Class Reunion Yearbook

Charlotte Gallant ’39

One special event for me since our last reunion has been the opening of Gallant Farm Preserve in October 2013. The Preserve is part of Preservation Parks of Delaware County and is located on land that once belonged to my grandfather.

I still live in Delaware at Willow Brook Christian Village and continue to enjoy no cooking, no dishwashing and lots of activities.

Virginia Lewis Jacobs ’44

Since the last reunion, I have been attending interesting events like playing bridge and having dinner with friends. I moved into an apartment and it is easier living.

My memories of Ohio Wesleyan are all significant. I was there during war time when the navy came; that was exciting. My time at OWU was all good. I was active in my sorority, Pi Beta Phi, and elected President, then had to resign due to election as Judicial President of Student Government. My roommate was the same all four years with additions made due to the Navy. My roommate lived in Boston and passed away in December. She was Virginia Kostolski Bartlet. My memories of Ohio Wesleyan are warm, good ones. I would like to return to see the changes. My son John R. Jacobs also graduated from OWU.

Janet Schmier Bogin ’49 Email: [email protected]

Since our last reunion (2009) Asher and I have moved to Piedmont Gardens, a retirement facility in Oakland, CA to be closer to our daughter and her family.

Some of my favorite memories from OWU are of meeting my roommates, who are still my friends.

Selene Elliott Butters ’49

I now volunteer for Opera/Columbus and the Columbus Symphony.

Helen Krumm Miller ’49 Email: [email protected]

I had been reading to 3rd grade students in Fort Dodge and also led tours at our Fort Museum for school children and adults. Now, I have moved to a town home in a retirement community where I volunteer at their service desk and also at their welcome desk. I also exercise five days per week at their wellness center.

There are many memories, especially of the Botany field trips with Dr. O’Neil and Dr. Burns and living at Perkins Hall with freshmen to seniors.

Elva W. Newdome ’49 Address: 990 Burkwood Rd., Mansfield, OH 44907 Phone: (419) 756-2206

Since my last reunion, I have been a private violin teacher in Mansfield, OH. My daughter Lynn and I took a cruise to Alaska in August 2013. My son Bill took over our business when my husband died in 2000. Bill and his wife Amy have 9 year old twins, a boy and girl. Our third child, Beth, was a professional violinist. Unfortunately, she died of cancer in 2010. My daughter Lynn is still a professional Violinist.

My dad graduated from OWU in 1909, my mother in 1915 and my brother in 1941.

Some of my favorite memories from OWU are of my roommates, Jean Watts and Dorothy Ann Hancock, my violin teacher and my solo violin recital in 1949. I also have fond memories of Buns, Chi Omega and “little sisters”.

Catherine Winkler Olds ’49 Email: [email protected]

Since my last reunion, I have been the director of 4 handball choirs, tutoring students, and volunteering at a thrift store and a soup kitchen.

Some of my fondest memories from OWU include, being a senior advisor at Stuyvesant Hall, being a lab assistant in the chemistry department and the association with excellent professors.

Lorraine "Lorry" Swatik Szabo ’49 Email: [email protected]

Since my last reunion, I have been traveling around the world, serving on boards, staying fit (hiking, snorkeling, tap dancing), supporting the arts, and enjoying all the many cultural amenities that Cleveland has to offer.

My favorite OWU memory is earning a degree in Chemistry (great department), which was more rare for women then, than it is now.

It was my ticket to a productive 38-year career at Standard Oil/BP.

Doris Roege Wright ’49

50th reunion, class of 1949, May 14-16, 1999- the last time I was at OWU. After my husband Gene passed away, I was able to sell the house and move to a lovely retirement community, with lots of things to do and people to meet. I even found Pat Ranneman Fritscher who graduated from OWU, class of 1949.

I have lots of happy memories of doing things with my roommates. We still have a “round robin” letter to keep in touch with each other.

William B. Ailes ’54 Address: 11820 N. Howard Ct. Spokane18 Phone: (509) 466-5315 Email: [email protected]

Since retiring, Virginia (Leisy 1954) and I have enjoyed traveling and many volunteer opportunities. We have been able to travel to most of the world and enjoy seeing new places and new cultures. We are sorry to miss our 60th reunion but we will be in Ireland then.

Virginia is in her 26th year as the volunteer director for our presbytery’s resource library. She is active in Presbyterian Women serving as historian in both the presbytery and synod. She continues to sing in our church choir. Bill, serves as President of the local food bank, is state secretary for the Sons of the American Revolution, and does some teaching.

Our best to all at the reunion. William Walker Amick ’54 Email: [email protected]

Since last reunion, I’ve been designing gold courses and walking on the beach at sunrise with my wife, Sara.

Some of my fondest memories have been playing on the OWU golf course for four years and winning the Ohio Conference Tournament twice and many other matches.

Doug Applegath ’54 Email: [email protected]

We moved out of the house into Independence Village assisted living here in Midland Michigan. Not much travel anymore.

Some of my favorite memories are of the girls in Stuy Hall, where I was busboy for four years, and the guys in Beta Sigma Tau- the first intercultural/ interracial fraternity.

Winifred “Wynn” Boin Breslin ’54 Address: 470 Terrapin Lane, Newark, DE, l9711. Home phone: (302) 731-5738 Email: [email protected]

Since leaving Ohio Wesleyan in 1954, I have never been back for a reunion. My husband, William W. Breslin (Phi Kappa Psi) left in l953 due to an injury to his wrist while doing some gymnastics at OWU.

We were married that summer and he stayed at Chanute Air Force Base, and I returned to finish my senior year at OWU with a B.F.A. degree (1954).

I was a member of Delta Gamma Fraternity.

Since leaving OWU, I have taught in the public and private schools of Delaware. I taught at the Delaware Art Museum for 25 years and was elected to the Education Committee, where I served for several years until I stopped teaching and opened my Wynn Breslin Studio at 470 Terrapin Lane, Newark, DE. I am still painting there. In 1966 our only child, William W. Breslin, IV was born. He graduated, as did his dad from the Univ. of Delaware. He has 2 sons, William W. Breslin, age 8 and Ian, age 3. They live in VA.

In l976,I initiated an event called "Open Studio" and I still open my doors free to the public once a year. I began this popular event to bridge the gap between artist and public. As a result, I have had several visitors through the years inform me that they either investigated, or attended OWU I feel that has been my biggest contribution so far to OWU. Last spring, I received a gracious letter from OWU president, congratulating me for my accomplishments. I treasure that letter.

I am still painting in my studio and in Maine, each summer. I paint now in watercolor, oil, and mixed media.

Some of my work may be seen on website: Wynn Breslin.com. There are several other mentions in Google about my doings, if you are interested.

One of my favorite OWU memories is of the wonderful "May Day" ! Since I worked several jobs at the university at the time, it was a wonderful day off. One never knew when the bells would ring and we all received a box lunch, so we could picnic, or go on some other adventure.

Bill and I would take a blanket and a jug of cider and enjoy our picnic out in the woods along a stream. I later painted that scene on one of the art school's days of painting and sketching ventures. Great memories still remain with me, as I am sure many other classmates, such as Dan Butler, Betty Vossers, who was my roommate, Ping Hilleboe, who all still remain my best friends.

I have many wonderful memories of my years at OWU Many of them are also great photos, which, recently have made them even more precious in my mind.

Marjorie Butler Burkhart ’54 Cecil Robert Burkhart ’54 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected]

Cecil retired from his practice of pathology in 1995 and since then, after traveling to and fro, we decided that it was time to follow our children west. We are enjoying our Colorado mountains and home in Durango since the move from North Carolina in 2008. It’s great to be close to bother daughters and their families, all of whom are Coloradans as well. Cecil continues to ski, though Marj hung up her skis when she turned 75. We both are active however, enjoying all that Durango and southwest Colorado have to offer…the outdoors, music, theater, art, and good fishing, as well as watching the soccer games of various offspring. Travels have taken us to many of the highlights of the Bay Area, southern California and Colorado. We’ve explored Arizona and New Mexico with several trips to our favorite fitness resort in old Mexico, Rancho La Puerta. Grandchildren have given us reason to visit back east. Three of the six are currently attending college , one at the University of Michigan Law School, one at the University of Colorado-Boulder and a third at Denison. Three more to go…hopefully we will get a Bishop yet! We keep up with many Pi Phi and Delt friends from the 50s but are eager to see lots of other folks at the 60th reunion, and event we feel blessed to share. We again are delighted to be able to say “good health prevails.” We share a multitude of those both sentimental and funny memories from OWU but the most obvious is discovering one’s life partner and best friend while in the process of acquiring an exceptional education….a B.A. with a perk. It was all good.

Dan Butler ’54 Email: [email protected]

Linda (’60) and I have had a busy and gratifying life since we were married in 1960, when I was working at OWU after returning from my our as a pilot in the USAF. We have lived in suburban Philadelphia since 1961, enjoying the rearing of two daughters and two sons. This was followed by eleven grandchildren who now live on the east coast- two were born in Tokyo and three in London. An MBA at Ohio State led to 14 challenging years at what is now Vanguard Mutual Funds, followed by Linda & me founding and co-publishing a weekly newsletter. Although no longer owned by us, the 2,000th issue was recently published. A just-ended 39-year stint as CEO and Chairman of a private incorporating and legal services company—(CSC) Corporation Service Company—has been an exhilarating experience as we have expanded from the small state of Delaware to fifty states and a dozen foreign offices. We have enjoyed a number of visits back to OWU, and are looking forward to my sixtieth reunion, and hopefully several more.

Richard “Dick” DeVos ’54 Address: 367 Lake Forest Dr., Bay Village, OH 44140 Phone: (440) 835-1546 Email: [email protected]

Sixty years can go by so quickly, as many of us know. It is disappointing for me not to have Nita also meet with our friends from the class of ’54 who helped define four important years of our lives. From Delaware, OWU sent us on our way to witness the many amazing changes the future decades had in store for us. Since 1971, I have lived on the shore of Lake Erie in Bay Village, after the many moves we made around the U.S. for Alcoa. Our four children are spread around the country in different states (OH, CO, IL, and MI) and have given us 10 grandchildren to add happiness to our times with them. Retirement allowed us freedom to travel and also pay dues to societies in need. Not everything works out perfectly though, as my lifelong companion suffered seven plus years with Parkinson’s disease and passed in May 2012. She escaped onto her next experience leaving many memories and grateful family behind. My best to you all. Harmon C. Dunathan ’54 Address: 1770 Tutwiler Ave., Memphis, TN 38107 Address: PO Box 284 Stonington, ME 04681 Phone: (901) 278-7736 (TN) Phone: (207) 367-2929 (ME) Email: [email protected]

Education: B.A., Ohio Wesleyan University, 1954 Ph.D., Yale University, 1958 (Organic Chemistry) Positions: Director, high school chemistry teachers project, June 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011 Mid-South Community College, West Memphis, AR, 2006-2007 Director of Development LeMoyne-Owen College, Memphis, TN, 1995-2006 Professor of Chemistry, 1996-2006 Special Assistant to the President, 1998-2003 Acting Director of Institutional Advancement, 1996-98 and 2000-2001 Director of Institutional Research and Planning, 2003-6

Rhodes College, Memphis, TN Dean of Academic Affairs, 1987-94 Hampshire College, Amherst, MA Dean of Faculty, 1984-87 Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, NY Provost and Dean of Faculty, 1975·84 (acting President, 1978·9) Exchange Fellow, National Academy of Sciences, at the Institute of Molecular Biology, Moscow, former Soviet Union, 1970-71. Haverford College, Haverford, PA Professor of Chemistry, 1957- 75 (Associate 1964-, Professor 1970-) Professional Activities: Leader in organizing the consortium: The Associated Colleges of the South, 1990-91. Member, Editorial Board, Liberal Education 1986-89, Guest Editor, spring 1988 Organized and led tour of faculty deans from eight liberal arts colleges to Universities in the former Soviet Union, Fall 1987. (Amherst, Bates, Bowdoin, Bucknell, Denison, Rollins, Spelman and Saint Lawrence) Organized Five College - N.S.F. Conference on "Cooperation in Undergraduate Science Education", Amherst 1986. Organized and obtained funding for a National Symposium on "The Role of the Academy in Addressing the Issues of Nuclear War", Washington, D.C., 1982. (76 Colleges and Uni versities were represented.) Scientific Research: Made major contributions to the determination of the mechanism of action of Vitamin B6. Work summarized in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 55, 712-716, and 71. 3888-3891 (1966 and 1977).

Harry G. Ebeling ’54 Email: [email protected]

Retired attorney. Active in local community, Oakwood Historical Society, writing, researching; Oakwood Alumni Association; Dayton Walk of Fame; travel Meeting Marty 1st day at OWU; dating her for four years, marriable- will be celebrating 60 years this year; participating in Student Government and Phi Gam activities.

Martha (Marty) Bowman Ebeling ’54 Email: [email protected] Retired speech coach at Oakwood High School. Active in community: President of Junior League of Dayton, board of Children’s Medical Center and Alzheimers’ Association. Raised money to build Pi Phi house at University of Dayton; chaired Pi Phi fundraisers- much travel! Meeting Harry the first day- dated 4 years, celebrating 60 years of marriage in December! Fantastic Pi Phi friends; Fiji Island parties; challenging professors.

Donna Parobeck Egley ’54 Address: 2690 Bella Coola Rd, Lake Waccamaw, NC 28450 Phone: (910) 646-4851 Email: [email protected]

60 years since graduation- it hardly seems possible! However, life during those 60 years has been good for us. After satisfying careers as a Language/ Speech Pathologist, Plant Physiologist and parents of three great kids, my husband and I totally enjoyed our retirement in Lake Waccamaw, NC. We are actively involved in church and community activates when we are not in “planes, trains and automobiles” or river boats. Travel these past five years, included Alaska during our 55th OWU reunion; Greek Island Cruise; Ukraine; Rhine River Cruise; Normandy and Paris; our own U.S. Majestic National Parks, and visits with family and friends in the USA. It is a beautiful world and our traveling has rewarded us with magnificent scenery, experiences with different cultures, and good opportunities to add to my OWU liberal arts education. What a great awakening we celebrated with OWU graduation in 1954!

Joida Turk Evans ’54 Email: [email protected]

I have been mentoring. I attended ULM (University of La. at Monroe) in ceramics. Writing, working in my clay studio, and painting. I attend Arrowmont Arts and Crafts school yearly in Gatlinburg, Tennessee. Being in the art department at Lyon Art Hall. Once, a couple of us art majors stayed at LAH between semesters to work on our clay projects- we joyously lived on canned fruit cocktail- loved it, and we were very productive. Best wishes and blessings to all.

Dr. Robert H. Gifford ’54 Address: 72 Edgehill Rd, New Haven, CT, 06511 Phone: (203) 776-0922 Email: [email protected]

I am currently Professor of Medicine (Emeritus) at Yale University School of Medicine. I spent most of my professional life as a faculty member at Yale, retiring in 2000. My background also includes three years in the United States Air Force and two years as a physician with the Peace Corps in Colombia, South America. As Deputy Dean for Education and Student Affairs at Yale Medical School, I oversaw the development of a new curriculum at the School of Medicine, and had overall responsibility for Admissions, Financial Aid, Student Affairs, the Office of Education, the Office of Multicultural Affairs, and the Physician Associate Program. On January 1, 2000, I retired from Yale, and spent the next three years as a full-time science teacher for students in grades four through eight at two inner-city private schools in New Haven, most recently at St. Martin de Porres Academy, a privately funded middle school for highly disadvantaged children. I now serve on the Board of Trustees of that institution. I continue to teach physical diagnosis and a course entitled Professional Responsibility to Yale medical students and continue to serve on the admissions committee at the School of Medicine. I have been honored with several teaching awards by students and house staff at Yale and have been selected to be the graduation speaker at Yale University School of Medicine on three separate occasions. I was a member of the to the Board of Trustees of Ohio Wesleyan University for several years and I am a member of the National Academy of Medicine of Colombia. I am a member of the board of the Koerner Center for Emeritus Faculty at Yale and a board member at Home Haven, a retirement village for elders who wish to stay in their homes. I spend summers on Littlejohn Island, Yarmouth, Maine, where my family has had a cottage for many, many years.

Glenna Hartman Higgins ’54 Address: 310 Grant St. P.O.Box 217, Harveysburg Oh 45032 Email: [email protected]

I earned a BA degree Sociology, Business, Volunteer Management Capital U. 1984 I married Charles Higgins ‘52 in 1953, USAF. Lived in Japan, Tx. Ok, discharged in ’56. Moved to Cincinnati for 3 years before moving to Dayton. (Divorced 1998. He died in ‘02 from unknown cause) 3 children (2 girls, 1 boy) 5 grandchildren. About to have 3rd great grandchild. I lived in Dayton, New Jersey and back to Dayton area since ’67. I have been very active in community service, boards of directors and pres. of several. Board trainer and consultant. Back to work in ’81 as volunteer manager in a large nursing home then moved on to manage an independent senior living facility then marketing the same. I retired in ’07. Lived at Friendship Village for 10 years to help parents who also lived there. After mother died at 102. I moved to a small rental house to live alone for first time in my life, for 6 years. Active in multiple church and community activities. I continue to use my expertise in senior living through a church ministry to provide informational meetings and counseling to seniors looking at the need to make a change in their living arrangements. Currently, I am in the process of moving to new home just purchased in Harveysburg, OH (near Waynesville) where my recently divorced and job hunting son will also live until he finds a new path, with oldest daughter nearby. My youngest daughter lives in Florida, where I visit as often as possible. I am very fortunate to enjoy good health and mobility so anticipate enjoying the opportunity of starting this new adventure at this ridiculous age. I find I can still paint walls, put up towel bars, arrange cupboards, etc.

Sending greetings to all classmates and look forward to interesting news from many.

Joan Ely Holwadel ’54 Address: 3435 Golden Ave. #1003, Cincinnati, OH, 45226 Phone: (513) 321 6408

I retired from my Deli 12 years ago. It was a fun career and reasonably successful, allowing me to enjoy trips as I chose and maintain my summer cottage in the U.P. of Michigan. I was married 10 years ago so, there are now with combined families it’s a really busy summer. I married Kent Holwadel from Michigan. He has four children so, with my three girls we have a relatively large family. We do enjoy them greatly and they are all very helpful to us. I’m definitely looking forward to the reunion.

Robert F. Howard ’54 Address: 12000 N 90th St., Unit 1085, Scottsdale, AZ 85260 Phone: (480) 451-2282 Email: [email protected]

As an OWU undergraduate, I paid for my education in part by working as a research assistant at the Perkins Observatory, under the direction of an Ohio State professor. In 1954 I entered the graduate program in astrophysics at Princeton University. My PhD came from Princeton in 1957.The next step was a two-year postdoctoral position at the Mount Wilson and Palomar Observatories in Pasadena, California. At the time I met and married my wonderful Irish wife, Molly. We were delighted to have three great children. The following two years saw me teaching at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. Finally, in 1961, I joined the Mount Wilson and Palomar staff in the research position, occasionally teaching a graduate course at Caltech. Some years later I took on the responsibility of being Director of the Mount Wilson part of the joint observatory. In 1984 I moved to Tucson, Arizona as Director of the National Solar Observatory. My retirement came in 1998, and I was honored to receive the Hale Prize of American Astronomical Society in 2003. Molly and I are now enjoying life in a retirement home in Scottsdale, Arizona.

