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Member News 

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.

Eden's Garden International Playschool, founded by Arkadaslar member, Tara Alisbah, is now offering a summer camp (2006) in Istanbul for children of all ages.  More information.

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


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.

Pat Findikoglu (T-16) in the news Nov. 20, 2004 on the Washington Post website: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20573-2004Nov29.html

Ken Hill
(T-9) named Chair of the Board of the National Peace Corps Association (Fall 2004) 

Walter Ruehlig (T-16) named Humanitarian of the Year in his home county in Antioch, CA.  (2004)

Tom Brosnahan (T-15), author of several guidebooks on Turkey has developed a very interesting and useful website for planning your travel in Turkey.  Check out: TurkishTravelPlanner.com


Ken Hill (T-9)

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.

 

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Updated: 06/01/2007
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