Quadrangle - 1930s and 1940s 30S CLASS REPS Jottings N Laurence Burkhalter 1937 Class of 1937 and so is Koda, the golden retriever. Life with- Last June, LARRY BURKHALTER visited out my dear husband of 66 years is a little harder the Cleveland Clinic because of some heart to take, but I keep healthy and busy, and Kathy !"#$% problems, and was advised that he needed a sees to it that I get out on trips. We took the 419-358-0488 valve replacement. After two preliminary trips Amtrack train across the northern route, from to Cleveland, he had the surgery on July 30. Portland to Chicago, visited son in Ann Arbor, Lorita Shull Fisher 1939 He returned to his apartment in Maple Crest, Michigan, and then returned by the southern & Bluffton Ohio on August 27 and is happy to California Zephyr. It was great! On each trip '()( report that the operation was successful, and we had tiny private compartments.—Lorita that his extended recovery is going well. *["#%",$./ Class of 1942 831-375-8301 Class of 1939 BETTY STUNTZ ALLEN has started an LAWRENCE TEMPLIN recently signed two electronic round-robin with her classmates. book contracts, one for a book of poems mostly Excerpted below are news from Chapters 1 written in old age, and the other a memoir, and 2 of the running document. BETTY keeps sort of. The memoir does have a Woodstock very busy and healthy with many activities at chapter, but the rest of the book is digression (in the retirement home where she lives, bocce alternate chapters) on ideas and themes relating outdoors, scrabble, singing, writing group, plus to his story and containing affection with three the Resident Council, Missions Committee, characters: himself, Krishnaswami and Rudyard Welcome Committee. STAN and BEVERLY Kipling.He doesnt know when either volume AMSTUTZ BRUSH have moved to main cam- will be published. He enjoyed a visit with pus of Medford Leas, where they no longer have R to drive and live in a two bedroom unit, close to he moved to Bluffton. JOYCE GRAHAM *+%/&48;' THOMASSON writes from a manor where BILL and DOROTHY VAUGH WHITCOMB she was placed after she broke her hip. She are keeping busy at their retirement home. Bill is is busy with Youth for Christ, and Teen Chal- well, has mobility problems with numb feet and lenge (a recovery program for young men.) As hands, but continues to go daily to the workshop with many of us, her children are getting old where he is now making rocking horses for the enough to retire. She boasts of 9 grandchildren families of other residents, while Dorothy has who have all gone on to get higher degrees, #9 been involved her church, with a new pastor, all just started college this year.And then there are kinds of new initiatives, new Constitution and 5 great-grandchildren!! She has led a fruitful, By Laws and committees. KEN ROCKY is in Lilian Singh (S) with Ameeta and Steve Alter religion-centered life.JOHN MANRY writes touch from his home in Menomonee Falls, Wis- on either side on her 90th Birthday \"$%&&' consin. JOHN LOEHLIN, although retired, still Nebraska. He has published 3 books in the last His main interest has been in following the <%%%&[+><% few years with a colleague, Joe Horn, Heredity progress of daughter, Kathryn and her husband, Austin Texas, three times a week. He and Marj and Environment in 300 Texas Families: The Mark as they develop their lovely property on have done a fair amount of travelling, to Illinois, Texas Adoption Project. These were families Quandra Island, off the west coast of British Utah, Marseilles, France, Palo Alto, California, who adopted a child from a Texas home for Columbia. John sends the following ode : Ode to Woodstock Since nineteen-hundred and thirty nine Our ranks have dwindled over time The world has changed, and so have we, But WOODSTOCK stays on in our memory! Our legs may not be able to cope With paths, as found on a Landour slope. Our hair may be white, or perhaps gone But Memories of dear WOODSTOCK linger on!. LORITA SHULL FISHER at 91 is still active Starting from Front left to right: Benjamin (M1), Nathan (C2), Jennifer (Martin’s wife), Andrew in many community organizations. She is on (S5), Abigail (S6), Rachel (S3), Karuna (C1) Sarah (M3), Geeta (Calvin’s wife), Arabella (M4) two boards, and stays very involved in them. Hannah (D2), Lydia (David’s wife), Elizabeth and Gordon ’40, Sharon (S4), Elizabeth (M2), Su- Daughter Kathy lives in the guest apartment sanna ’87, David (Susanna’s husband) David ’80, Martin ’82, Moses (D4), Isaiah (D3), Calvin downstairs, and is a great companion and help, ’83, Anna (S2), Matthew (S1) Daniel (D1) is not present - Quadrangle unwed mothers around 1970 that we followed a Kamau Co. catamaran