[Peace-discuss] An update

[Karen Medina]

Congratulations, John.
A few of us know another faculty member at Evergreen.

I also want to say thank you to peace-discuss and more so to AWARE. I
cannot tell you how much I value this community.

-karen medina

On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 4:28 AM,  <webmaster at one-world.org> wrote:
> 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")