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Spring 2012

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From the WCAA Director

From the WCAA President

What are your favorite memories?

For me it is the beauty of the Western campus. This was a topic often discussedduring Executive Committee meetings, as we finalized plans for Reunion Weekend. YourBoard of Trustees cares deeply about the Spirit of Western and carrying on its legacy.Because of your support the Western College Alumnae Association has funded all schol-arships into perpetuity, and we can now celebrate a Western College Endowed Professor-ship. Our goal remains to ensure that the Western College legacy is honored and pre-served. Future plans are yet to be determined, but your board is working diligently to keepthe story of Western College alive.

I hope to see many of you at Alumnae Weekend. Honoring our former Western Col-lege Choir Members and meeting the modern-day Peabody family will be highlights of the weekend. Therewill be time to reconnect with classmates and remember your college days.

Of course, if you are like me, just returning to the beauty of the Western College campus will be one ofthe best parts of Alumnae Weekend. The Duck Pond, Peabody Hall, Kumler Chapel remind me that Westernthrives and the Spirit of Western lives in all of us.

Hello Westerners! The campus is quiet now as the students have packed up and left forsummer internships or study abroad in wonderful places. Some will embark on new

adventures after graduation. This quiet gives us time to take a deep breath and think backabout how it all began. For so many Western alumnae, life did begin here. Whether it wasbeing led to a loved career through a course with a particular professor, meeting friends tocall our very best for the rest of our lives, or meeting a Miami man whom we would oneday call husband. Possibly it was exposure to exotic places and cultures that sparked apassion for international travel and aid to foreign countries.

Whatever it was for you, I’m willing to bet that something happened at Western Col-lege that changed your life! I’ve been in this position as the WCAA Director (I am pleasedto report the title “Interim” can be dropped) for only a little over a year, and what I have quickly gleanedfrom your stories is that this is a magical place. For so many of you, your story began here. As a result, youhave worked tirelessly and given generously to make sure that Western lives on. You have done that byestablishing scholarships, awarding almost 1,000 since 1974, totaling almost $2.5 million! And then you didit again, meeting our goal of $400,000 to establish the Western College Endowed Professorship.

And now, it is time for us to figure out what is next. We will not be satisfied until we are sure that thismagical place lives on in the hearts and minds of generations to come. Western College Alumnae Associa-tion Board of Trustees is working hard to determine the best way to do this. You’ll hear more about thatsoon; meanwhile, we encourage you to reach out to the Board or any member of our staff with your ideas. Asthe Native American saying goes, “It takes a thousand voices to tell a single story.” Thank you for being oneof those voices. Thank you for being part of the story.

See you at Alumnae Weekend!

Mackenzie Becker RiceDirector, WCAA

Jocelyn Woodson-Reed ’74President, WCAA

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Western CollegeAlumnae Association, Inc.Board of Trustees

PresidentJocelyn Woodson-Reed ’74

1st Vice President/TreasurerDoris Ning Wong ’62

2nd Vice PresidentRita Ellen Greene ’73

SecretaryMarcia Randlett Oder ’64

Chair, Nominating CommitteeEva Nortvedt Humbach ’63

TrusteesSharry Patterson Addison ’61Jane Smucker Fryman ’58 **Judith Dudman Henderson ’62Ella Brown McMahon ’63Barbara Johnson Mecklenborg ’53 **Sally Derby Miller ’56 *Sylvia Stanfield ’65Charlotte Klein Varzi ’57Anne Adkins Weissenborn ’61Pheetta G. Wilkinson ’76

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Published in the spring and fall and copyrighted 2012 by the Western College Alumnae Association, Inc., 325 S. Patterson Ave.,Oxford, OH 45056-2499; telephone: 513-529-4400; fax: 513-529-7400; e-mail: [email protected]; website: www.muohio.edu/wcaa;Facebook Group: Western College Alumnae Association

Mission of the Association:• to preserve and encourage communication

among and with alumnae,• to support education and human values

that continue the heritage and traditionof The Western College.

On the covers:The images merged to form the reproduction of HelenPeabody Hall (extended on the back cover) are from awatercolor by Betty Ritchie Howard ’38. Betty’s manypaintings, drawings and prints of local landmarks arewell known to the Western, Miami and Oxford commu-nities. On the Western campus, in addition to Peabody,she also painted Kumler Chapel and Alumnae Hall. Alongtime resident of Oxford — she was married toRobert Howard, director of the Miami University Officeof Public Information — Betty died in 1976.

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* on one-year leave of absence** appointed for one year to fill vacancy

What’s on Your Mind? 4

Peabody — Where It All Began (and Begins) 5

Class Notes: 1932-1976 9

Western Program 28

Class Notes: 1978-2010 30

In Memoriam 37

Blue Card 38

Financial Report 2011 (following p. 20) i-viii

Bulletin Staff Publications Committee Office StaffEditor Members DirectorCatherine Bauer Cooper ’60 Sylvia Stanfield ’65, Chair Mackenzie Becker RiceDesign/Technology Consultant Sharry Patterson Addison ’61 Senior Program Assistant

Milburn Cooper Jane Smucker Fryman ’58 Debbie BakerSally Derby Miller ’56 * Accounting AssociateCharlotte Klein Varzi ’57 Kaye WolkeAnne Adkins Weissenborn ’61

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What’s on Your Mind?

Dear WCAA Director,

This past Christmas one of my favorite gifts wasthe book Jacqueline Kennedy: Historic Conversations

on Life with John F.Kennedy. Having beena student at WesternCollege during theKennedy years, itseems that the eventsof that time are forev-er part of my collegeexperience. I remem-ber going on a bus tripto Cincinnati to hearKennedy speak duringhis campaign. I stillhave the “Kennedy forPresident” banner. I re-call standing in line togo into dinner while

the TV broadcast concerned the Cuban missile crisis,wondering what would happen if there was a war whenI was so far from home. And then there was November22, 1963, my senior year, the last day of my studentteaching. I walked across campus carrying a bouquet ofred roses presented to me by my students at GarfieldSenior High. JackieKennedy had red rosestoo that day, stainedwith the President’sblood.

And now, another“Western” connection... one of our interna-tional students wasPamela Odede fromKenya ( p. 122, Multi-faria 1961). She wasstudying at Western,preparing to return toAfrica and become the

bride of Tom Mboya, a young Kenyan nationalist lead-er. According to the book Historic Conversations it wasduring a meeting on July 26, 1960, with Kennedy, thenchairman of the Senate subcommittee on Africa, thatMboya convinced Kennedy to have the Kennedy Fam-ily Foundation support Mboya’s “Airlift Africa” to placeKenyan students in American universities. One youngKenyan studying in America in 1959 was Barack ObamaSr. And the rest, as they say, is history.

This information aroused my curiosity as to what-ever happened to Pamela Odede, especially since herintended husband died at a young age (1930-1969). Iwould appreciate any information the Western archivesmay have on record.

Sincerely,

Patricia Scott, Class of 1964

Patricia Scott, Multi 1964

Pamela Odede, Multi 1961

The office always welcomes your news of serendipitous connections between Western and the Real World. PatriciaScott ’64, who graduated from Western with a major in political science and a minor in history, kindly allowed usto share her letter with Bulletin readers.

Pamela Odede attended Western College for one yearand graduated in 1961, a sociology major. She re-turned to Kenya and married rising political starThomas Joseph Odahiambo Mboya in January 1962.Tragically, Tom Mboya was assassinated only sevenyears later. They had five children, including Mau-reen Odero, a supreme court judge in Mombasa, andDr. Susan Mboya-Kidero, a top executive with Coca-Cola/South Africa.After her husband’s death, Pamela remained quietlycommitted to helping the urban poor, serving as Ken-ya’s permanent representative to UN-HABITAT in theearly ’80s, and later working with the elderly throughthe NGO HelpAge Kenya. She died while undergo-ing treatment for an illness in February 2009, hav-ing just completed a memoir of her brief marriage.In 2002, Pamela and her daughters visited the West-ern campus, prior to establishing the Mboya FamilyScholarship “to provide a college education for mer-itorious students from East Africa who demonstratefinancial need and potential for academic successat Miami University.”

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Peabody...Where It All Began (and Begins)

It is almost half a century since that startling dreadful summons came to us girls at midnight, “theSeminary is on fire, hurry and bring your pitchers full of water to the fifth floor,” and yet the picture is stillas vivid as if it were an occurrence of last night or a week ago, of how Miss Peabody, after all hope was pastof quenching the fire by those fruitless water pitchers, stood calmly on the lawn before the building she hadfilled with so much of hope and earnest effort, and undismayed by the wreck the fire was making, with herhands, those beautiful hands, quietly clasped together waiting reverently for her Master’s next direction. ...

I was in the first fire, I remember well being awakened by the girls talking in the hall, and thinking theywere going down to iron as they did every Saturday morning; then we were called and told that the housewas on fire. My roommate, Ellen Allen, and I dressed and I started out with one bucket to help put out thefire. We were met by Miss McCabe, who said we could do nothing but get ourselves out. We were on the firstfloor and the fire started on the fifth so we had time to pitch some things in our trunks and tie up some sheetsand get out. Then we stood in the cold and dark January night and saw the house burn down. ...

I can never forget the morning of January 14, 1860, when we were all assembled in the chapel of Dr.Scott’s College [Oxford Female College] for morning devotions, our Seminary home lying a pile of smokingruins, the girls mostly with bare heads and disheveled toilets with somber faces and tearful eyes, wereawaiting Miss Peabody! She came in, took up the Book and read in clear voice. “God is our refuge andstrength, a very present help in time of trouble.” Then asked us to sing “How firm a foundation, ye saints ofthe Lord,” etc. Her face seemed glorified, transfigured by the “Light of Heaven.” ...

I remember it was one cold January night when a teacher, Miss Walker, I think, came to our room atmidnight, said the building was on fire and wanted us to dress quickly and run to town and rouse the people.Telephones had not been dreamed of then. We only had one man in the building, Mr. Elliott, the janitor. Mycalico dress lay on the chair ready for early domestic work. We did not lose much time dressing, and as Iwent out the door I put my gold watch in my pocket and that was all I saved of my belongings, for when wereturned the fifth story was gone. The next day my two silver spoons were found, being rescued from thedining room, and I have them yet as souvenirs. Next morning we all went to meet Miss Peabody ... First wasdevotions and I see her now as she gave thanks that no lives were lost. ...

After the fire of 1860 destroyed the first Seminary building, the senior class alone remained in Oxford, gatheringin the home of James Fisher — “Little Western” — to complete their studies and graduate. Years later, theyreminisced through their class letter:

The Western Female Seminary, 1855-1860

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Peabody Hall — officially Helen Peabody Hall —is where it all began. Fire having destroyed theWestern Female Seminary building twice — first

in 1860, the second time in 1871 — our Peabody Hallis the third building on the site, built in 1871 but not sonamed until the Golden Jubilee celebration in 1905.

The reminiscences quoted on the previous page arefound in an incredible history of Western’s first half-century, written by Sarah Isabella Howe, Class of 1865,intended for publication on the occasion of the GoldenJubilee. That never happened, but perhaps there’s achance that it will in the foreseeable future.

History of The Western College for Women: FirstHalf Century (1855-1905), written and compiled bySarah Howe, has always been part of Westerniana. Nar-ka Nelson doubtless read it when she was writing thedefinitive Western College for Women (published 1954,1967), and it is referenced in various undergraduate andpost-graduate student papers. A bound copy exists inthe Western Archives.

But there also exists a more complete manuscript— some typed, some beautifully handwritten — recentlyre-discovered in Patterson Place.

Enter Smith Library volunteer and art historian Eliz-abeth Johnson. Charged with providing background forthe guidebook to a new walking tour of the WesternHistoric District, Dr. Johnson found herself thrust intothe role of latterday Western historian.

The soon-to-be-published guidebook, “WesternCollege for Women Historic District,” is the third in aseries produced jointly by the Smith Library of Region-al History and the Oxford Visitors & Convention Bu-reau. The first two cover the Uptown Oxford and Ox-ford’s University historic districts. Dr. Johnson was re-sponsible for the research of all three.

Obviously, the walking tour — as the Western sto-ry — will begin (and end) at Peabody Hall. So that iswhere she began. Thorough investigator that she is, shewanted to look at the original architects’ drawings. Hersearch led her to Patterson Place.

Enter WCAA staff member Debbie Baker. Whilelooking for the blueprints, Debbie discovered an oldmanuscript in the dusty attic and thought it might behelpful. Dr. Johnson was interested, but since there wasa bound copy of the book in the Western Archives, she

Dr. Elizabeth Johnson was named Butler CountyHistorical Society’s “Distinguished Historian” for2011. In 2009, Dr. Johnson published To Dwell withFond Reflection: Families Who Lived in theMcGuffey House, 1833-1958 — widely praised asone of the most outstanding local history books writ-ten in Butler County in recent years. A longtime do-cent at the McGuffey Museum, she is famous forher intense search for facts. So thorough is she thatone observer remarked that he would not have beensurprised “if Elizabeth discovered that McGuffeyhimself never lived in the house!” She insists she’sjust “nosy” [her word]. In addition to the book, shehas written articles for the Oxford Press, suppliedmassive amounts of background for the Smith Li-brary’s series of historic walking tour guidebooks,curated several history exhibits locally, spent hourscataloging and photographing artifacts for the Ox-ford Museum Association, delivered lectures and ledpublic tours. Originally from Long Island, ElizabethJohnson earned a Ph.D. in the history of art at UCLAand has taught in California and Wisconsin. It is ourgood fortune that she decided to retire to Oxford 12years ago.

Researcher extraordinaire, “nosy” Dr. Elizabeth Johnson, at workin the Narka Nelson Archives, Patterson Place

went there first. One problem: The “official” copy waswoefully incomplete! She quickly realized whole chap-ters as well as Mrs. Howe’s later corrections and addi-tions were missing, and in the fall of 2011 she began apainstaking line-by-line, word-by-word comparison.When her work is finished — perhaps by fall 2012 —the result should be a full and accurate document de-serving of publication.

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The journal records the glad news of theprospect of peace and adds, “Let the bellsring, flags wave, let the thundering of cannonwake the slumbering ashes, let everybody claphands for joy, shout aloud and sing ‘Brothercome home from the war, the dreadful carnagealmost over.’ Peace just ready to shine uponus with the olive branch extended, let us re-joice indeed! The young ladies wish to cele-brate the whole day, but that was not thoughtbest.” The 14th had been set apart as a day ofnational rejoicing.

The young ladies were however desperate-ly in earnest ... and when their petition, pre-sented to Miss Peabody the day before, metwith no recognition in the morning, they knewit meant the same dull routine at least untilnoon. Dinner, and still no reference to any request hav-ing been made, no allusion to the day as differing fromany other one, the flare which sought outward expres-sion, burns inward and for the first and only time in thehistory of the school there was a divergence between MissPeabody’s wishes and the deep-wrought emotions of hercharge. The Senior Class suffers most deeply, as throughall their course the din of battle had mingled continuallywith the progress of their academic work, as was said byone of them, “We studied evidences of Christianity onehour and the carnage of the battle field the next. Welooked into the Analogy of Religion Natural and Re-vealed, to the Constitution and Course of Nature, be-cause it was required, and then hurried to the readingroom to learn how many of our brothers and dearestfriends were numbered with the dead.”

And so it came about that when Miss Peabody met theSenior Class that afternoon of April 14, 1865, to hearthe recitation in Butler [Butler’s Analogy] she found aclass unprepared on the lesson for the day. To study But-ler that day was not within the power of the most obedi-ent. There was no violation of the rules, no disposition todefy authority, although it seemed all this and more toMiss Peabody at the time. She saw her mistake when itwas too late. The day following, the flag at half mast, theterrible news from Washington [the assassination of Pres-ident Lincoln], a Senior Class sick with the sense of theloss of fellowship with Miss Peabody whom they revered,and then the awful tragedy. One of them said afterwardin a reminiscence of that seven fold heated furnace, “Itseemed to me if I could not see my father I should die.”

The Wednesday following, the funeral sermon or ad-dress for Oxford, was delivered by Professor Swing, theidol of the class and again they were restrained. Therewas no revolt, the fires burned inward and the closingdays for that class almost burned out the very memory of

their school life with a sense of irreparable lost opportu-nity, an occasion smothered which could never occuragain and which was theirs by every right. Miss Pea-body was heavily overshadowed by the sorrowful eventsof the previous year [deaths of four students and oneteacher due to typhus epidemic], and did not realize soonenough the force of the reaction from the long strain ofthose terrible years. ... Dr. Barker, referring to the pecu-liar circumstances attending the close of ’65 says, “Oneitem of interest, and which was a profound secret knownonly to the Senior Class and a limited number of the fac-ulty was the giving up of the conventional white muslingown and blue sash, always worn by the Seniors on Com-mencement day, for the brown and white checked ging-ham gowns that the money saved might go for comfortsto the sick and wounded soldiers.”

The Civil War years — the same four years Sarah Howe was at the Seminary — were especially traumatic forWestern’s young students, many far away from home. In this excerpt, Mrs. Howe recounts a rare breach betweenMiss Peabody and her girls:

The Western Female Seminary, 1861-1871

Sarah Isabella Howe — “Belle” to her classmates— from Pine Grove, OH, when she attended the West-ern Female Seminary, was born in 1843 and graduat-ed from Western in the Class of ’65, at age 22. Shemarried Charles Frederick Howe in 1869, and theyhad two children. Their daughter, Carlotta Frederica,graduated from Western in the Class of ’92, but sadlypredeceased her parents, both of whom died in 1928.Prior to her marriage, Sarah taught school in Knox-ville, TN, Homer, IL, and Williamsport, IN. TheHowes eventually settled in Lafayette, IN, but livednear Chicago for a time, where Sarah edited “JewishEra,” a newly launched organ publication of the Chi-cago Hebrew Mission, 1892-93. Before undertakingthe Herculean task of compiling/writing the “Historyof Western College,” Sarah also served her alma mat-er as president of the Alumnae Association, 1884-86.

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Student journalist Miss Sophie M. Cunningham, Class of 1871, described the new building, completed just sixmonths after the second fire:

...when the eighteenth of October 1871 arrived ourhouse was waiting to receive us. ... Miss Peabody stoodupon the veranda to welcome us; perhaps it was imagi-nation but it seemed as if her countenance was changed,it shone and was so exceedingly bright; it told all thestory ... Many were the sweet words of welcome as westood upon the new porch which we were anticipatingwith so much pleasure just before the fire. Once withindoors all is beautifully new and fresh, wall of snowy white-ness glisten in spotless radiance before us. Our roomsare furnished beautifully in black walnut of late design.In those first days we found some inconvenience from theworkmen being still important members of the household,and also from the delay of certain necessary things whichhad been ordered in time but failed to come. No doubt itwas our Father’s plan to have it so, to draw us nearer toHimself for strength and patience.

How gladly would we show you all the glories of thenew temple and compare it with the old. ... We would takeyou through the new suite of rooms extending from MissPeabody’s sitting-room to the new Chapel, carpeted insoft brown-and-green mingled with crimson and goldenflecks, lighted by gas which shines with a soft mellowlight through glass globes. The cozy little parlor comesfirst since the Reception room is its same old self, or ratherthe hall comes first, for it belongs to the suite, carpetedand lighted to harmonize, and the dear girls have madeit beautiful by presenting a hat-rack and two large chairs.Nor must the cunning little brackets in the corners beomitted, each of which holds a bronze statue. The parloris beautifully furnished in black and green walnut be akind friend in Cincinnati. ... Last and best of all the beau-tiful new Seminary Hall, in a wing all to itself over the

new dining room. And as that is thesupper bell we must now see the din-ing room. ... the triple rows of gasburners look like so many stars shin-ing above our heads, now taken upand reflected again and again until allthe tables glance and sparkle. That isthe effect of our new silver. We are notextravagant. This is the Lord’s houseand the silver and gold are all His ownso it is meet there should be gloriousand beautiful things within thesewalls. The cunning little castors oneach end of the table are always re-minders of the class of ’67. Returningup the stairs the great regulator clock

in the hall ticking away the hours is a memorial of theclass of ’60, the oaken furniture on the platform of theSeminary Hall comes from the class of ’70, and so we arereminded at every hand of the love of older sisters whohave rejoiced to have a share in making the old homebeautiful once more. Indeed every brick and timber, ev-ery pane of glass and every article of furniture seems amonument of love. The little grandchildren of the Semi-nary, the far-away missionary, hard-working teachers,lonely widows, rich and poor, white and black, all hadsent their offerings for the rebuilding and furnishing.

Helen Peabody Hall, 1871-

Sarah Howe’s history of Western’s first half-cen-tury is both an entertaining read and a valuableresource for its insights into the early education

of women. Mrs. Howe clearly spent years compilingentries from the early Seminary Journals, faculty andstudent letters and diaries, articles and addresses by dis-tinguished public figures who visited seminary and col-lege, alumnae reminiscences, and more. ElizabethJohnson believes she probably began around the turn ofthe century and, when the trustees’ interest in publish-ing waned, continued to add notes to her drafts for sev-eral years after 1905.

Researchers know one discovery begs another, soalthough Dr. Johnson’s study of Western began withPeabody, it doubtless won’t end there. With so muchlost when the college closed in 1974, is it not likely thatmuch remains to be found? At the very least, we knowthat Elizabeth Johnson is determined to set the recordstraight. Stay tuned ...

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“After all, we are Western women!”

First things first: A long newsy note fromHelgard Jungeblodt Deuel, who reported that, after being very ill, she has

been declared cancer free. She was in Ger-many this year, visiting old friends and hersister in law. Staying healthy and caring forsome friends who are not healthy take upmuch of her time.

Judi Amos Hubbell and Nancy Smith Carl-son sent remarkably similar notes. Bothwomen began by telling of maintenance andrestoration. I assumed they were talkingabout the problems of aging that affect allof us, but not so.

Judi has had to do lots of work on the farm,which is well over 100 years old. Nancy’sproperty suffered some weather relateddamage that required a major clean-up.

Judi and Nancy indicated they are going totry to make it to Oxford for our 50th Reunionin June. Nancy’s sister, Linda Smith Roy’64 is also planning to attend.

Apparently, our college president is able tojuggle her duties at the University of Miamiin order to attend: Donna Shalala has sentin her early bird registration.

Zohreh Tawakuli Sullivan contacted theWCAA office with the news that she official-ly retired from the University of Illinois at Ur-bana-Champaign in 2007, but still occasion-ally teaches her favorite class, The Litera-tures of Global Cultures.

In January, she volunteered with an NGOYinthway.org in Yangon, Myanmar — whereshe is still enjoying her stay and work. Iffriends want to check on her last book, it’sExiled Memories: Stories of Iranian Diaspo-ra — a combo memoir, history, ethnogra-phy. She remembers fondly many of herclassmates, but specially her roommate,Loretta Ryder ’63.

By now most of you have received e-mailsfrom Judy Dudman Henderson or DorisNing Wong urging you to attend the Re-union. Doris is “always invigorated” whenshe returns to campus for board meetingsand will speak at Reunion chapel. (Congrat-ulations to Judy, Austin Seminary Associa-tion 2011 Distinguished Service recipient.She received her M.Div. from Austin in1998.)

I will not be able to be there, but I know thoseof you who are able to attend will share thatsame sense of pleasure.

The campus is even more beautiful and thecompany should be delightful. After all, weare Western women!

Joanne Tortorete Corradi ’623329 Fairhill Dr.Rocky River, OH [email protected]

Nancy

Donna

Zohreh

Doris

Judy

Joanne

Judi

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“... Relish the memories of alma mater ...”

Reunion ’12: Celebrate 80 years!

Mary “Duffy” Duffield Boehme celebrat-ed her 100th birthday on October 28, 2011!Family and friends threw her a party at the

Canton (OH) Re-gency, where shelives, and the localCanton Repositoryplus The TodayShow’s WillardScott congratulat-ed her on this veryspecial occasion.Duffy disclosed tothe Repository thatshe enjoys collect-ing turtles, playingbridge, exerciseand singing. Also,

that her favorite birthday treat is carrot cakeand champagne! When asked what she’dlearned over the years, she replied, “Alwayslook forward not back” and quoted her fa-ther, who taught her “Everything is alwaysover.”

The Western family lost a devoted memberof the Class of ’32 with the death on Febru-ary 18, 2011, of Elizabeth Ann Koons Mill-er, age 100. Fellow alumnae will recall thatBetty Ann had donated her academic rega-lia to be awarded each year to the outstand-ing member of the Western Program seniorclass who “best represents the spirit ofWestern.”

WCAA, Inc.325 S. Patterson Ave.Oxford, OH [email protected]



News for fall Bulletin due Labor Day!See Blue Card, page 38!




Theresa Patz Gray ’34, with her Western College scrapbook and college desk

Duffy at 100!

