Priscilla Murray (T-15) and husband Curtis Runnels (Professor of Archaeology at Boston University) and a team of Greek and American archaeologists have found, for the first time on Crete, artifacts attributable to the Early Paleolithic period. The artifact assemblage consists of hand axes, scrapers, cleavers, and other stone tools dated by their geological context to at least 130,000 years old. They resemble African Acheulean artifacts and suggest that hominins, early ancestors of modern humans, reached Europe from Africa by sea via the Greek islands. Until this discovery, scholars thought that Homo sapiens were the only ones capable of seafaring (beginning about 16,000 years ago) and that earlier hominin migrations were, therefore, by land through the Near East. (reported Feb. 2010)

Priscilla is holding a quartz cleaver

Jack Boatright (T-9) is joining Peace Corps again!  He and his wife, Ina, will become Peace Corps volunteers in Morocco beginning Sept. 6th, 2009.  They will both be working in Small Enterprise Development.

Chet Dowell (T-8) is a wildlife photographer:  His works to be found at www.jubiar.com/chetdowell/about/  He has some really nice photographs for sale.

John Clark (T-4) has been involved in various education projects in Kyrgyzstan. He helped the American University in Central Asia get going in 1995-2000. After that he worked as Dean of Students at KIMEP in Almaty (2000-01) then was advisor to the Minister of Education in Kyrgyzstan (2001-2).  Then he was back at KIMEP as a professor (2003-7) & now is working as part of a project to establish a university level program in Tokmok, a small town 60 km. east of Bishkek. So far they have two programs (Business & English) and are planning to open three more. There are about 50 freshmen in it's first year of operation and they hope to grow. John is teaching history and English and doing a lot of administrative cooking and bottlewashing.  [Feb 2009]
 
Robert P Finn (T-15), who was Ambassador to Tajikistan and Afghanistan, is now teaching international relations and Turkish literature at Princeton University. His translation of Nazli Eray's Orpheus was published by the University of Texas Press.

Jordan Scepanski (T-4) has joined the Board of the Bridge to Turkiye Fund (June 1, 2007), which supports children's education in rural Turkey.

Sarah Parker (T-4) has been appointed by Governor Mike Easley to become the chief justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court.   For more information about Justice Parker, see
http://www.newsobserver.com/102/story/390061.html

Dale Dapkins (T-16) had his first one man museum show of paintings at the Key West Museum of Art and History. His paintings can be viewed at http://web.mac.com/asnewman.

Todd Boressoff (T-10) Report on his return trip to Turkey 2005.

Gordon Taylor (T-8) has a new book out: Fever and Thirst: Dr. Grant and the Christian Tribes of Kurdistan.

Elaine Jones (T-8) awarded The American Lawyer's Lifetime Achievement Awards.  That story and more on Elaine Jones.

Douglas Huff (T-16), playwright and professor of philosophy at Gustavus Adolphus College, had his play, Emil’s Enemies (based on the life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer) produced off-Broadway by Theatre M in 2001. Future productions scheduled for the play include Santa Fe, NM, and Bangalore, India in 2003. (Posted 11/02)   

Ambassador Faruk Loğoğlu, Turkey’s Ambassador to the US, was an instructor at some of our Peace Corps training sites in the 1960s.