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Wan·der·jahr: n. noun, [vahn-duh r-yahr] /'van d re , ya r/ German.

1. A year or period of travel, especially following one’s schooling and before practicing a profession.

2. A life-changing year of exploration, discovery, and independence funded by the Thomas J. Watson Foundation. Greetings from Appleton! LAWRENCE

They say in Wisconsin there are two seasons of the year: winter and EDITOR construction. We are in the second season, which brings physical renewal Kelly B. Landiſ Not All of campus. It is also celebration season here at Lawrence, with two of ART DIRECTORS my favorite moments of the year: Commencement, when we sent 350 Liz Boutelle, Matt Schmeltzer graduates out to begin their lives after Lawrence, and Reunion, when ASSOCIATE VICE PRESIDENT OF we welcomed more than a thousand of them back to reconnect with the COMMUNICATIONS Megan Scott community we share. Over the course of those two weekends, we hosted Who Wander close to 1,000 people in the President’s House. It is always a pleasure to CONTRIBUTORS Ed C. Berthiaume, Daniel Green ’20, Awa Badiane ’21 Isabella have the Lawrence family “in the house.” Even the new member of Mariani ’21, Kelsey McCormick, Joseph Vanden Acker David’s and my family, Homer, a three-month-old labradoodle, enjoyed CLASS NOTES Are Lost the festivities. Kevin LeBeau By Kelly B. Landis These celebrations are also moments to reflect on the extraordinary PHOTOGAPHY

ways Lawrentians make their mark on the world, from setting out across Liz Boutelle, Ken Cobb, Mackenzie Huber, Garrett Katerzynske, Wan·der·jahr: n. noun, [vahn-duh r-yahr] /'van d re , ya r/.German. the globe in search of meaning and cultural knowledge like our many M. C. Kinney Photography, Thompson Photo Imagery, Paul Wilke Watson Fellows to shaping the pop cultural landscape like this year’s FOR CHANGE OF ADDRESS 1. A year or period of travel, especially following one’s schooling and before practicing a profession. Commencement speaker, Lee Shallat Chemel ’65. I hope you enjoy learning go.lawrence.edu/profile 2. A life-changing year of exploration, discovery, and independence funded by the Thomas J. Watson Foundation. about some of these experiences in this issue. 920-832-6854 • [email protected] We are now getting ready to welcome another talented class of more TO SUBMIT IDEAS than 400 new students. The entering class is diverse in many respects, Lawrence University • Communications 711 E. Boldt Way including 25% domestic students of color and 14% international students. Appleton, WI 54911-5690 Thanks to the success of the Be the Light! Campaign and its Full Speed to 920-832-7325 • [email protected] Full Need initiative, the incoming class of 2023 will be supported by more Opinions expressed in this magazine do not necessarily represent full-need scholarships—which allows Lawrence to meet the need of more Lawrence University policy. than 100 incoming students. Lawrence (USPS 012-683) is published by the Lawrence University Just as we celebrate our students and alumni, we must also recognize Office of Communications. Nonprofit postage paid at Appleton, Wis., and additional mailing offices. the people of Lawrence who make all of this possible. The talented faculty and staff who lead the University were joined by many new colleagues; they brought their experience and energy to bear on our efforts to provide a world class undergraduate education to 1,500 students every year. I know CONTENTS you join me in welcoming them to Lawrence as we begin the 2019-2020 academic year. NOT ALL WHO WANDER ARE LOST 3 50 Years of the Watson Fellowship Best, BREAKING SOUND BARRIERS 10 Operatic Innovations Take the Stage (and Mark Burstein, President Pool!)

RAISING THE BAR 13 The Viking Room Marks a Major Milestone

WHEN MARCH MADNESS CAME 36 TO LAWRENCE A Look Back at a Historic NCAA Tournament Run

16 Commencement 20 Reunion 22 Inside Lawrence 32 Be the Light! Campaign Update 40 Athletics

42 Class Notes Micha Jackson ’07 swims among the residents of Jellyfish Lake, Palau. 86 The Big Picture LAWRENCE 3 For many this is a difficult and beautiful question because no What Is Your Watson? one has ever asked it. The inner challenges to find your Watson and then create a concrete proposal that turns your dream into a Brian Pertl ’86, Dean of the Conservatory of Music, Watson Fellow viable plan of action is as daunting as crossing the Gobi desert or and Lawrence Liaison for the Watson Program battling homesickness in Namibia. This process of discovery is The whole premise seems impossible—a magical fellowship where the magic of the Watson resides. If done right, a student’s that provides enough money for lucky recipients to chase around life will be changed long before the official Watson selections are the globe for an entire year following their dreams. Oh, and it will announced. The world celebrates the chosen few who officially most likely change the course of your life. No big deal. receive the fellowship. I celebrate every one of the hundreds Actually, a very big deal. The Thomas J. Watson Fellowship of applicants who have dreamed big, opened themselves up to is very real and has been changing lives for 50 years. Thirty- endless possibilities, and have found themselves forever changed four years ago, it changed mine. My dream was to explore the by the experience. Australian Aboriginal didjeridu and Tibetan Buddhist sacred So, dear reader, what is your Watson? music. I would travel to Australia, China, Nepal and India as I pursued this dream. When I received the letter telling “I ended up writing a guidebook to the roughly Steven Licata ’75 spent his Watson year me I was chosen to be a Watson Fellow, 70 museums that I visited over the course of 18 studying attitudes to competitive sport in I was thrilled, but I had no idea what months…. The self-direction and organization that his project “The Ethos of Sport: People’s challenges and rewards this year would I had to exercise and develop has been critical to Attitudes Towards Competition in a Socialist present. I left thinking that this would my success in science.” Country” in East Germany, West Germany, be a wonderful year of adventure before England and Italy. His time with the Watson embarking on my career as an orchestral —CAROL ARNOSTI ’84 studied maritime traditions Foundation did not end there—he served a trombonist. in Northern Europe, Scandinavia, France, the United two-year stint as director of the foundation When I landed in Australia, I had Kingdom and Germany. She is now a professor in the from 1989–1991. He is an assistant district still never heard a didjeridu, let alone Department of Marine Sciences at the University of attorney for Milwaukee County. played one, and my first exposure to North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Lawrence can be very proud that they Tibetan Buddhism was the day I walked have been in the Watson program from into the Johkang Temple in Lhasa, its inception. The amazing thing about the Watson fellowship is Tibet. This journey of discovery could fill a book, and it has that the foundation isn’t really funding the project; it’s funding the somehow managed to fill a life—mine. My experiences working individual, asking the question, “Will this individual benefit from with musicians from such vastly different music cultures and studying this particular topic at this moment in their life?” my immersion in those traditions left me wanting to learn more This ethos came from Thomas Watson Jr. I was the last Brian Pertl ’86 plays a didjeridu for community members as part of the Mile of Music Education Team. about music traditions from around the world. director who would go to his office at IBM headquarters and meet Upon my return, dreams of playing trombone professionally with him. He wanted young Americans in all different fields to faded. Instead, I pursued degrees in ethnomusicology, focusing have potential for leadership, and he felt that they would be much his year marks the 50th anniversary “Watson’s mission is to work with our incredible The requirements are simple on their on Tibetan sacred music and Australian Aboriginal didjeridu better leaders if they had a different perspective on American life T traditions. Here is where my Watson year turned into my Watson of the Thomas J. Watson Fellowship, partner institutions to expand the vision and face: spend a year abroad— gained from having lived for a very intense period of time for a life. In 1990, Microsoft called asking me to record a didjeridu track “a one-year grant for purposeful, develop the potential of our next generation of no return to the U.S. allowed— full year outside the U.S. for a CD-ROM (a new technology no one had ever seen). This independent exploration outside the leaders,” says Executive Director of the Watson immersing yourself in other cultures turned into a position as an audio editor, which led to a 16-year United States.” Foundation Chris Kasabach. “The Watson and your passion project. But being set Micha Jackson ’07 studied marine resources and conservation Fellowship application provides students with the career at Microsoft. In 2007, after being asked to play a didjeridu The Watson emphasizes small loose in the world at 22 is a powerful across cultures and under different governmental systems during opportunity to build an international blueprint for recital at Lawrence, my mentor, Professor of Jazz Studies Fred a Watson year that took her to Oman, Australia and Palau. She liberal arts colleges, and Lawrence has thing; it forces you to be independent, their deepest interests, biggest ideas, and best Sturm, asked me to apply for the Conservatory’s open dean now lives in Australia and is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of been a Watson partner college since the self-sufficient and self-directed. You selves—and go after it.” position. Looking back, every major career opportunity was Queensland, Australia. inception of the fellowship. Its roots with contend with who you are, with your inextricably tied to the didjeridu and the Watson. Assisting with marine fieldwork at Sultan Qaboos University the program run deep: in those 50 years, understanding of self and metrics of For the last nine years, I have been the Lawrence liaison for in Oman, campaigning for stronger marine parks in Australia Lawrence has produced 73 fellows who have visited more than 60 success and purpose. It is powerful and liberating, transformative the Watson; I have the singular opportunity to help others along and camping on remote islands with the Bureau of Marine countries studying topics ranging from urban planning to refugee and challenging. the journey that had such a profound impact on me. It lets me Resources team in Palau all helped to cement in me a passion policy to vocal performance and more. Two Lawrentians have Lawrence reached out to our Watson fellows. Many responded encourage students to dream big. It is amazing how few of us for field-based research and a love for coastal environments. served as director of the program, Steven Licata ’75 and Beverly almost immediately with incredible stories and powerful give ourselves permission to dream big—really big. I give every The design of the Watson program also fueled my desire to prospective Watson the same thought experiment: if you could Larson ’83, as did former Professor of Classics Daniel Arnaud.. testimonials of how the Watson has shaped their lives far beyond keep travelling to new places and experiencing diverse cultures. wake up tomorrow with no obligations for the next year—no Spend some time speaking with Watson Fellows, and certain the year they spent on their fellowship. Following my Watson year, I moved to Australia and have called homework, no practicing, no job, no required reading—what themes begin to emerge across topic, geography and generation. would you do? Where would you go? What would you dive into?

4 FALL 2019 LAWRENCE 5 now the principal of the Youngblood Group, a consultancy that uses anthropology and human-centered design to imagine new solutions to our biggest challenges related to the environment, social justice and human equality. My plan was to spend the summer half of the year traveling with nomadic camel herding people in the blazing hot Sahara Desert in northern Sudan and the winter half of the year above the Arctic Circle with native Greenlanders. I wanted to explore firsthand how these societies had adapted for survival in supremely unforgiving climates with very limited natural resources for food and raw material. The year went mostly to plan but, as with most Watsons, I encountered barriers and reality checks that kept me continuously reinventing the project. For instance, after a few months of false starts and mishaps in Sudan Mike Youngblood ’87 with his camel; he spent time with Bedouin people in the Sinai Peninsula. (including a very near miss in a hotel bombing), I shifted to Egypt occupational health and public health. I’ve really come full for the remainder of my desert phase, where I bought a camel Micha Jackson ’07 releases a critically endangered Hawksbill turtle. Jack Canfield ’14 playing a recording of BaAkan yodeling back to the performer, circle. I started my Watson looking at health promotion in the and spent time among Bedouin people in the Sinai Peninsula. Jenga, in Republic of Congo. workplace, albeit not from a legal standpoint. I went to law school Over the course of the year, I came to view my host communities focusing on health law. Now I’ve bound those interests in law and it home ever since. For seven years, I was privileged to work with Watson provided me with experience of freedom, of what it means in a very different way. I went into the year romanticizing their occupational health to create essentially a new practice area I call Indigenous rangers across remote coastal northern Australia on to be wholly responsible not just for the shape of each day but for isolation but increasingly grew to understand how deeply their wellness law. I speak nationally. I’ve written a book. land management and conservation projects. Following this truly the arc of one’s life. cultures and livelihoods were disrupted by pressures from amazing experience, I decided to undertake my Ph.D., researching the wider world around them. This stuck with me and laid a avid Worley ’88 turned his life-long passion for distance running the conservation of coastal waterbirds and their wetland habitats. ack Canfield’s ’14 Watson project, “Soul Songs: The World Sung foundation for my Ph.D. dissertation work on social movements D J into a year-long study in Norway, Kenya and Finland looking at the This has involved extended stays in China and Singapore and into Being,” saw him nearly circumnavigating the globe, traveling a few years later and my more recent book on a large social cultural conditions of countries that had attendance at meetings, conferences, forums and fieldwork all to Republic of Congo, Russia, Norway, Australia and Papua movement in India. This also continues “The year was not just about studying this subject produced successful distance runners. He is over the world. The confidence, passion and desire to pursue this New Guinea. This fall, he is starting a master’s of music in voice to influence my current consulting in great London libraries, or touring recently built now a medical doctor in family practice in lifestyle was absolutely developed during my Watson year, which performance at Indiana University. work on issues such as community collections of buildings, parks and places of work. Duluth, Minn. and director of health services planted the seeds for most of my future endeavors and changed What makes the fellowship special—and what I found development, criminal justice reform It was mainly about learning from and admiring at the University of Minnesota-Duluth. the course of my life in ways I could not valuable—is its focus on independence and homelessness. “[In Paris,] I studied singing daily with the those planners who were driven to make life on a have imagined on graduation day! and freedom. It’s a rare opportunity To this day, I think about my Watson esteemed voice teacher, Pierre Bernac. It changed grand scale better for others.” when a person (at 22 or 23!) is given a arbara Zabawa ’93 studied health experience and the ways it still impacts everything for me.” B Mark A. R. Facknitz ’72 deferred mandate to follow their own whims (and care policy in the U.K., Sweden and —JEFF MARTIN ’74 examined how citizens my life. I have a continued desire to travel Netherlands. She has continued her and learn about cultures other than my his Watson for a year after receiving a —ELISABETH VAN INGEN STEWARD ’75 only their own) to the ends of the earth participate in new town planning in England and Fulbright-Hays award. His plans to explore for one complete year. At times, it was passion for health care and is now own. I’d hardly been outside the Midwest explored the world of opera, traveling to some of the Scandinavia and the creation of “modern utopias.” Francophone literature in Africa changed overwhelming and very painful. But boy, Attorney President of the Center for before I embarked on my Watson, and it great opera houses in Europe and spent significant over the course of his time in France due to was it liberating. I designed my project Health and Wellness Law and a clinical He is now a partner at the law firm of Hunton was so eye-opening to be immersed in time in Paris studying vocal performance. She sang a drought in the Sahara and the twists and to expose my personal boundaries and assistant professor at University of Andrews Kurth in Washington, D.C. a rich and unfamiliar cultural experience. turns of fate. He is recently retired after 40 professionally and is now a senior consultant with the to give myself the opportunity to lean Wisconsin-Milwaukee. I think about how fortunate I was to be years of teaching and is professor emeritus Heller Fundraising Group. right into them. The singing focus was I think back on my Watson year all the time. I remember the welcomed into the places I went. I’ve tried to adopt this in my own of English at James Madison University. the road map, the vehicle and the goal. In whole year as being wonderful, but it was that moment when I life, hosting people looking for a place to stay for a week or two. I I was a Watson recipient in 1972; that same year the draft striving to find—and integrate into—singing communities, I was opened the envelope standing in Kohler Hall and found out I got also learned how to be more assertive and be more independent— lottery stopped four numbers short of sending me to sunny pushed up against my own limitations and brought face to face the fellowship that I find myself reflecting on. It was a surreal for me at that age was a big deal. You realize your own ability to Vietnam. [I]n my dank basement room in Dijon I became addicted with my own voice and my own song. moment of “this is actually happening!” It was scary, it was handle more than you think you can. to fat novels. Above all John Dos Passos. The African sun dimmed I remember being really wrung out after my time with exciting, it was truly awesome. I felt so alive in that moment. I remember my last day in Kenya. I spent the majority of as I looked deep into the shadows of being American. As it the BaAka in the Congo. From that experience, I learned how I knew I wanted to work in health care while at Lawrence. my time at St. Patrick’s High School, which is the epicenter of happened, family crisis took me to India for several months. Then far I was willing to go in order to reach a goal. I’m not sure My Watson reinforced my passion for preventive care and health running in Kenya. That last day, I had the opportunity to race I spent time in Paris. Months. And there was some Switzerland, that everyone is given the opportunity to really experience promotion, but I was also able to widen my scope and look at 5K against many of the students who were part of my project Germany and Austria in there. My wanderjahr was definitely a their absolute limit—and they may not need to. But I am occupational health. It was foundational and carries through to and who I was living with. We trained together and talked about wandering, but not entirely aimless. I followed romance to San grateful that I was given that chance, and it was central to my what I do today. I spent time in the U.K. meeting with medical the mentality of being a distance runner. I had that shared race Juan Téotihuacan in Mexico and climbed the Pyramid of the Sun, Watson experience. It has since framed my life with a different officers for major corporations like BP learning about company experience with these runners. It was amazing—and it had and just off the courtyard where the fig tree was letting loose its perspective. health programs. In Sweden, I worked at the Public Health nothing to do with where I finished in that race. It turns out that fruits, plump and oozing, to plop onto the tiles, I spent fervent Institute and learned more about how the Swedish health care I ran against future Olympians, including Matthew Birir who won weeks typing on yellow paper an ‘experimental’ novel … I tried Mike Youngblood ’87 spent his Watson year in a comparative system values employees. In the Netherlands, I met with people a gold medal for the steeplechase in 1992. It’s a very special thing to put behind me the notion that I had wasted my Watson. The study of cultural adaptation to extremely harsh environments. He is who were working with HIV positive sex workers. to know that I had that relationship with him, that I’d grown to I had such a varied exposure to preventive health, know him and some of his family. 6 FALL 2019 LAWRENCE 7 be truly essential in my own life is the unique ability music has to bring people together and to support and encourage challenging discourse. The opportunity to see who I am in these different contexts, many very uncomfortable, and to process my privilege in such a powerful way are things that I am deeply grateful for.

Emily Copeland ’83 was awarded both a Fulbright and a Watson. She traveled the globe from Washington, D.C. to Switzerland to Sudan, studying refugee relief from both a policy and field perspective. She earned her Ph.D. at the Fletcher School of Diplomacy and now teaches political science and international relations at Bryant University. The Watson did a lot of things, but professionally, it broke that cycle of “how do I hire you with no experience?” and “how do I get experience if you won’t hire me?” I was interested in NGOs working with refugees and the connection between what

they were saying they did and what was really happening on the Valeria Rojas-Infantas ’08 at the Floreo Festival in Iquique, Chile. This year's Watson Fellow, Meghan Murphy ’19. ground. I traveled overland from Egypt to Sudan, and at the time, one of the big refugee flows in Africa was Ethiopians fleeing “bearded one”—I had grown this scraggly beard. That year of freedom famine and civil war. There was a big emergency relief program changed me. I returned to attend grad school, but it no longer felt WATSON AND BEYOND going on with older refugee populations who had been there for like it fit, so I decided not to continue on that path and spent years years and the influx of newer populations of refugees. I worked sailing and delivering boats along the West Coast and Great Lakes. The Watson is far from the only prestigious fellowship with Doctors Without Borders (MSF) and also the United Nations I then spent some time as a professional paddling guide before earned by Lawrentians. Just this year, five students have High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). I was hired to head leaving the industry and working for the City of Madison. Now, after earned nationally competitive fellowships. up a local survey team to establish malnutrition in the refugee the birth of my twin daughters five years ago, I am returning to the The national fellowships include another Watson fellow, camps. It was life-altering—there’s no substitute for practical paddling life—just this year, I opened my own business and named it Meghan Murphy ’19. Right now, her plans will take her to Sam Genualdi ’17 and his teacher, Nharira, playing mbira in Chimoio, experience. I remember reading about one “model” organization, Umingmaq—my Watson experience is with me every day. Mozambique. Note from Sam: “Nharira passed away this year of what was but when I got to Sudan, UNHCR and other aid folks were quite India, Norway, Azerbaijan, Ireland and Mexico to explore likely malaria; he was not yet 40. Malaria is still the number one cause of death in Mozambique and other developing nations.” frustrated because that organization hadn’t adapted to rapidly Valeria Rojas-Infantas ’08 traveled in Argentina, Chile, Bolivia and musical traditions that incorporate violins and violin-like changed conditions. I got real insight into the politics of aid. Ecuador for her project, “Ethnic Discrimination and Social Exclusion in instruments. Latin America.” She is now starting a new job in the Office of District Lawrence also continues its success with the Fulbright am Genualdi ’17 traveled to Scotland, Armenia, Peru, Brazil, atthew Magolan ’97 spent his Watson year in the Canadian S M Planning for the Department of Education of New York City. program. Milou (Emmylou) de Meij ’19 is the 58th Mozambique, Japan and Indonesia studying the deep musical Arctic with his project “A Year on Hudson Bay: Kayaking and the I was born and raised in Peru, where there is a lot of Lawrentian to receive Fulbright honors. She will work traditions in those countries and engaging in cross-cultural dialogue Discovery of Inuit Culture.” After 12 years working for the City of discrimination. I’m mestizo and experienced discrimination in as an English teaching assistant in Latvia as part of the through collaborative music-making. He is currently serving as long- Madison, he recently opened his own paddling shop and touring various ways myself. I really wanted to understand the roots of it, term resident musician in the center in Oxford, Wis. dig deep and understand why. I never imagined I’d go on a Fulbright U.S. Student Program. Lawrence also landed wilderness community of Holden “My Watson year was one of the most fantastic and clearly life- My experience shaped the sabbatical year like the Watson—in Peru, the path is pretty clear: on a prestigious list of U.S. colleges and universities that Village, Wash., and working on his changing experiences I could have had, and at the same time a arc of my entire life. I’d always go to university, get a master’s and get a job. produced the most Fulbright students in 2018–19. second album. been fascinated by stories of ridiculously implausible way for a 22-year-old (young!) man to The Watson gave me the opportunity to really get to know Margot (Margaret) Wulfsberg ’19 was awarded a Of the many lessons begin to form impressions of the way the working world really Norwegian explorers and their myself. There were moments when I would be doing something like Critical Language Scholarship to study Chinese in learned throughout the year, works.” reliance on traditional methods herding goats that would have been unimaginable just a year before. Changchun, China. one that I treasure most deeply in their Arctic explorations. I never thought my journey would take me to so many places and DAVID JONES ’71 spent his Watson year in England and Wales Willa Dworschack ’20 is the recipient of the Barry is having had the opportunity I decided to paddle up the help me meet so many people, people who I’m still in touch with 10 immersing himself in Anglo-Welsh literature. After a career in to experience first-hand such Hudson Bay and live with years later. My Watson topic wasn’t light, but there was a beauty in Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education varied lifestyles lived through journalism, he is now the managing editor of the journal, RHINO: local Inuit communities in it. I learned so many things. I learned about intercultural bilingual Foundation award in physics and astronomy. She is one of music. There are as many ways The Poetry Forum. the Arctic. I remember my education [a language model designed to assert space for indigenous 496 undergraduates across the country being honored for to live as a musician as there are family had to sign a waiver language and culture in education—ed.]. I ended up being part of a their studies in math and science fields. musicians, and that, I think, has been immensely important in far above and beyond the usual because the foundation was so committee for a congress in Latin America and met so many leaders Hayoung Seo ’19 will be pursuing a master’s degree in aiding me to find my own path as a musician (and human being). concerned about the safety of my plan. A knee injury changed who opened up my mind. China Studies with a focus on Confucianism with the help Especially having grown up in the cultural context of the United my itinerary, so I flew north but did end up paddling back south Taking a year to do something like the Watson? Nobody I knew States, with very specific metrics for “success,” it was profound, at the end of my year. I was naïve in a way—I had no idea how had done something like this. Now I try to find time for discovery of her Yenching Academy Fellowship, which covers a full year for example, to study Tsugaru Shamisen in Aomori, Japan, from modernization was harming these communities. People I cared and getting outside of my comfort zone, which is not something of graduate study at Yenching Academy of Peking University a master of the instrument, who also happens to be an apple about struggled with depression, suicide and addiction. But I would have even thought about if it weren’t for the Watson. ■ in China. farmer. I was forced to contend with difficult questions on a daily my time there was also incredibly positive. I studied soapstone basis about my own identity and aspirations. What I have found to carving with one of the masters. I fished and I hunted. I earned the nickname “Umingmaq.” It means musk ox but translates as 8 FALL 2019 LAWRENCE 9 BREATHE: A MULTI-DISCIPLINARY WATER OPERA

There were opera singers and percussionists, trumpets, a cello, of really great musicianship available and people who are really even a flute. There were dancers and a keyboardist and a bass excited to try something different, you find there is a curiosity player. Tuxedos were worn. there,” Dempster said. But there was a twist. There were more than 20 performers in the cast including Wilke Photo credit: Paul The stage? A fully functioning swimming pool. students from the college and conservatory, athletes—including Welcome to Breathe: a multi-disciplinary water opera, staged a diver—and professional dancers from the community. at Lawrence in March. “It very much has the effect of performance art,” says The mastermind behind Breathe is Gabriel Forestieri, a Dempster. “We wear our tuxedos and get in the water. There are Boston-based choreographer and director who teamed with always these different things happening. It evolves into a thing Lawrence Conservatory instructor Loren Kiyoshi Dempster, the with singers and percussionists and trumpet players.” composer and musical director for the production, two years ago Some instruments hit the pool, like a hydrophone and box to stage the water opera at Middlebury College in Vermont. An cello, and others were played from the deck. There was even invitation from Margaret Sunghe Paek, an instructor of dance in a kayak in one scene. Almost every cast member ended up in the Lawrence Conservatory of Music and curator of the Lawrence the water at some point, and the entire pool was basked in Dance Series, brought the magic to the Buchanan-Kiewit dramatic lighting. Wellness Center. Breathe certainly made a splash—the production ended “I saw the video of them in the water,” Paek said. “I said, up going viral. Local news coverage turned into hits on news ‘We need to bring that here to Lawrence. We need to bring some round-ups and social media shares around the world. version of that here.’ With the Conservatory here and the wealth

Robert Schleifer (standing) and the cast of Mass. BREAKING SOUND BARRIERS Performers Gabriel Forestieri and Loren Kiyoshi Dempster (laying down with the cello) in the Wellness Center pool during Breathe. By Ed Berthiaume INNOVATION AND OPERATICS Photo credit: Ken Cobb Opera and innovations went hand-in-hand for Lawrence this year, from sign language to a watery stage to grappling with national issues. Take a look at three productions that created groundbreaking art.

MASS That speaks to the addition of Schleifer’s Deaf character, a statement on the difficulties we have in communicating when ideological The much-anticipated production of Leonard Bernstein’s Mass by differences come between us, be it political, religious or otherwise. Lawrence’s Opera Theatre Ensemble, led by award-winning Director of “It is rare—even at the national level—for a signed opera to be produced Opera Studies and Associate Professor of Music Copeland Woodruff, and performed,” Woodruff said. “The majority of our area’s theatre-going incorporated a Deaf character played by professional Deaf actor Robert public would not ordinarily experience this type of performance. Mass will Schleifer and sign language performance. open dialogues about faith and inclusion to our community.” “My inspiration was two-fold—the obvious metaphor of our current It was a chance to talk about our often jumbled and conflicting faith society, where people have a difficult time listening to one another, and journeys and the barriers that keep us from communicating effectively. the inclusion of community members who might not necessarily attend “It gives people a touchpoint around which to come together,” The Julie an opera,” Woodruff said. Esch Hurvis Dean of Spiritual Life Linda Morgan-Clement said. American Sign Language (ASL) and Pidgin Signed English (PSE) For Schleifer, the blending of opera with sign language is powerful were used throughout the production. Twenty-one members of the student and moving. ensemble spent weeks learning to communicate in sign language. “Bernstein’s Mass project has been both a challenging and awesome “Distinctive productions like Mass provide students with a rich experience,” he said, “from the sound of the music itself and the abstract educational opportunity to practice being a singer-actor, hone full-bodied concepts portrayed through tone and inflection, which I cannot hear, communication skills, as well as develop appreciation and respect for relying on facial and body cues, figuring how to match American Sign the experience of others,” Woodruff said. “We hope that students will Language with operatic language, to the awesome collaboration with learn that the arts can be a powerful vehicle for personal and societal Copeland and Kris [Kristine Orkin, a local interpreter for the deaf], who awareness and change.” helped me understand the complexities of poetic language, appreciate the culture of opera, and together watch the beautiful magic unfold.” 10 FALL 2019 LAWRENCE 11 ,

Derrell Acon ’10 (center) and his castmates in The Central Park Five sing in unison. Photo provided by Acon. CENTRAL PARK FIVE Derrell Acon ’10 stood shoulder to shoulder in June with Antron “I think a lot about the rehearsal process, tending to all McCray, one of the five New York City teenagers—now men in of these emotions, letting them out, having a lot of beautiful their 40s—wrongly convicted in the 1989 rape and beating of a discussions with my colleagues, especially the five of us in the Central Park jogger. lead roles.” The Lawrence alumnus was days away from performing Ten months ago, Acon relocated to southern California and as McCray in The Central Park Five, an operatic retelling of the connected immediately with the Long Beach Opera. The casting emotionally charged criminal case being performed in an opera for The Central Park Five was just getting started. house in southern California. An ACLU luncheon brought Acon, “I sang for them and was invited to join the cast,” Acon said. his castmates, and the five men they’d be portraying into the same He was working with people he didn’t know while immersing room for the first time. himself in the West Coast arts scene. He jumped into the mix “It gave me a little more weight in terms of the responsibility as the opera company’s manager of education and engagement, I had to give an accurate picture to the audience and to be true to organizing and facilitating community conversations in the how I explored and continue to explore that character,” Acon said months leading up to the opening of The Central Park Five. of meeting McCray. “The key word is community,” Acon says. “The arts have Raising the Bar The Central Park Five story is getting plenty of renewed this ability to create a community. You may not always agree attention on the heels of the recent release of Ava DuVernay’s with the topic being put forth, but you are put in a position Netflix mini-series, When They See Us, the intense retelling of the of contemplation, of consideration, and that is a communal 50 Years of the VR By Ed Berthiaume case that dominated headlines 30 years ago. While the Netflix experience. Having the community of the opera house and the series is getting the bulk of the attention, the jazz-infused opera guidance of the voices and actors on stage may be enough to spark The Viking Room, a cherished on-campus hangout for but it didn’t serve alcohol until the first beer was tapped on production from composer Anthony Davis—more than three the conversation and the courage needed to really dig into some of generations of students, is carved deeply into the history March 7, 1969. years in the making and separate from the DuVernay series—has these topics.” of Lawrence University. Mark Catron ’69 remembers it well. He was one of the drawn its fair share of looks as well, including from The New York Acon, who serves on the Lawrence Board of Trustees as a Literally. original student bartenders, pouring beers during his senior year Times and The Los Angeles Times. Recent Graduate Trustee, earned multiple regional and national The names of students past and present cover the tables while soaking in the night life as “Bad Moon Rising” and “Sugar, “I wasn’t really anticipating any particular response,” Acon honors as a student and already has more than two dozen operatic and booths, carved with affection, a metaphor of sorts for the Sugar” blasted from the speakers. said after getting an enthusiastic welcome on opening night. roles on his resume. deep bonds that alumni have with the place best known as the “The response was overwhelming. It was terrific,” said “I was more aware of my own responses, understanding that it Ten months after landing in southern California, Acon said VR. Tucked in the lower level of Memorial Hall, it has served as Catron, who visited the VR in early June while back on campus would be a very emotional process for me. As a young black man he feels like he’s found his artistic groove. The work with Long a gathering place for students of drinking age—and faculty and for his 50th class reunion. “People would come in after their in America, you know, a lot of these topics are very close to my Beach Opera is just the start of some promising things. staff—for five decades. afternoon classes and sit around and talk and have a beer or study. own experience, and these struggles are very mirrored in my “I’m excited to see what comes next,” he said. “I’ve got a lot of The VR, as it is affectionately known, is celebrating its “Fridays and Saturdays were very, very popular. There would own life. opportunities, and they keep coming in. It’s very encouraging.” 50th year as a bar. It had long existed as an on-campus lounge, be dances and a lot of music.”

12 FALL 2019 LAWRENCE 13 ABOVE: Students gather in the Viking Room in the 1960s. VR SIGNATURE DRINKS In addition to a pretty darn good selection of drafts, the VR also offers a couple of signature drinks. You can make a Lawrentian or an Honor Code for your next cocktail party!

THE LAWRENTIAN 1 shot of coconut rum

1 shot of blue curacao

Sprite and sour mix

Serve on the rocks with or without an umbrella.

THE HONOR CODE 1 shot of gin

1 shot of lime vodka

Half grapefruit juice

Half Sprite

Top with grenadine

Serve on the rocks.

the VR implored faculty and staff to increase their use of the bar, either as their own hangout or as an alternative classroom space. “Keep in mind that the room is large, we play tapes upon request, and that our stereo does have a volume control if the music proves to be too loud,” the memo read. “Simply put, we would enjoy seeing more faculty and administrators using the VR on a regular basis, whether you choose to drink or not.” ABOVE: Mark Catron ’69 and Jake Yingling ’20 step behind the Viking Room bar during Reunion 2019. Thirty years on, some faculty and staff continue to heed Mark was one of the first bartenders at the VR; Jake is a current student bartender. those words. And some jump in as guest bartenders, a long VR tradition. THE TIMES THEY ARE A-CHANGIN’ a lot of change going on, a lot of people questioning the way bartender’s license, she said the workers there told her she was The VR has gone through numerous changes in its things had always been.” the first woman in the city to be licensed as a bartender. When Lawrence successfully sought a city liquor license and management structure over the years. Presently, the bar is Introducing a bar on campus amid all that, well, that was “I kind of got a giggle out of that at the time,” she said. remade the VR into a bar, it was new territory. Not many college again managed by students, with oversight from Greg Griffin, either going to prove to be genius or crazy, Catron said. “It was fun to do because it was different and nobody else campuses featured their own bar. The drinking age was 18 at the director of the Warch Campus Center. “From the administration point, maybe it was a sort of was doing it. I was just me. I was just Susan. I was doing it time, which meant most every student was a potential customer. Jake Yingling ’20 frequents the VR with friends and works experiment to see if the students were capable of handling it in because it was fun.” It arrived at a time when college campuses were hotbeds for bartending shifts as a student worker. While he understands a responsible way,” he said. “I never had the impression there social change and political demonstrations. There was no shortage the crowds in the VR may be smaller now than in the ’70s and was ever any doubt about that. But I’m sure there had to be some A NEW DYNAMIC of talking points in the spring of ’69 as students gathered in the ’80s, there are still nights when the place is hopping. And he questions among the adults in the room. VR. While the VR remains a big part of campus life 50 years later, appreciates it being on campus. “This was the same time we were occupying the dean’s office. “The four years I was here, there were terrific changes in much has changed from its heyday in those early years. When “The busier nights are the better nights,” he said. Lots of challenges were going on from a social standpoint. . . . powers, dormitory living and arrangements,” Catron said. “And Wisconsin’s drinking age increased to 19 in 1984 and then 21 in “Now being 21, I can come here to do work, I can hang out The campus was different when we left from when we arrived, clearly, this was part of the liberalization of the campus. Between 1986, the dynamic in the VR changed, with much of the student with friends. It’s a good place to kind of hang out and relax.” and the bar was just part of that change.” the time we came and the time we left, there was a lot of turmoil, body no longer old enough to legally drink. Five decades worth of alumni would raise a glass to that. Susan Jasin ’69 was another of the original student The VR managers began to more actively market the bar bartenders. When she went to Appleton City Hall to get her 14 FALL 2019 to faculty and staff. A 1988 memo from the then-managers of LAWRENCE 15 IN A TIME WHEN COMMUNITY IS SUCH A SCARCE COMMODITY AND PEOPLE OF DIFFERENT BACKGROUNDS AND VIEWS ARE LIKELY TO ARGUE, COMPETE OR IGNORE EACH OTHER, YOU CAME Commencement 2019 TOGETHER TO LEARN, TO CELEBRATE AND TO STRUGGLE, AS ONE COMMUNITY, WITH THE ISSUES THAT FACE LAWRENCE, THIS COUNTRY AND THE WORLD.”—PRESIDENT MARK BURSTEIN

I’D BEEN PAINTING MYSELF INTO A CORNER OF SERIOUSNESS IN ORDER TO KEEP FAILURE AT BAY. DON’T DO THAT. LET JOY AND SPONTANEITY EXIST SIDE BY SIDE. DON’T LET FEAR OF FAILURE KILL YOUR JOY.”—HONORARY DEGREE RECIPIENT AND SPEAKER LEE CHEMEL ’65 For more on the ceremony, including photos and videos of the day’s speeches, visit go.lawrence.edu/grad19.

Faculty Marshal Kathy Privatt led 351 graduates across College Avenue for the 170th Commencement, an outdoor ceremony replete with pomp, circumstance and tradition—along with a colorful assortment of umbrellas and rain gear. A light but steady rain did nothing to dampen the enthusiasm of what David Blowers ’82, chair of the Board of Trustees, called the “high point of the academic year.”

Provost Katie Kodat and President Mark Burstein join this year’s faculty award winners. FROM L TO R: Katie Kodat; Associate Professor of Flute Erin Lesser (Excellence in Teaching Award); Walter Schober Professor of Environmental Studies and Professor of Geology Marcia BjØrnerud (Excellence in Scholarship or Creative Activity Award); Director of Jazz Studies José Encarnación(Excellent Teaching by an Early Career Faculty Member Award); and Mark Burstein.

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STAGE AND SCREEN: LEE SHALLAT CHEMEL ’65 DELIVERS 2019 COMMENCEMENT ADDRESS

Lee Shallat Chemel ’65 has forged an impressive career as a pressure at the time to start hiring women. You can see how far director in theatre and television, working behind the scenes that got after 35 years. on some of TV’s most iconic shows. She returned to Lawrence as the 2019 Commencement speaker, ready to impart insight So, after almost 10 years [at South Coast Repertory], I just quit. and wisdom drawn from a professional career that she says has I had no idea if this was going to take me anywhere or whether everything to do with her liberal arts education. An excerpted I would succeed or not. I just moved up to L.A. and started Q&A with Chemel appears below: observing on Family Ties…

ON HER EARLY MENTORS IN THEATRE AT LAWRENCE, I had the support of knowing that I was educated. And that DAVID MAYER III AND TED CLOAK: sounds weird, but it was actually quite significant to me that I “I really believe that because of David Mayer and Ted Cloak, I knew things. I knew I could analyze a script, I knew that I could found that theater was more than I thought it was. I really loved understand things. I could communicate well, I understood tone, it although I still didn’t buy the idea of it as a career at that point. I understood people. I was older than a lot of people who start. So, But I became much closer to that idea. Lawrence opened my eyes I had lived some life, too. And these were the things that buoyed completely to the richness of the arts, particularly the theater and me up during these very tough times.” the film arts. It was remarkable what an influence it had on me.” ON MURPHY BROWN: ON MAKING THE TRANSITION FROM MILWAUKEE- “Murphy Brown was certainly a big jump up for me. That’s when DOWNER TO LAWRENCE: my agent finally talked somebody into getting me onto what you’d “I was only at Lawrence for one year. But it was a year that was call a real major show. And once I had Murphy Brown under my packed with amazing things for me. Downer was a very good belt, that got me an Emmy nomination, and, all of a sudden, school in that the professors there were kind of radical. . . . They I was kind of accepted. I was brought into the club, I guess you were sharp people. They radicalized me politically. Got me could say.” involved in the Civil Rights movement. Linus Pauling came to talk with us, Upton Sinclair. It was amazingly rich for a tiny, tiny ON WHETHER LAST YEAR’S SERIES FINALE OF THE school. But Lawrence took that and just broadened it—everything MIDDLE MEANS THE END OF HER CAREER: became broadened and deepened.” “I got to be full-time on that for nine years, and we all became a family. That was a wonderful experience. I did the pilot for a ON EMBRACING AND THRIVING AS A THEATRE spinoff from The Middle this fall, with the Sue character. It didn’t DIRECTOR, EARNING FIVE L.A. DRAMA CRITICS AWARDS get picked up. I wrote a note to my agents and said, I’m not dead ALONG THE WAY: yet. But I don’t know. I feel maybe it’s time to give back again and “It all happened through my education in a way. If I hadn’t had do some other things. I’m at a crossroads, but I’ll see what comes the background of this liberal arts education I wouldn’t have up next season.” been able to make a living doing the teaching [acting] part while I searched for what finally struck home for me—the directing.” ON RETURNING TO LAWRENCE WHILE NOT KNOWING WHAT COMES NEXT: ON TURNING TO TV DIRECTING IN THE MID-1980s: “I’m like the graduates in a way. What am I going to do now? “That was another leap. I’d done some good directing, a lot of I just want to be open to stuff. I feel like I am in an interesting directing, to the point where in L.A., I had a little bit of a name. place in my life.” There weren’t a lot of women directing in theater then. [Producer Joe Stern] said, Gary Goldberg has this new show called Family To read the full Q&A, including insights on Chemel’s working Ties. He’s looking for a woman director because there was some relationships with television icons like Jason Bateman, Michael J. Fox and Lauren Graham, visit go.lawrence.edu/chemel.

