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Susan Dombrowski, ’89, is employed as a staff scientist/bioinformatics training specialist at the National Center for Biotechnology Information, a division of the National Library of Medicine at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, MD. She would love to hear from old friends, and can be reached at: 2000 Huntington Ave., #1519, Alexandria, VA, 22303; e-mail: drdbrow@hotmail.com
90-94 Laura Meixner Cole, ’90, has been promoted to associate professor of chemistry as well as receiving tenure at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. Laura received a Ph.D. in analytical chemistry from the University of Florida. She and her husband, Scott,
live in Stevens Point, WI, and would love to hear from old friends. They can be reached by e-mail at: lcole@uwsp.edu.
County Juvenile Justice Alternative Education Program. She lives in Dallas with her husband, Tim, and their two children.
Patrick Maher, ’90, is living in Thailand and is conducting research on brain deformities found in fossilized gecko remains. He is attempting to prove his theory that the climactic change 5000 years ago in the Siam basin resulted in the expansion of gecko skulls and, in turn, brain deformity. The findings will be presented to a group of researchers in Bangkok at an academic conference in January 2002.
Sara Griffin, ’91, has graduated from Loyola University with a master of arts in pastoral counseling. Sara also has an M.Div. from Garrett Evangelical Theological Seminary, and is an ordained minister in the Detroit Conference of the United Methodist Church. She is employed part-time at the Horizon Community Services Clinic, Chicago, as their client services coordinator.
Jennifer Schomer Reemtsma, ’90, has been appointed assistant principal of Greenbriar Elementary School in Fort Worth, TX, for the 2001-02 school year. She spent the previous year as the education coordinator for the Dallas
Dan Wilcox, ’91, has joined Bay Street Orthopedics in Petoskey, after completing his orthopedic residency in June. He and his wife, Joelle Drader Wilcox, ’91, and their two children have moved to Petoskey.
Lisa Burns Johnson, ’92, in October will celebrate three years with GMAC Insurance as a territory sales manager and five years of marriage with her husband, Bill. They live in Jackson, and are preparing for their annual Jimmy Buffet trip with Ann Stacey, ’90. Sarah Paukstis, ’92, has earned her Ph.D. in chemical physics from Georgia Institute of Technology. She has accepted employment with a biophotonics company in Norcross, GA. Robert Barr, ’93, has been made a partner in the law firm Dettelbach, Sicherman & Baumgart. The firm is located in Cleveland, OH, and specializes in bankruptcy law. He and his wife, Jill Martindale Barr, ’93, live in University Heights, OH. Stephen Sheridan, ’93, now practices medicine in Hillman after earning his
The rest of the story, part II In the summer 2001 Io Triumphe, we challenged our readers to help identify the first five of these photos. Their responses are below. And we have sent a $25 gift certificate from the Albion College Bookstore to Marilynn Miller Justice, ’60, for submitting the winning caption for photo #6.
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Bells and whistles . . . Dean Smith, ’47, writes that this photo was taken in 1958 at his family’s home in Albion. Pictured (from left) are College organist F. Dudleigh Vernor, ’14; Dean Smith; his father, C. Reginald Smith; and College Choir director David Strickler. The organ pipe pictured was removed from the old College Chapel when Goodrich Chapel was constructed. It was presented to Vernor as a retirement gift, recognizing his service to Albion (19251958) as teacher of organ. “To our surprise,” says Smith, “Dud told us that the pipe was in the same key as the ‘Sweetheart of Sigma Chi’ song, and it was [part of] the chapel organ [at the time he composed] the music to the ‘Sweetheart’. Presently the organ pipe is at the Sigma Chi national headquarters.”
Why is this man smiling? According to the summer 1975 Albionews, John Huff, ’75, then president of the College’s Student Senate, “for more than three years . . . waged a frustrating battle with Amtrak and government officials to include a train stop for local citizens and Albion College students. His efforts paid off on May 23 when the first Albion stop was made by Amtrak, replete with bands, hundreds of local citizens and champagne for those boarding the train in Albion.” And there’s more: now, more than 25 years later, the train still stops twice a day in Albion.
Kelson Zehr, ’93, of Lansing, received a master’s degree in counseling from Oakland University in 1999. Kelson is a nationally certified and limited licensed professional counselor working as a consultant for Genex Services. Matthew Altman, ’94, of Bay City, received a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Chicago in June 2001. He is an assistant professor of philosophy at Drury University in Springfield, MO.
All work and no play? Dan Boggan, ’67, and Donna Grout Mouzard, ’69, were on a study date in Stockwell Memorial Library when this photo was taken in 196566. Boggan has gone on to city manager posts on both the East and West Coasts and today is chief operating officer of the NCAA and a College trustee. Mouzard, now living in Quebec, reports she is the mother of two grown children and a faculty member at Heritage College in a three-year early childhood education program.
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All dressed up and no place to go? Phyllis Wagner Gore Houghton, ’41, a member of the select Madrigal Singers (pictured) directed by Dr. Theodore Vosburgh, recalls that they “performed in churches, at Susanna Wesley Hall at Christmas and Thanksgiving, and in the chapel. It was a harmonious group both musically and in friendships. . . . Sixty-one years later I still remember these madrigal friends with warm memories.” And, she says, she is still singing at age 82. Thomas Andrews, ’40, editor of the 1940 Albionian, wrote to say that the singers also performed an “Albion ’Round the World” program on WJR-Radio on Feb. 13, 1940.
M.D. degree at Wayne State University School of Medicine. His wife, Meredith Haar, ’96, a graduate of the University of Michigan Dental School, practices dentistry in Hillman. They live in Alpena, and Stephen has taken interest in the genealogy of his family. He would like to thank professor Deborah Kanter of the History Department at Albion College for teaching him the importance of preserving the past.
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Thanks to Marilynn Miller Justice, ’60, for submitting her winning caption for this photo: “Hanging around Albion is an enlightening experience.”
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