Robinson G. Lapp ’54 Email: [email protected]

I was there for my 50th reunion. Janet Wallace (Lapp) ’55, and I have adopted and are raising our now 11 year old great granddaughter (have had her 9 years). I preside over a collection of nonprofits that have built, own, and manage 365 apartments for low income individuals and families in Denver. I am pursuing a degree at Chicago Theological Seminary, where I am a Life Trustee. Jan and I are active in a UCC congregation in Boulder. Some of my favorite memories from OWU are of the night Jan and I were pinned in the driveway of Hayes House- March 22, 1953, and taking Historical Geology from George Crowl. This evolutionary background has done more for my theology than any other single course I have taken. In the year following my 1954 graduation, I completed the first of three years of theological education at Chicago Theological Seminary, married Janet Wallace, my OWU sweetheart, and began work in my first church parish. In the 60th year following my OWU graduation, I am still married (happily) to Janet, in the ninth year of raising my great granddaughter Aubreyanna, I am president of a UCC church-related non-profit low income housing outfit that owns and manages 360 units for families and homeless individuals, Life Trustee of Chicago Theological Seminary, treasurer of another church nonprofit that manages the Rocky Mountain Conference UCC Endowment Fund, and still able to walk and talk. During the 60 years it’s been an intricate web of non-traditional ministry. There were: 5 years of Youth Ministry in two churches, one in Illinois and the other in Michigan, 5 years as a new UCC church start minister in Arvada, Colorado, 4 years as Executive Director of Metro Denver Fair Housing Center, and 10 years in management of two new town developments in New York and Texas, 3 years as organizing minister of Wild Rose UCC, 4 years running a company in Colorado and Florida that built homes for modest income seniors, and 9 years sponsoring the creation of small businesses in Denver that majored in the employment of predominantly single mothers. As a volunteer, I have spent 10 years in the restructuring of La Foret, the Rocky Mountain UCC church camp, 19 years as an officer of the RMC affordable housing development entity, 6 years as president of a rural mountain Fire Protection District, 10 years as a board member of Chicago Theological Seminary, 2 years as Executive Director of Mountain United Church Housing, 5 years as an organizer and president of the Endowment Fund of the Rocky Mountain Conference, 13 years as an officer and board member of the Rocky Mountain Conference of the UCC, 6 years as a member of the UCC National Board for Homeland Ministries and 3 years as a board member of the Office of Communications of the UCC, both in Cleveland, and 30 years of counseling, marrying, burying and advising, mostly outside of the formal church. In writing my autobiography, I have entitled the chapter on my OWU years: “Pieces Begin to Come Together.” I am forever grateful for both the education and the personal growth I experienced

John E. “Jack” McKinnie ’54 Address: 1595 Mozart Drive, Westlake, OH 44145-2356 Phone: (440) 871-2436 Email: [email protected]

I married Jean (Miami U. Grad) in 1960 and we have three children: Linda, Marilyn and Douglas. I served three years in the U.S. Air force as a statistical service officer. I played on the air forces championship basketball team. I then worked 35 years with the Standard Oil Co. (now BP/Amoco). I retired in 1992 after 35 years with Standard Oil. I was asked to return twice for short stints on special projects. It was hard to believe that I have been retired for over 20 years. I keep busy with family visits, OWU volunteer activities, Bay Presbyterian church (Elder and member of various committees) and attending many high school and college athletic events.

Debbie Donker Ornburn ’54 Address: 12000 N. 90th St. #3062, Scottsdale, AZ 85260 Phone: (480) 451 2236 Email: [email protected]

Ben and I moved to Scottsdale, Arizona in 1987 and have loved exploring our beautiful state. We lived in a great neighborhood for 24 years with two wonderful gold retrievers (one at a time- thank goodness) and visits from family and friends. We were fortunate to travel to many places- special ones were China, Bhutan and the Himalayas. We moved into a retirement community in 2011 as Ben had some serious health issues. Sadly, he passed away in December 2011. I have met wonderful friends in my new home, as well as keeping up with our old group. Our children have kept in close touch. Our son Steve is in Houston, and our daughter Cathy is in Chicago. I volunteer at the Heard Museum, play bridge and enjoy book club as well as being a member of our resident council marketing program. I am sorry I won’t be at this special reunion but I will be thinking of everyone. Have a wonderful 60th!

Ruth Palmer Roberts ’54 Email: [email protected]

About 6 months of the year, I spend listening to the GPS as I travel and visit new places. I relax in the Adirondack Mountains and the rest of the year, I spend carving and reading.

My lasting memory has been the Humanities education. That study has provided a firm basis for understanding life’s events.

Mary Byrum Powell ’54 Address: 3 East 219th Street, Euclid, Ohio 44123 Phone: (216) 261-9090 Email: [email protected]

I regret that I cannot attend the 60th reunion! I have a commitment to play hand bells at East Shore Methodist Church for a big musical program. I teach yoga classes and will practice the Sun Poses that weekend to bring you good luck with the weather for the reunion!

Barbara Davis Rix ’54 Address: 4400 South 80th Street #111, Lincoln, NE, 68516 Phone: (402) 988-8448

I moved to a retirement community in 2013. I am still involved with many activities.

Pat James Simpson ’54 Email: [email protected]

Traveling, enjoying grandchildren, working on genealogy, aging, and more traveling!

Some of my favorite memories from OWU are of meeting new friends, having a chance to get to know professors campus activities, and participating in them and a fun social life. Gaining knowledge from great teachers was a lifetime benefit as well as a happy memory.

Gordon Smith ’54 Email: [email protected]

Since my last reunion, I have been managing a company in California manufacturing manure digestors, working to help a school in Tanzania for poor children (1800), building houses in greater Washington D.C. and traveling.

My favorite memory of OWU is of meeting my wife of 58 years, Helen Crider.

Hal Stevens ’54 Address: 2539 Berwyn Rd., Columbus, OH 43221 Phone: (614) 486-3537 Email: [email protected]

I will be producing an art fair in Ann Arbor, Michigan that annually in July. I serve as curator for exhibitions at the Decorative Arts Museum of Ohio, and attend classes at Ohio State University and the Cultural Arts Center of Columbus.

Phyllis Waters Thomas ’54

Mainly, I enjoy my six grandsons who all grew up, nearly! I vacation with friends (mostly widows like myself) every year at the Hilton Head Island in South Carolina. I attended my grandson’s wedding (August 10th, 2013) in New London, New Hampshire. He is an OWU graduate and so is wife, Justin Keith Saunders and Erin Leigh Clayton Saunders.

I really loved all my four years at Ohio Wesleyan, but the best was my senior year. I met my future husband that senior year (D. Keith Thomas, now deceased). We graduated together in 1954 and were married in September 1954. Another favorite OWU memory- how could I forget “Spring Fever Day”? Also my classes with Dr. Ross in Humanities and sage advice from Dr. Ingraham, and religion classes with Goldie McCue.

Carolyn Huling Wenzelberger ’54 Email: [email protected]

I have recently retired, as of December 27, 2013, after 19 years with the Department of Veteran Affairs Out Patient Clinic in Columbus, Ohio. I look forward to spending more time with my children: Anne (Jim) Ryan, Upper Arlington, Columbus, Ohio; Ellen (Dennis) Guzik, Annandale, Virginia; and John (Andina), Singapore; and my four grandchildren

David M. Alpeter ’59 Email: [email protected]

It has been a long, long time since my last reunion, so this is like writing my life story- spent 25 years or so raising three boys with my wife Carol Veague (’59) and working for the Aetna. After assignments in Cleveland, Boston, Chicago, Hartford and New York City, I retired in 1994. Then several difficult years caring for Carol who died in 2001. Then several hectic years until I met Susan Wood (Conn. College/ Yale). Susan works at Pfizer as a clinical trial. We were married in 2008, (Robert K. Davis ’59 was our best man) and are living happily in CT.

The next five year report will be easy, Susan retires, living in northern Florida and valiantly trying to keep up with our six children and twelve grandchildren.

Carolyn Sharpe Batty ’59 Address: 28836 Jasper Lane, Easton, MD 21601 Phone: (410) 770-3867

Since our last reunion my husband, Jack and I have enjoyed frequent travel, including staying connected with our daughters and their families. Being part of the cheering sections at various sports, dance performances, and other special occasions never loses its charm.

Our travel most recently took us to southern Africa where we were dazzled by seeing the amazing animals in the wild and learning more about the African cultures and history. We have taken a western USA trip each year, and are always thankful for the beauty of our national parks and for those who made it possible.

We love our little town of Easton and all it has to offer, including volunteer opportunities. At present, I am serving on our homeowner’s association board of directors for our community of about 225 homes. It keeps me stimulated, as every day there seems to be something new on the agenda.

I am still active in P.W.O., a nation-wide woman’s organization which supports five notational and one international scholarship for women and actively seeks qualified recipients.

I especially enjoy ringing in a hand bell ensemble at our church. The Sunday performances may not always be perfect, but we all love playing together.

John “Jack” Batty ’59 Address: 28836 Jasper Lane, Easton, MD 21601 Phone: (410) 770-3867 Email: [email protected]

Since our 50th reunion, Carolyn and I have continued to enjoy living in the Easter Shore town of Easton, Maryland, where we have resided since 2001.

We both are involved in a number of volunteer organizations. We also enjoy this small town’s amazing array of cultural dining choices.

Over the past several years I’ve helped a friend who is writing his autobiography, “Winning in Both Leagues: Reflections from Baseball’s Front Office,” by Frank Cashen, former general manager of the New York Mets and Baltimore Orioles. Publication date is this fall. We continue to travel extensively- to see our grandchildren, Western U.S. and internationally, most recently to Safari country in Southern Africa. We still have a ways to go to empty our bucket list, but are actively working on it.

Martha “Marti” Leihgeber Becker ’59 Email: [email protected]

Since our last reunion, I have been busy with church activities, both my own church, Evergreen Presbyterian Church, and the Presbytery of the Mid-South. Just prior to our last reunion, I was installed as Moderator-elect for the Presbyterian Women of the Presbytery (PWP), an office I served for two years. In 2011, I was installed as Moderator for the PWP. In that office I also served as Vice- Moderator of the Presbytery of the Mid-South, and in February 2013, I was installed as Moderator of the Presbytery. I now serve as the Moderator of the Presbytery Council. These have been an interesting five years as our denomination at all levels is going through changes. At Evergreen I continue to sing in the choir, and until January 2011, I was the Clerk of Session. As Vice-Moderator of the Presbyterian Women of Evergreen, I planned some of the programs and organize the Bible Studies. In the spring of 2013, Evergreen sold the church property to Rhodes College, a Presbyterian College much like OWU, which is directly across the street from the church. We continue to worship in the sanctuary, however, there are changes. We are also in the process of looking for a co-pastor who will become solo pastor when the current pastor retires, and I serve on the search committee. My daughter, MJ, lives a little over a mile from me and was married last November.

I have many fond memories of my years at OWU. I think the best are of activities and time with my friends as well as music, choir, choir tours, and being in the chorus of “Kiss Me Kate.” I also remember Religious Emphasis Week in our senior year when I was the Hospitality Chair, providing special times for our guest speakers.

Nancy Betts Bowman ’59 Address: 3289 Grenway Rd, Shaker Heights, OH 44172 Phone: (216) 751-1250

I have enjoyed being back in Ohio since David retired in 1999. However, we love our 13 years in Buffalo- one of the most underrated and misunderstood cities in the country. Everyone should try a visit there sometime; you’ll see what I’m talking about.

We go nowhere in the winter, but spend 3+ months of the summer at our old log cabin on Rangley Lake, Maine, in the beautiful western mountain and lake area of the state. Pure Bliss!

Mary Glass Brown ’59 Email: [email protected]

Since my last reunion, I am the recently retired president of Chardon Methodist Church. I have been watching my grandkids play soccer, basketball, swimming and tennis.

My favorite OWU memories are of playing basketball, swimming, volleyball and softball for all 4 years. I loved being in the swim club and president of my senior year. I taught college students swimming and volleyball my second semester junior year.

Alberti Cinelli ’59 Email: [email protected]

Since the last reunion I attended, I have been enjoying life with gratitude.

Barbara Firl Costen ’59

Michael Davis ’59

Robert K. Davis ’59 Email: [email protected]

Davis retired in November 2004 as the owner of a MFGR’s representative firm which sold electrical/electronic products. He has raised three children, all married, and has six granddaughters and one grandson. He married Nancy Blodgett, who graduated from Centenary College on July 15, 1959.

I continued running after OWU and eventually ran marathons in Boston and NY.

Patricia “Pat” Cochran Davis ’59 Address: 1160 Turnberry Lane, York, PA, 17403 Phone: (717) 852-7089 Email: [email protected]

I married my high school classmate in June, 1960. I taught 2nd grade for 3 years until our 1st son, Rob, was born in 1962. Our 2nd son came in 1965, and our 3rd son was born in 1974. I stayed at home with the boys, during which time I did a lot of volunteering in many different organizations in my free time. We now have 4 grandsons and 3 granddaughters. We have traveled to many countries, including several mission trips to India.

Bob retired from his medical practice in 2002 and we moved to a townhouse after living for 27 years in an old stone farmhouse on 100 acres. We still keep busy with a variety of activities and spend 2 months during the winter in FL. I'm looking forward to seeing "old" friends from my days at OWU at the reunion!!

Dorothy Eileen Hammond Dexheimer ’59 Address: 8664 Jeffery Way, Machesney Park, IL 61115 Phone: (815) 633-2353 Email: [email protected]

After working in personnel at the Higbee Co., Cleveland, OH, for two years, I realized this was a dead end job for me and I sought something more stable. Ohio State University was offering the opportunity to obtain a teaching degree in a short time to anyone who already had a college degree.

While teaching 4th grade students in the Bath-Richfield, Ohio, schools, I learned to fly a Piper Cherokee plane, play tennis and I dabbled in oil painting. But after 6 years of teaching, I sought to combine my personnel work interest with teaching and headed to the University of Illinois at the Champaign-Urbana campus. A grant with the Dean of Women’s Office allowed me to obtain a master’s in Education, majoring in Guidance and Counseling at the Elementary School level. The day I was to walk down the aisle to pick up my certificate, I was in Breckenridge, CO, obtaining my MRS., and I added Dexheimer to my name.

Donald (Robert Donald Dexheimer III) went into business after serving 2 years in Korea in the U.S. Army. I joined him in Korea in 1968 for 8 months of his term. When he returned from Korea, he obtained his masters in Business Administration from the Kellogg School at Northwestern University Don spent 20 years in business during which we raised two beautiful and talented daughters. As they advanced in their schooling, I returned to teaching and then counseling in public elementary schools. After 20 years in business, my husband answered the call into ministry. During those years we took turns being the main “bread winner” in the family.

With Don’s seminary training complete, the oldest daughter out of college and in her first job, and the youngest daughter in her junior year of college, Don and I sold our home and devoted one year (1994) to missionary work in Russia, the Far East. Returning from Russia, I continued as an elementary school counselor and pastor’s wife as we served the United Methodist Church. We returned to Russia in 1999 and again in 2001. We were there on 9/11 watching our home country being attacked!

While Don served in ministry in Indiana, I had one of the richest experiences of my life when I was invited to serve as a Chaplain at a local hospital. I hold many rewarding memories from that year.

Don retired from ministry in Indiana, and I from public service, and we moved to IL in 2007. However, he took up ministering again here in IL and we currently serve a small church in walking distance from our retirement home. I continue to garden, preserve food, hike, attend aerobic classes and golf. But most of all, I enjoy hosting family and friends for an evening of dinner and games. Both of our daughters are happily married to good Christian men and have blessed us with four beautiful grandchildren, all close enough to visit often. I have been richly blessed and I credit part of that to my childhood growing up with a loving family on a dairy farm, and then to the catapult from Ohio Wesleyan in 1959.

Sally Reiff Dickey ’59 Email: [email protected]

We love our Florida weather, especially this winter. We swim, participate in water aerobics, bicycle, and enjoy the beach. Our Viking River Cruise last summer was outstanding. I had a new knee replacement in November and cataracts removed in March. We spent Christmas in Kansas City with our four children, spouses, and 11 grandchildren in home for 5 days. What a blast! We will miss the reunion this year for we have found it is becoming much harder to drive or fly. One of my favorite memories from OWU is of getting pinned to Jim Dickey at Sulfur Springs, just like Rutherford B. Hayes pinned Lucy. We celebrated our 55th wedding anniversary last August.

Carol Rees Eickhoff ’59 Email: [email protected]

My life since 2009: During the past five years my main interests have been divided among family, church, and travel. Our son, Jim, and wife live in Cincinnati and their two kids have graduated from college and are employed, thankfully! Our son, Bill, died in 2011 and his widow and three kids live in the Chicago area; two of them are in college and Kristie is on the sales team at a software company. Our daughter, Linda, lives with her family in Lebanon, OH. Her husband has survived a brain tumor for two years and continues to trust the Lord to give him additional years so he can see his son graduate from high school in 2015, and daughter graduate from college in 2017. Jim and I are both involved with Bible study groups and I sing in the church choir. We are avid readers and spend summers at our lake house in Door County, WI, where I take care of the flowers, and Jim, the veggies. My freezer jam (strawberry, raspberry, and peach) is a family favorite. We have done a little less traveling in the past few years, but did take a river boat tour from St. Petersburg to Moscow and a driving trip through the Canadian maritime provinces. Additionally, we usually spend some time in Florida in March, in Atlanta to visit my sister and her extended family, and at our son Jim’s lake house in Tennessee. Looking back over the past 55 years since I left Ohio Wesleyan, I can see how the Lord has led me in amazing ways. We have been blessed with a wonderful family, many friends, and opportunities to experience the mundane and exotic all over the world. Our prayer is to be His servants wherever He puts us and to reflect His goodness to those around us. I am looking forward to returning again to OWU and renewing the ties we first developed there.

Jill Shanks Eliot ’59 and Don Eliot ’59 Address: 615 S. Hague Avenue, Columbus, Ohio 43204 Phone: (614) 278-7745 Email: [email protected]

In 2009, our family legacy with Ohio Wesleyan was reported and printed in the Ohio Wesleyan Magazine by Gretchen Hirsch. We have had 28 members of our family attend Ohio Wesleyan.

During 2012-2014 Jill's company, The Imaginating Dramatics Company, performed several times through last spring and summer. The first production was THE BROADWAY BEAT, featuring scenes from “Hello Dolly”, “Fiddler on the Roof” and “West Side Story”. Summer brought an original play by Jill with music entitled, "Stars for a Day" featuring the life story of Elsie Janis, a Columbus Actress, Author, Entertainer. In late summer, the final production of the Imaginating Dramatics Company was “Into the Woods”. Following that production, Jill took a hiatus from Imaginating which has become permanent. Jill will do a few small scale plays and will work with Joanna Van Sickle (OWU 2012). Summer of 2013 found Leah Shaefer OWU '13 serving as an intern at Imaginating. Jill has been working with OWU theatre grads for many years, a fulfilling part of her position. The reason for the hiatus was due to Don's very serious and ongoing health problems. From triple bypass heart surgery on to cancer, the road has been a little rocky to say the least. Don is still working in audiology and with hearing aids at his Grandview office.

While he was rehab he repaired aids and saw some of his patients. Amazing person! He is also part of the First Community Church media crew and just like the postmen - neither health nor weather will keep him away from his avocation! Jill is helping him with his business. She is also a very active member of the First Community Church Women's Guild Executive Board and is currently working on a script, based on American poets, which goes up Saturday, May 10 in the Columbus, Ohio area. We're sorry to miss the festivities! Happy double nickel reunion, everyone.

Bob Ferguson ’59 Address: 340 Sand Key Dr. #26, Clearwater. FL 33767 Phone: (727) 365-8462 Email: [email protected] The Tampa Bay Lightning Hockey team honored us as “Lightening Community Heroes” in recognition of our volunteer work for more than 20 years. We were presenting a $50,000 donation to Morton Plant Mease Foundation in support of the camp Living Springs, a camp for adult cancer survivors.