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REUNION 2019

Alumni Award winners from L to R: Chuck Merry ’57 (Presidential Award), Jaime Nodarse Barrera ’05 (The Marshall B. Hulbert ’26 Young Alumni Outstanding Service Award), Joseph F. Patterson ’69 (The Gertrude Breithaupt Jupp M-D’18 Outstanding Service Award), Todd A. Mahr ’79 (The George B. Walter ’36 Service to Society Award), Zoe Ganos M-D’55 (Jupp Award) and Elizabeth R. Benson ’69 (The Lucia Russell Briggs Distinguished Achievement Award). Not pictured: Momodu E. Maligi ’04 (Nathan M. Pusey Young Alumni Distinguished Achievement Award). Know alumni deserving of recognition? Let us know by nominating them for an Alumni Award. Visit go.lawrence.edu/nominate. REUNION Cooler than expected temperatures and sporadic rains didn’t rain out the fun at Reunion 2019! Performances at Memorial Chapel, alumni award presentations and plenty of social opportunities kept things festive.

REUNION FACTS AND FIGURES

alumni, family and friends 1,054 Classes from 1949–2019

44 states 2,752 meals

countries raised 10 $13M

volunteers Alumni Awards 104 7

20 FALL 2019 unique events June Marinelle McCotter M-D led theLAWRENCE parade of classes21 91 ’49 SPRING BREAK SPRINGBOARDS INSIDE LAWRENCE Lawrentians travelled the country over this year’s spring break for rich and engaging career and service opportunities.

VICTORIOUS By Daniel Green ’20

As part of this year’s Presto tour, a group of Conservatory students traveled to Houston for a week of musicmaking and community engagement, culminating in a performance at Houston’s MATCH arts center. One of the highlights of the trip was time spent in the Beat Lab at Workshop Houston, a SPRING BREAK: SILICON VALLEY youth development agency and neighborhood resource that Lawrentians had the opportunity to get an insider’s look at Silicon Valley with the annual “Shadow Silicon Valley Trek” organized by uses a hands-on, arts-based educational philosophy. Daniel the Center for Career, Life and Community Engagement. From Green ’20, one of the Presto students, shares his reflection on this transformative experience. Daniel Green ’20 records Victorious during the Presto tour. networking with alumni and meeting with recruiters to getting an Photo: Garrett Katerzynske in-depth look at some of the top companies in tech, students had The vibe of our creative space in the Beat Lab at Workshop a powerful career-focused spring break experience. Houston wasn’t unfamiliar to me, though it was my first LYRICS TO “VICTORIOUS” time being there. I usually spend most of my time in Sol We randomly picked three words each from a wordsearch puzzle Studios, where other students in the Lawrence community and created lyrics together. I’d been listening to what the students I'm still a kid. I've been sitting in class for a minute, THE DESTINATIONS: and I meet to collaborate and produce music together. The had been saying as they wrote their verses, and I tried to create moment we arrived at the Beat Lab, people were writing, something relatable and personal to complement the message In the back, I've been dreaming of making it big but Cisco Systems producing, engineering, recording, learning, teaching and they were conveying. I didn't realize how much I put into the somehow I'm stuck with this quiz and I ain't even study. Chan Zuckerberg Initiative enjoying each other. On the first day, we did some powerful lyrics because it felt really natural for me to write the way I did. Facebook team bonding exercises, forming a circle and using our bodies I felt immense support from my colleagues and teachers and I've been too depressed and my eyes been stuck on this Stanford University and artistic imaginations to interact with each other. We could even the Workshop Houston students—though I didn't initially page of different equations. Google see that the Workshop Houston students were not initially think much of my work. Apple comfortable being vulnerable, but once they all participated What made this experience a stand-out is the attitude we I'm trying to take it all of my thoughts I put down and LinkedIn and communicated more with us, they opened up and became brought with us. Something about the spirit of service particular erase I wish I could save them. AirBnB more willing and eager to work with us each day. to this trip drew out many of the characteristics I didn't know Salesforce As a large group, we got a lesson from Beat Shop still existed within me and within my colleagues and teachers— Well, every day feels like a day in hell but I fear no evil Uber Coordinator Cory Jordan on how to use FL Studio, a digital characteristics like heart, attitude, grit, consciousness. my heart is so see-through. audio workstation tool. I had the opportunity to participate in Handshake I thoroughly enjoyed playing alongside them all and over the learning something relevant and practical to what I wanted duration of the tour, I felt confidence rising up within me to Imagine an ocean emotions a sleeve in a bottle somehow to do in the future alongside the students in the BeatLab. perform to the best of my abilities. Everyone worked really hard to that’s deep and so hollow. I appreciated that we got to learn something new with the make the tour happen and, as a group and small community, we BeatLab students because it helped to create an atmosphere made a huge impact with the various skills we all had to offer. BY THE NUMBERS Fragile and easily broken whatever you break me of mutual respect between us all. Everyone I was with saw I watched my colleagues get recorded and exchange their to pieces I show you my letters exposing a flow me and treated me like a member of the community—the abilities and knowledge with the Worksop Houston students as I unforgettable might not be legible. I hope it still gets students 6 resulting music was a testament to how genuine we were also shared more of myself with both the students and the Presto to you. trying to be with each other. band. Through trial and error, we fused jazz and hip hop in a 11 Tech companies On the very last day, right before we left, someone noticed unique way. This process sparked some ideas for how I decided To hear an excerpt from “Victorious” and see the Presto that I’d been writing. I was hoping to not be put on the spot, to approach collaboration in the rest of my time at Lawrence— 3 Alumni receptions experience, visit go.lawrence.edu/beatlab. and I almost slipped under the radar undetected. But I couldn't I know this will have an invaluable and direct impact on my leave the space without showing some appreciation. The words 21 Alumni hosts future in music. I feel everyone who was there and played a I used on the resulting track, “Victorious,” were the product part in the experience could relate to that statement. of my experience with a younger Workshop Houston student. 7 Recruiters

22 FALL 2019 LAWRENCE 23 BEINSIDE THE LAWRENCELIGHT! FACULTY AND ALUMNI SUSTAINABILITY BY THE NUMBERS ENERGY: Produced 48,000 kWh of electricity from wind, 30,000 kWh B OO K S from solar, and used 450,000 kWh of energy from renewable sources MUSEUM ACTIVISM INDEPENDENCE CORRUPTED: HOW AMERICA’S JUDGES MAKE Robert R. Janes ’70 and Richard Sandelly through WE Energies renewable energy program for a total of 528,000 kWh— THEIR DECISIONS

enough to power 50 average households! This ground-breaking volume brings together Charles Benjamin Schudsen, Law and more than 50 contributors working across Literature Scholar in Residence (2006) and six continents to explore, analyze and Björklunden Seminar Leader WASTE: Saved 330 rolls of paper towel and $3,659.70 due to the critically reflect upon the museum’s relationship to activism. Museum Activism With engaging candor and drawing on installation of hand dryers in the Warch Campus Center. elucidates the largely untapped potential for museums as key personal experience, Schudson takes readers behind the bench intellectual and civic resources to address inequalities, injustice to probe judicial minds analyzing actual trials and sentencings and environmental challenges. and into chambers to hear judges forging appellate decisions. He WATER: Reduced water consumption by 18% in the past 5 years from fixture shows the financial, political, personal and professional pressures that threaten judicial ethics and independence. upgrades during renovations and the installation of artificial turf at the Banta Bowl. THE STALINIST ERA REHEARSING THE CHOIR David Hoffman ’83 GROUNDS: 10 goats eliminating invasive species in the area around Stephen Sieck, Co-Director of Choral Studies SLUG in an environmentally conscious manner. The Stalinist Era provides a new and Associate Professor of Music interpretation of Stalinism by placing it Sieck shares his interviews with directors at in its international context. Synthesizing eight of the most successful university choral TRANSPORTATION: 23 bike racks on campus. new research on social changes, cultural programs in America and reflects on their affairs, gender roles, nationality policies, approaches to teaching choirs. Interviews and diplomacy under Stalinism, this book with students and observations of live rehearsals complement FOOD: 300 pounds of fresh produce every year from Lawrence’s Flex Farm, an provides a succinct account of a pivotal period in world history. these director interviews to provide readers with a comprehensive look at how these choral programs consistently achieve success. indoor hydroponic growing operation and recent addition to Andrew Commons.

BEE CAMPUS USA! Lawrence University has been certified as an affiliate of the Bee Campus USA WHAT LAWRENCE STORIES INSPIRE YOU? program, making it the 71st campus in the nation to earn the bee-friendly Our magazine reader survey is still open and we want to designation—and only the second one in Wisconsin. hear from you! Your feedback about Lawrence Magazine is invaluable and impacts decisions about content and coverage. Among the bee-inspired efforts, faculty member Israel Del Toro and his team launched the Appleton Pollinator Project to turn area homeowners and go.lawrence.edu/magsurvey gardeners into citizen scientists, helped install and study pollination sites across the Fox Cities and pushed students in the biology lab and campus This online survey takes about 10 minutes to complete. You environmental clubs to work to improve the on-campus habitat for bees. will be asked questions about Lawrence Magazine, including several that allow for open-ended responses. All responses An observation hive installed at Warch is the latest step in the on-campus are anonymous. efforts. There also are hexagon-shaped pollination boxes just southeast of Main Hall and in the S.L.U.G. (Sustainable Lawrence University Gardens) Please take a few minutes of your time to share feedback in gardens on campus. our reader survey.

TOP: Floréal Crubaugh ’20 holding one of the 10 goats on campus. 24 FALL 2019 BOTTOM: One of the hexagon-shaped pollination boxes on campus. LAWRENCE 25 FACING: Valeria Núñez ’22 next to hydroponic growing station. the INSIDE LAWRENCE 2 MINUTES WITH 2 Minutes With … is a student-authored series of Cultural Impacts short features to introduce us to the passions and ENGAGED From community education opportunities, to art interests of Lawrentians on and off campus. and performances and space for community-sponsored UNIVERSITY events, Lawrence serves in multiple ways as a cultural, education, physical and natural resource for the Fox Cities. the economic & community impact MARIA POIMENIDOU: LUCC LEADER LOOKS TO DO of lawrence university 2,249 students in community education programs ‘AMAZING THINGS’ Story by Awa Badiane ’21 1,500 Academy of Music participants Lawrence commissioned an economic impact study from the Yes, running a student government—a $400,000 budget and oversight of Appleseed Foundation. It showed that Lawrence is an integral 749 Björklunden adult education seminar attendees all clubs, committees, and student-related activities on campus—can be a bit overwhelming. But Maria Poimenidou ’20 has it down to a science. part of the Appleton community and the surrounding The Lawrence University biochemistry and economics double major 31+ major performances, speeches, and events by Fox Cities region, both contributing to and benefiting from from Thaso, Greece, says it’s all about staying organized and pushing past visiting artists, musicians, and speakers any fears or doubts. the vitality of the community and the strength and stability of “Whenever I am afraid of something, I force myself to do it,” she says. the local economy. These are some of the highlights from the 441 acres of the Lake Michigan shoreline preserved “I don’t want any fear I have to keep me from doing amazing things.” The Lawrence University Community Council (LUCC) plays a huge report. See more at go.lawrence.edu/magimpact. role in decision making and oversight on campus. It operates as a shared 107,000 square feet of multi-use space in governance council, meeting weekly and helping to shape campus climate. Warch Campus Center As president, Maria oversees all that activity. “The role of the president is overseeing all of that and keeping the big picture in mind and seeing how different things can occur through legislation or different events,” Maria says. Economic Impacts Service Impacts

RIGHT AT HOME From spending on goods, services and construction At Lawrence, engagement in issues that affect the lives Maria was part of her student government in high school. When first to contributing to the area’s human capital, Lawrence, of our neighbors is an essential element of both the coming to Lawrence from Greece, Maria became a freshman class including its students and the visitors it draws, is an education we provide and our long-term relationship representative as a way to make Lawrence “feel more like home.” Her role in LUCC then evolved from a way to make friends and get important economic driver and partner in the region. with the community. involved to finding a way to make positive change on campus. “I remember going to general council and not knowing what was happening,” Maria says. “Over the years that changed, I started to see ONE YEAR IN THE FOX CITIES 642 students & 67 faculty or staff volunteered things that can be improved.” through the Center for Community Engagement Maria stayed on the council as a sophomore class representative, 1,059 jobs then was elected vice president, then president. 10,450 volunteer hours Maria has kept a can-do mindset throughout her LUCC journey. million in earnings Leading up to her position as president, she ran for various offices a $41 total of five times. She keeps running and stays involved because she 100 agencies and organizations with ongoing is determined to create positive change on campus, she says. It’s only $70.3 million in regional economic output Lawrence relationships a few months into her presidency, but she’s already increased student engagement and improved the function of LUCC committees by creating $6.4 million spent on goods, services, and construction the top five are: a cabinet position that focuses on that. 1. appleton area school district 2. riverview gardens BE CALM, STAY ORGANIZED DEVELOPING HUMAN CAPITAL As one can imagine, being a student—a double major, no less—and 3. brewster village running the LUCC is a full load. We asked Maria for five tips on handling 4. feeding america a busy schedule: 886 graduates live in the Fox Cities 5. boys & girls clubs of the fox valley 1: Do not be afraid to ask for help. of area residents with a bachelor’s degree are 2: Prioritize what is important. 5% 3: Create a schedule, and follow it. Lawrence graduates 4: Listen to yourself. 5: Take time for you. 26 FALL 2019 For more “2 Minutes With” features visit go.lawrence.edu/twomin. LAWRENCE 27 ’85

INSIDE LAWRENCE LAWRENCE’S NEW B.M.A. DEGREE WIDENS THE PATH FOR STUDENT MUSICIANS Lawrence is introducing a new degree program: the Bachelor of Musical It’s all about choices, said Brian Pertl, dean of the Conservatory. Arts (B.M.A.). The foundation is in jazz and improvisation, but the degree The degree allows the Conservatory to welcome in musicians who don’t NEW ADDITIONS is built to accommodate a wide range of contemporary music making, necessarily fit a certain musical footprint. opening the Conservatory of Music to a wider group of musicians. “To be able to give students high-level musical training will IN COMPUTER The B.M.A., in place beginning this academic year, has a 50-50 split certainly broaden what they can do. But it also expands the musical between music studies and another field in the liberal arts landscape, culture of the Conservatory, mixing different genres and different SCIENCE AND with expectations to connect the two. Flexibility, an ability to adapt musical sensibilities. This will be a huge advantage to everyone at the MATHEMATICS quickly and a willingness to collaborate are all key attributes for anyone Conservatory.” entering the world of music in the 21st century. Blending those core Pertl called the B.M.A. a natural progression for the Conservatory MULTIPLY musicianship skills with an education in a student’s other field of as it embraces and nurtures the modern musician. interest is the next step in keeping the Conservatory forward-thinking. “At Lawrence, we’ve already been incorporating so many of the OPPORTUNITIES The high standards haven’t changed. The audition process elements of improvisation and world music into the trajectory of a Lawrence is continuing its for acceptance into the Conservatory remains intact, and the skill- classically trained musician for the same reason,” he said. “It’s going to commitment to curricular development expectations continue to be top level. But for the B.M.A., be the flexibility of art, and of mind, that will help you to successfully innovation and providing students the audition no longer needs to be tied to classical music training, create your musical life.” with classroom experiences that opening the door for students who see their strengths and interests in better prepare them for success at jazz and contemporary improvisation. To learn more about the new B.M.A., visit go.lawrence.edu/magbma Lawrence and beyond. This fall, the university is offering a revamped Associate Professor of Computer Science Kurt Krebsbach ’85 with student. computer science major and a new introductory calculus sequence. D-Day 70th anniversary: After all who VIKING VOICES COMPUTER SCIENCE NEW CALCULUS SEQUENCE were there are gone, what happens More schools Lawrence University is offering a newly configured major in computer This fall, the Department of Mathematics is unveiling a new calculus to history? —The Associated Press science. sequence. follow Lawrence’s lead on Catherine Kodat, provost and dean of faculty, says the revamped The new sequence replaces the old offerings of Calculus I, II “In an age of disputed facts, disputed truth, personal test-optional admissions major better aligns with the rapidly changing world and all aspects of and III with a reworked progression that shifts at what point in the truth, ’my truth’ and ’your truth’, how are we going to get at —Milwaukee Journal Sentinel life that are now touched by computer technology. sequence certain topics are taught, making the courses timelier and the actual truth when the actual participants are gone? “Students have so much more to them than “The increasing importance of computer science in every aspect more relevant to students across disciplines. Calculus II is becoming I am very concerned that when the last of these guys that single score, but culturally, we place so of our lives is undeniable,” she says. “The world of computer science, Math 155: Multivariable Calculus, which contains some topics from passes on, we’re going to start making up our own truth.” much significance on it.” while related to mathematics, has become a world of its own. Our new Calculus II as well as topics previously covered in Calculus III. Calculus —JERALD PODAIR, professor of history and major will better prepare students to enter that new, expanded world.” III has morphed into Math 200: Complex Sequences and Series, Robert S. French Professor of American Studies, KEN ANSELMENT, Dean of Admissions, on The redesigned computer science major will enhance learning expanding many subject areas previously taught in Calculus II and in a national story about the dwindling number Lawrence being a pioneer in not requiring opportunities in data science, software development and other teaching them at a second-year level. This approach allows students of World War II veterans still alive ACT or SAT tests for admission computer programming areas. The mathematics-computer science in majors like economics, chemistry and computer science to learn major will be phased out over the next three years. material that is more relevant to their majors, while students who The mathematics-computer science major has had a great track are interested in physics or math have the opportunity for an earlier record since being introduced in 1984, said Kurt Krebsbach ’85, a introduction to advanced mathematics topics. “We want the curriculum Lawrence Jazz Ensemble professor of computer science in the Department of Mathematics. to make sense for a greater group while also providing a better ramp The Morning Show wins back-to-back “We have had a remarkable record of achievement in our graduates into college-level mathematics,” says Professor of Mathematics Alan —Wisconsin Public Radio from the computer science program,” he said, noting recent graduates Parks. DownBeat awards “About 25 percent of our students come from the have landed jobs with Apple, Amazon, Google and other leading tech “The needs of our students are paramount,” he continues. “We —The Post-Crescent state of Wisconsin, but 75 percent come from elsewhere. companies. always pay a lot of attention to the way our curriculum dovetails “The students in the Jazz Ensemble work We have 47 states represented on campus and actually But as the computer science field changes, so does the teaching, with the curriculum in other departments. We feel strongly that the together on music that is unique, challenging, and over 70 countries around the globe. That kind of demand Krebsbach said. The retooled computer science major will broaden the connections we have across campus are vital, particularly in the lives a joy to perform. This includes a lot of contemporary is essential for both the future of Lawrence but also for the offerings, with less emphasis on pure mathematics requirements. It of our students, because we have so many students in common.” The jazz rep and premier works from Lawrence’s student learning experience; interacting with this diverse will add new instruction in statistics and data science, provide more math department took advantage of new ideas and exciting changes jazz composers and arrangers.” population is part of the learning we offer.” flexibility for students pursuing a variety of technology-related fields like the computer science major and arrival of new faculty members to PATRICIA DARLING, a music professor in the and require more exposure to the increasingly computational side of design the updated calculus sequence. PRESIDENT MARK BURSTEIN, Lawrence Conservatory of Music who those emerging disciplines. “We’re not reinventing the wheel, and nothing fundamental has in a live interview with Kate Archer Kent The number of students enrolled in computer science classes at changed in the way we approach what we do,” says Parks. “We are oversees the ensemble Lawrence has more than tripled since 2011, Krebsbach said. providing opportunities to make the curriculum fit better for more students in more disciplines.” 28 FALL 2019 LAWRENCE 29 INSIDE LAWRENCE INSIDE LAWRENCE

FIVE NEW FACULTY MEMBERS JOINING LAWRENCE FOND FAREWELL TO RETIRING FACULTY

Bruce Hetzler, a fixture in the psychology department for more than four Five new tenure-track faculty members will join Lawrence University VANESSA D. PLUMLY, German decades, and Kenneth and Joanne Bozeman, key players in the growth for the start of the 2019–20 academic year, boosting the school’s Plumly comes to Lawrence from State University and success of the Conservatory of Music, are retiring. The three have a academic prowess across multiple fields of study. of New York at New Paltz, where she is a combined 110 years of teaching at Lawrence. “I am delighted to be able to welcome five new tenure-track German lecturer and program coordinator in faculty to Lawrence this coming fall,” says Provost Katie Kodat. “These BRUCE HETZLER has been a leading voice in the psychology the Department of Languages, Literatures and impressive new colleagues represent the best in their fields and will department at Lawrence since 1977. You might even say his 42-year run Cultures and a Women’s, Gender and Sexuality allow us to continue building on our strengths in mathematics, the has been magical. Studies faculty affiliate. She earned her Ph.D. sciences, and the humanities in the college, and in the voice program Hetzler has often mixed his love of magic with his passion for in German Studies in 2015 from the University in the conservatory.” teaching about the brain. of Cincinnati. Plumly earned the 2018 German Embassy Teacher Learn more about each new faculty member and what Kodat has Much of his work at Lawrence focused on neuropharmacology, of Excellence Award from the American Association of Teachers of to say about the strengths and talent they bring to Lawrence. effects of alcohol on the brain, computer analysis of brain waves and German (AATG). neuroscience. He was part of a faculty group that launched the initial “Vanessa’s research interests in Afro-German culture, film, and neuroscience program at Lawrence. gender and sexuality studies will enrich many areas of our curriculum ABHISHEK CHAKRABORTY, statistics He and his students through the years published dozens of beyond German: Ethnic Studies, Film Studies, and Gender Studies, A Ph.D. in the Department of Statistics at Iowa papers on a wide range of brain-focused topics, the latest being to name three,” Kodat notes. “She joins us as our third Mellon Faculty State University, Chakraborty holds a master’s a study on why some people co-abuse methylphenidate (most Fellow for a Diverse Professoriate.” degree in statistics from the Indian Institute of common trade name is Ritalin) and alcohol. That paper, with co- Bruce Hetzler (L) and Ken Bozeman at Commencement 2019. Technology (IIT) in Kanpur, India, and a bachelor authors Lauren W.Y. McLester-Davis ’18 and Sadie E. Tenpas ’17, was of science degree in statistics from St. Xavier’s published in the June edition of the journal Alcohol. College in Kolkata, India. He ranked fifth out RELENA RIBBONS, geosciences He persevered with both his teaching and his magic after of 200 entrants from 100 different countries in A visiting assistant professor in geosciences at suffering a major stroke in the summer of 2011. Relearning magic He said he’ll continue to do voice work in retirement, the Prudsys AG Data Mining Cup 2016, and placed 28th out of 193 Lawrence since 2016, Ribbons has a bachelor’s tricks helped with his long and slow recovery. Now he hopes to participating in workshops, presenting at conferences and offering entrants in 2018. He worked as a graduate teaching assistant at degree in environmental studies from Wellesley dedicate more time in retirement to the physical therapy that’s needed private voice teaching focused on young professional singers. Iowa State. College, a masters in forest ecology from the to regain many of his magician skills. “Abhishek joins a newly renamed Mathematics and Computer University of Massachusetts-Amherst, and “I have mixed emotions,” Hetlzer said of his retirement. “I’ve JOANNE BOZEMAN has been an adjunct Science department as Lawrence’s second specialist in statistics,” doctorates in forest ecology, geosciences and been here a long time, and I’ve loved it. I’ve enjoyed teaching, I’ve member of the voice department at Lawrence observes Provost Catherine Kodat. “His research interests in data natural resources from Bangor University and enjoyed doing research, and I’ve enjoyed working with students in since 1993, teaching studio voice and related mining will fortify course offerings in data science as well as statistics geosciences and natural resources management from the University the laboratory. But it has been 42 years, so I think it’s time for this course work. more traditionally understood—an exciting contribution for a of Copenhagen. chapter in my life to close.” She also was a sought-after soloist in recital, department in the midst of a renaissance.” “Relena’s appointment to the geosciences department gives us concert and oratorio for nearly four decades. “I’ll miss working with students in the long additional expertise in important areas of environmental research, Music professor KENNETH BOZEMAN, retiring after 42 years on the term, four or five years, developing their skill among them soil ecology and biogeochemistry,” Kodat says. Conservatory of Music faculty, has left an impressive imprint that’s set and seeing them master certain things,” she says. “The change ESTELÍ GOMEZ, voice difficult to measure. between an 18-year-old singer and a 21- or 22-year-old singer is a huge A soprano, Gomez joins the Conservatory of He led the voice department for much of his tenure, in the transition. It’s really exciting to be involved with that.” Music amid impressive success as a recording AUSTIN SEGREST, English process providing important leadership not just in the Conservatory Bozeman called working with the voice faculty in the Conservatory artist and performer. She is a vocalist with but across campus. In addition to his work as a respected voice A visiting assistant professor of English at a joy. Roomful of Teeth, which won a 2014 Grammy teacher, he has led or been a part of talent searches for Conservatory Lawrence since 2014, Segrest holds a doctorate “We don’t always agree with each other, but we really do get Award with its debut CD. She holds a master of faculty and new deans and has played a big role in campus projects in literature and creative writing (poetry) from along,” she said. “I admire my colleagues’ skills in the studio, and we music degree from the McGill Schulich School such as the expansion of the Music-Drama Center and the building of the University of Missouri and a master’s from are friends. I’ll miss that kind of intimate relationship. I’ll miss the of Music and a bachelor of arts degree in music the Warch Campus Center. Georgia State University. He has received people in the office, and I’ll miss my wonderful colleagues all over from Yale. In recent years, his focus has been in the growing field of fellowships from the Provincetown Fine Arts the Conservatory.” Gomez, who has sung in more than 20 languages, has acoustic voice pedagogy. He’s become an in-demand scholar on that Work Center, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference In addition to giving private voice lessons, Bozeman is working taught in private voice studios since 2006, mostly in New Haven, topic across the country. and the National Endowment for the Humanities, and previously on a book with two other women about women’s singing voices as Connecticut, Montreal and New York City. “Estelí exemplifies the But it’s in the voice studio where Bozeman says his heart served as the poetry editor of the Missouri Review. they go through perimenopause and menopause. To date, it includes twin commitments to excellence in teaching and performance that remains. “Voice teaching is totally one-on-one, so it’s pretty personal,” “We now have three accomplished, actively publishing writers interviews with nearly 60 women, ranging from elite professional characterizes our conservatory faculty,” Kodat says. he says. “When you are working on someone’s voice, in a sense who are either tenured or on the tenure track in our English singers to those who participate in community choirs. you are messing with their soul. Their sense of personal identity is department, a great boon for our student writers in both the college It’s an emotional and very personal issue for women who want to wrapped up in their voice.” and the conservatory,” Kodat observes. continue singing as they age, Bozeman says. Under his guidance, the voice department within the “Some breeze through it,” she said. “Some struggle. I really Conservatory has grown from about 40 students and four instructors struggled. That’s kind of what fueled my interest in the issue.” to nearly 100 students being taught by five full-time studio faculty, one adjunct faculty, two choral directors, opera and theater directors, 30 FALL 2019 a vocal coach and other contributors. LAWRENCE 31 “

$2.5 MILLION GIFT ESTABLISHES BE THE LIGHT! CUTTING-EDGE ORGANIZATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY PROFESSORSHIP A $2.5 million gift will allow Lawrence to create an endowed BE THE LIGHT! SPOTLIGHT professorship to teach the psychology of collaboration, adding to the school’s efforts to better prepare students for SMALL COSTS, BIG BARRIERS life after Lawrence. THE HERBERT K. AND MORLA TJOSSEM FUND The generous donation from J. Thomas Hurvis ’60 to MAKING DIFFERENCE IN LIVES OF STUDENTS BE THE LIGHT! create the J. Thomas Hurvis Professorship of Social and LEARNERS. LEADERS. LAWRENTIANS. Organizational Psychology was announced at the May Imagine heading into the library for an intensive study session. One of the hallmarks of the Lawrence experience is the meeting of the Board of Trustees. CAMPAIGN UPDATE You heave your backpack onto a table and hear a distressing connection between students and faculty, connections that The new position will be based in the Department of sound: the crunch of your glasses getting crushed by your math extend outside of the classroom and well beyond graduation. The generosity of Lawrence University supporters shone bright this Psychology and will contribute regularly to the Innovation and textbook. For some students, situations that many people might The Tjossem Fund is a profound example of those connections. year for Be The Light!, the most ambitious fundraising campaign in Entrepreneurship program, providing teaching that is focused write off as small inconveniences are the kind of It is named for Emeritus Professor of English Herbert our history. on cross-cultural collaboration, group life, ethical thought and unexpected costs that can derail their educational Tjossem. He and his wife, Morla, forged relationships “The impact of philanthropic investment in the college is moral judgment. It’s the type of study usually found in business opportunities. with students for nearly 40 years, whether profound and enhances all aspects of the student experience,” says schools or as part of doctoral programs. It will build on existing Enter the Herbert K. and Morla Tjossem through impromptu holiday meals or providing Vice President for Alumni and Development Cal Husmann. Lawrence strengths to allow students across disciplines to Endowed Discretionary Fund for Student mentoring and support, especially to This year has been exciting, with milestones like the public access teachings that will better prepare them to be the leaders Assistance. Established in 2017 by Cory ’92 international students and domestic students of launch celebration; investments in curriculum, classroom of tomorrow, no matter their career direction. and Michelle Nettles and the Tjossem color. One of those students was Cory Nettles, enhancements and faculty positions; groundbreaking on critical family, this fund helps alleviate the pressure who recalls Herbert and Morla as instrumental campus renewal projects; near-record support for the Lawrence It’s the type of study usually found in of unexpected incidental costs for students in his own personal and academic successes at Fund and hundreds of gifts to the Full Speed to Full Need (FSFN) business schools or as part of doctoral whose financial challenges make a seemingly Lawrence. He worked with the Tjossems to create initiative. programs. small expense a big problem. a fund that could make an immediate difference in the “Lawrentians give back in so many ways,” observes Husmann. Those broken glasses are no thought experiment. lives of students. “From financial gifts of all sizes, to volunteering as resources for The position is expected to be filled in time for the 2020–21 The Tjossem Fund recently helped a student who had been The fund is open to all students, with an emphasis on the the Center for Career, Life, and Community Engagement and academic year. attending classes and struggling to study for two weeks without needs of students from underrepresented backgrounds, including admissions, to serving on boards and advisory groups. We in the For Hurvis, working collaboratively hits close to home, glasses. The fund helped cover the cost of replacement glasses international, low-income and first-generation students. They Lawrence community are so grateful for this support.” and he believes strongly that the skills tied to collaboration are and the student was able to get back on track with coursework— are able to request confidential grants from the fund, which is critical for success in almost any field. this relatively small financial intervention quite possibly meant administered by the Office of Student Life in coordination with BE THE LIGHT! KEY FACTS AND FIGURES 2018–19 “Partnership has been at the core of all of my life’s the difference between academic success or academic struggle. the Financial Aid Office. $24.4 million raised success,” he said. “Collaboration requires skills and a The same goes for situations like emergency dental repairs or bus The Tjossem Fund is just one way Lawrence is working to $3.9 million for key campaign priority The Lawrence Fund personal inclination. tickets to Chicago for a passport renewal. remove barriers to academic success and completion and ensure 250 students with FSFN support with 100 more incoming I am thrilled we can now ensure every Lawrence student “This type of funding makes a tangible impact in students’ that all students have an equitable academic experience and the students projected has the opportunity to develop these skills and better lives, particularly among low-income and first generation students opportunity to thrive. $1.73 million raised as part of Center for Career, Life, and understand the importance of this work. Collaboration is easy who are making difficult decisions every day,” says Vice President The Tjossem Fund welcomes support. If you would like to learn Community Engagement matching challenge to describe but very, very hard to do.” of Student Life Christopher D. Card. “The Tjossem Fund has more about how you can be a part of this fund, please contact made huge differences for our students and their ability to thrive.” 920-832-6548. $82.1 million raised for FSFN to date $183.5 million raised for Be The Light! to date

32 FALL 2019 ABOVE: Cory Nettles ’92 (L) recalls a “moving and special trip” with Herbert Tjossem to Normandy, France LAWRENCE 33 in April 2014 ahead of the 70th anniversary of D-Day. BE THE LIGHT! O’CONNOR’S ARRIVAL PUTS LIFE AFTER DID YOU KNOW? LAWRENCE INITIATIVES IN HYPERDRIVE 99% of the class of Meet Mike O’Connor, the inaugural Riaz Waraich Dean of the Center 2018 are employed for Career, Life, and Community Engagement (CLC). This vital new position, named for the longtime business partner of J. Thomas or furthering their Hurvis ’60, is supported by a $2.5 million gift from Hurvis. He also Alexander Gym’s new horseshoe. issued a matching challenge, asking others to join him in supporting education. internships, career exploration, and curricular development through the CLC. $1.7 million has already been raised toward that additional $2.5 million. “That will give us the ability to connect Spend 10 minutes with Mike O’Connor, Lawrence University’s with alumni based on a certain major or career new Riaz Waraich Dean of the Center for Career, Life and interest or geographic area and be able to reach Community Engagement (CLC), and he’ll drop a variation of out to them in real time,” O’Connor says. “A “connected” into the conversation a couple dozen times. student will be able to say, ‘Hey, I see you are Being connected to the CLC and its resources, be it through working at Google in this data analytics role.

internships and fellowships or employment contacts and alumni I’ve been thinking about that as a career, can I Construction under way in the upgrades around Memorial Hall. resources, is something that will be part of every student’s journey hop on a call with you for 10 or 15 minutes to from the moment they arrive during Welcome Week. It won’t be find out more about it?’ Or maybe ‘I have this something to be put off until senior year. interview coming up and I need advice.’ SUMMER RENOVATION PROJECTS PROVIDE “To me, the messaging for first-year students would be, the “This is something we onboarded at CAMPUS UPGRADES Center for Career, Life, and Community Engagement is just part Williams and it was just a complete game- By Isabella Mariani ’21 of what you do as a Lawrentian,” O’Connor says. “It’s not a stand- changer. It actualized our alums’ talents in alone entity. It’s interconnected, it’s part of the tapestry real time in a useful way.” Maintaining the campus infrastructure at Lawrence is an investment in the well-being of of Lawrence.” Introducing an alumni affinity network students, faculty, staff and the surrounding community, which is why campus renewal is O’Connor had been the director of the Career Exploration to students will start during Welcome Week, a key priority of Be The Light!. That was in full view this summer as multiple renovation program at Williams College for the past five and a half years. although developing it and integrating it will projects took place across campus thanks to a series of gifts and support. He and his family—wife, Kerrin Sendrowitz O’Connor, two be a work in progress. This summer’s more ambitious projects included new concrete at the plaza by daughters, Fiona Jayne, 3, and Isla Kelly, 7 months, two dogs and “We’re trying to move on a lot of this very Memorial Hall and an upgrade of its entryways, new hardscape on the Conservatory a cat—have embraced the move from the East Coast to Appleton. quickly,” O’Connor says. walkway, and the repaving of the Alexander Gym horseshoe, part of a facelift that He sees opportunities for enhanced connections at Lawrence in There’s been encouraging cooperation includes lighting and new sidewalks. And while the installation of a generator may every direction he looks. from departments across campus as these not seem like much, it kicks off the multi-million dollar renovation transforming “Life After Lawrence has a lot of moving parts,” O’Connor initiatives have been explored, developed Kohler Hall into a 21st-century living space. says. “There’s a big employer initiative, and we’re building more and tested. Among the other key projects in play: pipelines for recruitment. More than that, though, is the potential “We’re lucky that we have a highly for better integration with curricular goals and actualizing collaborative community with a lot of • M usic and Drama: Installing new doors and windows on the Music and Drama side our alumni base at scale. We’ve got this amazing group of opportunities,” O’Connor says. “Not just of Shattuck Hall. thousands and thousands of Lawrentians who want to help other our office but partnering with others across • St eam line: Replacing the portion of the steam line north of College Avenue, a Lawrentians. We’re working on tapping that power.” campus. The work of the CLC is really a continuation of the work that was done during spring term. For starters, career advising is being woven into Freshman team sport.” • M emorial Chapel: Lights are being added in front of the chapel to increase visibility Studies in new ways. A career communities initiative has been and pedestrian safety along the walkways. launched and will continue to be fine-tuned and rolled out to students across all areas of study. An interactive student-alumni Isabella Mariani ’21 is a student writer in the Communications office. mentor network is being developed. Want to be part of the CLC’s alumni network? Just update your alumni profile atgo.lawrence.edu/clcmag 34 FALL 2019 and check the “I want to be a career contact” box. LAWRENCE 35 ATHLETICS ATHLETICS

Division III gets little love from national media, so this wasn’t quite the hysteria of Maryland-Baltimore County beating top- seeded Virginia last year. But it was big here. The Post-Crescent, the daily newspaper in Appleton, chronicled Lawrence’s run through the 2004 tournament with equal parts excitement and astonishment.

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“Those brainiacs over at Lawrence showed they can ball with anybody on the Division III level, and those of you who were paying attention no doubt had quite a ball following their Shock the Nation National Tour. One point, one play from a spot in the NCAA Division III Final Four. Lawrence University? Tell you what, folks, on a larger scale, this would be like Lehigh making it to the Elite Eight in Division I.” Mike Woods, The Post-Crescent

STILL WINNING As we check in with that 2003–04 team 15 years later, we find that those players who posted a 24-5 record and went undefeated at Alexander Gymnasium were far more than basketball players. It turns out they were scholars, embracing the academic side of Lawrence as fervently as they attacked their basketball preparations. ABOVE: Kyle MacGillis ’06 drives to the basket against UW–Stevens Point in the 2003–04 NCAA Division III tournament. WHEN MARCH MADNESS CAME TO LAWRENCE Chris Braier, a sophomore that season who would go on to 15 Years Later, Bonds Stay Strong become the most accomplished player in Lawrence history, would Another is a college basketball coach, another a financial advisor, also earn the status of Academic All-American. Now 34 and a another a director of business development, another a manager of By Ed Berthiaume physician assistant in Chicago, he earned his MBA in December a regional business. The list goes on. from Northwestern University and has added clinical health care Sometimes madness can be found in the unlikeliest of places. basketball games ever played—even though the gymnasium in consultant to his resume. Count John Tharp, the then-34-year-old coach of that team, Tacoma, Washington, was mostly empty. impressed. Not surprised, but impressed. Those who have even a passing curiosity of college basketball Three other players from that team are now doctors—Kyle MacGillis, know the month of March is an unfolding tapestry of drama No, this is not a story that ended with a national championship. a hand/wrist/elbow surgeon in Oak Lawn, Illinois, Jason Holinbeck, “The greatness of that run wasn’t necessarily just the wins,” Tharp and strategy, unabashed joy and cruel heartbreak, playing out History rarely remembers a team that came up two games short. an orthopedic surgeon in Wichita Falls, Texas, and Brett Sjoberg, says as he chats from Hillsdale College, where he now coaches the on hardwood courts across the country, often in spacious arenas a radiologist in Madison. Division II Chargers. “The greatness of the run was the collection housing hoops royalty but sometimes in small but achingly But March Madness is different. A good Cinderella story has legs, of people that we had in the program at that time. You want to charming gymnasiums far from the spotlight. made of moments and memories that live on. Chris MacGillis, brother of Kyle and the leading scorer with epitomize what a student-athlete is, it was the collection of guys 22 points in that Elite 8 game, earned his law degree and is that were on that basketball team.” So begins our flashback to 15 years ago, when the men’s basketball Until March 2004, Lawrence had never won an NCAA tournament now a partner in a Milwaukee area law office.      team from Lawrence University began its own magical dance game. Ever. It hadn’t happened in 101 years. through March Madness. It was a run that took the Vikings to Ben Klekamp earned his doctorate and now works as an “This whole experience has left a mark that will never go away, and the Division III Elite 8 before they suffered an agonizing 1-point They would win three on this post-season journey, a fourth epidemiologist in Florida. that’s a good thing. For the journey was full of tales and memories that overtime loss to the eventual national champions in a game slipping from their fingers, a Final Four berth just a few ticks of have no shelf life.” Mike Woods, The Post-Crescent that the then-Lawrence coach calls one of the greatest college the clock out of reach.

