Lawrence F. (Bud) Van Horn
My undergraduate degree is from Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, where I was Phi Beta Kappa and which I attended with our fellow classmate, Bill Bingham. I have taught anthropology at Hunter College of the City University of New York and at Drew University in Madison, New Jersey, receiving my Ph.D. in anthropology from the Graduate School of the City University of New York (CUNY). My wife, Judy, and I moved to Colorado in 1978 where I joined the National Park Service of the U.S. Department of the Interior as its first cultural anthropologist. I have been working in park planning at the NPS Denver Service Center, a centralized planning office for units of our national park system all over the country. I have traveled to parks from Alaska to Florida and from California to New England. I have had some great trips and experiences with American Indians and Alaska Natives, interviewing them for planning purposes. These Native Americans are now neighbors of parks that were once their indigenous lands. In the process, I have seen a fair amount of wildlife, including a Florida panther (mountain lion) in the wild in Everglades National Park and black and grizzly bears in Denali National Park, Alaska. Yes, I have a few bear stories, all fortunately pleasant. I still work and enjoy it.
I have been happily married to Judith Socorro Reyes since 1967. No children, but we do have some delightful nieces and nephews who will serve as heirs. Judy is retired as an international market researcher. In New York, she worked for the International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation (ITT) and in Denver for the Gates Rubber Company. Today, with me, she enjoys staying on top of all sorts of current political events.
My home e-mail address is julavaho1@mindspring.com. Please feel free to get in touch. It would be great to hear from you.
Cheers, Larry “Bud” Van Horn