Summer/Fall 2020 Alumni Class Notes
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NotesAlumni Alumni Notes Policy Class of 1937 » Send alumni updates and photographs James Case directly to Class Correspondents. 3757 Round Top Drive, Honolulu, HI 96822 [email protected] | 808.949.8272 » Digital photographs should be high- resolution jpg images (300 dpi). Class of 1938 » Each class column is limited to 650 words so SUMMER/FALL that we can accommodate eight decades of William “Bill” Whithed Budge passed away classes in the Bulletin! quietly on June 6, 2020, at his home in » Bulletin staff reserve the right to edit, format Hillsborough, California, at the age of 98. His and select all materials for publication. childhood in Hawai‘i was spent swimming, surfing, skin diving and fishing. Bill attended Punahou and the Hotchkiss School in Connecticut, where he was a member of the football, swimming and track teams, and the Class of 1934 only student with a throw net for fishing. SUMMER/FALL On his 17th birthday, Bill, his brother, Kathryn “Karie” Marie King Dawalt passed Alexander “Zander” Budge ’41, and two away on May 28, 2020, at age 104. She led an friends were fishing off the coast of Moloka‘i, interesting and fulfilling life, from her 1916 A fond aloha to Kathryn “Karie” Marie King ’34 when their sampan sank. With the current birth as an Army daughter to living as an Army Dawalt, who lived to be 104. She passed away on pushing them away from Moloka‘i, the boys wife, traveling the world for over 30 years with May 28, 2020, in Virginia. swam for 13 and a half hours back to O‘ahu, her husband, Brigadier General Kenneth F. Dawalt and their family. After World War I, Karie and her mother, Myrtle, (both survivors of the Spanish Flu) moved wherever the U.S. Army sent her father, Lt. Colonel Arthur Edwin King. She attended Punahou when the family was stationed at Schofield Barracks. There, she excelled as a tennis player and young scholar. She then attended the University of Vermont and graduated in 1938 with a degree in commerce and economics. Karie met Kenneth F. Dawalt in Vermont and they married in 1940. While assigned as an assistant physics professor at West Point from 1941 – 1945, their two daughters, Karen and Karie, were born. Together, they all embarked upon a career that included posts throughout the United States and abroad, including Yokohama, Japan, during the military occupation following World War II; NATO in Paris, France, and the 30th Artillery Brigade in Okinawa. In 1963, the Dawalt family returned from overseas to Virginia, which would be Karie and Ken’s lifelong home. One of Karie’s fondest memories was her return to Punahou in 1999, with husband, Ken (who passed in Jim Case ’37 celebrated his 100th year with a Zoom birthday party with his wife, Suzanne E. Case, and 2000), and daughter, Karen, to celebrate her in-house residents, Suzanne D. Case ’74, Marjorie Christenson ’66 Abel, Betsy Case ’81, Melia Marguleas ’19 65th Class Reunion. She loved her family and Maile Marguleas ’21. Wishing Jim well on Zoom were more remote family members, U.S. Rep. Ed Case, and enjoyed her grandson and three great- Kay Case (wife of the late John Case ’72), Brad Case ’81, Rusty Case ’76, James Case ’07, David Ansdell ’02, grandsons. Aloha no, Karie. Christine Case ’09, Nathan Case, Bradford Case and Caroline Case. 80 Punahou Bulletin Alumni Notes landing at Diamond Head beach and on the daughter, 10 grandchildren and eight great- local paper’s front page. grandchildren. Bill was enrolled at Williams College in In 1992, Bill founded the Solid Rock Foundation, Massachusetts when the United States entered a private foundation that supports programs World War II. He joined the U.S. Army Air Forces for disadvantaged youths. Additionally, he was in 1942, and graduated with distinction from the committed to philanthropic support of Air Forces Technical School in meteorology at adolescent programs at Samaritan House San the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Mateo, Students Rising Above and Reading (MIT). While serving as a meteorological officer, Partners of the San Francisco Bay Area. The Bill took private flying lessons, which led the family requests that in lieu of flowers, Army to enroll him in flight school learning to fly contributions be made in Bill Budge’s memory B-25 bombers. At this time, Bill set a new to one of the latter three organizations. swimming record for the base, completing 117 laps in 45 minutes (the average trainee swam Class of 47). In May 1944, Bill flew P-51 Mustang fighters 1939 over occupied Europe, collecting weather data SUMMER/FALL to develop forecasts in support of the Normandy Marjorie “Marney” Bellows Guy passed away invasion and American bombing raids. As on May 7, 2020. She grew up in Manoa, the