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This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Communications at Lux. It has been accepted for inclusion in Alumni Magazines by an authorized administrator of Lux. For more information, please contact [email protected]. T 0 D A V SPRING 1991 Last spring, April showers led to a May snowstorm here in Appleton. This spring, thank goodness, we're back on track. It's early May and the blue scillas planted many years ago by Marguerite Schumann, C'44, are blooming on the front lawn of Wilson House. Elsewhere, daffodils and tulips are doing their part to herald the end of another long winter and the arrival of, yes, finally, some warm weather. This spring, the daffodils have a little competition in the yellow department, however. Ribbons-yellow ribbons-are everywhere-on trees, school yard fences, coat lapels. Operation Desert Storm has left this community-and perhaps your's, too-feeling good about our country and proud of our young soldiers. And yet, those of us thirtysomething and older remember a time not so long ago when we greeted our returning soldiers with indifference, rather than with gratitude. Very few Americans tied yellow ribbons around their oak trees for our Vietnam War veterans. Paul Driessen, '70, author of this issue's "Vietnam Revisited:' did not serve in Vietnam. He has, however, written and produced a video about Washington, D.C:s Vietnam War Memorial that is playing to much critical acclaim. In "Vietnam Revisited:' he shares with us some of the joys and sorrows involved in making his tribute to America's "unsung heroes" as well as relates the stories of a few Lawrentians who did serve in Vietnam. It's fitting that Driessen's article comes on the heels of Memorial Day. Elsewhere in this issue, Dianne Droster, '82, introduces us to entrepreneur Tom Hurvis, '60, in her article "Learning the Trade:' Several years ago, Hurvis worked his marketing magic on the snackfood Screaming Yellow Zonkers. These days, he directs his boundless energy on The Old World Trading Company, a world-wide shipper of chemicals. His success has put him in the fortunate position of being able to make a difference in the lives of several Lawrence students by offering them full scholarships to the college as well as summer internships with his company. And yet Hurvis insists that he and his company benefit from the OWTC Scholarship/Internship Program as well. Could it be a match made in heaven? You bet, says Hurvis. A few years ago, a national organization ranked Pittsburgh as one of the most liveable cities in the U.S. That ranking surprised a lot of people, but not Cynthia Furber Cooley, '53. An artist with a growing national reputation, Cooley first saw the beauty in Pittsburgh more than 25 years ago. Tom Dietrich, professor emeritus of art, recently brought Cooley to our attention. We now bring her to your's with our cover story, "Beauty and the Beasts:' written by assistant editor Lisa Ruohomaki. Last, but not least, is a feature on this year's freshman class. An impressive lot-nearly 81 percent ranked in the top quarter of their high school class and scored in the top 25 percent of those students taking national standardized college entrance exams-they took an hour of their time in September to take an attitudinal survey. Their opinions and thoughts about themselves, their futures , and the issues of the day may surprise you . And that, plus a little more, adds up to the spring issue of Lawrence Today-my last as editor. After almost nine years with Lawrence, I'm turning in my red pencil for two small children who are eager for a full-time mother. Editing this publication has been great fun thanks to a good team here on campus and receptive readers off campus; I will miss it and you. I leave you in capable hands, however. The new editor, Bill Noblitt (who also happens to be Lawrence's new director of public affairs-Rich Morrison has accepted a challenging position at the University of San Francisco), is one of the best. The alumni magazine he edited at Rice University was judged by Newsweek and the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) to be the nation's top university magazine in 1990. Lawrence Today readers are definitely in for a treat, and I, for one, will be heading to my mailbox with anticipation.
A.A.M. May 9, 1991 * * *
Prelude .. .what an apt name for an editor's column at Lawrence. And aptly named by an exceptional editor for her warm and personal quarterly reflections. It is, perhaps, an inappropriate place to extend these thanks to that editor and to her boss as they conclude their service to the college. Or perhaps it's just right. Rich Morrison has promoted Lawrence with great zeal for seven years and set a tone in the public affairs office that encouraged Anne and her colleagues to make Lawrence Today an important moment in the lives of alumni and friends. Anne and Rich have served us well and we will miss them. Thanks, guys, and Godspeed.
G. Gregory Fahlund Vice president for development and external affairs SPRING 1991 Vol. 71, No. 2
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Editorial
Richard E. Morrison Director of Public Affairs
Anne Alwood Mead Associate Director of Public Affairs Editor
Lisa Ruohomakl Assistant Editor
Evelyn Telkarl Designer
Kendra Kernen Publications Production Manager
carol Moczygemba Writer
Rick Peterson Associate Director of Public Affairs Beauty and the Beasts ...... 2 Sports Information Director Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. When the beholder is artist Cynthia Furber Cooley, '53, Pittsburgh's gloomy working class neighborhoods and the behemoths of its steel industry are transformed into memorable works of art.
Learning the Trade ...... 6 Lawrence's Old World Trading Company Scholarship/Internship Program, brainchild of Tom Hurvis, '60, is having a positive influence on the college, the company, and the student interns. Cover: Northside Neighborhood by Cynthia Furber Cooley, '53, 1989, acrylic, 32x46. Freshmen with an Attitude ...... 12 Photo credits: Cover and pages 2, 3, 4·5, courtesy of Cynthia Furber Cooley, '53; pages A nationwide survey tells us about the character of the freshman class. 6·7. 9, back cover, Steve 'lanDeVoorde; pages 10, 11 , 35, Carol Moczygemba: pages 12, 15, Eveyln Vietnam Revisited ...... 16 Teikari : page 13, Eveyln Teikari, file photo, and In the wake of Desert Storm and on the heels of Memorial Day, Paul Driessen, '70, takes us back to Vietnam. Lawrence University archives: page 14, Eveyln Teikari and Steve vanDeVoorde: pages 16, 17, 18, courtesy of Paul Driessen, '70: page 19, Campus News ...... 20 courtesy of Russell Flam, '24, Gary Hietpas, Students make their spring break "constructive"; three seniors receive Watson and Fulbright fellowships ; the college increases its '68, and Gordon's Photography, and Lawrence Un iversity alumni office: page 20, Carol comprehensive fee ; and a look at two outstanding students. Moczygemba and Roger Duncan, '94: page 21 , Steve 'lanDeVoorde, Carol Moczygemba, and Sports ...... 22 courtesy of Jennie Robinson: page 22, Roger A review of the winter season. Duncan, '94; page 23, Rich Morrison and Rick Peterson: page 24, file photo: page 31 , courtesy of Ruth Schulze Humleker, '44; page 37, Alumni Today ...... 25 courtesy of Gene Davis: page 38, courtesy of Alumni association news, classnotes, and alumni profiles. Rick Kroos, '66; page 42, Stephen Green: page 45, courtesy of Robert L. Heilbronner, '80, and Steve Pistono, '88: page 49, Lawrence University Letters ...... 48 archives. Lawrence Yesterday ...... 49
Lawrence Today is published by Lawrence University. Articles are expressly the opinions of the authors and do not necessarily represent official university policy. Correspondence and address changes should be addressed to Lawrence Today, Lawrence University, Appleton, WI 54912 . Lawrence University promotes equal opportunity for all . AND THE
By Lisa Ruohomaki When artist Cynthia Furber Cooley, '53, began painting the landscape of Pittsburgh 26 years ago, she had no idea she'd be documenting years of enormous change. The people of Pittsburgh never guessed that their aging neighborhoods and monstrous machines of industry could be the subjects of such beautiful works of art.
or Monet, it was waterlilies; for she found on the hillsides, she moved down to the Degas, dancers; for Gauguin, exotic riverbanks of the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers. places and women. For Cynthia There the "interesting shapes" of the rusting coal Furber Cooley, '53, steel mills, barges and the many steel mills, with their great rusted coal barges, and the working clouds of smoke forming patterns in the hazy sky, class neighborhoods of Pittsburgh caught her interest. But they were subjects that soon are the subjects she paints again would have life only on her canvases. and again-subjects not recognized In the 1980s, Pittsburgh's steel industry at first glance for their grace or declined, closing many of the mills Cooley enjoyed beauty. But on Cooley's canvases they are trans~ painting. And new technology in the few mills formed. They are drama and poetry, rich with color remaining operational eliminated most of the smoke and texture. They are beautiful, and, yes, at times, she found so fascinating. Undaunted, she continued even graceful. What's more, for the people of to visit the riverbanks, painting other compelling Pittsburgh, Cynthia Cooley's paintings tell a story. images-scrap piles of razed blast furnaces with the The story of their city in the midst of enormous silhouette of a university building standing tall in the change. background, representing the new technological It is a tale that has unfolded almost by Pittsburgh; the unchanged, old neighborhoods against chance. When Cooley first began painting the the new skyscraper~filled skyline barely visible across landscape of Pittsburgh, she had no idea she'd be the river. recording a city's vanishing way of life. In fact, Then, in 1982, a commission from Wash~ 26 years ago, when she, her husband William, '52, ington Steel Mills took her inside an operating mill and their two children moved to Pittsburgh from for the first time, a rare and potentially dangerous Boston, her first thought was, "Oh, whatever am I opportunity. If she wasn't hooked on industrial going to paint here?" Pittsburgh looked nothing like painting before entering the mill, she most certainly Facing page: Charging che Furnace Boston, yet Cooley's first paintings of her new home felt its firm grip as she stood only a few feet away No. 2, 1988, acrylic, 68x45. As described by Cooley, "Molten steel looked very much like Bean Town. She decided she from the pouring and rolling of molten steel. is poured from a furnace into large had better take a closer look at her surroundings, "It was very hot and very dramatic. There buckets, which, in turn, dump into something she learned to do from Lawrence art was a lot of smoke and steam, a lot of movement a mold or cast. When they begin pouring into these large buckets, professor Tom Dietrich. and noise;' describes Cooley. "It's very exciting to there's a lot of steam, sparks, and Recalling the historic colonial homes she watch. And the machines themselves have all kinds smoke. Then as the furnace empties, liked to paint in New England, she headed to the of interesting shapes. Parts of them, especially if you it cools off a little, leaving a steady stream of materials, which you can old neighborhoods that climb Pittsburgh's renowned don't understand their purpose, are abstract just to see in this painting. I've come in hills. The muted colors and varied textures of the look at them. I was overwhelmed, wondering how I close to emphasize the abstract architecture, and the abstract designs created by light, could capture it all in paint." forms, as well as give a feeling of intense heat. It's great fun trying to shadows, and the angled rooftops intrigued her, as Since that first journey into the usually capture that effect." they still do today. Spurred by the exciting images off~limits interior of a steel mill, Cooley has been
2 inside "two or three other steel mills, a glass factory, a Georgia farm machinery forging company, and a West Virginia coal mine:' where she spent a day careening through a cold, dark tunnel in a little cart with only her headlamp to light the way. "They told me they had a good accident record:' laughs Cooley, who describes the experience as "very exciting, like going into a funhouse." Her paintings of such unusual subjects ellicited positive reactions from the people of Pittsburgh, and others, right from the start. She was encouraged to continue even though the popular artistic style at the time was very different from her own. "I had a good response to my work:' says Cooley. "I think that's partly because a lot of the local artists were not looking at the city and doing paintings of it. They were abstract artists; not too many people were persevering in the realist tradition:' Surprisingly, though, Cooley does not describe her style as realistic. Nor does she describe it as impressionistic. And though she does look for abstract shapes and patterns in her subjects, she would not call herself an abstract artist. Others have labeled her art "realistic impressionism." Cooley prefers to call it "painterly realism:' which, in her words, means "it's realistic in that the images are recognizable. But I'm also interested in what the painting looks like and the shape of what I'm painting. I make up a lot of the colors for interest:' There is one word to describe her style that no one will question-successful. Cooley has exhibited her watercolors and acrylics throughout the country, with more than 1,400 works in collections in the United States, Europe, South America, and Australia. She has won many awards, including being named the 1989 Artist of the Year by the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts. She has managed to cross all social boundaries with her art, winning praise from gallery owners, collectors, and fellow artists, as well as the hearts of millworkers, miners, and their families. "I had a coal mine painting hanging in my dining room and people would come in and say, 'Oh, my father used to work in a coal mine.' Or, a couple of times, my guests themselves had worked in a coal mine:' remembers Cooley. "The same kind of thing has happened with paintings of the steel mills. I think people are very excited that I'm looking at the mills as a subject for a work of an:' Even as a child, drawing pictures of her family and friends at her home in Minneapolis, Cooley knew she would be an artist. It is what she always has wanted to be, what she always has been, and what she always wants to be. Not once in her career has she ever said to herself, "I don't want to do this anymore." That commitment extends to her subject of choice-Pittsburgh. People often tell Cooley she has changed the way they look at the city. That, says the sofHpoken artist, "is very nice:' D
4 Above: Coke Works, 1990, acrylic, 32x54. As described by the artist, "This is a thriving coke mill on the Monongahela River with its barges out front. I was very interested in the patterns of the smoke, and painting my impression of that foggy, smokey day:' Far left: Post-Irulustrial Pittsburgh, 1990, acrylic, 28x40. "This used to be one of the biggest steel mills in Pittsburgh and it's been totally torn down. All that's left are skeletal buildings and the scrap you see in the fore ground. Across the river, in the background, is part of the University of Pittsburgh. What I'm trying to say in this painting is that the new, high-tech industry of Pittsburgh will rely on university graduates and research. I'm also interested in the light in this painting. There is strong sunlight in the foreground and the background is very hazy. Pittsburgh always is kind of hazy and the skies often are not real bright blue. It's a real interesting atmosphere to paint in." Left: Chestnut Street, 1988, acrylic, 36x48. "This is a subject I've painted many times-the old neighborhoods of Pittsburgh in contrast with the new downtown build ings across the river. I've done th is same scene over the years as the new buildings were being built, so I have paintings I did 20 years ago with fewer buildings in the background." 5 ~EARNING THE RADE By Dianne Droster, '82
Several years ago, Tom Hurvis, '60, founder of The Old World Trading Company, Inc., resolved to do more than ''just give money'' to his alma mater. The result is a scholarship/internship program that serves as a model of a successful corporate,college partnership. " n college, I had some trouble with stuttering- not severe, but it was enough to be bothersome:' Tom Hurvis, '60, recalls in his comfortable office at The Old World Trading Company. The company, which he founded in 1973 with his friend and business partner, Riaz Waraich, is the largest privately owned supplier of antifreeze in the world and, excluding the major chemical manufacturers, the largest chemical shipper in the United States. A framed photograph displayed in Old World's reception area shows Hurvis flanked by two men, race car driver Kyle Petty and Chicago Bears football coach Mike Ditka, both endorsers of Old World's brand,name antifreeze, PEAK. A compactly built man, with thinning hair, dark,framed glasses, and a piercing gaze, Hurvis leaves no doubt that he can hold his own with the likes of Iron Mike. Indeed, friends and associates typically describe Hurvis with terms most often reserved for hurricanes or Saturday morning super heroes-"a whirlwind:' "a dynamo:' "a fasHalking, forward,thinking, free,wheeling guy:' "an epic . , so ldter. But when Hurvis reflects on his college days at Lawrence, he speaks not with the bravura of an alumnus who made it big but rather in the deliberate, steady voice of a man filled with great respect and admiration for the institution. "With the help of Professor Oohn) Bucklew of the psychology department, I formed a seminar for other stutterers on campus. We met regularly at Professor Bucklew's home and over the next two years, we worked together to overcome our difficulties. You see, it's that kind of interaction, that individual attention which makes me a firm believer in a liberal arts education. Classes aren't taught by a graduate student or by a TV monitor playing to 200 students. You learn from your professors-real scholars-in the classroom, over coffee at the union, or at dinner in the professor's home. I would never have been this successful without my Lawrence education." Hurvis and his wife, Julie (Esch), '61, give generously to Lawrence. Tom is a trustee and a member of The Founders Club, and a studio in the Wriston Art Center is named for Julie, herself an artist. Hurvis, however, determined several years ago that he wanted to do more than "just give money" to his alma mater. On the wall behind Tom Hurvis's desk hangs a framed quotation from John F. Kennedy: "One man can make a difference and every man should try:'
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Hurvis envisioned sharing both his time and talents with Lawrence "I learned in Freshman Studies that the exchange of ideas students just as those he most admired in college had shared with involves an open forum of communication, and that it is important him. to separate your ego from an idea you might have. In an advertising The result of this commitment is The Old World Trading campaign, you must have the courage to say what you think, and Company Scholarship/Internship Program, now in its fifth year. The be strong enough to ~ubmerge your ego if your presentation is program provides a four-year, need-based scholarship and a paid trampled upon. The goal is to produce the best idea, the best summer internship for a student selected each year as an incoming strategy, and this requires give and take." freshman. Ev~ry summer, when Hurvis, Waraich, and the Old Hurvis also learned that "you don't have to be 40 to World staff welcome the four Lawrence students back home to the contribute to a business. Young kids in their twenties can, if you company, Hurvis knows he is mixing that rare amalgam, a combina help them grow, make contributions immediately:' an observation tion that works for everyone: the students, Lawrence University, and Hurvis tucked away for later use. The Old World Trading Company. hen Hurvis decided to sell his share in the advertising he origin of the program springs, in large part, from Hurvis's firm, he began poking around for a new challenge. Tom own colorful career history. "No, not exactly textbook:' WHurvis had met Riaz Waraich a number of years earlier, THurvis acknowledges when describing his path from fledgling and, in the ensuing years, they developed a warm friendship that college student to corporate kingpin. After enjoying a typical college became the basis for a business partnership, The Old World Trading existence, pledging a fraternity, Delta Tau Delta, playing on the Company. For the company trademark, they chose a griffin, a tennis team, courting his girlfriend and now wife, Julie, and grad, mythical beast with the wings and head of an eagle and the body uating with an economics major, Hurvis went on to the University of a lion. The griffin vigilantly protects the values of knowledge and of California,Berkeley for a master of business administration degree. craftsmanship in a changing world. Originally, Hurvis and the Berkeley"When campus I arrived in the on ------Waraich intended to import and early '60s, it was like night and sell kitchen antiques. The two day compared to Lawrence. "You don't have to be 40 to contribute men commenced business with Lawrence, at that time, was to a business. Young kids in their twenties an office and three phones peopled by a fairly homogeneous one more phone than people to student body. At Berkeley, there can, if you help them grow, answer them. But while they was an entire spectrum of were waiting to work out some people. We had Nazis and make contributions immediately.' ' legal details, an opportunity Communists marching across arose to trade chemicals during the campus. Academically, I was the midst of a petrochemical challenged. Let's put it this way, I would have flunked out of shortage. They never returned to kitchen antiques. Berkeley if I hadn't gone to Lawrence:' "Here's brokering in a nutshell:' Hurvis explains, "We His early work experience reads like a warning list of could buy potassium hydroxide for 12 cents per unit in Oklahoma Don'ts,for,Jo~Seekers. "I began working for Rand,McNally, the and sell it for 26 cents in Ohio. The guy in Ohio needed it-but publishing company. I quit after 11 months. Then I worked for he couldn't get it. We had it. So we sold it to him-at a nice Colgate in New York, and I quit that after 11 months, too-before profit, of course:' Old World operates as an independent commodities they could fire me!" trader, not as a particular chemical company's distributor, giving the Hurvis next peddled imported Indian t,shirts in New company flexibility to buy from whichever source makes the sweetest York City. "Thank goodness Julie was teaching at the time, and we deal. Chemical commodities remain the foundation of the business, had a steady income." Hurvis and a partner could buy the Hhirts selling more than 100 kinds of chemicals in 23 countries worldwide. for $2 a dozen, and then sell them for a reasonable profit. "We ran The firm began selling antifreeze under the Full Force label into some major problems, though. The t,shirts shrunk at least 25 in 1975. Another Old World antifreeze brand, Advance, became percent after one washing, so most of our sales were onNime only. Korea's best selling antifreeze in 1984. Two years later, Old World And then the Indian,Pakistan war broke out, and our importing entered the highly competitive premium brand antifreeze market with days were over:' PEAK, now sold in more than 100,000 retail outlets throughout the While visiting his parents in Milwaukee, Hurvis received a United States. The trophy for the 1990 NASCAR Winston Cup, call from an old business associate from his Rand,McNally days won by TEAM PEAK driver, Kyle Petty, presides in the lobby, on a about forming an advertising firm in Chicago with two men Hurvis typically Old World piece of furniture, a modern glass table top had never met. resting on an ancient-looking marble column base. Hurvis, Binzer, Churchill flourished into a leading mid Old World products thaw icy runways at O'Hare Airport, sized Chicago advertising firm, known to this day for the promotion protect London's double-decker buses during inclement weather, and of a flamboyant, trendy snackfood, Screaming Yellow Zonkers. The patriotically keep our tanks, troop carriers, ships, and trucks running firm achieved success, Hurvis attests, because an open exchange of smoothly in such places as the deserts of Saudi Arabia. ideas rocked the office. "Sometimes things were downright violent objects hurled through windows, broken glass everywhere:' Once y the mid,1980s, Hurvis knew he wanted to finance some sort after a heated argument, Hurvis hopped into his car and drove of program that would link his company and his college. straight to O'Hare Airport. "I took the first plane I could get out BWaraich supported this endeavor fully. Meanwhile, back at of town. I think I ended up in San Francisco. Of course, I soon Lawrence, Greg Fahlund, vice,president for external affairs, was returned:' he admits sheepishly. looking for an alumnus with an appropriate company who would 8
Le'Trisha Joe, '94, reviewed more than 600 shipping forms as part of a project at Old Jill Swick, '92, believes her experience at Old World has put her ahead of peers because World. Her investigation netted the company an estimated $500,000. she can tie economics theories to actual situations. support a need~based scholarship and a summer internship program. secure in her chosen major, economics, and bubbling with excite In 1987, after numerous memos, phone calls, and meetings between ment as she talks about spending the spring term at the Lawrence Hurvis, the Old World staff, and the Lawrence development and London Center. Last summer, Swick worked in the telemarketing admissions offices, Lawrence and Old World made their match. division, selling Full Force antifreeze. "I saw firsthand during the Each year information is sent to prospective students living Middle East crisis how supply shocks affect the aggregate. In August, in the Chicago area who have voiced an interest in a liberal arts we sold two million gallons of antifreeze in less than a month education and a subsequent business career. The program tries in because our customers overseas were panicking!' Swick believes that particular to target inner city, minority students. Old World holds this experience has put her ahead of her peers because she can tie an open house at the company's headquarters for the applicants and the theories presented in her upper-level economics courses to actual their parents at which time Old World department heads, Lawrence situations. "I've seen how supply~and~demand theory gets translated officials, and the current Old World scholars present information in the open market. I've been a part of it!' and encourage questions. The applicants then visit Lawrence for an Scott Rickard, a burly football player known affectionately on-campus interview. One four-year scholarship recipient is selected as U.B., or Uncle Buck from the John Candy movie role, is a per year. sophomore "chemistry, geology, with some economics courses thrown During the academic year, the scholarship provides all in" major. His mentor at Old World, a chemist with 20 years' financial support for the student beyond the determined family experience at Dow Chemical, suggested that Rickard broaden his contribution. Thus, the scholarship obviates the need for personal major from physical chemistry because, Rickard explained, "he said loans or campus jobs. For three summers, the student works at Old I wouldn't want to spend my entire life in a lab!' World, learning the allotropes of business: salesmanship, research, Rickard spent last summer analyzing 35 different brands of advertising, and even the art of hobnobbing with the brass. antifreeze. He concluded that some companies were mimicking Old The current Old World scholars are a diverse group, but World's patented formulas. "I met a number of times with the the four students share a common appreciation of the program. company lawyers;' Rickard said, "as they pursued the case!' He also Christine Sato, a demure, soft-spoken senior economics major, checked to make sure that other antifreeze brands lived up to the considers her three summers at Old World to be an invaluable asset promises on their labels. Many antifreeze brands claim to meet the as she contemplates life after Lawrence. "I see my friends scrambling specifications for particular makes of autos and trucks, but Rickard to join committees or other activities in order to fill out their discovered numerous instances of false advertising. The sales staff resumes. I can illustrate my abilities by citing real work experience will be eternally grateful to Rickard for his helpful brochure and concrete examples." explaining basic technical terms in plain English. "Some of these Last summer, Sato said, she gathered statistics from the people didn't even know that antifreeze is green;' Rickard scoffed, past ten years, looking at the automobile market, the average shaking his head. lifetime of an auto, and a number of other factors in order to His Lawrence classroom experiences, Rickard says, are project the antifreeze market for the next five years. "I've been told distinct from his Old World research, but he finds that the social that larger companies usually employ a full-time research librarian to skills he's mastered at Old World, the give and take of the business do similar reports, so I know I fill a need for the company!' In world, have made him a better member of the Lawrence commu addition to her increased proficiency in report writing and research nity. "You learn to work with other people, putting aside your gathering, Sato feels she's gained invaluable insights about working differences, in order to get the job done." in a business environment and following "the etiquette of business." The youngest member of the quartet, freshman Le'Trisha Jill Swick speaks with the confidence of a Lawrence junior, Joe, a tall, confident woman, president of the Lawrence Gospel
10 Christine Sa to, '91, considers her three summers at Old World to be an invaluable asset as Scott Rickard, '93, finds the social skills he's mastered at Old World, the give and take of she contemplates her life after Lawrence. the business world, have made him a better member of the Lawrence community.
Choir, knows she faces a daily challenge as an African-American addressed in an upcoming review. All of the current scholars voice woman attending a predominantly white college in a white concerns about transportation to the new Northbrook headquarters community. But, she states, "learning to deal with people of all that cannot be reached easily by public transportation. The expec races and all backgrounds is essential:' She entered the business tations and obligations on the part of the students, the university, world with great gusto in her first summer at Old World. In one of and the company remain unwritten and therefore opaque. The her projects, Joe reviewed more than 600 shipping forms to students, for instance, wonder about the absence of a built-in wage determine if Old World was using the most economical choice of increase over the course of the three summers, and Hurvis would warehouse in sending orders to various buyers. Her investigation, like to make sure each student guarantees to work a yet unspecified and subsequent alterations to the set shipping plan, netted the number of weeks. Everyone is confident that such matters will be company an estimated $500,000 in savings. discussed openly and freely, as per usual Hurvis style. She also contacted more than 50 foreign embassies to see Hurvis's commitment to the program remains steadfast, so if they might be interested in Old World's ready-to-use coolants, much so that he is willing to discuss the program with anyone who products already used by the United States Armed Forces. expresses interest. He's also talked of enlisting Mike Ditka for Fluent in German, Joe hopes to become even more involved with motivational speeches about the importance of education in general the international business dealings of Old World this corning with a specific pitch for Lawrence and the Old World scholars summer. program to follow. Rumors of a pending M-TV commercial continue Swick, Rickard, and Joe each said that the scholarship was unabated. the single determining factor in choosing Lawrence over other But Hurvis is most interested in talking with his fellow schools. "The College of Wooster was offering an attractive financial Lawrence graduates who could commit to a similar scholarship/ aid package, too;' Joe said, "but Lawrence won out because I internship program with the college. "I'll go anywhere, climb on my wouldn't have to take out loans:' Sato said that her first visit to soap box, and tell them all about it. This is a great program, and Lawrence had been terrible, but on her second trip, as an Old I'll do whatever it takes to let others know how I feel about it:' 0 World semi-finalist, she had "such a great time that I would have come anyway." Sato now assists the admissions staff in choosing campus hosts when Old World scholar applicants visit. · "The greater Chicago area is the most heavily recruited market in the country;' according to Steve Syverson, dean of admissions. Both Hurvis and the university would like to see more minority students apply for the Old World scholarship. "These students are bombarded with scholarship information as colleges like Lawrence try to diversify their applicant pool. The Old World Trading Company scholarship helps us rise above the noise." N. B. lust prior to publication, Christine Sato, '91, the first Old World The really neat part for Hurvis is that he gets something program graduate, accepted an offer to join the company as a full-time out of it, too. "This is not a hand-out. These kids have benefitted employee following her graduation in June. us from the beginning. I'd say we get a day and a half's work for every day paid. And besides, they are great to know;' Hurvis says with avuncular pride. Dianne Droster, '82, is a staff writer and columnist for the There remain a few kinks in the program that will be Northeastern Wisconsin Business Review. She lives in Appleton. 11 • WI
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The character of a college is influenced in no small part by the character of its student body. A survey of freshman backgrounds and attitudes gives us a glimpse of what lies ahead for Lawrence.
t used to be you could spot a freshman from across campus. For 25 years, the Cooperative Institutional Research Program He or she was the one wearing a green beanie (until November 1, (CIRP), sponsored by the American Council on Education and the that is, unless, of course, Lawrence won the Homecoming game Graduate School of Education at the University of California, Los and then, sometimes, the freshmen were allowed to remove Angeles, has been surveying firsHime, full~time freshmen nationwide. their caps after the game). He or she was the one standing next to The survey questions deal specifically with the students' backgrounds the senior bench, rather than sitting on it. ("Do not sit on the and attitudes. The resulting data then are used by policy analysts, senior bench;' admonished the 1912 Lawrence College Student human resource planners, college administrators, and guidance Handbook. "It was not put there for you!') He or she was the one counselors to detect trends in student interests and plan student who avoided argument. ("Don't be too anxious to scrap with the services, among other things. sophomores. That will come soon enough." ibid .) At Milwaukee ~ Lawrence has been participating in the program since 1981, Downer College, the freshmen were the ones who raced around and each year asks the freshman class to take the hour~long, written their Milwaukee campus looking for a silly black hat hidden by survey during New Student Week. This past fall, 209 Lawrentians- the- you guessed it - ready~to~scrap sophomores. 66 percent of the freshman class-completed the survey. Nowadays, it's harder to single out the freshmen. There The results? Well, some were expected, some were are no beanies, no senior bench to give them away-only an surprising. See for yourself by taking our little quiz. The answers occasional "New Student Week" t~shirt given to each first~year come from the 1990 survey. There's no penalty for guessing, no student upon arrival in the fall. The freshmen just don't look time limit. Just remember to use a No. 2 pencil and to not peek at different anymore. They do, however, feel and think differently. They the tesHaker sitting next to you. have opinions about the issues of the day, goals for their lives, and reasons for coming to college that differ from the upperclassmen and from their peers at similar colleges.
12 The Qtrxz
1. What percentage of Lawrence freshmen report coming from families with incomes under $30,000? a. 25% b. 18% c. 10%
2. Are Lawrence freshmen more or less likely than first-year students at other highly selective colleges to find "sex ok if people like each other?" a. more likely b. less likely
3. Has the percentage of Lawrence freshmen classifying themselves as politically liberal increased or decreased since the early 1980s? a. increased b. decreased
4. A Lawrence freshman woman is more likely than a male freshman to a. plan to major in biology b. plan to participate in student protests c. plan to join a social fraternity or sorority d. plan to participate in volunteer/community service e. none of the above. f. all of the above.
5. The most frequently declared religion of Lawrence freshmen is a. Episcopal b. Lutheran c. Roman Catholic d. none
13 6. The percentage of Lawrence freshmen planning to obtain a Ph.D. degree is 1. a. 25%. This percentage is higher than that reported by a. 18% b. 34% c. 11% freshmen at other highly selective colleges- 18%. Another interesting figure is the percentage of students reporting family incomes above 7. Lawrence's 1990 freshmen are more likely than the 1981 $100,000. 18% of Lawrence's freshmen, compared to 23% at other freshmen to highly selective colleges, report family incomes above $100,000. a. consider it important to be involved in environmental cleanup. b. agree that the U.S. needs a national health care plan. 2. b. less likely. 44% of Lawrence's freshmen, compared to 57% at c. agree that abortion should be legalized. other highly selective colleges, find sex acceptable if people like each d. agree that using busing is okay to achieve balance. other. 62% of Lawrence male freshmen and 31% of the women find e. none of the above. it okay. f. all of the above. 3. a. increased, from 34% in 1981 to 40% in 1990. At the same 8. Lawrence's 1990 freshmen are less likely than the 1981 time, the percentage of freshmen describing themselves as conserva~ freshmen to tive has declined only slightly, from 20% in 1981 to 19% in 1990. a. list physical science as a probable major. Those reporting their political views as "middle of the road" also b. list law or medicine as probable careers. declined from 43% to 37%. The fact that Lawrence's freshmen tend c. to have drunk beer during their senior year in high school. to have more liberal and less conservative views runs against the d. to consider it important to raise a family. national shift toward conservatism. e. to agree that marijuana should be legalized. Lawrence's liberalism is reflected in the fact that only 4% of the f. none of the above. freshmen support an increase in federal military spending, vs. 19% g. all of the above. at other highly selective colleges.
