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 Meg Arguso
05/11/2007
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I will be attending Thomas M. Cooley Law School in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
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Comments:		 Karas Allese
11/3/1999
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The Sun News
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www.myrtlebeachaccess.com
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Comments:		 Robert Allison
04/03/2000
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BA-Soca 1998

Plans to attend La Roche College for graduate school. Plans to earn his masters in Human Resource Management.
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Phil Allmendinger
05/11/2007
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Alicia Anderson
05/11/2007
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 Walt Auvil
03/06/2006
Leman Walton Auvil
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BA-Soca 1978; JD-1981
Rusen & Auvil, PLLC
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I would like to do something to recognize Pat Rice. She was my first Anthropology Professor when I started at WVU in 1974. I would like to contact a former student of hers who might be interested in contributing to some honorarium for years of service.
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Elizabeth Ball

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I got into graduate school at Northwestern State University of Louisiana. The program is for Heritage Resources, but I will specializing in architectural preservation.
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Comments:		 Shannon Bottjer
09/28/2000

SBottjer@spges.com
BA-Soca
Information Technology Division for Solomon Page
Research Analyst Training to be a Technical Recruiter
Training to be a Technical Recruiter; website: www.spgitjobs.com
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Sean L. Bryner
05/01/2008

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BA-Soca 1999
WV Supreme Court of Appeals
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Comments:		 Rebecca Callahan
08/26/2002
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Master’s in Public Health from Emory University.
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Comments:		 Aaron Carlson
05/17/07
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U.S Border Patrol Academy
Border Patrol Agent
As ya know I have been in Tucson, Arizona for work since March 31st. I extended for a second tour so I will be here until June 22 or so. Since Tuscon Sector is the busiest in the country at what we do, other sectors have been sending agents over to help out. They have been doing it several years now. It was my time, and I didnt have a choice, though I did decide for the extension. And starting this week they are mandating a six day work week, with the sixth day being 8 hours of OT. So even more money for me to earn, not like I have much to do on my days off. I work for the Tucson Station, but our area of responisbility (AOR) includes down along the border near Sasabee Arizona. So everyday we drive from 65 to 90 miles just to get to our area of patrol. That is why you may hear of a lot of agents here getting into accidents, especially when working midnights. This area of terrain is much different than south Texas,&nbs p; First of all, no river here, just desert and mountains. Its quite warm but lower humidity than south Texas also. This area is mountainas and the illegals do try to cross the mountains and canyons to try to elude apprehension. All agents here ride solo and the helicopters are a huge tool out here, they try to have two up every shift. They also use four wheelers and horse patrol here. It hasnt rained more than a quarter of an inch since Ive been here.

Since it is the "wild west" of the border patrol, most of us carry a long arm everyday, either the 12 gauge shotgun or M4 rifle (.223 like an M16). The border used to be only a four strand barbed wire fence. Now they have started to put up what they call vehicle barriers. These are sections of railroad tracks welded together to make cross sections. These are mainly to stop vehicles. Before these, they had 'drive throughs', vehicle full of illegals drive through the barbed wire, and cross country through the desert. There are still several cars, trucks, and vans left through the desert, wrecked and riddle with bullet holes. Those have seemed to stop and now there is more of a definition of a border. There are a ton of people trying to get through, several hundred a day. We have close to 800 apprehensions a day. And quite a bit of drugs. Anywhere from 200 pounds to 2800.

Well just letting you all know what is up, and a few pics. Hope it didnt
bore ya. Take it easy.

I drive a 4 wheel drive truck, carry a gun, and get paide for it.

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Comments:		 Jennifer Chambers
05/11/2007
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WVU Division of Soc. & Anthro Graduate Student
Graduate Teaching Assistant
I liked the Sociology Department so much, I decided to stay and play for two more years.
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Comments:		 Jennifer Cheek
10/04/2003
Jennifer Michelle Cheek
jmcheek@hotmail.com
BA-Soca 2002
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Comments:		 Mr. Michael Cina
03/16/2006

Michael.g.cina@census.gov
BA-Soca 2003; MA- Soc 2005
United States Department of Commerce
Supervisory Survey Statistician
Please feel free to give my contact information to anybody interested in employment in the Federal Department of Commerce. Jobs are posted on www.usajobs.com.
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Comments:		 Brice Cooper
03/15/2004

amos98@aol.com
BA-Soca 2003
United States Army
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Comments:		 Lori J. Daff-Siggins
09/14/2007
Lori Jo Daff-Siggins
musictimeproductions@comcast.net
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Merrill Lynch
Financial Advisor
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Comments:		 Anthony Delligatti
05/11/2007

adelliga@mix.wvu.edu
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Comments:		 Kate Dubois
05/11/2007

kdubois1@mix.wvu.edu
BA-Soca 2007
WVU Division of Sociology and Anthropology Graduate Assistant
Graduate Assistant
I will be starting the Master’s program in applied social research in Fall of 2007. I hope to continue on and receive my Doctorate in Criminology.
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Received degree of Juris Doctor from University of Richmond's T.C. Williams School of Law.
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Comments:		 Dick Evans


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Ms. Loren Friend
05/11/2007

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BA-Soca 2007


Doing volunteer work for a year www.missionyear.org. Then planning working on a master’s degree at Eastern University.
   
