1969

You will note at the end of this column a change in address for your secretary. Jo and I have given up the struggle against blistering Texas summers and returned to the Pacific North-west, where all the seasons are mild and boating or kayaking is year-round. We should be in out-home by the time you receive this so please accept our invitation to visit.

Checking in with one of our recently noted authors, we find Brian O'Connor at the University of North Texas in Denton. Brian is a full professor and directs the Ph.D. program at the School of Library and Information Science. After graduation Brian sought and received conscientious objector status, received a film grant to do documentaries and spent much of the 1970s in that field. During this time he met and married Mary Keeney, a graduate of the University of California, Davis. He followed her to California and received his M.L.I.S. and Ph.D. at Berkeley. Brians career has included teaching and creating films about subjects from the Federal Reserve to rodeos in small-town Kansas; yet he saved time for learning the art of wooden boat building and has recently built a skin-on-frame kayak. He and Mary have two sons: Ethan, who attended MIT and is involved with seismology; and Andrew, who is now at Humboldt State University in Arcata, California. Brian is working on two major research projects which will keep him in Texas a bit longer, but he can envision a day when more of his time will be spent building and paddling his wooden boats.

Jim Zien joins a growing number of us returning to the Upper Valley and now resides in Thetford Hill. Jim received a masters from MlT's Center for Real Estate Development, department of architecture and urban studies and planning. He then worked for a time as the director of real estate planning for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. He is leaving his Cambridge, Massachusetts, business, Public Placemakers, where he was a consultant for educational, cultural and community facilities development, to become the executive director of the Aloha Foundation in Fairlee, Vermont. The foundation is a nonprofit institution that oversees the operation of four camps that provide summer and year-round out-door education programs for children, adults and businesses. In addition to the camps, its Hulbert Outdoor Center serves 7,000 participants annually through programs designed to foster personal growth, self-reliance, cooperation and a sense of community in people of all ages. Jim is looking forward to his involvement with this informal, experiential form of education, and the international scope of participants in the programs will draw on his substantial overseas experience.The move still keeps him near his daughters—Becky in the New York area and Jennifer in Boston. Jim also is closer to Peter Robbie, a close friend since Hanover days who is teaching at Thayer, and he stays in touch with Ted Rhodes in California and with Charlie Miller.

Please start those cards and letters coming so more can be said about more of you.

Steve Larson, OPO Box 1447,Anacovtes, WA 98221;(360) 770-4388; Wheat69@earthlink.net