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— 15th — (1987) Ronald Reagan
The past five years have taken me and my family from the Peruvian highlands near Cusco, Peru, where we had spent about seven years living and working; to Madison, Wisconsin, for graduate study; back to the Andean highlands, this time the Altiplano around Lake Titicaca on both the Bolivian and the Peruvian sides, where we were involved in health and education projects and where our children attended the rural schools along with their indigenous playmates; and back again to North America, where we are now in our second year in Philadelphia. Our interests continue to be with minority groups and peace issues in both the Andes and the United States.
— 20th — (1992) George H. W. Bush
Ch'uyasonqo, sixteen, and Kusisami, twelve, have been growing apace over these last five years. We get a lot of joy (and challenge) out of watching them and encouraging them to grow into responsible and caring adults in a world full of troubles. Steve and I are both teaching and continue to put a lot of energy into peace and social justice issues, as well as to travel and work in other parts of the world as opportunity arises. Steve has taken students from the Friends School where he teaches on field trips to Mexico; Nancy's role as professor at the University of Pennsylvania has taken her to the Netherlands, England, Pakistan, El Salvador and Nigeria to participate in conferences, supervise research, and consult for the United Nations; both Nancy and Steve have returned to Peru and Bolivia for research and to visit old friends. As a family, our big home in Philadelphia has enabled us to welcome, in turn, friends and visitors from all over the world — U.S.S.R., Norway, Peru, Taiwan, to name a few, not to mention Harvard and Radcliffe classmates and current Radcliffe students! Please look us up if you're coming through!
— 25th — (1997) Bill Clinton
UPDATE since the Twentieth Anniversary Report: We're still living in the urban core of Philadelphia, though we go up to Vermont to visit Steve's mom whenever we can, and manage plenty of international travels, tOO. Ch'uyasonqo (twenty-one) spent the summer in Cuenca, Ecuador on a study abroad program, rounding out the trip with a visit to Peru which she had not seen since age nine. She is in her senior year at Swarthmore College, majoring in political science and international relations. Kusisami (seventeen) is a junior at Friends Select School in center city Philadelphia, excelling in sports and math; he went on a student exchange to Galicia, Spain in the spring. Steve continues to teach at Delaware Valley Friends School and travels broadly in indigenous areas of Latin America. I continue at Penn; my travels this year include Wales and Chile (to present conference papers) and South Africa, Brazil, and Peru (to teach as a visiting faculty member). Steve and I celebrate our twenty-fifth wedding anniversary this year, as those of you who were at our Appleton Chapel wedding will remember!
— 30th — (2002) George W. Bush
Time has flown. Steve and I are somewhat surprised to find ourselves living in the house we moved into in 1985, but we make up for it with some exciting adventures and travels. In addition to our frequent returns to Bolivia and Peru (our segunda patria), my work on multilingualism and language education policy has taken me around the world, as well as on commutations to the United Kingdom and South Africa, and less frequently to France, Brazil, Paraguay, China, Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Australia, and New Zealand.
Steve continues to join me on occasion, as well as to make his own excursions, including to Mexico and to Korea, a current interest. He continues to teach gifted seventh to twelfth graders with special needs. Our daughter, Ch'uyasonqo, recently graduated from Emory University with a master's in international public health, did some consulting in Haiti, Honduras, and Nicaragua, and has now taken a position with the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration in Boston. On June 1, 2002, she will marry David Lane, fellow Swarthmore and Emory alum, who begins his emergency medicine residency, just after the wedding, in Worcester, Massachusetts. Our son, Kusisami, is finishing undergraduate work at the University of Pennsylvania, majoring in international relations and economics, and has just been invited to serve in the Peace Corps in Tanzania starting in September 2002. My Collegium Musicum days have been revived here at Penn, where I sing, often as soloist, with the Penn Choir and Choral Society, and have in the last few years begun to perform solo recitals as well. I am thankful to God for many, many challenges and blessings, and daily opportunities to share my gifts with future leaders, especially leaders in oppressed and minority language communities!
— 45th — (2017) Donald Trump
I've been lucky to have a long career as a professor of education at the University of Pennsylvania, working in multilingualism, language education policy, and Indigenous language revitalization, with amazing students and colleagues locally and internationally. We are a close family and, though we all enjoy a lot of work-related international travel, we also love to spend time together; our three beautiful granddaughters, ages nine, six, and two, are a treasure. My other great delight is music, and I am still singing with the Penn choir after more than thirty years.
— 50th — (2022) Joseph Biden
Reflections on the past 50 years: For one whose career took me to many unexpected and remote parts of the world to meet and work with colleagues and activists in Indigenous education and language revitalization, the mobility constraints imposed by COVID-19 in March 2020 brought an abrupt (and I hope temporary) end to my travels, also coinciding with my own retirement from full-time teaching after 35 satisfying and rewarding years at Penn. And while the pandemic brought the world closer together in a commonly experienced trauma and tragedy, the national soul-searching in the US and the worldwide reckoning around histories of racism, colonialism, and violence that accompanied the pandemic's own inequitably cruel trajectory were a poignant return to my undergraduate years at Harvard-Radcliffe, so deeply infused with concerns for social justice and an end to unjust wars across the world. I imagine I am not alone among my classmates in these reflections.
On a lighter note, my husband Steve and I, who met in Brasilian Portuguese class at Harvard – he a Divinity School student and I a Radcliffe student at the time – celebrate our own 50th wedding anniversary in 2022, in the company of our daughter Ch'uya and son Kusi and their families including our four grandchildren, as well as our sisters and other family members and friends, grateful for continuities and firm anchorings of love in our very blessed lives. Perhaps we may even make it to my Harvard-Radcliffe 50th Reunion, a first reunion for me!
Publications: Bilingual Education and Language Maintenance: A Southern Peruvian Quechua Case, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1988; Indigenous Literacies in the Americas: Language Planning from the Bottom Up, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1997; Continua of Biliteracy: An Ecological Framework for Educational Policy, Research, and Practice in Multilingual Settings, Clevedon, UK: Multilingual Matters, 2003; Can Schools Save Indigenous Languages? Policy and Practice on Four Continents, Hampshire, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008; Honoring Richard Ruiz and his Work on Language Planning and Bilingual Education, Bristol, UK: Multilingual Matters, 2017.
Awards: Honorary Doctorate – Faculty of Arts, Umeå University, Sweden, 2018; National Academy of Education Member, 2021; Charles A. Ferguson Award for Outstanding Scholarship, Center for Applied Linguistics, Washington DC, 2019; American Educational Research Association Fellow, 2010; George and Louise Spindler Award, Council on Anthropology and Education, American Anthropological Association, 2014.
Interests:
Choral singing, starting in Radcliffe Chorus & later founding member Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum
Member Penn Choir, Choral Society & Chamber Singers for 30+ years
Piano (classical)
Hiking & outdoors
Travel [to every continent of the globe except Antarctica]
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