Class of 1962 Golden Key Reunion CHRISTINA WOLCOTT MCCAWLEY ’62 829 Mystery Ln West Chester, PA 19382-5305 [email protected] (610) 436-0720 After I graduated from Ohio Wesleyan, I married my high school sweetheart and ended up in Washington DC, where I went to library school at Catholic University of America. We then moved in 1965 to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where my husband began work on a Ph.D. I joined the pro- fessional staff of the U. of Illinois Library and worked in their Slavic Section for six years. During those years my husband and I divorced. Then I met and married my second husband, Dwight McCawley, who was getting a Ph.D. in English Literature. (Our marriage has lasted 42 years.) Dwight got a job in the English Department at West Chester University in West Chester, Pennsylvania, and I got a job in the university library there. I have been employed there ever since. I just celebrated my fortieth anniver- sary working at WCU and have no plans to retire because I love my job and think I would be bored to death without it. I acquired a Ph.D in Library Management at Drexel University in Philadelphia, finishing it in 1984. In the academic year of 1995-6, I arranged a job exchange with a British librarian at Staffordshire University in Stoke-on-Trent, north of London. We occupied his house near the university, and he and his wife came over and occupied ours. He worked at my job here, and I worked at his over there. My husband and I couldn’t have children, so we decided to adopt. In 1980 we adopted Christopher, who was eight years old at the time. He now has a 14-year-old daughter, Laken, who is beautiful and smart. Christopher has a construction business, doing home-repair jobs, remodeling kitchens, basements, and bathrooms, and doing roofing, plumbing, etc. I volunteer at a Homeless shelter once a week called Safe Harbor. I have been an avid reader all my life and spend much of my leisure time sitting on my favorite sofa reading stacks of books and magazines. I am involved in two book discussion groups. But my main joy in life is my job, which keeps me challenged every minute. My husband Dwight retired in 2001 after thirty years at WCU and is thoroughly enjoying retirement. We both enjoy extremely good health and feel really lucky in that. We love to travel and have seen, over the years, most of Europe, the Scandinavian countries, almost all of the countries of South America and some of the Caribbean. Two summers ago we flew to Tahiti, and during the coming Christmas holiday we are going for three weeks to New Zealand and Australia, a lifelong dream of mine. I also love opera and go up to New York to the Metropolitan Opera about five times a year, as well as at- tending the Philadelphia Opera and the concerts of the Philadelphia Orchestra. We both love operettas as well, and spend a week each summer at the Ohio Light Opera in Wooster, Ohio. I have attended operas at most of the great opera houses of Europe (during my year in England), plus the Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires. We finally got to the Wagner Festspielhaus in Bayreuth, Germany, in 2003 after waiting eleven years for tickets. And this January I have tickets to go to an opera at the Sydney Opera House. Class of 1962 Golden Key Reunion JUDITH HUDSON MCDOWELL ’62 219 E Royal Forest Blvd Columbus, OH 43214-2127 [email protected] (814) 933-6112 Followed OWU days with degrees in Education from Harvard Graduate School of Education, and in Library Science from Simmons Graduate School of Library and Information Science, also in Boston. Then followed a career as educator and librarian at Hanscom Elementary School, Lincoln MA; D.C. Public Library (now Martin Luther King, Jr., Library); Columbus Public Library (now Columbus Metropolitan Library) and Civil Service Libraries for Dept. of Education, Washington, D.C. My family mostly grew up in the D.C., Boston, and Berkley megalopolis. Daughter Heather (Alaska) Black and son Jason Black, both graduated from H.S. in Berkley CA and both graduated with highest honors from college--Heather, (now Alaska) from OWU , and Jason from U.C. Berkley. Jason is now a practicing physician at Greater Baltimore Medical Cen- ter, and Alaska is pursuing a Ph.D from Penn State. Jason and his wife Karen are busy raising Oliver, 5, and Naomi, 2, while Dr. Karen is a pharmacist with the Veterans’s Administration. Alaska and husband Chris, have home schooled their three boys, Max, 15, and Ben and Milo, 10. With the advent of a Paperless Society, Nook, and Kindle, librarians took on many new challenges. Mine became one of shifting emphasis from the library