An essay by Bronwyn Mitchell (94-96) of Baltimore was selected to be published in an anthology compiled by the Union of Concerned Scientists and Penguin Classics. The anthology is called Thoreau’s Legacy: American Stories About Global Warming.
Former U.S. Congressman Christopher Shays and Betsi Shays (68-70), a leader in international education, were recently honored at the One To World Fulbright Awards Dinner, which honors individuals who have made significant contributions to international understanding through their lives and work. Christopher, a former member of the U.S. House of Representatives, was recently appointed to a nonpartisan Commission on Wartime Contracting on Iraq and Afghanistan. Betsi helped organize the Peace Corps’ Coverdell World Wise Schools program and has been a leader in the Center for Field Assistance and Applied Research. She also recently served as director of the National Security Language Initiative of the U.S. Department of Education.
Christopher S. Winters was named interim headmaster at Greenwich High School in Connecticut. Winters is currently the director for curriculum, instruction and professional learning. He has worked as housemaster at the high school, as an administrator in the district for ten years and as an educator for almost 20 years. His previous positions in the district include coordinator of the ESL program, coordinator of the world language program and Folsom headmaster of the high school. Winters has also served on a number of boards and committees, include the secondary school review committee, the district data team and the transdisciplinary unit committee. Winters received his bachelor’s degree from Middlebury College; his master’s degrees from Teachers College, Columbia University; a sixth-year degree from Sacred Heart University; and a superintendent’s certification from the University of Connecticut’s executive leadership program. He is currently working on his doctorate degree at the University of Connecticut.
The U.S. Agency for International Development named Carol J. Horning as the new director for Guyana. In her position, Horning will oversee programs focused on promoting activities in the economic growth, democracy and governance, and health sectors. She will also assist Guyana’s government in its efforts to overcome developmental challenges in the country. Horning’s former positions with USAID include time as the deputy mission director for USAID’s mission in Nicaragua; work in democracy, education, strategy and budget in Bangladesh, Eritrea, Georgia, Haiti and Panama; helping in regional operations in Asia and the Near East; and managing food aid coordination in Latin America and the Caribbean. She has her bachelor’s degree from Michigan State University and her master’s degree from the National War College. Horning speaks six languages.
Rick Welsh has been promoted from associate professor to professor of sociology in the School of Arts & Sciences at Clarkson University. Welsh previously worked at Winrock International Institute for Agricultural Development and the Henry A. Wallace Institute for Alternative Agriculture. Additionally, he served as the director of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Southern Region Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program at the University of Georgia. Welsh received his bachelor’s degree from The College of William and Mary, his master’s degree from the University of Florida and his doctorate from Cornell University.
Fred Stottlemyer (62-64) retired from his career five years ago. Since then, he has been spending approximately five months out of every year in rural Central American communities implementing water, sanitation and hygiene projects that he has researched and fundraised for in the United States. Stottlemyer is a former board president of the International Rural Water Association and still works as a volunteer for the group. He also helped found Agua y Desrrollo Comunitario, which helps communities with water problems.
Roberta Mahoney is USAID’s new director for its Mission to Albania. She attended graduate school at UCLA.
Steve Clapp (62-64) has just published Africa Remembered, a memoir about his two years in Nigeria as a Peace Corps volunteer and his travels during his service. While in-country, Clapp taught in a government-run boarding school.
