Shari Aronson says:
I’m doing a project for the Science Museum of MN and my task is to find details of the “real” Dallas— the sites, stories, beloved features that people who know it well would know but tourists might miss. Collins alumni seem like the perfect demographic to poll.
If you live (or have lived) in Dallas, email us {eatons[at]indiana[dot]edu} to pass along the info to Shari.
3.26.2009
Peter Holquist
I lived at Collins from 1982-1986, most memorably in a triple with Rich Remsberg and Doug Lathom. Even more memorable was Jim Rose's visit to our room during my 21st birthday celebration (see commemorative picture at Al Chitlick's Collins photo page). I took two semesters "off" from Collins, studying in Russia in Fall 1983 (Moscow) and Spring 1986 (Leningrad). Some may remember as "Mad Dog" in the pick-up soccer games we played. Let's try to forget some of the late night dancing (some pictures of which can be found on Mike Rozenzweig's Collins photo page).
I went on to complete a graduate degree at Columbia University in Russian History (PhD, 1995). I was overjoyed to find that Patty Weitsman, also a Collins alumna, also had gone to Columbia for a PhD in Political Science. When Ron Mader and JP Simon visited me in NYC in Spring 1987, we all watched IU's run to the NCAA championship together.
I met my wife Diana at Columbia University. Rich and JP attended my wedding as groomsmen.
After graduation, I taught for nine years at Cornell University before moving to the University of Pennsylvania in 2006.
I have been back to Bloomington intermittently, but I have never managed to coincide with a Collins Reunion. Yet I always remember my time at Collins with great fondness.
(Picture 1: Peter Holquist and Rich Remsberg; Picture 2: Doug Lathom, Peter Holquist, Rich Remsberg)
I went on to complete a graduate degree at Columbia University in Russian History (PhD, 1995). I was overjoyed to find that Patty Weitsman, also a Collins alumna, also had gone to Columbia for a PhD in Political Science. When Ron Mader and JP Simon visited me in NYC in Spring 1987, we all watched IU's run to the NCAA championship together.
I met my wife Diana at Columbia University. Rich and JP attended my wedding as groomsmen.
After graduation, I taught for nine years at Cornell University before moving to the University of Pennsylvania in 2006.
I have been back to Bloomington intermittently, but I have never managed to coincide with a Collins Reunion. Yet I always remember my time at Collins with great fondness.
(Picture 1: Peter Holquist and Rich Remsberg; Picture 2: Doug Lathom, Peter Holquist, Rich Remsberg)
Geoff McKim
Geoff McKim (Collins 86/87 & 87/88) was elected to the Monroe County Council in November of 2008. He is a Councilman at Large and was elected for a 4 year term.
Rose (Yersky) Kreidler
I'm Rose Kreidler, aka Rose Yersky, resident of Collins LLC in 83-87, with my Junior year off in Madrid, Spain. I keep quite busy working for the Federal Government, first for the Social Security Administration, and now working on War Hazard cases for the U.S. Dept. of Labor.
I love the blogs and pictures. I can't wait to show my 12 year old daughter where I lived in college. I'm sure she'll laugh to no end!! Better yet, I'll show my entire Girl Scout Troop.
Collins was the BEST place in Bloomington!! Great people, always with challenging ideas and philosophy--even PRACTICAL philosophy. I live up near Cleveland, Ohio, so I don't get back to Bloomington as much as I would like.
I love the blogs and pictures. I can't wait to show my 12 year old daughter where I lived in college. I'm sure she'll laugh to no end!! Better yet, I'll show my entire Girl Scout Troop.
Collins was the BEST place in Bloomington!! Great people, always with challenging ideas and philosophy--even PRACTICAL philosophy. I live up near Cleveland, Ohio, so I don't get back to Bloomington as much as I would like.
Anne Haines
Hi kids! I lived in MRC/Collins from 1979-1982 (and continued to hang around, working in the cafeteria, through 1983). I still live in Bloomington; got my MLS a few years ago and am now working as the Libraries Web Site Editor here at IU.
I was involved with Dancing Star during my Collins years, and I'm still writing; my first chapbook of poetry, "Breach," was published in 2008 by Finishing Line Press. You can read some sample poems and get more info on the chapbook at http://mypage.iu.edu/~ahaines/breach.html.
I was involved with Dancing Star during my Collins years, and I'm still writing; my first chapbook of poetry, "Breach," was published in 2008 by Finishing Line Press. You can read some sample poems and get more info on the chapbook at http://mypage.iu.edu/~ahaines/breach.html.
