Spring 2013

Mary Lyon: “In Memory’s Eye” From the WCAA Director & WCAA President

Hello Westerners! appy Spring! We hope this finds you all happy and healthy! Campus is thriving with students bustling about and getting ready for exams Hand then on to internships and summer travel. It is hard to believe that we are sending the Class of 2013 out into the world! This is a particularly exciting time for the WCAA. The Board of Trustees recently met and spent three long days working hard to figure out the perfect way to tell the story of Western as we anticipate the winding down of the WCAA in the year 2024. While there are still decisions to be made, we are Mackenzie Becker Rice Director, WCAA getting closer and closer every day to developing a plan which will ensure that the story of Western will be told and the spirit of Western will live on. You can expect more infor- mation this summer on plans for an outdoor project on the Western campus. It is our hope that each of you will play a role in upholding the Western College Legacy … and what an important legacy it is! This is your chance to say “WE WERE HERE!!!” Of course, this is not the only way we promote Western’s legacy. The WCAA Board allocated funding for 48 Peabody Scholarship recipients for a total of $60,300! These scholarships, as well as all WCAA scholarships, are changing lives in the name of Western. We also eagerly await the first Western College Professor in the near future. And, we continue to tell the story the most impor- tant way … with you and through you. We look forward to Alumnae Weekend and hope that you will join us. As your WCAA staff and the Board frequently comment, watching Westerners re- Jocelyn Woodson-Reed ’74 connect, remember and recapture the beauty of life on Western Campus re- President, WCAA minds us why we all love Western so much. Thank you for all you are doing to help us tell the story and keep Western alive. Yours in the Spirit of Western,

2 The Bulletin Vol. LXXXVII, No. 1 Spring 2013

Western College Alumnae Association, Inc. What’s on Your Mind? 4 Board of Trustees Miss Peabody’s Mary Lyon Portrait 6 President Jocelyn Woodson-Reed ’74 1st Vice President/Treasurer Class Notes: 1934-1976 11 Marcia Randlett Oder ’64 2nd Vice President Judith Dudman Henderson ’62 In Memoriam 31 Secretary Pheetta G. Wilkinson ’76 Chair, Nominating Committee Alumnae Service Awards 32 Eva Nortvedt Humbach ’63 Trustees Western Program 34 Sharry Patterson Addison ’61 Pamela Watts Coates ’63 Janet Smith Dickerson ’65 Class Notes: 1978-2010 37 Hazel Williams Drew ’66 Jane Smucker Fryman ’58 Ella Brown McMahon ’63 Blue Card 47 Suzanne Detlefson Meyers ’66 Stevie Bentsen Snook ’69 * Sylvia Stanfield ’65 Financial Report 2012 (following p. 24) i-viii Anne Adkins Weissenborn ’61 On the cover: Artist Unknown (American) Mary Lyon (?) Oil on canvas, 19th century Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, South Hadley, MA Mission of the Association: Gift of Mrs. Laurence L. Cross (Erma B. Gilbert, 1913) • to preserve and encourage communication Photograph Laura Shea among and with alumnae, 1964.243.I(b).PI • to support education and human values that continue the heritage and tradition of The Western College. Anchor alert! Since there will be no “Anchor” published this year, we call your attention to items of special interest to the over-50 classes in this issue of the Bulletin. Look for the anchor! * appointed for one year to fill vacancy

Bulletin Staff Publications Committee Office Staff Editor Members Director Catherine Bauer Cooper ’60 Sylvia Stanfield ’65, Chair Mackenzie Becker Rice Design/Technology Consultant Sharry Patterson Addison ’61 Senior Program Assistant Milburn Cooper Jane Smucker Fryman ’58 Debbie Baker Anne Adkins Weissenborn ’61 Accounting Associate Kaye Wolke

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om Herbert was appointed Miami University’s Vice President of University Advancement effective October 1, 2012. In this position, Tom leads advancement staff in all areas of alum- Tni relations and development. He is also the executive director of the Miami University Foundation. Before coming to Miami, Tom was at Dartmouth College, where he first held the position of Associate Vice President, Individual Giving and was most recently the Vice President of Development. Prior to his work at Dartmouth, Tom served in various roles at Indiana University from 2002 to 2009, includ- ing Executive Director of Development and Alumni Programs for the College of Arts and Sciences, and Vice President for University Wide Programs for the Indiana University Foundation. He also served as the Assistant Vice President for Development at the University of Michigan. Tom Herbert,VP, Tom began his development career as a gift planning officer at Drake Uni- University Advancement versity in Iowa. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in history from Northwestern University and a Doctor of Jurisprudence with honors from Illinois Institute of Technology, Chica- go-Kent College of Law. He has co-authored a textbook on major and planned giving programs and is a frequent presenter at fundraising conferences around the country. He and his wife, Kirsten, have two sons, Zachary and Ethan.

WCAA President Jocelyn Woodson-Reed introduced Tom to the Board of Trustees during the April 11-13 board meetings. He was welcomed at an informal luncheon, where he shared his background, expressed his admiration for all Western College stands for, and was happy to answer questions about the university’s current relationship with the Western College Alumnae Association.

4 The Bulletin What’s on Your Mind We love to hear your “small (Western) world” stories and know for a certainty that all our readers do too. Here are two we received recently, both inspired by obituary references to Western faculty members in the Fall 2012 Bulle- tin. While Mary Ellen’s and Grete’s experiences are quite different, their memories are equally vivid. Mary Ellen Caskey McKey ’63 was a sociology major at Western and is a retired dental office manager. In addition to return- ing for class reunions, Grete Stern Wrede ’51 served on the WCAA board of trustees from 1997 to 2000, so it is all the more surprising that she did not know the Western connection of her childhood friend.

was moved by Hayat Imam’s tribute to her class- surprisingly, he remembered my brother as one of their mate, Chris Kelley Gilmartin ’68, and especially small class. by her remembrance of T.A. I Thank you so much for publishing the piece by Bisson, Western’s longtime Inter- Hayat Imam. I’ve been thinking about it for many days. cultural Studies professor. As a member of the class of ’63 I also — Mary Ellen Caskey McKey ’63 took his introductory class, but for some reason I went no further in fter reading (belatedly) the obituary of Dr. that department. I loved the class Georgiana Reynolds, I had to drop a line to and found him the quintessential tell you of my complete surprise at her con- professor, inspiring and so knowl- A Mary Ellen McKey nection to Western College. It turns edgeable. Many years later I had an out that I went to P.S. #15 with this experience which brought back good memories of Dr. woman in Crestwood/Tuckahoe, Bisson, and which I’ll describe. NY (NE Yonkers) and at about 10 My father’s older sister was Canadian and in the years of age, she, our doctor’s 1980s was living in a retirement facility in Toronto. She daughter ..., another student ... and wrote me one day to say that a fellow resident would I formed a bridge game together, soon be visiting her son in Berkeley and would get in which we played after school at touch with me. Not long afterwards I had a call from Georgiana’s home (she lived two her friend, whose name was Faith Bisson. Since her son doors up from school) on a regular Grete Wrede lived just a short walk from us, my husband and I went basis. We originally learned bridge there one afternoon for tea. After the introductory pleas- from our mothers and probably were the original “nerds” antries, I of course said that I had had a professor named of our time. Once we got to high school and beyond, we Bisson, and she asked where. When I said, “Western lost touch with each other. Ursula (the doctor’s daugh- College for Women,” the tears sprang to her eyes, and ter) and I still remain “best” friends (she in Connecti- she said, “That’s my Tom.” The rest of the visit was cut, me in Florida) and have seen each other regularly spent talking of the old days at Western, and she caught through the years. ... I called Ursula the same night I me up on the activities of many of the professors and read the article and she also marveled at our finding our staff whom I remembered. It was a lovely afternoon lost friend through a Western connection! I sent her the which I’ve never forgotten. article, as well. It truly is a small world. I was surprised to read in Hayat’s piece that T.A. I am a little surprised that I never heard Georgi- Bisson had been a “highly regarded professor at Berke- ana’s name when I returned for various reunion years, ley,” the city where I’ve now lived most of my life. I but what a wonderful surprise to find her and learn of never knew that about him, and I wonder if Mrs. Bisson her accomplishments! I only wish it could have been a told me and I’ve forgotten. Another coincidence that little sooner, so that we would have had our own re- day was the fact that her son, a professor at Cal, had union and reconnected before she passed away. been in my brother’s class of 1953 at Haverford. Not — Grete Stern Wrede ’51

Spring 2013 5 In Search of Miss Peabody’s Mary Lyon Portrait Intrepid researcher, Dr. Elizabeth Johnson is at it again. While editing Sarah Howe’s History of the Western College for Women: First Half Century (see “Peabody ... Where It All Began,” Spring 2012 Bulletin), she found a reference to this portrait and wanted to know if it still existed and where it was. Not surprisingly, Mount Holyoke has most of the portraits. Early on it seemed clear one of them must be Miss Peabody’s, so it became a matter of gathering enough data to eliminate the rest. In tandem with “deputy researcher” Debbie Baker, who sent endless e-mails to elicit information from various institutions, she began to piece together the trail and work out its provenance. For the full story, be sure to read “Source Notes,” following the article. IN MEMORY’S EYE A Portrait of Mary Lyon, founder of Mount Holyoke College; gift of the Western Female Seminary Class of 1859 to Helen Peabody, Principal, Christmas 1858 n January 26, Phebe McKeen began the Seminary face awaiting her. It is the handsomest picture of Miss Lyon Journal for the year 1859. This journal was a diary in existence certainly and Miss Peabody thinks the best. You Oof events at the Seminary kept by faculty members. old friends of Miss Lyon will tell us when you come, what Copies were sent periodically to Mount Holyoke Female you think of it. It is a noble picture very beautifully painted Seminary and to missionaries and friends of Western Female and Mr. White is not only willing to modify it in any way to Seminary, the first daughter institution of Mount Holyoke, complete the truth of the likeness but has unusual aptitude in to keep them in touch with the Seminary. availing himself of suggestions. This picture graces the wall, overarched by the motto, ‘Nobly planned, to warn, to com- Miss McKeen begins: “We like 1859. The sun shone fort, to command.’” upon us, ever since it came in. Poor old ’58 grew very mel- ancholy toward the last and used to weep a great part of the The painting of Mary Lyon gracing the parlor wall and time. It did brighten up a little about Christmas. We have not the cover of this Bulletin is in the collection of Mount Holy- told you anything about Christmas, have we?” She then men- oke College. It was given to the col- tions family members and Oxford friends who visited the lege in 1964 by Erma Gilbert Cross, Seminary for the holiday and describes the parlor and chap- an alumna, who purchased it from el decorations: “…we converted them into as pleasant a draw- Celia Bissell in Berkeley, California. ing room as we could, by aid of all the pretty things in the It is unsigned, as are many of George house we could lay hold upon. We cannot get forest-wreaths White’s paintings, and came to the in winter as you, New Englanders, can but our own pet ce- college with the story that Celia Bis- dars and those of our neighbors yielded so liberally as to sell’s grandmother, Lydia Partridge give the room quite a bowery appearance.” She then describes Thayer, who had attended Mount the small “mimic” landscapes created by the students, the Holyoke in 1848-1849 and had left mottoes and wreaths on the walls, and the dinner for guests. to teach, had been given the painting Mary Lyon painting by Mary Lyon. Based on the cloth- Among the gala decorations ing Mary Lyon is shown wearing, the painting was executed Miss McKeen notes a special in the late 1850s nearly ten years after Lydia Partridge left one. “But had you been here, the Mount Holyoke and Mary Lyon’s death in 1849. The mis- first object of interest in the room take may lie, perhaps, in misunderstanding comments on prior to you, would have been Miss Pe- ownership by a Mount Holyoke graduate, and the assump- abody’s Christmas present from tion that the prior owner had been given the painting by Mary the Senior Class, for it was a por- Lyon. Whatever was said at the time, the information about trait of Miss Lyon. It was painted the provenance of the painting was incorrect. How and when by George W. White, an artist Celia Bissell acquired the painting is unknown. who is remarkably successful not only in copying faces but in em- The donor, Mrs. Cross, graduated from Mount Holyoke bodying description. This picture College in 1913 and pursued a career in church related work was painted from the engraving Helen Peabody, ca. 1855 in California before her marriage to Laurance Cross, a Pres- in the last edition of Miss Lyon’s byterian minister, who from 1947 to 1955 was also mayor of memoirs and from such description as could be given. Miss Berkeley, California. In 1924 he became minister of the Peabody was entirely ignorant of the affair until she came Northbrae Community Church, a Presbyterian church in into the parlor on Christmas morning and met the beloved Berkeley. In 1943, the Northbrae Community Church the

6 The Bulletin Crosses served became a community church in fact because collection of the Butler County Historical Society in Hamil- the congregation felt they could better serve the multi-de- ton, the Miami University Art Museum, and the William nominational community around the University of Califor- Holmes McGuffey Museum in Oxford. nia. Mrs. Cross lived in Berkeley from the 1920s until her When Helen Peabody, first owner of the painting, be- death in 1990. gan her retirement in 1888 after 33 years as the first princi- Mrs. Celia Bissell, from whom the painting was pur- pal of the Western Female Seminary, she moved to Cincin- chased, was married to Clifford H. Bissell, who was profes- nati where she had many friends. Shortly thereafter she em- sor of French at the University of California, 1925-1954. barked on trips to visit friends, family and former students Celia Bissell was active in various community organizations in the East and Midwest, and then on a trip to visit mission- including the St. Moritz Ice Skating Club of Berkeley at ary friends in Japan. At the 1892 dedication of the second whose competitions her children won several prizes. The building constructed on Western’s campus, Alumnae Hall, Bissells were known for the parties and departmental recep- she gave her farewell speech, explaining that she was retir- tions they gave. Like Erma Cross, she lived in Berkeley from ing to her “sunset home” in Pasadena, California. Later that the 1920s until her death in 1982. year she moved with her brother, the Rev. Charles Peabody, to 212 South Euclid Street — a house overlooking the area The artist mentioned by Miss McKeen, George W. of the Arroyo Seco that became the Rose Bowl — taking her White, was born in 1826 in Oxford, Ohio, the son of George household furnishings and possessions with her. When she G. and Jane White. White’s father was a businessman and died in 1905, she left her home and other property to the the postmaster of Oxford from December 1833 to 1857. Lit- Woman’s Occidental Board of Missions, San Francisco, and tle is known about George W. White’s early life. He grew up the trusteeship and management of the home to the Execu- in Oxford and in 1840 may have studied painting with Sam- tive Committee of the Woman’s Presbyterial Society of the uel Swan Walker, an artist then living in Hamilton, Ohio — Los Angeles Presbytery. The house was to be used as a “tem- the Butler County seat — about a dozen miles from Oxford. porary resting place” for church workers, missionaries and A few years later White went to Cincinnati to pursue a ca- teachers, particularly those associated with Western. It was reer as an artist. He was not successful at first and is said to to be called the House of Rest. By 1907, a Southern Califor- have turned his hand to any commission he could find — nia Branch of the Alumnae Association of Western College including painting carriages and railroad cars. By 1848, he had formed, and the members assisted the church in caring had a studio in the Apollo Building at Fifth and Walnut Streets for the house. The furnishings were left in the house for use where another artist, William Sonntag, also was located. by those living there. The Branch held its annual meeting White began to enjoy some success painting portraits of lo- and picnic at the house, often on or near May 6, Helen Pea- cal citizens and performers such as popular actress Julia Dean body’s birthday, and regularly raised money for redecora- Haynes, the actor Edwin Forrest and other notables. In 1848, tions and repairs. he painted two views of the Greek Slave, a famous work of the time by well-known sculptor Hiram Powers. The paint- Helen Peabody was active in church organizations in ings were widely displayed in the Midwest and East, and are California and kept up not only with Western alumnae but said to have sold in New York for $1,000 each, a consider- also with her sister alumnae from Mount Holyoke. She was able sum in those days. By 1857-1858, he was residing in president for a time of the Mount Holyoke Alumnae Associ- Hamilton, Ohio, where he became a successful and fashion- ation of Southern California formed in 1893. It is likely that able painter of the well-to-do pioneer families, prominent the picture of Mary Lyon was removed during one of the business men and civic leaders of that city as well as of those many redecorations mentioned by the Branch in its yearly of Oxford, his home town. His 1857 painting in the collec- reports to the Alumnae Association of Western College from tion of Miami University of the Rev. John Witherspoon Scott, 1909 to 1935, when the House of Rest was closed. At that the first principal of Oxford Female Institute (1849-1855) time the contents of the house were dispersed, and several and first president of Oxford Female College (1855-1859), pieces of furniture from the house were sent to Western Col- exemplifies the skill he had developed in portraiture. He also lege. Mrs. Bissell may have heard of the painting, if not di- painted landscapes as well as historical and imagined scenes, rectly from a sale notice, through one of the many Mount but made his living painting portraits. Except for a brief stay Holyoke or Western alumnae in California. in Cincinnati (1865-1867), White continued to live in Hamil- This painting is one of two paintings of Mary Lyon found ton until his death in 1891. He is buried in Hamilton’s Green- in California, the other being the portrait by Alice Jones Peck wood Cemetery. at Mills College, Oakland, California , executed about 1907 While many of White’s paintings are privately owned, for Susan Tolman Mills. the largest number of publicly owned paintings are in the

Spring 2013 7 Figure 1 Figure 2 The earliest portrait of Mary Lyon is a painting on ivory teristic of all the images of her. In the painting Mary Lyon is dated 1832, from which Figure 1, one of the two possible not dressed like either of the figures in the two engravings. models for the White painting, was engraved. This engrav- Information about her clothing would have been supplied to ing is the frontispiece of The Power of Christian Benevo- the artist. From descriptions, and particularly from an 1845 lence, Illustrations in the Life and Labors of Mary Lyon, daguerreotype of her, we know what Mary Lyon wore in the published by the American Tract Society in 1858. The book 1840s. In the daguerreotype she is wearing a gown with long, appeared in twelve editions from 1851 to 1860. The first narrow but loose, sleeves and a V-neck. The neckline is filled editions of this memoir by Edward Hitchcock, published by in with a scarf. On her head is the large white cap with ties Hopkins, Bridgman & Co., Northampton, Massachusetts, had that covers much of her head like the one she wears in Fig- as a frontispiece an engraving of a late 1830s painting by ure 2. This cap replaced the early 19th century turban or hat Joseph Chandler of a three-quarter length view of Mary Lyon, (Figure 1) she wore after a bout with typhoid. In the White seated and holding a book tilted toward the viewer. The en- painting this costume has been brought up-to-date to the style graving is a reversed version of the painting. In later edi- of the late 1850s. The cap in the White portrait has become a tions published by Bridgman, this engraving is reduced to mere wisp of the voluminous cap covering her head shown the bust of Miss Lyon illustrated by Figure 2, the other pos- in Figure 2. In the 1850s the cap was becoming less fashion- sible model. The faculty and students at Western Female able, and when worn, was placed near the back of the head Seminary would have been familiar with the latter as the as shown in the painting, covering much less of the head Seminary owned a copy of the Bridgman edition. If the jour- than Mary Lyon’s cap did in the 1840s. nalist meant the 1858 edition, also owned by Western, when In the painting Mary Lyon’s dress has the deep, wide V- she said “latest edition,” they used the engraving of her de- neck of the late 1850s rather than the shorter V-neck of the picted in Figure 1. Helen Peabody’s brother, the Rev. Charles 1840s. A narrow waist and part of a billowing skirt can just Peabody, worked for the American Tract Society for 42 years, be seen in the lower part of the painting. The hoop of Civil so the Seminary may have acquired the new edition shortly War fashion was beginning to be worn in the late 1850s and after publication in 1858, when he visited the Seminary on skirts were becoming large to accommodate it. In particular his way to Europe. the sleeves of the gown are different from the loose narrow The only faculty members at Western in the fall of 1858 sleeves of 1840s fashion. In the 19th century sleeves on wom- who knew what Mary Lyon looked like are Adelia C. Walk- en’s garments grew larger then smaller and then larger again er, who was a student at Mt. Holyoke from 1848 to 1851, throughout the century, culminating in the 1890s in the huge and Eliza McCabe who attended Mt. Holyoke in 1847-1848, leg-of-mutton sleeve. The area of fullness moved up and just before Mary Lyon’s death in 1849. Helen Peabody knew down the arm. Mary Lyon’s gown in the White painting has Mary Lyon well, having graduated from Mt. Holyoke in 1848 the slightly dropped shoulder opening out into fullness be- and taught there from graduation until 1853, but she was not ginning on the upper arm that became fashionable in the late providing information to the artist. 1850s. Her clothing and, in particular the sleeves of the dress, indicate that this painting was created at the time the jour- In the White painting the face of Mary Lyon is oval like nalist says Mr. White was asked to create a picture of Mary her face in the frontispieces but fuller than depicted in the Lyon using one or both of the frontispieces and “such de- frontispieces. The features are similar to the frontispieces, scription as could be given” by women who had seen her but the high forehead and long nose are particularly charac- near the end of her life.

8 The Bulletin Although this portrait of Mary Lyon is not a close like- ality of a much admired woman, rather than her physical ness of her — or perhaps one might say of other portraits of appearance which is likely influenced by familiar depictions her — it is difficult to say which of the few portraits of her is of her, such as these frontispieces, in books and publications the closest to her physical appearance, since they were made of the time. She was to them a distinguished woman whose at different times in her life or after her death. The 1845 character and admirable accomplishments in women’s edu- daguerreotype certainly records her somewhat haggard ap- cation were the most important memories. The “noble pic- pearance at that time, a few years before her death, when she ture” presents a dignified, confident person, and is a suitable was no longer the young woman of the 1832 painting on representation of a woman of such accomplishment. They ivory or of the Joseph Chandler painting of the late 1830s saw in the portrait the woman they so highly esteemed and for which it is presumed she sat. The White portrait does, over whose portrait on the parlor wall that Christmas day however, depict characteristics of her face in common with they placed the motto taken from the last lines of William these and other portraits, and the clothing is based on what a Wordsworth’s poem, “She was a phantom of delight”: student at Mount Holyoke in the years before her death would remember her wearing, although it is revised to the fashion A perfect woman nobly planned of the late 1850s. To warn, to comfort, and command; And yet a Spirit still, and bright When Miss McKeen says the portrait is “the handsom- With something of angelic light. est picture of Miss Lyon…and Miss Peabody thinks the best” she is speaking of their memory of the character and person- — Elizabeth Johnson, Ph.D.

Source Notes

The painting of Mary Lyon… given by Cross: Mt. Holyoke Collection Database MH 1964.243.l(b)Pl. unsigned: Many of George W. White’s paintings are unsigned and undated. Some, such as the painting of John Witherspoon Scott in collection of MU Art Museum, are both signed and dated. For some paintings he used a stencil with his name on the back of the canvas; for example, six of the paintings in collection of the Butler County Historical Society. Lydia Partridge Thayer: Memorandum Society of Mt. Holyoke Female Seminary 1837-1867 p. 70, Census 1850-1880. Lydia Thayer was at the seminary only two years and had no special relationship to Mary Lyon.

The donor, Mrs. Cross… Erma Gilbert and Laurance Cross: Polk’s Oakland, Berkeley, Alameda City Directory 1926-1928; Oakland, Berkeley, Alameda City Directory 1960; Higley, Mary C. J. editor, One hundred Year Biographical Directory of Mt. Holyoke College 1837-1937; Census 1930-1940; California and Social Security Death Index. Northbrae Community Church: History on church web page.

Mrs. Celia Bissell… Celia and Clifford Bissell: Census 1920-1940; Berkeley City Directories listed above; University of California: In Memoriam; brochure 1943 Pacific Coast Regional Championships, St. Moritz Ice Skating Club.

The artist mentioned… George W. White: Much of the information on George White’s early life cannot be corroborated. He may have studied with Samuel Swan Walker in Hamilton as the latter is listed there in the Census of 1840. Exactly when White arrived in Cincinnati is unknown, but he is first listed there in 1848 by Charles Cist, Sketches and Statistics of Cincinnati 1851 p. 127 and in Cincinnati City Directories 1848-50. By 1857 he had moved to Hamilton (Hamilton City Directory 1858-1859), and his paintings of Scott and other Oxford people indicate he was probably working in the Hamilton-Oxford area by the late 1850s if not earlier. An article about him in the Weekly Hamilton Telegraph Feb. 4, 1858 p. 3 says: “He has been busily engaged for several months painting the portraits of a great many of our citizens…among which are those of several who have been dead for months and years…. We hope Mr. White will be induced to remain in Hamilton….” It would seem he had practice at satisfactorily portraying those no longer available to sit in person. Except for the years 1865-1867 spent in Cincinnati, (Cincinnati City Directory), White remained in Hamilton until his death (Hamilton Census 1870, 1880; Hamilton City Directory 1890-1891; Hamilton Daily Democrat 9/11/1891 p. 3 obit.)

Spring 2013 9 When Helen Peabody… Cincinnati, travel, farewell speech: Cincinnati City Directories 1888-1891; Annual Circular 12th 1892 p. 29-31 and 34,14th 1894 p. 28-29; The Record 1889-1890 p. 5, Jan. 1, 1892 p. 4; Census 1900. Household furnishings, death: Western Oxford Dec. 1893 p. 36 Letter Nov. 13, 1893; Will dated May 23, 1904; Western Oxford June 1909 p. 47. The Woman’s Occidental Board became part of the Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church. Southern California Branch: Annual Circulars 27th 1907-Bulletin May 1934

Helen Peabody was active… Western alumnae…sister alumnae, Mt. Holyoke Alumnae Association: Letters: Oct. 11, 1894 Annual Circular 14th, May 28, 1900 Annual Circular 20th; Report of Southern California Branch in Annual Circular 29th 1909-Bulletin May 1934; Mills, Mary H., The First Hundred Years 1872-1972 p. 140; Mt. Holyoke Archives, Notes Anna C. Edwards Class of 1859. Items sent to Western College: Bulletin July 1932 p. 20.

This painting is one… Mills College painting: A photograph of the painting was sent to Mt. Holyoke College 1907: The Mount Holyoke V. 16 June 1906-May 1907 p. 358-359: “…one for each hall and one for the library…a portrait of ‘Mary Lyon at 45’ made in California under Mrs. Mills’ direction.”

The earliest portrait… Paintings/images in Mt. Holyoke collection: The major ones are: 1. 1832 painting on ivory (Archives); 2. Late 1830s painting by Joseph Chandler (MH 2004.l); 3. Daguerreotype dated 1845 (donated 1913); 4. Posthumous painting by Joseph Chandler (MH 1885.22.l(b).Pl). Other images of her are derived from or influenced by these four images. Mt. Holyoke displayed one of the portraits by 1860-1862. A portrait is mentioned at a tour of the school in1860 by David Choate and at the 25th anniversary in 1862, Memorial of the Twenty-fifth Anniversary of the Mt. Holyoke Female Seminary, South Hadley, MA 1862 p. 67, 79, 81. The four portraits may be viewed online at http://asteria.fivecolleges.edu/findaids/mountholyoke/ list and at http://museums.five colleges.edu/. The Power of Christian Benevolence, Illustrated in the Life and Labors of Mary Lyon by Edward Hitchcock: Editions owned by Western College: a Bridgman edition mentioned in Seminary Journal May 27, 1856 and the 1858 Revised Edition American Tract Society copy now in MU King Library. This book is known as the Hitchcock Memoir of Mary Lyon. Charles Peabody: Short biographical sketch written by Charles Peabody, in WCAA Narka Nelson Archive; Seminary Journal May 1, 1858.

The only faculty… Adelia C. Walker and Eliza McCabe: Memorandum Society of Mt. Holyoke Female Seminary 1837-1867 p. 59, 62.

In the White painting… Turban…typhoid: Green, Elizabeth Alden, Mary Lyon and Mount Holyoke, Opening the Gates, Hanover NH 1979 p. 55; Hitchcock, Edward, The Power of Christian Benevolence, Illustrated in the Life and Labors of Mary Lyon, Hopkins, Bridgman, and Company, Northampton 7th Edition (1852) p. 69; 1858 Revised Edition has a reference to illness on p. 73-74. Mary Lyon said her head was cold even after her hair grew back so she always wore a head covering.

When Miss McKeen says… Familiar depictions: Engravings of Mary Lyon portraits, such as the late 1830s portrait by Chandler, also appeared in magazines in the 1850s, see The Home: A Monthly for the Wife, the Mother, the Sister, and the Daughter February 1856.