9. In what area do more Lawrence freshmen rate themselves as above average than their counterparts do at other highly selective colleges? a. sel£,confidence b. mathematical ability c. emotional health d. academic ability e. all of the above f. none of the above
10. What percentage of Lawrence freshmen report visiting an art gallery or museum during the past year? a. 81% b. 52.5 % c. 68%
14 4. f. all of the above. 12.5% of the freshmen women, vs. 3.5% of 10. a. 81%. This is a particularly high figure when compared to the men, plan to major in biology; 20% of the women, vs. 7% of the other two: 52.5% of the freshmen at all institutions of higher the men, plan to join a social fraternity or sorority; 16% of the education and 68% of the freshmen at highly selective colleges women, vs. 7% of the men, plan to participate in student protests; reported visiting an art gallery or museum during the past year. and 33% of the women, vs. 9% of the men, plan to participate in Lawrence freshmen are more cultured than their peers in other volunteer/community service. Male freshmen, on the other hand, are ways, as well. 64% report having played a musical instrument during more likely than the women to plan a major in the arts or human~ the past year, 44% rate themselves as above ities (44% vs. 32%), report themselves as undecided about a proba~ average in artistic ability, 43% rated hie career (23% vs. 16%), and to list themselves as intellectually self~ high in a music contest in high confident (70% vs. 54%). school, 28% had a major part in a high school play, 5. d. none. 24% of the freshmen said they had no current and 29% had original religious preference, followed by Roman Catholic at 22% and writing published Lutheran at 13%. 81% said they had attended a religious service in high school. during the past year.
6. b. 34%. Lawrence's freshmen are much more interested than their peers at other highly selective colleges in earning Ph.D. degrees- 34% vs. 18%. They also are slightly more interested in obtaining medical degrees, but less interested in law and divinity degrees, than their counterparts at other highly selective colleges. 39%, as compared to 63% at other highly selective colleges, note high anticipated earnings as very important or essential in career choice.
7. f. all of the above. 46% of the current freshmen, as compared to 31% of the 1981 freshmen, consider it important to be involved in environmental cleanup; 79% of the 1990 freshmen, vs. 46% of the 1981 freshmen, see a need for a national health care plan; 73% of the 1990 freshmen, as compared to 63% of the 1981 freshmen, believe abortion should be legal; and 61% of this year's freshmen, vs. 44% of the 1981 freshmen, support busing to achieve balance.
8. g. all of the above. The 1990 freshmen are less likely than the 1981 freshmen to list physical science as a probable major (10% vs. 14%), to list lawyer or physician as probable career occupations (iaw-6.5% vs. 11%; physician, 7.5% vs. 8%); to have drunk beer during the past year (43% vs. 83%); to consider it important to raise a family (50.5% vs. 59%); and to agree that marijuana should be legalized (22% vs. 32.5%).
9. d. academic ability. 85% of Lawrence's freshmen rate them~ selves above average in academic ability, compared to 74% at other highly selective schools. They also regard themselves as having a strong drive to achieve (79% vs. 72% at peer institutions) and estimate that the chances are very good that they will be satisfied with college (73% compared to 57% at other schools). They also appear to be less selkonscious about asking for help. They're more likely than their counterparts at peer institutions to say they'll need tutoring in some courses and that they will seek vocational and individual counseling.
15 By Paul Driessen, '70
did not serve in Vietnam. A Hietpas still is struck by ''how couple of knee injuries during many of the enemy soldiers an otherwise undistinguished were just kids in their early Lawrence gridiron career saw to teens" and even more afraid that. But I've always felt obli than he was. Though he hasn't gated to those who did serve- stayed in touch with any of the and then came home, not to men he was close to in Viet parades and yellow ribbons, but to nam, he sometimes wonders silence and indifference or insults what's happened to them. And and ridicule. Among these forgotten he wonders about the craziness warriors are members of our own of a system that made him a Lawrence community. mentor for newly arrived All-American linebacker soldiers, when he had been in and co-captain of the Vikings' nationally ranked 1967 Vietnam only a couple of months himself. football team, Gary Hietpas, '68, joined the Peace Former Vikings' quarterback Fred Flom, '63, Corps after graduating from Lawrence. But he soon was on a strafing run in an F-lOSD when he was was called home from Ethiopia to serve his country. shot down and immediately taken prisoner near Only one day after arriving in Vietnam Hanoi. Tortured "a lot at first" and put in solitary "the scariest day of [his] life" -he was flying out of confinement for a couple of years, he somehow kept Da Nang on a shaky transport plane that had to his sanity and his hopes alive. The first letter his late nose-dive into Dong Ha to avoid possible anti-aircraft wife Ginny (McKee), '63, was able to get to him did fire. That was only the beginning. From there, he not arrive until three-and-one-half years after he was immediately shipped out to the firebase at Quang captured, and he was given only two more during Tri-one of the most dangerous places in 'Nam at the next three years. Eleven more letters arrived the that time. Hours later, he awoke to sirens announcing week before he was sent home as one of the second a sapper attack on the fuel shortage area he guarded. group of U.S. airmen released from North Vietnamese They beat off the attack and Quang Tri became pnsons. relatively quiet for the rest of Hietpas's tour of duty. His return to the states was "a whirlwind:' He spent his remaining time "in country;' handling Flom was "totally elated, excited all the time, and disciplinary problems, worrying about occasional happy just to be alive and back home." For the most sapper or mortar attacks, and trying to keep rats out part, his readjustment to home was "pretty easy;' of his can of Planter's peanuts. and he stayed in the Air Force until 1990. Flom now Now vice president of marketing and sales flies out of Dallas as a pilot for American Airlines for Laminations Corporation in Neenah, Wisconsin, and "rarely" thinks about his years of captivity.
Paul Driessen, '7 0, writer, executive producer, and associate director of a new video about the Vietnam War Memorial, remembers a time and people many of us have tried to forget.
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But, like many other Vietnam vets, Flom attended the dedication ceremonies on Veterans Day cannot help contrasting Vietnam and the recent weekend in 1982. On each wall of the V,shaped Operation Desert Storm. Whereas President Bush had memorial, in the order they were lost, are inscribed clear goals and left war strategy to his generals, the names of those who gave their lives in Vietnam, America seemed to have few clear goals or strategies and those who remain missing. in Vietnam, in spite of Secretary of Defense Robert Memorial designer Maya Lin envisioned the McNamara's boast that he was so deeply involved in "Wall of Names" as "a boundary between the sunny strategy and planning that U.S. pilots "couldn't even world of the living and the quiet, dark world bomb an outhouse without my knowing it." beyond." The memorial's highly polished black After "a lot of soul searching;' Jay Mancini, granite walls act as mirrors, reflecting the sunny '68, accepted his commission as a Marine lieutenant world of the living-the flowers left in silent tribute, and went to Vietnam in January 1969. For six the last crimson leaves of autumn's ending, the lush months, he led an infantry platoon, guarding a greens of a new summer's beginning, the faces of stretch of Highway I by day, patrolling for Viet friends, loved ones, and strangers who come to pay Cong by night, and serving in a half,dozen major homage to the men and women whose names are operations. His platoon suffered 40 percent casualties, inscribed there. most by mines and booby traps. Volunteering for The black panels have an eerie depth to reconnaissance, he spent the rest of his tour leading them, giving visitors a sense they can see into that six,man patrols in the mountains west of Da Nang "quiet, dark world" belonging to the young dead to gather information on troop and supply soldiers. "We cannot enter their world;' Lin has said, movements. "but we can peer into it. Here, we can remember To Mancini, leadership in war confers "an those who died, come to terms with our loss, and extraordinary responsibility, since it's so easy to screw reflect on the lessons to be learned from the Vietnam up and because, once your men really believe in you, WTwar. " they'll follow you anywhere." Every injury or death t my business partner's suggestion, I recently exacts a "terrible emotional pounding" - each time helped produce a video program dedicated to hurts as if it had happened to "someone in your the nearly four million American military own family:' You endure it, he says, not out of love A men and women who served in Vietnam; the 75,000 for your country, "only out of love for your fellow who were permanently disabled; the 58,000 who died soldiers:' or remain missing; the many thousands of non, At least one Lawrentian did not return military personnel who also served; and the millions home from the war. Carl Berghult, '64, co,captain of of families who watched their sons and daughters the Vikings' 1964 football team, was sailing to depart, some never to return. Vietnam for a second tour of duty when a flight Producing the video immersed us in a deck fire on the USS Enterprise killed him and 29 deeply emotional effort with three other Washington, other men. According to his wife, Jane Dillon D.C., companies, veterans groups, families, and Berghult,Stewart, '64, Berghult joined the Navy as an dozens of others. We had no sponsors. We just felt a aircraft carrier ordnance officer upon graduating from project this important warranted our commitment and Lawrence because "Vietnam was something he felt he hoped videotape sales would eventually enable us to had to do.'' recoup part of our investment. ary Hietpas, Fred Flom, Jay Mancini, and We chose the name All The Unsung Heroes Carl Berghult are just a few of the millions for the video because my partner was friends with Gof young men who served in this unpopular Lane Brody, a talented singer who had written a war-a war many Americans have tried for years to song by that name for her brother, who had been a forget. Fortunately, a young Vietnam vet named Jan Marine in Vietnam. It was to be a video about war, Scruggs felt differently. service, death, and remembrance. It had to avoid Scruggs, Bob Doubek, Jack Wheeler, and politics, help heal wounds, and serve as a heartfelt their colleagues are responsible for putting the wheels tribute to veterans of a bitter, divisive war. in motion to create Washington D.C.'s now famous We all knew it would be a challenge, but Vietnam War Memorial-a memorial they hoped I had no concept of how truly difficult it would be. would promote national healing for the deep wounds I cried my way through books and letters; shared the left by the war, symbolize a new national unity, and deepest feelings of pride and sorrow with families; echo the words inscribed on the walls of the nearby agonized over which deserving stories and letters to Lincoln Memorial: '~ . .To bind up the nation's use; went through more than a dozen rewrites; spent woun ds ...." months organizing the effort and many days with Scruggs, Doubek, and Wheeler sought no camera crews at the memorial; and reviewed video tax money for the project. Instead, they funded it footage until my eyes screamed. entirely by donations from every corner of America All The Unsung Heroes tells the stories and across the political spectrum. When the memorial behind the names on the memorial's walls-stories of was finally completed, more than 165,000 people heroism, death, and of families and friends who've
18 been left behind. Many stories came from chance cleansed:' he told me. "For the first time since encounters at the memorial. A large number came coming home from Vietnam, I felt I could forgive from the book Shrapnel in the Heart by Laura Palmer, and forget:' who helped me contact families and locate The Arlington Cemetery, National Archives, photographs. Palmer's book led us to Shari Randle and Smithsonian Museum gift shops now carry the and to the family of Gary Tousey. video, as do many veterans groups, video catalogs, Randle's father, Michael "Bat" Masterson, and retail outlets across the United States. In has been missing in action since October 1968, when February 1991, the Public Broadcasting Service his reconnaissance plane went down over Laos. selected All The Unsung Heroes to lead off its When Shari touched her father's name on the wall, nationwide prime time programming on Memorial she had an eerie sense that he knew she was trying Day to help insure that viewers will remember our to contact him. So she wrote him a letter and left it nation's Vietnam vets, even as we celebrate the at the wall. return of our Persian Gulf veterans. "I love you so much:' she wrote. "I have We feel deeply honored our video was dreamed of the day you'll finally come home and be chosen to be a part of the most important Memorial my dad. You would have been the best daddy in the Day in decades. Even more, we feel honored so
whole world. You were for that short period of time many families and veterans trusted us to tell their in my life. I can never forget you. I'm 23 now! I stories, and convey their anguish, pride, and deter~ sure look a lot different from 6 years old. You'd be mination that their loved ones did not die in vain. very proud of me." Like the memorial, All The Unsung Heroes A Green Bay mother wrote to her son, is not just about death. It is about homecoming and Gary Tousey, "We wear our gold stars for you and reconciliation. About the need to remember, honor, are proud of your medals; our son, who fell in and learn from those who have served their country another world than ours, desiring freedom for others, in time of war. It is about life, and about hope for a dedicating his own freedom to what he believed was better, less violent future for all of us. D noble. America has had no better than you, and you were ours." We read thousands of other letters that echoed the eternal grief, pride, and sense of loss felt Carl Berghult's, '64, name is not inscribed on the by parents, siblings, children, loved ones, and Vietnam War Memorial because the carrier on which he comrades in arms. And the few we were able to was killed was outside Vietnamese waters when the feature in our video's short time frame capture a accident occurred. Since learning that his name was wide breadth of human emotion. omitted, his widow, lane Dillon Berghult-Stewart, '64, Finally, more than a year after we began, has been fighting to have it added to the black granite we pronounced it a "wrap." We sent out review walls. To date, she hasn't succeeded; but she is far from copies, scheduled a screening, and held our collective ready to give up. breath. When the results started coming in, we sensed we had achieved what we set out to do. Paul Driessen is a 1970 graduate of Lawrence The Washington Post called All The University. Now living in Annandale, Virginia, he served Unsung Heroes "emotionally clutching:' with as the writer, executive producer, and associate director "captivating camerawork" and "a haunting sound of All The Unsung Heroes. track." The Chicago Sun-Times gave it 31/z stars and said we had "pulled it off with style." To order a copy of the video, send a check payable to Brigadeer General George Price said it was Unsung Heroes for $14.95 plus $3.50 for shipping and "very touching, very sensitively done, and yet it handling to Unsung Heroes, 8328 Chapel Lake Court, avoids overkill." Another vet's reaction touched me Annandale, VA 22003. Include your name and mailing more than any other I yet have heard. "I felt address. 19 CAMPUS N E W S
Marie Ia Nunez, '91: Turning theory into practice
ariela Nunez, '91, is one of those Lawrence students M who almost wasn't. Succumbing to pressure from family members who are alumni of Lawrence, she obliged them with a perfunctory visit to Appleton on what she remem bers as "a cold, rainy, Saturday morning." The campus was { deserted. The sky was grey. The trees were bare. She decided to Arthur Thrall (right), emeritus professor of art, was on campus for the opening of a / stand up to her insistent month-long exhibit of his paintings and etchings at the Wriston Art Center on April 12. Thrall, who taught at Milwaukee-Downer and Lawrence for 34 years, is internationally '--'"""-'----'"'-'--...__._.--...-..LJB._ _!_, _] sib lings and find another college. recognized as an artist of great imagination and discipline. At least that was her intention. But her family won out, convincing her to overcome her initial impression. Nunez's years at Lawrence did not disappoint. She has taken advantage of a study program in Two Lawrence students "Lawrence's tuition;· said Warch, Spain, independent study opportunities, an ACM-sponsored receive Watson "covers 60 percent of the costs of education here. Lawrence's costs-in summer of research with a faculty mentor, residence in the Fellowships Spanish House (now the Human Rights House), and membership faculty and staff salaries and benefits, in Mortar Board. After graduation, Nunez will spend a year in Seniors Chris Naumann and Mariela in financial aid expenditures, in Central America as a Watson fellow. Nunez now can include Watson physical plant maintenance, and in As a child in Maracaibo, Venezuela, Nunez's strongest influences Fellowships on their long lists of everything from library acquisitions to were her parents, both teachers in a university, and her ethnic accomplishments. The two out· insurance premiums-will increase heritage. As a student at Lawrence, she channeled those influ standing Lawrentians are among 75 next year and the combination of ences to establish the foundation for a career in anthropology, students nationwide who were annual gifts and grants and endow· focusing on religion and politics in Latin America. As a partici awarded $13,000 study grants for ment income for operations will pant in the ACM "Minority Students and Academic Careers" 1991-92 from the Thomas J. Watson contribute approximately 40 percent to meeting our budgeted program in 1990, Nunez spent the summer researching the impact Foundation. expenditures." of Pentecostalism on the social and political attitudes of people in Naumann, of Jefferson City, The college will continue its Costa Rica. For two months, Nunez studied with George Saunders, Missouri, will use his grant to pursue financial aid policy of meeting 100 Lawrence professor of anthropology, then traveled to San Jose, his dream of studying the environ· Costa Rica, to live as a participant and observer among members mental histories of Mount Everest percent of the demonstrated need of of the Pentecostal religion. and K2 in Nepal and Pakistan . A every enrolled student. "Since I was fluent in Spanish;' Nunez explains, "people were leader of environmental activities at open to having me around taking notes. I was very straighrforward Lawrence, Naumann was instrumental Lawrence senior with them about my research:' Not only was she tolerated, Nunez in organ izing a Fox River cleanup project, forming a campus environ· awarded Fulbright actually served as confidant for many of the people she came to Scholarship know. "Sometimes, they would come to talk to me about their mental group called Greenfire, and problems. It could be very emotionally draining;' she recalls, "but initiating a task force to create a Senior Sarah (Sally) Glasser of New it was good because I knew my work was making a difference. I campus-wide recycling program . York City recently was granted a learned to practice what I had learned in theory-observing Nunez, a native of Peru, will study Fulbright Scholarship for a year of behavior and coming up with something that explains it:' the growth and development of study abroad. One of 1,800 U.S. Through her studies of Pentecostalism and the Latin American Pentecostalism in Costa Rica, grantees, Glasser will spend the people who follow its precepts, Nunez is discovering a complex Nicaragua, and Guatamala. This past 1991-92 academic year studying relationship between religion and politics. "In Latin America;' she summer, Nunez received a minority Bavarian folklore in southern says, "there always has been a history of a relationship between scholarship from the Associated Germany. She is particularly church and politics. The church always has been openly involved Colleges of the Midwest (ACM) to interested in the role and importance in secular activities:' Nunez's challenge is to document and define study Pentecostalism in Central folksongs and folktales play within the social, political, economic, and gender issues evolving from America. the larger context of regionalism and the practice of the Pentecostal religion in Latin America. Chris Naumann was profiled in the Heimat (the German word for "I want to make people see things differently;' she emphasizes. winter 1991 issue of Lawrence Today, hometown and homeland). "I hope these kinds of studies will help governments establish and you can read about Marie/a The Fulbright program was good policy. I think my biggest fear is that I would study some Nunez on this page of this magazine. established in 1946 under congres· thing that wouldn't have any significance. I want my work to sional legislation introduced by contribute to understanding:' College increases former Senator J. William Fulbright of "Eventually, I want to earn a Ph.D. in anthropology and teach comprehensive fee Arkansas "to increase mutual in a graduate program with an emphasis on research;' she says. understanding between the people of In a February 1 letter to students Not surprisingly, Nunez plans to use her studies on Pentecostalism the United States and the people of and parents, President Richard Warch in Latin America as the basis for her dissertation, giving her an other countries." announced a 6.5 percent increase in enviable head start on her career goals. -Carol Moczygemba Lawrence's 1991-92 comprehensive fee-the lowest percentage increase since 1977. The $18,048 fee com · prises $14,685 for tuition, $1 ,902 for board, and $1,461 for room . 20 CAMPUS N E W S
Marty Robinson, '91: Enjoying all that jazz
arty Robinson, '91, spent last summer at Disneyland. It M wasn't a matter of living out childhood fantasies in Never Never Land, or walking through the crowds disguised as Mickey Mouse, although Robinson admits there was a certain dreamlike quality to the whole experience. Rather, it was a stint with the All-American Students don hardhats however. During the winter months, College Band that brought they held a phonathon and Robinson and his trumpet into for needy L.___ ~...... ,LU>Juu.l£..._ ~..______~ sponsored a concert, sold Winter the land of Captain Hook and Spring break. The long-awaited time Warmers (hot chocolate and cider), Donald Duck. of year when students dig their way and asked for donations from Robinson-along with fellow Lawrentian Joel Flunker-was out from under stacks of textbooks, churches, friends, family, local selected from among nearly 1,200 college musicians who reams of exams, and piles of businesses, and other Lawrence auditioned for places in one of the two prestigious All-American Wisconsin snow. A time to head for student groups to fund their trip. College Bands that entertain visitors to Disneyland and Disney a warmer climate, do some painting, Building upon an initial money World. (Flunker went to Disney World.) "We were treated like tear down some old siding, and donation from Lantern, a student angels;' he fondly reminisces. "It was a great experience being install some windows. At least, that's organization that promotes around such high-quality musicians:' how 13 Lawrence students spent five community service, the students In addition to four or five performances daily at Disneyland, the days of their break as volunteers for collected the money they needed to band was featured at the Hollywood Bowl for a Fourth of July Habitat for Humanity, a national pay for building materials, food, concert with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and at the dedication organization that helps build and lodging, and transportation. of the Nixon Library, where four U.S. presidents (Nixon, Ford, repair houses for low-income Upon reaching their destination, Reagan, and Bush) were present. Robinson says it was a "utopian" families. the Lawrentians worked from 8 a.m. summer. Thanks to the organizing efforts of until 4:30 p.m., constructing a Back home, Robinson performs trumpet with the Lawrence sophomore Johanna Jaehnig of wheelchair ramp, painting, building Symphony Orchestra, the Wind Ensemble, a brass quartet, a jazz Roseville, Minnesota, freshman Chris shelves, landscaping yards, installing combo, and the Lawrence University Jazz Ensemble (LUJE). Then von Briesen of Dallas, Texas, and windows and doors, and cleaning . In there's homework for his classes in religious studies, Latin, and their adviser, Jennie Robinson, head the evenings, they attended programs psychology. resident of Kohler Hall, Lawrence to learn about homelessness. They After four years in the conservatory, he makes the observation students participated in the program did set some time aside to see a that jazz musicians don't suffer from as much anxiety as their for the first time this past spring. couple of movies and check out the classical counterparts, and tend to be calmer about performances. With warm weather and inexpen· sights in Wichita. Afterall, it was He should know, since he spends nearly as much time studying sive travel in mind, the group chose spring break. classical music as he does jazz. He also plays piano. Piano playing, Wichita, Kansas, as their job site. "The project was much more he says, helps his trumpet improvisations, and his knowledge of The program there is known as successful than I ever imagined;' classical music helps him compose and perform jazz. SWEAT (Serving Wichita Experiencing said Robinson. "The 13 people who "For me, the conservatory has been the most ideal situation. I Action Together), which is a coalition participated were very excited and have opportunities to do anything I want musically-writing, of Habitat for Humanity and happy they went." The trip was so teaching, performing. It's a real balancing job between the Mennonite Housing Rehabilitation successful, in fact, that planning performance and the intellectual part, but having the influence of Services. already is underway to begin the college in the conservatory makes other music schools seem The dedicated students began work fundrais ing for next year. bland and not as sophisticated;' Robinson declares. long before arriving in Kansas, When Robinson graduates in June, he will be leaving Lawrence a musical legacy in the Jorm of three of the seven arrangements recently recorded on compact disc by LUJE. "Five years ago when LUJE won the top jazz award in the country, it surprised a lot of people;' Robinson smiles. "People just don't think of good jazz coming out of Wisconsin. I think we'll surprise them again:' Robinson will follow in the footsteps of many Lawrence conservatory graduates before him and continue his studies in music at the Eastman School this fall. Eventually, he wants to teach jazz and classical trumpet at a "school similar to Lawrence:' For the present, he's enjoying his last term before graduation and working on a "tune" for the final LUJE concert of his Lawrence career. -Carol Moczygemba
Construction of the 40,000-square-foot addition to the Music-Drama Center is well underway and will be completed in time for fall 1991 classes. The project's $6.1 million price tag doesn't include the $600,000 organ being built by john Brombaugh of Eugene, Oregon, which will be installed in 1993.
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Despite drawing double-teaming from opponents, junior Sarah O'Neil found a way to Guard Matt Miota moved past opponents on the court and former Viking standouts in break the Vikings' eight-year-old all-time scoring record, finishing the season with 890 the record book this season, finishing among the school's career leaders in ll categories. career · and ·
Women's Basketball (16 -8) journey Mr. Roarke of Fantasy Island game results would resemble an Well, maybe not quite, but for the fame was planning when the Vikings' electrocardiogram. They started the past three seasons, when junior Seeing Sarah O'Neil, '92, walk conference record dropped to 1-4. season 4-4 and ended the year in Kristi Jahn has stepped up onto the across campus, you 'd probably never But a four-game winning streak to similar fashion, alternately winning starting blocks, awaiting the gun for guess she was the leading scorer in end the regular season earned the and losing their final six games. The the 50-yard freestyle to begin, she's Lawrence women's basketball history. Vikes a spot in the post-season season in a microcosm was an been almost as certain to win as Bespectacled, with free-flowing, tournament. impressive 82-79 overtime victory on death and taxes are to occur. shoulder-length hair and shod in her In a rematch of last year's the road against Lake Forest, and The Vikings' speedy sprinter favorite, ever-present Navy-issued championship game, the Vikings ran then, three days later, a 70-42 enjoyed a career year this past black patent leather shoes, her into tournament host Grinnell College drubbing at the hands of Beloit in season: she broke the Vikings' appearance belies her natural in the first round. The Pioneers got which the Vikings made just 29 50-yard freestyle record (25.24); she athleticism. But put her in a pair of their payback, squeaking past the percent of their shots. The roller won the 50-yard free at th e Midwest hi-tops and a ponytail, bounce a Vikes, 64-59. But the Vikings showed coaster season produced a 9-1 2 Conference championships for the basketball in her direction , and it their mettle in the following day's finish, including a 3-9 mark in second consecutive year; and she instantly becomes evident she's a third-place game, whipping St. Midwest Conference games. won the 100-yard free and finished bonafide gym rat. Norbert, 72-56, and avenging two Miota, the water-bug-quick guard second in the 200-yard free at the With the Vikings clinging to a regular-season losses to the Green with more moves than a traffic cop conference meet, becoming the tenuous 15-12 lead in an important Knights. · at a Manhattan intersection, assured Vikes' first-ever two-time conference late-season home game against The season-ending win against himself a spot in Lawrence basketball champion . Ripon, O'Neil found her favorite spot St. Norbert moved coach Amy history. He ended a stellar career She ended the season with seven on the court and swished a 15-foot Proctor into first place on the holding nine school records. In consecutive wins in the 50-yard jump shot. Thirteen seconds later, school's all-time win list in just three addition, he ranks among the top 10 freestyle. During her career, covering she grabbed a teammate's missed seasons with a 47-24 overall record. in 11 career categories, including first 21 meets, Jahn never finished lower shot and put it back in, giving the Despite playing their toughest in assists (283), first in three-point than second in the 50-yard free, Vikings seven points of breathing schedule ever, the Vikings finished shooting percentage (45.2%), second posting 17 firsts and four seconds. room and breaking the school's all with a 16-8 record, the second -best in free throw percentage (84.3%), In the past two years, Jahn won the time scoring record of 833 points in school history. and third in scoring (1,246 points), event 14 times in 15 starts. held by Robin Chapman since 1983. one point shy of tying Joel Ungrodt, Jahn powered the women's team A basketball junkie who always has Men's Basketball (9-12) '64, for second place on the all-time to a fourth-place finish at the confer time to "talk hoops," O'Neil finished list. ence meet and a 4-2 record in dual After posting three consecutive the season as the Vikes' leading Miota and Dillingham , who scored meets. winning seasons, the men's basket scorer, averaging 14.2 points per a schoo l- record 100th three-point On the men's side, veteran head ball team was poised to accomplish game. Her talent and hard work field goal late in the year, both coach Gene Davis, who will be something that hadn't been done earned her first-team all-Midwest received second -team all -Midwest retiring at the end of this academic since the mid-1920s- produce a Conference honors for the second Conference recognition. year, worked his magic one last time. consecutive year, becoming the winning record for the fourth year in Davis squeezed the maximum out of a row. But hamstring and ankle Vikes' first-ever two-time all Swimming a roster of only nine swimmers, injuri~s that dogged, respectively, conference selection. guiding the men's team to an senior guard Matt Miota and sopho If this were Jeopardy!, the answer O'Neil's milestone jump shot was undefeated dual season (6-0), the more forward Joel Dillingham- the would be, "Death, taxes, and Kristi not only an important in dividual Wisconsin private colleges title for team's two best players-throughout Jahn winning the 50-yard freestyle:· achievement, it helped the team to the fifth time in the past six years, the season , kept the team from ever And , of course, the correct question a key victory. A return trip to the and a solid fourth -place finish at the would be, "What are three sure Midwest Conference playoffs to finding its rhythm. Midwest Conference championships. defend their league title looked like a A graph of the Vikes' game-by· things?" 22 SPORTS
Betsy Blahnik displayed an All-American smile after earning those honors with a sixth place finish in the 400-meter dash at the NCAA Division lii indoor track championships Finishing first was virtually a given this season for Kristi Jahn, who successfully defended at University in Middleton, Connecticut. her Midwest Conference title in the 50-yard freestyle.
