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ODEAN CHASTAIN (BBA) got his degree in
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GEORGE PARKERSON (BA) is a
bio-chemistry and has been living in Pura Vida, Costa Rica, for 20 years.
volunteer for a nonprofit company on the UNO campus. gcparkerson@cox.net
LONNIE PIERSON DUNBIER (BA) is co-founder of the fine art website AskART.com. Dunbier also researches and writes artist biographies. He is widowed with two children and four grandchildren.
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RALPH AMBRUSTER (BGS)
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DAVID AUSTIN (BGE) used his degree to
writes: “The doors opened for me by my UNO degree have been incredible, starting with a career at IBM. Thank you, UNO!”
be accepted into the U.S. Air Force Officer Training School in 1966. Austin received an MBA from the University of Dayton in 1974. In 1978 Austin was assigned to NASA to assist in flying the first shuttle flight. He retired in 2003 and now volunteers with some substitute teaching. djaustin.ehs55@verizon.net
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in the Air Force and part of their degree completion program. Always wondered what happened to other classmates. I was in training to become a pilot but failed an eye test. Got out of the service in 1970 and had a career in air traffic control with the Federal Aviation Agency. Now retired and doing the grandpa thing. Love sports cars, video editing of family events and traveling in our Winnebago. Can’t believe the campus today.” tdsd@att.net
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PHILIP ADELMAN (BGS) spent 23 years in the
U.S. Air Force as a B-52 navigator then as an HC-130 rescue pilot. Adelman has been teaching at DeVry University in Phoenix for 32 years. He has a textbook called “Entrepreneurial Finance” published by Pearson. Adelman married his high school sweetheart, Hannah, and they have three children and seven grandchildren. adelman@cox.net
LLOYD ROITSTEIN (BS) recently was inducted into the Omaha Central High School Hall of Fame.
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ROBERT BLUNT JR. (BA) worked full time while
attending UNO to earn his degree in criminal justice. “Thanks to UNO criminal justice profs for not tossing me out when I fell asleep.” He worked for the FBI, U.S. Marshals and other law enforcement agencies. He lives in Golden, Colorado.
TERRY DUFFY (BA)
lives in Grand Blanc, Michigan, and points out that he is a “proud graduate of the last class of the University of Omaha. I was
NOTES
CLASS NOTES
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THERESE MCGRATH (BA) has
been assistant director of financial aid at Creighton University for 30 years.
Send your classnotes to www.unoalumni.org/classnotes. Or, post your note on the UNO Alumni Association Facebook page: www.facebook.com/UNOAlumni
Stan, and I travel nationally and internationally. I am a and was an associate editor of the board member of the recently published textbook “Family Joslyn Castle Trust, Medicine: Principles and Practice” Alliance Francaise, WALTER NOORDAM and a member of the (BA) earned a law degree at Assistance League. I am also a the University of Nebraska consultant with Minnesota Humanities College of Law. He says, though, that providing services to Omaha Public he had better luck in the job market Schools.” with a background in economics and jaybess2002@yahoo.com business than with his legal JIM HAVELKA (MS) is qualifications. He lives in Omaha. a superintendent search mrsonnyusa2@hotmail.com consultant for the Nebraska PEGGY O’DEA LIPPERT Rural Community Schools Association (MSW) retired and a consultant for the Nebraska 10 years ago. Department of Education. Havelka Lippert was served 27 years as a Nebraska elected female superintendent before retiring in 2010. delegate to the He lives in North Bend, Nebraska. Democratic jhavelka@gpcom.net National Convention and worked for PATRICK CONNELL (BS) Congressman Brad Ashford in the finance department. Lippert, who lives lives in Peoria, Arizona. In June 2016, in Papillion, Nebraska, writes: “I am the Connell was elected commandant of the department of the Arizona Marine Corps proud mother of Erinn Tighe (MSW), a League, equivalent to CEO of a major UNO graduate, who works in the PTSD state corporation. Clinic at the Omaha VA.” C2674751@yahoo.com
AUDREY PAULMAN ARMFIELD (BA) lives in Omaha
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JOHN ALLEY (BGS) retired Aug.
31 after 50 years of public service at the federal, state, county and city level. He was inducted into the Public Fleet Manager’s Hall of Fame this year during a ceremony in Nashville, Tennessee.
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JOAN BAKER STANDIFER (MS)
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MARIE HESSER (MS)
lives in Stillwater, Oklahoma. She is married with two children and five grandchildren. Hesser taught primary grades and ESL to adults during her career. She founded a nonprofit resale shop in 2002. To date, they have raised $2.8 million and given all proceeds to those in need in the community. Mariehesser5@gmail.com
STEPHANIE ended her teaching career ANDERSON (BS) as an elementary school principal for recently turned 60 years old. Omaha Public Schools. Standifer has a love for gardening, decorating, reading Anderson finished her master’s degree and traveling. She writes: “My husband, in 2009 and at one point she held four
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