 2007

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Michelle T. Tran 2007

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Anastasia Kolobrodova 2008

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Michael A. Nelson 2008

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Yuki Onogi 2008

Mr. Onogi completed his MA in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies at KU, and has continued his studies at the Johns Hopkins University at the Center of Advanced International Study. (2/12)

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Anna Tabakh 2008

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Kathryn M. Zickhur 2008

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Ellen E. Zust 2008

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Sarah E. Bumpus 2009

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Jenny Lynn Geide 2009

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Jared A. Gibbs 2009

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Nathan A. Mack Jr. 2009

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Christina R. Ray 2009

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Stephanie A. Smiros 2009

Ms. Stephanie Smiros is currently a Lieutenant in the United States Navy aboard the USS Anzio, where she is a damage control officer. She loves the Navy and the experience of being at her current duty station in Norfolk, VA is very different from her previous posting in Japan. For the future, she may stay with the Navy or perhaps try a new career path in foreign affairs, work abroad or in Washington D.C. (2/12)

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Daniel J. Doughty 2010

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Nathan K. Sparks 2010

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2010s

Nicholas W. Krogmann 2011

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David S. Samms 2011

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Katie M. Sternberger 2011

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Aric L. Toler 2011

Mr. Aric Toler is currently a Master's student in Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Kansas. (2/12)

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