36 FALL 2019 LAWRENCE 37 AN HISTORIC RUN Just like that, the ride was over. regular season and claiming the school’s first-ever No. 1 national ranking. They’d win a couple more tournament games, as well. By the time the tournament began in early March 2004, the “You felt like that last shot, how does that not go in?” Braier says. But they never quite recaptured the glory of 2004. Lawrence campus had already taken notice that something “It’s like we were in a movie. In the movie, that shot goes in.” special was going on. Despite having no player taller than 6'6", “It really was magical,” MacGillis says. the Vikings had imposed their will as they marched through the Puget Sound, the host school, had lost the night before to Stevens Midwest Conference schedule. Point. Thus, witnesses in the arena that night were few. STILL TOGETHER As the season rolled on, Alexander Gymnasium got down-right “There weren’t more than 300 or 400 people in the crowd at that Fifteen years later, most of the players on that team remain rowdy. It was full. It was loud. game, and it was probably one of the greatest college basketball connected. There are job changes and weddings and children games ever played,” Tharp says. “It was a phenomenal game.” and other life moments to navigate. But the bonds formed during The Appleton Fire Department had to turn people away because that memorable season remain to this day. For basketball players, of fire code concerns. Stevens Point would roll through the next two games to claim a a March Madness experience, no matter if it’s under the bright national championship. Lawrence was left with what might have been. lights of D-1 or in the more dimly lit shadows of D-3, lodges in “The vibe around campus, people were really excited,” Braier says. your soul and stays there forever. “The first game, there was a row of chairs along the baseline at “I think when you talk to everybody they all think we were one Alex, and by the end of the year they had to build a whole new or two possessions away from maybe having a chance to win a When Braier was inducted into Lawrence’s athletic hall of fame bleacher section on the baseline because of the crowds. national championship,” Tharp says. three years ago, many of the players from that team made their way back to Appleton. Braier said it was a reminder to him of how “When you would come to games, a lot of times the women would After the game, even the Stevens Point coach wished aloud that special that group was. play before us, so you would come in during the first half of the both teams could move on. women’s game, and you started noticing that there would be a line “I always thought, man, these guys are ridiculously smart,” to get into our games. You couldn’t find a parking spot an hour      Braier says. “That was my first thought when I first dealt with and a half before the game. That’s when you start thinking, man, “The Vikings would have gladly jumped at that invitation to play my teammates. this is kind of a big deal.” one more game together. On Sunday, though, the talk in the airport was already moving to this week’s final exams on campus, spring- “I don’t think at the time you realize how special of a group of They won all 12 home games. break trips and other ’real life’ adventures. The team knew that this individuals this was. It was just an everyday thing. . . . Everyone particular group, like all teams, only receives one chance to write its was such a high achiever. You didn’t think it was anything Then came the tournament. The run began with a first-round story.” Dick Knapinski, The Post-Crescent different. But then when you stepped away or you talked to 86-51 blowout of Lakeland at a packed Alexander Gym. friends from other teams, that’s when you realized it.”      “I can remember diving for a loose ball into the standing room- Chris Braier ’06, here playing against Sul Ross State in the 2003–04 NCAA Division The coaches remain as connected as the players, despite a decade only crowd in one of the corners and realizing that they’re 10 deep “I think there was a sense of disappointment and heartbreak after III tournament, was inducted into the Lawrence Athletic Hall of Fame in 2016. and a half of travels and life experiences separating them from in the corners to watch this game,” Braier says. that loss,” Tharp says. “Afterwards, and over the years, I think those three weeks of madness. the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, a Division III power there is an obviously special place in everybody’s hearts about the Then it was on to Storm Lake, Iowa, a seven-hour bus trip into the located just 60 miles west of the Lawrence campus but light years run that was made.” “Those guys are part of my life, and obviously things have round of 32. away in terms of basketball history. The Pointers at the time had changed a little bit with me being at a different school and those advanced to the Elite 8 twice in the previous decade and would go For Chris MacGillis, a senior on that guys are all over the country now, but I think everyone knows “When we went to play Buena Vista and we were in Storm Lake, on to win back-to-back national championships in 2004 and 2005. team, the end of the journey hurt more where everybody is at and what everybody is doing,” Tharp says. Iowa, we had a ton of students who were at that game,” Tharp than missing out on a chance at a national “But what makes it special, I still think to this day if anybody recalls. “That’s a great effort to be there. It was amazing. To come It was a nail-biter, neither team giving ground, filled with drama championship. needed anyone else on that team, I think everybody would still be out of that locker room and to see how many Lawrence kids to the end—witnessed by no more than 400 or so people in a there for each other.” were there, and just people from Appleton who were not even college fieldhouse nearly 2,000 miles from home. A late Stevens “I wasn’t emotional because we lost and necessarily connected to Lawrence, that was incredibly special.” Point three-pointer sent the game into overtime—a bonus I thought we should have won,” he says. Braier is getting married in September and most of his Lawrence five minutes—and then Lawrence’s improbable journey came “I just remember becoming emotional teammates will be there. Lawrence would beat Buena Vista 72-66, sending them to the crashing down in the waning seconds of that extra period. because of how proud I was and how Sweet 16 in Tacoma and a match up with Sul Ross State, a team happy I was to be with this group of guys. We were a very tight There’s also a Las Vegas getaway every March that reunites many from Alpine, Texas, loaded with size and talented junior college A made basket by the Pointers to retake the lead. Then a last- group. We all relied on each other and we all cared about each of them. No better time than March to recall that fleeting moment transfers. It was unchartered territory for any school from the second shot that would have won the game for Lawrence fell other, and we still do to this day. I was more emotional about when Lawrence basketball got to dance. Midwest Conference, which had never seen a team advance past short. The scoreboard read 82-81. not being able to do this with these guys anymore than I was the second round. about losing.” “Man, I could talk about this forever,” Braier says. “I just remember being completely exhausted, dropping to the A thrilling 86-79 overtime win that included a late double-digit floor,” Braier says. Lawrence would continue to dominate the Midwest Conference comeback moved the Vikings to the Elite 8 and a showdown with for the next couple of years, going undefeated in the 2005–06

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Center fielder Amanda Karnatz ’20 makes an over-the-shoulder catch in Lawrence’s win over the University of Chicago at Whiting Field. Karnatz earned All-Midwest Conference and All-Great Lakes Region honors for the third consecutive season.

TOP LEFT: Lawrence’s Kenya Earl ’21 (34) drives to the basket against Beloit Josh Janusiak ’19 leads a group of runners in the 10,000 meters at the College at Alexander Gymnasium. Earl, a first-team All-Midwest Conference NCAA Division III Championships in Geneva, Ohio. Janusiak qualified for both selection, has piled up 837 points in her first two seasons with the Vikings. the NCAA indoor and outdoor championships in 2019. RIGHT: Josh Koepplinger ’19 celebrates after scoring with 14 seconds left in regu- lation to forge a 3-3 tie with Marian University at the Appleton Family Ice Center. VIKINGS HIGHLIGHTS: WINTER LOWER LEFT: Erin Lengel ’21 was named the Outstanding Swimmer at the AND SPRING 2019 Midwest Conference Championships after winning three individual league titles. BASKETBALL CROSS COUNTRY It would have been nearly impossible for Kenya Earl ’21 to improve Josh Janusiak ’19 is as good on the track as he is in the classroom. on her rookie women’s basketball season in 2017–18, but she almost did it this past season. The Lawrence track and field star earned a pair of trips to the NCAA Division III Championships in 2019 and was chosen as a The forward from Iowa City, Iowa, put together another stellar first-team Google Cloud Academic All-American by the College campaign and was a first-team All-Midwest Conference selection. Sports Information Directors of America. Janusiak, who finished Earl was second in the Midwest Conference at 16.8 points per with nine Midwest Conference (MWC) titles (six in track and three game as she shot 38.5 percent from the floor. in cross country) qualified for the NCAA Championships five Earl’s name is all over the Midwest Conference leaders from this times (three in track and two in cross country). Men’s tennis Coach Steve Francour collected men’s career win No. past season. She was third in rebounds per game, third in free- Cade Francour ’20 hits a ground stroke in his 6-0, 6-0 win over Ripon College’s Junmo Kwan at the 300 with a win over Ripon College in the regular season finale. A philosophy and Spanish major, Janusiak earned Academic Lawrence Courts. The Vikings beat Ripon 8-2 for their 11th consecutive win over the Red Hawks. throw percentage, sixth in 3-point shooting, seventh at blocks per All-America honors on the Cross Country/Track and Field squad game and 15th at steals per contest. for the second consecutive year. Janusiak joins elite company by Amanda Karnatz ’20 is the league’s top center fielder. Karnatz was SWIMMING AND DIVING Lawrence women’s swimming and diving took home some becoming the ninth Lawrence student-athlete to be chosen for a chosen for the all-conference and all-region team for the third HOCKEY hardware and broke records at the Midwest Conference first team. consecutive season and is just the sixth Lawrence player to earn a Forward Josh Koepplinger ’19 made almost as many headlines Championships at Grinnell College. Swimming star Erin Lengel ’21 trio of all-region honors. around the world of NCAA Division III hockey after the season as was named the meet’s Outstanding Swimmer and Lawrence’s SOFTBALL he did during the 2018–19 campaign. Drew Fleek was named Women’s Coach of the Year after the It’s hard not to like Lawrence softball star Ceara Larson ’21, unless TENNIS Vikings finished second at the championships. The native of Saginaw, Mich., finished his season as an All- you’re an opposing pitcher. Lawrence men’s tennis battled for the Midwest Conference title Northern Collegiate Hockey Association selection. Koepplinger led this spring, and the Francours, both coach and son, had notable Lengel, a native of Doylestown, Pa., swam to three conference Larson battered opposing pitching to the tune of a .467 batting the Vikings in goals scored in each of his four seasons. achievements. titles during her sophomore campaign, broke three school records average with nine doubles, 11 home runs and 34 runs batted in in and topped one MWC mark in the 100-yard freestyle. During the Koepplinger signed with the Macon (Ga.) Mayhem of the Southern 34 games. The sophomore catcher from Bettendorf, Iowa, was The Vikings qualified for the four-team MWC Tournament for the season, Lengel collected MWC Swimmer of the Week honors three Professional Hockey League and quickly made his presence felt. In chosen as the Midwest Conference Player of the Year and was a fourth consecutive season using a deep and balanced lineup. Their times and has five of those awards for her career. his first week as a professional player, Koepplinger was named the first-team All-Great Lakes Region selection. Larson has been an second-place finish is Lawrence’s best in the league since taking SPHL Player of the Week. all-conference and all-region selection in each of her two seasons. the runner-up spot in 2013. Both Lawrence University swimming and diving teams earned the Cade Francour ’20 won the MWC’s Elite 20 award, which goes to Scholar All-America award from the College Swimming and Diving The team captain this past season, Koepplinger graduated in June the student-athlete competing at the conference championships Coaches Association of America. with a major in neuroscience. 40 FALL 2019 with the highest grade point average. LAWRENCE 41 CLASS NEWS IN LAWRENCE MAGAZINE! Looking for your class? 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50 years beginning in south Florida, then south central on a lake and finally in northeast Florida which allowed her to explore the entire state in its various modes. Nancy was raised in Minnesota and is now in Wisconsin, again enjoying such treasures in the Midwest.

Sue Esser M-D’46 says “So nice to hear from M.D.C.!” Sue still touches base fairly often with a couple of old “MDC” classmates. Doris (D.A.) Stilwell ’46, for example (via phone) and Thea Budde Brunsell ’48 (now in Madison).

Sally Gruetzmacher Holl M-D’47 has many memories after 2 years at Lawrence and 2 years at Milwaukee Downer, where she found so many of her high school friends, including Phyllis Young Hinrichs ’47, who she knew from Kindergarten. Phyllis is now in Littleton, CO. In Sally’s senior year at Downer, she was chosen prom queen. That included planning the whole 50-Year Connection. event—where to have it, decorate it, the musicians (Photo: Thompson Photo Imagery) and to pick up the President, take her to the dance, and have Sally’s date ask her to dance. She also had to send invitations to members of the Board—the Ruth Mehring Bernat M-D’49 has now been living Gloria Groleski Tolaro M-D’51, Sue Carroll Heinritz enough to give me courage to research and edit a President made her redo them and send them again. with her daughter for 2 ½ years in N.C.—she does ’51 and Helen Cramer Francis ’51 graduated from number of local history and genealogy books.” How embarrassing was that. But Sally’s date was her have a few problems (blind in right eye, 6 injections M-DC in 1951, the Centennial year, with B.S. degrees future husband back home from the war. That made it so far in spine, and they want to talk surgery! She in Occupational Therapy. They lived in McClaren Hall Nancy works with the local woman’s club to organize all worthwhile. really doesn’t know if it would help and since she can and became good friends. Together, they joined the bus trips for adults and students to Chicago to visit walk fine with no cane or walker. Ruth still does a fair Women’s Medical Specialist Corps of the Army during museums, music and drama events. Harriet Zinneman Levy M-D’48 has lived in a very amount of cut and sew (has a product she invented in the Korean War along with 6 of their classmates and large retirement community for 16 years in the the late 70s after retirement that both sells well and now, living in very distant parts of the country and The M-DC location was very attractive between the Golden Reunion. Maryland suburbs of Washington, D.C. and is still is gladly accepted if given (Micro Mitts). She does strongly pushing 90 years of age, they remain friends river and Lake Michigan. She has a great niece who (Photo: Thompson Photo Imagery) loving it. She keeps active with classes and other her own laundry, makes her own breakfast and lunch, after 68 years. How special is that? In 2015 they met is attending University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, stimulating activities. Twenty years after graduation, and pays half or more on all the bills (bad case of in Phoenix to celebrate this friendship. which now includes the Milwaukee-Downer Academy she ventured into college once more and received her braggadocio). Hi to all! and College property. Her mother was surprised and MILWAUKEE-DOWNER Roylee Ross Pflughoeft M-D’45 is still enjoying life at MLS, subsequently employed as a special librarian Gloria with her husband, Jay, of 65 years, remains pleased to see the beautiful university campus. “Of Harwood Place in Wauwatosa. for a while. Harriet still keeps in touch with Nancy Barbara Stolzoff Edelson M-D’50 is healthy, happy independent and active by volunteering at the Y, course we all enjoyed the good local German food!” Marilouise Eschen Reid M-D’44 sends greetings to Bump Anderson ’48 and occasionally some others. and almost 90. She works at a food pantry once a quilting, studying genealogy, teaching swimming, those with whom she attended Milwaukee-Downer Nancy Balster Schuler M-D’45 is in Florida avoiding The last reunion she attended was her 50th—the lack week, belongs to a book club that is stimulating. and continuing to swim with a Masters team. There is Nancy is still in contact with: Mildreth L. Thorberg College. Following graduation, Marilouise worked as the winter in Wisconsin. She was employed as a of other reunions mostly due to the distance between Barbara has 5 children, 8 grandchildren, who are the hardly an extra minute in the day. Their children, Gina (Bobbie Moon) and Margaret Weir Trayser. an occupational therapist in the Milwaukee area. Later Certified Occupational Therapist, mostly in the Mental Wisconsin and Maryland. She enjoyed her years at love of her life, and 3 great-grandchildren. “Life is and Joe, also live in Arizona, a great boon and delight. she and her husband, Howard (psychiatrist), relocated Health venues, for a total of 12 years along with M-DC and sends her best to the few who remember wonderful!” Come visit! There is no snow to shovel here. Joyce Hardaker Patrick M-D’52 says “It is amazing to Bemidji, MN, where they lived for many years marriage and three children, all of whom have survived her. how few people remember Milwaukee-Downer. At enjoying the North Country and helping many people and thrived. Her husband is 96 years old. Milwaukee- Mary E. Van Gorden M-D’51 says that life is good for Nancy Chadbourne Maze M-D’52 says with the recent this age, I have proudly proved Miss Hadley’s err. I’m to become well. They discovered Airstream trailers to Downer was and still is a significant milestone in her June Marinelle McCotter M-D’49 is living in Green her in Black River Falls. She is in her fourth year living “Me Too” news, she is beginning to appreciate all the published and have talent, which she declared at our escape cold Minnesota winters while helping people long life of 95 years. The college and the friends, Bay, and she is able to attend every Spring Reunion. at “Spaulding Place,” a senior housing cooperative, a more how protected you were at college. Everyone had graduation in 1952. She stopped my English major, medically in rural areas of Mexico and Honduras. teachers and colleagues she met there have stood the Because of Macular Degeneration, she is now unable great style of living for people her age. She is blessed to sign out and in again when you left and returned to yet my triple major served me very well. Indeed, we test of time, although most of them have passed on. to drive, so she rides to Appleton with Eileen Johnson with good health so she is able to keep busy with the college campus. Men were not allowed upstairs in received an outstanding education at Downer.” Eventually Marilouise relocated to Raleigh, N.C. Her first roommate, Rita Persenico Thomas ’47, is M-D’66. June is usually the oldest M-DC Alum and the volunteer projects, two of which are building a hospice the dorm. They had to stay in the parlor when visiting after Howard’s death. She lives in an assisted still a correspondent now and then as they have both first to march in the classes’ parade holding the 1949 house in their community and passing “Medical Aid in women. When the men came upstairs you would yell Rightie Revercomb Pappenheim M-D’52 “All good care facility near her son’s family and also close to made numerous changes geographically. Aside from Banner while marching into the Chapel. June loves Dying” legislation in Wisconsin. The first will be easier “Man upstairs.” wishes!” her two grandchildren’s families with three great her career as an O.T. and raising a family and being being in the Teakwood Room for luncheon again and than the second! grandchildren. She has been an avid watercolor a helpmate to her husband in his various interests again and visiting with other classes. She continues Nancy enjoyed crew. “We were fortunate to have Mary Lou Sell Anderson M-D’53 has many good painter and listens to many books on tape. and careers, she has had an ongoing passion for the to be involved in activities and events, especially the that remarkable experience. We had a well-rounded memories at Downer. “We were sad to hear of Pat environment and ecological concerns, particularly Lifelong Learning Institute. educational opportunity with art and music Cody’s ’53 passing. She was a ‘special fun person!’ birds and native plants. Florida was their home for appreciation, and good writing lessons where I learned I remember her playing her ‘uke’ for us from her room and us girls were sitting on the floor in the hall 42 FALL 2019 LAWRENCE 43 CLASS NOTES CLASS NOTES

singing.” Pat was Mary Lou’s roommate at Björklunden eternal for rain. Wonder of wonders, it is just starting Nancy Habetler Kaliebe M-D’63 is looking forward to Her most recent book, Incorporating Cultures’ Role LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY in 2008—fond memories. She gives her best to all of to do so. Hurray!” Best wishes to all, especially class the 55th class reunion this June. She hopes everyone in the Food and Agricultural Sciences, documents her Downer friends. Hugs! of MD’55. will join her for this wonderful celebration. Nancy how she engaged students in service-learning on the Want more Milwaukee-Downer? states that life has been interesting since the last Northern Cheyenne and Apsaalooke reservations, ’48 Download this two-volume history of the Consolidation Alpha Wetenkamp M-D’54 reports that nothing has Marye Toronyi Nash Kraemer M-D’55 is residing reunion. Her youngest son, Kris, and his family moved as well as in “Peace Corps-type” projects in West Alice Rossiter Holway writes: “I am so fortunate to of Milwaukee-Downer and Lawrence College. changed. at the Veterans Center in Rocky Hill, Connecticut. to Tampa from New Orleans 2 yrs. ago. They lived Africa. One of these projects is credited with virtually have my oldest daughter, Ann, home living with me. Volume I by Emeritus Professor Ronald Tank. She is the oldest resident there and awaiting her with her for a short time then purchased a house on eliminating malaria in a village in Mali. She is now Volume II by Carolyn King Stephens, M-D’62. She is a nurse and has a good job—plus she takes Rita Abati Carlson M-D’54 wishes to say “Hi” to 100th birthday on April 22, 2019. Recently she her street a block away. Nancy’s other son, Karl, and using the same holistic, participatory process to Available at go.lawrence.edu/mdhistory good care of me. All of my kids except daughter former classmates and friends. Her husband, Wayne, and her daughter went through a college album of his wife live about a mile from her. “So you could say, eliminate stunting. Susan, who is in Salt Lake City, live really close by. was gone 20 years in December. Their four children Downer memories, including the regattas, and she the gang’s all here!” Nancy’s oldest granddaughter, I have 13 grandchildren and one great grandchild. have six grandchildren who are busy going to school. fondly recalled many of her classmates. She has Rev. Nancy A. Richards M-D’59 states that moving Lydia, is a sophomore at the local high school. As Her research on biocontrol of insects and biorational All is well.” Most of them are in high school and two are freshman two children, two granddaughters and four great- into Brookdale St. Peters was like moving into a freshman, she took up crew and they went to the natural products resulted in safe alternatives to in college. Rita’s son and family live in St. Augustine, grandchildren—living in New York, Connecticut and McLaren Hall, her dorm at Downer. Nancy was Nationals in Princeton, NJ, in May. Maybe Lawrence chemical pesticides, for which she has been awarded Betty Van Horne Richards writes: “I am still enjoying Florida, 2 ½ hours from Leesburg. The others live in Cambridge, MA. Birthday cards may be sent to her at elected to the Resident Council last summer, 2018. In is in her future. Nancy has enjoyed some wonderful two patents, both sublicensed. my home of 61 years. Jim has been gone for 3 years. South Carolina, Minnesota and Japan. D 225, Rocky Hill Veterans Home, 287 West Street, November she fulfilled the dream of her childhood—a vacations to London, Paris, Russia, and Italy. Her next I am driving Meals on Wheels & a friend to exercises Rocky Hill, CT 06067. full transit of the Panama Canal with stops in Central trip will be to Appleton to be with all of you! She continues her full-time, 12 month appointment 3 times a week. I do outreach activities in my church. Rita keeps herself busy with her friends by playing America and Mexico. at MSU intertwining her research, teaching and Some of my family are nearby & we keep close tabs cards and going to concerts and restaurants! After Ruth Legler Qualich M-D’55 enjoys singing in 2 Barbara Mathews Miller M-D’64 says everything community engagement. She loves visiting her 6 on each other, I keep in touch with my roomie Carroll a stroke (2015) and open heart surgery (2016), she groups, birding trips, theater and orchestra concerts. Prudence Schmidt Meyer M-D’60 says the skills from is well in Bremerton. She finally decided that she grandchildren from 1 to 19 years (one of whom has Hedges Dawson & her Jim, Jule Friar ’49 & Betty has spent a lot of time in rehab. No more playing She remains active in church groups and AAUW. Ruth’s Downer academics and experiences pervade her life. no longer wanted to keep up a house and the yard applied at Lawrence) and her 3 children, skiing, fishing Messenger ’47. My e-mail is [email protected]. golf because her balance is poor and inhibits a lot of husband, Angelo’s, health is remarkably good and life Bell choir, sheepshead, concerts, walks, reading and work, so she moved to a senior residential apartment and organic gardening with her husband who remain I’d love to hear from you.” physical energy. A walker helps her get around with at Freedom Village is interesting and easy. Cynthia granddaughter activities are plentiful. Life is good. community in Bremerton. It must have been karma self-sufficient in vegetables. long distance walks, but she can drive herself and and Mike were with them for a week of walking trails because she hasn’t looked back once. Barbara moved ’52 walk short distances. and theater going at Christmas. John and his family Keren Dainow Rotberg M-D’60 and husband, Jay, in October 2017, her house sold in less than 2 days “Those years at Downer were great preparation for Louis Meyer plan to be there in March. They had a good visit with are alive and well in North Carolina with two teenage for over asking, and she loves her 2 bedroom, 2 bath a fun life and love continuing to get to know my I am presently living the good life in Las Vegas. Swanny Voneida ’54 and Rita have been friends and classmate Lisa Avedon’s daughter, Madeline and her grandchildren in NC and a 3- and 6-year-old in apartment—especially the twice a month cleaning roommate Karen Krause Thunberg during these Approaching my 90th birthday, I recall all the good have had many good times since college. Rita misses family when they were in Sarasota over the holidays. Los Angeles. Retirement is great with lots of time to service! “I am still active in the community theatre, subsequent 59 years!” times at Lawrence University—football, fraternity, Marilyn Bernstein Goodman ’54 as they were friends Reminisced a great deal about Lisa who, by the way, quilt and read. though old lady acting roles become fewer and fewer great professors like George Walter, and so many in Leesburg for 20 years after they retired. “I am lucky arranged the blind date when Angelo and Ruth met as you get older—especially for women. I do work Eileen Paulson Johnson M-D’66 and June McCotter good friends. I am deeply blessed by many good to be alive and thank God for every new day.” 63 years ago! They plan on attending reunions at Kathleen Parmentier Hansen M-D’61 and her three backstage, or in the lobby during shows so people will ’49 attended the Alliance Francais luncheon in memories and friends. Presently, I am deeply involved Lawrence as long as they are able. “quad-mates” finally got together after many years know I am still alive. A couple of years ago I started Milwaukee with other alums to honor the 100th in church activities and various ministries. Being the Joanne Bondi Kedzie’s M-D’55 third grandson down in Florida, where she is a resident. She also has playing Mahjong twice a week. The group doesn’t play anniversary of its founding by Downer French spiritual leader of our men’s ministry affords me the got married up in Sacramento, CA, in May, and Milwaukee-Downer Alumnae, family, and friends a condo in Green Bay, so it’s easy for her to attend for money (or I would be living in a tent) but I can play professor, Mlle. Seraphon. Eileen and June also opportunity to dig deeper into the wisdom contained this provided a great time for a family reunion with recently attended the funeral for Dorie Distell reunions. a respectable basic game. Have to keep the brain enjoyed Reunion in June 2018, where they honored in the Bible. I want to wish all of my past friends members from So. Dakota, Nebraska, Minnesota, Brennan M-D’57, d. March 6, 2019. As the spunky cells firing. I go to the Y every day and sailed through Betty Dombrose Brown with the Jupp Award. Two at Lawrence good travel along the road of life and Wisconsin, Maryland, D.C., Arkansas and Washington Milwaukee-Downer Alumnae—Milwaukee Chapter Nancy Jay Larson M-D’62 has been living in Madison a hip replacement a year ago.” Barbara’s mother just additional trips to Björklunden during the summer and happiness and smiles along the way. Thank you my joining in. President, Dorie helped achieve the transfer of on and off since 1962. She has three children with died at the age of 101! “We Mathews hang around for fall made for lovely social times for them. friends of days past—the good times of my memories. loyalties to Lawrence at the time of the Consolidation. spouses/grands. Nancy’s life has allowed her the a long time.” They also welcomed 2 new great-grandsons, bringing Dorie and husband Bob raised their eight children with ability of visiting Kona, HI (son and family), North Travel included a month in Florida to escape winter in that total to 9 (6-b, 3-g) with 5 in grades K-6. Four are little outside help. Dorie had her Milwaukee-Downer Carolina (son and family) and Fort Collins, CO (daughter When Dr. Florence Vaccarello Dunkel M-D’64 Wisconsin. Visits from 2 cousins enabled them to take ’54 in high school and 4 are in college; 2 will graduate in College diploma framed and kept it hung over the sink. and family). In between—volunteering, crafting and was presented the North American Consortium 2 trips to the UP of Michigan to trace their ancestral Nancy Preston Johnson May, (nursing and law school), 1 is studying in Norway, The Memorial Service featured beautiful Scotch-Irish enjoying all Madison has to offer. “Life is good.” for Insect Agriculture’s award for Excellence in lines, which include a fur trader from Ireland who I spent two wonderful years at Lawrence. I have and 1 graduates next year. Three remain in the military gospel hymns and ended with one the family thought Entomology Research and Leadership, she was married an Ojibwe woman. Look for the John Johnston fond memories of Freshman Studies. Being able to service. Two work in D.C. area, and 1 is a home-school Dorie would like best: I’ll Fly Away. Dr. Carolyn King Stephens M-D’62 and husband, introduced as the founder of the new industry of homestead if you are ever in the Soo and a nice read Karl Marx and Charles Darwin in the 1950s mom. Joanne’s 2 daughters and their husbands remain John, are in great health. In May of ’18 they took edible insects. display in the museum on Madeline Island. was amazing considering the then-political climate. active and involved, as you can imagine. Barbara Lieberum Westhofen M-D’57 has vague a riverboat trip up the Rhone and a train across However, I transferred to the University of Vermont memories of a bowling alley in the basement of one Switzerland. The activity level was called “Keep the In her talk, “What’s for Dinner? Rethinking the Eileen is active in Lifelong Learning Institute (serving to be closer to Dartmouth College, where my high She celebrated her 86th birthday and passed CA’s of the M-DC buildings. The pins were smaller than Pace,” and they did! Four adult children keep them Dinner Table,” Dunkel discussed her research on this on the curriculum committee), P.E.O., People for school boyfriend, Bill Johnson, was a student. That driving test the day before having her 1st cataract normal—duck pins? Which building? Does anyone moving between: Allison and David, Mercersburg, alternate food source and her work to help encourage People, and book club. Three grandchildren live was a very strategic move on my part. I married Bill, surgery. Second surgery followed a month later. Some remember bowling there? PA; John (LU ’87) and Helen, Fort Worth; Matthew nutritious food choices by people around the world. nearby, and she takes them to music lessons in and we had 55 years together. Bill was a Harvard- eye issues, not solved by lens replacement, caused and Claudia, LA; and Stephanie (LU ’91) and Bobby, She also promoted the 31st Montana State University the summer. They love to cook together, too. This is trained lawyer who served 31 years as a member of a temporary problem, but things are better now. Her Nona Roesler Kyle M-D’59 is living on Lake Winnebago. Chicago. En route they try to catch any of their nine (MSU) Bug Buffet Week, which she and her students the third Christmas where she has involved them in the New Hampshire Superior and Supreme Courts. mobility is slowed by arthritis but a cane helps. This Her husband passed away in 2004. She has a puggle grandchildren, aged from 26 to 7. Carolyn retired initiated and now hosts over 1000 for lunch. Swedish traditions from her dad’s family. Swedish Together, Bill and I ran political campaigns, created is the start of Joanne’s 25th year as a Kaiser Hospice dog, Milo, who is her buddy. from teaching in spring of 2016. “These days my work meatballs, rice pudding, rosettes, and the Santa Lucia businesses and raised two daughters. I have two adult volunteer. is interviewing, writing, and proof reading for two Joining MSU as an entomology professor in 1988, costume are part of our Christmas Eve together. grandchildren and one great grandson. Lois A. Lind M-D’59 and husband, Marshall, spend books based on interviewing personal profiles: Love she became the College of Agriculture’s first female Lost several dear friends last year who were her “going most of their time in the Juneau, AK area. They are and War in ’44 has stories from the greatest generation department head and the second woman to chair She looks forward to seeing many of you at Reunion, out” partners, but she continues to attend the theater still able to boat and enjoy summers with family on at my church, due to come out early in 2019. My book an entomology department at any U.S. Land-Grant where Zoe Ganos ’55 will be honored as a recipient of and has especially enjoyed some local community the waters of southeast Alaska. They also maintain for Lawrence profiles Milwaukee-Downer alumnae and university. In 2018, she was honored by MSU as one the Jupp Award. theater productions in which her grandchildren have a condo in the Seattle area, which helps them milestone group events since the Consolidation. It should of the 125 Extraordinary Ordinary Women in MSU’s been involved. “Here in California, hope springs keep in touch with their Washington daughter and be out at Reunion 2019.” 125 year history. grandchildren. 44 FALL 2019 LAWRENCE 45 CLASS NOTES CLASS NOTES

Marilyn Date Kruecke We see each other quite frequently. To contact me my expected for our age!!!). We keep busy with volunteer Frank Gaylord reports that he continues to lead Mary Potter Ackerman keeps busy helping her artist ’60 I thank God for good health which enables me to email is [email protected]. activities—have not done much traveling recently other an active life in a couple of Madison-area churches husband with his pottery business. The physical part, have an active life. I am a Florida resident and spend than to Prescott, AZ where our son lives. Currently we and the community itself. This past September, setting up tents and schlepping pots, gets tougher Dr. John J. Beck winters in Venice there. I have discovered a need for Dr. Charles S. Watson are without pets (have had cats)—probably too old three family members accompanied Frank on a every year but she still enjoys it. They are now great- Barbara and I are still staying at Pine Crest Village tutoring young adults to read. It was a revelation that I retired from the Indiana University (IU) faculty 15 to get any more! We exercise regularly at the fitness Scandinavian cruise. A trip to Ireland is planned grandparents to four little boys. Assisted Living, but I’m at the house every day. A some have gone through our education system and years ago and have been working since as president center, which also fills up much of our time. That is an for August. daughter and her husband, 2 dogs and a cat are living have not learned this essential skill. The experience of a small R&D company, Communication Disorders up-to-date of our lives—we keep busy. Ulrike Scharmer Duchrow writes that the Duchrow there. I continue to serve on 3 boards. I still enjoy teaching first grade has enabled me to help. My Technology, Inc. I was pleased to receive the RC Arno Haering has relocated to the Twin Cities area to clan of children, spouses and grandchildren gathered telling of fond memories and experiences from our daughter invited me to spend summers in the Peoria Atkinson Lifetime Achievement Award from the IU ’58 be closer to his children and grandchildren after the in Switzerland for skiing in January. Ulrike and her years at Lawrence and my Sig Ep pledge class. area. I built a small log home on their 20 acres. It’s Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences death of his wife, Judy, about a year ago. husband, Ulrich, enjoyed an Easter trip to Istanbul Jacki Anderson Challoner writes that downsizing Kathleen Karst Larson such fun to have a small garden and to chuckle over this past year. Enjoying five grandchildren and my has worked for them. Jacki, her husband, Dave ’56, where they admired the beautiful mosques and the the antics of my flock of chickens! I look forward to a wonderful wife, Betty; we will celebrate our 50th next Judy Huffman Sutherland and Helen Lofquist vestiges of the Christian past. Roger and I continue to live in McAllen, TX. We have and their beagle have moved to a continuing care lived here 52 years and have seen the area grow from visit from Jane Shonts Horstman ’54 in August. year. You old folks with hearing loss who belong to retirement community in Gainesville, Fla. called Oak Zimmerman recently returned from an exciting two AARP might try the telephone hearing test, which we week birding trip to Cuba. Besides the many beautiful For Bill Swearingen and his wife, Carol, taking trips is a sleepy valley town to quite a metropolitan area. Hammock. It is affiliated with the University of Florida Recently, McAllen has become a media mecca due James K. Lunney developed and that AARP provides to its members where Dave worked for 16 years. birds seen, they were captivated by the history and art an important part of their lives. They go to Nashville My wife Mickey died unexpectedly in October 2017. without charge. (We do this on a nonprofit basis.) of this fascinating island nation. several times a year to see their daughter and to the prospect of building a wall along the border. (We are not in any danger.) Although our traveling We were married 56 years. Our 6 kids have been very Regards to all the 1954 class, sorry I did not finish Allen Bonde is beating cancer. It is now almost 7 grandchildren. A family reunion in Minnesota found Bill supportive. I gave up biking in 2018. Now I try to do with you; in Navy, 51-55. Jan Krause Gunlogson has returned to Alaska after meeting relatives he did not know and others he did has become limited, we do remain active in various years since his partial laryngectomy and no signs of community activities. We have 6 grandchildren (TX 7500 steps 4 times a week. I am living in a condo in cancer’s return. Allen enjoys giving performances a recent Lower 48 visit with her two daughters and not recognize. De Pere, WI. Jane Shonts Horstman the grandchildren. A highlight was a trip to Wisconsin and NJ), and recently became great grandparents.(TX) of Great American Songbook favorites to enthusiastic I do enjoy hearing from classmates. Fortunately, I am still as active as last year and audiences at retirement communities. to explore the family roots in Oshkosh and tour the Caroline Tichenor (Tish) Winsor and her daughter Amy Potter Major enjoying my 50 years living in Australia. In 2018, Lawrence campus. Both daughters, college vocal hiked the Cotswolds in south central England last Diane Thate Martin Bill and I are still enjoying life at Franke @ Seaside I visited the States in July/August to catch up with Ruthann Boucher Stolzman and her husband, Burnel, music professors, were impressed with the Lawrence fall. The Cotswolds are a range of hills known for their in Mt. Pleasant, SC. Lots of activities, good food friends and family in SFO, DEN and Chicago. In Conservatory and its facilities. scenic beauty. They hiked about 10 miles a day for I’m still kicking and trying to keep up with former have five grandchildren graduating from college this activities. I still play with the Allouez (80 piece) band and friends. We both have taken up croquet and will September, I took a trip from Darwin, W.A. to the year. Ruthann is staying with her desktop publishing three days and stayed in inns at night. soon have a bocce court. And I joined the art group uninhabited, sandy beach islands of Indonesia before Tom Kayser has been living in an assisted living that performs at the Meyer Theater, which holds over business and is working invitations for her 65th high 900 people. We perform once a month Sept.–May. and now enjoy acrylic painting. We’ve limited our going across the top of Papua and Papua New Guinea school reunion. facility in St. Paul since the death of his wife, Merrily Watters Thomas and her husband, Dave, have travels to the USA. We went to Taos, N.M. to visit and on to the Solomon Islands to return to Australia. Marlene, last fall. Tom is an avid follower of the spent a number of spring weekends traveling through We do all styles of music. I also play in a summer granddaughters and took a hot air balloon ride. Bucket (PNG is our closest neighbor just north of Australia). political scene both in Minnesota and nationally. the South seeing their fraternal twin grandchildren, band that plays every other Thurs. at Voyager Park in Shirley Carter Delorme says she is in good health and De Pere. I don’t play as much keyboard as I used too. list complete! Our mountain cabin in NC sold this In 2019, I visited our east coast galleries, including does not plan to leave her Green Bay home except feet He enjoys hearing from classmates and can be Thomas and Emma, graduate from Berry College in spring, so we will experience our first full Charleston the National galleries in our capital, Canberra. I am reached at 651-696-3135. Georgia and Sewanee in Tennessee respectively. They My husband, Paul, is still golfing and a helper to the first. She enjoys playing the piano at a local assisted sick and dying. I don’t know how he does this, but he summer. We will be dreaming of Wisconsin. a great admirer of Aboriginal art and have a small living facility twice a month. Shirley is also active also watched Thomas play in a number of lacrosse quality collection of 30 paintings and artefacts. My Dave Mann and his wife, Marjorie, had a six week games for Berry College. is good at it. My daughter Becky is a choral director at in a group of people trying to get six innocent men Franklin Middle School in Green Bay, and Brenda is a Jack Nilles trip to the U.S. in July will again include visiting my acquitted of a murder they did not commit. vacation trip in Europe last September. It began with a My wife, Laila, left this earth in 2016. For details, dear roommate, Marilyn Date Kricke, as we carry the 21-day cruise in the western Mediterranean with visits Elisabeth Wilton reports that she is fully recovered guidance counselor at Menasha High School. I have 4 grandchildren. please visit www.forevermissed.com/laila-padorr- banner for 1932 and the LU class of 1954. Other Jim Davis has taken up pickleball, a game that to 19 ports in 8 different countries. They then spent from the heart operation of three years ago and the nilles. Now I’m spending time watching my new personal interests include retiring from judging cats combines elements of tennis, badminton and ping a week in Barcelona, followed by a two week tour of subsequent life threatening blood clots that followed. great-grandniece grow—via the internet. I’m still active, but continuing with my with my wine interests and Spain and Portugal. Elisabeth has downsized to an apartment in a Jack H. Morris pong. The ball is similar to a large whiffle ball and the Dianne and I can’t seem to stay in one place. Just though, fomenting more interdisciplinary research, Mah Jong. paddles are made of wood or composition material. retirement community in McLean, VA. This community particularly on the impending climate crises. After all, Pat Mingeer Vornberg sees life today as a series is filled with friendly and interesting folks, many of moved from a beautiful, but way too large, lake house Jim says it is a lot of fun to play as it does not require to a smaller patio home in Belmont, NC. Kept the Lawrence got me into this interdisciplinary business, ’56 the ability to move around quickly that most of us no of small accomplishments and small annoyances. whom have travelled extensively. so I’m returning the favor. I urge everyone who is A recent accomplishment was finding and fixing the boat, but far less home maintenance. This is our third Joan Timmermann Anderson longer possess. house in Belmont since we retired here 15 years ago, concerned about the future to seriously consider your Steve and I are still alive and well and much too busy. cause of her computer slowdown. An annoyance was Dave Wiese writes that they are snowbirding between energy usage, particularly its energy sources. Ma having to wait five weeks for a certified birth certificate homes in Washington state and Florida in a camper and our 9th house since leaving Lawrence. Gaining As I write this, we are looking forward to summer in Joyce Freiberg Christie and her husband, Tom ’59 some spare time and between books (my last one was Nature isn’t concerned with your politics, just your Baileys Harbor, just a few miles from Björklunden. are in the final stages of downsizing. They will move to from Illinois needed to renew her Massachusetts with a cat and a puppy while seeking equitable physical impacts. driver’s license. weather. published in 2017), travel awaits. Just returned from If you come to Door County in the summer give an apartment in Luther Manor, a life care community a 10-day pilgrimage to the Holy Land. We’ll be visiting us a call—920-839-9357—and maybe we can in Wauwatosa on July 2. Joyce and Tom have found C. Daniel Sprich John Moore is understandably proud that a second Lee Wolf is still involved in building apartment family in LA and San Diego next week, with MN, WI meet for lunch or coffee. We just returned from a downsizing to be a great deal of work deciding what to and IL on the agenda for later this summer. Cheers. In early 2017, I moved to an independent resident wonderful week in New Orleans, celebrating our older keep but are happy not to have to inflict this task on edition of Reinforcement Learning by two of his former buildings in Colorado and South Dakota. Most are apartment in a continuing care complex in Grand students has recently been published. Reinforcement affordable under the Federal Affordable Housing Tax granddaughter’s graduation from Tulane. Her 16-year- their children Marilyn Low Schmitt Rapids, MI. I had lived in Grand Rapids for 27 years old brother will be spending the summer with us as a learning is one of the most active areas in artificial Credit Program. This program produces rental rates and moved with my wife, Enid Gauerke Sprich, to a intelligence and tries to maximize the total amount of that are 35% below market rates. Hi! I continue happily in The Clare retirement sailing instructor at the Ephraim Yacht Club—back to Sue Fortney Walby reports that she and her husband, community in the heart of Chicago. Lots of lively golf community outside of Knoxville, TN. Enid passed chauffeur time! Peter, are still doing the thing they have always done. reward it receives when interacting with a complex, away in February 2012, and, as I was getting up uncertain environment. Bob Martin is in his 21st year of thrice weekly floral people and much to do inside and out! My sister Peter enjoys his hobby/job of broadcasting high Phyllis is here now too, so that adds a pleasure. Good in years, my children convinced me to move back Shirley Cox Seefeld and Kenneth W. Seefeld school sports in the Viroqua area. Sue continues to deliveries. “It has been an ideal part time job. Every to my current home. I am very happy here as my Steve Pinkowski writes that he had a stroke last year day is different. I have seen parts of the greater health so far, if diminishing gumption to take in all that We are still in St. George, UT, and love the weather give piano and organ lessons and is the director of Chicago offers. Hope you are all doing well. With fond community is very active with social events, lectures, and the scenery in this part of the state. We are now music at the First Presbyterian Church in La Crosse. and spent some time in rehab. With several great- Chicago area that I never would have seen otherwise.” entertainment and trips to all kinds of entertainment grandchildren to play with, Steve says life is good. memories, Marilyn (Low) Schmitt 55 E. Pearson St. in our 4th house in St. George, the last two in Sun Chicago, IL 60611 310-903-1973. sites. In addition my three children are near—two sons River, a golfing adult retirement community (but we are John Franke and his wife have relocated to an in Grand Rapids and a daughter in the Detroit area. not golfers). Our health is good (as good as it can be assisted living facility in Tucson. Their new address is 942 North Via Zahara Del Sol, Tucson, AZ 85748. 46 FALL 2019 LAWRENCE 47 CLASS NOTES CLASS NOTES