A pair of freshmen-Sam Wehrs Three members of this year's team tured four tournament titles en route nearest challenger in a school-record and Steve Switzer-set six individual ended their careers as the Vikings' to a team-leading 12-5 overall record. time of 59.67. What she did next was school records between them and all-time wins leaders in their respec After two seasons, Rossbach has even more amazing. Blahnik com· teamed up to help set a seventh tive weapon : senior Phuong Huynh moved into 17th place on Lawrence's peted in the very next event-the school record in the 200-yard medley in men's foil (120); Swarner in epee all -time wrestling wins list with a 600-meter run . And with less than relay. Wehrs captured the Midwest (176); and senior Troy Thornberry in 27-8 career record . 10 minutes recovery time from her Conference's 200-yard backstroke title sabre (110). Being second-best was a feeling 400-meter victory, Blahnik not only with a school-record time of 2:02.61. three of Rossbach's teammates could competed, she won the 600-meter He turned in two other record-setting Hockey (5-7) empathize with this year. Sophomore run, giving her incredible back-to performances at the conference Jeff Jacobson (158 pounds), fresh back conference titles. A new head coach , former assistant championships, placing second in men Chris Klotz (134) and Dave Blahnik's time in the 400-meter Ted Balser, and a softened schedule the 200-yard freestyle (1:46.97) and Munoz (heavyweight) reached the dash at conference earned her a trip featuring mainly club-level opponents third in the 100-yard butterfly (:55.73) . finals at the conference champion to the NCAA Division Ill indoor helped the beleaguered hockey Switzer set school marks in the ships, too, with each also finishing championships at Wesleyan University program post a 5-7 season record . 100-yard individual medley (:58.51), second. in Middletown, Connecticut. Going The Vikings skated to wins against the 100-yard breaststroke (1:01.21), As a team , the Vikings went 3-0 in into the preliminaries with the 11th club teams from Ripon, Marquette, and the 200-yard breaststroke (2:14.95). dual meets, won their own eight-team best time of the 12 entries, Blahnik DePaul, and Northwestern (Ill.), but tournament, placed second at the posted another school record, 59.15, finished 0-5 against St. Norbert's and Ripon, Maranatha, and Wisconsin which was the sixth-fastest time and Fencing Lake Forest's varsity teams. private colleges tournaments and advanced her to the finals. She The value of senior leadership and Junior forward Robbie Stinsa placed fourth at the Midwest Confer finished sixth in the finals (59.57) the experience was never more evident became the Vikings' all -time total following day, earning all-American than during the 1990-91 fencing points (47) and goals-scored (27) ence championships, their best finish honors and joining Kate Leventhal, season. With a team top-heavy in leader while teammate Dave Pager, since 1988. '81, as the only women in school seniors, the Vikings enjoyed the high '91, moved into second place on the history to achieve that status. water mark of their six-year varsity all-time list in both categories with Indoor Track Blahnik's all-American performance existence. 40 career points and 21 career In a winter sports season rife with capped a great indoor season for the For the first time, the Vikings sent goals. notable individual achievements, none women's track team, which set 14 four fencers to the NCAA Midwest was more impressive than that of school records, finished a school Regional championships, including Betsy Blahnik. A sophomore from Wrestling best second at the Midwest Confer senior Shane Swarner for the third Fish Creek, Wisconsin , Blahnik joined A year ago, as a freshman, Reed ence championships and produced time, and senior Jennifer Kuhn, the the most exclusive club at Lawrence, Rossbach discovered the pain of five conference champions. Joining first Lawrence woman ever selected that of women all-Americans, with a having a great season end with the Blahnik on the conference winner's for the regional. stellar performance at both the disappointment of a second-place stand were junior Debbie Czarniecki Competing against national fencing Midwest Conference championships finish at the Midwest Conference (300-meter dash) and freshmen powers such as Notre Dame and and the NCAA Division Ill championships. This year, Rossbach Diana Ling (long jump) and Lauren Wayne State, the Vikings closed the championships. relived that pain . For the second season with a fourth-place finish in In track, the 400-meter dash is Gatti (1,000-meter run). consecutive year, Rossbach reached The men's team finished eighth the men's division and a fifth-place regarded as one of the sport's three the finals of the Midwest Conference at the indoor conference champion finish in the women's division at the toughest events. It's also Blahnik's 150-pound championship, only to ships. Senior Chris Naumann 11-team Great Lakes Conference specialty. At the Midwest Conference finish as the league's runner-up. It accounted for the Vikes' only two championships. Both finishes repre championships, Blahnik cruised to was one of the few disappointments points with a fifth-place finish in the sented the highest the Vikes have the 400-meter title, finishing more this season for Rossbach , who cap- 5,000-meter run. placed at this prestigious tournament. than a full second ahead of her 23
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Alumni club and Minneapolis/St. Paul chapter news LUAA president's message John D. Gilpin, '72, (612/436-7412). and Susan Merbach Palm , '80, (612/929-5640). Bay Area As my two--year term of office as alumni association president comes to regional representatives Philip W. Mancini, '71, regional repre an end, I find myself overwhelmed by what remains to be done, as March 1-Reception with Gil Swift, '59, sentative (415/344-0706) well as by what already has been done by the association's board of director of alumni relations, and Mojmir directors. Built into this statement is the dichotomy that I have felt is Povolny, emeritus professor of govern Boston ment, speaking on "After the Central the biggest hurdle in our effectiveness as a volunteer board. That is, we European Revolution"; Ann Huntting Jean Lampert Woy, '65, regional repre work very hard to set goals and fulfill objectives, but many alumni do Yonamine. '74, program coordinator sentative (617/277-3741) not know who we are or what we do as board members. Through this March 11-Reception with Gil Swift. '59, letter, I intend to convey to you a summary of the association's goals Nashville, Tennessee director of alumni relations, and Richard March 25-College fair; Jo Ann Nelson Warch , president. speaking on "Is Liberal and the steps the board is taking to attain them. Church, '61, alumn i-admissions repre Education an Endangered Species?"; A primary goal is to expand and improve upon the level of volunteer sentative Jeanine Perella, '88, program coordinator participation in support of Lawrence. The recently announced Alumni Volunteer Weekend (AVW), scheduled for September 13-15, 1991, is New York Central Wisconsin designed to bring active alumni volunteers back to campus to receive an Mary T Meany, '83, regional repre R. Dennis O'Fiyng, '62, regional repre update on the college today and learn more about their volunteer roles. sentative (203/325-0083) sentative (715/842-7790) We believe that by providing our volunteers with direct involvement in March 6 & ?-Reception with Gil Swift, Chicago current campus activities and with specialized training by staff offices, '59, director of alumni relations. and they will be better suited to fulfill their efforts on behalf of the college. Richard Warch. president, speaking on Stephen C. Prout. '80, (708/475-2443) and We also want to more fully acquaint Lawrence's nearly 19,000 alumni "Is Liberal Education an Endangered Ellen Sander Canter. '85, (312/472-2769), Species?"; Charles S. Sidles, '85, and regional representatives with who the directors are, what we do, and why the board exists. Hans L. Erickson. '86, program March 1-TGIF party, "The Keg ;· Evanston; Toward that end, we recently have established a communications and coordinators Su Anne Schreiner, '72, program chair planning committee. This committee specifically is looking to increase March ?-College fai r, Grayslake; George the board's visibility as well as to create a vehicle through which you Philadelphia Vander Weyden . '48, alumni-admissions can communicate your concerns and suggestions on behalf of Lawrence. March 5- Reception with Gil Swift, '59, representative For similar reasons, we have restructured our traditional alumni clubs director of alumni relations, and Richard March 12-College fair. Elmhurst; Sharon Warch, president. speaking on "Is Liberal L. Roeseler, '84, alumni-admissions and chapter operations. There now are 12 regions identified as alumni Education an Endangered Species?"; representative clubs based upon their concentration of alumni and the level of college Bruce M. Brown, '69, program chair activity in the region on an ongoing basis. Each alumni club will sponsor, in the course of a year, a variety of programs for area alumni, St. Louis parents of currently enrolled students, and other friends of the college Erich P. Press II, '78, regional repre that are designed to increase the awareness of the college within the sentative. (618/465-8380) local community as well as to provide alumni with opportunities to March 17- Reception with Gil Swift, '59, associate with the college regardless of their distance from the campus. director of alumni re lations. and Michael Hittle, professor of history, speaking on Each alumni club has a regional representative serving on the board of "The Soviet Union: The Mole of History Colorado directors who is expected to communicate with area alumni about news is Digging .. :·; Lynn Semple Hagee. '58, from the campus and activities of the board. All other regions around and Laurie J. Ryan. C'77, program Marcia A. Ketchum, '71, regional repre coordinators sentative (303/399-5438) the country are identified as alumni chapters. March 18-Reception with Gil Swift, '59, The board also is focusing on ways it can assist the college in washington, D.C./Baltimore director of alumni relations. and Michael providing multicultural diversity on campus. An ad hoc multicultural William T Eggbeer. '76, regional repre Hittle. professor of history, speaking on affairs committee has been established by the board with the intent sentative (301 /320-2480) "The Soviet Union: The Mole of History that it will coordinate efforts by minority alumni to assist the college in is Digging . . :·; Julie A. Manning, '78, the recruitment and retention of minority students, and in sensitizing program coordinator the Lawrence community to the special needs of these students. The A home in Manhattan Fox Valley multicultural affairs committee recently met with Herbert Perkins, for Lawrence alumni John C. Peterson, '73. (414/738-0809). and Lawrence's new associate dean of students for multicultural affairs, and A core group of Lawrence alumni Michael P. Cisler, C'78. (414/731-1542), has laid out an ambitious agenda to strive toward its goals. have joined New York's Williams regional representatives Other committees of the board include: alumni student relations, Club as resident affiliate members. February 26 & 27- Aiumni fund phona development, alumni clubs and association programs, admissions, and Now, for the first time, the new thon; Michael P. Cisler, C'78, development nominations and awards. With only two weekends a year to conduct coordinator club's facilities are being made normal board business, these committees face an industrious challenge. available to non-resident affiliate Los Angeles Your president-elect, Susan Merbach Palm, '80, promises to be a members, meaning Lawrence Desmond K. Newton, '85, regional repre strong leader. Susan and I will exchange the gavel at the reunion alumni who live and work more sentative (213/826-0626) banquet, Saturday, June 22, 1991, as part of the events scheduled than 100 miles away. during Reunion Weekend. Future reports from Susan will update you If you could use a reasonably Madison on the activities of the board. We welcome your involvement. priced New York base for busi Lee Bellows Weinberger, '78, program ness trips or weekend visits, call coordinator, 608/233-8107 Sincerely, the club (212/697-5300) or the Milwaukee alumni office (414/832-6549) for Craig L. Gagnon, '76, regional representa an illustrated brochure and non tive (414/242-5209) resident affiliate dues information. March 15-TGIF party, Milwaukee Athletic T~ch~d Club; Einar Tangen. '83, program chair President, Lawrence University Alumni Association
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futures market. Jeanette Jones Alumni Association Tongren, Erie, Pa ., lives in an apartment building near the lake. She participates in Todd J. Mitchell, '65 many activities planned by the apartment President J. Gilbert Swift Ill, '59 complex and also keeps busy with AAUW, the garden club, and church activities. Director of Alumni Relations Douglas N. West, Tequesta, Fla., and Andrea L. Newman his wife, Sarah, have a second home in Assistant Director of Alumni Hendersonville, North Carolina, where they Relations spend five months of the year. They Julie C. Belscamper attended two Elderhostels last year in Lawrence Today "Alumni Today" Michigan and Kentucky and hope to Editor attend more this year. Doug is president of their condominium and active in the Board of Directors Lighthouse Art Gallery. He plays some Susan Merbach Palm, '80 golf and shuffleboard. Leonard W. M. President-elect Zingler, Buffalo, NY. , visited Wisconsin Margaret Luehrs Summers, M-D '43 twice last year and expects to visit Secretary Lawrence in 1991. He started the '91 William T. Eggbeer, '76 travel season with a trip aboard the Chair, Communications & Queen Elizabeth II out of Sydney, Planning Austral ia, in February. Craig L. Gagnon, '76 Chair, Alumni Admissions Nebr., is active with volunteer work, Philip W. Mancini, '71 1920 "which is always needed." Her greatest 1929 Chair, Alumni Clubs & interest now is travel. In the past two 65th Reunion-June 1994 Association Programs 75th Reunion-June 1995 years, she has visited Australia, New Susan Merbach Palm, '80 Ruth Saecker Wolfe is living at Zealand, Hawaii, Canada, and has taken Chair, Nominations & Awards Peabody Manor and Esther Graef cruises on the Caribbean . She is John C. Peterson, '73 Hamilton is living at the Heritage in planning a trip to Europe, her fourth, to 1930 see her granddaughter, who is attending Chair, Alumni Student Relations Appleton. They occasionally see each 65th Reunion-June 1995 Stephen C. Prout, '80 other in an effort to keep in touch with the University of Sorbonne. Irwin C. Donald and Dorothy Smith Babcock, Chair, Alumni Development Lawrence graduates. Kneip, Traverse City, Mich., has been working with a senior volunteer service Oconomowoc, Wis., are busy with work at the United Methodist Church. Dorothy still Paul W. Alex, '91 organization , is a member of the Grand is playing for sing-a-longs at Waukesha Andrea Stephenson Bletzinger, '40 1921 Traverse Commission on Aging, and still is interested in scouting. He and his wife, County retirement homes and tutoring Ellen Sander Canter, '85 70th Reunion-June 21-23, 1991 high school math. She was honored by Michael P. Cisler, C'78 Gertrude, live 15 miles out of town , on one acre with 93 fruit trees and four the American Association of University Zoe Ganos, M-D '55 Women for her 50 years of continuous Kathryn Norris Geisler, M-D '38 1922 gardens. "That alone keeps us busy." Glen M. Kuettel, Lakehurst, N.J., lives membership. She is "the oldest one John D. Gilpin, '72 there;· she says. "Someone's got to Mark A. Green, '90 70th Reunion-June 19·21, 1992 in a retirement vi llage surrounded by chaperone them :· She and Don enjoyed Richard 0. Haight, '71 eight million acres of pine trees between the 60th reunion and are looking forward Priscilla Wright Hausmann, C'53 south Jersey and the Atlantic Ocean . Glen 1923 to the 65th . Mary Meixner, M-D, Marcia A. Ketchum, '71 and his wife, Josephine, travel in their Milwaukee, a writer, had her poetry Steven E. Landfried, '66 70th Reunion-June 18·20, 1993 "trusty old Airstream travel trailer" to published in The Penwoman Magazine Elizabeth A. Lehfeldt, '88 places in North and Central America. last year and an article about Mrs. Frank Joan Tomarkin Lucht, M-D '64 "From Panama to Alaska, and many Lloyd Wright published in the Wisconsin Mary T. Meany, '83 1924 areas in between, have left us happy and Academy Review in March. She currently Roy M. Meyer, '70 healthy during our 18 years of active 70th Reunion-June 1994 is writing a script about a glass mural in Desmond K. Newton, '85 retirement:' Mildred Elwood Lawrence, Iowa. R. Dennis O'Flyng, '62 Orlando, Fla., continues to write. She has Erich P. Press II, '78 1925 written 25 young adult and children's Dennis P. Quinlan, '74 books and some adult magazine stories. 1931 Ira G. Rock, '74 70th Reunion-June 1995 Wu-Chi Liu, Menlo Park, Calif., is Elizabeth Little Schneider, M-D '40 Genevieve Jones Kooistra, C, Chris· "enjoying good health and the beautiful 60th Reunion-June 21 -23, 1991 Raylene D. Sullivan, '89 tiansburg, Va., keeps busy making flowers in sunny California:· Eunice Helen Andruskevicz, C, Green Bay, Marlene Crupi Widen, M-D '55 pressed flower cards. She makes about Matheson Noble, Burlington, Wis., is Wis., enjoyed the Messiah at Lawrence in Jean Lampert Woy, '65 1,000 a year, many from flowers she has living in her own home now with the December, which took her back to when grown herself, and sells them to help of a practical nurse and her nephew. she sang it in 1931. She attended the Classnote deadline museums, gift shops, artists, and friends. She enjoys watching television, reading, dinner hosted by President Richard Warch She enjoys traveling and has visited visiting, and "watching the world go by as a guest of Dorothy Brenner Laird, C Lawrence and Milwaukee-Downer relatives in Holland and attended her son· on the blacktop between my home and '34. Helen gave a dried flower demon friends and classmates are eager to in -law's concert in Georgia and her the prairie with its trees, grass, wild stration in October for a group at Pilgrim hear about your activities. If you niece's concert at Juilliard in New York. flowers, birds, and pond:' Olive Oettiker Congregational Church . Elizabeth Rindlaub, Platteville, Wis. , enjoys living Conover Bruno, M-D, Virginia, Ill. , is in have information for publication in across from the UW·Piatteville practice Lawrence Today, submit it by "reasonably good health ;' considering 1926 fields, because in the summer she and she's had two knee surgeries and one September 1 for publication in the her husband, John, can watch the fall issue to Lawrence Today, P.O. Box 65th Reunion-June 21-23, 1991 hip replacement. She still lives in the Chicago Bears train at their summer house where she was born and volun 599, Appleton, WI 54912·0599. Your camp. Olive has attended many classes at teers with Friends of the Library and at information may be edited for clarity 1927 the UW, continuing her education through the local nursing home. Blanche or length . the years. She and John still enjoy 65th Reunion-June 19-21 , 1992 Dahinden, M-D, Wauwatosa, Wis. , is gardening and "keeping their place up:· busy with her "kitties" and annual Florida Edgar W. Spanagel, Wilmington , Del., visits. Sad that the Friday Club is C = Conservatory of Music graduate 1928 has spent several Februarys in Tucson , breaking up, Blanche saw Jo Otto, '29, M·D = Milwaukee-Downer College Arizona, and last fall traveled to Vermont Katherine O'Neill Anderson , '33, and Betty graduate 65th Reunion - June 18-20, 1993 and New Hampshire to see the foliage. Wolff Bauman , '33, at a Lawrence Ferne Warsinke Duggen, Omaha, Carl D. Thompson, Roseburg , Oreg. , is luncheon she attended at the John Ernst in good health and still is active in the 26 ALUMNI T 0 DAY
Cafe in Milwaukee. Her biggest thrill of Sperka, Hendersonville, N.C., is happy to 1990 was attending graduation exercises be back in the U.S. after living 17 years at the Air Force Academy in Colorado. in the Mediterranean . He and his wife Katherine Dittmar, Wilmington , Del. , has both enjoy good health , music, reading , no special news and is just enjoying life. photography, and trave l. "We're in a good Sh e will be unable to attend Reunion '91. spot to host any trave lers from the Dorothy Gensch Hathaway, M-D, Midwest to the South :' Wauwatosa, Wis., reports she has a new car and her health is "fair to middlin ': ' She still vo lunteers at the Children's 1933 Hospital, is active in the PEO, and enjoys 60th Reu nion-June 18-20, 1993 her teenage grandchildren's visits. Harriet Katherine O'Neill Anderson, M-D, Biersach Hopkinson, M-D, Washington, West Bend, Wis., has enjoyed traveling . In D.C. , has moved into a retirement home August and September of '89, she only seven blocks from the Women's traveled with lnterhostels to Norway. National Democratic Club, of wh ich she is There, she visited Bergen and Oslo and a lifetime membe r. Last summer she Whitewater. They are unable to attend sity and there are only four left to go. took an extra week to look up her great entertained her daughters, grandchildren, Reunion '91. Vivian Abraham Wright, Maxine M. McDougal, Statesville, N.C., grandmother's roots in the Oppland area, and great-grandchildren at the "old M-D, Aurora, Ill., housed two Russian sold her home on the lake in Indiana and and then traveled to London and Wales to place,'' and found it fun but exhausting. exchange teachers while they were now lives in Statesville, North Carolina, visit with friends. In 1990, she visited She plans to attend Reunion '91. Janet attending the Illinois Mathematics and full-time. She "is glad to get out of the Texas, explored The Netherlands from a DeCosta Johnson, M-D, Wilmette, Ill. , Science Academy. She said the experi winter snows:' She is in a watercolor cruise ship, spent some time in Paris and keeps busy by serving on the Girl Scout ence was "rewarding and the professors class at the university, and participates in Geneva, and fulfilled her dream of getting Council of Chicago, the parents council of charming:· bridge games and choir at the senior to Alaska. She cru ised the Inland Northwestern University, and the Board of center. She is busy travel ing and finds the waterway from Vancouver to Seward, a Christian Education . Unable to attend the South both "beautiful and enjoyable:· port of Anchorage, Alaska. "As long as Reunion '91 , she keeps in touch with 1932 She has achieved the second level of my health is good and my feet hold out, Eleanor Newlin Willett, Leslie Phillis 60th Reunion-June 19-21 , 1992 Rieki, an ancient method of healing. I want to take advantage of every Mueller, and Delphine Gugenheim Katz. MacArthur McKichan, Platteville, Wis., opportunity to travel." Renata Saacke Myrtle Patterson Lloyd , M-D, Harriett Hibbard Armstrong, Argyle, has practiced law in the same building Tex. , is active in the S.A.I. alumni chapter Cramer, M-D, Madison, Wis., enjoys Rochester, Minn., is enjoying life at since he graduated from the University of living at Attic Angel Tower, a reti rement in Denton, Texas, the Greater Denton Art Charter House, a retirement community Wisconsin Law School in 1934. He and center near her son , Robert. She flew that is part of the Mayo Foundation . Council, the Texas Art Guild, and PEO, is his wife, Elsa, have three children , one of east to spend Thanksgiving and the "Leslie" is a Pink Lady at Methodist a docent at the Meadows Art Gallery, and them a lawyer with MacArthur's law firm . holidays with her two daughters, and Hospital when she and her husband, still finds time to work on her yard and Percy C. Menning, Appleton, is serving stayed until the end of January. "My Howard, aren't at their cabin in northern garden. She loves to entertain and enjoys on the 76th Infantry Division Association's Wisconsin. Beatrice Bonner McKinstry, sports and symphony concerts. "Come Downer friendships mean much to me board of directors. Last year's reun ion and I see Wisconsinites often:· Clara M-D, Beaver Dam, Wis., and her family visit; love guests,'' she writes. Janet was held in San Antonio, Texas; this has donated a Perpetual Gift to the local Carncross Chandler, Sacramento, Calif., Brossel Crook, M-D, Burlingame, Calif., year's will be in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, is active in leadership and speaking YMCA. Bea still swims at the Y three lives on the 12th floor of a retirement and in '92, it will be held at Fort McCoy times per week. Robert Middleton, apartment complex, and is busy writing groups. She has been published in The in Wisconsin. Vera Vander Wolff Owen, San Mateo Times. Her hip replacement Mi lwaukee, says his hobby is "choice poetry. She self-published four books and Signal Mt. , Tenn. , has lived in the Alexian reading,' ' and he has an active interest in Papier Mache Press published her Flight has "slowed her down a bit, but is Village Retirement Community since April working well: ' Esther Wilson Dlddams, psychology. He takes care of his wife, of Wild Goose last year. "It still seems a 1990. "We are enjoying it very much and M-D, Schofield, Wis. , reports that Pauline, who has been in the hospital little strange to spend my time writing are glad to get rid of the responsibilities increased hearing loss has reduced her recently. He plans to attend the next poems and leading poetry and writing that go with owning a home." They would involvement in community activities, but reunion. Gladys Meunder Pettera, groups after 30 years of being a social like to attend Reunion '92, but aren't she still is physically active and mentally Fennimore, Wis., did not graduate from worker: · She's attended many Elderhostels making long-range plans. Don Palmer, alert, continuing to "travel, learn, and Lawrence, but attended the col lege from and thoroughly enjoyed them . She hopes C, Long Beach, Calif., "started 1990 off cherish life:· Jean Kaminsky Ehren , 1927-28, and keeps up with its news. to be at reunion and wou ld be happy to with a bang:· He suddenly couldn't Gladys's husband died in 1961 ; they had hear from anyone, especial ly those who M-D, Carol Stream , Ill., mourns the loss breathe. After dialing 911, he doesn't of her husband, Walton. She is thankful two daughters. Gladys had a severe stroke live near. "Best wishes to all." Russell remember much, but recovered at the in 1981 and has resided at the Good A. Duket, Fond du Lac, Wis., is heavily for the retirement place in which she Fountain Hospital in Fountain Valley. After lives. "There are a lot of wonderful Samaritan Center ever since. She wi ll be involved in volunteer work after 37 years he was released from the hospital, he unable to attend Reunion '91. Carl A. with the State Department of Health and people here and they have great stayed with a good friend for almost six programs for us:· She volunteers at the Schiebler, Wisconsin Rapids, Wis., Social Services. He acted as Congress weeks, "until I felt like cl imbing my 17 enjoys living there and plans to attend man Petri's liaison to senior citizen retirement center and keeps active by steps at home." He gave up his job at attending exercise classes and playing Reunion '91. He has a daughter, Karen groups by relaying the concerns and the Little Garden Grove Church, because Schiebler Knieter '66, who was a voice needs of older people to Petri. He is a dart ball , bridge, pinochle, and rook. the organ and choir were in the balcony, Ruth Davelaar Fisher, M-D, Sister Bay, major at Lawrence and now is living in volunteer member of the Senior Citizen but found a job at First Methodist Church Georgia. He also has a son, Carl, who is Panel and gives lectures to futu re retirees, Wis., and her neighbor, Marie Nevens in Long Beach , California, as an organist. Grogan, had lunch with Margaret the personnel director of the NY. Phil helping them with the transition from "I hope all you folks out there are well harmonic Orchestra, and a son , Bill , who work to leisure. He is an active member Davidson Nelson before she left for South and keeping busy and warm and happy:' Carolina. She also attended a Pen insula accumulated four Purple Hearts in of the Cathedral Church of St. Paul , and Herbert L. Rehfeldt, C, Stevens Po int, Vietnam and now is living in Eden Prairie, as a chairperson of a Salvation Army Players production with Kay Pierick Wis. , keeps busy research ing his fami ly's Williams and her husband, Allen . "We Minnesota. Mary Powell Sutton, advisory board, led a successful building history for a family tree. Arthur J. Milwaukee, lives at St. John's Tower, expansion program . Elmer L. Evenson, '33ers get together in beautiful Door Smith, Denver, has been giving County." She keeps busy with her where Katherine M. Schwingel McKy, '31 , Bedford, Va. , is living at the Elks National illustrated lectures on Mount Rushmore. also lives, so they get together often. Home in Bedford, Virg inia, and does weaving , wh ich is a "wonderful wintertime He was a master of ceremonies for the craft:' She also enjoys her condominium Mary has a daughter who lives in income tax accounting. Donald H. 50th an niversary of the dedication of Appleton , a son in California, and another Farrish, Wisconsin Rapids, Wis. , traveled at the Meadows of Scandia Village President Teddy Roosevelt's likeness and Reti rement Center. Inez Henning Hahn, daughter in Florida. She will be unable to to Scotland in October with his son, was asked to participate in the 1991 attend Reunion '91. Arline Luecker John, who is the marketing director at M-D, Milwaukee, claims she should have dedication of Gutzon Borglum's monu received an award for her 16-day trip to Wileman, C, Whitewater, Wis., and her Piper, Jaffrey, and Hopwood of Minne ment. He's narrated a series of tourist husband , Charles, moved from Delavan , apolis. They stayed at the Old Hotel at St. the Soviet Union in June. "It was great auto cassettes for South Dakota and Iowa fun, but there were uncomfortable times, Wisconsin, to Fairhaven, a retirement Andrews, and played the Old Course. "It (reaction to them has been excellent) and complex in Whitewater. They enjoy living is the dream of all golfers." Robert E. like running fo r the train on three he has just completed a weekly series of occasions, carrying our luggage several close to the University of Wisconsin - Hunt, Sarasota, Fla ., reports that one senior citizen radio programs on a grandson is in college at Clemson Univer- times, and long waits at airports and network of Colorado stations. Harold C. places of interest." Elaine Jones 27 ALUMNI T 0 DAY
Hendricks, M-D, Aptos, Calif., has had leading Caracas newspaper, so he flies to give up her volunteer activities due to frequently to Venezuela. His wife, Janice health, but is excited because she has Newell, '40, is updating her Guide to lost some weight. She enjoys spending Venezuela. Marianne MacRae Budde, time with her sons, who live in the area. Southern Pines, N.C., and her husband , Jane Streich Kelly, M-D, Skaneateles, John, are golf enthusiasts and have NY., and her husband, Don Dixon , spend played cou rses in eight different countries. six months of the year in New York and When they're not on the course, they si x months in Mt. Dora, Florida. They work with literacy and assist developmentally celebrated their fourth anniversary in disabled adults in their community. Robert November. Jane enjoys their garden and De Long, Neenah, Wis. , and his wife, Marian playi ng bridge. The Syracuse Rescue Dettman , '39, traveled north to Churchill, Mission Alliance dedicated a building to Manitoba, Canada, where they traversed Don, and the Rensselaer Polytechnic in tund ra buggies and observed polar Institute has conferred honor on the bear migration to the polar ice. Clarice Di xons. Eleanor King Kirkby, M-D, Blatchley Engleman, C, Joliet, Ill., has Dallas, still is volunteering and has been retired from teach ing school, but still is busy with family. In July, her grand· an organist at the Presbyterian Church in daughter and great-grandson visited from Joliet, a job she's had for the past 51 Panama; in December, her other years. She is active in DAR, King 's granddaughter and five-year-old great Daughters, and the women's club. She granddaughter visited from London ; and and her husband traveled to Oberammer in January, her son was married . She is moved to Illinois, spent 13 years in Appleton, recently traveled to the Soviet gau this year. Laura Thickens Halford, busy keeping up with the rest of her California, and just recently moved to Union for two weeks. She reports that it Fort Meyers, Fla., and her husband, John, grandchildren and step-grandchildren, who Washington . was a fascinating trip that renewed her celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary are scattered around the country. Doris interest in the people and the economic last year with many trips. They flew to Tullock Moen, M·D, Seattle, is friends problems of the U.S.S.R. She adds, Buenos Aires and cruised through the 1936 "Come to the reunion and rekind le those Straits of Magellan to Santiago, Chile. In April, they vacationed in Hawaii and, in 55th Reunion-June 21-23, 1991 old friendships and college days." Ella Heinke Stibitz, Carbondale, Ill., had a November, cruised through the Panama Gwendolyn Johnson Ashman, C, Tyler, quiet summer last year because of the Canal to Los Angeles, where they met Texas, now enjoys listening to others si ng , repair done to her abdominal aortic Mary Fannon Sage, '39, and her after years of singing in choirs herself. aneurism, which was about to rupture. husband, Bob. Janet Reisberry Jordan, Gwen and her husband, Burt, '35, have She abstained from gardening, which she Jackson , Mich ., is enjoying retirement, six grandchildren and attend many loves, but because of her "indomitable traveling, and helping aliens study for soccer, tennis, and basketball games. spirit,'' she's made it through . their citizenship exams. Rosemary Violet Rusch Bradberry, Milwaukee, Nielsen Joseph, San Antonio, Tex. , and her husband , Brad, enjoy traveling worked as a clinical social worker until and golf. They are proud of their son, 1937 1984 and then retired. Her children and James, who was chosen to become the grandchildren live close to her. She is in federal magistrate for eastern Virginia. 55th Reunion-June 19-21 , 1992 good health and plans to attend Reunion Alols F. Cherney, Silver Spring, Md., Elizabeth Frye Carr, C, Sarasota, Fla ., '93. Gay Patterson Kocmich , and his wife, Myriam, will be at their and her husband, Frank, celebrated their Hillsborough, Calif., recently attended the with Lois Wolf, '33, and belongs to a summer home in Michigan in June and 50th wedding anniversary with their three University of Edinburgh, Scotland, to service group to which Lois also belongs. are looking forward to Reun ion '91. Lou children in Florida. Beth and Frank then study Scottish history and art. She It's "a small world." Her husband still is an occasional consultant. Jane left for Egypt, Israel, and Holland, which enjoyed the Ed inburgh Art Festival, developed Alzheimer's disease and has Heath Cochrane, Winter Park, Fla. , lives was "wonderful." In May, they flew to featuring dramas, operas, symphonies, been residing in a nursing home since in Neenah, Wisconsin , from July to Hong Kong, Macao, Bangkok, and and tattoos; the U.S. Marines, she reports, April. Louise Tharinger Murphy, M·D, Halloween. She enjoys living in a college Thailand for two weeks, came home and stole the show for non-kilt events. Evelyn San Rafael, Calif., enjoys the people she's town (Rollins College) and close to went to their summer home on Big Cedar Mertins Letter, Omaha, Nebr., and her met since moving to California in '74. She Orlando during the winter. She Lake, Wisconsin. In October, they traveled husband, Norbert, retired after 45 years of says the weather is "great,'' and there are encourages visitors in either place. to England for 10 days. When home, Beth working in the music department at Boys' many activities in which to participate. Gerald Hecker, Phoenix, and his wife, is involved with a music club and a Town . Evelyn helps the elderly calculate She travels often, but finds she doesn't Mary, often travel around the Southwest church choir. She enjoys playing bridge, their income taxes, gives her grand have as much energy as she used to. and the Pacific Coast in their 28-foot tennis, and golf. "We're mature, but busy." children piano lessons, volunteers at the Janet Sloan Phillips, M-D, Santa trail er, and spend their Octobers in Dorothy Jane Green, White Plains, NY., hospital, and is an organist at her local Barbara, Calif., and her husband , AI , are Hawaii. Gerald still is an arbitrator for the still works full -time as a real estate broker. church . She and Norbert enjoy Scrabble enjoying life together. They take short Better Business Bureau. Emil Holzwart, In her spare time, she volunteers with in their spare time. Clare Danielson trips, but do not plan long ones anymore. Naples, Fla., and his wife, Shirley, plan to food pantries and a shelter for the home Lutes, Bloomington, Minn ., does Between them , they have four great be at Reun ion '91. He is an independent less. Catherine McHugh, C, Carbon recording for the bl ind and is an artist. grandchildren and six step-great-grand management consultant and gives dale, Ill ., claims her life is divided Kathleen Cristy Marceil, Wisconsin ch ildren. They are looking forward to a "Fredd ie Treze iz, Professor Bober, and between "professional organizations and Rapids, Wis., reports that she skated on long rainy season to help end the Santa McConaghah of the faculty much activities, travel , and health problems." the trout stream in her backyard this Barbara drought. gratitude for their excellent teaching and She is the vice president of programs for past winter. Robert Mott, Appleton , and encouragement: ' Elizabeth Ashe Koon, AAUW, serves as the historian for another his wife, Eva, moved to a retirement Longview, Wash ., has suggested another organization , is a surrogate parent for two community last March and find it 1934 "sing-along" at Reunion '91. She played handicapped children, is working with convenient and helpful. Lincoln and brain-damaged adults, and participates in 60th Reunion - June 1994 the piano for the get-together on the last Dorothy Stubbs Wickman, Sturgeon night of the last reunion, but will be the usual social groups. In February and Bay, Wis., ce lebrated their 50th wedding unable to attend this year. She sends her March , Catherine traveled to Malaysia, anniversary last November. Recent travels 1935 greetings. Iris Allen Musil, Neillsville, Bal i, Singapore, Thailand, Taiwan, and have taken them to Africa, Australia, New Wis., rece ived the Community Service Japan. She visited Sturgeon Bay, Wiscon Zealand, Canada, and twice to Europe. 60th Reunion-June 1995 Award at the Wisconsin Music Educator's sin , in July and saw Ruby Voecks Toft. They've found they have relatives in Robert M. Williams, Issaquah, Wash., Conference in Madison , Wisconsin . "The England . Charles Wiley, San Francisco, is a retired school principal. He spent plaque is a reminder of a humbling , says the '89 earthquake did not disturb more than 33 years at the Bureau of happy day; like being 'roasted ' or reading 1938 his home because he and his wife, live Eng raving and Printing in Washington, your own obit." She and her daughter 55th Reunion - June 18-20, 1993 above the Presido, not along the Marina. D.C. , and later acted as a physicist in a saw the passion play in Oberammergau They report that not even a picture had to supervisory capacity. After he retired , he last June. Loretta Frick Pfefferle, Everett Bauman , Wash ington , D.C. , is an active correspondent for El National, a be straightened . They converted their big 28 ALUMNI T 0 DAY
