Ken Caldwell

Graduated WSU in 1969, and worked in the Southern Eskimo (Yupik) village of New Stuyahok, on the Nushagak River, in Bristol Bay, Alaska, for the VISTA program. Taught English as a second language, and helped villagers qualify for and implement state and federally-funded housing, water, and sewer projects.

While in Fairbanks, working intermittently on the Alaska Pipeline for several years, I took a course at the University of Alaska in Transcendental Meditation. That was followed by a series of courses at Maharishi University of Management campuses in Spain, Switzerland, France, Holland, and India, and full-time employment by MUM for 30 years in Taiwan, India, the Philippines, Germany, Turkey, North Cyprus, Spokane, New York, Boston, Washington, D.C., Iowa, Ohio, and North Carolina. My being single all these years, and my willingness to live out of a suitcase, have provided job opportunities that others with deeper roots and stronger attachments might not jump at.

Now I'm semi-retired, currently living on the U.S. campus of MUM (www.mum.edu) in Fairfield, Iowa.

I return to Moscow a few weeks every summer to visit my mom, hang out with classmates, and do as much mountain biking as possible on Moscow Mountain, around the Palouse, and in the Bitterroots. I plan to attend all future reunions, since any excuse to spend time in Moscow and the PNW works for me, and I love chillin' with so many good friends from our class. Our lives have taken different directions, but for me the bonds of friendship are stronger now than ever. Didn't expect it, but that's my experience. It's been a delightful surprise.