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179 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 T Y E TYE BARBARA BENHAM Barb and husband Ken Tye. THEN AND NOW 4 Study at Antioch 4 M.A., University of Illinois 4 Ed.D., Texas Tech University 4 Fulbright year in Afghanistan FAMI LY 4 Husband, Ken 4 Three stepchildren 4 Five grandchildren 4 One great-grandchild ADDRESS 4 38 North Rd. Haskell, NJ 07420 CONTACT tye@chapman.edu B A R B A R A B E N H A M T Y E at- tended Ant ioch Col lege, the University of Illinois (M.A. ’67) and Texas Tech University (Ed.D. ’77). Folklore research was the focus of a Fulbright year in Afghanistan, ’66- ’67. Following some years teaching creative writing in a Title III arts program in Dayton, I became in- volved in developing the IGE High School Model at the C.F. Kettering Foundation, and in implementing it at schools in Greer, S.C., where I also taught secondary education at Furman University (1972–75). While in the Greenville area I co- founded a community theater, the Warehouse Theatre, and directed “That Championship Season” and “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.” After completing doctoral work in 1977, I accepted a position as a member of John Goodlad’s Study of Schooling research team in Los Angeles until the project ended in 1980. Ken Tye and I married that summer and spent two years work- ing on education projects in Norway, Indonesia and Dubai. I joined the faculty of Chapman University in Orange, Calif., in 1983 and retired with emeritus status in 2008, but continue to teach part- time in the M.A. and Ph.D. programs. While at Chapman my primary re- search interests were in the areas of global education, school change, and deep structure theory.The books for which I am best known are Multiple Realities: A Study of 13 American High Schools (’65), Global Education: A Study of School Change (’92), and Hard Truths: Uncovering the Deep Structure of Schooling (2000). I am stepmom to Ken’s three children, five grandchildren, and one great-grandchild (June 2014). I am working on a novel about an adven- turous ancestor, Gertrude Benham (1867–1938); the work goes slowly but is immensely satisfying. Victories for humanity? Pre- paring excellent teachers for public secondary schools over a lifetime ca- reer should count, though it doesn’t lead to fame or fortune. In fact, these have been difficult years to be a K–12 educator, and the increas- ing power of the movement to frag- ment and privatize public schooling is discouraging.All the more reason to keep fighting. 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 Surrounded by some of my Ph.D. students. I’m third from the left in the first row.