DAVID HAMMOND HOLLOND (Russian and REES and Economics). Upon graduation, David was awarded a PICAS fellowship for the intensive study of basic Hungarian at Beloit College. He then earned an M.A. in economics at the University of Wisconsin and worked for several years with the Federal Reserve Bank in Minneapolis. But the lure of Russia proved too strong for David. When last heard from, David was pursuing the M.B.A. at the University of Pennsylvania in a special program enabling students to continue Russian language and area studies. His degree program made it possible for David to intern on several occasions with American and Russian businesses in Moscow.

ALLISON KIMBER DE LONG (Russian and Mathematics). Allison spent the 1992-93 academic year as a teacher of English at the Prikarpatskii University in Ivano-Frankovsk, Ukraine. Allison now works as a statistician, computer programmer, and ecological modeler at the National Marine Fisheries in Gloucester, Massachusetts.

DARREL MULLINS (Russian and Political Science). After graduation, Darrel worked for two years for the Center for Human Rights Advocacy in Boulder, Colorado, and he traveled to Russia and other Soviet successor states on several occasions during his time with the Center. Having earned a law degree at the University of Denver, Darrel is now clerking with the Iowa Supreme Court in Des Moines.

ROBERT F. NEILL (REES and Philosophy). After being a Philosophy major with the REES concentration the obvious next step was to become an actor, so Rob then studied at the National Theater Institute in Connecticut, The London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art and The Warsaw Academy of Acting to hone his skills. Following that he did what many actors have to do, go wherever the work is. Rob has worked on Broadway in LONDON ASSURANCE and in London in THE CHERRY ORCHARD and toured the country a bit settling for some time in LA where he worked on MTV and did some commercials. Rob joined Chicago's Neo-Futurists to do TOO MUCH LIGHT MAKES THE BABY GO BLIND and moved to Manhattan in 1995; he continues to write and perform in the show not only in New York where he is also the Managing Director of the New York ensemble, but also back in Chicago, at times, as well.
Rob can be contacted by e-mail at: robneill@hotmail.com.

LOUIS SALETAN (Russian and Technology Studies). The recipient of a Watson Fellowship upon graduation, Louie spent a year in Russia and the Baltic states working with independent dance companies. He returned to Grinnell in the fall of 1992 to edit and present a film devoted to his year as a Watson Fellow: "Ten Months in Post-Putsch Russia Amid Chaos and Beauty." Louie then worked for two years at a firm in Texas which offers training in Russian language and culture to aerospace and oil-industry employees. He designed and marketed Pro-sto!, a visual aid for the study of Russian numbers. In 1994 a copy of Pro-sto! was flown aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery during a joint American-Russian mission. With the help of Louie's learning aid, the five American crew members and a Russian cosmonaut were able to communicate about flight speed, cabin pressure, and required rehydration times for various foods. Another of Louie's passions is renewable energy resources, and he has worked renewable energy projects in Ukraine.

KATHERINE FAIRBANKS SPENCER (Russian). ...

WILLIAM THOMPSON (REES and Art and History). Bill's senior thesis on the Moscow artist Aleksandr Kalugin was very helpful in our compilation of the catalog for the 1996 exhibition of Kalugin's art at Grinnell College.
After graduating from Grinnell, Bill moved to Houston and earned an M.A. in art history from Rice University. He lived in Texas for ten years, where he worked as a curator and publicist for museums in Houston, Austin, and El Paso. He currently lives in Phoenix, Arizona, and serves as the marketing and public relations manager for the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art. He recently co-curated the traveling exhibition "Light from the Sky: A Tom Lea Retrospective, 1907-2001" for Exhibits USA and authored the monograph "Land and Light in the American West: Photographs by John Ward," published by Trinity University Press.


ALEXANDER "SANDY" WILLIAMS (Russian). Sandy earned a Russian Study Award to help finance his partially salaried position as a teacher of English in Kiev, Ukraine, during the 1991-92 academic year. He then enrolled in the Ph.D. program in Russian literature at Stanford University, and he is now completing his doctoral dissertation. A dedicated outdoorsman, Sandy is a director of the American Association for the Support of Ecological Initiatives, and in the summer of 1996 he was helpful in securing internships with AASEI for KELLY AUSTIN '97 and STEPHANIE HITZTALER '97.

THAIS WINKLEBLACK (Russian). ...