QUADRANGLE - 43 30s CLASS REPS 1930s Fredericka Ahrens Cobren 1933 1915 Marthas Rd, Alexandria, VA Jottings 22307-1953 USA Class of 1935 Class of 38 703-765-6909 ALICE WHIPPLE sent a note. She is almost MARY HOPKINS-HUSSON ALLEN cel- stone deaf and her eyes are failing. But she ebrated her 90th birthday in Oklahoma, hosted N Laurence Burkhalter 1937 remembers Mr Parker, the principal, and Mrs by her 4 children and their spouses. She then 2433 Hamilton Dr Parker, who led morning devotions, teachers \- Ames, IA 50014-8203 Miss Marley (Latin), Mr Dudley Parsons (Eng- cluding a great-granddaughter namesake (2). USA lish, Physics), Mr David (Urdu) and classmates [ [email protected] Kittu, Irene and Zaida. She continues to love but continues to play at 4 nursing homes, 515-296-5015 Woodstock. Her handwriting remains strong at keeps very busy gardening, doing puzzles 97 years. ELLEN COLVIN PARKER reports and driving around town. She would love to Lorita Shull Fisher 1939 that she is 94, and living comfortably in the hear from classmates. CHARLES WARREN 586 Colton St Assisted Living unit of University Village in (91) continues to be active in the Ebenezer Monterey CA, 93940-4412 Tampa, FL. She is legally blind, but still has Mennonite Church in Bluffton, OH, as Pas- USA many fond memories of Woodstock School. tor Emeritus. All 5 Warren children are WS [ MAURICE WHITLOCK’s daughter writes graduates, granddaughter AMY SEEFELDT 831-375-8301 that he passed away in February 2008. ’93 (daughter of DALE ‘64 & RUTH ‘67) is currently a faculty member. Always interested Class of 1937 to read of WS happenings and read news clips LARRY BURKHALTER reports an imminent of former students! move back to what he considers his American home town, Bluffton, OH, after moving away Class of 1939 57 years ago. The prime reason for the move MARGARET CLARE REEVES muses in is to be closer to his 6 children, all of whom, her note, “Did we ever imagine in our days incidentally, were born in Bluffton. He met at WS that we would still be alive in our 90s? wife Holly when both were students at the Memories of WS are still among the most old and small Bluffton College, now the very treasured.” Margaret lost her husband of 64 attractive Bluffton University. He will be years this past year; she thanks God for car- residing in nearby Maple Crest, one of the ing sons! JOYCE GRAHAM THOMASSON Mennonite Home Communities. On a recent writes from a recovery center in Canada where visit to Bluffton, he had the pleasure of a brief her family placed her after she fell & broke meeting with RUTH UNRAU (S), who gave her hip. She feels her 100% recovery is a real him a copy of her book Hill Station Teacher: miracle. She continues her volunteer work in , a delightful account of the community, known as Grandma Joy to the her 6 visits to India & Woodstock School over Team Challenge boys. She can rightfully boast 30 years. He recommends it for all Woodstock about her 9 grandchildren, one graduating alums.—N Laurence from high school & the other 8 with advanced degrees. One is a nuclear engineer, working for a few years in Silicon Valley, CA. And to top it all off, she has an l8-month-old great-grand- daughter & a 6-month- old great-grandson. She claims she can still cook a good curry & her Hindi is perfect. JOHN MANRY boasts another 90th birth- day. The effects of a broken hip, cracked pelvis & age have hampered his mo- bility, but he keeps busy. He uses a Kindle to read many books & takes a course via DVD discs from the Teaching Company. “Isn’t the electronic age wonderful?” NORMAN Margery Miller Mills ’35 on her 91st birthday with her daughters MOODY manages at 89 and son to keep exercising daily. 44 - QUADRANGLE Wini) & cursing Microsoft for its absolutely abominable Windows Vista program. He also published Gandhi’s American Ally: how an educational missionary joined the Mahatma’s struggle against untouchability, iUniverse, 2008. DAVID MOOMAW is now mostly retired from volunteer medical practice and remains well & in touch with the ‘County We Care’ medical program in Jacksonville FL, with the mission to provide medical care for uninsured & underinsured patients in the area. Yesterday marked the arrival of his 2nd great grandchild, born in Winter Park FL.