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Amanda J. Haas
11/17/1999

ahaas@billbradley.com
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I am now working in the Issues Department for the Bill Bradley for President campaign in the National Headquarters in New Jersey. I was going to work for the Americorps program, if you remember, but it turned out that they didn't have any jobs in the field I was interested in.

As for the job that I have now, I love it. It isonly temporary, pending on whether or not Bill Bradley wins the primaries, and then the Presidency. I am also waiting to hear about another job that I am very interested in as well. It is to be a Victim-witness Advocate for my eounty (Essex). I won't find out for a while, so this is the perfect job for me to have for the time being. I may even consider staying with this job if I'm offered the other job, until I find out about the primaries. I am makeing great contacts at this job that could help me out when this is all over. And who knows, maybe Brandley will even win.

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Kevin R. Hart
4/14/2008

hartkr79@yahoo.com
MA Applied Social Research 2007
UNC Charlotte Urban Institute
Survey Research Supervisor: Community Research & Services
I monitor and supervise undergraduate students who conduct survey research across the state of North Carolina.
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Jennifer Hatcher
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Teaching at Shepherd College
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Comments:		 Elizabeth Garvin Houlihan
02/13/2007
Garvin
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Pauline May (Cork) franchise
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Children Craig and Evan
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Comments:		 Katherine Lauren Howell
05/11/2007

khowell4@gmail.com
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Comments:		 Christina Jacob
05/01/2007

Christina.jacob@ahss.org
BA-SocA 1988
Park Ridge Home Health
Medical / Geriatric Social Worker
My interests in Anthropology led me to Gerontology and the practice of Social Work with older adults and their families. I’ve been doing that since getting my Masters in Social Work at UNC in 1994. I now live in Asheville, NC and am married to another social worker. We have a 5 year old son and I am pregnant with our second child. I have found memories of my anthropology classes, classmates and professors. Keep up the good work!
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Ms. Christina M. Kress
05/11/2007


BA Criminology 2007

Graduate Student, Research Asst.

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Comments:		 Kathleen Kubal
07/04/2004

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I am currently doing field school at the Presidio in San Francisco. We are excavating the home of the Briones family, built in the early 1800s. There is also a well preserved trashed deposit that we are digging, The program is through Stanford. The professor in carge is a womon named Barb Voss and she is amazing. I have learned a tremendous amount. This winter I am applying to jSonoma State for their Cultural Resource Management Program. Hopefully I will get in. I will probably apply to Stanford and SF State as well.
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Comments:		 Thomas J. Leonette
09/04/2003

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BearingPoint
Senior Management Analyst
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Comments:		 Alisha Lloyd
09/03/2003

Alisha.Lloyd@CO.BELL.TX.US
BA-SocA 2001
Bell County Juvenile Probation
Probation Officer
I am now living in Killeen, TX and work for the Bell County Juvenile Probation as a Probation Officer.
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Comments:		 Thomas Lyson
01/18/2001





Lyson died on Dec. 28 in Ithaca, NY, at age 58. The case was cancer. He was an influential sociologist at Cornell who argued that rural towns and small farms could survive economically by selling locally produced goods to regional markets. Source: The New York Times/Region, January 18, 2007.
   
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Comments:		 Jacelyn Macedo


bluejaykoy@hotmail.com


Survey Project Coordinator
Jacelyn is living and working in California. Surveying CA Indians on their tobacco use.
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Comments:		 Danelle E. Marable
11/03/2006

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MA 2002
Massachusetts General Hospital
Research Assistant
I work for the Community Benefit Program, providing evaluation and program development/consultation to their community health programs. It is very participatory with the program staff, so the data we collect is meaningful to them and us. We also write grants, present, and we are starting to work on manuscripts. I get to work with a variety of health concerns, including substance abuse prevention; youth risk and protective factors; youth, family, community, and domestic violence prevention; refugee and immigrant health; and pregnant and parenting teens”. The Community Benefit website is http://www.massgeneral.org/cb/.

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Gregg Marut
08/09/2007

g.marut@hotmail.com
BA SocA 2003
Affiliated Computer Services, (ACS)
Consultant/Business Analyst
Working in the human resources industry at this point in time. I've been able to use my undergraduate background to help facilitate my career thus far. Classes at WVU that centered on labor, race relations, economic sociology, and complex organizations have been very helpful in a real world setting. I'm looking forward to going back to school and working on an MBA soon, and am currently in the process of preparing for it.