home into a bed -and-breakfast inn, since John R. Reisen, New Smyrna Beach, Gibraltar Historical Association , which will the 50th . "It was gratifying and delightful their children moved east. Fla., and his wife, Irene, spent three use the funds to promote historical to find we all still are young at heart." weeks in Norway last summer with Jo projects in the area. His other hobbies Sidney Ottman, Goleta, Calif. , and his and Karl Cast, '39. Included in the trip include music, watercolors, and golf. wife, Elly, report that last year began as 1939 was a 2,500-mile cruise on a coastal Elizabeth Runge Schroeder, C, usual with church and community 55th Reunion-June 1994 steamer from Bergen to the North Cape Arlington, Va., will have one of her short activities, visits from out-of-state relatives and back. They met Kirby and Helen stories published by The Heartland and friends, and a two-week vacation in Charles E. Bennison, Claremont, Calif., Wernecke Tink, '34, on the coastal magazine in Madison, Wisconsin, in the Wisconsin . Then, in July, an arson-caused is a retired bishop of the Episcopal steamer. "It's a small world." Jean fall of '91. Several of Betty's short stories fire destroyed their home along with 500 Diocese of Western Michigan. He now is Ridgway Schendel, C, Yorktown, Tex., have been set to music by Jean others in the area. They were left with "in living in California and performs some reminisces about last year's 50th reunion . Ridgeway Schendel, C '39. "It's nice for order of importance, each other, an confirmations, occasionally preaches, and She corresponds with Elizabeth Runge old college friends to collaborate 50 years incredible number of wonderful friends, is in charge of all the retired clergy in Schroeder, and occasionally sets later:· Carla Naber Urbain, Burns one of their cars with Sid's golf clubs in the Diocese of Los Angeles. Charles and Elizabeth's poems to music and composes Harbor, Ind., and her husband, Leon , the trunk, the clothes we were wearing , his wife, Marjorie, travel often; in choral arrangements. She has returned to have been traveling . They took a trip to and the realization that our three December, they attended an Elderhostel in "serious" piano practicing, and is trying Iowa, Minnesota, Niagara Falls, Pennsyl daughters will never have an occasion to Arizona and in February, they took a trip to decipher Gladys Brainard's notes and vania, Ohio, the eastern Smokey squabble over who gets which of the to England. They visit their son and her music. Her husband, Arnold, enjoys Mountains, and Mammoth Cave last family heirlooms:· They've moved five family in Atlanta each year and their raising cattle, whi le Jean tends the summer. They legally adopted a young times since then and hope their home other son and daughter in the San greenhouse in the winter and flower beds woman they have known for some time. will be rebuilt by mid-summer. Margaret Francisco area. Charles is playing golf in the spring . "I fully expect to show up She and her husband were in England Park, West Allis, Wis., continues to again, is active in the university club, in Appleton for the 55th and 60th for five years and now are in the United volunteer as a historical museum curator Rotary, and the Audubon Society. reunions:· Marion Rule Schmidt, States. Carla still is active as a volunteer and participated in two cable television Josephine Schoetz Bovill, San Cazenovia, NY., is active in the dance with the NW. Indiana Symphony docent interviews on pioneer and early history of Francisco, spent three weeks last June in field. She teaches tap dancing at the program , helps once a week with the West Allis. Bob Radcliffe, '41 , visited to Turkey, whe re she enjoyed the ancient Syracuse Senior Center to a group called Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore Park learn more about genealogies. Margaret ru ins. She gave a slide show presentation the "Happy Tappers," who dance at office, and is an officer in her local PEO went to her 53rd high school reunion and on Turkey to University of California senior citizen apartment complexes, chapter. Last summer, Edmund Webster, her 50th reunion at Lawrence, which faculty wives upon her return. She also nursing homes, and Christmas parties. Waupaca, Wis., attended the reun ion and proved to her "we're not too old." took a course on computers in Maine Paul and Katherine Pitman Schmidt, an Elderhostel at Lawrence and traveled and spent some time in Victoria painting Elkhorn, Wis., celebrated their 50th to Nova Scotia. He is involved with watercolors. John Crawford, Williamsville, wedding anniversary on October 26th. various churches in the Diocese of Fond 1941 NY., and his wife, Florence Johnson, '40, This was exactly 55 years after their first du Lac, and on November 1, celebrated are both healthy and hope to stay that date, which was Homecoming in 1935. the 40th anniversary of his ordination into 50th Reunion-June 21-23, 1991 way. Jack still plays tennis, golf, and Edward Schreiber, Fish Creek, Wis., the priesthood. bridge. Marion Dettman De Long, enjoyed last year's reunion. Since then, Neenah, Wis., and her husband, Robert, his wife, Lois, passed away. Before her 1942 traveled to Churchill , Manitoba, Canada, death, they wrote for and edited a book 1940 in October to see the polar bears prior to 50th Reunion-June 19-21, 1992 called Fish Creek Voices, an oral history 55th Reunion-June 1995 Clarice Kitzke Seifert, Eagle River, Wis., their migration to the ice. Florence of the Door County village. Published in Perry Ergang, Highland Park, Ill., wants spends her time gardening, fishing, August, the proceeds wil l go to the Rosemary Mull Laird, San Jacinto, to say "thanks" to the reunion committee Calif., recommends reunions, especially swimming, and biking. She and her because she "had a wonderful time." She husband, Bud, enjoy traveling when they participates in ceramics at the senior can and have visited Austria, Switzerland, center and lectures and workshops at and England. They spend a week each Common Ground, a center for dialogue Many Happy Returns year in Canada, catching a lot of fish, and discussion of religious and and last summer drove to Tennessee to philosophical traditions. She attended an celebrate the 50th anniversary of Bud's Elderhostel at Lawrence last June and regimental combat team, the famous thought it was superb. Harry B. from Lawrence jungle "bushmasters:· Clarice still teaches Jackson, Sequim, Wash., is retired from Sunday school class to three-and four· Lockheed Missile and Space Co. His year-olds, after 39 years of service. residence, in a retirement community, is to you on the Olympic Peninsula next to a golf course. He enjoys golf, boating, fishing, 1943 and very little yard work. Jean Doerr 50th Reunion-June 18-20, 1993 Koivun, Moline, Ill., is mourning the loss of her husband, 0. Wi lhart, who died in James P. Smith, Dayton , Minn., and his September. She has kept busy and spent wife, spend their winters in Winter Haven , the winter months in Naples, Florida, for Florida. His hobbies are reading, fish ing, rest and relaxation. She has a new puppy, golfing, and traveling . He is a member of a Doberman pinscher, "that keeps me off the Jim Smith Society. Marion Longyear the streets." She is looking forward to the Sonderegger, M-D, Marquette, Mich., next reunion. Martha Lyon Lambiotte, and her husband, Richard, enjoy ice Sturgeon Bay, Wis., and her husband, skating and cross-country skiing in the Joseph, sold their house in Jacksonport winter and sailing in the summer. They and bought another home in Door spent three weeks cruising along Lake County shortly before leaving on a six Superior's north shore last summer, week tour of Belgium, England, and where she encountered beautiful scenery, France. "After having lived in Brussels, cold weather, and fog . They plan to stay Belgium, for nearly seven years, we had a on the south shore this summer. wonderful time renewing old friendships." Irene I. Luethge, Kiel, Wis., has done For more information on 1944 several half-hour cable television programs gifts that give back featuring the hooked rugs she makes. 50th Reunion-June 18-20, 1993 She recently has started writing and won call the Shirlee Emmons Baldwin, C, New an honorable mention in a National World Office of Planned Giving York, is the author of lristanissimo, a of Poetry contest; the poem will be biography of tenor Lauritz Melchior. The published. She also is writing a book (414) 832-6916 book received favorable reviews from the about living in the Kettle Moraine area. 29 ALUMNI T 0 DAY
Wall Street Journal and Opera News. all home for Christmas. Mary Stebbins married last summer and their daughter, Marjorie lwen Buckley, Groton, Conn., Elbert, M·D, Rice Lake, Wis., is the who works for an insurance company, 1946 and her husband, Jay, traveled to see the chair of "Art In The Park," sponsored by lives nearby. Carol Witthuhn and Ed 45th Reunion-June 21-23, 1991 passion play at Oberammergau, and also her church, and is on the church vestry. Nye, Fox Point, Wis., plan to attend the Dorothy Langacker Dorfman, M-D, visited the Alps and Rome. Betty Brown She continues to be on the library board reunion. Carol works part-time at a Milwaukee, reports that she retired from after 25 years, and plays a lot of bridge. Cooper, Northville, Mich., and her hus professional desk publishing office and teaching high school in the Milwaukee She traveled to the Bahamas last spring band, Richard, who has retired from private sometimes as an accountant. Her spare public school system after her husband, and Europe last summer. "I am in good time is filled with sewing, handiwork, practice, have traveled to Austra lia, New Sam, died and after almost 30 year's of Zealand, and Fiji. When Betty is home, health and am looking forward to the PEO, DAR, and the Colonial Dames. She experience. Juneau High School now she transcribes books into Braille. Dayton reunion ." Lois Wilson Filbey, C, has published two genealogies and is annually awards the Dorfman English F. Grafman, C, Phoenix, recently was Dunedin, Fla., and her husband, Bob, working on more. Her husband, Ed, is a Scholarship to one or two seniors who featured in a concert sponsored by the have lived in Florida for 10 years and fine paper merchant and is active in the show excellence in English . She currently Allen Piano Company and Chandler enjoy golf and traveling. They spent two Episcopal Church, their summer home, guides tours at the Pabst Mansion, which Center. He performed the hits of Cole weeks last summer in England attending and a bowling league. Marna Becker she thoroughly enjoys, and encourages Porter and Richard Rodgers. He also co the Filbey reuni on in Filbey. The Filbey Pinkham, M-D, Milwaukee, and her people to visit the mansion, "a worthwhile hosted a 30-hour radio and television Association meets every three years at husband, Lee, traveled to Europe last experience:· Mary O'Neil Greene, M-D, celebration in Copenhagen on the the Filbey church, built in 1315. They summer. They loved Switzerland, Austria, Des Moines, Iowa, conveys the sad news anniversary of Melchior's 100th birthday. were in Michigan for another reunion last and Germany, and are anxious to spend of Clare Buswell Wallace, who died about William Nolan, Paradise, Calif., retired summer with Bob's co-workers of 30 more time there. They also headed south five years ago. Mary thinks she was living from the Crown Fence Company in years ago at AT&T. Carol Bonbright to Dallas with their daughter and family in Marquette, Michigan, at the time. Pasadena, California, in January. He Fuller, M-D, Kettle Falls, Wash., has during Thanksgiving. After Ch ristmas, they F. Margrette Gould Ingle, M·D, Grand keeps active by volunteering with Five retired from teaching high school and is Rapids, Mich., hopes to attend the Acres, a residential treatment center for looking forward to "indulging myself in reunion, but her husband, Jim, is ill, so abused children. He and his wife, travel, painting, reading, and gardening:· it may not be possible. Lois Addicks Marjorie, moved from Pasadena to Despite living in a remote part of Johnson, M·D, Wauwatosa, Wis., an Paradise, which is located in the foothills Washington, which is hours from an artist, is a member of two art organiza of the western Sierras. Barbara Hobbs airport, Carol hopes to get to Reunion tions and has won awards at art fairs for Withey, Santa Barbara, Calif., has been '91. Jim Gerth, Van Nuys, Calif., claims her work. She also does art work for her writing two children's novels this year. he's very active in retirement. He can be local church and is involved in its She also has kept busy by traveling on a found in galleries and at art shows in the activities. She and her husband, Bob, windjammer supply ship in the Caribbean U.S. and abroad, and is active "in the were blessed with a new grandchild in and on a French riverboat on the Seine publishing of limited edition lithographs of December. Trudy Johnson McEwen, River. contemporary art by Native American M-D, Salinas, Calif., and her husband, artists:· Ruthmarie Mack Lawrenz, had a fun surprise breakfast with Helen M·D, Belleair, Fla., and her husband, Wittman Mills and her husband, Gene, 1945 Jack, are learning about Florida by taking when she was in California visiting her one-day trips to points of interest. They son, Craig, and his family. Shirley Vogt 50th Reunion -June 21-23, 1991 recently returned from a two-week traveled to Manzanillo, on Mexico's Pacific Rogers, M-D, Austin, Tex., planned to Ruby Hofer Bidllngmaier, Fond du Lac, vacation to Georgia, South Carolina. coast. Marna still works part-time at retire from the University of Texas in Wis., received her funeral director's North Carolina, and Williamsburg, Bayside School in the language arts Austin last May. She hopes to attend license from the Wisconsin Institute of Virginia. Both Ruth and Jack volunteer at program. Mary Prescott Pringle, Reunion '91. Doris A. Stilwell, M-D, Mortuary Science and built the Sidling the local food pantry and are active in Minneapolis, paints !-shirts and canvases, Washington, D.C., writes she will be at maier Funeral Home. She is a member of the church. Ruth is an elder and chair of and was an election judge in the Reunion '91 "with bell s on;· and is brain the Wisconsin Funeral Directors their residents' association. She also primaries and general election. She and storming for ideas to make this event Association . As the second vice president plays bridge twice a week and reads. her husband, John, spent Thanksgiving in special. of the Fond du Lac Women's Club, she Olive Anderson Luebke, M·D, Virginia. Mary Fran Godwin Purse, C, keeps busy arranging programs for the Milwaukee, continues to enjoy travel ing Northfield, Ill. , entertains at senior citizen club and playing in bridge marathons. with her husband, Robert. In March, they clubs and at retirement homes with show 1947 She and her family also breed, raise, and visited the Canary Islands and Morocco tunes and light classics. She still works show their dogs and horses, and often and in September, went to the Soviet hard with her coach on serious material 45th Reunion-June 21-23, 1991 Union and sailed along the Volga River to for the five music clubs to which she Joan Downey, M·D, Evanston , Ill., Kazan . They enjoyed the scenery and the belongs. She sings in the St. Mathew's retired from Encyclopedia Britannica people they met on their journey. Both Episcopal Church choir in Evanston, before Christmas, after working there 30 Olive and Robert deliver Mobile Meals, where she's sung since 1943. Robert L. years. She then traveled to London and attend Milwaukee Symphony concerts and Tibbetts, Eau Claire, Wis., and his wife, Stratford, England, to enjoy some British plays, and play bridge. Margaret Marguerite Brown, C '44, attended a Bauman Nickerson, Kerrville, Tex., three-week University of Wisconsin arts continues painting and teaching water seminar in Great Britain that included a color classes for the adult education week at the Edinburgh Festival. They saw department of the Kerrville school district. 19 performances in 21 days, ran into She also teaches watercolors and Gloria Gentelene Eckman, '47, and then sketching on cruise line ships. She and traveled to Germany to visit their son, her husband, Francis, spent four weeks in Charles. They spend summers at their the South Pacific on the Sea Princess cottage in Hayward, Wisconsin, and hope and three weeks in the Alaskan Inside to make the reunion. Dorothy Kluge Ruby paints the animals in waterco lo rs or Passage on the Sagafjord . "By now we've Timm, M·D, Delafield, Wis., retired after oils. Charlotte Risch Copps, M·D, learned not to sample everything offered working 24 years as a clinical dietitian. theatre. She now is an active volunteer Menasha, Wis., traveled to Switzerland, by the chef." Esther McGurer Norbut, She enjoys travel and volunteer work. She and plans on taking classes at North· Germany, Paris, and London last August M-D, La Crescenta, Calif., and her serves as treasurer of the board of western and doing some more travel ing. and encountered Mary Stebbins Elbert in husband, Don, enjoy retirement and "love directors of Lutheran Homes of She will be at Reunion '91. Janet Goode the same tour group. A highlight of the to mosey by Rv: · They travel cross Oconomowoc and is president of their Durham, Scottsdale, Ariz. , has been trip was the passsion play at country as well as locally. Esther service league. Dorothy is active with Aid involved in her community and busy Oberammergau. She keeps busy with volunteers once a week at the SoCal Association for Lutherans, volunteers for serving in Pi Beta Phi's national Capital many activities like tennis, golf, bridge, Genealogy Society library, is membership Lutherdale Bible Camp, and is a Campaign Committee since her husband, women's clubs, and concerts. She enjoys chair for her local Friends of La consulting dietitian for S.E.T. in Milwaukee. John's, death in July 1989. She recently living close to Lawrence so she can take Crescenta Library, and is treasurer for She also is an amateur photographer, renewed her acquaintance with Barbara advantage of lectures and other oppor another organization . She also works on collects stamps, works on her model Vessey Coffey, '46, whom she hadn't tunities. Her family is scattered in her family's genealogy and keeps busy railroad, and enjoys reading and using seen in 40 years. She also had a reun ion California, Texas, and Wisconsin, but were with crafts and gardening . Their son was her Mac Plus computer. last winter with Marj Deetz Early
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Ruth Schulze Humleker, '44: Representing a new breed of aging Americans
hen Ruth Schulze Humleker, '44, At home in Minneapolis, she waited for stepped off the plane in Sana, reassignment. Peace Corps officials slated her Yemen, last summer, she was to go to Paraguay in May. She was antici surprised by the pleasant climate pating having to re-learn the Spanish she W studied at Lawrence, when she realized her of mountainous southeastern Arabia, and her first encounter with a phenomenon of heart still was in Yemen. "It's a most Moslem culture. There were no other women extraordinary country;' she says, "I could in the airport. The men were wearing skirts never get used to walking through markets and holding hands. Daggers swayed from where I could actually buy frankincense and their ornately decorated belts. myrrh. There is so much to see; it's such an This was the beginning of the "great old culture:' She declined reassignment to adventure" her husband, Richard, '43, had Paraguay. encouraged her to pursue before he died of a Humleker makes it clear she didn't join heart attack in 1988. She recalls the conver the Peace Corps with a "do-gooder" agenda. sations they had during the two-and-a-half "I went in to learn, and to enrich my own years of his illness and how he urged her to life. I hoped it would change me. I wasn't "do something you've never done before" there to change the world. I wanted to learn after his death. as much about the Moslem culture as I Personal: Age 68. Widow of Richard So, at the age of 68, Humleker signed on could:' One startling "glimmer of what it Humleker, '43. Four children, Ruth, with the Peace Corps. She remembers filling was all about" occurred quite unexpectedly Richard, Jr., Christine, and John. out the application and coming to the part when she was walking through a market and where she could list her preferences for Education: Bachelor's degree in English, noticed a family of mother, father, and son locations. Since she didn't have any real Lawrence 1944. approaching her from the other direction. preferences, she continued to the next part "The woman was wearing a half-veil, and as Professional: Sales promotion, Morton where she was asked whether there was a we walked past one another our eyes met. Salt Co., 1944-45 . Case worker, Ameri location totally unacceptable to her. "I was For that split second, there was a connection can Red Cross, 1945. Public relations going to write that I wouldn't serve in a and I instantly knew she felt sorry for me. director, Minnesota Institute of Art, Moslem country;' she says, "mainly because I There she was totally respected, cared for, 1960-69. Assistant director, Minnesota objected to the way they treat women:' On protected. And I wasn't:' State Arts Council, 1969-74. Associate second thought, she left the space blank In that instant, Humleker says she director, Minnesota Institute of Art, "because I didn't want to shut out any oppor experienced true understanding, the kind of 1974-80. Independent consulting and tunities for learning about a different understanding that transcends ethnocen writing, author of London for the culture:' tricity and prejudice. "It's a 2,000-year-old Independent Traveler and New York for the During three months of Peace Corps culture;' she observes, "so it must have Independent Traveler, 1980-present. training in Yemen, Humleker experienced all something to teach me:' the pains and excitement of being a student Interests: World travel, the arts, movies, While waiting for Yemen to re-open for again. She found the Arabic language "very writing, spending time with family. Peace Corps volunteers, Humleker will live difficult;' to speak, but enjoyed writing in with her daughter, Ruth, and grandson in Arabic, which reminded her of drawing or New York City, where she will be busy with calligraphy. "It was fun, but I didn't know what I was doing;' she another project. She's working with the publishers of Age Wave, a laughs. As one of the Peace Corps volunteers being trained to teach book that ascended the sales charts with its look at a new breed of English as a second language, Humleker felt very much appreciated by aging Americans-healthy, active, adventurous, and informed. the Yemeni people, historically a population with an extremely high Humleker came by the project serendipitously after sharing her Peace rate of illiteracy. Corps experiences with a friend in the publishing industry. "He asked Not only did she have status as a teacher, she was respected me to write a book about what it's like to be a person like me- as a because of her age. In fact, she says, "I was attracted to the Peace single person. Not as a widow, or divorced person, or gay person. Just Corps because of the chance for going to third world countries where single;' she explains. age is an asset rather than a liability:' Because she was from the At first, she admits, she didn't quite understand the intended scope West, Humleker did not experience the social restrictions imposed on of the book. But an incident at a cocktail party brought everything Yemeni women. "I was treated wonderfully;' she emphasizes, adding into focus. that her crop of white hair was a definite plus. "My hair and age "A long-time friend came up to me and sympathetically said, 'You've protected me;' she says. "It even opened doors:' been through a tough year:" Humleker concurred, and responded with One of Humleker's favorite stories about Yemeni women is both stories of her experiences in Yemen and the frustration of being sent winsome and enlightening. The Peace Corps trainees took their meals back before completing the assignment. "Then he looked at me;' she in a cafeteria where their Arabic teachers also dined. One day a recalls, "and said he was referring to the loss of my husband:' To young woman on the teaching staff asked if she could bring her which Humleker replied, ''All you see is a widow:' lunch to Humleker's room. At first surprised, Humleker said she Authorship is not new to Humleker; nor is a strong sense of self. quickly realized the young woman could not eat through her veil, but She has written two travel guides for Marlor Press in Minneapolis, was not permitted to remove the face-covering (chador) in the London for the Independent Traveler and New York for the Independent presence of her male co-workers. Once in the safety of Humleker's Traveler. Both are walking tours that reflect Humleker's personal room, the young woman wasted no time in dropping the chador and meanderings. "It's fun to walk down Fifth Avenue in New York and her black robe, revealing herself as a curly-haired, modem-looking see my own book in the bookstore windows;' she confesses 19-year-old in blue jeans, T-shirt, and lipstick. lightheartedly. Humleker's young friend tearfully confided her fear that the unrest Besides anticipating enjoyable strolls down Fifth Avenue, Humleker in the Persian Gulf would prevent her from ever studying abroad, is looking forward to living in New York for another reason. Two of where she would be free of the chador. Indeed, the political conflicts her close friends from Lawrence, Becky Clarke Evans, '44, and Liz in the Gulf cut short the Peace Corps volunteers' stay in Yemen, and Pierce, '44, live there, too. Ruth Humleker's adventure continues. Humleker was back in the states after only three months. -Carol Moczygemba
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and Claire Bandelin Perkins in Green wife, BJ, encourages full-time golf." He Valley, Arizona. Pam Vojack Hahn, M-D, takes great pleasure in "demanding" Osage Beach, Mo. , works part-ti me in a senior rates on airlines, at hotels, jewelry store, but really enjoys golf, tennis, restaurants, et cetera. He is enjoying his boating , and bridge. She celebrated health and making the most of it. Christmas with her children and grand Barbara Akers Savage, C, Concord, children. Pam is looking forward to N.H ., moved there after retiring in 1989 Reunion '91. Sally Gruetzmacher Holl, from her position as a learning resource M-D, Madison, Wis., and her husband, center director. George W. Timmer, Don, have been enjoying retirement for Grand Rapids, Mich., is the president of many years, although Sally still works as the George W. Timmer Insurance Agency; an artist. One of their hobbies is restoring his son, Brian, is in business with him . old cars together; she does the body All of his three children live in Michigan work and upholstery and Don does the and he now has six grandchildren. woodwork and mechanical rebuilding. Willett P. Weller, Stevens Point, Wis., Their car collection to date includes '24 keeps track of old roommates from and '37 Buicks and a '64 Chevy. They Brokaw Hall-Ray Becker, Russ Beck, and enjoy fishing and the nature that Don Gorectice. Willett is a past surrounds their cottage in Three Lakes, commander of the American Legion, a Wisconsin. "Retirement is marvelous." past officer of the Elks, and taught real Sally Roney Lawson, M-D, Wheaton, estate law at Midstate College for a Ill., and her husband, Bob, "cruised" in Nature's Time Capsule;· for the island. retired and all have been replaced by number of years. His wife, Leone, and he January for a month on the Ocean Jean volunteers in a doctor's office young women . Their television, garage would now like to travel more, and are Princess. They departed from Genoa and processing Medicare claims for the door opener, washer, and dryer broke and looking forward to a free flight to England visited Spain, Portugal, the Canary island's elderly, and when in Florida, she new ones were bought. Some of their and Ireland next year courtesy of Military Islands, Senegal, Brazil, Uruguay, and is a docent at the Conservancy Natural friends have retired and "although they Aircraft, MATS. Gordon K. Wolfgram, finally, Buenos Aires, Argentina, for five Science Museum in Naples. Her hobbies are irreplaceable," new friends have been Northridge, Calif., reports he is "less and days, where they ended their journey. include weaving and rosemaling; she has made. Gall Whitaker Karger, Highland less susceptible to Rhino Virus, thanks to "Not too shabby and far away from all won some blue ribbons for her work. Park, Ill., expresses "that the main living so very long." Marilyn Chaimson the war zones." Sally retired about a year Louise Wesle Wuesthoff, M-D, consolation in being old is it beats the Zheutlln, Sanibel, Fla. , and her husband , ago, but Bob still works as a physicist. Milwaukee, is the reunion co-chair along alternative." She has two sons, Bill and Bertram , have been remodeling a They travel as much as possible; last with Nancy Schmitt Klug. If you have Bob, and a daughter, Betsy, who is the Michigan lake house for two years, but year they traveled to Egypt and Israel, suggestions for reunion or wish to help, mother of her "two lovely grandchildren:· "the rest of the time, we play! " Their New Orleans, and Montana. Jean please get in touch with one of them . Mary Ritter Lindsay, Mequon, Wis., still grandchildren total "four and three· Christensen Morrison, M-D, Green Bay, Louise still is involved in community golfs in the summer, curls in the winter, quarters:· Wis., is secretary of her husband, organizations and is very active with the and "messes up the rest of the time." Richard's, company. She had two cataract Hetty Green Investment Club. She enjoys She has eight grandchildren already and surgeries earlier this year. She and her visiting her daughters in London and only three of her six children are married. 1949 husband travel as often as possible. Last Naples, Florida. "The door is open for anyone passing year they traveled to Europe for a month through town, if they can catch me." 45th Reunion-June 1994 with Danish cousins as guides. Jean is Larry S. MacDonald, Sheboygan, Wis., Harriet Pillman Acton, Chula Vista, active in community affairs and she 1948 is in life insurance sales for The Equitable Calif., is the chair of Chula Vista's Ethics reads, writes, and does needlepoint. Amy Insurance Companies. He is a registered Commission , the San Diego County Flood Uchlmoto Naito, M-D, Costa Mesa, 45th Reunion-June 1994 representative of the National Association Control Commission, and is on the state Calif., attended her son, Neal's, wedding Laura Second Ballsrud, Sun City West, of Securities Dealers, a member of the board of California's Federation of in November to a Japanese doctor he Ariz., reports that all of her "perfect Sheboygan National Association of Life Women's Clubs. Her husband died of met at the naval hospital in Japan. Amy children are married and have produced Underwriters, and is a trustee at the cancer on August 26, so she is closing and her husband, Albert, planned to visit six perfect grandchildren." Lolly and her University of Wisconsin -Sheboygan County his Acton Associates business, and them in Japan in April. Amy continues to husband , Robert, love Arizona and enjoy Foundation . He also is a member of the reports that life is "so hard." He still is be interested in politics and still works for church, golf, and bridge under its sunny planned giving committee for Lakeland being honored in the area. Vivian Feinstein in California. Jacquelyn Otto skies. "Come see us!" David L. College, is a past moderator and life Albertson, Bellevue, Wash ., has Purdue, El Cajon, Calif. , reports she still Brooker, Appleton, is retired from public deacon of the First Congregational completed eight years on the Bellevue is teaching third grade; "I still like it relations and now is a member of the Church, and is a strong supporter of the school board and reports, "the district that's why." She thinks that next year may Appleton Downtown Kiwanis Club along AFS student exchange program and has survived an·d so did 1." She adds that the be her last though . "All of my friends are with Jim Vosper, Ralph Buesing, and had "six daughters and three sons in the last of her nine children started college in retired and want to play." She hopes to John Haugner. Bruce and Betty program :· He received the Citizen of the September. Carol Vivian Bergquist, attend Reunion '91. Jean Trautmann Wheeler Buchanan, Duluth, Minn. , plan Year award in 1990 from the Kiwanis Club Downey, Calif., is enjoying retirement and Ranck, C, Lakeland, Fla., and her to spend their winters at their condo of Sheboygan, of which he is a past keeping busy with gardening, reading, husband, Robert, summer in Crivitz, minium in Arizona. They have seven president. Robert T. Morgan, Milwaukee, skiing, friends, and seven grandchildren. Wisconsin, and winter in Lakeland, grandsons and no granddaughters, is enjoying retirement. He volunteers as a She is active in her local church, AAUW, Florida. Their five children are spread out "enough for a basketball team with a Laubach tutor, a museum guide, and for and community activities. As a volunteer, in Boston; Jerusalem; Norfolk, Virginia; weak bench:' Betty is semi -retired from the literacy hot line. Else Muehlstein, she coordinates a Sunday worship service Green Bay, Wisconsin; and Marquette, practicing law. Nancy Gilomen, Port Longboat Key, Fla., and her husband, at a Lutheran home. Francis S. Conrad, Michigan. Joanne Hamburg Roska, Washington , Wis., says "one of the John, report that retirement is wonderful Appleton, retired in 1988 from teaching M-D, Mequon, Wis. , has redecorated the advantages of aging, I call this maturing, and they fill their days with travel, golf, junior high school art for 39 years. Before house she moved into on Lake Mequon. is not caring how you look when and fishing, and "love e-~ery minute of it." teaching, he was a commercial artist, and She plays golf, bridge, and visits her deliverymen or repairmen come:· She Their four children are spread out in since retirement has returned to that field. children in Illinois and California. She says other advantages of age are senior western Illinois, Chicago, North Carolina, He and his wife, Barbara, also care for hopes to attend Reun ion '91. Paul and citizens' discounts and knowing that all and in the Virgin Islands. Robert M. their 13-month-old grandson while their Betsy Rueth Reichardt, C, Banning , your college classmates are in the same Reynolds, So. Beloit, Ill. , often camps son and his wife work. "Who said Calif., moved from Los Angeles to boat. William D. Hahn, Wausau , Wis., with his wife, Jaqueline, in their pop-up retirement is sitting in a rocking chair on Banning, California, in favor of its cleaner is partially retired from Wausau Insurance. camper at Hartman Creek State Park near the old back porch?" Duaine M. air. Jean Ebling Stokes, M-D, Naples, He says he's "just too greedy to quit or Waupaca, Wisconsin . They bicycle in the Discher, San Juan Capistrano, Calif., and Fla., and her husband, George, wonder sell out." Priscilla Wright Hausmann, park, enjoy the scenery, and watch for his wife, Dorothy, are enjoying their how they ever had time to work. Jean C, West Bend , Wis., reports "the year deer. Robert 0. Robertson, Grenelefe, retirement in their small community three developed a small nature trail on Door 1990 was proof that we have passed from Fla. , retired from CF Industries, Inc. and miles from the Pacific Ocean. Their County, Wisconsin's, Wash ington Island, the age of 'anything goes' to the time is pursuing a one-man consultin g townhouse is located one mile from and has written a guide book. She also when everything goes:· Prissy and Bill 's practice. "My golf game discourages full· highway 1·5, connecting Los Angeles and helped develop an exhibit, "Fossils, doctor, accountant, barber, and banker time retirement, but retirement for my San Diego. They "would enjoy seeing or 32 ALUMNI T 0 DAY
