Greg Keller

Ashley Ballou and I started a project this winter, with help from Ben Padilla and Molly Lawry. We are considering how natural and human-induced landscape heterogeneity influences the abundance and behavior of forest songbirds, specifically focusing on black-capped chickadees, tufted titmice, white-breasted nuthatches, and downy woodpeckers. We are linking measures from the field with a geographic analysis in our new landscape ecology laboratory. We’ll be collecting data one more year before we analyze and try to publish it.

Evan Peck's Contacts

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From: Kristin Schwabauer
Sent: Friday, July 17, 2009 1:19 PM
To: Cyndi Mcmahon; Patricia Hanlon; Jo Kadlecek
Subject: FW: photo journal guidelines

Passing this on from Evan for you guys to follow up. What a great connection in Evan!

From: Evan [mailto:evanpeck@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, July 16, 2009 5:24 PM
To: Kristin Schwabauer
Subject: Re: photo journal guidelines

Thanks Kristin,

I'll try to pull something together over the next couple of weeks.

In case you are interested, here are a couple of Gordon alum friends who would love to help out the school any way they can:

- Cassandra (Cassie) Freyschlag is an '08 graduate who is in an MS/PhD program at Harvard in Chemistry:

Cassie's email address: cfreysch@fas.harvard.edu

- Jonathan Camery-Hoggatt is an '07 graduate who is attending Princeton Theological Seminary.

Jonathan's email address: jonathan.cameryhoggatt@gmail.com

(They gave me permission to send you their email addresses)

Both of them have awesome, vibrant personalities, and are always working on amazing projects. The only reason I don't list them is that I'm afraid I wouldn't do them justice :). We like to meet every once in awhile in Cambridge and they are exactly the type of people I'd love to know existed if I were a prospective student.

- Evan

Ashley Bond, recent alum, who works for Boston Magazine as Senior Designer

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From: Ashley Hopkins
Date: Mon, 4 May 2009 14:05:53 -0400
To: Cyndi McMahon , Kristin Schwabauer
Subject: Gordon Alum at Boston Magazine

Hey gals,

Just doing some legwork for Montserrat and while plowing through the "Editorial Bios" on Boston Magazine's site came across a Gordon grad. In my book it's always helpful to know about any alums, particularly those in the magazine biz regardless of the dept. You likely already know about her, but thought I would forward just in case.

Hope all is well with you both!

A

ASHLEY BOND, SENIOR DESIGNER
Bond began her career at the acclaimed studio, PlutoMedia, where she was a designer on the SPD award-winning 02138 magazine, as well as the Boston branded publications. A graduate of Gordon College, her senior art thesis appeared in Die Gestalten Verlag's book, Tactile: High Touch Visuals. The native Texan turned Mainer is an avid runner (Boston Marathon '07) and power yoga addict.

http://www.bostonmagazine.com/EDITORIAL/Bios_Boston (scroll down on the site; Ashley's listed under "art")

Tim Willeford '96 Receives IBM Chairman's Award and is in Global Communication

-----Original Message-----
From: FormManager@gordon.edu [mailto:FormManager@gordon.edu]
Sent: Thursday, April 30, 2009 10:38 PM
To: Alumni Office
Subject: Form Submission: ALUMNI_CLASSNOTES


The following information was submitted to your web form 'ALUMNI_CLASSNOTES':

Name: Tim Willeford
Email: twilleford@yahoo.com
Year: 1996
College: Gordon
Notes: I was honored with the 2008 IBM Chairman''s Award for leading communications for the IBM Project Big Green energy and environmental campaign in more than 50 countries. Now, I''m the global communications lead for IBM University Programs, Academic and Innovation Initiatives, Business and IT Transformation, and the Center for CIO Leadership. (I still live in Brookfield, CT with my wife Christina and 5-year-old daughter Katarina.)

Peter McClelland '63, blogger.

Peter McClelland ’63? Peter lives in Newburyport . . . (Nancy Mering)

http://writingscots.wordpress.com/2009/06/15/tod-murphy-named-to-succeed-mike-schauer/
Might be a good thing to let people know about, particularly older alums —have you had a chance to take a look around?

From: Kristin Schwabauer Sent: Thursday, June 18, 2009 1:52 PMTo: Cyndi Mcmahon; Patricia HanlonSubject: a new blog I found

I found this blog while I was researching info for the Tod Murphy release (new men’s bball coach). His wordpress blog is called the Writing Scots. Don’t know who he is.