Lowell R. Fleischer ’59 Address: 16424 John Rowland Trail, Milton, DE 19968 Phone: (302) 645-5709 (home) (703) 867-9630 (cell) Email: [email protected]

I finally retired from all remunerative activities when I reached 75 in Mach 2012. Since my wife Arline and I moved to the Delaware shore in 2012, I had been driving into Washington D.C. at least once a week to touch at the State Department’s Foreign Service Institute. About every six weeks or so I drive into Columbia, MD. To have lunch with 6-8 OWU graduates, including Jack Batty and Bob Barnhouse from the class of ’59. Our lively discussions are great fun, even if we have not been able to solve many of the world’s problems. Arline and I are both active volunteers for many organizations in our community, including the historic Lewis Farmer’s Market, St. Peter’s Episcopal Church (of which I am the treasurer), Literacy Education Pups (where children read to our dog), the Rehoboth Art League, and others. We also enjoy traveling, both in the U.S. and abroad. Our two children and granddaughter live I the D.C. area so we see them frequently both here at the beach and at their homes in Fall Church, VA and Bethesda, Maryland.

Robert E. French ’59

After graduating from OWU in 1959, I attended Ohio State University College of Medicine, and spent my career as a Primary Care Physician at the University of Kentucky. I served many years on Board of Directors for Ramey Children's Home in Ashland Kentucky. I retired in 2003, and active at Mt. Horeb Presbyterian Church in Lexington, Kentucky. Activities include hiking, travel, gardening, historical studies, Civil War Round Table, and singing with the Appalachian Association of Sacred Harp Singers, dedicated to preservation of early 19th Century tradition of "Shape-note" singing. My favorite OWU memory was participating in the Men's Glee Club under Professor Gordon Almstead, and our combined rendition directed by Rexford Keller with the Orchestra and Girl's Glee Club of Arthur Honegger's Symphonic Psalm, "King David," narrated by Basil Rathbone.

Fred Fulmer ’59 Address: 161 East Chicago Ave. Suite 47B, Chicago, IL 60611 Phone: (312) 943-9012 Email: [email protected]

My wife Judy and I have been enjoying my retirement for the last seventeen years on the 47th floor of a high rise condo overlooking Lake Michigan in downtown Chicago. We enjoy cooking together, walking the lakefront, and taking full advantage of Chicago’s varied restaurants and cultural attractions. My hobbies include photography, reading and fishing – yes, in downtown Chicago. My days are full, and I can’t imagine how I ever found the time for work.

Judy and I travel extensively – we’ve hit all the continents except Antarctica. We recently completed a two week cruise around the British Isles. I have been doing "inn to inn" trekking with a Denison buddy for the last eleven years. We have gone trekking in England, Scotland, Switzerland, and New Zealand, and have hiked around the San Francisco Bay and north to Sonoma in the California wine country. In June, we will return to England for a hike in the Dorset - Wessex area. My knees have told me that my running career is over, but I can still walk and exercise almost daily. For intellectual stimulation, I participate in a “peer learning” program at nearby Northwestern University where we tackle a broad range of subjects. I also belong to a writing group at Northwestern and have had photographs and a written composition published in a Northwestern Journal.

Gloria Allston Gibson ’59 Address: 7314 Drum Point Road, St. Michaels, MD 21663 Phone: (410) 745-9762

Retirement has been pleasant for Jim and I as we enjoy our home near historic St. Michaels on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. We enjoy the sunsets on our creek that goes into Chesapeake Bay. Our daughter, Karin, is thriving in her day program and nearby group home. Our son, Doug, works for Hewlett Packard in Fort Collins, CO. I keep busy being the co-volunteer coordinator for the therapeutic horseback riding program in which Karin rides. This Christmas, being in St. Michaels Ornament Committee has kept us both busy for the last ten years- a new design each year representing our area and selling about 2,000 each year- all to support local beneficiaries. Quilting is another interest, and I belong to several creative groups. We appreciate our good health and enjoy our travels as well and seeing family and friends.

Ann King Gunsalus ’59 Address: PO box 711, E. Orleans, MA 02643 Email: [email protected]

I have enjoyed twenty years on Cape Cod with Jim. We live in a house overlooking Nauset Beach on the Atlantic. Our boys and six grandchildren are frequent visitors. Every day is a different experience on the ocean.

I keep busy in a writers group, a book club, my garden club and our little church on beach road.

Nancy Hopkins Haines ’59 Address: 24932 Gold Finch Lane, Hollywood, MD 20636 Phone: (301) 373-3586 Email: [email protected]

While I did not graduate form OWU, I have fond memories of my time there and the girls of Monet Hall. The education foundation I received in my one and a half years there enabled me to succeed when I finished my degree many years later. I enjoyed a wonderful career in education first as a sub teacher, then as a school library media specialist. Books are still my first love- I’m luke warm to the technology but accept it as the current communication tool. Even though my marriage ended after 40 years, it provided many happy experiences, help completing my education, 3 children, 7 grandchildren and 6 great grandchildren (so far). Now I am very happy living in Maryland and traveling the country with an old high school friend. I’ll always have a spot in my heart for OWU, a great, great school.

Jack and Peggy Reed Hammett ’59

Since our last reunion we have become more adjusted to really being retired. We do some volunteer work, Jack still participates in local musical activities, and we usually cruise once a year.

Jack- singing in the choir and going on the yearly tours. Peggy- dorm life in Monnett and Austin Halls with good friends.

Gay Martin Hendricks ’59 Email: [email protected]

Since the last reunion, John and I continue to call Bella Vista, Arkansas our home base. We are fortunate to continue to do a lot of traveling. We do spend our summers up in Cumberland, WI, which is close to family who live in the Twin cities, Minnesota.

My favorite memory from OWU is from my freshman year on the “Tweechie” corridor of Stuy, a wonderful beginning to four memorable years at OWU.

Mary Kookootsede Jannides ’59 Email: [email protected]

I retired from teaching high school two years ago. I continue to coach the high school swim team (both boys and girls) and the YMCA Swim Team older age group (15-18 year olds). I have coached the high school team since 1982 and the Y team since 1995. Along with this, I teach Sunday School to 16-18 year olds and have done this for 39 years. In 2011, during the summer, my youngest daughter and I went to Greece and met my first cousins for the first time. This was my first visit to Greece and I visited my parents’ home towns. I met the families of my aunt and uncle, which was wonderful. During this new retired time I have been working in my flower garden and have read many books. I continue to substitute teach in the high school.

Living at Stuyvesant my freshmen year and all the good friends that I met and still have contact with from the infamous “Tweetie” hall! All the good friends that I met through the Alpha Gam sorority and from all my classes at OWU.

Elaine Fately Keener ’59 Address: 11146 Harbor Court, Reston, VA 20191 Phone: (571) 528-8555 Email: [email protected]

I received a MA from university of Vermont in 1979 in Art Therapy and a BA from university of North Carolina in 1994 in Painting. I worked as an Art Therapist for twenty years.

I have two children; Christine Cintron and Thad Kenner. I have three grandsons; Cameron, Devin and Benjamin.

I have traveled extensively. My interests include, reading, family friends, church, painting and playing bridge. I have been a member of a number of various social justice efforts.

Harriet R. Sheley Kiemle ’59 Address: 116 Grinders Circle, Greer, SC 29650 Phone: (864) 244-5395 Address: [email protected]

I taught school for 30 years. I enjoy water aerobics, reading, knitting and traveling. We see our two daughters and their families (In Pennsylvania and Michigan) as much as possible. Our four grandchildren give us great joy.

Nancy Burns Ryan Kitzmiller ’59 Email: [email protected]

Enjoying retirement-reconnecting with OWU classmates and keeping busy with our grandchildren activities.

Charles A. Landis ’59 Address: 7015 W. Calavar Rd., Peorea, AZ 85381 Phone: (623) 680-6684

Education, Gettysburg College 1954-56; OWU 1956-59; Syracuse 1960-62; Penn State University 1964-1967

Teacher West Hill, Syracuse, NY Soc St. 1962-64 Principal Catshell Jr. High Catshell, NY 1967-1970 Principal James Buchanaw High School Mercersburg, PS 1970-72 Assistant Superintendent Mt. Pleasant Area School distract Windber, PA 1974-78 Supt. Windber Area School District, Windber PA 1974-78 Supt Tolleson High School Distract Tollsen, AZ 1978-92 Supt Gilar Bend Area School Distract Gila Bend, AZ 1992-95 Community Coordinator Tollesm HS Distract Tollsem, AZ 1995-2010

Windber Area HS library named in honor 1978 Tollesm Science Committee Thanksgiving Day Dinner – 1982 stated name in honor Founded Wolvesene- Knight Foundation 1982 Tollesm HS Football stadium name Charles Landis stadium 1999 Humaneterian Award 2010-2011 Southwest Community Netwek

Elizabeth “Betsy” Wester Lang ’59 Address: 4804 194th Ave. S.E., Issaquah, WA 98027 Phone: (425) 557-2820 Email: [email protected]

Ronald Levinsohn ’59 Email: [email protected]

Since the last reunion/graduation I have been serving as honorary President of the Shotgunner’s Club of Arizona. I have been writing a novel and a screenplay and working for an agent. I have been traveling through the Northwest with my wife in our R.V. My favorite memories are graduating (!!), playing lacrosse, springtime nights on the Scioto River with Teddy Fox, making a few forever friends, and being a bus-boy at Austin Hall.

Rosemary Uram Mayhew ’59 Email: [email protected]

I remain in Boulder, it’s still a lovely place to be even if the September 100 year flood just about swept me to Nebraska! Looking forward to a beautiful spring and a drier year.

Art classes in that wonderful Victorian house across from Monnett.

Diane “Dutch” Mulvihill Millard ’59 Address: 208 Camino Bailen, Escondido, CA 92029 Phone: (760) 747-2120 Email: [email protected]

Apologies for having to miss our 55th reunion, and special greetings to all of my ’59 classmates. Bob and I feel blessed to enjoy good health and the ability to travel as often as possible. We have recently discovered the joys of river cruising on the Danube and Rhine last fall and to China and the Yangtze River last August. We’ll also be going back to Germany in November with our daughter and son-in- law, whose relatives reside there. Our philosophy is to go while we still can! Our oldest of 6 grandchildren will graduate from Carlsbad High School at the same time as our reunion, so family must take precedence. We are really blessed to have our 3 children and 6 “grands” living near us in California, so get-togethers are as frequent as possible. I am still very involved as education chair for our assistance league chapter, along with P.E.O. member and our church, where Bob and I both serve as greeters/ushers I enjoy attending a community Bible study weekly. It was our strong faith which contributed to remaining positive, as our youngest daughter battled stage 3 breast cancer last year, and gratefully she has come out victoriously. We plan to attend Bob’s 55th reunion next year, God willing, and it’s nice to have this second opportunity to return to our alma mater where so many great friendships were formed. Best wishes!

Janith E. Root Peak ’59 Address: 5300 Zebulon Rd., Macon, GA 31210 Phone: (703) 968-3201 Email: [email protected]

I have recently moved to Carlyle Place, a CCRC community in Macon, GA. After the death of my husband, Jim (’59), I sold my home in Clarkesville, GA and leased a home in the Carlyle Place campus. This has been a good move for me. There are lots of activities and events and I have the freedom to come and go from this campus when I like to visit my family or to travel. This Macon community offers many good learning opportunities for seniors and is a place with a rich culture. Also the weather is very pleasant all the year round.

Lynn C. Homeyer Ramshaw ’59 Email: [email protected] The biggest change is that I moved from Chicago to Ormond Beach, Florida where all of my three children and eight grandchildren live. Even my great grand son is here! All is well. I fondly remember professors who cared and encouraged us, and am grateful for education that nurtured me.

Sue Jett Reeves ’59 Email: [email protected]

Since the last reunion, I am living happily with my husband, daughter and family in Kentucky. I traveled to Albuquerque, NM to visit our son and his family. I enjoyed mini reunions with Marcia Van Scoy Davis, Nancy Mattie Lockard, Jan Root Peak, Carol Smith Simpson and Marge Bensiiger Greek. I also sew, knit, weave, and play hand bells and sing in the church choir. I cannot pick one favorite memory from my time at OWU, however the Women’s Glee Club trip to Europe, World’s fair in Brussels and five week tour of Europe will always be remembered. I enjoyed participating in the senior class musicals both in the orchestra and on stage.

Betty Jo Cargo Riggs ’59 Address: 699 Harbor Drive, Manistee, MI 49660 Phone: (231) 723-2414 Email: [email protected]

Retirement has meant time to explore and enjoy the arts of watercolor and writing. I achieved my goal of turning my grandparents’ letters into a piece of historic fiction in “My Dearest Husband”, My grandfather, Berton H. Ingles, attended OWU the year Gray Chapel was built and later went west searching for a pastor’s job. My experiments in watercolor led to an exhibit in our local Art Institute. I have enjoyed leading workshops in Biblical-inspired poetry and writing as well as those that connect the visual, written, and musical arts. My husband and I have discovered new travel modes and have recently enjoyed river cruises and train travel. Choral singing and leadership in church activities mean no empty days. We love the scenic beauty of our adopted home of Manistee, Michigan on the shores of Lake Michigan but also enjoy the wonders of the marsh at Seabrook Island, SC in March when spring is yet a long time in arriving here.

Joanne Hlavin Ritter ’59 Address: 1327 Omaha Rd, Bellefontaine, OH 43311 Phone: (937) 592-8729 Email: [email protected]

After a fulfilling career raising three wonderful children, I renewed my art training and studied watercolor for 8 years starting in 1988 at the Springfield Museum School. This was a new medium as I was trained at OWU in oil. Many of my watercolors highlight our travels in Europe, British Columbia and the eastern U.S. with seascapes, landscapes, architectural items and floral. In 2010 I had the opportunity to have a one women show at the Mowry Alumni Center titled, “Journeys Home and Away” and two of my watercolors that year were chosen for the Alumni Calendar in 2011. I am a member of the Western Ohio Watercolor Society, past president and active member of the Logan City Tree Commission, and am active in volunteering for the city of Bellefontaine, having chaired, for over 10 years, the Christmas decorating team. Jerry and I enjoy traveling, reading, gardening, and keeping fit at our local Y. We are looking forward to our reunions at OWU to rekindle old friendships.

Don E. Saliers ’59 Email: [email protected]

Teaching again spring terms at Emory. Lectures: at Princeton, Mercy Centre at San Francisco, Societas Liturgica in Wurzburg, Germany. Composing and arranging; published several essays, encyclopedia articles, directing Emory Chamber Players (two recitals each year) and organist at Emory’s Cannon Chapel.

Some of my favorite memories are of “spring fever” days. Chairing the Gray Chapel Speaker Series.

Susan Murray Seifried ’59 & Douglass Seifried ’59 Email: [email protected]

We are enjoying traveling around the US.

David W. Smith ’59 Address: 648857 Augustine Dr., North West Canton, OH, 44718 Phone: (330) 494-3929

Janice Patenaude Smith ’59 Email: [email protected]

My volunteer activities are centered around Fifth Ave. Presbyterian Church where I serve as deacon, greeter/usher, City Club board member and library coordinator. Taking advantage of city culture, I regularly attend the theater, movies, and museums. Travel is always a treat. Some favorite places I have visited: Vietnam, Cambodia, Nepal, Australia, New Zealand and Cuba.

A favorite memory form OWU would be the yearly choir tours led by Rexford Keller

Sylvia Sanders Stevens ’59 Email: [email protected]

My OWU experience included a wide range of liberal arts courses; speech, social science, history and education. I taught American and Ohio history (challenging for a Kentucky native) and then settled in to being a stay-at-home mother for the next few years. No regrets. By the time the youngest was in school, I realized my teaching credentials were outdated so I went back to school at Michigan State University where I picked up a minor and an MA in English. In 1984, I was hired by the Department of Family and Community Medicine, College of Osteopathic Medicine, MSU, into a position best described as office manager. I retired from there in 1999 after 15 years of service.

Bob and I have found living in a university community to be stimulating and rewarding. We have sung with the MSU Choral Union since 1985, performing great musical literature twice a year. We have season tickets to both MSU football and men’s basketball and are members of the community support group for each. We support and attend MSU theater productions. We also sing in our church choir and are involved in other church activities. Twice a year, we travel to Stratford Ontario, Canada to see productions at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival. It is just 4.5 hours from East Lansing. We have been going there for 35 years and continue to be impressed with the quality of their plays. Travel is our favorite activity. We love taking riverboat cruises or going out on our own to explore new territory. It broke our hearts when the Delta Queen stopped doing overnight trips. We have enjoyed Uniworld cruises in Europe. As Rick Stevens says, Keep on traveling!

Michael Tippett ’59 Email: [email protected]

Since the last reunion we have done some traveling, the highlight being a 2-week trip to Rome and Israel. We moved to a 55+community at the end of 2013 about 10 miles from where we’ve lived since moving to Florida in 2000. I still work as a substitute high school teacher several days a week. Working on and acting in plays with Mr. Eyssen and Mr. Hunter- and meeting my wife of 55 years on the prop crew for “Bell, Book and Candle!”

Suzanne Strobeck Webb ’59 Address : 624 Tyner Way, Incline Village, Nevada 89451 Phone : (775) 624-8446 Email : [email protected]

I married in 1957 and left OWU to transfer to the University of Denver where my husband at the time (Jim Allemeier ’58) had work in the insurance business. Our son, Karl, was born the next year and I finished my bachelor’s degree in history in 1959—on schedule, but not at OWU. Jim and I divorced and I completed a master’s degree in English at DU in 1962, earned a teaching certificate, and taught in the area for a year. I met and married my current husband in 1964 in Breckenridge, Colorado, and in 1965 we moved to Moscow, Idaho where I taught English at the university for 4 years. During that time I undertook a Ph.D, in English at Washington State University, 9 miles away across the state. line. I completed the Ph.D.

In 1972 and my husband and I moved to north Texas where I taught rhetoric and linguistics for 37 years at Texas Woman’s University. Our son, Aaron, was born in 1976, and in the mid-eighties I became involved in textbook publishing while still teaching full time. I authored or edited six textbooks either alone or with one or two other professors. I took early retirement in 1999, but returned to teach half time for the next ten years. The other half of the time I spent living at Lake Tahoe in Nevada. I had a brief fling selling real estate there between 2004 and 2008, but retired again—from both jobs and for good this time—in 2008-09. I served a year as president of the local branch of AAUW, and am currently on the board of the Reno Gem and Mineral Society serving as the editor of their newsletter. One of my granddaughters and her family recently moved to Reno, and so I have a chance to be Grandma GG (for great-grandma) to her three children. I have two other adult grandchildren—thanks to my wonderful son Karl—and a 5-year-old granddaughter-- thanks to my other wonderful son, Aaron and his wife, Katie. Lissa and Terry live and work in Quad Cities, Illinois and Ebie lives and goes to kindergarten in Seattle. My husband, R. J., and I enjoy rockhounding with other members of the RGMS and with son Karl and his wife, Jana when they come to visit from Madison, WI.

Karla Koehn Westlake ’59 Address: 33869 Maple Ridge Blvd., Avon, OH 44011 Phone: (440) 937-4811 Email: [email protected]

After living in our Lakewood colonial for 40 years, my husband, Jim, and I sold it to our daughter and moved into a free standing cluster home in the fast growing suburb of Avon. We’ve been here nine years now and enjoy it very much. Jim keeps busy with Kiwanis activates and working out at the Y, and I am involved in College Club West, P.E.O., and Chi Omega Alumnae. We feel fortunate to have good health and live near our children and grandchildren.

