Lawrence Magazine • Lawrence University • Fall 2019

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Wan·der·jahr: n. noun, [vahn-duh r-yahr] /'van d r, ya r/ German. e

1. A year or period of travel, especially following one’s schooling and before practicing a profession.

2. A life-changing year of exploration, discovery, and independence funded by the Thomas J. Watson Foundation.

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Greetings from Appleton!

They say in Wisconsin there are two seasons of the year: winter and construction. We are in the second season, which brings physical renewal of campus. It is also celebration season here at Lawrence, with two of my favorite moments of the year: Commencement, when we sent 350 graduates out to begin their lives after Lawrence, and Reunion, when we welcomed more than a thousand of them back to reconnect with the community we share. Over the course of those two weekends, we hosted close to 1,000 people in the President’s House. It is always a pleasure to have the Lawrence family “in the house.” Even the new member of David’s and my family, Homer, a three-month-old labradoodle, enjoyed the festivities.

These celebrations are also moments to reflect on the extraordinary ways Lawrentians make their mark on the world, from setting out across the globe in search of meaning and cultural knowledge like our many Watson Fellows to shaping the pop cultural landscape like this year’s Commencement speaker, Lee Shallat Chemel ’65. I hope you enjoy learning about some of these experiences in this issue.

We are now getting ready to welcome another talented class of more than 400 new students. The entering class is diverse in many respects, including 25% domestic students of color and 14% international students.

Thanks to the success of the Be the Light! Campaign and its Full Speed to Full Need initiative, the incoming class of 2023 will be supported by more full-need scholarships—which allows Lawrence to meet the need of more than 100 incoming students.

Just as we celebrate our students and alumni, we must also recognize the people of Lawrence who make all of this possible. The talented faculty and staff who lead the University were joined by many new colleagues; they brought their experience and energy to bear on our efforts to provide a world class undergraduate education to 1,500 students every year. I know you join me in welcoming them to Lawrence as we begin the 2019-2020 academic year.

Best,

Mark Burstein, President

EDITOR Kelly B. Landiſ

ART DIRECTORS Liz Boutelle, Matt Schmeltzer

ASSOCIATE VICE PRESIDENT OF COMMUNICATIONS Megan Scott

CONTRIBUTORS Ed C. Berthiaume, Daniel Green ’20, Awa Badiane ’21 Isabella Mariani ’21, Kelsey McCormick, Joseph Vanden Acker

CLASS NOTES Kevin LeBeau

PHOTOGAPHY Liz Boutelle, Ken Cobb, Mackenzie Huber, Garrett Katerzynske, M. C. Kinney Photography, Thompson Photo Imagery, Paul Wilke

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NOT ALL WHO WANDER ARE LOST 50 Years of the Watson Fellowship

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RAISING THE BAR The Viking Room Marks a Major Milestone

BREAKING SOUND BARRIERS Operatic Innovations Take the Stage (and Pool!)

WHEN MARCH MADNESS CAME TO LAWRENCE A Look Back at a Historic NCAA Tournament Run 16 Commencement 20 Reunion 22 Inside Lawrence 32 Be the Light! Campaign Update 40 Athletics 42 Class Notes 86 The Big Picture

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Who Wander Are Lost

By Kelly B. Landis

Wan·der·jahr: n. noun, [vahn-duh r-yahr] /'van d r, ya r/.German. e

1. A year or period of travel, especially following one’s schooling and before practicing a profession.

2. A life-changing year of exploration, discovery, and independence funded by the Thomas J. Watson Foundation.

Micha Jackson ’07 swims among the residents of Jellyfish Lake, Palau.

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Brian Pertl ’86 plays a didjeridu for community members as part of the Mile of Music Education Team.

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“Watson’s mission is to work with our incredible The requirements are simple on their his year marks the 50th anniversary partner institutions to expand the vision and face: spend a year abroad— of the Thomas J. Watson Fellowship, develop the potential of our next generation of no return to the U.S. allowed— “a one-year grant for purposeful, leaders,” says Executive Director of the Watson immersing yourself in other cultures independent exploration outside the Foundation Chris Kasabach. “The Watson and your passion project. But being set United States.”

