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Allison Funk received a 2022 Guggenheim Fellowship. 

Deipica Bagchi became President of the NGO Women and Environment, championing the cause of ban on plastics and protection of the town's Green Cover. She is also the founding member of the Bhopal Citizens Forum, which is a group of people from various backgrounds acting as a pressure group to steer decision making into long term goals and larger good.

Pat Goehe moved to Santa Fe, NM, and worked as a mentor to adults in an alternative licensure program for teaching. Pat also worked as adjunct faculty at SFCC.

Bill Hamrick was an invited keynote speaker at a conference celebrating the centenary of the birth of a twentieth-century philosopher, Maurice Merleau-Ponty. The conference took place in March, 2008, in Sofia, Bulgaria. In addition, Bill published "Phenomenology and Metaphysics'' in the Handbook on Whiteheadian Process Though. Bill was also co-editor for a special issue of the Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology dedicated to Edmund Husserl's unpublished manuscripts on time-consciousness.

Chungwu Ho retired from the Department of Mathematics and Statistics in July, 2000. Chungwu decided to teach full time again, becoming a faculty member at Evergreen Valley College in San Jose, CA, where he coached students to present papers in student mathematics conferences and published several poems in a local literary magazine, Leaf by Leaf, along with mathematics papers.

He is a grandfather. Chungwu has been accompanying his wife, who performs with the Chinese opera, singing with the Chinese musical instrument, Chinghu.

John Richardson has been staying productive throughout his retirement. In 1998, he published a scholarly work, "From Pure Visibility of Virtual Reality in an Age of Estrangement" which was part of a series of books on "Critical Perspectives on Culture and Society," a joint USA/UK venture. In 2004, John wrote a novel, Along a Far Horizon, that is largely autobiographical. Set in Northeastern Wyoming during the last years of the Great Depression, it is a tale of racist murders and political intrigue. John has done a number of book reviews, all of them for the Journal of Aesthetic Education. John and his wife Glenda live in Bangor, ME, surprisingly, four doors up from a fellow named Stephen King! Their dog attacked him while on his daily walk but Mr. King was the one who profusely apologized — go figure.

Ernest Schusky has written four novels since his retirement in 1993. The first, Journey to the Sun, describes life at Cahokia Mounds around 1,000 A.D. The novel emphasizes the diversity of North American cultures and languages prior to European invasion. The second novel, Ride the Whirlwind, is an account of the Pueblo Revolt of 1680. The Revolt was the most successful uprising of North American Indians, driving the Spanish from New Mexico and keeping the invaders out for twelve years. Ernie then wrote Return to Beauty which begins on the Spanish-Navajo frontier of 1820 to introduce the topic of Navajo, or Dinee, slavery of women and children and lastly, Too Many Miracles, set in the contemporary Mexican highlands.