of six professors emeriti at Ivy Tech Community College in Indianapolis. Janet retired in 2014 after a 50-year career teaching collegiate mathematics, 20 of which were at DePauw. She and her husband, Bill, split their time between homes in Sun City West, Ariz., and Birmingham, Ala. (home of daughter Sheryl Teeguarden Riley ’92 and son-in-law Douglas A. Riley ’91, and three grandchildren). Visitors are always welcome.
1965
DePauw alumni on the Alaska trip, June 17-24, 2016. (See photo.) David T. Prosser Jr., former Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice, returned to DePauw, Sept. 20, 2016, for a Collectors’ Talk about his love for Japanese abstract prints. His collection was included inthe show Abstract Traditions in The Richard E. Peeler Art Center at DePauw.
1967
Carol Endicott Brown retired as a registered nurse teaching health lessons after 18 years in the Polk County Schools in Winter Haven, Fla. Carol enjoys quilting, and she and her husband spend time at their cabin in north Georgia and with their grandchildren. John W. O’Neil Jr. was honored with an Outstanding Lay Servant Award by the Rocky Mountain Conference United Methodist Church. Jack and his wife, Pamela Siemering O’Neil, live in Breckenridge, Colo. John’s email address is jwoneil45@gmail.com.
1968
Jon R. Gresley was appointed HUD’s regional administrator in Region 9, which includes the states of Arizona, California, Hawaii and Nevada, and United States territories in the Outer Pacific. Rudy H. Volkmann is working to secure publication of his compositions, arrangements and contracted releases for more than three dozen titles. Among those is Greencastle Suite, a four-movement brass quintet composed while he was a student at DePauw. Rudy retired from most of his musical activities except composing in 2000 to open and operate the Augusta Fencers Club, where he teaches five nights a
Rudy H. Volkmann ’68 week. Returning to competition, he won a number of national medals and competed in two world championships. In 2006 he won the bronze medal in the Veteran World Championships in 60+ Men’s Sabre in Bath, England. He is author of America’s most widely read encyclopedic book on foil fencing, Magnum Libre d’Escrime. In his spare time, he gardens, repairs and restores string instruments, and presents education jazz assemblies in public schools. Rudy’s email address is rvolk1@ comcast.net. (See photo.)
1969
W. Hugh Finson is an Illinois Circuit Court judge. He was inducted into the Monticello High School Hall of Fame in October 2016. Alan M. Hux received the Excellence in Continuing Legal Education Award from the Indiana Continuing Legal Education Forum (ICLEF), July 2016. Alan is an attorney with Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP. He serves on the ICLEF board of directors and is seminar chairperson for the organization’s annual Year in Review continuing legal education seminar. Barbara Zaring presented an exhibition of her new abstract works and gave a talk at the Encore Gallery in Taos, N.M., July 21 through Sept. 11, 2016. You can visit her website at barbarazaring.com. A video of her show is available at https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=XRvvJxB7MU.
1970
Richard A. Dean was selected by his peers to be included in The Best Lawyers in America® for 2017. Richard’s practice area is mass tort litigation.
Three members of the Class of 1960 met in the mountains of western North Carolina in September to celebrate the 100th birthday of Fred Bergmann, former professor of English at DePauw, who died three years ago. Ralph E. Sheese Jr., Stephen C. Fox and John W. Slater III, were among the participants in DePauw’s first junior semester abroad program at Zell am See, Austria, which Dr. Bergmann led with his family. They used photographs to represent others who were unable to attend.
DePauw alumni on the Alaska trip, June 17-24, 2016, included Suzanne Stratton Perozzi ’61, Nancy Curtis Stocking ’55, Elizabeth Curtis Cohn ’59, Melinda Paine Geraldson ’65, Susan Ferry Bartizal ’65, Donald J. Perozzi ’59, Earl McGimpsey, Susan Webster McGimpsey ’63, Mary W. Carver ’75, Raymond I. Geraldson Jr. ’62 and Fred J. Bartizal Jr. ’65.
JOHN B. NORBERG ’70 was inducted into the Indiana Journalism Hall of Fame, Sept. 17, 2016. He was recognized for his lifetime of work spanning more than four decades. John’s columns appeared for more than 43 years in the Brazil Times (1971-72) and Lafayette Journal and Courier (1972-2014). His columns focused on the often humorous and poignant aspects of everyday life. Several were reprinted in DePauw Magazine. He was also an investigative reporter and feature writer as well as a nationally recognized speechwriter for Purdue University presidents (2000-2013) while continuing his newspaper column. John received more than 50 state and national reporting awards. He is author of seven nonfiction books, several covering flight and space. FALL 2016 DEPAUW MAGAZINE 33