elementary education and taught kindergarten for more than 30 years.
Jack McBride, 78, of Monmouth, died June 4, 2011. He graduated with a degree in physical education and was a member of the baseball, basketball and football teams. The Monmouth native’s time at MC was interrupted by a twoyear stint in the U.S. Army. McBride earned his master’s degree in education from the University of Illinois and his Ph.D. from the University of Oklahoma. He was a professor and coach at Culver-Stockton College and later served as vice president of Iowa Wesleyan College. He is a member of three athletic halls of fame, including Reedley College, where he received his associate’s degree. He was preceded in death by a brother, Andy McBride ’34. Survivors include his wife of 57 years, Betty Duncan McBride ’56, daughters Julie McBride ’77 and Amy McBride Basic ’81, and brothers Don McBride ’53 and Jerry McBride ’58.
1957 Barbara Rowland Robertson of Orange, Calif., died June 27, 2010. She majored in elementary education and was a member of Pi Beta Phi. Survivors include a sister, Carole Rowland Salisbury ’61.
1958 Richard Drees of Wheaton, Ill., died March 7,
2011. He majored in physical education and was a member of the football team and Theta Chi. He spent all but seven of his 34 years in education as a mathematics teacher at Willowbrook High School in Villa Park, Ill.
1959 Nancy Classon Douglas, 73, of Rochester,
Minn., died April 19, 2011, after a long and valiant struggle with ALS. She graduated with a degree in biology and was a member of Kappa Delta. Her nursing career included teaching positions at several locations, including the University of Colorado Medical Center.
1961 James Knox, 71, of Carlsbad, Calif., died Jan.
30, 2011. He also attended Reedley College on a baseball scholarship and served in the U.S. Army from 1961 to 1964. His career included the fields of insurance and sales.
Clair “Bud” McRoberts of Avon, Ohio, died
May 1, 2011. McRoberts studied economics and was a member of Theta Chi and the Octopus Club. He was also a three-sport athlete, and his excellence in basketball led to his induction into the M Club Hall of Fame in 1988. His 1,273 points were ranked second in school history at the time of his graduation, and his 41 points in a single game also stood as a school record.
Steven Ranney, 61, of Rogers, Ark., died Feb. 6,
2011. He completed his schooling at the University of Iowa, graduating with a degree in broadcasting and film, and he also served in the Navy. He followed several family members to Monmouth, including his parents, the Hon. G. Durbin Ranney ’33 and Betty Marshall Ranney ’38.
Joan Connor Smith, 71, of Sterling, Ill., died March 13, 2011. She majored in classics and
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was a member of Kappa Delta. A homemaker for most of her adult life, she was also the business manager for the Homewood/Flossmoor Credit Union. Survivors include her husband of 47 years, Dale Smith ’63.
1963 Dr. Carl Unsicker, 68, of Fairbanks, Alaska, died May 26, 2011. He had just returned home from his 22nd trip to Tanzania, where he had provided voluntary medical assistance off and on since 2000. He majored in biology and was a member of the football team and Alpha Tau Omega. Unsicker later attended the University of Iowa School of Medicine and, while in the Navy, completed his internship and orthopedic residency at the U.S. Naval Hospital in Portsmouth, Va. He also received an MBA from the University of Phoenix. Unsicker had orthopedic practices in Wilmington, N.C., Salt Lake City, Utah, and Fairbanks.
1967 Janet Swanson Stanton, 70, of Appleton, Wis., died Aug. 13, 2010. She was a member of Kappa Delta.
1970 William Young of West Seneca, Calif., died
March 18, 2011. He graduated with a degree in East Asian studies and received a related Ph.D. in Far Eastern history from New York University. In between, he earned a master’s degree from St. John’s University.
1971 Danielle DePalma Weingarten, 61, of Apple Valley, Calif., died June 12, 2011. She graduated with a degree in political science and was a member of Alpha Xi Delta before receiving her J.D. from DePaul University. She had a successful career as an attorney at Chicago Title before studying nursing and working as an ICU nurse at St. Bernardine Medical Center in San Bernardino, Calif.
1972 William “Billy” Bayer, 60, of Lake Bluff, Ill., died Jan. 17, 2011. He studied English at Monmouth before graduating from Lake Forest College. Bayer spent most of his career as a financial stockbroker and served as a vice president for the last 18 years at PTO Securities in Chicago. Lawrence Stryjewski of Chicago, Ill., died
Sept. 24, 2010. He graduated with a degree in art and was a member of the football team and Theta Chi. Since 1989, he had been the controller for People’s Gas.
1978 Terry Ticho Miller, 54, of Everett, Wash., died
Dec. 17, 2010. A member of Kappa Delta at Monmouth, she completed her undergraduate education at DePaul University. Miller received her master’s degree from the University of Oregon and went on to a career in social work, including 25 years as social services director at the Bethany of the Northwest.
1993 Arthur Bernstein, 40, of East Dundee, Ill., died Jan. 2, 2011. While majoring in government and classics, he was a member of Zeta Beta
Hershberger ’49 part of MC’s rich music tradition Floyd Hershberger, 84, of McCook, Neb., died March 7, 2011, from complications of Alzheimer’s disease. Hershberger not only majored in music at Monmouth, but he and his brother, David Hershberger ’51 helped continue the college’s bagpipe tradition. He was also a member of the track and football teams and Tau Kappa Epsilon. Following graduation, Hershberger taught for one year in DePue, Ill., before starting his starting his master’s degree at Colorado Hershberger plays University in Boulder, the pipes in this Colo., where he met circa 1948 photo. and married his wife of 59 years, who survives. The Hershbergers moved to McCook in 1954, and Floyd was the vocal teacher at both the high school and McCook Junior College. In 1956, he started the Hershberger Piano and Organ Company, which grew into a full-line music store. Among his many gifts to his alma mater through the years was a clavinova electric piano for the Wells Theater. He personally delivered the piano, driving it from McCook and pressing on despite his van being totaled by a deer en route. Hershberger also returned to campus to perform at the 100th birthday celebration for one of his favorite faculty members, Gracie Peterson, singing “Heather on the Hill” from Brigadoon. Survivors also include his brother, David, and David’s wife, Cynthia Noyes Hershberger ’51.
Tau. Bernstein, who was an attorney in private practice, earned his J.D. from Valparaiso University in 1999. Survivors include his wife, Elizabeth Jones Bernstein ’93.
Word has also been received of the following deaths: Ruby Humphrey, 79, director of the student
center from 1968 to 1974, died March 23, 2011. Survivors include a daughter, Gale Humphrey Crislip ’77.
Warren Frenell ’48 and Joyce Aszman Frenell ’49, both of Naples, Fla. died Dec. 20, 2010, and Nov. 16, 2010, respectively. Warren was a member of Tau Kappa Epsilon, and Joyce was active in Kappa Kappa Gamma.
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