Class Knox gown drinking scotch, the peaty nectar of the highlands.
2018 Class Correspondent: TBD If interested in serving as the correspondent, please contact Jennifer Gallas at jgallas@knox.edu.
2019 Class Correspondent: TBD If interested in serving as the correspondent, please contact Jennifer Gallas at jgallas@knox.edu.
2020 Class Correspondent: TBD If interested in serving as the correspondent, please contact Jennifer Gallas at jgallas@knox.edu.
Marriages and Unions Sharron Vincent Porter ’71 and Jim Hatfield on 4/28/18. Jim Munro ’77 and Charlene Beringer on 6/13/2020. Dana Johnson ’06 and Daniel Dibaba on 7/20/2019. Cailyn Healy ’07 and Tony Martuni on 10/19/2019. Clayton Besong ’10 and Ashley Chambers on 10/26/2019. Nicole Henniger ’10 and Perry Johnson on 5/22/2020. Chris Kottmyer ’10 and Yu Yang on 6/21/2019. Mary Vanden Plas ’10 and Ralph McGeary on 10/31/2020. Krystle Susmani ’10 and Zach Hunter on 10/13/18. Grace Fourman ’11 and Kevin Wickman ’09 on 7/21/2019. Hannah McMahon ’11 and Colin Reinhart on 8/19/2020. Brynne Downum ’13 and Mike Schroeder ’13 on 10/27/19.
Deaths Margaret Beard Hatfield ’36 on 9/22/2020. Mildred Nelson Schubert ’38 on 1/24/2020. Dorothy Green Sloan ’38 on 4/16/2020. Jayne Housel Marks ’40 on 9/5/2016. Mary Onken Styrt ’43 on 5/22/2018. Kenneth J. Wright ’43 in October 2018. Barbara J. Lemke ’44 on 7/14/2020. Robert E. Nickerson ’44 on 1/15/2020. Jean Scupham Ratko ’44 on 8/14/2020. Claire A. Varven ’44 on 5/30/2020. Annabeth McClelland Gay ’47 on 4/29/2020. Charles A. Fifield, Jr. ’48 on 9/1/2020. James S. Moser ’48 on 3/12/2020. Celia Gualandri Bernardi ’49 on 6/30/2019. Leo A. Cash Jr. ’49 on 1/29/2020. Mary Brown Cox ’49 on 5/9/2020. Marvel Evans Davis ’49 on 7/20/2020. Clark A. Shanahan ’49 on 4/22/2020. Carlene Nichols Barstow ’50 on 3/28/2020. Frances Grothe VanGiesen Carman ’50 on 7/20/2020. Carol Howland Gilpin ’50 on 8/14/2020. Ann Suitts Isaacson ’50 on 4/7/2020. Catherine Merrill Jenkins ’50 on 2/8/2020. Margaret Uhlir Mann ’50 on 4/25/2020. Patricia Oberlander Allender ’51 on 2/12/2016. Jerome C. Beam ’51 on 4/17/2019. Margaret Stouffer Campbell ’51 on 5/15/2020. George J. Rendall ’51 on 4/20/2020. Gretchen Shirck Sandager ’51 on 1/9/2020. Robert H. Coleman ’52 on 8/6/2020. Lorraine C. Grand ’52 on 7/8/2020. Robert L. Hegel ’52 on 9/27/2020. Charles E. Koch ’52 on 8/11/2020.
In Memoriam John P. McCall, 15th President of Knox College John P. McCall, the 15th president of Knox College, died May 22, 2020, in New Orleans, Louisiana. He led the school from 1982 to 1993. McCall received a bachelor’s degree from the College of Holy Cross and, after serving in the U.S. Army Signal Corps, a Ph.D. in English literature from Princeton University in 1955. Prior to his arrival at Knox, McCall held academic positions at Georgetown University and the University of Cincinnati. A noted scholar of the English poet and author Geoffrey Chaucer, McCall regularly taught English classes at Knox throughout his presidency. He also earned American Council of Learned Societies, Fulbright, and Guggenheim fellowships. As Knox president, McCall initiated a comprehensive strategic planning process that examined the College’s curriculum and administrative structure. During his tenure, Knox completed the $24 million Sesquicentennial Capital Development Program—a five-year fundraising effort that included restoration of Seymour Library, construction of T. Fleming Fieldhouse, and increases to academic and student scholarship endowments. He also made the controversial 1993 decision to drop the College's longtime athletics nickname, Siwash, which was changed to the current Prairie Fire moniker. While Knox didn’t use the old nickname in a pejorative way, evidence showed it had been used as an ethnic slur against Native Americans since the 1800s. After McCall retired from the College in 1993, he and his wife, Mary-Berenice McCall, joined the Peace Corps for two years and served in Turkmenistan. McCall’s volunteer work earned him recognition as “Person of the Week” on ABC Nightly News in 1993. Upon completing their Peace Corps service, the McCalls moved to New Orleans. Mary-Berenice McCall preceded her husband in death in 2004. FILE PHOTO
donor data, teaching others how to use the databases, and being a bridge between staff and managers. She lives contently with partner Sean Ramsey ’18, roommate Madison Belka, and their lovely Cat Boi. She hopes to become more involved in community and social justice issues in her hometown through volunteering and donations in the coming year. ❯ Jonathan Tupper passed away in early 2020, and his mother contacted Alumni Relations to notify Knox of his passing. Here is her message: “Jonathan Tupper, 25, died of mental illness in Chicago on January 15, 2020. Jonathan attended Knox College from 2013-2016, before transferring to Roosevelt University where he received a B.A. in psychology in 2019, and was a graduate student in social work at Northeastern Illinois University when he died. He was also working as a peer counselor at Trilogy Mental Health Clinic for the past 18 months. He had quite a few good friends at Knox College, where he ran cross country, which was one of his passions, besides social justice, chess, hugs with friends, and pizza. At Knox, he made the student newspaper when he successfully argued in favor of a Good Samaritan policy that allowed for callers reaching for life-saving assistance for drug overdoses without the risk of the caller’s arrest. Jonathan (also called ‘Tup’ by some at Knox) enjoyed entertaining his Knox friends playing and singing songs by Ben Folds and Leonard Cohen on the guitar and piano. Back in his hometown of Chicago, he volunteered for several years at ONE Northside, a community organization in Chicago’s Uptown neighborhood, working for equitable housing for those with low income, racial justice, funding for mental health treatment, and decreasing social economic inequality. At Trilogy, he was teaching clients to play chess and improve their game as well as serving pizza on weekends, when many came for socializing. To honor his memory, you can donate to The Greater Chicago Food Depository, where he also volunteered serving meals, or ONE Northside. Jonathan is buried at the historic Rosehill Cemetery in Chicago. Rest in power, Jonathan.” Class Correspondent: Elisabeth Zarnoti elisabeth.zarnoti@gmail.com
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