3.12.2009
Gretchen Sneegas: Americorps Adventures
First Day
I got in to Baltimore, and did my "in processing"... a bunch of paperwork, basically. Then I got moved into my house, which I share with 5 other girls. I share a bedroom, we all share a bathroom, but we have a kitchen, dining room, living room, and even our own washer and dryer, which is pretty sweet. Unfortunately, the house SUCKS. A LOT.
It is much, much, much better now that we spent a hefty chunk of the weekend cleaning it top to bottom. The guy who came in and repaired the hole in the dining room ceiling and the holes in the kitchen walls helped a lot in that regard. Soon we should be getting the leaks in our plumbing fixed... which were what caused those holes in the first place... and life will be better than ever.
In fact, our cleaning was so superb, that we won the "best cleaned house" for our unit in today's house inspections. Our prize, so rumor has it, is homemade fudge by Chris, the unit leader. I'm pretty stoked.
Last week was pretty laid back in a lot of ways. We were placed into temporary teams called "pods,” and mainly we did preliminary tedious-but-necessary stuff. A scavenger hunt (which my pod rocked, by the way), history of Americorps, getting our uniforms, doing our physicals, etc.
Wildland Firefighting Unit
There are three units- Wolf, Badger, and Raven in NCCC (National Civilian Community Corps). Each unit is broken down into teams, and each team (with 8-10 people per team) is led by a team leader.
The fire fighting unit, however, is slightly different. There are about 2 fire fighters per regular team, so it's spread out evenly through teams and units. They can be called up at any time to do wildland fire fighting, at which point they leave their teams temporarily, and come back after 10-20 days, depending on the project.
SO being the adventurous and masochistic lady that I am, I did the pack test, which consists of wearing a 45 lb vest and power walking 3 miles (no running or jogging allowed!) in 45 minutes or less. I clocked in at almost exactly 45 minutes, which means I passed! SO HOORAY FOR THAT! I am still super sore, but not NEARLY as sore as I was yesterday. I also have some enormous bruises on my legs, because I managed to get one of the men's vests, which hit me mid-thigh. And 45 minutes of power-walking with a 45 pound vest bouncing on one's thighs is bound to leave bruises.
Even though I passed, I didn't get picked for the fire fighting unit... I'm disappointed, but not overly disappointed. They had more people pass than they had spots open, and they needed to keep it even across the units... so I got shafted. There are some pluses to this, however. For example, I only need to do PT (physical training) three times a week instead of five. Which means I only have to get up at 5 am three times a week instead of five. Yay!
Permanent Teams
Today was really cool in that we found out our PERMANENT teams. There are eight of us, nine if you include Pete, our Team Leader. My roommate is one of my team members... hopefully we won't kill each other. We're both pretty easy going, though, so I'm not too worried. The rest of my team seems pretty cool. I'm in the Wolf unit- we're Wolf 2! Get pumped, y’all.
Now that we have our teams, our training will begin in earnest, and will last for 4 weeks. I'm not entirely sure what that will entail... I've heard some vague mumblings about things like "first aid" and "CPR" and "diversity training" and so forth. You will all be posted, of course.
I got in to Baltimore, and did my "in processing"... a bunch of paperwork, basically. Then I got moved into my house, which I share with 5 other girls. I share a bedroom, we all share a bathroom, but we have a kitchen, dining room, living room, and even our own washer and dryer, which is pretty sweet. Unfortunately, the house SUCKS. A LOT.
It is much, much, much better now that we spent a hefty chunk of the weekend cleaning it top to bottom. The guy who came in and repaired the hole in the dining room ceiling and the holes in the kitchen walls helped a lot in that regard. Soon we should be getting the leaks in our plumbing fixed... which were what caused those holes in the first place... and life will be better than ever.
In fact, our cleaning was so superb, that we won the "best cleaned house" for our unit in today's house inspections. Our prize, so rumor has it, is homemade fudge by Chris, the unit leader. I'm pretty stoked.
Last week was pretty laid back in a lot of ways. We were placed into temporary teams called "pods,” and mainly we did preliminary tedious-but-necessary stuff. A scavenger hunt (which my pod rocked, by the way), history of Americorps, getting our uniforms, doing our physicals, etc.
Wildland Firefighting Unit
There are three units- Wolf, Badger, and Raven in NCCC (National Civilian Community Corps). Each unit is broken down into teams, and each team (with 8-10 people per team) is led by a team leader.
The fire fighting unit, however, is slightly different. There are about 2 fire fighters per regular team, so it's spread out evenly through teams and units. They can be called up at any time to do wildland fire fighting, at which point they leave their teams temporarily, and come back after 10-20 days, depending on the project.
