A few
of our
Sociology Graduates...
Maggie Miller '06
was a Community Inclusion Specialist for ADEC
Residential and Day Services for persons with
disabilities. She then took the position of Kaleidoscope
Coordinator with the
Brethren-Mennonite Council for LGBT interests
located in Minneapolis.
Jill
Kline ’05
was accepted into graduate school —well, actually
three of them!
Jill chose to attend the
Master of Arts in Public Service at
Marquette University in Milwaukee, where she
received a full fellowship. She will
specialize in non-profit management.
Kris Posthuma ’05
mentored and tutored youth with
City Year Greater
Philadelphia after graduation from Manchester.
Amanda Smith '05
earned the highest overall
GPA of all 2005 Manchester College graduates. She now
works as an organizer with the
Service Employees’
International Union (SEIU) in Pittsburgh.
Rosetta Burkholder '04
continued her studies in
Mannheim, Germany under a
Fulbright Scholarship.
Hannah Ditmars '04
received a
Fulbright Scholarship and used it to
travel to South Korea where she taught English for a
year. Then she pursued a Clinical Doctorate of Audiology
at the University of Nebraska.
Rachel Paske '04
of Fort Wayne taught English for a year through
the Fulbright Commission in Austria and then
joined the Americorps Vista Program doing grant
writing and fundraising for Vincent Village,
Inc., a Fort Wayne transitional housing
organization. After that, she was awarded
another Fulbright grant to study in Germany for
a year.
Katie Hudson ’04
will be entered the
Social Work Program at IU-South Bend to pursue
a master’s degree.
Rachael
Waas Smith ’03
and
Nate Shull ’03
will be married this fall in North Manchester. They are
living in Portland, OR, where Nate is working with
Hispanic youth and Rachael is employed by an insurance
company.
Jenny Durnall ’02
is a
graduate student in sociology at the University of
Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
Laurel R. Sampson '02
of Waukesha, WI, works at
Jeremy House, a homeless transition shelter for adults
with mental illness.
Jennifer B. Bruhler '02
of Lewes, DE, is a program
assistant in direct service coordination, HIV prevention
education for Public Allies Delaware, AmeriCorps, with
the Sussex County AIDS Committee.
Kristin M. Morris '02
of Muncie, IN, received a masters degree in applied
gerontology from Ball State University in July 2003 and
is the Alzheimer's residential care program director in an
assisted living facility.
Nicholas J. Studebaker '01 of Vancouver,
WA, is a manager for Smile Savers, a non-profit dentist
facility serving low-income families.
Ryan Cape ’00
(sociology-criminal justice) of McHenry, Ill.,
is a state trooper with the Illinois State
Police. He serves as a field training officer
and member of a special enforcement team.
Jennifer Witty '00
of Portland, OR, is an
administrative assistant at NPC Research, a social
research firm in Portland.
Jill
Hoppenjans '96 is employed as the
Assistant Director of Orientation and Leadership
Programs in the Dept. of Student Life at the University of
Vermont.
Kim
Johnson-Spratt '96 was
admitted to the Indiana
University School of Law.
Anthony
Todd '92 is a police
officer with the
Connersville
Police Department in Indiana.
Kelly
Geckler '91 works in
Detroit, Michigan, at the
Ennis
Center for Children as a therapist.
Michael
Young '90 is an
Indiana State Trooper in LaPorte,
Indiana.
Richard
Cool '88 lives in
Granger, Indiana, where he is an
Indiana State Trooper.
David
Allbritten '87 is
a special agent with the
Bureau
of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms
of the US Justice Department.
Lisa
Lloyd '86 is an
attorney in Winamac, Indiana.
Brian D.
Harley ’85 of North Manchester is Assistant Dean of
International Programs and Director of Programs for Study Abroad at
Purdue University in West Lafayette.
Alan
Mock '83 earned
his PhD and taught at Lakeland
College in Sheboygan, Wisconsin.
Judy
Warner '80 combined an
associate of arts degree in
gerontology with a business
management major and worked as a
nursing home administrator in
Chesterfield, Indiana.
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A
few of our
Social Work Graduates...
Melinda
Harris '06
earned advanced standing
status at the
University of Denver MSW Program and completed the "At-Risk Youth" concentration.
She was then hired by the
Fort Wayne
Women's Bureau to work in their Rape Awareness Program.
Brooke Pyles '06
served as an
Americorps volunteer in two Indianapolis high schools after
graduating from MC with her social work degree.