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Dear Gals, Veterans seem to be in the newsthese days so I guess we could qualify. Ifind only 10 of us remaining but we still standtall, or try to, and relish memories of our almamater.

Barbara B. Johnson is living in an apart-ment in Sanibel, FL. She still helps at a li-brary — was trained in that work. She nev-er married and has no family remaining buthas several friends. Like several of us, sheuses a walker.

Anna Shrock Waite of Glendale, CA, livesin a house next to her daughter. She losther husband in 2009. She has had a “bigyear,” made a “gorgeous” trip across Cana-da from Vancouver to Halifax, loved thenature scenes and a helicopter ride over aglacier, returned in June 2010. Then despiteemergency abdominal surgery in June 2011,Anna was able to recover and has had goodhealth. She is completing a series of booksher husband had been writing about his“Waite” family. Waites, she explained, wereEnglish Christmas carolers. Anna writes thatshe would love to hear from members ofthe Class of ’38. The class ribbons of tur-quoise and brown hang from her dresserand she sees them every morning.

I talked to Dorothy McKorkle Moran, whosaid she was busy but would write me — noword yet.

I am doing quite well with the help of a walk-er. Had a big “blowout,” as my granddaugh-ter called it, on July 3, 2011, when I became95. Am still at Cape May Retirement Centerin Wilmington, OH. Enjoy having to prepareonly my breakfast.

God bless you all ...

Jane Noble Miller ’38175 Cape May Dr., Apt. 205Wilmington, OH [email protected]


We are sad to announce the death of long-time Class Rep Ruth Bertsch Stilwell onFebruary 2 of this year in Indianapolis.


News for fall Bulletin due Labor Day!See Class Rep & Blue Card, page 38!


Let’s start with numbers. 2012 minus 1942= 70. ’42 reunion weekend #70 is comingup June 15-17 (remarkable). 25 names andaddresses are on the current ’42 class ros-ter. 9 of these names have no phone or e-mail info given. There is 1 class rep. 7 stal-wart and friendly souls have submitted per-sonal news to be used in the spring WCAABulletin. Umpteen is the number of times Ihave wondered if the 17 non-correspon-dents are deceased, seriously incapacitat-ed, or just uninterested in the ’42 column inthe Bulletin. 1 postcard or 1 phone call (913-248-0678) from each would cure my curi-osity. And now on to classmates’ news ...

Kathryn Severin Behm’s note was aboutrecent health problems for herself and sev-eral Dayton friends. Kay and I had a lengthyphone conversation regarding the recentdeath of Robert Himes, widower of JeanneShadrach Himes. Bob was a true gentle-man and enjoyed being part of Westernevents and friendships.

Barbara Burke Chesman is still traveling.In May (2011), she was in a group whichrode west on Route 66 and returned backto Missouri via Utah and Nebraska. In June,Barb attended an Elderhostel at Lake Gene-va, WI. October found her at Cape Cod andMartha’s Vineyard with a two-coach tourgroup. She plans more travel in 2012!

Marion Constable’s card proved again thatshe is enjoying life to the full. She and afriend were booked on a four-day mysterytour that included a New Year’s Eve cele-bration.

Ethel BurnhamMeece and Elyhave been stay-at-homes for achange, but en-joyed many visitsfrom out-of-stateand even out-of-country visitors toPalo Alto. Eth senta lovely photo —must say she is avery young andbeautiful 90- year-old!

Mildred Orr Palmer and Dick both turned90 in August. Their daughter and son withsponsors put on a beautiful party for 35 lakeneighbors at the Palmer cottage in Michi-gan. Midge wrote from Orange Beach, AL,where they escape winter weather often.

Bernarda Danford Rice moved from Ohioto Tempe, AZ, last May. The move was com-plicated by the van’s breaking down in Kan-sas and her staying with a son in Phoenixfor a month before going on to her newhome. Bernarda wrote that she is thankfulto be near family and “to look out my slidingdoor to see flowers blooming and no snowfalling. Although the move was difficult, I’mglad I did.”

Ora Jane Craig Tipton has never missedwriting a note for the Bulletin. She has fam-ily in Michigan and in California so beingwith them does not happen often.

Bea Low Notley ’425807 Park CircleShawnee, KS 66216


Fran Sutherland Larsen writes: “Howquickly the years go by. After our trip toEgypt, Jordan, Sinai Peninsula, Red Seaand thru the Suez Canal with our daughterSusan in 2010, and hearing rumbles then

Eth Meece ’42

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of what came later, Bob and I started down-loading to go to a retirement village in Jack-sonville, FL, near our daughter Ellen. Whata challenge! It takes a lot of time, so startnow and don’t leave it to your family — tootime-consuming.

“Ellen Westerman Brashares and I keepin touch — so grateful to have her. I didmanage to read again the delightful bookby Ann (Dottie Goldstone) Marcus ’43,Whistling Girl, and enjoyed it so much, bring-ing back so many memories. How proud weare to have known her as Dottie!

“Our granddaughter, Diana, came back fromMelbourne, Australia, where she had beenliving with her aunt and uncle, working in abank for three years. She is happy to beback in the U.S.A. We all are happy to haveher back with us again.

“Once settled, Bob and I have two tripsplanned for this year. We so enjoy seeingthe world, the people, the customs, thescenery.

The big plus is that we are in great health,no canes yet, still curious and active. Hecelebrated his 90th Jan. 1, 2012, as a par-ticipant in a sail race — they won! How welove sailing.

“May you all have a healthy 2012!”

WCAA, Inc.325 S. Patterson Pl.Oxford, OH [email protected]


As you may have seen in the fall Bulletin, Istood in alone for all of you at our 65th Re-union last June. Looking around campusand into some buildings, I was reminded ofso many activities of our class and individu-al members. We were treated royally, withcars or buses to drive us from Peabody toother buildings and wonderful meals. Therewere a number of familiar faces from otherReunions and good conversations.

All good memories. Now today, I’m gratefulfor others who have e-mail to bring news ofyou. Have to admit I love to have a letter,

written or typed, but just as “Liquor is quick-er,” so is e-mail.

Betty Buell Baldwin is researching Buellfamily history in towns in Connecticut. Noscandals except for Hepzibah — who wasfined for wearing silk, trying to be above herstation in life. Her father was founder ofWindsor, a carpenter by trade. Betty alsoworks for League of Women Voters, in-volved with children’s projects. She is pull-ing for Obama to win. She promised to fin-ish sorting out many pictures and informa-tion about trips taken and enjoying them allover again. Then we’ll hear from her again.

Betty learned that Bessie Zimmerly Ter-rell’s husband died last summer. She nowlives in Frederick, MD. We send our condo-lences to Bessie.

A letter from Jim, son of Adda Jean “A. J.”Winterfeldt, tells us that his mother hadexperienced a long battle with dementiaand, after a fall and fractured femur, hadgone to live in a healthcare center in Car-mel, IN, in 2007. Confined to bed or a wheel-chair, she could not return home. Jim visit-ed her often and was with her when shepassed away in December 2011. “She nev-er forgot Western and was grateful for thefriends she made and to be an alum.” Re-member the wonderful work she did insearching out the old class banners andbeautifully reproducing them in a book? Itwas a labor of love that will live on in theArchives. Our sympathy is with Jim.

From Betty Jane Smith Carlson comesnews that she joins the crowd with arthriticknees. That didn’t keep her from attendinggraduation of Alicia from Longwood U. Shenow has a teaching job in Virginia Beach.Alexandra is freshman at same U., major-ing in medical field. B. J. traveled to Califor-nia to visit nieces, nephews and friends. Shehas been busy making greeting cards andhas been successful in selling them.

Betty Ann Martin Gardner has had twosurgeries and then a total hip replacement.“Can’t keep an old dog down,” she says andto prove it, Betty Ann and daughter Colleentook a trip to Hawaii in late September. Sheplays lots of cards and works on knittingprojects. Atta girl. Never give up!

Our world traveler, Martha Hall Wedeman,and husband were in North Africa last sum-mer. They did no mountain climbing nor rockscaling. The CNN reporter for that troubledpart of the world is son, Ben Wedeman. Hewas invited to speak at MU this March aspart of the Grayson Kirk Distinguished Lec-ture Series, sponsored by the internationalstudies program. Marty feels that he shoulddemand to appear in Ernst Nature Theatreto carry on the fine acting career of his moth-er. I’m sure we all remember those beauti-ful performances she made with one-liners.Back home the Wedemans have given up

a car in favor of public transportation andkeep in touch with e-mail and phone. Miss-es seeing Buell in her lovely home acrossthe river. The two keep the lines busy withtheir activities as liberal Democrats.

Clara “Clid” Hunter’s always handwrittenletter arrived in late November, telling of thewild and frightening wind and thunder-storms. Roofs had to be replaced in hercondo area. Memories of our freshman yearcame back as she related that her nephew,“Tap,” had died of Alzheimer’s. He was bornsoon after we met Clid in fall of ’42 and wefelt part of the family, watching him grow andlater become a handsome Army officer. Wesend our sympathy. Hope the new yearbrings better news.

Dorcas Robson has taken the plunge! Af-ter leaving her two-bedroom condo and pa-tio, she is living in an apartment in ValleVerde Retirement home in Santa Barbarawith her cat, Patches. Has her usual oat-meal for breakfast and can take other mealsin dining room. Lots of easy walking and allkinds of activities: exercise, lectures, mu-sic, volunteering and bridge skills to get herback to the game. Enjoyed reading Debo-rah Mitford, Duchess of Devonshire.

From Irving, TX, comes a Christmas letterand addendum from Ann Winger Tuttle.She and Max are living independently intheir home with help, feeling better off thereand more comfortable with space and infamiliar surroundings than in any otherplace. Had a lucky break when the librarianfrom the U. of Dallas came to survey Tut-tles’ library and said he could take all of thebooks. This solved the question of how topack and dispose of over 1,000 books. Annhad kept texts from Dr. Esterquest’s historyclasses so we know it was hard to let go.Her three-page letter had to be cut back tojust one as her daughter, the scribe, had totell her, “Mom, I cannot read your writing.”(Ann joins others of us who have vision andwriting problems.) She has devices to mag-nify her reading and writing and audios. Shekeeps up with a fascinating array of litera-ture: Writings of de Tocqueville, Parrot andOlivier (not too high on her list), a fun readof Cleopatra, a Life and Plutarch’s Lives.She visited a traveling Smithsonian exhibitin the Irving Arts Center with a realistic tre-buchet — a medieval war machine and achain mail shirt. Hopes to attend a springseries to study Anna Karenina. She thoughtthe book and tape and exhibit on GenghisKahn were great. They enjoy watching var-ious birds around their home including tworoadrunners pacing around the pool. Not toofond of a squirrel that lives in a shrub andenjoys chewing on a piece of the awningcanvas. Ann wishes everyone a good Yearof the Dragon.

Closer to home and just a phone call awayis Peggy Kaufman Stricker. In past yearswe have met for lunch and chit-chat. Now

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we find driving and searchingfor a close parking spot a bitof a problem. Peggy is still inher one-floor home in subur-ban Wyoming and has won-derful help. Her younger twinsisters, Mary and Jean, aregone. One son lives in Cinciso she sees him frequently.Now retired, he has time toparticipate in community andnonprofit groups as his father,George, had done. Her otherson lives in Newton, MA. Histwin sons, who have been re-ceiving an excellent educa-tion, are at the time when bigdecisions have to be made forhigher ed. Peggy expected avisit from them in late winter.

Charles and I have beenblessed in the past year. Wequietly observed our 65th an-niversary with family; celebrated the birthof Sadie Isobel, the first girl in the Danielsfamily in 62 years; rejoiced in the recoveryof middle grandson’s vision in one eye aftera tumor was removed from his brain andhis good humor about his situation; and wecan still move about slowly and drive. Ourventure to Charles’ 65th class reunion atCentre College in October was lovely witha few old friends and very friendly, helpfulstudents. Sightseeing on campus was donefrom a golf cart. You may have glimpses ofthat beautiful site when the Vice-Presiden-tial Debates are held there soon. Makes methink of Western campus.

We enjoy the Health Center at NKU, whereCharles serves on a committee, and get toeight to 10 theater productions a year.Church and various Mission projects keepus busy and in touch with longtime friends.With the prospect of another spring of golffor Charles (nine holes from a cart with goodfriends) and the vision of spring bulbs I plant-ed last fall, we look forward to a shortenough winter to get caught up on all thoselittle jobs I always have left over.

With wishes for health and happiness to youand yours ...

Betty Lee Maddox Daniels ’46P.O. Box 114Silver Grove, KY [email protected]



Our numbers seem to be getting smaller —perhaps some are not wanting to write theirnews. This is what I prefer to believe!

Of course the news that affects us all is thedeath of Dean Phyllis Hoyt. She was juststarting her life at Western when we cameinto town. She led a long and wonderful life.And we all have good memories of her.

After 40 years, Ann Creswell Sandin wrotenews of her life now. Ann and her husbandlive with her daughter and her husband in asuite designed for them. She loves Glas-tonbury and life with three “grands.” Her pi-ano came along also, so now there are twopianos in the house and lots of music. NewYear’s will find them in the Cape. Ann saysthat she has ARMD [Age-related MacularDegeneration] and hearing aids and walkswith a walker.

Jerry Smith Rector always has a long let-ter in her Christmas card and she and Tomare very happy in their new home. Manypeople to meet and always an activity orlecture, etc.; their children and grandchil-dren enjoy a busy life. Wedding in Las Ve-gas of grandson, college, scuba diving, golf-ing, engagements, etc. are some of theevents Jerry writes about. She doesn’t haveto worry about what to make for lunch ordinner ... just enjoying life.

Here in Detroit, Ellen Siddall Zimmermannand I get together. Last spring, I went withher for a garden walk in her neighborhood.Older homes have been redone inside andbeautiful gardens outside. I came home

deciding to spruce up my yard. Now Ellenis painting the inside of her house — just incase she might want to sell some day!

After over 50 years, our college potluckgroup is gone and I do miss it. We had goodfood and lots of fun. Time moves on.

A nice letter brought news of Ruth HenleyAdams after many years of reading theBulletin. She went to Western her freshmanand sophomore years and lived in MaryLyon. Then she transferred to DePauw Uni-versity and graduated in 1948. She hasgood memories of Western.

Ruth’s roommates were Betty Ashman herfirst year and Roseanne Swanger Cum-mings sophomore year. Ruth now lives inDublin, OH, at the Friendship Village, nearher son and his family and many Colum-bus-area friends.

We learned recently the class has lost MaeMathews Biscotti, Mary Dye Shambaugh,and Mary Dodge Heyden (January 2012).Our prayers go out to their families.

A card from Helen Grinnell that she is welland enjoying life but “doesn’t get aroundmuch anymore.” She is busy taking care ofher business that began over 58 years ago.Her card always has a nice photo of themountains and lakes in Colorado.

Janet Wilkinson Johnston keeps busy andhappy with her three daughters and twosons; they often get together with eightgrandchildren in for excitement. Janet wrotethat two great-aunts, her mother and grand-mother preceded her at Western. That issomething that speaks well of Western Col-lege! Janet says that at 86 she is still hang-ing in there!

Greetings from cold North Dakota, writesJane Clapp Towne. She walks two miles aday at least five days a week and goes toseveral study clubs. She just celebrated the10th anniversary of her ordination as a dea-con of the Episcopal church. Her childrenare just fine. Two live in Bismarck and herone daughter lives in San Diego. Now Janeis trying to cook for one and eating aloneafter 55 years of marriage. She is thankfulfor a home, security, good friends, and thelove of her church.

Joyce Eddy Plummer writes of the twoyears that have flown by since she last wroteof her activities. She is in good health andher family are all just fine and keep busy.Daughter Marde lives in Arizona and has alittle “business” dog sitting, house sitting,repairs, etc. Marde’s older daughter, recentlymarried, has an interesting job at the Ger-man Embassy; Nicole, her second daugh-ter, works at home and will be married to astate policeman in May. Joyce says bothyoung men are “favorites of their grandmoth-er-in-law.” Son Rusty is trying a new mar-

Annette Kile Owens ’48 sent no news, but did share thispicture of her 88th birthday celebration.

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ket, making and selling goat cheese, and isdoing very well. Keith has a new job in anER. Work is ongoing on her cottage — shecan now live on the first floor and hopes,with the help of family members, the fourbedrooms upstairs will be finished this sum-mer.

Margaret McKee Seder is happily en-sconced in StoneRidge Residential Commu-nity, in Mystic, CT, and writes: “Ed and Imoved here in 2005 and it seems to havebeen a good decision. Only problem is Ihaven’t seen any of my classmates for toolong a time. I don’t travel very far from homebut would love to have any of you drop infor a daytime visit or overnight. I am the lead-er of an aquasize class that meets threemornings a week for 45 minutes of wateraerobics in our pool here. The class variesfrom four to 12 and we have a good time ...end up the class by tossing a beach ballaround to each other. I am also liaison be-tween our Mystic Congregational Churchand the 27 members who live here at Ston-eRidge. My husband, Ed, after 60 wonder-ful years together, passed away peacefullyon August 5th, 2011.”

Marilyn Pauch Shaver writes that her hus-band, Bill, had his 90th birthday and thatthey have been married 65 years. Bill camemany times to Western from Chicago to visitMarilyn. They both remember dorm curfews!At the end of her junior year, Marilyn leftWestern to marry him and finished at NorthCentral College. The celebration includedtheir eight great-grandchildren and manyfriends.

As for me, all is well here. I did rupture adisc last summer — it was resting on a nervein my leg that was pain beyond pain. A shotof cortisone took away the pain in an instant.

I did not take a trip this year, but had myyard landscaped and I really enjoy it. After50 years the yard was rather tacky and nowhas blooming trees, roses, grasses, hedg-es, and a beautiful new walkway of tumbledstone up to the front door. I still swim, go tomovies, dinner, potluck groups, etc., besidesbeing in charge of the altar guild for myEpiscopal church. Also, I have a 6-month-old great-grandchild.

A happy 2012 to all of the ’48 class ...

Alice Crabb Brandon ’482874 Pine Hill Dr.Troy, MI 48098


Dear Classmates, News of our group’s ac-tivities is scarce as the Fiftians start anoth-er year — the year that leads to June 2012,when it will be 62 years since, clutching ourdiplomas in the sunshine outside PresserHall, we said goodbye to each other and toWestern College.

In this year’s news, one message standsout. News has come from the Netherlandsof the death August 16 of Asra Haman-Stork in Enschede, where she lived beforeand after her Western years. She and herlate husband, H.C. (Ted) Stork, have threechildren in three continents: Helena in Am-sterdam, Karen in South Africa, and Nutti inHouston, TX, USA. When she arrived atserene and sheltered Western in 1946, Asraand her family had just survived the Nazioccupation of the Netherlands, with all thatimplies of danger and privation. The clothesshe brought with her showed its effects. Fouryears at Western brought out her cheerful,outgoing personality. We all learned a lotfrom her. On one of the Fiftians’ major Re-union years, Asra traveled back all the wayfrom the Netherlands to join in our celebra-tion. May she rest in peace.

It gives me a real lift to open the mail andfind a message from a classmate not heardfrom for years. This one is a coincidence.It’s from Carol Hayward Vanderpol inPlaistow, NH. “Class of ’50,” she muses.“How long ago that was. We edge nearer tothe beginning of the list, don’t we? My twoyears at Western were full of memories andnostalgia. As years have passed, I realizehow valuable they were. I really feel theyprepared me wisely for the rest of the daysthat have followed.

“The calendar says I’m 83, but I don’t payany attention to the number! My children andJim’s children are scattered about, and wetry to visit them as often as we can. But Jimhas published a book about his days of hid-ing in Holland during the Nazi occupationand his story of how his life has been ful-filled here in the U.S.: And the Money WentOver the Railing. This has been an experi-ence and keeps him busy.” It looks as if weand the Dutch have a real affinity.

It still cheers me to hear from those Fiftianswho often share their news and views withus. One of those loyal scribes is Donna HallMader of Alexandria, KY, in Greater Cincin-nati. “Same old, same old,” she quips. “I’mstill volunteering at the usual places. A newone was added in 2011: Someone fencedin two acres for a vegetable garden, calledit the ‘Giving Fields.’ We started out with 100volunteers who planted, weeded and har-

vested. By October we had given 61,200pounds of veggies to five Northern Kentuckyfood pantries. Probably only 25 of us lastedthe whole season. What fun and what agood feeling. I am getting older with thecreaks and groans that go with it!”

As for your scribe, I echo those creaks andgroans, Donna. Blame mine on Parkinson’s,which does funny things to my voice, etc.But I still manage to cover a lot of groundwith my walker, helping to put out a news-letter, taking part in a book club, etc., in ourretirement community, and, with Bert, myhusband, dining out and going to concerts.

Much of the news comes from the Midwest-erners, some of whom become Floridiansyearly, as soon as the frost shows up onthe pumpkins: When Louise Wilson Bra-ley in Dayton, sees that sign, she sends forher sons, based in the Great Northwest.They engineer the annual trek that settlesLou in Seminole, FL, one of the St. Peters-burg suburbs, not far from where she grewup. A stream of Ohioans visit in the courseof the winter.

Helen Anne Noftsger Welsh, my freshmanroommate, still migrates in the fall to Braden-ton, FL, with help from her sons, one ofwhom lives nearby.

Louise Moore Murray writes from Ports-mouth, RI, that winter had not yet struck and“life is good.” May it also be good for therest of you Fiftians out there ...

Editor’s note: As we went to press, we re-ceived sad news of the deaths of FiftiansBarbara Wicking Knight, LucindaMagruder, and Jane Nelson Scarff.

Diane Heckert Staub ’506441 Bethany Village Dr., Apt. 316Centerville, OH [email protected]



I am usually writing this while looking at asnowstorm or dreading the next trip outdoorsin near-zero weather. Not so this time! Thesun is shining brightly and the temperature

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is near 50. This serves as a reminder thatspring will soon be here, closely followedby summer and our 60th Reunion. How isthat for a lead-in? It is certainly time to bethinking about and making plans to be to-gether again. Several of our classmates arealready doing that.

Tudy Allen Gatzert writes that she and GloWilson Sylvester will be coming from Chi-cago. She hopes that many others will bethere.

Catherine Ross Loveland wrote a wonder-ful long letter, bringing me up-to-date on allof their family activities. Catherine contin-ues with her church activities, but has turnedover some leadership roles to others. Sheserves as a hospice volunteer and has at-tended several retreats. Dick is a student ofthe Civil War and of Lincoln. This interestled to a Road Scholar trip to Springfield, IL.He plays quite a bit of golf and won the 80and over club trophy this year. Cathie saysthat we should not ask how many entrantsthere were in that class. She expects to seeus in Oxford in June.

Betty Groth Diebold has moved back toOhio. I hope to see you in June, Betty, nowthat you do not have to travel cross-countryto get to Oxford.

Nancy Ryan Rietz and Bob had a year ofups and downs. Their daughter Gail passedaway unexpectedly in January. We all ex-tend our thoughts and prayers, Nancy. Ona happier note, Nancy and Bob attendedseveral family graduation ceremonies andcar meets. They are looking forward to mov-ing into their newly completed apartment ina retirement community in March. Nancymay not be at Reunion due to a scheduleconflict, but she keeps in touch with class-mates. She lunched with Gay BelcherHad-ley and Catherine Ross Loveland lastsummer.

Laverne Leech Phillips continues to enjoypainting and her family. She is undergoingchemo again. This will be over in Februaryand Scotty hopes to have hair again by sum-mer. She meets occasionally for lunch withLou Wilson Braley ’50 and Sue HarmanFicken ’38. Scotty says that they have beenknown to sing Western’s Alma Mater aloud— in public.

Barbara Peterson Block and Roger spentChristmas in New York with daughterSharon and family. They had an eventfulsummer. Roger fell while painting sonGlenn’s house and broke an arm He hasbeen undergoing therapy and hoping to getback to his golf game. Golf, of course needstwo arms. Barb volunteers at the bookstoreconnected with their library.

Edith Shattuck Johnson sends greetingsto all. Her card contained a lovely picture ofPetoskey, MI. Edie’s cottage is nearby.

On April 5, Jo (DuBois) and Dick Shafercelebrated their 60th Wedding Anniversa-ry. They had such a wonderful time com-memorating their 50th in Rome 10 years agowith the whole family, they decided to try fora similar event. Since their oldest grandsonis stationed on a ship in Hawaii and Dickwas stationed on a ship in Hawaii followingtheir wedding, this seemed like a good placeto look into. They felt a military recreationbase would have the ambiance and facili-ties they could enjoy and went to work co-ordinating schedules of four children andspouses and nine grandchildren.

A “special extra” will be the inclusion of theson of their former German exchange stu-dent. The families had remained close —to the point that this year he himself is anexchange student in the Shafers’ daughter’shome in Santa Cruz. Unfortunately for theClass of ’52, they will all be ensconced inthree beach cottages on the western shoreof Oahu June 17-27. But Jo asks that theybe included in the class toast!

