CHRISTINA A. CARPINO (Russian). ...

MELISSA (MISSY) CROSS (Russian and REES). Missy earned a Russian Study Award at graduation, and it partially funded her participation in the Fall 1989 Moscow Semester sponsored by ACTR. Following her studies in Moscow, Missy interned in Washington for the American Committee on U.S.-Soviet Relations, where she worked under the supervision of ERIC GREEN '85 and she then worked for the Washington Processing Center, where she assisted emigres from the Soviet Union in obtaining needed residency documents. When last heard from, Missy was working for the National Association of High-School Principals, and her responsibilities focused on placing high-school students from the former Soviet Union in American high schools for varying periods of study.

ARIANE DELONG (Russian). Following graduation, Ariane carried out a summer internship at the Committee on Soviet-American Relations, where she worked under the supervision of ERIC GREEN '85.

LAURA MEYER GREGORY (REES and Political Science). ...

POLLY HARVEY-MCLACHLAN (Russian). Polly is living in Greeley, Colorado (almost 14 years now) and will be pinned as a Registered Nurse this coming December. Her Russian education has proven useful in translating a few letters for the American Red Cross (of which she is a Disaster Team Member) and hosting two children from Chernobyl during the summer of 2002 (with The Children of Chernobyl organization). She is sure Russian will come in handy when she pursues her dream of being a traveling nurse. She intends to master Spanish as well. She also presents her Russian experience (from visiting there with Grinnell in 1988-ish) to the local 2nd grade class annually!
Aside from nursing school, she keeps quite busy with her family, husband - Paul, Sean - 11, Tyrus and Elly - 10 year old twins, two Beagles, a cat, a tree frog and a Cockatiel.
Polly can be contacted at: Polly.McLachlan@swiftbrands.com.

WESLEY JONES, Ph.D (Russian and Physics). While studying toward a Ph.D. in physics at Dartmouth College, Wes studied in Irkutsk, Russia, in a Russian-language program designed for scientists.

PAMELA J. KELLOGG (Russian). ...

CHRISTOPHER J. MARTIN (Russian). ...

MARJORIE McSHANE (Russian and Linguistics). A Russian Study Award helped Marjorie to partially fund her participation in the Spring 1989 Moscow Semester sponsored by ACTR. Marjorie then earned the M.A. in Slavic linguistics at the State University of New York at Albany. While doing graduate work there, Marjorie assisted Professor Sophia Lubensky in the latter's compilation of the latter's Russian-English Dictionary of Idioms. Marjorie also assisted Professor Lubensky, Professor Gerald Ervin of Ohio State University, and Professor Donald Jarvis of Brigham Young University in the compilation of Nachalo, the first-year Russian textbook now used in our department. Now completing her doctoral dissertation in Slavic linguistics at Princeton University, Marjorie last fall received an award from the Mid-Atlantic Slavic Conference for the best graduate student essay in her specialization, "Russian Direct Objects: Seen and Unseen."

LEILA TAYLOR (Russian). Leila earned the M.A. in Russian studies at the University of Iowa. When last heard from, Leila was teaching Russian and English at St. Mary's High School in Nachtittoches, Louisiana.

KENNETH VARNUM (Russian and History). Aided by a Russian Study Award, Ken spent the year following graduation in Moscow where he completed two semester-long ACTR programs. Ken then completed an internship and earned a salaried position at the American Committee on U.S.-Soviet Relations in Washington, D.C. Following his work there, Ken earned joint degrees in information science and Russian area studies at the University of Michigan. From 1994 to 1997 Ken worked as a librarian in charge of electronic services at the Open Media Research Institute in Prague, the Czech Republic, where he served as a gracious tour guide for Grinnellians visiting that lovely city. He then worked until 2004 in Ford Motor Company's research library, first as managing editor of an internal journal, and then as head of the library's web development group. From 2004 to earlier this year he worked as an IT manager and librarian in Tufts University's Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy, and he is now the web systems manager at University of Michigan University Library.

LEILA TAYLOR WHELAN (Russian). ...

DAYNA WILLIAMS-CAPONE (Russian and REES). ...