fighting front advanced through Europe, graduated from Punahou, then went off to their base moved forward to captured airfields Northwestern University, which was quite a in France, Belgium and Germany. Captain change for a local gal. In 1943, she graduated William Budge was awarded the Distinguished and went to work for IBM in San Francisco. A Flying Cross. childhood friend, Doug Guy, came to the Bay Area for a 10-day vacation and proposed to her Returning to Honolulu after the war, Bill met on the last day. They were married in Las Vegas A fond aloha to Eleanor Eaton Faye ’40, a pioneer in Willa McNear during a stopover in San in 1944, where Doug was stationed. In 1947, the field of low vision, who passed away in New York Francisco. The couple married two years later, they moved back to Honolulu and started a City, on Jan. 7. 2020. going fishing in Yosemite for their honeymoon. family. Marney was an entrepreneur from the In 1951, Bill joined the Folgers Coffee start. She modeled at the Royal Hawaiian Hotel Company, moved to San Francisco, and raised Monarch Room, sold Avon products, and was a their family there. They purchased a fishing photographer for many families to enhance the cabin near Campbell River in 1959, and Bill Christmas cards she sold. She made time to be taught his children his “old college tricks” to a Brownie troop leader for her daughters. Her attending ophthalmic surgeon there for many catch salmon. Bill left Folgers Coffee in 1965 sport of choice was paddle tennis at the Pacific years. She was medical director at Lighthouse to establish Pacific Mariculture, on the San Club, where she graces the wall of champions Guild in New York, until she was 91 years old in Mateo County coast in the shadow of the in her day. Her career in travel started in 1961, 2014, the culmination of an affiliation which Pigeon Point lighthouse, and for 20 years, and over the next 50-plus years she lived and spanned 60 years. She played a pivotal role in pioneered techniques to raise commercial worked an enviable lifestyle. She experienced shaping the field of low vision nationally and quantities of young oysters and abalone in every position in the travel industry and internationally. Her lectures at universities, tanks on shore. mentored younger travel advisors coming up in hospitals and agencies and the publication of In the late 1960s, as president of the Burlingame the business. She created lifetime memories her first book in 1970, “The Low Vision Patient: Country Club, Bill remained an enthusiastic and for many friends and families. Marney is Clinical Experiences with Adults and Children skilled competitor at dominoes, backgammon survived by her children, Julie Guy ’64 were a powerful influence in changing the and bridge until late in life. Always a gentleman, Vandervoort, Wendy Guy ’68 Goodenow and perception of individuals who were blind or his friends describe him as kind, loyal, thoughtful Gordon Guy; and her granddaughter, Sarhana. visually impaired. Her book, “Clinical Low and knowledgeable. They appreciated his clever Through the years, Marney inherited five step- Vision,” published in 1994, has become a sense of humor coupled with a gentle demeanor grandchildren, 10 step-great-grandchildren classic text on low vision. that embraced everyone he encountered. Bill and six step-great-great-grandchildren One of Dr. Faye’s major career achievements remained active and curious, taking up wind- because family was the most important thing was bringing together the professions of surfing in his early 60s and scuba diving in his in her life. optometry and ophthalmology with training, 70s. Bill traveled to all seven continents, vision rehabilitation and occupational frequently fishing or hunting. He flew small Class of 1940 therapists. Her many accolades and awards planes as a private pilot and earned a include two Merit Awards from the American commercial helicopter license. In the 1970s, Bill SUMMER/FALL Academy of Ophthalmology and the and Willa found two important new fisheries and Eleanor Eaton Faye, M.D., FACS, an Distinguished Service Award from the communities: in the north, steel-head fishing on ophthalmologist and a leader in the field of American Optometric Association. She was a British Columbia’s Dean River and in the south, low vision, died on Jan. 7, 2020, in New York member of the board of trustees of the fishing at Las Cruces, Baja California Sur. They City. She was 96 years old. Eleanor was born in American Foundation for the Blind, chair of returned to their friends in these places every Berkeley, California, on Feb. 15, 1923, and in the American Academy of Ophthalmology’s year until Willa became ill near the turn of the her youth moved to Hawai‘i . She grew up with Low Vision Standing Committee and chair of century and passed.