hearing from classmates and old friends." Gilbert, have been traveling a lot in the had dinner with Pat Palmer Olsen in Shirley Hanson Benoit, Neuilly sur Kathryn Elwers, Madison, Wis., is past five years, taking advantage of the Sturgeon Bay. Before they sold their home Seine, France, has a son in Larc hmont, volunteering, bowling, and "laboring away fact that one son works for American in Lake Bluff, Illinois, they also visited New York, so when she visited him in for Democratic candidates who believe in Airlines, the other is a physicist living in with Chape and Nan Shields McCabe. December, she was able to see the peace and justice:· She continues her Switzerland, and their daughter lives in "We'd love to see old friends in Sturgeon Puseys for an evening. They were education through traveling; she's been to Manhattan. When they're not traveling . Bay in the summer and St. Simmons in extremely well and hardly have changed . Yugoslavia and Hungary and took in Bettie and Gilbert have the country, trees, the winter:· Barbara Horton Shirley encourages classmates passing opera tours to Vienna, Hamburg, and and wildlife to keep them company. Schoeneberger, Northbrook, Ill. , and her through France to call. Her home is just Italy. Robert R. Fritz, Friday Harbor, W. Jim Kluge, Kimberly, Wis., and his husband , Roger, have a winter residence across the Paris city line, so she is not Wash., has been traveling. He visited wife, Pat, retired from Kimberly-Clark's in Florida, where she spends the winter listed in the Paris directory. Last summer, Australia and New Zealand in '87, packaging department in Roswell , and he commutes. She sees a lot of she and her husband bought a home 60 Denmark, Norway, and Sweden in '89, Gloria Williamson Peifer, who is her miles west of Paris in the country. Earl and expects to visit England and the Florida neighbor and, after 40 years, just W. Berry, Naples, Fla ., spends his continent in '91. He also hopes to tour saw her first roommate at Lawrence, winters in Florida and his summers in France and Germany with his wife, Marguerite Schmidt Rohrer, who now lives Collingwood , Ontario, Canada. He and his Kathleen, and friends who live in London . in California. Francis Scholtz, C, wife, Edith , feel that they have the best of He has almost completed his retirement Jacksonville, Fla., and his wife, Barbara, plans for summers in Friday Harbor, '52, are busy helping parishes and Washington , and winters in Scottsdale, dioceses in the U.S. and Canada to Arizona. He currently is in the process of educate parishioners to sacrificial giving. building a winter home in Arizona. He They are grandparents of six, including a occasionally sees classmates Jack set of twins. Joan H. waldo, C, Hendrickson and Roll ie Grishaber, both Georgia, and have returned to Wisconsin . Neenah, Wis., had a heart attack in April '51, and hopes to attend the next class They are enjoying retirement and doing '90 and is partially retired. She went on a reunion. David Harbert, Redwood City, what they want. George and Barbara Caribbean cruise in January and is Calif., has had his own law practice in Donahue Larsen, C, Sister Bay, Wis., planning to travel to England , Scotland, Redwood since '81. He and his wife, are both enjoying retirement "to the hilt." Ireland, and Wales in June. She still Carmen, enjoy refereeing youth and adult George is singing with the Peninsula sings in church , at weddings and both worlds. Henry Campbell, Menomi· nee, Mich ., is a member of the Marinette soccer games throughout the year. He Chamber Singers after working with fu nerals, and on other occasions. She is will try to get back for the 45th reunion . teenagers for 34 years. He has been involved in helping to feed the poor and Rotary Club, Marinette Chamber of Commerce, Marinette City Council, and Mary Hartzell Fritz, Urbana, Ill., still is actively involved in the planning and the needy in the area. Donald E. Menominee Ambassadors. He hunts working as the director of the Urbana designing phases of a $2.5 million Williams, Madison, Wis., is half-owner of ducks with his two sons in his spare Multicultural Program for the Urbana school. Barbara has started writing and a private outpatient mental health clinic in school district. After living in Latin has a number of awards for poetry and Sun Prairie, Wisconsin . In 1989 he was time. Calvin C. Chamberlain, Wausau , Wis., says "retirement is great." He is America for 18 years, she saw the need children's fiction. She has a published awarded the clinician of the year award to design a program for the decreasing book, Beach Road Year, to her credit, by the state Society for Clinical Social active in Wausau community affairs and number of English-proficient students, teaches creative writing in a local nursing Work. Donald and his wife, Pat, like to the First United Methodist Church. He applied for funding, and implemented the home, and will be teaching adult travel and this fall spent three weeks in enjoys cross-country skiing, snowmobiling, program. This year, Mary and her reminiscence writing at The Clearing . Great Britain . Donald G. Ziebell, fishing, hunting, and auctions and husband , Gary, purchased Gary's great· JeaneHe Kehrlie Maeller, South Bend, Oshkosh, Wis. , is a retired Air Force collectables. He spends February and great-grandfather's homestead near Ind., is active in politics and has been officer and biology teacher. He is "60 March in Scottsdale, Arizona, and Madison, Wisconsin. It is a 12-room the Republican county chair in St. years young," and is 92 miles into a summers at his cottage. Jan Spotswood house on six acres of land , "a good Joseph's County for the past eight years. 100-mile swim ; he swims a quarter of a Detert, Norway, Maine, and her husband, project for retirement someday:· Keith W. She is chairman of the teacher's credit mile each day at the YMCA. Henry, have put their house on the Herrick, Cottage Grove, Wis., has moved union board, the largest credit union in market and intend to retire in Florida for the winter and spend summers in Maine from Iowa back to Wisconsin. Last Indiana, and a class agent for Lawrence. summer, he had a reunion with some of She is the grandmother of two and her 1950 at their camp on the lake. Robert H. his Beta brothers: Bob Curry, '48, James son John is a '71 Lawrence graduate. Ewald, Corvallis, Oreg., and his wife, 45th Reunion- June 1995 Dawson, Bill Bowman, '48, Marvin Grady, MerriH W. Olson, Reston , Va., was Patricia Duffus, '48, moved from California Richard Gaedke, Curt Scherer, '50, Chuck asked by Paul Mountjoy, former head of Anne Lackie Andersen, Lake Forest, to Oregon following Robert's retirement Dowsett, '43, Larry Hammond, '51, and Western Michigan University's psychology Ill., enjoyed seeing everyone at Reunion from the department of anthropology at department, to participate in a colloquium '90. Nancy Miller Mann, Jackie Roth California State University. A few days in November where he presented a paper after their move in April '90, they were on on the "Transformation of an Engineering a plane to Great Britain with their Psychologist: ' While he was north, he youngest grandson, age 11. One of the visited his mother in Wausau, Wisconsin , highlights of their trip was to visit Pat's to celebrate her 90th birthday. Since ancestral castle, Duffus Castle, in retirement, he's done some consulting Northern Scotland, built in the 10th work, part-time work with ANSER, and a century. Ruel F. Falk, Madison, Wis., is lot of traveling. Merritt and his wife, retired and spends his time volunteering Shirley, celebrated their 40th wedding for the Madison Vets Hospital, the Madison Police Department, the Retired - --· anniversary in December. Bob Partridge, C, Wilson , Wyo. , conducts the Jackson Teacher's Association, and pub lic Hole Chorale, a vocal group that gives six Knister, and Sue Cooley Jansen visited television . John Golden, Arlington, Va ., to 10 concerts a year. He also organized Anne and her husband , Richard, at their is the president of Quarry Hill, Inc., a and conducted a Messiah chorus of home in Green Lake, Wisconsin , the week firm that operates in Washington, London , about 100 voices, which performed the after reunion for their own mini-reunion . Cairo, Istanbul, Jerusalem, and Tail. His Sunday before Christmas. Ethel Lou Fern Collins Anderson, Kincheloe, two sons, Curt and Mark, have joined the Art Milller. Forrest Grade also was there; Mich., has four part-time jobs right now; he was a Dell. They played golf and had Stanek Petrulis, C, Terre Haute, Ind., company 's board of directors. Janet retired from teaching at Honey Creek she is a substitute teacher at Rudyard TipeH Goldsmith, Mequon , Wis., and dinner, once in Milwaukee and twice in area schools and a service representative Madison, Wisconsin. William H. Hinze, Junior High School last May. Since her husband, Fred, skied Crested Butte, retirement, she has been busy "prac· for three different companies at K·Mart, Colorado, this winter because their son is Ft. Pierce, Fla., currently is living in with one additional company pending . Ocean Village, with his wife, Barbara tieing, playing, gardening, playing, hiking, a ski coach at Western State Co llege in read ing, and playing." She enjoyed being She says her "calendar looks like a nearby Gunnison, Colorado. Janet is Albright. He plays golf as often as computer board schematic keeping these possible and they travel when they can . a clinician and conducting an elementary painting and selling her watercolor string festival in Muncie, Indiana. Joanne all straight." Mona Jung Bauer, Salem , landscapes, and Fred is very involved Last summer, they toured Europe for S.C., reports that she and her husband , seven weeks. They are "enjoying life to Joyce Roberts, Sturgeon Bay, Wis. , with the Boy Scouts. Virginia Moulton enjoys spending summers in Sturgeon Richard, have built a home on a beautiful Haack, Evergreen, Colo., and her the fullest:' BeHie Falvey Hill, Pine lake with mountains in the background . River, Wis. , reports she and her husband , Bay and winters at St. Simons Island, husband, Vern , have lived in many Georgia. 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California, Illinois, Saudi Arabia, Dallas, toured France in '88 with the LUAA. She and now Colorado. They moved to plans to attend Reunion '91 . She has two Colorado in August, after Vern retired, children, the youngest of whom was and now live "above the smog but not in married in October '90. Peg Peil, M-D, deep snow." They enjoy their view at Birmingham, England, will give a lecture 8 200 feet above sea level and see at Reunion '91. She is teaching a new r~ccoons, rabbits, deer, and elk in their course on American social movements backyard . They have kept busy with from the 1960s, and is finding the volunteer work, church, tennis, golf, research interesting as she catches up on glider· and power plane-flying, skiing, events she missed while she was in college courses, and a home-based graduate school or living abroad . She computerized office service. Roger L. toured Irish gardens and the Canadian Hackbarth, Milwaukee, has been retired Rockies this past year, and was for about a year. Since then, he and his impressed with Vancouver. British wife, Trude, have traveled to Tucson, Columbia. She continues to have a Arizona, and to West Germany to watch passion for gardening. Jeannine Krantz the reunification process at work. They Rebentisch, C, Marshall. Wis., a spent November in Hendersonville, North principal in the Coldwater Community Carolina, and Tampa and St. Petersburg, Schools, is the recent recipient of the Florida. "The search goes on for that elementary administrator of the year ideal retirement area," he reports. Elwood award from the Michigan Reading Holtz, Menasha, Wis., is working part Association . Dennis Seymour, Anaheim, time as a consultant for Kimberly-Clark. American Canoe Association, organized the rural areas of New Jersey. Her Calif., retired from Kaiser Aluminum and Elmer E. Inman, Annapolis, Md., the '91 ACA WWOC championships in husband, Lou, works at a women's Chemical Corporation after 32 years of recently was appointed to the Governor of Wausau, Wisconsin, in June, receiving an correctional facility as a physician. Helen service and currently is self-employed as Maryland's task force on self-esteem . He award from the Wausau Canoe/Kayak Cramer Francis, M-D, New Tripoli , Pa., an aluminum industry consultant. He has founded Bay Area psychological health Corporation for outstanding contributions. and her husband, John, spent last winter traveled to Europe, Mexico, Australia, and services in 1972. Vivian Schumaker William R. Thompson, Neenah, Wis. , touring the South and California in a New Zealand. Carolyn Sue Ingham Iverson, Elgin, Ill., and her husband, retired in March '90 and started a mobile home, while he did some Stern, Frontenac, Mo., is a homemaker Theodore, have moved into a new home consulting position to establish a college consulting. They visited Oaxaca, Mexico, and enjoys needlework. After selling her in Elgin. They enjoy their condominium in relations and recruiting program for the on a two-week Elderhostel. Although the needlework retail business, she has Cape Coral, Florida, several times a year. Banta Corporation . Marie Langenberg tour included three hours of Spanish become involved in local and national Frederick J. Locke, Altadena, Calif., is a vandenberg, Kaukauna, Wis., is a lessons each day, "John and I never got needle art associations. She is on the field instructor for social work at a county volunteer driver for a county human much beyond no comprendo." Ken national board of directors of the Council shelter care facility for abused, aban services department. Groff, Rockford, Ill., is vice president of of American Embroiderers. Charles Van doned, and neglected children. George Sundstrand Corporation, is on Rockford De Zande, Raleigh, N.C., retired from C. Miotke, C, Appleton, has been very College's board of trustees, and is active IBM, now has a second career teaching involved in his community: the PTA 1951 in the United Way of Rockford . He skis, full -time in the industrial engineering golfs, plays tennis, and spends time at awarded him a life membership for his 40th Reunion-June 21-23, 1991 department at North Carolina A&T State work with it; he created the star program his home in Vail, Colorado. Allan R. University. For enjoyment, he plays Paula J. Anderson, C, Tacoma, Wash., Hallock, Evergreen, Colo., is an trumpet in the Greensboro Concert Band to help protect children from harm on the plans to retire from her job as a ticket streets; was president of the Kiwanis independent oil and gas geologist. He and is an active volunteer firefighter. Dar sales representative for United Airlines in enjoys running, playing racquetball, International and a member of Life '92. She enjoys photography and music, W. Vriesman, M-D, Arvada. Colo., is in Underwriters Association; and helped rally cycling, skiing, scuba diving, hunting, and the health care administration field, but is which she blends into slide productions. fishing. He has two children and two support for building and remodeling Joanne Shaunessy Ashdown, M-D, comp leting a year of rest and recovery projects at Appleton West High School. grandchildren. Patricia Lynn Hoggatt, after cancer surgery. He hopes to work in Downers Grove, Ill., a free-lance computer M-D, Oakland, Calif. , continues to teach He enjoys swimming, golf, traveling , and artist, is "happy to be doing art work and the health field for four or five more oil painting. Paul A. Pavock, Milwaukee, and has an Asian student living with her years. Marjorie Olson Wilber, Rockford, beginning to carve out a career." She and this year. She and her husband, Austin, is a retired dentist. He and his wife, her husband, Bill, are building a cabin on Ill., has discovered a new mode of Geneal, spend their winters on Huchinson visited their daughter Lynn in France for transportation, a pop-up camper, and will their Door County farm property, and the holidays. Althea Hunting Kortenhot, Island in Florida and their summers in might retire. She is looking forward to be traveling in Washington and Delaware Milwaukee. John Pearson, Stevens Point, St. Louis, Mo., enjoys "antiquing" and during Reunion '91. Anita Ohlson Wolfe reunion. Marilyn Sievers Bailey, M-D, does volunteer work at her local church Wis., has received the Olin Davis Service Milwaukee, is heading the class gift Wald, M-D, Grass Valley, Calif., produces Award for his 20-plus years' worth of consignment shop. She spends her winter unique dolls with her daughter, Marcia. committee. She works as a backup vacations in Sanibel Island, Florida, and leadership in the National Economic medical technologist, and enjoys traveling. They opened The Tangelwood Forest Education for Clergy organization. "Pinky," summer vacations in Waupaca, Gallery in downtown Grass Valley and She recently visited her son Dan, who is Wisconsin . She also travels to Europe a professor at the University of Wisconsin working on a Ph.D. degree in Cambridge, feature limited edition collectible dolls and Stevens Point, retired this past spring and whenever she can. Mary Jane O'Reilly other artists' work that fits into the forest England. While there, she traveled to Kroll, M-D, Milwaukee, a singer, is now is a part-time supervisor of student Wales and Scotland . She plans to be at setting. She will be unable to attend teachers. Kenneth Retza, Green Bay, involved in community choirs and is the Reunion '91 because "production keeps Reunion '91. Doris Messerschmidt cantor at church. She also is involved in Wis., is active in Masonic organizations Carmichael, M-D, Sebring, Fla., and her my nose to the grindstone." Christine and the Beja Shrine Temple. Sara the VNA Auxiliary as an occupational Lipps Woodruff, Cedar Rapids. Iowa, is husband spend their winters in Florida therapist in home health and is on the Denman Roberti, La Jolla, Calif. , visited and their summers in Jefferson, retiring in June from her position as a Cambridge, England, last summer to board of St. Catherine's Residence for psychology professor at Mount Mercy Wisconsin. They visited their son Bill , a Women. Donald H. McCreedy, attend school in British history. She spent medical service officer, in Okinawa for a College in Cedar Rapids and will be Christmas in Milwaukee with her three Oostburg, Wis., is the president of the moving to Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. month. During their visit, they were McCreedy Group Inc., an advertising children, who are "lovely" adults. She confined to their quarters for two days sends her best to "the ladies:· John agency serving industrial clients marketing because of Typhoon Hattie. They visited products nationally and internationally. He Schneck, Elgin , Ill., and his wife, Ann friends outside of Tokyo, rode the bullet 1952 Chambers, '51, report they are sorry they has volunteered public relations work for train and saw a class of third graders 40th Reunion - June 19-21, 1992 missed the class of '50 reunion but plan several environmental ventures and is singing songs from The Sound of Music serving on the board of directors of the Sally Spring Celestino, Northbrook, Ill., to attend the '51 reunion in June. Ray in Japanese. Doris is on the reun ion H. Stark, Manitowoc, Wis., is very busy. Sheboygan Kiwanis Club. Joan Leraan reports that retirement is "wonderful!" hospitality committee with Sue Pepper Morrell, Altamont Springs, Fla., a self She was an engineer for AT&T Bell Labs. He works as an architect and planner, Joys. Beryl Manly Doyle, M-D, and envies all of the retirees, but he feels employed medical courier, has enjoyed Flemington , N.J. , babysits for a fam ily seminars at Bjorklunden the past two he just got started . "Time passes so while the parents work and tends a quickly." George W. Steed, Altamonte years. She hoped to go snow skiing,_ . 1953 variety of farm animals. She continues to whitewater rafting , and horseback nd1ng 1n Springs, Fla ., national chair for the work for the environment, creating nature 40th Reunion-June 1993 whitewater open canoe comm ittee of the Colorado this past winter. Julia prese rves and trying to retain some of Peerenboom Nord, Los Altos, Calif., Gloria Adamsons-Schl'anz, M-D, 34 ALUMNI TODAY
Osprey, Fla., has retired in Florida and is working with her husband , PJ. , in his enjoys golf, bridge, and volunteering for architectural firm. "It is a far cry from the American Cancer Society. Last winter, teaching, but I really enjoy the business she traveled to Africa for a safari and world:' She was very involved with the visited Namibia, Botswana, and Zambia. League of Women Voters and the local She found the continent, animals, and county Council on Aging, and received people "delightful and beautiful :' Last fal l, two appointments from the governor of she traveled to Milwaukee and Austria. Florida to the North Florida Health Nancy Cahill Ames, M-D, Minocqua, Rehabilitative Services. She and PJ. have Wis., and her husband, John, have sold traveled to Europe recently and have had their home and moved into a condo· house exchanges in Italy. They enjoy their minium by the lake. Their new lifestyle boat on the St. John's River. Judith gives them time for enjoyable activities Walworth Bare, Monroe, Mich ., is an like traveling and golfing. Nancy serves administrative assistant to the president of on the board of education, which "is a Michigan Technical Investors. She made new challenge and very time·consuming: · all the arrangements relating to the Miss She is retired and the grandmother of America contest for Miss Michigan '89, is three. Diane Manny Bass, C, Orlando, the coordinator of The Auction, a fund· Fla. , represented Lawrence at the raising effort for St. Mary Catholic Central inauguration of Rollins College's new High School in Monroe, and is active in president, Rita Bornstein . Dorothy her local Episcopal Church . James W. Mintzlaff Kennedy, M-D, Bedford, Boyd, Fort Collins, Colo., will be the Mass., and her husband, Joe, have been Undoubtedly there are more than a few Lawrentians holder of the Numata Chair of Buddhist working hard for two years preparing new among the four million Lands' End customers who Studies at the University of Calgary, editions of their textbooks and instructor's Alberta, Canada, from September to manuals. They look forward to their new received the October 1990 catalog and found their alma December '91. From January to May '92 , anthology of poems for very smal l mater mentioned on page 4 3. Lawrence College now is James will be teaching a semester at sea children, Talking Like the Rain, which will Lawrence University, and Don Carlsen, '54, now is through the University of Pittsburgh . be illustrated and published in 1992. David Challoner, Gainesville, Fla. , is the Their children are spread out in Hawaii, copy director for Lands' End, Inc., in Dodgeville, chair of the president's committee on the California, Boston , and Vienna. Nancy Wisconsin. Don't think Carlsen isn't doing his job in National Medal of Science and on the Mcloud, M-D, Springfield, Ill., has taken the punctuation department. The misplaced apostrophe director's advisory committee at the an early retirement, after she rece ived a National Institute of Health . Olinda plaque from the local school board for in "Lands' " was a typo in the company's first printed Haehlen Corin , Seattle, Wash., and her excellent service in teaching. A volunteer piece and the infant budget didn't allow for reprinting. husband, Gordon, have been helping at the Illinois State Museum, she does "In the 25 years since, the misplaced apostrophe has collect signatures for an initiative French translating for the art, decorative petitioning the state legislature to broaden arts, and anthropology departments, works continued to grace our name and our label;' says a recent the living will laws of the state. This on their magazine index, and acts as promotional brochure, "and while it has prompted some would make Washington the most liberal docent during the spring and fall. Janet raised eyebrows among English teachers, it also sets us in America in choices for the terminally Coffelt Moon, M-D, Brookfield, Wis., ill. Don and Joan Bernthal Erdman , St. describes her life as "quiet compared to apart as a company whose continuing concern for Charles, Ill. , report that "retirement is most people: · She plays the piano in a what's best for the customer is unmistakably human:' gaining momentum." Don , a church small chamber group, takes bridge Carlsen touts the company as one that has proved treasurer, ends up painting , wo rking on lessons, sings in her local church choir, the yard, and doing special jobs in the and serves as a church deacon. She ethical business is profitable business. He's sure there manse and around church, with Joan as traveled to Wichita last June to celebrate are plenty of Lawrentians out there who appreciate that. his assistant. Joan is the chair of the her birthday with a friend. Margaret committee to find a new pastor, which Ferry Roseboom, M-D, Del City, Okla., She helps determine the educational has proved to be a long, time·consuming coordinates the occupational therapy needs of ch ildren with 'low incidence' 1955 job. Beverly Becker Henderson, assistant program at Oklahoma handicaps. In her spare time, she and Federal Way, Wash ., and her husband, Community College, sings in the chu rch her husband , Bud, are landscaping, 40th Reunion-June 1995 John, winter in Marco Island , Florida, and choir, and chairs the professional advisory wallpapering, and furnish ing the house Harry Clark, Broad Run , Va ., reports that summer in Washington. Janet Vander committee of a local day care center. In they moved into in 1989. They also have classmate and alumni response to his Heyden Erdman, Appleton, received her the family travel trailer, Janet and her been trying to improve their German college hymn , mentioned in the fall 1990 school district's 1989 Distinguished husband, Gene, journeyed to Milwaukee conversational skills through a class at issue of Lawrence Today, has been Service Award, was named the Wisconsin for three weeks last summer to see her the junior col lege, so they can speak the "gratifying:· The men of Lawrence's Phi Exemplary Science Teacher in 1989, and mother and brother, who were home from language if they make it to Germany next Mu Alpha Simphon ia music fraternity received the American School Board the South Pacific. Deborah Kaufman summer to visit her cousins and the have taped performances of his hymn in Journal 's Award in 1989 and the Hawkhill Ruth, M-D, Wilmington, Del., and her birthplaces of her parents. both Busoga and original Lawrence Award in 1987. She currently is chair of husband , George, ~till are teaching, but versions. Free tape copies of this are the board for her local credit union and a are looking forward to retirement. She is available from Harry for a dollar donation Pink Lady at a local hospital. She enjoys teaching kindergarten for the first time 1954 for the Busoga College Mwiri textbook reading, computers, geology, and and "loving it. We are fortunate to be in import fund. gardening in her spare time. Barbara good health and are enjoying life." 40th Reunion-June 1994 Erickson Hoehn, Port Washington , Wis., Elizabeth Hutchinson Strempel, M-D, Kenneth I. Mumme, Orono, Maine, and her husband, Ranny, are "fine and New Berlin, Wis., is semi·retired and works at the University of Maine as a 1956 enjoy being back in Wisconsin after many working one day a week as an ORT chemical engineering professor. He still years in Florida." They have three consultant. Since her husband, Rudy 's, plays the bassoon, and has been the 35th Reunion-June 19·21 , 1992 grandsons and two step·granddaughters, death in October, she keeps busy playing principal bassoonist for 26 years in the Joan Timmermann Anderson, Muncie, "so family reunions are a lot livelier now." the French horn in the Milwaukee Civic Bangor Symphony. He is an avid cross· Ind., is traveling the country as a national Barbara Hedeen Joselyn, Guilford, Band, the UWWaukesha Band , and the country skier and sailboat racer. Things volunteer for Girl Scouts of the U.S.A. Conn. , and her husband , Richard, are West Al lis Concert Band. She grows like music, athletics, and students keep and works with local boards of directors, mourning the death of their youngest orchids and spends many hours caring him young . He says his "liberal arts council nominating committees, and son, Phillip. They enjoy sailing and race for her grandsons and helping her education seems to make me an unusual policy influencing volunteers. She says, as a family most of the summer and fall daughter with her business. Elizabeth engineer on this campus, in terms of "It's an interesting way to share the up and down the East Coast. William Schumacher Windsor, M-D, Peoria, Ill., academic outloo k, goals, and curriculum :· knowledge and experience I acquired in Joyce, East Lansing, Mich. , visited enjoys her work with the Child Find eight years on my local council board :' Lawrence in September to attend a dinner diagnostic team during the school year. Waneta Esch Araneo, Orange Park, Fla ., in honor of Joe Hopfensperger. Last
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summer, his wife, Mary, and their son, enjoy the beautiful California weather and Brook, participated in Bill Chaney's outdoor living, as well as tennis, traveling , summer class on American legends at and the time they spend with their Bjorklunden in Door County. The family daughter and her husband. Grace then traveled to England and traced the Knoedler Skadow, C, Woodstock, Ill., is remains of King Arthur and his wives. Bill a wife, mother, grandmother, and nurse· and Mary's social studies textbook for maid to the animals on the family farm . school children was published last She also works part-time in the floral summer, but they still are looking for a business and in a small antique business. publisher for their book on London . She is very active in the community, too. Smith, Janesville, Wis., has been named Barbara Randall Kline, Bend, Oreg ., She comments that "learning never the 1990 Teacher of the Year by the and her husband, Tom, traded in their ends;· and currently is taking a class in Janesville school district. After teaching indoor jobs two years ago for 20 acres computers and Mozart. art at Janesville Craig High School for 21 on Oregon's high desert. The first year, years, he has moved to teaching grade they dug trenches for an irrigation system They're not sure if they would retire there school art for a change of pace and to water the fields and then began raising 1958 loves it. Sue Fortney Walby, C, Viroqua, calves, horses, chickens, and a garden. or not. Donna Fraiden Stewart, Longboat Key, Fla., was the top real 35th Reunion-June 19·21 , 1992 Wis. , and her husband, Peter, commis· This year, they bottle-fed 20 calves for a sioned Alan Bonde, '58, to write an estate producer for Marie Powell & Yvonne Anderson Ader, C, Clayton, local dairyman. Their aim is to be as anthem for their 30-voice chapel choir. Associates in Sarasota in 1990. She is Calif., has lived in Californ ia now for self-sufficient and as organic as possible They received the manuscript in putting her daughter through college, almost 25 years. She is on the negotia· with the animals and themselves. They November and report it is a "stunning which "keeps one's self to the grind· tion team of Mt. Diablo Teacher's enjoy hiking, canoeing, and skiing in the piece" based on Psalm 150 for voices, stone;· but she still has time for tennis, Association and was honored as one of Cascade Mountains. Barbara Anderson flute, and keyboard . It was performed in golf, sai ling , and the many th ings that the the first mentor teachers at her local high Morris, Rockford , Ill., reports her days April at the annual Children's Choir are challenging as gallery director at west coast of Florida has to offer. Arden school in '83. She has written and Reinhardt Thompson, Wiscasset, received three grants for student drug Festival sponsored by the La Crosse Rockford College. Her children live in chapter of the American Guild of Maine, had her first book of poetry education, and as a parent, has helped Chicago and have financial careers; she Organists. Sue is a dean of the organ and her husband, William, see them published last year by the National/State establish a district-wide academic school Leadership Training Institute in Gifted and kindergarten through eighth grade. She ' guild of which Dean Whiteway, '70, is a often. Robert E. Negronida, Hollandale, member. Elizabeth Wilton, Mclean, Va ., Talented Education and in October, also has served with the League of Wis., took an early retirement in June '89 reports that she has had big changes in received the Presidential Award for Women Voters. David R. Anderson, from his counseling position at Evanston her life. She has resumed using her Excellence in Elementary Science Norway, Mich ., is a history and Township High School in Illinois. He and maiden name, returned to Virginia, and his wife, Janet, opened The Old Granary Teaching. Nancy Brice Yan Ry, Santa psychology high school teacher in the Barbara, Calif., is a self-employed tennis Crivitz school district. Sally Burnham, bought a home in Mclean. She still is in Inn, a restored turn-of-the-century farm· the Navy, but in a new job that keeps her teacher. Tom and Norma Crawford Napa, Calif., works at a 1,300-bed house southwest of Madison, Wisconsin , busy. Lee Wolf, Colorado Springs, made Voss, Green Bay, Wis., will be at Reunion California state mental hospital special· her second trip to the U.S.S.R. in August. '92. They are anticipating a change in izing in infection control. She has She reports that incredible changes have lifestyle when Tom retires in the spring. become involved with AIDS education in taken place since her last trip in 1986. His company is moving to Kentucky then, Napa Valley and is active in the First She is a self-employed marketing and after 33 years with them, he decided Presbyterian Church . She "survived " the to retire early. They are looking forward to consultant. more leisure, travel, and some part-time consulting work. 1959 35th Reunion - June 1995 1957 Donald A. Andler, Barrington , Ill., and on 70 acres of rolling hills. John 35th Reunion-June 19-21 , 1992 his wife, Carol, celebrated their 25th O'Brien, Delavan, Wis. , an attorney, rents Dennis Demets, C, Black Creek, Wis. , wedding anniversary by traveling to office space from Jon Jacobson, '55. His Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and Italy son, James, is a runningback for reports he became a grandfather for the first time in February to a lovely grand· last summer. They enjoyed the trip so Lawrence and a class of '93 Phi Delt. much they are planning another one Phyllis Anderson Roberts, C, daughter. He is a band instructor for the Seymour community schools. Martin L. before their 50th wedding anniversary. Tarrytown, NY., and her husband, Hugh, October Bay Area earthquake. Jackie They once again have two children in vacationed in Newport, Rhode Island, in Deppe, Chicago, is a United Methodist Bowers Clausing, Waukegan, Ill., and pastor and, after serving five congre· college. The company Don works for, April '90. They traveled to their time-share her husband, Jerry, take time to travel, Swift·Eckrich Inc. , was acquired by villa in New Bern , North Carolina, in gations, is on a one-year sabbatical leave. and last year visited Germany, France, He is studying the resurgence of racism Conagra Inc., which is headquartered in August, visiting Betty and Walt Irvine on Austria, and Switzerland. This year, they Omaha, Nebraska; they 're not moving their way through Maryland and enjoying in our society. He also has spent one day hope to travel to Italy. They winter in a week with his young grandson, and anyone at this point. Joseph Belanger, the company of Buzz and Jane Kroeger Acapulco and summer in Illinois. Jackie New Holstein, Wis. , recently retired as the at their house in North Carolina. Phyllis reports that "It has been a wonderful keeps busy by volunteering with Lake year." He spent time and effort on the director of purchasing for Land O'Lakes, continues to teach music at Anne M. County Against Sexual Assault and with Lake-to-Lake division . Pay Kaufman Dorner Middle School , and spent a week war in the Persian Gulf, working with the Lake County probation department. clergy and laity who sought a peaceful Beranis, Wheaton, Ill., is a full -ti me in March attending a music educator's Gwyn Fair Ellis, Albuquerque, N. Mex ., supervisor at the Wheaton public library. national conference in Washington , D.C. solution and was a leader in the is a kindergarten teacher and computer Emergency Coalition for Peace in the Her husband, Todd, retired this year after Mary Ann Sanford, Morris, Ill., retired representative. She reports her first 32 years in education as a teacher and after 30 years of teaching to travel and Middle East. He looks forward to return· grandchild, Shannon, was born in May ing to a pastorate this July, hopefully in principal. Judy Fabrick Burdick, C, choose to "loaf or work ." She volunteers '90. Thomas C. Kayser, Saint Paul, Colorado Springs, sings with the two days a week at her old school with Chicago. He'll be at Reunion '92. Anne Minn., is a lawyer and managing partner Blanchard Gascoigne, Adrian, Mich. , Colorado Springs Chorale, which gives Young Astronauts, a program designed to of Robins, Kaplin, Miller & Ciresi. He has three annual performances. Her husband, promote interest in science, math, and now is a chartered life underwriter, after three children: Carol, a trial lawyer; Tom, 11 years in the insurance business. She Duncan , '64, is a medical director of related subjects. She also is actively a captain in the United States Air Force; nuclear medicine at Penros Hospital. has a son in the Navy, a son graduating involved in church and other local and David , a student at the University of Their daughter Megan is a 1990 graduate organizations, and planned to travel to from college, a son who is a college Minnesota. John T. Leatham, Lake sophomore, and a daughter who is of Lawrence. Robert D. Heidorn, Antarctica this winter. Ken and Shirley Forest, Il l., is a self-employed investment Janesville, Wis., has taught political Cox Seefeld, Oshkosh , Wis., are starting finishing nursing school. Robert Purves, banker and chair of Lawrence's board of Vacaville, Calif., retired from the Air Force science at Platteville, Wisconsin , since to think retirement. They travel to trustees. Jane McGrew McBride, 1968. He and his wife, Pat, enjoy their Cathedral City, California, four times a in '88 after 31 years of service as a Elmhurst, Ill., soon will be a grandma. colonel, and now manages the Travis Air granddaughters, traveling in the East and year to their condominium to play tenn is, She says her "reputation as a South , and to the Shakespeare Festival in a little golf, sit by the pool , and be lazy. Force Base branch of the Travis Federal philosopher is undimmed." James R. Credit Union . 