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systems (UVA, UNC, Duke) from 1995 to 2010,
working most recently with Duke University’s
department of orthopedic surgery from 2004 to
2010. Currently, he is director of revenue man-
agement for the Raleigh Orthopedic Clinic, a long-
established private practice in Raleigh,N.C., whose
surgeons are the team physicians for the Carolina
Hurricanes and NC StateWolfpack. Jim adds that
most important, he was married in 2007, and he
and Heather welcomed a daughter, Eileen Rhea,
into the world in February 2011.
Ed Bushnell wrote (for the first time in 20
years) to share that he spent 14 years after gradu-
ation living and working in Jackson Hole,Wyo., do-
ing odd jobs as a ski bum, later as a newspaper
photographer/reporter and a private investigator.
’90, Betsy Brunton Peters, Andy Bates,
Tom Galvin ’90 and Chrissy Ford Hayden.
For pictures of both of these get-togethers, go
to page 52.
Andrea said that in 2010 she became a board
member for Growing Places Garden Project, a
non-profit that provides raised beds and garden-
ing education for new gardeners on tight budgets.
When not working or volunteering with local
organizations, she spends time with her husband
biking, gardening and restoring their 100-year-old
home.
Jim Bogan has lived in or around Chapel Hill,
N.C., since 1997. He has worked in healthcare
administration, effectively completing an Atlantic
Coast Conference tour of academic healthcare
Ed spent time with Chris Denny and Dave De-
Fazio ’92. Ed, who got married in 2003, moved to
Oregon, where he attended University of Oregon
Law School. After graduating in 2009, Ed took a
year-long Superior Court clerkship in Sitka,Alaska,
where he was also a magistrate, before moving
back to Oregon in September 2010, as a deputy
district attorney in Clackamas County, Oregon,
just south of Portland. With two daughters, Ca-
mille (born in 2007) and Natalie (born in 2010),
Ed says he still meets up with Fletch and Holly
DickinsonWilson ’90 annually. Ed says,“As a 1992
ski bum I never thought I’d end up as a lawyer, let
alone a prosecuting attorney, but that’s somehow
what happened.”
All the way from Hawaii, I heard from Dawn
(Swahili for “What’s the News?”)
Ihad lunch with Christopher Burns ’95
(KSP fall ’93) during an April trip to Wash-
ington, D.C. Chris is an economic growth
and agricultural development advisor in the
Ofce of Gender Equality and Women’s Em-
powerment at the U.S. Agency for International
Development. In the early summer he made a
work trip to Cape Town, South Africa.
Arturs Saburovs ’10 (KSP fall ’09) has been
selected to serve as a teacher of geography and
English for Mission Possible in his native Latvia.
Mission Possible is a member organization of
the international not-for-proft Teach For All.
Kristin Bonnie ’99 (KSP fall ’97), who
teaches psychology at Beloit College and stud-
ies primates, was in Tanzania in May. As part
of her ongoing research with chimpanzees, she
spent eight days in Gombe Stream National
Park, where Jane Goodall completed her re-
search. On a visit to San Francisco last January,
Kristin caught up with two KSP colleagues, Jen
Starling ’99 and Sharon Adam (Vassar Col-
lege). “Sharon lives there and works for Pixar
Studios and Jen lives across the bay in Oakland
and is completing her residency in emergency
medicine,” Kristin said.
Katie Nelson ’06 (KSP spring ’05) returned
to Kenya in her senior year with a research grant
from St. Lawrence and wrote an honors thesis
on the increasing and complex roles that non-
profts working in Kenya fll following privati-
zation of social welfare programs. She wrote
in a recent e-mail, “Right now I’m a graduate
student in environmental studies at the Uni-
versity of Montana, studying strategies that
biodiversity conservation nonprofts can use to
KENYA PROGRAM NOTES
Habari Gani?
talk about and mobilize on the issue of climate
change. Trough the department I’ve secured
funding with two other students to attend the
UN Climate Change Negotiations in Durban,
South Africa, this fall.”
Sajana Blank ’08 (KSP spring ’06), then as-
sistant director of the Center for International
and Intercultural Studies at St. Lawrence and
also advisor to the campus chapter of Amnesty
International, helped to organize a spring event
and flm presentation on campus for Invisible
Children, an organization that benefts former
child soldiers in Uganda and Sudan.
Jane Afeck ’06 (KSP fall ’04) spent the win-
ter and spring inMasaka, Uganda, working with
Child Restoration Outreach, a center that ben-
efts street children from the local community.
She visited the KSP Center in Karen, where she
saw Dr. Wairimu Ndirangu, co-director of the
KSP.
Matt Stevenson (Amherst, KSP fall ’03)
wrote from Orissa State in eastern India, where
he continues to be involved with a public health
trial of household water treatment systems.
Matt has plans to return to Africa this year on a
work assignment.
Reporting from Kenya, former
St. Lawrence Swahili lecturer
Sangai Mohochi wrote, “I am a
senior lecturer in the department
of linguistics, languages and lit-
erature at Maseno University near
Kisumu.” Mohochi continues to
be busy with Kusoma Internation-
al, an educational foundation he launched a few
years ago. “We have 14 students on scholarship
and hope to add a minimum of two next year.
We are also planning to start the construction of
a community library at Keburwi, near Isibania,”
he said.
Class of 2002 alums Mike Hughes (KSP
spring ’01) and Katie Cuifo
Hughes (KSP fall ’00) are living
in Upstate New York with their
daughter Natalie, born on Christ-
mas in 2008, and son Easton, born
on March 2, 2011, plus their two
border collies.
Alumni and friends of the KSP:
if you have news to share, contact
me using the information in the box. Pictures
are welcome. I look forward to hearing from
you. Tutaonana!
John Linsley ’04
(KSP fall ’02)
169 Perkins Row
Topsfield,MA 01983
jlinsley@gmail.com
(978) 500-6342
While traveling through Amsterdam’s Schiphol
Airport earlier this year, Jessie Davie ’04 (KSP
fall ’02) had a chance meeting with Dorothy
Toth Beasley ’59, former chief of the Georgia
Court of Appeals. Davie and her husband live
in Arusha, Tanzania, where she works for the
Tanzania Natural Resource Forum.