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Many classics majors have continued to work in that field. Still others have gone on to business and professional schools. Among our graduates:

Teaching Classics

Collegiate level

  • Richard Ellis '56, Professor of Classical & Near Eastern Archeology, Bryn Mawr College

  • Steve Miller '64, Professor of Archaeology at the University of California at Berkeley and past director of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, where he directed the excavation of ancient Nemea.

  • Tom Brogan '88, M.A. from Bryn Mawr College; Ph.D. student of ancient and near eastern archaeology at Bryn Mawr College. He was an intern at Prof. Leslie Day's dig in 1987 and returned in 1988 as a trench-master. From 1990 to 1994 he dug at Mochlos (where he is the Assistant Director). In 1992-93 he was a Fulbright Fellow at the American School of Classical Studies. Currently his is Director of the East Crete Research Center in Pachyammos, Crete.

High School

  • Tom Davis '83, Latin teacher at Lawrence Central High School.

  • Steve Prince '88, M.A.T. from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He teaches high school Latin in St. Joeseph, Michigan.

  • Jeremy Walker '92 studied at Indiana University and received an MA in Latin; teaching at Crown Point High School in Indiana.

Law

  • Charles Tramel '76 is a lawyer for Bank One, Chicago.

  • Mark Galliher '79 is an attorney in Indianapolis.

  • Chris Kouros '83 is an attorney in Schererville, Indiana.

  • Eric Heiser '86, a graduate of Duke University School of Law. Now practicing in Arizona.

  • Allen Yow '86, a law graduate of Southern Illinois University. Now practicing in Illinois.

  • William Rakoczy '92 graduated from Vanderbilt Law School; currently clerking for a federal judge in Chicago.

Medicine and Science

  • Travis Bisset '77 works in the area of specifications for Cummins Engine Company of Columbus, Indiana.

  • Scott Brewer '80 is an Environmental Scientist for the Indiana Department of Environment.

  • Sean Blackwell '89, a double major in classics and biology and just finished medical school at the University of Illinois. Currently in Detroit, Michigan at the Detroit Medical Center.

Business

  • Bruce Baker '65, inventor and developer of Minspeak System.

  • David Neal '81 studied at Harvard Divinity School and now works for the Board of Immigration Appeals in Washington, D.C.

  • Brian Dixon '81 went on for an MBA and owns his own company in Nashville, Tennessee.

  • Eric Swanson '86 works at a large construction firm in Michigan.

  • Nick Roth '88 went on for an MBA and works now for a large firm in Real Estate Management.

  • David Kress '89, a graduate of the Krannert Graduate School of Management at Purdue University. Currently a Staff Consultant at Price Waterhouse in St. Louis, Missouri.

  • Tony Lentych '89 worked for Admissions at Wabash College. Currently in gradaute school in Philanthropic Studies.

  • Pat O'Hara '89 is an account executive with a financial firm in Indianapolis.

  • Kyle Stern '93 works in financial research for Arthur Anderson.

  • Dennis Pokropinski '93 works for Prudential Life Insurance Company.

  • Quentin Dodd '94 is a system adminsitrator for a small college. His first novel will be published in 2001.

  • Timothy Poudrier '94 worked on a degree in teaching English as a foreign language; currently an auditor in Nevada.

  • Timothy Helmecki '96 is a producer for WTIC-AM, Hartford, Conneticut.

Education

  • Jim McKelly '81 teaches English at Auburn University.

Divinity

  • Fred Cook '76 is a Lutheran Pastor in Cincinnati, Ohio and serves as the Chaplain to Children's Hospital.

  • Joe Boomhower '81 in a Lutheran Pastor in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
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