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Loren Pinski (left) ’71, M.B.A.’87, serves as a Community HIV/AIDS Outreach Program Peace Corps volunteer in the province of Limpopo, South Africa.

Terry Cromwell (right) ’75, Missoula, launched a literary website this past Memorial Day called “RAiLBAK Website 2.0,” which contains fiction stories and Montana adventures. A U.S. Marine veteran and the principal of Cromwell Consulting PPLC, Cromwell was diagnosed with a rare brain tumor in 2011 that ended his professional career, but he decided to focus on his creative writing. He describes his site as “a novel site about characters and events compiled from a lifetime of work adventures, including parenting.” His “RAiLBAK ON: (Series)” is a collection of short historical fiction stories.

Greg Erickson ’76, Arlington, Wash., was inducted into the Washington State Administrators Association Hall of Fame this past spring. He has worked in education for 42 years, spending the past 25 years as the director of athletics for Marysville School District north of Seattle. He plans to retire at the end of the 2018-19 school year.

Carl Franklin ’77, Fresno, Calif., was inducted into the California Pharmacists Association Pharmacy Hall of Fame for extraordinary service, character, innovation, trend-setting and altruism within the state. He is the senior adviser emeritus of the pharmacy recruitment and placement firm Rx relief and has worked as a pharmacist for 40 years and with Rx relief since 1990, serving as executive vice president. Under his leadership, Rx relief has won multiple awards, including numerous best staffing client awards and a Genius Grand Award from the American Staffing Association. Franklin said becoming a pharmacist was his dream since he was 15 years old. He retired in 2017.

Harley Schreck M.A. ’77, Arden Hills, Minn., retired this past spring after teaching at Bethel University for 30 years. He served in the U.S. Navy for four and a half years, spending most of his time in Southeast Asia, and then worked as a senior researcher for World Vision. He came to Bethel in 1988 to teach anthropology and helped create a partnership between Bethel and Frogtown Summit University near St. Paul, Minn. He has led study abroad trips to India and Amsterdam and will lead a final trip to Dehli, India.