“Daugh-ters Dear of Old Mount Ho-ly-oke ...” * Founded by Mount Holyoke alumnae, principals, administrators and teachers, the seven so-called “daughter col- leges” in order of founding are: Rockford (1847), in Rockford, Illinois; Mills College (1852), in Oakland, Califor- nia; Western (1853); Lake Erie (1856), in Painesville, Ohio; Huguenot College and Seminary (1874), Wellington, South Africa; International Institute for Girls in Spain (1877), San Sebastian, Spain; Albert Lea College for Women (1884), in Albert Lea, Minnesota. * with apologies to J. F. Hamilton, who adapted “Miss Peabody” from the Amherst College fight song, “Lord Jeffery Amherst”

10 The Bulletin “I remember the friendships I still cherish from Western days and the wonderful events we shared ...”

but moved east after college and did not stay ed from the University of Denver with a major in touch with Western friends. Eleanor, on in sociology, thanks in part to her strong the other hand, moved to Dayton after she foundation at Western. She recalled that all married, regularly attending reunions and Western students were required to take a lending her time and energy to Western in year of Latin. Although she’d already had many roles — including as a charter mem- four years of Latin in high school, she had ber of the first WCAA, Inc. board of trust- to take it again for Western College was very To our delight, we received this e-mail from ees. Her husband was a friend of President strict. This was one of the things, she add- Jeffrey McCall, MU ’80, on April 19: “While Herrick Young’s and supporter of his inter- ed, that made it a good school. Western had searching the Internet I came across a list- national programs. high standards and everyone who graduat- ing of ‘missing persons’ from Western Col- ed had to have the same high standards. lege. The oldest on the list, Edna Wilburn WCAA. Inc. Cornett ’34, is my grandmother. I can re- 325 S. Patterson Ave. She loved going to chapel – although it was port that my grandmother is an active 100- Oxford, OH 45056 required – and the organ, which is probably year-old living in Surprise, AZ. After receiv- [email protected] what drew her to chapel. She also enjoyed ing her degree from West Virginia Universi- attending the music department concerts. ty she married Glenn Phipps Cornett and Western was a real “ladies” campus; Miami had four children. She has four grandchil- fraternity boys came over seeking dates. dren and three great-grandchildren. If you Knowing that she had a date for a big Mi- would like more information, please don't ami University spring fraternity dance, while hesitate to write back.” Stay tuned! home she purchased an elegant lavender dress from a Denver department store. At Susan Talbot Birkett ’69 reported on her that time, a department store sold only one mother, Eleanor Van Dervort Talbot ’34, Alumnae Weekend ’13: Celebrate 75 years! copy of a particular style of a dress or gown. who turned 100 last April (2012). “As a past Consequently, on the night of the dance, she trustee and supporter of the College, she Barbara Johnson wrote Jane by way of the was surprised when a schoolmate arrived heard from many graduates, and it thrilled WCAA office that she is still living in Sani- wearing the identical dress. The schoolmate her. She also had a letter of congratulations bel, FL, and volunteers one afternoon a had purchased her dress in Cincinnati. The from President Obama. Now a few months week at their public library. She sends best two of them had a good laugh and both felt off 101, Eleanor has two children, six grand- wishes to all. very elegant. children, and eight great-grandchildren. She sees and hears perfectly, is an avid reader, Jane Noble Miller ’38 Evelyn married a doctor who had graduat- paints still life and landscape, and is com- 175 Cape May Dr., Apt. 205 ed from school in Temple, TX, and they set- puter literate. Mother loved Western College Wilmington, OH 45177 tled in that state. She now lives in Odessa. … the College was and remains a signifi- [email protected] With relatives in Ohio, Evelyn has been cant and joyful part of Mother’s life.” back to the Western campus and still finds it beautiful. She’d want to return if her room- mate Kaleen planned to do so.

Kaleen Kocikowski Abel is an “active 95 and can still drive a car, although drivers may wish I wouldn’t.” She enjoys traveling, usually with a group, and has been on lots Following the success of their phone calls of trips – two to Israel and one to Turkey, to the Class of ’43 last fall, the Publications Germany, Poland, as well as Russia about Committee decided to reach out again. Very a year and a-half ago. She rode a camel in few from the Class of ’40 had been heard Lebanon and a donkey in Greece, and is from since the death of class rep Ruth considering a trip to Ireland in 2014. She Bertsch Stilwell in February 2012, so notes generally doesn’t attend Reunions because were written or phone calls made to the 19 she likes to do something different. class members on our current masterlist. After visiting Western on the recommenda- Evelyn Watkins Bauman still tion of a sister’s friend, Kaleen didn’t want “just loves Western” and keeps in to go anywhere else. Western, she added, touch with her roommate Kaleen was “a very fine college” and she has lots Souvenir booklet from Kocikowski Abel. She said her of good memories of her time there. She Eleanor’s 100th. aunt, Ellen Skuni (class of 1910 remembers “the Woods,” following the chair or 1911) was responsible for her around on the ice (since she was never an attending Western. The aunt had ice skater), and that her roommate, Evelyn Eleanor herself wrote the loved Western and wanted her Watkins, liked to sing and play organ and office, sending “many niece to go there too. Evelyn did piano. thanks to all and all the and also loved it, though she best to Westerners” and spent only a year before having Having been raised on Lake Michigan (Mich- mentioning that her sis- to return to Denver owing to a igan City, IN), she loved to swim, danced a ter Anne lived to be 95, death in the family. She graduat- lot (tap, toe, acrobatic and ballet) and could

Spring 2013 11 have gone on the stage. She majored in art Thanks to committee members Sylvia Stan- Ethel Burnham Meece and Ely are living and German, receiving help from her father, field, Jane Fryman, Sharry Addison and quietly in Palo Alto. No travels as of yore, who had been born in occupied Germany. Anne Weissenborn, whose letters and tele- but pleased to have visitors. Son Ted’s son She was the first woman to be employed as phone conversations with Class of ’40 mem- represented the U.S.A. in snowboarding a technical development artist/ illustrator bers were thoroughly enjoyed on both ends! competition at the Special Olympics held in with the USG and for 14 years was a tech- Korea. nical illustrator with TDC in Washington, DC, WCAA. Inc. and Indianapolis. 325 S. Patterson Ave. Bea Low Notley ’42 Oxford, OH 45056 5807 Park Circle Kaleen is still a member of the Palo Alto Art [email protected] Shawnee Mission, KS 66216 League. (When asked whether she might have photos of her artwork that she could e-mail for the Bulletin, she replied that she doesn’t use the computer and added that fellow alums would have to come to Palo Alto to see her work.) Married for 47 years, Kaleen’s husband for 47 years was also with the government. Her siblings are deceased but she has a beautiful 6-year-old great- Alumnae Weekend ’13: Celebrate 70 years! grandchild. News for fall ’13 Bulletin due Labor Day! See Blue Card, page 47! News for fall ’13 Bulletin due Labor Day! Joan Darby Kuntz lives with her older son See Blue Card, page 47! in her home in McLean, VA. She recalled the round robin letter which her class circu- lated for a number of years and how she very much enjoyed it.

Margaret Gravett Giusti thanked us for “try- ing to keep in touch” and thought that she and Peggy Robinson Kirk were the only ones still around from the class of 1940. Peg Fran Sutherland Larsen is “still alive and Wood Singley and Allene Kelly Williams, Hello again! I am writing on a cold but sun- clicking at turtles’ pace.” She and Bob are with whom she had stayed in touch, have ny morning in January. Amazing how fast a in the process of downsizing to move from been gone over a year. year has passed since I last penned the ’42 South Carolina to Jacksonville, FL, to be message for the Bulletin. near daughter Ellen and family. They missed She is in “pretty good health for 94” but no traveling this year, owing to the pending longer drives. She and her husband live in Good news is that the goal of establishing a move and some lake property ownership a “retirement” apartment building and Peg Western College Endowed Professorship at problems. But they will sail for two weeks in sent won- Miami was met. Five ’42 alums – Peg, Fran, March. The news of “very special roomie” derful pic- Bea, Bernarda and Ora Jane – are listed Ellen Westerman Brashares’ death last tures “of among those who participated in this en- September was terribly sad for her. They me ‘then’ deavor. had been in touch all these years. Fran felt and of both “very blessed to have had her in my life.” me and my We have a holdover ’42 communique from husband 2012. Bernarda Danford Rice’s did not WCAA. Inc. now.’” reach me until after last year’s deadline. She 325 S. Patterson Ave. was enjoying very much her new home in Oxford, OH 45056 Tempe, AZ. Moderate temperatures, activi- [email protected] ties and new friends in Friendship Village and being close to family members make for happy days. An update this year adds some details: Of an afternoon, she likes to “take a book out to my patio to sit by my lemon tree, surrounded by bright red gera- niums.” In relatively good health, Bernarda uses a walker but is with the “in crowd,” or in other words, she says, “The old gray mare News for fall ’13 Bulletin due Labor Day! ain’t what she used to be.” See Blue Card, page 47!

Two Christmas letter writers are the only current classmate correspondents.

Barbara Burke Chesman is still a traveler. Barb wrote of visits to St. Augustine, Lan- caster (PA), Atlantic City, Philadelphia, Cape May, Ottawa, and the Notre Dame campus. How about that! She survived for the flight A Christmas letter from Ann Winger Tuttle home four broken ribs from a fall in the ho- brought information about her loss of Max Peg Giusti ’40, then and now tel bathtub on her final morning in Canada. last June. We remember the interesting let- Egad! ters she sent us as they traveled in many parts of the world. She continues to live in

12 The Bulletin her home in Irving, TX, and is finding out Nelle Sicher Frisch’s daughter is a rabbi how many things can go wrong when she in Elgin, IL. She brought Nelle to Reunion has to look after them by herself: roofing, not too many years ago. wall and pool repair, rose pruning. Just af- ter the holiday Ann fell and broke her leg. From Dorcas Robson comes word of her We send our sympathy for her loss of Max big New Year’s Eve party at her new home and welcome her to the circle of those of us in Valle Verde, Santa Barbara: Party began whose bones have been repaired. Ann also at 4:00 with champagne, wine and hors News for fall ’13 Bulletin due Labor Day! experienced an earthquake and wonders if d’oeuvres until 5:30! Not only a swinger, See Blue Card, page 47! underground drilling or fracking is the cause. she’s now a bridge player and gets in a lot If you care to send a note to our old class of walking. The campus, where she enjoys rep: 3717 Santiago Ct., Irving, TX 75062. walking, is being enlarged with lots of con- struction noise to accommodate more In August, Rachel Hoskins Saunders’ obit- homes. She hopes it won’t be spoiled. Dor- uary arrived. She was with us only fresh- cas made her annual holiday trip to Seattle man year; went on to graduate from U. Tenn. and visited her sister-in-law, now in a rest I remember frequently chatting with her as home after a stroke, and nieces. She’s think- she was from Kentucky. When she came to ing now that her own bed is the best. campus for our 50th, it was for the first time Alumnae Weekend ’13: Celebrate 65 years! since ’43. She told me how much she en- Recently talked with Peggy Kaufman joyed reading about our class and our ac- Stricker. She lives alone in her long-time Sixty-five years! Would you believe that we tivities in the Bulletin over all the years. Her Cincinnati home with daily help. No longer have been out of college that long? We are lifelong friend was Katy Pope White, a class- drives so she had to give up Meals on antiques! But the time has really flown by mate of Charles at Centre and we had been Wheels delivery. One son is married, living and life has been good. with Katy recently. Unfortunately I did not in Cincinnati. Other son and family live in know the connection: What a small world. New York. Her twin grandsons are making I hope you all noticed that one of the first plans for colleges next year. Peggy had twin bands to play in the Presidential Parade was Clid Hunter, once the youngest of five, is sisters who did everything together – dress, the Miami University Marching Band. Now now the sole survivor of her generation. Her schools, activities. In contrast her grandsons that we are part of Miami, we are on TV. 94-year-old brother passed away in August. have been in different classes and, with dif- She is blessed with close nieces and still ferent interests, are going to different col- Ann Creswell Sandin is now living with her lives alone. Word to all of us: She’s glad to leges. Betty Huttenbauer Heldman ’49 and daughter in Glastonbury. Her husband died get up each morning, to take care of her others take Peggy out for dinner. on his 85th birthday after a long and won- own house, do church work where she can derful marriage of 59 years. It is always hard sit down and do a little driving. Betty Smith Carlson suffered a broken to lose a lifelong companion. Ann has nine hand last year, but continues making greet- grandchildren (15-27 years old) and all are Betty Buell Baldwin (Garrett Park, MD) ing cards to sell at craft shows. Daughter either musical or artistic or both. For exer- reported that she tried to contact Sophie Alicia is engaged and making plans for a cise, Ann does “heavy calisthenics,” which Relson Salley recently, only to learn that 2014 wedding. means that she has to lift her feet up with she had died suddenly of a brain aneurism heavy orthopedic shoes. Life for Ann is busy a year and a-half ago. We send condolenc- Charles and I still shuffle along and do a and entertaining. es to Sophie’s family. She certainly kept little driving, never far from home. He has busy in the political scene in Virginia and breakfast out every morning, visits the health The year 2012 has not been the best for made herself known for her knowledge of center and library and brings me the news- Marjorie Hoerres Kalkoske. She had a flu history and current events. Those of us in paper and mail at noon. I am like Ann, help- bug that lasted several weeks just before Mary Lyon who knew her dorm room habits ing to keep the medical profession in busi- Christmas, then an accident sent her to the recall how fastidious she was, keeping her ness with arthritis, pinched vertebrae and hospital. Nothing was broken, however, and boxes of chocolates (sent to help her put incontinence. We go to church at 8:30 in now she feels just fine. She sends her love on weight) wrapped in tissue among her order to have lots of time in the afternoon to all. clothing. She must have been a perfect (for what I haven’t figured out yet). Our the- housekeeper. Betty’s daughter Susan and ater dates are now for Sunday matinees and A nice Christmas card and letter brought her daughter Lizzie came from San Diego we don’t like driving at night. news of the Geraldine Smith Rector fami- to spend the holidays. It was a good family ly. Tom and Gerry enjoy the benefits of where visit with lots of talk and eating. Betty add- In early December, I ventured across the they are living. There seems to be always ed that Bessie Zimmerly Terrell’s husband, river to Montgomery Inn to meet WC alums something to do — a lecture, musical, etc. Ed, died recently. from the area for lunch and to gab a bit. We Their children are doing well with their fam- were shown plans for new structures on ilies and work. Gerry is now a great-grand- Marty Hall Wedeman lives in Goodwin OUR campus. We were from many classes mother. What fun! House in Virginia. To visit her, Betty would and each one gave a quick bio. I was not have to tackle the Beltway, not to her liking the oldest one there. About once a month A nice letter from Dorothy Mershon so she phones her. Both she and Marty have we visit with the newest member of the fam- Armistead brought news that she had lost joined the walking cane brigade as have ily – 2 years old and all the energy we would her wonderful Gray at the age of 91 years. Dorcas and I. Is there anyone in our class love to share. Our love and best wishes go out to you, who still walks alone? Haven’t caught Mar- Dorothy. Dorothy is now happily settled into ty’s son Ben Wedeman lately on CNN. Do keep in touch ... a full-service retirement community just out- side of Pittsburgh, and is enjoying family Mel Leckie McCoy called from California Betty Maddox Daniels ’46 plus old and new friends there. She’s so with concern for Betty and her home after 2654 Cardinal Trail busy she wishes she had more hours in the hurricanes in the area. Betty happily report- Melbourne, KY 41059 day. ed that nothing was damaged, particularly [email protected] the large trees around her home.

Spring 2013 13 Helen Grinnell is still living in Colorado and much fighting going on. I did visit my daugh- Jane Bridgman Voigt is in her third year at keeps busy with friends and financial affairs. ter in Newport, RI, to see the America’s Cup Amber Lights, an Arizona retirement home, She has lived in Colorado for many years sailing races, and to Stratford, CT, to see where she is enjoying two classes from the and seems to enjoy it. some plays. My family is just fine. I now have U. of Arizona: one in politics and religion, a new great-grandchild (18 months) — lots the other on the Middle East. The latter is of Ellen Siddell Zimmermann and I keep in of fun to watch! particular interest, as Jane lived in Yemen touch. Ellen has a nice home on Lake Erie 1977-79. The highlight of her year was a that the family used in summer and now she My best to each of you … family reunion in early July that included her has just sold it — so that is a big load off her son, who flew in from Seattle to celebrate mind. It is getting harder to drive over to Alice Crabb Brandon ’48 with his three sisters and families. This hap- Canada, what with passports and car 2874 Pine Hill Dr. py occasion preceded one not so happy: searches, etc. Ellen is fine, although she did Troy, MI 48098 Jane’s July 19th knee replacement. She have a little stomach surgery last fall. She concluded her note with “treasure my two and I often go to a garden tour near her and years at Western” and recalling for us that it is always nice to see the lovely landscap- she is the daughter of Western alumna ing and flowers. Laura Matson, Class of ’20 or ’21.

A nice letter from Jane Clapp Towne says WCAA, Inc. that life is still good for her. North Dakota is 325 S. Patterson Ave. lucky to have a balanced budget and good Oxford, OH 45036 economy. How nice for the state! Michigan [email protected] can’t say that. She keeps busy with study News for fall ’13 Bulletin due Labor Day! clubs, bridge, symphony and is a deacon in See Blue Card, page 47! the Episcopal Church, so calls on shut-ins and does other church-related service. And she walks two miles five days a week for exercise. Whew!

Judith Vincze Quinn wrote to WCAA Di- rector Mackenzie Becker Rice, thanking her for her letter of concern following Hurricane News for fall ’13 Bulletin due Labor Day! Sandy, which struck the East Coast in late See Blue Card, page 47! October: “We did Editor’s note: Class members were informed not experience that their longtime scribe, Diane Heckert major damage to Staub, was unable to compile this spring’s our property. The notes and were requested to send their loss of power news instead to the office. and utilities, and water contamina- Donna Hall Mader wrote she is “still plod- tion, were our ding along trying to enhance my so-called concerns. Re- career as a ‘professional volunteer.’” Al- cently I fractured though the job is becoming more difficult “as Queen Elizabeth wasn’t the only one to cel- my wrist and suf- growing older brings more challenges,” ebrate a Diamond Jubilee in 2012. Our class fered a bout of Donna is grateful for all the good things in had a 60th reunion and several of us also shingles, making Judith Quinn ’48 her life — “including the lasting friendships had 60th wedding anniversaries. Hawaii things even more from the Western years.” She wishes ev- seems to have been a favorite destination. difficult. Work was closed for my son (an eryone reading this “a delicious 2013”! attorney) and my daughter (a teacher) for Dick and Joanne Dubois Shafer hated to almost two weeks. My family and I eventu- Carol Hayward Vanderpol was sorry to miss Reunion, but their trip with all 19 fam- ally evacuated to a hotel, where we found hear that Diane wasn’t well and recalled ily members sounds wonderful. Jo says, “I heat and creature comforts for several days. attending required noon chapel at Western was very sorry to miss the 60th reunion. That There was much damage in Woodbridge — seated alphabetically by class. “So for week we just happened to be in Hawaii cel- Township. me it was Hayden, Hayward, Heckert! I saw ebrating our wedding anniversary. We had Diane every day and that was great.” Carol such a wonderful time on our 50th with the “My family owned a home at the shore dur- and Jim have recently moved to a smaller family in Rome that we decided to do a fam- ing my youth. We spent many happy sum- home only a few minutes away. “Downsiz- ily affair again. Our anniversary is in April mers in the area most devastated by Sandy. ing is not fun,” she writes, and further phi- but June turned out to be the only time we The Point Pleasant, Seaside and Asbury losophizes, “Keeping busy is key and good could get reservations when everyone could Park areas suffered severe damage and health is a miracle.” She has been lucky “so attend. We went to Hawaii because our old- destruction. far” with only minor vision problems. Her est grandson is stationed on a ship there latest way to “keep busy”? She is skiing and this was the only place he could join “Again, I am very thrilled at age 86 to feel again! Jim is involved with another book — us. We also had lived there twice while Dick the joy of the spirit of Western College. Best to be published first in Dutch. Carol will have was in the Navy. We had three cottages on regards to my Class of 1948 classmates and to wait for the translation. the beach and did a lot of sightseeing around to my friends in the Class of 1949.” Oahu. We haven’t figured out what we will Susan Ott Faulkner is in her second year do for our 70th.” As for me, I keep busy with some volunteer at a “superb” retirement home in Walling- work, Altar Guild director, swimming, pot- ford, CT, “gradually becoming a ‘member of Donna Schulz Bloom and Art were Hawaii lucks, a few club tours around town — to the mass-es.’” She still loves gardening and visitors at Christmas. All three sons and six see Faberge at the DIA, opera, for instance. tended a wonderful one — 50 x 35 — with of the seven grandchildren were at son Jay’s No trips out of the country this year — too a “superb selection of plants.” Honolulu home for the holiday. Donna and

14 The Bulletin Art still live in their own home and enjoy the and raising her family. cultural activities of Cornell and Ithaca Col- We talked for hours. I lege. Donna occasionally joins Cornell’s per- loved it. Let’s do it again, formances of major works. Joanie!

Dick and Catherine Ross Loveland cele- Betty Groth Diebold brated their 60th in the North Carolina Out- has moved back to er Banks with most family members. Dick Ohio. She joined us at enjoyed a golfing trip to Scotland, playing Reunion. Come again the historic courses, and plays duplicate soon, Betty! bridge regularly. He still goes to the office about two days a week. Catherine contin- Our class group at Re- ues with her strong interest in St. Patrick’s union was small, but Episcopal Church. She also volunteers at busy. I think that every- hospice and Women to Women. It was great one knew we were to visit with Cathie at Western in June. there. Jo Ann Fley gave our class toast and Nancy Ryan Rietz and Bob have been busy Betty Sipe Gerber did Nancy Rietz ’52, front and center, and the whole family sorting, packing, auctioning, and giving a fine job directing the away things prior to moving into their new singing at the Meily lun- retirement apartment. Nancy says that they cheon and the Sunday closing gathering. May. I miss it, but a change in ownership of love their new place and their family ap- our lab made it an easy decision. I still keep proved too when they were all there to cel- Tudy Allen Gatzert writes that she still en- up with my musical activities. Handbells, ebrate Nancy and Bob’s 60th anniversary. joys living in Chicago. Anne Cowan Lever- church choir, and Melody Makers chorus are They visited Florida in November and a ich visited Tudy last fall while in Chicago on fun and worthwhile. Our local Melody Mak- highlight was parasailing. They enjoyed it business. Anne is designing and selling ers chorus gave nine programs in one week so much that they plan to do it again while bathing suits for women over 50. Gee, Anne, just before Christmas, so we stay busy. Our in Orange Beach, AL, in February and can you come up with something great for newest great-grandchild, Benjamin, arrived March. Way to go, Nancy! our 80-year-old bodies? Any help you can in July. Ben is a delightful baby, but doesn’t give would be more than welcome. seem to want to stay a baby for long. He Edith Shattuck Johnson sent a Christmas acts as if he can’t wait to get on his own and card with a picture of her dock at Petoskey, Dan and I continue see what big sister Charlotte is up to. MI. It is a beautiful scene. I know that Edie as usual. He does enjoys her time there. a great job of tak- Don’t forget to keep sending your news. You ing care of our don’t need to wait until the holidays. Just Joan Landenberger Trefts sent a wonder- dogs, and enjoys send me news anytime and I’ll be sure to ful Christmas letter with pictures of 60 years football and submit it for the Bulletin. of holiday cards she has sent. I received NASCAR. Thank many of these cards when her family was goodness for the Sue Off Schrope ’52 young and always enjoyed them. big screen. He can 133 Central Way still see well Anderson, IN 46011 Joanie and I roomed together at Reunion enough to keep up [email protected] last June. We had so much fun catching up with his favorite on 60 years. She has had such an interest- sports. I finally re- The littlest Schropes ing life, advancing her education, teaching, tired for good last

Alumnae Weekend ’13: Celebrate 60 years!

News for fall ’13 Bulletin due Labor Day! See Blue Card, page 47!

FIRST … don’t forget that next year, 2014, is our 60th anniversary.

Dorothy Hayes Hoffman and Pete have moved into a gated retirement community; Lakes at Pointe West …. in Florida. Their children are thrilled, because Jenny is part Three guesses where Jo Shafer ’52 and Dick (seated front and center) celebrated time in Jupiter, FL, and Bob hopes to retire their 60th anniversary! in the Orlando area. They sold their trawler

Spring 2013 15 so their sailing days are probably over. Dot welcomes the chance to discuss ideas with works at a VNA thrift shop and plays mah people curious about everything. And, yes, jong on Tuesday and Thursday with friends. her brother, Bob, did have another huge She had been frequently visiting her moth- pumpkin win this year. er who, sadly, died 60 days before her 100th birthday. (Wow! She deserves the 1954 Nancy Blake Harvey and Bill have moved Mom Award.) to Copeland Oaks, a retirement community in Sebring, OH. They knew their lives would Elizabeth Renton Hale, living in Dunnel- be different, but in good ways, because their lon, FL, says she is lucky to have a “family” health is good, and they will be able to keep of good friends. She also lives near her sis- active and able to help and serve. Their ter, and often manages to see her far-flung children are scattered all over the country, daughters and their families frequently dur- The Smits at grandson’s graduation but they all show up at Christmastime. Nan- ing the year. Ask her to tell you about her cy said, “I remember the friendships I still new electronics toy … to replace her lap- cherish from Western days and the won- top. Her grandson, Tom, helped her with it. Mieke Van Waveren Smit and Henk have derful events we shared. I can still be so (Of course. Kids always know more about done their usual amount of travel this year very proud for what is still happening on handling them than we do.) … in fact, it seems like more than usual. In campus as well as a good spirit.” (What a May they flew to Toronto to see their grand- wonderful sentence!) Sandra Franz Barnes says there really is son Patrick graduate from high school. And no news from her and Phil this year. The on WHHI-TVs “Talk of the Town,” she and As for me, last summer Blake, my eighth- good news is that they are staying healthy. Dasha appeared for a performance which grade grandson went to Miami’s Hockey The library continues to be her major vol- is delightful. [Google: WHHI-TVs “Talk of the Camp. So my daughter, son-in-law and I met unteer activity. Town”: Mieke Smit and Dasha Bukhartseva the family there. Cathy Cooper took me, my to view it on YouTube.] Fun to hear and see. Charlotte Bergmann Russell has been having a rough time. Both she and her hus- Virginia Meierjohan Fossier wrote a hap- band had congestive heart failure; she had py note saying that her family is healthy and an eye operation to correct blindness happy ... keeping busy always. She is now caused by a cataract op … which should 81 and she is amazed that time has gone improve. Then to top it off she had an acci- so quickly. dent and tore her rotator cuff in three plac- es. Then she said, “Other than that we are Miriam Chesslin has retired and is in an just fine!” The good news is that they are independent living community. She has im- taking their first Caribbean trip to the Turks proved medically and is able to access more and Caicos for two weeks this year. of DC’s cultural experiences, with an occa- sional trip to NY to see sons and grandchil- Delores Randles Hutchinson’s husband dren. One granddaughter will graduate this died in July. I am sure that many of you re- year from Bard College (with a degree in Class Rep Bar McConnell (right) and member the delightful night when Jack, with theater) and another is a junior political sci- Dottie Runyon Medlin ’55 discovered the aid of his Theta Chi Fraternity, sang “I ence major at Oberlin. Mimi sends cheers recently that they are neighbors in Love You Truly” to Dee outside of our dor- to us all. Raleigh, NC, and got together for mitory. They had moved into a retirement lunch. home, but after his passing, Dee bought and Cornelia Roettcher Levine has spent the moved into a gated condo in a community past year editing a transcription of her hus- of 135 houses. Her address now is 4000 band’s oral history book. He didn’t get a granddaughter, and daughter on a tour of Village Lane; Roswell, GA, 30073. She is chance to check it out properly before his Western, and I was able to show them our pleased to be able to see her three girls fre- death. She is now awaiting the posting by lovely chapel and the room that Dee, Joan- quently. the Oral History Office. She has served on na and I shared in Peabody. Then we all the Board of the Institute of Historical Study, went to Lebanon where the early Drakes a local association of indepen- settled, and on the weekend up to Ft. Tho- dent scholars. She can enjoy the mas, KY, and Cincinnati, where I was born. give-and-take of fellow historians. Much fun. Now I hope both my grandson Other than working on that, fam- and granddaughter go to Miami, and that ily matters keep her occupied. A Blake goes back to hockey this summer. son has MS and had to be retreat- ed this fall. Since he is a single Barbara Drake McConnell ’54 parent to his son, she is the one 5904 Brushwood Ct. on stand-by. Raleigh, NC 27612 [email protected] Lucy Ann Liggett is finishing up her year as President of the Friends of the Ypsilanti District Library ... although she will con- tinue as a board member to work on fund-raising projects. She feels fortunate to have access to Lucy Liggett’s brother Bob, sister-in-law Jo, and Bob’s many interesting and challenging giant pumpkin. He wins the Circleville, OH, show Elderwise and OLLI courses. every year! (N.B.: the crown.) (Osher Lifelong Learning Institute News for fall ’13 Bulletin due Labor Day! — I had to look that one up.) She See Blue Card, page 47!