Doris May Gilmore has not sent class newsbefore, so we are catching up on a fewyears. She and Bob lived in Maine for manyyears, enjoying skiing and snowshoeing.Two years ago, they moved to a retirementcommunity in Tennessee. They are nearfamily and now do not have to shovel snow!Doris sends the sad news that her twin sis-ter Elinor May Magowan lost her husbandin September. Ellie still lives in Wisconsin.

Now for more sad news. Our classmateMary Maw Walsh passed away in October.Most of us will remember her for her musi-cal talent, as she often played the organ andrang the chimes for Chapel and other occa-sions. While raising her family, Mary con-tinued her musical interests and was veryinvolved in peace and social justice caus-es. I really got to know Mary during somelate-night sessions in the Round-Up office.Mary would come there to type papers andI was working on the Round-Up. We hadsome great (and sometimes heated) discus-sions on many subjects.

The Schropes continue on as usual. I’m stillsinging, ringing, and working, though thatcould change. There are circumstances atwork which might cause me to “really” re-tire. I’m considering it. Stay tuned. Dan doeswell, though his poor vision limits somethings. He takes care of the two dogs andenjoys sports on the big TV. Bambi and fam-ily are doing well. Charlotte is now 2 anddelightful. Summer will be here before weknow it! Remember how beautiful the West-ern campus was when we were there? Thathasn’t changed. I hope that many of you willplan to join us there in June.

Sue Off Schrope ’52133 Central WayAnderson, IN [email protected]


Let’s start with Maria Van Waveren Smitthis year, since her memoir to Phyllis Hoytin the fall Bulletin was so beautifully done.Phyllis was indeed amazing, and we all ad-mired and loved her. What is too bad is thatshe isn’t here to read tributes as lovely asMieke’s.

Mieke has done a lot of traveling this year,but no “exotic trips.” Part of the family visit-ed them at Hilton Head in May, and thenshe and Henk headed to Canada to see theiroffspring north of the border. In October, theywent to a musical program at Peabody In-stitute in Baltimore to visit and hear Dasha,the young pianist from Odessa they havesupported. Dasha was going to spend partof her vacation with them in January, andMieke was planning concerts for her at thattime. And also, a big excitement was a Car-ibbean Cruise with the entire family. Andwhat a wonderful time together that was!

Charlotte Bergman Russell is another ofour travelers. She sent pictures of herselfand husband Lew, watching a BohemianSunset, visiting Maine Botanical Garden,and overlooking Mt. Katahdin in Maine. Thepictures also showed a 200-year-old treelost in Hurricane Irene. They even had agranddaughter high school graduate in thepictures. We can’t share all of these delight-ful pictures with you, but they certainly showthat Char is still busy and on the move.

Proud grandparents Lew and CharRussell, with their high school grad

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I know you all have read the book or seenthe film To Kill A Mockingbird. Rememberthe nasty old woman on the porch? Well,classmate Sandra Franz Barnes will beplaying that “crotchety old woman,” as sheput it, in a community theater production.That is wonderful. I wish we could all bethere to see it. Sandy has recovered wellfrom a fractured hip now, and she had abirthday treat in July when all three sonsand their wives and one granddaughter werethere at the same time.

And to make it even more fun, ElizabethRenton Hale was also there to enjoy it. Shecommented on how delightful it was to meetall of the Barneses. Meanwhile Betty hasbeen busy keeping track of the Friends ofRainbow Springs State Park, writing amonthly garden column for the neighbor-hood newsletter and spending time with hersister in Ocala. All four of her daughters werewith her the first weekend in November tocelebrate her 80th birthday.

Another 80th birthday in November wascelebrated for Priscilla Strand Berry anda friend, Mary Ann Lynch ’53, in Chicago.Not only that, but back in Oxford, there wasanother 80th party for her as well as a com-bined 88th birthday party for her husband.That was attended by their son, Roger, hiswife and their daughter. Betsey, Arlie, andthe boys were there in August. Pris enjoysmany activities at the Knolls, such as put-ting together a display there of WWII veter-ans’ memorabilia, She also is busy with thechurch and knitting stockings for missions,and of course attends all of Miami’s sport-ing events!

Willa Ward is also full of activities. She hasa part-time job with The Community Club.She is still volunteering for the Friends ofthe Library and the Altar Guild at her church.Also she belongs to two reading groups. Andbesides being busy at home, she has madea few trips this year to Chicago and NewHampshire.

Mitzi Masters said that it was a good ideafor me to move to North Carolina. She hasknown a lot of people who have gone south.The weather in Minneapolis continues to beawful with challenging events ... but sheadds that it seems that the entire country isalso enduring challenging weather. (IncludeNC in that.)

Lucy Ann Liggett has finished a long re-hab from hip surgery. She has done a lot ofreading with two book groups, and has beenexercising diligently. One trip was to the Cir-cleville Pumpkin Show in October. All sib-lings were there except one. Her brother Bobgrows giant pumpkins; and this year he wonagain — for the fifth straight year! (I had todiscuss this with Google. That PumpkinShow has run every year since 1903! Andwhat fun for them to be winners. I’d love tosee the pumpkin contest, and I bet that is

the first time it has gotten into any of ourBulletins. Next year, send us a picture, Lucy.)

Virginia Meierjohan Fossier has notmoved, and has added to her house herdaughter Donna, who now lives with her. Herson David and wife are close by. Also near-by are her son Russ, his wife and their twolittle girls, Brooke and Julia. She feels as ifthe year has gone quickly, and I can seewhy. She is so lucky to have her family nearher.

Dottie Hayes Hoffman said that she andPete have sold the trawler which replacedtheir sailboat. They are headed for a retire-ment village in Florida. Their children arepleased; daughter Jenny is in Jupiter, FL,and son Bill hopes to retire somewhere inthe Orlando area. This summer Bill’s daugh-ter was married; Jenny’s daughter is a se-nior at UVA and is co-captain of the lacrosseteam; and Doug, the oldest grandson, is inBrooklyn and is an artist. Dot herself worksat the VNA thrift show, plays Mah Jong twodays a week, and gets exercise by walkingwith friends. She spends a lot of time withher 99-year-old mother, who is in an activeretirement home. (And, Dot, we will look for-ward to hearing about her birthday party nextyear.)

Speaking of address changes, Dee Ran-dles Hutchinson has also moved. HusbandJack’s daily health care was more than shecould handle along with house chores, sothey packed up and in October moved withthe help of their family. They are now in atwo-bedroom apartment in a very nice se-nior retirement facility. Their house sold inless than 24 hours! They still can get outand about to visit family and get to church,and life is much easier for Dee now. Theyare meeting some new interesting peopleand she is also able to continue her water-color painting. (And I am lucky to have oneof her lovely pictures hanging in my bed-room.) Her new address is: 100 SomerbyDr. #3169; Alpharetta, GA 30009.

In November, I received a frantic e-mail fromMimi Chesslin in Scotland, saying that herbag had been stolen, and she needed mon-ey and needed it now! So of course I con-

tacted Mimi right away, and although shehad been to Scotland a few years ago, sheis now right here in good ole USA. She wasin the process of trying to retrieve her con-tact list and answer about 30 other friendswho had also received the scam. She hasfinished moving, and commented that mov-ing and shutting off part of her life has beenvery hard.

My turn. Since my early 20s, I have had oto-sclerosis, (Beethoven’s deaf ear disease,except that I wasn’t making music). Throughthe years the ever-improving hearing aidskept up with my loss, but as I climbed theaging tree, the ears gave in. Since cochlearimplants have also improved, I recently gotan inplant on one ear, and it is unbeliev-able! That ear has returned! The scores onthe chart are high, and I am hearing again.I have to juggle a few gizmos behind theear each morning, but it is well worth it. Whatis interesting is that as I was heading to-wards deafness, I kept thinking how amaz-ing it is that our dear, deaf classmate, Vio-let Zirovich, managed to get a degree inthe same time that we did!

Bar Drake McConnell ’545904 Brushwood CourtRaleigh, NC [email protected]


“In sickness and in health.” I am beginningthis year’s class notes with those words intribute to some of our classmates who arecurrently fulfilling a promise made years agoand doing it with loving grace.

Sarah Rutherford Behrendt’s husbandhas developed a form of dementia requir-ing constant care and supervision from her.That has to be both tiring and confining,Sarah, I was so sorry to hear about this.

Susie McLaughlin Montgomery’s hus-band, Robb, as we learned last year, is veryill, preventing trips to see the children andgrandchildren, but the Montgomerys’ fami-ly, including their great-grandchildren, havevisited often in the last 12 months. Susiesays she travels “vicariously” through thetrips of family and friends.

Pris Berry ’54 (center) with The Knolls’Valentine’s Day King and Queen:

Hubby Bob Berry and former WCAABulletin Editor Jean Perry

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“Till death do us part.” Sadly, parting timecame to Joyce Roark Philips, whose hus-band, John, died in September, of pancre-atic cancer. John had been in poor healthfor some time, but his death was suddenand unexpected. Joyce writes that familyand friends helped her get through the hol-idays. She planned a trip to California to seethe Rose Bowl Parade (and for an up-closelook at the flowers the next day) followed bya short stay in southern California. Upon herreturn to Cincinnati she’ll again be immersedin her many volunteer activities. If I’m lucky,I’ll get a visit with her at the Taft Museum ofArt where she is a docent, and where theyare having a Monet exhibit I’m looking for-ward to attending early this year. Sarah,Susie, Joyce — on behalf of our classmates,I send you love and prayers.

I love reading of the many different wayswe alums choose to spend our time duringour “Golden Years.” (I have a few reserva-tions about that term, don’t you?) AnneWelch Burnette seems to have survived 34years in education as “teacher, counselorand administration” with energy left over.She is a docent at the Birmingham Muse-um of Art on Mondays and Fridays. Tues-day and Thursdays, she works at a free clin-ic for the indigent, and on Wednesdays shedoes the mailing for her church newsletter.I’m not sure how, but she also manages todo quite a bit of overseas travel, becauseher “global” daughter moves every threeyears or so. Now, she did mention that shemoved from Huntsville to Birmingham, Ala-bama, so that she could be with her sonand his family, so my question is, when doyou manage to work them in, Anne? Nights?Weekends? I’m just teasing, of course, Iimagine they are very proud of all your in-terests and activities.

Ladies, how many of you are on Facebook?It’s really quite fun. Ingrid Roberta HooverChafee, who is one of my Facebook friends,posted this earlier this year, and — with herpermission — I am copying it here. Howeasy she’s making it for me this way!

“We are grateful for a year that ended wellafter everything seemed to go wrong attimes. My oldest son, who was disabled, waskidnapped in late January together with hiscar, and forced to hand over his bank cardand phone to his kidnappers, who took outmoney for crack. They let him go with thecar, unharmed, in the middle of the night.The ringleader was later caught and con-victed with a 20-year sentence. My husband,Nat, was hospitalized twice in the early fallwith two serious and unrelated emergen-cies, but he is fine now. We are just gratefulto be together and in one piece. The kid-napping was quite dramatic for my son, whogets around on a walker or in a wheelchairand has numerous medical problems; buthe kept his cool and I think that helped himsurvive. He was pretty traumatized for awhile and moved to another (undisclosed)

location far from where he’d lived. It’s amuch safer place.” There now, wasn’t it in-teresting to read that? If you don’t want tohave your own Facebook page, you couldjust post on the WCAA page and perhapsend up happily connecting with anotheralumna you’ve lost touch with. And, Ingrid, Iam so happy that your son’s story had ahappy ending.

According to the Christmas letter I receivedfrom peripatetic Helen Potts Felsenthal,she and husband Norm, who are “both ingood health” and love to travel, are takingadvantage of that happy state to attend var-ious special events involving family and/ortelevision. Think Bat and Bar Mitzvahs, grad-uations, and Emmy awards. I admireHelen’s equanimity. No matter what is go-ing on she seems to stay calm and unflus-tered. I love to read “in good health” in let-ters these days; enjoy, Helen.

In Jo Haines Huntsinger’s New Year’s Daye-mail she wrote of her plan to put away theChristmas things and then get “ORGA-NIZED” and of her long list of things to bedone. Just as I was beginning to commiser-ate (thinking of my own long list), she add-ed, “Wouldn’t it be sad not to have anygoals?” and I realized that I feel the sameway. Do you think it’s the Western spirit stillkicking in? I am constantly reminded whenI read your letters of how strongly Westernfriendships endure.

Joanne Vyse Jung and husband Dick sel-dom miss a chance on their frequents tripsaround the country (19 states last summer)to stop in Benton, AR, to see Gilberta Rickelwho lives in a nursing home there. Joannereports that Gilberta’s mind and spirit areboth fine, although her body is not strong.This year’s stop was on the way to Texas tomeet their first great-grandchild, JaxonAllen. Later in the year Joanne and Dickcelebrated their 56th anniversary “dining inthe Chattanooga Choo Choo dining car.”Editor’s note: Sadly, news reached us thatGilberta passed away February 23, 2012.

Barbara Williams Kearns is as irrepress-ible as ever. She mentions that she doeshave emphysema, but she just treats it “asa nuisance” and goes about her gardeningand other activities as usual. She stays intouch with Jim Helm, widower of SheilaThompson Helm, who has become in-volved with local theater, taking classes,building sets, and acting to help fill the voidleft after his years of care-giving for Sheila.

Nancy Haas Osborn writes that she wasvery proud of her city, Indianapolis, IN, whichreceived compliments for being clean andfriendly from all the visitors who flooded infor the Super Bowl. As a change from cheer-ing for the Giants, last November Nancy di-rected her attention to her grandson’s wed-ding, and this spring she began looking for-ward to her granddaughter’s college grad-

uation. (How can our granddaughters begraduating from college? Wasn’t it just a veryfew years ago that we were all at Western?)

“I’m off to Kenya and Tanzania tomorrowwith a girlfriend on a safari. Jeff didn’t wantto go but is fine with me going—lucky me!”So wrote my indefatigable roommate, Pat-ty Van Auken Robinson, adding that whenshe got home she would keep busy with“senior exercise classes, Yoga and two bookclubs.” Since the Robinsons had traveledearlier in the year — snapshots of them inFlorence and at the Hermitage were on theirChristmas card — I think I’d be like Jeff andskip the safari in favor of more reading onthe recliner, as in another snapshot on thecard. But if you ever want proof of the ben-eficial effects of regular Yoga practice, youjust have to look at Patty.

From Charlotte Leary Ross comes thewelcome news that husband Joe’s canceris still in remission, so that the Rosses cancontinue to take their daily walks and to keepup with the younger members of the family,including grandson Ben, who is training tobecome a member of a “Para Rescue” team,and first great-grandchild, Joseph. SinceJoseph will be over a year old by the timeyou read this, I imagine (remembering myown sons as little boys) that keeping up withhim will be as challenging as it will be fun.

Suzanne Schmidt Smith and daughter-in-law Janice traveled together to southernEngland to learn about and see the Hamp-ton Court Flower Show. Although Suzannethought the gardens lovely, it sounds asthough the highlight of the trip for her was along weekend in London “with a day at Court2 at Wimbledon. That sounds like my kindof trip—I mean, the gardens and the week-end in London, although (heresy!) I’d skipthe tennis.

Carol Lee Silvernail Swager, like many ofus, is grateful for the blessings of the pastyear — in Carol Lee’s case, especially forSeptember’s safe return from Afghanistan(after a year there) of grandson, Joel; hus-band Warren’s news that he needn’t havechemo after the successful removal of an“ugly” tumor and a section of the large co-lon; and the most recent blessing, the birthon December 20 of the Swagers’ first great-grandchild, a boy. (2011 was a big year forgreat-grandsons: Swagers, Rosses, andJungs. If we had any great-granddaughters,no one told me, but I’d love to hear.)

As for Karl and me — well, we’ve had betteryears. After a trip to the dentist, Karl’s trigem-inal neuralgia, nicknamed by some the “sui-cide disease,” flared up and lasted an un-precedented (for him) three months of in-tense pain. Then our financial situationbumped up against the national economywith unfortunate results. As a result, we gaveup our condo, which was getting too big forus anyway, and are now happily settled in a

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smaller but perfectly adequate house in anearby neighborhood. I wouldn’t want to gothrough the experience again, but it washeart-warming and humbling to see the wayour eight kids came together to help us fig-ure out what to do. Each had his own ex-pertise to offer, and we couldn’t be moregrateful.

In retrospect, I have to dub 2011 “the yearof no writing,” but 2012 has begun well. Iturned in the revision of my Paul LaurenceDunbar biography/anthology to my editor atCandlewick, and I am waiting to hear thepub date for Sunday Shopping, my next pic-ture book, from Lee & Low. Till next yearthen, friends. Stay in touch!

Sally Derby Miller ’568737 Empire Ct.Cincinnati, OH [email protected]



We, the members of the class of ’58 contin-ue to face each day, with a positive attitude,as we bravely attack numerous challenges,while enjoying the fruits of our labors, whichoften include children and grandchildren ifyou take it literally. Otherwise, we reach outto others within the community, church, and/or family (with enthusiasm), tackle mind-boggling crossword puzzles or Sudoku (oc-casionally), grow our own vegetable gar-dens (if the soil and weather permit), eathealthy foods (most of the time), and travelto exotic places of the world (some of us).We remember each other in our thoughtsand prayers, send silent messages of heal-ing and loving vibes to one another, andcherish and feel the power of friendship.

Our loving thoughts go out to Karla NoellGalantay, in her time of grief. “My husbandhad been talking about suicide for a longtime. I didn’t believe him, and when I start-ed to, it was too late. On October 30, theday before our 52nd wedding anniversary,he went up to the Gornergrat, (opposite theMount Blanc) found a chapel which wasopen and empty, lay down on his jacket andshot himself in the head with an army pis-tol. I try to keep busy and do a lot of dog-

walking, but the emptiness of the housesometimes gets to me.” She sent love toeveryone. You can lean on us, Karla, any-time. We send our deepest sympathies.

Polly Smith Venable sent news of an event-ful year: “In March, daughter Cricket wasnotified she would be promoted to Colonel,the end of October. She then received or-ders be Deputy Commander of the MedicalGroup at Misawa AFB, Japan leaving in lateAugust. I spent a week with her in mid-Julyas she planned for the move, relaxing overthe weekend, at a Rolling Thunder picnic(Rolling Thunder is the motorcycle groupthat rides through the Washington mall onMemorial Day). I spent a wonderful week-end riding 300 miles on the back of a Har-ley. September brought a visit to Ohio to visitwith my son’s family, enjoyed my 9-year-oldgrandson playing in a fourth-grade footballgame. Over Halloween I visited DC for mydaughter’s promotion ceremony, she re-turned from Japan so all of us could be there— her father, me, our son and grandson,along with colleagues and friends from theDC area. Happy New Year to all! Peace andHappiness to all!”

Polly Martin Hawver writes: “Derek and Ikeep busy with family get-togethers. We justreturned from Rome where we spent Christ-mas with our daughter’s family. It was amaz-ing to be at St. Peter’s Basilica for the Christ-mas Mass! In February, I’ll start back toclasses at Hopkins’ program for seniors.Miss Bliss would NOT approve of my new-found interest in opera; however, the pro-fessor is fantastic. I promise not to sing!!Can’t believe I was allowed to be an alter-nate in Western’s choir. Hope you all havea healthy and rewarding year ahead. I’malways glad to have visitors if you want tocome to the DC area. Beautiful museumsand monuments await you.”

June Regan Young sends her best wish-es. She sings and paints regardless of jointpains. Keep smiling, June.

Juli Beasley Kinchla’s words describingthe past year may certainly apply to all ofus: “There was a balance — some hardthings to deal with, some new goals real-ized, some wonderful family times, and ofcourse, every week a new ache or painsomewhere. But no serious problems andthat, as we know by now, is a gift.” Juli planson retirement in mid-2012.

Betty Strong Miller plans a special weekof traveling with each of her grandchildrenwhen they turn 12. This has included trekswith llamas in New Mexico and cow pokingin Wyoming. Betty hosted me in her home.She drove me to northern New Jersey toretrieve my violin after having the necessarywork done on it to put it in top condition.Now, Betty’s house is up for sale, and shefaces some new experiences often knownas the unknown.

Marie Uveges Holt enjoys retirement bystaying busy with many activities designedto keep both mind and body in good shape,as she interacts with grandchildren who livenearby. She has battled a few of those ail-ments that seem to hit us as we get older,but she has come through victorious.

Phyllis Yeamans Bailey and husband havedecided that the time has come to close theirprosperous orchid business, in favor of con-centrating on their time together, and withchildren and grandchildren.

Jocelyn Wilkins Wilks is working on a bi-ography of her mother, who died this yearat almost 100 years old. Also, Jos has beeninvolved in civic organizations, which includ-ed hosting a community Christmas openhouse for 100 families; completing a semes-ter in American Sign Language, deaf cul-ture, and deaf history; and taking art andpottery classes.

Carol Towne Schaub writes: “One out-standing event was that when daughterMelissa and family came for their visit inJune, Melissa and I took the two boys ( 5and 7) to Sea World for the day and had awonderful time. They had more endurancethan we had expected, so we stayed laterthan we thought that we would. They want-ed to sit in the “splash zone” at the Shamushow, and happily they did get a little weton Shamu’s final splashing pass. They alsotalked Melissa into going on the Return toAtlantis roller coaster with them, they want-ed to get wet on the descent into the poolon that one. Other than that it was a quietyear for us, a little quilting, a lot of singingand visits from family.”

Singing was such a special part of our West-ern days, and now I find that the words inthe song made famous by Josh Groban mayapply to each of us.

When I am down and, oh my soul, so wearyWhen trouble come and my heart burdened beThen I am still and wait here in the silenceUntil you come and sit awhile with me.You raise me up so I can stand on mountainsYou raise me up to walk on stormy seasI am strong when I am on your shouldersYou raise me up to more than I can be.

Here in Melbourne, FL, the welcome mat isout for any of you who may want to bask inthe sun, enjoy my gourmet cooking (other-wise known as simple, homestyle), andclose the gap of the years since we last saweach other. I am grateful for my children andnine grandchildren who are my reason tobe. My passion and my preoccupation re-mains my violin studio, with now over 30students from the ages of 3 to adult. I usemy own method books which haven’t beenpublished yet, for various reasons, but I amlearning to accept this. I also enjoy readingwith no more cataracts, and usually choosenonfiction. I pray each day for peace, both

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within and without, and I send you all mylove and wishes for a truly great new year.

Jennie Lou Fredley Klim ’582017 Thistle Dr.Melbourne, FL [email protected]

News for fall Bulletin due Labor Day!See Class Rep & Blue Card, page38!

The WCAA office passed along the sadnews from her husband, Bill, of the unex-pected and peaceful death of Emmy-LouLehman Hammer-Greschel over a yearago. She was interred by her loving familyat Arlington National Cemetery.

In the spirit of Western’s international em-phasis, Claudia “Whit” White Gilmartinhas joined Friendship Force in Maine. Theiremphasis is international travel and host-ing. The former took her on a three-weekvisit to New Zealand in March. This sum-mer the group will host a group of Kiwis. Acontingent from Belgium will join them in thefall. Whit and family, including all the grands,are doing well. Claudia temporarily droppedoff the class of 1960 list; she is in Maine: 14Bobcat Ln., Berwick ME 03901; e-mail,[email protected].

Jay and Susie Williams Keefer spendmuch of their time traveling between theirnine grandchildren which span in age frombrand new to the first high school graduate.The offspring live in Washington, Utah andFlorida. Two high school reunions and amedical school 50th also kept them on theroad.

The theme of Sara White Arn’s year hasalso been traveling: from a river cruise upthe Rhine to Antwerp, to a family weddingin Minneapolis, to a niece’s graduation fromthe Air Force Academy, to a grandson’sMarine Corps Phase I graduation in Quan-tico, VA. The enormous spring melt madethe Mississippi flood its banks last summerthereby compromising nearby homes in-cluding the Arns’ summer house.

The weather also caused problems for theBensons in Medina, OH. Otherwise Peteand Sydney Stout Benson’s year was a

good one, including lots of travel to visit fam-ily and friends, three trips to the FingerLakes and two to California to spend timewith their 3-year-old twin grandsons. Clus-ter home living has allowed them more freetime to hike, dance, volunteer at church andjoin a book club.

Roomie Sally Hoover Harris and husbandTom in Tennessee have just added a sixthgrandchild to their family. This is the first oneto live close to the Harrises so needless tosay the grandparents are spending lots oftime on the road between home and baby.Tom lost his brother and Sally, her bestfriend this year, so it has been a year of ex-treme contrasts.

