Alumni mentioned in the paper
"Student Environmentalism at Wesleyan in the 1970's"

Bob Yaro '71
yaro@rpa.org
THEN
Bob Yaro founded the first environmental group at Wesleyan, SURVIVAL Inc. of Middletown, in 1970.
NOW
Bob Yaro works for RPA, a not-for-profit research and advocacy group headquartered in Manhattan. The Association was established in 1929 to develop plans and strategies to improve the environment, economy, transportation sytems and quality of life of the New York metropolitan region. You can check out our website at www.rpa.org. 

Jody Segal '77
accesstore@friedman-sun.com
THEN
Jody Segal helped start the CEA (Committee for Environmental Awareness), the major environmental group at Wesleyan in the 1970's, as well as recycling programs in Middletown and Wesleyan.
NOW
Jody Segal now lives in North Carolina, running a business which sells environmentally friendly products, from soaps and paints to solar lighting systems.  The web page for her business is at www.friedman-sun.com.

Harold Marcuse '79
marcuse@humanitas.ucsb.edu
THEN
"I was involved in the May 1977 occupation of the Seabrook Nuclear Power Plant construction site in New Hampshire. I was in one of maybe 3-5 affinity groups from Wesleyan that went. Since we were one of the first groups arrested, some of us also had our trials. We spent the two weeks in the interim in a nat'l guard armory (about 2200 were arrested total), where many of us went on a hunger strike. Also because we were one of the first groups to be arrested, a photographer was able to take our picture and smuggle it out before the cops cracked down on journalists. I have that, as well as some clippings. In fact, you'll find a copy of the picture on the web at www.history.ucsb.edu/faculty/marcuse/index.html (go to the very bottom of the page), or do a find "Seabrook".  Because of said trial and conviction, I didn't get my diploma until a year later ('79), as I had missed my final exams"
NOW
"I was a physics major at Wesleyan, but have since become a historian." He teaches at the University of California Santa Barbara.

Amanda Hardy Sloan '80
synta@bigfoot.com
781-784-7467
THEN
Amanda Hardy majored in CSiS (College of Science in Society), described by her as, "The central academic spoke around which radical environmentalism on campus spun" in the late '70's, was active in Ecology House, and started ConnPIRG at Wesleyan.
NOW
"My current interest is landscape design, specifically environmental restoration and how landscape design can 'connect' people psychologically and spiritually with the natural places around them."

Other Alumni

Michelle Salisbury '98
msalisbury@mail.wesleyan.edu
THEN
"I was a member of E3 for my four years at Wes. 

Kristen Strohm '98 kstrohm@mail.wesleyan.edu (she is working at environmental education camps and has done wildlife preservation work).  John Pollock '94 worked heavily on SFAE (and may have started it-- John was at Wes when need-blind admissions was threatened and students raised money to keep it (that's one of the reasons that students pushed Wes into Green Lights-- to donate the energy savings to financial aid). In E3, I worked with Meghan Shane, Josh Pollock, and Chris Shepard (among others). Chris works at the CT Academy for Education (860) 346-1177. He probably knows where Meghan and Josh are-- in fact, he helped create E3-- it was another group before 93-94.   There were many people my year active in E3 as well-- Lindsay Slabich, and others."
NOW
"Currently I am working at the Cadmus Group helping to promote Energy Star Residential Lighting Program and Energy Star Buildings. I am also a Board Member of the Greater Boston Sierra Club and I am the contact person for the Sierra Student Coalition."