NIEKA APELL (Russian). Nieka's field-work in the Hewlett-funded project in Russia in the summer of 1992 encouraged her to apply for graduate studies in anthropology with a concentration on Russia. She earned the M.A. in anthropology at the University of Pittsburgh, and her studies included a return to St. Petersburg for a summer of research. Nieka is now employed in Grinnell College's Office of Development and Alumni Relations. In addition, NIEKA helps our Webmaster to stay in touch with his family and friends, so he would like to say his personal very grateful thanks to her.

ANNICA CARLSTEDT (Russian). Also encouraged by her work in the Hewlett-funded project in Russia in the summer of 1992, Annica used the Russian Study Award to return to Russia after graduation, initiating several years of employment in Russia and in Russia-related work in her native Sweden. Annica first worked in St. Petersburg as a liaison between the Russian and Swedish Red-Cross organizations, as well as for a Russian-Swedish commercial joint venture. She then worked for Baltic Line, a Russian- Swedish shipping company. Annica served as an administrator aboard the liner Anna Karenina, which made calls at principal Baltic ports, including St. Petersburg. Now back in her native Sweden, Annica works for a lumber company which does extensive business with Eastern European and former Soviet states. Her firm is sponsoring her study of Czech, a language which she can add to her knowledge of English, German, Russian and Swedish. When a Grinnell Alumni group visited the Czech Republic on a study tour in March of 1997, Annica flew to Prague to be with Grinnell graduates of several generations at a dinner-party.

HEATHER COATES (Russian and Gender & Women's Studies). Aided by a Russian Study Award, Heather spent the first year after graduation teaching English and other subjects at a Catholic women's school in Panevesys, Lithuania. Heather is now completing the M.A. in Slavic languages and literatures at the University of Kansas. She next plans to study theology and religious education. On long auto trips, Heather listens to an audio version of Tolstoy's War and Peace.

ANNE GILHEANY (Russian). ...

ERIC HANSEN (Russian and Computer Science). ...

KATHERINE HANSCOM (REES and History). Katherine's senior thesis on the works of the Moscow artist Alesandr Kalugin, like that of WILLIAM THOMPSON '91, was very helpful in our compilation of the catalog for the 1996 exhibition of Kalugin's art at Grinnell College. When last heard from, Katherine was working toward a graduate degree in English at Iowa State University.

DONALD HATCH (Russian). Donnie has been living in Moscow almost non-stop since graduating from the College. He first worked for a firm involved in oil and mineral extraction, and he is now employed by an electronics firm, engaged in creating telephone and other communication systems in the former Soviet Union. Donald acts as a gracious host for Grinnellians visiting Moscow.

MELISSA HURTEAU (Russian). ...

WENDY JOHNSON (Russian and Gender & Women's Studies). The recipient of a Russian Study Award upon graduation, Wendy worked for two years in Petrozavodsk, Russia, as a representative of Project Harmony. She spent her first year there as a teacher of English, and in her second year she organized programs for learning-disabled children. Wendy is now working toward the Ph.D. in Slavic languages and literatures at the University of Wisconsin, and she is spending the summer of 1998 in Poland, where she is acquiring a second Slavic language.

KATRINA KNIGHT (Russian). ...

PHILIP LYON (REES and History). After several years of teaching English in Prague, the Czech Republic, Phil has begun graduate work in Central and Eastern European history at the University of Washington. Attending Grinnellians, staff and alumni, were pleased to see Phil in Seattle last year at the Annual Meeting of AAASS (American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies).

COLIN SCOTT (REES and History). ...

ADAM STAM (Russian and Economics). Like LOUIS SALETAN '91, Adam began his postgraduate life as a Watson Fellow. Adam spent his Watson year in the southern regions of Russia, where he studied the privatization of collective farms. The President's Report for 1992-93 described how Adam combined his studies in economics and Russian language, together with his Iowa background, to carry out his project. When past Grinnell Watson Fellows gathered on campus as part of the College's Sesquicentennial celebration in the fall of 1997, Adam gave an interesting talk on the complex problems facing Russian agriculture in the post-Soviet period. Following his year as a Watson Fellow, Adam worked for the international accounting firm of Deloitte and Touche, and he spent time in the Ural Mountains as a consultant on the transformation into profit-making ventures of Russia's once heavily subsidized industries. Like DAVID HAMMOND '91, Adam then entered the University of Pennsylvania's special M.B.A. program which enables students to continue Russian-language and area studies. In embarking on this study program, both Adam and David benefited from the counsel of MICHAEL HARMAN '87, who had earlier completed that Russia- centered M.B.A., and who has been active in the Moscow business world throughout much of the 1990s.

TISHA SWEENEY (Russian and Biology). ...

JEFFREY ULMER (REES and History). ...

BRENDA WALKER (Russian and Mathematics). Brenda spent her first year after graduation in Moscow, where she worked for Interperiodika, a publishing firm which specializes in the translation of scientific scholarship. During the Yeltsin government's attack on the Parliament building in the fall of 1993, the Des Moines Register telephoned Brenda to get the "Iowa perspective," and Brenda reported that she could hear the artillery shelling, and she was, sensibly, remaining in her apartment for the duration. Following her year in Moscow, Brenda worked at the Washington Processing Center, where she assisted emigres from the former Soviet Union in the processing of needed documents.

MONICA WARE (Russian). Following graduation, Monica began work in Washington, D.C., for ISAR, a Clearinghouse on Grassroots Cooperation in Eurasia. Monica worked as a research assistant for the organization's journal Surviving Together, a publication to which, as already noted, AMY BLISS '92 contributed an article on her Hewlett project in Russia. Monica combined her duties at ISAR with part-time work at RCG/Hagler, Bailly, Inc., an international consulting firm on environmental problems. When last heard from, Monica was working as a Support Associate on the A.I.D.-funded Energy Efficiency Project. At the time, the project had just accepted a consulting project in Russia.

SCOTT WITTSTRUCK (REES and History). ...

MARY ALEXANDRA "SASHA" WOOLLEY DOTY (Russian). Following graduation, Sasha worked with the Russian-speaking elderly at the Mount Zion Medical Center in San Francisco. Sasha has since completed the M.S. in social work at Columbia University, and we hope, naturally, that her professional activities allow her to work with Russian-speaking emigres.