Kathie Howard Sutherland continues hervaried interests and specialties with greatenergy. For the first time in 18 years shetaught an undergraduate course, this timeat the University of Southern Maine. Withan experienced eye on the events in Egyptand the Arab Spring last year, she partici-pated in several local presentations. BothKathie and husband John also taught cours-es at USM’s Senior College. Their major tripwas to Tuscany where the food was superband supreme! She continues to paint andthey participate in readers’ theater groups.

Valerie Clark Cook enjoys visits with herthree grown-up grandchildren — all tallerthan she — and her 96-year-old mother stillthriving on the Cape. Her best trip this yearwas to the Panama Canal. She also volun-teers at the Assistance League of Atlanta.

Welcoming home to Indiana son Joe fromQatar was probably the highlight of Dennisand Patty Rees Dewey’s year. But theywere also in on many grandchildren’s birth-days and enjoyed a trip with friends to En-gland. The cruise happened to land themat Southampton on the day of THE royalwedding which Patty promises was un-planned. So they were able to watch all thefestivities at a coastal pub with the locals.On the difficult side, Joe seriously broke hisleg in a training course and Dennis had sur-gery to correct an ascending aortic aneu-rysm. Both reportedly have recovered well.

Christine Dempf Saari has completed twoprojects that have been years in the mak-ing. The first, the final installation of her artwork — called Family Album — at their Aus-trian farm’s Gallery in the Hayloft. The workdepicts three generations of a 20th-centuryEuropean family (hers) but also speaks ofsuch universal themes as love and death,war and displacement, immigration, lossand survival. Her second project is a self-published book called Love and War at StagFarm, The Story of Hirschengut, an Austri-an Mountain Farm, 1938-1948. The well-researched work is based on her parents’correspondence and farm journals duringthe strife-ridden war years of her early child-hood. It will be available on Amazon.

A delightful e-mail from Ann GingrichKuehn in Cincinnati reports that she andhusband Ed welcomed grandbaby number12; their oldest is 22. The Kuehns enjoyeda river boat trip from Amsterdam to Istan-bul. There were bicycles on board which al-lowed them close-up sightseeing at variousstops. Then on to Venice followed by Paris.Their tour of the Normandy beaches wasthe highlight of the trip for Ann. She observesthat many classmates are celebrating 50years of marriage about now. She is too,she says, but with two different husbands,each for 25!

Don and Betty Milligan Kipp have travelednorth and west from Savannah to spendtime with family. Two of their grandkids are16 and both are driving. The Kipps motoredup the entire West Coast of the country,ending in Seattle this spring. She reminisc-es about the fun we all had at our 50th.

Continuing the travel theme that permeatesthese notes, Sally “Doodie” Allen Masterswrites from Naples, FL., that she spendstime in Boston and Atlanta visiting kids andgrandkids. She also took a cruise from Mon-treal to Boston and went with Road Schol-ars to the Utah and Arizona canyons. Whileback in her hometown of Cincinnati she vis-ited Coop and Cathy Bauer Cooper in their“house in the woods,” which she loved.

Coopers became confirmed snowbirds, re-turning to St. Simons Island, GA, for twomonths — January and February — thisyear. While there, they took full advantageof the hospitality of Jim and SuzanneRhodes Crankshaw ’59, permanent resi-dents of the island.

Although it has not slowed her down, ourCalifornia girl, Connie Everett Cunning-ham, is now on oxygen 24/7 — too muchtime in the dorm “smokers” even though shequit the habit 21 years ago. She vacationedin the southeast for a week with her cousin.She does water aerobics and rides her bikealong the coast for 5-6 miles several timesa week. She and partner Antonia spent timethis spring in a Mexican resort where ev-erything was taken care of! “Life is good withan attitude of gratitude,” comments philos-opher Cunningham.

From Mexico Isabel Oteo Martinez reportsthat this past year held no special trips, hap-penings or activities. Her husband’s Parkin-son’s gets worse each day so he needs alot of care. She does take time out for her-self, however, to swim, bicycle and dance.Last year’s training course for caregivershas helped her learn to meditate. Her newMagicJack phone # is 646-312-74-86;reachable from the states at the local call-ing rate. She would love to hear from you.

Annette “Toni” Power Johnson writesfrom Somerset, NJ, of her visits to San Fran-cisco to see son and grandchildren and to

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Michigan to see sister Jackie. She enjoyeda trip with Road Scholars to explore the Utahcanyons. In February the family gatheredin New Jersey to celebrate Toni’s husband’s90th birthday.

A walking culinary tour of the Amalfi Coastwas the highlight of sister Jackie PowerSheldrick’s year. Time in Rome and Na-ples preceded the tour which included visit-ing private homes where they helped pre-pare awesome dinners. Jackie also playsgolf, bridge and generally enjoys her freeunstructured time in Battle Creek. E-mail forJackie: [email protected]

All is well for her family in Idaho, reportsNancy Johnson Marshall. 2011 was justthe usual — travel, family and friends. How-ever, she says, “Idaho is such a conserva-tive state that I don’t know how I’m going tosurvive this election year. I’m definitely ablue girl in a red state!”

Great to hear from Carol Cooper Henry inCohasset, MA. Husband Bill is about tosemi-retire his surgery duties at his veteri-nary practice. Exciting news about son Bill,who had lunch last fall with Mike Nicholsand Diane Sawyer in preparation for edit-ing Steven Spielberg’s new TV series,Smash, for NBC. Daughter Annie has qual-ified for the Half Ironman Worlds in LasVegas this fall. Younger son Charlie andfamily live nearby.

From Norwalk, CT, Nancy Kohlman Free-man writes of a mixed bag year for the fam-ily. Mostly for health reasons. But all are nowon the mend. Two occasions highlighted theyear: their third son was married and a Rus-sian riverboat cruise took Nancy and hus-band Peter to beautiful St. Petersburg andMoscow. Nancy reports that standing in themiddle of Red Square was awesome.

Mary Flagler Rachau has had a difficultyear. Husband Ernie passed away in Aprilof 2011. And to top things off, everythingthat could go wrong with her house did soduring the rest of the year! Friends and herchildren have helped Mary keep her sanity.Please note that future e-mails should besent to her in care of her daughter:[email protected].

Ann Hammond wrote in mid-March to re-port that she is finally out of the hospital af-ter three months following an automobileaccident in Ohio. She is now happily athome in California but continues to havedifficulty walking.

The theme of our year was called “weath-er.” A torrential rain in June built up water inour drains which eventually emptied into thehouse causing damage on all four floors.Hurricane Irene in August tore off the roofof our condo building in southern New Jer-sey and the premature snow storm Alfred inOctober caused Halloween to be officially

canceled. The latter two storms alsoknocked out our electricity for a total of 13days. But no one was hurt and we are nowenjoying all the forced improvements.Thanks, everyone, for writing!

Jan Sandrock MacEwen ’6014 Codfish Ln.Weston, CT [email protected]


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For those of you who heeded the call, wethank you and are most grateful that youtook some time to share your news with us.We look forward to even more classmateand Western friend updates next year.

Faith Evans sent both a card and an e-mail. She is still working four days a weekas a therapist in a behavioral health clinicand would like to cut back her hours a bitmore. Faith mourns the loss of her pet houserabbit, Bunnie, who died at age 6. She en-joyed spending time this past summer at hercamp in Maine, where she welcomed thevisits of many friends. “The fall was busy,as I had a knee injury (from the canoe) andalso needed to locate a new insurance co.to insure our Maine island. Then, unex-pectedly, in December, I ended up in thehospital with a rare tick bite, called Erhlichi-osis, and also anemia. Be careful … thereare more ticks out there than the Lyme dis-ease tick. No fun and am still recovering.”Faith is involved with local Democrats andplans to work with them throughout this year,especially for the election of Elizabeth War-ren for the U.S. Senate. Faith was lookingforward to attending her nephew’s weddingin North Carolina in February and hopes tosee you all in 2014 at our 50th Reunion.

On Dec.31, Faith visited Vivien Despotopu-los Forbes, who is in a long-term care fa-cility, and they had a great lunch. She sayshi to you all, and is doing well. It’s a smallfacility, with lots of activities; and one of herdaughters lives only 10 minutes away.

Jan Wood Beaven wrote that she’s had agood year. She continues her involvementwith community work on the boards of Trin-ity Church, Beacon Hill Seminars, and FirstNight Boston, as well as on the advisoryboard of Environment Northeast. Jan trav-eled to Vietnam, Cambodia, and France; didstrategic planning work with a historic mu-seum; and had — “best of all — good timeswith and much joy from children and grand-children. Still value my Western education.Best to all for 2012.”

Dee Weaver Kleckner remembers “theWestern days with such fondness” andhopes to get to a Reunion soon. The pastyear has been “uneventful but lovely. Wecontinue to divide our year betweenSandusky, OH, and Green Valley, AZ. Wefeel that we really have the best of bothworlds. Our daughter, Laura, has moved toPortland, OR, so we had a lot of fun investi-gating that state as well. I continue to enjoylearning Spanish, volunteering at the foodbanks in both communities, singing in thechurch choir, and being a member of a live-ly book group. I am also trying pilates. BothRoger and I are enjoying good health, agreat gift at our age! It is always fun to catchup on our class, and I will look forward toreading everyone’s news!”

Nancy Bergmann Killough began her e-mail: “Not much new to report from us thisyear, and that’s not a bad thing. It’s a bit ofa trick to think of anything significant afterlast year’s busyness with reunions, anniver-saries, and an overseas wedding.” Nancy’sfamily remains healthy, including Mike’s

Christine Saari ’60, holding long-awaited opus

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WESTERN COLLEGE ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION, INC.

FINANCIAL REPORT 2011Honor Roll

A list of donors to any (or all) of our three funds:Annual (*), for ongoing expenses such as mailing the Bulletin, supporting reunions,

giving annual scholarshipsReunion/Class (^), for a special project that can be created only by combining gifts

from all classes, different every year Endowment (+), for major projects/programs to keep the spirit of Western alive such

as named scholarships, professorships, lecture seriesDuring the year January 1, 2011-December 31, 2011

Percentage of donors appears with each class.

Club DesignationsPeabody Society $1,000 and upMcKee Circle $500-$999Clawson Club $250-$499Century Club $100-$249

(dcd) deceased * Annual Fund ^ Reunion/Class Fund + Endowment Fund

Class of 1929 (66%)Peabody Society

Lois Wiggins Newman * (dcd)Century Club

Frances Hall King *

Class of 1932 (14%)Donor

Mildred Hurdle Webb ^

Class of 1934 (9%)Century Club

Eleanor Van Dervort Talbot *


Mary Spring Herring *


Jane Schick Foster +


Mary Harman Ficken *Donor

Jane Noble Miller ^

Class of 1939 (30%)McKee Circle

Barbara Washburn Lapp *Century Club

Rosemary Wilson Colby *Donor

Betty Runner Davis *

Marylou Lynch McCollum *Peggy Morse Stark *Beulah Burkholder Sundstrom *

Class of 1940 (40%)Clawson Club

Jeanne Ott Saunders *Century Club

Barbara Burrer Baughman *Elizabeth McKeever Ross ^Ruth Bertsch Stilwell + (dcd)

DonorKaleen Kocikowski Abel ^Margaret Gravett Giusti *Janet Graham King *Joan Darby Kuntz *


Ruth Harry Hathaway *Donor

May Egerton Fyfe *Elinor Griffith Green *Jane Schaefer Le Roux ^


Ethel Burnham Meece *Century Club

Eloise Gompf *Beatrice Low Notley *^Mildred Orr Palmer *Bernarda Danford Rice ^*Mary Lou Evans Spencer *

Donor

Margaret Spears Bates +*Marion E. Constable *Winifred Smith Klein *Ora Craig Tipton ^*


Susanna Rieley McIntyre + (dcd)Clawson Club

Elizabeth Holt Bancala +Ann Goldstone Marcus *


Ruth Hutcheon Link * (dcd)Century Club

Mary Huber Davis *Donor

Emily Wells Bechtold *Francese Sutherland Larsen *


Beth Shirk Bevan *Ardis Dechman Coninx +*Margie Gasche Ewing +*Marilyn Inskeep Fischer *Virginia Cook Marquett +Mary Devitt Stieb *

DonorJane Harris Bugnand +Marian Arbuckle Morse * (dcd)


Betty Maddox Daniels ^Dorothy Warren Rinaldo +*Rita Gruber Sklar *Peggy Kaufman Stricker *Ann Winger Tuttle *

DonorRoberta Malcolm Armstrong *Elizabeth Buell Baldwin *Suzanne Goldberg Gruber *Helen Gons Korngold *Dorcas Robson *


Anne Mack Dean *+Century Club

Joanna Harmeyer Ach +Grace Drochelman Bleikamp *Jean Kerby Boland *Barbara House Crenshaw *Jane Alexander Durrell +*Mary Feller Epremian *Alyce Baumgartner Haines *Susanne Durrell Hunt *^Mary Teel Paulin *

DonorBarbara Gunnels Daily *Louise Gutman Goldberg +*Emily W. Greenland +Maxine Murray Long *Nancy Goldenthal Max *Margaret McKenzie Midener +*Elaine Kramer Millman *Gene De Scherer Popkin *Marilyn Trester Woodrich *

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Dorothy Mershon Armistead *Nancy McKinney Fleetwood +*Jacqueline Smith Greenhoe +*Margaret Brauchli Haenni ^*Marjorie Hoerres Kalkoske *Judith Stuchell Mellicker *Joyce Eddy Plummer *Ann Creswell Sandin *Beverly Avis Wamelink *Ellen Siddall Zimmermann +

DonorAlice Crabb Brandon *Jane Niehaus Higgs *Janet Wilkinson Johnston *Cynthia Adams Leslie *Margaret McKee Seder *Mary Anne Hillman Thornton *


Mary Jane Liggett Matson *Century Club

Bev Armstrong Barringer *Anne Schiffmayer Bugbee *Joan Kadow Choate *Katharine Widdifield Duff *Ruth Ault Hadley ^*Ann MacLeod Haszard *Evelyn Jensen Hill +*Mary Mack Hurst * (dcd)Jane Carpenter Jones *Dorothy Davis Kruse *Guileen Lindsey Manuel *Virginia Thomas McNabb *Grace Sherman Streb *Jane Osgood Tatge *

DonorM Josephine Moore Becker *Phylis Huntly Cramer *Lorraine Tigh Dennerlein *Nancy Suter Hull *Margo Freudenthal Kaufman *Nancy Meiss McLaren *Anne Dick Pew *Priscilla Trumbull Wilcox *


Louise Wilson Braley *Clawson Club

Patricia Brewer Benjamin *Century Club

Eleanor Prescott Adams *Frances Disner Biddle *Nancy Dilloway Booth +*Juliet Atkinson Howard *Susan Jones Niedenfuhr *Jane Bridgman Voigt ^

DonorSally Patterson Day *Elsie Meissner Dreves +*Madelyn Houtzer Glass *Kathleen Harper Hall +Donna Hall Mader *Louise Moore Murray +*Carolyn Sullivan Zinn *


Grete Stern Wrede +McKee Circle

Ruth Dunlap Will *Clawson Club

Jane Donaldson Buswold ^*Natalie Christopher Connelly *

Century ClubBarbara McGill Benson *Jeanne Owen Buhler *Dona Day Cooper *Betsy Feuss Gardner ^*Nancy Hon Krauth ^Nancy McCudden Osgood ^*Adrianne Riester Smith *Alice Merwin Tweedy +*

DonorRosemarie Reuter Bowman *Barbara Van Meter Carey ^Nancy Cox Cochrane *Yvonne Beaumont McCullough *Charlotte Hutchinson Pursell *Mary Peterson Shenefield ^Josselyn Bennett Winslow *


Jo Ann Fley +*Jean Fuller Lester *

McKee CircleCatherine Ross Loveland +*

Clawson ClubMary Sue Allen Gatzert +*Nancy Allen Rodgers *

Century ClubDonna Schulz Bloom *Elizabeth Sipe Gerber ^*LaVerne Leech Phillips *

Suzanne Off Schrope +Joanne DuBois Shafer *Caryl Shaw Sparks *Gloria Wilson Sylvester +*

DonorPersis Fuller Alden *Pat Halfacre Bischoff *Carolyn Hartwell Braendle *Ann Anthony Brophy *Margaretta Frey *Kay Kautzmann Joseph *Nancy Ryan Rietz +*Joyce Rinckhoff Snell *


Mary Culver Daniels *Marita Lakonen Judge *Debra Cohen Kalodner +*Sheila Prendergast Luetkehans *Mary Ann McCain Lynch ^*Barbara Johnson Mecklenborg ^Anne Koch Nevins +Cary Kimbark Revere ^*Martha Wilson Rowan *Barbara Johnson Wright *

DonorPatricia Wilson Barrett *Lee Ann Prendergast Curry *Jane Proude Gibbins *Joan Willitts Glatte ^Patricia Wiederstein Hildebrandt +*Vesta Peters Philbrick *Evelyn Dixon Present *Marjorie Ashton Ruby *Doris Hawthorne Statler *Virginia Wells Welss *


Elizabeth Renton Hale +^*Lucy Ann Liggett +^*Elizabeth Brown Peelle +

McKee CircleCharlotte Bergmann Russell *

Clawson Club Miriam Chesslin +*

Century ClubSandra Franz Barnes *Priscilla Strand Berry *^Nancy Blake Harvey ^*Delores Randles Hutchinson *Tamara Stahanovich Kolba *Cornelia Roettcher Levine +*Barbara Drake McConnell *Maria Van Waveren Smit +

DonorVirginia Meierjohan Fossier ^Mildred C. Masters *Willa B. Ward *


Barbara Bracken Mushake *Carolyn Dunkin Schulte +

McKee CircleCharlotte M. Kraebel +Shirley Small Osepchuk + (dcd)Susan Riley Scherer +

Clawson ClubCharlene Ashing Barry +*

Phyllis Banta Sandmann +Century Club

Barbara Pope Benbow *Sara Babcock Burneson *Barbara Giles Grant *Marta Kreider Krebs + (dcd)Dorothy Runyon Medlin *Mary Sicer Moore *Judith Schulthess Ruoff *Kay Williams +

DonorEdwina Hurrell Hughes +*Jane Rinaud Keating *Shirley Remnant Sloat *


Carol Silvernail Swager ^+*Clawson Club

Helen Potts Felsenthal *Darlys Tracy Graham *

Century ClubJulia Adams Antoine *Ingrid Roberta Hoover Chafee *Mihrican Ozdemir Havens *Josephine Haines Huntsinger *Nancy Haas Osborn *Joyce Roark Phillips *Charlotte Leary Ross +*Barbara Ballinger Sweet *

DonorMarlena Majzels Gelboin ^Kathryn Peterson Gonzalez *Marilyn Ballard Kaiser *Carol Tincher Keith *Janice Shenk Pabodie *


Elizabeth Beatty Lee +Sandra Grimes Surico *

Clawson ClubEllyn Talbott Bogan ^*Charlotte Klein Varzi +^*

Century ClubPaula Zearley Armstrong *Nancy Lakamp Broad *Drusilla Zearley Clingman *Charlotte Knox Eberhard *Susan Mayer Falter +Shirley Rakich Giffin *Joan Mueller McInally *Jo Ann Chism Savoy +*Suzanne Martin Scott *

DonorDorothy Poeschl Hawkes *Lois Rehm Koch *Frederica Barber Miller +*Mary Ann Fichtner Mountain *Phyllis Plattenburg Reid *Sandra Still Sakurai ^


Rosalind Chu +Donna Carpenter Cornman *Jane Smucker Fryman +^Margaret Holliday *Marie Uveges Holt +Gretchen Wampler Mousetis * (dcd)Polly Smith Venable +*

From Hanna Furmanava, MU ’14, recipient of Inter-national Student Scholarship:I am from Belarus ... pursuing major de-grees in Finance, Accounting and minorin Decision Sciences. Currently I have a3.71 cumulative GPA that I am proud of.I am on the tennis team at Miami. Myschedule is very busy with a lot of prac-tices, travelling, games ... during my free time, I work atthe Chemistry Department and have an internship at theAthletic Department. I like Miami University and Oxforda lot ... a town with a great school, nature, history andbeauty ...


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June Regan Young *Donor

Phyllis Yeamans Bailey +*Rosa Ewing Goldman *Marian Martin Hawver *Jennie Fredley Klim *Joan Avakian Poritsky *Carol Towne Schaub *


Lucretia Bilsland Galloway +*Ann Ferguson Zeigler +^*

Clawson ClubMary Ellen Thomas Forte +

Century ClubSuzanne Rhodes Crankshaw *Sis Moeller Horst *Diana Forshew Kerber ^Sue Forester Kincade *Diana Koch Mascali *Gail Budelman Nutty +Hatsumi Takenaka Whitehead *

DonorBarbara A. Crotts *Peggy Mayer Hill *Nancy Hsieh Kuo *Helen Jemison Springob +Jane Toy Thomason *Mary Lou Miller Williamson +


Catherine Bauer Cooper +*Century Club

Sara White Arn +Janet Sandrock MacEwen *Ursula Seeler Parobek *Mary Flagler Rachau +Joan Harrison Sievers +*

DonorAnnette Power Johnson *Sally Allen Masters *Mary Barber McKechnie *Susan Getz Morris +*Christine Dempf Saari *Phyllis A. Voegeli *


Gail Howell Litwiler ^*Anne Adkins Weissenborn ^+*

McKee CircleMary De Jong Obuchowski ^

Clawson ClubCynthia Ackerman Horne ^+*

Century ClubJane Miller Brooks ^Katherine McKee Chretien *Flora Zimmerman Cohen ^Jeanette Kirkpatrick Duvall ^Cecelia Ann Kendrick McCrillis ^Marianne Fagel McCulloch ^Sharon Botsford Moyer ^Marian J. Robinson ^+*

DonorSharry Patterson Addison ^Sandra Baarsch Baumgardner +Judith Ulmer Brockschmidt ^Susan Baarsch Button *Gretchen Zimmerman Crawford +

Ann Bronaugh Kyle *Suzanne West Negron ^Lynn Bernheim Reese *Sally Vinnedge Smith *Corinne Tietjens Sommer *


Susan Veazie Landis +Young-Sook Kim Park +Donna E. Shalala *Doris Ning Wong +*^

McKee CircleJudith Dudman Henderson +

Century ClubJudith Amos Hubbell +*Ghada Hashem Talhami +

DonorSara Macgilvra Angus +Judith Bauer +^*Nancy Smith Carlson +*


Susan Berryhill Hill *+Eva Nortvedt Humbach +*

Clawson ClubFlorence Firjanian McGurk *

Century ClubBrenda Litchfield Benson *Jill Hartley Fulton *Ella Brown McMahon +^Carolyn M. Myers *Deborah Hunt Perrin ^Sally Salo Roman +Loretta W. Ryder *^Nia Jones Terry +*^

DonorSandra Alexander Akers *Marjorie Keppel Gross *Ingela Helgesson *Mary Ann Theophile Pappanikou *Jane C. Pendley +*Ellen Lee Simarano +Jo Ann Katzman Smith *Elizabeth Doerr Steponkus +*Emma Sue Nave Wilson *^


Linda Roscoe Felicetti *McKee Circle

Betty Treiber Ahrens *Clawson Club

Lynne Drucker Albukerk +*Grace Good Bailey *Âlice I. Baker *^Nancy Fierbaugh Collier +*Yvette Small Hohler +^*Marcia Randlett Oder +*^

Century ClubMuriel Rappeport Burstein *Carol Shuler Butcher *Cynthia Must Hays *Nancy Bergmann Killough *Deanna Weaver Kleckner *Nancy McGregor Nowak *Carol Thomas Ruikka *Patricia Spokes Snowden *Lois Johnson Wilson *Nancy VanVleck von Allmen *

DonorJanet Wood Beaven +Corlin Hollister Carpenter *Cathie Koutsogiane Cipolla *Judith White Fogt *Carolyn Moss Ford *Barbara Griswold Marrs *Jeanne Phillips Rannells *Alice Mollenauer Raymond *Isabel Kimball Richardson *


Sylvia G. Stanfield +*Clawson Club

Roberta T. Melnick +*Shirin Kassam Velji +

Century ClubBetsy Smith Ames *Janet Dickerson-Stephens +*Rita Gehlhoff Êlizabeth J. Jacobs-Harrison +Ada Tang Kwoh *Sue Brewer Thompson +

DonorMina Lund Davis +Pam Eggers Gill +*Sandra Severson Harwood *Shelley Speiden Henry *Kathleen Martin Kaster *Kathleen O’Brian Lillich *Ingrid Barrett McDonough *Margaret Gaebler Morscheck *Kathy Fansher Parnell *


Margaret Wilmer Bartlett +Suzanne Lutz May ^+

McKee CircleKathi Ramsey Goldsmith Ânn E. Walton ^

Clawson ClubCharlotte A. Dickerson ^*Edith Taylor Molumby ^+*Jane Graham Murphy *

Century ClubCharla A. Coatoam ^Hazel Williams Drew ^*Suzanne Detlefson Meyers ^Jennifer S. Morgan *Carol Maturo Ward +Susan Ray Woodworth ^*

Donor

Nancy P. James-Frese +Gwynne H. Reese *Sylvia Hoffman Swartz *Mary Davis Van Siclen *


Katharine Ehrgood Sturm +*McKee Circle

Joan A. Barenholtz *Clawson Club

Cheryl Christian Kugler ^*Myrna Hanson Logan ^*

Century ClubMuriel Gillette Alexander ^Janina Chadwick +*Jane Gayley DuBois *Carolyn Sparks Kokalis *Annie Wu Lee *Stephanie Smith Siegfried *Barbara Jermyn Tinney *Jean Simpson Winters *Jo Ann Brombaugh Wittmann *

DonorLois Dickey Coyle *Elaine Harris Gomperts *Charleen Hoch Greer +Frances Powell Harris *Blanche S. Kung *Barbara Zarfos Landis *Carol Stone Lehman ^*Elaine Chakeres Mateyka *Deborah Smith-Blackmer +Jane F. Underwood *A. Jane Huber Wallace *


Susan Blake *Karen Prah Voris +*

Clawson ClubSusannah Davids Êlla Weingarten Iams *Jennifer French Sponsler *

Century ClubJeanne Flowers Foster *Patricia A. Jayson +*Ellen M. Myette +Nancy Niver +*Cecelia M. Peabody ^*Leslie Weirman Riley *Susan Fackler Sykes *Francine Toss *Barbara Williamson Wentz *

From Ryan Kincaid, MU ’12, recipient of AlumnaeScholarship: I very much appreciate yoursupport through this generous program.Especially in these difficult times, it takesa considerable amount of pressure off myfamily and me ... I am continuing my stud-ies in Diplomacy and Global Politics witha minor in German and European AreaStudies. I had the fantastic opportunity to study abroad atthe MUDEC in Luxembourg ... [but] it is good to be backon the campus that means so much to me. I have appliedfor a summer internship with the Department of State andam waiting anxiously to hear back ...


