Preston Pendley has a BA in Physics from Transylvania University and is currently working on his M.S. in Environmental Engineering at Michigan Tech. He began his Peace Corps service in July, 2002 and is currently serving in Kingston, Jamaica.

Preston, from Browder in Muhlenberg County, Kentucky, is a lifelong and therefore long-suffering Cubs fan. He won the county spelling bees in fifth and seventh grades, was a perennial All-Star in Little League Baseball, and caught his first Colorado fish with his grandfather in June 2002 after years of fruitless effort. Preston enjoys sports where one doesn’t lose, such as camping, hiking, jogging and skiing. His church home is Burnamwood Campground (Irvine, KY) in the Transylvania Presbytery.

Preston attended Transylvania University, no relation to the Presbytery, in Lexington, KY, before driving north on US41 to Houghton, where he joined the Peace Corps Master’s International program in Environmental Engineering (www.peacecorps.gov). “I had the most fun of my life while living and studying at Tech,” he says. For a semester between Tech and Peace Corps, he interned as a water resource engineer with Manhard Consultants in Vernon Hills, IL and attended three Cubs games at venerable Wrigley Field.

Preston is currently serving his country through international service in Peace Corps/Jamaica, stationed at Jamaica’s National Solid Waste Management Authority in the Kingston office, where he is promoting recycling and composting. After Peace Corps and a career as an environmental engineer, he will become a high school math and science teacher. He wishes he could get all of his friends from the different points in his life together for one big party. They probably wouldn’t even like each other though.

Preston can be reached at muhlenbergpreston@yahoo.com on Tuesdays and Wednesday 11 am - 1 pm.