This fall, Knox awarded the first David Hartmann/Sigma Nu
1972 John Alberts writes, “On November 22, I received a kidney transplant. So far everything is going well; however, conditions are conditional as the risk of rejection is something that has to be always guarded against. Nevertheless, right now things are proceeding positively. I had been on the transplant list for more than five years and got the call that they had a possible match. Surgery was done at Northwestern Memorial Hospital. I am very thankful for the kind act of the donor and the donor’s family. I know that I was one of two kidney recipients from this same donor, so their act of kindness changed at least two lives. Thanks again to you for your thoughts and support and for spreading the news about the donor’s generosity. Each day is better than the last.” ❯ Bruce Arfken writes, “A little over a year ago, David “DW” Hartmann ’74 died after a second courageous battle with cancer. DW had always fought against the odds, something we all admired then and continued to admire in the post-Knox years. A number of us discussed what we could do to honor him and eventually decided on establishing an endowed scholarship in his honor. Earlier this year, Bill Durall, Steve Suskin, and I kicked off the effort with strong support from the Sigma Nu community. To date, we’re more than halfway to permanently establishing the endowment, thanks to the donations of 18 contributors, Classes 1969 through 1974. Also, this fall, Knox awarded the first David Hartmann/Sigma Nu scholarship. Anybody interested in contributing to this scholarship fund should contact Knox, or alternatively, either Bill, Steve, or me.” ❯ Nancy Barrick Carlin shares, “Alumni Hall is jaw-dropping. Next up is a new art center.” ❯ William and Susan Wessels Hiatt write, “We were in Chicago in November, where William received the Distinguished Scientist Award from the American Heart Association— truly a great honor and a celebration of his contributions in vascular disease research. The Hiatt family is growing; we greeted our third grandchild in early January. Baby boy will join older sisters Sydney (five) and Maelle (20 months).” ❯ Lindon Lewis writes, “I retired after 30+ years at Ball Aerospace in Boulder, Colorado. Last day of work was December 31.” ❯ Jim Rosenthal writes, “After 23 years with the same emergency medicine group, I decided to make a change, and I took a job in July 2014 with Kaiser Permanente. It’s interesting and different.” ❯ Bob Shullaw writes that he and Lara continue to enjoy their ballroom dancing and are starting to up their game. In October, they competed in Fred Astaire Dance Studios week-long National Dance Competition in Orlando, Florida. They took first place as an amateur couple in American Smooth Bronze Closed Championship and Scholarship divisions within their (over-the-hill-gang) age group. Lara also took first place in women’s Solo Exhibition and in Novelty competitions while dancing with her pro partner, Ben Seifert, from Fred Astaire Woodlands studio. She defeated
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more than 13 other ladies from across the nation to take each of those titles. Her Novelty dance (a dramatic bolero) was so well-received that event organizers asked her and Ben to perform it again during the professional show that was part of the closing ceremony dinner-dance. Quite an honor for someone competing in her first national competition. ❯ Bill Sowle writes, “I thoroughly enjoy my new Roadtrek motor home, following the 72-degree weather. I spent May in Prescott and June in Flagstaff, Arizona, at art and music fests. Enjoyed a week in San Diego, California, sailing with the Scottsdale Sea and Ski Club. Up to Laguna Beach Festival of Art, a spectacular mix of food, jazz, and stage production of art masterpieces, a masterpiece in itself with full orchestra. The Colorado Trail Foundation has weeklong trail crews that volunteer to improve the trail that runs 486 miles from Denver to Durango. We worked on a section near Cottonwood Pass at over 12,000 feet with temperatures in the 30s at night. On my daughter’s urging, I started an Instagram at wwsowle so friends are able to follow my travels. This winter I will ski around the west with Phoenix and Scottsdale Ski Clubs.” ❯ Bryce Suderow writes, “My co-author and I won the Douglas Southall Freeman Award for for best Civil War book of 2014 for volume 