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It would be interesting to read the article. Is there a link to it somewhere?

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Well, it was pretty hard to read the article as posted, but I printed it out, and I have deciphered it to the best of my ability. Enjoy!

From People Magazine, 1976:
SEQUEL
HIS MONKEE MONEY GONE, PETER TORK FINDS A NEW LIFE AS MR. THORKELSON, TEACHER

After the NBC TV series The Monkees premiered in the fall of 1966, Peter Tork, Davy Jones, Mickey [sic] Dolenz and Mike Nesmith, the four zanies cast as pseudo-Beatles, became recording stars too.

It seemed to bother no one that the actors on the show sang but did not play the instruments for their records. (A backup band did.) It did disturb Tork, a guitarist who wanted to be taken seriously as a musician. The son of an economics professor at the University of Connecticut, Tork (ne Thorkelson) was a folksinger who had played the coffeehouse circuit before the series.

In 1968 he left the group to make it on his own. The millions he had made as a Monkee did not last long. I gave a lot of money away to friends on the theory that it would all come back to me in the long run. In 1972 he hit bottom. He was arrested for possession of hashish and served four months in a federal prison.

Today, at 34, Tork has his act together at last. Since September he has been teaching English, math, drama, Eastern philosophy and Rock Band Class at Pacific Hills, a private secondary school in Santa Monica, Calif. A college dropout, Peter got the job on the strength of his interview with Dr. Penrod Moss, the schools director. I like to hire people who are independent and creative, Moss said. I was impressed by his personality and his ability to talk.

Instead of the splendid Wally Cox house in Studio City he once owned, Peter now lives in a three-room house in Venice, Calif. with his daughter Hallie, 5, from his first marriage, his live-in lady, Barbara Iannolli, and their 8-week-old son, Ivan Iannolli-Thorkelson.

While Tork the musician still has dreams of someday returning to the rock circuit, Thorkelson the teacher is happily planning his next course, Mao, Marx and Mama. "Im doing something important, he says, I never do anything less than important.

Caption on classroom with Tao picture:
Ex-Monkee Peter Tork is known again as Mr. Thorkelson as he teaches Eastern philosophy at Pacific Hills School.

Caption on Monkees picture:
In 1967, The Monkees Davy Jones, Mike Nesmith, Peter Tork and Mickey [sic] Dolenz were at the peak of their popularity.

Caption on picture of Peter with kids:
Away from the classroom Peter spends time with daughter Hallie, 8 [?], and infant son Ivan Iannolli-Thorkelson.
[I blew that caption up as much as I could to try to read the number on Hallies age, and it still looks more like an 8 than anything else, but in the article it says shes 5, and she looks more like a 5-year-old than an 8-year-old in the picture. According to Monkeesrule43Online, Hallie was born 1/25/70, which might mean she was 5 when the original article was written but 6 by the time it came out. So maybe thats a 6 but then again, it could be just a typo.]

Im not sure if Im remembering correctly or not, but I have a feeling that it was a February issue of People possibly around Valentines Day, as I seem to remember that the cover had a pink background. CinniLuWho, do you have the actual magazine and/or know if Im correct about either of these things?