Arthur E. von Plachecki Ann L. Doemland her. Despite the changes, she still volunteers at the Harry MacLean is still working as a labor arbitrator Art von Plachecki, Bill Perkins, Chuck Wurster and their Have now been back in the house I where I grew up, historical museum and Quaker meeting, participates and writing books. The next one, a psychological wives Margot, Margo, and Pat (Gilmore ’61) held their in Des Plaines, IL, for 30 years—longer than all the in book and movie groups, goes to theatre and thriller, should be out in 2021. Harry reports that one own mini reunion in Texas for 5 great days in April. time I lived in NYC. Mostly retired from my massage movies, and has lunch with friends. She reports that of these days, “I’ll hang it up and Julya and I will move The tales of old were just as funny, particularly after and bodywork practice, but still do a little. Continue great grandkids are a joy. to St. Petersburg, Florida to keep Betzer company.” a couple Texas beers. Art also served as Chairman to play timpani in our local orchestra and continue my of the Sherman CT Veterans Association scholarship involvement with a women’s spirituality group. Gene R. Clark’s current plans involve lots of travel. Karen McDonald has four children and seven committee. The funding for the scholarships is from She lost her husband in Nov. 2015 and finds travel grandchildren. She is keeping busy with boards and a grant given to the Veterans Association by Walter Mary Beecher Price and Richard H. Price ’62 and time with the kids keeps her busy and out of activities. B. Wriston, son of former Lawrence President Walter Like many peers, we are lucky and grateful as we trouble. Currently she has her 3rd grandson attending Wriston. move to a next phase—smaller, simpler, still in Ann Lawrence and he’s a junior. “Hopefully the next one, Jon McGinty and his wife of 10 years, Kathy, live on a Arbor, less of the treasures and detritus collected in a year, will choose Lawrence too, but only time will farm west of Rockford, Illinois, and are semi-retired. Rev. R. Scott Sherman (Scott) over 24 years in our beloved country house. We are tell.” Jon still writes feature articles for Northwest Quarterly It’s actually THE decade birthday this month. Yes, nearer bike paths and the river, & though it’s a condo, Magazine, a regional lifestyle/business magazine. I am younger than almost all of my classmates, but it was designed by the same architect who created Gene travels from MN to the Rio Grande Valley of Jon’s son is a salesman in the Milwaukee area. Jon’s finally made it to Super Senior. That resulted in a our longtime house, so lots will be familiar. Shedding TX 4 times a year, as she is currently a TX resident. daughter is married and teaches science in a Rockford family reunion with 44 of us in Door County, including and donating have been full time these past months, She would like to sell her home in TX, so if you know high school. Kathy’s daughters also live in Rockford. Judy (Schroeder) (Sherman) Grimes ’61. Most of our and we’ve learned how the rules of real estate selling anyone who wants to relocate to “the valley” please Jon and Kathy travelled to Florida last year and remain time now is devoted to Heidi’s ovarian cancer healing, have changed. But we are nearly there. The kids will let them or Gene know. active in their churches. which seems to be doing quite well, and travel. be relieved not to have to sort and discard, and we will July takes us from home in Vero Beach, FL, to the have a cozy spot nearer town. Reading, writing, and Ross Davis and Kathleen Dinham Davis are “surviving Norman Paulk and his wife, Vicki, remain focused on West Coast to see friends and family. September is trying to stay fit, loving nearby concerts and cultural the tribulations of old age with some humor and some helping people sleep comfortably and stay on their Ecuador and the Galapagos. We continue a little events challenges” and are grateful to still live in their home CPAP therapy. Their CPAP Comfort Covers are helping slower, certain, retired and quite happy. in southern Oregon. Their youngest son and his family thousands of them. [email protected]. Robert E. Waterman live nearby. Kathleen recently retired after 25 years My wife Anne and I continue to enjoy living in Langley as Congregational Church organist but still plays the Judy Bezanson Ruth and her husband John are ’62 on Whidbey Island with our children nearby; two in piano daily. They read a lot and follow the Oregon happily retired. Five months a year they live in Mesa, Drew Becker Seattle and two on the Island. Our two granddaughters Ducks. Arizona, in a retirement community with lots of people Still active at the bar doing pro bono work and as graduate from High School this year and will be and activities! Six months a year they live in their a hearing officer for the Attorney Discipline Board. attending colleges in Oregon. Our two 5 y-o grandsons Linda Raasch Feldt and Bruce Feldt ’65 still enjoy hometown of Cedar Rapids, Iowa; and when they We are moving to Petoskey as soon as our Burt Lake keep us busy and “young.” I maintain my interest in their retired life in Marshfield, Wis. They have been return there in March, will move out of their big house Cottage sells to a house we are totally renovating. local history, and much to my amusement, am referred members of the UW campus symphony for over 50 Class of 1964. (Photo: Thompson Photo Imagery) of 30 years into a senior living apartment. In August, to as the “local historian.” Except for a herniated disc, years—“probably the oldest ones on stage now.” They they are at a small lake in Northwest Wisconsin ... an poor hearing and macular degeneration, I feel good. take trips to see their children in Minneapolis and old logging camp in Judy’s family for four generations. Daniel E. Began Wren recently started a women’s chorus at Canterbury John Knopp is raising a Golden Retriever puppy, swims Still perking along. Kids and grandkids are the focus After years of prodding by my wife, I am beginning Stoughton, Wis. They still enjoy the waters of Upper They have 4 children and 7 grandchildren. the process of downsizing. I find discarding the Michigan during the summer. Tower. and plays tennis, and keeps records of wild birds in along with working on mental health projects, raising his yard. He still works as a biology examiner for the funds and trying to find ways to combat and deal with memorabilia accumulated over a teaching career Russ Rutter and Margaret Lessels Rutter ’66 have exhausting and depressing, but so be it. Bill Gralow and Sharon Lawrence Gralow ’65 Judy Thoresen Howe and George Howe live in International Baccalaureate. He and his wife, Willette, been married for 53 years. Their daughter and son- this awful disease for this and future generations of Cornelius, North Carolina, just outside of Charlotte. will spend time in Nairobi this spring visiting their our children. A huge and growing problem with no continue to travel. Last year they did a river cruise in-law live in eastern Pennsylvania. Their son and ’64 through the Netherlands and Germany followed by a They would love to welcome classmates who pass middle son and granddaughters. Additional trips this son-in-law live in Houston. They have six grandchildren where near enough answers and or dollars. No health through the area. They still love to travel. Judy’s new year will include Honolulu and Seattle to visit family without mental health. Virginia Allen continues to enjoy choral singing at tour of Switzerland. The previous year they cruised and two great-grandchildren. Russ and Margaret plan from Dubai to Rome with their daughter and crossed book for middle grade readers, The Freedom Stone, and attend a Peace Corps reunion and a PCA driving to travel to South America this year. Both recently nearby St. John’s Cathedral and to live in the Olin, a came out last October. tour to Quebec and upstate New York. Dr. David A. Bray converted hotel from Denver’s Prohibition-era days. Luxor and the Suez Canal off their bucket list. celebrated passing the Illinois State driver’s tests Very, very proud of my sophomore, Logan. Lawrence She is working on another short story collection, this required of all ancient characters over age 75. Russ is Wren Ellsworth Gurney and Don Gurney ’65 recently Walt Isaac and Barbara Ives Isaac continue to enjoy Bonnie Laird reports that life has not changed much a retired English professor, but insists no one knows has clearly been the place to be for him. I just one entitled My Last Week on Earth. She would like to the mountains and wide open spaces of their Colorado since retirement in 2000. She continues to enjoy returned from Amsterdam, where my wife, Leeza, reconnect with Carol Reed ’64 and asks if anyone has joined a Life Plan Community, Goodwin House, in Falls him anymore at the English Department. Church, very close to their Arlington home of 48 years. home of 46 years. They remain active in their church hiking on the Appalachian Trail and other mountainous attended her Public Relations Global Network meeting. contact information. and its choir, volunteer activities and traveling to see areas, helping travelers navigate the Minneapolis I am ready and willing to do prospective student Downsizing to their new apartment was a massive job, Ralph Schuetz and his wife Nancy recently moved but they had Herculean help from their two daughters. their kids and grandkids in North Carolina. Other trips airport, and learning about the world through new from their Annandale, Virginia, home of 26 years to interviews. Bratwurst for Memorial Day! Pete Barile and his wife Barbara bought a 32-acre last year included Australia, Tucson, Italy, Door County travels. She still drives back and forth to Green Bay to farm with eight cows near a lake in Morristown, TN. They remain busy, with Wren maintaining the Arlington a nearby senior living community. Last September, LWV’s webpage and Facebook sites, and Don serving in Wisconsin, and the Danube from a river cruise ship. cheer on the Packers and hopes next season brings they hosted the Washington D.C. Alumni Club for a Sharon Nustad Carlton 2017. They are building a new house with guest Barbara is still downhill skiing; Walt recently gave it up more smiles! After 15 years of retirement & a second marvelous house and multiple out buildings. He bought another as the League’s Treasurer. performance by Megan (Liz) Cole ’63. In 2017, Ralph for more golf. and Nancy worked with Lawrence to establish the marriage with spending 6 mo. in Florida & 6 mo. in company in October, is building a new factory for that Patricia Joyce Laybourn, despite retiring from Minnesota, I lost my husband and have gone back to company, and reports that, “Retirement is not in my Alice Darling Heyer and her husband, Fred, moved to Joseph Hopfensperger Fund for Senior Experience in Canterbury Tower in Tampa, FL, in 2016 after living in Bruce Jensen enjoys retirement and being a teaching Spanish in 2007, is still teaching. In an ESL Theatre Arts. They invite participation in this fund as a work part-time. I am enjoying it, feeling productive and vocabulary.” grandparent. In December, his oldest grandson was program, she teaches English to Somali immigrants also excited to be moving into a senior co-op. So the Fairfax, VA, for 29 years. The move was necessitated part of your annual giving. by Fred’s 10-year journey with Alzheimer’s. Their son admitted to college, and the youngest took his first and international students at the University of next stage of life is beginning. I am near my daughter, Kathryn Gebhart Booth reports that since the death steps. Bruce looks forward to their adventures over the Minnesota. She also does individual tutoring, including family and many friends so feel very fortunate. My new of husband Jim two years ago, she has “had to learn and grandchildren live nearby and provide loving Bob Stephan and his wife Judith, after living 31 support. In December 2018, it became necessary for next decades. recently with a Buddhist monk from Vietnam. Patricia years in New Canaan, Connecticut, downsized seven address is 7070 153rd St. West #403. Apple Valley, lots of new ways to live,” but that fortunately there and husband Richard are considering trips this spring MN 55124. Life is good. has been a network of family and others to support Fred to move to a memory care facility in Tampa. They years ago and moved to Bremen, Maine. They enjoy celebrated their 54th wedding anniversary on Dec. 12. to Costa Rica and to Denmark, Richard’s country of mid-coast Maine—its friendly people, Coastal Senior origin. 48 FALL 2019 LAWRENCE 49 CLASS NOTES

J. B. deRosset (J.B.) ’70 Dr. Bruce C. Campbell My 55 and older tennis team will be playing for the Hi all, I have totally retired and sold my Veterinary USTA national title—Phoenix in October. I am old Bill and Phyllis Russ Pengelly are still enjoying life practice. It was a great 42 years of helping animals enough to be the father of most of my teammates. in Bend even though everyone seems to be moving and their owners. Now I am a full time wood worker, From [email protected]. here, causing some of our favorite places to get ever trading my surgical skills for handling wood working more crowded. We keep busy with golf, walking the tools. Sue has also retired from nursing and helps me Rick Kroos dog (now 1 ½ and still very much a puppy,) hiking in managing our forest sustainability program. Son Life in Hong Kong continues to be stable and and some pickle ball (Phyllis). Phyllis engages Brian has his hands full with 15-year-old Jack who rewarding in these chaotic times. Happenings around in conservation work with Oregon Natural Desert is a cello enthusiast and 13-year-old Emma a gifted the world capture most of my attention, in particular Association and also sews menstrual kits for women dancer. Nathan still is shoeing horses and has taken the June 4th Tiananmen Square 30th Anniversary. and girls in third world countries who would miss up the art of blacksmithing. Darren just bought his first There will be demonstrations in HK as we challenge school or work without these supplies. The kits are so home and has relocated from Boston to Minneapolis. China’s interference to the “one country two systems” colorful and last for three years ... lots of fun and a Todd is an architect and is testing for his full licensure handover agreement. I will be in the UK in early June great group of women. We are lucky to be healthy and status. Cheers to all! and will have a front row seat watching President hope to see lots of friends next June. Trump’s visit to commemorate the 75th anniversary Julia Walfoort DeCock and Dennis R. DeCock ’69 of the D-Day invasion at Normandy and the June 7th Paul B. Bauck After 30 years in our Evanston home, we downsized retirement of the UK Prime Minister Theresa May. In We continue to enjoy retirement with travel, painting last summer to a townhome a mile away. It’s working the US, my attention has been drawn to the entry and music. I play and sing in four different groups our very well, although I still can’t drive past the old of Asian American Andrew Yang casting his hat into on ukulele, guitar, banjo, bass, harmonica, and house unless I arrive there on autopilot! Denny retired the ring for the Presidency in 2020. He has some concertina. As the song says, I sings jazz, blues, rock, several years ago and now “works” as a golf course interesting ideas to create changes in America. Most folk, and country and just get confused, not famous. ranger and does some volunteer work. Although important, I remain in support of Lawrence’s programs Jean recently got a new banjolele and is having I’m not retired, I work so little that I may not renew fun with the happy sounds she makes. Our recent Class of 1969. (Photo: Paul Wilke) focusing on China and Hong Kong. Last December I my real estate license at the end of the year. I play hosted faculty Jason Brozek, Amaya Balsekar and 10 travels have been to Vancouver Island and to the duplicate bridge and do some volunteer work. A few students visiting Hong Kong after their travels in China. California desert, both of which provide ample scenes years ago I ran into Julie Gerken Koslow at a bridge for painting. We have enjoyed sharing some of our College Rotary Club, Bremen Library, birding, paddling, career as a strategic advisor, but these two are my The students’ interests, knowledge and enthusiasm game, and we’ve partnered occasionally since then. ’66 vacation adventures with Norman and Janet Baxter. and visits with children and grandchildren. The also main activities. Still single, and remembering Peggy were without question. Great partner—small world! Our kids and grands are Next year Appleton? Has it really been 50 years? rent an apartment in Bedford, Massachusetts, which Curtis W. Buchholtz with love and respect. all “out east” bur thriving. They are the grace notes in is close to family. Curt Buchholtz retired from the National Park Jane Nelson Azzi and Corry F. Azzi ’65 our lives. Foundation in November 2018. His experience with David A. Lawrence The Azzi family has confronted change this past year Chris A. Bowers My wife, Joan, and I have been active travelers the Robert Suszycki and his wife Frances (or FE) live in national parks began after his first year at Lawrence, Still alive and kicking. We have taken to cruising and and are overcoming the challenges found therein. Dr. Larry W. Einspahr last several years. Besides short regional trips to far western North Carolina at the start of the Blue starting work in Glacier National Park in 1963 with the traveling this year, Southern Caribbean, Bermuda and We decided Corry should go to the Mayo Clinic in Despite the death of my father last July (95 y.o.), the bike rail-to-trail routes and attending Björklunden Ridge mountains. Their woods abound with birds and encouragement of Professor George Walter. He spent round-trip NYC to Quebec and back plus a quick trip Rochester to find out why he was not getting better family and I continue to feel blessed by a balance of seminars, our longer trips have been to the Canadian other wildlife. FE avails herself of the local Senior 23 summers working in Glacier, mostly in firefighting to Albuquerque, NM, for my brother’s 80th birthday with the RA in his lungs. We learned the RA in the work, family, fun, and travel. I’m still trying to titrate Rockies & PEI/NovaScotia. In the winter, we’ve done and Wellness Center for workouts, and Robert enjoys and as a ranger. He was also a college history and our usual 2 trips to Boothbay Harbor, Maine. The lungs most often leads to pulmonary hypertension, my private practice to full retirement, but I continue driving trips to Florida and Arizona. Next March, we’ll playing both duplicate and party bridge in what would professor and a freelance writer. From 1985 to 2011, retired life is pretty good! and he became part of an NIH grant to study it and to provide long-distance care for some of my autism go to Australia & New Zealand. Recently I spent two appear to be strictly 75-up company. Robert remains he served as the executive director of the nonprofit medication to alleviate it. I found out that I should spectrum patients—in the remainder of the time I have days at Lawrence with about 16 members of our class, in touch with Dale Lewis ’64 and Sandy Kleppin Rocky Mountain Nature Association in Estes Park, CO, Michael H. Lee stop ignoring the one great-grandfather of the eight dedicated to working. I actively invest in the stock attending a workshop to begin planning our 50th Lewis ’63. working with Rocky Mountain National Park. For the Spent the last two years traveling around the country not done, and am finally finishing the genealogy of market. My greatest joy is sharing in the lives of three last six years, he traveled the West as a director of and Canada—over 20,000 miles. Visited with Geoff our families, abandoned a decade ago. Our son and Reunion in June 2020. It was good to meet students, grandchildren, and have already started to “assistant” President Burstein and staff, but spending time with John Walsh and Darlene Verbrick Walsh still reside major gifts for the National Park Foundation. and Anne Wheeler Bartol ’66 in Salt Spring Island, his family moved from Minneapolis to Denver last coach Avery (5 y.o.) in basketball and soccer. Additional classmates was the most rewarding. This reunion in Columbia, Maryland, where they happily watch their near Vancouver Canada. Write a blog at www.Into- October, which presents new challenges for both of fun comes in the form of competitive pickle ball and should be special, so lock in the dates and make grandchildren grow and develop. Darlene retains her Annette Maffia Dluger the-Unknown.net and wrote a book about my travels us. Our daughter and family remain in Memphis. Both “table tennis.” The most recent travel has been an plans to attend. passion for historical preservation and volunteers with I am sad to say my husband, Ron, was diagnosed with at www.blurb.com/b/9300841-amazing-views. New of our ABC sons are wonderful. We will visit the one in incredible trip to South Africa! the Howard County Historical Society. John continues AMLeukemia in mid-January, did five days of chemo address: 1804 Camden Dr., Glenview, Illinois 60025. Cleveland this summer, and the one in Tampa will visit Dr. Peter R. Burzynski to provide outstanding customer service as a cart during our Polar Vortex, developed an infection, and us this fall. I continue to help as a volunteer librarian, Dr. Gregory J. Exarhos Now that the Class of ’70 has reached their 70s, the attendant at the Fairway Hills golf course. spent February in the hospital. He died on March Marcia Glidden Parker and Thomas D. Parker ’65 historian and archivist-in-training at the Paper As a Lab Fellow emeritus at Pacific NW National Lab 5th. He had been teaching at North Park University in We have moved from Stevens Point to Hortonville: Discovery Museum. Speaking of the old alma mater, universe seems to be in alignment! Sue and I are in Richland, WA, I pursue basic research on thin films enjoying life in southern Indiana, where we now realize Dick Woy and Jean Lampert Woy ’65 continue to Chicago and is sorely missed by not only his family, W9141 Forevergreen Ct., Hortonville, WI 54944 I am still coordinating the 50Y Connection. I have and laser-surface interactions. I teach an 8-week we’ve lived longer in one place (Newburgh, 30+ years) work. Jean does freelance editing of college textbooks but also by the many students whose lives he touched. especially enjoyed the Lunch @ Lawrence Fridays this workshop to early career scientists entitled, Writing than any other. Pete teaches 2-3 psychology courses for high school Advanced Placement courses. Dick He was an outstanding teacher and a great friend. Milton H. Rudi year. Joyce Anderson Beyer, one of my freshman year a Compelling Scientific Research Proposal, continue each semester at a nearby community college—and continues his management consulting business, Hey, I’m still alive! Lifelong curiosity and desire to roommates, and her husband came down from Green as Treasurer of the AVS, and co-chair of the annual loves at least trying to keep up with what’s going on working on projects addressing the opioid overdose Henry M. Kaiser learn has been critical. Do you ever feel that “just Bay for two of them. Also at the first of these was Symposium on Laser Damage in Optical Materials. in the brains of the post-millennial generation. Sue epidemic. Last spring they did a six-day walk from Dr. Henry M. Kaiser encourages friends to visit when you learned all the answers, they changed all Sue Wawak Gay, who came up from Germantown with Armed with a new clarinet, I regularly accompany my enjoys substitute teaching (no lesson plans or grading central Slovenia south to the Adriatic coast at Trieste. www.neurofeedbackadvocacyproject.com to learn the questions?” Seems to me that will be a continuing her husband. I love seeing classmates and continue pianist wife, Cathy, at three weekend church masses, why neurofeedback might be the most exciting theme going forward in life. But it’s changing so fast to enjoy Up North visits with Linda and Howard papers), averaging two days a week at younger funerals and weddings. I enthusiastically engage breakthrough in mental health in 40 years. A visit to that will there ever be time to sit back and enjoy the Hutchinson ’64 and Dave ’64 and Pat Brainard. daughter Mara’s elementary school. Both daughters, in social swing dancing at numerous dance halls www.milagroai.com will educate friends to a similarly ride?! And what’s the destination???? Love to you all, Mara and Myka, live within 20 miles, so we luxuriate in throughout the country. Cathy and I regularly visit our impressive breakthrough in the application of AI to Milton “Mick” Rudi. ongoing get-togethers and grandkid time. Life is good! four children in Seattle, Riverside, CA, and Easton, PA. healthcare. I have several projects in my continuing

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Lawrence P. Kupferman We have finally added two granddaughters of ages Margaret Stalick Sanders and John A. Sanders ’68 Myra Hillburg even in the same house! Living close to our children John R. Fease Retirement isn’t so bad; busy with many volunteer 3 & 1 and are awaiting another next month. We love John and I have found our 2017 move from Florida Myra and Bill Hillburg are finding it hard to leave their and grandchildren will be joyful, but saying goodbye We moved to Appleton 3 months after our 45th activities based around hiking, gardening, volunteer our vacation home in Fremont on the Wolf River, only to Seattle to be a great decision. We enjoy more backyard pool and spa, but managed a getaway to to friends, our garden and home, and favorite haunts reunion. Barb and I love it here, and have become tax prep (in the winter), and bike/pedestrian matters. minutes from Lawrence! time with our West Coast daughters’ families and Cuba with fellow Lawrentians and are looking forward will be hard. deeply involved with a number of "communities" in Still have a part time job working on the bike ferry even see our N. Carolina son more often. We took to a seminar this summer at Björklunden. Myra, the the Fox Valley—including Harmony Pizza Cafe—an during the biking season—if you visit this neck of Judith Pugh Meyer sailing lessons and passed keelboat level so that we 1970 Herman Erb Award winner, is pleased to see ’72 enterprise started by some LU faculty and alums Vermont, try biking on the Colchester Causeway for Last year, 2018, the year I turned 70, was a aren’t total bumps on the deck when we’re invited to Lawrence has invested in its German program with a Joy Jaeckle Baggett offering a “safe place for others” and serving fantastic a spectacular ride and views of Lake Champlain. momentous year for my family and me. After 29 sail with Pete House ’68 and our Seattle daughter’s new professor. Ken and I retired from our full-time teaching jobs in Neapolitan-style, organic, locally sourced pizza. I am Grandkids in Washington, D.C. mean we drive years of teaching at the University of Connecticut as family. We’ve enjoyed attending beautiful concerts 2015, but I’ve been teaching yoga part-time at the also a full-time ally/advocate/accomplice with our there quite often. Best to all as we reach this next a tenured associate professor of history, I taught my with Martha Freitag ’73 whom we ran into during Lon B. Isaacson community college ever since, so I’m not completely local Planned Parenthood Health Clinic, as well as the milestone. last classes at UConn, Women in History and Europe intermission at another concert. We love the music We are at the JCK International Jewelry Show in Las retired. However, since I don’t have to grade papers wider women’s healthcare issues, a local immigrants’ in the 17th Century, in May and then formally retired scene here! We continue to take thought-provoking Vegas buying Estate and Contemporary jewelry for and I love teaching yoga, it doesn’t really count as rights/protection group, and the LGBTQ-community. John B. Laing, Jr. on September 1, 2018. In August my husband Paul seminars at Björklunden. Both of us are looking clients, friends and family. This has been a decade a job. Since it doesn’t pay didly squat, I consider it Next up; participating in the planning of our 50th Can’t retire, because I don’t work. That is my standard and I took our whole family on a wonderful vacation to forward to the Class of 1970 reunion next June and long ritual. We traveled to Israel in early May with a volunteering, anyway. I’ve taken up quilting and am Reunion! Thankful for Phyllis’ tireless work to keep line, anyway, and it is what I answer when people ask France, to Paris and Versailles: son Matthew and wife hoping for a 2T reunion! friend who has helped me acquire many apartment having a great time designing and creating again. If us connected. the obvious question. I get the laugh only when I tell Olivia with their three children, Sophie (7), Gwen (4 ½) buildings, now my primary business. Instead of 100 you’re in the El Paso area, please give me a call! them I teach at Northwestern University. Which I do. and Holly (1 ½); and son Timothy and his girlfriend Dale R. Schuh clients I now selfishly have but one. Prior to our Israel Kathleen A. FitzPatrick, Ph.D. Even now. Not much, only two courses a year—but Kristen. In June 2019, my latest research project will And now for something completely different ... while trip, I took my loyal effective office manager and Marte Brengle I have been retired for 4 years from the School of it keeps me in touch with the world. At least as the be published in the journal Church History. taking more than a year’s worth of spare(?) time and property manager Maria Flores and her SO to Italy, Life is good. Jim retired two years ago, and we have Health Sciences at Merrimack College in N. Andover, world is seen through the eyes of my students, who listening to dozens of audio books, I finally completed their first trip there and our 12th. A highlight was really been enjoying our time together (something we MA. As professor emeritus, I continue to collaborate generally have a very interesting perspective indeed. Paul L. Mueller a 13,200 piece jig-saw puzzle (no pieces missing). visiting Modena’s Ferrari Museum and planning an never had before now). We’re making an effort to try and publish with my colleagues in research on Otherwise, Bonnie and I spend as much time as we I have lived in Arizona for 31 years and do not miss the acquisition to augment my classic car collection. all kinds of new things. I’m still working as a writer and teaching and learning pedagogy, and I do classroom can on the water. Sailing in Michigan; power boating weather of my native Minneapolis or the pace of New Julie Eng Smith We travel to Prague and Budapest on June 12th, then editor for Digital Citizen and a forum moderator on visits for mentoring and evaluation of new faculty. in Florida. Between those activities and those of the York City during my early career years. I am retired Steve and I have been happily retired for some to NYC in July, and to Hawaii in August to entertain Forumania. Just built myself a new computer, and Jim I also teach Tai Ji Quan: Moving for Better Balance grandkids, life is full and wonderful. Tomorrow: Charlie from the practice of law, except for occasionally time. We currently live in Naples, Florida, and spend Elissa’s granddaughters. bought a new laptop. We’re definitely digital geezers. and Tai Chi for Arthritis and Fall Prevention in the Gallmeyer’s son’s wedding! See you next June! assisting friends. My days include hiking, a little our summers in Vail, Colorado. After many years in :) The kids are doing well. Dan’s a sergeant in security Active Living Center for Older Adults at the Merrimack tennis and lots of golf; I have also dipped my toe into Minnesota and Wisconsin, we love following the warm My daughter Jennifer concluded in June 2018 her at the Music Center and lives in a classic old building Valley YMCA. I continue to serve as Board Member Dr. Jeffrey O. Leach pickleball. Getting older has its challenges, but life sunshine. Our two adult sons still haven’t provided us service as series producer for the 6-episode NatGeo in Koreatown. Meghan and her wife, Diane, both have and evening meal coordinator at Bread and Roses Retirement still agrees with us. Golf and duplicate continues to be good. with any grandchildren, but I guess that’s the price show MARS, and we celebrated by taking a long- challenging technical jobs, and their daughter, Evie, community food program in Lawrence, MA. I’m also a bridge occupy me when we’re not traveling with recent we pay for starting our family so late in life! We feel overdue daddy-daughter trip to Japan. We loved it. just finished kindergarten. She’s well on her way to yoga bum and am catching up on reading. trips to SE Asia and Bavaria/Italy. My son has located John A. Nyman truly blessed to have our health and to live in such Jennifer is now working on a new show, but best, she being a techno-whiz like her mommies. his ENT practice an hour away so two little boys (6 & 4) I am retiring this year from the University of Minnesota. beautiful places—and we welcome LU classmates to is on the edge of engagement. Be well, be happy, Carolyn Martin Keith and Elbridge G. Keith ’69 are frequent entertainment. I am trying to put my It has been an ideal gig: smart students, graduate get in touch if you’re ever in Naples or Vail! make others happy, and you’ll be truly using your Timothy D. Brown Gerry ’69 and I moved from Evanston, IL to Lino Lakes, liberal education to good use by striving to see as classes with TAs, helpful colleagues, ample funding liberal arts skills. Since retiring a couple of years ago I have been MN, seven years ago to be near daughter Barb and many Vermeers, daVincis and Caravaggios as possible and a beautiful campus. We plan to travel, read and Judith Stanfield Young and Timothy R. Young ’70 adjusting to a life of lower intensity, although I must her family. I’m not sure we’ll ever be true Minnesotans before I run out of money. bike more. Speaking of traveling, Pat and I are leaving We hold steady in Oshkosh with one law practice, 2 Kris Bryan say I’ve been surprised at how much stuff there still but it’s feeling more like home. After 17 Challenge today for Sofia, Bulgaria. Last time I was in Bulgaria, daughters, 2 sons-in-law and 5 grandchildren. We are While playing horn a bit less each year, I am gradually is that needs taking care of. Not that there is no time Walks (3 days, 50 miles) and $160,000 raised for the Bert Lord and Juliana Cheng Lord ’70 Paul Schmidt and I were on the Orient Express bound pleased that all of the adults and four of the kids (the returning to my keyboard roots. In May, I performed for indulging myself, just less than I expected. I have National MS Society, my body decided I’d had enough. We have been doing a bit of traveling over the past to meet Ted Hope in Istanbul. Somewhere short of one-year-old has no opinion yet) support the idea of in the first of a Sunday afternoon recital series at the been finding time to enjoy my photography hobby. These days I’m playing handbells at church, serving as six months. In late April we went to Milan and Lake Sofia, we hit a tank car of benzene and had to turn getting out the vote in 2020 to restore the college’s Hearthstone Historic House Museum in Appleton. The last of my 4 kids is on schedule to graduate our church’s financial secretary, and making mittens Como area, Austria and Switzerland, and Venice and around. This time will be different. We also plan to ideals of intelligence and integrity to our national Along with my daughter, soprano Erin Bryan ’12 and and (hopefully) get a job and move out of the house each winter for children in need at Barb’s school. Gerry had a wonderful two weeks seeing all the major cities. return to Germany to bike down the Neckar river with leadership. We need “Light!, More Light!” these days. mezzo soprano Lorna Stephens ’18, I participated in this fall. That will bring more changes. Life goes on, is mostly retired from his consulting work and playing Late last August Bert went on a two week excursion a stop in Bonnigheim. We will be raising a glass of the Join us in this and see you at the Reunion next June. a traditional Victorian parlor Schubertiade, performing doesn’t it? serious bridge again, recently achieving the rank of to the Galapagos islands. I took a pass on that one weiss for all you ex-Bonnigheimers from 1968. Prost! on a historic 1875 Kranich-Bach square grand piano. sectional master. We plan to attend Gerry’s 50th LU as I was concerned about getting seasick. Bert is Carol Jegen Kevin W. Fenner reunion this year and mine next! minister of music at St. Clement of Rome in Romeo, Thomas R. Richardson and Brenda Barsamian Carol Jegen and her husband Frank Rippl ’69 moved Martha Hartzell We have been blessed with two wonderful grandsons— Michigan. I am a seasonal tax pro with H&R Block and Richardson ’70 to a new home after 41 years in the same house. I haven’t participated in news updates primarily Leo (3 ½) and Miles (5 months). Our son’s wife is Diane E. Kern doing volunteer work for MMAP advising seniors and Brenda and I have kept busy while enjoying retirement They were up to all their usual musical exploits because I didn’t actually graduate from Lawrence. I expecting a baby girl in November. We thought we Since Lawrence, I’ve lived in 5 states, did a MM at UT- disabled with their Medicare and Medicaid issues. the last six years. Brenda spends several days each when four months later, Frank passed away after transferred after my sophomore year to Barnard and wouldn’t have any grandkids for a long time! Since Austin, studied at Yale, been an orchestral musician, week volunteering as a docent at the Milwaukee Art complications from a fall. His loss has meant a huge then, eventually, Goucher College, where I graduated retiring two and a half years ago, we live in a Del Webb soloist, toured internationally with Chrysolith Duo, was Tom Maki Museum giving tours to mainly school groups. She hole in both Carol’s heart and the community. Carol in 1971. I married Criss Hartzell ’68, in 1969. We have community, and we’re immersed in working with the an orchestral librarian, founded Chamber Musicians Travel continues to be high on our bucket list. Crossing also has audited at least one class per semester is starting a memorial fund in his name to support three grown children, Laura, Robyn, and Catherine. local theater company. In the last year and a half, I’ve Alliance, taught college flute and arts administration, both oceans this year, we enjoyed a Yangtze River mostly in art history at UWM. I have been working young organists showing their love of teaching young The younger two live in the East Bay Area where Criss portrayed Buffalo Bill Cody in Annie Get Your Gun, and was Bangor Symphony education coordinator, and cruise, Terra Cotta Warriors, Beijing, and the Great the spring season as an assistant golf coach at USM, people and maintaining the high quality of music in and I are building a home for retirement. He is still the Blind Hermit in Young Frankenstein, The Musical. executive director of Opera Maine. I’ve also been a Wall, as well as a Trans-Atlantic cruise to Bermuda, where I taught for 40 years before retiring in 2012. their community. Carol is still teaching voice lessons, doing research at Emory, and I have been retired as a Since I hadn’t sung a solo in a production in over florist, jeweler, and international feng shui practitioner. the Azores, France, Belgium, Holland, and Denmark. I do golf (my game is still bad, Mueller) whenever running musical theatre camps, and music directing preschool teacher/director for 8 years. I do volunteer 50 years, the audience seemed to enjoy my I’m concentrating now on something I’ve wanted for As of this writing, we are completing a two-week return the weather permits in Wisconsin and spend a lot of She Loves Me at Attic Theatre in Appleton this summer work around literacy with adults and young children performance. Currently, I’ve been asked to direct many years, being an end of life doula in my private to Germany. time at our cabin in the Kettle Moraine north of town. starring Matt Kierzek ’17. She hopes to see lots of (immigrant-related) and registering newly sworn in the summer production of The Odd Couple—Female practice, Trillium End of Life Doula, LLC. I help people Brenda and I clear trails on the property and cut what familiar faces at the 50th reunion next June. U.S. Citizens to vote immediately after their ceremony. Version. All is fun. with end of life plans, during illness I advocate, educate seems to be a never ending supply of firewood for the We have lived in the metro Atlanta area since 1976, and care, after death I help families process grief. stove to keep in shape.