back to the classroom and assisting teachers and stu- dents from there. Other pursuits include ballroom dancing, chairing a reunion committee and church committee, singing in choirs, and aerobics. Class of 1962 Golden Key Reunion LANE C. MCGAUGHY ’62 595 College Dr. NW Salem, OR 97304 [email protected] (503) 363—9947 Professional Career: After earning a PhD in religion and classics at Vander- bilt, I served as a faculty member at the University of Montana (1969-1981) and Willamette University (1981-2007). I have published numerous journal articles, encyclopedia entries, scholarly papers, and books on ancient Greek, the parables of Jesus, ancient infancy narratives, and the Bible in the American tradition. My latest book is The Authentic Letters of Paul (2010). I have been active in professional organizations, serving as assistant execu- tive secretary of the Society of Biblical Literature, associate director of Scholars Press, president and executive secretary of the Pacific NW region of the AAR/SBL, and co-founder of Polebridge Press, the Westar Institute, and the Northwest House of Theological Studies. As an ordained United Methodist minister, I have also served on various boards of the Oregon-Idaho Conference. Personal Life: We have eight wonderful grandchildren and their families all live in the Northwest, so we are fortunate to be able to see them frequently. Lanny is a farrier in Philomath, Charis (PhD, Vanderbilt) man- ages an educational consulting firm in Eugene, Ryan manages a state park in Salem, and Dena does online marketing in Seattle. Retirement Interests: When I retired from college teaching in 2007, I was asked to establish the Center for Ancient Studies and Archaeology at Willamette University. In 2009 I moved two projects from Santa Rosa, CA to the WU campus; the Westar Institute (sponsor of the Jesus Seminar) and Polebridge Press. My wife and I are members of Elkhorn Valley Golf Course near our cabin on the north fork of the North Santiam River in the Cascade Mountains of Oregon. Favorite Ohio Wesleyan Memory: Serving as OWU Student Body President during the turmoil surrounding the presidency of David Lockmiller is the strongest memory and a formative period in my college experi- ence. Class of 1962 Golden Key Reunion ELSA HARBISON MANN MCKENNA ’62 410 Mary St Antigo, WI 54409-2539 [email protected] (715) 623-4619 As “empty nesters,” we often say, “It has been a great ride.” I volunteered through the child rearing years with the organizations to which our seven children gravitated—hockey, skiing, track, musicals, choir, church, and Overseas Rotary Exchange. Satisfaction now comes from delivering Meals on Wheels, Food Pantry, and our local hospital. John and I travel to keep up with our thirteen grandchildren spread from coast to coast. In the group we have two college freshmen—one at Carleton College in Minnesota and another at Alfred University in New York state. Seems like yesterday! John has five acres of Christmas Trees which require attention most of the year. I can plant and fertilize. Our bucket list took us on a driving trip to Yosemite and Yellowstone last summer in conjunction with a son’s wedding in California. In February I’ll test my XC skiing doing the Korteloppet (half of the Birkebeiner—14 miles) on my partial knee replacement. We’ll bike a portion of the Natchez Trace in March and take in a Road Scholar program in New Orleans. We feel blessed on this life journey. Class of 1962 Golden Key Reunion AARON MESSING ’62 37 Birch St West Orange, NJ 07052-4533 [email protected] (973) 736-2090 Greetings fellow classmates, other alumni, and all those who make Ohio Wesleyan University a living insti- tution. In 1962 it seemed I had an infinity of time before me to accomplish life's tasks. From my perspec- tive today it is clear that fifty years is a small, finite quantity of time. A wise physician friend used to quip, “Life is what happens to you after you have made your plans.” When I received my degree from OWU, majoring in chemistry, I had planned to become an industrial chemist with a stable company and live a suburban lifestyle with my future wife and children. I did marry my col- lege sweetheart, Virginia Drick, OWU ’63 according to plan, after she finished law school. But within six years, elements of my plan changed dramatically. After a series of successful position changes as a chem- ist, ambition prompted me to become involved with two different “startup” companies. Both went bust. While working at the last company, I developed severe allergies to the chemicals I used and left chemistry for health reasons. During the early sixties people with M.B.A.