16 The Bulletin The following Alumni Profile was written by Emily Stewart ’08, Assistant Director, University Advancement Com- munications, and appeared in January 2013 on the Miami University Alumni Association web page. As it happens, Ryan Martini is the 2012-13 recipient of the WCAA’s Alma Bremer Scholarship. Bridging the gap: Knolls technology program brings together two generations of Miamians “Hit the button, we’ll see what happens.” Berrys’ son gave her as a gift, Pris and Martini have learned a great deal about each other as well as some valuable life Miami University student Ryan Martini ’13 joked that lessons. was how he hooked up a DVD player for Pris Berry ’54, a resident at The Knolls of Oxford continuing care retire- “Teaching-wise, ment community. I’ve learned that it’s not my job to ‘do Though a humorous moment, that phrase is actually quite something,’ but to get fitting when considering how the “Oxford grandma” came someone to do some- to meet her “local grandson.” thing on their own,” Martini, who hails from Cincinnati, chose Miami four Martini said. “From years ago based on the reputation of its School of Educa- Pris, I’ve learned a lot tion, Health and Society. He aspires to teach math and about life. I thought English to high school students, but through a unique part- being a college student nership between Miami and The Knolls of Oxford, he’s would be the busiest spent the last four years refining his skills outside the class- time of my life, but room—and at a much more senior level. Pris keeps a pretty full calendar between The The Knolls technology program was designed to involve Knolls, working at the current Miami students in teaching technology basics to Pris Strand Berry, WC ’54, and art museum, writing to community residents. Initially, students and residents were Ryan Martini, MU ’13 people…I’ve learned to meet for five one-hour sessions to become familiar with that life gets a lot busier.” devices such as phones and computers. Pris was quick to note that Martini himself is in “high “I wasn’t any kind of electronics expert,” Martini, an demand. He’s wonderful, just a really fine young man,” adolescent math education major, said. “But it was kind she said. “Back when I was a student, we didn’t have op- of like teaching, so I decided to do it.” portunities to do the work Ryan is doing.” The program paired him with Berry, a native New Yorker That unique facet of the technology program is not turned Oxford lifer after she graduated with a degree in lost on Stacey Brekke, who handles communications for psychology from Western College for Women in 1954. The Knolls of Oxford. She’s watched Martini and Pris “My father was delighted to move my stuff across the forge a special friendship over the last four years and be- street instead of hauling it back to New York after I grad- lieves it’s symbolic of Miami’s relationship with the uated,” she said with a smile. Knolls—located just outside of campus. As a student Pris met future husband Robert Berry, an “Their relationship is an example of how important economics professor whom she says was “on loan” to the affiliation between Miami University and The Knolls Western College from Miami at the time. The Berrys made of Oxford really is,” Brekke said. “The Knolls of Oxford a life in Oxford, raising their son and daughter, and found is very fortunate to have such a wonderful relationship their way to The Knolls in 2006. Robert fell ill with Alzhe- with Miami.” imer’s disease and passed away in August 2012. Pris fondly With the holidays fast-approaching, it means the end recalled her 80th birthday celebration, the last of her birth- of fall semester for Martini. Spring semester will take him days with Robert—and how special it was that Martini to Australia for a semester abroad to student-teach, but also could be there. that doesn’t mean the visits with Pris will discontinue. What began as a tutorial service became a special friend- “We’ll Skype,” he tells her. ship spanning two generations of Miamians. In between hooking up DVD players and conquering the iPad the “Yes, you showed me that once,” she replies.

Spring 2013 17 and Fridays. Wednesdays are at church, decision was made easier by the fact that preparing the mailing of the newsletter, ‘The they have many friends living there, so they Parishioner.’ I try to get to the gym every know it’s a “wonderful facility.” And the nice day, and it seems that a lot of my time is thing about moving, Joan, is that for at least taken up with doctor appointments.” She six months after the move you know where continues, “I belong to two book clubs, a everything is. (Except for stuff you haven’t study group, and a Red Hat group, and I unpacked yet.) At least, that’s about how play bridge once a month.” In addition, Anne long I was able to enjoy orderly drawers and Why does it always seem to be snowing the has family there in Birmingham, in Cincin- closets before chaos began creeping in. day I write the alumnae notes? It’s hard for nati, Singapore, New York, London, and me to remember that by the time you read California, so travel is definitely a part of her I love it when one of your e-mails can just these, Western’s peonies will probably be life. This is slowing down, Anne? be quoted for the news. This is what Bar- in bloom. It’s only January, but I am so ready bara Williams Kearns (whose e-mail name for spring. It’s always been my contention Ingrid Roberta Hoover Chafee has two is evil-alice, doesn’t that sound like her hu- that winter should end the day after Christ- excellent reasons for rejoicing this year. mor?) writes: “I sent you not one but two mas, but so far I haven’t been able to make First, after she and husband Nat attended holiday cards (talk about forgetful) and they the world follow my agenda. his 50th reunion at Harvard in May, Nat de- were returned with your new address on veloped some serious health problems. them. Apparently they don’t forward now. So Sadly, I have to report that we have lost Fortunately, after some difficult months, I planned to write as soon as I finish moving another classmate. Sandra Wittenberg physicians were able to pinpoint the cause … Am in the middle of moving now and all Carl’s daughter, Diane Carl, wrote to tell of of his difficulties and prescribed medicines is hectic.” You and Joan need to send each her mother’s death on November 20 of “which have not only slowed or stopped the other moving tips, Barbara. 2012. In her e-mail, Diane wrote, “Yes, my damage, but actually reversed it.” Roberta mother was beautiful and had a radiant says gratefully, “I feel that I’ve got him back.” In Muncie, IN, Nancy Haas Osborn was smile. I miss her terribly.” I think many of us That’s wonderful news, Roberta. As for her experiencing the same winter cold as we remember that smile, and I am sure Diane second reason for happiness, Roberta’s were in January. I think they had a high of is not the only person who will miss Sandy. new article on Ionesco, “Home Is Elsewhere: 17 degrees that day. (Many of you who live Exile in the Theatre of Ionesco,” has been farther north probably think that’s nothing, It wouldn’t seem right to me not to have included in an anthology of 10 articles on but for us it’s COLD.) Nancy says her “kids” Sandra Peters Andreucci’s news to begin Romanian writers who wrote and lived in are fine — Andy is her handyman, Dave, with, but that’s how I feared it would be when France, Paris-Bucharest, Bucharest-Paris: who has been a widower for a year now, I began these notes yesterday morning. Francophone Writers from Romania, pub- lives there in Indianapolis, and Leah is Di- However, in the afternoon the mailman lished by Rodopi, a European publisher. rector of Religious Education at Universal- averted the calamity by delivering a sweet That is so impressive, Roberta. ist Unitarian Albany. Joan went to two col- note from Sandy. (Her handwriting is so lege graduations for grandchildren last May, beautiful I’m tempted to post the card above Ladies, take note. If you just haven’t the time one in Florida, one in New York. Busy month, my desk as a combination inspiration and or energy or wherewithal to send in your but “Such Fun,” she said. reminder.) She writes that she is still enjoy- news, perhaps your husband (or a “signifi- ing her wonderful family, and since that in- cant other”) will help you out! Greta Rich- Charlotte Leary Ross and husband Joe cludes nine children and 17 grandchildren ardson Ettinger’s husband, Ed ,did just that have discovered that grandchildren provide spread over the country who all keep in and very kindly e-mailed to fill me in on their you with an excellent way to stay active and touch, I am really touched that she takes news. Their home is in Hudson, OH, a little happily occupied. With the young ones liv- time to send us all good wishes for a healthy south of Cleveland, but they spend half the ing nearby and involved in lots of different and prosperous year. We wish the same to year in Naples, FL. (Sounds lovely to me!) activities, Char and Joe are much in de- you, Sandy. Ed is proud to state that they have “three mand, and from the notes on their Christ- great kids, all college grads, and gainfully mas card, I don’t think the two grandpar- Sarah Rutherford Behrendt and I have employed.” Ed is still working (some men ents mind a bit! (I wish my grandchildren been promising each other we would get just like to keep busy, don’t they?), but he were local, Charlotte.) together some time, now that she and her and Greta play golf year-round. Ed says they husband are living here in Cincinnati. (And often see Helen Hinkle Bradfish ’57, who Last November the Lowell (Michigan) Led- not too, too far from us, either.) Unfortunate- also lives in Naples. Thank you so much for ger featured a beautiful photograph and a ly, Dr. Behrendt is suffering from some sort bringing us up to date, Ed. very complimentary article honoring Joy of age-related dementia, so he has had to Louden Smith when the Kent District Li- be moved to a nursing home facility close Sometimes just a short note says a lot. From brary presented her with its 2012 Volunteer by. Sarah’s son and wife and three boys live Jo Haines Huntsinger: “Just a quick note of the Year award. This district is composed near to her, though, and she is finding plea- to let you know things are pretty much the of 18 libraries in 18 different communities! sure in that. This summer she had her sec- same with me. Bill and I are enjoying our The article mentioned that Joy is humble ond hip operation, but she is well-enough quiet life. I’m learning how to become the about her accomplishments. I’d say that is recovered that she doesn’t even need a caretaker — he has been mine for over 57 an entirely accurate judgment, since I don’t walker anymore. She credits swimming at years, and now it’s my turn. I do stay busy remember that Joy ever told us about her the local Y with helping her swift recovery, and that’s good — I have never been a good 2009 selection as Woman of the Year by and we are both hoping that when the ‘sitter.’ I’ll bet Jo could sit down long enough Lowell’s Women’s Club, or her 2011 desig- weather improves we can perhaps meet for to read a few cards or letters from class- nation as the Lowell Chamber of Commerce lunch and a swim someday. mates, though. Lots of good wishes speed- Person of the Year. Although the list of Joy’s ing your way, Jo. volunteer activities is impressively long and I find myself smiling every time I reread varied, she still has time to babysit her three Anne Welch Burnette’s e-mail note. Anne From Berea, OH, Joan Anderson Kafer great-grandchildren. The manager of the begins by saying she is slowing down a bit. and her husband Jack are preparing to re- Englehardt branch of the Kent Library As- I started to nod in agreement, until she add- locate sometime this summer — to a retire- sociation, Kristin Meyer, probably put it best ed, “I’m still a docent at the Birmingham ment community seven miles from their when she said, “It is truly a joy to have a Museum of Art, which takes my Mondays home. I’m sure that what is often a hard volunteer like Joy.”

18 The Bulletin Judging from her “blue card” e-mail, the first pretty sure no one is ever going to publish, During the holidays, Jocelyn Wilkins Wilks I received this year, Ann Hopper Sneden’s but stories I hope may find a reader or two was the hostess for her family Christmas life is busy and happy. She now has two this way. If you’d like to check it out, go to house party totaling 19 for a sleep-over for new great-grandsons, Max and Noah, her http://sallyderby.blogspot.com. I’d love to all “to be here for my 76th birthday on the 10 grandkids are doing well, with most of get a comment or two — writing can be a 26th. I have been very involved with my them either in college or finished with col- lonely business. county’s project of Aging in Place, which lege — only two still in public school. Last affords the opportunity for seniors to remain summer Ann and a friend went on a Road One final plea: do find a way to keep in touch in their homes and not have to move to what Scholar cruise from New York City to Ber- if you can. I am an inveterate worrier still, I fastidiously refer to as ‘Shady Pines’ (Gold- muda, and if you are planning some travel- and when I don’t hear anything from you I en Girls term). And taking this movement a ing, she says she recommends that organi- begin to reflect that we are not getting any step farther establishing a ‘Village,’ which zation. Talking about the new library, a free- younger, and then I really get depressed. is a neighbor help group started in Boston standing “green” building they built there in You don’t want to do that to me, do you? and catching on throughout the country.” Loudon, she writes, “It’s a long way from the stacks at Western!!! Dr. Esterquest in- Sally Derby Miller ’56 It was great to hear from my roommate, stilled the love of libraries in me years ago.” 8737 Empire Ct. Sandy Meredith McNulty, who asked if Cincinnati, OH 45231 anyone remembered John Darlin. He was Ann’s love of libraries is obviously shared [email protected] a Miami student who drove a truck and by Carol Lee Silvernail Swager, who writes would offer rides into town. Although Sandy that she is busy on Sheridan’s Library Board said she never rode, because she really and also heads their Friends of the Library. enjoyed the walk, that ride was available for She says she manages to “dig up” interest- others. Now, John and his wife, Val, live in a ing programs at least once a month. The cottage across the small fishing lake from library has an active Book Club Group, and the McNulltys’ house, in Northern KY, and twice a month they show movies based on they have become very good friends. Hus- books. In addition, they are launching a band Ed has just finished book #13 — building expansion to double the size of the Blessed Are the Filmmakers — coming out library — an ambitious program, since Sheri- News for fall ’13 Bulletin due Labor Day! this spring at ReadtheSpirit.com. Sandy dan itself numbers only about 700. (The See Blue Card, page 47! sends love to all. valley and the area towards the mountains add another 1500.) If you remember, the Marty Koehler Nichols wishes she could Swagers’ large family have spread out geo- report “something exciting, interesting, etc. graphically (think Boston, Kansas City, about our lives, but perhaps at this time, no Phoenix, Washington as well as Sheridan), news is good news. We are currently in Flor- but they all made it home last summer. And ida and plan to return home in mid-March. a final, happy note. Since husband Warren We now have two grandchildren in college, received a clean bill of health from his co- three in high school, and one in middle lon cancer, last June he and Carol were able school. This makes life interesting with lots to attend Warren’s 60th class reunion at of drama and issues. I talk with Karen Wooster College, in Wooster, OH, where Alumnae Weekend ’13: Celebrate 55 years! Bakken a couple times a year, but I haven’t their granddaughter is a fourth-generation seen her in ages. She is in good health and student. To the Class of ’58 — you are amazing. You stays busy with grandchildren and bridge.” write me, humbly but with enthusiasm, of That’s the extent of my “blue card” news, varied interests and activities, contributions Karen Bakken Shaffer writes that Pitts- ladies. I can report, in addition (as the re- made by you or members of your family, to burgh is still home. Since her husband, Don, sult of telephone calls, etc) that Darlys Tra- the world around you, and continued is still working full-time and retirement is not cy Graham and husband Jesse love life in strength when facing adversities. I’m proud in sight yet, world travel is on hold. In the West Virginia, where they have a home near of you — you inspire me. meantime they enjoy books, cards, and fam- Morgantown as well as the family farm; that ily. They are fortunate to have their children Patty Van Auken Robinson finally stayed Polly Smith Venable recently attended the and grandchildren nearby so they can see put long enough for the two of us to have a change of command at which time her them almost every day. good telephone conversation in which I daughter, Col. Kathryn F. Tate, became the heard about her fabulous recent trip to Bhu- new Commander of the 579th Medical Jane Austin Harris remembers Phyllis tan and India, and that Joyce Roark Phil- Group, Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling, Wash- Hoyt’s directing us “to not be one of those ips and I keep planning to get together so ington, D.C. She directs health services little old ladies who came up once a year that she can give me a tour of the Taft Mu- supporting HQ, United States Air Force, from Cincinnati for tea.” She says, “I have seum where she is a popular and informa- Defense Intelligence Agency, Air Force Dis- done my share, but am retiring to prayer, tive docent. trict of Washington, Joint Area Defense meditation and writing my congresspersons Operations Command, White House Com- and family.” She sent a lovely photo of the I do hope I haven’t left anyone out. When I munications Agency, Joint Base Anacostia- area in Colorado where she goes for medi- was younger I never questioned my memo- Bolling and 233 geographically separated tation retreats, as she searches for peace ry, but boy, do I these days. Life in the Mill- units worldwide. within and an understanding of many faiths. er household is slower than it used to be, Jane moved from her home on Fish Creek but our kids and grandkids see that we don’t Her Medical Group delivers preventive, to a duplex closer to the mountains, but not stagnate. I am waiting for the publication of acute and chronic medical and dental care in the main mountain traffic. She writes of my next two books and trying to settle on a to 20,000 Tri-Service beneficiaries assigned her children and grandchildren from Cali- choice for the next. I hate being between to the National Capital Region. She over- fornia to Florida to the Czech Republic, and books, but I can’t seem to hurry up the de- sees the Advanced Education In Dentistry sends blessings, peace, and love to all. cision-making process. I have found one Residency and ensures members plan, train thing that helps, though. I’ve started post- and deploy to support worldwide contingen- It was wonderful to hear from Linda Ren- ing stories on a sort of blog — stories I’m cies. nie Forcey, who writes: “It has been a long

Spring 2013 19 time since I have been in touch with West- 40 miles north of Austin. This active adult another culture, country and people. Curves ern College. Really too long. In my old age community offers an amazing array of ac- and the League of Women Voters round out (76), I want to share with all my Western tivities. My son and his wife live in Austin my activities.” College friends the belated revelation I have and are expecting twins in Feb.” Juli’s new had for the past 10 or so years about my address is: 716 Independence Creek Lane, I was delighted to read that Cay Kawallek experience with the college. Although I left Georgetown, TX 78633. Manildi has returned to playing the piano, Western after two years to go to Columbia and may even find a teacher for further stud- University, I realize that Western was my Clever, poetic Marie Uveges Holt con- ies. Great news, Cay. You’ll find all those awakening. I am forever grateful and now densed her year into a long and most inter- high or low notes with lots of practice, prac- think often about my experiences there. esting poem of “My body had shrunk and tice, practice. Just ask Jan or Phyllis. Cay Thank you all. Western College gave me was going bent, on lotions, lost wrinkle con- and her husband, Bruce, enjoy time with the confidence and strength to lead an in- coction, and much money spent. Mentally, their two golden retriever dogs which they tellectual and spiritual life for which I have I’m alert most of the time feeding my head acquired as puppies. In spite of their many no regrets. What more can anyone wish for? with love movies and crime.” She writes of genetic issues, the lucky dogs (Thunder and her joy with grandchildren and all their ac- Lightning) have received much loving care “A brief catch-up: I raised six children (in- tivities, and has a special friend, across the and all the necessary surgeries. cluding two stepchildren), was a professor miles. Recently, they enjoyed a visit to Bran- at Binghamton University for 30 years, lost son that was memorable. Following a nasty fall which resulted in a my beloved husband of 40 years five years broken hip, and a bump on the head, Betty ago, and am now at Shell Point Retirement For June Regan Young, the year of 2012 Strong Miller writes that a chariot (in the Community in Ft. Myers, FL. I continue to was a year of many sad losses within her form of the local EMT) swept her away to be active politically and personally. I have extended family. And, then, June had suc- the hospital where she had a partial hip re- been able to travel a great deal, spending cessful spinal surgery in November, in which placement. She received excellent care, many visits in India, Africa, and Europe. My a bone spur and synovial cyst were removed attention, flowers, visitors, and Thanksgiv- friend John and I are off to Cuba (on Febru- from her lumbar vertebra, and she is now ing dinner prepared by her three daughters. ary 7), travel to the wonderful homes of my out of the pain that had plagued her. We She now is the youngest “resident” at an children and 10 grandchildren frequently, send our healing thoughts and prayers to assisted-care facility. We send our healing and am grateful for relatively good health, a you, June. vibes to you, Betty, and hope you will soon home I love, and a family I adore. I would be able to return home. love to hear from my classmates and mi Jan McKee Banks sends her comments for casa es tu casa if you find yourself in Ft. the Bulletin. “Still very active in the non-profit When I heard of the tragic and untimely Myers. Thank you, Western College.” group, The Friends of the Farm at Suffield, death of Karla Noel Galantay’s husband, I of which I was a founder. We’re just about wrote to her and invited her to take refuge After enjoying many successful years with getting all the infrastructure work complet- with me, here in Melbourne, FL. I promised ORCHIDbabies, Phyllis Yeamans Bailey ed and celebrating 10 years of work and her that we could walk along the ocean and and husband Earl, are in the process of clos- programming. Read about us on look for some peace. About six months lat- ing their business, due to Earl’s illness. www.hilltopfarmsuffield.com. In addition er, she took me up on the invitation and I Sometimes, the time comes to close one to enjoying the continued evolution of my met her plane in Orlando. We had a week door as we await the opening of another. granddaughter, Sarah, I’m looking forward together and we enjoyed catching up on our Trips to visit her children and grandchildren to a 30th anniversary concert for my hand lives since ’58. I believe this sharing helped are special events of joy, and great therapy. bell choirs at First Congregational Church us both. We wish you peace in this time of transi- in June. The youth choir started in 1982 and tion, Phyllis. the adult choir in 1990. My daughter Anne In Polly Martin Hawver’s own words: has been ringing in the choirs at college “Derek and I are enjoying good health and Esin Aka Atil says she has nothing out- since we started and is my able assistant can recommend taking Grand Circle’s river standing or even mundane to report, but you since 1990. We’re inviting back over 95 “al- cruises. Lots of good food, wine, walking and only have to Google her name to read of ums” to join us in celebration. It has been a experiencing other cultures with friends and her many accomplishments. In her words: joy doing this and difficult to believe it has relatives. I keep busy with six classes a week “Life is easy with lots of free time to read, been going on so long.” at a Johns Hopkins program which is de- watch movies and documentaries, and play signed for seniors. I especially like the clas- house with husband. We are lucky to have Sally Raub Alkire had cataract surgery in sical music, art history and literature class- great friends and meet with them often.” December and is thrilled with the results … es with some current events and interna- no more glasses or cataracts. Remember, tional relations mixed in. I also like volun- Carol Towne Schaub: “Nothing has Sally, if you don’t send me longer notes, I’ll teer work on the Community Services Com- changed in my life, except that everyone is make some up. This is my fair warning. (jlk) mittee of the Woman’s Club of Chevy Chase a year older. I still sing in the Sweet Ade- to which my mom belonged in the 1940’s. It lines (for those who don’t know — that’s part Our Oxford resident, Jane Smucker Fry- was there that I found a kindred spirit, Anne a capella harmony, barbershop style), and man, writes that she and Jack are in good Mack Dean, who is a Western graduate we are now preparing for our annual show health and enjoy traveling to visit friends and (’47). She served on our Western board a (March) and our regional competition (April). family. Her travels in 2012 took them to few years back. We have regular nostalgia I also find time for an occasional quilting Nantucket Island, Kokomo, IN, Morehead, talks which are fun. Have vague plans to project. I still like to do crossword puzzles KY, Niagara Falls, Cincinnati, before return- get together with Jocelyn Wilkins Wilks and I’ve recently discovered the joy of Su- ing home to their large garden, dog, and 13 and Donna Carpenter Cornman this year. doku. And th-th-th-that’s all folks.” goats. Most recently, they were headed to We always laugh a lot when we do have Costa Rica Feb. 20 - March 2. In prepara- lunch together. If I get started telling you From Juli Beasley Kinchla, a new location. tion, she is reading a variety of books and about kids and grandkids, I’ll never shut up. “This has been a year when almost every- wants to get some Spanish phrases down Maybe next time. Hope you all stay mobile thing changed. In May, after 30 years, I pat. “Most of our grandchildren have Span- and find life interesting.” closed my therapy practice in Princeton. A ish as an extra language in elementary few months later, I moved to Texas, where school. They can help me. The trip is with And from Melbourne, FL — the land of sun- I’ve settled in a large over-55 community Road Scholars so we will be learning about shine, roses, and senior citizens, I join the

20 The Bulletin news reporting with the following. I have A short note from roomy Sally Hoover Har- Annette “Toni” Power Johnson continues completed a new set of books to be used in ris in Tennessee relates her painful ordeal as a board member of her home associa- a new program for Atlanta, GA, inner-city of having both knees replaced at the same tion and is also active at church. She re- youth: TORCH (www.torchacademy.org). time this past year. Recovery, however, ports on working at getting up to speed in The executor and director of TORCH and I sounds like it has progressed well. You know our ever-changing digital age. Toni’s hus- both hope that this program will spread … considering our age! band, 91, is at home with her as well as her across the county, providing many children 12-year-old golden retriever, Sandy. the opportunity of learning about music. We Claudia “Whit” Whitman Gilmartin con- firmly believe that music will enrich their tinues as a member of Friendship Force, a Reporting on a comparatively uneventful lives. Now, that these method books are group that hosts and experiences interna- year, Susie Williams Keefer writes of sev- done, I spend much time writing down my tional exchanges. Her New Hampshire club eral trips to Salt Lake City to celebrate grad- thoughts on this computer in an effort to went to New Zealand last year where they uations: of their daughter with a Pharm. D. understand my place in this universe. When were home-hosted for a week on each is- degree and grandson from high school. I discover the answer, I’ll be sure and share land, seeing local sights that would proba- Susie and husband Jay continue to enjoy the information with all of you. bly be missed by most tourists. At different good health, more than likely encouraged times during the year their NH club hosted by their dogs who take them walking every Jennie Lou Fredley Klim ’58 a group from Brazil and another club from day. 2017 Thistle Dr. New Zealand. Melbourne, FL 32935 Sara White Arn and husband Dale rode out [email protected] Fellow Nutmegger Nancy Kohlman Free- a few weeks of the winter in Weston, FL, man and husband Peter had a visit from this year. She reports that they are in good Barbara Kong Vlachos this year. Barbara shape considering their ages (where have I is “terrific” says Nancy. They discussed lots heard that before?) with nothing especially of politics and plans for getting together at new going on. All is well. our 55th Reunion in 2015! The Freemans spent some time with family in Florida, wel- Coop and Cathy Bauer Cooper returned comed a new grandchild, and all in all are to St. Simons Island, GA, for another Jan- feeling well. Feb stint, but it didn’t go as well as 2012. They fell victim to a bronchitis epidemic the News for fall ’13 Bulletin due Labor Day! Barbara Kong Vlachos writes from Hawaii first month and Coop ended up spending See Blue Card, page 47! that she has happily acted as a surrogate four days in the hospital with (the doctor mother/grandmother to Corinne Tietjens said) “a spot of pneumonia.” They recov- Sommer’s (’61) family since their arrival in ered in time to have dinner with permanent Honolulu in 2010. Corinne’s kids have had SSI residents Sue Rhodes Crankshaw ’59 careers with the U.S. Navy and their chil- and husband Jim. dren have distinguished themselves at Punahoa School. Corinne traveled to Ho- Nancy Johnson Marshall writes from Ida- nolulu for the first time to visit her family ho that all is well except for the weather! during their school spring break and also They just lived through one of the coldest had a long overdue reunion with Barb. She winters on record. She and husband Ron Betty MiIligan Kipp reports on a happily hopes Hawaii is still on lots of people’s buck- spent most of it with minor medical “stuff” quiet year. Most of her and husband Don’s et list of destinations. that kept them from traveling. They even- trips took them around the country visiting tually did get to warmer climes to visit chil- children and grandchildren — two of whom Good news and scary news comes from dren and grandchildren. She too wonders will be going to college in the fall. A month Medina, OH, from Syd Stout Benson. The how it happened so quickly that all of us will driving up the California coast was last good news includes a trip with the Road be three-quarters-of-a-century-old by the year’s highlight. She would love to show off Scholars on a clipper ship to Costa Rica, end of this year. her adopted hometown of Savannah. visits to and from California kids and grandtwins, and journeys to the Finger Doodie Allen Masters loved her trip with John and Kathleen Howard Sutherland Lakes and New Jersey to reunite with fam- the Road Scholars. Last year she visited have moved to Portland, ME. It has them ily. Syd still enjoys her book clubs, volun- three western canyons led by a geologist nearer John’s stepmother and the Univer- teering in the local elementary school and and she plans to visit other national parks sity of Southern Maine, where they are both heading up the Circle of Caring at her with them this summer. She, Jo Masson involved in teaching at the Senior College. church. The scary news was the mild heart Manougian and Sherry Lewis Newkirk ’59 Last June Kathleen was honored by the attack followed a few days later by a mild had a mini-reunion in Tampa this winter. World Affairs Council of Maine Board of Di- stroke experienced by husband Pete. He is rectors for her public service. Kathleen con- doing well now but has learned the hard way The biggest news of 2012, as far as I am tinues to enjoy singing, painting, and visits not to play golf in a heat wave! concerned, is that the election is over! What to and from her and John’s children and a year it was. Closer to home Ed and I cel- grandchildren. A newsy e-mail came from Connie Everett ebrated our 50th anniversary with a fun NYC Cunningham in California, who took a Broadway Blitz with family. Our second an- Christine “Singi” Dempf Saari and hus- dream trip last fall with two cousins to Tahiti nual fall hurricane (Sandy) passed through band Jon have spent a great deal of the year and Bora Bora via Hawaii and Samoa. Her our area tearing down hundreds of pine traveling — from their home in Michigan to 28 days in a private state room on the cruise trees and wires and causing extensive pow- their farm in Austria; from Boston to New ship Princess Sapphire sounds about as er outages — and once again canceling Mexico; Italy to Bavaria. She had a one- good as it gets! Connie’s son is living in her Halloween. But this time we had a genera- woman show in Calumet, MI, and two gal- house while she, recently single, has rent- tor. And Ed, daughter Bonnie and grand- lery openings in Austria. Favorable respons- ed “sweet space” below a large home fac- daughter Jesse (15) staged an art exhibi- es are still coming in for her book about her ing the ocean in Santa Cruz. Life is good, tion at our library for a month called Gener- family entitled Love and War at Stag Farm. says Connie, and she is thankful for happi- ations: water colors, acrylics, and photog- ness and relatively good health. raphy respectively.