David Yoder ’59

I married Betty Zimmerman of Tifton, Georgia in 1965. We quit our jobs a year later to act on our lust to experience other cultures…traveling for a year around the world…and spending all our savings. We returned to San Francisco to flirt with the hippie era. But we continued our ventures thereafter, seeking out hamlets where we had to worry about the water. I am glad now that we did not defer all our gratifications; especially before we began to care or needed to care about creature comforts.

In the 1980's, when the running craze started, we became addicted joggers and ran marathons. We also rode mountain bikes, which began in our Marin County, as well as hiked our many mountain trails. And, we didn't miss out on the free wine tasting in Napa. I was also lucky to ride a ferry to San Francisco almost every day.

Betty graduated from Emory University, the first class to permit women, and later from Columbia University for a graduate degree. She worked for years as a medical social worker. In San Francisco, many of her patients had the mysterious disease now known as AIDS.

I went on to earn a MBA degree in the evenings at Golden Gate University in San Francisco. Our two children and their families live near each other in Portland, Oregon. Karen is a graphic designer, digital sales, and real estate entrepreneur while Alan is the labor lawyer for the Oregon nurses’ union. Our three grandchildren’s birthdays are all together around Halloween. This coincidence makes these celebrations very convenient and, while wild, they are embraced.

I had a stimulating career in research and media advertising with nine agencies and Mad Man characters. After hitchhiking to New York, I started out at BBDO on the Campbell Soup account. I liked the due-yesterday challenges. When I applied for my second job, I listed only one reference-- the night watchman. I also worked on soap, car, cereal, and soda accounts.

My last 16 years, however, were the most rewarding because I had to quickly learn and think differently with high tech advertisers. My clients Apple, Intel, Dell, Oracle, Microsoft and others were bent on changing the world…and they did. They were frenetic. Today, let alone the past, was meaningless.

I wrote the media plan at Chiat-Day which put the legendary 1984 Apple commercial into the Super Bowl. I also developed, though IntelliQuest, the first multimillion dollar studies of the high tech industry to determine who influenced purchase decisions and their media preferences. Prior to my high tech clients, I helped launch what is now known as Visa. It also changed the world with a revolutionary way to buy things.

Over the years, I was acknowledged for my contributions in Advertising Age and other trade magazines. I was also asked to teach an advertising course for several years at San Francisco State University.

I retired in 2008 from McCann Erickson San Francisco as Director of Media.

Eunice Campbell Youngblood ’59 Email: [email protected]

We welcomed our grandson who is now four years old and living near us. We are active in Shandon Presbyterian Church and community.

Dean Anson II ’69

Ohio Wesleyan and my parents taught me to give back to society. Following a 30 year career in environmental businesses, I have taught at the college, high school and junior high school levels, teaching mostly about environmental issues facing society. How can we learn from the past and not repeat it in the future? Teaching by example, showing students what they can do to make a difference in their community.

During the past six years, I have volunteered on the Federal, New Hampshire state, county and local level to conserve natural resources, particularly land and water. I have been accused of being a "tree-hugger" but, I am not. I am a "tree-lover!”

I love to fish, garden, cross-country ski, snowshoe and would rather be outside rather than inside.

My life is guided by "to whom much is given, much is expected.”

Alan Armstrong ’69 Address: 720 Forest St., Ashland, OR 97520 Phone: (541) 482-8233 Email: armstrong@ sou.edu

After OWU, I took a Ph.D. at Cornell, did a post-doc in England, was hired by Georgia Tech, married Victoria Sturtevant (sociologist), and relocated to Ashland, Oregon when Vic got a job at Southern Oregon University. I spent a couple of years teaching part-time and caring for our twins, Tom & Jonny, before founding SOU’s Center for Shakespeare Studies, which I directed until I retired in 2008. By then I had also discovered a new vocation, working as a production dramaturg for the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. I’m still working with actors and directors and still writing about original and contemporary performance of Shakespeare’s plays, but have more time now for skiing, hiking, and sea-kayaking.

Mary Ann Hoyt Bell ’69 Address: 6061 Bayberry Dr., Cincinnati, OH 45242 Phone: (513) 985-9569 Email: [email protected]

After leaving OWU, I attended Kent State where I received a Master’s degree in Library Science. I worked at Akron-Summit County Public Library as a reference librarian until getting married in 1992 to Doug Bell.

Two years later I gave birth to a bouncing baby boy, Steven, and became a stay-at-home mom. The "baby boy" is now 6'5", 300 pounds and plays football at Ball State University. I'm still a stay-at-home mom and volunteer at my church and Cincinnati Public Library.

Dan ’68 and Sue Swan Bennington ’69 Address: 87 Somerset Rd, Delaware, OH 43015 Phone: (740) 369-6243 Email: [email protected]

My husband and I both retired on the same day in 2011. Since then we have enjoyed spending time with our grandchildren, planning a wedding for our youngest daughter, taking a riverboat cruise in Europe and annually staying in Florida during the month of March. I am currently co-chair of the "Century of Cinema Campaign" to renovate the Strand Theater by the year 2016 when this Delaware landmark will turn 100 years old. My passion is duplicate bridge, and I hope someday to become a life master. Loving retirement!

Marc Benton ’69 Email: [email protected]

I started a M.A. in education- quit after one semester of student teaching at inner city Junior High. I did alternative service at Cornell University for 2 years. Received M.A. in Communications from the University of Kentucky. Began PhD in Mass Communications at University of Minnesota. After a conversion to Christ, I went to Seminary at Yale. Twenty-eight year full-time in the Presbyterian Church (USA). Now I’m teaching college full-time, split between York College of Pennsylvania and Harrisburg Area Community College.

One of my favorite memories from OWU is of meeting my wife Trish (Patricia Novak) in Abnormal Psychology with Dr. Barrett.

Tamara J. Hughes Berry ’69 Address: 3232 Meadowbrook Dr., Salt Lake City, UT 84119 Email: [email protected]

My chosen profession was being a full-time mother to my five awesome children. After being divorced in 1987, I had to continue this journey alone. We all survived and thrived, and are all now happy, capable adults with families of their own. They have blessed me with twenty beautiful, healthy and intelligent grandchildren. I live with my daughter, Reagan, and her family and enjoy working part-time at Ikea.

Larry Bump ’69 Address: 804 Stages Leap Dr., McKinney, TX 75071 Phone: (972) 832-2099 Email: [email protected]

The highlights of the past five years have been family related. Topping the list was our “When I’m 64 Tour” in 2012 to the Isle of Wight. Joining me were my daughter Diana and Jeff Johns; daughter Erin and Marcus Cohn; son, Phillip; Margaret Johnson, and her daughter, Samantha.

We spent a week in a three story “cottage” within walking distance of downtown Yarmouth and the ferry to mainland England. Good company, good times and even some good food as we explored the island’s historic sites and natural beauty. Highly recommended. Some of us went on to other places while we were across the pond. I was there a total of 10 days, with two overnights in London and Paris.

As I write this, our next scheduled family event is in April of 2014. We’re expecting 11 people for the NCAA Final Four April 5 and 7, with plans for Margaret and me to get married April 6.

For three years I had a part-time contract with the Rockwall Independent School District for sports information and sports marketing. The district has two 5A high schools that play football in an 8,300 seat stadium. During my time there, the schools won state championships in baseball and girls’ gymnastics.

I’ve continued my now 21-year career as a freelance writer. My current major client is The Associated Press, for which my primary assignments have been baseball’s Texas Rangers and hockey’s Dallas Stars. I’m also the primary official scorer for the Texas Frisco Roughriders. On a few occasions, I have been the Rangers’ official scorer. You also can see my freelance work on occasions in newspapers from Portland, Maine, to San Diego.

Other than that, I spend a lot of time following Samantha’s activatities- cross country, track, orchestra, chorus- and Margaret’s work as a high school orchestra director and freelance violinist.

Jean Fitzwater Bussell ’69 Address: 386 Foos Rd., West Manchester, OH 45382 Phone: (937) 678-0208 (home) (937) 533-0977 (cell) Email: [email protected]

So many things have happened since my last reunion!

My youngest daughter, Jennifer, added a Ph.D. from Cal Berkley, a husband and a daughter (bringing our total to 6 grandchildren and 5 great-grandchildren.) She also received a faculty position at Cal Berkley in political science and public policy.

We have made several cross-country road trips to visit our family and friends and to explore new sites. We traveled to Egypt for two weeks in December 2011 and went to Bermuda for a week in 2012 between hurricanes.

I continue to serve on the Board of Trustees (32 years now!). I serve on the Local Board of Service for county board of Developmental Disabilities and County board of convention and visitors bureau. I raised funds and built an outdoor amphitheater in scenic rural site overlooking restored wetland and woods at county historical society’s 255 acre farm.

I hope to reduce my volunteer obligations and increase the time I spend with my grandchildren and continue to travel!

Erik Calonius ’69 Address: 86 Secession St., Mt. Pleasant, SC, 29464 Phone: (843) 302-1075 Email: [email protected]

Following graduation in 1969 I became a printer and typesetter in Boston. After a year I helped start "The Boston Phoenix," an underground weekly (that has since won several Pulitzer Prizes). From there I went to Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, and received an MS. Following that, I was a photographer for the EPA's "Documerica" project and a newspaper writer. In 1975 I journeyed south to Orlando to teach reporting and start the photojournalism department at the University of Central Florida. Following that I was the Managing Editor of Memphis Magazine, and following that I worked for Florida Trend Magazine, a Florida business monthly.

In 1981 I was hired at the Atlanta office of the Wall Street Journal. After two years of writing front page stories from the Southeast, I was sent to London as a foreign correspondent. In Europe I wrote dozens of front page stories for the Journal. I returned to New York as an editor for the Journal's second section. In 1987 I joined Newsweek as Miami Bureau Chief, where I covered Miami and the Caribbean (and Al Gore's campaign for President), and was nominated for the Overseas Press Award. I then joined Fortune and wrote stories and created photo essays, and was nominated for the National Magazine Award.

In the 1990s I began to collaborate on books and served as a "book doctor" to publishers. I've collaborated now on more than 20 books, including "Predictably Irrational," which was named one of the 100 best books of 2008. I also wrote "The Wanderer," a narrative non-fiction book about the last slave ship. I'm on the board of Mayborn Literary Non-fiction Conference, the nation's most significant gathering of non-fiction writers, and teach writing each summer in North Texas.

I've been married to my wife, Nancy, for 30 years. We have a daughter, Michelle, and a son, Matthew. We moved to the Charleston area six years ago, and love it here. Life has not always been easy; we've had to overcome many challenges. But regardless of the downdraft, we manage to get back on our feet and keep going. That's the advice I always give students: Pick yourself up and keep going.

Jean B. Boyer Cowling ’69 Email: [email protected]

Oregon remains our home. My husband, Bob, is recently retired attorney and I, retired from international business, split our time between Medford and our home on the Oregon Coast. Our new English Labrador puppy is keeping us busy. Since last we met, I was appointed by the governor and served on the Oregon Arts Commission for eight years, two years as chair; received Oregon’s Women of Achievement Award from the March of Dimes. We enjoy good travels- Sweden, Mexico, Costa Rice, Hawaii and a grand back-road-trip across country from Oregon to Ohio. I enjoy yearly east coast gatherings with OWU girlfriends- the BEST of friendships started oh so many years ago in Delaware.

Kathleen Lane Enscoe ’69 Address: 630 Brule Rd, Unit 33, De Pere, WI 54115 Phone: (920) 433-0102 Email: [email protected]

I have been divorced from Phillip Maydock Enscoe (’69) since 2007. I continue to live in the Green Bay area, since my daughter and her family live here. I am retired from Real Estate and enjoy my friends, family and international travel. I love walking trips to Europe. I also love bridge. I lived and worked in Saudi Arabia, Ghana, Italy, Colombia, the United Arab Emirates, and India. In 1968, I met Karen Foley at the wedding of Rob and Wynn Sells (Class of '70) in Upstate New York. We were married in 1970 and will celebrate our 44th wedding anniversary in June. Not blessed with children, we have had a parade of Siamese cats as our companions through our lives. We live in an "active retirement community" in Central Florida and spend much of our time playing tennis, golf, and softball.

Richard “Dick” Epps ’69 Email: [email protected]

Since our last reunion/graduation I have practiced law for 38 years. My favorite Ohio Wesleyan memories are interfraternity sports, fraternity life, the Brown Jug and the Dam, Dr Smith and history classes.

Jim Fellabaum ’69 Address: 876 Robles Ave., The Villages, Florida 32159 Email: [email protected]

At OWU, I majored in Economics, was a member of Phi Delta Theta fraternity, and reported sports for WSLN.

After graduation, I started working as a teacher in the Maumee City Schools in Northwestern Ohio. After six years of teaching I went into school administration and remained in that profession until my retirement in 2011. Additional education was obtained at the University of Toledo. I hold a MA in Educational Administration, an MA in Guidance and Counselor Education, and an Ed D in Educational Administration (1982).

Much of my career was spent working in American curriculum schools overseas. I lived and worked in Saudi Arabia, Ghana, Italy, Colombia, the United Arab Emirates, and India.

In 1968, I met Karen Foley at the wedding of Rob and Wynn Sells (Class of '70) in Upstate New York. We were married in 1970 and will celebrate our 44th wedding anniversary in June. Not blessed with children, we have had a parade of Siamese cats as our companions through our lives. We live in an "active retirement community" in Central Florida and spend much of our time playing tennis, golf, and softball.

Harry Flannery ’69 Address: 116 Valhalla Drive, New castle, PA. 16105 Phone (724) 654-4155 Cell (330) 819 -7137 Email: [email protected] [email protected]

In June of 1969 after graduation from OWU I married my New Castle, PA grade school sweetheart (Maureen Flaherty) and am still married to the same woman! :)

From Delaware Ohio we ventured up the street to Ada, Ohio and received a Degree of Juris Doctor in 1972 from Ohio Northern University College of Law. We next went to Boston and in 1973 I received a Degree of Master of Laws in Taxation in 1973. From there we went to Pittsburgh, PA where I was Pittsburgh National Bank's first Trust Legal Officer. Next back to our hometown where we reside today where I was an attorney for Pennsylvania Power Company. Currently I am Senior Corporate Counsel for FirstEnergy Services Company in Akron, Ohio. Being corporate counsel for a Fortune 200 company I was involved from dissolving international entities, to labor law, real estate law, tax law and utility law for a multitude of entities under the FirstEnergy Corp. umbrella of companies It has been a real trip having spent my first summer at OWU as one of the Delaware Inn boys and in fact I recently came across a paper I wrote of the history of the Delaware Inn with interviews and all when at OWU. I have written several books under pen names, one having its origins from my philosophy and religion classes at OWU (Dr. Fichter-Dr. Kearns) entitled, “LOVE: Sex, Marriage, Divorce, OR Happiness?” by Grant Stinn, Esq. In fact it was a research paper at OWU that was from the 60s and published in 2006! I even have a footnote at 104"A roommate at college (William B. Allin) had this written on the wall in his room. Academic year of 1968-1969." OWU was and is the greatest and was my foundation of life's journey. Two of my brothers Jack and Dick Flannery graduated in 1964 and our daughter Courtney attended as well in the 2005 timeframe. Again, what a trip, we have two children, Preston and Courtney, a son in law, Mike, and daughter in law, Jenny, and have 3 grandchildren, Payton, Miley and Connor.

Maria Elizabeth Woodside Freitag ’69

Now that both my husband and I are retired we enjoy spending more time with our grandchildren in Connecticut and Arizona as well as traveling to many places on our "bucket list."

Barbara George ’69 Address: 917 SW Evans St., Potland OR 97219 Phone: (503) 246-8015

In 2006, I ended my job of over a decade, as a program manager for the city of Portland Bureau of Environmental Services. In this capacity, I was part of an effort to significantly improve the water quality of the city’s major river- the Willamette. I continue to play the violin in the Portland Opera Orchestra and in a summer 3 week orchestra festival in Southern Oregon. I made a trip to OWU with my husband in spring 2008 where I visited with college roommate, Jean Fitzgerald Bussell, and her husband,

Ann Tarbutton Gerhart ’69 Email: [email protected]

For the past four years I have worked as an attorney on the Cuyahoga County Board of Revision, which deals with appeals of tax values on commercial and residential real property. Peter and I have raised four children, and we have one grandchild so far. We are both still working. (He teaches at Case Law School). Everything from Freshmen Camp to leaf raking with the Delt pledges, to discovering the Victorian novels, to “working breakfast” in the Stuy- Hayes dining room. Ginny Goll ’69 Address: 6611 N. 16th Drive, Phoenix, AZ 85015 Phone: (602) 246-0406 Email: [email protected]

We are sorry to be missing this reunion. There were just too many schedule conflicts to make the trip back to Ohio work. Hopefully, next time… My partner of 17 years, Chuck Sowder, and I have both been retired for the last 3 years and are loving it! I taught for 38 years, mostly kindergarten. Now I work one day a week in an adoption attorney’s office and do occasional work at the U of AZ medical school in downtown Phoenix, where I act out patient cases for the students. We love to travel and take regular trips to Sedona, AZ and Puerto Penasco, MX, our nearest beach. We enjoyed a wonderful Eastern Mediterranean Cruise with fellow classmates, Steve and Diana Smith. Over the years we’ve had a great time at several “mini-reunions” with Glee Club friends. I have taken trips to Germany and Italy and we manage to get back to Indiana once a year to visit our families. If anyone is headed to our great Southwest, we’d love to see you – we’re pretty decent tour guides!

Martha “Marti” Louise Bond Hardy ’69

Our Children and Grandchildren: Brian Michael Hardy (Son) OWU '98; Kevin Shea Hardy (Son) Wesleyan (CT) '00; William Michael Hardy (Grandson) -5 yrs old; Ellie Bird Hardy (Granddaughter) -5 years old After graduating from OWU in '69, I went to the University of Michigan and completed my Master's Degree in Romance Languages and Literature in '71. I have spent the past 42 years teaching Spanish in public and private schools in Michigan and Ohio, the last 33 at Laurel School for Girls in Shaker Heights, Ohio. In addition to teaching, I have been fortunate to Direct our Service Learning Program K-12, serve as Senior Class Dean, and coach our Varsity golf team. My husband, Mike, and I have two sons, Brian, a 1998 graduate of OWU, and Kevin, a 2000 graduate of Wesleyan in Connecticut. We have two grandchildren, both 5, and will have another grandson born in early May. I am thrilled that two of my Laurel golfers are currently attending OWU and playing golf. Every summer for the past 10 years I look forward to spending time with ten of my '69 OWU friends in Westhampton, NY., where we reminisce about our wonderful times and friendships at OWU. It continues to be a special place and I love reading about the Service Programs, faculty/student interactions and trips, athletic renovations, etc. I am looking forward to our 45th reunion as an opportunity to catch up with old friends and learn more about the changes have been made at OWU since our last reunion. I Married Michael Lynn Hardy in ‘72; we have been married for 42 years. Awards and Recognition: Laurel School Hostetler Award for Outstanding Teaching; Laurel School Yearbook Dedication '96, '12; Laurel School Athletic Hall of Fame '14 My career: Teacher of Upper School Spanish at Laurel School -Shaker Heights, Ohio 44122, Director of Community Service , Senior Class Dean, Varsity Golf Coach

Sheryl Rundell Hiltebrant ’69 Email: [email protected]

I have spent the past five years doing whatever was necessary to help nurse our younger son, Scott, is back to health following his being in a serious car accident in L.A. His physical injuries have healed but the effects of a traumatic brain injury still linger. Since my husband still works full time and owns his own business, I continue to be his assistant. I am also very active in the Cleveland West Pi Beta Phi Alumnae Club as well as the Cleveland Alumni Panhellenic Association. Greek affiliation is “not for college days alone.” Living in Monnett Hall for two years- freshmen year by assignment, junior year by choice- created many fond memories. The 100 year old dorm was majestic and no one can forget: kissing goodnight on the big front porch; eating family style meals in the dining room; spending long hours in the huge third flood study hall; standing in line to use the pay phone; listening for ghosts; socializing in the smoker; sneaking through the tunnel to Austin Hall; sharing the huge community bathroom; tanning on the roof in the spring; signing in at the bell office hoping not to get late minutes; marveling at the very wide hallways, tall ceilings and beautiful woodwork. Demolishing the building in the mid 1970’s really did break my heart, by my memories are alive and well! My parents bought the brass number slate from my freshmen room’s door when Monnett memorabilia was sold prior to demolition. “356” is in a frame under an artist’s rendering of the dorm itself which hangs in my family room.

