Pitt State Magazine - Fall 2011

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Gorillas on the Mediterranean

Rob Lundien, EdS in school counseling ’09, and Diana Baker, BS in social work ’74, pause in front of the leaning tower of Pisa in Italy. Rob and Diana were part of a group of 20 students, parents and educators from Neosho, Mo., who spent 18 days traveling and touring Italy and Greece in 2010. The trip also included a Mediterranean Cruise that traveled to the Greek islands of Patmos, Crete, Mykonos, Santorini and to the Turkish city of Kusadasi.

In Paris

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1,000 gorillas

In paradise

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What a view!

Russian fashion

; MS ‘08, tries on Natalie O’Neal, BS ‘06 hat in Izmailovsky fur n sia a traditional Rus ght-Hays study Market during a Fulbri 2010. O’Neal and in sia Rus abroad tour of around the U.S. 11 other teachers from about contemporary g rnin lea spent a month dergarten - 5th grade Russia. O’Neal is a kin e Nettels Elementary org Ge ESOL teacher at School in Pittsburg.

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PITT STATE Fall 2011

Crystal Stokes (FACS Education ‘08) and her son, Austin, are proud to wear their Pitt State shirts on the London Eye in July 2010.

Ed and Patti Hettler were among 1,000 people who dressed in gorilla suits for the 2010 Gorilla Run, an annual Denver fundraiser for Mountain Gorillas. (Really?! 1,000 people running in gorilla suits?) Ed (BSET ’79) and Patti (’75-’78) live in Monument, Colo.


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