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CLASS NOTES
54 SUMMER 2012 | ST. LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE
On-campus faculty coordinator of the KSP
Matt Carotenuto
(KSP ’98) is
pleased to report the launch of a KSP facebook group, www.facebook.com/
groups/6790476858. He and fellowKSP alums-turned-SLU employees
Lynd-
say LaBarge ’10
and
Drew Pynchon
, as well as
Allysa Houle ’13
, encour-
age all KSP alums, parents and friends of the program to join and invite their
fellow KSP friends to do so also. “This will be a way for alumni to reconnect
and network as well as a place to share memories and pictures from past
semesters,” Carotenuto says. “It is also an important rst step toward a 40th
anniversary celebration of the program, being planned for 2014. Stay tuned
for further details.”
Rebecca Brown ’03
(KSP fall ’01) is living in Minneapolis, nishing up a
master’s degree in urban and regional planning at the University of Minne-
sota, and working for the Mississippi National River and Recreation Area as
a park ranger. “I do not have post-graduation plans yet, but I do not expect
to stay in the Twin Cities for too much longer,” she wrote. “Alas, I also do not
have plans to return to Kenya any time soon. My next big trip will be a post-
graduation celebration in the BoundaryWaters Canoe Area!”
Eliza“Eli”Mathews ’07
(KSP spring ’06) is a college counselor, dormparent
and coach at Su eld Academy. In an April email she wrote, “In June, I will
lead a dozen students through the Smoky Mountains on a 10-day expedi-
tion lled with hiking, whitewater rafting and camping.” She plans to begin
pursuing a master’s degree in counseling at George Washington University
inWashington, D.C., this fall.
From the same KSP, her classmate
Barrett Miles
will return to Broken River
Ski Resort on New Zealand’s South Island this summer to ski patrol. Barrett
spent the Northern Hemisphere winter ski patrolling at theYellowstone Club
in Montana. On his way to New Zealand he will spend a month traveling in
Indonesia.
Lucas Buckingham ’04
(KSP spring ’03) and
Cathy Filbin ’04
were married
in Stowe, Vt., in March and honeymooned shortly thereafter in the U.S. Virgin
Islands. They live in Cambridge, Mass.
After living for several years in Arusha, Tanzania,
Jessie Davie ’04
(KSP fall
’02) and her husband will be relocating to The Hague, Netherlands. In Aru-
sha, Jessie worked with the Tanzania Natural Resource Forum.
Professor Emeritus of Anthropology John Barthelme will spend six weeks
this summer birding and hiking in Arizona’s Chiricahua Mountains. Next year
he plans some travel in southern Africa. For many summers, Barthelme ran a
St. Lawrence archaeology eld program at Lake Magadi, Kenya.
This summer I will travel to Tanzania to co-lead a high school summer pro-
gram called Cultural Exploration Kilimanjaro. It is a program of the Vermont-
based Putney Student Travel and will include a community-based service
project, safari and climb of Mt. Kilimanjaro.
As always, contact me with news, updates and photos. I look forward to
hearing from you.
Tutaonana!
John Linsley ’04 (KSP fall ’02)
169 Perkins Row, Tops eld, MA01983 | jlinsley@gmail.com | (978) 500-6342
Swahili for "What's the News?"
Habari Gani?
Two years ago,
Katrina Franz ’06
(KSP spring ’05) wrote that she was completing
an internship in Tukuyu, Tanzania, as part of her public health graduate studies at
Oregon State. This spring she wrote about her trip to Ruaha National Park, where
their camp was “set along a river and we could watch hippos from our room. We
were amazed to witness a lion pride teach their cubs to kill a young impala from
a few feet away.” She also sent this picture of her visit to Unyamwanga Village,
Rungwe District, Tanzania, as part of her graduate studies. She’s second from left
in the middle row.
Back in Oregon, Katrina presented her final project and was awarded her MPH.
Since late 2010 she has been with the Bureau of Infectious Disease at the New
Hampshire Division of Public Health Services, coordinating the Healthcare-As-
sociated Infections (HAI) program. One thing she does is coordinate six regional
infection prevention trainings for long-term care facilities. “It is great to be back
home in New Hampshire, but we really miss the friends we made in Oregon and
Tanzania,” she said. “We would love to have visits from any KSP alums who find
themselves in our area.” Reach Katrina at trinafranz@hotmail.com.
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