Fellowship application provides students with the loose in the world at 22 is a powerful

The Watson emphasizes small opportunity to build an international blueprint for thing; it forces you to be independent, liberal arts colleges, and Lawrence has their deepest interests, biggest ideas, and best self-sufficient and self-directed. You been a Watson partner college since the selves—and go after it.” contend with who you are, with your inception of the fellowship. Its roots with understanding of self and metrics of the program run deep: in those 50 years, success and purpose. It is powerful and liberating, transformative Lawrence has produced 73 fellows who have visited more than 60 and challenging. countries studying topics ranging from urban planning to refugee

Lawrence reached out to our Watson fellows. Many responded policy to vocal performance and more. Two Lawrentians have almost immediately with incredible stories and powerful served as director of the program, Steven Licata ’75 and Beverly testimonials of how the Watson has shaped their lives far beyond Larson ’83, as did former Professor of Classics Daniel Arnaud.. the year they spent on their fellowship.

Spend some time speaking with Watson Fellows, and certain themes begin to emerge across topic, geography and generation.

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What Is Your Watson?

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For many this is a difficult and beautiful question because no one has ever asked it. The inner challenges to find your Watson and then create a concrete proposal that turns your dream into a viable plan of action is as daunting as crossing the Gobi desert or battling homesickness in Namibia. This process of discovery is where the magic of the Watson resides. If done right, a student’s life will be changed long before the official Watson selections are announced. The world celebrates the chosen few who officially receive the fellowship. I celebrate every one of the hundreds of applicants who have dreamed big, opened themselves up to endless possibilities, and have found themselves forever changed by the experience.

So, dear reader, what is your Watson?

rian Pertl ’86, Dean of the Conservatory of Music, Watson Fellow and Lawrence Liaison for the Watson Program

The whole premise seems impossible—a magical fellowship that provides enough money for lucky recipients to chase around the globe for an entire year following their dreams. Oh, and it will most likely change the course of your life. No big deal.

Actually, a very big deal. The Thomas J. Watson Fellowship is very real and has been changing lives for 50 years. Thirtyfour years ago, it changed mine. My dream was to explore the Australian Aboriginal didjeridu and Tibetan Buddhist sacred music. I would travel to Australia, China, Nepal and India as I pursued this dream.

When I received the letter telling teven Licata ’75 spent his Watson year “I ended up writing a guidebook to the roughly me I was chosen to be a Watson Fellow, studying attitudes to competitive sport in 70 museums that I visited over the course of 18 I was thrilled, but I had no idea what months…. The self-direction and organization that his project “The Ethos of Sport: People’s challenges and rewards this year would Attitudes Towards Competition in a Socialist I had to exercise and develop has been critical to present. I left thinking that this would Country” in East Germany, West Germany, my success in science.” be a wonderful year of adventure before England and Italy. His time with the Watson embarking on my career as an orchestral —CAROL ARNOSTI ’84 studied maritime traditions Foundation did not end there—he served a trombonist. in Northern Europe, Scandinavia, France, the United two-year stint as director of the foundation

When I landed in Australia, I had Kingdom and Germany. She is now a professor in the from 1989–1991. He is an assistant district still never heard a didjeridu, let alone attorney for Milwaukee County.

Department of Marine Sciences at the University of played one, and my first exposure to Lawrence can be very proud that they North Carolina-Chapel Hill.

Tibetan Buddhism was the day I walked have been in the Watson program from into the Johkang Temple in Lhasa, its inception. The amazing thing about the Watson fellowship is Tibet. This journey of discovery could fill a book, and it has that the foundation isn’t really funding the project; it’s funding the somehow managed to fill a life—mine. My experiences working individual, asking the question, “Will this individual benefit from with musicians from such vastly different music cultures and studying this particular topic at this moment in their life?” my immersion in those traditions left me wanting to learn more

This ethos came from Thomas Watson Jr. I was the last about music traditions from around the world. director who would go to his office at IBM headquarters and meet