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and following the Chicago Bears. Nancy "Life is wonderful." She is looking Oetting Hulama, Fort Worth , Tex., now forward to the next reunion, having is living in Texas after 25 years in Hawaii. missed the last one. Louise Putnam She enjoys the chance to visit old friends Pate, Tucson, Ariz., is a junior high and relatives; her sister, Judy Bunata, '61, school librarian. Her husband, Glen , is a lives nearby. Her son plans to live with professor of education at the University of her and enroll in college this summer. Arizona and her children are busy and She is looking forward to travel and study well. Carolyn Kingsland Patterson, trips to Mexico. Carolyn Lohman Potomac, Md., is an administrative officer Johnson, Orefield, Pa., and her husband , at the Georgetown University Hospital. R. Thomas, just returned from a "great" trip Glen Peterson, Jaffrey, N.H. , still enjoys to Hong Kong and Japan. They are teaching high school art. He hopes to Making a splash at the annual alumni swimming meet held on January 12 were (back row, build a studio soon and get back to his excited to have their son back in the from left) Terry Nilles, '74, Bill Shaw, '84 (winner), Jerry Davis, '88, Bob Fuhrmann, '90, United States; he was stationed in the own art work again. "I would welcome Lissa Mach, '90, and coach Gene Davis, organizer of the event. (Front row, from left) Bob any old classmate who might show up in Mediterranean and the Red Sea during Swain, '59, Scott Stepanski, '87, Peter Switzer, '60, and Chad Kemnitz, '90. Operation Desert Shield and Storm . Carol our neck of the woods." Bob and Lois is "finding her way around computers." Bachmann Polzin, Wheaton, Ill., after returned from a week at Hilton Head, a French family for three weeks. Edith Lincoln Keisen, Middletown, Conn., was 30 years of service, retired from the Air South Carolina, with a car full of new M. Gilbertson, Springfield, Mass., is an Force Reserve as colonels on the same promoted to full professor at Wesleyan "things" to use in potpourri. They missed organist and the director of music at Our University this spring, and last fall had day the first troops went to Saudi Arabia. reunion because they were on their way Lady of Perpetual Help in Holyoke. Her Bob is a high school guidance counselor his third book published by Holt, Reinhart to Florida for relaxation and golf. husband, Lee, is one of the 40 married and Winston . The book, entitled Friend by and Lois is a English and history teacher J. Frederic Ruf, Milwaukee, was named Roman Catholic priests accepted under Day, Enemy by Night, is an anthro for 7th and 8th grade students. Virginia deputy secretary of the Wisconsin the Pastoral Provision of 1980, after 25 pological study of blood feuding in a Netz Schumann, West Bend, Wis., still Department of Development in January. A years as an Episcopal priest. Mike is teaching and keeps busy with golf and Kohistani community in Pakistan's Hindu· former Milwaukee banker and business Gross, North Hollywood, Calif. , works as man, Fritz founded the Tyme Corporation . an art consultant for Dyansen Gallery of Jim Scharinger, C, Winnipegosis, Beverly Hills. He collects antique crystal Manitoba, Canada, is busy taking care of as a hobby, which includes a small 15 missions of Ukrainian Catholics of the collection of commercial perfume bottles, Byzantine Rite. With the opening of too. "Anybody traveling this way, feel free Western Europe, Jim reports, "a number to stop for a visit:' Elizabeth Roberts of young men have expressed their Hall, C, Glendale, Ariz., resigned after 10 interest in serving the Ukrainians in years of teaching in Missouri. She was Canada as priests," so help may be on divorced two years ago and remarried a the way. Presently, he is translating a little year later. Henry Harris, Rockford, Ill., book on the Synod of Brest in prepara· and his wife, Mary Schindel, '62, are tion for the 400th anniversary of the working on their business, Harris Tire Inc. flying lessons. Scott Sherman, San reunion of Brest. In his spare time, he "Mike" still golfs and works in his local Francisco, is the senior minister at the Kush Mountains, near the Afghan border. plays polkas on his accordian. Harry church and commun ity. "We have a Unity Church of San Francisco. He was Jerome Knight, Hortonville, Wis., Snydacker, Gurnee, Ill., recently returned lovely home and would be happy to see published a unique book of nature and elected president of the Unity movement from a 10-day seminar on the Anasazi anyone who drops by." Cornelia Dohr and appears in Who's Who in the West, astronomical verse last November. He Indians in the Four Corners area. A lot of Hoglund, Bremerton, Wash ., reports "I also gives presentations to local schools and Who's Who in Religion. Betsy his time was spent climbing through old have no claim to fame, just four wonder Young Smith, Wheat Ridge, Colo., is a and private groups on several topics. Pueblo ruins and cliff dwellings. Jean ful kids and the same wonderful husband Dave Kopplin, Scottsdale, Ariz., and his paralegal for Montgomery, Little, Young, Adomeit Thurow, Palatine, Ill., is well, for the past 28 years." Anita Hansen Campbell, and McGrew. She attended wife, Anita Hanson , '60, are getting ready working hard, and has just bought a town Kopplin, Scottsdale, Ariz., is a part-time for their daughter Tracy Ann's wedding in Lawrence for two years, and although her house. Barbara Miller Whittlesey, San kindergarten teacher. She and her daughter is looking at colleges, she June. Dave is a marketing manager for Jose, Calif., has been the president of the husband, Dave, have a daughter who is Yellow Pages Publishing and Anita enjoys probably will choose one in a warmer Santa Clara branch of the Music Teachers being married in June. Kay Kraeft, C, state than Wisconsin. Peter Switzer, teaching music to extended day kinder· Association of California for the past two Conway, Ariz., is the coordinator of the Belvidere, Ill., has two children, Beth and garten children. Judy Hallett years. This has been an enjoyable and vocal and choral division of the Inter· McWhirter, Winnetka, Ill., reports that Steve, at Lawrence. Peter was a national stretching experience. She has her own national Fine Arts Institute. Based in champion in the master's swim meet, she enjoyed a trip to Spain, France, and piano studio to help sustain her and her Italy in September and that she was at 100-yard breaststroke, 50·55. He also was husband, Tom, in "these difficult days of named All American in the 100· and Reunion '90. Waltressa Allen rising costs and fewer jobs." Molsberry, Palo Alto, Calif., spent five 200-yard breaststroke. His wife, Nancy, years in the field of social work, and is recently trekked to the base camp of familiar with the burnout associated with 1960 Mount Everest. Thomas Trettin, human social services. She now is Menasha, Wis., had to miss the 30th setting up and presenting workshops to 35th Reunion-June 1995 reunion because of illness, but will be at "explore law, prevent it, and deal with it:' Gretchen Hildner Bearce, Pella, Iowa, the 35th . He still is self-employed as an She also works for Lockhead Missiles is the store manager of The Work of Our Milwaukee, the institute specializes in architect and home builder. Jon and Space Co., Inc. as a technical writer. Hands, an outlet for crafts made by designing and implementing custom· Vondracek, Racine, Wis., is the vice Carol Schleger Ostrom, C, Rockford, persons in the Third World. She and her planned study tours of the Soviet Union president for program and public commu Ill., is a staff accompanist and organist husband, Hutch, enjoy Pella, a small town and the United States for Soviet and nications for the Johnson Foundation. for the Rock Valley College and Gloria known for its windows and tulips. "Come American musicians. Kay also is a critic Michele Alexander Williams, Ft. Dei Lutheran Church. Her son Charles and see us-you'll be Welkommen: · for the Arkansas Gazette and a vocalist. Myers, Fla., is a medical technologist for was sent to Saudia Arabia in August as a Donald R. Craine, Los Gatos, Calif., has She recently has been performing in her husband, William, who is a general pilot in the Air Force. Lucy Staack been spending more of his time traveling operas. She enjoys gardening , travel, practice physician. Three of their children Perez, Appleton, has been in the real and especially likes the islands of the reading, cooking, and entertaining . Doug also work in William's clinic. estate business for four years now and Caribbean and the South Pacific. He Logan, Tamuning, Guam, and his wife, really enjoys it. She has been involved in plans to retire in a year or two so he can Fran, are enjoying their life on the many local and state boards, which has devote more time to writing travel articles "beautiful island of Guam, where 1961 kept her busy. She started making and pursuing hobbies such as scuba America's day begins." Doug is a general 35th Reunion-June 1995 diving and underwater photography. Karl potpourri on a large scale last summer, manager of a department store. "Our R. Jeffery Lawrence, Albuquerque, N. and Helen Buscher Franke, San which she's found fascinating. Lucy and home is always open to stateside Mex ., is a physicist and senior member her husband, Joe, have moved into a Marino, Calif., enjoy spending time at visitors." Nancy Wissmiller Moland, of the technical staff at Sandia National their cabin , antiquing, and brushing up condominium so they don't have yard Beaverton , Oreg ., lives near family ; two of Laboratories. work or snow removal. They recently on their French . They recently entertained her children moved to Portland in June. 37 ALUMNI T 0 DAY
1962 1968 30th Reunion-June 18-20, 1993 25th Reun ion-June 18-20, 1993 Barbara Borns, Black Earth, Wis., has Harvey Meyers, Wheaton , Ill., is a moved into a log home and enjoys manager of instruction and development gardening and restoring several pieces of for Bell Communications Research. His prairie on her property. Recently, she hobbies include astronomy, the banjo, pursued her interest in American Indians target shooting, darts, a personal by attending a one-week course entitled computer, and a shortwave radio. "American Indian Culture and History: Myth and Reality." She also traveled to San Diego for the American Indian 1969 Education Association national conference. She is a minority recruiter at the 25th Reunion-June 1994 University of Wisconsin-Madison. Alouise Melody K. Baker, Shaker Heights, Ohio, Carlson Brummer, South Holland, Ill., was named the assistant dean of the and her husband, David, celebrated their graduate college at Kent State University. 25th wedding anniversary last June. They Her duties will be recruiting and retaining also celebrated the marriage of their minority graduate students and older daughter, Erica, who lives with her students returning to college, and finding husband in New York City. They travel funding for these under-represented often because of David's job with groups. Melody continues to be active in Rick Kroos, '66, with his daughter Morgan. the community. She is the vice president of Project Friendship, a diversion program for teenage girls, and on the board of at the California Institute of Technology. trustees for her local church credit union 1963 He helps to build space experiments that and for the Delta Sigma Theta sorority. 30th Reunion-June 18-20, 1993 measure cosmic rays and solar flare Dennis J. Barry, Racine, Wis. , is a particles. They currently have experiments Racine County circuit court judge Susan Heaxt Foulkes, Denver, a social on NASA's IMP-8, ICE, Voyager, and worker, now is director of the patient and Galileo spacecraft. He enjoys participating family conseling department of St. Joseph with his children in activities such as Hospital. William S. Stone, Santiago, camping, scouts, and sports. He and his Northwest Airlines, and recently visited Chile, will be the first academic director wife, Sandy, spend time remodeling the of a study abroad program in Chile Germany, Austria, and The Netherlands. house. Nancy Feeley Kukla, Columbus, Oh io, sponsored by the School for International continues to teach kindergarten. She still Training of Brattleboro, Vermont. He has loves to read and sew. Nancy's parents been granted an 11-month leave of 1966 have moved to Milwaukee, so she will absence from his job as director of the visit there more often and hopes to see office of international educational services 25th Reunion-June 21-23, 1991 more classmates. Nancy With Larson, at the University of Vermont. Rick Kroos, Hong Kong, works for J. Madison, Wis., has started a home Roger Preston & Partners. They design air remodeling project, which will keep her conditioning, plumbing, electrical, and currently assigned to civil cases. He also busy this year. Bonnie Maas 1964 sewage systems for large buildings. With was admitted to the Arizona Bar after McClellan, University Park, Md ., is offices throughout Asia, Rick travels a lot. 30th Reunion-June 18-20, 1993 successfully taking the bar exam in July. enjoying her work with college students His hobbies are golf, horse racing, and M. Betsy Reinholz Anderson, Beloit, Susan Buesing Donnelly, Washington, that have special learning needs. Her swimming. Wis., is a head teacher for pre D.C., and her husband, Shaun, '68, are husband, Mike, still sings with the kindergarteners at the ABC Playhouse doing fine in Tuni, where they have been Maryland Chorus; her son Joe hiked the nursery school. Betsy and her husband , since '89 and plan to stay until the Appalachian Trail from Maine to Georgia Nathan, have a teenage son and recently 1967 summer of '92 . They report, "We feel last fall; and daughter Kate is a junior at adopted Susie, who is six-and-one-half 25th Reunion-June 19-21, 1992 safe despite the Gulf crisis and Tunisia is Towson University. Plret Korkmann years old . Grethe Hallberg Barber, Charlotte Chi Meredith, Corvallis, pro-Saddam Hussein. We certainly are Munger, Del Mar, Calif., and her Washougal , Wash., is claiming student Oreg. , is a half-time research assistant for getting an education:· Susan keeps busy husband, George, have opened a second status once again. She is in an art Oregon State University's school of with community work as usual. Dorothy restaurant in San Diego. The new therapy program and next year has an restaurant, Canes, is named for George's oceanography. She performs atomic A. Kubicka, Menasha, Wis., continues to internship at the Lake Oswego, Oregon , work at her local church and travel. She large collection of canes, and is absorption analysis of water samples and high school with 'at-risk' students. She had planned a trip to Portugal this past developing a faithful clientele. Gayle sediments. She spends the rest of her wonders how she made it through winter and will spend the summer at her Barenz Othen, Carterton, Oxon, England, Lawrence without a word processor. She cottage in the North Woods. Douglas graduated from culinary school last June plans to run in the Portland marathon in Lehto, Oulu, Finland, is a self-employed and left for a vacation in Great Britain. September, if her "body holds up." architect. He is working on a master's She married John Othen, a Royal Airforce Robert E. Tenges, Waukesha, Wis., degree in architecture and urban design flight engineer in September, and moved works for Mortgage Guaranty Insurance at Oulu University, wh ich is 120 miles her home to Carterton. "It is a wonderful Corporation as senior vice president and from the Arctic circle. Mark Leonas, experience to learn a new culture and divisions manager. Greenfield, Mass., and his wife, Deborah, language:· Jeanen Hausner Papadopoulos, Ellensburg, Wash. , was love living in western Massachusetts, divorced a year ago and is reactivating "where the sunsets in the foot hills of the 1965 time painting and printmaking. She Berkshires are dramatically beautifu l, even her career as a jeweler and metalsmith. recently returned from Japan, where she in the winter:· They enjoy downhill and She has entered some of her work in 30th Reunion-June 1996 saw the grand opening of the world cross country skiing, canoeing, garden shows and won a best of show award for Ken Anderson, Loveland, Colo. , is a headquarters for Aikido, north of Tokyo. ing, and church activities. Ron a sterling and sueded cotton evening bag. captain flight officer with United Airlines. She received her Shodam in Aikido last Nicholson, Alsea, Oreg., is a secondary She is looking into marketing her jewelry He enjoys playing his bass clarinet in a September and had the opportunity to math and computer coordinator in the in areas such as Dallas and Honolulu. Loveland concert band and singing in his train with top instructors wh ile in Japan. Peggy Hilton Snyder, Maumee, Ohio, Alsea schools. He received the presi local church choir. He teaches some Paul R. Temple, Bristol, R.I., is a dential award for excellence in teaching and her husband, AI , spent February and classes on light plane instruction and is physical oceanographer and program March in South Carolina. AI is retired , so mathematics and science in 1984 and a check pilot for the Colorado Civil Air manager at the Naval Underwater 1989. George Slater, Noblesville, Ind., they travel often. Patrol. Richard Mewaldt, Altadena, Systems Center. He has worked both in opened a new law practice in December Calif., works in the Space Radiation Lab Seattle and Alaska. 38 ALUMNI T 0 DAY
limited to "the challenges of an aging "adventure trips;· mostly to national society or elder law." He has practiced in 1973 parks. David and Jeannette Castro this area for several years with a larger 20th Reun ion-June 1994 Hachmeister, Elmhurst. IlL , have two firm and is ready to try it on hi s own. He ch ildren. David is the publisher and Nancy Boston, C, Mansfield, Pa .. is an owner of Marki ng Devices Publishing , also publishes a weekly co lumn in th e assistant professor of music at Mansfield local newspaper on elder law issues. which publishes Marketing Industry University. She had a solo piano concert Magazin e. He is a coach for his Linda Schreiber Tojek, Brookfield , Wis., last April in New York City at the Trinity ch ildren's teams and a local church volunteers at the local middle and high Series and ran into David Varnum . 70, schools. is the area chair for the TV. volunteer. Jeannette is a health enhance who was the concert manager. She also ment coordinator for the Elmhurst 10136 auction , and is a member of the saw Duffie Adelson and Stan Day at the Y.M.C.A. and works as Dave's assistant board of directors for the Milwaukee Myra Hess concert series in Chicago, Symphony Orchestra . Elizabeth Tuttle, where she performed . Annette Madison. Wis., is a self-employed artist Archambeau Brower, Two Rivers, Wis .. and crafts person . She makes fiber art abandoned archaeology for medical and beaded jewelry. Diane Berger school . and received a degree from the Weaver, Marblemount, Wash ., is enjoying University of Colorado. She completed a motherhood with three boys. She is three-year residency at St. Paul Ramsey substitute teaching quite often. playing in Hospital in St. Paul , Minnesota, in 1989 the Skagit Valley Symphony, and is and now has a private practice. Miriam heavily involved in Cub and Boy scouts, Lang Budin, Hastings-on-Hudson, NY.. preschool, band boosters. and church . spends most of her time with her editor. Jeannette develops programs for Debra Briggs Witte, Pleasant Hill , Cal if., public libraries. She says that "most children . but finds time to do some free the hearing -i mpaired in her job at the Y. is enjoying life. When she is not working people who frequent libraries have heard lance storytel ling and teaching storytelling David Haugland, West Hollywood, Calif .. on her art, she is playing soccer. Debra of Lawrence." Jeffrey A. Fox, Marietta, in adult education classes. She currently is a producer and director of films. and her husband, Bob, play together on Ga .. is the manager of Atlanta Fabrication is president of the Westchester Story Current projects include a special an over-30 co-ed soccer team . She is Division for Owens-Corning Fiberglass; his teller's Guild. Mark S. Cebulski, featuring the rai n forest of Costa Rica, a enjoying a renewed interest in writing and wife. Deborah Burns, '73, is a music and Thiensville, Wis .. has been a sports musical tribute to Charlie Mingus for is working on a noveL "I'm getting a kick choir director. They both keep busy with columnist for News Graphic in Cedarburg PBS. and recruiting films for Brown and out of life with teenagers:· soccer. swimming, school activities, house since 1980. He has won three awards for New York universities. He recently traveled upkeep, the boys, and some outside his writing from the Wisconsin Newspaper to the Soviet Union with the American activities. They recently took a family trip Association . including Best Sports Documentary Showcase, wh ich he found 1970 to Washington. D.C. "Debby loved it, the Outdoor Column. for weekly newspapers. was a tremendous learning experience. In 20th Reunion - June 21-23, 1991 girls thought part was fun , and the boys "He enjoys golf, reading, golf, writing , his spare time, he visits New Mexico, laid down at the Smithsonian and refused Minneapolis. and the beach . Cynthia to walk anymore! That is indicative of our Percak Infantino, Libertyville, IlL , is the 1971 days." John D. Gilpin, Afton, Minn .. now adult services coordinator and reference works for Lyman Lumber Company as the librarian for Lake Forest Public Library. 20th Reunion- June 21-23, 1991 senior vice president and the chief She spends her free time on local Scott W. Alexander, Salem , Mass .. has financial officer. Karen Longo-Baldwin, environmental projects, continuing study been appointed the senior minister of the Hamden, Conn ., is a mom and keeps of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, and Unitarian Universalist Association's Church busy with the PIA .. church, Brownies, working on inclusive language liturgies in of the Larger Fellowship. He joined the and neighborhood issues. Chris, '73, just the Episcopal Church. Cindy and her staff of the Church of the Larger finished a master's degree in computer husband , Steve, traveled to Indonesia and Fellowship as a minister and administrator science at the University of New Haven . Thailand this year to pursue their interest in 1988, and was appointed director of He has a new job at the Bristol-Myers in world religions. Robert McDonald, the U.A.A. Office of Lesbian and Gay Squibbs research and development facility golf. and golf, but not necessarily in that Oberlin, Ohio, performed in a Milwaukee concerns and the AIDS action and in Wallingford, 20 minutes from their order:' Tom Cutler, Potomac, Md. , is a concert with cellist Wolfgang Laufer. A information program in June 1989. home. Lynne Goeldner Rompelman, foreign affairs officer with the Office of pianist, Bob gave a solo performance of Grafton , Wis .. is a sixth grade teacher in International Affairs for the U.S. Depart Schubert's Four Impromptus. Named by the Kewaskun schools. She is enjoying ment of Energy. He is the chair of NATO's the Milwaukee Sentinel Review as one of 1972 the classroom this year after "a few petroleum planning committee and author the "finest accompanists active today;· he overwhelming years as a counselor." She also traveled to Spain to accompany 20th Reunion-June 21 -23, 1991 of the book The Military Demand for Oil is "closing the door to insensitivity and and numerous articles. His work now is Isaac Stern and in June will accompany Frederick L. Ash, Evanston , IlL, is a opening my box of creativity, active focused on Southeast Asia, most recently him again in Japan. Joseph Michel, development researcher at Northwestern listening, effective and successful Indochina. Eastern Europe, and coaL He Stevens Point, Wis. . has been named University. He enjoys "biking to garage techniques, looking forward to a good describes himself as a "former racquet corporate actuary for the Employee sales for exercise, fresh air, clothes year. and dabbling yet in wholesale and ball pro now in exile playing squash." Benefits Business Center of the Wausau shopping - normal shopping is unbeliev retail trade in stitchery." Jane Sramek, Leslie Dickinson, Seattle. is an art Insurance Companies. He joined the ably tedious and expensive. and antique South Freemantle, Western Australia. is a teacher for the Edmonds school district. company in 1988 as an associate actuary furniture. Alan Berger, Los Angeles. is lecturer in design and textiles at Perth She is a volunteer at the local animal in the group actuarial function . In his the executive vice president and agent of Techn ical College. She received a post shelter and involved in animal rights. She position, he will be responsible for International Creative Management. "I graduate diploma in art therapy last year. is assisting her students in helping monitoring product pricing, staff planning, continue to have the most fun in the and recently had a solo exhibition of her endangered species; her personal interest expense budgeting , and reserving . Laura entertainment business." He represents work. which she had developed as part of lies with the African white and black Mueller, Milwaukee, works as a speech writers. producers. directors, and actors. her training. She visited the U.S. for rhinos. Brair D. Diggs, Missoula, Mont.. and language pathologist for the and supervises the television department Ch ristmas in '88 and '89. "I feel young is an orthodondist. He keeps busy with Milwaukee public schools and writes that at ICM. Kristin Anderson Findlay, New as ever -certainly not over the hill and his dental practice and his active family. her job has changed in the last 12 years Richmond, Wis., has a B.S.Ed. degree in ripening nicely like a fine wine:· Ralph P. He enjoys backpacking, "punishing" his due to the increasing numbers of crack art education, K-12, a B.S.Ed . in Suechting, Elk Mound, Wis., received a drums, windsurfing , hunting birds with his and cocaine babies with language elementary education , K-8, and a master's master of education-professional black Lab, Abby, and renewing his interest difficulties. She enjoys Door County in the degree in art education with a focus on development degree from UW-Eau Claire in photography. Anne Skinner Glad, St. summer, where she works as a naturalist at-risk kids. She spends her time in January. Kathleen Biracree Veenker, Louis Park, Minn ., is a human resources at the Ridges Sanctuary in Bailey's developing a high school art program , Glenview, IlL , is a co-author with her consultant for McGiadrey and Pullen Harbor. She is involved in the Friends of serving on a local art board, restoring an husband , Steve, and Joan Smutny of Your C.P.A .' s and Consultants. She was the Bjorklunden group and enjoys seeing old house. and getting to know her Gifted Child: How to Recognize and promoted to a manager and accredited in alumni who vacation there. Deborah community. Elizabeth lsely Ferrari, Develop the Special Talents in Your Child May. She and her husband, Stan, spend Anderson Ray, Tacoma. Wash., is a Wilmette. IlL , is a reference librarian at from Birth to Age Seven, published by their free time golfing, skiing, working on mom and occasionally gives private Wilmette public library. She has been a Facts on File in New York. the house and yard , playing with their French lessons. In her spare time. librarian since 1974, working at various golden retriever, and planning annual Deborah sings in the local church choir, 39 ALUMNI T 0 DAY
writes music for the choir, and makes September '90. Brian T. Farmer, children-five, three, and one-tell the Cleveland and Akron, Oh io, area. Hope greeting cards, which she sells privately. Jeddah , Saudi Arabia, is the procurement whole story." She and her husband Peterson, Brookside, N.J., made Last year she took her daughter to coordinator of government airport moved last summer and they now have a presentations at the national conferences France. Valerie Sivinski, Tacoma, operations support for international third bedroom and a fenced -i n yard for of the National Society for Performance Wash ., works as a project manager and airports projects. He wrote one week into the children . They are planning to trave l and Instruction in '88 and '90. She is a architect for Merritt and Pardini. Since the Gulf War and reported that very few to Denmark in June '91 to visit her lead generation manager for AT&T She graduation, Valerie has received the New commercial airline flights were leaving husband 's family, and hope to see and her husband , Norman , continue the Mexico AlA and the N.M. Historical Jeddah. The U.S. was using it as a base classmate Ellen O'Sullivan , '75, who is unending work of home remodel ing and Society Award for renovation of the for tanker and transport aircraft, living in southern France. Richard A. get satisfaction from the flower and shrub Albuquerque courthouse in 1980. She supporting the round -the -clock air war Kuhn, Toledo, Ohio, is assistant controller garden . They are active in the boys' previously was a preservation architect for against Iraq. "Otherwise, life in Jeddah at Kenworth Truck in Chillicothe. He saw school , sports activities, and scouting. the Capitol 's office in Washington, D.C., continues almost unaffected by the Peter Loui , who works for IBM, in Hope volunteers at the local library and is and worked on the restoration of the conflict more than a thousand kilometers Honolulu during a trip to Hawaii in a Sunday school teacher. Beth Ray, C, Library of Congress. She lived for a year away . . .. Naturally, it helps to be December. Suzanne Le Van, Cincinnati, River Falls, Wis., is pursuing a master's in York, England, while getting a master's observing it all from a safe distance, Ohio, works in Procter and Gamble's degree in performance at the University of degree in building conservation and was despite the feeling of being almost in the marketing department as an advertising Minnesota and gave her graduate recital reluctant to leave England. She currently front row, since I live just a few hundred manager. Pamela Simpson Miles, St. on February 18. She is a self-employed is renovating a train station and theatre meters from the airport's main runway:· Louis, Mo., keeps busy teaching ninth piano teacher. Catherine Kennedy and her own home. Elizabeth Flavell, St. Paul , Minn. , is an graders as well as pursuing a master's Riggs, Burlington, Mass., centers her outpatient clinical social worker for the degree at Washington University. Her private practice in optometry around Children's Hospital of St. Pau l. She is other activities include helping with a vision therapy. She and her husband , 1974 married to Ralph Holcomb, a director and Brownie troup, working on a new aerobics Roger, traveled to Hawaii last summer on assistant professor, and they have two program , and patronizing many local optometry business. Margaret Schmidt, 20th Reunion-June 1994 children . Martha Holmes Galvin, C, theatre groups. Mary Niebling, Ann Arbo r, Mich. , gave a rec ital in Margaret Brandis, Arlington , Va ., is the Shorewood, Wis., teaches piano lessons Plainfield, Vt. , is on a three- to four January, playing both the baroque and director of program services for S.R.A. to elementary and collegiate students month leave to take care of her new baby. the modern violin . A dissertation is the Technologies, Inc. She received an M.B.A. independently and at Concordia University, Her job as executive director for the Barre only thing that stands between her and a degree from George Washington Univer respectively. A mother of two, she "is just Neighborhood Housing Services "is Ph .D. degree in music education . She sity in 1987 Gary S. Bellack, Los keeping my head above water:· Dennis J. incredibly challenging and interesting." currently .is job-hunting in between Angeles, is a physician and has two Garvey, Beaverton , Oreg. , enjoyed seeing She and her husband, David, love reading and writing; "I 'm anxious to be children. Neil F. Brier, Canaan, N.H. , is Larry Tremaine at his home in Mystic, Vermont and are renovating their not-a-student again :· Jo Ann Markvart a teacher, a coach of soccer, skiing , and Connecticut. Dennis is an advisory 150-plus-year-old farmhouse, where they Siemsen, Watsonville, Calif., and her lacrosse, and a dorm master at Cardigan systems engineer for IBM and is married have sheep, chickens, cats, a dog, a giant husband , Timothy, have been rebuilding Mt. School. Cardigan is a junior boarding to Katherine Lutz, '75, a community garden , and an old apple orchard. and recovering from the San Francisco health nurse. Barbara Braun Griffith, William and Gaye Griffith OHo, earthquake. Their area was one of the Cedar Crest, N. Mex ., her husband , Jeff, Springfield, Mo., have two children . hardest hit. Jo Ann has served on the and their son , Bob, wil l spend six months William, an ob-gyn physician , remains Santa Cruz AIDS Project board of in Cambridge, England, th is year. Barbara busy and Gaye is enjoying teaching high directors for four years and is a member will study at the MRC Laboratory of school German. Debbie Anderson of the California State Hospice Board, for Molecular Biology, and Jeff will be a Paprocki, Madison, Wis. , is an associate which her home program won a national visiting scholar at the University of lecturer for the department of curriculum award for a video on local services. Cambridge. Kris Robinson Harmon, and instruction at the University of Thomas James Stewart, Merritt Island, Eagan , Minn., works for Honeywell as a Wisconsin -Madison. She also teaches Fla ., works as an environmental specialist market sales manager. She and her Spanish methods courses and coor fo r the Florida department of environ husband, AI , enjoy their boat on the dinates the Spanish student teaching mental regulation . His focus is on storage Mississippi River in the summer and program . She spent three weeks in systems. John and Eleanor Williams traveling in the winter. Usa Reese Eu rope last summer to interview Rosa Thomason, Mason , Wis., are enjoying school for boys grades six through nine Hendrickson, Monroe, Wis. , is a high Chacel , the Spanish author whose novels their small farm , where they have a flock in the winter and girls four through 10 in school Spanish teacher. She received the are the subject of her doctoral thesis. Her of sheep, chickens, pigs, and cows. They the summer. "The work is challenging Spanish Heritage Award in the fall of husband , Dan , participated in a master sell their "natural ly raised " meat products and time consuming , but very reward ing ." 1988 for excellence in instruction and class for clarinet at the Vienna Conserva throughout the area, produce shiitake Joe and Thea Ellery Bruce, live in willingness to share with colleagues. She tory, where they spent a week before mushrooms and maple syrup, and keep a Rockford, Ill. , with their two children, Joey was awarded a trip to Madrid, Spain , for returning to the States. Kathy Newlin team of oxen. They also are remodeling and Patrick. Joe is a self-employed one month. Catherine Roth Holcomb, Pederson , C, Strasburg, Ohio, wears their home, a 30-year project, and attorney and Thea is a therapist at Family Wilmington , Del. , still works for DuPont many hats: she is a homemake r, piano Advocate, Inc. Mary Dalton, Arlington as a manager of its fibers information teacher, and organist and director fo r the Heights, Ill., is training as a volunteer in systems. She has become active in children's choir at St. John's Church of a crisis residential program for adolescent addressing issues about women and Christ. Sh e is active in her county's girls. She says, "It's something a little bit minorities in corporations and also is chapter of the Ohio Music Teacher's more meaningful than life insurance, in involved with school , church, and Girl Association , a fortnightly music club, The my opinion ." She is a senior analyst for Scout activities. Francine Rudesill Tuscarawas County Little Theatre, and Girl Allstate Life Insurance Co. Carol Jones, Santa Barbara, Calif., and her Scouts. Gail Pierson, Winneconne, Wis., Stoneman Dibble, Hopkinton, Mass., is husband, Duam , have been busy is a psychotherapist for the Oshkosh a supervisor in the information service remodeling their house, which they hope Counseling Center. She received an M.S. division of CIBA Corning Diagnostics, Inc. to sell , and began building their dream degree in marriage and family therapy homeschool their children . John is a She was elected to the southeast Boston house th is spring . It will have a large from the University of Wisconsin-Stout in medical transcriptionist at Memorial postal customer executive board and was studio so Francine can have more room 1979 and is the former chair of the Medical Care; Eleanor is a legal secretary. recogn ized by Career Track Inc. for to work on her design and illustration Wisconsin lnterprofessional Committee on Steven M. Tower, Norwalk, Conn ., keeps excellence in customer service. John F. business. She recently purchased an Divorce. Chris Porter, Littleton , Colo., a busy holding IBM together as a planner. Drayheim, Appleton , works as a system ocean kayak and enjoys getting in the media researche r, had two historical He also en joys his fam ily and hopes to programmer in the data processing water with the dolphins and seals. Lilias novels published in '90 with more on the make reun ion in '93. Jon Ulsa, Sedona, division of Miller Electric Marketing Co. Jones, Moorhead, Minn ., is worki ng way in '91. He and Rick Chandler spent a Ariz., is a headmaster at Verde Valley His wife, Margie, is a German and toward a graduate degree at Moorhead week in Mexico last spring exploring the School. Katherine Brehm Zager, Spanish teacher. Martha EvereH, State University. She currently has a Copper Canyon by train , plane, auto Oberlin , Ohio, wo rks part-time at the Broomfield , Co lo., recently took a graduate assistantship in public an d mobi le, tru ck, bus, taxi , and on foot. Oberl in College conservatory and teaches maternity leave from her position as a human servi ce administration. She is Within the past year, he's been to cello privately. She and her husband , learni ng disabilities teach er at Horizon ke eping busy in politics. Heidi Jacobson Cameroon and to the United Kingdom Daniel, just adopted a boy fro m Korea in High School. "Now all I do is change Knudsen , C, Whitefish Bay, Wis., is a three times. He also spent time with August, and are keep in g busy with him lots of diapers." Her twins were born in full -time mom . "The ages of my Geoff Kennedy this past year whi le in the and their other son. 40 John Davis, '76: Building bodies for the Chicago Cubs