Spring 2013 21 This is the year we turn 75. God bless us ter got to us, and our first floor was spared. ber of many committees at Trinity Church everyone! My immediate next-door neighbors have Boston and its related foundation, and is had their homes condemned. Mother Na- active with Beacon Hill Seminars, an adult Jan Sandrock MacEwen ’60 ture had better start being kinder. ed program. “For fun, I play bridge, golf, and 14 Codfish Ln. tennis and also traveled to the Galapagos. Weston, CT 06883 “We look forward to our next week’s depar- Had a great week with Mimi Birjandi Head [email protected] ture for winter vacation in southern climes: and Barbara Griswold Marrs last spring! Williamsburg, three Florida stops and a For the most fun of all, I see my daughters cruise will put us back home after Easter. and their families at their homes in NYC and My grandsons are not happy about a lack NC and at my summer place in Kennebunk, of an egg hunt this year, so I made sure ME. Looking forward to seeing you all in that their parents are in possession of Val- 2014.” entine gifts, St. Patrick’s Day goodies, and Easter baskets from Grandparents Carlson. Nancy McGregor Nowak will be in Oxford We have had our flu shots and so far have this June as it is her husband’s 50th reunion News for fall ’13 Bulletin due Labor Day! remained healthy while so many around us from Miami’s architecture department and See Blue Card, page 47! have been so ill. he is co-chairing the event. “I don’t know how much time I will be able to spend at “Yes, the Reunion was great fun. The Bulle- Western, but I am looking forward to see- tin really captured the excitement we all felt ing other classmates. Our twin granddaugh- when returning to that gorgeous place. As ters are 13 now and are busy with school, a matter of fact, I think I will end this mis- skiing, soccer, Girl Scouts, etc. Jerry and I sive and go downstairs to enjoy a Hawaiian are both involved in the Dayton Art Institute, chocolate-covered macadamia nut that (Ro- Habitat, traveling, and summering in Musko- wena) Toomey sent. Thank you, Judi, for ka, Ontario.” The Reunion group was very nice ... hard picking up this job, and hopefully it will be to believe 50 years have gone by. enjoyable and not a chore for you.” Nancy Bergmann Killough’s family re- mains healthy, including Mike’s mother, who Heard from Mary Jane Dillon Bohl that The Hubbells are doing pretty much the was about to celebrate her 96th birthday at there has been a wedding in the family since same things. I am scheduled for cataract the end of December. The family made its last summer. Nancy Smith Carlson, too. surgery in March. Been a snowy winter in annual trip to Cape Cod in July, with every- She and her sister, Linda Smith Roy ’64, Wisconsin. Two grandchildren are traveling one present except for Charlie, who was were at the Reunion last summer. Donna to the Netherlands and Germany with their again serving as a camp counselor in Colo- Shalala was dealing with a shoulder injury other grandparents in August. rado with the Knights of Heroes (for boys last summer. whose fathers have died during their ser- Hoping all are well. Keep in touch ... vice to our country). “In September, Mike Nancy Smith Carlson (in Westbrook, CT) enjoyed his third annual trip to Maryland for was going to complain about their winter Judi Amos Hubbell ’62 a long golf weekend with Scott, and, of weather until she saw what we were endur- 6832 N. County Rd. H. course, entertaining the three grandchil- ing in Wisconsin: “So no complaints from Janesville, WI 53548 dren!” Nancy volunteered a lot at church and me about winter, my least favorite season [email protected] also “supervised some interior painting, even though we owned a ski house for near- which was long overdue. Hard to believe ly 30 years — give me a fire, warm jam- we’ve been at the same address for 41 mies, quiet music in lieu of the thrill of get- years!” She was looking forward to a Christ- ting frostbite coming down the slopes. Last mas visit from Scott and his family as well night we had our fourth snow of the season as from Susan’s, who would be coming from and I was out this morning shoveling every- west of Ft. Worth. “The cousins have a great thing — don’t know why the town snowplow time together!” always dumps at the end of my drive — a 4- foot wall of ice needed my attention. Being Alumnae Weekend ’13: Celebrate 50 years! Peggy Cooper Davis is still teaching at on the shore we usually have less accumu- NYU Law (as the John S.R. Shad Profes- lation than folks inland thanks to the water News for fall ’13 Bulletin due Labor Day! sor of Lawyering and Ethics) and enjoying temperature — warmer in the winter and See Blue Card, page 47! her students. Also: “Starting a new book. cooler in the summer. Loving my new (and first) grandchild, Jo- hari Cooper Davis Moses.” Peggy sent “Thanks to Hurricane Sandy we again had warm wishes to all. to replace furnace, water heater, freezer, refrigerator etc — twice in two years is two Linda Baker Beavers shared the following times too many! We will need to replace the news from Indiana: “2012 was a great year landscaping that remains following Irene around here … lots of birds and flowers to and Sandy, redo the gardens if we so watch. My friend Judy and I spent two weeks choose, and add two more rows of cement We thank our classmates for sharing their in Alaska and are planning a trip to London block in the basement covering all the win- news of the past year and now look forward this spring for my 70th. Had another nice trip dows (so dark), and finally waterproof doors to having as many of you as possible doing in the fall to Frankenmuth, MI. I kept busy, to try and hold back the force of the onrush- the same as we draw nearer to our 50th re- as usual, by chairing our local Glass Festi- ing waters. Our beach has 17 homes — union celebration in 2014. val Quilt Show and helping organize our eight need major restoration. Nothing has food pantry Walk-A-Thon in the fall. Attend- really begun as everyone waits for FEMA Jan Wood Beaven enjoys her involvement ed several quilt shows in the area with my money to appear and to sue their insurance in many interesting projects in Boston. She’s quilt group and a friend from high school, companies as to wind versus water dam- new to the Board of Mount Ida College and and I spent a fun four days at a quilt re- age. I feel blessed that only five feet of wa- its strategic planning committee, is a mem- treat.”

22 The Bulletin University of California, San Diego, spent her grandson Andrew’s birthdays. Pat’s the month of July in Malawi, Central Africa, youngest granddaughter, Holly (14), is a studying political corruption. Before her trip, high school freshman and member of the she received much good advice from Judy Equestrian Team. During the summer, An- Dudman Henderson ’62, who has made drew was selected to attend the Massachu- many trips to Malawi as a Presbyterian min- setts State Police Junior Trooper camp, a ister. Grandson Sean completed his course “rigorous, military-style ‘boot camp,’” earned work at San Francisco State in December the rank of Platoon Leader and was award- and will join his father’s business. ed the Best in Camp scholarship. Pat turned 70 in August and in October, she and Nor- “The highlight of our year was a trip to Chi- man celebrated their Silver Wedding Anni- na in the fall, where we spent 2½ weeks on versary. “It was quite a year!” Linda Beavers ’64 (right) with a business/pleasure trip in Shanghai, Jiao- classmate Joyce Shaw Benbow: Pals zuo City in Henan Province, Taiyuan in Nancy VanVleck von Allmen enjoyed “a since ninth grade in Indiana Shanxi Province, Xian to see the terra cotta most exciting year”: She and husband Beat warriors, and finally, Beijing, where we joined built their second chalet in his home town crowds in Tiananmen Square on China’s of Murren in the Bernese Alps near Inter- Betty Treiber Ahrens and her husband National Day and celebrated our 41st anni- laken, Switzerland, giving them a total of six spent a very enjoyable Christmas at home. versary on the Great Wall. Thanks to Doris apartments available for rent in winter or Betty still volunteers at the local historical Ning Wong ’62 for her input and advice. summer in “this superb, car-free, charming theater, and she and Bill are both very ac- village … known for topnotch scenic hiking, tive in the historical association, which takes “The WCAA Board of Trustees, of which I with wildflowers galore, and incredible ski- up a lot of their time, especially in the warmer am a member, is working hard to develop ing.” Nancy says, “Put it on your bucket list months. She is also on the Board of Direc- our lasting legacy. We welcome your ideas. and e-mail us: [email protected].” tors of their local Health Foundation. “Bill And, as Evie mentioned, it’s not too early to Otherwise, von Allmens celebrated their 40th and I have rented a condo for a few weeks mark your calendars for our 50th reunion in Anniversary, and Beat was inducted into the in March in Naples, and it seems we have a 2014. Reunions are fun, and you will be Ski Hall of Fame for his ski racing/coach- lot of friends who go there in the winter. pleased to see the effort Miami is making to ing/research/ski area planning successes. We’re going to drive and take our time sight- maintain and improve the Western campus.” Daughter Erica was to marry in Maui in Feb- seeing, both going and returning. Should be ruary; they have two “superb” grandchildren a lot of fun.” Daphne Ostle Allen also had a busy year. (3 and 1) in San Francisco. Nancy is busy Her “Vermont son” and family, including two with her travel business (“so well-trained Marcia Randlett Oder is looking forward to granddaughters, moved to Washington, DC, from Western College Seminars!”), skiing planning for our 50th. “Robin is still consult- “to try out a new experience from farming and swimming — “pursuing the losing bat- ing so I spend about half time working with and raising chickens and home schooling. tle toward fitness.” She loved seeing Mari- him. However, we did find some time last Well, they are liking it too much! Hope they on Ginman Classen and Charlie last sum- winter to go to Sanibel Island in Florida. In come back. Now my whole family is in D.C.!” mer and expects to get to Oxford June 2014 July, stepdaughter Karin married her long- — “and see you all!” time companion Steve (both widowed; this Last summer they had a wonderful time with fall, step-son Richard spent a few days in family and friends in their new “camp” on Nancy Johannes Campbell’s son, Scott, London, then joined his partner, who had Caspian Lake in Vermont’s Northeast King- is now running the family company, H. Ger- dom, but in October, Daphne fell and broke stner & Sons, while daughter Kim is still do- her foot. Recovery was a long and painful ing company sales. Grandchildren Ian (14) experience, but a trip to Puerto Vallarta in and Brenna (11) are “the light of our lives.” January was still on — possibly sans the Ian is heavily into scouting, wrestles and tennis Daphne hoped to play. runs cross country. Brenna is pursuing gui- tar, voice, and crafts, with some cross coun- Faith Evans is still working but hopes to try thrown in. Nancy plays mah jongg, bowls, retire in April. “Am exploring what I will do and plays a little bridge; still gets a little golf when retired but have lots of interests. Last in, but not like she used to. She got to see October I went to northern Italy and Cinque some classmates at the December WCAA Terre with AMC and we did some hiking and club meeting — “The group is getting small- lots of sightseeing and eating. A good trip, er, but we have fun.” At Christmas, Nancy and in spite of the pasta and ice cream, wrote about the family’s purchase of anoth- came home more fit.” In mid-January, she er “Campbell’s Sloop,” a motor yacht, found, was looking forward to a brief vacation in after much searching, in Knoxville, TN. Af- Florida. Faith talks to Vivien Despotopu- ter a week of island cruising with five other los Forbes by phone, but visits are less fre- boats from the Dayton Sail and Power quent. Marcia Oder also spoke with Vivien Squadron, “Capt. Jack and First Mate Nan- in late February and says she sounded fine cy” boated to Lake St.Clair, and then across and is keeping busy at the rehab home Lake Erie to their new homeport of Port Clin- where she lives. ton, OH. In all, they cruised over 2,400 miles in almost three months. Pat Scott marked a number of milestones in her family. In January, son-in-law Alan From Gay Nellis Walker: “About the only Marcia and Robin Oder, celebrating 41st th anniversary on the Great Wall of China celebrated his 50 birthday. Granddaugh- thing new in my life this year is that I bought ter Brittany, a senior at Rutgers and mem- a 1960-vintage condo and have been hav- ber of the Women’s Golf Team, turned 21. ing it remodeled for the last two months. been leading a tasting tour of Tuscany, for All attended the annual Family Weekend, Doing as much as I can in ‘sweat equity,’ a short vacation on the island of Elba. including the Rutgers Invitational Tourna- but it remains perennially about two or three Granddaughter Shannon, a junior at the ment, and celebrated Pat’s daughter’s and weeks from completion. MAYBE I will be in

Spring 2013 23 WA…There for just an Hope Children’s Fund, Ltd., which now sup- hour, and after a glass ports 79 HIV/AIDS-affected orphans, ages of wine on their patio, 5-21, at the Jerusha Mwiraria Hope Chil- Melissa asked me to dren’s Home in Meru, Kenya. In early Feb- join her in going to the ruary, Larry and I will accompany another organic food store. We group of supporters on a 2 ½-week visit to were checking out, the Home. Of the 23 travelers, 11 are high when a 24-year-old school students, most of whom are joining medical student driving us for the second or third time. We are all by had a seizure and looking forward to seeing “our” kids in Meru crashed into the store, and to visiting their schools. We now have hitting Melissa and me. two girls attending university, one studying … Fortunately, Melissa medical technology and the other prepar- was thrown on top of the ing to become a teacher. Of course, many car, and I was thrown of our children wish to emulate these two into the counter and flew — hence, the emphasis on our need to raise in the air long enough to funds to pay their fees beyond primary land on a foot of broken school. We also anticipate celebrating the glass. All those years of opening of our Technical Training Centre — fitness classes paid off not far from the Home, which will begin to along with strong bones offer courses in tailoring, cosmetology, car- which I inherited from pentry, and computer studies. In addition, both parents … no bro- we’ll be checking out our farm fields that Nancy Killough ’64, husband Mike, and their grandchildren ken bones, but, under- should be producing enough maize, beans, standably we were se- bananas, and the like to feed the Home’s by the end of January! Family is all well, verely traumatized. We are both having mul- residents and sell at market. Please follow and I now have a teenage grandchild. I think tiple physio sessions weekly and I’m begin- our progress at www.hopechildrensfund.org. she’s going to get through her teens in great ning to feel more like myself. Have missed style. All four girls are just as smart as they golf and skiing this year, but am ever so Evie Small Hohler ’64 can be. I feel lucky to have such great kids thankful each day to be alive!” Mossy end- 301 Owasco Dr. and grandkids.” ed her message with best wishes to all for a Port Jefferson, NY 11777 healthy, fulfilling 2013. [email protected] Gypsy Kimball Richardson traveled a lot! In February, a week in Alexandria, VA, en- Corlin Hollister Carpenter is pleased to be joying visits to the Smithsonian Museums a Snow Bird, wintering for three months in and fine dining. In March, Myrtle Beach; in Florida. They have four “lovely” grandchil- April, a visit to an elderly cousin in Florida; dren — two girls and two boys (12 to 5). her sister’s home in Pisgah Forest, NC, and Cory had some health issues: “shoulder finally Cincinnati, where she helped twin surgery that did not go well, damaged nerve great-nieces celebrate their 1st birthday. In to my diaphragm. Had to come home from May, Gypsy welcomed an expat friend from the hospital with 4 liters of dioxygen. Then News for fall ’13 Bulletin due Labor Day! Thailand and in July, the friend from Cali- got positional vertigo and had an abscess See Blue Card, page 47! fornia who introduced her to Randall. In behind my tooth. I am getting better now August, Gypsy traveled to Connecticut to and Joe took very good care of me. In April, see nephews and an old friend, and then we will be married 48 years — Joe’s par- continued on to Vermont to spend time at a ents celebrated their 75th Anniversary last cousin’s. She ended her trip in Mt. Kisco, September. Last November, my sister, The- NY, with another cousin, who took her into da Hollister Wolfe ’66, moved back from NYC for sightseeing and museum-going, the Buffalo area to Orange County, NY — and a picnic on the grounds of a theater by about 20 miles from our house.” the Hudson, where they watched Romeo Suzy Lutz May wishes to thank all of you and Juliet. The next two months were spent Betsy Haakinson Breziner became a new for your support during this past year, your at home, overseeing reparations of struc- grandmother to Maya Elizabeth O’Neill in cards and phone calls, and especially those tural damage to her house, “which looks like May. “I just wish that she and Amanda and of you who made it to Bernie’s service this new now.” She spent Thanksgiving with Brian lived closer than Arlington, VA. But we fall. She is learning to do many things that friends in Puyallup, WA, visiting the King Tut did have a family reunion in Tuscany in Bernie had always done for them both, like Exhibit in Seattle, and Christmas in San October. I still sell and list real estate in making flight reservations, writing the Christ- Diego with the Road Scholar program. Metrowest Boston and enjoy the company mas letter, some big and some small. She Gypsy invites classmates — especially of my daughter, Allison, who lives nearby.” tells us to realize that no one is prepared to those in the DC area — to get in touch: be the surviving spouse. She has spent the [email protected]. The Hohlers continue to enjoy a busy re- past year remembering day by day what was tirement. Our activities still include Rotary, happening a year ago: “It was in early De- Carolyn Moss Ford wrote: “For the first time Habitat, OLLI classes at SUNY StonyBrook, cember 2011 that Bernie was diagnosed in many years, all three kids spent Christ- and events sponsored by the Historical So- with tonsil cancer by a team of doctors by mas with us at the cottage. It was ciety and the Greater Port Jefferson Arts New York Presbyterian Hospital. Bernie had magical…just enough snow to make a white Council. Nikki and Jose still live and work in 35 days of radiation with weekly low dose Christmas and interesting to see that sib- DC but occasionally vacation with us in New chemo. The tumor began to close his air- ling rivalries still exist, but as adults!!!” Then York and Ohio. way so he had a tracheotomy and a stom- she goes on to recount a traumatic and “hor- ach tube. The cancer spread to his lungs rendous” experience: “End of May, David Most of our time and energy is spent, and then his brain. Bernie declined further and I visited Melissa and Dan in Tacoma, though, on publicity and fundraising for our treatment and moved to the Calvary Hospi-

24 The Bulletin WESTERN COLLEGE ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION, INC. FINANCIAL REPORT 2012 Honor Roll

A list of donors to any (or all) of our three funds: Annual (*), for ongoing expenses such as mailing the Bulletin, supporting reunions, giving annual scholarships Reunion/Class (^), for a special project that can be created only by combining gifts from all classes, different every year Endowment (+), for major projects/programs to keep the spirit of Western alive such as named scholarships, professorships, lecture series During the year January 1, 2012-December 31, 2012 Percentage of donors appears with each class.

Club Designations Peabody Society $1,000 and up McKee Circle $500-$999 Clawson Club $250-$499 Century Club $100-$249

1929 (67%) Century Club Donor Anne Mack Dean ^+* Peabody Society Barbara Burrer Baughman * Olivia Barson Adams * Jane Alexander Durrell ^+* Lois Wiggins Newman * (dcd) Janet Graham King ^* Emily Wells Bechtold * Susanne Durrell Hunt ^* Century Club Elizabeth McKeever Ross * Century Club Frances Hall King * Donor 1945 (25%) Joanna Harmeyer Ach * Kaleen Kocikowski Abel ^ Clawson Club Jean Kerby Boland ^* 1932 (14%) Margaret Gravett Giusti * Ardis Dechman Coninx ^+* Barbara House Crenshaw ^* Donor Century Club Barbara Gunnels Daily ^* Mary Duffield Boehme + 1941 (9%) Beth Shirk Bevan * Mary Feller Epremian ^ Century Club Margie Gasche Ewing +* Dene Stern Mayer +* 1934 (10%) Ruth Harry Hathaway ^* Ethel Jarvis Fischer * Maryann Zinn Nordyke ^ Century Club Isabel Duncan McCoy * Virginia Cook Marquett + Mary Teel Paulin + Theresa Patz Gray * (dcd) Donor Mary Davis Reeves * Eleanor Van Dervort Talbot * 1942 (39%) Jane Harris Bugnand * Mary-Garnett Tillinghast ^* Clawson Club Marilyn Inskeep Fischer * Marilyn Trester Woodrich +* 1936 (10%) Ethel Burnham Meece ^* Donor Donor Century Club 1946 (24%) Louise Gutman Goldberg ^ Margaret V. Johnston * Beatrice Low Notley ^* Century Club Maxine Murray Long ^ Mildred Orr Palmer * (dcd) Dorothy Warren Rinaldo * Elaine Kramer Millman * (dcd) 1938 (10%) Bernarda Danford Rice * Peggy Kaufman Stricker ^ Gene De Scherer Popkin * Donor Donor Ann Winger Tuttle * Jane Noble Miller ^ Margaret Spears Bates * Martha Hall Wedeman +* 1948 (18%) Barbara Burke Chesman * Maria Urueta Wells * Century Club 1939 (29%) Marion E. Constable * Donor Julia Ashcraft Armstrong * Peabody Society Joan Klein Scheineson ^ Roberta Malcolm Armstrong * Alice Crabb Brandon + Marjorie Lloyd Liggett +* Jane Murphy Wall ^ Elizabeth Buell Baldwin * Jacqueline Smith Greenhoe * (dcd) Donor Betty Maddox Daniels * Margaret Brauchli Haenni ^* Rosemary Wilson Colby * 1943 (5%) Dorcas Robson ^ Marjorie Hoerres Kalkoske * Ruth Edgington Davidson ^ Century Club Judith Stuchell Mellicker ^* Marylou Lynch McCollum * (dcd) Elizabeth Holt Bancala * 1947 (34%) Joyce Eddy Plummer * Peabody Society Margaret McKee Seder * 1940 (32%) 1944 (10%) Marian F. Hawk ^ (dcd) Ellen Siddall Zimmermann * Clawson Club Century Club Clawson Club Donor Jeanne Ott Saunders * Francese Sutherland Larsen ^* Grace Drochelman Bleikamp ^* Jane Niehaus Higgs +

*deceased (dcd) deceased * Annual Fund ^ Reunion/Class Fund + Endowment Fund i Jane Proude Gibbins * Elizabeth Beatty Lee ^ From Cindy Jimenez DeCabrera, recipient of Fritzi Patricia Brandenburger Green ^ Clawson Club Patricia Wiederstein Hildebrandt * Ellyn Talbott Bogan ^ Mueller Beckett Peabody Scholarship: Evelyn Dixon Present * Susan Mayer Falter ^+* Cary Kimbark Revere * Charlotte Klein Varzi ^* My plan is to pursue a career in nursing Doris Hawthorne Statler ^ Century Club ... I want to use my second language, Virginia Wells Welss * Paula Zearley Armstrong * Spanish, to reach a broader population. Nancy Lakamp Broad * ... most of my educational plans revolve 1954 (45%) Charlotte Knox Eberhard * Peabody Society Ann Ellison + around my three children because by Elizabeth Renton Hale +* Theresa Hill Herrnstein ^* achieving a career that I love they will Lucy Ann Liggett ^* Joan Mueller McInally * see the benefit of striving for a good education.I hope one McKee Circle Diana Haynes O’Keefe ^* day I will be able to ... like you, help students reach their Charlotte Bergmann Russell * Mary Staley Rader * goals with the help of a scholarship. Century Club Jo Ann Chism Savoy ^* Sandra Franz Barnes * Suzanne Martin Scott * Priscilla Strand Berry ^* Donor Cynthia Adams Leslie * Jane Donaldson Buswold +* (dcd) Miriam Chesslin *+ Judith Chumlea-Cohan * Mary Anne Hillman Thornton * Marilyn Johnson Ross * Delores Randles Hutchinson * Drusilla Zearley Clingman * Adrianne Riester Smith * Tamara Stahanovich Kolba * Dorothy Poeschl Hawkes * 1949 (20%) Alice Merwin Tweedy ^ Cornelia Roettcher Levine ^* Lois Rehm Koch ^ Clawson Club Donor Barbara Drake McConnell ^ Phyllis Kopp Marangelo + Mary Jane Liggett Matson * Jeanne Owen Buhler ^ Maria Van Waveren Smit * Phyllis Plattenburg Reid * Virginia Thomas McNabb * Barbara Van Meter Carey * Sandra Still Sakurai * Jane Osgood Tatge ^ Nancy Goosetrey Coyne ^ Donor Century Club Betty Adamsen Jefferson * Barbara Wing Buikema * 1958 (20%) Ruth Ault Hadley ^* Colette Lafosse Vega + Virginia Meierjohan Fossier ^* Peabody Society Jane Carpenter Jones * Josselyn Bennett Winslow ^ Nancy Blake Harvey * Jane Smucker Fryman +^* Margo Freudenthal Kaufman * Willa B. Ward ^ Century Club Dorothy Davis Kruse ^* 1952 (26%) Rosalind Chu * Grace Sherman Streb ^* Peabody Society 1955 (22%) Donna Carpenter Cornman * Donor Jo Ann Fley ^ Peabody Society Rosa Ewing Goldman ^* Lorraine Tigh Dennerlein +* Jean Fuller Lester * Barbara Bracken Mushake * Margaret Holliday J.D. * Betty Huttenbauer Heldman * McKee Circle Carolyn Dunkin Schulte + Marie Uveges Holt ^* Evelyn Jensen Hill * Elizabeth Sipe Gerber ^*+ McKee Circle Polly Smith Venable + Guileen Lindsey Manuel * Catherine Ross Loveland ^+ Charlotte M. Kraebel + June Regan Young * Nancy Meiss McLaren * Clawson Club Susan Riley Scherer + Donor Priscilla Trumbull Wilcox * Donna Schulz Bloom ^* Clawson Club Phyllis Yeamans Bailey * Mary Sue Allen Gatzert * Phyllis Banta Sandmann ^ Jennie Fredley Klim * 1950 (20%) Marian Freund Schillerstrom * Century Club Carol Towne Schaub ^ Clawson Club Century Club Charlene Ashing Barry * Patricia Brewer Benjamin ^* Nancy Johnstone McGlone * Ruth Beltran DesLauriers * 1959 (15%) Jane Lloyd Cantoni * LaVerne Leech Phillips * Barbara Giles Grant ^* Peabody Society Century Club Nancy Ryan Rietz ^* Dorothy Runyon Medlin ^ Ann Ferguson Zeigler ^+* Eleanor Prescott Adams * Suzanne Off Schrope ^+ Mary Sicer Moore * McKee Circle Nancy Dilloway Booth ^+ Gloria Wilson Sylvester +* Judith Schulthess Ruoff * Mary Ellen Thomas Forte +* Louise Wilson Braley ^* (dcd) Joan Landenberger Trefts ^* Century Club Sally Patterson Day * Betty Jean Wright * 1956 (22%) Sis Moeller Horst ^ Juliet Atkinson Howard * Donor Clawson Club Diana Koch Mascali * Martha Murrill Norvell + Persis Fuller Alden ^ Helen Potts Felsenthal * Hatsumi Takenaka Whitehead * Joanne DuBois Shafer ^ Pat Halfacre Bischoff + Carol Silvernail Swager ^* Donor Diane Heckert Staub * Barbara Peterson Block * Century Club Suzanne Rhodes Crankshaw * Jane Bridgman Voigt * Ann Anthony Brophy * Julia Adams Antoine * Peggy Mayer Hill * Donor Betty Groth Diebold ^ Darlys Tracy Graham ^* Sue Forester Kincade * Frances Thomas Carpenter * Joyce Rinckhoff Snell * Mihrican Ozdemir Havens * Helen Jemison Springob * Madelyn Houtzer Glass * Marilyn Brown Vanvleet * Josephine Haines Huntsinger * Jane Toy Thomason ^* Donna Hall Mader * Nancy Haas Osborn * Martha E. Mandel + 1953 (22%) Joyce Roark Phillips * 1960 (20%) Carolyn Schlieper McConnaughey * Clawson Club Charlotte Leary Ross * Clawson Club Louise Moore Murray ^* Marita Lakonen Judge * Donor Catherine Bauer Cooper * Phyllis Palmer Vaughn * Century Club Anne Welch Burnette * Barbara Kong Vlachos * Beryl Wallman Bennewith * Mary Gibbons Cullom * Century Club 1951 (16%) Sheila Prendergast Luetkehans * Marlena Majzels Gelboin ^ Sara White Arn + McKee Circle Barbara Johnson Mecklenborg ^ Carol Tincher Keith +* Rosalind Wood Dyer + Betsy Feuss Gardner ^* Anne Koch Nevins + Janice Shenk Pabodie +* Patricia Alman Halbig * Ruth Dunlap Will ^ Martha Wilson Rowan * Barbara Ballinger Sweet * Betty Milligan Kipp * Grete Stern Wrede ^* Barbara Johnson Wright * Janet Sandrock MacEwen * Clawson Club Donor 1957 (39%) Ursula Seeler Parobek * Natalie Christopher Connelly * Patricia Wilson Barrett * Peabody Society Donor Century Club Lee Ann Prendergast Curry * Sandra Grimes Surico ^* Sally Allen Masters * Barbara McGill Benson * Mary Culver Daniels ^* McKee Circle Susan Getz Morris ^* (dcd) deceased * Annual Fund ^ Reunion/Class Fund + Endowment Fund ii Joan Harrison Sievers * Nancy Fierbaugh Collier * Katharine Ehrgood Sturm ^* Century Club Kathleen H. Sutherland * Yvette Small Hohler ^+* Marlene Benjamin Tuttle * Lucy R. Boyle * 1961 (20%) Marcia Randlett Oder ^+* Jean Simpson Winters ^* Mary Gibson Smith * Peabody Society Century Club Donor Donor Gail Howell Litwiler +* Lynne Drucker Albukerk * Martha Daily Alexander * Candice McDaniel Dalbey * Anne Adkins Weissenborn +^* Carol Shuler Butcher * Lois Dickey Coyle * Mary Hoge Miller * Clawson Club Martha B. Cowden * Frances Powell Harris ^ Ruth Senft Noyes * Cynthia Ackerman Horne +* Nancy Bergmann Killough * Carol Stone Lehman ^* Ellyn Trautmann Pflug * Century Club Carol Thomas Ruikka + Jane F. Underwood * Patricia E. Pinkowski ^ Katherine McKee Chretien ^* Patricia Scott * Denee Dusenberry Stevenson * Sharon Botsford Moyer * Patricia Spokes Snowden ^* 1968 (14%) Nancy Stevenson Townsend * Mary De Jong Obuchowski * Donor Peabody Society Marian J. Robinson * Janet Wood Beaven * Susan Blake * 1971 (7%) Donor Muriel Rappeport Burstein * McKee Circle McKee Circle Marcia Jones Friddle * Cathie Koutsogiane Cipolla * Patricia A. Jayson +* Christine Jordan Blanchette * Lynn Bernheim Reese ^ Faith A. Evans * Karen Prah Voris * Century Club Sally Vinnedge Smith * Carolyn Moss Ford ^* Century Club Susan Wolfe Caceci * Barbara Griswold Marrs * Kathryn Evans Findley * Susan Kudner Starr * 1962 (27%) Isabel Kimball Richardson * Jeanne Flowers Foster + Pamela Waldron-Moore * Peabody Society Kathleen J. Turner * Ella Weingarten Iams * Donor Donna E. Shalala ^* Nancy VanVleck von Allmen * Nancy Niver * Linda Brooks Larsen * Doris Ning Wong ^+* Gwendolyn Dixon West * Cecelia Peabody * Deborah Ricketts Tolley * McKee Circle Leslie Weirman Riley * Judith Dudman Henderson ^+ 1965 (14%) Jennifer French Sponsler * 1972 (9%) Clawson Club McKee Circle Reynelda Ware * Century Club Mary Jane Dillon Bohl ^ Sylvia G. Stanfield ^* Donor Pamela J. Aduskevicz * Century Club Clawson Club Susannah Davids ^ Laurie W. Hildebrandt ^ Jo-Anslyn Woodruff Groll * Katherine Egolf * Susan Hackley * Constance L. Wong ^ Judith Amos Hubbell ^ Century Club Hayat Imam * Donor Ghada Hashem Talhami + Betsy Smith Ames * Susan Williams Oblinger * Jennifer Free * Donor Janet Dickerson-Stephens ^* Barbara Williamson Wentz * Polly Parke ^* Judith Bauer ^* Rita Gehlhoff ^ Sarah Smith * Nancy Smith Carlson ^ Barbara Wood Johnson * 1969 (14%) Miriam Bower Larmore ^ Roberta T. Melnick + Clawson Club 1973 (13%) Rowena Y. Toomey ^ Margaret Gaebler Morscheck + Nancy Wilson Kobayashi ^* Clawson Club Elizabeth Flender Webber * Sue Brewer Thompson * Ann Noble ^* V. Joan Campbell * Donor Carolann Herrold Sharp * Century Club 1963 (27%) Mina Lund Davis * Jane Walker +* Carol A. Cornett * Peabody Society Pam Eggers Gill + Century Club Rita E. Greene ^* Susan Berryhill Hill *+ Sandra Severson Harwood * Robin L. Bartlett * Ann M. Powell * Clawson Club Kathy Fansher Parnell ^+* Donna L. Blodgett * Donor Eva Nortvedt Humbach ^* B. J. Gibbons Bramlett * Susan F. Adland * Loretta W. Ryder ^+* 1966 (12%) Gretchen Schmidt Grzelak * Elisabeth Cook Coady * Century Club Peabody Society Cecelia Henig * Gita Wijesinghe Pitter * Betty Taylor Allen ^* Margaret Wilmer Bartlett + Susan Bradbard Patrick * Debra Hefty Sayers * Jill Hartley Fulton ^* Clawson Club Karla W. Simon * Lynne Mueller Sweeney * Susan Zeller Maxfield * Kathi Ramsey Goldsmith * Donor Linda J. Watts * Florence Firjanian McGurk * Suzanne Lutz May * Annette Bevan Gallagher * Ella Brown McMahon * Edith Taylor Molumby +* Cynthia Harrington Hochberg * 1974 (10%) Carolyn M. Myers * Century Club Betsy Philipson Kensinger * Clawson Club Deborah Hunt Perrin * Hazel Williams Drew * Christine Moranda ^*+ Sarah Schuster Ronne * Judith Slagle Stabelli * 1970 (14%) Elizabeth A. Salt ^* Nia Jones Terry ^* Susan Ray Woodworth * Clawson Club Jocelyn F. Woodson-Reed +* Donor Donor Pamela Watts Coates +^ Century Club Sandra Alexander Akers * Nancy Boynton Bogan * Ellen Brower Brightly * Sylvia Hoffman Swartz * Libbe Dennard * From Angela Downard, recipient of Peabody Scholar- Marjorie Keppel Gross * 1967 (17%) ship: Sharon Williams Hansen * McKee Circle Margaret Bradley Sanford * Joan A. Barenholtz * Nursing is more than a job to me, it is a Jo Ann Katzman Smith * Clawson Club passion. It is something that has been Emma Sue Nave Wilson * Jane Gayley DuBois +* naturally instilled in me from the genera- Carolyn Sparks Kokalis * tions of women before me and I intend to 1964 (24%) Century Club Peabody Society Muriel Gillette Alexander ^ carry the title with honor and pride. I look Linda Roscoe Felicetti * Janina Chadwick ^* forward to graduation and finally doing what I have felt McKee Circle Cheryl Christian Kugler * destined to do for many years. ... Your generosity came as Betty Treiber Ahrens * Blanche S. Kung ^ a blessing in my life and just at the right time. I cannot Clawson Club Annie Wu Lee * find all the words to describe my gratitude. Grace Good Bailey * Diane Eby Ozbal ^ Alice I. Baker ^* Stephanie Smith Siegfried * (dcd) deceased * Annual Fund ^ Reunion/Class Fund + Endowment Fund iii Nancy Anderson * Century Club Organizations Lucinda Walser McLean + Donavon Auble * Alcoa Foundation * Joan Hagan Stoutenborough * Dorothy Merrill * (dcd) Chevron Corporation * Donor Josephine Schaefer +* Coca-Cola USA + Sue Anderson ^* Donor Dayton Foundation Depository Inc. * Cheryl P. Bonnell * Donald C. Behrens * Delta Air Lines Foundation * Ann Crowley Pagano * Richard Sakurai * Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund * General Electric Company ^ 1975 (2%) Western Friends Hieronymus Family Foundation ^ Century Club Peabody Society International Business Machines Corporation * Mary Logan Foard * Jack Fryman * MAI Foundation Inc. ^* Lee Hieronymus ^ Network for Good * 1976 (2%) Edward J. Kenney * Paulin Foundation + Donor Donna and WIlliam Matson * Procter & Gamble Company + Elizabeth Rugg Grybko * Susan A. Mboya + Prudential Foundation * Charles Salt +* Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund * 1977 (3%) Judy Kalbfus Waldron ^+ Russell’s Garden Center Charitable Foundation Inc * Century Club McKee Circle The Henry County Community Foundation Inc. * Eve Schwartz Schniebolk ^ Suzanne Braley * The Miami Foundation ^ Richard Epling * Verizon Foundation ^ Western Program Alumni Clawson Club Century Club Roderick W. Link * Benjamin D. Gibbons ’94 * William T. Trainer * Donor Century Club Kristen F. Vongruben ’94 * Anne R. Van de Water-Naulls * Donor Western Former Faculty/Staff Deborah S. Baker *+ Peabody Society Claudia White Gilmartin * Jacqueline S. Wallace * Sten Wiedling ^* Kaye Wolke *