Doug Hoover ’69 Address: 6420 Fairfield Rd, Oxford, OH 45056 Phone: (513) 255-7584 Email: [email protected]

Since our last reunion, I have become a grandfather to three boys. Son Greg, (OWU 2000) and wife Amy had a boy, John Douglas (JD) on 10/20/2012. Daughter Natalie had two boys, Anderson (10/20/2010) and Marshall (7/24/2013).

I sold my dental practice and retired in June 2013. I will move to Westerville when my house in Oxford sells.

Dana A. Jackson ’69 Address: 74 Longfellow Road, Newton Lower Falls, MA 02462 Phone: (617) 965-6356 Email: [email protected]

After graduating from OWU and doing some graduate study at the University of Washington, I taught history in Vermont in the early 1970s, then earned an M.Ed. from Boston College and taught visually impaired students in the Boston Public Schools for 30 years.

Since I retired from teaching in 2004, I’ve worked as an Administrative Assistant in the Office of Grants & Contracts at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston (I expect that I may cut back on that work when I hit age 70.) I still live in Newton, where I grew up, just west of Boston.

My son Greg, age 30, graduated from OWU in 2006, and like me, was a Chi Phi. He, too, is in education, working in the Brookline Public Schools. My daughter, Arielle, age 27, works in Event Management. I’m fortunate that both my kids leave nearby.

I’ve been fortunate to make it back to OWU for all of the Richard W. Smith Civil War Lectures since they started about 11 years ago, and have stayed in touch with Richard & Betty Smith since my student days.

My interest in and love of history continues to this day, as does my enjoyment of reading, travel, music, and involvement in Freemasonry. I’ve been actively involved with rescuing Golden Retrievers for the past 20 years, as well. With 2 sisters living in Santa Barbara, California, I find the opportunity to visit them at least once each winter, which provides a breather from New England weather.

I keep in touch with a number of friends from Ohio Wesleyan, and find it hard to believe it’s been so many years since we graduated. I feel truly fortunate for the great professors I had back then, in particular, Professors. Smith, Jennings, Almstead, Reed, and Easton, and the wonderful friends and experiences of those years.

Daphne A. Loew Jameson ’69

I've been a professor at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, since completing graduate school (Ph.D., English) at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana. The faculty members I encountered at Ohio Wesleyan certainly influenced my career, both as positive and negative models. Last September, the Chi Omega classes of 1969-71 met in Chicago, and it was great to see everyone! Thanks to Mollie Nacrelli and Heidi Hanssen for organizing that event.

Judith Climer Jones ’69 Email: [email protected]

Curiosity may kill the car but it can get you a job. Happily retired from the Foreign Service on my Florida island, I saw an advertisement for “Stanford's Online High School for Gifted Youth” and answered just because I had no idea what an online high school was. I have ended up teaching here in Palo Alto and again being thankful for my OWU English classes.

First, OHS is the opposite of MOOC, the university online course for huge numbers of students. These small classes (7 to 12 students for me) involve direct interaction in a seminar format. Students “put up their hands” and answer questions and comment on others’ answers. However, because the class is online, those “hands” can be sitting in New York, Arkansas, California, Hong Kong, and Mexico. Interestingly, every one of my seventh graders has a passport and has travelled abroad. OHS gives high school degrees and has good academic results. Of last year’s 29 graduating seniors, 14 had National Merit scholarships.

The students are gifted in many ways- one of my seventh graders is the youngest person ever to earn master status in the International Scrabble Association; one of my ninth graders has just turned professional in her tennis career. They also challenge ideas- did you know that Aladdin likely spoke Chinese? One of our students is accompanying her parents around the world on a sailboat. She keeps a satellite connection and follows her courses. In many ways, the classes remind me of Dr. Spencer’s OWU literature classes where honor roll students were able to register without prerequisites so there was always a rainbow of majors represented. Dr. Spencer just let students feed off each other’s observations, with an occasional comment or question. He let us find our own discoveries and they’re still with me today.

Pete Kakel ’69 Address: 1 Ruxlea Court Baltimore, MD 21204 Phone: (410) 337-7401 Email: [email protected]

After graduating from OWU, I did graduate work in history at Brown University. I then started a career as an insurance broker which lasted 37 years and which allowed me to travel all over the world.

As my insurance career was winding down, I went 'back to school' and eventually earned a Masters degree in Liberal Arts (Johns Hopkins University, 2003); a Masters degree in Holocaust Studies, with distinction (University of London, 2004); and a PhD in Modern History (University of London, 2009).

Today I am a research historian and lecturer at the Johns Hopkins University Center for Liberal Arts. I also give papers at academic conferences and give one-off lectures (including the occasional history lecture at Ohio Wesleyan). I am the author of two books in the field of Holocaust and Genocide Studies. I am also an assistant varsity soccer coach at a girls' private school in Baltimore.

My favorite OWU memories are history classes with Dr. Robert Kragalott and soccer at Roy Rike with Fred Myers. My love of history and soccer brings me back to campus at least once a year, for a history lecture and/or a men's soccer reunion.

From my frequent visits to campus, I know that the student-mentor relationship we enjoyed with our professors more than four decades ago is alive and well at Ohio Wesleyan today. No matter how much the campus changes visually, it still feels the same -- it still feels like 'home.” My wife and I live in Baltimore, MD. We especially enjoy our annual family vacation (all 18 of us, including 8 grandchildren) in Bethany Beach, DE, as well as frequent trips with the grandchildren to Walt Disney World. We love our role as grandparents in charge of 'nonsense'. Best wishes to all my classmates.

Patricia J. Kennedy Keating ’69 Address: 48 Woodlawn Terrace, Cedar Grove, NJ 07009 Phone: (973) 256-5206 Email: [email protected]

I recently retired from a long career of elementary school teaching. In 2011, I was honored with the governor’s teaching award here in New Jersey. My husband, Patrick, and I are involved with the introduction and operation of a food pantry out of our parish. We’ve had four children, all grown and out there trying to make it in the employment world. For leisure, I play team tennis an experience I never had in school because title 9 did not exist then. I also try to keep up with reading, and am considering volunteer work with a local animal shelter.

Patricia Groenewoud Lennox ’69 Address : 4 Cardinal Lane, Scarborough, ME 04074 Phone: (207) 883-6102 Email: [email protected]

I’ve continued to work as a Senior Business Systems Analyst for Fairchild Semiconductor in Maine for the past 5 years. This year will finally bring retirement at the end of March! Distant travels have included visits to Malaysia, China, Hong Kong, Korea, The Philippines, New Zealand, England, France, The Netherlands, Alaska, Yosemite and Hawaii. Living in Maine, trips to Acadia National Park and the White Mountains in New Hampshire are a regular part of our plans. The reunion will be my first visit back to OWU since I graduated.

Lawrence “Larry” Levy ’69 & Cheryl Kern Levy ’69

To paraphrase Dr. Seuss, “Age has no effect on us. We surf as often as we used to. We play polo as often as we used to. We climb Mt. Everest as often as we used to! But to walk down to the hardware store we find a little bit more difficult.” But not too difficult. Thanks to good genes, swimming, and Zumba classes at the local community fitness center, we strive to keep up with the grandkids and all the kids we work with through various community arts organizations.

While in Oaxaca, Mexico last October, we learned that the Spanish word for retirees is “jubilados” – the jubilant or rejoicing ones. That sounds so much better than “geezers” and we try to live as the jubilant ones by continuing to teach, travel, write poetry, tell stories, and work with those young in age and spirit.

It has also given us the time to sing again as some of our best memories of OWU were Larry’s time with Mr. A. and the Glee Club, and mine with the OWU choir. In 2011 we joined sister Lynnette Kern Salton (’71) and her Canadian friends to tour Europe singing in Prague, Budapest and Vienna.

Because we had not sung in any choirs since OWU, we joined our local Center Stage Chorale to get our voices in shape. Chorale has been so much fun that we stayed on and just performed with 198 others, 4 professional soloists and the Midland Symphony to present Beethoven’s 9th to a packed house of almost 1,500 people. “Ode to Joy” indeed!

Michael McCluggage ’69 Email: [email protected]

Two major events- I became a member of the OWU Board of Trustees in 2012. I’m pleased to be able to give back. And, after decade with the same Chicago law firm, I moved to Eimer Stahl, a litigation “boutique” that specializes in antitrust work, which is much of what I do. It was the opposite of a retirement move.

Richard McGarrity ’69 Email: [email protected]

Since my last reunion, I have retired from a career in finance and banking. My wife Noel and I have been traveling extensively throughout the US and Canada in our small RV.

Some of my favorite memories from OWU are of my inspiring professors in English, Economics and Humanities. I also have fond memories of my fraternity friendships and activities.

Douglas W. Moore ’69

After completing our graduate programs at the U of M, Malinda and I wandered west. Six months after leaving Ann Arbor we settled in Oregon where we happily remain today. A private practice focusing on litigation and families in crisis followed a few years as counsel to committees at the Oregon Legislature and 2 plus years as a prosecutor. The flexibility of practicing in a small town allowed me to coach our kids youth teams, pursue my own team oriented recreation and to become as immersed in community affairs through years of service on the School Board, YMCA and United Way Boards, and various other small non-profits. Oregon proved to be an ideal place to live. We love the rural nature that allowed us to engage in as much recreational options as we wanted, including running, biking, hiking, camping, skiing, golf and white water rafting, and the cosmopolitan offerings of one of the greatest cities in the world, Portland. We also were fortunate enough to be able to travel this vast country and take multiple trips to many places throughout the world. Now that we are both retired we will soon be moving full time to our Portland condominium where we will be closer to our son Kirk and family and to an international airport that lets us make frequent trips to NY and our daughter, Maggie, and family in Brooklyn and points further afield.

Malinda Kirk Moore ’69

In the summer of 1972 Doug and I left Ann Arbor in an old Ford Falcon van with our yellow lab, our grad degrees and no jobs. Six months later we’d traveled through nearly every state and we ran out money in Oregon. We’re still here. Oregon turned out to be a wonderful place to become immersed in a community, raise a family, grow vegetables, and participate in outdoor activities like running, hiking, camping, white water rafting, horseback riding and skiing. We never lost the urge to explore so continued to travel in and out of the country, with and without our kids. I started the speech-language-swallowing program at the hospital in Albany and spent over 30 years there before retiring four years ago. I remain active on local boards and committees, mostly health care related. We plan to continue our retirement plan and move to Portland soon. That will put us close to our son, Kirk, and his family who live in Portland. We’ll also be closer to an airport and flights to JFK. Our daughter, Maggie, and her family live in Brooklyn and we visit them and New York City regularly.

William “Bill” Lowrie Nix ’69

I continue to practice pediatrics with Texas Children's Pediatrics in the Woodlands, a northern suburb of Houston. I currently work 4 days a week and plan on continuing to work for several more years since I am healthy and love what I do. I go on a medical mission trip to Guatemala yearly with the group, Faith in Practice. We leave this year on April 26. These are amazing experiences that I find rekindle the reasons I went into medicine in the first place.

Peggy and I have been married for 38 years. She is a graduate of Grace New Haven school of nursing and is retiring this year after 24 years with the John Cooper School, an independent school here in The Woodlands. We have lots of interests together especially travel, cooking together and the arts. Life is good.

My wife, Peggy, and I have 3 grown children, Amy, Will and Lisa and one grandchild. Lisa married Robert Bryant in March in a wonderful wedding at the Roosevelt Hotel in New Orleans. Will married Elizabeth Elefano in 2012; they are the parents of Catalina who is 3 and a half.

Robert T. Nuner ’69 Mail: PO Box 1543 Montpelier, VT 05601-1543 (802) 223-7227 land (802) 522-7829 cell [email protected] [email protected]

I'm retired, but exploring what's next. After a decade of prospecting for customers with a remote power business and a carbon accounting firm while also occasionally performing in theater, I then wrote for a community paper. That's wrapped, but I still occasionally write and participate in theater projects. Among those was the premier of “A Song For My Father” by Ohio native - now Vermont poet - David Budbill, whose play explores the relationship between a working class father in Cleveland and his college-educated son. In addition to theater interests, I also follow efforts to resurrect grain growing in the Northeast and to develop renewable energy.

Linda Reed Pettis ’69 Address: 617 Princeton St., Brandon, FL 33511 Phone: (813) 685-7409 Email: [email protected]

Tom Poole ’69

Sorry that I am unable to attend, but plan to make every effort to be the 50th in five years. Give my best to my classmates.

In December, my wife Jan and I celebrated our 10th anniversary in the Chapel where we married at the same time so that we could see the same lighting as the day that we were married. We visit grandchildren in Phoenix as often as possible. Two years ago I started swimming in an outdoor pool, an activity that I put on hold for about 43 years. Now I swim six or seven days a week and recently took Master Swim, the first swim class I have taken since OWU physical education. I am working as Director of Development for Miller Children’s Hospital Long Beach and Long Beach Memorial Medical Center, which share the same campuses. We live in Long Beach, California.

Susan Phillips Read ’69 Email: [email protected]

The past five years have been busy for me as an Associate Judge on the New York Court of Appeals. One of my predecessors christened this great common law court her “lawyer’s heaven,” indeed it is. I am at the point, though, where I am thinking ahead to legal and private life beyond the bench. (My term expires in early 2017, but my beloved husband Howard long ago warned that if I was still on the bench then, I would either be divorced or widowed!) I have also been and will continue to be deeply engaged in the not-for-profit arts world. My chairmanship at Saratoga Performing Arts Center, summer home of the New York City Ballet, the Philadelphia Orchestra and the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, continue through SPAC’s 50th anniversary season in 2016.

My fondest memories center on teachers- Ruth Davies, David Jennings, Norm Leonard, John Chase, Anna Macias, Wendell Patton- and on and on. Access to this dedicated and accomplished cadre of professors shaped my perceptions and ambitions.

Paul M. Rugg ’69 Address: 3019 Palisade Drive, Duluth MN 55811 Phone: (218) 722-2378 Email: [email protected]

I returned home from our OWU graduation to find a letter from my Uncle Sam. Instead of sending me a nice celebratory check, he told me that he wanted the "pleasure of my company" in the Army or Marines! After weighing my options, I decided to join the Air Force under the delayed enlistment program and then completed one quarter of graduate school at Southern Illinois University. Before departing for basic training I married my pin mate, Judy Kaul (OWU class of 1970). After completing basic and then Personnel Specialist training (where I set a course record of 99% for the 12 week course), I was assigned to Westover AFB in MA. Judy graduated from OWU a semester early and joined me.

At Westover I was assigned to the Casualty Assistance section where, after only 6 months, I was selected to manage the program. Our duties included assisting the next of kin of deceased active duty and retired AF members and the families of missing in action/prisoner of war (MIA/POW) AF personnel. My assignment proved to be extremely challenging and rewarding and was highlighted in 1973 when I made phone calls in the early morning hours to over 50 POW families to tell them their husband, son or brother was coming home. Westover AFB served as one of the repatriation sites for our POWS. Although not an easy decision, I opted to leave the AF after 4 years and return to grad school. Before doing so Judy and I welcomed our first (and only) child, Christopher.

Having worked closely with the local Social Security and Veterans Administration offices when I was in Casualty Assistance, I explored career opportunities with both. The Social Security Administration hired me in 1974 and I held a variety of positions in several states over the next 33 years. I retired as a District Manager in Duluth, MN, a position I held for 20 years while supervising 4 offices (in MN and WI) with over 100 employees.

Judy and I enjoyed a variety of activities including motor boating, fishing, hiking, skiing and golfing. As a former sprinter on my high school and OWU track teams, I resumed running in my 30's and "moved up" to distance races. I completed countless races over the next 25 years from 5K on up to full marathons (26.2 miles).

Judy worked in Human Resources for a Hotel Management company and both of our jobs provided a certain amount of travel. We enjoyed visiting a variety of locales and expanded our horizons after we retired in 2007. Since then we've gone to Alaska, Hawaii, Ireland and the UK and we've gone on several cruises. This fall we're flying to Vegas and driving to many of the national parks in that area. Retirement has also given us the time to take up golfing more seriously (albeit not necessarily better!). I did manage to get my first (and possibly last) hole-in-one last month! Loving MN, but not so much the brutal winters there, we opted to spend the cold months in FL the past few years. Last year we bought a villa in a gated golfing community, "Timber Pines", and expect to eventually sell our home in Duluth. At that point FL will become our "home base" and we'll travel and/or rent elsewhere in the summer. Judy and I enjoy being unemployed, volunteering and look forward to becoming even more active with all that Timber Pines has to offer!

Unfortunately we won't be able to attend this year's Alumni Weekend but we think often of our classmates and the good times we had in Delaware!

Dean Rushmore ’69 Email: [email protected]

Since my last reunion, I retired from Nestle in 2008. Since then I’ve enjoyed many trips, including Alaska, Europe, the Caribbean, and U.S. National Parks. In addition, I enjoy playing golf, kayaking, and gardening.

I have so many fond memories of OWU, it’s hard to choose a favorite. However, my fondest memories include all the good times in enjoyed with my fraternity brothers at Chi Phi. I still continue to keep in touch with many of my fraternity brothers.

Ann Gaither Russell Email: [email protected]

I have continued to work as a physical therapist, working presently in an acute care setting. Previously I was in a skilled nursing facility. I have done some traveling: Paris, Alaska, and the Baltic area. My favorite OWU memories (and please note these are not in order of preference or ranking) are my first day moving into Monnett Hall, field trip to the cranberry bog, beer baseball, comparative anatomy class, the old Brown Jug, friends in the dorms, Bun’s sugar cookies, the old study area in the library in Slocum, the new Beeghly library, the dining halls, great classes, and a solid path for vocation and avocation.

Anne Sawyer ’69 Mailing address: PO Box 946, Abiquiu, NM 87510 Phone: (505) 685-4108 Email: [email protected]

Clutching my BFA from OWU, I roamed about the country for a while before falling in love with Santa Fe, New Mexico in 1972. Shortly after settling, I was offered an etching press to use. Since this is not only unusual but had happened to me before, I read the handwriting on the wall and became a professional etcher. I ran a studio/gallery on Canyon Road for 26 years called Graphics House.

In 1980 I became sober and the year after that I rediscovered a childhood passion for horses and began to ride again, eventually taking up polocrosse and playing at the B level for several years. I still have 3 horses, and mostly I ride them in the National Forest across the highway from my home near Abiquiu. But I occasionally dabble in other equine disciplines just to keep things interesting.

My worldly accomplishments are minor I fear, but I’ve had a pretty good time and enjoy wonderful friends and terrific scenery.