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Jeffrey A. Fox and Deborah Burns Fox ’73 Michael R. Rossmeier Dr. C. Stratton Warden out West. Stayed with the Wolters again and with Mary Andy and I enjoy travel and have just completed our is still in Portland, OR, where he works for the Oregon Debby and I are loving life in the North Georgia Normally I want to spend part of the winter in warmer New Address: 3110 1st St. W., Unit 102, St. Pete Lynn (Campbell, ’75) and Dan Toycen in Mesa, AZ fourth Viking River cruise in Southern France. Symphony. Younger brother Lars recently moved to Mountains. I am enjoying golfing when I want, climes than Chicago, so in the last 3 years I’ve Beach, FL 33706. Moved into our condo last before hiking Canyonlands & Arches, UT. I just joined Chicago from Charlotte for work. Rounding out the volunteering as a board member of a community traveled to 12 countries in SE Asia, using my friend’s Thanksgiving and enjoying Pass A Grille’s idyllic beach. a second gym (yes, I’m crazy), but it keeps me out of Catherine Roth Holcomb Knudsen Krew, youngest daughter Stine is working agency and working for LU as the Chair of the business in Ho Chi Minh City as a base. This winter I In the midst of renovating—making senior friendly—our the bars. Retirement continues to be a blessing and busy. Our for a Milwaukee bank. A shout out to the girls from Lawrence Fund, as well as serving on the Viking traveled around northern India—it’s less developed house in Kentucky and missing all my flowers around home in Delaware is the preferred hotel for daughters Ormsby (you all know who you are!). Athletic Council. We love visiting our seven than I thought, you get to share the streets with cows, the pond. Our son, Chas, graduated from Washington F. Martha Everett and friends with many visitors over the last year. grandchildren and are working hard to see them street dogs, goats, water buffalo, camels. When home University in St. Louis with honors and is heading I finally finished working with students with mild/ Older daughter Allison is still with National Park Gerald C. Metscher matriculating at Lawrence beginning in the fall of I’ve been investing time and money in tech startups, to UVA Law after a gap year working for a candidate moderate learning disabilities, and now I am with Service in West Virginia as an art conservator, and Well, I finally retired this year! I now have time to 2024! most recently healthcare and edtech. for AG of KY, then a KY congressman. Our daughter, LegalShield/IDShield. The twins are 28. I accompany younger daughter Diane is a resident of Stockholm babysit my grandson, complete all the household Rachel, finished her junior year at University of Tampa my husband as he demonstrates blacksmithing at doing mathematical research. Both will join us for our building projects, and start erasing items from the David George Healy Dr. Ralph Sharp and is working her first real job this summer. Enjoyed various historical sites in the West. usual summer cottage stay in Shell Lake, Wisconsin, bucket list in the realm of travel and adventure. This Can’t recall when I last updated, but I finally did retire In retirement, I continue to take care of my wife, who a recent visit with Charley ’72 and Diana Siekman in with extended family. My multiple visits to Wisconsin year will see trips to Hawaii, the Virgin Islands, a (third attempt!) in June 2017 from a 43-year career in is disabled. I also co-authored two chapters in school Miami. Would love to see friends from back in the day. Brian T. Farmer continue as my 93-year-old mother is still with us and Grand Canyon hike, and further hikes through the slot higher education administration/teaching/coaching law books in 2018. The biggest highlight of 2019 (so far) has been the lives in Wauwatosa in an assisted living apartment. canyons of southwest Utah. When my wife retires in with the last three years at Jacksonville University ’74 trip my wife, Mariko, and I took during May to attend a 18 months we envision a month in Europe. Also hope and fifth institution as CFO. As part of that, Denise Charles B. Siekman Neil F. Brier wedding in Germany. The groom was the grandson of a Jeffrey W. Jackson to start making some reunions! In 2020, it will be 50 and I have settled into Florida living with also quite Diane and I have moved to Coconut Grove, Florida, I have cut back to working 4 days a week as the guy I got to know during my days working at the airport Happily retired. Three wonderful grown children. years since my arrival at Brokaw Hall! Distant times, a bit of travel: Asia, India, the Americas and Europe. where winter is the best season. We still vacation in admissions front door person at the Dwight School in in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, almost four decades ago. We Traveling the world while photographing the vivid memories. Ships, planes, trains, highways, hiking paths. The Wisconsin, where summer is the best, and our children Manhattan and help on weekends with deliveries at have become very close friends over the years, and adventures. Enjoying life on Lake Bloomington, Illinois. wandering goes on and continues as we head for the live year round. We will be traveling to England and Jalsa Grill and Gravy, a very popular (for good reason) I am now considered to be virtually a member of the Christy Wagner Nielsen South Pacific and Norway north of the Arctic Circle in Ireland this fall. We are going to Germany next year, Indian restaurant in Brooklyn. Mueller family. Mariko and I stayed for a week with Dr. Lilias Jones Jarding Hi. Who remembers me? I was a bachelor of arts months to come. Three kids are spread literally across where we will see the Passion Play in Oberammergau. them in Trochtelfingen, not far from Eningen, where I I retired from teaching at Oglala Lakota College on music major, emphasis in piano. My husband, Boyd, the country enjoying good and varied lives. First Of course, the play is all in German. I have been Linda E. Carter participated in LU’s program there during the winter the Pine Ridge Reservation a couple years ago. And is now retired, but I am still teaching piano lessons. grandchild expected in fall. LU 50th looms. reading German language learning books in an I am greatly enjoying both family and work. We have and spring terms of 1973. It’s always great to get back I went right to work for Thunder Valley Community It continues to be completely energizing for me. I attempt to re-learn the German I have forgotten since two daughters and now have two grandchildren. I had to that area, to relive old memories and see how much Development Corporation (thundervalley.org). I’m am a junkie for continuing professional education in Dr. Cheryl Wilson Kopecky our days in Enigen. It hasn’t gotten any easier. I am no idea that being a grandparent would be so much things have changed. doing evaluation for that organization and still live that field, belonging to three different professional Hello, Rob and I have enjoyed lots of activity this looking forward to our fraternity reunion at Björklunden fun! I retired from my career as a law professor in in Rapid City, SD. Larry and I enjoy where we live, organizations: Illinois State Music Teachers spring traveling and then moving from our house to a this August. 2016, but I am still working on several projects in my Elizabeth Roberts Flavell riding Harleys, camping, and visits to the Twin Cities Association, Suzuki Association of the Americas, and townhouse within Elmhurst. Our new address is 205 N. fields of domestic and international criminal law. My I fully retired in October and have been enjoying the to see my kids. Tom does theater and improv and is National Guild of Piano Teachers. Life has been good Larch Avenue, Elmhurst, IL 60126. Now we can walk Constance Pfitsch Vanderhyden and Thomas A. work often takes me to The Hague and Nuremberg. chance to travel more, visiting my new grandson a regular at Brave New Workshop. Lilias does training to me. to the train, library, college, movies, restaurants and Vanderhyden ’70 I focus on sub-Saharan Africa and have had the Charlie in Austin, TX, and my 90-year-old parents in for a tech firm in the north woods. I also work to keep other key locations! This summer we’re eager to attend Thomas and I are currently visiting our son, Sam, and incredible opportunity to teach or research in both Palo Alto. We had a wonderful family reunion with destructive mining projects out of the Black Hills Christopher J. Porter seminars at Björklunden, including Medieval Women: his wife, Adley, and our one and only granddaughter, West and East Africa. We still live in Sacramento and all four generations in February. And my high school (bhcleanwateralliance.org). Come visit our beautiful I retired in October 2018, and started planning an Life, Work, Space, and Place (July) and The Migration Evangeline Lark, in Lyons, Colorado. We have visited welcome visitors! boyfriend and I have fallen back in love, to our mutual area! Life is good. around-the-world trip, which I’d been postponing for Phenomenon: Perspectives from Both Sides of the often over this 1st year of Evangeline’s life. I am semi- delight. Life is good. many years. My late March to late April 2019 westerly Atlantic (September.) A number of ’72 classmates retired right now, enjoying my part-time interpreting Jacquelyne Nixon DenUyl Ann Carpenter Kay circumnavigation of the globe began here in Concord, are attending these seminars! Check out all of the position at Scenic Bluffs Community Health Center Unfortunately, as many of you know, my LU husband of Barbara Braun Griffith I am a happy, healthy, physically active grandma New Hampshire, with stops in Georgia, Hawaii, Japan, seminar offerings and year-round travel opportunities in Cashton, WI, about ½ hour away from our home 44 years, R. Bruce DenUyl ’74, lost his battle to cancer Barbara and Jeff Griffith had great experiences of one, living in Minnetonka, MN, and planning to Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Germany, and New for fun and learning with alumni and others. outside of Viroqua, WI. Our son, Will, lives with his 9/18/18. We also lost our son, Eric, in Dec. ’15. I am traveling to the Falkland Islands and South Georgia live with purpose to 100! I direct a children’s choir, York City. About a month later, Rick Chandler ’74 wife, Luisa, in Atlanta, GA. He is a translator of Latin using our Telluride, CO, home as my main residence Island, to Egypt and Jordan, and to Botswana, Zambia instruct classroom teachers in how to use singing dropped by Concord for a day-long visit, as part of his Dr. Timm Menke American literature. His twin brother, Max, is an editor where I am an active part of the community, especially and South Africa during the past year. To date, we’ve strategies, wrote a chapter for a 2019 Oxford text counter-clockwise circumnavigation of the U.S. via I retired at the end of 2017 and am now professor and lives with his partner, Curran, in Charleston, SC. with the Telluride Adaptive Sports Program. I spend seen 10 species of penguins in the wild, floated in the about music assessment, and work for The Rock Amtrak. emeritus of German at Portland State University with We are all healthy and doing well, grateful for friends much of the summer/fall in Wisconsin and Michigan, Dead Sea, and ridden camels at the Giza Pyramids! ’n’ Read Project, a nonprofit my partner, Bill Jones, more time for my research and travel to conferences. and family! where we have family cottages. Son Clark lives in We are blessed to travel and then love to return to our and I founded, dedicated to using singing to unlock Hope Davis Preston Atlanta. We treasure our friends and family. My year beautiful mountain home in New Mexico. children’s potential for reading and learning. With Norm and I are in the middle of retiring to Portland, W. Pierson and Elizabeth A. Schoeppler Dr. Karen R. Van Galder round forwarding address is PO Box 22000 PMB 105, a $500,000 legislative grant, we are piloting a OR. That means I’m living in an apartment here, Enjoying life in our “relatively” liberal Minneapolis I have retired to Greenville, SC, after 40 years serving Telluride, CO 81435, [email protected]. Lisa Reese Hendrickson singing-to-read software; struggling readers have and Norm is in NJ getting our house ready to put on community, attempting to make sense of this crazy as a Christian educator in Presbyterian churches. I I have been retired since 2011 from teaching made phenomenal gains. I am ever grateful to LU the market. I came out early to go through Master world we live in. Beth and I are rounding out 30 years am active in the church I served 30 years ago, mostly Carol Stoneman Dibble secondary school Spanish and enjoy having the for providing an excellent music education and Gardener training and oversee construction of the in our north Minneapolis home, which is beginning teaching and baking for a tea ministry. Great to First full year of retirement! Travel included many visits options of how and with whom to spend my time. After encouraging creative and critical thinking! house we’re building as soon as the final permits to show its age, just like me. Luke, 28, and Thomas reconnect with friends from that time! I have a Vizsla to our new granddaughter, Ruby—only 2 hours away. retirement, my colleague and I have been active as come through. Hopefully Norm will join me in the next 24, are living with us as we all struggle to pay off puppy who keeps me very active! (He is also sweet We also visited Jane (Eckley) Lennon and husband world language curriculum consultants (Workshops Heidi Jacobson Knudsen couple of months. Both boys in California, so our odds their college debt. I’m working part-time with an ed and handsome.) I am also working in retail and have David in Oakland last July then traveled on to Len’s Air for World Language Teachers) working with schools Three years into retirement, I am still enjoying the are visits have increased significantly. tech startup in town, supporting an online blogging found it a rewarding ministry. Force reunion on Bainbridge Island, WA; Boothbay, ME to design Standards-based thematic curriculum. I liberation by returning to lap swimming and becoming platform for K-12 students. Enjoying riding my bike to in August with family; Denver to visit Ann (Huntting) continue my work as an AFS Intercultural Exchanges much more politically active. I also continue to Kenneth E. Richter work, weather permitting. and Rich Wolter, and a cruise from Rome to Barcelona volunteer, and I’m active in the Monroe Morning perform with Festival City Symphony. Eldest daughter Hi all. Just trying to extricate myself from 34 years as with stops along the Mediterranean rounded out Optimist Club. I received the Distinguished Language Maiken (C, ’07) and her husband have moved back a Navy oceanographer in San Diego—maybe January. 2018. In February of this year, we took a driving trip Educator Award from WAFLT (Wisconsin Association to Milwaukee with our 2-year-old granddaughter and My wife, Cynda, is trying to do the same from her little for Language Teachers) in the fall of 2018. Husband Maiken is expecting their 2nd child in July. Son Nils environmental consulting company, which has turned

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The Reverend Barbara A. Kelley Joseph M. Troy she studied French and explored. Her landscape I am still enjoying being the rector at St. James After 20 years serving as a Circuit Court Judge, I design work with Southview Design is going well. Don Episcopal Church in Langhorne, PA, having been here returned to private practice. Loving my role as Papa Arnosti built up the Izaak Walton League of Minnesota for 11 years now. After doing interim ministry for 20 Joe to 5 grandkids. I thank all my classmates, who as conservation director, and was recently appointed years, it is nice to have more stability and to watch the helped make the Lawrence years so interesting, executive director. He looks forward to continuing to young people grow into adulthood. Of course, aging challenging, and joyful. Peace expand their environmental programs, focused on isn’t just for the young ... I can’t believe I will have to clean water and addressing climate change through apply for Medicare in a few months ... we aren’t that energy and habitat, while hiring a great young team of old, right?! My mother is my inspiration for the future, ’78 people to work with him. Unfortunately, Don’s mother, for at the age of 93 she is the motivator for travels we Brian L. Buchholz Connie, died in December 2018. have taken together over the last 8 years from a cruise This summer I and my HTH (home town honey), Judy, along the Norwegian coast to see the Northern Lights, celebrated our 40th wedding anniversary. We are LinaBeth Barber and husband, John Meadows, enjoy an African safari, and trips to Japan, China and South long-time empty nesters, but our son, Andrew, and winters in Tucson, AZ, and then spend the hot months America. See you at the 50th reunion! daughter-in-law, Sara, live just a few miles down in Montone, in Umbria Italy in their rebuilt medieval the road. Judy’s been in banking for 35 years, and I house. While in Italy, LinaBeth has volunteered for Edward G. Langer have been employed at Faulks Bros. Construction in U.S. based “Civitella Ranieri Foundation” which hosts Retired Dec. 31 and promptly signed up for a Czech Waupaca for 41 years. We both are looking forward to artists-, writers- and composers-in-residence from all language class. In August I am guiding a dozen people retirement soon and golfing as much as possible. over the world in a 15th Century Italian castle from back to our ancestral district in the Sudetenland. May to October. And that is where she will be in June Thus, the Czech. Jeanette Kohr Gowen instead of attending reunion. I probably haven’t shared that my husband, Rich, died Blane D. Lewis in 2016. On a good note, our 28-year-old daughter After living in the Pacific Northwest, Kyle S. Bollmeier My wife Marga, our two daughters (Kay and Violet), just graduated from Georgia State with a master’s and family are now living in Richmond, VA, and Class of 1979. (Photo: M. C. Kinney Photography) and I are living in Canberra, Australia. I am a professor degree in bio and a 4.0! I am still working full time. enjoying the diverse people, great arts and music of economics at Australian National University, Went to Israel then later London and Scotland with scene. Kyle bikes (both foot and gas power) in and and Marga is actively engaged in a variety of side around the Blue Ridge Mountains. Kyle loved living in into a more lucrative career than mine, though maybe Mary R. Niebling Wisconsin Map in a National Geographic program Georgia Festival Singers. I am also enjoying the pool I businesses. Kay is off to university next year, and built in my back yard thanks to Rich’s insurance. the Blue Ridge raising his daughters through their high not as much fun. Our daughter is starting graduate Retired from Capstone Community Action in Barre, for schools, a project coordinated by the Wisconsin separation anxiety (mine) has already started to kick school years and seeing them off to college. Elsa is school in geology at the U of Miami, doing global VT, after 26 plus years of service as the community Geographic Alliance; facilitator for Project WET and for in full-force. Violet still has a long way to go, and at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service, climate change things. My wife wants to move to economic development director. I will join my Population Education; travel with my partner, Barbara David F. Hill and Linda Ericson Hill ’77 I’m thankful for that. I was in the U.S. last April on Linda and I continue to enjoy good health and being and Greta is at Elon University. Kyle looks forward to Bend, OR—good skiing and biking. Good beer. We have husband, Dave Spence, in retirement at our home in Seiser, a psych nurse practitioner, on 5 continents business—my first trip there in over 12 years. It might seeing people at Lawrence reunion. “See you on the two dogs about the size of sofas that would probably Plainfield and family “camp” in South Hero, Vermont. over the past year; swimming; XC-skiing; tai chi; grandparents to our 5 grandkids. In 2014 I sold my have been weird, but it wasn’t. Hello to all my friends business and then became president of the company turf.” like it, too. We also have friends and family there, as Now that I am not working, I look forward to having my yoga; and paddling and pedaling pursuits. 2 children: from ’76. well as a bunch of nieces and nephews that would Lawrence friends come visit, finally. I also look forward Andrew (31), massage therapist; Katrine (29), doctor I sold to. After 2 years they sold, and I decided to retire. Then, after 2 years of retirement, I received a John and Mary Ellen Boyle are still living in want to crash during ski season. Hope to see you all to gardening, reading, napping, traveling, and many of chiropractic. Susan L. Medak Manasquan, NJ, and enjoying life at the Jersey Shore. sometime. other activities I didn’t have time for previously. call to return to work as president of a new startup I’m going into my 30th season running Berkeley company. Hence I am back working full time, but John works for Gemini, Inc. as an outside salesperson, James B. Cowen Repertory Theater, where we are feeling pretty good, covering the northeast U.S. and occasionally traveling William B. Strubbe ’76 Another year and much to tell. Our daughter is getting certainly enjoying our time in Naples, Florida, playing with a Pulitzer for best new play, and 12 Tony Award golf and pickleball and enjoying the fine weather. For to corporate hq in MN. Son Owen and daughter Kate Everyone is retiring but me! My wife is retired, but I Katherine Greene Ball married in October, and our son is headed for an nominations as well as best new play and best new both work in Manhattan. Wife Mary Ellen works for am still practicing law in Cincinnati. We have kids in engagement in the next few months. It is grand when the summers, we decided to sell our KC home and Our news is our recent move to a lovely spot outside musical nominations, for productions we’ve helped built a new home on a lake in Wisconsin, near our AIG, and they both are getting closer to retirement Cincinnati, D.C. and Detroit. A couple years ago Chris of River Falls, Wisconsin. We have both been retired the kids move on. All is wonderful in our household: nurture. My husband and I trekked a portion of the every day. Sheldon invited me to a mini party with a bunch of business is good, hiking is still active and Leslie grandchildren. So after leaving Lawrence, we finally for a few years and have been pondering where we Jomolhari Trail in Bhutan with Sue Cook and other return to Wisconsin. friends from freshman year—Chuck and Cryn Ephraim, wanted to be. With our daughters and their families continues to win her tennis matches. We hope friends last fall. Our son, Ben ’11, is gainfully employed Susan Chandler and husband, Bruce L. McLellan, Jan and Dennis Quinlan, Dave Barclay. It was really on the East and West Coasts and our son and his everyone from our LU class is healthy and happy. in Las Vegas. Life is good. are living in Minneapolis. As the executive director of one of the best experiences of my last five years. We family near the Twin Cities, we decided to stay in the ’79 Madeline Island Chamber Music, Sue spends several followed up with Jan and Dennis in Appleton on a side middle close to a major airport and used the St. Croix Dr. Robert G. Gillio Dr. John R. Ranck II and Andrew M. Hardacker ’73 summer months on Madeline Island. Sue sees Julia trip from a wedding. Wonderful time. Great school. River corridor as our target. We completed our move As most of you are approaching retirement, I have I continue to enjoy tutoring tooters at Northeastern Karl Albrecht and wife, Barbara, are enjoying their Hannan (who lives in Seattle) as regularly as possible. Wonderful people. Thank you!!! from Illinois a month ago and are embracing the rural launched a new career and have moved to a tiny town University and being asst. director for the Chamber relocation to Bath, Maine. Karl helped neighbor and Sue eagerly anticipates seeing everyone at the 40th life. We got a head start in the garden with asparagus in the Appalachia region of PA called Huntingdon. Music Workshop of the Composers Conference, now fellow Lawrentian, Bruce Hauptli ’70, at a college fair Reunion! Kathy Daugherty Wawer and strawberries left behind and morels in our woods They have a 22-bed hospital and needed a doctor at Brandeis University. In March, 2019 I had a glorious this fall in nearby Brunswick. Karl also volunteered for I’m retired from my full time career (school library and no lack of projects (and some challenges) to to help with pulmonary disease and with designing a week in Denver visiting relatives, soaking in as much Maine Senator Angus King’s reelection campaign. Richard J. Faust retired from CSC in August 2015, media) and am enjoying working part time at my keep us young. And plenty to enrich visits with our 6 population health initiative to help drive down health as he could during two days’ spent at the Clyfford Still then started working for CA Technologies in October incredible local library. This summer I am taking my grandchildren! care costs. My wife, Beth (a registered dietitian museum, and attending performances of the Colorado Leslie Allen is living in Marquette, Michigan, 2015 as a web security consultant. Rich recently grandson to Glacier National Park through a Road and nutrition professor), moved here a little over Ballet and Symphony. I was very lucky to have avoided beginning her tenth year as a candlemaker and a acquired a 1981 Beechcraft A36TC for cross-country Scholar program. I have a daughter on each coast Randall B. Colton a year ago, and we are working part time in the blizzards before and the day after my time there. vendor at the Downtown Marquette Farmers Market. flying. Rich and his wife Nancy are now enjoying trips (what’s that all about?) leading interesting and Three years ago I retired from teaching. Current hospital and part time creating a program. (www. Still an inveterate writer: PeaPickleFarm.com. to see friends and family, outings with the Southwest fulfilling lives. However they aren’t child-oriented, activities: playing violin in the Central Wisconsin theForceforHealth.com). It is kind of like the Co-op StoriesofWax.com. Bonanza Society (Rich is a board member) and other and my one grandson is the only grandchild I will get. Symphony Orchestra and viola in a professional string from my Lawrence days as we are trying to keep all aviation events, such as EAA Airventure, the huge Luckily he’s the best. quartet; exploring Irish fiddling; 3 years outreach citizens healthier as one approach. Come visit and After listening to tapes and taking classes at the annual air show in Oshkosh. Last November, Rich and to schools as "map ambassador" with the Giant canoe or hike and stay with us. Alliance Française, Meg Malde Arnosti rented a cute Nancy visited John and Teri Bill in Palm Desert, CA. little apartment in Aix-en-Provence in January, where

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Jeffrey R. Hawley ’79 married Rose Lee and moved Kathryn A. Krohn-Gill knew being a grandparent From the slopes of Colorado in January to celebrating ’80 Daniel K. Stifter Nancy Elliott Curtis to Orange County, CA, after living in the Bay Area for would be fun, but had no idea how much. Their New Year's on the beach in Mexico, Kent Rose got Reunions always remind me of one thing; wow is Hello, classmates. I love living in Pittsford, NY, nearly 30 years. Jeff and Rose live in San Clemente— first granddaughter was born in March, and second around during 2018, his first year of retirement after Kurt E. Amend Rick Young old. 40 years is an astonishing amount with my husband, Chris, who is retired. I continue to famous for being the Western White House during granddaughter expected in May. The family tradition a career in law and business. With the last of 4 off to In December 2018, I returned to the Washington of time. I remember our 5th reunion and seeing serve as the VP of content for Logical Operations the Nixon years. Jeff enjoys playing tennis—singles, continues with two children who are emergency college, he enjoys new-found flexibility and freedom DC area after two plus years heading up Raytheon all the doddering, grey haired, end-of-life fogeys (www.logicaloperations.com). Our son, Chet, just doubles, tournaments and still has a terrible physicians after surviving as children of two and reports that winters are for skiing downhill and Company’s office in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. My wife, running around and being unable to contemplate that graduated from SUNY’s Binghamton University backhand. Together, Jeff and Rose have been to physicians. X-C, other seasons for hiking or biking or any form of Alice Wells, is still with the Department of State, happening to us. Well, it happened to all of us, didn’t with a degree in mechanical engineering, and our Provence, Singapore, Australia. exercise, preferably outdoors. He’ll be at the Reunion focused on U.S. policy in South and Central Asia. We it? I’ve been semi-retired for 5 years, but keep busy daughter, Faith, just completed her freshman year at Regina Swingen Lee plans to retire this year as in June and looks forward to seeing old friends and graduated our youngest, Phoebe, from NYU several with travel, teaching, consulting, and being a part Binghamton as an electrical engineering major. Richard F. Herndon retired in 2011 from Southern an Assessment Librarian and also head of special classmates in Appleton. weeks ago and, in keeping with the times and as of owner of a strategic planning software firm, which I’m a long-time soloist in the choir and otherwise Illinois University School of Medicine after 32 years. projects at Tennessee Technological University in this writing, are a perfect three-for-three in boomerang is gaining momentum at the exact time I’m losing active at my church, St. Paul’s Episcopal in Rochester, Besides traveling with wife, Carol, he served on the Cookeville, TN. In early December she spent a couple John Rowland is in Racine and has two of his children children in our basement. Oh my. mine. Still married, both kids successfully launched. NY, and I participate in other organizations and board of his county historical society, on the board of days with Kim (Narotzky) O’Donnell and her husband, nearby so he gets to see his 4 grandkids often. He Definitely not at end of life, life is good! Looking volunteer activities in the area. Lately I’ve enjoyed a house museum and acts as a docent at the Dana- Jim, in Spring, TX, while she was at a conference. runs the family insurance agency. Soccer refereeing Rick Davis and Julie E. Thompson ’81 forward to seeing all my doddering, grey haired, old reconnecting with some of my Lawrence Pi Phi sisters Thomas House in Springfield. Regina’s boyfriend is Zion, a 4-year-old German and photography are his free time pursuits, along with Finishing my fourth year as dean of the College of fogey friends in 2020! and other Lawrence friends on Facebook. Shepherd with boundless energy—either wide open, helping his mother after his father’s death. Recently Visual and Performing Arts, George Mason University. Kris L. Hoffman retired on March 2nd after a 40-year or crashed at my feet. Regina travels to Madison bought a condo and is having fun getting it just the Just staged Menotti’s The Medium, which brought back Jon Zilber Reverend Catherine B. Dempesy-Sims career with the U.S. Department of Defense. Her frequently to visit her 100-year-old mother, still living way he wants it! John plans to attend reunion. memories as that was the first opera I ever directed Just finished my fifth book in less than a year (writing/ Unsure of when I last updated everyone, in November career has been great, taking her across the country at home. She plans to attend the reunion in June. (LU,1980), along with The Jumping Frog of Calaveras editing, that is—who has time to read books?): a of 2017 my love, my life, my wife of not quite five multiple times (while living in Illinois, Florida, and Thomas C. Spear was awarded one of the Grands Prix County. Thank you, John Koopman, for taking a chance history of Silicon Valley pioneer 3Com, a multi- years, died. I can’t even begin to describe the pain California) and outside the country to Australia, New Roelif M. Loveland says “of course I am coming to of the Académie française, Le Prix du rayonnement on a theater major with opera dreams. Off-campus generational memoir about overcoming the stigma of of this ... but I will say that Sarah Brown Bryan ’83, Zealand, Canada, and England. Kris is looking forward the reunion! It will be a blast! See you there!” Roelif de la langue et de la littérature françaises in 2018 I staged a second production (revised version) of being born into the untouchable caste (Richard Nixon who would pass away from the same disease of lung to slowing down in the next phase of her life and doing and wife, Anne, live in Peru, IL—in the “Illinois Valley” and was inducted into l’Ordre des francophones John Henry’s Republic Undone, which takes a critical has a cameo), a manifesto about “smart villages” in cancer just months later, was a source of great hope leadership training and mentorship. surrounded by cornfields and deer and the beautiful d’Amérique in Québec. view of the presidency of Woodrow Wilson. Also India, a how-to guide about climate change, and a to me. And Lizz and Bruce Loder ’82. They have walked Illinois River. Anne said about the reunion, “YOU go recently won the Franklin Smith Prize for Comedia coffee table book by a prominent designer. Also had a with me every single step of this time. Finally, without Mary Jo Johnson lives in Wausau, WI, and married and have fun with your old friends—I’ll stay home with Robert J. Stevens is retiring this July after 32 years in Translation (awarded by the Association for Hispanic staged reading earlier this year of a one-act play about my sister and brother-in-law, Anne and Mark Lee ’76, Bruce Lamont in 2011. Together they have 4 adult kids the 5 dogs!” Roelif and Anne are avid apiarists now, family medicine in Green Bay. He and Janet ’82 will Classical Theatre) for my version of Calderón’s The an imagined dinner conversation between Einstein and I wouldn’t be standing. Why do I share this? Because and will be first-time grandparents this year! Mary Jo and Anne sells the honey at her Fourth Street Bakery stay in Suamico, WI, on their 10-acre farmette. Sons Phantom Lady. George W. Bush. I play piano every Wednesday at a this is the Lawrence Difference. Thank you, LU. Thank is CEO/Owner of EO Johnson Business Technologies, in Peru. All three of Roelif’s sons are grown, and Paul ’10 and Sam ’13 are both family physicians local wine bar. Emma is helping to launch a farm-to- you, friends. helping businesses with information/data needs. Mary Roelif continues working at their 171-year-old family in Appleton and Milwaukee respectively. Robert Sheri L. Greenberger table restaurant in Missoula, and Rose is a designer in Jo remains friends with Chris Siewert Edgecomb ’78 business—Maze Nails. and Janet have 3 grandchildren, 1 dog and 2 cats. It has been a few years since I contributed—so Portland (OR) Edwin L. Fuller and Cheryl Posner ’80. Travel continues to be a high priority with a Spanish here goes. I have owned my own business for 16 I am a LEAD Organizer with Leaders for Equality & Astrid Strasburger Manoli and Yiannos Manoli ’78, excursion this fall. Biking and hiking Wisconsin awaits. years—helping people have a better relationship Jeffrey M. Griese (Jeff) Action in Dayton, OH. After a lay-off turned into early retirement, Grace recently spent four months in Pacific Palisades at Janet’s oboe in various musical groups provides with their dogs. Bark Busters Home Dog Training, a Life is full and rich for us as we navigate the waters Jones is busy with a part-time job at her local yoga Thomas Mann’s “White House for German Exile.” welcome pleasure. really fun and fascinating job, different everyday! It of being empty-nesters ourselves, yet feel like we are Jill Kaar Hanson studio and started a seasonal job as a tax preparer. Coming back to Freiburg in January, Astrid was is a worldwide franchise, started in Australia. I am the middle of a sandwich cookie! I continue as CHRO I am still an enrolled agent, office manager and A few years ago, she discovered the joy of playing able to translate “Green Eggs and Ham” to her two Michelle Mahn Swodzinski sold her house, moved going to make my first abroad trip to attend the 30th of ZS Associates, while Jayne rocks out as daughter, instructor for H&R Block. I write and present programs the harpsichord and now studies baroque keyboard granddaughters. into an apartment with her daughter and their two Annual Conference in Wollongong during September. Mom and grandmom! Her parents live nearby in an on dolls and paper dolls for clubs, conferences and music! Still singing in a very good church choir. Still dogs. Shelly’s daughter graduated from Eau Claire. FBook has been great for “hooking up” with people I assisted living facility and absorbed a lot of focus and magazines. Jerry & I travel as much as possible. We going to lots of performances. For the past 20 years, Andrew D. McNeill is enjoying working as a college Shelly teaches piano, voice and guitar after retiring lost contact with so many years ago. I have had the energy from her. And with 6 grandchildren, Jayne is are making a concerted effort to spoil our great nieces Grace has hosted young opera singers performing with counselor at the Taft School in Connecticut. Work from teaching music and directs her church choir. chance to meet up with Beth Pasierb in MD a few constantly on the go! Summer plans are to camp our and nephews and now our first great-great niece. I Wolf Trap Opera, including Lawrentian Zoie Reams ’14. takes Andy to college campuses, including the Shelly is very proud of a former church choir member times, and Peter Wehr stopped by when he was taking way out to Prince Edward Island and back. The 40th haven’t been back to Appleton in 35 years, so a trip is See you in Appleton in June. University of Georgia, where he spent time catching up who was admitted to Lawrence in music. his son around to colleges. If you are near Holland, Reunion in 2020 is definitely in our plans!! planned for the fall to see the campus in full color. with Professor Debra Mohnen. Mark Alfano’s 60th Michigan—call me! Elizabeth Dodge Kaprelian also found the whole birthday party was a blast, and Scott Matsumoto When Gail L. Von Drashek’s daughter went off to ’82 Dr. Kim Johndro Harmon retirement thing not working out so well. Liz recently did a worthy cameo on stage. Andy booked his ticket college, and Gail moved to Arizona to help her aging Ellen A. Meyers This past year has been one of lots of changes. Ron I completed my MA in Clinical Mental Health from Julie Thome Carver took a part-time job with her church as the Director to Appleton for your (gulp!) 40th and hopes to see parents. Living with her parents was challenging but I live in Plymouth, Wisconsin, with my husband of and I retired from medicine a little over a year ago of Children and Youth Ministry. The interim job allows everyone then! well worth it. Gail’s father passed away at Christmas, Adler University. I passed the boards and received my and moved from Chicago to Denver. It was just in time license to be a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC). 33 years, Andrew. We have two daughters, Abigail, Liz and husband, Jim, to travel and do other things and she has begun the quest to map out what the next a high school special education teacher who resides to welcome our first grandchild, Everett. They live in that they enjoy. They have two upcoming weddings: Scott D. Myers is enjoying his second attempt at 20 years should look like. Travel. Camping. Gail has Denver, so it’s all good. We are adjusting to retired Patricia Behn Regan in the Milwaukee area, and Rachel Carver Stichnoth a spring wedding for their son, and one of their retirement. Scott and wife, Luvie, have been able taken up scuba diving and loves it. She volunteers at a ’11, a geologist who resides with her husband, Miller life, hiking, taking classes, traveling, and of course daughters is getting married in the spring of 2020. Life to spend time traveling to many interesting places Raptor Rescue. Gail regularly visits the Bay Area to see Patti Behn Regan teaches eurythmy and music at spending time with family. It feels great to be down- the Berkshire Waldorf School in Great Barrington, Stichnoth ’11 and their son, Albert James, in Chicago. is busy and fun, and perfectly normal for them. around the world, as well as to their summer home her daughter, a PhD student at Berkeley. I retired from my position as Food Safety Director sized, empty nesting, and no longer paying tuition bills in Michigan. However, Scott made the mistake of MA. She also sings in the Cantilena Chamber Choir for any of our 4 kids! Ironically enough, our oldest son in Lenox, MA, and teaches music during the summer at Sargento Foods in February 2019 and have just Cheryl Vermillion Knuppel retired in 2015 after teaching launching a music festival a couple years ago, which launched a consulting business, Midwest Food Safety met and fell in love with a fellow medical student while high school French & English for 11 years, followed has now grown to about 15,000 attendees. Between at Sunbridge Institute in Spring Valley, NY. Married to at Loyola—she’s from Appleton!! Small world! Joe Regan for 20 years—a software architect at Ernst Solutions LLC. We are celebrating several family by 18 years working for Kimberly-Clark Corporation. the festival, the Lawrence board, and a few other weddings this summer where LU alumni are abundant, She now spends time with their 4 ½ year old grandson, things, Scott stays busy. He is looking forward to & Young and a SUNY/Stonybrook music grad—their son, Joseph, is starting at SUNY/Albany in the fall, including my three siblings Dave Thome ’78, Mary volunteering, reading, hiking, and traveling. Cheryl’s latest seeing folks at the 40th reunion this June. Thome Marshall ’79 and Cathy Thome ’84. adventure was trekking to Everest Base Camp in Nepal studying computer science and music. A recent visit with a group of 30 from the midwest! to Lawrence brought back many wonderful memories. What a good foundation LU has provided for all that 58 FALL 2019 has come after! LAWRENCE 59 Classes of of 1983, 1984, 1985. (Photo: M. C. Kinney)

Carrie L. Kuehl was no easy task to get her to consider Lawrence. As Reunion. Our sons, Paul ’10 and Sam ’13, are married ’83 often by the river. Her phone is always on so call any the pleasure of doing an hour-long discussion by I’ve embarked on a second career in dietetics and expected, she loves Lawrence but hated the winter— and settled down with children of their own now. Rob time: 262-902-8714. videoconference with Prof. Jason Brozek’s foreign am finishing my second year as a school nutrition it didn’t help that it was one of the harshest and retires this summer, and we look forward to more Professor Elizabeth Ann De Stasio never has a policy class at LU. He remains active with barbershop specialist in Slinger, WI. longest winters in Appleton. My son, who graduated time with the grandchildren and a more flexible travel dull moment teaching at LU in an ever-changing Cynthia Jones Glavin and her husband, John, live in singing and the choir at All Souls Episcopal Church. from Notre Dame last May, has also been living in schedule. A bike trip to Spain is on the fall calendar, environment. She is involved in the Posse Foundation, Glen Ellyn, IL. Cynthia works at a local middle school Follow www.ramochai.com to hear his partner’s Elizabeth Lutton Luscher Wisconsin for the past year. He began his career with and we’ll spend the summer sort of training for it. mentors a group of students from NYC, works on as a special education aide. Their oldest daughter will newest album. He is proud that Innes Maxwell ’20, I retired last year after 23 years at the Corona Public Epic Systems in Madison, WI last July. My nest is Living near Appleton, we visit Lawrence on occasion inclusive pedagogy in science education and is an graduate from Lewis & Clark College in May, and their represents the fourth generation of the family to Library. I am enjoying getting a variety of projects empty, but it is warm since I wisely decided to stay in and enjoy its many offerings to the community. editor for the Genetics Society of America publication. second daughter is finishing up her sophomore year at attend Lawrence starting with his grandfather, Alex done, including repairing an old desk, making a Southern California. She and Bart T. De Stasio ’82 are now officially Regis University. Cynthia had a wonderful opportunity Hunter ’28. He hopes to attend the reunion in June. scrapbook of me and my husband’s 25th anniversary David C. Trimble empty-nesters. Their sons, who graduated from to travel to Norway to see the Northern Lights and stay trip to Paris, being involved in a local congressional Thomas R. Quill David in an instant. Still living in DC. Still doing Lawrence in 2012 and 2017, are doing well in their in the Ice Hotel in February but will miss the reunion Paul O. Jenkins published Teaching the Beatles which campaign, and reviving my yoga practice. After my I am living vicariously through an LA neighbor and oversight for Congress on nuclear nonproliferation, fields of Law and I.T. Elizabeth and Bart are excited this summer. he co-edited with his brother, Hugh, in July 2018. In husband, Jeff, retires in 2020, we look forward to current Lawrentian, Moreau Halliburton, Class of dirty bombs, and nuclear weapons cleanup issues. by their growing family as both sons will be getting November, he and Hugh presented a paper (based traveling, getting involved in various causes, and 2022! I enjoyed live streaming LU Women’s Basketball How did a philosophy major get here? No doubt I owe married in 2019. Robert J. Greene “retired” from the U.S. Air Force largely on the book) at an international symposium on enjoying life! games with Moreau’s parents and other neighborhood it to Professors Dreher and Boardman for teaching me Bands program after 20 years of service in 2007 and the White Album held at Monmouth University. Paul friends—so great to see LU spirit wear in the area!! how to think! Still happily married with a labradoodle Dawn Pubanz Gergen and William H. Gergen P’14 are is currently a senior web developer at BAE Systems and his wife, Mary, live in Goffstown, NH with their two Michael E. Mol I’ve also been working with other LA area alums to and two kids. Oldest is finishing junior year and fortunate and blessed to follow their children around in Hudson, NH. In his spare time, he performs with dogs (Luke and Pippa). Paul is the university librarian Two big new changes in my life—one happened 6 get the LU Club of Los Angeles off the ground. The actively looking at colleges (OMG $$$). Youngest will and spend their vacation time with them. Their son, various Boston area ensembles, including the Boston at Franklin Pierce University. months ago, and one happens in 3 days. Six months distance and time to travel in this vast metropolis be a sophomore in the fall and has made me a fan Henry, is a professional musician with Royal Caribbean Civic Symphony, Mercury Orchestra and the MIT ago, my first granddaughter was born, and Julia Mae are creating some challenges, but we’ll get there. of some wacky Japanese anime (who doesn’t love Jo after graduating from LU Conservatory of Music. On his Symphony Orchestra. He is also a member of Patriot Beverly J. Larson and her husband, Gary, welcomed has been a wonderful addition to our family!! And in Personally, Albert and I are looking forward to our next Jo!!!). ships, they have followed Henry to the Mediterranean, Brass Ensemble—Boston and serves on its national a granddaughter to the world in February 2018. In 3 days, after 36 years teaching either high school or travel adventure with Mary Takahashi ’83 and Karl the Baltic and, more recently, to Australia and New Board of Directors. His interests have turned to the fall they explored four Balkan nations and saw the junior high math, I am getting out of the classroom!!! Kramer ’82. Destination: Iceland in November. David L. Weber Zealand. They love visiting their daughter who is in politics in recent years, with a big transition from lingering costs of war and division in two. This year I am retiring but with no serious idea what the next After working as a civil litigation attorney for 29 years, grad school in Washington. D.C. activist to legislator in November 2018 as a newly they look forward to traveling in Australia and New chapter of my life holds, excepting grandpa’ing of Janet Steiner Stevens and Robert J. Stevens ’79 I was appointed as Circuit Court Judge, Branch II, in elected member to the New Hampshire House of Zealand. course!! All is well here in Suamico. I no longer have horses, Door County, WI, in 2016. I was elected to a six-year Martha C. Girard resides on Milwaukee’s east side Representatives. but stay busy teaching and performing on the oboe. I term in 2017. I have been married for 30 years and with her awesome husband, Wayne Wasserman. Their Lawrence A. Leporte, after 22 years in law practice, Robin Revis Puri recently compiled a photo and history display for my have two grown daughters. children are now adults, and Martha is totally involved Charles F. Hunter just hit 29 years in the Foreign mostly in England, retired and moved to California. My daughter, Maya, is a proud Lawrentian, Class church’s sesquicentennial celebration. My husband, in her new business: Doula Woman where she works Service but was on furlough working with the State He is currently CEO of Marin Airporter, a bus company of 2022! Maya grew up in Southern California so it Rob ’79, and I are looking forward to his 40th as a full spectrum birth and postpartum doula. She Department’s Board of Examiners while seeking an based in Marin County, CA. He is married and has works at the Blooming Lotus Bakery, runs, practices/ assignment to go abroad again this summer. He had three daughters—two in college, and one in high teaches yoga and stays outside as much as possible, 60 FALL 2019 LAWRENCE 61 CLASS NOTES CLASS NOTES

