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123 AN T I OC H CO L L E G E C L A S S O F 19 6 5 5 0 t h A N N I V E R S A R Y B O O K A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z N E W B U R Y NEWBURY THOMAS [TOM] 1962 photo with Antiochian Pat Carlone during a cooperative job on the oceanographic research vessel “Brown Bear” at the University of Washington. THEN AND NOW 4 B.A. Biology FAMI LY 4 Wife, Abigail Furst Dunning 4 Sons, Peter and Sam ADDRESS 4 17424 Toakoana Dr. Eagle River, AK 99577 CONTACT 907 696-7090 newbury.alaska@mtaonline.net I M A J O R E D I N the physical sci- ences at Antioch and worked in those fields for the rest of my ca- reer. During my last year at Antioch I started an independent project and continued the research in grad- uate school. Specifically, I analyzed some Arctic oceanographic samples that belonged to Antioch professor Robert Bieri. I continued the same Arctic research for a doctorate at McGill University in Montreal and then published the results in the prominent English science journal, Nature . For a few years after gradua- tion, I taught in the oceanography department at the University of Hawaii and was awarded a research grant for field work with gradu- ate students. However, I switched jobs, moved back to the Arctic (i.e., Alaska), and started working for the U.S. Department of the Interior, helping to assess the environmen- tal effects of offshore oil explora- tion. I felt challenged by the regula- tory and policy aspects of the work, and worked there until retirement, thirty years later. During that period of time I continued some indepen- dent science work. I was elected to be an annual president of the Arctic Division, American Association for the Advancement of Science, and was appointed to the board of the Arctic Institute of North America. About a decade before I retired theArctic summers began to change rapidly. Every summer was different; there was no longer a “normal” sum- mer. A new career was opening up before me. So, I have been helping with the climate assessments by the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and particularly with the Arctic portions. One strongmemory of Antioch is close, interesting friends.One photo below was taken during the wed- ding of dorm-mate Steve Longstreth, with four Antioch friends as best men. (Steve was a witty moderator on Antioch radio during late eve- nings in the early sixties.) Another photo was taken about fifty years after my first Antioch year, when I met with six other freshmen dorm- mates.All of them were pursuing in- teresting careers after Antioch. An example was Bernie Guyer, a grad- uate of the Rochester and Harvard schools of medicine, who worked for the Centers for Disease Control in central Africa, the Massachusetts Department of Public Health and the School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences and, after retirement from fulltime work, elected also to the Antioch College alumni board. I met many other students in the science building who became well- known. One example was Mario Capecchi, who graduated in 1961, worked at the Harvard and then Utah schools of medicine, and even- tually was awarded a Nobel Prize in physiology and medicine. Another was Peter Hambright, my chemistry laboratory assistant, who graduated the following year, then studied and taught inorganic chemistry at U.C. Berkeley and Howard University. Steven Jay Gould graduated the fol- lowing year (1963), studied paleon- tology at Harvard, developed the famous theory of punctuated equi- librium and wrote hundreds of arti- cles for Natural History magazine.And Joan Argetsinger, who graduated in 1965, studied biophysics and bio- chemistry at Harvard, married, be- came Joan Argetsinger Steitz, and taught at Yale. Antioch was a good place in the early sixties to strengthen and broaden goals. Another impression is that my Antioch cooperative jobs had a substantial inf luence on my pro- fessional work. I explained previ- ously that professor Robert Bieri helped me a lot. Aside from teach- ing courses, he also helped me find interesting cooperative jobs in the field of oceanography. My sec-