2 of The Petersburg Campaign. This is the most prestigious of all Civil War book awards.” Find it at amzn.com/1611211042. ❯ Steve Suskin writes, “I just finished directing Lend Me A Tenor for Little Theatre of Norfolk. Next is Other Desert Cities for Little Theatre of Virginia Beach. My REAL job as director of development for Virginia Stage Company began last May. My daughter Jacqueline’s book, Go Ahead And Like It, was just picked up by Random House for distribution.” ❯ Ross Termin writes, “Lois and I visited Chicago over the summer for a wedding, and we had a miniADE reunion dinner with Dennis Reynolds ’71 and Kathy Keller ’73, Dean and Christy Rowinski Turner, and Tom Kroupa ’73. Everyone was happy to oblige Lois with embarrassing stories from our youth. A good time was had by all. I was blown away by the changes in the city. My dad’s old place on Fulton Market is now one of the top restaurants in Chicago, and the Fulton Cold Storage across the street is about to become Google Chicago. It was a great visit, but it’s 74 degrees in Miami today (December 1), and I’m staying here!” ❯ Hope you all enjoy these notes from our classmates as much as I do. Visit our Facebook page—Knox College Class of ’72—for up-to-the-minute news between editions of Knox Magazine. Class Correspondent: Wendy Scherwat Ducourneau 17800 Community Street, Northridge, CA 91325-3928, 818-776-8669, wjsd@jps.net
1973 Class Correspondent: Nancy Bakos Hunter 5280 Easley Way, Golden, CO 80403-1161, 303-2783163, geo_hunters@q.com
1974 It sure was good to see so many of you on campus for our 40th Reunion. What an incredible time we all had! The Siegal-Schwall concert was over the moon, and it attracted alums from other classes, including Amy Dooha ’73 and Greg Divers ’73. Thank you, Darryl Coburn, for making the concert happen, and thanks also to the many others who donated funds or helped Darryl find a “fat-ass stool” (Darryl’s words). On the Knox ’74 Facebook page, many of you indicated the concert was a highlight. ❯ There were other highlights, too. Conversations were unusually good, and many of us commented on how we talked to folks during the Reunion who we had not known at all during college. We also saw the unveiling of Alumni Hall, which is now fully restored. Discussion centered on those ’74 alums whom we still cannot find. If you are reading this and have not received an e-mail from me this year, then we don’t know where you are. Contact the College or me. We’d love to “remember you.” We also discussed having another Reunion for our 45th. If the 40th was so much fun, surely the 45th will be, too. ❯ Here are updates from classmates we have not heard from in while: Bruce Pick, who lives in Mystic, Connecticut, writes to say that he left Knox in the spring of our sophomore year. “I’ve been doing database analysis and programming for Data Based Development Systems in Connecticut for six years now. I’m married to Jackie Courtney Pick; we have two grown children.” Bruce lived in the CO-OP and remembers Debbie Axner, Pam Brockman ’75, and “Eric—the guy who helped me out patching a wall when I put a hole in the stairwell.” ❯ Laura Moore Case is an admissions advisor at Oklahoma City (OKC) Community College. She says, “After graduating from Knox, I began working at the Illinois Department of Public Aid, and that is where I met my husband, Harold. We were married in 1976 and have lived in Illinois, Texas, and, now, in Oklahoma for the past 20 years. We have two children, and Harold recently retired from his job as dean of student financial aid at OKC Community College. In my spare time, I like to do genealogy and scrapbooking. Stu Harvey ’74 is the executive director of planning and research—small world. I noticed that Claudia Crump Cochran is also here in OKC. I would like to see Joyce Moeller Justice, who lives in Jenks, Oklahoma, and meet up with Janet Koeber Fox, who lives in Florida (they’re two of my old suitemates).” ❯ Trudy Faloon ’77wrote to let us know that she lives “in Austin with my husband, Steve Stump (aka Frank) ’72. We have two wonderful dogs. Life is good.” ❯ Dave McKillip says: “I just completed my 11th year on the Prairie Fire football team staff, the last five of which were coaching the defensive line. I plan on working one more year, as a Department of the Army civilian at the Rock Island Arsenal, before retiring for the second time. Wife Dia and I moved into our house on Lake