—Bill Class of 1941 It saddens HELEN CONSER MAYBURY His wife of 62 years died last year after they that so many of the class have passed away. moved to Arkansas to build & live with fam- She & her husband recently celebrated their ily. However, his big life project was creating 65th wedding anniversary with children & a 5-acre tropical jungle full of familiar tropi- grandchildren in San Francisco. They now cal fruits & 500 species of palms in Florida. have 10 wonderful grandchildren. Helen One of his sons lives there & takes care of the recently published a book, entitled For the place. LORITA SHULL FISHER is adapting Souls & Soils of India, a memoir of her to widowhood, but keeping up with many of parents who were 2 courageous individuals her volunteer community boards & activities. who resolved to serve God & His people. Three of her main interests are the United Na- They spent 37 years in India as well as 9 tions Association, Friends of the Library & a yrs in Home Missions after their retirement. feeding program for homeless men. Daughter In addition to their personal history, their Kathy, a hospice nurse on the Monterey Penin- letters tell the story of India during a time sula, lives downstairs in the guest apartment. of tremendous upheaval & historical sig- With Kathy acting as facilitator, program [* planner and, of course, driver, they were able as Jawaharlal Nehru & Mahatma Gandhi, as to take a two-week vacation in Ireland in May. well as Vinoba Bhave, the author of the land- Beautiful country! LAWRENCE TEMPLIN gift or sarvodaya movement. A non-violent pays tribute to his 3 children: Daughter Sara revolutionary in the tradition of Gandhi, he helps manage the Sweet Shalom Tea House in collected millions of acres of land to distrib- Toledo & is married to Baldemar Velasquez, a ute to the landless. The book can be ordered worker in the civil rights movement, especially online at xlibris.com or amazon.com.—Helen for migrant workers. Daughter Mary teaches at Toledo Univ & is in the process of publishing Class of 1942 ["# UPDATED TO HERE RUTH GILSON NYCUM only went through son John lives at home, cares for the family & 6th standard at WS, but has many memories sells his paintings. The rest of the tribe includes Class of 1940 of the time there. She has 4 children. She was recently born and wonderful Cheeco & Nora It’s been great keeping up with all 10 grands a librarian at CSU Fullerton for 17 yrs. At Kate. PHIL WHISLER is currently living and 12 greats as they participate in various age 85, Ruth now lives in an Assisted Living alone after losing his wife, Gerry, to cancer in bike races & tours. BILL SUPPLEE keeps Facility, Oakmont of Chino Hills CA. She Jun ’98. His 2 sons live in Florida (Jacksonville remembering how invigorating it was for has physical problems, but her mind is clear & Tampa); Barton in Tampa visits him every him he was their age. Now he spectates & she does many things on her computer week.—Lorita & applauds! A reasonably content retiree, as secretary of the Resident Council & for NORM WILLIAMS lives in Riderwood the Emeriti of CSUF. STAN & BEVERLY Village, Silver Spring, MD. with wife Wini, BRUSH are deep into the Pharmaceutical whom he married 68 yrs ago after working Stage with her doing better than he is; driver as a deckhand on a Great Lakes ship deliver- has been added to her other duties. Stan has ing coal to the blast furnaces in Gary IN. He [+/ $'* of teen years at Forman College in Lahore out of Oberlin College, where they had met. in the 50s & 60s. Both fondly remember a He served in various government roles on visit from BRUCE FOSTER & his daughter environmental issues, primarily the control of last yr. They recently had lunch with JANE strip mining for coal in WV & in Congress, WALLBROWN ’52 & a mutual friend at nationally. They have 5 grown children, Medford Leas NJ. Great time reminiscing. all living their own interesting lives. He is MARJORIE HILL has continued to be active writing his memoirs (entitled in India right up to the present. She was hon- QUADRANGLE - 45 ored by the Nat’l UCC meeting last spring, [' 40s CLASS REPS whole life in support of women & children [</' Chattisgarh. BETTY STUNTZ ALLEN is G. William Supplee 1940 '(%!#)* now on the Resident Council of her Retire- 118 Normandy Rd 616 Dianne Dr ment Community & has attended her 2nd Columbia, SC 29210-8106 Melbourne, FL 32935-6419 statewide meeting of ConCCRA (Continuing USA USA Care Residents’ Assoc. of CT). Lots of good [email protected] %%\ discussion & ideas for deepening & improv- 803-765-9415 321-254-4943 ing relationships in each community. Weekly meetings of the Singing Group, the Writing Dorothy Vaugh Whitcomb 1942 Ann Leeder Pickett 1947 Group, a Scrabble gang, monthly meetings Dorothy Madison 40 Wagon Trl of the Council & 2 Missions Committees & WI 53718-8350, USA Black Mountain, NC 28711-2560 the State Board of Church Women United - USA now Historian & Subscription Secretary for 608-230-3050 [email protected] the CWU Newsletter - keep me hopping. I 828-669-6977 enjoy them all, but have decided not to re- new my 2 CWU jobs, which run out in Dec.