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DonorEllen Custer Bowles *Julie H. Estes *Hayat Imam *Susan Williams Oblinger *


Nancy Wilson Kobayashi +^*Clawson Club

Laura Kaye Hedeen Kory *Century Club

Robin L. Bartlett +*B. J. Gibbons Bramlett +Joan Freeman Dore *Sally L. Fliess *Annette Bevan Gallagher +*Rachel Henderson *Cecelia Henig *Virginia Weckstrom Kantor *Ann Noble *Susan Bradbard Patrick *+Cynthia Van Allen Schaffner *Carolann Herrold Sharp *Karla W. Simon *

DonorLouise Adkins-Ellis *Betsy Philipson Kensinger +^Louise Wiedmann Koch *Karen Kling Plumb +


Patricia E. Pinkowski +*Clawson Club

Hazel A. Serdarian *Century Club

Pamela Watts Coates +

DonorCelia Dalton Clark *Mary Melison McDonald *Mary Hoge Miller *Ruth Senft Noyes *Ellyn Trautmann Pflug *


Christine Jordan Blanchette *Century Club

Susan Wolfe Caceci +*Patricia Kinney Gross +*Susan Kudner Starr *Pamela Waldron-Moore *

DonorKaren Shelly Arias *Ligia M. Galarza *Linda Brooks Larsen *Kathryn J. McWilliams *Nancy Stokes Saumsiegle *Deborah Ricketts Tolley *


Pamela J. Aduskevicz +*Jan Eschenbrenner Meyers *

DonorJennifer Free *Sarah Smith *


V. Joan Campbell +*Century Club

Marcy Jackoway Cornfeld *Nancy Pratt Finfer *Rita E. Greene ^+

Gita Wijesinghe Pitter +*Ann M. Powell *

DonorNancy Alison Owens *Lynne Mueller Sweeney +*


Christine Moranda +*Elizabeth A. Salt +*Jocelyn F. Woodson-Reed +^

Century ClubNancy Anderson *Janet M. Lucas +^Greta Pope Wimp *

DonorSue Anderson +*Suzanne K. Doswell *Janice Wright Linzell *Lucinda Walser McLean *Ann Crowley Pagano +*


Anne C. Haskel *Century Club

Mary Logan Foard *


Pheetta G. Wilkinson ^Donor

Elizabeth Rugg Peck *Melinda McGinnis Reynolds *

Western Program AlumniPeabody Society

Elizabeth A. McNellie ’86 + *McKee Circle

Timothy J. Matune ’81 ^Century Club

Benjamin D. Gibbons ’94 *Donor

Irene Dvoraczky Bell ’82 ^Matthew M. Connor ’04 +Sheila M. Curran ’78 ^Lorna Jordan ’81 ^Kristen F. Vongruben ’99 ^

Western Former Faculty/StaffPeabody Society

Jacqueline S. Wallace *^Century Club

Donavon Auble ^*Phyllis Hoyt * (dcd)

Reunion/Class GiftsAnniversary year classes contributed $5,840.Non-anniversary year classes contributed $5,788.WCP non-anniversary classes contributed $575.TOTAL REUNION/CLASS GIFTS $12,203Designated for Other Programs 0Total for Western College Professorship $12,203Gifts for Reunion 2011 supported the Western Col-lege Endowed Professorship.

Club GiftsColumbus Area Western College Endowed

ProfessorshipDayton/Miami Valley Area Western College Endowed

ProfessorshipIndianapolis Area UndesignatedSWO/NKY Area Undesignated

TOTAL CLUB GIFTS $665

From Nancy Odero, MU ’15, recipient of Herrick BlackYoung & Mboya Family International Scholarships:

I am a first year student at Miami Univer-sity ... writing to express my heartfelt grati-tude. I have been able to attend a univer-sity I never believed was within my reachand have been able to learn so many newthings from a lot of very wonderful people,because of the wonderful opportunity you

have afforded me. I pray for everlasting blessings in yourlives and hope to represent my country [Kenya] and yourscholarship to the best of my ability. ... I hope to make youall proud while at Miami.

Dorothy Merrill *Donor

Richard Sakurai ^Josephine Schaefer +

FriendsPeabody Society

David C. Cable +Lee D. Hieronymus *Edward J. Kenney *Grace N. Lee +Donna and William Matson *+Susan A. Mboya +J. Martin Myers, Jr. +

McKee CircleCharles Salt +

Century ClubMary Jean Corbett *Mary Bales Keebler *Ann M. Raleigh Schulte *John H. Stuckey *William T. Trainer +Judy Kalbfus Waldron ^Sten Wiedling ^*Jennifer C. Wu +

DonorDeborah S. Baker +Claudia White Gilmartin *Mary Kaye Wolke +*John Wuorinen +

OrganizationsAlcoa Foundation *Carnegie Corp. of New York *Chevron Corporation *Coca-Cola USA +Dayton Foundation Depository Inc. *Eaton Corporation +Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund *+Gannett Foundation Incorporated *General Electric Company *Hieronymus Family Fund Inc. *International Business Machines

Corporation ^*Network for Good *Procter & Gamble Company *Prudential Foundation *Russell’s Garden Center Charitable

Foundation Inc. *The Henry County Community

Foundation Inc. *Vanguard Charitable Endowment

Program +Verizon Foundation *W. E. Smith Charitable Trust *


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Louise Kell Ozdemir ’21Mihrican Ozdemir Havens ’56

Jean Perrill Davids ’30Marlena Majzels Gelbion ’56Susannah Davids ’68

Marjorie Ann Grand-Girard Myers ’43J. Martin Myers

Nancy Meyer Elofson ’44Francese Sutherland Larsen ’44

Virginia Hirschfield Tribble ’50Deborah BakerLouise Wilson Braley ’50Kaye WolkeSuzanne Lutz May ’66

Joyce Hambley McCormick ’51Mary Peterson Shenefield ’51

Sheila Thompson Helm ’56A. Joyce Roark Phillips ’56

Barbara Frazey Kenney ’57Edward KenneyDonna and William Matson

Gretchen Wampler Mousetis ’58Suzanne Lutz May ’66

Dixie Harris Trainer ’58William Trainer

Katharine Piper ’58Joan Avakian Poritsky ’58

Catherine Alexis Andreyev ’68Ellen Myette ’68

Phyllis Hoyt FF Professor and Dean, 1946-74Lynne Drucker Albukerk ’64Donavon and Carolyn AubleGrace Good Bailey ’64Deborah BakerCharlene Ashing Barry ’55Robin L. Bartlett ’69Priscilla Strand Berry ’54Louise Wilson Braley ’50Jeanne Owen Buhler ’51Sarah Babcock Burneson ’55Susan Baarsch Button ’61Jo Ann Fley ’52Carolyn Moss Ford ’64Jeanne Flowers Foster ’68Mary Sue Gatzert ’52Rita Gehlhoff ’65Elizabeth Sipe Gerber ’52Eloise Gompf ’42, FFAnne C. Haskel ’75 (for her kindness ofNovember 16, 1971)Peggy Mayer Hill ’59Ella Weingarten Iams ’68Marie Iandoli ’65Elizabeth Jones Jacobs-Harrison ’65Will and Mary Ann KeeblerSue Forester Kincade ’59Ada Tang Kwoh ’65Annie Wu Lee ’67Carol Stone Lehman ’67Suzanne Lutz May ’66Florence Firjanian McGurk ’63

Memorial GiftsChristine Moranda ’74Susan Getz Morris ’60Gail Budelman Nutty ’59Mary DeJong Obuchowski ’61Shirley Small Osepchuk ’55Vesta Peters Philbrick ’53Laverne Leech Phillips ’52Gene De Scherer Popkin ’47Joan Avakian Poritsky ’58Jeanne Phillips Rannells ’64Marian J. Robinson ’61Elizabeth A. Salt ’74Ann Raleigh SchulteSuzanne Martin Scott ’57Joyce Rinckhoff Snell ’52Jennifer French Sponsler ’68Janet Smith Dickerson Stephens ’65Carol Silvernail Swager ’56Alice Merwin Tweedy ’51Mary Ann Davis Van Siclen ’66Shirin Kassam Velji ’65Mary (Polly) Smith Venable ’58Karen Prah Voris ’68Carol Maturo Ward ’66Barbara Williamson Wentz ’68Kaye WolkeAnn Ferguson Zeigler ’59

Williard Keebler FS Business Manager, Vice President for Business, 1956-74Deborah Baker

Robert Yow-Min Lee (brother-in-law of Doris Ning Wong ’62)Grace Ning Lee

Gifts in honor of living alumnae:

Donna Shalala ’62Shirin Kassam Velji ’65

Patricia Spokes Snowden ’64Shirin Kassam Velji ’65

Lynne Drucker Albukerk ’64Shirin Kassam Velji ’65

Judy Kalbfus Waldron, HADiana Forshew Kerber ’59

Thanks to our many generous contributors, we met our goalof $300,000 to qualify for the Miami matching grant($100,000) by December 31, 2011. A complete list of giftsmade to the Professorship in tribute to and memory of facul-ty and alumnae will be published in the Fall 2012 Bulletin.

There will be a Western College Endowed Professor!

Goal$400,000

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Narka Nelson – earnest student in the Class of 1920, passionate clas-sics professor until retirement in 1965, official college historian –

made a very generous gift to Western College before the college wasclosed. However, since her inheritance first provided for members ofher immediate family, it was many years before the gift came to Western.

Unable to thank Narka for her gift, the WCAA Board of Trusteesdecided to establish a special “society” to thank in advance those individ-uals who have made a gift that continues “the spirit of Western” oncampus through a deferred giving instrument such as a charitable giftannuity, pooled income fund, charitable trust, IRA, or bequest.

The individuals listed below have done just that. We are grateful tothem for their foresightedness and generosity. They invite you to join them.

Ruth Repass Wheeler ’35Jeanne Ott Saunders ’40Ruth Harry Hathaway ’41Beth Shirk Bevan ’45Nancy Ann Myers ’46Martha Hall Wedeman ’46Jane Alexander Durrell ’47Emily W. Greenland ’47Mary-Garnett Tillinghast ’47Dorothy Mershon Armistead ’48Julia Ashcraft Armstrong ’48Margaret McKee Seder ’48Ann Niehaus Tobias ’50Marjorie Grahn Winter ’50Grete Stern Wrede ’51Jo Ann Fley ’52Elizabeth Sipe Gerber ’52Catherine Ross Loveland ’52Sue Off Schrope ’52Gloria Wilson Sylvester ’52Betty Jean Wright ’52Mary Culver Daniels ’53Sandra Franz Barnes ’54Miriam Chesslin ’54Lucy Liggett ’54Maria Van Waveren Smit ’54Sandra Grimes Abouzeid-Surico ’57

Lois Rehm Koch ’57Mary Ann Fichtner Mountain ’57Rosa Ewing Goldman ’58Caroline Kawallek Manildi ’58Ann Ferguson Zeigler ’59Anne Adkins Weissenborn ’61Susan Berryhill Hill ’63Joan Kowalski Jordan ’63Lynne Drucker Albukerk ’64Faith A. Evans ’64Yvette Small Hohler ’64Patricia Spokes Snowden ’64Faith W. Barrington ’65Charlotte A. Dickerson ’66Ann E. Walton ’66Patricia A. Jayson ’68Barbara Williamson Wentz ’68Mary Kelly Felice ’70Ann M. Powell ’73Christine Moranda ’74Elizabeth Salt ’74Lorna Jordan ’81Ann Rosenfield ’83Curtis W. Ellison HABurton and Diane Kaufman FF, HAJudy Kalbfus Waldron HADavid A. Rook and Svetlana Beros Rook FR

WESTERN’S PLANNED GIVING SOCIETY

THE NARKA NELSON CIRCLE

If you have included the WCAA in your deferred giving plans and your name is not listed or if you wish to learn moreabout becoming a member of the Narka Nelson Circle to help continue the legacy of Western College, please contactMackenzie Becker Rice, WCAA Director. (513) 529-4400, e-mail: [email protected]

IMPORTANT REMINDER: MAKE SURE BENEFICIARY ISTHE WESTERN COLLEGE ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION, INC., NOT WESTERN COLLEGE.

21Spring 2012

mother, who was looking forward to a De-cember celebration of her 96th birthday. “Wehad our annual trip to Cape Cod in July. Allimmediate family was present except forCharlie, who was again serving as a campcounselor in Colorado with the Knights ofHeroes (for boys whose fathers have diedduring their service to our country). In Sep-tember, Mike enjoyed his third annual tripto Maryland for a long golf weekend withScott, and, of course, entertaining the threegrandchildren!” Nancy did a lot of volunteer-ing at church and supervised some “longoverdue” interior painting in their home of41 years. She was looking forward to wel-coming Scott’s family to their Christmascelebration, as well as frequent visits fromSusan’s family (from west of Ft.Worth), es-pecially as the cousins have such a greattime together.

Nancy McGregor Nowak reported: “Beingretired, things don’t seem to change muchfrom day to day, but we do try to stay busy.I still volunteer at the Dayton Art Institute,Catch the Building Spirit (associated withHabitat for Humanity), Christ Child Society,and help wash dogs at our son’s business-es (Wash your Dog). We spend our sum-mers in Muskoka, Ontario, at our cottagethere, and travel as much as we can. Thisyear we are going to South Africa as well ason a family cruise to Aruba. Our twin grand-daughters are tweens now and live in Taos,NM.”

Betsy Haakinson Breziner still lives inDover “in the metrowest Boston area” andis a full broker selling real estate at Cold-well Banker in Wellesley. “My daughter Alli-son lives close by and runs her own dog(and all other animals) walking and housesitting business. My daughter Amanda andher husband Brian live in Arlington, VA, andshe works for a large commercial real es-tate company. They are expecting my firstgrandchild in May, so we are having a veryexciting year.”

The highlight of Carolyn Moss Ford’s yearwas the wedding of daughter Melissa andDan on Fox Island, Puget Sound, near Se-attle, in August. It was a spectacular day.“Frederick’s Manor on the water overlook-ing Mt. Rainier was an amazing venue, andwhile all details evolved beautifully, I wasunprepared for the emotional side. The cer-emony was unique and their vows so lovingand meaningful! Melissa and Dan orches-trated all in their own style.” Mossy’s sonChris still lives in Revelstoke, BC, and worksas a forest firefighter in the summer and isa lumberjack in the winter, fighting the pinebeetle boreer that is devastating so manyof the trees in the west. Son Andrew loveshis first year of veterinary work at Erin MillsPet Hospital. He and Lindsay live in Actonand have an equal commute to both jobs.Husband David “is working as hard as everbut promises to cut back when we down-size our home. Plans are underway. I con-

tinue with the Garden Club, Ivy Society, golf,and advertising and marketing for our lakenewsletter. Unfortunately, a fall in Novem-ber resulted in a fractured sternum and pro-gressively my wrists have been affected sono skiing this season. I’m trying a combo ofdoctors and the naturopathic route …Findit very frustrating! As Jane Fonda says, thisage period is Prime Time … I totally agree!”

Patricia Spokes Snowden wrote that theonly new thing in her life is that she spentfive months re-doing her 3½ baths. “‘Nufsaid!” Patricia’s choir sang both the 11 a.m.Eucharist and 4 p.m. Vespers at St. Johnthe Divine in May (2011), for the second time(having also done it in 2010). “Juliane lefther position as senior vice president at aninvestor relations firm in November and hasstarted her own firm, also doing investorrelations, still principally for biotechs, but ata much higher level than before. Things aregoing well.”

Cory Hollister Carpenter and Joe are stillenjoying retirement. “We help our son, Jo-seph, by babysitting whenever he has towork 24 hours or more (as a paid fireman).This Christmas was especially nice, sincewe had all four grandchildren at our house.Also, my sister, Theda Hollister Wolfe ’66,has recently moved back to southern NewYork from the Buffalo area. We still try tospend about three months near Tampa, FL,to get away from the ice and snow. Joe’sparents are still alive and living in their ownhome (97 and 94). This keeps everyonebusy, but we try to work with Joe’s sisterwho lives closer.”

Mary Prentiss Ryder and her husbandhave lived in the Missouri Ozarks for 21years, “and we continue to love the lifestyleof this lakeside living. Our twin daughterslive in the area as well, so we continue toenjoy the proximity of being with our twolocal grandchildren who are now in highschool. Our son lives in the St. Louis area,so we’re fortunate to see their 6-year-oldson often. Diane and her family live in Bir-mingham, AL, where she is a neurologist.Bob and I have our hobbies — woodcarv-ing for Bob and quilting for me. Also, wehead up our local food pantry. Travels re-main domestic —Texas, North Carolina, Gulfshores. Several years ago we hosted twoforeign exchange students, and the Germangirl returns every summer, so we’re lookingforward to Franzi’s return this summer, onceagain.”

Marcia Randlett Oder e-mailed: “Not muchnews from the Oders for the past year. Robinis still consulting — he will never fully retireand therefore neither will I. Had severalwonderful visits from our granddaughter,who is now a sophomore at UC San Diego.We keep talking about downsizing but alsokeep postponing any move. Fortunately,both of us have been relatively healthy. Amenjoying my time on the WCAA Board and

thank all of you who made the WesternCollege Professorship possible.”

Betty Treiber Ahrens wrote “from the North-west Hills of Connecticut. We spent twoweeks in Germany for the Octoberfest andto celebrate the first birthday and christen-ing of Bill’s great-niece. Went back for oneweek for Christmas. The day before our bigNew Year’s Eve party in NYC, I learned thatI had a stress fracture of my foot. No danc-ing. I’m now wearing a ‘boot’ for the nextmonth. Not much fun. I can still go to thegym, but no cardio. I volunteer as an usher,ticket taker, or concessionaire at the localhistoric theater and have seen some greatshows. Both Bill and I are truly enjoying ourtwo Chesapeake Bay retrievers. They areso funny playing together. Nothing reallyexciting going on, but we’re having fun andenjoying retirement.”

Gay Nellis Walker reported: “Life goes on,and I am totally amazed that age 70 is loom-ing. I sure don’t feel like 70! I’m still workingpart-time, swimming and walking and play-ing Mah Jong. Oh, and I got out the novel Iwrote about seven years ago, and am final-ly trying to do the rewrite. I have a reallygood teacher and an online class for sup-port and feedback. Life is good.”

On behalf of our class, may I express ourheartfelt condolences to Gypsy KimballRichardson on the passing of her husband,Randall, on Sept.24, 2011, after a long bat-tle with congestive heart failure. Gypsy wrotethat during the first part of 2011, they got totravel quite a bit and really enjoy each oth-er’s company. “We spent our anniversaryin January on a wonderful cruise. We wereaboard the Allure of the Seas, the RoyalCaribbean’s largest and newest ship. It wasquite an adventure. We decided to splurgeand took a two-deck suite. We sampled allthe wonderful restaurants on board and notonce went to a regular dining room. We gotto swim with the dolphins, which is some-thing I had always wanted to do. Also, I triedthe zip line experience, would you believe,on the ship, for the first time. In April 2011,we went to Disney World with Randall’sbusiness partner and his wife and kids. Theyhave become like children and grandchil-dren to us. We had a wonderful time.” InJune, Gypsy and Randall enjoyed visitingWilliamsburg and Jamestown. In August,they returned to Gatlinburg, an annual tripwith Randall’s partner and his family, andalso visited Ober Gatlinburg on their own.Randall entered the hospital soon after.

Gypsy is now back to traveling: to Cincin-nati for the christening of her niece’s twingirls; to Connecticut for Thanksgiving withher sister’s family; in mid-December for aweek with her sister, Sherry, and brother-in-law in Pisgah Forest, NC, where sheheard a performance of Handel’s Messiah,saw an enjoyable play, and dined “at a num-ber of wonderful restaurants. I spent Christ-

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mas between Randall’s partner’s family andRandall’s brother and sister-in-law who livein Richmond, VA, about an hour away. 2012also promises to be a year of travel.”

Daphne Ostle Allen and Jay are well. Shewrote: “I am enjoying living near my twogranddaughters and babysitting from timeto time. I’ll visit D.C. in March to see my twograndsons and brother’s family. My hus-band’s oldest grandson is getting marriedin April in Atlanta, so that is a first! Love tosee any of you either in Vermont — prettycold right now, or in the spring in D.C. PatSpokes is trying to get a small group to-gether when I fly down. Arlene (BrancaFenwick), Judy (White Fogt), Carol (Shul-er Butcher), and Alice Baker still live there.Looking forward to that.”

This from Cathie Koutsogiane Cipolla: “I’mtaking a break from putting away moreChristmas stuff. We had a lovely Christmaswith both kids home, daughter who lives inBrooklyn and works in the city and son whois in LA. I went to my Yale Divinity Schoolreunion in October, and that was fun. It is abit easier to go there since New Haven isso close to Fairfield, and Oxford, OH, is faraway. I am still teaching one class (English)of seventh- and eighth-graders (combined)which gives some structure for me but notan overwhelming amount of papers tograde. I still love teaching.”

Gail Lewis Tobin reported that she is nowable to thoroughly enjoy Sunday nights andno commutes. “Jerry fully retired three yearsago after we sold our agency to our daugh-ter and son-in-law and I had left the insur-ance game several years prior. We werefortunate to take a great Historic Baltic Ex-pedition with Lindblad and our history les-sons came alive. What a great experience.Now we are back in South Carolina enjoy-ing the winter and will head to Connecticutsometime in May to do the winter clean-upand, of course, golf and spend time with themany grandchildren.”

Patricia Scott sent a letter in which shecalled 2011 “a year of journeys for our fam-ily.” She wrote expansively of a Februaryblizzard and how it affected an important trip.Her daughter Shay was scheduled for sur-gery in Boston; her son-in-law, Alan, whosejob requires frequent travel, was to meet Patat the Philadelphia Airport; the storm wasbearing down from the west; and she andAlan managed to make one of the last flightsto Providence, RI. “The drive out to the Capethrough the darkness punctuated with swirl-ing snow was an ordinary drive until justbefore the exit to the Buzzard’s Bay rotary.Without warning, cars around us were liter-ally flying up into the snow banks and downinto the ditches. Alan’s car took on a life ofits own like a psychotic carnival ride. I am avery nervous car passenger at best, but inthose awful moments of loss of control, Iwas not afraid. I felt a sense of calm and

peace. The car stopped just a few feet shortof a white truck sitting askew across thelanes and so close I could read the licenseplate. I told Alan that was the nicest pieceof driving I had ever seen. His reply was: ‘Iwasn’t driving.’”