t seems athletics simply were destined "The Fitness Academy ran aerobics classes to play a major role in John Davis's at health clubs and discussed health issues life. Barely three weeks old, John with local schools;' Davis said. "One of the I already was being dunked in the Ohio programs we were working with was the State University pool, the "star" case study Cubs:' The following February, Davis of his dad's master's thesis on the value of traveled to Arizona and worked with the teaching swimming to children of preschool Cubs during their 1985 spring training age. Whether it was a result of those neo camp. natal swimming lessons or the fact his dad, "I started setting up the weight programs Gene, wound up spending 35 years coaching and getting involved with nutrition and the at Lawrence, John has maintained a close off-season work more and more. When I relationship with sports throughout his life. finished my degree (in 1986), the Cubs hired For most of the first 22 years of his life, me outright away from The Fitness Academy athletics provided a ready diversion for John, and I've been with them ever since:' a way to stay in shape, have some fun, and Like most "institutions;' change comes quench his competitive fires. But for the slowly and often begrudgingly and baseball past seven years, athletics-specifically pro is no exception. While the value and impor fessional baseball-also have provided his tance of diet, conditioning, and weight livelihood. Since the winter of 1984, Davis training have been trumpeted for the past has worked as the strength and conditioning two decades, baseball has been relatively coach of the Chicago Cubs and their minor slow to embrace those concepts. The fact league affiliates, overseeing the players' that most major league teams still don't general conditioning and weight training. have a strength and conditioning coach and "Once the season starts, I'm in Chicago that, with seven years of experience, Davis working with the major league team and is considered one of the deans of his then when the Cubs travel, I'm out with profession in baseball underscores the the minor league players, seeing that they're pioneer nature of his work. Davis credits the maturity he gained as a staying on the program and keeping their Personal: Age 36. Married to Beth student at Lawrence for helping him deal conditioning up throughout the season:' Stachowiak. Two daughters, Briana, 9, with the pressures and widely divergent When not shuttling between his home in Meaghan, 5. Lives in Hoffman Estates, personalities associated with professional suburban Hoffman Estates and ivy-clad Illinois. Wrigley Field, Davis is racking up nearly baseball. He said he still draws upon the 20,000 miles worth of frequent-flyer points Education: Bachelor's degree in geology, influences imparted on him by his father, carrying his stay-in-shape message to the Lawrence, 1976. Master's degree in who coached him in swimming and track at Cubs' minor-league players in Peoria, exercise physiology and sports admini Lawrence, and George Walter. Illinois, Fort Mills, South Carolina, Geneva, stration, University of Illinois-Chicago, "I've used my dad many a time as a role New York, and Winston-Salem, North 1986. model, and because of George Walter's influence, I went into teaching and that's Carolina. Around those stops, he wraps Professional: Teacher, health and earth proven invaluable in this job:' three trips a year to Mesa, Arizona: for science, Elgin (Ill.) Central Junior High It also helps that staying in shape has spring training; for 10 days in June to work School, 1976-78; earth science and never been a problem for Davis, one of only with the Cubs' recent draft picks at a mini mathematics, Streamwood (Ill.) High two athletes in Lawrence history to earn 12 camp and indoctrination; and again in School, 1978-84. Strength and condition September and October for an instructional varsity letters during their careers. Fourteen ing coach, Chicago Cubs baseball team, , years removed from his days as a 6-foot, league for the organization's top prospects. 1984-present. That period known euphemistically as the 190-pound all-Midwest Conference tight "off-season" by players and fans alike, is Interests: Assembling and framing jigsaw end, Davis obviously practices what he anything but downtime for Davis. "During puzzles, female pop singers, cooking preaches. Checking in these days at a svelte the off-season, I'm in regular contact with pasta, playing the guitar and learning to 187 pounds with an incredible 9.9 percent the players over the phone, sending letters play the piano, "putzing in the workshop:' body fat count, he's his own best adver and memos reminding them where they tisement for his program. should be on their workouts. For any players While Davis has taken to most sports the living in the Chicago area, I run workouts throughout the winter. Up way a magnet attracts iron filings, he, rather sheepishly, admits through the first of the year, we'll go into Wrigley Field and run and baseball would not have been his first choice. "I was never that much lift weights. After the first of the year, we go to Northwestern of a baseball fan. It was just one of those things. When I went back (University) and use their indoor complex where we can throw, hit, for my master's, I was looking for something in sports administration. run, and use their weight room. Then in February, it\ back to The baseball thing just happened to be there; it wasn't something Arizona:' that I was looking for. It was more or less one of those right-place-at So how did a one-time geologist "wanna-be" wind up with a seat in the-right-time kind of deals. I have a better appreciation of baseball the dugout of the national pastime? "Talk about making a left tum now, but I still think it's too slow for me:' somewhere in your career;' Davis said. Cubs fans are as famous for their loyalty as they are for their dashed After leaving Lawrence with a degree in geology, Davis spent hopes. "Wait till next year" is less a cliche and more an official several years teaching junior and senior high school in suburban anthem for the Cubs faithful, who haven't seen their team reach the Chicago. But he was never quite able to get the call of athletics out World Series since 1945 or win a world championship since 1908. of his mind and returned to graduate school at the University of That could change this year, though. Davis said the 1991 version of Illinois-Chicago with eyes on a master's degree in sports admini the Cubs has the potential to be playing in this year's fall classic, stration. A UIC professor convinced him to double up and add an "if we can stay healthy:' With Davis in charge of that department, additional degree in sports physiology. An internship program-"The staying healthy should be the easy part. Fitness Academy" -put Davis in touch with the Cubs. -Rick Peterson 41 husband, Anton , plan to build a house graduating from Lawrenc l.e 1975 big enough for four children and a music Thompson Aswad Sane. lgh returned to Israel la'st yea:rancisca, 20th Reunion-June 1994 studio. Jeff Kashuk, Mockesville, N.C. , is a general surgeon with Davie Surgical around the world in '8g t after a tnp Jon Becker, C, Hopewell , N.J., was Associates. Nancy Butler Kuhn, Toledo, and her husband, Ali, ho~ marry. She married in December. A consultant for the Ohio, and her husband, Richard, '74, are Cyprus. She is a territo eymooned Educational Testing Service, he also is a moving from Toledo to the Chillecothe sales trainer for TimeM~ ~anager ana professor of music at Westminster Choir Ohio, area. Richard has a new job as ' New York, is a publisher j ~ Bau-.; College in Princeton , N.J., and recently assistant plant controller for Kenworth Eccoit Bercin, Culpeper or Iff-DiM s_ presented a paper at a International Truck Co. Jay LaJone, Dallas, an developing a 90-minute do Va., curr Society for Music Education seminar in on faith. He will combine _cumentary attorney, is the managing partner of the . . rmages Leningrad. His adaptation of Kurt Weill 's Dallas office of Hopkins & Sutter. Lynn re Irgrons and secular manit . 01 Happy End for wind ensemble was Libera, River Forest, Ill. , is a sales faith, together with persona~Sialio ns ct approved for distribution by the European manager for IBM. Barbara Bill Mueller, commentary and variation Han~ exJler1 and American Music Publishers. He was Englewood, Colo., and her husband it will be completed by th~ e IS ho elected to the executive committee of Steve~ . added to their family with Kristin, J. D _o~glas Biegert, Molin~lld of '92 Sierra Club's central Jersey group. born rn October. Barbara is an associate physrcr~n an~ radiologist. cal~" ·· rs a Annette Cameron Blum, Bel Air, Md. , attorney with Davis, Graham & Stubbs. San LUis Obrspo, Calif., and h Y Boo~&. reports that she and her husband Larry, have moved to "Am . er hustJan Carl Rath, C, Norman, Okla., plays . enca's Michael, are busy with a 10· and 'seven · one-ranked mrcropolis" She . num bassoon with the Oklahoma Woodwind · rs usmg year-old and a toddler. "Just when life h 1 Quintet. The group recorded A Christmas money s e won on Jeopardy! 1 seems a little dull, things get exciting Delight, a collection of traditional and school for a Ph.D. degree in ·co~ret u • again:· Nancy Kreher Brazeau, classical Christmas favorites; this is a first lions at the University of Califor . mu c. Escanaba, Mich ., reports that windsurfing for the group and any woodwind quintet Santa Barbara. Jim Brooks E~rastat and sailing last summer were wonderful. in the country. They have played to Ill:· and .his wife, Meredith, ~re .. ~~ : She is a research and grant writer for the wrth therr new son, Alex. k:. Jim ,.~.. Nelson Johansen last May and from audiences throughout the world, made Upper Pen insula health education "H e Iaves ea t·rng, and 'Nearing solidPu \0) Christine Solstad last summer. Barry L. their European debut in the summer of program and says "it continues to go foods, anything from oatmeal sweet Fields, Madison, Wis., performed the '89, and were featured at the Classical 10 well: ' Tom Cartwright, Dixon, Ill., says potat~es to pears." Mark Canning, first heart-l ung and single lung transplants Music Festival in Austria and at the he watched the Wisconsin's Voter's Guide Washrngton, D.C., and his wife Debo in Wisconsin. He is a surgeon and the International Double Reed Society annual on Wisconsin Public Television and saw Da~r. 'd so~, '78 ,. are receiving full· -time ra director of cardiopulmonary transplanta· convention in England. Deborah Ansink the debate between Republican trarnrng rn Po l_rsh in preparation for thet lion at the University of Wisconsin. Tim Russell, Arlington Heights, Ill., and her Kastenmeier and Scott Klug , '75. He sells assrgnment in They Freeman, Green Bay, Wis., is a partner husband, Scott Russell, '74, moved into three-~ea r Warsa~~. financial services to individuals for rn Mark's new title will be and physician for Cardiology Associates. their new house located only one mile lea~e ~ugust. Waddell & Reed Financial Servic es. Inc. assrstant rnformation officer for the us Pat Knetzger Fullam, Flossmoor, Ill., from their old house, so their two Susan Parker Clow, Calistoga, Calif .. E~bassy in. Warsaw. John R. Chandler, wor_ks part-time from her home as a legal children wouldn't have to change and her husband, Michael, own and IS a registered representa!M! assrstant when she's "not running after classrooms. Their goal was to have all ~rl _waukee, operate a country inn, the Foothill House, rn rnvestment and insurance sales for T the two boys and our rabbit:' Doug the boxes unpacked by the end of winter. which was selected one of the 100 best Equitable Financial Companies. Dan Gold, Washington , D.C., reports that he is Jane Johnson Salance, Snowmass, B&B's in North America by Frommer's Dauner, C, Boalsburg, Pa., and his wile, asymptomatic and healthy. He hopes all Colo., works as a financial assistant Guide. Susan was elected secretary of the Carrie, spent three weeks last summer is well with everyone. Michael G. accountant for the Music Associates of Calistoga Performing Arts Association . Aspen. Her husband, Rory, and she had Scandinavia traveling and visiting relat ~ Richard I. Cook, Columbus, Ohio, is Green, Solon, Ohio, works as a general and and friends. They also attended an sales manager for Sileo Forge Group. a son in September. Martha Hall Sigler, "working on obscure areas of cognitive Perrysburg, Ohio, reports nothing unusual. international choral symposium. This year science. interesting only to a dozen geek Rick Hearn and Susan Hanna, Yorba they are hosting an exchange student Linda, Calif. , recently have become She and her husband, Mathew, and their types like me, who get together once a son. Andy, recently traveled to London from Essen, Germany. Martha L. year to give each other awards and hunt volunteer production assistants for Da and Spain . Karen Basmajian Sirabian, Denton, Atlanta, is a corporate media grants." In his spare time. he collects Camera Society's chamber music in Crestwood , NY, is a self-employed editor. screenwriter for a self-made corporation ancient tube-type radios and composes history series. "It is fun to be involved Her husband, Stephen, is a general sales called The IDEA Group. She and her sonnets. Susan Glover Craighead, La behind -the-scenes with top quality music and marketing manager for Glatt Air associate are among the top ten Vesinet, France, and her husband Tom in hotels, churches, and private homes." Technique. Sarah Ousley Will, Andover. corporate screenwriters in the region. live in a "beautiful village just outside Rick is on the board of directors of the ~~ N.H. , is a department head and an They have received several awards. Her Paris, and all of that coll ege French is Porsche Owners' Club and won a slalom English teacher at the Proctor Academy. hobbies include films, reading , hiking, coming back to me." Patricia Howery championship in '89. They have two running, the mini-tramp, aerobics, and Newfoundland dogs. Barbara Deisenroth Davis, Cape May, N.J., started work as a weights. Bill Edminster, River Forest. t crisis therapist last May, and is amazed Hinnendael, C, Green Bay, Wis .. reports received a master's degree in library ano by its challenge and how much she is her life is busy and full with four information science this past year from learning about life and the power of children, soccer, football , basketball , and Rosary College, and now is looking for a family. She hopes to finish a Ph .D. other activities. She volunteers at the job in technical services at an academ1c deqree this spring from Princeton school library, is secretary of a Cub library. He volunteers at the Gerber-Hart Seminary. Pamela Brown Day, Scout pack, and has several piano Gay & Lesbian Library in Chicago and Alexandria, Va. , was promoted in early students. She participates in aerobics recently finished a two-year stint as the 1990 to her present position as managing three times a week and loves it. coordinator of Mensa for Illinois's gay ed itor of aviation, space, and environ· Elizabeth Johnson Hult, Elk Grove special interest group. David Foss. mental medicine for the Aerospace Village, Ill., and her husband , Jack, had a Madison, Wis., is a computer systems Medical Association. She moved to new baby in February, which makes three analyst for American Family Insurance. Virginia with her family in the spring of children. She is busy volunteering at 1976 Phoebe J. Grant, Chicago, has gone '90 and had a one-person art show at church and the children's schools. She into business with associates in Tharlano NBC studios in Washington, D.C. Eunice also works in Jack's dental office. Beth is 15th Reunion-June 19-21, 1992 and Malaysia as an import agent tor Low Dock, Kipnula, Alaska, is a self-employed attorney and tries to stay wood furniture and housewares. She alsc temporarily living in Massachusetts. She current by attending and conducting has returned to school for a degree 10 took a one-year leave of absence from seminars on business and estate architectural interior design at the 1 her teaching position at Lower Kusko planning. Gail Nelson Johansen, C, 1977 Harrington Institute in Chicago ...she ;' ~ Kwin School District in Alaska. She has Farrbanks, Alaska, has been able to see 1 15th Reunion-June 19-21, 1992 finish her degree in June and hop u · been in Alaska for 13 years, and wanted many remote parts of Alaska since begin a new profession. ~he has bee~e to spend some time with her family moving there in '79 and touring with the John Andereck, Clinton , NY , moved traveling extensively to Asra and to tra again. Anne Spaulding Draeger, Los Arctic Chamber Orchestra and the from New Mexico to NY in August. He shows, something she plans to ~ 0 leSS Altos Hills, Calif. . and her husband , John, Fairbanks Symphony. She also has has a new job selling transit buses for often . Mark D. Helm, Monroevrlle. · 10 ~ had a new baby in November. They all traveled to Europe and Ch ina with these Bus Industries of America. He has been is a senior development engrneer are doing well. They had a visit from Gail groups. Next summer, Gail and her in the mass transit industry since 42 ALUMNI T 0 DAY
Aristech Chemical Corporation . His wife, Lawrence, Houston, Tex ., works as a director at Bethel Horizons Nature Ce nter. chairs the zonin g committee for the West Catherine O'Connor, '80, is a graduate research manager in basin analysis for He reports that "work is great, raising End Civic Associ ation, a neighborhood student at the University of Pittsburgh . Shell Development Co. In 1990, he was Abby is fantastic;· and that renovating a group. Jean Douglas Weinshel , Travis Linda Ericson Hill, Greenville, S.C., named the American Association of 100-year- old Victorian house keeps him AFB, Calif., reports that "needless to say, reports she is a mom and a volunteer. Petroleum Geologist's distinguished busy. Sarah Britton, Evanston , Ill., is the mothering responsibil iti es for triplets She and her husband, Dave, '78, are lecturer. Leslie Farwell Leline, Baileys working fo r her husband's company, H.H . are astronomical and overwhelming at enjoying the "good life." They travel Harbor, Wis., reports that being the Sales, selling computer test equipment. times:· All of her caree r, community, and several times a year with business and Northern Door program coordinator for They have two children . Jeff Edwards, personal activities currently are on hold. family. Their latest trip was to Disney the Door County Branch YMCA is Lake Tomahawk, Wis., moved back to Ronald G. Wopat, Santa Barbara, Calif., World and their next will be to challenging and educational. She Wisconsin from Ohio to "revive my recently married Kathryn Murphy. They Switzerland . They both are involved in the coordinates the schedules of village halls, snowshoveling skills," to live on the lake honeymooned in Jamaica and then in YMCA being built near them ; Dave is a hires teachers, takes care of the payroll again, and be closer to family. He is an Wisconsin. Ronald is an instructor of chairman-elect and Linda is a member and the budget, does any maintenance obstetrician and gynecologist and jokes mathematics at Santa Barbara City ship chair. They are looking forward to work at the hall s, and promotes the he is "catching many babies, only College. the reunion in '92. Tracy J. Kahl, San program . She also keeps busy with her dropping a few-it was much better after Jose, Calif., is a self-employed electronics two daughters and helping her husband the new glasses .. . having a lot of fun ." and computer design engineer. His build an addition on their house. Charles Nancy Fay, Champaign, Ill., and her 1979 C. Lobeck, Mequon, Wis., is the senior husband, Kendrith , '76, just bought a vice president for St. Margo Hospital in "new" older home, and have a lot of fun 15th Reunion-June 1995 Port Washington, Wisconsin. He and his remodeling and redecorating in their Robert Appleyard, Ruskin, Fla., a broker wife, Rosemary, had a son in November. spare time. Nancy is a clinical assistant for Criterion Properties, Inc., moved to Mary Ziman Lynch, Franklin , Wis., professor for obstetrics and gynecology at Tampa in '84, "just in time to catch the visited Appleton and Marcia DeCramer, the University of Illinois College of real estate rollercoaster at its peak and '75, in January. She continues to work on Medicine. David E. Frankson, C, turning downward :' He has enjoyed a "master's degree in world travel , with Oregon, Wis., works as an auditor and in moderate success and "wisdom brought only two more continents to go." She public affairs for the IRS. He received a by hard knocks: · LinaBeth Barber, tutors at South Milwaukee schools and performance award last May for auditing Portland , Oreg ., passed the architectural company is called KD L Systems. Loretta teaches mathematics and science at and a special act award in July for licensing exam in '89 and received Kalnow Kaplan, Northfield, Il l., is a Milwaukee Area Technical College. Anne teaching computers and software. He Portland's AlA design award for Portland homemaker and mother of three children. Peterson Maillette, Eagle River, Wis., is reports that new additions to the family Community College's library and forum, Her husband, Allan, is an insurance a self-employed heirloom knitter of natural are his first child in March and a an unbuilt project. She reports that agent and president of Akard Inc. Ellen fiber hats and sweaters. She is married to Wheaton terrier named Bailey. David and Portland is a lovely city and the Jares Kelm, Santa Rosa, Calif. , a self Michael, who is a custom cabinet maker. his wife, Karen , moved into their newly Northwest is beautifu l. She bought a employed telecommunications consultant, Anne Lippi Meyer, Kettering, Ohio, built home on 10 acres of land in small home and spent her summer trying has been establishing a business works as a bookseller for Books & Co. January. Dominique Frigo Geraghty, to fix up the back garden. Ralph W. television network via satellite for She and husband, Richard, '77, have two Oak Park, Ill., an attorney with Schuyler, Bornhoeft, Arlington Heights, Ill., spent Chevron. She spends the rest of her time children . Rebecca Lee Moorhead, & Zwirner, is having fun picking up her the last three Decembers at Club Med with family, "especially chasing after two Chicago, Ill., is getting her TESL teaching old avocation-singing. She is with a new Paradise Island, Turks and Caicos and active and terrific boys:· She occasionally certificate at Northeastern Illinois music group, Fleur De Lys, performing Guadaloupe. A CPA for Ronald J. Borden teaches SAT courses to high school University. Tracy Grogan Mooty, Edina, romantic-era music. Jane Hillegas & Company, Ralph bought a new students. Krista Vogen Knight, C, East Minn., and husband, Bruce, report the Stommel, San Francisco, and her townhouse in September. Jean Brandt Jordan, Mich., plays in Dr. Goodhart's birth of their third daughter, Megan. "For husband, Mark, have been in California Doud, C, Phoenix, was married last Home Remedy, a group that recorded an now, we're happily caught up in the for five years and enjoy exploring the Bay summer in Wisconsin after an eight-and album, What's Up Doc? She also plays parenting whirlwind:' Jim Murphy, Area and northern California. Their a-half year engagement to Mark Doud . her violin free-lance and directs the Danville, Calif., works as a director of favorite destination is Humboldt County, Northern Michigan Youth Orchestra. She compensation and benefits for the home of the redwoods. She likes to run and her husband, David, raise chickens, National Semiconductor Corporation. He and, as a middle distance runner, enjoys turkeys, and lambs and tend to an apple and his wife, Jodi, enjoy their three competing in half-marathons. Tom orchard on their mini-farm. Her hobbies children. Kimberly Neill, Boulder, Co lo., Lindfors, Chicago, attended Dave are aerobics and cross-county skiing. is a marketing projects administrator for Klaeser's wedding in Lake Tahoe last Kent Knudsen, Milwaukee, is an Cellular Solutions. She reports her only summer and ran into John Aries and his investment analyst for Northwestern child is her dog, Luke, and says she wife, Debbie. While Tom and his wife, Mutual Life Insurance. Harry Hansen "blew off lucrative public sector life in Valerie, were west, they visited a number Kraemer, Wilmette, Fla., reports that all Chicago to pursue a real life in the of national parks in Utah, Colorado, Rockies." Olaf Nielsen, C, Thousand is well in Chicago. He and his wife, Julie, Wyoming , and Montana. Their commercial Lydia Armstrong, Grace Jones, Shelly Oaks, Calif., recently returned from a five photography business is growing and had their second child in March. In July, Mahn Swodzinski, all '79, and Tracy week trip to Asia, Japan, Taiwan, and busy. Peter Musser, Seattle, went to the he was promoted to vice president of Klopstein Wassmann, '80, attended the more. "The kids did fine and enjoyed the Rose Bowl in January to cheer on his finance and operations for Baxter's Global event. "I think they had to see it to food, especially fresh fish." He still is newly adopted college football team , the Business Group. "It's been a lot of fun, believe it." This is Jean's sixth year playing the piano and working as a University of Washington Huskies. He is since Julie has been able to join me on teaching in Phoenix. She is contemplating product manager for Micom. John the senior vice president of research for several overseas trips to Europe:· He's a move back to Wisconsin in a year or O'Connor, Cincinnati, Ohio, is a director looking forward to seeing everyone at the Ragen MacKenzie. Janet Palumbo so. Richard J. Faust, Wilmington , Del., of investment research for Western Lavery, C, Lawrenceville, N.J., and her 15th reunion . Teri Wuletich LaJone, had an enjoyable time canoeing and Southern Life, a mutual insurance husband, Hugh, had a son in March. She Dallas, volunteers with the homeless. Her camping with Don and Meg Malde company. Martha Olson, Darien, Conn ., is a test developer with the Educational husband, Jay, is an attorney. Mary De Arnosti in the northern Minnesota moved to Connecticut last year after living Testing Service. She also is working on a Groot Lambrecht, C, Menasha, Wis., boundary waters canoe area the week for nine years in Minneapolis. Martha is GRE-revised music test. Lynn M. has enjoyed several speaking and after Labor Day. He is looking forward to in marketing and management at Nestle Patterson, Chicago, and her husband, teaching engagements. Last year, she reducing his work commitments so he Foods Corporation. She and her husband, Antonio, recently welcomed their first gave three different workshops on healing can devote more time to environmental Jeff, bought a house in Darien in child into the family. Lynn teaches science for dysfunctional families and a seminar issues. He spends his free time in a September, which has become their new to fifth through eighth graders at Sacred on biblical hospitality. She is a home nearby park walking and running with his hobby. Heart Academy. She received a master's maker and a Suzuki piano and clarinet two Labrador retrievers. Susan Gross, degree in linguistics last May at instructor. Christopher C. Lapp, Ann Indianapolis, and her husband, Drew, Northeastern Illinois University. Penn Arbor, Mich. , is starting a Japanese News recently opened their second restaurant. 1978 Ritter and Robin Kipnis, Hartford, Summary Service, which will be delivered They are thrilled that Susan's college Conn., are a "busy and fun and tired by FAX. He and his wife, Sue, translate 5th Reunion-June 19-21, 1992 loans are finally paid off. Jayne Rohlke household." Robin is on the board of Japanese to English along with working Herak, Euclid , Ohio, is in the middle of Mark Breseman, Mineral Point, Wis. , directors of an organization for battered their other jobs. Chris is editor-in-chief for her second term on the city council, and works as an environmental education women and their children, and Penn Auto Digest USA, Inc. David T. is trying to juggle politics, business, 43 ALUMNI T 0 DAY
school , and motherhood. She recently A. Meyers, Chicago, is an arts admini she won the "Up and Comers Award," was elected president of the "Better strator at the Center for New Television . given by the Tampa Bay Business Things" board of directors, a program She had articles published in Sightlines, Journal. David E. Eddy, San Francisco, that deals with drug and alcohol the journal of the American Film and founded one of San Francisco's most problems by building children's self Video Association, and in Hotwire, the successful computer dating services and esteem. Todd Mahr, Onalaska, Wis. , journal of women's music and culture. is in the process of opening branches in finished an allergy fellowship at Janice Rosenthal Parker, C, Emporia, other parts of the country. He is working Northwestern University, moved back to La Kans., is a flute instructor at Emporia with Ronald Lamberton to open a branch 1982 Crosse, and passed his allergy and State University and a director of bands in the Twin Cities. Heidi Nielsen Folks, immunology boards. He is practicing for fifth through 12th graders. Marcos C, Washington, Utah , is recuperating from 10th Reunion-June 19-21 , 1992 pediatric allergy and immunology at Ramos, Downer's Grove, Ill., is a a busy year. She received a master of Joel Alnes, Anchorage, Alaska, works fo r Gunderson Clinic, a 250-physician multi technical representative for software sales science degree in Texas and last summer Unocal as a senior exploration geologist. specialty group. His hobbies are stained and support at Information Builders Inc. quit her job to get married and travel He was transferred to Alaska last March glass work, volleyball, and spending more He is enjoying his new position and the with the American Folk Ballet, in which and does exploration on the northern time with his family. Catherine Andrea Chicago area. Lynn McCollum Saley, she dances. She toured the Soviet Union slope of Alaska. Susan Stockwell and Preziosi, Baltimore, sings often, a hobby Naperville, Ill., passed the certification in June and California and Utah in July Anthony Andereck, C, Moultonboro, she started after college. She sang in the exam for fundraising executives earlier with the ballet. James Gandre, C, New N.H., are enjoying the challenge of fixing Baltimore Opera Company production of this year. Now that she is certified, she York City, has an M.M. degree from the up their home. They added a deck this Faust and Carmen and has been a decided to break from professional life San Francisco Conservatory of Music and year- "quite the project: ' Susan enjoys soloist for the past two years at the and stay home with her boys. William is the director of admissions for the plants and flowers; Tony loves all sports Episcopal Cathedral Church. She also is C. Simon, Crystal Lake, Ill ., leads a Manhattan School of Music. He also has and "is still a die-hard Packer fan." an oratorio soloist with Baltimore area youth group at his local Episcopal worked as a choral singer with the New David Arnosti, Dietlikon, Switzerland, choruses, including a Handel choir and church. He is a national accounts York Philharmonic, The Metropolitan and his wife, Regula, are settling down in the Johns Hopkins University choir. Betsy manager for Conwed Bonded Fiber's Opera Orchestra, the London Classical their home in Zurich, Switzerland . They Stinson, Blacksburg, Va., was married sales and marketing department. He and Players, the San Francisco Symphony, enjoy long walks through the farmland last April to Paul Angermeier. They enjoy his wife, Nancy Hayes, '81, recently and at the Aix-en -Provence Festival in surrounding the lake and carved canoeing on the New River and hiking in purchased a riding lawn mower for their France. He has served as a board pumpkins on Halloween with Bob the mountains with their dog, Buddy. "massive" estate. He has been a fly member for NYC Parents and Friends of Wermuth, '77, and his wife, Nancy. Betsy began working for the state wildlife fishing fanatic for the past 10 years and Lesbians and Gays. David Heller, C, San "Everything is expensive, even before you agency in October '89, after she finished also keeps busy with his two children . Antonio, Tex ., works as the assistant convert into dollars, but nobody said an M.S. degree in wildlife science. She Constance Michael Smith, C, professor of music and organist at Trinity perfection comes cheap." Larry D. Ball, works on pesticide-related wildlife issues Albuquerque, N. Mex., married Greg University. Appointed the H.G. Barnard Albuquerque, N. Mex. , will finish a Ph.D. and recently has written a booklet for Smith this spring. They both train dogs Faculty Fellow from 1987-90 and selected degree in history at the University of New Virginia landowners and farmers on the for search -and-rescue work. She also is a as one of the outstanding young men in Mexico this May, and is applying for effects of pesticides. Regina Swingen self-employed piano teacher and does America in 1989, he teaches and teaching jobs around the country. He still Lee, Yukon, Okla., creates pen-and-ink computer work. Lynn Staszak, C, performs throughout the country. He plays tennis and "bangs the guitar; drawings for sale, on commission. She Imperial Beach, Calif., is a Yamaha music published a collection of hymn tune remember that fantastic rock 'n' roll act, and her husband, are still in the education instructor for Green Music descants entitled Laudate Dominum and the Yandapes?" Tom Barney, Modesto, automotive business, selling automotive Company. Michael A. Stein, Iowa City, was up for tenure this past fall. Lisa Calif., works at E & J Gallo Winery as body refinishing supplies and supplies for Iowa, has been elected to fellowship in Hollensteiner, Minneapolis, is an the marketing director of Bartles & James synthetic marble manufacturers. She is the American College of Cardiology. A emergency room physician with the wine coolers. He moved to California with active in her local church. graduate of the University of Illinois Emergency Physicians Professional his wife, Anne, after three years in College of Medicine, he currently is an Association. She was awarded several Minneapolis. There is "much more rock associate in medicine at the University of honors in medical school , including the climbing and skiing than in Minnesota." Iowa. Bruce Wermuth, Grapevine, Tex ., Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Society, the Jeff Bissell, Madison, Wis., is a and wife, Sherry Casady, '79, reports all Merck Award, and the Women in graduate student in the Chinese Ph.D. is well in the Dallas area. He is a self Medicine Award. During her medical degree program at the University of employed music producer. residency, Lisa was the chief resident. Wisconsin-Madison. He lived, worked, and Since she has completed her residency, studied in the People's Republic of China she has traveled extensively to places in '88-' 89. After his return to the States, 1981 such as Nepal, Australia, New Zealand, he taught Chinese at Nicolet High School Eastern Europe, Virgin Islands, and more. outside of Milwaukee for a year. Tara 10th Reunion-June 21-23, 1991 She enjoys cross-country ski racing, and Cole Christou, Cincinnati , Ohio, works Steve Adamski, St. Paul, Minn., is an has adopted a local Hmong family, a for Charles Schwab and Co. as a assistant district counsel with the U.S. mother with seven children. Peter Olsen, registered account representative. She is 1980 Army Corps of Engineers. He received the C, London, lives in an intentional on the board of trustees of her neighbor 15th Reunion-June 1995 1990 civil servant of the year award and community run by the Mennonite Board hood, a branch of local government, and the commanders award for achievement, is the chair of the neighborhood recycling William Gschwind, Lino Lakes, Minn., of Missions, where he coordinates and was named a WASIE Scholar. He courses on issues relevant to current committee. She also is studying Greek and his wife, Jeanne, added to their and his wife, Melissa, recently were and fixing up a large 60-year-old house family in December '90 with the birth of Christian life and practice, including married. Elizabeth Austin, Enfield, N.H., worship, arts, peace, environmental with her husband, Dionysios. Karen their third child . Bill is a telemarketing a self-employed artist, is working on Maim DiMario, Cupertino, Calif., is a manager for Red Line Medical Supply questions, and theology. He studies mural paintings in natural caves. Elayne psycho-dynamic counseling at a well· part·time biological sciences instructor at and is pursuing an M.B.A. degree at St. Bornslaeger Bednar, New York City, is a San Jose City College and a full-time Thomas University. Mark Hardy, Glen respected institution in London and writes developmental biologist with the Memorial that he is content. J. Susan Schmidt mom . Her husband, Joe, is a post Ellyn, Ill., received special recognition Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, where she doctoral fellow at Stanford University. Sam from AT&T's switching division for Robertson, Los Angeles, is a part-time is completing a postdoctoral fellowship. Elkind, Cheverly, Md ., works as a individual contributions to quality employee at San Marino Toy and Book She recently received a National Institute manager for cargo services in the air improvement. Mark, a software engineer, Shoppe as a bookseller, free-lance writer, of Health fellowship to study the and reviewer of children's books, Susan cargo safety and security department of is a member of the technical staff for molecular biology of mammalian the Air Transport Association of America. AT&T Bell Labs. As a member of the has a master's degree in children's embryonic development. Lisa Brady, Andy Hazucha, St. Louis, Mo., says he Javanese gamelan ensemble at the literature. With her husband, David, she Germany, is an information management was awarded the "longest time spent in University of Chicago, he has participated has traveled to Thailand, China, Peru, and officer for the directorate of personnel and grad school" honor by the board of in live performances on Chicago radio the Galapagos Islands. Helen Snook, community activities. She spends her free trustees at Washington University. He is a stations WBEZ and WFMT. David Janes, Westport, Conn ., is returning to the time taking classes in windsurfing, Ph .D. degree candidate in English Elk Grove Village, Ill ., is a programmer United States after teaching biology and German cooking , and painting. Elizabeth literature and currently is working on a and analyst for Weber Marking Systems. agriculture for two-and -one-half years in Russell Brunner, C, Tampa, Fla ., dissertation on the 18th-century novel CharloHe lsacson McGaughey, Seattle, Kenya. She plans to find a new home, anchors a morning news show and is the Tristram Shandy Lisa Howe, Chicago, is a purchasing agent for pulp and paper hopefully in Wisconsin , obtain a teaching director of community relations with certificate, and marry. currently is in a graduate program at mills for NLK-Celpap Engineering . Ellen WTUT, Channel 13, in Tampa. In 1990, 44 ALUMNI T 0 DAY
Impressions of China after Tiananmen In June 1989, the media bombarded ~stemers with startling pictures and stories of a heinous government crackdown on Chinese students protesting in Tiananmen Square. The gruesome images of shocking brutality are the memories of China that remain with many of us . Alumni Robert Heilbronner, '80, and Steven Pistono, '88, each take us back to China after the June 4 event and share surprisingly different reports from those the media delivered to us about the uprising at Tiananmen.
