Class Notes for Spring 99

'83 Patricia Wheeler (Ph.D.) is now the president of the Consortium for Research on Educational Accountability and Teacher Evaluation (CREATE), an international association linking education and evaluation. She resides in Livermore, California.

'86 David Losk (Ph.D.) writes that he now holds the post of health and population officer in the USAID office in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. His professional interests are educational development and social sector development.

'88 Marisi Nerad (Ph.D.) has recently published The Academic Kitchen: A Social History of Gender Stratification at the University of California, Berkeley. The book, published by State University of New York Press, is the story of an all-women's department, the Department of Home Economics at UC Berkeley from 1905 to 1954. Catharine R. Simpson of New York University writes of the book: "Maresi Nerad has taken one department in one university, but what a department and what a university! Required reading for anyone who want to understand how the contemporary university got to be what it is." Dr. Nerad is currently Director of Graduate Research at UC Berkeley.

'93 Judith Bodenhausen (Ph.D.) reports from Oakland that she has been elected to the Board of Directors of the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards. She is the board liaison to the development of the English as a New Language Credentials.

'93 Olga Werby (M.A.) and her husband are running an educational and entertainment project on the World Wide Web called The Company Therapist (http://www.TheTherapist.com). The web page was named Entertainment Site of the Year by Net Magazine in 1997. The Company Therapist is a collaborative, hypertext writing project that integrates the works of many writers into a cohesive whole and forms a diverse community of authors with different ages, life experiences, and ethnic backgrounds. Ms. Werby hopes to return to the GSE this fall to complete her Ph.D.

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'83 Patricia Wheeler (Ph.D.) is now the president of the Consortium for Research on Educational Accountability and Teacher Evaluation (CREATE), an international association linking education and evaluation. She resides in Livermore, California.
'86 David Losk (Ph.D.) writes that he now holds the post of health and population officer in the USAID office in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. His professional interests are educational development and social sector development.
'88 Marisi Nerad (Ph.D.) has recently published The Academic Kitchen: A Social History of Gender Stratification at the University of California, Berkeley. The book, published by State University of New York Press, is the story of an all-women's department, the Department of Home Economics at UC Berkeley from 1905 to 1954. Catharine R. Simpson of New York University writes of the book: "Maresi Nerad has taken one department in one university, but what a department and what a university! Required reading for anyone who want to understand how the contemporary university got to be what it is." Dr. Nerad is currently Director of Graduate Research at UC Berkeley.
'93 Judith Bodenhausen (Ph.D.) reports from Oakland that she has been elected to the Board of Directors of the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards. She is the board liaison to the development of the English as a New Language Credentials.
'93 Olga Werby (M.A.) and her husband are running an educational and entertainment project on the World Wide Web called The Company Therapist (http://www.TheTherapist.com). The web page was named Entertainment Site of the Year by Net Magazine in 1997. The Company Therapist is a collaborative, hypertext writing project that integrates the works of many writers into a cohesive whole and forms a diverse community of authors with different ages, life experiences, and ethnic backgrounds. Ms. Werby hopes to return to the GSE this fall to complete her Ph.D.