2013 Spring – Alumni News and Notes: 1950s, 1960s

1950s Richard Rinker ’53 (CLAS), a minister in North Carolina, is co-author of Michael F. Rinker: Pioneer Pastor, published in June 2012 by Quill House Publishers. 1960s William L. Dewey ’67 Ph.D., professor and chair of the department of pharmacology and toxicology at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Va., received the Presidential Medallion for outstanding […]

1950s

Richard Rinker ’53 (CLAS), a minister in North Carolina, is co-author of Michael F. Rinker: Pioneer Pastor, published in June 2012 by Quill House Publishers.

1960s

William L. Dewey ’67 Ph.D., professor and chair of the department of pharmacology and toxicology at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Va., received the Presidential Medallion for outstanding leadership at Virginia Commonwealth University last May. He has more than 40 years of research and academic leadership at the university.

Thomas B. Roberts ’67 MA, professor emeritus of educational psychology at Northern Illinois University, is editor of Spiritual Growth with Entheogens and author of The Psychedelic Future of the Mind, published by Park Street Press in March 2012 and January 2013, respectively. He lives in DeKalb, Ill.

Scott Christianson ’69 (CLAS) is an author and filmmaker living in Great Barrington, Mass. His latest book, 100 Diagrams That Changed the World, was named by NPR and Indie Booksellers as among the “Best Books of 2012.”