Eleanor Geffert Shearing is founder and chief executive officer of her own record company, Jazzknight Records. She produced her first album, George Shearing at Home. Ellie said the recording was one which “George and his bass player recorded in our living room in New York just for fun.” It was released worldwide on the Internet and in record shops, April 15, 2013. Ellie’s email address is georgellie@aol.com. Norman E. Strasma is former executive director of Community Foundation of Kankakee River Valley in Illinois. He was honored with the foundation’s highest award, being named a Beacon for Kankakee County.
1956
Lott H. Thomas was honored as Pillar of the Bar by Champaign (Ill.) County Bar members, May 1, 2013, for his significant contributions to the legal profession. He has practiced law with the firm of Thomas, Mamer & Haughey for 51 years.
1957
Robert M. Burleigh is author of The Crossing, a poem-story about a swimmer who barely makes it. Robert is a writer and artist living in Chicago. He makes art under the name Burleigh Kronquist. (See photo.)
1958
D. David Cryer was a principal cast member of the Portland Center Stage world premiere of Somewhere in Time, June 5-30, 2013. His previous performances have included Lend Me a Tenor and The Phantom of the Opera. Dr. Ferid Murad presented the 175th Anniversary Distinguished
William M. Cockrum is a member of the board of directors of Educational Housing Services, Inc., a not-for-profit organization that provides safe and convenient off-campus housing in New York City for students and interns. William is an adjunct professor at Anderson Graduate School of Management of University of California at Los Angeles.
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1955
1959
ALUMNI REUNION WEEKEND 2013 – Members of the Classes of 1948 and prior John J. Baughman ’48; M. Constance Nagel ’48; Mary Prickett Price ’33; James “Jim” T. Little ’48
1962
Ellen Myers Clippinger is founder, president and chief executive officer of AYS, Inc. She has been a leader in the out-ofschool time programming movement at the local, state and national level. Ellen started At-Your-School Child Services in 1980 as a non-profit, after-school activity program in a public school in Indiana. The agency now operates 33 before- and afterschool sites and five early childhood sites. Ellen received the Flame of Inspiration Award from the National AfterSchool Association, April 2013.
1963
Evelyn Whaley LaFollette has served as class fund manager for her 30th, 35th, 40th, 45th and 50th reunions. Her daughter, Cherie LaFollette DuPuy, is a 1995 DePauw graduate, and her son, Christopher P. LaFollette, a 1998 DePauw graduate. She writes, “It is my wish that one of my granddaughters would attend DePauw and love it as much as I did. I will give it my best shot!”
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request via email to gzabka@aol.com.”
Alumni Lecture, March 9, 2013, at DePauw. He is a professor at George Washington University’s School of Medicine and Health Sciences as well as a 1998 Nobel Prize winner.
ALUMNI REUNION WEEKEND 2013 – Members of the Class of 1953 Row 1: Madelyn Hatch Bogue; Marilyn Hatch Schmidt; Susan “Sue” Stark Bastian; Carla Andrews Heskett; Mary Dee “Dede” Stiefenhoefer Chamberlin; Mary Ann Foust Lemon. Row 2: Elizabeth “Liz” Class Payne; Robert “Bob” A. Schilling; David E. Durham; Louis “Lou” O. Carr; Donald R. Roberts; Thomas E. Driscol; David J. Morehead. Row 3: Philip “Phil” Steinberg; Duane A. Patterson; Bruce Walker; Vern T. Kraushaar; Sylvia Johnson Chambers; Granville Chambers; Donna James Smith.
1964
Janet Graves Teeguarden is professor of mathematics at Ivy Tech Community College in Indianapolis. She was awarded both a NISOD (National Institute for Staff and Organizational Development) Excellence Award and an AMATYC (American Mathematical Association of TwoYear Colleges) Teaching Excellence Award in 2011. Janet was a member of the DePauw faculty for 20 years. She is a recent department chair, former president of InMATYC (Indiana affiliate of AMATYC), and
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George Zabka ’51, and her daughter, Alisa, recently published an updated and revised digital version of the novel re-titled Anne of Warwick, The Last Plantagenet Queen. George says, “I would like to inform classmates and other friends of Paula that if they possess a digital reader, I would be pleased to send them a free copy of the revised novel from Amazon in her memory. They need only send me a
ALUMNI REUNION WEEKEND 2013 – Members of the Class of 1958 Row 1: James H. Boyd; Nancie Clark Williams; Janet Prindle Seidler; Nancy Lindquist Temple; Sharon “Shari” Moore Robinson; Marilyn “Jo” Hansen Lancaster; Mary McCorkle Sondee; Sharon Williams Ubben. Row 2: Constance “Connie” Evans Claar; Carolyn Hancock Cleland; Nancy Hadley Wilhelm; George L. Mazanec; Judith “Judy” Blang Locke; Emily “Laurie” Hooton Hamilton; Carolyn T. Jones; Timothy “Tim” H. Ubben. Row 3: Robert “Bob” D. Britigan Jr.; Thomas “Tom” A. Lancaster; Patrick M. Ewing; Theodore D. Driscol; Daniel “Reed” Scism; Walter “Wally” W. Sampson Jr.; Belinda “Kay” Nickel Watts; Albert “Al” A. Watts Jr. Row 4: Julia “Julie” Whitney Dawson; Howard N. Greenlee Jr.; Jason J. Kesler; Martha Moore Trowbridge; Gary G. Barnes; Thomas “Tom” L. Turk; Charles “Chuck” E. Ray. Row 5: Edward “Ed” L. Unterberg; Robert “Bob” G. Burney; Daniel E. Lewis Jr.
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