school. His hobbies are running, swimming, reading, honeymooned in gorgeous Norway, enjoying many Hitoshi Hirano is currently shooting a feature-length Dr. David P. Rabago loves being a family medicine Dr. Guocun Yang helped found the Chinese American teacher in an elementary school. She teaches the FL arguing, and basking in the reflected glory of their fjords while hiking, kayaking and relaxing. film for a Russian natural resources company up in doc; he sees patients, and does some teaching and Professors’ Association of Connecticut and became ESOL courses for teachers working towards their state children’s achievements. the Arctic Circle. It is an action film around oil workers research at UW in Madison. Who knew the benefits its first treasurer. He teaches in the fields of certification. Cynthia presented at the Sunshine State Dr. Thomas D. Brucker and his wife Debra, of 26 working on a rig. He has also started to give life coach of getting an education before medical training? Wife American history and modern China at Manchester TESOL conference 2018 and will present at the SWFL Paul McComas has produced and performed in his years, live in Brookfield, WI. Both daughters, Elizabeth, sessions to professionals from the point of view of a Alek has a similar gig though she is better known. Son Community College and has chaired the Department Regional TESOL conference 2019 to train teachers adaptation of Sam Shepard’s Fool for Love since 21, and Margaret, 18, are attending college at UC- movie director directing scenes in their real lives. He Alek (16) drives a car. Daughter Eva (9) is in love with of Global Studies since 2009. He served on the how to most effectively teach English language Feb. ’17 which memorializes Shepard and raises Boulder. After 20 years as a pathologist in private has been living in Moscow, Russia, for the past 25 life about 10 times a day so generally brings the joy. Board of Directors of the Association for the Study learners. In her coaching and mentoring capacities, funds/awareness for Les Turner ALS Foundation to practice, he is currently working at the Clement J. years and actively participates in stock and crypto of Connecticut History (ASCH) from 2004 to 2015, she felt the need to develop another skillset to better fight the disease that felled Sam. As a traveling show, Zablocki VA Medical Center. Hobbies include cycling currency trading seminars. Elizabeth Sheridan Rammer and husband, John, elected president in 2009 and 2011. His wife, Sharon, support adults in their development so she began a they head for Milwaukee, Kalamazoo, Rapid City and playing saxophone (tenor and bari) in the reside in the Minneapolis area and enjoy summer has worked at UConn since 1990. Their daughter, second masters in clinical mental health counseling at and parts unknown. Last year, the expanded 15th Brookfield Civic Band. They like to travel, mostly to Janine D. Judd Tea lives in the Twin Cities with her getaways at “R Retreat,” their cabin at Lutsen, MN. Aileen, earned her MA from UConn and will start Florida Gulf Coast University. Anticipated graduation Anniversary Edition of Paul’s novel Unplugged won a Utah and Idaho, to see family and for great outdoor husband Dan and son Daniel. She is a clinical social Elizabeth joined the Hospitality Minnesota trade classes in the Stern MBA program at NYU in February 2022. Silver Medal at the Independent Publishers Awards hiking and mountain biking. He is looking forward to worker (MSW, LICSW) serving people diagnosed with organization as CEO in mid-2018, where she oversees 2019 while working full-time at State Street. and a Bronze at the Living Now Awards. He and the 35th reunion! serious mental illnesses, substance use and co- three trade associations and a foundation. She Jennifer Nilsson Halgren enjoys work helping Maya Kuper adapted it into a full-on stage musical. occurring disorders. She loves cheering on her kid as a continues to serve on the Senior Community Services ’85 wonderful clients with marketing strategy, planning The show and its soundtrack album, Unplugged: A Angela Colman Chatten has been working at home “Basketball Mom” (no mini-van though!) They enjoyed Board of Directors, where she fuels her passion for Resli E. Costabell has no kids, is self-employed, and execution and she finds herself losing track of Survivor’s Story in Scenes & Songs, support RAINN... for Humana for the last 20 years while enjoying life being on campus last summer with LU family members “reimagining aging” to help older adults stay in their London based, avoids paperwork. So no change there. time at the office, but fits in exercise (or at least a Paul and Heather moved into a townhouse last with her hubby of 31 years. Their eldest, Alica, has for cousin Teddy Kortenhof’s ’18 graduation, and homes longer. She and John are looking forward to Her mother died in October and Lawrence friends sauna!), reading—and occasional visits to see her son, September with Sam their greyhound and are loving just started her PhD program in Linguistics at NYU, a Waupaca wedding celebration for cousin Jessica attending the reunion. rallied ’round: Anne, Lee, Leila, Michelle, Jeff, Michael who earned a BA from Indiana last spring and works the extra space. and their youngest, Caitlin, is a junior at Case Western Bonsall Hoarn ’09. They bleed blue & white as part of M, Michael D, Mike W, Karin, Kurt, Brad, Kristi—so in Chicago, and her daughter, who earned an MPH studying psychology and economics. Liberal arts is the 30 Hunting-Kortenhof LU family legacy! Lindsey S. Robb is enjoying his role as assistant many supportive and loving people. Her mother loved from Columbia last spring and works in NYC. She loves Lisa K. Nadziejka lives in Grand Rapids, MI, and alive and well in their family! director of the Rivers School Conservatory in Weston, Cecilia Merrill Berger ’88. Cecilia treated Resli’s getting together with LU friends many times a year! made a mid-life career change into social work. She Rebecca A. Latorraca and Jean-Piero A. Sgriccia’s MA, where he also teaches piano and music theory. mother to a private violin concert by phone before is now a LMSW in private practice. Lisa specializes Karen Phipps Dosh, RN, is nurse manager at the P’22, older daughter, Isabella, graduated from Cairo Last May, he married Marin Vulic and through his she passed; and, at her mother’s services, a gorgeous John F. Ide left JP Morgan after 27 years and pursued in depth psychology in treating emotionally wounded Wakota Life Care Center in West St. Paul, MN, and American College in 2018 and chose to join the LU family has enjoyed getting to know the beautiful recording was played of Cecilia playing her violin. a business development position with a smaller, more individuals, and her approach is informed by the sidelights as ultrasound nurse at Tandem Family class of 2022. Rebecca went back to Lawrence for the country of Croatia. Resli performed with her choir on the main stage of entrepreneurial asset management firm. Their oldest creative works of Carl Gustav Jung. Lisa’s daughter, Resource Center. She and husband, Chuck, will first time since 1984 to enjoy the beautiful campus, the O2 Arena. son graduated from University of Denver in 2017 Brynley, graduated from LU in 2014 and now works as celebrate their 35th wedding anniversary this the inspiring convocation, and their daughter’s Dorothy Dreher Robin is thrilled to have started her and works for a technology start up. Their daughter a geologist in St. Paul, MN. summer on their sailboat in the Apostle Islands. They wonderfully diverse class. Rebecca continues to work own business in Sept. 2017, doing what she loves: Stephen J. Edwards has a lot happening in LA. graduated from Lehigh in 2018 and currently works for enjoy the company of their three kids and two cute for USAID and their second assignment to Egypt has helping others and teaching. She and her husband will His daughter, Bella, is a junior at Emerson College Northern Trust in their Fund Accounting Group. Their Leslieann Schwartz lives in Chicago with her husband grandchildren (ages 4 and 1). Karen keeps busy been as fascinating as the first. celebrate their 33rd wedding anniversary this June. in Boston—majoring in communications while his youngest son is a sophomore at CU Boulder. He and and daughter who is a senior in high school and advocating for the care of her dad. Hobbies (besides Their children are thriving, and they are enjoying life! daughter, Addie, is a junior at Marymount High Nancy moved to Lincoln Park and are now are a short currently applying to college. Their son is raising pigs, sailing) include Civil War-era civilian reenacting (lots Katherine Moore Lauderbaugh has been working at Dorothy is looking forward to seeing LU classmates School in LA and is playing club volleyball. Stephen walk to the lake, restaurants and shops. With two of chickens, and market vegetables on the farm she of dancing, cooking period food, eating, teaching, Northern Trust for over 25 years and was promoted to this summer! is currently directing his 2nd documentary film— their three kids in Colorado they see a lot of skiing in grew up on. Learn more at avromfarm.com. Leslieann and croquet), perennial gardening, sewing, and board senior vice president in 2018. She lives in Evanston, Syndrome K. They flew to Rome and interviewed one their future! is happy to still be working as a photographer games. IL, with her husband Gregg and 2 children. Brian R. Smigelski and wife, Barb O’Brien, live and of the three 3 doctors who made up a fake disease documenting architecture as well as people. She work in the Milwaukee area. His Geology major is put called “Syndrome K” to save Roman Jews from being Jeffrey M. Johnson and Lisa Muller Johnson are recently completed a big project using black and white Christine Pasko Falls kicked cancer’s **s in Jill A. Manuel has leveraged over two decades to good use as a partner at DeWitt LLP specializing deported to Auschwitz! The film comes out in 2019, celebrating 28 years in the same house in Deerfield, film, which reminds her of the Lawrentian darkroom. 2017 with a “miraculous” response to immuno/ in broadcast news to launch her own business in in business and construction litigation. Their children which is the 75th anniversary of the U.S. 5th Army IL. As empty nesters Lisa has time to pursue her She is looking forward to the reunion! chemotherapy. Semi-retired from her attorney 2018. JCat Group, LLC provides consulting services have fled the nest. Mike is in his third year of Columbia liberating Rome. Stephen has co-founded a new music passion for photography while Jeff continues to log career, she chairs mandatory arbitration and remains to newsrooms, companies, brands, and individuals University’s urology residency program in NYC. Katie licensing company called mVibe (the largest collection 11,000 miles per year bike riding. Einar H. Tangen first visited China 20 years ago and president of the Mediation Council of Illinois. She who want to break through in today’s fragmented is in her first year of Vanderbilt’s MBA program in of cover recordings of hit songs in the world for film/ decided if there was going to be a Renaissance in his has reclaimed her inner artist and has taken up media environment. It’s been fun so far, working with Nashville. tv/ads/trailers/promos/internet etc.) which launches Jane Kotwicki Kresin is working on marketing and lifetime it would be there. He is currently an economic painting! She and her husband, Tim, of nearly 34 clients as varied as local TV newsrooms, cloud service in 2019 while also writing lots of music—for TV/Film publicity for the up-and-coming Swedish/American and political affairs commentator in Beijing. Son Evan years, are enjoying a “second honeymoon”. Awaiting providers, cybersecurity and retail supply chain George M. Smith ’84 passed the 30 year mark as which is still his “day job!” music duo, 7000apart, who is releasing their debut and daughter Norris finished university in the U.S. and the wedding of their oldest son Alex to Diana in June, companies. Jill has also enjoyed reconnecting with a Minnesota resident. He has a private voice studio, album We Are More in summer 2019. Son Jonathan are starting their careers in China. Christine sings in his choir where he is a minister of fellow Lawrence cluster reunion committee members and recently finished 10 years as the voice teacher for Tanja Scribner Felton is looking forward to the Cluster Kresin and his wife, Amelie Eiding, compose and worship arts. Their middle son, Matthew, has degrees working on planning an extraordinary experience in Minnesota Opera’s Resident Artist Program. It’s fun Reunion! While busy in Milwaukee, they are hoping perform indy/organic pop and have earned awards ’84 in material science engineering and works in Aviation. June for the classes of ’83, ’84 and ’85. and satisfying seeing his singers actually make a living to adopt another greyhound this spring, having lost including the Shure Off The Beaten Track International Carol Arnosti and husband Andreas are both faculty Their youngest, Joseph, is working in game design. as classical musicians. their dear Precious last July. Their son graduated from Mobile Recording Finalist; WIXX Pop Radio Big Break members in the Department of Marine Sciences at Patrice Skalko O’Morchoe and David O’Morchoe ’83 the University of Minnesota and has taken a job with Winner and International Festival Of Pop Music UNC. Their two daughters, Alison and Kathryn, will David S. Graber teaches Russian and German at are enjoying their 27th year in the Pacific NW. David’s Robert A. Willis has marked his thirty-third year in the Bankers Life in Edina. Their daughter is a junior at Radio Award in Italy (Best Original Song for the soon be starting to look at colleges—hard to believe UNCW in Wilmington, North Carolina. Hurricane ophthalmology practice is adding another partner, classroom with the School District of Waukesha. He Miami of Ohio. She spent the first semester studying song “Someone To Be”). On a separate note, Jane how fast time flies! Florence hit there in early September, left a lot of which will allow David to slow down to part time is thankful for the great kids in his various chemistry abroad in Rome, Italy, and is preparing for another trip and husband Stephen Kresin celebrated their 30th destruction and shut down the university for 4 weeks, and help Pat with some household tasks so she can classes. His wife, Kim, continues to make a difference to Zambia in May. wedding anniversary. Brad P. Aspgren married April K. Whitescarver on and the damage continues to be a challenge. It has devote more time to the piano, to knit, to sew, to make in the lives of the special education students she 8/12/2017 in Dallas, TX with three Sigma Phi Epsilon been amazing to see the community come together in cards and to pursue volunteer activities! They enjoy works with in the New Berlin School District. Their Cynthia Mader Fisher has been living in Fort Myers, Stacey A. Schmeidel spent six weeks this past fraternity brothers attending the wedding: Paul Smith support. boating on the Salish Sea and are blessed that their two sons are busy building their own careers: one an Florida, since 2006, after finishing her masters in summer volunteering for the National Park Service at ’83, from Fargo, ND, Jon Hofer ’85, from Hartford, CT two children, Caitlin and Christopher, continue to live arborist and plant health care specialist, and the other elementary education from the U of Phoenix. She Katmai National Park in Alaska. Since returning from and Chuck Ray ’85, from Chicago, IL. April and Brad nearby and enjoy their careers. They look forward to just starting in soil and water management. works for the Lee County School District (LCSD) as bush Alaska, Stacey has shared her experience in a seeing everyone at the reunion! a teacher, teacher coach, trainer, mentor and lead series of public presentations designed to help people 62 FALL 2019 LAWRENCE 63 CLASS NOTES

will be an “empty nester!” I’m not sure what the next entering his senior year of high school. We recently from LU and is finishing her second year as a biology phase of my life has in store for me, but I do know that celebrated our 30th wedding anniversary and still live teacher. Our middle daughter, Isabel, graduated it will be an adventure. Unfortunately, I won’t be able in Maryland. this June from St. Norbert College (summa cum to attend the upcoming reunion; however, I hope to laude) with a degree in psychology and is working connect with many of you soon! Elizabeth Keggi at Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin, Milwaukee as a Life in Appleton keeps getting more and more child life specialist—got a job right out of college! I Carol Rupnow Willick interesting! I spend much of my free time enjoying am teaching high school biology and just finished my I am happily married as of August 10, 2018 to John the arts at Lawrence and in the wider community. I 26th year. We’ve been adding to our dive log with trips Stearns II, so I am now Carol Stearns instead of Carol enjoy singing in a terrific church choir (gotta use that to Bonaire and Grand Cayman—revisiting great spots Willick, nee Rupnow. Our family recently appeared in music degree somehow!), and I continue to write and from LUMP! Elm Leaves magazine. Son Christian just graduated present poetry. I’d love to hear from old LU friends. from MLC in New Ulm, MN with a 4.0 for all 4 years of I am training manager and senior tutor at Dyslexia Stephanie Millay Dustin college and was awarded the Brooke Scholarship to Reading Connection, a regional nonprofit that provides I started a new job this year after staying home to Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary. He also received the one-on-one reading and math training for dyslexic homeschool my children for 16 years. My new job is Via, Veritas, Vita award and the Top Scholar award. kids, teens, and adults. I’ve worked as a tutor for at the local elementary school as a library teacher. Son Evan has 1 more year at MLC and is studying about 12 years, and for the past two years I have also I teach Kindergarten through 5th grade. I am having to become a teacher. He is engaged to be married been the trainer for new and continuing tutors. It’s a great time. I still teach senior fitness classes in Class of 1994. (Photo: Ken Cobb) to Megan in 2020—she is studying to be an early hugely rewarding work. my spare time. I am celebrating my 23rd wedding childhood educator. I started a small company in anniversary this summer. I will have 2 boys in college 2019 called Gozes, LLC—I make roses out of running Troy J. Merryfield this fall, and my daughter is a high school sophomore. gels for long distance racers. I still work at NASA in Mission Assurance. Currently My husband is a high school music teacher. Life is I am working on the next Mars Mission (Mars 2020) good. understand and support our national parks—and the Mary A. Blasing when she was in Chicago this spring and visited the Betsy A. Wood and a new inflatable heat shield for entry through incredible species (especially bears!) that live there. After 26 years working as a Park Ranger with both museum. It’s hard to believe that three decades have I got married last fall at the Old Mill in Little Rock, planetary atmospheres. The new heat shield will save Kim Kimberly Holland In her “real” life, Stacey does public relations for U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service and the National Park passed since our graduation. Following the tradition Arkansas (seen in the opening credits of Gone With on payload volume and mass so that a larger payload TJ & I love being empty nesters and will be celebrating Smith College. Service I retired in 2016. I moved back to Arizona, of Erika Neuendorf-Gottschalk, Tammy Teschner, the Wind). My husband and I are working toward may be carried to other planets. Unfortunately, these our 26th wedding anniversary in June. Our son, Jack, where I garden and volunteer with Girls on the Run. My and Rick Dowd, my firstborn is off to Lawrence in the integrating our households of pets. We have traveled projects mean LOTS of travel to California from my graduated from VA Tech in May where he gave the Dr. Timothy M. Sievers is cruising into middle age, home projects are interspersed with frenzied bouts of fall. Class of 2023! Looking forward to seeing some to Hawaii and the East Coast together and look home in Virginia. commencement speech. His business consulting job looking at 29 years of marriage and all adult children. traveling. I plan to backpack a 500 mile section of the familiar faces at parents’ weekend in the near future. forward to an overseas trip eventually. I continue to is local so we are thrilled he will be in the area. Our All is well—healthy and happy, slowing down now with Pacific Crest Trail this September and will hopefully enjoy my job as an advisor with Biological Systems Louis J. Wool daughter, Meg, is at University of Mary Washington. no overnight call or weekends with his anesthesia continue exploring the world and my own backyard as Caroline Neumiller Pfeffer Engineering at UW–Madison and also participate in I am still teaching social studies at Wheeling High She is active in her sorority & does a lot of volunteer practice. Downsizing homes and excited about the much as possible. Our oldest son, Benjamin, graduated (again) from the community theater, swing dancing, and horseback School. I am currently teaching a career pathway work. The most meaningful of her work is at a new chapter! University of Miami with his masters in accounting riding. I’m happy to reconnect with any classmate who in Law. I teach four different law courses, including therapeutic riding center where she is 2nd in charge. Kristin Vorpahl Erickson and will start with RSM in Miami this fall. David, our remembers me after so long! a college/high school dual credit course through My new photography business is doing well. I decided Sandra Wilson moved to Evantson 8 years ago and is 2019 is busy as usual. We just finished celebrating youngest had a semester abroad in Japan—he begins Eastern Illinois University as well. I am spending a I might as well get paid for doing what I love. in the retirement pipeline for School District 219, Niles graduations for 4 nieces (HS) and 3 nephews his student IS this fall as a senior at the College Of Fred Slater lot of time taking care of my Dad, who is not in the North High School with 3 ½ more years. In addition (college). I am celebrating 19 years as a county social Wooster and a major in comp sci. My husband Jeff and My wife, Eileen Sliwinski ’87, and I have lived in greatest of health. I am glad to be able to not only Christopher L. McNulty to teaching Sociology, she teaches World History at worker and about 25 years in the social services field. his company, Capx Partners, have joined ranks with Seattle for 22 years now. We enjoy hiking, climbing, help, but spend time with him. My Mom died of cancer In 2018, I was appointed chair of the Department of the regular and AP levels. Her son received his PhD in We are traveling to several out of town concerts and Accord Financial and continue with equipment finance and skiing in the area. We have been blessed with nine years ago, and I think about her every day. I have Art & Art History at Auburn University. electrical engineering from Northwestern in June. Her taking a trip to the West Coast with friends over the to middle market companies—Both Caroline and Jeff good health. I work full time as a software developer an eight-year-old pit bull rescue dog named Tess. She daughter is the third generation to work as a teacher summer. We hope to squeeze in a camping trip or two, volunteer and support Illinois Holocaust Museum and for F5 Networks, but Eileen has retired from her is the best buddy/companion that I could ever ask for. Gail Feldman Micheau and Tim A. Micheau ’88 and is in her fourth year as a special education and we spend as much time as we can with our two Education Center in Skokie/Chicago—Jeff as chair of teaching career and now divides her time between Enjoy reading and biking over my summers. Things have been pretty steady with us, no big teacher near Champaign-Urbana. Sandra got married 15 year old Springer spaniels. We love to visit with the board of directors, and Caroline as events chair painting and managing our AirBnB. If you remember changes to report. We had fun learning about again in 2015 and they travel as much as they can. Lawrence friends near and far whenever we can, and for the Women’s Leadership Committee/annual Soiree the Committee of Public Safety (1983-1986), I still David J. Zeitchick and Leslie R. Williams ’90 lacrosse this spring since our son started playing. I am They explored the Mayan ruins at Chichen Itza and we are looking forward to our next reunion weekend. and benefit. play music. I am now with a band called Massy I’m completing my 22th year teaching social studies reliving my semester in Europe experiences currently Coba on the last day of 2018. Ferguson, playing original rock and touring both locally and coaching football and track at Highland Park as my daughter sends updates on her adventures Jeffrey J. Geppert and Cathryn Torresani Geppert ’82 Elizabeth Schaupp Sidles and Charles S. Sidles ’85 and internationally (Spain and UK in 2019). We have a Senior High School in St. Paul. I’m still married to overseas. Looking forward to our 30th reunion next ’86 Our son is working in Chicago as a healthcare I am still married to Chuck Sidles. My son Charlie will new album out, for which you may read reviews online. Leslie Williams, who is also a teacher. We have a year, hope a lot of you can make it. senior in college (Tatum), a senior in high school Stephen L. Albrecht and Jennifer Wilkinson Albrecht ’89 consultant, and our daughter is working in Philadelphia be a junior at Northwestern, and daughter Addi will (Seth) and a freshman in high school (Whitney). It’s Gregory A. Petit Our younger daughter graduated from high school in socially conscious commercial real estate. We be a freshman at Williams. I am in the process of ’88 been a great run, and we’re hopeful it’ll continue. Nancy and I are pleased to announce that our this spring so Jennifer and I are about to become remain in Columbus Ohio, almost 15 years as a relaunching myself back into the paid workforce. J. Stephen Cowles and Cyndy Zimmerman Cowles ’84 daughter, Brielle ’19, has graduated from Lawrence quasi-empty-nesters. It will be an adjustment, but research scientist at Battelle. Stay tuned. I have been promoted to Deputy General Counsel University with a double major in Psychology and we are excited. I am now in my 10th year of working for Baltimore County Public Schools, the 25th ’90 Spanish. Brielle will continue her studies at Portland for Kindred Healthcare doing government affairs work Karen Pleasant Gonzalez Rebecca Sigler-Africano largest school system in the country. My wife, Cyndy Nara Hulbert Detienne and Thomas D. Detienne ’88 State University where she will pursue her Ph.D. in across the country and sometimes in Washington, No news is good news. Alive, employed and blessed. This May our youngest son, Paul, graduated from Zimmerman, is the director of enrollment operations I am celebrating my 28th wedding anniversary with psychology. Grayson Petit ’18 continues his studies D.C. I have become an avid runner and have logged [email protected] high school and will be attending the University of for Goucher College. She and I are looking forward Tom this June, and we are traveling to Spain to visit at Vilnuis University, in Vilnuis, Lithuania, and will a number of half marathons and other races. We Washington. Before he made his decision, Paul and I to our oldest son, Matthew, starting college in the our son, Reece, who is studying abroad (UW-Madison, graduate with his masters in eastern European and are happily living in a historic neighborhood in Colleen M. McVeigh-Buist spent a lovely couple of days at LU in April for a LUX fall at the Elliott School for International Affairs ’22). Our oldest daughter, Natalie ’16, graduated Russian studies in February 2020. Indianapolis and the welcome mat is always out for I am privileged to continue working as a conservation (me with my fingers crossed); he liked it more than he in Washington, D.C. Our younger son, Michael, is fellow Lawrentians. educator at the Field Museum of Natural History. thought he would, and I was blown away by all of the Delia Duchicela and I had a chance to catch up briefly amazing additions to the campus!! I can’t believe I

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Dr. Michael P. Underwood choir kid identity with my love of personal essay Adam D. Demers ’94 is an independent graphic Elizabeth Pepper Lahti is living the dream in Portland, an organic, wood-fired pizza kitchen. They enjoy Dr. Rebecca J. Whelan I completed my 16th season as principal trombone writing. Personally, our daughter is finishing up her designer providing brand-building and design- OR, with her husband, Jeff, and three kids. Life is hiking, the beach, and exploring the outdoors in their A lot has changed since I last reported. I was recruited of the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra with two high school freshman year, and our son is finishing 5th communication services to museums, arts filled with work, carpools, and homework and as much spare time. into a faculty position in the Department of Chemistry performances of Mahler’s Fifth Symphony. I will grade and ready for middle school. organizations, publishers and private businesses. mountain biking, skiing, and playing tennis as they and Biochemistry at the University of Notre Dame. premiere two new solo works at the International He lives with his wife, Andrea, and dog Baxter in can. Last year they got off the grid and moved to Peru Lana Robotewskyj finished her master’s degree It seemed too good an opportunity to pass up, so Trombone Festival this summer at Ball State Brett Lane Minneapolis, MN. for almost 5 months for a sabbatical trip of a lifetime. in music in ’96 from the University of WI Madison, in summer 2018, I said goodbye to Oberlin College, University, and I will present master classes at the We are enjoying the Baltimore/DC region now with She recently started a nonprofit called Northwest received an associate degree in culinary arts in 2011, where I had been a faculty member for nearly 14 university in Xuzhou, China. I presented a lecture two Gen-Zs (non-snowflakes) who have acquired Karen A. deVries and her family moved to Colorado Narrative Medicine Collaborative, where she tries to and travels for both work and leisure. Lana attended years, and relocated to South Bend. You can find my of the life and music of Ann Giffels at the Music an encyclopedic knowledge of Anime, MTG, and this past summer to teach in the women’s and ethnic bring her English major alive while keeping her day job a music festival in Arcidosso, Italy, most recently to lab on Instagram at www.instagram.com/whelanlab_nd. by Women Conference in Columbus, Mississippi. youtubers and seem to be doing well in high school. studies department. Her partner, Jessi, is the new as a doctor. study with LU’s very own, Cathy Kautsky. “Such a We continue to focus on developing new detection I performed the Albrechtsberger Alto Trombone I reached the 10-year anniversary of starting an head of research at UCCS. Their son’s father is a treat to work with Cathy!” Lana owns Melodiya Piano strategies for early-stage ovarian cancer. In addition Concerto as a featured soloist with the ASO in March. education consulting firm (INSTLL) and continue to veterinarian at the Colorado Springs zoo, so they’re Kirsten R. Lies-Warfield retired after 20 years in the Academy in Sun Prairie and aside from all the music, to teaching graduate and undergraduate courses, enjoy working with states and districts across the able to spend more family time together and get to army band and looks forward to a fully musical life Lana enjoys taking care of 10-year-old Bosco the I’m busy mentoring, managing my lab, writing Mary H. Wiltjer east coast and New England. If you are in education know the animals, a very agreeable situation. She playing gigs and teaching around Washington D.C., Beagle. Lana is excited to perform a 2 piano piece grant proposals, and getting familiar with my new I still live in Chicago and teach mathematics at or working with state, districts, and non-profits, don’t misses Montana but not the weather and is looking composing and traveling to present her “Pershing’s with John Ruben Piirainen ’94 at the LU reunion this hometown. Glenbrook South H.S. I was very honored to be named hesitate to reach out. On a broader note, I wonder if forward to exploring some trails once she gets a new Dis-Owned” show. Patrick R. Warfield enjoyed his June—appropriate as Lana and John performed their Illinois’ High School Mathematics Teacher of the Year this is actually the “post-modernity” state of affairs knee over spring break. She’s looking forward to first sabbatical as an associate professor at the junior and senior recitals together at the Con. Lana ’98 in 2019 (with the T. E. Rine Award). I was on the that we were all worried about? Hope that Lawrence is seeing everyone at the upcoming reunion. University of Maryland, where he is associate director hopes to see all of her “connie” friends at the reunion! Keith A. Harris author teams for two mathematics textbooks. Outside still having folks read some Plato. of the School of Music. Together they look forward to This year was my busiest with over 50,000 flight of education, I keep busy with family and friends, Roger S. Duncan reports that his 2 daughters celebrating their 25th wedding anniversary shortly Shad R. Wenzlaff: “Why didn’t I major in art history at miles. I made my debut with the Israeli Opera including my rescued Basset Hound. Jay W. Roberts are both happy and well, playing little league and after their 25th LU reunion. LU? But truly, I have no regrets. I can’t quantify how company in Tel Aviv as Albert in their production of I am currently writing this while leading a group of my working on reading. “I’m amused that some of you fortunate I am.” Shad finished his MA in art history Werther. I also recorded my first solo album, Keep on ’92 students in Freiburg, Germany, where we are focused are sending your kids to Lawrence soon.” Martina, F. Raphael (Rafe) Lyford lives in the Twin Cities in spring 2000 from UW-Milwaukee. Living there Climbing, and wrote a book about my life with dyslexia Sarah Gilbertson Armstrong on sustainable urban planning. From here, we are off his wife, works while Roger stays at home, rows and area with his wife, Julie, and two teenage daughters connected him with many fellow LU alums. He’s grown called, The Odds Against: Finding the Advantage in Sarah Gilbertson Armstrong joined the Fine Arts to Copenhagen. As for my news, I am about to begin does photography (www.rogerduncanphoto.com). He Madilynn and Katherine. He works at Synchrony but addicted to travel and in May will connect with April Your Disadvantage. This year my wife, Maire, and I faculty of the Canterbury School in New Milford, CT, a one-year sabbatical from my institution (Earlham reenlisted in the Navy Reserve and transferred his GI for the past 2 years he’s been starting up an internal Eisman ’94 in Dresden. On two previous trips, he had celebrate 8 wonderful years of marriage. In closing I in 2016. She is chair of the theatre department, College), where I have been working as associate vice Bill to his kids. “Those of you who remember me from cloud computing platform-as-a-service from scratch. the great fortune of taking lessons with Cathy Kautsky want to extend a very special congratulations to Ken director of Choral Studies and Liturgical Music, and president for Academic Affairs. I have been awarded class will understand that sentiment, I’m sure.” He’s also excited about exploring what’s possible with in Italy. Shad calls Madison home, teaching piano and Joanne Bozeman. founder of the Canterbury Carillon Guild. She and a year-long fellowship with the American Council the developing technology of 3D printers. With his own there and art history at Edgewood College, where he husband Dylan are dorm parents of 30 senior and on Education (ACE) and will be placed at another Kimberly Pichler Frankenhoff works at Krause printers, he has designed and/or printed everything is director for student research. “I live a rewarding Daniel G. Kolev post-grad girls. Sarah is a member of New England’s institution to work alongside the President and senior Publications as an online content editor for the firm’s from plastic cup holders to wooden ukuleles to model life and have a wonderful and supportive partner: I am living in the Chicago area with my wife and three Professional Chamber Choir, Voce. The first American leadership. Other than that, our oldest daughter coins division. There she will soon begin data entry for railroads. Outside of work, he enjoys spending time Brad. (Yes, our names rhyme).” His connection with boys. After spending close to 20 years in management choir to be signed into management with Signum successfully navigated her freshman year of high the award-winning Standard Catalog of World Coins with his family, going to softball games and getting LU continues as some alum’s children call him “Uncle consulting and finance, I left the corporate world to Records, their star is on the rise! This coming year will school, and Liverpool beat Barcelona 4-0, so life is series. She is tickled to announce that she and her ready for a teenage driver. Rafe continues to do his Shad” while others who studied piano with him also focus on my own company, Alteya Organics, which see the release of their new CD, Blessing, as well as good! husband, Brent, have been promoted to grandparents. music through composing on his laptop studio and call or called LU home. specializes in the manufacturing and sales of certified performances with renowned composers Eric Whitacre Their son, Brad, and his girlfriend, Madalyn Gran, playing casually with friends in the basement. organic beauty products. My hobbies include tennis, and Paul Mealor. See more at www.voceinc.org. ’94 welcomed Aurora Nicole Frankenhoff on Nov. 7, 2018. ’96 skiing, traveling and taking the kids to their multiple John A. Bachhuber and Mary Dercks Bachhuber Rebecca L. Mezoff runs her own tapestry art P. Seth Ducey extracurricular, sport, and music activities. Dorota B. Dabrowski ’92 have lived in Roseville, MN, for the last 9 years. Marilyn M. Hein went on a trip to the Holy Land last and education business out of her studio in I have been appointed Executive Director of the It is now 27 years since I left Lawrence and moved John works at Thrivent Financial in human resources, July on a tour led by Billy Graham’s daughter. She Fort Collins, CO. She married Emily Haire in 2012. Golden State Youth Orchestra in Palo Alto, CA. Peter C. Kolkay to Poland. I have run into a few LU trustees over the and Mary volunteers extensively in the Roseville Area wrote six Power Point presentations so she could www.tapestryweaving.com The organization has 450 students and 6 music On May 16, 2019, I performed the premiere of Mark- years and my former international church pastor (Mark School District. Their eldest, Owen, is a freshman at remember all she had learned. She understands the ensembles. Previously, I was Director of Operations Anthony Turnage’s Massarosa for bassoon and string Atkinson) is an LU alum. As the managing director of the UMN-Twin Cities with an “impressive collection Bible so much better now having experienced the Joan Wittlinger Nyamhondoro has been working in and Education for the Oakland Symphony. quartet at the Rose Studio at the Chamber Music the American Chamber of Commerce in Poland for of reptiles, amphibians and invertebrates.” Younger topography and geology of the land of Jesus. higher education for fifteen years but is now branching Society of Lincoln Center. I was joined by the Calidore the past 17 years, I meet a lot of Americans visiting brother Daniel, a high school junior, is passionate out. She has reached the half-way point for the Dr. Richard J. Tirk and Suzanne Hickman Tirk ’98 Quartet (who played at Lawrence in October 2018), Poland and would love to hear from any LU alumni about tennis and trumpet. Their golden-doodle, Lucy, Ariana Bliss Kamisonoda’s fills most days with Ed. D. in Educational Leadership and will begin her Suzanne and I are finishing up year 7 living in and we also performed Joan Tower’s Red Maple. coming through Warsaw. It is an exciting place! On a is great at encouraging them to walk after dinner and teaching and busy family life, but she does find time dissertation in the spring through the University of Oklahoma. We have 2 kids, Simon (5) and Malia (3), Both pieces were written for me and both composers personal note: my lovely daughter, Dafne, is now nine; has eliminated any need of a doorbell. Living within to enjoy gardening, pottery, and reading as well. the Cumberlands, KY. Her daughter completed her and recently moved to the college town of Norman. I’m were in attendance. Link to a review and photo here: in 2018 I married Marc Winterscheid, a German; my a few minutes of the State Fairgrounds, they invite Daughter Amami (19) is now at Waseda University master’s at King’s College—London and Joan has teaching trumpet and jazz at Southwestern Oklahoma http://newyorkclassicalreview.com/2019/05/ Polish grandmother will soon turn 96! alums to give them a call if heading to the fair (or any in Tokyo, studying sports medicine and sailing. She enjoyed trips there to visit. “This last year has brought State University, and Suzanne teaches clarinet at the tower-and-turnage-works-for-bassoon-quintet-given- other time)! placed 20th at the Youth World Sailing Championships some ups and downs as I lost my dad to a battle with University of Oklahoma. supreme-advocacy-at-cms. Shelley A. Davis last year in Italy. Her son, Ryujiro (16), loves being cancer just before Christmas but also got engaged to Professionally, I continue to serve as the president of Kendra Boettcher Craven has been a flutist in the with his friends, fishing, and testing his parents’ Marcus Gray in September, and we are making future Joy Gerrits Vertz Mary McNamara Bernsten and Benjamin W. the Forest Preserve Foundation. We mostly fund youth U.S. Army Band for 23 years. As a member of the patience while, Shintaro (15), is happiest when out on plans for our shared life.” So excited to have opened the first Drybar blowout Bernsten ’97 conservation internships and ecological restoration of band she does concerts on the steps of the Capitol, the ocean. She says, “Raising three unique kids in a salon in WI (located in the Third Ward of Milwaukee). I continue to teach junior high and high school art at the Preserves. I have a busy civic life—which includes has marched in the Inaugural Parades, played at different country and culture has helped me deepen Andy Pearsons is teaching in Charlotte, NC. He is My husband of 21 years, Tim and I, have two sons. Keith Country Day School in Rockford, Illinois, while serving on the Lawrence Board of Trustees, chairing political events in the D.C. area, and participated in my appreciation for the value of diversity and learn to happily married to Ava Williamson and has one young Flynn just graduated and is off to Tulane University getting my masters in human services administration. the Albert Pick Jr. Fund board (a private Chicago ceremonies at Arlington Cemetery. She is married to love unconditionally.” daughter; they are expecting a son in April. Andy and and Sawyer who is an upcoming sophomore. I also still Ben Bernsten ’93 and I are married 19 years, this focused Foundation), and serving on the Illinois another soldier in the band, Rob Craven, and they Ava also work with another Lawrentian at the Wise own a portrait studio for the past 16 years, located in year, and we have four sons. Ben is president of Juvenile Justice Commission. I’ve taken up storytelling have 2 children, ages 10 and 11. They live in a suburb Acre Organic Strawberry Farm, where they’ve started Mequon, WI. Goodwill Industries of Northern Illinois. We serve our performance, which is a great way of combining my of Washington D.C. where they keep busy with other musical jobs in the area and many kid’s activities. 66 FALL 2019 LAWRENCE 67 CLASS NOTES CLASS NOTES

community on various boards and can do a bit less Jesse D. Gilbert Chuck Erickson Beth Achille Lambert profit integrated marketing and communications Jonathon J. Kragh lived in Arizona for 10 years where driving now that our oldest son has a license! We had I have been enjoying the climate in Colorado. My most I am starting my fourth year as an independent I live in Fairfield, Maine, with husband, Greg, and two best practices, including seminars for the American he became a thanatologist. After earning a degree a niece and a nephew attend Lawrence in the past recent endeavor is volunteering time at a shelter for educational consultant with College Connectors. I daughters, Lillian (14) and Paige (8). I am director of Marketing Association and Americans for the Arts, in mortuary science, he is now a funeral director in eight years, and we currently have a couple aspiring homeless cats. am really loving working with students and parents standards and instruction for the Maine Department of among others. Chilton, Wisconsin. He finds this career to be very Vikings under our roof. Lawrence and its superb on the college search and application process. I also Education, and am active in local community theatre rewarding, mixing anatomy, psychology, cosmetology, tradition of preparing students for lifelong learning Dr. Jeffrey T. Ramsey enjoy touring college campuses, and I should reach as both an actress and director. Jennifer Dieter sold her house after 10 years in interpersonal skills, logistics and office work. Jonathon continues to influence how we live our lives with We recently moved to New Berlin from Cudahy, WI. campus #150 by the end of 2019. Although I had a Appleton, and moved to Minneapolis in fall 2016 to also helps coach the high school baseball team and meaning and purpose. I am the director of student services at Herzing minor health setback this past fall, I am feeling good Tamara E. Palmer take a position as the development director at The plays on the men’s team during the summer. While University, Online and also an adjunct instructor in and getting better every day. I am excited to spend After more than a decade together, I finally got married Aliveness Project, a community center that provides living in Arizona, he met his wife, Ashton, and they are Dr. Joseph T. Tennis the history department at Southern New Hampshire some time this summer with my husband, so we on May 18, 2019, in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, to supportive services for people living with HIV. In eagerly expecting their first child! Hello friends and classmates! I am happy to report University and my wife, Christina, is the director of can celebrate 13 years of being together! He is still Stephen Nance of Edmond, Oklahoma. We continue to August 2018, she was appointed acting executive that I am healthy and happy. I am still an associate financial aid at Herzing University, Brookfield. Timothy teaching in the Green Bay area and loves it, even with live in Fort Worth, Texas, with our rescue dog, Willie. director/leadership consultant. Jennifer has been Angela S. Meyers designed and taught a faculty- professor and associate dean for faculty affairs at the (8) and Samuel (4) just finished 2nd grade and K3 at the 30 minute commute each way. Keep in touch and This fall, I will be celebrating 8 years in business with enjoying life in the Twin Cities, especially reconnecting led study abroad course entitled, “Listening to University of Washington Information School. I am a Wauwatosa Catholic School, respectively. I’m looking let us know if you are coming to Appleton! my partner at InFocus Campaigns, where we are proud with several friends from Lawrence. Luxembourg: Music and Cultural Identity” at Sacred proud uncle of two beautiful young people. I continue forward to our next class reunion—I can’t believe it has to promote Democratic and progressive campaigns Heart University’s Luxembourg City, Luxembourg to travel quite a bit, but still love coming home to been almost 20 years! Debra L. Fisk throughout the country. I have also taken up running Carolynn M. Dude will finally finish her medical campus. She was able to travel with students to Seattle. I had a wonderful time at last year’s reunion. I I live in Madison, WI, and work for the UW–Madison in and am training for my first marathon this June. training this June with the conclusion of her fellowship Germany, France and the Netherlands and considers cannot wait to visit campus again! Jessica Seaberg Seidlitz a lab researching vascular eye diseases. I got married in Maternal Fetal Medicine (high risk obstetrics) at it the most meaningful teaching experience of her Hi! I live in Savage, MN, with husband Mike and last fall (September 2018) to Cole Ruby and now Dr. Nathan Schreiber the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. She is 15-year career! Angela Bier our two kids, James (6) and Anna (4). We are just have a 6-year-old step son. My father passed away in My wife, Catherine Savage, gave birth to baby boy, currently interviewing for faculty positions. In October, I join my friend, Joe Tennis, in celebrating the finishing James’ first year of school and kindergarten March of this year. I have been skating with Madison Daniel, in 2018, joining our nearly 4-year-old Maya. she married Marco Rathjen, and they are raising his Clara C. Muggli-Toyloy lives in Decorah, Iowa, with pleasures of last year’s reunion and hope to see has been awesome. Anna will start kindergarten in the Roller Derby for 8 seasons now and will be traveling eight year old twins, Rem and Lena. Carolynn hopes to her husband, Darryl, and their two children, Olive (4) many familiar faces at future reunions. I continue to fall. I am a realtor with Edina Realty in the Savage/ to Minneapolis and Baltimore with the Dairyland Dolls Kristen P. Shaffer and Colleen Perry Shaffer ’02 make it back to Appleton this summer for reunion even and Zeno (3), as well as the newest additions to the live with my husband, Jimmy, and two girls just south Prior Lake office. Mike is a project manager with the this summer. Kris Shaffer co-authored The Tactics and Tropes of though it’s a week before her board exam! family—four chickens. Clara has a variety of gigs and of Milwaukee. Several years ago I left my career in Metropolitan Airport Commission (MAC). We are avid the Internet Research Agency, a report prepared occupations, including freelance landscape design, medicine. Lifelong learning and all that, you know? I’m Vikings fans (not Lawrence, sorry!) in the winter, and Ryan Gebler and Meagan Otto Peeters Gebler for the United States Senate Select Committee on Mark A. Growdon and Martha Nelson Growdon non-profit work at the local community action agency, having a go at writing and recently learned to sail. Life have gotten into horse racing in the summer! Hope Meagan has been a physical therapist at Orthopedic Intelligence about Russian interference in the 2016 were elated to move back into their Houston home and launching an organic cut flower micro-farm. is good. to make it to campus this year as I have been majorly Spine & Therapy in Appleton since March 2011. U.S. presidential election on social media. His book, on December 23, 2017, after four months spent missing all things Lawrence and Appleton! If anybody In April 2019, Ryan was promoted to director of Data versus Democracy: How Big Data Algorithms rebuilding due to Hurricane Harvey, even though the Shelley Ebert Navis and Peter M. Navis live in Fort ’00 is relocating to MN, or wants to buy or sell a house, financial aid at Lawrence. In May 2019, our son (Otto Shape Opinions and Alter the Course of History, will be drywall wasn’t sanded and the doors weren’t yet Atkinson, Wisconsin, with their two children, Rachel Jennifer McConaghy Aleckson please reach out! Gebler) turned two. We enjoy living close to campus, published July 2019 by Apress. hung. Just a few months later, they moved to Reno, (10) and Michael (7). Peter works for Walworth We became a family of four this year when Alice downtown Appleton, and all of the wonderful city Nevada, where they have been enjoying the mountains County as an assistant corporation counsel, and Katherine (born 1/2/19) joined Victoria Marie (born ’02 parks. Life in Appleton is good! Jason P. Shanda and exploring with their sons who have been learning Shelley works part-time as a school counselor at 10/7/17). Life with two-under-two in Brooklyn, Ryan M. Albashian I, along with my wife and 9-year-old son, live in De Pere. Spanish and starting music lessons. Martha has three Lakeview Elementary School in Whitewater. Shelley NY, means we’ve traded Broadway shows and the Ryan M. Albashian is a flight instructor, commercial Nathan S. Heffel and William J. Burrow ’00 I recently took a job at M3 Insurance working with jobs, including one as an Usborne Books & More has completed seven marathons in six different states NY restaurant scene for playdates and the local pilot and a civilian parachute technician. He designs My husband, William, and I finalized the adoption of employers on their employee benefits packages. educational rep, so the kids have learned to ask if while Peter enjoys cycling and cross-country skiing. playground scene. Paul continues to manage and constructs skydiving equipment internationally, our 2-year-old daughter, Maya in November 2018. books around the house are theirs or mom’s! While endowment investments at the Ford Foundation, and is a sport skydiver and an international organbuilding After a successful stint as Mid-Day Editor of NPR’s All Beth A. Zinsli they have had the pleasure of hosting some friends Brett K. Olson earned his master’s degree in coastal I left American Express in 2017 (after 10 years) to specialist. The only American organbuilder with Things Considered in Washington, D.C., I’ve decided I returned to Lawrence in 2013 to work as the already, Mark and Martha extend an invitation to any zone management and has been employed in the head digital product for Merryfield, a new discovery & permanent residency and self-employment permission to pursue other avenues outside of public radio. curator of the Wriston Art Galleries and as an LU classmates! air quality monitoring section of the Broward County rewards platform for clean-label products. We travel in the Republic of Germany and European Union, he This gives my family the option to relocate to rural assistant professor of art history. I also direct the Environmental Protection Department for over eight back to the Midwest as frequently as we can to see has worked with significant historic organs throughout Colorado, a place that better suits us. We look forward Museum Studies program and serve as chair of the Jason K. Hanna and Courtney A. Hanna-McNamara years. Prior to that, he found himself in an AA meeting family and friends. Go Vikes! Europe and published various articles on organ pipe to returning to the Centennial State and creating our Convocations committee. It’s a pretty good gig, and continue to live and work in DeKalb, IL, where Jason after years of excessive drinking and partying. He construction, sound and treatment techniques. He is forever home. my students and colleagues are consistently amazing. is an associate professor of philosophy at Northern shares that “the most important thing to me is my Robyn E. Cutright featured in bestselling author Matthew B. Crawford’s Illinois University. Jason recently published In Our Best spiritual path,” and he is active in AA and ACA. He I’m starting a new position as interim director of the book [2015] titled The World Beyond Your Head: On Andy R. Kazik ’03 Interest: A Defense of Paternalism (OUP, 2018) and lives in Oakland Park, Florida. Center for Teaching and Learning at Centre College, Becoming an Individual in an Age of Distraction. Living in De Pere, WI. Married, 3 Kids, Co-Owner David A. Chidsey is a high school music teacher in the co-edited The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy where I’ve been on the faculty since 2009. After I of Green Bay Jiu Jitsu. Midwest Sales Manager for Hudson Valley area of New York State. In addition to of Paternalism (2018). Courtney works for the local Sarah Krile Radermacher is embarking on her help to hire a permanent director in spring 2020, Crystal M. Chan Sunbelt Supply. Living Happy. teaching guitar classes and music history, he directs public school district where their daughters are thirteenth year working for AFS Intercultural Programs. I’ll be back to my current job as associate professor My first novel, Bird (Simon & Schuster), was published the chamber ensembles and advises the Tri-M music enrolled in kindergarten and second grade. She works from her home in Minnesota where she and of anthropology at Centre. I continue to conduct a couple of years ago and also in eight other countries Melanie A. Kehoss honor society. her husband, Jonathon, are raising their two young archaeological research in Peru, travel as much as I around the world. My most recent novel, All That I My husband and I are finishing out our eighth year Molly A. Johannessen has recently started working kids, Marie (1) and Charlie (4). can, and enjoy gardening and cooking with husband Can Fix (Simon & Schuster) was published last year in Arlington, VA. Folks in the area can catch me this Anneliese M. DeDiemar resides in Washington, for Kaplan Medical as a medical learning consultant Drew and our dogs here in Lexington, Kentucky. in the U.S. and has received a lot of great reviews. September at the opening of my solo show at Schnider D.C. with her wife, Lacey Capps. Anneliese is the fostering institutional partnerships for continued Katie A. Reimer is pursuing a Master of Divinity Both novels are for children—middle school and young Gallery, at the reception for Places in Paper, a national director of marketing and communications for the student success. degree at Union Theological Seminary in New York Dr. James M. Daley and Rene Rusch Daley adult—and feature mixed-race protagonists in the show I am curating, and at the Arlington Visual Art Equipment Leasing & Finance Foundation, a non- City and expects to graduate in Spring 2020. She You know those “do not remove under penalty of law” Midwest. I was the Artist In Residence at Benedictine Studio Tour, which I am managing. profit organization dedicated to inspiring thoughtful Akinjide O. Kolade moved to Cleveland, Ohio, in was honored to co-lead worship last June for over one tags they put on mattresses? Well, I cut one of them off. University teaching a course called Writing innovation and contributing to the betterment of the 2016 to work for Progressive Insurance as a product thousand people at the Wisconsin Annual Conference Compassion and I’m very active online as a race and $1 trillion equipment leasing and finance industry. manager and is married with two kids, a 6-year-old of the United Methodist Church, which involved a compassion activist. She also draws on her extensive experience in arts boy and a 3-year-old girl. four month planning process and allowed her to marketing as a consultant and presenter on non- 68 FALL 2019 LAWRENCE 69 Classes of 2003, 2004, 2005. (Photo: Ken Cobb)

