CLASS NOTES

featured in the Lancaster Intelligencer named vice president and senior financial Pre 1960s Journal. The article discussed changes in consultant with Merrill Lynch in York. Mary Inman Ziemendurf '31, Redwood educational approaches. J. Richard Conrad '66, Willow Street, City, Calif., recently joined the Woodside Stanley D. Deen '59, Lancaster, retired on retired from the , Terrace Optimist Club, where she is June 9,1997, from Garden Spot High where he has taught since 1966. assisting second grade children with School. He has been an English teacher and Jere R. Hoin '66, Lancaster, an elementary English at the nearby Taft School. performing arts advisor for three decades. school teacher in the Penn Manor, School Dorothy V. Fry '33, Stevens, recently gave Kenneth G. Zimmerman '59, Lebanon, District, retired. a lecture at the Historical Preservation was featured in the Harrisburg Patriot- Kenneth R. Hussar '66, Lancaster, retired Trust of the Cocalico Area. During her News describing his Saturday morning from the Penn Manor School District. talk, Mrs. Fry discussed the fox chases planetarium program at Cedar Crest High Judith S. Jackson '66, Willow Street, was which were popular in the Cocalico and School. honored as Lampeter-Strasburg School Ephrata area decades ago. District’s teacher of the year for 1997. Ms. Chuck Meole '40, Baton Rouge, La., Jackson taught fourth and fifth grades for recently won a gold medal in the 1997 U.S. 31 years. National Masters Weight Lifting Champi­ 1960s Barbara A. Saylor '66, York, retired after 31 onship held in Colorado Springs. Pat Bacher, '60, Philadelphia, retired in years with the School District of Lancaster. John W. W. Loose '47, Lancaster, received June 1996 after 36 years as a school She was a librarian at Fulton Elementary a 1997 Distinguished Alumni Award from librarian in the Philadelphia School School. McCaskey High School. System. George Blackburn '67, Willow Street, Donald M. Egner '49, Quakertown, and James P. Kopf '61, Lancaster, announced retired from the Penn Manor School his wife Doris, produce miniature pieces his retirement from Solanco High School District as an elementary school teacher. of furniture made primarily from cherry after 36 years in education. Bennett J. Cooper '67, Ardmore, joined wood. They exhibited their doll house Charlotte C. Picone '61, Lansdale, retired John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance furniture at the Pierce Branch Library from Souderton Area High School. She Company as vice president of the manage­ during March and April. taught foreign languages for nearly 36 rial department. Rudy Miller '52, Johnson City, Tenn., years. Dr. Michael G. Gerfin '67 and Gordon E. recently retired as professor of media Mary Lou Bume '62, Moosic, was named Groome Jr. '67, both of Lancaster, were services for the College of Education, East one of the "Champions of Youth" by the inducted into the Susquehanna Valley Tennessee State University. He was also Boys and Girls Club of Scranton. She is Chapter of the Sports Hall of granted emeritus status. founder and director of the Family-to- Fame. Doris L. Bridgeman '53, Willow Street, Family Thanksgiving Food Basket Dr. Louise N. Hardinger '67, Lancaster, authored a story carried in the "I Know a Program. retired as principal of Letort Elementary Story" section of the Lancaster Intelligencer Larry E. Oesch '62, Fogelsville, retired School, Penn Manor School District. Journal. The article described her mother's from Penn Manor School District. Richard L. Hibshman '67, Washington participation in "The Ophelia Petals," a Bernard N. Santaniello '62, Lancaster, Boro, retired from the Penn Manor School letter collection by the 1923 graduates of social studies teacher, assistant track District. Messiah Academy. The letters circulated coach, and assistant football coach at Dr. William A. Wood '67, Lancaster, retired among this class of 24 for nearly 60 years. McCaskey, retired. as principal of Pequea Elementary School, Each class member, when receiving the Ernest W. Richardson '63, Lampeter, was Penn Manor School District. bundle, read the letters and replaced his or named manager of industrial relations for Linda L. Nary '68, Carson City, Nev., is the her own with a new one, then mailed the building products operations by state data center librarian at the Nevada bundle to the next person on the schedule. Armstrong World Industries Inc. State Library and Archives. Myron S. Dietz '53, York, was recently Jay V. Sensenig '64, Huixquilucan, Stephen J. Brody '69, Lititz, was named featured in the Lancaster New Era for his Mexico, heads leadership training and president and chief executive officer of the dynamic teaching style. Mr. Dietz teaches development in a new church starting Intelligencer Printing Co. Additionally, social studies and Bible at Lancaster among business and professional people Brody is a newly elected member of the Mennonite High School. in Mexico City. Millersville University Alumni Association F. Perry Love '58, Lancaster, retired MU Phyllis Smith Brubaker '65, Lancaster, Board of Directors. He is a former elemen­ professor of educational foundations, was wrote The Lion in the Park, a published tary school teacher in the Lampeter- granted emeritus status by the Millersville biography of Blanche Nevin, noted Strasburg and Lancaster school districts, as University Council of Trustees. sculptress and poet of Pennsylvania. well as a former instructor at Stevens State Mary Brubaker '59, Lancaster, was Donna Ressel Ellenberg '65, Lititz, was School of Technology. Sally Halbleib '69, Lancaster, was named executive director of the Berwick Chamber of Commerce and Industry. Lois Wenger Jordan '69, Lancaster, was appointed director of development at Penn State, Harrisburg. Deborah Marko '69, Lancaster, contributed Sweethearts Four an article to the "I Know a Story" section of the Lancaster Sunday News regarding the retirement of Robert Lehr, principal at John They were the varsity sweethearts, and the photo was W. Price Elementary School. taken in fall 1939. Can you name them? (See next page for Robert R. Reidenbach '69, Willow Street, their identities.) Thanks to Harry Lines '40 for the photo. was featured in the Lancaster Intelligencer Journal for taking 28 students from his fifth grade class to the Loft for dinner.

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