In my personal life I am married to Dave,
a bovine veterinarian (cow doctor), emeritus professor of veterinary medicine from Michigan State University, and a
volunteer for Penn State. We have three grown
children.
 | Austin, PSU (nutrition science) '92, lives in Shaker Heights, Ohio where he is a sales rep for Merial, the animal health products arm of Merck Pharmaceuticals. He is a dedicated fly fisherman and hunter. He has served as president of the Trout Club of the Cleveland Museum of Natural History. |
| Laurie, PSU (horticulture) '92, was an agricultural missionary with Food for the Hungry in Bolivia for 5 years. She is married to Miguel de la Riva, a Bolivian civil engineer who also worked for Food for the Hungry. We are so happy that Laurie and Miguel moved to the US in Dec. 2000 and live in State College.. In the fall of 2002 they both began graduate studies. Laurie is a PhD student of Dr. Jonathan Lynch in the Hort Dept. and Miguel is a MS student in Transportation Engineering. |
| Melanie, Wm. & Mary '95, spent a year in Bogota', Colombia before she earned a MPH from Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. She then worked as the Content Development Manager for the Healthy People 2010 website. She is now a World Relief Child Survival Program Specialist. Her first assignment was to Mozambique when the flood hit in February 2000 and she had to be evacuated. Click here to read her stirring report of the escape. Since that time she has also visited Nicaragua, Cambodia, Rwanda and Malawi where she provides technical assistance to the Child Survival projects in the field and is involved in proposal and report writing from headquarters to satisfy donor requirements. |
Dave is more involved than I am in our "non-hosted"
B&B at Arch
Spring Farm. We live
in State College, so I'm not at the B&B
very often, but it is a lovely place on a stream. Austin spends as much time as
possible there to fish and hunt; he also does a lot of work for us at the farm. I
have been teaching the 7th and 8th grade Sunday School class at the State College
Presbyterian Church since 1987.
The family cat is named Beaver, but we also call him "Mr. Cat" or
"Beaves." It doesn't really matter what we call him because he only comes
when he wants to.
More personal history...My undergraduate degree is from Hood College which was a woman's college of 500 students when I attended. After working for two years on the food staff of Good Housekeeping Magazine, I went to the Graduate School of Nutrition at Cornell University where I earned a Masters of Nutritional Science (MNS) in international nutrition. My brother Jack and his family live in Milwaukee.