This is interesting…can’t get a sense of who this guy is except for this:

My first blog (Writing Scots) started out as a collection of Gordon College men’s basketball articles but before long my other articles started ending up there and the original intent was diluted. This new blog will alleviate that situation…………The articles that show up on this blog will cover a variety of topics. I am currently writing with some regularity for The Town Common. The articles I do for TTC will appear here. I will also post an occasional copy of a letter-to-the-editor that I have sent out. I will also include a picture with a brief description of a sporting event I have attended……….I have enjoyed writing for many years. A good part of my life (39 years as a teacher) has been spent correcting written work so I think that I have an idea what good writing reads like. With a retiree’s time at my disposal I am able to read/write at my leisure………….I make a serious attempt to be factually accurate as well as Godly in every blog entry.

Sarah Hines '01--from Irv Levy

Patty,
I know Sarah but we never worked together closely outside of the organic chemistry classes she attended. Ron Kay probably knows her best. I've sent him a note.
On another student -- senior Rowan Walker was awarded an NSF Scholars Program travel grant to attended the Green Chemistry & Engineering Conference this past month. In their award letter, the Green Chemistry Insitute indicated that this was "a competitive pool with a large number of qualified applicants." The grant supported Rowan's conference participation with a funds to cover the cost of student registration and travel expenses.
Irv
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Irvin J. Levy
Professor of Chemistry & Computer Science Chair, Department of Chemistry Gordon College
255 Grapevine Road
Wenham, MA 01984



-----Original Message-----
From: Patricia Hanlon
Sent: Fri 6/26/2009 9:40 AM
To: Irv Levy
Cc: Emily Jarvis; Dwight Tshudy
Subject: FW: Story Pitch for StillPoint
Greetings, chemistry profs-this just came in my email regarding a chemistry alum, Sarah Hines, doing amazing work. Of course we will follow up on this, but wanted to let you know and to hear from you any recollections you have of Sarah as a student. Since she graduated in '01, I'm figuring Irv may be the only one who remembers her. (Obviously they mean "Gordon" and not "Stillpoint" alumnus here ;). Please forward to anyone else who might like to know about this.
Thanks, and I hope your summers are going well,
Patty
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From: Kelley Meck [mailto:kelley@pharmasecure.us]
Sent: Friday, June 26, 2009 1:03 AM
To: Stillpoint
Subject: Story Pitch for StillPoint
Dear Editor,
My name is Kelley Meck. I'm coordinating a press strategy for PharmaSecure, Inc., a multinational Dartmouth start-up company aiming to stop counterfeit medicines in the developing world. PharmaSecure looks forward to announcing a major milestone in our brief corporate history in the next days or weeks and, anticipating that you may want to profile our acting CEO and co-founder Sarah Hine, who is a young Stillpoint alumnus. Below you'll find more details about the milestone we expect to be announcing.
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PharmaSecure, Inc. To Conclude Tie-Up w/ Pharma Giant Within the coming weeks, PharmaSecure, Inc. and a top-5 Indian pharmaceutical manufacturer will close an agreement for a pilot project to label over six lakh (600,000) packages with a PharmaSecure coding system to allow chemists and consumers in India to authenticate the products with a text message or SMS. If successful, the project will provide the basis for the company to employ the authentication system on their entire product line, accounting for approximately 4% of the $8 billion Indian pharmaceutical market. It's a major milestone in PharmaSecure's brief history and we believe it represents an important step towards stopping counterfeits in India.
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I would like to ensure you have the level of information and access you require to meet your publication needs, so if there is interest in this story, let me know what sort of story you would consider writing--
With regards,
Kelley Meck
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Kelley Meck
Project Manager
PharmaSecure, Inc.
INDIA: New Delhi, India
+91 97177 55633
USA: 16 Cavendish Court
Kelley@pharmasecure.us

Irv Levy, Emily Jarvis, Rachel Shirron and Rowan Walker

This August Emily Jarvis and I will be traveling to Washington, DC with two of our students who will be giving poster presentations at the American Chemical Society's national meeting. The students and their presentations are
Rachel Shirron, "First principles investigation of ruthenium metal complexes used as catalysts in water oxidation", coauthored with Emily Jarvis
Rowan Walker, "Greener oxidation options: Molybdate-catalyzed synthesis of conjugated aldehydes and ketones", coauthored with Irv Levy and Salem State College student Keti Gitit Assor
Best wishes,
Irv

