classnotes to take over our communications in the alumni news. If you didn’t get a note from us personally, it is because we don’t have your email address. Please send it to us and update us on what you’ve been up to in recent years. We want to stay in touch as time marches on, 38 years past graduation. We did hear from many friends; here are some of the stories they shared:
students who have graduated and are pursuing their professional life. The reconnection with some of the alumni has been a nice aspect of these activities as well. I’d be glad to keep in touch with you to let you know about upcoming College events. I encourage my fellow classmates to become involved with the students and their career pursuits.
30 years. So we are having a 25-30-60 trip to Belize for a couple weeks to celebrate all that stuff. I was published in an amazing coffee table book called Art of the National Parks: Historic Connections, Contemporary Interpretations and am honored to be included with some of this country’s top landscape painters. In April 2014, I was also published in Southwest Art Magazine.
Irene Silverio Kane – After completing a master’s degree in social work at the University of Pittsburgh, Irene moved to Northern Virginia where she worked in the counseling department of a health maintenance organization and later as co-director of an outpatient mental health center in Washington, D.C. In 1980, Irene married Mike, a fellow Philadelphian. They currently live in Vienna, Va., where Irene is a school social worker for Fairfax County Public Schools. Irene and Mike have four children. Alexa is a reading recovery teacher with a master’s degree in teaching from University of Virginia, and has two boys, Theodore and Nathan. Jackie is a special education teacher with a master’s degree in teaching from University of Virginia. She married in May 2013 and is expecting her first child in September. While working at the National Institutes of Health, Michael earned his master’s degree in electrical engineering from George Mason University. He works now for a private firm specializing in video conferencing technology for health care and education. Sean is a second lieutenant in the U.S. Marine Corps and is training as an aviator in Pensacola, Fla. All of the three eldest children and their families live close by to Mike and Irene and serve as a great source of joy.
Betsy Stahl Worthen – For myself, I have just mere months until that big number becomes a part of my life, so I am in denial. Our big celebration year was 2013 since my husband, Ken, and I celebrated our 25th wedding anniversary and our daughter’s graduation from Princeton University. I was fortunate enough to take advantage of an early retirement package from the Neshaminy School District after working for them as a school social worker and director of student assistance services. I use my retirement to do some volunteer work, audit a class at Princeton, read, cook and keep in touch with friends. While my daughter was in college, she was a varsity athlete so it was nice to have the availability to travel to her meets. My husband is a track coach so I try to support his teams as much as I can.
Rob Stevens – I live in Allentown and work in corporate communications at Lehigh Valley Health Network. I have been at it for 27 years; before that I was tech writer with Air Products and a freelance journalist. My wife, Donna, and I have a 27-year-old son, Dan, and a 19-year-old daughter, Abby. We also have two rescued pups, Bella and Bono. I’ve stayed in the Lehigh Valley since graduating except for the three years I spent in Africa with the Peace Corps and USAID. Additionally, I teach at Muhlenberg College. In my free time, I enjoy swimming laps, riding my bike, and listening to music.
Sue Trummel LaRose – I moved out to Missoula, Mont., five years ago. The outdoor lifestyle really appeals to me; in fact I’m going snowshoeing this afternoon! I work remotely as a marketing consultant for a photographer and underwater videographer in Philadelphia and will continue as an estate gardener for one family this summer. My son, Willie, lives and works in Los Angeles, and I try to get there to visit when I can. Amy Greiner Hawley – I’ve been attending career counseling events for Moravian College students for the past 10-plus years. I’ve been reviewing their resumes, conducting mock interviews to prepare students for job interviews, and discussing the job market in the Lehigh Valley region. As a commercial-industrial broker in the Allentown area, I’ve been able to place students in internships and careers with local employers that have been my clients. There have been some dinner programs at the College where students interact with alumni who are employed with local companies. I have kept in touch with some of the
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Ruth Kirby Child Megill – I have been married to Jack Megill ’75 for 34 years. We live in Mount Holly, N.J., where I’m a dentist and Jack works for Bristol-Myers Squibb in Hopewell, N.J., as a research scientist. We have three children; our two daughters are married and we have one beautiful 14-month-old grandson and two wonderful step-grandchildren. I belong to a ladies “birthday” club, and we go somewhere special every year for those milestone birthdays. This year it was my turn to choose since it’s my big “6-0”, so we headed off to Charleston, S.C. in May for a four-day getaway. Our family also vacations every summer in the Outer Banks, N.C., and has been for 20 years or so. Last September our younger daughter had her destination wedding in Duck, N.C. Betty-Jean Herrmann Wrase – I continue to work at the Stony Brook University’s School of Social Welfare as a clinical assistant professor and the director of field education. I still enjoy working, but I do sometimes think about retirement. I have two wonderful grandchildren and enjoy them so much. They live very close so I get to see them often. Susie Hyer – I turn 60 in August and to celebrate I am going on a June hut trip to paint with Dave Santillanes and some other crazy painters, visiting a 10th mountain division hut that you hike to, similar to the one we snowshoed to in January at 11,000 feet to paint in the freezing cold. On top of being 60, Jeff and I are celebrating our official 25th anniversary, as well as being together for
June Rhoda – I’m back living in the Philadelphia suburbs, Huntingdon Valley, after 20 years in the White Mountains of New Hampshire where I enjoyed skiing, hiking, horseback riding, raising a son and a daughter, and working at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center as a nurse practitioner in oncology. I continue to work full time, but I’m creating more time to travel and paint, following Susie Hyer to the Rocky Mountains, Sedona and Montana for a visit with Sue Trummel LaRose where my granddaughter was born. I’ve also been fortunate to make my way to West Africa, Mali, when my daughter was in the Peace Corps and Sierra Leone for volunteer work. A group, including Scott Burke, Rich Ziegler, Lisa Mansback Berk, Irene Silverio Kane, Chris Moore Young, Susie Hyer, George Bork and Kemper Morse, enjoyed a nostalgic party at Gary Boyajian and his wife’s home in Saddle River, N.J. The event allowed the friends to travel down memory lane, inspired by Gary’s classic collection of MoMo group shots that span our years together at Moravian. Carol Mitrani Santoro – married to Jim Santoro – lives in Seattle, Wash. She recently shared exciting news of the sale of her retail bookstore – reported in The New York Times in April. She owned Santoro’s Books in the Phinney Ridge/Greenwood area of Seattle, and she recently sold her store to Tom Nissley, an author, former Amazon books editor and eight-time champion on Jeopardy! Santoro is keeping the Santoro’s Books name for her wholesale business providing books for schools and libraries.
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