Memorial Gifts

Louise Kell Ozdemir ’21 Margaret Barrier Mihrican Havens ’56 Lynne Albukerk ’64 Debbie Baker Mary Delp Haynes ’32 Gifts In Honor Of Living Marie Iandoli ’65 Diana Haynes O’Keefe ’57 Alumnae And Friends: Patricia Jayson ’68 Harriet Doll Van de Water ’37 Ann Noble ’69 Norman B. Saunders Anne Van de Water-Naulls Betsy Salt ’74 Jeanne Ott Saunders ’40 Ellen Westerman Brashares ’44 Josephine Schaefer FF Francese Sutherland Larsen ’44 Jennifer French Sponsler ’68 Joan Herbert Behrens ’50 Robert Berry FF Donald Behrens Debbie Baker Alumnae Weekend Gifts Louise Wilson Braley ’50 Ruth Bracher FF Phyllis Yeamans Bailey ’58 Anniversary year classes contributed $12,947. Debbie Baker Non-anniversary year classes contributed $7,505. Suzanne Braley and Richard Gail James FF Epling Jo Ann Fley ’52 TOTAL ALUMNAE WEEKEND GIFTS $20,452 Susan Mayer Falter ’57 Nancy Vanvleck von Allmen ’64 Kaye Wolke Dean Phyllis Hoyt FF Barbara Frazey Kenney ’57 Nancy Vanvleck von Allmen ’64 Edward Kenney Josephine Schaefer FF Club Gifts Donna and William Matson Georgiana Reynolds FF Dayton/Miami Valley Area Legacy Projects Gretchen Wampler Mousetis ’58 Elizabeth Salt ’74 Indianapolis Area International Student Scholarships Polly Smith Venable San Francisco Bay Area Archives & Heritage SWO/NKY Area Undesignated Dixie Harris Trainer ’58 William Trainer TOTAL CLUB GIFTS $656 Lorna Robinson Depoortere ’69 Donna Blodgett ’69 (dcd) deceased * Annual Fund ^ Reunion/Class Fund + Endowment Fund iv (d) (e) 1 $0 201 $291 $8,015 $31,362 $120,032 (c) $153,792 $218,903 $334,205 (e) (d) $0 $2,398 2012 $1,234 $9,924 $2,500$5,024 $3,500 $4,224 $26,025 AND FUND BALANCE $71,957 $65,111 $37,720 $36,418 $123,873 (c) $149,898 $221,855 $330,029 continued

, . NC , I as available. Balance $20,267 ($4,176) Fund Balance - Modified Cash Basis were prepared using benefits. OF YEAR $350,296 $330,029 basis, modified for sales tax payable and unrealized gains basis, modified for sales tax payable MODIFIED CASH BASIS,

to MU Foundation tewardship $7.360 $6,982 SSOCIATION A TEMENTS OF REVENUES, EXPENSES (d) A ST LUMNAE Archives $1,166 Auction Proceeds to MU Foundation Endowment Gifts EXPENSES TOTAL EXPENSES TOTAL TRANSFERS to MU Foundation Annual/Reunion Gifts TOTAL TRANSFERS TOTAL EXPENSES/TRANSFERS TOTAL Increase (Decrease) in Fund Year Fund Balance Beginning of the END AT FUND BALANCE Total Education Total Alumnae Relations (including The Bulletin International Scholarships Clubs, and Annual Reunion) Clubs, and Fundraising and S OperationsPatterson Place ExpensesEducation: Peabody Scholarships Other Scholarships $4,959 $1,046 $11,994 $12,650 A (b) (c) 1 1 OLLEGE 201 201 C $9,426 $13,228 $53,103 $81,340 ($7,165) $330,029 $120,032 (c) $195,604 ESTERN (c) (b) the Miami University Foundation for benefit of WCAA. W 2012 2012 $32,704 $20,227 $12,365 $10,133 $50,008 $15,922 AND FUND BALANCE $350,296 $123,899 (c) $242,122 $214,727

AND FUND BALANCE Endowment Accounts are held by Accounts Endowment MODIFIED CASH BASIS MODIFIED CASH BASIS ASSETS, LIABILITIES December 31, 2012 and 2011 Value) $206,434 Place, Misc. Revenue $2,094 $1,373 Years Ended December 31, 2012 and 2011 Years TEMENTS OF eekend Revenue $12,464 $10,977 TEMENTS OF REVENUES, EXPENSES A A ST ST Miami University also maintains the interior and exterior of Patterson Place grounds. Miami University also maintains (e) Funded by revenues from the use of Patterson Place. of $176,071 for salaries and Miami University provided allotments In addition to the above figures, for fiscal year 2011-2012, (a) The above Statements of Assets, Liabilities and Fund Balance - Modified Cash Basis and Statements of Revenues, Expenses and Liabilities and Fund Balance - Modified Cash Basis Statements Assets, of The above Statements (a) (d) Education expenses listed are from Annual Fund gifts only. They are supplemented by distributions from WCAA Endowment Funds They are supplemented by distributions from WCAA only. Annual Fund gifts (d) Education expenses listed are from the modified cash basis of accounting. Assets and liabilities are recorded revenues expenses recognized on the cash Assets the modified cash basis of accounting. losses from investments. (b) Cash of $93,752 is held by Miami University for the benefit WCAA. and WCAA Investments WCAA (c) REVENUES Total Other Revenues and Additions Other Revenues and Total TOTAL LIABILITIES AND FUND BALANCE LIABILITIES TOTAL $350,323 $330,047 GivingTotal Additions: Other Revenues and Reunion W $209,418 $205,301 Auction Proceeds, Alumnae WeekendAuction Proceeds, Shop, Patterson Gift $0 2,398 Interest and Dividend Income Gain (Loss) on Investment $2,224 $1,843 Total Other Assets Other Total ASSETSTOTAL AND FUND BALANCE LIABILITIES PayableTax Sales Fund Balance $350,323 $330,047 $27 $18 TOTAL REVENUES and ADDITIONS TOTAL Cash (Market Investments Other Assets ArtAntiques and Shop Inventory Gift $39,875 $93,881 Alumnae Giving: Annual Fund Gifts $39,875 Reunion Gifts $65,292 $72,904 Endowment Gifts ASSETS

v John Bickers Hannah Biggs Ahkila Binford Melanie Bosse James Boyd John Burjek Claire Bushemi Rebecca Cassidy Anthony Castorano Emily Champion Leah Coleman Shauna Combs Bryan Comer Makayla Conley Cook Trevor Emily Crane Austin Davis Megan Delaney Kyle Dickey Aaron Diehl Charlotte Dietz Hayley Drumm Dysart Lydia Karen Faller Kathryn Fidelholtz Adam Fine Melody Finley Carolyn Finocchi Jenna Freedman Elizabeth Fricke Jennifer Fukui Nicole Gardner Paige Garrison Halie Gerboc Glover Tangelica Erica Griffith Neli Gvozdanovic Madeline Haigh Ryan Harkey Alyssa Hopun Ewa Huang Marcus Huntz Keary Iarussi Leah Jaslow Caitlin Jaynes Justin Johnson s Rachel Kaczka Alexander Lewis Nicole McKee Saurabh Mehta Sruthi Ramakrishnan Brandon Sonoda Daniela Santisteban Jessica Vasquez Megan Hoelle No Award 2012-13 Marshall Miller Alice Vincent Danielle Wardeiner Laura Weinel Marshall Miller Erika Andler Lauren Arnett Rachel Aron Ryan Art Ramune Bartuskaite Amanda Beckman Michael Bednar Olivia Beebe Caroline Bennett Michael Berg General Multicultural Schp.: U.S. Resident Abroad Study Faith Wilcox Barrington Scholarship for 2012-13 Award No Margaret Wilmer Bartlett Scholarship Erin O’Neal Jean Boyd Cable Scholarship Fernanda Victoria-Bojalil Florence Prendegast Cockerell Scholarship Jacie Nowland Koons Family Scholarship Lois Wiggins Newman Scholarship for 2012-13 Award No Grace Osgood Scholarship Colin McKinstry Thoms and Sarah Darnall Resor Schp. Joseph Schp. Alice Schacht Salt International Study Rowena Snyder Scholarship Rafaela Coelho Fund Turner Elizabeth S. Nairobi,Kenya) Nairobi,Kenya) 2012- 2013 Scholarship Recipient Amber Rea Andrea Lewis Dominique Smith Heather Walker Neu Tricia Ashleigh Jo Schlessinger Brandy Jones Gillian Bauer James Brown Angela Downard Fangman Tonya Brandy Jones Samantha Key Lee Anita Jacqueline Lutes Beverly Robertson Michael Schmidt Sarah Senff Jared Tidd Johnna Williams Pema SadutshangIndia) (Nepal, Nancy Odero DamaniAyush Nancy Odero ( ZhangWentianfu (India) Hanna Furmanava (China) ( Pema Sadutshang (Belarus) DamaniAyush India) (Nepal, ZhangWentianfu DamaniAyush (China) (India) Nhung NguyenPema Sadutshang (India) India) (Nepal, (Vietnam) Michael Donnelly race Chu Scholarship Rowena Snyder Scholarship Wilson Scholarship Mary Wylie General Peabody Scholarship International Multicultural Scholarships: G Mboya Family Scholarship Scholarship Young Herrick Black Scholarship International Student General Multicultural Schp.: International Multicultural: U.S. Resident R/L/V Scholarship Ryan Kincaid Chelsea Jones Julie Mullen Kevin Schrock New Scholarship Cindy Jimenez DeCabrera Abby Artemisia Ansah Ntow Ashleigh Jo Schlessinger Brandy Jones David Schultz Jacqueline Lutes Ashleigh Jo Schlessinger Michael Schmidt Dennis Sorrell Angelica Gladish Connie Cassini Demettress Burnett Fangman Tonya Ashleigh Jo Schlessinger Melissa Thompson Christina Harrison Butler Chrystal Heidi Fella-siens Nikki Robinson Richard Mathes Detherage Teresa Abby Artemisia Ashleigh Jo Schlessinger Dawn Hounshell Fangman Tonya Sandra Pollitt Susan Cavalaris WCAA Alumnae Scholarships WCAA Peabody Scholarships Faith Wilcox Barrington Scholarship Fritzi Mueller Beckett Scholarship Marian F . Hawk Scholarship Malcolm D. Hill Scholarship Phyllis Hoyt Scholarship Barbara Frazey Kenney Scholarship Liggett Scholarship Mary West E. Ramona Newton Manners Scholarship Susanna Rieley McIntyre Scholarship Helen Kaslo Osgood Scholarship vi . Meaghan Harris Antoinette Lentz Kevin Phaup Green Reason Calen Settles Christopher Vanderhorst Kaitlin Kaiser for 2012-13 Award No Tremper Tiffany No Award Nathan Turner Seitz Taylor No Award 2012-13 Daumeyer Natalie Lucien Turner Folz Jeffrey Chelsea Fought Hannah Mills Charlotte Freeman Brandon Johnson Matthew Lionetti Joseph Neidhard Maxwell Pauly Robert Riggs Elijah Sciford John Spear Cody Statum Catharine A. Gerber Technology Award Catharine A. Gerber Technology Hieronymus Family Scholarship Harriet Gebhart Hieronymus Scholarship Meed-Zearley-Clingman Scholarship May Oliger Loan Fund Lydia Anthony Poplis Scholarship Mr & Mrs Lois McCullough Whitter Scholarship Scholarship Arts Fine WCAA WCAA Memorial Scholarship Scholarship Trustee WCAA College Scholarship Western s/ Nathan Kelley Charlie Wagers Anna Borchers Mallory Chen Raeann Harry Emma Margerum-Leys Alice Vincent Katherine Chapel Danielle Dailey Chelsea Hauser Leclerc Stephanie Rachel Perna Carrie Salmon Shannon Bradfield Jennifer Fink Carissa Frye Caroline Hill Sierra Hollopeter Aaron Keck Ryan Martini Shelley McKinley Charles Medert Sydney Norman Kathleen O’Reilly Rodgers Avicia Robert Rogers Hannah Zimmerman Allison Brougher Lauren Cain House Krista Atticus Jordan Kayla Miller Genevieve Nenninger Jillian Runser Bridget Simpson Kelsey Venis Chelsey Voorhis Jacquelyn Weber Kaitlin Wensinger Katharine Zaback General Luxembourg Scholarship Abroad Scholarship General Study Other Donor-Designated Scholarship Awards Clara Appel Scholarship Alma Bremer Scholarship Evelyn May Davis Scholarship Paula Restrepo Morgan Rumpler Jed Rutchick Maaike Rutter Jason Ryan Alyssa Scheer Elizabeth Schwartz David Scott Amelia Sigman Jacob Smith PatrickSmith Maxim Sobchenko Christine Soloski Gabrielle Sprockel Amber Staines Andrew Stanislav Nicole Studebaker Zachary Tabler HannahThomas Rachel Thomas Sarah Tirrell Mary Turvey Kelsey Venis Charlie Wagers Elaina Wahl Jessica Walls Warren Krista Katherine Weigand Laura Weinel Sarah Wende Thomas Weseli HannahWheeler Jamie Wilson Andrew Wilt Erin Worrell Haley Wright Michael Yee Benjamin Pimental Carissa Fry Ashley Barrett Alexis Lees Andrew Wilt Monica Neff Edith H. von Tacky Scholarship Tacky Edith H. von International Study Judy Kalbfus Waldron Schp. Luxembourg Schp. Susan Ray Woodworth Zimmerman Scholarship Lydia To learn more about creating a named scholarship, please call WCAA Director Mackenzie Becker Rice at 513-529-4400 learn more about creating a named scholarship, please call WCAA To Logan Kahle Caroline Kilbane Smantha Kent Lauren Kocher Rachel Kosarko Thomas LaFever Jordan Lafferty Thomas Lane Alexandra Larsen Alexis Lees Matthew Lekh Anna Leone Nathan Lotze Sarah Ludwig Alexandra Marable Benjamin Mates Hannah Matgouranis Kelly McGarry Ryan McHenry Sarah McKinsey Rachel McNealis Nora McVey Mersch Timothy Christine Metcalf Alison Meyers Emily Meyers Melissa Milberger Milos Stephanie Andrew Mocek William Moloney Micah Moore Morgan Taylor Joshua Motts Christopher Muller Julia Munro Ndiaye Fatimata Monica Neff Sydney Norman Michael Odulana Megan Ollier Deborah O’Neal Christina Penza Anna Planic Jackson Pogue Porter Piritta Winston Reid Two hundred eighty scholarships and awards totaling $677,348 were distributed for 2012-13, thanks to YOUR support! $677,348 were distributed for 2012-13, thanks to and awards totaling hundred eighty scholarships Two Elizabeth S. Turner Fund, cont. Turner Elizabeth S.

vii THE NARKA NELSON CIRCLE

WESTERN’S PLANNED GIVING SOCIETY arka Nelson – earnest student in the Class of 1920, passionate clas- Nsics professor until retirement in 1965, official college historian – made a very generous gift to Western College before the college was closed. However, since her inheritance first provided for members of her immediate family, it was many years before the gift came to Western. Unable to thank Narka for her gift, the WCAA Board of Trustees decided to establish a special “society” to thank in advance those individ- uals who have made a gift that continues “the spirit of Western” on campus through a deferred giving instrument such as a charitable gift annuity, pooled income fund, charitable trust, IRA, or bequest. The individuals listed below have done just that. We are grateful to them for their foresightedness and generosity. They invite you to join them.

Ruth Repass Wheeler ’35 Mary Ann Fichtner Mountain ’57 Jeanne Ott Saunders ’40 Rosa Ewing Goldman ’58 Ruth Harry Hathaway ’41 Caroline Kawallek Manildi ’58 Beth Shirk Bevan ’45 Ann Ferguson Zeigler ’59 Nancy Ann Myers ’46 Anne Adkins Weissenborn ’61 Martha Hall Wedeman ’46 Susan Berryhill Hill ’63 Jane Alexander Durrell ’47 Joan Kowalski Jordan ’63 Emily W. Greenland ’47 Lynne Drucker Albukerk ’64 Mary-Garnett Tillinghast ’47 Faith A. Evans ’64 Dorothy Mershon Armistead ’48 Yvette Small Hohler ’64 Julia Ashcraft Armstrong ’48 Patricia Spokes Snowden ’64 Margaret McKee Seder ’48 Faith W. Barrington ’65 Ann Niehaus Tobias ’50 Charlotte A. Dickerson ’66 Grete Stern Wrede ’51 Ann E. Walton ’66 Jo Ann Fley ’52 Patricia A. Jayson ’68 Elizabeth Sipe Gerber ’52 Barbara Williamson Wentz ’68 Catherine Ross Loveland ’52 Mary Kelly Felice ’70 Sue Off Schrope ’52 Ann M. Powell ’73 Gloria Wilson Sylvester ’52 Christine Moranda ’74 Betty Jean Wright ’52 Elizabeth Salt ’74 Mary Culver Daniels ’53 Lorna Jordan ’81 Sandra Franz Barnes ’54 Ann Rosenfield ’83 Miriam Chesslin ’54 Curtis W. Ellison HA Lucy Liggett ’54 Burton and Diane Kaufman FF, HA Maria Van Waveren Smit ’54 Judy Kalbfus Waldron HA Sandra Grimes Abouzeid-Surico ’57 David A. Rook and Svetlana Beros Rook FR Lois Rehm Koch ’57

If you have included the WCAA in your deferred giving plans and your name is not listed or if you wish to learn more about becoming a member of the Narka Nelson Circle to help continue the legacy of Western College, please contact Mackenzie Becker Rice, WCAA Director. (513) 529-4400, e-mail: [email protected]

IMPORTANT REMINDER: MAKE SURE BENEFICIARY IS THE WESTERN COLLEGE ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION, INC., NOT WESTERN COLLEGE. viii there for support. His In September, Jane and her dog drove to memorial service in Maine for two weeks, looking for a small NYC was just lovely and cottage. Becca and her family visited Jane Western alums attend- in Cincinnati for Thanksgiving. Then ing in addition to myself Katherine and Jane joined Becca in New were Theda Hollister York for Christmas. Jane thinks of her son, Wolfe, Sue Ray Wood- Chris, daily and keeps him in her prayers. worth, Hazel Williams Drew, Lynne Drucker Charla Coatoam reports that she was in Albukerk ’64 and Elisa Portsmouth, England, for a Dickens Fellow- Kessler Caporale ’67.” ship conference to celebrate his 200th birth- day. Portsmouth was Dickens’ birthplace. Sue Ray Woodworth She also got to tour the Portsmouth Dock- with her husband, Jay, yards where there were several historic had a wonderful week ships on display. While there she saw the vacation in Napa Valley D-Day Museum and the fabulous Overlord this fall. They had been embroidery. Charla had one day at the Lon- visiting their son and his don Olympics and saw an Equestrian event family in Seattle and — dressage team finals. Great Britain won then took a train to San the gold, so it was an especially exciting Francisco. They got time. Everything was well organized and home just in time to be London was bustling with Olympic and the visited by Hurricane Queen’s Jubilee celebrations. Charla con- Sandy. She said if you tinues to be involved with book clubs, gar- thought the photos of dening and horseback riding. the Jersey Shore were awful, you should have Nancy James celebrated her 30th year as Marja-Leena Siitonen Gottmann ’66 (left) and Veronica King ’69 been in some of the the owner of N.P. James Insurance Agen- had kept in touch for over 46 years. They were finally able to shore towns. Sue is still cy. Among the celebrations was the spon- enjoy a holiday reunion together, visiting Salzburg, Austria, last very busy with her rug sorship of a “distracted Driving” course at August. hooking projects. She her local high school in Concord, MA. A spe- completed four in 2012 cially equipped van offered a simulated driv- tal in the Bronx, a highly regarded hospice and has two already underway. Sue and ing tour with numerous hazards, including provider. Bernie died peacefully on July 6. Ann Walton went to the moving memorial the instructor texting each student during the service for Bernie May. simulation. Nancy continues to serve on lo- “The memorial service was held at All Souls cal and professional boards, including the on September 29th. Over 300 friends were Hazel Williams Drew had a wonderful year. Concord- in attendance representing many groups, All She is now a member of the Board of Trust- Carlisle Hu- Souls Church, Peace Corps Thai XI group, ees of the Alumnae Association. Her first man Rights Western College, Manufacturers Hanover meeting was exciting and a wow moment: Council, Bank, Merrill Lynch, Star Island, our apart- “I met Sue Detlefsen Meyers, who was my Massachu- ment building, and my sister for the family. I Western roommate.” She is looking forward setts Society asked Ann Walton to be the opening speak- to the other meetings and the Reunion this of Licensed er since she, Sue Ray Woodworth and I year and hopes that some of you will be able Insurance met Bernie the first weekend of our fresh- to make the Reunion this year. Hazel went Advisors, man year at a mixer. The reason he was to Thailand with her daughter and really CCTV Cable, there was to see Sue Ray whom he knew enjoyed it. She said you have to be able to and Con- from summers on Long Island. As I remem- tolerate the long hours on the plane and the cord-Carlisle ber it Sue greeted Bernie, and then she met layovers. She also reconnected with board League of someone else and left Bernie with me (it was members with Janet Smith Dickerson ’65 Women Vot- a mixer). So the world goes. In September and Sylvia Stanfield ’65. ers. Leisure Nancy James and husband 2012 we would have been together for 50 activities in- years.” Let us hold Suzy and her son Chris- Jane Graham Murphy wishes health and clude spending time with husband, family topher and fiancée Jessa in our prayers. peace to all. Jane talks with Peggy Bud- and friends, singing, swimming, tennis and ington weekly and stays in touch with Char- watercolor painting. Ann Walton’s real estate business in Ann la Coatam frequently as well. Jane talked Arbor was improving in 2012. After 25 years with both of them when she learned of Bern- Sally Sweitzer Skewis is still working full- she decided to sell her house. So for the ie May’s death. Jane wrote “our Reunions time and living with/taking care of her 97- past year, she has been sorting, organiz- will not be the same without Bernie’s warm year-old mother as well as volunteering as ing, and throwing out. Every time she took and friendly presence.” Jane has had a very a mental health consultant/profiler with the a box out she felt she grew 1/8 of an inch. busy year. In January, she was in Florida to County Sherriff’s hostage negotiation team She is not sure where she will land but is visit with family and celebrate her birthday. and trying to keep up with the mail and dai- house sitting for the next year. Sadly, her former mother-in-law (93) died ly hassles. Sally’s biggest challenge is try- that same month. In February, Jane and her ing to find good care providers for her moth- She provided this message for all of us. “The daughter Katherine had a lively time in Par- er while she works. She continues to take sad news for this year was that Bernie May is, Zurich and Lucerne. Katherine started education courses to keep up her psych li- died. So many of us will miss him. He truly working in Pittsburgh in August and lives in cense. Sally made her annual pilgrimage was an “honorary member” of the Class of the city with friends. Jane visited in July, to Baltimore to visit her cousins and watch 1966 and was always at our reunions — August and October. In July, she shared a the Steelers/Ravens football game. (Ravens taking pictures, adding his unique humor to house on Monhegan Island with Becca ( her won the Super BowI as I am finishing these our gatherings, mixing our drinks and always older daughter), Wes and their two children. notes.).