In June, Pat and family gathered at Willow-bend on Cape Cod for a niece’s wedding.To celebrate her birthday in August, theydrove to Tybee Island off the coast of Sa-vannah, GA, where she got to visit the fa-mous Pirate House of Treasure Island fameand enjoy a wonderful dinner that includeda toast with a glass of rum. Unfortunately,the island stay was cut short due to the im-pending arrival of Hurricane Irene. ThoughIrene eventually bypassed the Georgiacoast, she did follow them towards theirhome on the Elk Neck Peninsula at the topof Chesapeake Bay. There was no propertydamage, but they experienced a five-dayloss of electric power.

In October, Pat joined her daughter’s fami-ly in a visit to Rutgers University, where heroldest granddaughter, Brittany, a junior andmember of the golf team, played in the Rut-gers Invitational. In December, Pat stoppedat Rutgers to pick up Brittany (“the specialpackage”) and headed to Cape Cod for an-other family Christmas.

From Nancy Van Vleck Von Allmen: “Lifeis good! Have had hectic year protecting aNature Park here and building a two-apart-ment chalet in Murren (Switzerland), withincredible views over to Eiger North Walland the Jungfrau. Sad to watch glaciers re-ceding as global warming reveals itself.Building second chalet this next summer,as a way to give value to cow pasture inher-ited by husband Beat. The cedar homes areshipped from Seattle, which is puzzling tothe Swiss. Acquired second grandchild lastOctober. Yippee. Trying to catch up to therest of you. His 2½-year-old sister is skiingnow without a rope and she loves it!

“Saw Marion Ginman Classen this week.She’s as perky as ever. Grateful to be stay-ing active and healthy with lots of skiing andhiking.”

Lynne Drucker Albukerk wrote this 2011update: “Grandchild #5, Grandson #1, wasborn in April in San Francisco. This BIG boyis named for two great-grandfathers, onebeing my father Nathan Drucker. The fourgirls, aged 5 to 3, continue to love their semi-annual get-together.” Lynne and Jak’s trav-els centered on visiting grandchildren andchildren as well as a 2+ week cruise fromRome to Ft. Lauderdale on Holland Ameri-ca’s Noordam. “Call me ‘Road ConstructionSuperintendent.’ This year I learned moreabout road engineering, proposal requestsand evaluation, construction methods andmaterials, properties of asphalt, and roadcrew coordination than any 68-year-oldshould ever again need to utilize. We suc-cessfully rebuilt and paved two miles equiv-alent on steep hillside, re-built drainage,reset cobblestone … In addition to continu-ing to work part-time as psychologist in afacility and very small practice, I am presi-dent [now for second-and final-year] of ourhomeowners’ association …This would bea full-time job, if paid. Lisa continues to teachmath in Sleepy Hollow … Dov and his wife,Tania, do something with stock of emergingcompanies, and Nico and Tali practice lawin Chicagoland. Jak’s functioning has seri-ously deteriorated. ... Yet, he remains ingood humor, co-operative, and enjoysgrandchildren, movies, theater and dining.”Lynne’s 2012 schedule will include trips toChicago and San Francisco as well as toSouth America.

The Hohlers have just ordered their flighttickets to Nairobi and look forward to againaccompanying a group, this time 24 travel-ers — more than half of whom are currentlystudents at Shoreham Wading River HighSchool — on another 2½ week mission tripto Meru. There, we will visit with the 76 chil-dren at our orphanage, go to their schools,

Patricia Scott and “another family Christmas” on Cape Cod

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evaluate ongoing programs connected withthe Jerusha Mwiraria Hope Children’sHome, work on a few projects, take a daytrip to nearby Meru Game Park, and per-haps stop in at the Elephant Orphanage inNairobi on our final day in Kenya. Our HopeChildren’s Fund, Ltd., which helps financethe orphanage, has experienced anothersuccessful year and is most grateful to ourmany generous supporters. Please checkout our website: www.hopechildrensfund.orgto follow our progress.

Our regular activities still include Rotary,Habitat for Humanity, OLLI, the Port Jeffer-son Historical Society and several local cul-tural organizations. In addition, as Demo-cratic Committeemen, Larry and I intend towork extra hard for the re-election of ourfavorite local and national candidates inNovember. To his surprise and delight, Lar-ry was recently named “Man of The Year”by The Port Times Record for the work hedoes both locally and globally. Nicole andJose still love living and working in DC, butthey prefer traveling to LI for most holidays.We’re glad about that. Larry and I had adelightful visit with classmates Arlene Bran-ca Fenwick and Judy White Fogt at Ar-lene’s vacation home in Hampton Bays, LI,this past August. There was much enjoy-able reminiscing and catching up on West-ern news that day.

Evie Small Hohler ’64301 Owasco Dr.Port Jefferson, NY [email protected]


Last June we gathered at Western to cele-brate our 45th Reunion. Representing ourclass were Ann Walton, Charla Coatoam,Charlotte Dickerson, Edie Taylor Molum-by, Hazel Williams Drew, Jane GrahamMurphy, Suzanne Lutz May, Sue Detlefs-en Meyer and yours truly. Hopefully you allsaw our picture in the Fall 2011 Bulletin.

Ann Walton said, “Our 45th Reunion wasso much fun. The nine of us present hadplenty of time to catch up and talk about allof you who weren’t there! The campus looksgreat (I think better than it did in 1966) andthe memorial service for Dean Hoyt was very

moving. She had such an influence on somany of us.” Jane Graham Murphy hopesthat all of you sincerely consider returningto Western College for the rewarding expe-rience of a Reunion. Staying in Peabody Hallbrought back great memories. We hope thatmore of you will plan to join us in 2016 whenwe will gather to celebrate our 50th Reunion.

It is with much sadness that I report thedeath of our classmate, Marcia PoletekDrongowski in July 2011. Her husband,Daniel, reported that her death was unex-pected. I would ask that each of us stop andmake sure we have prepared ourselves andour loved ones for our inevitable deaths.Then keep living each day to its fullest.

Sylvia Swartz wrote me for the first time.I’m so glad that she shared some of her fondmemories of her two years at Western. Sheremembers her bridge partner DeborahSkinner and her pals Jiggs Grow, AnneFrank, and her roommate Cathy Conrad.She has attended a few of the local re-unions. She has been married to Richie for45 years. She retired from Ma Bell in 1986and then began her career of choice — be-coming a tennis pro. She has been at theLongfellow Club in Wayland, MA, for thepast 25 years. She remembers how care-free and naïve most of us were — living,loving and having a great time!!!

Ann Walton’s real estate business in AnnArbor was 100 percent better in 2011. Wewish her continued success in 2012. Shealso heard from Gerry Davies DeGeorgeat Christmas. Gerry lives in New Hampshireand is enjoying country living.

While Jane Graham Murphy was watch-ing her grandchildren in New Jersey, shehad a visit with Peggy Budington and herfriend, John. Patricia Spokes Snowden’64, her big sister, continues a loyal e-mailfriendship sharing interesting info and hilar-ious jokes. I wonder how many of our bigand little sisters are still in touch. Jane hadthree exciting trips — skiing in St. Moritz withdaughter Becca in February, hiking soloalong the summit of Mt. Pilatus (“It just tookan afternoon but it was a huge challengefor me to be alone and 7,000 feet high inthe Alps”), and exploring the sights alongthe Rhine River in May; learning about an-cient and 20th-century history of Cambodiaby traveling to Siem Reap and Phnom Penhin November. She ended the year by snor-keling off the Florida Keys with her daugh-ters, son-in-law, and her grandchildren. Sheconcluded her message with prayers for thesafety, healing and caring for her loving son,Chris, wherever he is. I hope all who arereading this will pray for him too.

Cynthia Crosson-Harrington continues asthe pastor of the First CongregationalChurch of Whately, MA, while she still writesbooks on child abuse and child welfare. Sheloves the ministry but also enjoys keeping

her hand in social work. The textbooks shehas written are widely used and require re-visions every two years. Her latest text,Confronting the Sexual Abuse of Childrenand Adolescents, will be published this fall.Another incredibly rewarding part of Cyn-thia’s life involves her continuing work withNEADS/Dogs for the Deaf and DisabledAmericans, an agency that trains and plac-es dogs with people with disabilities; andthe Trauma Assistance Dog program (TAD),which places dogs with veterans returningfrom combat with PTSD — a program whichshe helped develop. They have now gradu-ated 16 veteran-dog teams and with incred-ible success — “It is amazing the healingthat these dogs can facilitate in these vet-erans,” she writes. Personally, Cynthia con-tinues to enjoy life with her husband, Jim,and finds great joy in watching her grand-daughter, Ruby Louise (4).

Clara Keyes Hardin reports that this is her40th year in real estate. She and her sonand his wife specialize in the UNESCO Her-itage area of Casco Antiguo and live in theold city as well. Living abroad has beenamazing, challenging and gratifying. She’shappily single, still not a grandmother andOK with it all. If anyone is passing throughPanama City, please stop by and say hi.

Sue Woodworth with her husband Jay hada wonderful two-week vacation in NewZealand. She has one granddaughter (6)and another who just turned 1, living in Se-attle courtesy of the U.S. Navy — so theywill be doing a lot of cross-country flying thisyear.

Nancy James crafted the first Internet lia-bility policy and speaks before national andinternational industry groups on cyberliabil-ity and global technology risks. This yearmarks her 30th year as the owner of herinsurance agency. Nancy has been marriedfor 35 years to Rick Friese, a governmentand U.S. history professor at Bentley Uni-versity.

Sally Sweitzer Skewis is still working andtaking care of her 96-year-old mother as wellas volunteering with the County Sherriff’sOffice Hostage Negotiation Team. She islooking forward to her 50th high school re-union this fall in New Jersey. When shethinks back to her 20s she “never imaginedthis phase of my life would be so different. Ialways knew that I would work but now itlooks like I might be 82 before I can retiredue to the cost of caring for my mother whohas been predicted to live to 112.” Sally isfacing the economic crunch of salary reduc-tions and healthcare increases that manyof us are. (I can sympathize after spendingmany hours trying to compare drug insur-ance plans for Rich and myself. It was worth-while as we ended up with different plansbut saved over $2,000 from our previousAARP Drug plan.) So she sends this mes-sage to all of you that are not as financially

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secure as you had planned, which I am sureare many of us: We have to be optimisticand persevere … and be thankful we havefriends and family who reciprocate our love,caring and support.

Penny Colman has been happily givingbook talks for her latest book, ElizabethCady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony: AFriendship that Changed the World at avariety of venues, including the SmithsonianInstitution’s National Portrait Gallery and theWomen’s Rights National Historical Park.In January 2012, she spoke at the All SoulsUnitarian Church in New York City arrangedby her longtime friend, Sue Lutz May. Sheloves posting photographs, quotes and in-sights about ECS and SBA on Facebook athttp://on.fb.me/flGdOa.

Charla Coatoam reports that she had afamily reunion last spring in London for aweek and then went on to Paris for anotherweek. Museums, restaurants, theater wereall a treat. London was abuzz with all theroyal wedding preparations, so it was anexciting time to be there. Also, spring hadarrived in London and Paris parks. It wasdefinitely a vacation to remember! She isstill president of the Cleveland Dickens Fel-lowship, also on the Board of the ClevelandMuseum’s Textile Art Alliance, so keeps busywith volunteer work. She plans to return toher horseback riding class this spring aftera nasty fall. She and Jane Murphy stay intouch and visit occasionally.

Carol Maturo Ward replied to a “last call”from the office with this brief note: “My hus-band and I are well and very happy in Con-necticut.”

Lusandre Chaudruc is back in touch withthe office. Still a very busy artist, she hasthree one-woman art shows at various lo-cations in eastern Pennsylvania and NYCall the time. www.lusandreleechaudruc.com/

Rich and I are both doing fine. We stayedclose to home this year with several trips toTahoe and to Bend to visit son, his wife andour three grandchildren. I began my naturalhorsemanship journey last year and havereally enjoyed learning to communicate witha horse rather than just training/subduingthem. I have just started leasing a newhorse, a Missouri Fox trotter mare who is aleft brain introvert so wish me luck. In 2012,we have plans to be in Kentucky in May formy annual Ramsey vacation and in Sep-tember for Rich’s Army reunion. We alsohave plans for an RV trip to Salmon, ID, anda visit to Glacier National Park in July. I hopethat our class takes care of their health andreaches out to one another. Lots of love andblessings in 2012 ...

Kathi Ramsey Bumblis ’66221 S. Springer RdLos Altos, CA [email protected]



Next year, 2013, will be our 45th Reunion,so mark your calendars now! This has beena gradually improving year for me. In April,my sister, Gretchen Blake Roy ’71, and Iwent to Italy to stay and travel with SapphoHaralambous ’70. We visited Venice,stayed in Rome with Sappho, and we threestayed for a week in an old farmhouse inTuscany. A marvelous trip! In August, I wentto the Indian Himalayas on a Stanford trip,a very moving trip. We visited Dharamsala,the home of the Tibetan government in ex-ile, and even saw the Dalai Lama. We visit-ed Ladakh, Shimla and Darjeeling, amongother places. I’m thinking of selling myhouse and moving to a smaller one, so comevisit while I have more than one guest room!Please remember that we have a Class of1968 group on Facebook. If you’re on Face-book, ask to join the page; it’s private, justfor us. WCAA is also on Facebook.

News was rather sparse this year. I shouldhave sent you a personal reminder ...

Margie Custer Bowles’ husband, Bob,completed his service as interim pastor ofthe Presbyterian Church of Los Gatos inMarch, and they took off for a 35-day cruisestarting in Hong Kong and ending in Ath-ens. They planned to stay in Greece foranother couple of months. As Margie is cur-rently vice president of their library branch,president of an educational philanthropic or-ganization, and volunteering in her grand-children’s classrooms, she, too, is lookingforward to a break. In July, they will returnto their home on the Monterey Bay wherethey are 30 minutes from both children’sfamilies.

Kitsy Dunlop and Greg are enjoying theadventures of living on their new propertyin Florida. She discovered a 4-foot rattle-snake, which Greg shot and which is nowin the freezer awaiting its future: a hat bandfor Dylan or burial by Greg. They hope thattheir horses don’t encounter rattlesnakes onthe trails. Pickers on their property pick pal-metto berries to send to Japan to be madeinto a prostate cancer preventative (seeds)and shampoo (skin of the berry).

Kathy Evans Findley and husband Jimcruised from Stockholm, visiting Helsinki, St.Petersburg , and Tallin. On the domestictravel scene, they visited New Orleans andCharleston, SC. Hurricane Irene paid thema long visit in New Bern, NC, necessitatingmany repairs. Kathy continues to volunteerat their local hospital. Jim may really retirethis year, which would be just in time to cel-ebrate their 45th anniversary, and maybeto take another cruise. Daughter Kate andSophia spent early Christmas, along withson James. Kathy, Jim and James celebrat-ed actual Christmas with a colonial dinnerwith recipes from a 1772 cookbook. If wevisit eastern North Carolina, they promiseus a boat ride, room w/bath, and some yum-my non-colonial eats!

Jeanne Flowers Foster has a new grand-child. Her oldest grandchild is 10; they arescattered from Texas to Ohio and Illinois.The federal funding for the research grantsJeanne was managing dried up, so shelanded a position as National Tutoring Man-ager for the OASIS Institute, an intergener-ational program that pairs adult volunteerswith kids who need help getting up to gradelevel in reading. You can check it out atwww.oasisnet.org. Jeanne started a gradu-ate program in nonprofit management andhas already received job offers! She encour-ages all of us to visit her in St. Louis.

Jennifer French Sponsler had a lovely,colorful Indian summer in northern Ohio.She spent a few days early in October inNew Orleans on a jazz tour and had a won-derful time. She hopes all is well with us.

Hayat Imam is spending a lot of time inBangladesh these days with her mother,who is recovering from a stroke.

Cynthia Crosson-Harrington ’66,with her own NEADS dog, Dandi

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Pat Jayson suffered a stroke last winter(2011), and is still partly disabled, her righthand and right side, of course. She is im-proving monthly and is managing pretty well.“All we can do is pick ourselves up, dustourselves off and keep going.” She is nowdoing GREAT and is looking forward to our2013 Reunion.

Brenda Lee Bell and Brian had a lovelyweek last summer in Lakeside, OH, a Chau-tauqua community on Lake Erie, with Mi-ami classmates of Brian’s.

Karen Prah Voris and Brenda met at anunusual B&B in Greenville, OH. Since theyhad the place to themselves, there was lotsof time to catch up while also shopping!Brenda continues at Wellington withplanned retirement a couple of years away.Kristen finished her student teaching and ispatiently awaiting her teaching license. Briancontinues to maintain his client base whileexploring places to play golf during wintermonths.

Recently, Brenda and Susan FacklerSykes reconnected. Susan and her hus-band, Bob, live in Minnesota and pursue anumber of adventurous hobbies while Sus-an advises high school students as an in-dependent college counselor.

Chako Matsumoto Era joined a tour to Is-rael where they had a very good Japanesewoman guide who is married to a Jewishscholar and lives in Jerusalem. The high-light of the tour was Jerusalem. The tunneltour along the Wailing Wall showed themthe hard work of the Romans. Megido, Qum-ran, and Masada are also very interesting.She was planning to go on a tour to Azer-baijan, Georgia, and Armenia. Chako’s son,Kohtaro, ran in the NYC Marathon in No-vember, and we were able to track hisprogress on the Internet.

Karen Prah Voris had an eventful year. Shelost her mom in March at age 94. She had along and good life. The rest of the year in-cluded lots of traveling — England to seedaughter Amy and Olympia, WA, to visityounger daughter Molly and her family. InJanuary 2012, Karen and husband Johnspent three weeks traveling around Austra-lia. Karen and John feel blessed to get tospend time with friends and family. Happy2012, Everyone!

Carol Raimondi Myers had a new additionto their family, a beautiful little girl, LylaGrace. Becky and Dan are expecting an-other little girl in April. Jeff and Carol aredown to one laundry. Last September, theyjoined a new golf club (WIllowbrook C.C.)and really have been enjoying it. Jeff getsto go golfing four to five times a week and isloving it. Carol is still tutoring and got herSilver Sneakers card for the gym.

Francine Toss, having retired as a schooladministrator almost 10 years ago, hasfound that life as a co-owner of a gift andflower shop was not enough. So she re-turned to the world of education as a schoollibrarian in Oberlin. She sends regards toclassmates of ’68 and ’69.

Barbara Williamson Wentz had an inaus-picious beginning to 2011 when Erv fell andbroke the top of his tibia. In spite of Erv’saccident, they have traveled twice to Min-neapolis to visit Michael and Sonya and theirfamily, to Erv’s 50th high school reunion, andto New York. Barbara continues her workas adoption and pregnancy counseling su-pervisor at Catholic Charities, while lookingforward to retirement in 2012. Barbara andErv spend considerable time with their lo-cal grandchildren as well as other activities.

Susan Blake ’681420 Southdown Rd.Hillsborough, [email protected]


It’s been three years since there was a realClass Notes column for 1970, and I’m gladNancy Tuan Yang Hsiung has rescued usfrom oblivion. She writes from Glendale, IL,that she is the first person in the class to

turn 70, and is feeling well, although it var-ies with the day and it has severely curtailedher shoe shopping. For those who have fol-lowed the notes, Nancy is a committed feed-er of squirrels, and she’s still at it, feeding adozen or more regularly. Nancy was sorryto hear of Phyllis Hoyt’s death, and remem-bers the years at the Lodge where shehelped prepare the Chinese New Year’s din-ner for her, Gail James and Dorothy Brick-man.

Jane Koenig replied to a “last call” post fromthe office with these words: “I was just think-ing about this last night and realizing that Iwas way too late … but maybe not! Aboutsix months ago I moved from Marietta, GA,to Tuckasegee in the mountains of West-ern North Carolina. The year of 2011 wasspent building a house here in the moun-tains and, by some just-in-time miracle, sell-ing the one in Georgia. I have fulfilled adream and now have a house that was builtto suit me and a long-range mountain viewthat never gets old. I wish everyone couldbe so happy!”

Likewise, from Dee Banks-Bright (Newell):“I am presently working as head of infec-tious disease at UPMC-Horizon in Green-ville, PA. I am also director of the WoundCenter and Hyperbaric oxygen center. I stilllive in Youngstown. Al Bright, my husband,is retired but still painting abstract expres-sionist art to jazz music. My oldest, Todd, isliving in Akron, OH, and working on somemusic endeavors; Matt is a captain in themarine corps and a JAG officer in CherryPoint, NC; Mary is a third-year med studentat Case Western Reserve school of medi-cine; and Mark is a senior at the College ofWooster, hoping to pursue a career in the-ater and dance. Hello to class of 1970!”

I’m sorry not to hear from more of you. Iturn to the Notes first in every Bulletin, andI’m sure many of you do, too. Many of usare still not on Facebook, and perhaps notable to find you. Although the informationfor you to reply is in the back of the FallBulletin, I may experiment with a gently prod-ding e-mail blast next fall. You can sendNotes anytime! Wishing you a healthy 2012,

Kelly Felice ’704035 East 18th Ave.Denver, CO [email protected]

News for fall Bulletin due Labor Day!See Class Rep & Blue Card, page38!

Sandy Chanis, with her newestgrandson, Jason Hickey

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Cynthia Clark writes: “Willard and I havebeen to Japan for the wedding of an ex-change student who stayed with us 16 yearsago and, after touring Japan with his par-ents for a month, seeing Shinto brides andkimonoed brides everywhere, we ended upin Tokyo for the main event only to witnessthe most western style affair ever, includinga trompe l’oeil of a window looking out ontothe grand canal of Venice! Then onto Chinato volunteer in Xian after doing the grandtour ... by bus.

“Back to Italy for the fall harvest of olivesand life with our cat, Massimo, on the farm— our 12th consecutive year and the cat’s,and next year brings four months in Africa,volunteering at a school started by a neigh-bor’s granddaughter in the slums of Nairo-bi. See: shininghopeforcommunities.org —it is an amazing story. And of course moretime in Italy with our beloved old Massimoand the grapes and olives on the farm.

“I have had three more photographic exhi-bitions in Boston galleries, including onepairing the sister cities of Alberobello inPuglia, Italy, with Shirakawago in Japan, asboth share similar problems of how to at-tract tourists to the extremely unique archi-tecture of each place [UNESCO sites] andyet keep locals living and working the tradi-tional lives in the same places. Willard isworking on that!”

As the class rep who hasgone, I (Debbie CapriniOtt), will add my notes. Iam in my 18th year as atax preparer with H&RBlock, am an EnrolledAgent with IRS. Spentseveral months in Hous-ton with my daughter, son-in-law and grandson,Jack. Then they movedback to Lexington, so ourfamily was all in Kentucky.Then son Dan and wifeEmily moved to Seattle inSeptember. Next up,daughter Kelly and familygo to San Francisco forthree months while myopera singer son-in-lawperforms in two operasbefore they all move toGermany where they willbe for at least two years.So, much travel aheadthis year. Hope someonewill step up to be ClassRep!



It’s hard to believe that another year haspassed, and it’s time to gather our classnews again.

Naphalai Chantarasak Areesorn is theeditor-in-chief of the Thailand Tatler, a life-style magazine published in Bangkok, Thai-land.

Amy Robinson Collins and her husband,Jim, took three trips to the southeasternUnited States during 2011, going to Savan-nah, GA, the Outer Banks of North Caroli-na, and also to Wilmington, NC. Their chil-dren and grandchildren are all doing well,and Amy’s father, who turned 90 in March,is still doing well, too.

Mary Miller Croxton and her husband,Jack, decided to travel over the December

holidays and visited Quito, Ecuador, theGalapagos Islands, and Panama. Two oftheir children now live in Chicago and Co-lumbus, but Jennifer and Tim and two grand-children live just blocks from Mary and Jackin the same town.

Nevine Gulamhusein was married in May2011 to Shiraz Rahemtulla. They are livingin the London, England, area. Nevine ishoping to find a job in London before toolong. She finished her Ph.D. in human de-velopment from Global University of ActionLearning in Buckinghamshire, England, inJanuary 2009. She has written a book enti-tled Acuity of Poverty: Looking Into the Ine-quality of Access, published in April 2011,available on Amazon.com. Nevine’s daugh-ters, Noor and Nasreen, are both practicingfamily physicians in Toronto, Canada.

Betsey Kiel was married to Michael Readyin August 2011. Formerly Betsey Kiel Mur-ray, she reports that she has a new namebut is still at the same address in Ann Ar-bor, MI. Betsey’s three children are living inDenver, Boston, and Louisville, KY. A fewweeks after her August wedding, Betseybecame a grandmother when Paige Chris-tine was born to Betsey’s daughter, Skye,and her husband, Ben Albers.

Janet Lucas wrote that she has completed31 years of medical practice and clinical in-struction in obstetrics and gynecology. Shesays that she doesn’t feel ready to retire yet.She and Sherrill Howard have a cabin inthe White Mountains of New Hampshirewhere they vacationed last summer and alsoduring Christmas week, when they had theirfamily there with them. Janet and Sherrillalso took a trip to New Mexico during 2011.Janet’s daughter, Linda, and her husband,Brad, continue to teach, coach sports, and

Cynthia Clark’s images of sister citiesAlberobello, Italy, and Shirakawago, Japan

Joan Stoutenborough ’74 et al.: “Does it get any better?”