Greg Keller, Students and Mammals

My students and I have been researching mammals in and around Gordon College this spring and summer. Although unsolicited, this list is fairly comprehensive, and I thought you all might be interested to see what we are living with that we have documented so far around campus. We are not alone...
Greg
Southern Flying Squirrel
Red Squirrel
Gray Squirrel
Eastern Chipmunk
Eastern Cottontail
American Beaver
Muskrat
House Mouse
White-footed Mouse
Deer Mouse
Southern Red-backed Vole
Star-nosed Mole
Northern Short-tailed Shrew
Smoky Shrew
River Otter
Coyote
Raccoon
Striped Skunk
Mink
Virginia Opossum
Little Brown Bat
White-tailed Deer

Gregory S. Keller, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Conservation Biology Curator of Birds and Mammals
Email: greg.keller@gordon.edu
Phone: 978-867-4852

Michael Messenger: '90 Alum

Michael_Messenger@worldvision.ca

Plans to return to Gordon for Homecoming this year (20th reunion is not until 2010 but some of his closest friends were in the class of 1989).

Featured in “The Society Record,” the law society in Nova Scotia where he speaks about his decision to leave law practice and return to World Vision.

IN PURSUIT OF LOVE
Volume 26, No. 2, April 2008, www.nsbs.org

Lawyers don’t often talk about love, at least not professionally. Justice, of course, but not love. So I chuckled when I found myself proofing the 2007 annual report for World Vision, where I now work as vice president for public affairs. The theme of the report is “What does love look like?,” referring to St. Augustine’s quote that poses that question and then answers: “It has hands to help others. It has feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of humankind. That is what love looks like.” A chance to use my legal skills in pursuit of this idea of “love” is the reason I left the daily practice of law and took the leap from being a volunteer to joining the staff of an international relief, development and advocacy organization.

When I attended law school, I had worked for five years in Toronto and Geneva for World Vision, focusing on government relations and public policy related to international development. I had a passion for social justice, but I realized that without a deeper understanding of the workings of the policy-making that I would be less effective in influencing laws and practices that could affect the children, families, and communities we partnered with in the developing world. My decision to study law did let me look at policy from the inside, but it also unexpectedly unearthed a love for legal argument and the excitement of trial advocacy.

So, instead of returning to the non-profit sector, my family and I moved to Halifax, where I spent nearly nine years as a litigator as part of the firm of Cox & Palmer. I was fortunate to work with talented colleagues and enjoyed varied work from a range of clients. I also found satisfaction from volunteering. I tried to contribute to the profession as president of the Nova Scotia Medical Legal Society, by volunteering at the bar skills course, and by mentoring younger students and clerks. My community outside the law was also important, and I sang with the Symphony Nova Scotia Chorus and was a lay leader in various roles at St. Paul’s Church. What was common among all of these areas of involvement was that I always learned and received so much more than I ever contributed. Volunteer work was not a distraction; I felt it made me a better lawyer and a better person.

My passion for working for international issues was reignited when I was invited to join the board of directors of World Vision in 2003. I soon found that my heart had never really left this work with children overcoming the grip of poverty. Soon after I joined the board, my wife and I had a chance to see World Vision’s work firsthand in a trip to Rwanda and Uganda. While I’d visited many of the organization’s international programs as a former staff person, this was the first time I’d visited since I had become a lawyer, a husband and a father. What I saw moved me. While seeing the terrible ravages of HIV and AIDS on African families and talking to orphans and other vulnerable children, I was struck by the injustice of poverty and oppression, and began to wonder how best I could stay involved.

In 2005, I was honoured to act as lead counsel to the Nunn Commission of Inquiry. While working with Justice D. Merlin Nunn, I had the chance to step outside the day-to-day work of civil litigation and re-engage directly with issues of public policy. It was a powerful and eye-opening experience in its own way. I soon began to consider whether there was another path for me that might bring my legal background and passion for social justice closer together.

And so, when I was invited to consider applying for a management role at World Vision, I knew I needed to explore the option seriously. Today, I am trying to use my legal skills not to focus on resolving disputes, but in the pursuit of justice of another kind. And not just justice, but love, as St. Augustine thought it looked like. Love that has hands and feet to bring relief and hope to those in need; eyes and ears to see and speak out against the symptoms and causes of child poverty around the world.