Carol Rice Schuster ’69 Address: 3238 Pristine View, Williamsburg, Virginia 23188 Phone:(757) 208-0094 Email: [email protected]

Lou and I retired to Williamsburg, Virginia in December 2010. Our son and daughter-in-law Alan and Jen are nearby, and we enjoy playing with our young granddaughter, Nora. We also spend time in Seattle visiting our son Brian. Our time is spent attending classes at William and Mary’s lifelong learning institute, volunteering, and traveling. Carol golfs, bikes, kayaks and engages in genealogy.

Peggy Lynn Shaw ’69 and Donald H. Shaw ’69 Address: 72 Canal Road, Granby, CT 06035 Phone: (860) 653-7347 Email: [email protected] and [email protected]

We are still in our “starter home” in Granby, CT. It is just the right size for the two of us now as Sarah and Kate are married with families of their own. Sarah and her husband are in Rochester, NY with 2 sons and Katie and her husband live in Philly with one son and (the reason we can’t make it to the reunion) another baby boy due May 12th. I am a retired pre-school teacher, but still teach the music classes there and volunteer quite a bit. I am active in the local community theater and sing in our church choir. Don has retired , first from Accenture, and then from the City of Hartford and is now the interim ED at Hartford Habitat for Humanity (his passion). He has served on several Habitat Jimmy and Rosalyn Carter Work Project construction crews around the world. We enjoy visiting grandsons, cross- country skiing, biking and walking. We are sorry to miss the reunion – to meet up with old friends- but look forward to other small reunions in the next few months with our wonderful OWU friends. See you at the 50th!!

Coral Davis Snider ’69 Email: [email protected]

The last reunion I attended was in 2004, I believe. Since then I have retired from teaching high school English. A week before my retirement my oldest daughter Jennie had her first baby. Since then she has had two more babies and my daughter Jill (class of 2000) had had two also! To celebrate my retirement, Ron and I took our first cruise. Since then we have taken two more. We were able to go to England for 3-week trips in 2008 and 2011. This summer we will go again, but this time I will stay on to attend a three-week course at Oxford University. I am now living guided by the adage “If you want to do it, do it! There are only so many tomorrows!” There are so many! One of my favorites was in my freshman year while living in Stuyvesent Hall. On one or two occasions we were serenaded by different fraternity men singing in the courtyard. Another favorite was dancing on the fraternity oval at a mixer. My roommate and I had only been at OWU for two weeks. It was the night I met and danced with my future husband!

It’s amazing to think it has been so many years since we were students on the OWU campus. We may have changed physically since then, but mentally it seems as though it was only a few years ago! All of us are still young in the great store of my memories. I still have the occasional anxiety dream where I can’t find my class and I am wandering all over University Hall trying to find it; or I forgot that I was taking a math class and didn’t remember to attend until there was a midterm. To the present day; I retired from teaching high school English at Hilliard Davidson H.S. in 2007. (Ron had retired from the same school in 2001 and continues to teach part time at OWU). Conveniently, just one week prior to my retirement, our oldest daughter Jennie had her first baby; since then she has had two more. Our daughter Jill (OWU class of 2000) now has two children as well. Obviously, babysitting is one of my major avocations! Upon retirement, Ron and I went on our first cruise. We enjoyed it so much we have taken three more cruises since then.

We love to travel now that we have time. We have been to Europe twice since my retirement and plan to go again this summer. What makes this trip special is that when Ron returns to Ohio, I will stay on to attend a three-week-long course at Oxford University. During those three weeks I will live and eat in Merton College, built in the 1200’s and go on three “field trips” in various parts of England. In addition to babysitting and traveling, two of my other passions are gardening and genealogy. I have traced my father’s ancestors (mostly from Britain) back to the 1100’s. I was particularly surprised to discover that my fifteenth grandfather was King James I of Scotland!

I loved my teaching career, but retirement affords so many opportunities to do all that matters the most to me. My new attitude about life is, “Don’t put off what you want to do. There are only so many tomorrows!”

Allen L. Snyder III ’69

Since our last reunion in 2009, I've been doing pretty much the same thing. I've been with Northwestern Mutual of Milwaukee, Wisconsin now for 42 years selling life insurance. I've been involved with Massachusetts Prostate Cancer Coalition, where I'm the Chairman, I also sing in the choir and serve on the Vestry at Old North Church.

Since the last reunion, I've purchased a second home in Tucson, Arizona that backs up to the Santa Catalina Mountains. I've been trying to travel more, as I ease into retirement in another three years.

My favorite memory at Ohio Wesleyan: The friends that I have made that I see periodically and at our reunions.

Thomas Tritton ’69 Address: 316 S 2nd St, Philadelphia, PA 19106 Phone: (267) 324-5646 Email: [email protected]

Thomas R. Tritton is a Senior Fellow at the Chemical Heritage Foundation and a Visiting Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania. He is former president of Haverford College, and former president and CEO of the Chemical Heritage Foundation, an organization headquartered in Philadelphia as a library, museum, and center for scholars. Prior to joining CHF, he was President-in-Residence at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He was also a professor of Pharmacology for twelve years each at Yale University and the University of Vermont. At UVM he served as Deputy Director of the Vermont Comprehensive Cancer Center, and as Vice Provost of the university. He is currently a member of the Corporation of Haverford College, Vice Chair of the Board of Trustees at Ohio Wesleyan University, and member of the board of directors for the Fox Chase Cancer Center, the Greater Philadelphia Life Sciences Congress, and the Philadelphia Area Center for the History of Science. In addition, Tom is a scientific advisor to Sefacor, a biotechnology company developing cures for brain cancer, and a partner in CALICO, a consulting firm that provides advice to nonprofit organizations.

Jane Ayres Welsheimer ’69 Email: [email protected]

I have been enjoying my retirement from teaching and the library. My grandchildren are growing like weeds and I spend time with them and volunteer. We are not traveling as much as I was because George is resisting retirement!

All the sorority and fraternity parties were a blast. That was the golden age for the Greek system. Also the long hours at the “Art Hall” were memorable, as well as student government.

Cheryl Louise Smith Benefield ’74 I wrote and published my first book, “Nathan's Story” in April 2009. I was ordained as a minister of the gospel on November 9, 2009. I established Miracles Believers, Inc. in 2009, where I provide editing and marketing of books, and mentoring and counseling services. Kathryn “Katie” Bright ’74

Katie deceased in June of 2005 following a battle with colon cancer. She was a fine arts major who completed her degree at Akron University.

She spent her adult life tutoring autistic and dyslexic students. She received awards from the Orton Society.

Betsy Bruce Cariello ’74 Address: 5921 East Sandra Terrace, Scottsdale, AZ 85254 Phone: (602) 692-1999 Email: [email protected]

I have not returned to OWU since the day I graduated and had hoped this would be the year I would get back to Delaware. But with work and other planned travels in 2014 my return will have to wait!

Since graduation, I went to the University of Missouri where I obtained a secondary teaching certificate in Biology/Life Sciences. I have never used the teaching certificate, but my first job was as a QC Laboratory Analyst with Campbell's Soup Company in Dover, Delaware. I worked there for 5 years before moving to the Medical Device/Consumer Products company, International Playtex, where I was a QC Laboratory Technician for 5 years. After that I started what has become a 28 year career in the Pharmaceutical Manufacturing industry in the roles of Manufacturing and Quality Management. I have worked in non-sterile and sterile pharmaceuticals in Delaware, Pennsylvania and Arizona, currently as the Director, Quality Control Microbiology for Celgene Corporation's Phoenix, Arizona sterile manufacturing facility where we manufacture ABRAXANE, a chemotherapeutic drug used to treat Pancreatic, Breast and Lung Cancer. Our drug is marketed throughout the world and is saving and extending people's lives so that they can enjoy more time with their families and loved ones.

I have been married to my husband for almost 34 years, and we have one daughter, now 25 years old. We are also parents to 2 Dalmatians, 1 Boston Terrier, and grandparents to one Chihuahua/Poodle mix. We have recently enjoyed trips to Europe and are going on our first trip to Alaska this summer.

I have such fond memories of OWU and all of the wonderful friends I made there! I always loved the outdoor concerts and picnics in "Stuyvesant Glen" I think it was called?! My education at OWU has served me well over the years. I may not physically be at the reunion, but will definitely be there in spirit!

Donna Jaildagian Collins ’74 Address: 648 Kilmarnock Ct., New Smyrna Beach, FL 32168 Phone: (516) 639-0989 Email: [email protected]

This will be my second time returning to OWU for a reunion. I did attempt to get my middle son to attend OWU with a visit to the campus, but he had aspirations of his own and chose Arizona State. I have to say that he did follow in his mother’s footsteps, though, as he got is Master’s in Physical Education and is now a PE teacher in Montauk NY Public Schools (K-8). My youngest son got a 4- year degree from Johnson and Wales and is now a chef, though he lives in a seasonal town and finds full time employment difficult to find. Our oldest son, Mark, was brain damaged at birth and lived with my husband and I for 37 and a half years, but passed away this year after a brief illness. He was a true angel, sweet and kind and we miss him so much. I am an avid golfer, even though my handicap has skyrocketed, due to my lack of playing time this winter, as I had a full left knee replacement in December. I have just recently returned to all activities that I love so much- aerobics, biking, swimming and golfing. My husband and I also love our motorcycles. I had three until recently, as I let my husband trade in one of my bikes for a new one for himself. We ride our bikes with some amazing people! I used to love to quilt, but haven’t found the time to do the hand stitching that I loved so much in the past. One of my passions is playing canasta, which I usually try to do three times a week. My husband and I love to travel and have visited several countries in the past few years, since retiring. We have been to Switzerland, Germany, France, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Italy (our favorite), and Canada. We joined the AAA Chairman’s Cruise twice and last year cruised to Alaska! We have a beautiful country! We will be returning to Italy this year, with a side trip to Austria to visit two of the Au Pairs that helped with our children when they were young and we were working. We are hoping to join the Chairman’s Cruise to the Far East next year. My middle son was married in 2010 and we were blessed with a grandson in November of 2011. He is a chatterbox, loves to read books and sing, and keeps us very happy and content. I stay in touch with several friends and classmates from OWU and look forward to seeing some of them at this 40th reunion!

George F. "Rick" Evans ’74 Address: 120 Cherokee Ln, San Antonio, TX 78232 Phone: (210) 402-0146 Email: [email protected]

My wife, Rainy, and I celebrated our 33rd wedding anniversary. We have three children, Whitney, Reid and Ross. Whitney is a brand and marketing manager for a solar energy company in San Francisco, Reid directs creative design teams for a firm in San Francisco, and Ross is a practicing attorney in San Antonio. After graduating from OWU, I obtained a law degree from Cleveland- Marshall College of Law and then practiced law for two years in Cleveland before relocating to Denver to defend Johns Manville in its asbestos litigation. My family and I then moved to San Antonio in 1982 where I continued as a defense trial attorney in civil litigation specializing in the representation of hospitals and physicians. I founded my own firm, Evans & Rowe, which grew to be among the largest health care defense firms in Texas. In May, 2013, I retired from my practice and am now gratefully enjoying doing little to nothing on a professional level. Rainy and I spend our summers in our home in Chautauqua Institution, New York. For the rest of the year, we enjoy sailing a boat we keep near Galveston, Texas along with other "water activities" since becoming certified as a U.S.C.G. Master Captain. That includes captaining a bona fide paddle wheel steam boat; one of four remaining in the nation. We travel frequently to San Francisco to enjoy our two children from that neck of the woods and anxiously await the day we become grandparents now that Ross is married, Whitney is engaged, and we suspect Reid will be next to tie the knot. While in San Antonio, I'm involved in my tenth year as an elected City Councilperson for our community but make plenty of time for travel, golf, and anything that looks like fun. I still continue to teach health law at the University of Texas Medical School in San Antonio and remain as the General Counsel to the county's medical society, but otherwise try to remain legally lazy.

Helen Evans Fernald ’74 Address: PO Box 1805, Wolfeboro, NH 03984 Phone: (603) 569-4661 Email: [email protected]

I feel very fortunate to have attended Ohio Wesleyan and am looking forward to reconnecting with friends at the reunion. I am grateful to have led a fun and fulfilling life so far, and to be embarking on a new career now. After receiving my MA from Middlebury College in 1975, I taught Spanish at the University of New Hampshire. While studying in Spain, I met my husband and we were married in 1978. We have a daughter, 29, and a son, 20. After the birth of our first child, I enjoyed being a stay-at-home mom while teaching a variety of subjects (Spanish, aerobics, dance) part-time. As a family we have travelled extensively and our children are bilingual. In 2013 I became a level 2 certified EFT practitioner. Emotional Freedom Technique is an incredibly versatile healing method and popular stress relief tool. I work with clients in both English and Spanish. I am also writing a memoir that will be published in 2016. Life continues to be exciting!

Ann Bailey Glamm ’74 Email: [email protected]

Recently retired from Library Treasurer, school system payroll. Three children live in Denver, Seattle, and Columbus. Expecting first grandchild.

Gregg Glamm ’74 Email: [email protected]

Recently retired from 37 years of dentistry. Three children live in Seattle, Denver, and Columbus. Expecting first grandchild.

Too many to memories to mention. Meeting all my friends is one of my favorites.

Gene Goell ’74 Email: [email protected]

Life at Phi Kappa Psi and the OWU track team are some of my favorite memories from my time at OWU.

Cheryl Hale ’74 Address 14542 White Birch Valley Lane Chesterfield, MO 63017 Email: [email protected]

Retired in 2007 after a 26 year career as a Psychology professor at a junior college. I got married during my first semester teaching and retired three weeks before my daughter graduated from college (and my son completed his second year of law school). It seemed like a nice way to bookend my career.

I noticed that the reunion weekend includes a BBQ held at Stuyvesant courtyard which got me to thinking... One of my favorite OWU memories is having ice cream at our corridor birthday parties’ freshman year.

Susan J. Gormley Harrington ’74 Address: 3690 Sussex Dr. NE, Milledgeville, GA 31061 Phone: (478) 452-9758 Email: [email protected]

In 1975, I married Hugh Harrington (’72). I worked in information systems in big businesses until 1986. I then taught college while obtaining my Ph.D. After I finished my Ph.D. in 1992, I ended up in Georgia teaching in the state university system there. I retired 3 years ago and am thoroughly enjoying retirement. There are plenty of volunteer projects to keep me busy full time!

Carl James ’74 Address: 109 High Street, Canfield, OH 44406 Phone: (330) 719-7714 Email: [email protected]

Since graduating OWU, I became an attorney and was the President/CEO of BDI Global Group. My wife, Annie, has deceased. We have two children, Will and Khepri. My interests include being a Regional Community Theater Co-founder, and being a part of St. Patrick Parish, Gamaliel Foundation, Oak Hill Collaborative.

Margaret Weaver Krull ’74 Address: 104 Stoweklake, Williamsburg, VA 23188 Phone: (757) 564-3310 Email: [email protected]

Since graduating from OWU, I had a long and satisfying career in college admissions and human resources in Washington, DC. Fifteen years ago my husband and I moved to Williamsburg, VA where we had our PR/Communications Company. Now retired, I am heavily into the volunteer mode as a tour guide at colonial Williamsburg and a board member for various civic organizations. An avid golfer, I play in several leagues in the Hampton Roads area. I love to travel, read, and go to Broadway shows—and I’m still a concert hunter! If you find yourself in the Williamsburg area, please give me a call!!

Joanie Johnson Larson ’74 Address: P.O. Box 22231, Hilton Head Island, SC 29925

John (’72) and I spent the last 40 years enjoying time with our two sons and family, traveling extensively, and moving with IBM multiple times within the United States, each an adventure. John retired from IBM; Joanie continues to teach high school Spanish and serves as department chair. She has led numerous trips to Spain and other parts of Europe with students and she has spoken at various state teacher conferences. Greetings to fellow 40 year anniversary alumni!

Susan “Sue” C. Currie Morehouse ’74

I am looking forward to attending the reunion with my dearest OWU friends, Leslie Jarvis Abernathy, Susan Fuller McDonough and Ann Maxfield Kisling. We still get together often, last ladies' reunion at Ann's in Sarasota!!

Nancy Brindock Overley ’74 Address: 5171 Lupine Ln., Acworth, GA 30102 Phone: (770) 924-2759 Email:[email protected]

For the past 6 years, I have enjoyed more traveling than at any other time in my life. My daughter and I have been taking some wonderful trips, both domestic and international, and have some additional ones planned for later this year and next. I am living in a suburb of Atlanta and working in higher education, although I would like to find something that aligns more closely with my interests, education, and experience and possibly in one of the more northern mid-Atlantic states like Maryland, Virginia, or Pennsylvania. Exercise is a priority of mine- especially walking on the beach, aerobics classes and tennis and I enjoy cooking and social eating. Atlanta is fun and my home is always open for visitors. I have plenty of room and beds so please let me know if you are coming to the Atlanta area so we can get together or just plan to come for a visit- soon! I hope to hear from some of you. My thoughts and best wishes!

Jennifer Gross Peterson ’74 Address: 2051 Lake Harbor Dr., Eugene, OR 97408 Phone: (541) 344-3678 Email: [email protected]

I met my future husband, Kent D. Peterson, in Rochester, MN where we were married in November of 1975. We moved together to Eugene, Oregon in 1976 where I completed the Masters of Library Science program at the University of Oregon, class of 1978. I worked full time at the Springfield (Oregon) Public Library from 1978-2009, the last 26 years as Reference & Adult Services Manager. My late husband established a successful commercial photography business, shooting a wide range of subjects including the ballet, opera, many forms of art and architecture, and other commercial products & personnel. He passed away from cancer in Jan 2010.

Over the years I have enjoyed many activities: travel, single & tandem bicycling (recreational, touring, & racing), exercise walking, reading, dance, theater, yoga, meditation, caring for cat companions, crossword puzzling, and especially socializing with a wide & wonderful network of friends. Since retiring from full time work in 2009, I continue to keep my hand in at the Library with some on- call substitute work at the reference desk, still enjoy many of the above activities, and also do volunteer work in the community.

Peter P. Poll ’74 Email: [email protected]

Since my last reunion I have been hanging out at the Hamburger Inn. One of my favorite memories from OWU is of throwing tiki torches at a gasoline truck during a FIJI Island King party.

Jeff “Duke” Ranck ’74 Address: 425 S 21st Street, Lewisburg, Pa 17837 Phone: (570) 523-3552 Email: [email protected]

Following a brief stint (6 years) as Men’s Golf Coach and Fund Raiser at Bucknell University, I settled into what is now a 32 year career as a financial advisor at Merrill Lynch in their Williamsport, PA branch where I served for three years as resident manager. Now a First Vice President, Wealth Management Advisor, you can imagine I have seen some of the best and worst of the financial industry. But enough about that. In 1976 I married Debra Callenberger, a local girl whom I had not known prior to college, and we have been together ever since. We have a 32 year old daughter Lindsay Woog who lives in Charlotte, NC with her husband Jonathan and our two granddaughters, McKennah (3) and Leigh (3 months) and a 28 year old son, Jeffrey Jr. who lives in Denver, Co at least for now. I have been involved with the game of golf as an avocation all of my life. In addition to a fairly active competitive amateur career as a player, I co-founded the North Central Pennsylvania Golf Association in 1981, have served as a committeeman for the USGA for 28 years and am currently on the executive committee of the Pennsylvania Golf Association. I have won quite a few tournaments over the years but have made more friends playing in tournaments than I have in winning them. Most of my competitive golf is limited to senior events and officiating at other competitions. In addition to golf, I enjoy spending time with my family and my dogs at our second home in North Myrtle Beach, SC, following college basketball and serving on the board of a few non-profits. My deepest connection to Ohio Wesleyan continues to be through my fraternity experience at Phi Gamma Delta. I remain in contact with many of my brothers and get together with at least a few of them annually.