Spring 2013 25 Carol Maturo Ward sends this message: Kitsy Dunlop writes that she and husband “Our lives are full of blessings.” Her mother Greg continue to enjoy retirement life in will turn 100 on March 17, 2013, with the Cedar Key, FL, located in rural Levy Coun- grace of God. She lives in her own home, ty west of Gainesville on the Gulf of Mexico. although she now has care providers that Many consider it the “real Florida” or the last come each day. Her father-in-law also lives of Old Florida. The abundance of wildlife, in his own home, with a care provider com- the quality of life of a small town of under ing once a week. He is 97 and doing well. News for fall ’13 Bulletin due Labor Day! 1,000 population, and the opportunity to Her niece started her first year at Smith See Blue Card, page 47! develop a small 40-acre ranch are what at- College last fall and she seems to be en- tracted them to the area. With a herd of four joying herself. Carol and Allen are well and horses (three theirs and one a boarded happy. Marriage suits them. They took a trip horse), Kitsy‘s activities center on develop- up to Lake George, NY, last summer and ing her horsemanship through the Parelli will be traveling again this coming May. Natural Horsemanship Program, trail riding with friends, supporting community activi- Rich and I are planning our next adventure. ties, and welcoming friends. Their website We stay busy keeping our church property is www.cedarkeycedarridgeranch.com. up and running as we are both on the Prop- erty Management Board — our sixth year Alumnae Weekend ’13: Celebrate 45 years! Kathy Evans Findley reported that Hurri- and we have had to tent the entire complex cane Sandy visited the Findleys and left a for termites and remove five very large Red- Forty-five years! Our next big one will be mountain of debris in the yard, threatened wood trees whose roots were lifting the here before we know it ... I hope your 2012 ductwork/insulation under the house again, church’s foundation. Our church building will was happily eventful, as was mine. My big but receded before destroying them as Irene celebrate its 100th anniversary in 2014. In overseas trip was a return to Bhutan, this did last year. Their main occupation has May 2012, my Ramsey clan held our annu- time with my new “friend,” who also loves been remodeling the master bathroom. al family vacation in Lexington, KY. In June, the country where Gross National Happi- They spent the summer trying to replicate we went on our church’s adult and youth ness is government policy, the people are the price-is-no-object look of original choic- Mission trip to Sanctuary One in Jackson- kind, and the landscape and temples are es, sans the price. They have a nearly com- ville, OR. Sanctuary One is a nonprofit care breathtaking. We are looking for a house in plete elder friendly, calming, and up-to-date farm where people, animals, and the earth Berkeley, as I’m ready to move out of my bathroom. It’s been painful with re-do’s at work together for mutual healing. It is the big house in the suburbs to a place with a every step. Jim will retire in June after 18 only Care Farm in the U.S. We cleaned, little more going on. For those of you who years as a Certified Financial Planner, sell- painted, planted and cleared trails. We remember my dad, he turned 98 in October ing his practice after evaluating prospective walked dogs, played with the cats and made and is still going strong. My sister, Gretch- brokers and how they match up with his in- friends with many farm animals. In July, we en Blake Roy ’71, and I had several visits vestment and tax clients. James Jr. is cur- visited my aunt and cousins in Salmon, ID. this year, a couple of them with her girls. I rently in London researching at the archives, We fell in love with Salmon (quiet, small hope to see you the weekend of June 21st reading diaries, letters, ships’ logs, and wills. town, friendly people and beautiful scenery) for our Reunion! He returns to UNC to teach the spring se- and it got us thinking about moving out of mester. Mom and Dad hope to announce Silicon Valley, but after more time to think, Barb Brannen Patrick semi-retired in Sep- that he is Dr. Findley in 2013. Kate (40!) and we decided that Bend, OR, is better for us. tember and is now keeping busy with exer- Sophie (8) spent two weeks in North Caro- Our oldest son and his family live there and cise classes, cleaning out closets and draw- lina at Christmas before returning to snowy there are better medical services. In Sep- ers. Her daughter and husband are still in South Dakota. tember, we went back to Kentucky for Rich’s the Air Force. Colonel Jennifer is at the Army 623rd Army biannual reunion. For Thanks- War College in Carlisle, PA, and Lt. Colo- Jennifer French Sponsler reported that giving dinner, we were in Bend with family nel CJ is at the Pentagon. Nanny Juanita 2012 was an exciting year for her. In Sep- and sandwiched in some farmette hunting. holds down the weekday fort with Landon tember she met friends in Malta and then and Teagon. Landon is in first grade and boarded a 3-masted schooner for 10 days Rich wants to fulfill my dream of having my loves Special Olympics football and soccer, of sailing to Rome. The weather was gor- own horse. So I have continued my natural swimming lessons and cooking. Teagon is geous and the Med was calm. However, the horsemanship journey this year by volun- 3½ and goes to preschool. She enjoys gym- most memorable part of the trip was visiting teering as an assistant for a Parelli Natural nastics, swimming, cooking and doing pre- the Vatican Museum and the Sistine Chap- Horsemanship instructor. I worked three tend homework with mom on Saturday. Barb el while it was closed to the public and be- days a week this fall but now am doing five. and her son, Jon, who lives on the East Side ing able to enjoy the beautiful art. Then in Also, I have continued leasing Trixie, and I of Milwaukee in Riverwest, get together at October, Jennifer met her family in Atlanta am now the membership director for my lo- least once a month. for the wedding of a grand-niece. She is cal horse club. As I read Ann Walton’s note looking forward to seeing other members on sorting and boxing her things, I realized Marjie Custer Bowles and Bob are train- of the class of ’68 at the Reunion in June. I could use her help. This year we are sort- ing to be trail leaders in Elk Horn Slough ing through everything to decide what to and learning all about the flora and fauna of Anne Galbraith Rothrock decided that move and what to give away. I hope each of the Monterey (CA) Bay region. Marjie is since she is going to attend Reunion this you takes care of your health and reaches doing more art work than she’s done in year, she needs to catch everyone up on out to one other classmate. In three years it years. Marjie and Bob went around the world the last 45 years. She married Brit whom will be our 50th reunion and it would be the spring/summer of 2012. Beginning in she dated at Western. While he was sta- wonderful to see many of you there. Lots of San Francisco, they flew to Hong Kong to tioned in the Azores with the Air Force, she love and blessings in 2013 ... board the Nautica. They made port in Viet- continued to live with her parents on the fam- nam, Thailand, Singapore, India, Oman, ily farm in Ohio. There, she worked at a plas- Kathi Ramsey Bumblis ’66 Jordan, Egypt and Israel. After all their trav- tics manufacturing plant doing sterility con- 221 S. Springer Rd els they settled in their little village of Laf- trol on medical equipment. When Brit came Los Altos, CA 94024 kos, Greece, for 2½ months. Now they are home, they moved to his hometown, Marsh- [email protected] taking it easy. field, MA, where Anne worked at Plymouth

26 The Bulletin County Hospital in the tuberculo- during this newest phase of life. sis laboratory. Not long after, they She has been very lucky with a moved to Plymouth, MA, and Anne good man for a husband, two hap- changed position to the State Tu- py adult daughters and four grand- berculosis Laboratory. She was su- children, and good health as well. pervisor there before AIDS hit the Karen is looking forward to travel- country. At that time, tuberculosis ing, volunteering and expanding was nearing eradication. Anne re- her world. She believes Western turned to education at Northeast- was a good place to be in the late ern University taking the required 1960s. Heather Smith Lange- courses to become a registered foss, Karen’s roommate for four laboratory technologist. She then years, lives a mile away! went to work in the clinical micro- biology laboratory at New England Judy Richard Jellison sends her Medical Center (Tufts) in Boston. greetings from Kansas City, MO. In 2002, she and Brit moved to a With former WCAA Director Jacqui Wallace (right) visiting, Bay She’s still working at the UMKC farm in Thorndike, ME. She worked Area residents Susan Blake ’68 (left) and Di Koch Mascali ’58 School of Nursing as Director of for Maine General Medical Center “do lunch.” Student Services. Her and Rick’s in the microbiology laboratory un- four children and eight grandchil- til retiring in 2008. She stays quite busy now er whether any Westerners live in The Vil- dren now live within an hour so life is al- still working per diem at MGMC, personal lages, FL, but hoping to cross paths at some ways busy and eventful. Judy and Rick ac- training at the Waldo County Y in Belfast, point with Kitsy Dunlop, who is relatively tually live in rural America on 80 acres with volunteering as a ham radio operator with close. standard-bred horses and many projects. the Waldo County Emergency Management Agency, attending meetings at two grang- Miho Matsuda Abedini and Mansour were Patty Robins Lacey has finished her project es, gardening, and caring for her cat. She in Vancouver for three months and in Tor- with Mesa Verde National Park and is back and Brit did not have children. They both onto for five months for his cancer treatment. to volunteering at the Anasazi Heritage Cen- intend to attend Reunion this year. He seems to be OK so far. They returned to ter in Dolores, CO. She still lives in Cortez Tehran before the New Year. But they will and is active in her Methodist Church, Four Susan Hackley continues to live in Boston be back in Canada in the spring for his Corners Community Band, and Colorado and work at the Program on Negotiation at checkup. Her mother is 94 and very fine in Archaeological Society. If you happen to visit Harvard Law School. She is also president Japan. Miho has to move from one place to the new Visitor and Research Center at of the Saturday Morning Club, founded by another but is happy to be with her family. Mesa Verde National Park, you will see a Julia Ward Howe in 1871. As a personal Their daughter, Mina, and her husband, display with a statue that is clothed in Pat- project, she is making a short film about Steven, are now at the University of Toron- ty’s Park Service uniform. American children and war. Her own chil- to with their daughter. Miho and Mansour dren live in New Orleans, Anchorage, AK, live with them when they are in Toronto, all Ella Weingarten Iams and Howard had a and Brooklyn, and Susan and husband Paul very happily in a new house. busy, exciting 2012. Joel was promoted to love visiting each of those great cities. Major in the United States Marine Corps Cece Peabody has been working with the Reserves Jan 1, 2012. In March, he was Hayat Imam writes that these past few years same associations for the last six years. married in a beautiful ceremony to a won- she has been splitting her time between She’ll also be starting her seventh year derful woman, Elena Zaitsov. In September, Dhaka, Bangladesh, and Boston to spend teaching a professional education course Sarah, who is completing her dissertation as much time as possible with her mother, she designed, Meeting and Event Planning in applied math, began teaching at Bowdo- who has been ailing. December was fun and and Management. Her son, Patrick, just in College for the academic year 2012-2013. important with all her family, (daughter, son, completed walking the Appalachian Trail Howard and Ella spent a wonderful week in grandchildren) traveling to Bangladesh to from New York State to Georgia in about Key West, FL, last February to escape the see her mother. Full house and full hearts! three months ... all by himself. Of course cold and spent a wonderful long weekend She sends warm wishes to all her Western Mom was worried, but a terrific GPS device visiting Brunswick, ME, and all the beauty sisters. called The Spot sent frequent e-mails on his in that area. safety. He’s now returned to Charlotte, NC, Pat Jayson writes that in lieu of sending to work in retail and coach lacrosse. Ed con- Susie Williams Oblinger is still teaching news, she is planning to come for Reunion tinues to enjoy retirement, which includes and has fourth-graders in reading this year. and adds that “the rest of you had darn well fishing, hunting, and golfing. Cece still loves She loves this age. Her school year started better be there!” working and hopes to for a few more years. late this year because she had an un- planned adventure this summer. She rup- In July, Brenda Lee Bell and Brian met Karen Prah Voris had a wonderful year tured her Achilles tendon, had surgery, sev- Caroline Shriver, daughter of past Miami filled with volunteering, travel, family and eral casts, crutches, walkers, and a cane. president, Phillip Shriver, who reminisced fun. She and John went to Australia for three She returned to school around Halloween about growing up with Susan Fackler weeks at the beginning of 2012. It’s a mar- (She is on second floor!) Anyway, she real- Sykes. In September, Brenda and Brian velous country. The other big news is that ly appreciates the small things in life! Her decided to wrap things up in Ohio and relo- daughter Amy Voris (Western Program ’94 granddaughters (7 and 2) light up her life cated to a dream community with year-round grad) is working on her Ph.D. in Dance in and luckily live nearby (with son Christian golf for Brian and lots of classes and volun- England, and younger daughter Molly had and his wife). Her other son, Brent, now lives teer activities for Brenda. They moved in twin girls (Rose and Louisa) to add to 4- in Bend, OR, and works with the U.S. For- mid-December. After a quick trip north post- year-old Lily. Life is good. est Service. She is anxious to go visit. She Christmas to see relatives, wear sweaters sends her Western friends her wish for a and see snow, they are happily at home in Karen Rengier Farmer is anticipating re- happy, healthy new year!!! central Florida. As of January 1, Brenda is tirement from her psychotherapy practice of a sort-of retired person working about one almost 40 years. She finds it helpful and fun Barbara Williamson Wentz completed her day a week from home, too busy to discov- to read what everyone else has been doing Bucket List of going to all 50 states with a

Spring 2013 27 trip to Hawaii in February. She is now work- In an e-mail Lyn Trautmann ing on a new Bucket List!!!! In April, she Pflug shares the good news of made the transition from working to retire- her son’s return from his deploy- ment. She was involved in the placement ment in Afghanistan and a hope- of over 260 children in her years as an adop- ful transition back to life as a tion worker. On the way home from her re- physics engineer. Unfortunately, tirement party, Jennifer, her daughter, com- her husband has been put on the mented that it was really nice to hear all of list for heart transplants at Colum- those wonderful things about her mother bia Presbyterian — we will think and Barbara was not even dead! Barbara good thoughts for him. Lyn was is now spending her time reading on her able to spend time with Jane Kindle, running errands on her impulse buy Koenig at her mountain house in of a motor scooter, doing water aerobics, North Carolina and together they singing in a community chorus, volunteer- visited Sandy Oxley Ferhman ing in the church food pantry, playing bridge, nearby. Like many of us, Lyn is and of course spending time with grandchil- debating when to retire. dren both in Cincinnati and Minneapolis. Barbara and Erv’s adventure of the year was Denee Dusenberry Stevenson “The Team” — new ’72 Class Rep Beth Dague and to rescue an adult dog which ended up be- has sent along news of several husband Peter — at the Falls (as in Niagara) ing two golden retrievers. Barbara is look- others as well. Her roommate for viewing area, July 2012 ing forward to having her classmates in three years, Judith Greenwald, Oxford for the 45th reunion. retired several years ago after a rich and rewarding career in education, most Susan Blake ’68 recently serving as assistant superinten- 1420 Southdown Rd. dent. Judy now travels extensively and lives Hillsborough, CA 94010 in Bali, Indonesia. [email protected] Denee visits Barbara Butler Glessner reg- ularly. Barb is also retired but often travels and works with her husband, Jim, promot- ing his company’s specialized software products. Much of Barb’s time is spent with Karen Rice King is launching a medical grandchildren. Denee reports staying in study of Adult with Sleep Challenges and touch with Shelley McShane for a while with Earth Acupuncture designed by doctors yearly letters. Denee is retired from teach- from the University of Colorado. She offers ing high school English and now teaching classes and sees individual clients through- News for fall ’13 Bulletin due Labor Day! part time at Geneva College. Married for 40 out the West. Check out her activities at See Blue Card, page 47! years with two daughters, they have a KarenRiceKing.com grandson on the way. Cynthia Clark and husband spent five Dave and I have no real plan to retire (is months in Africa in 2012. They started in this what they mean by aging in place?) and Egypt and the riots, through Ethiopia and are still enjoying both our work and our trav- Kenya. There they volunteered at a girls’ els. I was glad for the opportunity to visit school which they have supported. They Western last November and to spend time went on safari in Tanzania. Cape Town was with Mackenzie [Becker Rice] and Debbie their final destination. The remaining time [Baker]. In many ways the campus feels so was spent volunteering at Scalabrini Cen- Nice to hear from more people this time — much larger — three new dorms going up ter and an AIDS orphanage. Cynthia de- and three e-mails —we’re making progress! as I write this — but it is still the same West- scribes her time as humbling and stunning! ern. I hope you will begin to think about a First congratulations and thanks to Pamela return in 2015 for our 45th Reunion. Wendy Arnold Seely is still enjoying her job Watts Coates for her willingness to serve as principal of her Connecticut grade school. on the Board of Trustees for the third time. And keep the e-mail coming! Her son Bryan is working with the U.S. Sen- There’s a lot of work involved as well as trav- ate Judiciary Committee. She writes how el to Oxford several times a year. But also Kelly Felice ’70 difficult it’s been for the people of Connect- an exciting place to be as WCAA’s future 4035 East 18th Ave. icut as they deal with another school shoot- becomes more defined. Pam had the op- Denver, CO 80220 ing. Sandy Hook is just 10 miles from portunity to sing with her church choir for a [email protected] Wendy’s school. week of services at the National Cathedral in Washington DC and in the fall a wonder- Beth Cramp Dague loves retirement after ful trip to Turkey with husband Ted and 32 years of teaching! Peter and I have just friends. finished our four-year, three-weeks-at-a- time bicycle trip across America! Peter I always hear from Nancy Tuan Yang bikes, I drive! You can read all about it on Hsiang with a cheerful note. Her older son, Crazyguyonabike.com/PeterDague. Kurt, and his wife, Chris, are leading a hap- py life with two ferrets, and she and hus- News for fall ’13 Bulletin due Labor Day! Beth Cramp Dague ’72 band Tom and younger son Burt are settled See Blue Card, page 47! 265 S. Cassingham Rd, back into an apartment in Glendale Heights, Columbus, OH 43209 IL. Nancy sends a hello to Connie Wong ’72. [email protected]

28 The Bulletin years ago. She really got an insider’s view time Holly is also the HR staff officer for the of the culture and lifestyle while she was Coast Guard Auxiliary. Husband Bruce con- there. tinues to work at the Library of Congress, implementing new technology to his online Suzanne Kelley Doswell continues to product, Cataloger’s Desktop, editing the serve as the Western Massachusetts Re- American Library Association – Library of gional Manager of the Brain Injury Associa- Congress Romanization Tables, and repre- Alumnae Weekend ’13: Celebrate 40 years! tion. In 2012, she was selected as the gov- senting the Library of Congress on the U.S. ernor’s appointee to the Massachusetts Board of Geographic Names. In his spare News for fall ’13 Bulletin due Labor Day! Brain Injury Commission. In October 2012, time he continues his service with the Coast See Blue Card, page 47! Suzanne and her husband Bill celebrated Guard Auxiliary and the Sea Scouts. Son the marriage of their younger daughter, Lou- Bryn became engaged in 2012; a Florida isa. The wedding was held at the Flagler beach wedding is planned for May 2013. Museum near Louisa’s home in Florida. Daughter Cristyn graduated from Towson Older daughter Kelley and her family now University in January 2013; she performs live in Sedona, AZ. with several local orchestras and has recent- ly applied for master’s degree programs in Nevine Gulamhusein has retired and is liv- music. ing with her husband in England. Nevine’s twin daughters, Noor and Nasreen, are both The highlight of the year for Holly and Bruce Greetings Western classmates! I think most medical doctors in Toronto, Canada. They was attending a European Sea Scout con- of us hit a pretty significant milestone this work in separate clinics, but both practice ference in Copenhagen, Denmark, and vis- year when we turned 60. Like many of you, obstetrics. Nasreen recently purchased a iting Holly’s Danish friend Vibeke, who lived I keep wondering where the years have condo in downtown Toronto, which they both with Holly’s family in western New York as gone. use when on call at the hospital where they an AFS exchange student during Holly’s work. Noor lives with Nevine’s mother in the senior year of high school. Sue Anderson celebrated her 60th with her Toronto suburb of Don Mills. Nevine says, family and friends at her annual Memorial “As for retirement, it is great because it al- Chris Moranda commented, “Where does Day picnic. She says, “I hold my own birth- lows you to do consulting work … but you the time go? Hard to believe that we are day party every year!” Sue reached anoth- pick the contracts, timings, rate, etc.” headed to our 40th reunion in 2014! … So, er milestone in 2012 as well: 40 years of OK I just turned 60 as many of you have or working for the telephone company, which Moira Jackson Hasbrouck spent two years will soon. Seems the pieces and parts are a is now Verizon Communications. She hopes at Western College and graduated from bit more creaky, or slower to move in the to retire in about two years. Sue continues Florida State University in 1974 with a com- morning, but I keep on truckin’. Just started to be very busy with local historical societ- munications degree. She then worked in taking a class called Ageless Grace, core ies, the DAR (Daughters of the American radio and television in Florida for 10 years. strength in a chair … it really is a workout!” Revolution), the Caregiver’s Coalition of her In 1981, she was honored to be the first Chris continues to work at OhioHealth in local United Way, her church, and her com- woman to win the Radio Personality of the Columbus, OH, as manager of Disability munity in Succasunna, NJ. She now has Year award from the Country Music Associ- Services. Her job involves helping to keep nine great-nieces and -nephews, and she ation. After her son, Matthew, was born, she disabled workers working and supporting tries to attend many of their sporting events, moved into the health care industry. She the hiring of job seekers with disabilities. Her dance recitals, and school programs. Sue says, “Show biz is fun but it’s a here today, work has led her to become involved with was able to have a visit with Heidi Hilfin- gone tomorrow career.” She has worked the Ohio Business Leadership Network of ger Wilson ’72 at Heidi’s grandson’s first with hospitals and now hospice in the Tam- which she is now president. birthday party in July 2012. pa, FL, area for many years. Moira says that she is now reliving her childhood with a This is the second year that Chris has been Amy Robinson Collins reports that she had home in the country where she has chick- listed in the Who’s Who GLBT Columbus. hoped to make her goal of 3,000 miles of ens, horses, and a garden. Her son and his In her own words, “This is an honor, but more biking before her 60th birthday last Septem- family live in Tallahassee, where Matthew importantly, they provide these books to high ber, and, with a couple of marathon rides is working on a Ph.D. at Florida State Uni- schools throughout the area, so these young during the last two weeks before her birth- versity. kids have the opportunity to know they too day, she made it. She and Jim became can be successful in any profession. I just grandparents for the fourth time on June 11, Moira’s mother, Lucy Hittle Jackson Tee- completed the final touches on my Narka 2012, when their daughter had a son named ter ’45, recently moved into an assisted-liv- Nelson gift and know many of you have Grant Andrew Nixon. Amy and Jim spent a ing facility in Winter Haven, FL. The win- begun to think about your retirement and week in North Carolina after the birth help- dow of her apartment has a view of the legacy. I chose to have my gift go towards ing out. Amy also organized a weekend cel- church she attended for many decades, and the Miami University student GLBTQ pro- ebration in March 2012 for her father’s 90th she is enjoying visits from her children, gramming as I hope it will help to fund birthday and, a few weeks later, helped him grandchildren, great-grandchildren and projects for these young students as they move into a retirement community. friends. Moira says that her mother “… spent explore their identity. Sending you a West- many years nurturing the ‘Jackson Six’ plus ern Hug and hope to see you at reunion Mary Miller Croxton reports that she is many schoolchildren (as a teacher) …, so 2014!” going to retire this year. She plans to work it’s her turn to be taken care of while she part-time until age 65 because Jack is not enjoys reading books and writing letters.” Chris and partner Jane Russell celebrated yet ready to retire. She and Jack went to 25 years together in February 2013. They Alaska with some friends during the sum- Holly Wright Johnson is now in her 29th are planning a trip to Alaska this summer. mer of 2012. When Mary heard that I had year as Director of IT, Cataloging, and Pro- Jane has changed her career and is now a visited Bulgaria during July 2012, she told cessing at the Howard County Library Sys- Certified Transformative Coach. She helps me that she and Jack had lived in Bulgaria tem in Columbia, MD. Technology changes women learn new skills to make positive for eight months on a Fulbright grant 11 continue to keep her job fresh. She super- changes in their lives. vises a staff of 15 at the library. In her spare

Spring 2013 29 it tempting and convenient, and we love the cruising lifestyle.”