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work in admissions at Berkshire School inwestern Massachusetts. They have two chil-dren. Mia is 4 and her brother, Landon, is 1.Janet’s daughter, Karen, and her husband,Nathaniel, live in Montpelier, VT, whereKaren teaches fifth grade.

Sheila Colligan Sobel was laid off from herjob in 2011 and is still looking for work. De-spite the difficulty of hunting a new job,Sheila said that other aspects of her life aregood. Her husband, his children, and theirtwo grandchildren are doing well. The grand-children, a boy (11) and a girl (7), live closeby, so Sheila is able to see them often.Sheila and her husband recently adopted anew dog, a Maltese/Yorkie mix. They alsohave a 17-year-old dog and three cats.

Dilu Walji Valliani and her husband, Aziz,enjoyed a trip to Kenya during December2011. It was a nice winter break from therain in the San Francisco Bay area. Dilu’sson, Jamil, is still working for Microsoft inSeattle. Her daughter, Amira, graduatedfrom Yale University during the spring of2011 and is working for Hillary Clinton’s of-fice in Washington, DC.

Kathy Albright Willowoode has been busywith her holistic healing work and has tak-en classes recently near Madison, WI, onshamanic healing. She now has six grand-children — three girls who are the grand-children of her partner, Bill, and two boysand a girl who are the children of her daugh-ter Elaine’s fiancé. She enjoyed the holidaysand said, “It really makes Christmas a lotmore fun when there are kids involved.”

Mulu Girma Worku sends greetings fromAddis Ababa, Ethiopia. She keeps busy withher family’s business, M & M Trans AfricaTrading P.L.C.

Joan Hagan Stoutenborough reports:“Summers on Lake Williamstown, KY, in-cluding lots of time with our older son andfamily; winters in Sarasota, FL, including lotsof time with our younger son and enjoyinghis acoustic guitar/vocal act.(patrickstoutenborough.com) Good health,great family and friends — does it get anybetter? Would LOVE to see Class of 1974classmates at a Reunion soon!”

Sue Anderson says nothing has changedin her life, but sent this recap to the office: “Iam still employed by Verizon Communica-tions in New Jersey as a CWA RetireeHealth Care Benefit Coordinator. I havebeen with the telephone company for over39 years and in this position for over 12years. I still live in the house I grew up in, inSuccasunna, NJ, and am still single. I keepvery busy with work and my involvementswith my local historical societies, the DAR,church, United Way and union. I’ve been toa few Reunions at Western, which havebeen great. I hope to get back in 2014, whichwould have been my 40th. (I left after soph-

omore year at Western, but thank Westernfor instilling in me so many traits, that havehelped me in life!)”

I’ve been keeping busy with my job as cat-aloger/metadata librarian at Otterbein Uni-versity, but I’ve also done quite a bit of trav-el this year. During part of June and July2011, I participated in a librarian exchangeprogram at Shanghai Jiao Tong University.It was very interesting to see how academ-ic libraries work in China and to explore thesimilarities and differences in academic li-brary practices in China and the UnitedStates. Shanghai is a huge and vibrant cityof 23 million, and I found it a fascinating cityto explore. Before returning home. I visitedBeijing, the Great Wall, Xi’an (where theterra cotta warrior statues are located),Chengdu (home of the Panda BreedingResearch Centre), Dazu (famous for its12th-century Buddhist cliff carvings), Chong-qing, the Three Gorges Dam, and Wuhan.During September and October 2011, You-hua Chen, a librarian from the universitycame to Otterbein. So, we truly did ex-change both personnel and ideas.

In October 2011, my father and I took You-hua Chen, our visiting exchange librarian,on a trip to Williamsburg, VA, and Wash-ington, DC. During our stay in Washington,we were able to get together for dinner at aMexican restaurant on Capitol Hill with Hol-ly Wright Johnson and her husband,Bruce, both of whom are also librarians.Holly and I had not seen each other sincewe graduated from Western in 1974.

During part of December 2011 and into ear-ly January 2012, I took a trip to SoutheastAsia, visiting six countries (Vietnam, Cam-bodia, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, andIndonesia) on two back-to-back small shipcruises. While in Bangkok, Thailand, I spenta pleasant afternoon reminiscing aboutWestern College with Naphalai Chant-arasak Areesorn. We found it hard to be-lieve that it had been nearly 40 years sincewe last saw each other during our sopho-more year at Western. Naphalai spent herjunior year in Europe and then graduated in1974 from Colorado Women’s College.

Even though it’s not our Reunion year, thinkabout attending the Western Alumnae Re-union in Oxford scheduled for June 15-17this summer. It is always a lot of fun. I knowit’s a little early, but start planning now tojoin us at our 40th Reunion in June 2014.

Betsy Salt ’74642 Mallard DrWesterville, OH [email protected]


I have not received anything from any of myclassmates. As for me, I am currently un-employed. This gives me much more freetime to work on my pottery skills. My young-est daughter started at Case Western Re-serve last fall in the humanities. (At least ithas the word “Western” in its name.)

Dan Pickard ’766060 Redford Rd. NWNorth Canton, OH [email protected]



Class Rep Betsy (right) with Holly

Betsy (left) with Naphalai

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As winter turns to summer in the hothouse that southwest-ern Ohio has become (the temperature is 85 degrees Fahren-heit this afternoon, 32 degrees above the average high forOxford in March), we are six weeks from the end of thesecond year for the IndividualizedStudies: Western Program. A half-dozen seniors are working on theircapstone projects this semester, andI thought that you might be interest-ed to learn more about some of thesestudents.

Su Dong is committed to thestudy of clean energy technologiesand his project concerns solar pan-els. His approach has been interdis-ciplinary, combining studies in environmental sciences withbusiness and social sciences. Su conducted a survey of stu-dent understanding of energy issues and gauged their atti-tudes toward the future installation of solar panel technolo-gy in Miami dorm rooms. He is planning to organize a dem-onstration of solar panel efficiency in a mock dorm room,showing how lighting and computers could be powered by asingle panel.

Megan Rigano has very different interests and is ex-ploring perspectives among college-age women who attend

a community church. Shesays that she would liketo “cultivate a passionamong women [at thechurch] for critical think-ing [about] their faith andits implications.” Thissemester I am co-teach-ing a Western class withDr. Xiuwu Liu, titled,Science and Faith: Mak-ing Sense of Life, so I’llbe interested to see whatMegan has learned.

A third project, byRikki Teeters, is the lastexample I’m going toshare with you in thismessage. Rikki is creat-ing a smart phone appli-cation that will be usedto facilitate social net-

Message from the Director

— Nicholas P. MoneyWestern Program Director, Professor of Botany

Nik Money

The Western Program

working. I’m not qualified to explain what this means, but,thankfully, other faculty have the necessary knowledge andare helping Rikki with her research. I’m told that this is avery interdisciplinary project, calling upon skills in visualdesign and interactive media and requiring familiarity withthe expectations of young consumers. The Western Programhelped Rikki’s project work this semester by providing herwith a grant to enable her participation in a conference inIreland organized by the Interaction Design Association.

We are very proud of the accomplishments of all of ourstudents in these early days of the new program and I willhave much more to report going forward.

WCAA Congratulations to:WP Director Nicholas Money, named Miami’s 2012 SigmaXi Researcher of the Year. Nik is known internationally forhis research in the field of fungal biology and his four bookspopularizing fungi, including the most recent Mushroom(2011). To read more about his many activities and accom-plishments, refer to the news release at: http://www.miami.muohio.edu/news/article/view/16965. Be sureto follow the link to his fascinating interview on NPR’s “FreshAir” and watch the video featuring, among other amazinghighlights, the “fungus cannon.”

Meg Rigano ’12, wearing Westernstole and displaying her seniorcertiificate of completion signed byher project advisor

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It’s called Mi CUP of TEA, which stands for Miami’s Cre-ative Undergraduate Publication of Thoughtful Engage-ment in Action, and it’s a brand-new publication intendedto showcase the original work of undergraduates of allmajors. The brainstorm of WP Professor Hays Cummins,who also directs the Inquiry Center in Peabody Hall, itwas launched last year and is published each semester.Audree Riddle ’10, WP student activities coordinator, co-advises the journal with Hays.

The staff looks for submissions that show “studentshave taken an initiative to investigate something that in-terests them and they are passionate about. These rangefrom hard science research with professors, to social sci-ence papers and projects that began in class and were tak-en to the next level, to works of art that inquire into therange of human emotions.”

The Inquiry Center, located in “cozy” Peabody 022,offers tutoring in all subjects, Sunday through Thursday,7 p.m. to midnight. Computers, desks and “comfier” [thanthose in your dorm room, presumably] chairs are avail-able, as are peer tutors to help with inquiry in all disci-plines, “from class projects to investigating whateverpiques your curiosity.” Programs and activities are of-fered throughout the year. For more, visit: http://inquirycenter.muohio.edu/tea/

And then there’s the radio station that began broadcastingfrom a shipping container in downtown Brooklyn. That’sthe creation of Donna Zim-merman ’04 and cohorts.Motivated by their beliefthat live local radio makesfor a strong sense of com-munity, they pitched theiridea and won a Not Just aContainer competition(sponsored by Dekalb Mar-ket and Urban Space NY) inspring 2011.

Now based in Will-iamsburg, Brooklyn, BBOXis on the air, live online andon-site, offering interviews, call-in programs, street jour-nalism, documentaries, DJs, and music performance. Toread all about it and listen in, go to: http://www.bboxradio.com/

From Cincinnati, Donna majored in InterdisciplinaryStudies: Cultural Anthropology, Visual Anthropology; andgraduated from the Western College Program in 2004. Sheworked part-time in the WCAA office, 2001-02. P.S. Don-na and two brothers are triplets!

More Innovation from Western Program Folks

Donna, on campus in 2001

The New Gerber Inquiry AwardThe Gerber Technology Award, so named in honor of Ca-tharine Gerber, daughter of Don and Betty Sipe Gerber ’52,has been redesigned to focus on the inquiry process and willbe administered by the Western Program and the Inquiry Cen-ter. The description on the application reads as follows:

The Gerber Inquiry Award is named in honor of Ca-tharine A. “Cate” Gerber, who believed in the impor-tance of electronic media as a tool to connect peopleand ideas. The purpose of the award is to facilitate stu-dents to pursue their own inquiries. Typical awards willrange from $200 to $500; however, for proposals withexceptional merit, a project may be funded up to $1,000.

The projects should meet the goals and values of West-ern Program’s Inquiry Center, which promotes studentbased inquiry. The Inquiry Center, directed by Profes-sor Hays Cummins, fosters a community of learners whoare enthusiastic about exploring new questions andideas.

The selection committee has awarded funds to fivestudents for the 2012-13 academic year, for varying

Dear WCP Alumnoids:

Just a quick note: Westernpalooza 2012 (predominant-ly late 1970s and early 1980s grads, but all who carry West-ern in their hearts are welcome) will be held in Boulder,Colorado, on the Chautauqua Campus, September 20thto the 23rd, 2012; contact Caroline Quine [email protected] or Janet Jordan [email protected] for details

Our Monster BFP/Once every 5 year/ALL WCP ALLTHE TIME REUNION will be held during the Summer orFall of 2013, details will be shared as soon as we have a clueas to what they are. Please start digging out your Photos,your Films, your LPs and your Mix Tapes on Cassette, 8Track and Reel to Reel. Stay Cool,

J. Rego ’81

amounts totaling $2,350. There will be a formal awardpresentation of their findings and a reception in early April2013.

WCPAA Update from the President:

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We regret that not all WCP even-year classes are represented in this issue. In some instances, your Class Repdid not hear from anyone, so did not submit a letter; in other instances, we did not hear from the Class Rep. Whilewell aware of the many alternative ways of keeping in touch with each other, we continue to believe the WCAABulletin is the best way of keeping in touch with Western. Here’s hoping for a fuller response next year! Mean-while, attention, odd-year classes: For your Class Rep and class news deadline, turn to page 38.

I have been in the SF Bay Area since we allgraduated from Western College, but I doget back to Ohio to visit my parents. Thisyear, I also had to be in Cleveland for work,so I tracked down Matt McClelland. He andhis wife Kelly, have two children — Emma,who is in her junior year of college in Penn-sylvania, and Jake who is a junior at Kirt-land High School. This year his football teamjust took the state championship.

Years ago, while in New York, I had greatfun visiting Tim Race at his job with the NewYork Times, where he started in 1989. Aftertwo years at his most recent assignment asthe international business editor, Tim ismoving to Paris to become an assistantmanaging editor, overseeing business cov-erage for the International Herald Tribune,where he will help direct coverage of theEuropean debt crisis and what it meansmore broadly for Europe’s economy and theworld.

The NYT announcement of this change re-fers back to his time as a reporter at theOxford radio station, “For Tim, it’s a postingthat fulfills a long-deferred goal of workingoverseas as a journalist. He first caught the

journalism bug in college, doing news andfeatures for his university’s NPR affiliate.‘The international part came after getting amaster’s degree in popular culture, when Ispent three years teaching ethnomusicolo-gy, along with trumpet, at the University ofNigeria and traveling around francophoneWest Africa,’ he says.” I only hope that I canvisit Tim again — at his new digs in Paris.

Sheila Curran is hard at work on her thirdnovel, (working title, Our Lady of the Snows),based on a fictional Catholic chapel in At-lanta that was part of the underground rail-road, that was mysteriously saved fromGeneral Sherman’s fiery attack of that city,by a freak snowstorm. While you are wait-ing for this one to hit the market, check outher first two novels (Diana Lively Is FallingDown and Everyone She Loved).

Steve Shmuel Klein, proudly reports,“We’ve had our 11th grandchild from ourdaughter, Mushka, who was married abouta year ago. His name is Yosef Yitzchak. Ourson, Pesach, is in his second year of lawschool.“ And we alums can all be proud ofSteve who is clearly realizing his WesternCollege Creative Self: “I continue to playRobin Hood suing banks and debt collec-tors as a consumer advocate attorney inNew Jersey. The website iswww.debtfreeline.com. Let’s try to take himup on his invitation: “If anyone is ever in theNew York area, you are welcome to comespend the Sabbath.” And that goes for me

too. If anyone wanders into the 415, SF BayArea, please get in touch.

This year, I joined fellow Red Vic MovieHouse collective members to say goodbye,after 30 years, operating as the Haight’sneighborhood cinema. All the Best for 2012...

Rhian Miller ’[email protected]

Greetings from Sue Huston Fitzgibbons:” I was saddened to see the news about TomToffoli’s passing last August. Tom and I hadjust resumed some e-mail communicationafter 30-plus years of no contact, and I hadno idea he was ill. That and the recentdeaths of both my parents makes me re-evaluate life. So it was off to the WesternPalooza for me this fall. It was worth the trip.

“The weekend of February 4th will bringanother Western reunion to life. LynneWalker Toth ’88, Lauren Lubow Riley (yesstill married to Rich), Ellen Lieb Bermanand I will be getting together for three nightsin a condo on the beach in Clearwater, FL.Time to catch up on many years of living,kids, and careers, among other stuff. Can’twait!

“I work for the U.S. Department of VeteranAffairs overseeing the federal vocationalrehabilitation program in central andwestern New York. Our website iswww.vetsuccess.gov. It’s a sad yet reward-ing experience serving our country’s dis-abled veterans. It’s also extremely frustrat-ing seeing ‘business’ decisions often basedon politics and not common business sense.I wish there really was transparency andaccountability in the federal government.

“I’m hoping you’re living well and remem-ber that the only Zen you can find on thetops of mountains is the Zen you bring upthere (Robert M. Pirsig). I hope to see manyof you in Cleveland next year.”

Paul Beno writes: “Best wishes to all. Stillworking as a planner for the City of Euclid,inner ring suburb of Cleveland. Enjoying lifeon the lakefront and generally not havingmuch to complain about. My latest mania isvolunteer vacations. I’m enjoying going offto see new parts of the country, well new to

Class Rep Rhian Miller, front and center, with friends of the Red Vic Movie House

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me, and working with other volunteers main-taining hiking trails in our parks. Two to threeprojects a year help break up the routineand energize the spirit. The family is doingwell. Margaret (wife) is finishing up a mas-ter’s degree in nursing this summer andEmma (daughter) has started a business.She is running a stand at our historic mu-nicipal market in Cleveland. All is well. Ifany of you are in the neighborhood, wehave a spare room — feel free to look inon us. Reservat ions preferred [email protected].

As to me, my position with the NJ Dept. ofHuman Services was eliminated in 2009 andI have put my Western skills to use as aconsultant doing research and evaluation.I’ll be publishing a few reports this year oninclusion of children with special needs andoutreach to under-served populations birthto 5 — let me know if you’re interested inseeing them. And you can always find meon Facebook or check out my websitewww.sharp-ideas.org.

Unfortunately, this winter I’ve been dealingwith a difficult family situation. Westernfriends and lawyers in Ohio have been pro-viding guidance and support. Sue HustonFitzgibbons in particular provided connec-tions to her own elder law attorney and con-nected me with Lauren Lubow, who is anassistant attorney general. In a sad twist,Sue’s own mother passed away the week-end that I was looking for help. Tim Matune’81, Mary Scrocco Shelley, Brynna Fish’79, and Susan Lambert Kuertz ’82 havealso helped keep me afloat emotionally. It’samazing how comforting old friends can bein times of trouble. Hoping to reconnect withmore of you in 2012!

All the best ...

Janey Drexler [email protected]

P.S. Westernpalooza will be held Sept. 20-23 in Boulder, CO, this year. Contact Caro-line Quine ’79 if you’re interested. I hearMike and Kay Lunine are attending to cele-brate their 50-year wedding anniversary!


Dan Adamson reports that things are goodin his world. He is no longer with a law firm,and instead is working for the Solar EnergyIndustries Association. Dan says he is “oldenough now not to take my good health forgranted. Family is fine too. If you are in D.C.look me up.”

On the other coast … things are good in myworld, too. I’m still at UC-Riverside, nowdoing research on campus life during theGreat Depression of the 1930s. This will bemy last time doing the Bulletin update asClass Rep, after seven years. Who’s next?If interested, contact Cathy Cooper,[email protected].

Best wishes to all for a great year!

Maggie Nash ’[email protected]

David Hertzig ’[email protected]

Gail Deibler Finke can’t believe she has ahigh school senior — and a freshman, too,so elementary school days are over. Shewill graduate this fall with a master’s degreefrom The Athenaeum of Ohio, and as ofJanuary 1st became an official media mo-gul, after launching a news and featureswebsite, TheCatholicBeat.com, for theGreater Cincinnati area. (See The CatholicBeat on Face-book! Commercialover.)

Diane Wright isstill (after 17years) working ata big mentalhealth agency inCincinnati and lov-ing it. She starteddoing a regularpodcast (“Preach-ergirl” — look for iton i-Tunes! It’sfree and while Di-ane thinks it’s notas good as BillT h o m p s o n ’ sbird podcast, sheclaims that it willat least help fallingasleep. Commer-cial over).This se-mester she isteaching her firstcourse at NKU asan adjunct: Com-passion, Empathy,Forgiveness and

Social Justice. Diane’s sons are now 21 and10 ... life is good!

Laura Dobbins was accepted into ProjectDragonfly’s Global Field Program (GFP),which she describes as heir to the Westernway of education, especially under the lead-ership of Western alum Chris Myers ’83.Laura reports that the GFP program mar-ries two of her big loves — travel and envi-ronmentalism — and that she was hoping itwould provide a stepping-off point to the nextphase of “what to do with my life.” Evident-ly, it worked. Laura has thrown herself intothe anti-fracking movement in New Yorkstate and is using it as the basis for GFPprojects. Laura states that she has managedto help stave off, for now, the mass environ-mental and health devastation that the gasindustry would have you believe is nomi-nal. (Message Laura if you want more info.Last commercial over.) Laura also has greatplans on the horizon, hoping to go to Namib-ia as her last GFP excursion (other two tripswere Baja and Australia) this summer, andshe is continuing that juggling act offreelance writing and editing assignments,grad school deadlines, family, friends, andregular, everyday life stuff. She is very grate-ful to be in touch with Western people viaFacebook and (gasp!) in real life!

Beth McNellie would like to hear from moreof our classmates about what’s up with theirlives ... In any event, her high school fresh-man is now the tallest person in her house,and she went skiing (because of him) forthe first time last winter! Beth is keepingbusy with work, the kitchen remodel, andcross country meets. Beth and her family

A few of the gang from Westernpalooza 2011: Steve Younger ’79,Janet Jordan ’80, Ken Brower ’88, Robbie Burns ’81, Brynna Fish’79, Grant Thompson ’80, Janey Drexler Sharp ’80, Stu Bassin ’78,Carolyn Johns McConnell ’80

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traveled to Rome, Paris and Hong Kong thispast year. She reports that all were wonder-ful. She is very happy that she went to Syriawhen she did; and sad that it will be a longtime before it will be again safe enough tovisit.

Beth McNellie ’[email protected]

Commander Andrew Schulman ’88, USNis deployed to Kabul, Afghanistan, as Chief,

Strategic Plans Branch (Afghan NationalPolice Force Infrastructure) at CombinedSecurity Transition Command — Afghani-stan (part of NATO).

Andy Miller ’[email protected]

Stuart Quirk ’[email protected]


WCAA, [email protected]

Hello, fellow travelers and miscreants! Ishould mention that we’re all turning 40about now … but I won’t. You’re welcome.On to the updates:

Nikki Stanley Carleton and Andrew Car-leton: “Here we are with our 6-year-old son,Logan. Logan is overflowing with energy and

keeps us busy and laughing. I continue towork as a special education teacher andhave found a great deal of peace throughthe practice of yoga. In the past year, An-drew and I have both participated in firewalking workshops and are now part of the“crew.” Still living in Chagrin Falls, OH.”

Ben Gibbons: “Grace is now a big sister!Hope Brenda was born on October 31st at10:36 pm, clocking in at 8 lbs, 5 oz., 21 inch-es. We had a smooth delivery and furtherstaked the Gibbons Family claim to Hallow-een. To think the Halloween festivities start-ed back in 1993 in that crooked little houseon Withrow that Heather, Lisa and I shared!

Michelle, Grace and Hope are all doing well.You can follow the girls’ allegorical adven-tures on Twitter: @bendgibbons

“By the time this goes to print, a small groupof Western alums, will have completed theirannual sojourn to Studio 35’s Dude-a-thon,here in Columbus. Let’s hope this is all youhear about it. Abide.”

Joseph Isaacs: “Hi everybody. I am livingin Maryland still with my wife, Carolyn, andmy 12-year-old daughter, Yael, and my 10-year-old son, Yoni. I am teaching ESL atthree elementary schools in BaltimoreCounty. I sing and play guitar in a four-pieceband called the Flying Dogs — we performoriginal music and covers. I am working ona fantasy novel with my son that’s going tobe awesome. And I am stopping to smellthe flowers. Sometimes.”

Kathy Wise: “Now the executive editor ofCowboys & Indians magazine (snicker if youmust, but proudest moments include work-

The Carletons

Big sister Grace and Hope Gibbons

Kathy (right) and partner Melissa

Andrew Schulman

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ing with Native American photographers ZigJackson and Lee Marmon). Still domestical-ly partnered to Melissa Romig, an attorneywith American Airlines (we’re celebrating our17th anniversary this month). Living in andloving Dallas. As of my birthday, now theproud aunts of three nephews. Always look-ing for good travel and art writers, so all youfreelancers drop me a line!”

And me, I’m Johanna Smith. My now 7-year-old daughter and I are doing very well.We’re raising chickens in the back yard withour mildly brain-damaged dog, and in ourspare time we’re studying karate and work-ing on puppet shows. Now that I’m a fullProfessor I have time to do such things.Please join us on Facebook for more frivol-ity, and join in the wisecracks as we refuseto accept aging.

Johanna Smith ’[email protected]

There’s a whole lotta babies in the class of1996.

In August, Jocelyn Brumbaugh welcomedParker Benjamin into the family. He joinsbig brother Hunter, who is already 4. Laterin the fall, Chhevi Sharma and Jocelyn wentback to visit Miami just in time for Ernst FallFest!

Meredith Glueck finished grad school inAustin, TX, last August and took a job asthe program manager at the recently estab-lished Center for Latin American and Lati-no Studies in Washington, DC. Her daugh-ter, Ilana, was born in June 2010 and she isexpecting her second child at the end of thesummer.

Lastly, Beck MaitriParansky was born onDecember 23rd to Dav-id Paransky and hispartner.