Lawrence L. Reddick III ’74 Email: [email protected] I serve as a Bishop for the First Episcopal District of the Christian Methodist Episcopal (C.M.E) Church, which includes Congregations in Arkansas, Tennessee and Jamaica. My wife and I reside in Memphis.

Doug Riddell ’74 and Cathy Rodger Riddell ’74 Address: 7258 Brixton Lane, Cincinnati, OH 45255 Address until May: 2509 Augusta Drive, Naples, FL 34109 Phone: (513) 232-0415 (OH) Phone: (239) 260-1434 (FL) Email: [email protected]

Cathy and Doug Riddell are enjoying retired life in Naples, FL. Both of our sons are married, and we have one granddaughter and another baby on the way. We golf a lot, but recently put the clubs away to take a European Cruise. We reside in Cincinnati, OH in the summertime.

Barbara McEachern Smith ’74 Address: 14429 Drexmore Road Shaker Heights, OH 44120 Phone: (216) 561-1767 Email: [email protected]

Following graduation from OWU in 1974, I was awarded a research/teaching assistantship at Bowling Green State University. Upon successful graduation from BGSU, I returned to New York City, the place of my birth, and continued my study and theatre performance Off-Broadway, at The Nat Horne Musical Theatre. After a year of searching for employment in New York, I decided to return to Ohio where I immediately landed a promising teaching position at Lakeland Community College, a growing, prominent college just east of Cleveland. I remained at Lakeland for 32 years, where I taught Speech and Theatre classes, authored books and articles and served as Department Chair. I retired from Lakeland as Professor Emeritus (the highest rank of the professorship) in August of 2009 after having taught and influenced more than 10,000 students. While fulfilling my professional obligations at Lakeland, I was also able to nurture familial and community relationships. Morton V. Smith Jr. (Pete) OWU class of 1971 and I were married in 1976 and were blessed with two sons, Diambu and Tor, both now college graduates with one having achieved his Master of Science degree and the other directing Cuyahoga Community College’s Freedom Project. Community organizations for which I have held board positions are: OWU Black Alumni Network, Ruffing Montessori School, African American Museum, Children’s Community Corner, Innovative Educational Concepts, Inc., African American Angels, Jordan Resource Center, African American Society of Queens, and Cornerstone Connections. I have also been involved in local political elections and organizations and I am an active member of University Circle United Methodist Church and NAACP.

I have also developed and facilitated workshops for and made speeches to numerous professional, civic, church and educational groups.

Currently I have three main areas of special interest. Children Defense Fund Freedom Schools have captured my heart and mind. As has my precious grandson, Kace. My third interest lies in participating in the redevelopment of housing in the North Coast. I continue to be interested in and hopeful for racial parity at OWU.

Fred and Denise Dempster Watkins ’74

We have three kids:

Lauren (31) married a young man named Brendan Corrigan (no relation to our classmate Steve Corrigan although Steve searched hard for a connection). She and her husband live in San Francisco. She works for Preferred Building Services and he works at JP Morgan. Meredith (28) works for PricewaterhouseCoopers and lives in Jackson Hole WY. Tucker (26) is currently deployed in Afghanistan.

Denise is active as always: She has a children's book coming out this summer, watch for it on Amazon. She has been the House Manager at Ruth Eckerd Hall for past 6 years. She is EVP of the Island Estates Women's Club. Denise is very involved with the regional Tri Delta Alumnae. In her spare time she enjoys her boat on the Gulf of Mexico. Fred - I am still very active in the telecom industry, currently focused on VoIP solutions. I have given up playing lacrosse, as the pains keep lasting longer (not sure why??). My golf game is erratic (again not sure why??). I get to drive Denise's boat as often as I can (it is my happy place).

Actually all is good with us, as we hope it is with all of you. Enjoy the re-union, we hope to see you at the next one or sooner!

Diane Nicholson Wells ’74

I recently marked the 10th anniversary of my retirement from the U.S. Geological Survey. My primary retirement occupation continues to be playing tennis an average of four to five times per week all year, socially and in leagues.

Between my husband, Rob, and myself, we have four adult children, three of whom live locally. Two of our three grandchildren are local.

Rob served as general contractor and I as interior designer for the house we built in 2012. The building site consists of a few acres of high prairie and Ponderosa pines, surrounded by dedicated open space, in a semi-rural area about 30 miles southeast of the center of Denver. Our house is situated on a high point that provides unobstructed panoramic views of the Rocky Mountains, which we greatly appreciate every day.

Frances R. Wells ’74 Address: 37 Village Landing, Apt. A, Chatham, MA 02633 Phone: (508) 348-1929 Email: [email protected]

I earned an MS In Biology, Plant ecology specialty, from Western Illinois University in May 1977.

I worked for the USDA for almost twenty five years and then for the US Department of Homeland Security, Customs and Border Protection for a little over ten years. Most of my career, the last twenty nine years, was as a federal agricultural officer/inspector at JFK airport in NY. I retired from this very interesting job on May 31, 2013, and I moved to Cape Cod where I am enjoying retirement!

Dave Wible ’74 Email: [email protected]

I retired from a career in commercial lending four years ago and have been enjoying having more time to spend on travel, hobbies, and with my lovely wife of 39 years, Mary Ellen, our 3 grown children, and their spouses/fiancés (2 weddings later this year), and our two grandchildren.

Harry Williams ’74 Email: [email protected]

I retired from Montgomery County Public Schools (MD) on July 1st, 2012, after working 38 years of service. The last 14 years my position was that of an administrator. I still live in Gaithersburg, Maryland and visit Columbus, Ohio, often to see my family. I have many fond memories of Ohio Wesleyan, not a favorite one. I enjoyed the interactions of the Black students during SUBA events and activities. Also, there were the college sports participation during cross- country and baseball. Also, there were the many cultural learning of things while living in Bashford Hall for four years. And there was the “closeness” of the student in the class of 1974- willing to help each other.

Linda Williams ’74 Address: 5 W. Chestnut St., Norwalk, Ohio 44857 Email: [email protected]

After graduating, I spent one and a half years as a Vista Volunteer in North Carolina. I worked with families in a low-income housing project, with RIF, and recruited AJSS volunteers who helped repair homes in Greenville. I returned to Ohio, where I have spent my career as a substitute, a tutor, a teacher in middle school, and in Adult Basic and Literacy Education for people who need to enhance skills or earn a G.E.D. Favorite experiences included helping my 85-year-old student earn her diploma, helping students achieve goals, get jobs, or have writings and artwork published for the annual statewide Writers’ Conference. In 1978, I married Benjamin Kenny, and we have two wonderful children, and an adorable grandchild. Both of our children attended OWU; Emily graduated in 2004; William graduated in 2009, so we get to celebrate our reunions in the same years.

My Christian faith and desire to help others has been an important part of my life. I teach Sunday School, vacation Bible School, and Logos. I have served as a Big Sister, I’m on a Relay for Life team and am secretary for First Book of Huron County.

Some of the best things I gained from OWU are the friendships of roommates and others that have remained strong for over 40 years. Several of us gather almost monthly. The fabrics of our lives have been interwoven through celebrations of birthdays, weddings, births, anniversaries, and holidays. The fabric has remained strong as it supported us through struggles with health or loss of loved ones. My OWU friends have been like family to my husband and me, to our children, and now to our grandchild. What a blessing.

Greg Wilson ’74 Address: 960 Carya Court, Great Falls, VA 22066 Phone: (202) 494-0652 Email: [email protected]

To quote Joe Walsh, “Life’s been good to me, so far.” My life has been blessed, no complaints. I have two wonderful, grown children who live in New York City: my daughter is an actress, my son is a banker with Capital One. My wife works for a small cardiac research foundation near our home in Great Falls, Virginia. My step-son is working on his PhD. In physical therapy, and my step-daughter is studying nursing.

I get back to OWU once a year for our Phi Gam annual Pig Dinner, which is always good fun. Three years ago, our class started a new tradition of a summer FIJI weekend in Cleveland. Last year we went to a ball game, drank a few beers, and then watched our classmate, Bill Iovino, compete in the Senior National Games, where he took third place in discus. I look forward to returning to Delaware for a second time this year and seeing other old friends at our 40th reunion.

In 2006, I left my former firm, McKinsey & Company, as a partner to establish my own consulting firm focused on financial services policy and regulatory issues. In 2011, I wrote my second book about the aftermath of the financial crisis, “Managing to the New Regulatory Reality: Doing Business after the Dodd-Frank Act.” Despite the Obama no-growth economic policies, my small business survives, but we live in challenging times.

In 1998, my old high school rock band reunited for a gig, and we have been playing together ever since. F.O.G. [Fat Old Guys] released its CD of all-original music in 2002, and broke into the college circuit last year, playing for the first time at Miami University. We have a lot of fun playing a mix of music from the 1960s-1970s, originals, and contemporary hits. Our friends and followers tell us the more they drink, the better we sound.

My current passion is writing a Civil War biography on the ironies of the only Quaker in the war who simultaneously was both a Union Army scout and a local county sheriff. Jonathan Roberts was a simple farmer, surveyor, abolitionist, and political activist, who was hunted by secessionists before the war for his beliefs and then ordered arrested by C.S.A. Gen. Beauregard before First Manassas. The rest is history, as the saying goes. This story of my second great grandfather’s life will be published later this year.

I hope we have a great turnout, and look forward to seeing lots of classmates and friends in Delaware in May.

Kate Hahn Asbeck ’79 Address: 2339 Springside Oval, Brecksville, OH 44141 Phone: (216) 615-7176 Email: [email protected]

After living away for 30 some years, Rick and I moved back to the Cleveland area in 2009. Our home in Brecksville has become a gathering place for our extended families - - all of our parents are close by, along with several of our 8 siblings and 14 nieces and nephews. We are happy to be home!

I am working as CFO of the Cleveland Foundation, the first and one of the largest community foundations in the world. We are celebrating our centennial in 2014! After so many years in corporate finance in a publicly traded company, it is a refreshing challenge to work in a mission-based organization.

In addition to spending time with family, we like to travel. Greece was our last major trip and we are planning a trip to Argentina in February. We also like to spend time at Lake Chautauqua in the summers! We are looking forward to returning to OWU for the reunion in May!

Julianne Wallace Benson ’79 Address: 540 Jackson Tavern way, Great Falls, VA 22066 Phone: (703) 406-8464 Email: [email protected]

I have been a busy mom with three sons. Now I have been working and going back to school to become a certified nutritional Therapy Practitioner in VA. I love traveling with my husband, exercising, volunteering with our church and chilling with family and friends.

Amy Dick Fechtor ’79 Email: [email protected]

I’m still working as President of the Haverford Lumber Company. In the past few years, Rich and I have travelled to Greece, London, China, Hong Kong, Bangkok, Budapest and Vienna. We are always planning the next adventure. Our oldest daughter is now married and our younger daughter is finally back in the country after a year in China. All is well.

Beth Kohler Gerber ’79 Email: [email protected]

Worked as an RN in critical care and now as a school nurse. Married to Ted for 35 years. 3 daughters and 3 grandchildren. Active in my church as former Elder and direct two childrens’ choirs. Our hobby is traveling.

One of my favorite memories from OWU is of the Blizzard of ’78!

Dave Gillette ’79 Phone: (303) 808-1492 Email: [email protected]

Who are these old people and what are they doing at my college reunion? Wait, what? Am I one too? Family: Married 28 years to Denise, a special-ed teacher. We have two sons, one 25 years old, out of school and working in DC (while wishing he was back in Colorado), the other about to finish high school and go off to study vocal music.

Home: Golden CO, right over the mesa from Coors (though I prefer stout).

Work: Geotechnical engineer, specializing in risk analysis and seismic analysis of dams. It's taken me to Taiwan, Indonesia, Dominican Republic, Sri Lanka, and Oklahoma too.

Play: Not enough, of course, but rafted the Grand Canyon two years ago with Jim Almendinger (1978) and Jon Pertee (1980 - briefly). A mystery revealed, maybe: My cousin married a Delaware townie who claims they really were trying to run us over on Sandusky Street.

What I miss about OWU: The friends - the easy way we slipped into friendships, when we were all first away from home and comfort zone, forming new connections and our new adult identities. The life-long friends I stay close to, others whose address I've lost, though I think of them often. Casual friends whose company I enjoyed at the time, before we went separate ways - we may have shared a bottle of wine, or a tent on a cold night, or maybe class notes from chemistry. Would love to sit and talk over coffee, just to find out where you landed. There were some from far away, who listened to bands I'd never heard of, or played sports I'd never seen, and those from farther away, from continents I'd never seen. There were guys who held the rope that kept me from accelerating toward the ground at 9.8 meters per second squared when I slipped off a rock at Clifton Gorge or Seneca. (I kept a few of you off the ground, too.) People I cared about, and people who cared about me. It was a pleasure.

Cecily P. Judd ’79 Address: 28 Kalnin Ln., Sullivan, ME, 04664 Phone: (207) 422-9003

My interests include: Social Justice, community choir and chord choir, kayaking, travel, treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder- have had much post masters training, the environment.

M & W- 1983- The Ohio State University; 1979- so VISTA volunteer – rural Washington State- started a program for survivors of domestic violence.

Candace Caldwell Kennedy ’79 Address: 5658 Tara Hill Dr. Dublin, OH 43017-3040 Phone: (614) 766-5678 Email: [email protected]

Doug and I have lived in Dublin, Ohio since 1986 and benefit from a large, loving circle of friends. Doug's mom, Mary Jo Kennedy (Class of 1950), is our surviving parent and we spend much quality time with her. We still frequently see many old OWU friends, especially Doug's fraternity brothers and spouses. We have two children, Kate (26) and Conor (24), who represent the best achievement of our 33 plus years of marriage. I continue to work two part-time jobs as a consultant to a family trust and for Dublin City Schools. Doug is a partner at Roetzel and Andress where he has practiced law for 24 years. Our daughter Kate is to be married in June and they will settle in Virginia where she has been working for a company called Revolution Messaging as a Digital Media Specialist. Wedding planning will occupy me for much of the spring and may be the reason I will miss this reunion. Conor graduated from The Ohio State University in December and is actively seeking employment with his Hospitality Management Degree. I wish all my classmates well.

Sharon Keeler Lastrapes ’79 Address: 2030 Pleasant Panorama View, Austin, TX 78738 Phone: (512) 329-0636 (home) (512) 517-8450 (cell) Email: [email protected]

Since leaving OWU, I’ve settled in Texas, living in Houston, Midland, the Dallas/Ft. Worth area, and Austin since 1989. I married my husband David in 1981 and we have two sons, Thomas, a sophomore at Auburn University, and Gregory, who’ll be a freshman at Alfred University in the Fall. I moved to Austin to work for Dell, when it was just a small computer company people still confused with the paperback publishing company. During my 12 and a half years there, I worked in Sales, Marketing, Sales Ops, Services, and Business Process Improvement. After taking a few years off, I went back to work in an entirely different arena, the land of development business. I work with two partners who buy raw land, conduct feasibility studies, rezone, put in the infrastructure, and sell finished lots to builders for residential subdivisions. It’s been fun and exciting to learn something new at this point in my career. Austin’s the fastest growing city in the country with 110 people a day moving here so we have contracts on property all around Austin and numerous construction projects underway. I’m spending time on construction sites supervising projects and have rubber boots, a shovel, and other tools in my car at all times.

I love to travel, especially to Europe, and can’t get enough of France or Italy. Gregory is fluent in Chinese and we took a memorable trip there when he was in Middle School. We visit Ohio about once a year to see family and drive by Bishop Stadium during most of our visits.

Carolea Graf Radke ’79 Address: 2010 Clifton Ave, Casper, WY, 82609 Phone: (307) 315-7761 Email: [email protected]

Hello old friends, It’s been a very busy and interesting life since I last saw you. My right eye began blistering and it was two years before a doctor knew what was wrong. It was the cornea. It was failing. This August I underwent a cornea transplant by the Doctor who invented a quick and fast surgery. Although I am still not seeing I will have the sight in my right eye without pain. It will be nice to see again. I am the popcorn chairman for my son, Brett’s, Cub Scout pack. We sold almost $30,000 this year with 21 kids. Not bad for an old salesman, I still got it. I also volunteered for the Scout house soliciting for auction gifts and was able to get over 10 in a month period. They actually told me to stop getting gifts. My family took our annual monthly vacation in June to my favorite island, Anna Maria Island on the West coast. I actually manage this property, which are my fathers. I still love the sun and the water. My mom died two and a half years ago of something she should have never died from. When she left us half of me went with her. It’s been difficult to get through a day without tears and heartache. I miss her so much. Many of you knew her and knew she was a fireball. The boys just love her. Remember her Phi Psi’s? We moved to Casper, Wyoming in January 1011. It’s just beautiful here. Every day feel like a vacation. I believe I am the only person in WY with a swimming pool. Not one person here knew how to take care of it. I still buy my chemicals from Kansas. I guess the Florida girl in me will never go away. I look out my kitchen window and see mountains and breathe the fresh, crisp air. Come out for a visit anytime. My classmates are always invited.

In the winter we go skiing in Colorado even though we have ski MT just 5 miles away. Last year we didn’t have snow until May! Nice!

I got a beautiful Westie puppy, from my Father’s Champion dog which has brought me much joy except for the presents that she leaves behind.

It’s been a joy raising my twins, Brett and Karlea. Many of you held them at the 30th reunion. They are now 10 years young. They are both tracking 6’ tall. My daughter Karlea is a State champion swimmer after only 6 months of swimming. Brett, Karlea and I are all green belt Tae Kwon Do. Not much golfing or tennis for me the last few years since I couldn’t follow the ball.

Karl, my husband changed jobs from CMO of the Community Health Center to a privately owned hospital. He is very happy with his job and we enjoy seeing more of him.

I hope that I am here at the reunion because I truly miss you all. I think that our great times often and would love to go back in time for a while. I hope that you all have had great lives filled with joy and good health.

Christina Misner Roa ’79 Email: [email protected]

I have been teaching at Joel Barlow School in Redding, CT for 14 years. In addition to teaching business classes, I am also the Academic Services Coordinator and earned my intermediate administrator’s certificate. Outside of school, I continue as a director of a hand bell choir at our church and substitute on the organ when the regular organist is away. We also do piano/organ duets often. This summer my husband and I are moving to Maine to be closer to my parents.

There are so many great memories from OWU- ringing the chimes in Stuy Tower, playing the old organ in Gray Chapel, Mr. Griffiths, Dr. Sudduth, good friends, the big storm of 1978.

Barbranda “Barb” Lumpkins Walls ’79

Hello to the Class of 1979! I can hardly believe it's been 35 years since we all left OWU. I'm still loving the nation's capital (been here 25+ years), working in Washington and living in Alexandria, Va. I'm a features editor with AARP Media (have you joined?) and now have a year-old grandson, who brings great joy to me and my husband Hal. I've had a great run in my journalism career - Akron Beacon Journal, USA Today, AOL and now AARP - and look forward to retirement, whenever that is. I keep in touch with several OWU alums via Facebook and run into them in DC. Wishing you all many blessings and God's grace now and in the years ahead.

Lynn G. Warfield ’79 Phone: (908) 876-3677 Email: [email protected]

Amy Eiken ’84 Email: [email protected]

I’ve been teaching seventh grade World History for the past 21 years. I’m living in Delaware and love it! Have been running half marathons and other races for the past two years and recently became an entrepreneur and started a home based business that deals in essential services. That’s been fun and exciting. Life is good J. spent August 2010 in Africa with my mom (Maribeth Graham, ’55). What a thrill to share that time with her!

