1960  Allen Christensen, M.S., was appointed by President Bush to a two-year term on the Board for International Food and Agricultural Development. He also directs the Benson Institute at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, an organization designed to help poor families in rural areas achieve self-sufficiency.

1964  Douglass Miller, M.A. ’66, Ph.D. ’69, has written Armored Scale Insect Pests of Trees and Shrubs (Cornell University Press). Miller is a research entomologist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

1966  Michael Gillin, M.A., Ph.D. ’70, was named deputy chair of the Department of Radiation Physics at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. He also holds the title of professor and chief of clinical physics in the department. Gillin spent 27 years at the Medical College of Wisconsin before he and his wife, Pamela Newberry, moved to Texas, where Gillin describes himself as an avid gardener, experimentalist cook and red-state liberal.

1968  Richard Mitchener, M.A., died in February 2006 at the Toronto Sunnybrook Regional Cancer Centre. Mr. Mitchener taught for many years in the United States before moving to Canada. Mr. Mitchener also edited magazines, books and manuscripts for the Canadian Rose Society, and was involved with Tyndale Seminary, the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada and the Pentecostal Assemblies of Canada. Survivors his wife, Marilynn; his son, David, and daughter, Darlene; and stepsons Allan and Stephen Lougheed.

1969  After a 30-year career with the U.S. Public Heath Service, Bureau of Medical Services, Michael Breckinridge retired and is now a tribal employee at Pleasant Point Health Center in Perry, Maine. His public health service included assignments in New York, Puerto Rico, the Ft. Peck Reservation in Montana and the Passamaquoddy Reservation in Perry. He and his wife, Cathy, have three daughters.  •  Helen Crawford, M.A., Ph.D. ’74, was named professor emerita by Virginia Tech University. The title, conferred upon distinguished retirees from the university faculty, recognizes Crawford’s near 20 years of research and teaching in cognitive psychology, hypnosis and pain control.