John Blair still lives inOakland, CA, and writessoftware for managingsolar power systems. Heand his wife Sussu Laak-sonen are now 15 months into a four-monthremodel of their fixer-upper in Oakland, CA.His son, Ethan, starts high school next fall.

You can connect with more of us the rest ofthe year by joining the Western College ofClass of 1996 Facebook group.

John Blair ’[email protected]

Rodney C. Hancock recently finished hisM.S. in Human Resources Managementand Development in January 2012 “magnacum laude and with distinction” from NewYork University and looks forward to start-ing his doctoral studies in the fall. The nextleg of his academic adventure will consistof pursuing even more debt and an Ed.D.in Adult Learning and Leadership at Colum-bia University’s Teachers College-GraduateSchool of Education. He looks forward tohearing from anyone in the New York Cityarea, so feel free to e-mail him [email protected] anytime!

News from Molly Erin Hicks ’97 “Hi! I amback in Ohio helping my mom right now. InAugust, I will be moving to Urbana, IL (homeof University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign),to live with my partner, Leslie. I am back inmy Ph.D. program (Antioch University inNew England) after 1½ years away, and Ihope to begin dissertation work next year.My interests are in resilient, sustainable foodsystems, community development, and so-cial justice (forever thinking like a Westernkid). My biggest accomplishment recentlywas my brown belt in taekwondo! I hope allis well with everyone.”

And news from Shannon Plummer Twill-ing: “I’m still in Tucson and still working asthe assistant manager of the AZSITE GISdatabase and Archaeological Records Of-fice at the Arizona State Museum (which I

love). I ran my fifth marathon in January. PJand I will be celebrating 10 years of mar-riage in May, and we’re happily raising Anna(now 5) and Sadie (now 3) ... along with adog, a few fish, and some chickens.”

Kjirsten Frank ’[email protected]

Congratulations! Ryan Wise married LayahBarry on September 26th, 2010. They areliving in Tujunga, CA (6906 Valmont St.,91042), where Ryan is doing web develop-ment.

Hello all! I am now living in Chicago. If youare ever in the city, let me know if you needanything.

Katie Johnson ’[email protected]


Marta Roberts Lawrence ’[email protected]

Baby Beck

Ryan Salcido ’04 shows his Miami pride in Afghanistan

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Greetings Westerners!

Not too many updates this year from theclass of 2004, but we’re still going strong!Read on for the updates…

Maryjane Bellock: Maryjane and Matt Hallmade their Miami and Western/Architecturemerger official and were married on May 5,2010. Currently, Maryjane and Matt residein London, England, where Matt practicesArchitecture and Maryjane does BusinessDevelopment and Project Management fora healthcare IT firm.

Greg Dutton: “After three years of lawschool in New York, I moved here to Wash-ington, DC, and took a job at the Environ-mental Protection Agency (EPA) working onwater issues. This fall I got engaged to anamazing woman, and we are getting mar-ried here in DC, August 2012. She and Ihave a great time together despite beingtotal opposites. She is even the Chief of Stafffor a Congressman who keeps voting todefund my Division of the EPA! Oh well.Also, I managed to get together with ElliotSmith, Matt Hall, Wendi Wallace and JoshNelson ’05 this fall to watch football. Superfun. Life is good!”

Paula Moran: “2011 was a year of changeand good fortune. I retired from Rollerderbyand began enjoying more evenings withfriends and a better life balance. Junebrought freedom. I officially resigned fromteaching Montgomery County PublicSchools and did one last office move out.In July, my husband Ryan and I escapedfor a weekend to go horseback riding andhiking in Shenandoah. We got back to townin time for the second annual roof deck 4thof July party. Another wonderful evening withfriends. In early September, we journeyedto Pennsylvania for a relaxing weekend. Thetrip was cut short to get back to DC for a jobinterview. A fruitful move, I was hired as aTraining Developer for InfoComm Interna-tional three days later. InfoComm Interna-tional is the trade and professional organi-zation for the audiovisual communicationsindustry. Hope your 2012 brings you greatmemories.”

Ryan Salcido: “After spending the majorityof the year flying over the skies of Afghani-stan and Iraq in support of keeping coali-tion forces safe from IEDs (still the biggestthreat), I returned to the Seattle area to seemy wife, Fouzia, and 2-year-old son, Gabri-el. As any good sea-worthy ship, we hitsome great ports in Spain, Italy, France,Dubai and Bahrain. Flying for the navy is a

great adventure, but is also difficult, andchallenging to be away from family. My nextupdate should come from the Far East asmy family and I are getting stationed in Ja-pan in March. I extend an invitation to any-one who wants to look me up out there.Sayonara.”

As for me, I have some very happy news!But first, some backstory. In March of 2008,I met up with Leah Farzin and was intro-duced to her friend Naina. Naina and I hit itoff almost immediately (we estimate that westarted falling for each other about 15 min-

utes after meeting), and while we remainedin touch over Skype — Naina is from Indiaand was living there at the time — we offi-cially began dating in 2010. I made my firsttrip to India in December of 2011, visitingthe Taj Mahal among many other places. InMarch of 2012, on the four-year anniversa-ry of the day we met, I asked Naina to mar-ry me, and she said yes! We are now en-gaged, and looking to get married in Indiain January 2013. Naina makes me so hap-py, we are very much in love, and we’re look-ing forward to spending the rest of our livestogether!

Eric Fox ’[email protected]

Dustin Leimgruber and his wife, Sarah, areliving outside of Boston finishing up theirmaster’s degrees and raising their son,Jack. Dustin is working on an M.Div. andTh.M. at Gordon-Conwell and working as atherapeutic mentor.

Sydney Davis is currently living and work-ing in Chicago. She graduated last year withher master’s degree in the Art of Teachingwith a special education and bilingual en-dorsement. She is working as a bilingualspecial education teacher at a high needsHispanic school on the south side of Chica-go. Also, she is currently working towardsbeing nationally certified in reading.

Erin Woedl has been living in ColoradoSprings, CO, for the past two years. She isa preschool teacher at Saint Luke’s Chil-dren’s Center. She plans on going back toschool this summer to get certified to be-come a director of a child development cen-ter.

Jonathan Franz is practicing environmen-tal/public law with a large Los Angeles lawfirm. He is also working on the first draft of anovel. He lives in the Pasadena area withhis wife, Mary, and golden retriever, Rigsby.

Kyle Gibson is still living in Los Angelesand working as an accountant for a fictionalpaper company. This past summer he gotto attend the Western Reunion and repre-sented the Class of ’06 (along with West-erners from ’04, ’05, and ’07). Good timeshad by all.

’04 Class Rep and fiancée Naina,at the incomparable Taj Mahal

Erin Woedl ’06 and friend

Dustin Leimgruber ’06 with Jack

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Alex Dodwell continues working as a webdeveloper and designer. Right now he’s try-ing to sate his explorer’s spirit as much aspossible by skiing, hiking, and traveling to

new places, learning to cook and create newthings, and enjoying the company of hisfriends, family, and his girlfriend in Aus-tin, TX.

Kimberly Baillieul (Carvey) is happily mar-ried, making maps, and living in the heartof Saint Louis with her husband and awe-some dog.

Shirley Lanta Wang recently graduatedfrom Duke University School of Law, andhas been admitted as a new member of theOregon State Bar. Currently, Shirley is work-

ing at the Duke University Office of Coun-sel in Durham, North Carolina.

Levi Grooms is living alow-key life in the wood-ed hills of Southern Ohioand running a bed &breakfast with his part-ner, Joshua Catone.They recently celebratedtheir 9-year anniversary.They have a pug namedRooRoo.

Robyn MacConnell ’[email protected]

Abandoning my habit of turning life updatesfrom my classmates into one continuousprose of War and Peace proportions, I de-cided to let the updates remain as they weresent to me. Of course, when I got half theupdates written in third person, I had tochange the pronouns, which made for someinteresting changes in tone and modesty.Editing, manipulative? Never!

Matthew Anderson: “Since 2009 I’ve beenworking as the lead designer for 350.org, aclimate change nonprofit started by Bill McK-ibben. I’m living in San Francisco, which isamazing and overpriced and beautiful, butwill be moving all the way east to New Yorksoon. In whatever free time I have, I’m play-ing soccer (they call me the Iker Casillas ofmy rec league) and exploring my newfoundlove for Settlers of Catan.”

Nicole Brasseur: “In the fall of 2011, I re-commenced the student lifestyle (whichproved harder to adjust to than I thoughtafter being in the work force). I am at theUniversity of South Florida working towardmy master’s of Public Health in Health Ed-ucation and Maternal Child Health. In spiteof everyone in Ohio being jealous about thewarm weather, I actually prefer the four-sea-son climate more. I chose USF becausethere is some really awesome faculty re-search in reproductive health going on here.Essentially, school is my life again.”

Brandon Cirillo: “This is my first appear-ance in the Bulletin so I’ll catch everyoneup. I took the scenic route by adding anadditional 2½ years to finishing my seniorproject. Along the way, I moved back toMichigan and paid my rent by taking a veryarduous job that consisted of playing withkittens and puppies. I then spent this timevolunteering at the Detroit Zoo and as so-cial media coordinator for the annual De-troit Wig Out (an event that features localmusic and fashion to benefit community

nonprofit organizations). Currently, I am inthe midst of a year of service with Ameri-Corps serving as a Development and Com-munications Specialist with the ConnecticutAlliance of Boys & Girls Clubs. Come July,I’m hoping to be Seattle-bound, but withouta plan I would be very happy to entertainany suggestions. I live happily in New Ha-ven with my geriatric rodents, Pele, a chin-chilla, and Moxie, a dwarf hamster.”

Raymond Devine: “I currently live and workto pay my bills in Oxford, still haven’t fin-ished my thesis and am now scrambling tomake ends meet ... anywhere but here.”

Nurit Yastrow Friedberg: “I’m still living inCincinnati and working as a social worker.As part of my job, I’m serving on the plan-ning committee for the Cincinnati and North-ern Kentucky Take Back the Night, which issuper exciting. I also started teaching Zum-ba® Fitness classes in August and I’m lov-ing it! Aaron (Miami ’08) and I got marriedin June at a beautiful ceremony surround-ed by friends and family — including myWestern family. We are now waiting to findout where Aaron will match for his internalmedicine residency and then we’ll seewhere life takes us.”

Hailee Gibbons: “Well, everyone, shock-ing news. I am STILL at Miami University inOxford! Yes, it’s true. That angsty emo girlwho always wore black and a lot of eyelinerhas been there since 2004. Miami endedmy program of study and refused to let mekeep my job of three years in the Office ofCommunity Engagement and Service dueto not having a master’s degree. But I justwon’t take the hint to leave! So what am Idoing now? Working on my master’s in Stu-dent Affairs in Higher Education. In my class-es, I spend most of my time making sarcas-tic comments, drinking disturbing amountsof coffee, and trying to find new ways to bringup how Miami got rid of Western and why itwas the worst idea ever (other than theiridea to get rid of me). My animal hoardinghas also in-creased — Ilive with a bea-gle called Mag-gie, a goldenretriever calledJosie, and Ollieand Tommie,the formerlystray cats ofu n k n o w nages.”

Jocelyn Hau-gen: “I’m stillliving in sunnySo Cal in thesurf capital ofthe U.S. Hun-tington Beachhas provided me with a ton of fun outdoorsyactivities as well as sunshine 365 days a

Jocelyn, enjoying thesun of So Cal

Alex, exploring

Jonathan Franz ’06 and family

Roo Roo

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year! I am about to hit my two-year mark asa Regional Marketing Specialist for Arch-stone Apartments and am actively manag-ing all marketing and advertising needs for21 apartment communities in San Diego,Dallas, and Phoenix. I am also working hardtowards completing my master’s in Integrat-ed Marketing Communications throughWest Virginia University and will proudlywalk at my graduation in May 2012 (so ex-cited to be done with homework!!!). I livewith (and talk to) my beta fish, Ragin’ Cajun— or Rage for short — and am three weeksinto p90X. Life is good!”

Stephanie Lee: “I’ve been working at a techcompany in Silicon Valley for the last 10months, and I hate it. But, I’ve been able tomake a tiny difference while at the compa-ny, including starting a company-wide recy-cling program and waste reduction manage-ment program. I am also currently applyingto graduate programs in public and interna-tional policy, and hope to work in the areaof corporate responsibility. In other news, Ihave become quite the yoga master andmight start teaching classes soon. I can befound at parties busting out crazy arm bal-ances and dancing to hip hop. I also hadthe immense pleasure of meeting up withKaren Gotter ’09 in San Francisco andsaw Jens Lekman at the California Acad-emy of Science! Finally, I’m quitting Fa-cebook in an effort to take back my life!So you’d al l better stay in [email protected]”

Sudie Niesen: “I’m finishing up my mas-ter’s in Divinity at the Austin PresbyterianTheological Seminary this spring. After grad-uation, I will move to Philadelphia to be withmy fiance, while looking for jobs.”

John Obrycki: “I am finishing up my de-gree at Ball State University. Writing a mas-ter’s thesis is like writing the senior project,without the fun of having a large class ofWestern students go through the processtogether. I think that counts as a high-im-pact learning experience. Everyone shouldmove to Muncie, IN, because Tom Reeve’00 is the executive director of a neat non-profit, Muncie-Delaware Clean and Beauti-ful. This coming fall I’ll be back in Ohio, start-ing the Environment and Natural Resourc-es Ph.D. program at The Ohio State Uni-versity. I’m excited about the upcoming re-search projects and classes!”

Emilie Orians: “I’m still in Cincinnati work-ing for MarketVision — I’ve changed rolesa bit and am helping to develop the socialmedia and community panel side of our re-search! After a summer full of fun (includingmy first NASCAR race!), I was lucky enoughto make it to Scotland and Italy in the fall.Now Pinterest is helping me enjoy homeownership to its fullest during the weird win-ter months.”

Tom Schleiter: “After my band toured withSmashing Pumpkins and KISS, I aban-doned my rockstar dreams, sold out, andam now working as a professional songwrit-er/producer for the stars.”

Jessica Slack: “All is good in Columbus,OH. Moctar, Henna, and I have settledinto our first home. After closing in Octo-ber, doing tons of repairs, we are finallymoved in as of January. Henna is just now7 months old and she is growing like aweed. She even has two teeth! I am stillworking at Riverview Dental but I havebeen promoted to insurance/collectionssecretary. I went back to Miami recentlyand missed every single one of my fel-low Westerners!”

Sydney Willcox: “After a couple of yearsas the assistant manager at Murray’s

Cheese (the biggest and oldest cheesestore in America) and discovering almosteverything there is to know about cheese, Istarted culinary school at the end of Janu-ary. It’s a classic culinary arts program atthe French Culinary Institute, the best schoolin Manhattan. I will still be working full timeso I will be one of the most tired people Iknow (for three days a week it will be 16hours of work and school each day). Onanother note, one of my roommates and Ifinally found freedom from our psycho thirdroommate (thank you, Manhattan real es-tate!), and have moved to better pastures.It’s on the outskirts of Manhattan but it’s afull service building!!! I love having a gym Iwill never use and packages that can bedelivered to my apartment. Feel free to sendme things :)”

Martin Yip: “I am thoroughly enjoying myjob as an International Graduate at Stan-dard Chartered Bank in Hong Kong. I lovelearning and traveling. Apart from learninga lot about banking, I also worked briefly inShanghai this past year. In February, Imoved to Mumbai, India, for my job. I chosethat department because it finances infra-structures in emerging countries so I feelthat I can contribute my tiny part into mak-ing the world a better place. As the two-yeartrainee program is coming to an end, I have

Martin Yip, picking up trash from abeach in Hong Kong

Jessica Slack, husband Moctar anddaughter Henna at Myrtle Beach

Stephanie Lee (right) withKaren Gotter ’09 and a dinosaur skeleton,

holding Jens Lekman’s new record

Mini Western reunion at Nurit YastrowFriedberg’s wedding (from left): SudieNiesen, Nurit, Nicole Brasseur, Pulkit Datta

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to pick a permanent position soon. Pleasekeep your fingers crossed for me!”

Your Class of 2008 rep: On my end, I’vebeen blissfully consumed by the filmmak-ing bug. I’m still living in New York and lov-ing it. I’ve been working at an internationalfilm production company since summer lastyear, working on a range of feature films,documentaries and commercials, and havelearned tons about the industry from everylittle detail. I am now writing a couple ofscripts that I hope will turn out good enoughto be financed and produced into films. In-spiration and creative vibes are welcome.

Have a great year!

Pulkit Datta ’[email protected]

Editor’s note: In fact, Pulkit was invited tocampus in early April to screen his currentfilm, The Forgetting Game, at Leonard The-atre. The presentation, open to the public,

was sponsored by the Western Program,Center of American and World Cultures,Honors Program, Department of Communi-cation, and Journalism Program.

The film, the second Pulkit has produced,is the story of a 5-year-old East German girl,who was the first person to be legally trans-ferred across the Berlin Wall in March 1963.After intense negotiations between the RedCross and East German government, theevent was accomplished peacefully andsuccessfully — and immediately erasedfrom the historical record. Thus, the title.

Renee Hemmelgarn: “I signed up for a sec-ond year as an AmeriCorps VISTA withFriends of the Lower Greenbrier River based

in Alderson, WV, that will end in May. I’mnot sure where life will take me after that,but I will start a new adventure when I mar-ry Adam Plourde in August.”

Kat Hayes, graduation assistant in MU’spsychology department, recently called ourattention to the several current WesternProgram majors who are studying “abroadat sea, or across the country this semes-ter” and provided this link to their blog:http://westerngoesabroad.blogspot.com/

Earlier this year, I (Cayla) worked for a com-munity building agency and got invaluableexperience in NGO and community devel-opment. Now I embark on a new adventureto the Ukraine. I am in training to be an En-glish teacher and hopefully also dipping myhands into NGO development.

Cayla Adams ’[email protected]

In Memoriam

Elizabeth Ann Koons Miller ’32February 2011

Elizabeth Mary Sprague Grissom ’34November 2009

Olga Campbell Brocklehurst ’37October 2010

Dorothy Kercher Knoop ’38April 2011

Elizabeth Patz Paynton ’39April 2011

Esther Schulz Sawyer ’39August 2010

Ruth Bertsch Stilwell ’40February 2012

Mary Helen Metzger Cain ’43February 2011

Nell Nickell Best ’45March 2011

Marian Arbuckle Morse ’45June 2011

Adda Jean Winterfeldt ’46December 2011

Betty Levering Keffer ’47April 2011

Mary Dodge Heyden ’48January 2012

Mary Mack Hurst ’49December 2011

Fran Robinson Ingwersen ’49December 2011

Barbara Wicking Knight ’50March 2012

Lucinda T. Magruder ’50September 2011

Jane Nelson Scarff ’50December 2011

Joan Kronick Nackman ’51April 2011

Gilberta A. Rickel ’56February 2012

Gwendolyn Haydu Freeman ’59February 2011

Marcia Poletek Drongowski ’66July 2011

Melkote K. Shivaswamy FFInstructor in Economics, 1969-72July 2011

Bulletin policy is to list deaths of Western College alumnae, former administrators, faculty and staff in “In Memoriam.” Obituaries arenot printed, but class representatives are notified and encouraged to include personal remembrances in class notes at their discre-tion. Administrators with exceptional, long-term service will be eulogized. (Deaths that occurred more than five years prior to publi-cation are not included.)

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Suzy Allburt ’415003 ElsbyDallas, TX 75209

Ardis Dechman Coninx ’45606 Trinity CourtEvanston, IL [email protected]

Anne Mack Dean ’478101 Connecticut Ave., C508Chevy Chase, MD [email protected]

Jane Osgood Tatge ’4911 Eltinge PlaceGlenville, NY [email protected]

Ruth McVicker Rhodenbaugh ’514725 Burley Hills Dr.Cincinnati, OH 45243

Cary Kimbark Revere ’53Box 35Barnstable, MA [email protected]

Mary Sicer Moore ’5514 BroadmoorPrescott, AZ [email protected]

Charlotte Klein Varzi ’5736 Radnor CircleGrosse Pointe Farms, MI [email protected]

Send your news — and pictures! — for the Fall ’12 Bulletin NOW.E-mail, or clip and mail the form below to your Class Rep. If your class does not have a Rep, send

your update directly to the WCAA. Beat the deadline: Labor Day, September 3!

Dear Class Rep:

Your full name and class year:

Address:

Phone number and e-mail address:

Jane Toy Thomason ’59305 Lefferts Ave.Brooklyn, NY [email protected]

Johnnie Kirkpatrick Duvall ’6124 Willow St.Needham, MA [email protected]

Debbie Hunt Perrin ’63P.O. Box 1195Cedar Hill, TX [email protected]

Pam Eggers Gill ’65265 Turner Rd.East Palatka, FL [email protected]

Kathy Ehrgood Sturm ’677709 Midge NEAlbuquerque, NM [email protected]

Nancy Wilson Kobayashi ’69422-6-715 TokiwaKamakura, Japan [email protected]

Laurie LeGrand ’71289 Main St.Amesbury, MA [email protected]

Christy Wines ’735155 Cedarwood Rd., Apt. 56Bonita, CA 91902619-267-1425 (h); 619-701-7264 (cell)[email protected]

Cyndie Cole ’752317 Parmater Rd.Gaylord, MI [email protected]

Kim Rotonto Dregalla ’776971 Darrow Rd.Hudson, OH [email protected]

Tom “Walter” Gardner ’79307 Constitution Ave. NEWashington, DC [email protected]

Tim Matune ’816415 Ridgeview Ave.Youngstown, OH [email protected]

Ann Rosenfield ’8366 EllsworthToronto, ON M6G [email protected]

Madeline J. Iseli ’8538 Beverly Pl.Dayton, OH [email protected]

Christine Rebera ’87418 Richard Pl.Ithaca, IL [email protected]

Cathy Flynn ’89443 9 Wells Pkwy.Hyattsville, MD [email protected]

Lara Osborne ’916066 Fairfield Rd.Oxford, OH [email protected]

Ryan Donmoyer ’93622 Putnam PlAlexandria, VA [email protected]

Paul Broughton ’954443 Dauncy Rd.Flat Rock, MI [email protected]

Rebecca Dingo ’971026 Westwinds Ct.Columbia, MO [email protected]@gmail.com

Vann Geondeff ’011228 W. Carmen Ave., Apt. 1AChicago, IL [email protected]

Joy Usner ’03311 E. LaSalle Ave. 201DSouth Bend, IN [email protected]

Abigail King Kaiser ’051511 Jackson St., Apt. 11Oakland, CA [email protected]

Denise Cheng ’07640 Hawthorne St. NEGrand Rapids, MI [email protected]

Alison Kernohan ’09481 Lullaby CircleAmherst, OH [email protected]

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April luncheon in Columbus, right (l-r): Joan Campbell ’73,Chris Moranda ’74, Nancy Odero, Jan Chadwick ’67, Han-nah Mills, Betsy Salt ’74, WCAA Director Mackenzie BeckerRice, Leslie Cohen ’79. Nancy and Hannah are WCAA schol-arship recipients and provided the program.

December 2011 Luncheon in Dayton: (l-r) Mary Melison McDonald ’70, Nancy McGregor Nowak ’64, Mary Barber McKechnie ’60,Ursula Seeler Parobek ’60, Kathy Fansher Parnell ’65, WCAA Accounting Assoc. Kaye Wolke, Martha Cowden ’64, WCAA DirectorMackenzie Becker Rice, Sue Mayer Falter ’57, Nancy Johannes Campbell ’64, Cathy Bauer Cooper ’60, WCAA Sr. Program Asst.Debbie Baker. Not pictured: Kathleen Turner ’64

NKY/SWO at The Knolls, top (l-r): WCAA Sr. ProgramAsst. Debbie Baker, Barbara Williamson Wendt ’68, WCAADirector Mackenzie Becker Rice, Jane Smucker Fryman’58, scholarship recipient Nancy Odero. Above: Jane Fry-man with Carolyn Auble and Donavon Auble FF

March Northern Kentucky/South-west Ohio luncheon at TheKnolls of Oxford, below (l-r): PrisStrand Berry ’54, Marita LakonenJudge ’53, Joyce Roark Phillips ’56

NKY/SWO at The Knolls,above: Debra Hefty Sayers ’73and Barbara Johnson Mecklen-borg ’53 (standing) with formerBulletin editor Jean Perry

South and Central Ohio Clubs “Do Lunch”!

Honoring Western Choir Members as we celebrate the history of

WesternAlumnae Choir Performances

Carillon and Organ Recital

Western Social with Peabody Family

Parade of All Classes

Meily Society Induction, Class of ’62

Open House at Western Archives

“Happy Hour” on Clawson Patio

Tour of MU President’s Residence

Story of Western in Words & Pictures

Celebration Banquet & Awards

“Tuffy’s” Toasted Rolls

Patterson Place Lawn Reception

Closing Gathering in Kumler Chapel

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