Dilu Walji Valliani spent her 60th birthday in November 2012 vacationing at Cabo San Lucas in Baja California, Mexico. Shortly after that, Dilu and her husband, Aziz, went to Washington, DC, to spend Thanksgiving with their daughter, Amira. Amira, who was working in her office at the time, arranged for Dilu to have her picture taken with Hill- ary Clinton. Dilu says that it was quite a thrill to meet her. Amira has recently changed jobs in Washington and is now working at the White House for the National Security Council. Dilu’s and Aziz’s, son Jamil, is now a principal at Microsoft in Seattle and is working on Bing products. Betsy Salt (left), ’74 Class Rep, visited with Jeannette Jones Fukuzawa, from her Kathy Albright Willowoode is still working little sister class of ’76, Reunion 2012. at the Sunspot natural food store in Lafay- In November 2012, Dilu Valliani ’74 visited ette, IN. She has traveled to Wisconsin sev- my father and I went on a two-week East- her daughter, Amira, who was working in eral times this past year to take a series of ern Europe trip that included a cruise on the DC, and had a chance to meet Amira’s workshops on shamanic healing. She says, Danube River visiting Hungary, Croatia, famous boss. “I’ve been busy but very happy enjoying the Serbia, Bulgaria, and Romania. In Decem- new learning and challenges.” ber 2012, I took a two-week Asian cruise Betsey Kiel Ready says, “It has been a fab- which began in Chennai, India, and went to ulous year being a newlywed.” Betsey and Greta Pope Wimp writes of many changes the Andaman Islands, Myanmar (Burma), her husband are avid cyclists and have rid- for her family, beginning with the death of western Thailand, and Singapore. The high- den their bikes 1,600 miles in three season her mother-in-law, Kay Davis — “a dynamic light was visiting the beautiful 11th century of cycling in Michigan. A highlight of Bet- woman” who sang with the Duke Ellington Buddhist temples at the Bagan archaeolog- sey’s year was watching her youngest son, Orchestra, 1942-49. There is much informa- ical site in central Myanmar. When I was at Brett, receive his DPT (Doctor of Physical tion about her online, as well as in Greta’s Western, I wrote a paper about Bagan for Therapy) hood in May 2012. He works in a book Music, Money & You; Managing the Dr. Royster’s Buddhism class, and I had hospital north of Boston, MA. Betsey also is Business, available at major booksellers. always wanted to see this unique place. It enjoying her granddaughter, Paige, who is Since receiving her Ph.D. in 2010, Greta has proved to be amazing with many, many ar- 16 months old. been performing one-woman educational chitecturally stunning and quite well pre- concerts chronicling the history of African served temples scattered across a wide Sheila Colligan Sobel started a new job in American jazz artists in early-mid 20th cen- plain on the east side of the Irrawaddy Riv- 2012. She is again working in the entertain- tury Paris — in addition to her usual per- er. Other places of special interest for me ment industry, administering film tax credits forming engagements. included India’s seldom visited Andaman for films and television shows that shoot in Islands and the two outstanding botanical states where a tax incentive is offered. Of special note, Greta was pleased and gardens which I saw in Singapore. Sheila and her husband will be celebrating honored to have Jocelyn Woodson-Reed their 25th wedding anniversary this year. ’74, Rita Greene ’73 and Evie Small Hohler Our 40th Western Reunion will be coming Reminiscing, Sheila says, “The time since ’64 and her husband, Larry, in her audience up in June 2014. Even though it is over a leaving Western has simply flown. It’s at a 2010 Cole Porter Concert at the Metro- year off yet, please start thinking about plan- passed in the blink of an eye. I miss the sim- politan Room in New York City. In honor of ning to come back to Oxford for the 2014 pler days of our youth spent on the beauti- her mother-in-law, she has recently mount- Reunion. It would be great if we had a large ful campus of Western: the nature and the ed a new show, Duke Ellington: the Man, turnout from the class of 1974, and I can spirit, Sunday mornings in Kumler Chapel, the Music, the Legend! She is also speak- assure you that everyone who comes will evenings at the Lodge, the shuttle into town, ing to groups on the topic of Navigating the have a wonderful time reminiscing with fel- and the 3.2 beer.” Music Business, as well as consulting pri- low classmates. vately via teleconference and Skype. Joan Hagan Stoutenborough reports, Betsy Salt ’74 “Same old wonderful life here … Being a Finally, Greta and husband Ed are very 642 Mallard Dr. Grammie is one of the major joys of life.” proud of their son, Edward, who graduated Westerville, OH 43082 Joan and her husband live for six months of from Monmouth College in May 2012 with a [email protected] the year in Sarasota, FL, and for the other business major/poli sci minor. He spent last six months of the year in Williamstown Lake, summer traveling with renowned R&B band KY. Their older son and his family live near Earth, Wind and Fire as assistant road man- them in Kentucky, and Joan gets to be near ager, and is now a first-year law student at her grandchildren (3 and 5) during the sum- Florida A&M, interested in practicing — what mer months spent in Kentucky. Their young- else? — entertainment law. er son is a performing musician in Saraso- ta, and they enjoy going to many of his gigs I am now in my 29th year at the Otterbein while they are living in Florida during the University library. I was honored in August winter. Joan sings in a church in Florida and 2012 to receive the OPAL (Ohio Private News for fall ’13 Bulletin due Labor Day! also in a summer chorale in Cincinnati. Academic Libraries) Service Award present- See Blue Card, page 47! Stoutenboroughs take several cruises each ed by the OPAL library consortium. I took winter: “Being near the port of Tampa makes two overseas trips during 2012. In July 2012

30 The Bulletin In Memoriam

Carolyn Ferguson Woolard ’32 Camilla Behr Chaffee ’48 December 2008 February 2012 Theresa Patz Gray ’34 Kay Brumbaum Fisher ’49 Sometimes our alums stray across the street July 2012 March 2013 to Miami’s reunion activities. Dr. Moham- med Al Barwani ’75, founder, owner and Sarah Jewett Cook ’36 Maralyce Williams Newberry ’49 chairman of the MB Holding Company in the December 2012 January 2011 Sultanate of Oman, was the guest of Pres- ident Hodge for dinner, but found his way to Karla Collins Habbe ’36 Anne Darrough Travis ’49 Peabody Hall and spent time with former September 2011 February 2013 Western classmates and friends. Harriet Doll Van de Water ’37 Beverly Baisch Kenworthy ’51 August 2013 December 2012 Marian Fath Yearnd ’38 Dorothy Gennert Franklin ’52 December 2012 February 2013 Margaret MacGregor Nichols ’39 Dolores Revelos ’53 August 2012 March 2013 Dorothy Jennings Tait ’39 Mari Hagensgard ’55 May 2011 May 2012 Winifred Smith Klein ’42 Sandra Wittenberg Carl ’56 December 2012 November 2012 Margaret Woodman Loeb ’42 Gretchen Wampler Mousetis ’58* June 2012 WCAA President, 1994-97 July 2011 Mildred Orr Palmer ’42 March 2013 Daphne Shepard Chun ’63 Sarabel Williams Goulet ’43 July 2011 December 2012 Dorothy Mae Myers Stepteau ’63 Friends from two of the Unforgotten January 2013 Classes: Mohammed Al Barwani ’75 with Betty Pugh Carns ’45 WCAA trustee Pheetta Wilkinson ’76, in December 2012 Ann Domine Swain ’65 the Western Archives Janet Heinz Philips ’45 January 2013 Dan Pickard ’76 March 2013 Karen L. De Montmorency ’66 March 2013 6060 Redford Rd. NW Bette Hougland Underwood ’45 North Canton, OH 44720 [email protected] January 2012 Margaret Grant Soderberg ’70 September 2011 Sophie Ann Relson Salley ’46 December 2011 Shirlee Wilson ’81 (Mary) Rachel Hoskins Saunders ’46 April 2013 August 2012 Dorothy Merrill FF Assoc. Professor of Biology, 1970-74 Martine Horne Justak ’47 November 2012 December 2012 Willis Wilton Stoesz FF News for fall ’13 Bulletin due Labor Day! Helen Negley Lawhead ’47 Assoc. Professor of Religion, 1965-70 See Blue Card, page 47! January 2013 May 2012 Elaine Kramer Millman ’47 March 2013

Bulletin policy is to list deaths of Western College alumnae, former administrators, faculty and staff in “In Memoriam.” WCAA trustees and Bulletin class representatives will be so designated and their terms of service noted. Obituaries are not printed, but class representatives are noti- fied and encouraged to include personal remembrances in class notes at their discretion. Ad- ministrators and faculty members with exceptional, long-term service will be eulogized. (Deaths that occurred more than five years prior to publication are not included.) * We regret that the policy of listing trustees’ terms of service was not adopted until after the original listing of Gretchen’s death in the Fall 2011 “In Memoriam.”

Spring 2013 31 Alumnae Service Awards A word about our recent Alumnae Service Awards ... We regret that space considerations prevented us from giving our last two Alumnae Service Award recipients their proper due by printing their formal citations in the fall Bulletin reviews of Reunions 2011 and 2012. Be assured they were not shortchanged during their respective weekends. Judy received a double: Honorary Alumna status and ASA in one fell swoop; Anne was surprised not only with her award, but by the unexpected attendance of family members at the banquet. Both recipients were recognized for their professional accomplishments as well as extradordinary dedication to the WCAA. Here are the texts of their citations for you to read now — with a bonus! We are announcing this year’s winners in the hope of inducing classmates and friends to be on hand to celebrate with them.

Judy K. Waldron, Honorary Life Member udy will tell you that when planning our future even as we recognized our eventual she arrived in Oxford in demise, scrutinizing our budget to trim expendable ac- J1967, she fell in love at tivities, and evaluating our relationship with the West- first sight … with the Western ern College Program. Working closely with the six College campus! Boards of Trustees over the next ten years, she not only Graduated from Ohio ensured the continued strength of the Association, but State University in 1961, Judy extended and embellished our vitality. taught elementary school for She saw ground broken for the Alumnae Hall Me- several years in Columbus, morial; encouraged the development of our website and then moved to Oxford, where electronic communications; established the Meily So- she has lived ever since. She began her studies for a ciety, honoring and involving 50-year and older anni- Master of Science in School Psychology and, upon com- versary classes; founded the Narka Nelson Circle to pletion of her degree, served as Executive Director for acknowledge donors of planned gifts; formed the Trust- the campus YWCA at Miami. All that while, she and ees Emeritae Society to recognize and engage former her family attended church in Kumler Chapel and plays trustees; inaugurated the first annual All-Western Re- in Leonard Theatre. (She even had a role in one!) And union, further strengthening the already close ties to they all skated on the Duck Pond. Western Program alumni; and undertook the creation In 1991, Judy came to us directly from the develop- of an international directory, locating and profiling our ment office of Miami’s University Relations Division. more than 400 alumnae abroad in order to form a per- She had worked there since joining their Goals for En- manent record and publish their achievements. Obvi- richment Campaign in 1977, later supervising research ously, many scholarships were created and endowed as on corporations, foundations and individuals. Thus, she a result of her fund-raising efforts. Many more endur- took up residence in Patterson Place eminently experi- ing friendships were created as a result of her warmth, enced and qualified for her new position as Associate her caring, her unwavering dedication. Director. And so we thank Judy Waldron, Honorary Alumna, But it was not just the duties of that office that en- for applying her considerable professional skills above gaged her. She also began to specialize in research and and beyond the call of duty in loyal service to the West- maintenance of the Archives, which at that time were ern College Alumnae Association and hereby present still housed in Patterson Place, pending the establish- her the Association’s 2011 Alumnae Service Award. ment of the Western College Memorial Archives in low- er Peabody Hall. And so the love affair continued … as she immersed herself in Western College history. In 2000, Judy succeeded Jacqui Wallace as Direc- tor. It was a time of difficult major decisions related to

32 The Bulletin Anne Adkins Weissenborn, Class of 1961 going strong! Among the many ways she helped us flour- ish was, in partnership with Miami University, initiat- nne knows Western ing ARISE (Reaching out In Support of Education), a very well indeed. She program to expand and facilitate multicultural recruit- Arose to become Presi- ment at Miami. She also led the way in strengthening dent of the Government Asso- our relationship with the Western College Program/ ciation through her involve- School of Interdisciplinary Studies. Subsequently, West- ment in college activities and ern Program alumni are participating enthusiastically academic excellence, in our communications and all-Western reunions. participating in travel seminars Following her terms on the WCAA Board, Anne to Africa, the Middle East and was appointed to the Board of Trustees of the Miami the Soviet Union, and gradu- University Foundation, which receives and manages ating magna cum laude in 1961 endowments. She served there from 2001 to 2007, the with honors in history. She directed and taught Inter- last two years as chair of the Stewardship Committee, cultural Studies, 1969-1971. She was married to fellow in addition to acting as liaison with the WCAA, Inc. faculty member Ernest Weissenborn in Kumler Chapel throughout her tenure. In 2008, at the request of the in 1970. WCAA President and Director, she graciously returned Her post-graduate education included a M.A. from to the Board, filling in for trustees who found it neces- Johns Hopkins University, School of Advanced Inter- sary to resign prematurely. Although no one is actually national Studies, with concentration in Africa and French indispensable, in these next years as we structure artic- language in 1964; a M.Ed. from Harvard University, ulation agreements with Miami and plot our Western Graduate School of Education, with courses related to legacy, Anne is surely as close as one can come. international educational development in 1968; and a And so it is with enormous pride and extreme grat- J.D. from Catholic University of America, Columbus itude that we present the 2012 Alumnae Service Award School of Law, in 1977. Putting each of her degrees to to Anne Adkins Weissenborn, Class of 1961. work in turn, she administered teaching and summer seminar programs in Africa, Iran and Pakistan as a pro- gram specialist with the U.S. Office of Education; taught At the Alumnae Weekend Celebratory Banquet, as a volunteer at the Kurasini International Education Saturday, June 22, 2013, Centre, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania; consulted at Trans- WCAA 2013 Service Awards Century Corporation, Washington, DC, for recruitment will be presented to: of professionals for USAID-related positions in Africa; and ultimately pursued a long career as an attorney with the Federal Election Commission, Office of the Gener- al Counsel, 1977-2003. Upon retirement, she took on the challenge of substitute teaching in secondary schools for six years and today continues her longtime service to church and various community ministries. It goes without saying, that she also continues her service to Cary Kimbark Revere ’53 Western. Anne became a member of the WCAA Board of Trustees in 1996, determined to show that a “projected Yoriko Kenushi Meguro ’61 decline in support for the Association by its members and by Miami University was premature.” She served two terms, the latter two years (2000-2002) as Presi- dent. And, indeed, she saw us through a difficult time when the future of the Alumnae Association seemed to be in some doubt. As you can see, we are still here and Lolita McDavid ’69

Spring 2013 33 The Western Program Message from the Director don’t understand the beauty of membrane physiology at 20, n my last message I admitted to they may recall my observation that “every cell is powered feeling out of touch with our stu like a battery” when they see a poster of cell structure on the Idents relative to their embrace of wall of their daughter’s schoolroom in 2023. Students in their a variety of social media that I find teens and 20s are occupied by very different concerns from mystifying. This feeling of generation- those of a middle-aged professor. This is a good thing, part al mismatch has stayed with me dur- of the natural life cycle of the African ape, Homo sapiens. If ing the spring semester. At 50, I am we succeed in igniting the spark of curiosity in our students, more than twice their age and dis- they may enjoy decades of personal inquiry when they leave tanced further by my life experiences Oxford behind. And I hope that they will not look back on than I think they realize. What should their youth and regret the hours consumed texting when they I do? Is my wisdom, tattered as it is, might have been reading. There are no shortcuts to under- Nik Money of no value in the classroom? Should standing complicated things and I am certain that there is no the professoriate be put out to grass when the blush of youth substitute for quiet study, relaxed contemplation, and non- has left our cheeks? electronic conversation. In the last 12 months, Western Program faculty and staff — Nicholas P. Money have been reviewing the curriculum that supports the major in Individualized Studies. We offer six core courses at the Western Program Director, Professor of Botany 200 and 300 levels plus a trio of 400-level offerings associ- ated with the senior research project. In recent years, educa- Western College Program Mega-Reunion! tional theorists have convinced the American academy that Dear WCP Classmates: it is essential to specify learning outcomes for every college class. I am not a true believer in this philosophy, tending, We have recently received confirmation that the week- instead, toward the belief that a vibrant course can be gutted end of Oct 11, 12 and 13, 2013, is clear and confirmed for by too much introspection. In my own undergraduate career, our "Once-Every-Five-Year-WCP-Mega-Reunion." This I learned an enormous amount from professors of uncertain Fall's event is just shaping up and details will follow in the skills in communication who had never heard of curricular weeks and months to come. We will be coordinating our ef- objectives and learning outcomes. They had no idea what forts with the folks at the New Western Program as well as pedagogy meant, either, and I have inherited their distaste the WCAA that preceded us. You will be very encouraged to for this gobbledygook. Despite these tremendous shortcom- know how well things are coming together and how the pro- ings, my teachers introduced me to fascinating subjects and gram is developing. We will have several opportunities be- set my imagination ablaze. fore, during and after the Reunion for you to learn about their progress, ask questions and get involved in a collabora- Having diagnosed the practical limitations of contem- tion between our alumni and the current students of the New porary educational theory, I admit that there is a good deal Western Program as well as working with the WCAA to help of merit in considering the skills we would like our students keep the identity of the Western College Campus alive. The to obtain from our courses. In any case, one of the learning efforts at building an Individualized Studies major is help- outcomes that we discussed in Western was the development ing to support an amazing group of young people and en- of a passion for lifelong learning. Everyone in the group abling them to build their own version of what it means to be agreed on the significance of this ideal, but, unlike other ped- "Western" in a new millennium. agogical aspirations (ha!), we found that this one didn’t lend itself to easy quantification. As a habit of post-graduation, Please mark your calendar for this fall's festivities. We lifelong learning isn’t a skill that can be taught. If a student want to see how many Western Alumnoids we can possibly wants to learn more about a topic, during college, or years fit in the duck pond ... OK, maybe around the duck pond. later, they will find a way. At its best, learning can be an We will be reaching out with a survey, some mailings undeniable urge. and I am sure several e-mails to get you all the information The idea that education doesn’t cease at Commence- as it becomes available. Please, for now, save those dates! ment makes me feel more secure about my role in the class- This Oct 11, 12 & 13, 2013. Tell your friends! room. I hope that I’m one of many professors who may be — John Rego ’81 setting students on a path to future enlightenment. If they WCP Alumni Board President

34 The Bulletin Western Program Update Class of ’88 — 25 years and holding!

We are hoping to welcome more Western College Program Alumni to campus in collaboration with the Western College Program Alumni Association for the Western Alumni Speaker Series. The students love to hear from their WCP counterparts and learn about all the different experiences an interdisciplinary degree can offer.

The residents of Peabody Hall let their imaginations soar as they built a high tech fort in the Inquiry Center space as a late night program. In order to get into the fort, through a masterfully designed pulley-rigged entrance, students had to answer simple trivia questions. The members of the Class of 2013 have been working hard on a variety of senior projects. They recently had a retreat at the Western Lodge to decorate Western stoles for graduation and work on their senior projects. Senior Presenta- tions are scheduled for April 22 and April 23 in Leonard Theatre. — Audree Riddle ’10 WP Student Activities Coordinator

Spring 2013 35 In partnership with the Office of Residence Life, we took a trip to Chicago in early April to visit the Shedd Aquarium and learn about the history of the skyscraper. We had a great group of Peabody Hall Residents, International Students, Individu- alized Studies Majors and Western Community members. We had a community dinner on the road and enjoyed some Giordano’s Pizza with alumna, Alison Stanton ’05. The trip was fantastic with great weather, great friends and memories to last a lifetime.

Photo at right: Betty Sipe Gerber ’52 and husband Don Gerber, who endowed the Catharine A. Gerber Technology Award in the name of their daughter, were guests at the April 8 event in Peabody Hall. They pronounced Kevin’s presentation most impressive!

Kevin Phaup ’13, the 2012 Catharine A. Gerber Technology Award recipient, shares with a crowd what he learned about 3D printing and jewelry making. Kevin traveled to New York to learn about new and innovative methods in jewelry design and wax modeling. He was excited to bring his knowledge back to Miami where he is a double major in Architecture and Metals Making. Mi CUP of TEA, Undergraduate Journal for Creative Endeavors, had a proud showing at the Undergraduate Research Forum, recruiting individuals for their fall 2013 issue. They also actively recruit students to apply for the Gerber Award. — A. R.

36 The Bulletin We regret that many WCP even-year classes are not represented in this issue. In some instances, your Class Rep did not hear from anyone, so did not submit a letter; in other instances, we did not receive a reply from the Class Rep. If your class year is not included, there is no Class Rep — in which case, you can send your update directly to [email protected]. While well aware of the many alternative ways of keeping in touch with each other, we continue to believe the WCAA Bulletin is the best way of keeping in touch with Western. Here’s hoping for a fuller response next year! Meanwhile, attention, odd-year classes: For your Class Rep and class news deadline, turn to page 47.

Rhian replied that she did not hear from anyone this time around.

Rhian Miller ’78 6060 Redford Rd. NW San Francisco, CA 94116 [email protected]

Greetings All! This year I’m sending pictures and notes from WCP mini-reunions held across the country. It doesn’t seem to mat- Sue Ahlrichs is a suc- ter the year that we graduated or the path cessful family practice our lives have taken, it’s always enjoyable lawyer in Cincinnati. and uplifting to gather with kindred spirits who have shared our amazing experience Phoebe Brockman at Western. I hope to see you all at the WCP Kashkoush retired Reunion in October in Oxford! after a hugely suc- cessful career as a Rubber Rose Ranchers ’80 at Mt. Rainier National Park, July 2012 Rubber Rose Ranch Reunion, July 2012: corporate and envi- (bottom photo): Cindy Rathje Orth, Cynthia Payne-Meyer, Phoebe The women of the Rubber Rose Ranch ronmental lawyer, to Brockman Kashkoush, Barbara Knuth, Jacqueline Patterson, Marla (RRR) reunited in July 2012 in Seattle, WA, settle in Seattle and Murphy Craft, Lori Maundrell Eberle. Top photo: U-match-’em! and trekked together to Mt. Rainier Nation- do art and philanthro- al Park after several days wining, dining, and py. Cynthia Payne-Meyer teaches Vermont touring in Seattle. Phoebe Brockman middle schoolers about science and life Kashkoush hosted the group at her pala- Barbara Knuth is at Cornell University in goals. tial and comfortable home overlooking New York, as Vice Provost, Dean of the Puget Sound. All Ranchers were able to at- Graduate School, and a Professor of Natu- Cindy Rathje Orth works to support north- tend — Beth Melcher via Skype, and the ral Resource Policy. east Ohio students in their quest to learn, rest in person, Sue Ahlrichs, Phoebe and state park visitors as they experience Brockman Kashkoush, Barbara Knuth, Lori Maundrell Eberle is a Coloradoan, the outdoors. Lori Maundrell Eberle, Marla Murphy teaching middle school youth to be more Craft, Jacqueline Patterson, Cynthia critical thinkers. Community Dinner in NYC, July 2012: Payne-Meyer, and Cindy Rathje Orth. This WCP Alumni from 1980 to 2013 gathered marked another in the ongoing series of Beth Melcher is in North Carolina, leading in New York City in July 2012 for Communi- RRR reunions occurring every several government and non-profit efforts to improve ty Dinner. (See picture, page 43. ) years, typically in the mountains or along a our mental health care systems. coast (or both this year). The Ranchers WesternPalooza, September 2012: feasted on seafood, indulged in Washing- Marla Murphy Craft advances our health WesternPalooza (the informal gathering of ton State (and other) wines, kayaked, hiked care system to higher quality through her WCP alums from ’79+/-) was held again last in woods and snow, toured, boated on Puget nursing work in Oregon. fall, this time in beautiful Boulder, CO. Thir- Sound, talked, and celebrated. After sever- ty-three alumni gathered to eat, drink, hike al days in Seattle, the Ranchers headed Jacqueline Patterson advocates for envi- and be merry. A special feature this year was south to Mt. Rainier National Park, to stay ronmental quality through her work with the celebration of Mike and Kay Lunine’s in slightly more rustic surroundings and TERA (Toxicology Excellence for Risk As- 50th wedding anniversary. (And yes, they commune with nature. sessment) in Cincinnati. are as witty and charming as always). An “official” (i.e. Coble and Weil) proclamation

Spring 2013 37 Boston. This February 28th, he was sched- uled to give a talk at Miami University enti- tled, “Queer Spawn of Mother Miami: Why the world needs more of us,” sponsored by the GLBTQ Services/Office of Diversity Af- fairs. Jim continues as editor-in-chief of Boston Spirit magazine, New England’s pre- mier LGBT feature and lifestyle magazine. As we would all expect, Jim reports, “Life is rich.”

Janet Jordan ’80 captures the happy hikers as they head out on the Mesa Trail, Dave Roe Westernpalooza 2012 reports that he still tries was presented to the Lunines and a book to stay in of photos from alumni is being coordinated. David Hertzig ’84 touch with Photos from the event can be found on the [email protected] some of his Western College Program 79+/- Facebook Peabody Page. Westernpalooza will take a hiatus in Hall col- Dave Roe ’86, wife Beverly, 2013 so alumni can attend the WCP Re- leagues — and daughters Brielle and union in Oxford in October. Jeff Lefko- Emily with unidentified friend vitz, Tom Those in attendance: Amy Isler Gibson, Bill Fryman, Gail Gay, Steve Kelly and Buck McMahon, Bill and Betsy Owens, Caro- Welling. He’s still in Bethesda, MD, where line Quine, Carolyn Johns McConnell, he runs an online marketing communica- Cynthia Renz First, Cynthia Rundquist, Jim Lopata received his Master of Theo- tions firm. Dave, his wife Beverley and two Dave Wilson, Fred Mingo, Grant Thomp- logical Studies from Harvard University this daughters, Emily (13) and Brielle (10) en- son, Greg Russi, Janey Drexler Sharp, year. Jim has begun leading meditation ses- joy biking on the C&O Canal and trips to Janet Jordan, Janet Meyer, Jeff Horst, sions four times a week at a yoga center in the Eastern Shore (Bethany Beach, DE). Joan Brook, Joe Conway, Ken Weil, Kent and Kim Ernsting, Laurie Maundrell Eber- le, Mark Braun, Mike and Kay Lunine, Rob Burns, Ross Campbell, Sandi Shapiro, Susan Jasbeck Steinberg, Steve and MJ Madewell, Stu Bassin, Terri Corso, Terri Lingsch, Walter Gardner.

Best …

Janey Drexler Sharp ’80 [email protected]

Your Class of ’84 Rep may not be hearing from anyone, but he is still making music — with two choruses: the Sing to Live Community Chorus (singtolive.org) and the Lutheran Choir of Chicago Caroline and Steve serenade (background) while others chat at Missions House on the (lutheranchoirofchicago.org). Chautauqua campus, during Westernpalooza.

38 The Bulletin Diane Wright continues her work (19 followed shortly by The years!) at a community mental health agen- Return of the King. In- cy in Cincinnati, where she lives with her terdisciplinary thought two amazing sons. This year, she is spear- lives. Life is good for me heading a campaign to have Cincinnati rec- out in CA where I still ognized as part of the International Cam- Profess Puppetry and paign for Compassionate Cities. Check out have now begun a fas- “Compassionate Cincinnati” on Facebook cination with corporeal or at [email protected]. mime and Muay Thai Diane notes, “Visitors to Cincinnati are al- (thai boxing). Mixing the ways welcome!” two is dangerous but aesthetically quite satis- Your class rep reports that her son is now fying. As usual, here is driving a car — permanent license expect- where I ask you nicely ed in May. I am still practicing law and men- to get in touch because toring young lawyers. This past year, our we all miss hearing from family visited Australia and Austria; my hus- you — and of course band and I will be on Easter Island in April. you can find tons of us I am enjoying the many Western connec- on Facebook so you’re tions on Facebook and continue to serve Andy Miller ’88 (far left) with most, but not all, of his always welcome to join on two alumni advisory boards for Miami. German host family the party (search for Jo- hanna Smith and I’ll Beth McNellie ’86 2012 was the Year of my German Wed- hook you up with everyone I can). On to the [email protected] dings. I went to Germany twice to attend updates … weddings of two of my former exchange stu- dents. I had a great time, traveled around Teri Mae Rutledge and Katie Hern wel- Germany and took a trip to Salzburg, Aus- comed their first child, Georgia Hern, on Au- tria. It was also a good year for publishing. I gust 2, 2012. had seven poems and a short story pub- Teri Mae, a late lished. Three are in the online journals Eye convert to the to the Telescope and Dissections. Two po- idea of having ems and the story appear in the anthology a kid, is pretty A Few Good Words, available in both pa- thoroughly won John Hendrickson has signed in with this per and Kindle formats. This year I will also over. She con- update: “It has been I-don’t-know-how-long be leading a class in London right after tinues to prac- since I submitted a Western alumni update. Christmas on British Fantasy. You don’t have tice insurance We — Karen, Emmett (15), Eli (11) and I — to be a current student to go, so let me know coverage law remain on our farm near Reeseville, WI. if you are interested! in San Fran- Karen teaches high school Japanese near cisco, which is Madison and Eli is now attending the inno- Andy Miller ’88 going just fine. Georgia Hern’s foot vative private school where she works. [email protected] Emmett remains in our local public school Mike Mulford (’94 Summer!) wrote in to as a freshman. The boys and I are heavily the alumnae office and it’s a great letter so involved in soccer. Eli and Emmett play for I’ll transcribe it here as best I can: club teams and I both coach youth soccer and play in an over-40 league. I continue to “Dearest Western/Miami Program? Hello! balance an appointment at the University This is MISTER Michael F. Mulford/Fisher of Wisconsin, where I conduct research and of “The Class of 1994 = Summer.” I hope training programs dealing with organic farm- this letter finds all of you in great spirits, = ing, and running the farm. The farm sup- building relations with The Mother Earth, plies organic vegetables to restaurants and Although no one wrote directly to your Bul- Father Sky, The Sun, The Moon, The Stars hospitals in addition to a new enterprise that letin Class Rep, we hear that Mike Con- and families, friends, past lovers, Future has our farm name (and my face) on the away is a veritable font of information. How Wife or Husband, Children, Associates and label of jars of heirloom pickled peppers ’bout sharing your news here, Mike? others … Well, after twenty (20) years of marketed by The Scrumptious Pantry out travel throughout The United States of Amer- of Chicago. Our second home-based busi- Stuart Quirk ica I am home. Of course I am designing ness is importing and distributing small [email protected] the most Excellent Home for my future, but scale farming equipment from Japan under it takes lots and lots of LOVE, TIME& MON- the name Small Farm Works. Life is very EY to do it. But God & Goddess are on my full … too full to find time to make much side, I just know it! I would absolutely love headway renovating our old farmhouse or to hear from all of you that I spent my Miami do much in the way of travel. We have man- University, Western days with — please aged a few fun trips with the boys to NYC, write. Lots of love, Mike. 713 Deerfield Rd Maine, and the Caribbean in recent years. Apt 10, Lebanon, OH 45036-2348.” We are currently anxiously awaiting Em- mett’s return from Cambodia, where he has Short this time, but satisfying. Be well, com- been for the past couple weeks on a ser- Hi everybody! Johanna Smith here again padres. vice-learning trip with his globetrotting from 94 Logistics Headquarters, where I’m grandfather. If any class of ’88ers find them- watching my daughter draw a complex Johanna Smith ’94 selves in Wisconsin, we welcome visitors!” Seussian system to make swords. I think [email protected] this is because I let her watch The Lorax

