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If you are interested in a geographical study of agricultural practices and agricultural change, focused on the Nyiha people of southwestern Tanzania, must reading is Ecologyand Change - Rural Modernization in anAfrican Community, by Greg Wright and published by Academic Press.

Greg, now associate professor of geography at Penn State University, lived the better part of a year among the Nyiha, 50 miles from the nearest town and telephone. His work was supported by a National Science Foundation grant. At the same time he was serving as a research associate for the University College in the Tanzanian capital of Dares Salaam.

Greg speaks Swahili, has specialized in African studies and, since 1971 when he joined the Penn State faculty, has focused on man's use of the tropical environment in Africa and the Caribbean. More recently he has been concerned with flood plain management and surface mining in Pennsylvania.

Peter Funke has been named marketing manager of residential roofing for the shelter materials group of Certainteed Products Corporation of Valley Forge. He had been product manager for residentail roofing since December 1972 and will now be responsible for overall marketing operations of that line. Previously Peter had been with Boise Cascade. He and wife Caryl are living in Pennllyn, Pa.

Reynaldo Miranda-Pertuz has come north again, this time for a fellowship at the Medical Center of Western Massachusetts in Springfield. He, his wife and two children are living at 58 Regency Park Drive in Agawam and want to know whether there are any '63s living in the Springfield area.

Kimball Morris has become director of direct marketing for a health company in St. Joseph, Mich. Kim and Weezie have two children, Kent (six) and Lindsey (a one-year-old girl).

Bob Robinson has figured his way onto the mathematics faculty of the University of Newcastle in New South Wales, Australia.

At the Northwest Medical Arts Center in Seattle, Dr. William Hancock is practicing a specialty in ophthalmology and ophthalmic plastic and reconstructive surgery.

John Reinertsen has been named a vice president at New York's First National City Bank, in charge of developing new retail products for the New York Banking Group. John joined the bank from Norman Craig and Kummel Advertising in New York, where he was vice president and account supervisor for Colgate Palmolive.

At Connecticut Mutual Life in Hartford, Conn., Jim von Gal has been promoted associate director of accounting administration. He joined the firm's accounting division in 1967.

Dave Barker has been elected trust investment officer for the Plaza Bank and Trust Co. in Kansas City, Mo. Dave joined the bank early last year and was responsible for advisory supervision of trust department assets.

Two recent graduates of the Albuquerque Air Force Base are Bill lams, who was chief of surgical services, and Bruce Birch, who was chief of internal medicine. Bill is now in private practice in Harrisburg, Pa., specializing in thoracic and cardiovascular surgery. Bruce has gone to Blacksburg, W. Va., to practice privately in internal medicine, with a speciality in endocrinology.

Bill Gifford, now a professor at the Cornell University Law School, has been appointed to the advisory board of Tax Management Inc. in Washington, D.C. The advisory board includes accountants, corporate tax officers, and educators, as well as lawyers, who meet monthly in New York to discuss major new tax developments and to provide consensus recommendations for the preparation of Tax Management's studies of current tax issues.

Larry and Mary Ann Bailey welcomed Robin Elizabeth in Seattle on November 22. She joins brothers Bruce (four and Peter (two).

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