Favorite memories are often tied to both the volleyball and softball teams and friends who were teammates. Marine biology trip to Lewes, Delaware with Dr. Patton. Classics with Dr. Finch and Hickcox.

Diane Hanscom ’84 Email: [email protected]

Since my last reunion, I’ve been working at the Husson University Library. I’ve also since had various vacation trips to Baltimore, Nashville, Salem (MA) and Niagara Falls, Canada.

My favorite Ohio Wesleyan memory is the numerous sorority activities I’ve taken part of with my Alpha Gamma Delta sisters.

Scott L. Korn D.O. ’84 Address: 365 Milhayen Dr., Spartanburg, SC 29301 Phone: (828) 980-2770 Email: [email protected]

Nothing but sunshine and puppies since graduation in 1984; perfect marriage, job, and children … big awful lie. My life since graduation has been filled with all the usual stuff ; some good some bad, all too boring to recount. I wouldn’t have changed any of it for fear of changing where I am now; happily married, employed, healthy children & great friends and family. I think of my time at OWU often, miss my friends and that care free time. I hope time has been kind to all of my classmates.

Jennifer Richards ’84 Address: 440 W Sheridan Pl, Lake Bluff, IL, 60044 Phone: (614) 204-2591 Email: [email protected]

Jen will not be at the class reunion because it is the weekend of her daughter's prom and also because she will be at OWU the next weekend to celebrate her son's graduation from OWU - where he was the captain of the Firedogs Ultimate Frisbee team. After 27 years spent in Worthington, Ohio Jen and Randy recently relocated to Lake Bluff, IL (Jen's hometown!) where Randy is an attorney with Walgreens. Jen helps the family's English Bulldog with his blog: PAWS Moments by Magnus Pym and volunteers for church and community needs. She stays in touch with her OWU girlfriends/Kappa big and little sisters/bridesmaids: Eve Hoffman Smith, Mary Beth Craig Shea, Tracey Williams Ferns, Robin Hirschfield, and Maggie Freehling Phillips through emails, calls and texts so her OWU family tree is firmly planted with strong roots. Thank you OWU for the lifelong legacy which began with my grandparents Carl and Thelma Fuller, was carried on by my parents Robert and Ginny (Fuller) Istnick, and has been carried on by Max! Life is good!

Susan “Sue” Quen Henkel Smith ’84

Has it really been 30 years since we were all together at OWU? The old adage, "time flies while you're having fun" rings true. To my fellow 1984 classmates attending the reunion weekend I know you will have such fun and make new memories. Rogers and I wish we could also be there with you to reminisce, catch up and be a part of the festivities. But we have happy news. Our oldest son graduates from Texas Tech University on May 16th and we could not be any prouder. We can't wait to join you at the next reunion.

David Spires ’84 Phone: (614) 332-1484 Email: [email protected]

30 years goes by so quickly. I received a MBA from the University of Indianapolis in 1995 and married my wife Karen in 1999. I have four children, Sierra 23, Jacob 13, Sydney 10, Ryan 8. Sierra is in college at the University of Toledo where she is studying to be a teacher. The younger three are involved in various sports and keep us very busy. We live in a house we built in 2002 in the same community that my wife and I grew up (Cardington, Ohio), and where we enjoy our extended families. For the past 11 years, I have been employed by Lennox Industries as a Territory Manager for Northwest Ohio.

Richard “Dick” Spybey ’84 Email: [email protected]

I have retired from 18 years of college coaching (golf at the University of Alabama), and am currently finishing my 12th year of ‘Christian’ Education, servings as teacher, coach, Principal, and now Athletic Director. My favorite OWU memories include many athletic events, including spring break golf trips to North Carolina. Also, I enjoyed classes with Dr. Richard Gordin and Dr. Jay Martin.

Todd Burson ’94

Since the last reunion I have left The College of Wooster and I am now back at Kenyon College working in the Finance Division. Two weeks after the last reunion, we celebrated the birth of our third and now my wife and I are playing zone defense at all times.

One of my favorite memories from my time at OWU is of meeting my future wife on the 2nd floor of Stuy in Fall ‘93. Coleen Gatehouse ’94 Address: 5860 Leipzig Pl, Dulles, VA 20189 Phone: (202) 986-3932 Email: [email protected]

Shortly after graduating from OWU I moved to Lithuania and worked as an English teacher and project consultant for four years as a U.S. Peace Corps Volunteer. In 2001 I completed a master's degree in international affairs at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, and I've been working in international education and exchange ever since - at the American Council on Education, the U.S. State Department, and now at American Experience, a company that specializes in cultural exchanges to the United States for university students. Right now I'm living in Leipzig, Germany, where my husband Rob is a U.S. diplomat; our previous posts were Monterrey, Mexico, and Bucharest, Romania. We have two little boys, Benjamin (6) and Jack(4), who keep us very busy.

Kevin A. Hinkle ’94 Email: [email protected]

20 years-Wow! Charity and I live in Powell, OH with three future Battling Bishops-Henry(11), Parker (10), and Charlie(6). I’m grateful for the opportunity supporting Team OWU and always look forward to spending time on campus.

Melissa Werle Marcin ’94 Email: [email protected]

I am an attorney in private practice in Milford, Ohio. I am currently serving as the President of the Clermont County Bar Association. My husband and I are proud parents of our son, Blake, who is 10 years old (and earned his black belt in tae kwon do at age 9!)

Todd Neilsen ’94

It will be great to see so many dear friends from OWU days back in Delaware! Life keeps Shannon and I so busy with our two boys, but we would not trade it for anything. Travel, sports, and my duties at Nationwide Children’s Hospital keep me going daily. Can’t wait to see everyone again!

There are so many- from all the time spent with my brother on the Selby Football field turf- to the days hanging with Ket, Hawks, Smitty, Lunn, and Hollister. The best memory though is meeting Shannon Dick and knowing she would one day be married to me!

Alison Martin Turner ’94 Email: [email protected]

Over the last five years, my life has changed a lot as our "babies" have grown into little ladies, now 9 and 11.5. Family remains the focus, and the girls keep me busy with their competition dance, choir, scouting, and school activities. We have also enjoyed some wonderful vacations and adventures together. As they have gotten older, I have pursued my own interest in travel and business, and launched my own travel agency in 2012 called Powell Travel and Tours (I live in Powell, OH just south of Delaware). I have been helping clients with vacations to resorts in the Caribbean, Mexico, Hawaii, Disney, cruises and much more. One of the absolute highlights has been reconnecting with "old" OWU friends across the country and helping them plan their vacations. It has truly been a rewarding experience, and feels that life is coming "full circle" as I once again use my pre- motherhood business skills in an area I am passionate about- travel. (I used to joke at OWU that my dream job would be to be "Julie McCoy"... from "The Love Boat"!) Next year, Michael and I will celebrate our 15th wedding anniversary.. hopefully renewing our vows on a beautiful beach. As we approach our 20th class reunion, I look forward to seeing many of you. In the crazy world we live in, I am thankful to see smiling OWU faces on Facebook daily and be able to keep in touch better than in past. But... it will be SO much nicer to say "cheers" in person!

I can't pull out just one favorite memory, but I am thankful for the enduring friendships and community that are unique to a small college experience.

Maggie Smith-Beehler ’99 Address: 760 S. Roosevelt Avenue, Bexley, OH 43209 Phone: (614) 589-1013 Email: [email protected] Website: www.maggiesmithpoet.com

After graduation I earned an MFA in poetry from The Ohio State University, I taught creative writing at Gettysburg College, and began a career in publishing upon returning to Columbus. My first book of poems, “Lamp of the Body”, was published in 2005. My husband Jason Beehler (’00) and I married later that year, and OWU English professor Bob Flanagan spoke at our wedding.

In December 2008, our daughter Violet was born, and in 2010 we moved to Bexley, Ohio. When I received a creative writing fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts in 2011, I left my job and formed my own company, Versed Creative Services, LLC. Working as a freelance writer and editor has enabled me to stay home with Violet and her brother Rhett, who was born in October 2012. It’s also given me the freedom to write and travel in service of my writing. My latest chapbook, Disasterology, will be published in 2014. My next full-length book, The Well Speaks of Its Own Poison, was selected by Kimiko Hahn as winner of the Dorset Prize and will be published by Tupelo Press in 2015. You can find poems and info online at maggiesmithpoet.com.

Bottom line: I wouldn’t have my family, my writing career, or so many of my friends without OWU. And this life is worth every penny of my student loans.

Karla Melissa Chipelo McClain ’99

I am currently teaching at Bristow Middle School in West Hartford, CT. Since our last reunion, I was a finalist for Teacher of the Year in my district, and completed my National Board Certification in Music. I am playing trombone in a local brass ensemble and have started performing on stage again after a long hiatus. Scott and I are the parents of two wonderful kids, Lori (almost 7) and Hunter (5). Life is certainly never boring or quiet between work and home, but always interesting!

Julie Frances Myers McCord ’99

Julie Myers McCord lives in Worthington, Ohio with her husband Michael and their two children Eli and Bryn. She is a licensed Realtor with Coldwell Banker King Thompson.

Kami Lu Shrader Beer ’04 Address: 6174 Broad Stripes Ave, Galloway, OH 43119 Phone: (614) 804-2708 Email: [email protected]

Rick and I have been married since 2013. Since then we have done 2 mission trips to South/Central America. May 2014, we will have returned from our third trip and we are in the process with Global Partners to become full-time missionaries overseas, preferably in El Salvador or Peru. We both like to travel and continue to serve other in central Ohio and hope to inspire other to do the same.

Elizabeth Dale ’04 Address: 649 E. Arch St., Indianapolis, IN 46202 Phone: 740-816-0037 E-mail: [email protected]

Greetings to the Class of 2004! After graduating in May 2004, I moved to Columbus to complete my Master’s Degree in Women’s Studies at The Ohio State University. While there, I began working with the YWCA Great Lakes Alliance, and in 2006, I moved to Chicago to work full-time in marketing and development at the YWCA Metropolitan Chicago. In 2008, I left the YWCA to join the development staff at Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center, a community hospital in Chicago, where I served as the Director of Development until July 2012.

In August 2012, we moved to Indianapolis so I could begin my Ph.D. in Philanthropic Studies at the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy, where I am an instructor and full-time student. My research focuses on gender and philanthropy, women’s organizations in the nonprofit sector, board governance, and household charitable decision making.

I married Sarah Anderson in Davenport, Iowa in 2010 following a commitment ceremony held before family and friends in Chicago. We have been together for over 8 years and just recently adopted a miniature schnauzer named Hank. We love to travel and have visited London, Vancouver, Costa Rica, Panama, France, and Japan, not to mention trips to Florida, California, Louisiana and North Carolina to visit family and friends.

Erin Higgenbotham ’04 Email: [email protected]

From 2005-2007, I lived and worked in Miyako City, Iwate Japan as and ESC teacher. I retured in 2007 to pursue and MA in Japanese Linguistics at the University of Arizona and an M. Ed in Instructional Technology at Kent State University. Currently I am living in Western Idaho and work at Schwitzer Engineers Laboratories located in Pullman, Washington.

Track meets and practice. I enjoyed attending practice with my fellow teammates and competing in meets. I threw hammer and shot put so I was out in the field more, but it was a great experience.

Allison Jackson ’04

As this is my first reunion, I suppose I’ll pick it up from graduation. Upon leaving OWU in 2004, I headed to London to get my Master’s Degree at the London Film School. I studied sound mixing and in 2007, M.A in hand, I moved to New York City. For 5 years I worked on Indie films as a sound mixer, my most well-known film being Beasts of the Southern Wild which was nominated for an Academy Award last year. Two years ago I applied and was accepted into the Sound Union IATSE local 52 which allows me to work on bigger budget films, television shows and have important things like health care and a retirement plan. I currently work in the sound department on the televisin show “The Following.” I love it!

I have many fond memories from my time at OWU but my favorite would have to be playing in the snow one evening sledding down the hill in front of smith and learning that classes had been cancelled for the next day. Let the festivities continue!

Adam Pry ’04 Address: 221 S Main St., Hudson, OH 44236 Phone: (980) 622-9434 Email: [email protected]

Bethany Schwan ’04 Email: [email protected]

Shortly after leaving OWU, I began my professional career with JP Morgan Chase. I am currently a Senior Business Analyst in Branch Systems Automation, implementing projects to tighten systemic controls for fraud and anti-money laundering. My career has afforded me opportunities with incredible partners in the business and IT worlds, as well as an ability to travel to exciting places like Chicago and San Francisco to see my projects go live!

I recently spoke as a representative for young professionals on a transportation panel for Mid Ohio Regional Planning Commission (MORPC), discussing benefits of bringing mass transit to the Columbus area. Coupled with my personal endeavors for a green household (organic gardening, recycling, and energy conservation) I have embraced a vegan lifestyle for the past 3 years.

In my spare time I enjoy making jewelry, hats, and scarves for friends and family. I also compose a pseudo-sardonic blog (swingstatevoter.me) with random musings of life in a swing state, which was featured as an editor’s pick on WordPress in March 2013.

Late night cramming sessions for exams in Slocum, followed by 4 am runs to UDF for coffee.

Laura Nienaber Sedziol ’04 Email: [email protected]

I graduated with my Masters of Education in December of 2009 from Xavier University. I work for the Butler County Board of Developmental Disabilities as a bilingual Development Speicalist in Early Intervention. I married my college sweetheart in 2007 and we now have a 3 year old daughter, Esme.

My favorite memory would have to be meeting and falling in love with my (now) husband, Michael Sedziol!

Amy Kreps Shreve ’04 Address: 607 Shawnee Rd, Danville, KY 40422 Phone: (217) 649-3233 Email: [email protected]

I have worked full time as a Director of Youth Ministries and part-time as a Director of Christian Education at United Methodist Churches in Champaign, Illinois. I love helping youth and families experience Christ, embrace spirituality, and grow in maturity. It is exhausting leading ski retreats, overnights, and mission trips. I am excited to now be working part-time at a Presbyterian church focused mainly on children and young family ministry. No more overnights! However, watching the youth I mentored succeed in college, serve others, establish nonprofits, and take over my job is pretty amazing. My husband, Dr. Scott Shreve and I have two children, 3 and 1. We recently moved to Danville, Kentucky where Scott teaches Biology at Centre College. Before kids, we enjoyed skiing in Michigan and Colorado and hiking in Utah and southern Illinois. Now, we're exploring Kentucky and taking mile walks with M&M incentives.

We won't make it to the reunion because Scott officially graduates. After seven years, we have to have those pictures!

Pooja Dutt ’09 Address: 505/63-69 Bouverie Street, Carlton, VIC 3053 Australia Phone: +61 (449) 594 493 Email: [email protected]

After graduating from OWU in 2009, I moved to Sydney, Australia to get my Masters in Wildlife Conservation. After completing my degree, I stayed on to work in the Development office at Macquarie University in Sydney.

In September 2012, I quit my job and bought a one way ticket to Ho Chi Minh City. Without a plan or a set destination in mind, I spent the next year traveling through Vietnam, India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Cambodia, Canada, Germany, Sweden, Norway and Denmark.

In January 2014, I started my dream job handling major gifts for the Australian Conservation Foundation in Melbourne, Australia.

Jesika Keener ’09 Email: [email protected]

I received my Master of Arts in Education degree in . Since then I have been volunteering the the NE Ohio Young Alumni committee as well as co-chair for the NE Ohio Alumni chapter. I currently work as an office manager for the Max Health Labs and am an independent consultant for thirty-one gifts.

There are too many favorite memories from my time at OWU to choose from, but I will never forget the DC mission trip I went on. It really had an effect on me and will always hold the lessons learned close to my heart.

Scarlett Rebman ’09 Address: 222 Thayer St. 2 Syracuse NY, 13210 Phone: (315) 727-9899 Email: [email protected]

Since graduating from OWU in 2009, I have had a variety of rewarding and enriching experiences. I have worked as a freelance playwright. My five historical one-act plays for students have been published by Plays Magazine. My most recent play, which is about baseball player Jackie Robinson, appeared in the January/February 2014 issue of Plays. I served as an AmeriCorps VISTA at Kalamazoo Neighborhood Housing Services in Kalamazoo, Michigan, from 2010-2011. During the 2011-2012 school year, I taught English in Debrecen, Hungary. I was able to work with students at a kindergarten, a primary school, and a secondary school. In August 2013, I began a PhD program in history at Syracuse University in Syracuse, New York.

Valerie Sloboda ’09 Address: 105 Tamaqui Village Beaver, PA 15009 Phone: (443) 472-1166 Email: [email protected]

Since I’ve graduated from Ohio Wesleyan University, I have made several accomplishments. I went back to school at Xavier University to obtain my Master’s of Science in Nursing. I have worked as a Registered Nurse for approximately two years in both the adult and pediatric populations. I am now obtaining my Doctorate’s in Nursing Practice with a focus on Family at the University of Pittsburgh.

Lauren Smith ’09 Email: [email protected]

Since graduating from Ohio Wesleyan in 2009, Lauren has been all over the place. She has only once spent 6 months straight living in the same state, and it was a very odd experience. Working as a field biologist and an environmental educator, Lauren has lived in eight different states and one Canadian province.

Most of her jobs have involved working with wild birds, though she has also been known to walk dogs and scoop ice cream (and no, she did not go to a special ice cream scooping school, she’s just that good). When she’s not climbing trees to study red-cockaded woodpeckers, getting charged by moose, explaining bird migration to small children, or getting pooped on and/or bitten by songbirds, Lauren is usually outside. When she’s outside and not working, she likes to climb rocks, go for long hikes, and look at birds. Sometimes she does go inside, and then she usually writes things, mostly for her blog: Tales from a Wandering Albatross (@wordpress.com). Lauren tends to travel as often as she can, both domestically and internationally. She is particularly fond of road trips through the American West and of trekking to Annapurna Base Camp in Nepal. The other parts of Asia she visited were also pretty cool. She also really likes southern Utah. This summer (starting May 2014) Lauren will be going back to Jackson, Wyoming, to work with the Teton Science Schools as an avian research technician, where she will be primarily banding songbirds and secondarily educating visitors about bird banding and migration. In August of 2014 she will start graduate school at The University of Montana in the Environmental Studies program, with a focus in Environmental Writing. I’m particularly fond of my memories of banding birds in Jed Burtt’s backyard. I have no idea why I decided to sign up for his freshman honors tutorial, The Microbiology of Birds. At the time, I wasn’t particularly interested in birds or their microbiology (and I might not have known exactly what microbiology referred to), but it sounded intriguing and I didn’t know any better, so I signed on. I can say with absolute certainty that this particular class influenced both the rest of my time at OWU and the rest of my life. It was that class that sparked my interest in birds, a spark that has turned into at least a Medium Fire Severity burn (standing trees are blackened but not charcoal; roots are alive below 1 inch; duff is consumed—I like birds, but other things can be interesting too). The research project I started in that class led to a number of ornithology conferences, where, in addition to learning about extremely useful things like hummingbird wing morphology and duck penises, I became much more confident in my public speaking and was exposed to the ornithological research community. That project also led to my zoology departmental honors thesis on parrot feather coloration (I’ll spare you the details), which hasn’t really led to much yet but sure looks good on my resume. I had no idea then that I would go on to spend the next few years after graduation studying birds all over the country. Every time I set up a mist net or hold a Black-capped Chickadee in my hands, I am reminded of Jed and all that he’s done for me. Thanks Jed. You’re awesome. Jed also makes superb spice cake, which may or may not have been the main reason I agreed to come back and mentor the freshman tutorial as an upper classman. I’m not ashamed to admit that I can be motivated to do a great deal for food. Especially Jed’s spice cake.