Transitions Magazine - Fall 2012 - Prescott College

and City Hall in Seattle, and in healthcare facilities throughout the
country.
I finished up my degree at Prescott College in Mexico City as a
representative at the 1975 International Women’s Year Tribune, held in
tandem with the United Nations Conference to launch the Decade
of Women. With 4,000 attendees from 90 countries, it was also the
unparalleled networking opportunity for launching my career.
Feminism opened doors in our lives. We were uniquely prepared
to build community as entrepreneurs, adventurers, agents of social
change, and lasting friends. But feminism also made an enduring
mark on Prescott College. A nearly unbroken line of continuity exists
between what women intently sought and did in the College’s first
decade and the courses and collaborations that lie
at the heart of the school’s Women and Gender
offerings today.
Living in New York City in the decade
following my graduation from PC, I would meet
many of the authors whose books and poetry we’d
read in the women’s literature class. In a conversation
with Alma Routsang (pen name: Isabel
Miller), she recalled having 25 copies of her book
Patience and Sarah sent “to the middle of nowhere
in Arizona,” when all book orders to date had
come from major coastal cities. “I looked you up
on the map,” she told me, “And I did wonder –
‘What could possibly be going on out there?’”
Lisa Stewart Garrison is a story teller and consultant in
the philanthropic and not for profit sectors. She is currently
developing a project on Quakers and the Underground
Railroad.
Community Building in Prescott
More than 1,100 alumni of Prescott College have remained
in Northern Arizona, living, working, and contributing
to our community in ways large and small. The
following is a brief glimpse at the businesses, nonprofits,
and schools that our alumni and other PC community
members have played a key role in establishing in Prescott:
• Aboriginal Living Skills School, LLC
• Adaptive Technology Support
• Advanced Networking Solutions
• Beyond Words Graphics
• Blue Bird Design Studio
• Center for Addiction Nutrition
• Design Research
• Donovan Building & Restoration
• Ebarb Law Firm
• Goodman Law Firm
• Granite Mountain Outfitters
• Hitching Post Mobile Home Park
• In Recovery Magazine
• Ironclad Bicycles
• J. Clapp Properties
• Joy of Life
• La Tierra Community School
• The Launch Pad teen center
• Milagro Arts
• Nick’s Feed Your Face
• Northpoint Expeditionary Learning Academy
• OK Create Design Studio
• Pangaea Bakery
• Powersports Outlet
• Practicing Presence
• Prescott Creeks
• Prescott Green Real Estate
• Prevent Child Abuse Arizona
• Primavera School
• Raven Café
• Rubicon Outdoors
• Salon St. Martin
• Skyview School
• Women’s Empowerment Breakthrough
This list is by no means exhaustive, so if you have started a
business, nonprofit, or school that is still serving the
tri-city/Northern Arizona community – let us know at
transitions@prescott.edu!
Melanie Lohmann and Lydia Black, 1972, by Beliz Brother
Funny School at Groom Creek, 1972, by Beliz Brother
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