[Peace-discuss] An update

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Hi, Everyone,

   I just want to thank everyone here on the local listserv.   I have  
been a lurker on this list for years, but I was also active on the  
ground for a short period of time in CU.  Between 2001 and 2004, I was  
the president of the UN Association of Champaign County, and I was  
known for singing Irish music at Mike & Molly's and as a member of the  
band,  Banish Misfortune.  Saludos to Rich at the Esquire.  I also  
helped organize the "town hall" on the war in 2003 (?) on WILL.

   I moved to CU in 2001, working for an IT company in Savoy.  During  
my short, 3 year stay, in CU, I met friends, played music, crashed  
college parties, and was influenced by some good people.  To the folks  
at AWARE, especially, I express great gratitude.  I am currently  
faculty at Evergreen State College in Olympia, WA.  Thanks to the  
influence of many people I met in CU, I decided to go back to school,  
get my PhD in Geography, and get involved (again) in education.  I  
think I might end up staying here, as Evergreen is so progressive in  
its education model.  But I will say that the School for Designing a  
Society influenced  me while I was living in CU, through the many I  
met that had been touched by that school.  I feel a similar affinity  
to Evergreen, though I did not partake in the work of SDS when I was  
in CU. Perhaps to my detriment!

I wanted to thank you, and also let you know about my position in  
academia, and say that the social environment of CU was critical to  
where I am today.  Any good I do in the world is owed, in part, to the  
good people I debated and drank with in Champaign-Urbana.

Yours,
John Baldridge (now, "PhD")