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Comments:		 Theda Mcpheron-Keel
05/2006

windhold@windhollow.org
MA SocA 1996 & MS Comm. Health Edu. 1997
Wind Hollow Foundation
President / CEO
PhD University of Maryland – Graduation date: may 2007. Dissertation topic: Traditional tobacco – American Indian duality: Commercial use verses ceremonial ways. (I’ve been PI on 3 research grants for my PhD). National Cancer Institute funded research grant award year 2001 – pre-dissertation studies. Grant Award year 2003 – Special Populations Network, dissertation study at university of Arizona. Grant Award year 2006 – Community partnered (University of Arizona) – Research (Phoenix, Arizona Population). All 3 projects extended my research and will continue into my post-doc at the University of Arizona – Oncology and AI’s.
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Comments:		 Carson Mencken
12/02/2002

Carson_Mencken@baylor.edu
Former Faculty Member
Baylor University
Associate Professor
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Comments:		 Alisha Meador
12/23/2002

alishameador@hotmail.com

Work4WV Career Center

I am in a department called “Region 1 Employer Services/Rapid Response”. We respond to layoffs and have informational sessions for laid off employees to sign up for unemployment. We also provide other services to further their education and help them get back into the job market.
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Mark Metheny
06/24/2003

mark_metheny@yahoo.com
BA-SocA
Federal Government in Casa Grande, Arizona.
Border Patrol
I graduated the Border Patrol Academy on June 9th and have started working here in Casa Grande, Arizona. The work here in the field is really exciting, most days are filled with tracking, cutting sign, and processing aliens. I would recommend this job to anyone looking to get into Law Enforcement with the Federal Government. If you have anyone interested have them check out http://www.honorfirst.com and go to the message board.
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Comments:		 Mark A. Moenssens
01/13/2003

MmMoenssens@aol.com
BA-Soca 2000


http://www.student.ipfw.edu/~moenma02/
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Comments:		 Diana Mohr
01/10/2007


BA-SocA 2006
Westbrook Health Services in Ripley, WV.
Intensive care coordinator
Mohr is engaged to Joshua McClure. The couple is planning a July 12, 2008 wedding.
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Amber Pertz
1999-2000 Outstanding Senior

apertz@wvu.edu
BA-Soca 2000


Plans to attend Graduate School to receive her master’s and then her doctorate.
   
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Comments:		 Ms. Mary Rogers
06/08/2004

urogers@advcs.com
BA-Soca 2000
Heritage Preservation
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Robyn Salsbury
05/2006
Robyn Kristine Salsbury
rksalsbury@hotmail.com
BA-Soca 2002


I’m currently attending law school at ST. Louis University. My area of interest is public interest law. I’m also working with a non-profit legal organizations – one that provides advocacy to children in the state foster care system (thanks to Dr. Nolan and his wife for getting me interested in this) and one that provides free legal services to low-income persons living with HIV/AIDS. I constantly find myself drawing on things I learned in my sociology classes, both when I’m in class and at work.
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Comments:		 Megan Sheehy
3/22/01

smegansheehy@aol.com

Morgantown Area Youth Service
Intern
Currently doing internship with the Youth Intervention Program that directly assists at-risk and high risk-youth.
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Comments:		 Mr. Joe Stankovich


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Chatham College (Woodland Road, Pittsburgh, PA 15232)
Director of Institutional Research
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Comments:		 Carrie Stone
12/17/2000

carrie@rainbowlaw.com
Studied archaeology with Dr. Rice during mid-1980.


Stone is in Florida, went to law school, and was planning to get some volunteer work as an archaeologist in the Tampa Bay area.
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Robert Tice
12/16/2007

robert.tice@state.de.us

Baltimore Police Department

I got the job with Baltimore Police!!!! I am so excited! I start the academy Dec 28th.
   
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Comments:		 Shane Vanderford
01/27/2004

vanderfo@staff.uiuc.edu
BA Archaeology
Illinois Transportation Archaeological Research Program
Cultural Resource Archaeologist
I met my husband, Aaron, doing archaeology in Iowa. We had a son, Ashton, in July of 2002. I am currently a District Archaeologist for the ITARP, with the University of Illinois. The majority of my job is making sure the Phase I-III survey is completed for IDOT in northern Illinois.
       
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Comments:		 Mr. Gary Williams
May 11, 2007

garydewaynewilliams@gmail.com
BA Criminology and Investigations 2007
American Dreamers Photography / Pitt Law School
Owner / Student
I would like to thank the staff and professors of the Sociology and Criminology department for preparing me to enter into the next level. I am opening a business and have been accepted to the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. The experience I have gained at WVU will greatly help as I move on.
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Comments:		 Mrs. Kristi D. Wood-Turner


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BA and MA in Sociology 2000 and 2002
WVU Center for Civic Engagement
Program Coordinator
As I finished up my doctoral program and continue to build my administrative career, I realize just how much I rely on my love and understanding of sociology! SOCA is truly the foundation for all my programming and trainings. I love and respect all my mentors in Knapp Hall!!
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Comments:		 Meredyth A. Woody
06/23/2005

Meredyth.Woody@opm.gov

OPM / EMDC – Shepherdstown, WV
Program Coordinator
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Comments:		 Ms. Kjirsten Yahr
05/11/2007

kjirstenthegreat@yahoo.com
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