continue to explore her passion for worship leading Justice where she has worked since 2010. She enjoys Robert V. Campagna was the head writer for seasons the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing at Case Jesse W. Guillen works for the City of Santa Fe, writers founded the Austin Texas Science Writers and writing liturgy and songs. She is the artistic and traveling and visited the old London Study Centre at twelve and thirteen of Marriage Bootcamp on the WE Western Reserve University and working on completing New Mexico, overseeing all legislation for the City in late 2017 to build a local community of science executive director of the Mimesis Ensemble (www. 7 Brechin Place last year, which brought back many channel. He is an active member of both the Writer’s her Doctorate of Nursing Practice with an emphasis Council. He passed the Certified Sommelier level exam communicators. She and her husband, Jacob Hoberg, mimesisensemble.org), a NYC based group dedicated amazing memories! Guild of America and the Producer’s Guild of America. on education. She bought a house in 2013, which she from the Court of Master Sommeliers in 2017 and also bought their first house in 2017. to performing music from the 20th and 21st centuries, He lives in Los Angeles with his dachshund and keeps shares with her two German Shorthaired Pointer dogs, provides pairing services to a local catering company. which presented a concert this fall at Carnegie Hall on Elizabeth A. Becker became both a newly tenured in touch with fellow LU alumni in the City of Angels. Radar and Nadia. He spends his free time with his two children, Rafael, Poonam Kumar is a partner at a large global law firm migration journeys as expressed through music. associate professor at Saint Joseph’s University and born in September 2016, and Zahara, born in May and a mom to a kindergartner. She and her husband a cancer survivor in the past year. She is also the Christopher M. Chan’s novella “Hunger Pains” was Anne Hyde Crites lives in Springfield, Missouri, with 2018, and continues to play soccer when possible. He are beginning to put down roots in the Twin Cities. Jordan L. Webster and her husband, Enrique Romero, director of the Behavioral Neuroscience Program published in the inaugural issue of the Milwaukee- her husband, Will, and their two kids. She is the writes, “I’m looking forward to reunion with the TGTF welcomed a baby boy, Teo, on July 21, 2018. and faculty affiliate to the Kinney Center for Autism. based pulp fiction publication Serial Magazine assistant director at The Victim Center, a local non- crew in June!” Erica L. Marshall joined the Kane County State’s Elizabeth and her husband, Wade, live just outside (www.serialpulp.com). Chris was nominated for “Best profit that serves victims of violent and sexual crime. Attorney’s Office as an assistant state’s attorney in ’04 of Philadelphia with their two children, Madeline (9) Milwaukee Author” in Shepherd Express’ 2018 “Best Christopher J. Henning is a research analyst with the December 2018. Nicholas L. Aschbrenner and his wife, Sarah, live in and Everett (8). She and her family enjoy days at of Milwaukee” poll. Ray S. Feller is a dean at MIT and raising “two goofy Department of Justice in Madison, Wisconsin. Saint Paul, Minnesota, and welcomed a daughter, Ida the Jersey Shore, hikes in the mountains, and trips kids,” Leonardo and Ramona, in Jamaica Plain, Vered Meltzer has represented District 2 on the Bernice, on January 4, 2018. to nearby NYC and DC, as well as caring for their Katharine R. Chapman has been a family nurse Massachusetts. Nathan P. Jacobs moved back from Russia and is Appleton City Council since first winning election in backyard chickens and hosting a CSA (farm share). practitioner since January 2017, at a Federally living in Door County. 2014. She would like to see more Lawrence alumni, or Sara Bergene Bayram lives in Falls Church, Virginia, Qualified Health Center near her home in Cleveland Dimitri M. Gooden is a project manager with GB even current students, run for local office! with her husband, Yakup, and their daughter, Miriam Jennifer K Burns is the box office manager at the Heights, Ohio. She enjoys her easy 10-minute Energy, which manages the Texaco brand in Jamaica. Elizabeth A. Kruesi is a freelance science journalist (2 ½), and miniature schnauzer, Jasper. She is an Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center in Great Barrington, commute and the population of patients that she He and his wife, Danielle, have been married for five and editor, with expertise in astrophysics and space Ashley Stanton Parker and her husband, Benjamin, attorney in the civil division of the U.S. Department of Massachusetts. works with, specifically, the underserved of urban years and have two daughters. exploration. Occasionally, she also covers physics, and children, Audrey Marie, born in February, 2015, Cleveland. She is also a full-time faculty member at engineering and science policy. She and four other and Maurice Oliver, born in October, 2017, now 70 FALL 2019 LAWRENCE 71 CLASS NOTES

8, 2019! Nicky also made their stand-up comedy Parker A. Anderson-Genne Jonathan P. Griffith debut at the Laugh Factory in December. Follow Parker Genné resides in Minneapolis with her soon- Jon is a Chief Petty Officer in the U.S. Navy. After Nicky on Instagram, @Mx.NickyE, if you’d like to see to-be husband Tom Johnson and continues to work as enlisting in 2010, he has been stationed on the USS “Hollywoodsy actor” and hairstyling stuff. an educator and artist at Kairos Alive, a social impact Carney (DDG 64). He is currently on shore duty north organization that is powered by the arts. As lead of Seattle, WA, at the Pacific Fleet’s Afloat Training Michelle C. Fitzpatrick married Dan Peterson on teaching artist, program manager and performer, she Group. His travels abroad include the Mediterranean, March 17, 2018 and the couple welcomed their first is passionate about Kairos Alive’s mission to positively the Persian Gulf, and Japan. Jon met his wife, Tara, in child, a boy named Jackson, on January 8, 2019. impact the social determinants of health by focusing Jacksonville, and they married on the beach in Santa Michelle is still working at Centene Corporation as on older adults in intergenerational and intercultural Barbara, CA, in the fall of 2018. Tara is an interior director of regulatory operations for their commercial communities via Kairos’ Digital Dance Floor Network.™ designer who enjoys traveling, the arts, and being out insurance lines of business. Parker also performs with her comedy cabaret in nature. They are both excited to move overseas character “Ms. Luisa” and creates music-theater for Jon’s next assignment. Jon is currently pursuing Tanya M. Harsch self-published a children’s book, productions inspired by folktales, in collaboration a Master’s in Organizational Leadership. His hobbies Sometimes a Shoe Is a Shoe, which is available with multidisciplinary artists, with her new producing include computer programming, hiking, and gardening. through lulu (www.lulu.com/spotlight/tanyaharsch) company “Folktopia.” and the usual online book sellers. Her paintings have Siri R. Hellerman travelled the country for various exhibitions, but Tanya Hannah F. Bergren My husband and I recently bought a house in South usually stays home and enjoys her garden. We are pleased to announce that God has blessed us Minneapolis, where I work as the outreach programs with our first child. Samuel Jacob Bergren was born manager at the Bakken Museum. I’m also an actor, Leah E. Iversen and Peter J. Iversen welcomed on February 7, 2019. I am enjoying life at home with improviser and voice-over artist, and perform regularly their second daughter, Eliza, in 2017. Peter works in Samuel and feeling so blessed! in the Twin Cities. development for the School of Public Health at Indiana University, while Leah continues to work for IU Health Christopher W. Bowman and Erin McCarthy Bowman Abak A. Hussain as a social worker in Population Health. I was awarded the Minnesota State Bar Association’s I live in Dhaka, my hometown, and for the last seven Professional Excellence Award for 2019. The award years have been working at Dhaka Tribune, where I Sarah E. Leet is enjoying life in Appleton while honors members of the bar who strive to meet the am the editor of the Editorial and Op-Ed pages. I have meeting people from all over the country and the world many responsibilities of being an attorney, including been married since 2013 to Sabrina Fatma Ahmad, via her Airbnb. She earned her MBA from St. Norbert efforts to improve the administration of justice and who is also a journalist. After Lawrence, I went to Class of 2009. (Photo: Paul Wilke) College in 2018. practice of law, efforts to promote access to justice, Canada to attend graduate school in Ontario in Theory efforts to serve and govern the profession, and service and Criticism. I think I’ve finally found my niche writing Miranda J. Munro and Daniel Casner ’06 welcomed of benefit to the community. I received the award for columns and editorials on the political situation in reside in Burlington, Vermont. Ashley is a city project September. Andrea is entering her fourteenth year with Will retires from the Army. In the midst of these moves, their fourth child, Colin Glen, on August 19, 2018. pro bono work I did on two family-law appeals before Bangladesh—I’m much better at it than I ever was at manager for South Burlington where she manages Epic and her ninth year as an EMT with the McFarland they welcomed three more children, Alessandra in He was a hearty 10.75 pounds and 22 inches long! the Minnesota Supreme Court, one concerning the economics (which was my major at Lawrence). Reach projects at three Natural Areas, as well as projects Fire & Rescue Department. Corey joined the Citizens April 2013, Gianna in August 2015, and Carmine in Daniel works for Anki in San Francisco, while Miranda notice requirements of Minnesota’s name change me at [email protected]. aimed at closing bicycle/pedestrian infrastructure Utility Board of Wisconsin as a policy analyst in 2017, October, 2016. The children keep them very busy, and runs a 4-H club and homeschools their two older statute and the other addressing presumptions in gaps. She is also working on a Regional Conservation after working for seven years in a similar role for the Marisa spends her days acting as a chef, housekeeper, children. As they adjust to being a family of six, child custody determinations. Danielle M. Lythjohan Partnership initiative that includes five different Wisconsin Public Service Commission. They live in chauffeur, nurse, and personal shopper for their crew. Miranda reports that life is “full, exhausting, and For the past 5 years, I worked as a data manager for municipalities. She and her family enjoy spending time Madison. good.” Daniel Casner and Miranda J. Munro ’05 the Institute for Research on Poverty on the National along the shores of Lake Champlain, sledding, hiking Karina S. Zeier is teaching English and history in In the past year, Miranda Munro (’05) and I welcomed Child Support Noncustodial Parent Employment and kayaking. Larilaril O. Snoddy resides in Hampton, Virginia, Montevideo, Uruguay, where she plans to make her Ellen E. Renker and her husband, Patrick, welcomed our 4th child, Colin, and continued our backyard Demonstration (CSPED) which had its final impact with her five year old twins, Micah and Lelah. She permanent home. She is learning the Rio Platense their son, Liam, on July 16, 2018. Ellen was able to farming and involvement with 4-H and the local Maker report published this past March. I also recently got Amy B. Seeboth-Wilson completed her master’s has served as director of the TRiO Educational Talent dialect of Spanish, attempting to dance tango and take six months off of her work as an environmental community. This May, Anki, the robotics startup I was engaged and purchased my first house. degree in urban and regional planning at the University Search Program at Hampton University since 2015. competing on a women’s futbol 5 soccer team in city planner at Caltrans. She celebrated ten years of working for, folded suddenly but I’ve made a pivot to of Wisconsin. After a few years working as a regional Most of her work since Lawrence has focused on competitions. employment with the state of California in September. become a product creation leader at Sonos where Peter A. Maldonado and Sarah Mohrmann planner, she landed a “sweet gig” as sustainability developing college access programs and initiatives for I will definitely be applying all my liberal arts skills Maldonado ’08 coordinator for UW-Platteville. She is happily married underserved and first generation youth. ’05 Helen M. Truax and Jesse D. Norton welcomed their and everything I picked up from contact with the Peter & Sarah welcomed their second son, August with two sons (2 ½ and 12), five chickens, a bunch of Changez A. Ali is an investigative journalist in second son in October 2017. conservatory and will get to spend more time with my James, to the family in March 2018. His big brother solar panels and a big garden. Emily L. Sportsman and David P. Schultz live in Pakistan covering security and regional affairs and family. 2019 is shaping up to be an extremely exciting Oliver is keen to make him laugh at every opportunity. Dexter, Michigan, with their two children, Elinor (6) has been published in the Washington Post, Chicago ’06 year. Acting on a sense of higher purpose after watching 22 In January, Lauren A. Semivan’s solo exhibition “Door and Julian (3). Emily is a school psychologist at a high Tribune, Seattle Times and Baltimore Sun, among Bonnie E. Alger Marvel movies over the past decade, Peter decided into the Dark” was on view at Silver Eye Center for school in Ann Arbor. David works as a conductor and others. Contrary to all expectations, he recently Katrina R. Elsen to pursue a life of vigilante justice and snuff out the Photography in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Her work violist with several orchestras in Michigan and enjoys In January 2019, I graduated from Army Basic Combat got married! Training at Fort Jackson, SC, and subsequently My husband, Greg, and I have been enjoying our time burgeoning Rhode Island-Russian crime syndicate was recently featured on Detroit Public Television, composing. teaching at Nansha College Preparatory Academy headed by Lou Perella. in Harper’s Magazine, and in Essay’d, a collection of graduated from Army Officer Candidate School at Fort William F. Bollow is the CFO of a small real estate Benning, GA, in April 2019. As a newly commissioned in southern China! I am going into my third year of essays on Detroit-based artists published by Wayne After graduating, Marisa Linley Tenney married investing company. He and his wife are celebrating teaching and have been busy actively building a strong Claire E. Mallory and Eric B. Cline ’05 State University Press. She looks forward to a solo her “Army boyfriend,” Will, and moved to Germany, 2nd Lieutenant I will spend the summer at the Army seven years of marriage and raising their only child, a School of Music in Virginia Beach for the Basic Officer Drama program for my Chinese students. I am proud We are happily living in Chicago, where Eric works exhibition at the Wriston Art Center Galleries this where she worked as an education counselor on the Maltese Yorkie. to have my first graduate who will be studying theatre as a software engineer, and Claire works as a user September. military base. After five years, the Army sent them to Leadership Course before moving to my first duty station as a Band Officer in September 2019. Sadly, at university this fall! Greg and I have been galivanting experience researcher/designer. Turns out that 9-5s Boston, where they welcomed their first child, Anthony, Nicky C. Endres is excited to announce their first around Southeast Asia for the past two years and look suit us much better than our former lives as freelance Andrea Blimling Singletary and her husband, in January 2011. Since then they have moved to on April 25, 2019, my father, Harry William Alger, recurring role in the third season of the Netflix reboot passed away from recurrent esophageal cancer. forward to our continued adventures as we further musicians! We’re expecting our first child (a daughter) Corey S. J. Singletary ’00, welcomed a son, Leo, in Louisiana, Georgia, Colorado, back to Georgia, and of One Day at a Time, which was released on February explore the Far East. at the end of July. now they are in Kansas, where they hope to stay until 72 FALL 2019 LAWRENCE 73 CLASS NOTES

Shannon A. McCue started with petty crimes but am quickly moving up to ’08 Asher M. Perlman Shannon McCue currently lives in Tuscaloosa, bigger heists. I have moved to Russia to learn at the After spending years at The Second City comedy theater in Chicago, Asher Perlman Alabama. She is the director of the West Alabama Arts elite Russian Crime Academy. I wish I had taken some Bryan J. Althouse and Margaret D. Porco moved to New York where he now lives in Brooklyn and works as a staff writer for Education Collaborative, which is part of a statewide Russian classes at Lawrence though. Please do me a Margaret and Bryan live in Madison, WI. Margaret The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. initiative with the goal of bringing arts education favor and don’t tell anyone. I’ll update you more in the continues her work focusing on ending the cycle of programs to all public school students in Alabama. fall. Laura and Lucy are doing phenomenally! Lucy’s poverty through community development, social Beth Piontek She is also a music education consultant and has new favorite word is "poop." A chip off the old block! justice, and sustainable housing. Bryan is building My husband, Brett, and I welcomed our daughter, Audrey Ellen Piontek, on Friday, written teacher study guides for orchestras, including his practice as a financial advisor with Capital Wealth November 23, 2018. She is the light of our lives! the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Tuscaloosa Victoria Miller Rakowski Advisory Group. Our son (Olin) will be five this summer Symphony. In her spare time, she plays viola with Life bustles on as my husband, Jeremy, and I and our daughter, Aurora just turned two in March. As Drew Ryan the Alabama Symphony and Tuscaloosa Symphony celebrated 9 years of marriage in March, in the midst a family, some of our favorite things include breakfast After 4 years and 110 episodes, my interview/spotlight series “Reel Geek Girls” Orchestras. She married Jacob Adams, professor of of our maple syrup season. Our 5 kids and their 5 smoothies, gardening, macaroni and cheese, and wraps up this year. The series was created to provide a platform for women in the viola at the University of Alabama, on February 19, cousins, along with my in-laws, make it a great family pretty much anything Disney related. Margaret and entertainment industry to talk about issues of harassment and gate-keeping they’ve 2017, and their son, Isaac Joseph Adams, was born on tradition! In February 2019 I celebrated 1 full year Bryan are very sad that Game of Thrones has ended. faced while also put an end to the concept of “Fake Geek Girls.” All geeks are real January 5, 2018. of owning/operating Treats By Torie LLC, my licensed The spin offs look ok, but let’s be honest, they won’t geeks. I have also started a comedy monologue service for young women and am home bakery of custom cakes and more. Each order be the same... continuing to assess my plans as a creator and how I can get Disney to pay me to Henry C. McNeil brings unique design challenges, and it feels great advocate for them. It’s been a crazy couple of years for me, and I’ve using my Studio Art BA on a daily basis! We’ve Mallory J. Carl packed pretty much every major life milestone into continued as foster parents since 2015, and adopted It has been a busy year! On New Year’s Eve, Mallory Alice I. Shepro the last 24 months—got engaged, adopted a pet, our 5th child in 2016, completing our "forever family." got engaged to her fiancé, Spencer, and they also In June 2018, my husband and I welcomed our second child. That same month I lost a parent, bought a house, got a new job, and got Beekeeping has become a favorite hobby for Jeremy just adopted a three month old puppy named Aria. completed my master’s in education, but am currently taking a break from teaching married. I’m currently living in Omaha, NE, with my and I, as is raising chickens on our 6 acres of white Needless to say, life has been crazy with wedding as we are stationed in North Dakota with the U.S. Air Force. The kids, dog, and I are wife, Megan, and our corgi, Jiggles. I am working as pines. Central WI life is good! planning and puppy training, but it has all been spending the fall and winter adventuring around the U.S. and prepping for a probable a software engineer II at the Federal Reserve Bank of wonderful! Mallory is also on the planning committee move overseas when my husband returns from deployment next spring. Kansas City, and am also going to school part-time Duncan P. Ryan for the 2019 Walk to End Alzheimers. Needless to say, at the University of Nebraska Omaha for my master’s Dr. Duncan P Ryan, MS, PhD, LLC, QED is welcoming life has been crazy but it has all been wonderful! Benjamin G. Welden in computer science. In my free time, I enjoy board another nuisance raccoon into this world with his My wife, Laura, and I welcomed baby Margot Jane Welden into the world on March 8, games, reading, producing electronic music, yoga, domestic partner and furry man’s best friend Niji (it’s Sarah K. Curry 2019. Big brother Hardy is settling into his role as her strategic advisor. traveling, and spoiling our dog. complicated). He continues his work as a charlatan in Hey ’08 friends! I like robots. I also am intrigued by his impressive career and takes great pleasure reading medicine. So I decided to work at the intersection of Emily Weinberg Wold the two, and I’m now developing neural networks that Laura K. Muller the updates of fellow classmates as they abandon We welcomed a baby girl this past January. Maris Lucinda Wold is a tiny peanut of a I never imagined myself going to college 1,500 This past May, Laura graduated from UW-Madison with their obligations as millennials to indefinitely postpone analyze medical imagery. This research is part of a human, just like her mom:) her doctor of physical therapy degree and currently major life events and succumb to traditional lifestyles. master’s program at ETH Zurich, where I’d been living miles away from home. Specifically, I never works as a physical therapist and massage therapist and studying for a couple years. I recently moved to ’09 imagined myself at Lawrence. None of it would in Madison, WI. Still eager to put her Lawrence music Paul S. Salomon Vancouver to work with a research group here (but am technically still a student at ETH). I’ll graduate at the Jayce E. Apelgren married the love of his life, Katee Apelgren, on September 30, have been possible without the Lawrence Fund. degree to work, she continues to perform (gleefully) Paul Salomon has co-designed Periodic: A Game of 2017, after meeting in dental school at the University of Minnesota in 2012. The with the Madison Opera and the Handphibians—a the Elements, a tabletop board game published by end of the summer, and after a sanity break, I’ll figure Without it, I would never have had life-changing out what medical robots I want to develop next. I love couple recently moved from Eau Claire, Wisconsin, to Minneapolis, Minnesota, and Brazilian drumming bateria. Genius Games. After a successful Kickstarter campaign, hope to open a dental practice in 2019. opportunities like working on the first Native Periodic will be available in game stores July 22nd. it! I hope you all are doing well. Cheers! American mural on campus or representing my Jennifer C. Murphy Elizabeth Baus and husband, Adam, welcomed their first child, Margaret Marie I’ve been working as a geologist for the U.S. Scott M. Sandersfeld Marianne Griffin Indigenous peers on the local news. Being a I live in Madison, WI, with my husband, Seth Pourciau. Elizabeth Baus, in January of 2018. They recently purchased their first home and are “ Lawrentian means many things to many different Geological Society for over 7 years now and still enjoy First Lieutenant Scott Sandersfeld is an armored in St. Paul, Minnesota. it. My spouse, Jack Blair, and I are expecting our 3rd reconnaissance platoon leader in the U.S. Army. He We welcomed our daughter, Rowen Laird, born August people. For me, being a Lawrentian means being 2018. child this year. has been stationed at Fort Drum, NY, since 2017. Andrew Blair recently completed a master’s degree in curriculum and instruction the voice of change and without the Lawrence from UW–Madison. He currently lives in St. Paul, Minnesota with his partner, Elin, Matthew A. Murphy Lauren E. Walsh Meghan R. Konkol Fund none of those opportunities to initiate I’m happy to share that I married Alex Konkol in and their dog. Andrew is currently teaching English as a Second Language at Como I live in Manhattan with my husband, Edward (a newly Lauren (Walsh) Knieser is married with two energetic Park Senior High School. change would have been possible.” minted full stack developer in the fintech industry), and fun-loving children and works for the federal Milwaukee, WI, in September 2018. I continue to enjoy and have enjoyed returning to campus on a regular government to improve national health security. She my career as a freelance French to English translator. —Taneya Garcia ’22 A curveball came my way in December 2018, when I Alison Blegen and Lucas Below ’10 were married on November 4th, 2017, in basis as a member of Lawrence’s Alumni Association remains passionate about both domestic and global Poynette, Wisconsin. Board of Directors. travel and is learning to master planes, trains, and was diagnosed with stage three triple-negative breast cancer. I have been undergoing treatment since then, automobiles with little ones in tow. Felicia Behm Elenum married Zachary Elenum in February 2018. They bought their Rachel E. Pauli and Benjamin P. Pauli ’06 and continue my fight against breast cancer with the Support students like Taneya with support of a strong community of friends and family first home, and Felicia began a new job teaching middle school band, orchestra, and Ben Pauli and Rachel Long Pauli celebrated the birth Stephanie M. Wille choir. of their son, Henrik Ian Pauli, on May 29th, 2019 in I currently live in Bismarck, North Dakota. In April of (including many Lawrentians!). I would like to extend your gift to the Lawrence Fund today! my heartfelt gratitude to everyone who has reached Winona, MN. this year, I completed my master of education with Susan Chadwick left her position at Lawrence this summer to move to Philadelphia, 920-832-6548 • go.lawrence.edu/giving an emphasis in Autism Spectrum Disorder. I am out to show support and love. It means the world to me! Pennsylvania, and begin a new job as the director of financial aid at Bryn Mawr Lou E Perella continuing to work as a Board Certified Assistant College. After a rousing career in the culinary arts, I have Behavior Analyst (BCaBA) with Anne Carlsen decided to begin a new adventure in a life of crime. I Behavioral Health, located in Bismarck.