sunset sail; a former %%X*&+`%%$ up for some 35 years. Plus a couple of books athlete treated him to a Zip-line experience up computer classes in Kabul and the second of (mostly) light verse: Verses of a Young Man, (near Hilo). The line has seven segments & son Paul with family is in Brazil as pilot for written in his 20s, and Verses from Later Years, crosses two waterfalls. The OLD Woodstocker Wycliffe. Their daughter Laura just presented mostly Christmas letters, anniversaries, and so made it OK. ELLEN ALTER (S) no longer them with their 14th great grandchild, James. forth, including the 60th class reunion. Ken and undertakes long distance travel as mobility is Gary is now in the Philippines teaching street VANGIE BISHOP LINN have moved into as- limited by arthritis and scoliosis, but keeps up kids woodworking skills.—Mary & Tom sisted living, having to downsize in the process. local activities with a lively group of (mostly) TONY STEELE still has a strong handwriting. church friends; grateful for the phone system, Class of 1944 He lives in Leicester, UK, with wife Betty, in Skype and Email, all of which keep her very LAUREL LOADER DOWNWARD wrote that the same house since 1961. They will soon be much in touch with scattered family in India her oldest son, doctoring for multiple myeloma, celebrating their Diamond anniversary. They and Australia. They also manage an amazing is better than expected with a stem cell trans- remember fondly their visit to the US in 1992, amount of visiting with her in Wooster, most plant. Summer on the Isle of Man came with including the WOSA gathering in Colorado %4&}'%> more sunshine . Laurel, herself, though deal- %+&%'?@X?[\ to India was in October, 2012, when all three $%O%['P^%<%$ ISOBEL SCOTT LEWIS live in Kingston, sons & their wives were there at Oakville. Took a daughter in England. 2013 was a memorable Ontario, a medium sized city easy to navigate 8^%%%/$ year for DORIS COLVIN BELL. With son Don without having to drive. Jane and HAROLD in their family plot in the Landour Cemetery, doing the driving, visits were made to sister LU- BROCK in Walnut Creek California are looking overlooking the eternal snows. Bittersweet "X}/%%; /%%48" forward to regaining their free hotel accom- but very satisfying. PAUL COOLE is waiting [\++$^%% modations in Hawaii, now that their youngest for amputation above the knee, probably no of World War Two). Sadly, Joyce succumbed daughter and husband have moved back, after prostheses, on Nov 26 at OPRMC. Pat has to pneumonia just e few weeks after our visit. a one year stay on the mainland. Jane does the been changing dressings above ugly wound ]\`?%/%&' driving up and down the coast, visiting family. daily, with lots of pain pills. PAUL COOLE & ^%|%$&+- RUTH GILSON NYCUM is also in assisted DESMOND HOLLINGBERY have joined the +R%'/X<$ living, but can drive to her meetings with Red round robin of BETTY SMILEY BREMER, health, am active at Sixth Presbyterian Church Hat Society and Board of the Emeriti of Cal ALYCE BANKER HEYBOER and MARY here in Pittsburgh, and enjoy visits with my four State Fullerton, where she was a librarian for STEWART CUMMINGS. Round Robin used children and six grand-children, and tending the 17 years. She is also President of the Resident to have 7 girls from our class, now down to 3. small front garden which even strangers stop Council which she helped set up 6 years ago BETTY had a fall at home in August & did +/O%<P*X4*^>%% and all the documents are still on her computer. a stint in a rehab unit but was able to move 4}/\&`%&%%%% Cheryl and DICK JONNSON have been stay- home. She and Joe are still in an Independent picked up when working for a building compa- ing pretty close to home in Warrenton, West Living Apartment at Meramec Bluffs retirement ny; he fought kidney failure, heart irregularities Virginia. They have adopted a young German community in St. Louis, Missouri. She always and additional symptoms. Pam keeps in touch shepherd dog, and are endeavoring to reach looks forward to news from her Woodstock and shared the beautiful service recorded by an accommodation, in both directions. Cheryl classmates & loves to regale her grandchildren family members. In the Spring she had a bun- continues to teach and Dick takes a class or two with tales of her days spent in school with all ion removed but recovery was extended by an a semester at the university. Hazel and DOUG her classmates. ALYCE BANKER HEYBOER &%%`$<$ STEWART moved to a retirement village near continues with her book group, church activities travelling again. JACQUETH JAMES RILEY, Boise, Idaho, where they are close to the fami- & following her beloved Detroit Tigers.