UNIVERSITY HIGH SCHOOL CLASS OF 1969 - My Illinois State ...

JUNE ELLYN THOMAS
Currently: Doing international consulting
LAVELLE
Favorite Memories: Hanging out with Karen, Ellen, Mark, Ken and Pam.
Songs that make me sing: Somebody to Love by Jefferson Airplane.
Interesting stuff about the last 40 years: The development work that I
do takes me to some pretty interesting places where I get to work with
all kinds of people in all kinds of situations, e.g., I recently worked with a
group of Afghan farmers and agricultural extension workers in Kandahar
and Helmut provinces to establish a private certified seed company; I
just returned from Liberia where I conducted a train-the-trainer training
on "Farming as a Business" for agricultural extension workers who will
now train approximately 1500 subsistence-level farmers; earlier this
year I helped establish a business start-up center in Kosovo and I'll be
going to Georgia later this month and Burundi in September to do the
same.
Words of Wisdom: Do everything you possibly can to maintain some
balance between work and personal life. This is one reason why I stay in
Europe.