Jessica Hulsey- Kristin working on this (possible STPT story?)

From: Jessica Hulsey [mailto:jessica.hulsey@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, June 26, 2009 8:21 AM
To: Nancy Mering
Subject: Re: Tim's good suggestion

Hello Nancy,

Thanks for your email and the possibility of a story about us living in this region.
Trey and I live in Bethlehem working in Humanitarian Aid which includes community development, peace and justice work and relief work. Josh and Julie Korn live here (alumni but grew up here) and Josh works in reconciliation work between Pal. and Israeli's. Lastly, there is a couple who left a year ago that taught in a school in Bethlehem and could possibly add another dimension to the story. Doug Priorie and his wife Mandy were teachers at the Jerusalem School here in Bethlehem for 2 years and have some great experiences to share, also. Just wanted to throw that out there.

Trey and Jessica Hulsey work for a small humanitarian aid organization called Mennonite Central Committee. They currently live in the West Bank city of Bethlehem. Our organization works in 3 specific areas, here. Peace and Justice, Community Development and Relief Work.
MCC supports a wide variety of Palestinian and Israeli peace-building initiatives. These include conflict resolution among Palestinians, education among Israelis on injustices to Palestinians and dialogue between Palestinians and Israelis. MCC supports agricultural research and development in the Bethlehem area with funds from the Canadian Foodgrains Bank and supports the improvement of wells and water pipes in the area of Qalqilyah and Tulkarem.

We have been her for 2 years and have 1 more year to go.

We have a bunch of interesting org. we work with here. We as an org. don't come in and start doing our own work that we think is important. We join alongside the locals here (both Pal and Israeli) who are already doing good work. We support them both financially and with our time.

Some org. that might spark some interest:
YMCA Women's Training Program: Educational Training Program for women who get micro-finance loans through the YMCA to start a small business
Zochrot:: Israeli org. that works to help their own people understand what is happening to the Palestinian people
Palestinian Center for Peace and Democracy:

Also, Josh Korn and Julie Kopp Korn. They both graduated from Gordon. Josh works for an org. called Musalaha.

Musalaha is a non-profit organization that seeks to promote reconciliation between Israelis and Palestinians as demonstrated in the life and teaching of Jesus. They endeavor to be an encouragement and advocate of reconciliation, first among Palestinian and Israeli believers and then beyond to our respective communities. Musalaha also aims at facilitating bridge building among different segments of Israeli and Palestinian societies according to biblical reconciliation principles.

Depending on the angle of a possible story, I think this could be an interesting article for Stillpoint. I would be happy to connect with Josh Korn if this seems like a viable possibility.

Possibly there could be a story about alumni living on different sides of the wall...us in Bethlehem and Josh and Julie in Jerusalem.

Sarah Hines '01

My name is Kelley Meck. I'm coordinating a press strategy for PharmaSecure, Inc., a multinational Dartmouth start-up company aiming to stop counterfeit medicines in the developing world. PharmaSecure looks forward to announcing a major milestone in our brief corporate history in the next days or weeks and, anticipating that you may want to profile our acting CEO and co-founder Sarah Hine, who is a young Stillpoint alumnus. Below you'll find more details about the milestone we expect to be announcing.

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PharmaSecure, Inc. To Conclude Tie-Up w/ Pharma Giant
Within the coming weeks, PharmaSecure, Inc. and a top-5 Indian pharmaceutical manufacturer will close an agreement for a pilot project to label over six lakh (600,000) packages with a PharmaSecure coding system to allow chemists and consumers in India to authenticate the products with a text message or SMS. If successful, the project will provide the basis for the company to employ the authentication system on their entire product line, accounting for approximately 4% of the $8 billion Indian pharmaceutical market. It's a major milestone in PharmaSecure's brief history and we believe it represents an important step towards stopping counterfeits in India.
-------------------------

I would like to ensure you have the level of information and access you require to meet your publication needs, so if there is interest in this story, let me know what sort of story you would consider writing--

With regards,

Kelley Meck

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Kelley Meck
Project Manager
PharmaSecure, Inc.
INDIA: New Delhi, India
+91 97177 55633
USA: 16 Cavendish Court
Kelley@pharmasecure.us