Spring 2013 39 botron. Lauren (8) and Trevor (5) stayed home ... Hockey aside, Beth has worked for the Ohio Capital Corporation for Housing, underwriting affordable housing transac- tions, for almost 12 years. She lives in north Columbus with the aforementioned hus- band, two awesome children, and a stray Several months ago, Megan Stocker Chihuahua mixed mutt named Pepper. Congratulations to Marta and Greg on the McGonigle and Hope McGonigle celebrat- Looking forward to summer travels that in- recent birth of their second child. And thanks ed 18 years together. They’re in Columbus, clude a visit to the seaside town where one to Marta for her service as Class Rep, as they’ve been to grad school (public health Ms. Hilary Meehan lives. she doesn’t feel able to continue. The job is for Hope and women’s/gender studies for open, Class of ’02! Megan). Hope has worked, in various ca- Carey Smith Obye reports: “Hi there! I’m pacities, for the state, for about a decade, still living in Indy. I teach preschool special and currently is at the department of devel- education at a diverse urban school district. Marta Roberts Lawrence ’02 opmental disabilities. Megan worked for 10 My stepdaughter, Kale, is 15 and son Eric [email protected] years in our public library system, and was is 5. Life chugs along, but I think of all of a grad student for almost as long. Right now you often. In WCP encounters, I recently she’s doing the stay-at-home mom thing, met up with Pam Nicodemus ’94 with her raising their 6-year-old daughter, Quinn, and mom and son Loren at the Children’s Mu- 3-year-old son, Jude. seum. I also enjoyed my shopping experi- ence at a new retail store owned by Grego- ry Gilmore ’97 — Toolbox Men’s Supply Rachel Blair Perrone appears to be finally company. Xoxoxoxoxoxo, carey.” putting down roots, coming up on 10 years in DC, where she lives in Adams Morgan Your class rep lives in a 117-year-old fixer Hello! The class of 2004 has a few updates: with Joe (5) and Angie (3). Rachel is media upper in West Oakland with lovely wife Sus- director at the National Women’s Law Cen- su Laaksonen, teenage son Ethan, two cats Leah Farzin recently re-located to London ter and spends most weekends at the play- and a dog named Trotsky. Trotsky long ago and is pursuing a Master of Law at Univer- ground, museum or farmers market. gave up trying to organize the cats and sity College London. She is writing her dis- Ethan thinks we eat too much kale. For sertation on sports law and antitrust law in After 20 years, Eve Gilmore has given up money I write software for managing solar the EU and US, and is on the lookout for an on vegetarianism, begun removing her leg power systems. attorney position! Leah adds, “shout out to hair and got a job working for the govern- anyone who’s hiring!” She has also hung ment. She feels liberated to no longer be As usual, this year’s report was organized out with fellow Western alums (and Miami an entrepreneur with unpredictable season- on Facebook. If you’re a member, look up Merger) Maryjane Bellock and Matt Hall. al income as a botanist/gardener. She has Western College Class of 1996. Best of luck to you! also been introducing herself as Eva be- cause she likes how it sounds and it feels John Blair ’96 Matt Lincoln and his longtime girlfriend, better. She’s been loving the same man for [email protected] Melissa, are engaged! They are having a 17 years, she’s still an environmentalist, wedding in the fall — congratulations to feminist and optimist. She still loves life in them! Additionally, Matt and Mel became SW Colorado. home owners, buying a condo in the North End part of Boston. On the side, Matt is in a Brendan Bogosian is still living the rock ‘n’ new band called Bookkeeper — they’re roll dream, and by day he maintains an al- online at bookkeeperrocks.bandcamp.com. ter-ego as a social worker. He also survived True to their website, they do indeed rock! the 3/11/10 earthquake in Japan. Paula Moran and her husband, Ryan, re- Lately, Oliver Baty has been building all of No news from classmates this year, but your cently moved to San Francisco! Ryan “start- the LEGO sets from his childhood with the Class Rep is hanging in there, hopeful for ed a new job as a Senior Software Devel- thousands of bricks that his knowing moth- next year. oper at Practive Fusion in downtown San er has kept all these years. His not-entirely- Francisco.” Their new apartment has a “new convinced wife has been told that this is “just Kjirsten Frank ’98 roof deck on which you can sip a drink, see to be sure we have all the pieces so the [email protected] the Golden Gate Bridge, and watch the sun kids can build them later.” He has also been set over the Pacific all at the same time.” cobbling together, again for those two lucky Sounds like a great view! kids, a Nintendo and Sega Master System emulator out of one of his Raspberry Pi’s. As for myself, as you know I got engaged in There is no disguising that the miniature March of last year. In January 2013, Naina Nintendo console built from 30-year-old Sood and I held our wedding right outside LEGO bricks, in which the Raspberry Pi is of Bombay in a beautiful Indian ceremony. nestled, is entirely for himself. It was a week of parties, dancing, tradition, and love, and was the most exhilarating Beth Lorz Long is struggling with conflict- What could be a more significant gradua- experience of my life. There were 250+ at- ing emotions about the Columbus Blue tion year than 2000? The last of the Milleni- tendees, and 40 from abroad (including Jackets. She wants to support her team, but als — let’s hear from you! Westerner Leah Farzin, who introduced they are just so frustrating. She begrudg- us!). We spent our honeymoon in warm and ingly attended the home opener, but did not Katie Johnson ’00 peaceful Koh Samui, Thailand, and this year wear her jersey. Her husband, Patrick, did [email protected] plan further vacations to California; Vermont; wear his, and was shown briefly on the Jum- Portland, Oregon; New Orleans and back

40 The Bulletin Jonathan Franz is Associate General Counsel for a production company in Bur- bank, CA. He lives in Hollywood with his wife, Mary, and his two dogs Rigsby and Bar- rington. He writes fiction in his spare time.

Dustin Leimgruber is living in Pierpont, OH, with his wife, Sarah (MU ’07), and their two children, Jack and Ellen. Both he and Sarah recently completed Class Rep Eric and his bride, Naina work on their master’s degrees and are now enjoying their life in small-town Ohio. Dustin is the new solo pastor of Pierpont to India in December. The biggest adven- Presbyterian Church. ture of our lives has just begun, and I couldn’t have asked for a better partner and Sydney Davis is still residing in Chicago, wife! IL. She has achieved her National Board Certification in reading, an award achieved Until next year … by about 20 percent of all teachers in the U.S. She is currently teaching Special Edu- Eric Fox ’04 cation, but has begun instructing Chicago [email protected] Public School teachers in the evenings as a part of a citywide push for improvement of instruction.

Mark Chapman is married to Jessica Illing- Mark Chapman ’06, wife Jessica, worth from Miami University and lives in and Stella, enjoying the outdoors Chagrin Falls, OH. He works in sales for Euler Hermes and enjoys spending time go and will be starting my residency in der- outdoors with his Portuguese water dog, matology at Rush next year. Stella. Alex Allegree is still “rocking out” and at Jocelyn Haugen: In 2012, I moved to Port- the helm. Even though Life has been a Robyn MacConnell ’06 land, OR, started as a Mktg. Mgr. for Holi- strange and unforgiving storm, he has bat- [email protected] day Retirement, graduated w/ M.S. Mktg. tened down the hatches and sailed through. All is well with the Captain. “Hold fast, stay the course and don’t forget to laugh along the way!”

Kyle Gibson is still living and working in Los Angeles. Nothing has changed.

Elizabeth Nellums is living in Washington, DC, and working as Chesapeake Bay Pro- I may have cracked the secret to getting gram Coordinator at the National Fish and Western alums to respond quickly to a call Wildlife Foundation. for updates. The answer lies in, wait for it, Twitter! I challenged my classmates to send Robyn MacConnell is enjoying the not-so- in updates at 140 characters or less, and sunny northernish coast of California. the snappy responses poured in … Nicole Brasseur: Same old — love my Jocelyn, having a tub of a time in Portland MPH program, but hate Florida (I go to USF). Almost done though :) We’ll see what Comm., ran ½ marathon, and began a new happens from there. relationship. Loving life & the PNW!

Brandon Cirillo: Surprisingly find myself still Stephanie Lee: I’m back at school, this time in Connecticut, serving my second year with surprising even myself by learning that I’m AmeriCorps as a VISTA Leader. Clueless an economics wunderkind! Joking aside, I’m to my future prospects, but looking forward hoping to use my talent for economic anal- to what the next step might be (and open to ysis for good, and applying it to environmen- suggestions). tal policy and healthcare reform.

Nurit (Yastrow) Friedberg: I started a new Michael Litchfield: I traveled to Paris, job as an early childhood mental health ther- brewed beer, took photos and made films. apist and my husband started his medical My company Potluck Creative has been tak- residency. We also adopted an adorable ing off; winning the 2012 Chicago Food Film puppy we named Zevie. Festival “Filmmaker of the Year” award, branding the Chicago restaurant Nellcôte Emily Garritson: I am finally done with and having one of our commercials dis- Pastor Dustin Leimgruber ’06 and family school! I am doing my internship in Chica- played on the Jumbotron at all home St. Louis Blues games. Onward and upward!

Spring 2013 41 John Obrycki: OSU Ph.D. program, study- been doing ing soils, risk assessment, people, having freelance rec- a great time. Future Miami faculty? One can reational cook- dream. Miss you all. ing classes since I’m now Elliot Rossbach: Startup in Indo last sum- a culinary mer. Graduated from #T-Bird Dec. Indo pre- school gradu- dicted to erupt in nationalist frenzy next 2 ate! Will be yrs, job hunt NYC here I come. looking to in- tern at a res- Sudie Niesen Thompson: I graduated in taurant soon, May with a Master of Divinity from Austin but first I am Seminary. Last fall I was ordained to a pas- off to a vaca- toral position at Arch Street Presbyterian tion by the Church in center city Philadelphia. In No- ocean to lay vember I married Brenton Thompson, and [sic] around was excited to celebrate with fellow West- and read as WCP and Miami grads unite for Sudie’s wedding: Cameron Berner ’09, ern grads Pulkit Datta, Nurit Friedberg, many 19th Pulkit Datta ’08, Sudie Niesen Thompson ’08, Kate Stark, and Cameron Berner ’09, as well as pro- century ro- Nurit Yastrow Friedberg ’08 and Aaron Friedberg fessors Alysia Fischer and Jason Rech! mance novels as possible. Geneva in December where she finished Louisa Versaw: I began performing bur- her master’s in International Relations, and lesque as Dolly Debutante in June 2012 and Jessica (Slack) Yagi: Family = same, work she’s been working for a month now with = same 2012/2013 = workin’ on my fitness! the bid team to host the youth olympic #gettinghealthy games in Medellin in 2018. After graduat- ing in 2010, She went back home and Martin Yip: I’m working very hard at my job worked at a foundation that took her to the in a bank. Many of my friends got fired so heart of Colombia — evaluating support I’m keeping my figures crossed. In my free programs for people affected by violence, time, I enjoy hiking and biking. which included a hip hop movement in Medellin to take kids away from violence. …and finally, yours truly, Pulkit Datta: #Film- Production #Screenwriting #Instagramming- Lauren Bangert is currently living in Chap- NewYork #CoffeeAddict #StillLovingTh- el Hill, NC, with Ryan and their puppy, Ra- eCityLife mona. They have been married for about a year and a-half now. She is about to gradu- Pulkit Datta ’08 ate from UNC Chapel Hill in May with a M.S. [email protected] in Rehabilitation Counseling and Psycholo- gy. Right now, she is doing internships pro- viding therapy at a private practice and at a residential substance abuse program for Louisa Versaw ’08 a.k.a Dolly women who are pregnant or have young Debutante. children. Both have been challenging but great experiences for her. After graduating, am now performing all over New York City Lauren is going to be moving on to a Ph.D. and some of New Jersey. program in either clinical or school psychol- ogy. Sydney Willcox: I’m still cheese-ing it up Last spring, Jani Sparks got her master’s at Murray’s Cheese, running the store and focusing in archaeology. Now she’s getting Megan Sabal is working on getting her teaching cheese and pairing classes. I also her Ph.D. at the University of Cincinnati in master’s in Ecology and Evolutionary Biol- teach people how to make Mozzarella! I’ve the geology department. She’s still doing ar- ogy at UC Santa Cruz and really loving it. chaeology, but with a geology twist. She’s Her project is looking at the role of habitat excited to be going down to Trinidad this alterations and non-native, alternative prey spring to conduct fieldwork that will help her species on striped bass predation and on with her research. juvenile salmon. She’s enjoying California and doing lots of hiking, kayaking and scu- Audree Riddle will be graduating with a ba diving! master’s in Student Affairs in Higher Edu- cation come May. She’s with the new West- Laura Flamm is happy to be calling Balti- ern Program for her third year and loves more home, even after graduating with an every day of her work. She is currently do- M.S.P.H. last May. She is nearing year two ing some job searching/soul searching and of work for a nonprofit called Maryland Hun- plans to relocate to Columbus, OH, in the ger Solutions, where she coordinates state summer. Western is not the same without SNAP policy as well as a way cool project the people that made it what it is; however, called Baltimore Bucks that provides an in- she says that we have a fabulous commu- centive “match” to shoppers spending WIC nity still, and it will be very sad for her to or SNAP at Baltimore-area farmers markets. leave. Renee Hemmelgarn lives in Winchester Jessica Yagi ’08 “getting healthy” Manuela Valencia is back home now in Bay, OR, with her fiancé, who is in the Coast Medellin, Colombia, and got back from Guard there. She’ll be headed back to the

42 The Bulletin hills of West Virginia in June for the wed- ding. She is working for a watershed non- profit to improve salmon habitat, still look- ing to follow her passion of environmental education, and excited to see where life takes her.

Susan Dirr lives in Chicago with her part- ner, Jill, and two cats. Mostly she works as an activist, organizing work supporting the Chicago teachers union and the grassroots education movement. She is also working on a project to address sexual violence in social movement organizations. Her day job is department assistant at DePaul Univer- sity in the department of International Stud- ies, which has much in common with West- ern. Currently taking Spanish classes and thinking about getting her master’s in edu- cation, though she can’t decide on a sub- ject concentration.

Ali Tanker is in Jamaica, working with the WCP Alumni from 1980 to 2013 gathered in New York City in July 2012 Branson Centre of Entrepreneurship to sup- for Community Dinner. Front: Laura Dobbins ’86, Michael Conaway ’90, port local entrepreneurs. Her goal is to ex- Sudie Nieson ’08, Middle: Jane Drexler Sharp ’80, Amy Pomante ’07, pand the model over to Barbados, Trinidad Hannah Mills ’13, Denise Cheng ’07, Back: Pulkit Datta ’08, Matthew and St. Lucia later this year and continue Anderson ’08. (The “Thanks Mike” sign was for the Lunine Recognition providing resources for entrepreneurs Car- Dinner at WesternPalooza. See page 37.) ibbean-wide. The beaches are beautiful, food is yummy and the sunsets keep every- in Lawrence, KS, a place she has come to Arbor News in 2009. They print two days a thing in perspective. love dearly and call home. She is working week, and are owned by Mlive Media group in refugee resettlement at Catholic Chari- and its parent company, Advance publica- Chelsea Mitchell, in Barstow, CA, is not ties of Northeast Kansas. She is the educa- tions. AnnArbor.com was the first of Ad- doing much of anything. Technically, she tion (ESL) and cultural orientation coordi- vance’s publications to go digital-first, and works for Old Navy, but hours are limited nator. Her work welcomes the refugees and that’s garnered a lot of media attention on and she guesses that people who live in the then helps them become self-sufficient in how the model has worked there. It’s a fun desert don’t really like to shop. She is defi- the U.S. and supports them for up to five place to work for her. She covers health and nitely enjoying married life! years. environmental issues, as well as county government, services and roads. In his first year of Ph.D. studies at UGA in Abby Hils resides in Albany, GA, with her the human development and family studies parents because it is free AND She does Andy Stiebler is currently residing in Co- department, James Muruthi is focusing on have her master’s degree in Environmental lumbus, OH. This will be an exciting year gerontology within the family context. Science! Now she is traveling all over Geor- for him as he has recently gotten engaged! gia and Florida, interviewing loads of pro- This August, Andy will be marrying Ellen Dan James lives Brooklyn, NY, and teach- fessors to learn her next step in Ph.D. Honaker. Professionally, he has spent the es earth science at the High School for Arts, school, exploring GIS tools for educational last year building a digital studio called Nack Imagination, and Inquiry. He finds his work uses and for a publication and working at Creative. They specialize in creating digital there to be crazy, challenging, rewarding, the Chehaw Zoo. Last semester she was experiences for not-for-profits and start-ups. and fun (sometimes). abroad on the island of Bonaire where she Basically, he gets to work with really good taught 14 study abroad students from all people and organizations to deliver beauti- Katherine Hayes is (still) in the clinical psy- over the U.S. about tropical marine ecolo- ful and functional websites. chology graduate program at Miami. She gy, conservation biology, advanced scuba, finished her master’s degree in December and cultural history about the island. Next My update is that I am currently a Peace and is currently working at the Student step is getting a summer job in the Florida Corps Volunteer in Yampil, Ukraine, which Counseling Center as she gets ready to pro- Keys as a science instructor and getting her is on the Moldovan border. I teach English pose her comps project. She is looking for- scuba divemaster certification! and do projects with my students. It’s inter- ward to two more years in Oxford before esting work but ultimately I find that I am heading out someplace new for internship. Will Runyan is plodding away at a Ph.D. in not the best teacher and prefer older stu- comparative literature at the University of dents to the teenagers I currently teach ... I Still in Brooklyn, Bridget Clegg works on Michigan. He may be nearly halfway have a summer full of traveling which I am the photo production team of an ecommerce through, with three to four years to go. Each very excited about. Budapest and Prague site called OpenSky that does all the prod- summer, he gets a chance to get out of the in June, Croatia in July and the Carpathians uct photography, retouching and uploading country (so far Tel Aviv, Odessa, Paris), and in August. Then I have one more year in to the site. She continues to pursue crafty starting next January will spend a year be- Ukraine and I’ll be back in the States. freelance ventures, but mostly just makes tween Mexico City and Buenos Aires. In garlands for her apartment. short, his inclinations toward academia and Cayla Adams ’10 travel are keeping him busy and amused. [email protected] Teresa Zaffiro is in a job that she loves and also in the right master’s program. She is Amy Biolchini is now a reporter with living with her great and loving boyfriend Kris AnnArbor.com. It’s the new online-first com- and Murphy (their dog). She is still residing pany that arose out of the close of the Ann

Spring 2013 43 Nota Bene Getting together for lunch — whether it be at a popular restaurant (such as Cincinnati’s Montgomery Inn) or a posh country club (as Dayton’s and Columbus’s) — is still a favorite way for Western’s area alumnae clubs to catch up with each other and hear the latest campus news. Office staff Debbie Baker, Kaye Wolke and Director Mackenzie Becker Rice made the rounds. December 5: Southwestern Ohio/Northern Kentucky

Listening to Director Mackenzie Rice’s of- fice update are (top photo, clockwise from bottom left): Judy Waldron HA, Elizabeth Johnson, Jane Graham Murphy ’66, Joyce Roark Phillips ’56, Barbara Johnson Meck- lenborg ’53, Pris Strand Berry ’54, Marita Lakonen Judge ’53, Joan Willitts Glatte ’53, Barbara Williamson Wentz ’68 and Jane Smucker Fryman ’58. Inset photo, left to right: Jane Lloyd Canto- ni ’50, Marj Lloyd Liggett ’39, Nia Jones Terry ’63, Marni Foote Warren ’67

April 20: Columbus

December 12: Dayton

Front row (left to right): Nancy Ryan Rietz ’52, Jan Chadwick ’67, Betsy Salt ’74, Susan Riley Scherer ’55. Back row (left to right): Gretchen Zimmerman Crawford ’61, Joan Campbell ’73, WCAA Director Mackenzie Becker Rice, Chris Moranda ’74, WCAA Senior Program Assistant Debbie Baker, WCAA Archivist Jacky Johnson Jacky spoke to the group, giving them an account of recent Charter Enjoying the Dayton club’s traditional holiday lunch are (left to Day festivities, her book-signing tour for recently published Finding right): Mary Kay Droste Feller ’57, Kathy Fansher Parnell ’65, Nan- Freedom, and the status of her work in progress, a pictorial history cy Johannes Campbell ’64, Sue Mayer Falter ’57, Kathleen J. Turn- of Western College for Women. (See page 46.) er ’64, Ronnie Adamovich Sullivan ’60, Nancy McGregor Nowak ’64 and Mary Barber McKechnie ’60. WCAA-Sponsored Events As part of the WCAA’s ongoing commitment to support arts and education programs at Miami University, two events were sponsored this semester. The African Children’s Choir was presented in the Performing Arts Series; Stanlee Stahl’s lecture was one of several programs in the Center for American and World Cultures’ Genocide and Holocaust Education series.

THURSDAY, APRIL 4

Stanlee Stahl, Executive Vice President, The Jewish Foundation for the Righteous “Rescue from Poland: Stories of Moral Courage”

5:30 p.m. 212 MacMillan Hall

44 The Bulletin Western’s Charter Day — 160th Anniversary Sponsored by the WCAA, Western College Memorial Archives, and Western Program, the April 11, 2013, daylong obser- vance began with readings from Western Female Seminary journals and correspondence. Students from Dr. Helen Sheumak- er’s MU AMS/HST 216 class did their research in Archives, then developed and read their selections in Leonard Theatre.The celebration concluded that evening with — what else! — a tree planting ceremony. Despite the rain, a yellow magnolia and two Japanese cherry trees were planted behind Clawson Hall, representing Western’s past, present and future. A reception and dinner followed, during which we were entertained by the music of Judy and Warren Waldron; were honored to hear from Valerie Hodge, University Ambas- sador; and welcomed Valerie Elliott, Smith Library Manager, who presented the newly printed Western Walking Tour Guide.

Professor Sheumaker’s history class (above) with selected readers (photos at right) and two brief excerpts (below and right): Nannie Mills, Class of 1862, listed 24 “Wishes of Miss Peabody”: 1. That we bathe in cold water every morning. December 15, 1870, Lizzie 2. Never leave domestic aprons in the china closet. wrote to Maggie: “Mag, you 13. Never write in chrich or laugh or exchange looks. know there is a saying that when women hate they are the bitterest ene- 21. Never put your head out of the window to talk to your “roomey”. mies in the world, and I believe you and Ella Hix are examples of this 23. Never use slang phrases. kind. No doubt you would be very obliged to some train to run her off the 24. Never go out on the street without your bonnet. Et cetera ... railroad and not quite kill her, but do some damage to her. I do wish I could sit down to write without having a dozen or two old pianos thump- ing the sense and patience out of me.”

Pheetta Wilkinson ’76 spoke for the Western College for Emmalee Decker ’13 represented the current Western Program: Women: “Today as we plant this tree we commemorate the founding “This tree is planted with confidence that the spirit of Western will of the Western Female Seminary and remember Western and all continue. Helen Peabody, Leila McKee, Lilian Wyckoff Johnson that the institution has done to promote the educational and Mary Moore Dabney Thomson are the names of the women achievements of women. We celebrate women who served as who led Western as principals and presidents. I am honored to Christian missionaries, our international diversity and the graduates follow in the tradition of women who were leaders in the field of who are known as independent forerunners. This tree is a symbol education. It is my hope that the former, current and future students of celebration: representing life, hope, growth and continuity.” will learn about the college and embrace its history and sense of community. I plant this tree in the spirit of Western.”

Spring 2013 45 University Ambassador Valerie Hodge (right) looked on as Karla Schneider Guinigundo ’99 dedicated the Western College Program tree: “This tree is planted today to honor Western’s existence. Through several transitions, from a seminary, to a college, to a co-ed institution, to a division under Miami University, and now a department; faculty and student experiences have varied, but common threads have been woven through the decades. The beauty of this campus — once a potato patch owned by James Fisher — has provided a tranquil setting for discovery and development of life-long relationships. The traditions — like tree day, class colors, sister classes, cotillion, and shore-to-slimy shore — have evolved throughout the years, but created special memories and enhanced the student experience of all Westerners.” As part of the installation, the WCAA has placed a wooden bench in front of the three trees, with a bronze plaque reading:

To Commemorate the 160th Anniversary of Western Female Seminary’s Charter Day, July 14, 1853 Given by the Western College Alumnae Association, Inc., April 2013 From the Archives Congratulations to Archivist Jacky Johnson, who was re- Articles promoting Finding Freedom have appeared in cently approved by Miami for promotion to associate librar- the Oxford Press and Hamilton Journal News, and there is ian and a continuing contract, effective July 1, 2013. It has an interview pending with local WVXU radio’s Mark Perzel been a busy year for Jacky. Finding Freedom: Memorializ- — during which Jacky invites us to “listen as I promote ing the Voices of Freedom Summer, which she edited, was Western College.” Read more about the book at http:// released in January, and she is hard at work on a second www.orgs.muohio.edu/mupress/details/ book — a pictorial history of Western College — to be pub- jjohnson_freedomsummer.html. lished by Arcadia Press later this year. In addition, she got In April, Jacky attended the Columbus Area alumnae the ball rolling for the April 11 festivities commemorating club meeting to speak about the book (see picture, page 44) the founding of Western Female Seminary 160 years ago. and was scheduled to speak at the Oxford Branch NAACP Freedom Fund Banquet. As part of her “book tour,” the Western Program held a reading and book signing on February 25 in Leonard The- atre. At the reception, Tyler Elliott ’13 and Hannah Mills ’13 compared Western apparel with a few of the Western Ladies, sharing the Western College for Women seal.

In the picture above, Jacky signs a copy of her book at the Miami Co-op Bookstore, April 19. Inset: Rita Dove, who graduated from Miami in 1973, served as poet laureate 1993-1995, and was awarded a At the reception (left to right): Pris Strand Berry ’54, Tyler 2011 National Medal of the Arts by President Barack Obama, holds Elliott and Hannah Mills, both WP ’13, and Barbara a copy of Finding Freedom — to which she contributed a poem. Johnson Mecklenborg ’53. N.B.: copy of the book in the She is pictured with Keith Tuma, Professor of English and Editor, foreground. Miami University Press, publisher.

46 The Bulletin Send your news — and pictures! — for the Fall ’13 Bulletin NOW. E-mail, or clip and mail the form below to your Class Rep. If your class does not have a Rep, send your update directly to the WCAA. Beat the deadline: Labor Day, September 2!

WCAA, Inc. Jane Toy Thomason ’59 Kim Rotonto Dregalla ’77 Ryan Donmoyer ’93 325 S. Patterson Ave. 305 Lefferts Ave. 6971 Darrow Rd. 622 Putnam Pl Oxford, OH 45056 Brooklyn, NY 11225 Hudson, OH 44236 Alexandria, VA 22302 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Suzy Allburt ’41 Mary DeJong Obuchowski ’61 Tom “Walter” Gardner ’79 Paul Broughton ’95 5003 Elsby 119 Kent Dr. 307 Constitution Ave. NE 4443 Dauncy Rd. Dallas, TX 75209 Mt. Pleasant, MI 48858 Washington, DC 20002 Flat Rock, MI 48134 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Ardis Dechman Coninx ’45 606 Trinity Court Jill Hartley Fulton ’63 Tim Matune ’81 Rebecca Dingo ’97 Evanston, IL 60201 230 Armstrong Dr. 6415 Ridgeview Ave. 1026 Westwinds Ct. [email protected] Claremont, CA 91711 Youngstown, OH 44515 Columbia, MO 65203 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Anne Mack Dean ’47 [email protected] 8101 Connecticut Ave., C508 Pam Eggers Gill ’65 Ann Rosenfield ’83 Chevy Chase, MD 20815 265 Turner Rd. 66 Ellsworth Karla Schneider Guingundo ’99 [email protected] East Palatka, FL 32131 Toronto, ON M6G 2K3 8179 S. Port Dr. [email protected] Canada West Chester, OH 45069 Jane Osgood Tatge ’49 [email protected] [email protected] 11 Eltinge Place Kathy Ehrgood Sturm ’67 Glenville, NY 12302 7709 Midge NE Madeline J. Iseli ’85 Vann Geondeff ’01 [email protected] Albuquerque, NM 87109 38 Beverly Pl. 1228 W. Carmen Ave., Apt. 1A [email protected] Dayton, OH 45419 Chicago, IL 60640 Ruth McVicker Rhodenbaugh ’51 [email protected] [email protected] 4725 Burley Hills Dr. Nancy Wilson Kobayashi ’69 Cincinnati, OH 45243 422-6-715 Tokiwa Christine Rebera ’87 Joy Usner ’03 Kamakura, Japan 248-0022 418 Richard Pl. 311 E. LaSalle Ave. 201D Cary Kimbark Revere ’53 [email protected] Ithaca, IL 14850 South Bend, IN 46617 Box 35 [email protected] [email protected] Barnstable, MA 02530 Laurie LeGrand ’71 [email protected] 289 Main St. Dana Lundell ’89 Abigail King Kaiser ’05 Amesbury, MA 01913 16824 Inverurie Rd. 1511 Jackson St., Apt. 11 Mary Sicer Moore ’55 [email protected] Lake Oswego, OR 97035 Oakland, CA 94612 14 Broadmoor [email protected] [email protected] Prescott, AZ 86305 Christy Wines ’73 [email protected] 5155 Cedarwood Rd., Apt. 56 Lara Osborne ’91 Denise Cheng ’07 Bonita, CA 91902 6066 Fairfield Rd. 640 Hawthorne St. NE Charlotte Klein Varzi ’57 [email protected] Oxford, OH 45056 Grand Rapids, MI 49503 36 Radnor Circle [email protected] [email protected] Grosse Pointe Farms, MI 48236 Cyndie Cole ’75 [email protected] 2317 Parmater Rd. Alison Kernohan ’09 Gaylord, MI 49735 481 Lullaby Circle [email protected] Amherst, OH 44001 [email protected]

Dear Class Rep:

Your full name and class year: Address: Phone number and e-mail address: Spring 2013 47 Western College Alumnae Association, Inc. 325 S. Patterson Avenue NON-PROFIT ORG. U.S. POSTAGE PAID Oxford, Ohio 45056-2499 OXFORD, OHIO PERMIT NO. 25