Robert L. Heilbronner, '80 Steven Pistono, '88 Personal: Age 33. Single. Lives in Personal: Age 24. Single. Lives in Chicago. Bolivar, Tennessee. Professional: Staff psychologist, Professional: English teacher, The neuropsychology, ·HCA-Presbyterian Great Time English School, Taiwan, Hospital, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, June '89-0ctober '89; document 1986-88; co-director/pyschologist, editor, Lee & Li Attorneys at Law, neuropsychology, HCA Presbyterian Taiwan, October '89-0ctober '90; Hospital, 1988-89; senior psychologist/ sales manager, Clark Leather coordinator of brain trauma neuro Products Company, Tennessee, psychology, Rehabilitation Institute January '90-present. of Chicago, 1989-present.
n September 1990, one year after Tiananmen, Robert n interest in Asian societies led Steve Pistono, '88, in Heilbronner, '80, a clinical psychologist specializing in clinical June of 1989 (shortly after Tiananmen) to Taiwan, where neuropsychology, led a group of 26 professionals to the Peoples he worked and studied for 18 months. He later spent some Republic of China on the first-ever delegation devoted to the A time travelling in and around Hong Kong and Guangxi, Istudy of brain injury and rehabilitation. His trip, sponsored by the a southwest province in mainland China. Pistono's ability to speak Citizen Ambassador Program of People to People International, Mandarin Chinese allowed him to converse with local people, in included stops in Hong Kong, Beijing, Zhenghzou, and Shanghai, both Taiwan and mainland China, about their interests, their where he had the opportunity to exchange scientific knowledge with concerns, and about Tiananmen: Chinese professionals, and where he also had the chance to talk with "The consensus when I got to Taiwan was that Tiananmen was a local people about Tiananmen: terrible tragedy, but that it had been somewhat blown out of "The tour guides on our trip were members of CAST (China proportion by the Western media. The severity of the action on the Association for Science and Technology). As members of a govern part of the Chinese government was never questioned in Taiwan, but ment organization, they gave us the party line, so to speak. But we some of the local people I spoke to there had a hard time believing did have the occasion to go out at night, to walk on our own, and that there had been three, four, or five thousand civilians killed by chat with people. Not a lot of the Chinese people speak English. the soldiers. They really doubted those high numbers. The people who were able to express themselves usually were the "Many of the students I talked to in Taiwan had a lot of sympathy educated, the intellectuals, and the academics; they were able to talk for the students in mainland China. At one point, while I was over to us about Tiananmen Square. Indeed, I did detect a bit of anxiety there, the students in Taiwanese universities staged their own little when the subject came up, but usually it passed. Tiananmen. They were calling for a constitutional conference to have "One of the things I came away with was how the western press all the mainland-elected, 90-year-old legislators in Taiwan thrown out tends to distort things. I spoke with a lot of people over there and of office or at least have their positions come up for popular election. the Tiananmen Square event was not as big a deal to them as the Many of these guys have held their positions for 42 years, which has United States' press made it out to be. The fact is, the people of many young people really upset. There were a lot of Westerners who China have had, as they have said, other movements toward demo were awfully nervous because they thought this might be a Taiwanese cracy at various times in their history- uprisings that have been version of Tiananmen. It wasn't. quelled by the government-and Tiananmen was just another in a "One day when I was sitting in downtown Guilin (a town in long series of these kinds of events. One of our tm•r guides, though southwest mainland China), some college kids began talking to me. he was a member of CAST, was very honest and open when he said We were having a real friendly conversation in Mandarin. I asked that it was something that likely would happen again. "The people of them about military service. After the Tiananmen incident, a lot of China aren't going to be deterred in their drives toward further university students were required to do military training and go to freedoms and democracy. politi~al indoctrination courses. I didn't know how to say conscription "When I first became the leader of the delegation to China, I sent or draft in Mandarin, so I used sign language and pretended to be out 3,000 letters nationally to professionals in neuropsychology shooting a rifle. These guys got real nervous and upset all of a announcing the trip, and I received seven or eight responses from sudden. They started to look around and they kept repeating, 'Oh, folks who asked, 'How could you endorse such a trip given the nothing like that ever happened in China. Nothing like that ever current political situation in China? I would never go on something happened: They thought I was talking about T iananmen. And I like this: It surprised me. I didn't expect that kind of response. Those think they were worried someone would see them talking to me as I people thought that by continuing to have a mutual interchange of made those gestures. That was the end of our conversation. information with the people of China, we were, in a sense, supporting "I heard all kinds of theories after Tiananmen-some really bizarre. what had happened at Tiananmen. I talked to a Belgian guy who claimed to have been at Tiananmen "I wrote back, explaining that what had happened at Tiananmen and he told me that he thought the troops that fired on the students was a politically related issue, and that the people of China should were drugged. He said he had witnessed a soldier who was just firing not be punished for their government's actions. The people, the randomly at students and was laughing as he was shooting. Who academics, the professionals, still want the interchange with Westerners. knows if that's true or not. "I feel really good about what our delegation accomplished over "One thing I do know is that the people in China and Taiwan are there. We started a dialogue with China's professionals in neuro extremely friendly and I really enjoyed my time there. I'd like to go psychology brain injury. Many delegation members, myself included, back at some point. If I decide to go to graduate school, I'll go back continue to communicate with scientists there. In fact, a few have to continue studying Mandarin Chinese:' begun collaborative research projects. There is a push to have greater - Lisa Ruohomaki communication between neuropsychologists throughout the world, and I'd like to play an active role in that:' 45 ALUMNI T 0 DAY
National Louis University at Evanston. She steering committee member of the Swanson, Chicago, recently has been with autism and multiple physical is working on a master's degree in Chicago Coalition on Immigrant and elected to membership in Beta Gamma handicaps fo r the Appleton area school teaching, and plans on another two to Refugee Protection. She also is beginning Sigma, the national honor society for district. She has a master's degree from three years of graduate school. She is a master of public service degree at collegiate schools of business. Erin the University of North Carolina-Chapel working full -time nights and weekends so DePaul University. Margaret Maguire, Torrey, Maplewood, Minn., in 1988 co· Hill and has been honored by the Autism she can go to school and has decided Portland, Oreg ., works fo r Garvey, founded her own company, Strategic Society of Wisconsin. All of Heidi 's "studying is harder when you're 30." Schubert, & Barber as an associate Alliances, Inc., which has since tripled in students are fully integrated into regular Mark Kohls, Green Bay, Wis., reports lawyer. Her husband, Scott Cameron, size. She works with the hotel and motel classrooms. Tim Micheau, Chicago, that life is busy and full. He "works all teaches fifth grade at Silton Elementary industry analyzing telecommunications works for Roosevelt University as a day trying to make people at the office School. centers to help them increase their profit student records and loan coordinator. He more efficient and attempting to introduce margins. Mike Youngblood is working is interested in pursuing a career in technology and automation to the on an M.A. degree in anthropology at the higher education, and plans to obtain a company." He runs at five in the morning 1986 University of Wisconsin -Madison that he master's degree in col lege student every other day and attempts to spend will complete this summer. He worked in personnel. Rebecca Shereikis is a some quality time with his family in the 10th Reunion - June 1996 India for the ACM program, spent a Peace Corps volunteer in Galan, West evenings. "Life has never been better:' Watson Fellowship year in Sudan, Egypt, Africa, and teaches English to high Elizabeth Shoemaker Kortenhof, El and Greenland, and did an internship school students. She wi ll finish her two Paso, Tex., and her husband, Michael, 1987 with Frances Moore-Lappe at the Institute years in July '91, and then plans to travel will probably move back to San Francisco 5th Reunion-June 18·20, 1993 for Food Development Policy in San around Africa. Mike Taylor, Appleton, this July. They enjoy the Southwest and Jodi Arpke, Superior, Wis., received a Francisco. He then did post-Hugo relief managed two local, state, and county do a lot of camping and eating Mexican master of divinity degree from Yale work in the U.S., Virgin Islands, and races as Outagamie County's campaign food . Elizabeth is a fifth grade homeroom University on May 28 and was ordained a traveled to Central America, where he consultant. He was elected county teacher at El Paso independent school deacon in the United Methodist Church visited with Judy Castillo, '86. supervisor in Apri l '90 and was elected district. Karl Kramer, South San on June 1. She now is serving as co· Jaycee of the Month in August '90. Francisco, Calif. , works for Brown & Bain pastor of the Superior parish . We as an attorney. He and his wife, Mary apologize for referring to Jodi as a "he" 1988 Takahash i, '83, are expecting a child in 1989 in our fall issue of Lawrence Today Dan 5th Reun ion-June 18-20, 1993 March. Kim Peterson Krueger, La and Ann Oestreich Bur, C, Minneapolis, Grange, Ill., designs and makes jewelry in Katherine Bugby, Vail, Co lo. , works as a 5th Reunion-June 18-20, 1993 traveled south last summer, absorbing raft guide for Nova Guides and as a ski Anne J. Clark, Honduras, Central addition to being a mom and working as facts about the Civil War. Ann works as a a conservation technician for the Art host for Vail Associates. She participates America, is a health and nutrition secretary at The Walsh Dunsmore in the Vail Mountain Rescue Group, which vo lunteer for the Peace Corps. She Institute of Chicago. Some of her jewelry Company, plays with the Kenwood is displayed at the Prism Gallery in is involved in ski search-and-rescue on teaches classes to expectant mothers and Chamber Orchestra, and teaches violin at the mountains surrounding Vail. Her new school children and helps the village Evanston and she participates in craft a music store. Dan has joined a shows. hobby is spelunking; Lawrence graduates nurse. Anne lives alone in a small house basketball league and teaches English as Erik Ketchum and Julie Neuzil are her without electricity or runn ing water. Clara a second language to immigrants from spelunking buddies. She enjoys the Connell, Boston, works as a staff the Soviet Union. Ted Clark, Mankato, company of her Black Lab puppy and assistant in advertising at Fidelity Minn ., is working on a B.S. degree in sees fellow Lawrentians, Chip Bartsch, '87, Investments. She still is considering mechanical engineering at Mankato State Ben Friendly, '85, and Rich Taylor, '86. graduate school at the University of University. Jessica Goodman Hartung, Daniel Fosburgh, Cascade, Co lo. , is a Chicago Divinity School, but currently is Ann Arbor, Mich., has started her own pharmaceutical sales representative for happy with Boston. "The working world is computer consulting firm, Macinteach, Merck, Sharp, and Dohme. He recently a rude awakening after the relative specializing in Macintosh desktop was promoted from associate professional simplicity of college lite:' Daniel T. publishing. She worked full ·time for the to professional representative. His Cullinan, Kansas City, Mo., is the 1983 Huron Valley Girl Scout Council as public company has been named "The Most assistant director of Greenpeace. Kristine relations director and computer consultant Adm ired Corporation in America" for the Klauke Day, C, Hartford, Conn ., is a 10th Reunion -June 18·20, 1993 through 1990. Teri Barlament past four years. Mary Louise Knutson, graduate assistant/adjunct faculty member McKibben, C, Atlanta, Ga., works as a David Hoffman, Palo Alto, Calif., earned C, Minneapolis, a free-lance jazz pianist, at the University of Hartford. She is in writer, editor, and desktop publisher for a Ph.D. degree from Columbia University currently plays with a jazz trio called her second year of graduate school at last year and now works for Stanford's the Institute of Paper Science and "Naima." Christopher Korbel, New the Hartt School of Music and is working Hoover Institution as a post-doctoral Technology. For enjoyment, she sings alto Brunswick, N.J., is pursuing a master of on two master's degrees, one in piano fellow. Patrick Schwanke, Appleton, has or second soprano with the Atlanta fine arts degree in playwriting at the pedagogy and the other in theory. She Symphony Orchestra Chorus, conducted been named the new Appleton East High Mason Gross School of the Arts at performed a solo recital in February and School head football coach, after being by Robert Shaw. Janet Mclaughlin, Rutgers University. Dean J. Laabs, C, is teaching an undergraduate music the offensive line coach for the past five Minneapolis, is an art specialist for first Jamaica Plain, Mass., is a free-lance theory course. She works part-time at the years. Pat teaches social studies at through sixth graders in the Ed ina School musician in the Boston area. He served music library. Kristine and her husband, Appleton's Roosevelt Junior High School System . She loves Minneapolis and as a composer-in-residence for the Elcho, John, enjoy traveling to New York City, and Appleton East. His philosophy for enjoys living with Mona Sykora, '88, and Wisconsin, public school system in Boston, Vermont, and upstate New York coaching is, "You have to help your Ju lie Stoker. Diane Pellowe, Chicago, is January and February of this year. He has in their spare time. Siri Engberg, a project assistant for the Chapin Hall players get out of the game things they a master's degree in music from the New Minneapol is, is a print study and Center for Children at the University of can use the rest of their lives." England Conservatory of Music in Boston . curatorial assistant at the Walker Art Chicago, working on ch il dren's policy Vicki Jo Beebe Lambert, Fridley, Minn., Center. She works with contemporary analysis. She also is finishing an is a qualified rehabilitation consultant prints and other wo rks on paper. She 1984 internship in the child and adolescent intern for Mansfield Association, a private also assists with exhibit installation. Prior psychiatry clinic at the University of firm . She is enrolled in a master's degree to joining the Walker, she completed a 10th Reunion-June 1994 Chicago Hospitals, a final step toward an program in vocational rehab ilitation at three-month internship with the Polly Harker-Smith, Asheville, N.C., M.A. degree in social service admini· UW-Stout, and anticipates graduating in Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York completed a master's degree in social stration. Peter Rudy, Madison , Wis., December '91. In her spare time, Vicki is City, which was a "great experience:· She work and currently is working at reports that upon leaving Lawrence, he a youth coordinator at a Methodist also attends classes at the Minneapolis Mountain Area Hospice as a social put his B.A. degree in English to "good Church . Ellen Latorraca, Cagliari, Italy, College of Art and Design . Jennifer worker. use. I found great success and personal teaches English as a foreign language at Merrill, Rising Sun, Md. , travels fulfillment in the areas of ski lift the American -Anglo Centre. She traveled throughout the country as a free-lance operation , landscape maintenance to Sardinia after graduation to train at an assistant stage manager. She has worked 1985 engineering , ill-fated campaigns for the English language institute, and turned a in opera companies in Virginia, California, U.S. Senate, and furniture delivery." For 10th Reun ion-June 1995 field study into a two-year teaching Ohio, and Michigan, and went on a the past two years, he has been working contract. She enjoys kayaking and 14-state tour with a musical theater Margaret Haywood, Chicago, is for John Roach Products, where he has spelunking in her spare time. Heidi company performing Babes in Toyland. written and produced scripts about beer, assistant to the director of the Vietnam Mendonca, Appleton, teaches children She took time off this fall to be with her ese Assoc iation of Illinois and is a soda, and credit unions. Kristofer 46 ALUMNI TODAY
family and boyfriend, but now is back on Executive Club of Chicago. Anthony L. Madison, Wis. , March 20, 1990. Carol W. the road again working for Opera Pacific GoUer, Houston, Tex., works as a 20s Thomas, M-D '40, Louisville, Ky., Nov. in southern California for another season. laboratory technician at Baylor College of Josephine Kilsdonk, '22, Green Bay, 20, 1990. Robert F. Hrudka, '41, Peter Neubert, C, New York City, is Medicine. Laurie T. Hines, Dallas, is an Wis., Feb. 23, 1991 ; survived by her Winnetka, Ill., summer 1990; survived by completing his final year of a master's caseworker for Immigration Counseling brother, William, '22. Alice Kube Lean, his wife, Susan Duncan Hrudka, '42. degree program at the Manhattan School Services. Eric A. Johnson , Lincoln, '22, Milwaukee, Dec. 24, 1990. Margaret Margery Smith Robinson, '41, of Music, and is planning to stay in New Nebr., works as an examiner for the Luce McCourt, '22, Wisconsin Rapids, Cumming , Ga., Dec. 1, 1989. Phyllis York when he is fin ished . He is playing Nebraska Title Company. Steven Jung, Wis., Dec. 20, 1990. Oscar J. Arndt Giraldo, M-D '42, Neenah , Wis. , with two local orchestras, the Staten Madison, Wis., is an associate research Wallschlaeger, '22, Lehigh Acres, Fla ., Jan . 17, 1991. Thomas Driscoll, '43, Island Symphony, and the Manhattan specialist at the University of Wisconsin Sept. 24, 1990. Edith Colter Dyson, Appleton , Dec. 13, 1990. Donna Green Chamber Orchestra. He's moved to upper Madison . Peter Lasko, Chicago, is an '23, Philadelphia. Henry E. Swantz, Nystrom, '44, River Forest, Ill., Oct. 19, Manhattan "with plenty of room for assistant teacher and playground '23, La Jolla, Calif., Jan. 19, 1991. 1990; survived by her husband, Robert, visitors:· He traveled to Germany at supervisor at Frances W. Parker School. Beatrice Baum Weil, M-D '23, Denver, '43. Rita Schlinger Hirt, C '45, Little Christmas to audition for some German Amy Miller, Chicago, is a legal assistant Colo., June 23, 1990. Ruth De Voy, '24, Chute, Wis., Feb. 22, 1991; survived by orchestras. Tony Plazzo, Kanagawa, for Letrin & Stein. Antonia S. Appleton , Oct. 22, 1990. Gertrude her granddaughter Elizabeth, '86. Robert Japan, is teaching English as a second Pennacchia, Italy, teaches English as a Selander Thurber, '24, Wisconsin Dells, A. Abernathy, '46, Pulaski , Tenn ., Dec. language. Mary Louise Holtz Ruppert, second language. Thomas Radtke, Wis., Oct. 24, 1990; survived by her 22, 1990. Marilyn Stafne Smith, M·D Nicholasville, Ky., completed her third year Presido of Monterey, Calif., has completed sister, Ruth Keeler, '35. Marie Finger '49, Oakland, Calif. of course work at the University of recruit training at the recruit train ing Bale, '25, Redlands, Calif., Jan . 18, 1991. Kentucky College of Pharmacy, where she command in San Diego. While training, Maxine Cahail Hohmann, '26, also is a research analyst. She is taking he studied seamanship, close order drill, Oakland, Calif., Sept. 19, 1990. Ethel M. 50s a leave of absence from graduate school Naval history, and first aid. He joined the King, '26, Eau Claire, Wis., May 8, 1990. to decide whether she wants to continue Navy in August '90. Miraan Sa , Chicago, Jean Knoblock Golden, '50, Arlington , Bernice Lounsberry, M-D '26, Elkhart, Va ., Nov. 20, 1989; survived by her in the field of toxicology. She and her works for Amnesty International. Sean Ill. Garnet Rutenber Tolbert, M·D '26, husband , John, '50. Joseph V. husband, Mark, live with a "zoo-full" of Scanlan, Astoria, NY. , works for the Green Valley, Ariz., Jan. 1, 1991. Walter Moriarty, '51, Crosby, Tex. , Dec. 2, animals. She has started riding National Resource Defense Council in H. Heideman, Jr., '27, Cape El izabeth , Saddlebred horses again, a hobby that New York City. Sharon Springer is a 1990; survived by his brother, Richard, Maine; survived by his wife, Enid Jarrett '54. John H. De Wind, '58, Boca she started when she was eight and put foreign expert and professor of English at Heideman, C '26. Constance L. Raton, Fla., May 8, 1990; survived by his on hold during her college years. Beth Lanzh ou Institute of Chemical Physics for Raymaker, '27, Oshkosh , Wis., Nov. 21, wife, Sandra Holbrook De Wind, '59. Ayn Swick, Chicago, works as a field the Chinese Academy of Science in 1990. Virginia Werner Houck, M·D geologist in the environmental division of Lanzhou, People's Republic of China. Gerald J. Fahrner, '58, Neenah , Wis., '28, Ames, Iowa, Oct. 23, 1990. Feb. 15, 1991. the Illinois State Geological Survey. "Yes Hilary E. Staack, New Milford, Conn ., Clarence A. Sinkler, '28, Green Bay, it's true, a LU geo major working in the works as a logistics manager and area Wis., Jan. 15, 1991. David J. Werner, geological field." Her career as a planner for the Kimberly-Clark '29, Milwaukee, Dec. 2, 1990. grammar school teacher ended in June Corporation . Candace H. Yashiro, Maui, 60s and she misses her kids, but now is Hawaii , is a research biologist for the Joy Smith Kurzer, M-D '64, North working with a great team of "adult Research Corporation of the University of 30s Miami Beach, Fla., Nov. 3, 1990. Steven ch ildren. They pay me to play in the Hawaii and Haleakala National Park. Engelbert, '66, Rochester, Minn., Jan. mud." Jeanne A. Verrando, Brighton, Miriam Lewis Lembcke, '30, 26, 1991. Kenneth C. Happe, C '67, Mass., works as an executive assistant for Kaukauna, Wis., Sept. 24, 1990; survived New York City, Nov. 21 , 1990. Autographix , Inc. and sings with a band. Births by her husband, Clarence, '30. Edgar R. She presently is negotiating possible Koch, '31, Grosse lie, Mich ., Oct. 14, recording contracts and has interest from 70s 1989; survived by his daughter, Judith 70s a few major labels and one independent Douglass, '62. Lois Kellogg Lewis, Jean and John Rowland, '79, a boy, label. She played in Boston and New York C '31, Madison , Wis., Jan. 11, 1991. Christopher E. McCarthy, '76, John, Jan . 1, 1991. City in February and planned to do more Elsie Stevens Lithgow, '31, Escanaba, Washington , D.C., Feb. 24, 1990; survived demo recording this spring or late winter. Mich., Nov. 25, 1990. Herbert Vander by his sister, Anne McCarthy Pearcy, '74. She reports, "Can't wait to bag the day 80s Bloemen, '32, Manitowoc, Wis., Jan. 19, job in two years, or less, with any luck." 1991; survived by his son, Richard, '65. Marriages Steve Wereley, Evanston, Ill., received a Gregory and Kathleen DeMets Bollom, Harriet Janda Clark, M-D '32, Sun B.S. degree in mechanical engineering at '81, a gi rl, Andrea, Feb. 12, 1991. Don City, Ariz ., Nov. 29, 1990. Edna Allen Washington University and now is a and Karen Lutz Hallacy, '81, a boy, Earle, C '32, Kaukauna, Wis., Feb. 23, 70s graduate student and research assistant Christopher, March 21, 1990. Larry and 1991. Elsie Nirdlinger Ullman, M·D at Northwestern University. He is in an Coralee Ferk OH, '81, a boy, Samuel, '32, Peoria, Ill., Dec. 1, 1990. Charles Joyce Gulbrandson, '70, and Hugo M.S./Ph.D. degree program in fluid Dec. 12, 1990. Robert L. Seiler, '87, ReHerer Jr., '33, Bella Vista, Ariz., April Martinez-Serros, Jan . 3, 1991. Joy mechanics using laser Doppler and his wife, a boy, Sean, Feb. 25, 1991. 16, 1990. Kathryn Thomas Richardson, Jaeckle, '72, and Kenneth Baggett, Jan . anemometry to visualize flow through a Julianne and Thomas Hogan, '87, a M-D '33, Sheboygan Falls, Wis., Jan. 1, 4, 1991. Nancy Norton, '78, and Frank blood/plasma separation device. Christina girl, Kathryn, July 28, 1990. 1991. Kathryn Marshall Lagerquist, Krug, Oct. 14, 1990. Zoschke, Eagle, Wis., helps mentally '34, Nov. 4, 1990. William J.A. Culmer, retarded adults develop and improve Deaths '35, Denison, Iowa, Sept. 3, 1990. Pearl everyday living skills as a St. Coletta's D. Kripke, M-D '35, Hollywood, Fla., 80s residential living assistant. She worked for 10s June 7, 1990; survived by her sister, James Grabovac, '80, and Lisa five months in London after graduating Evelynn, M-D '33. David H. Owen, '35, Gabrish , Dec. 29, 1990. Constance from Lawrence, and reports, "It was great Frances Seeley Armstrong, M·D '12, Syracuse, NY. , Nov. 23, 1990. James H. Michael, '80, and Gregory Smith, March to be there again :· Her future plans Milwaukee, Jan. 23, 1991. Edna Hughes Straube!, '37, Fairfax Station, Va ., Dec. 2, 1991. Dennis DeMets, '82, and Lynn include applying to the University of Van Hengel, '13, Waupun, Wis. , Dec. 15, 1990; survived by his wife, Arlene. Norton, Oct. 27, 1990. Erin Brookshire, Wisconsin-Madison to obtain a master's 27, 1990; survived by her daughter, Jean , Clifford E. Burton, '38, Neenah, Wis., '83, and Stephen Daly, Dec. 1990. Jody degree in counseling psychology. '48. Zelia Johnson Hilts, M-D '13, Dec. 5, 1990; survived by his wife, Esther Vanesky and Denise Crouse, both '84, Owen , Wis., Nov. 14, 1990. Caroline Fritz Burton , '39, and his brother, William , fall of 1990. Tanya Alexander, '85, and 1990 Peckham Iglehart, '15, Lebanon , Ohio. '48. Marguerite Massino Simmons, David McFadden , May 19, 1990. Andrea Margaret Wiley Munro, M·D '15, M·D '38, Ft. Myers, Fla. , Dec. 12, 1990. Hansen, '85, and Fred Maples, August 5th Reunion - June 1996 Princeton, N.J., Dec. 17, 1990. Doris Janet Kleine Void, M-D '38, 11, 1990. Kristin Jesion, '85, and Kreg Milwaukee, Nov. 24, 1990. BeUy Jennifer Ackil, Kent, Ohio, is a graduate Gardner Garlid, '16, Baldwin, Wis. , Dec. Strom , August 11 , 1990. Breu Zahn, '86, 10, 1990. Dorothy E. Elmgren, '19, Morrison Torrey, '39, Pekin, Ill. , Oct. 15, and Debra Lynn Johnson, Oct. 20, 1990. student in experimental psychology at 1990. Kent State University. Kimberly Foell, Neenah , Wis., Nov. 28, 1990. Violet Monica Buehler, '88, and Lawrence Appleton, works as a counselor and Grandy Howell, '19, Little Chute, Wis. , Jensen , Nov. 3, 1990. Jeanine Perella, careworker at group homes for Lutheran Nov. 15, 1990. Margareue Adams 40s '88, and Dan McConaghy, March 23, Social Services. Kelly Anne Goode, Wells, M-D '19, Wauwatosa, Wis., Feb. 1991. Chicago, is a membership director at the 18, 1991. Mary Weeks Mullarkey, M·D '40, 47 LETTERS Recycled vs. recyclable paper exists whereby one "school of thought" dominates and dictates. We cannot I appreciated your comments in the most recent edition of Lawrence Today afford this in a world where coping in a diverse world is becoming more on the use of recycled paper. I was puzzled, however, by your focus on important and crucial every year. We need to remain open-minded and what constituted "recycled" paper and what does not. Although I would flexible. An intellectually stagnant society is a dead society. prefer to see Lawrence Today printed on "recycled" paper (whatever that Thank you for reaffirming my faith in Lawrence as a great institution. means), it would seem far more important that, at least until short run Robert C. Davis Ill, '74 supply problems are eliminated, the publication be printed on paper that Evanston, Illinois can be recycled. As it stands, I cannot easily recycle it with either my ledger paper or newspaper. This is annoying, and I would prefer not to continue to receive Lawrence Today until it is printed on a more Reminiscences, reunions, and Lawrence Today ecologically responsible medium. I'm sure you have been deluged with letters after your opening sentence in Philip Brick, '81 the winter 1991 issue of Lawrence Today ·~ .. letters to the editor are . .. a Walla Walla, Washington rare thing:' So, here's one for you to add to the small pile. PS. Who needs the color glossy paper? If we printed on regular ledger or I love to get Lawrence Today, and generally look it over before getting to newsprint with fewer pictures, we'd save enough money to buy recycled paper any of the other mail. I'm sort of like a dog with a bone ... I carry the (which should be easier to come by soon!) magazine off to a quiet corner, and look through it as quickly as possible, with my eye toward seeing something about someone I know from my years at Lawrence. This issue has an article about a fraternity brother Politically Correct are rigid, not liberal doing well as an antiques dealer in New York, and notes about another fraternity brother who survived his "delayed mid-life crisis" and now has I usually do not have time to really read Lawrence Today; however, when time to restore his three classic cars. You rarely read anything about the most recent issue arrived, I saw the subject of Dr. Thompson's article someone having a tough time in business, or enduring any of the many ["Positioning Lawrence in the Battle of the Books"], I hesitated with troubles and tragedies of life. Those things we keep to ourselves, and pass trepidation as to what side of the issue he was going to take, and then on only the good news, so that we look successful to our classmates. "dove" right in. I am very pleasantly relieved and pleased that Lawrence My life has not been bad, and I have triumphed in a field more did not succumb to the current fad of the liberal movement. competitive than most (TV news anchor), and I only have one old car, a Contrary to what the Politically Correct purport themselves to be, the bit too new, and probably too clean to be considered a classic in need of group is extremely illiberal and intolerant of diversity. I have read many restoring. I have a beautiful wife, a great son, and a wonderful house in articles lately that depict one prominent university after another sliding an old neighborhood of San Diego, but it was a grey and rainy day when into the rigid thinking of the Politically Correct. the magazine came, and as I read about the triumphs and successes of all "We are a college committed to teaching the classics, to instilling the the other alumni, I drifted lower and lower, becoming more and more values of Western culture, and to fostering an intellectual community:' This depressed, dejected, and despondent. Then I turned to the last page, the is music to my ears; and so is this: ·~ .. let us not react so negatively to reunion page, and saw a great picture of myself, giving and getting a great the Politically Correct that we identify conservation with stagnation:' hug to a classmate, at my great 25th reunion in 1988! We are children of the Western culture and cannot deny it anymore than Imagine how that made me feel-great! For the record, the other hugger, we can deny our own parentage. As a history major at Lawrence, I or huggee, is Johanna Steinmetz Cummings, known as Jody in the old attained a tremendous appreciation for our heritage-all the pimples, and days. And, what was so interesting is that we were not close friends in all the roses. Sure, one can say that many aspects of Western culture as college, but really got along famously at the reunion. That's what the represented by the "Great Books" can be considered to be intolerant by reunion is all about ... re-meeting old friends and seeing that they still are today's standards. Centuries ago, Western culture was governed by rigid friends, and connecting with new people, and seeing that the foundations social structures defining all levels of society, with minimal opportunity to set 25 years before enable and allow us to continue in a context that is break away from one's birthright. In part, these rigid structures (as new, yet old. The people and values that we remembered still exist. represented by the Catholic Church, trade guilds, and aristocracy) were The photo has been used before in the magazine ... it stands as the defensive qualities aimed at preserving the society in a world where archetypal reunion photo. So, feel free to use it again, anytime, anyplace, existence often walked along the brink of disaster. Over the centuries, the with my full permission. And, I'll be sure to send my good news to my barriers dropped as wealth and individual rights grew in tandem with class secretary, so it can be published in the coming issues of Lawrence tolerance and diversity. When you view the Great Books on a time-line, Today. one can definitely see a progression that accentuates the beauty of Western Now, as you go searching your alumni records for Tom Lawrence, class culture. It is not stagnant. It is a rich mixture of many sub-cultures that of '63, you won't find me listed. Try Tom Pearl. I have used the name have evolved into, if not the most, then one of the most, tolerant and Tom Lawrence as my "nom de tube" since a TV station general manager diverse cultures ever seen on the face of the earth. The fact that we are offered me a job with one hand and told me to change my name with even discussing this issue reflects the strengths inherent in Western culture. the other (so I wasn't an English major!). Western culture continues to evolve every year, decade, and century. Today 's feminists, gay rights activists, and environmentalists will add their Tom (Pearl) Lawrence, '63 imprint to Western culture just as will the farmer, professor, and factory San Diego worker. What is important is that we study the Great Books with an open PS. My business is corporate presentations and communications. And, in my mind and tolerance that we espouse today. Institutions such as Lawrence free time, I also occasionally anchor the news at the NBC station in San represent the best Western culture has to offer-the vehicle for free and Diego. open discussion of values. It is not healthy when an improper balance
48 n springtime, every young woman's fancy turned to thoughts of being elected ''the queen of May." For the "crowning of the May queen symbolized, to them, rightful Krecognition and honor to the dearest,loved girl in Lawrence!' From its inauguration in 1906 until its end in the mid,60s, the annual May Fete included folk dancing and teas. The May queen and her court were the center of attention, however. Before the queen was chosen, the finalists, dressed in beautiful white dresses, processed into the chapel to perform the May pole dance. Also honored during the celebration were students and members of the faculty and administration who had contributed to the college during the year, and the mothers of Lawrence women. Today's Honors Day Convocation is an outgrowth of this tradition. Lawrence University Non-Profit Organization Appleton, WI 54912 U.S. POSTAGE PAID ADDRESS CORRECfiON REQUESTED Appleton, Wisconsin Permit No. 5