The day after
graduating from MC,
Laura Rutledge '06
accepted a
position working with adolescent girls at the Indianapolis
Children's
Bureau. She received a promotion within 18 months.
Emily Davies '06
oversees a county-wide program for developmentally disabled persons in Ohio.
Gessica Brown '05
served as a Memory Care Social Worker with
American Senior
Communities in Indianapolis.
Crystal Waggy '05
was hired as
a bilingual counselor at the
YWCA RISE Children's Center in Chicago. She later entered the Jane
Addams School of Social Work for her MSW degree.
Bree Day '05
landed a position serving developmentally disabled persons in Fort
Wayne, IN through Your Friends and
Neighbors, Inc.
Amy Hopkins '05
was hired by
Sarah's
Circle in Chicago to meet the needs of homeless women in the
Windy City. She later entered the Jane Addams School of Social Work for
her MSW degree.
Katherine (Weikel) Lyon
'04
found her
dream job at The Carriage House in Fort Wayne, IN. She loves the
clubhouse model used there because it truly focuses on empowerment!
Jenn Morris '04, MSW
spent a year serving the homeless in northern California through
Brethren
Volunteer Services. She then completed her masters degree and has been
working for
Homeless Initiative Program in Indianapolis.
Eddie
Miller
'04
was worked
for the Yolo County
Probation Department in northern California before moving on the
Child Protective Services in Phoenix, AZ.
Sarah Dillon '04
is
using her social work degree in her work with sex offenders at the
Wabash County, IN Probation Dept.
Jessica
Hamlyn '04, MSW
completed the MSW Advanced Standing Program at Indiana
University-Indianapolis. She then accepted a position with Foster Care Plus
in Central Indiana.
Jen Bell '04
joined the Youth Service staff of
Vincent
Village,
which provides shelter, care, advocacy, affordable housing, and support
services to homeless families in Fort Wayne, IN. She also entered the MSW
Program at IPFW.
Amanda Schuknecht
'04,
Josh Van
Houten '04,
and Heather
Clark '04
entered the world of professional social work as Child & Adolescent Case Managers at the
Otis R. Bowen
Center.
Josih Hostetler '03
served as
the Coordinator of Kaleidoscope, a program of the
Brethren Mennonite Council for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual,
and Transgender Interests.
Margo Miller '03
of Goshen, IN, has taken a
Church of the
Brethren Volunteer Service (BVS) assignment
with Bridgeway Homes for Pregnant Teens in Lakewood, CO.
Miranda Miller '03
Sipe of Rochester, IN, was an
adult case manager at
Four County
Counseling Center, then she served as a social
worker with Preventative Aftercare, Inc.
Tara
Niles '02 is a
case management supervisor at
REAL Services,
Inc., in South Bend, IN. She received
her MSW in May 2004 from Indiana University-South Bend.
Chris
Brandt '00 and
Willie
Phillips '96 pursued master
degrees in social work
at Western Michigan
University and Indiana University.
Chris entered graduate school
directly from his undergraduate
program at Manchester, while
Willie worked in AIDS services
and mental health before entering
graduate school.
Heather
Marschand '00 dreamed
of working with troubled youth in
a wilderness program and has
found just such an opportunity at
the
Anasazi Foundation in Mesa,
AZ.
Sarah
Kanouse '99 was
employed as a case manager at the
AIDS
Task Force and
then served victims of
domestic violence at the
Center
for Nonviolence in Fort Wayne,
IN.
Steve
Miller '98 worked with
homeless students and their
families in the Marion, IN
schools and provided child protection
services through the
Grant County
Office of the Division of Family
and Children.
More recently he became the Executive Director of
Habitat for Humanity in Huntington, IN.
Since she completed her social work
degree at Manchester College,
Julie Hostetler '94 has worked
with pregnant women in
Healthy Beginnings at the Elkhart County Department of Health.
Angel Tate '93
became the Texas State
Program Director of the
Red Cross
Hurricane Relief Program.
Lisa Keller
'83 "rose through the ranks" and to become a District
Director of the State Child
Protection and Juvenile Services in Brattleboro, VT.
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Jaime
'01 is a work
camp coordinator with Brethren Volunteer Service in
Elgin, Illinois. Simply, but with purpose, Jaime acts for
change. Socially conscious, Jaime spent her social work
practicum helping Bosnian, Burmese, and Vietnamese
refugees adjust to living in the United States.