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After six years, Laura Hauer left her position as a Madhuri Vijay published her first novel, The Far Field, passed the national licensing exam earlier this week! to participate in the BIBFRAME Initiative, a project playing new music, and playing old music in new ways continue to be the co-chair the LU Club of Chicago violinst in the Orquesta Sinfonica Sinaloa de las with Grove Atlantic (U.S.A.) and Grove Press (U.K. and In January, I’m hoping to be assigned to a combat testing a new bibliographic data model, and to help —and am really thankful to have found a community of with Claire Conard ’14. (If you live in the Chicago area, Artes. Laura now recently completed her first year as India). operational stress control unit that works out of improve metadata for the LOC’s Web Archive, creating inspiring colleagues. please reach out to me if you’re interested in planning a pianist and vocal coach in the Taller de Opera de Baumholder, Germany. and refining XML records for the subject and name events!) I am halfway through a master’s in English Sinaloa in Culiacan, Mexico. Matthew Yauch is gettin’ hitched June 15! Should authority files. I would like to work more in non-MARC Alison M. Scattergood literature program at Northwestern University, and he attend reunion weekend and cancel the nuptials? Jennifer L. Gabriele metadata and subject authorities, and to conduct I relocated to Seattle, WA, a little over a year ago and I also run the food blog/Instagram, Chasing the Taste, Kaitlin A. Hawkinson recently became a new Tempting. He met his fiance, Lauren, while they I am teaching and coordinating the 200 level Spanish research in ontology. started my own video production company, Oak Light when I can find the time! In June, I married David homeowner, purchasing a duplex in South were classmates in medical school at Des Moines classes at The University of Kansas. My partner, Grace Films. We specialize in nonfiction storytelling for the Christensen, and we look forward to starting our Minneapolis, Minnesota. While navigating her new University. He has since finished his family medicine Waltz, and I got married on May 25th in Lawrence, Samuel R. Lewin commercial and entertainment sectors. I have several lives together. life as a landlady, Katie continues to work in theatre residency and has been working at a clinic with Allina Kansas, surrounded by friends and family. Our favorite I got married on June 4. projects currently in production, both client-based and will be stage managing Cyrano de Bergerac at the Health in the Twin Cities since August 2018. Lauren Lawrentians Beth and Paul Stevens, Lynn Gilge, and independent ventures including but not limited to Kathryn J. Van Marter-Sanders (Katie) Guthrie Theater this spring. is completing her pediatric endocrinology (diabetes Hattie Miles-Polka, and Rosa Tapia were present at Dain C. Lopez a web series for the city of Seattle and a documentary Katie was a Peace Corps volunteer in Zambia from and, oh yes, gland stuff) training at the University of our wedding and good times were had by all at our I’ve been working in a historical sound recordings around global climate change. The last documentary 2014-2016. This year she got the chance to briefly Rachael Holly and her husband, Pete, currently live Minnesota. Matthew missed the Beta and L.U.S.T.y Lawrence to Lawrence mini-reunion! collection (cylinders and 78rpm records) at a I worked on for Ken Burns, The Mayo Clinic; Faith, go back and visit her friends there. She is currently in Prescott, Arizona, with their daughter Myra. Last times. Who wants to play wiffle ball in the quad university library and keeping busy in my free time Hope, Science premiered nationwide on PBS fall working at the Federal Emergency Management year, Rachael began a position teaching in Special and then go to the VR and then go to Cleo’s to have Gustavo C. Guimaraes giving private French lessons and co-hosting a weekly 2018. This summer, 2019, I’ll be traveling to Peru, Agency (FEMA) in D.C. (Katie Van Marter Education at Prescott High School working with mystery shots and then Sal’s? Tara Harvey ’09 and Gustavo Guimaraes continue show focused on music from Africa, Latin America where I’ve been hired to be a photojournalist for the [email protected]) students with severe emotional disabilities. “Not only to live in Berlin, Germany. We have been busy in our and the Caribbean from the ’50s to the ’70s on a Pan American Games in Lima. has it been the most difficult job I have ever had, it is ’10 works. Tara is a manager for a company in the city local community radio station. In December of last ’14 by far the most rewarding. I love what I do and cherish Elizabeth Nerland Anderson and Gustavo is a software and Blockchain engineer year I passed the DALF C1 exam, and this fall I’ll be Margaret H. Schmidt Amel T. Abbas the connections I make with my students.” We welcomed a baby girl, Sophia Violet, in September providing consulting services for companies in various going to French Guiana to work as an English language This year, after some twists and turn both Well, it’s been a crazy ride after life at LU. I am now a 2018. So far, life as a family of three has been exciting countries. assistant at the high school level for the school year. professionally and personally, I decided to make a certified and licensed physician assistant in Missouri Ashlee James lives in Akron, Ohio, with her husband and exhausting, but it keeps us on our toes! change. In May 2019, I moved back to Massachusetts (Kansas City, where I currently practice) and Kansas. of three years and their black lab. This year she will Maura Cook Lamensky and Travis J. Lamensky Rana A. Marks to start at the Victim Rights Law Center, serving Last year, I got engaged to my LU sweetheart who is be graduating with a Juris Doctor from The University Carolyn A. Desrosiers Casimir “Caz” Cook Lamensky joined our little family Rana Marks graduated with her MBA from the Fuqua survivors of sexual assault and rape. I will continue now a second-year med student! Life is moving too of Akron School of Law. She is looking forward to Carolyn Desrosiers (formerly Armstrong) lives in on May 24, 2019. He is an absolute joy! School of Business at Duke University in 2019. She to focus on privacy, safety, and education needs of fast for us, but we try to enjoy every bit of it, especially completing school, passing the Ohio bar exam, and the Appleton area with her husband, Skander, and moved to Seattle, Washington to begin a new role as survivors. Additionally, I accepted a nomination to with our furry little one, Rio. He was actually my LU pursuing a career in child welfare law. 2.5-year-old daughter EvaSophia. Carolyn serves as Michael R. McCain sustainability manager at Amazon. join the LUAA Board of Directors. I remain excited and graduation surprise :) Much love to all! community engagement manager for the Community I will be marrying my fellow Lawrentian MacKenzie optimistic about the coming years. Caroline Jorgenson is completing a Master of Library Foundation for the Fox Valley Region, where she has Fye ’11 this July at Björklunden! Neel Patel and Anna K. Jankowski ’12 Anna Buchholz Bagiackas and Information Science program at UCLA in June been instrumental in the success of the Foundation’s Neel Patel is happily married to Anna Jankowski, and Elizabeth D. Shimek After almost three years at Arts Midwest in 2019 (which is why she will be sadly missing reunion). Bright Idea Fund, and other competitive grant Kathryn Schuld McKnight they are still living in Portland, OR. Neel is starting This past February, I took a leap and left my private Minneapolis, I got married to Tom Bagiackas and we The degree emphasis is on film librarianship and programs. She loves working to help nonprofits Received master of arts degree in Music Education year 3 of 5 of radiology residency at Oregon Health legal practice to work as chief of staff for Wisconsin moved to southwest Germany with the U.S. Air Force. preservation, so let a lady know if you need any films achieve their missions. The Desrosiers Family enjoys from the University of St. Thomas—May 2019. and Science University, and Anna is working as a labor State Representative Greta Neubauer (D-Racine), We are traveling as much as possible on our prolonged cataloged. traveling to Skander’s home country of Haiti once a and delivery nurse in Portland. We enjoy living out who was newly elected in January. It’s fantastic to be honeymoon, and I am learning German, a little French, year, and more frequent trips to Elizabeth, New Jersey, Carolyn M. Schultz west immensely but will always make the time to visit back in the political world and public service, and I’m and how to cook in our European size kitchen. I am Gwendolyn C. Kelly-Masterton is currently working in where several of Skander’s family members reside. I graduated in May with my masters in education from the Midwest when we can! looking forward to taking on our first full legislative also doing some freelance writing and looking for the financial aid office at Northwestern University in UW-La Crosse. session in January 2019. remote work opportunities! Prost to all my LU friends! Evanston, IL. Paul R. Dietrich Michael A. Pope Paul Dietrich released his first album of original Lara E. Wasserman Enjoying life in Chicago. Working full-time in nonprofit Avram Steiner Andrew M. Breuninger Derek Micke and Theresa Micke ’10 welcomed large ensemble jazz music in late March with the The impossible is happening—I’m getting married! fundraising, singing and teaching music lessons part- I have completed a doctorate in mathematics! Yay! I graduated from The University of Texas at Austin with Hannah Lynn Micke on December 12, 2018, and she Paul Dietrich Jazz Ensemble’s album Forward, which On October 19th of this year, I’ll finally get to call my time as well. I travel a lot for work, so I have gotten to For the next couple of years, I’ll be doing a postdoc at my doctorate of musical arts in vocal performance, is joined by her big brother, Hudson Micke. After five features special guest drummer Clarence Penn (of the person my HUSBAND! see a bunch of my Lawrence friends all over. Haven’t the University of Western Ontario. Also yay! and this spring I got engaged to Marina Kerkhofs. years in Raleigh, North Carolina, they are now settled Maria Schneider Orchestra). Members of the 18-piece been back to Appleton or Lawrence in like a year or so She also graduated from UT with a degree in French, back in Wausau, Wisconsin. Theresa is a physician band include Lawrence alumni Jessica Jensen ’10, ’12 though. Might plan a trip this summer to see Mile of Ariana Flood Thelen a minor in anthropology and is earning a teaching assistant at Aspirus Hospital, and Derek is a teacher Carl Kennedy ’11, Megan (Hamm) Moran ’06, Alex A. Ajayi Music. Hope everyone is doing well. If you are passing Ariana Flood (now Thelen) graduated with a Master’s certificate. We have been traveling a lot this year, to at Mosinee High School. David Cooper ’87, and Kurt Dietrich ’73. I am an assistant professor of psychology at Augsburg through or living in Chicago, hit me up on Facebook! in Social Work from the University of Michigan in places such as Hong Kong, the UK, the Netherlands, University in Minneapolis. 2015 and now lives near Ann Arbor Michigan. She is and Mexico. Soon we will be moving to wherever Matthew Sells is currently living in the Ukrainian Jared C. Frazier David E. Rubin currently a mental health therapist serving adults, employment takes us. Village neighborhood of Chicago and just started a I moved to Eugene after college, where I worked in Jonathan T. Bruehl This June, I completed a fellowship at Community with a focus on those older than 62. Ariana married new position with a web development consultancy, in the mental health field and applied to grad schools. Getting hitched in June 2019!!! MusicWorks in Providence, RI, and moved back to Timothy Thelen in 2017, and together she and Tim John L. Canfield which he is excited to make some cool applications After a few months in Europe, where I got to see Boston, where I am entering my fourth season with have enjoyed travel around the U.S. and to Europe I have spent the past two years in Atlanta working you might soon download on your phone. He has been several Lawrentians, I moved to the Bay Area for Zachary E. Fannin musiConnects, a non-profit chamber music residency. with hopes to continue to explore wonderful places. in an Italian restaurant in the evenings and singing staying busy by learning new languages (like Swedish) grad school (Psy.D.) in clinical psychology. After 4 I am a cataloging librarian at the Library of Congress, I’ve spent the past several summers in Michigan’s Ariana and Tim have a dog, Bauer, who is 1.5 years a lot during the day. This fall I am headed back to and has started to delve into jazz piano. He also years, I took a year-long break in LA, before deciding where I create bibliographic records in science, Upper Peninsula, where I teach alongside some old, and seeming forever a puppy. Cheers to all you school to pursue a master’s in voice performance at started painting thanks to the plethora of Bob Ross to direct commission with the U.S. Army. In 2017, I medicine, and agriculture. I have reached the incredible Lawrentians (at Superior String Alliance, a fellow Lawrentians out there! Indiana University. I think about my time at Lawrence videos on YouTube. Chicago is wonderful, and he can’t moved to Tacoma, WA, to begin my pre-doc internship halfway point in my first year of training in descriptive music camp for middle—and high-school students), frequently and fondly, and I am always happy to hear wait to see what the future holds! Matthew also has a at Madigan Army Medical Center. I was awarded my cataloging; next year I will be trained in subject and in Switzerland, where I perform with the Orchestra Carolyn R. Tomecek from LU friends. pet snake named Aurelia, and she’s adorable. Psy.D. last year and decided to stay for my post doc. I cataloging, whereafter I will create whole item records of the Lucerne Festival Academy. I love teaching young I live in a western suburb of Chicago, and I teach independently and train other employees. 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Thomas H. Chesnutt future! I am eagerly planning my December wedding Stephanie M. Thomas ’16 Jonathan P. Hanrahan Isabella C. Mirgaux and Russell P. Brannen ’15 Living as a stowaway in San Francisco. Software to Jake Johengen ’15, who is busy finishing up his Since graduating from Lawrence in 2014, I attended Jon Hanrahan ’16 remains a producer for public I work at a small charter school in St. Louis, Mo., engineer at consulting firm. Slowly turning into last year of medical school. Our cat, Amadeus, is graduate school at Antioch University New England Joseph F. Bazydlo radio’s On the Media. This is his fourth year at WNYC. where I teach middle school English. It has been an processor. 110100111010001101111. Pls send help. absolutely thrilled that we have moved to a new in Keene, NH. I completed a MA in Dance/Movement I have had the opportunity to apply my degree in He continues to live in Greenpoint, Brooklyn with his exciting experience being able to prepare our youth for apartment with better sunspots. Therapy & Counseling in 2018. I still live in Keene, and anthropology in a completely unexpected way. I partner, Sarah Axtell ’17, along with Gabe Peterson ’17 the future! In the summer, I also work for this program Claire A. Conard currently work for Easterseals, NH. I miss Lawrence decided to pursue further education in software and his partner, Abbey Edmunds. called Aim High, which is a summer enrichment I’m continuing my work in non-profit fundraising Fanny Y. Lau and James P. Cartwright ’14 sometimes, I hope all of you are doing well! development, and I have since been working as program that allows students from St. Louis city through my job at DePaul University and my volunteer It’s been a very full year! After getting engaged, we a front-end developer at a data company called Hannah M. Jeruc schools to be introduced to concepts that they will role for Women in Comedy. In my spare time, I sing finally got hitched in a whopping three ceremonies Schuyler T. Thornton Rebate Bus. We are building a software platform that I’ve spent the better part of the last three years driving be learning the next school year. I love what I do and with the Chicago Artists Chorale and explore Chicago in a pecan orchard outside Houston, TX, before This summer I am performing in the orchestra at Ohio centralizes information about utility rebates and helps lonely desert highways, sleeping on the ground, can’t wait to see what this next year brings me! with Pat Mangan. We love living in the city and never tearing up the dance floor with fellow Lawrentians. Light Opera. This fall I will be entering my third year of consumers adopt green technology by making energy- living with random roommates, working in kitchens, want to leave! We’re both looking forward to our 5th After a honeymoon in Italy, we moved from NYC to my DMA in Flute Performance at Rutgers University’s efficient products more affordable. I have combined ascending peaks and chasing the next adventure. Ian H. Pelton Cluster Reunion in June 2020! Philadelphia, where I will be starting law school at Mason Gross School of the Arts. I am on the flute my background in anthropology and my skills in Thanks to ORC and the friends and mentors I found I accepted a job at a non-profit called Beyond 12, Temple University’s Beasley School of Law in the faculty of the Mason Gross Extension Division and am software development to take a new approach to there, I’ve discovered a real passion for the outdoors. where I am a life coach for underrepresented college Katherine M. Dannecker-Stevens and Samuel R. fall. Jamie will start commuting to NYC for his gig at the Treasurer of the New Jersey Flute Society. user-centered software design. I hope to use my field Now I work as an outdoor educator, teaching people students. The job required me to move to the Bay Stevens ’13 Betterment, where the cold brew is strong and the research skills to make our software more user-friendly of all ages how to recreate, survive and thrive in the Area, so I’ve been living in California for the past I graduated with my master’s degree in art therapy in financial innovation is stronger. We are thankful for Elizabeth T. Vidulich and more focused on our users’ goals. wilderness. My plans for the future include starting couple of months now. Much better weather than my May. My husband (Sam Stevens) and I also celebrated our Lawrence family for being a rock during this year Completed my Master’s in curriculum and instruction my own outdoor education business, climbing lots of time being a Lawrentian lol. two years of marriage on May 27th. Sam is heading of change. at UW-Madison this August. Currently working in Zach M. Ben-Amots rocks and adopting at least one dog! into his third year of family medicine residency. We’re student engagement with the Madison Metropolitan I just completed my journalism master’s degree at Lucinda C. Pipkin loving the warmer weather and beer garden season in Michael A. Mangian and Chelsea Hameister School District. Recently abandoned distance running Northeastern University and am currently working at Corby E. Johnson I’m finishing my first year working with middle school Milwaukee with our daughter, Sage, and dog, Kylo. Mangian ’14 in favor of weight lifting. Loving hanging with Chelsea ABC 7 Chicago as a digital video producer. Attending the University of Denver Publishing Institute special education students as a paraprofessional in I am deciding what his next step will be. Chelsea Johnson ’14 around Madison and visiting Tara Jensen during the 2019 summer semester, July through Minneapolis Public Schools. Soon, I’ll be starting a Brenna L. Decker is working on a Master’s in Elementary Education. ’14 in Chicago. Sarah E. Coffman August. summer job as the summer program coordinator with This past year has been a whirlwind of updates. I Cameron is turning five this August and will start I’m pursuing a doctorate of historical performance Youth Performance Company. I took many theater moved to Utah to start my Ph.D. in biology at USU, kindergarten this fall. He is excited to learn and play! Nicole M. Wanner practice at Case Western Reserve University in Margaret L. Johnson classes there as a kid, so things are really coming full where for the first time I am in a molecular lab. The Evan Flack ’14 and I got engaged on Lake Superior Cleveland. This summer I’m presenting my thesis on In May, I graduated cum laude from Marquette circle! My chef boyfriend Manton and I are loving city next few years will consist of DNA extraction and Nathaniel M. Nichols-Weliky-Fearing last September; I can’t believe it’s been eight years the “unwritten tradition” of 15th-century Italy at the University Law School. In September, I will be joining life with our kitty, Squeak. sequencing ultra-conserved elements (UCEs) to After teaching in Chicago for four years, I recently since we met as freshman residents of Colman Hall! International Medieval Meeting at Lleida, Spain. the Investment Management team at Godfrey & Kahn, examine the phylogeny and behavioral evolution moved to Sacramento, CA. I just started a new job as I also earned my doctor of veterinary medicine (DVM) S.C., a law firm in downtown Milwaukee. Hannah G. Shryer of spider wasps (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae). Four an executive assistant at NEXGEN Asset Management. in May 2018 and recently finished my first semester Timothy E. Dahlstrom I’m living in Saint Paul, Minn., working in local publications are in the works for my project, including I’m excited to be getting married in August back in working toward a PhD in epigenetics at the University I was promoted to senior international sales manager Tracy J. Johnson hospitals and clinics to conduct two child development a collaboration with Canberra, Australia. In addition Door County, WI! of Minnesota. at Admitad GmbH, at their Moscow, Russia office. I am completing my studies to receive my master’s research studies with teams at the University of to those, two publications from my master’s work in I’ll be working with an Admitad Investment project degree in social work from the University of Chicago. Minnesota and the University of Michigan. Illinois are under review. I am excited to see what the Nicholas J. Paulson Dakota Williams called Get.Uniq. My responsibilities will be traveling I will graduate in June, and plan on staying in Chicago next five years in Utah will bring, and I’m thankful for I will be starting my PhD in higher education at the Five years after our graduation and I’m still working at to conferences throughout Europe and the U.S. and to work. David D. Voss other Lawrence grads here in Utah and back in the University of Michigan, Fall 2019. Lawrence. Wow! I primarily work with alumni groups speaking about how Get.Uniq can help Western I am currently living in Brooklyn and just graduated Midwest! that have a shared identity or interest, including our companies enter the Russian market. Alison R. Kleppin from Stony Brook University with a master of arts Genevieve K. Schooler Pride Alumni Network, Black Alumni Network, Alumni This spring, Alison Kleppin graduated from Vanderbilt degree in composition. I teach piano to a studio Peter P. Ehlinger Juan Pablo Murillo and I will be getting married of Color, Conservatory alumni, etc. If you have any Alexandra W. Damisch University with a Master’s in Human Development of 20+ students, and I play mandolin with a local It’s been a rich five years since graduation. In the August 18 in Seattle, Washington. We are happy questions or interest in these groups, let me know. In I am a data scientist in Chicago. John O’Neill ’18 and I Counseling. She and Benjamin Clark ’16 have bluegrass group made up of Stony Brook students summer of 2014, I moved to Boston to work as a fur parents to Joey the cat and Zico the German- addition, I still freelance as a horn player quite a bit, recently got engaged, and intend to marry in 2020. subsequently relocated to St. Paul, Minn., where and alumni called Taylor Ackley and the Deep Roots senior research assistant/clinical research coordinator Shepherd. This fall will be my third year teaching subbing with local symphonies, playing with a wind Alison will work as a full time counselor to youth and Ensemble. I recently performed a recital of original with the Massachusetts General Hospital, The Fenway middle school orchestra and fifth year teaching quintet, and with VENTO Winds. I’m looking forward Daniel H. Davis families dealing with OCD and anxiety. songs on campus, which was well received, and had a Institute, and the Harvard Center for AIDS Research. overall. In December, I plan to graduate with a to seeing everyone at our 5th Cluster Reunion in June Danny is currently a rising 3rd-year law student at the number of compositions read by both the Stony Brook Following three years of clinical research development master’s of music education from Central Washington 2020. John Marshall Law School in Chicago. He’s currently Anne E. Leung Symphony Orchestra and new music group Yarn/Wire. in Massachusetts, I moved to Eugene, Oregon, where University. Pablo and I will celebrate the completion spending the summer clerking at the law offices of In January, I graduated from Arcadia University as Going forward, I hope to work on commissions, find I am pursuing my PhD in counseling psychology at the of my degree by taking our postponed honeymoon to Alexander J. York Costa Ivone, a workers compensation and personal a Doctor of Physical Therapy and presented the more opportunities to perform as a singer-songwriter University of Oregon. I have completed two out of six Bolivia for Christmas and New Year’s! I am finishing my first year working at the Opéra injury firm handling case management and drafting research I’ve been working on for the last two years at in the city, and create a new album of original songs in years in the program so far, developing my program national de Paris and will be making my mainstage arbitration memoranda. Danny currently lives in the the American Physical Therapy Association’s annual collaboration with my friends. of research and providing therapy to a variety of Kevin M. Specht debut next season in Verdi’s opera, Don Carlos. Wicker Park neighborhood of Chicago with three other Combined Sections Meeting. I’m now continuing populations. I’ve also been pretty busy hiking with my I finished my first year as the band director and music In addition, I have discovered a softball league Lawrence alums: Rose Nelson ’16, Nathan Whiteman to work on research regarding youth athletes’ Alek J. Wasserman six-month-old Australian Cattle Dog puppy, Neptune! teacher at Concord Community Schools in Concord, (composed of mostly expats) here, and that makes ’16 and Lucy Bouman ’15. Besides work and school, performance on functional outcome measures and I embarked on my next adventure by enlisting in the MI. I’m excited to continue building the band and me about equally as happy! he’s taking improv classes at the iO theatre in Chicago pursuing a clinical specialty in orthopedic care through North Carolina Army National Guard as a pianist in the Dr. Emily K. Hoylman music programs and help Concord gain a reputation and developing his culinary skills, with an emphasis a residency program—because apparently, after 20 440th Army Band in Raleigh. I’m very pleased that I I am pursuing a second year of residency, specializing for excellence in these areas. As of late 2018, my in French and Japanese dishes. He’s also very years of school, I’m not sick of homework yet. get to continue my civilian career as a music educator in ambulatory care pharmacy, and will complete wife, Elena, and I now have a Golden Retriever named disappointed in the ending of Game of Thrones. while soldiering and performing on the side. By the my training in the summer of 2020. I look forward Tucker (named after Tristan Tucker ’14). Tucker, like his time this magazine goes out, I’ll probably be finishing to supporting my community through preventative namesake, is loving, playful, and loyal. Basic Combat Training. Hope everyone else is happy medicine and chronic disease management in the and healthy!

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’18 Christina L. Hanson I married my best friend Stephen Lawrence on July 21, Tamanna Akram 2018, and now we are expecting our first child this July! After working as the advancement coordinator for a year at Writers Theatre, Tamanna is excited to attend Hitkarsh Kumar the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the fall. She I am presently a graduate student in the Department will be pursuing a master of international public of Philosophy at Rice University in Houston, TX. If Affairs at the La Follette School and working with the you’d like to stay in touch, the best way to reach me is Wisconsin Center for Education Research as a project through email. assistant. Amanda M. Leonard Emma M. Arnesen I am working as a staffing & compliance coordinator After graduating, I accepted a position as a with the Sumer Institute for the Gifted in Stamford, CT. congressional caseworker for the House of Representatives. Augustus J. Lowry Used to complain about how LU got out in June, but I Hope A. Basil now realize that’s better than not getting out at all... Since graduation, I have been working on different #employment Dr. Meghan E. Sapia ’08 and husband Weston. Jackson (at 25 days old) with Elizabeth Freeman Billings ’05 Colin Casner, born August 2018 to Daniel Casner ’06 and Teo Lee Romero, born September 21, 2018, political campaigns across the country. I worked on a (left), Jeffrey S. Billings ’03 and their two golden retrievers— Miranda J. Munro ’05. to Jordan Webster ’03 and Enrique Romero. congressional race in Michigan, the Chicago mayoral Eva M. Tourangeau Lexie and Lawrence. race, and I am currently in South Carolina working on I will wrap up my post-bachelors internship at Los MARRIAGE AND UNIONS Dimitri M. Gooden ’04 and Danielle, St Andrew, Madolyn Machon Brown ’07 and Ivan, Honolulu, HI, Elizabeth Warren’s presidential campaign. Alamos National Laboratory in Los Alamos, NM, in Jamaica, a daughter, Amira, January 23, 2018 a son, Drew Ivan, January 31, 2018 August 2019 and begin a Statistics Ph.D. program William P. Mullen ’90 and Stephanie Lauenstein, Hailey M. Bomar at the University of Washington–Seattle at the end of Lugano, Ticino, Switzerland, May 30, 2019 Michelle C. Fitzpatrick ’05 and Dan Peterson, Heather Wing Sandler ’07 and Gabriel, Highland I finished my fellowship in the Lawrence Admissions September. Oak Lawn, IL, a son, Jackson, January 8, 2019 Park, IL, a son, George, August 27, 2018 Office in May, and will be moving to Iowa City, IA, Lauren A. Semivan ’04 and John A. Shimon, with Linder Wendt ’19. My fellowship at Lawrence Nijesh Upreti Appleton, WI, September 1, 2018 Elizabeth Freeman Billings ’05 and Jeffrey ’03, Giang H. Bui ’08, Amsterdam, Netherlands, a son, helped me discover a true passion for working in I am deeply passionate about the positive impact BIRTHS Bayside, WI, a son, Jackson S., February 5, 2019 Sem Floris Tuan, September 30, 2018 higher education, and I’m excited to start working as technology can bring to our world. I am optimistic Michelle C. Fitzpatrick ’05 and Dan Peterson, Oak Lawn, IL, March 17, 2018 a financial aid advisor at the University of Iowa in late about global emphasis on big data and collective Lisa Beth Chessin Walker ’97 and William, Elizabeth Jenne Renker ’05 and Patrick, Adam B. Gorham ’08 and Beth, Corte Madera, CA, July, after we return from a month-long adventure in artificial intelligence to make our lives better by Minnetonka, MN, a daughter, Lilian Marlene, Meghan Frear Sapia ’08 and Weston Sapia, San Diego, CA, a son, Liam Patrick, July 16, 2018 a daughter, Clara, August 17, 2018 Alaska! helping us invest in creative and collaborative August 21, 2018 Colorado Springs, CO, May 19, 2018 endeavors. Miranda J. Munro ’05 and Daniel Casner ’06, Jack C. Peters ’08, Seymour, WI, a daughter, Aedan R. Gardill Jayce E. Apelgren ’09 and Katee Apelgren, Elizabeth Godfrey VanDenzen ’98 and Brian ’99, Livermore, CA, a son, Colin Glen, August 19, 2018 Melany Jewel, July 17, 2018 My wife and I have been happily married for the past Colin S. Wolff Minneapolis, MN, September 30, 2017 Santa Fe, NM, a daughter, Celia Locklin, year and look forward to many more wonderful years I will be leaving the country in August 2019 to December 12, 2017 Chorthip Peeraphatdit ’05 and Timothy M. Sullivan Yangqing Xu ’09 and Jian Pan, Wilmette, IL, together. We just bought a house in the Madison, volunteer for the Peace Corps in Ukraine as a youth Fanny Y. Lau ’14 and James P. Cartwright ’14, ’05, a son, Merlyn Aurelius, June 25, 2018 a daughter, Emery Lucia, July 30, 2018 WI area, as I continue studying physics in graduate development specialist. I will be in Ukraine for 27 Philadelphia, PA, June 16, 2018 Kelly Fowler Carlson ’01 and Kevin, Davenport, IA, school at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. months in total. This is a very exciting step for me a daughter, Korra M., July 19, 2018 Leah Sinn Iversen ’05 and Peter ’05, Bloomington, Emily Mohr Hughes ’10 and David, a son, Owen, and I couldn’t have done it without the help and Susan Reeves and Brett McCleneghan, were married IN, a daughter, Eliza, December 27, 2018 September 17, 2017 Trent Z. Guerrero encouragement of many people at Lawrence. October 20, 2018 in Houston. Miriam Lara-Meloy Lara-Mejia ’03 and Elkin, After graduating in spring 2018, I was selected for San Leandro, CA, a son, Luca Wilde, Kimberly F. Reece ’06, Jacksonville, FL, a daughter, Sae Goto ’11, Tokyo, Japan, a daughter, Shin, a fall internship program at the National Renewable December 5, 2017 Morgan, June 30, 2017 June 27, 2018 Energy Lab in Golden, Colorado. Since the end of that internship in December 2018, I returned for a Jordan L. Webster ’03 and Enrique Romero, Palo Alto, Zubair A. Hakim ’07 and Caroline Klaeth Eriksen, Sarah Bonner Potts ’13 and Colin ’13, Clayton, NC, second internship that ended in May 2019. Now I have CA, a son, Theo, July 21, 2018 Oslo, Norway, a son, Axel Eriksen, November 15, 2018 a daughter, Ada Laine, January 9, 2019 been hired on as a full-time, full-benefits, research technician working on multiple projects at the lab. Andrea Blimling Singletary ’04 and Corey ’00, Katherine M. Dannecker-Stevens ’14 and Samuel Ideally, I’ll be working here at NREL for another year Madison, WI, a son, Leo Jordan, September 5, 2018 R. Stevens ’13, Milwaukee, WI, a daughter, Sage, or so while I apply to graduate schools and meet with February 25, 2018 professors who I am interested in doing research with Romain Daniel, son of Joanna de Plas ’94. Jackson Thomas Peterson, son of Michelle C. Fitzpatrick ’05. while pursing a Ph.D. Eliza Iverson, daughter of Peter J. Iversen ’05 and Leah E. Iversen ’05. CORRECTIONS

Kirstin Jansen Johnson ’95 was incorrectly listed as Kristin Dougan ’95. John Howe’s ’67 class note in the last issue was incorrectly listed under Cynthia Russell Howe ’67.

80 FALL 2019 Michell Fitzpatrick ’05 married March 17, 2018, to Dan Peterson. IN MEMORIAM IN MEMORIAM

DECEASED ALUMNI Bernice Koepp M-D’48, Milwaukee, WI, Peggy Gluck Rasch M-D’51, Waukesha, WI, Thomas O. Kloehn ’54, Wausau, WI, February 2, 2019. February 20, 2019. December 1, 2018. Survivors include a sister, Mary Younglove Johnson ’43, Kenosha, WI, Gretchen Kloehn Berggren ’57; a daughter, Barbara March 27, 2019. Marjorie Johnson Rosebush ’48, Appleton, WI, Donald Schroeder ’51, Cloquet, MN, Kloehn Gresik ’82; a son-in-law, James V. Bruno ’81; February 21, 2019. March 4, 2019. Survivors include his wife Pauline and a daughter, Ellen Kloehn Bruno ’83. Virginia Cossmann Quirk ’43, Naples, FL, Kokke Schroeder ’51. January 29, 2019. Nancy Stillman Spencer ’48, Ashland, OR, Mary Alice Green Kopf ’54, Seattle, WA, November 22, 2018. Survivors include a Daniel H. Teas ’51, Bloomington, IL, June 28, 2019. January 17, 2019. Jean Kieweg Schleis ’43, Black Creek, WI, granddaughter, Sarah Calkins Degen ’71; and He was preceded in death by his mother, Dorothy May 18, 2019. Survivors include a niece, Laurie A. a sister-in-law, Sarah Spencer Ward ’53. Normington Teas ’23; an uncle, Roy Normington ’22; Ruth Riemeier McKinstry ’54, Chandler, AZ, Hamachek ’69; a niece, Holly Hamachek Ashby ’78; a sister, Sarah Teas Sorenson ’53 and her husband March 18, 2019. Survivors include her husband, and a daughter, Gretchen Schulz Rahmlow ’70. Dorothy Eilert Stowell ’48, Atlanta, GA, Robert I. Sorenson ’51. Survivors include daughters John R. McKinstry ’55. November 25, 2018. Molly M. Teas ’79 and Virginia Teas Gill ’83; a niece, Phyllis Schief Seipp ’43, Wausau, WI, Karen S. Sorenson ’77, and her husband, Richard S. Kendall A. Parker ’54, Neenah, WI, December 3, 2018. Robert C. Bauernfeind ’49, Medford, WI, Jerde ’73; and a grandson, William John Gill ’18. December 13, 2018. Survivors include his wife, Carol William “Bill” Perreault, a biology professor who May 11, 2019. Miller Parker ’61; a brother, James L. Parker ’57; a spent 35 years on the Lawrence University faculty Les Stumpf ’43, Kaukauna, WI, Roman T. Vanden Heuvel ’51, St. Paul, MN, sister-in-law, Sandra Laue Miller ’62; and a brother-in- before retiring in 2006, passed away on June 1, March 20, 2019. Marian Gillet Kuhn ’49, Montrose, CO, When asked “why do you give?” I could January 18, 2019. law, David C. Miller ’62. 2019. He was 81. March 31, 2019. easily say it is due to the academic rigor, Marjorie Iwen Buckley ’44, Waverly, PA, small class sizes, and unique support Charles F. Connelly ’52, Appleton, WI, Thomas L. Wright ’54, Laramie, WY, Perreault began his career at Lawrence in 1971. Ruth Franz Raynor M-D’49, Cape Coral, FL, January 29, 2019. November 15, 2018. March 2, 2019. system Lawrence offers, but that would At the time of his retirement, he said he still relished February 6, 2018. the challenge of trying to coordinate molecular Beverly Rose Sellman M-D’44, Hico, TX, be a truly incomplete response. Although Janet Bowers Ford M-D’52, Osage, IA, Charles J. Hopkinson ’55, Glen Ellyn, IL, techniques with microscopy techniques and the December 24, 2018. David O. Schanke ’49, Ripon, WI, the benefits associated with attending December 15, 2018. February 13, 2019. interplay between them in search of a better March 4, 2019. Lawrence are meaningful, my motivation understanding of how cells work. Dorothy Inks Wolf ’44, Indialantic, FL, to give does not stem from them. The Barbara Behnke Johnson ’52, Betty Key Hurd M-D’55, Rocky Mount, VA, January 15, 2019. Eugene S. Bondar ’50, Washington, PA, Oklahoma City, OK, February 9, 2019. November 17, 2018. opportunities presented to me while at When Lawrence was planning its new Science Hall April 7, 2019. in the late 1990s, Perreault personally designed Rosella Juergens Butzler ’45, Midland, MI, Lawrence were only possible because Roger W. Kirkeide ’52, Appleton, WI, Constance Clarke Purdum ’55, Los Angeles, CA, the plans for the building’s microscopy suite. Over May 10, 2019. Carol Brand Elliot M-D’50, Lubbock, TX, of the generosity of others. I was able December 25, 2018. April 6, 2019. Survivors include a son, Stephen C. the years, he individually tutored more than 100 January 13, 2019. to attend and remain enrolled because Purdum ’87; and a daughter-in-law, Julie Stoker students—and a few faculty colleagues along the Shirley Fox Cuff ’45, Wisconsin Rapids, WI, alumni invested in my education through Gretchen Wilterding Maring ’52, Ellison Bay, WI, Purdum ’87. way—on the finer points of using either Lawrence’s March 1, 2019. Rosalie Keller Griesse ’50, Minneapolis, MN, December 30, 2018. Survivors include a cousin, transmission electron microscope or the scanning financial giving, and in turn, it is my May 26, 2019. Survivors include a son-in-law, Martha Colburn Rasmus ’67; a niece, Martha Davis Nancy Owen Goldbeck ’56, Neenah, WI, electron microscope. Gladys Toepfer Stradling M-D’45, Hatboro, PA, Randon B. Woodworth ’78; and a daughter, responsibility to pay it forward. Pohl ’75; a nephew, Robert C. Davis ’74; a nephew, January 12, 2019.

November 23, 2018. Elizabeth J. Griesse ’78. Colburn T. Davis ’77; a cousin, R. Marshall Colburn Before arriving at Lawrence, Perreault spent Estate planning does not have to be ’62; a sister-in-law, Susan Frinak Wilterding ’65; and a Betty Kohler Hopkinson ’56, Redding, CA, seven years in the U.S. Army, reaching the rank of Kathryn Ligare Lillyman ’46, Franklin Grove, IL, Evelyn Mularkey Peterson ’50, Rothschild, WI, complicated, it is not only for those with brother, Mark A. Wilterding ’67. May 1, 2018. captain. Two of his years in the service were spent July 17, 2018. December 18, 2018. significant assets, and including Lawrence as a microbiologist at the U.S. Army Biological in our plans did not have to come at any John W. Monsted ’52, Glenshaw, PA, Diane Yampol Schroeder M-D’56, Brookfield, WI, Laboratories at Fort Detrick in Maryland. Joan Meier Mueller ’47, Madison, WI, Robert J. Staffeld ’50, Bend, OR, November 28, 2018. January 1, 2019. sort of loss to our children. Joining February 1, 2019. Survivors include December 19, 2018. Originally from Cohoes, N.Y., an upstate mill town a daughter, Laura Mueller Just ’73. Legacy Circle gave us the chance to William D. Peterson ’52, Appleton, WI, Gordon C. Wagner ’56, Bonita Springs, FL, near Albany, Perreault often served as the biology Joy Van Minden Cohn M-D’51, Milwaukee, WI, continue paying it forward. December 28, 2018. December 6, 2018. department’s “welcoming face.” He taught the Leland R. Munger ’47, Bee Cove, TX, February 19, 2019. introductory course Principles of Biology for 33 December 21, 2018. —Gacia Coronado ’10 Helen Forwark Strahl ’52, Medford, OR, Dolores Distell Brennan M-D’57, Grafton, WI, of his 35 years. He said he took particular joy in George Th. Diamandopoulos ’51, Boston, MA, and Travis Rhodes May 5, 2019. March 6, 2019. teaching it because the course attracted many Ted F. Pancerz ’47, Dallas, TX, March 22, 2019. students from disciplines outside of the sciences. November 7, 2018. Barbara Frederickson Jackson M-D’53, George W. Challoner ’57, Jefferson, WI, John L. Fried ’51, Minocqua, WI Milwaukee, WI, Join Gacia and Travis in the Lake Linden, MI, March 20, 2019. February 25, 2019. “I like to think part of my legacy will be the sheer Gloria J. Weir ’47, May 23, 2019. Survivors include a nephew, Lawrence-Downer Legacy Circle. number of students who received an understanding February 18, 2019. Robert L. Heilbronner ’80. Visit legacygiving.lawrence.edu Kermit B. Knudsen ’53, Dallas, TX, Charlotte Strong Ganser M-D’57, Waxhaw, NC, of the beautiful science of biology because they January 13, 2019. December 16, 2018. to learn more. took my intro class,” Perreault said. Walter J. Chilsen ’48, Wausau, WI, Shirley Pomeroy Herndon ’51, Little Rock, AR, December 25, 2018. February 21, 2019. Jane Baumann Savitt M-D’53, Neshkoro, WI, Marilyn Adamson Bartelt ’58, Brookfield, WI, Perreault and his wife, Marvia, were married for April 3, 2019. December 20, 2018. 56 years and have four children, Bill, Michele, Robert C. Eisenach ’48, Dayton, OH, Sue Pepper Joys M-D’51, Valparaiso, IN, Melanie, and John. Michele ’90 and Melanie ’90 December 25, 2018. Survivors include a nephew, January 20, 2019. Survivors include a brother, Mitzi Wulk Britton ’54, Appleton, WI, Bert E. Elliott ’58, Sylvania, OH, are Lawrence alumni. Robert E. Spoo ’79. Robert S. Pepper ’66. March 20, 2019. May 8, 2019. Survivors include his wife, Suzanne Whitmore Elliott ’57; a cousin, John J. Thorse ’55; “He lived a life full of love, travel and bad pranks,” Betty Bohl Mueller ’51, West Chester, PA, Nancy Gibson Greene ’54, Pacific Palisades, CA, and a brother, Stephen R. Elliott ’64. his family wrote in his obituary. February 13, 2019. March 24, 2019. 82 FALL 2019 LAWRENCE 83 IN MEMORIAM IN MEMORIAM

Richard Yatzeck, professor emeritus of Russian, passed George W. Purucker ’58, Fort Atkinson, WI, May 21, 2019. Marianne K. Herrmann ’77, Milwaukee, WI, Sharon Fenlon, Appleton, WI, December 22, 2018, Joyce Richman, North Oaks, MN, January 8, 2019, away on March 7, 2019, at the age of 86. April 23, 2018. mother of Jessica M. Fenlon ’93. mother of Freya Richman ’86. Bynum E. Vickory ’58, Pinehurst, NC, February 4, 2019. Yatzeck had one of the longest tenures in Lawrence Travis L. Orth ’03, Menomonie, WI, January 13, 2019. Mary Futchik, Naples, FL, March 28, 2019. Lowell M. Schmidt, Kaukauna, WI, March 21, 2019. University’s history. He joined the faculty in 1966, retiring Mary Kett Buren ’59, Evanston, IL, March 14, 2019. Survivors include his wife, Julia M. Liebich ’01. in 2014 after a distinguished 48-year career at Lawrence Ellen Gunter, Appleton, WI, March 19, 2019. Charles W. Spalding, Williamsburg, VA, January 26, that included leading students on multiple summer-long treks Ellen Carow Squillace M-D’59, Shoreline, WA, February 12, 2019. Zachary H. Suechting ’13, Chicago, IL, January 18, 2019. through Eastern Europe. 2019. Survivors include a cousin, Anna Suechting Lowell D. Hanson, Bristol, WI, February 15, 2019, Karin Swenson Armstrong ’60, Glen Ellen, CA, March 17, 2018. Jacobson ’08; an aunt, Susan Hardy Suechting ’74; father of Alena Jae Hanson ’20. Richard A. Stack, Menasha, WI, April 21, 2019. Upon his retirement nearly five years ago, Yatzeck noted and an uncle, Ralph P. Suechting ’72. that he wasn’t much of a fan of the modern world, preferring Marcia Duin Mentkowski M-D’61, Milwaukee, WI, January 27, 2019. Survivors Jeanette Hochkammer, December 9, 2018, Sonja St. John, January 18, 2019. instead to savor the wonders of the 19th century and the writings of Tolstoy, Pushkin include a niece, Lynn Bebeau ’89. grandmother of Karl A. Hochkammer ’92, mother of and Dostoevsky. “When you read a book, you have to make your own pictures so that FAMILY, FRIENDS AND STAFF William O. Hochkammer ’66. Betty A. Thome, Neenah, WI, February 26, 2019, you’re exercising your imagination,” he said. “What is this guy saying, what would it Peter L. Bylow ’62, Brookfield, WI, December 15, 2018. grandmother of Allison R. Thome ’13, grandmother of Helen Armitage, Appleton, WI, February 10, 2018. look like?” Jack H. Howard, Maryland Heights, MO, June 27, Rachel Carver Stichnoth ’11, grandmother of Elizabeth Martin L. Green ’62, Pittsford, NY, January 11, 2019. Survivors include a niece, 2018, husband of Deborah Waite Howard ’67. Marshall Anderson ’09, mother of David G. Thome James A. Armitage, Appleton, WI, March 15, 2019. Yatzeck began organizing every-other-year trips to Russia and Eastern Europe with Katherine M.L. Pratt ’98. ’78, mother of Catherine R. Thome ’84, mother of former professor George Smalley shortly after he joined the faculty in 1966. Traveling Peter Jabas Mary Thome Marshall ’79, mother-in-law of Douglas D. Marian Athens, Appleton, WI, March 16, 2019. in seven Volkswagen buses, as many as 35 students would participate in the trips James H. Bayer ’63, Appleton, WI, February 1, 2019. Survivors include his wife Marshall ’78. throughout the continent. Jeanette Daly Bayer ’63; and a nephew, Shane S. Swamer ’91. Nancy Lee Kailas, Thiensville, WI, March 22, 2018, Marilyn D. Beyer, Egg Harbor, WI, April 24, 2019. mother of Christopher C. Kailas ’82. Carol Torresani, Middleton, WI, December 18, 2017, He chronicled his experiences in the 2012 book, Russia in Private, a collection of John C. Decker ’63, Davenport, IA, March 11, 2019. Survivors include a cousin, mother-in-law of Jeffrey J. Geppert ’86, mother of Connie Arnosti, St. Paul, MN, December 6, 2018, his observations of Russian life. Yatzeck’s scholarly work included a dozen published Marion White Lardner ’53; and a daughter, Catharine E. Decker ’92. Norman Kaufman Cathryn Torresani Geppert ’82. mother-in-law of Margaret Malde-Arnosti ’79, mother poems, but he also wrote extensively about the outdoors, including 11 articles for of Donald A. Arnosti ’79, mother-in-law of Gray’s Sporting Journal. His first book was 1999’s Hunting the Edges, a collection Brian R. Fay ’63, Ocala, FL, October 17, 2017. Gary Kiecker, Excelsior, MN, November 25, 2018, Sylvia Vaccaro, Madison, WI, December 16, 2018. Regula Vitt Arnosti ’83, mother of David N. Arnosti ’82, of his musings about the philosophical, not the practical, aspects of the outdoors. husband of Sarah Flom Kiecker ’82. mother of Carol Arnosti ’84. Barbara Heinke Thomsen ’63, Fort Worth, TX, February 14, 2019. Joanna M. Ver Halen, River Forest, IL, January 19, He is survived by his wife Diane Yatzeck, children Elena Yatzeck (Ellen Meyers), James F. Kress, De Pere, WI, May 12, 2019. 2019, mother of Alison M. Ver Halen ’09. Joseph C. Asch, Paris, October 9, 2018, husband of Tanya Yatzeck (Stephen Schickedanz), Sarah Farrell (Steve Farrell) and David Mary Reinholz Anderson ’64, Beloit, WI, January 2, 2019. Elizabeth Austin Asch ’81. Yatzeck (Stephanie Yatzeck), five grandchildren and two nieces. Maury Laws, Appleton, WI, March 28, 2019. Evelyn M. Weber, Appleton, WI, March 28, 2019. Wanda V. Dole ’64, Chicago, IL, November 23, 2018. Joseph L. Baer, Milwaukee, WI, May 26, 2019, father He passed along his love of literature to his children. His family shared in his Jane Lesh, Mill Valley, CA, January 19, 2019. Glen C. Winge, Fremont, WI, December 19, 2018. of Thomas M. Baer ’74, father of William J. Baer ’72. obituary that he never lost that desire to teach and maintained his quick wit Richard L. Schwanbeck ’64, Elk Grove Village, IL, December 28, 2018. and the mischievous sparkle in his eyes. Nilda V. Linger, Cranford, NJ, August 8, 2018, mother Paul M. Wong, Wauwatosa, WI, February 27, 2019, Virginia A. Bare, Manitowoc, WI, April 17, 2019, wife Kathryn Connelly Shulman ’64, Shoreview, MN, February 3, 2019. Survivors of Marc B. Linger ’14. father of Andrew J. Wong ’06. of Thomas J. Bare ’61. include her husband, Richard H. Shulman ’65. Constance (Connie) Clarke Purdum ’55 graduated from Raymond G. Mollner, St. Paul, MN, June 6, 2018, Gerald S. Wroe, January 7, 2019. Anthony J. Baumann, Appleton, WI, February 10, Lawrence with a degree in government. She later attended Pamela F. Smith ’64, Madison, WI, March 27, 2019. father of Elizabeth Mollner Mullikin ’00. 2019, father of Michael J. Baumann ’09. Moser Business School in Chicago and worked as the secretary Richard L. Yatzeck, Bear Creek, WI, March 7, 2019, for the dean of men at Western Illinois State Teachers College Patricia Hamon Fulda ’65, Baltimore, MD, January 8, 2019. Survivors include a Brenda J. Muehe, Racine, WI, March 29, 2019. husband of Diane Kessler Yatzeck ’71. Constance M. Berner, Oshkosh, WI, March 19, 2019, (now known as Western Illinois University) in Macomb, Ill. brother, Peter G. Hamon ’67; and a sister-in-law, Ann Kesselring Hamon ’66. grandmother of Mark D. Puestohl ’11, grandmother She became a homemaker and her involvement in her local of Monita Mohammadian Gray ’92, grandmother of community included service as vice chair of the board of Alan Manson ’65, Exeland, WI, February 13, 2019. Martonius A. Mohammadian ’94. directors of the McDonough District Hospital and advisory board chair for the Salvation Army. She also was one of the tri-chairs Richard T. Stuart ’65, Sandwich, NH, November 30, 2018. Survivors include a Elsa S. Bondar, Washington, PA, February 9, 2018. of the United Way in 1983. Additionally, Connie served as chair sister, Anne Stuart Galli ’67. of the Republican Party of McDonough County (Illinois) from Joan E. Brengel, Milwaukee, WI, December 31, 2018, BJÖRKLUNDEN-SPONSORED TRAVEL: 1967–1972. John C. Firmin ’67, Somerville, MA, March 23, 2019. grandmother of Walker F. Brengel ’14, grandmother of Peter F. Brengel ’12, grandmother of F. Taylor Brengel A Vacation with a Focus Connie was a member of the Lawrence University Board of Trustees from 2003–2006, Lyman Rhoades ’68, Denver, CO, April 11, 2019. ’09, grandmother of Henry C. Brengel ’06, mother of serving on the Academic Affairs, Student Affairs and Development Committees. In Douglas A. Brengel ’72. 2006, she was a member of the Alumni Engagement Campaign Working Group at Robert A. Belman ’69, Ann Arbor, MI, April 19, 2018. NEW: GHANA • FEBRUARY 29–MARCH 12, 2020 Lawrence, laying the groundwork for the final stages of the university’s $160M More Robert V. Cadieu, January 11, 2019. Explore nature, history and culture in Accra, the Cape Coast, Light! campaign. She also served on her 45th reunion steering and 50th reunion gift John J. O’Dea ’73, Montevideo, MN, November 28, 2018. committees. Connie was a loyal supporter of the college and provided leadership Kumasi and Akosombo with Professor of Government Claudena Skran Eileen Champeau, Sister Bay, WI, May 31, 2018. commitments for the Lawrence Fund, student scholarships, and the construction of Peter W. Webster ’73, Jamaica Plain, MA, October 17, 2018. Survivors include a and Sarah Ehlinger Affotey ’11. the Warch Campus Center. brother-in-law, John J. Wolfe ’76; and a sister, Anne Webster Wolfe ’76. Rod DeMaranville, Sturgeon Bay, WI, October 2, 2017. HERITAGE OF AMERICA • SEPTEMBER 6–14, 2020 Connie was preceded in death by her husband, Jerry. Their son, Stephen, and his Eric L. Smithback ’74, Columbia, NJ, February 10, 2019. Survivors include his wife From battlefields to memorials, New York to Yorktown, follow the epic story of American democracy Judith Dobbs, February 1, 2019. wife, Julie Stoker Purdum, are both 1987 Lawrence graduates. Martha Anderson Smithback ’75; a nephew, Geoffrey A. Barrow ’93; a nephew, with Robert S. French Professor of American Studies Jerry Podair. Christopher H. Anderson ’02; and a brother-in-law, Christopher J. Anderson ’68. Jack C. Ellsworth, Sherborn, MA, March 20, 2019, father of Chris Ellsworth O’Crowley ’78. To learn more and secure your spot, visit: go.lawrence.edu/magtrip19 84 FALL 2019 LAWRENCE 85 The Big

PictureConvocation speaker Matika Wilbur of Project 562 delivered an address, “Changing the Way We See Native America” and spent a week as artist-in-residence working with students to create a mural celebrating Native identity. The wheat paste mural was installed on the Buchanan-Kiewit Wellness Center.

To learn more about the project, visit go.lawrence.edu/mural562

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