Bill ’90 and leann williams ely ’90 live in iowa, where they have two
Chris Paul ’07 and Samantha Eggert ’10—July 27, 2013
Jennifer Golz ’08 and Mike Reidl—June 22, 2013
FRONT ROW (LEFT TO RIGHT): Kevin Megli ’07, Stephanie Sorensen ’12, Karin Rudd ’10, Sable Helvie Schwab ’08, Ashley Witzke Lanfair ’10, Aunda Wang Paul ’06, Cassandra Milleville ’10, Cat Manning ’11, Tim Schmeling ’11, Arnold Salgado ’13, Dustin Paul ’04.
FRONT ROW (LEFT TO RIGHT): Cory Bieber ’10, Katie Dura ’08, Katie Schneider ’08, Laura Rogers ’08, Jenny Golz Reidl ’08.
SECOND ROW: Joe Garbin ’10, Jim Schwab ’10, Drew Culver ’08, Ryan Cannady ’99, Chris Paul ’07, Samantha Eggert Paul ’10, Beth Beadle Legue ’09, Kim Sorensen Megli ’08, Brittany Wisniewski ’13, Cory Bieber ’10, Amanda Sicoli ’11, Britt Anderson ’11, Chelsea De Jonge ’10, Emma Poland ’12, Carly Kirven ’11, Jessica DeMory ’11.
SECOND ROW: Kevin Beck ’11, Ann Marie Albright ’08, Bridget McCune ’08, Kate Latshaw ’09, Monyca Fisher ’08, Jenna Finley Young ’08, Kate Moon ’10, Jamie Lythberg ’08, Jesse Temple ’07.
THIRD ROW: Kevin Beck ’11, Bryce Goodman ’10, Brendan Cameron ’07, Jaran Rutledge ’08, Andrew Paul ’14, Brian Paul ’13, Nick Morris ’07, Jared Zanger ’16, Brian Cheney ’07, Jordan Zanger ’16, Dave Connelly ’07, Sarah Wallen Connelly ’05, Andrew Warwick ’07, Ben Fitzpatrick ’08, Adam Zanger ’04.
Phillips continues his stint as a world traveler, having just returned from three months in Johannesburg, South Africa, where he was working on an IT project for Standard Bank. He says: “The work was interesting simply because of the exhilarating number of accents in the room at any one time. I was also there during the national elections, which were the first for the Born Free generation, those born after the end of apartheid in 1994.” He did get in a little sightseeing, including a weekend in Cape Town, a visit to the Cradle of Humankind anthropological sites (including Sterkfontein Cave), and a safari through Kruger National Park! ❯ Ted and Julia Heller Gray also get around, having just celebrated their 50th birthdays by spending a long weekend away from the kids in New Orleans. They are in the middle of selling their home in Chicago and moving to the northern suburbs closer to where they both work. Ted, a reference librarian at the Deerfield Public Library, has been digitizing the old videos of his 1990s band, DragKing. You can check them out on YouTube! Their daughter, Kate Gray ’15, will be a senior at Knox in the fall. ❯ Laurel Andrew reports that daughter Victoria finished her sophomore year at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland and son Ian will be a freshman at the University of Miami—she and husband Victor Onufrieff will be empty nesters in the fall. Lauri volunteers most of her time to Knox and other educationally focused nonprofits and hopes to get back into the swimming pool for laps soon. She’s also working on a couple of goals to honor her 50th—walking around Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, and hiking to the summit of Mt. Rose, Nevada. Good luck with that, Lauri. If anyone can do it, it’s you! ❯ Brian Williams accepted the position of vice president and director of faculty development and grant
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programs at our own Associated Colleges of the Midwest. He and wife Catherine Lemmer are moving back to Evanston and look forward to participating again in Chicago Knox Club events. Their daughter, Cydney, just completed her freshman year at New York University. ❯ Karen Kampwirth is working on her half of a new book, tentatively titled 100 Years of LGBT Politics in Nicaragua. She and her co-author were fortunate to have the opportunity to present their preliminary research results in Nicaragua in May, mostly to groups of LGBT activists, thanks to a collaborative research grant from Knox that was funded through a Mellon grant. ❯ Our condolences to Kurt Lofgren ’86 on the loss this past spring of his father, Lars. ❯ And now for my personal 50th excitement! It was my goal to finish my MDiv by my 50th birthday, a feat I managed at Luther Seminary in St. Paul, Minnesota, just after turning 49 (yes, I am one of the babies in our class). I was ordained in March as a pastor in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and received a call to a pair of small congregations in rural Waterville and Greenleaf, Kansas. I, too, am an empty nester, as my son, Thomas Gustafson, will be a junior at Iowa State in the fall. Now it is just me and the dog, busy with moving and a new job and waiting for your calls, e-mails, letters, and texts so I’ll have something to write about in the next column! Class Correspondent: Susan Bantz 315 E. Walnut, Waterville, KS 66548, 563-554-9213, bibliophile@knoxalumni.org
1987 As I write this, I am preparing to send my daughter off to her freshman year of college. Where did the time go? I had a chance to catch up with Joanne Lynch Rancich on a trip home
over spring break. She is a successful real estate agent in the Chicago area. Unfortunately, my other gal pals couldn’t meet up with us. I attended a D.C. Knox Club event in June, where I spent some time with fellow alums and met the president. ❯ From Barbara Kupperman O’Connor: “Kyna Byerly and Jeremy Duke ’90 have their eldest child going off to college in the fall. I’m still waiting for my little one to be completely potty trained! He’ll be in pre-K in August. My spouse and I went to a great Kansas City Knox Club alumni event at the American Jazz Museum, where we saw several alumni, including Valerie Blevins ’86 and Barb Lee Fay ’61. Eric Wilson ’84 arrived just as we were leaving. I saw several Knox alumni on August 3, 2013, at the funeral of Madhavi Samala ’88 in Naperville: Trish Kenny ’86, Brigid Leahy ’89, Leah Vaselopulos, Mary Doyle, Gillian MacChesney Hampton, and Colleen Scimeca (please forgive me if I forgot to mention anyone). Others who were there in spirit but unable to attend were Anna Leahy ’88, Shannon McClure Shirvan, and Gautam Mehra. Madhavi will be missed. Class Correspondent: Lisabeth Simms Belman 12701 York Mill Lane, Clarksburg, MD 20871-4034, 301-972-3751, lisabeth1208@verizon.net
1988 Congrats to everyone who turned out for the 25th Reunion of the Class of ’88. How awesome it is to go to a school where original friendships are cherished and at Reunions, new ones can be kindled. It’s great to see people push themselves out of their comfort zone and connect on levels not connected before and connect to people that for some reason were not in that original 1988