SO being the adventurous and masochistic lady that I am, I did the pack test, which consists of wearing a 45 lb vest and power walking 3 miles (no running or jogging allowed!) in 45 minutes or less. I clocked in at almost exactly 45 minutes, which means I passed! SO HOORAY FOR THAT! I am still super sore, but not NEARLY as sore as I was yesterday. I also have some enormous bruises on my legs, because I managed to get one of the men's vests, which hit me mid-thigh. And 45 minutes of power-walking with a 45 pound vest bouncing on one's thighs is bound to leave bruises.
Even though I passed, I didn't get picked for the fire fighting unit... I'm disappointed, but not overly disappointed. They had more people pass than they had spots open, and they needed to keep it even across the units... so I got shafted. There are some pluses to this, however. For example, I only need to do PT (physical training) three times a week instead of five. Which means I only have to get up at 5 am three times a week instead of five. Yay!
Permanent Teams
Today was really cool in that we found out our PERMANENT teams. There are eight of us, nine if you include Pete, our Team Leader. My roommate is one of my team members... hopefully we won't kill each other. We're both pretty easy going, though, so I'm not too worried. The rest of my team seems pretty cool. I'm in the Wolf unit- we're Wolf 2! Get pumped, y’all.
Now that we have our teams, our training will begin in earnest, and will last for 4 weeks. I'm not entirely sure what that will entail... I've heard some vague mumblings about things like "first aid" and "CPR" and "diversity training" and so forth. You will all be posted, of course.
3.11.2009
Kieron Mitchell
The most important thing by far about IU was meeting my wife, Courtney!
After college I started work at Eli Lilly in Indy (computer stuff).
I got an MBA at night, paid for by Lilly (thanks, Colonel Lilly!), and switched to Finance after about 4 years in computers. After about 4 years of that, I switched to working for a 100 person company in Columbus, Indiana as their controller. After about 4 years of that (are you noticing a pattern yet?) I got religion and switched to working for a 8 person not-for-profit. I've been there for about 5 years.
I expect my next move will be to work for myself (only if the pattern holds true...I'm just kidding).
I am a devout Catholic, have a great family (two daughters, Maddie and Molly, ages 13 (very soon) and 10), and work and live in Indianapolis with Courtney's side of our family. Maddie spends a lot of time reading, and updating her web site about (not surprisingly) books.
Molly loves on our five (yes, 5) cats and soon to be two rabbits (and we don't even live on a farm!).
My blog: www.kieronmitchell.com
Interests:
* Religion
* Games
* Tai Chi
Favorite Books:
* The Life of Pi
After college I started work at Eli Lilly in Indy (computer stuff).
I got an MBA at night, paid for by Lilly (thanks, Colonel Lilly!), and switched to Finance after about 4 years in computers. After about 4 years of that, I switched to working for a 100 person company in Columbus, Indiana as their controller. After about 4 years of that (are you noticing a pattern yet?) I got religion and switched to working for a 8 person not-for-profit. I've been there for about 5 years.
I expect my next move will be to work for myself (only if the pattern holds true...I'm just kidding).
I am a devout Catholic, have a great family (two daughters, Maddie and Molly, ages 13 (very soon) and 10), and work and live in Indianapolis with Courtney's side of our family. Maddie spends a lot of time reading, and updating her web site about (not surprisingly) books.
Molly loves on our five (yes, 5) cats and soon to be two rabbits (and we don't even live on a farm!).
My blog: www.kieronmitchell.com
Interests:
* Religion
* Games
* Tai Chi
Favorite Books:
* The Life of Pi
Steve Congdon
Lived @ Collins in late 80's. WIUS student radio geek, too. Now happily married and living in Chicago. Take advantage of fantastic summers listening to music in Millenium Park. Enjoy traveling, nickel poker, trumpet and the company of good friends. Work in professional services marketing and help ad agencies win new business.
Collins. Yep. Good stuff. A single tear runs down my cheek as I think of all the fun that was had there (now that we're older and fatter, but still having fun.) Cheers!
Collins. Yep. Good stuff. A single tear runs down my cheek as I think of all the fun that was had there (now that we're older and fatter, but still having fun.) Cheers!
Jeri Rosen Saper and Paul Saper
Jeri lived at MRC, Smith Hall, from 1975 to 1977. Paul Saper lived at MRC, Edmonson Hall, from 1975-1978. We met on the steps of MRC the first day of freshman orientation, August 17, 1975. We have great memories of friends and fun, convenient classes in the dorm basement, concerts in the dining hall and disco dancing with Sal (where are you Sal?). We graduated from IU in 1979, and have been married since then. We’ve got two grown sons and we each run our own businesses in Austin, Texas. We’ve lost touch with almost everyone but would love to catch up with our fellow MRC-ites.
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