Upon my return, dreams of playing trombone professionally with him. He wanted young Americans in all different fields to faded. Instead, I pursued degrees in ethnomusicology, focusing have potential for leadership, and he felt that they would be much on Tibetan sacred music and Australian Aboriginal didjeridu better leaders if they had a different perspective on American life traditions. Here is where my Watson year turned into my Watson gained from having lived for a very intense period of time for a life. In 1990, Microsoft called asking me to record a didjeridu track full year outside the U.S. for a CD-ROM (a new technology no one had ever seen). This turned into a position as an audio editor, which led to a 16-year icha Jackson ’07 studied marine resources and conservation career at Microsoft. In 2007, after being asked to play a didjeridu across cultures and under different governmental systems during recital at Lawrence, my mentor, Professor of Jazz Studies Fred a Watson year that took her to Oman, Australia and Palau. She Sturm, asked me to apply for the Conservatory’s open dean now lives in Australia and is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of position. Looking back, every major career opportunity was Queensland, Australia. inextricably tied to the didjeridu and the Watson.

Assisting with marine fieldwork at Sultan Qaboos University

For the last nine years, I have been the Lawrence liaison for in Oman, campaigning for stronger marine parks in Australia the Watson; I have the singular opportunity to help others along and camping on remote islands with the Bureau of Marine the journey that had such a profound impact on me. It lets me Resources team in Palau all helped to cement in me a passion encourage students to dream big. It is amazing how few of us for field-based research and a love for coastal environments. give ourselves permission to dream big—really big. I give every The design of the Watson program also fueled my desire to prospective Watson the same thought experiment: if you could keep travelling to new places and experiencing diverse cultures. wake up tomorrow with no obligations for the next year—no Following my Watson year, I moved to Australia and have called homework, no practicing, no job, no required reading—what would you do? Where would you go? What would you dive into?

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Micha Jackson ’07 releases a critically endangered Hawksbill turtle.

Jack Canfield ’14 playing a recording of BaAkan yodeling back to the performer, Jenga, in Republic of Congo.

it home ever since. For seven years, I was privileged to work with Watson provided me with experience of freedom, of what it means Indigenous rangers across remote coastal northern Australia on to be wholly responsible not just for the shape of each day but for land management and conservation projects. Following this truly the arc of one’s life. amazing experience, I decided to undertake my Ph.D., researching the conservation of coastal waterbirds and their wetland habitats. ack Canfield’s ’14 Watson project, “Soul Songs: The World Sung This has involved extended stays in China and Singapore and into Being,” saw him nearly circumnavigating the globe, traveling attendance at meetings, conferences, forums and fieldwork all to Republic of Congo, Russia, Norway, Australia and Papua over the world. The confidence, passion and desire to pursue this New Guinea. This fall, he is starting a master’s of music in voice lifestyle was absolutely developed during my Watson year, which performance at Indiana University. planted the seeds for most of my future endeavors and changed

What makes the fellowship special—and what I found valuable—is its focus on independence the course of my life in ways I could not “[In Paris,] I studied singing daily with the and freedom. It’s a rare opportunity have imagined on graduation day! esteemed voice teacher, Pierre Bernac. It changed when a person (at 22 or 23!) is given a everything for me.” ark A. R. Facknitz ’72 deferred mandate to follow their own whims (and his Watson for a year after receiving a only their own) to the ends of the earth —ELISABETH VAN INGEN STEWARD ’75 Fulbright-Hays award. His plans to explore explored the world of opera, traveling to some of the for one complete year. At times, it was Francophone literature in Africa changed overwhelming and very painful. But boy, great opera houses in Europe and spent significant over the course of his time in France due to was it liberating. I designed my project time in Paris studying vocal performance. She sang a drought in the Sahara and the twists and to expose my personal boundaries and professionally and is now a senior consultant with the to give myself the opportunity to lean turns of fate. He is recently retired after 40 Heller Fundraising Group. years of teaching and is professor emeritus right into them. The singing focus was of English at James Madison University. the road map, the vehicle and the goal. In

I was a Watson recipient in 1972; that same year the draft striving to find—and integrate into—singing communities, I was lottery stopped four numbers short of sending me to sunny pushed up against my own limitations and brought face to face Vietnam. [I]n my dank basement room in Dijon I became addicted with my own voice and my own song. to fat novels. Above all John Dos Passos. The African sun dimmed

I remember being really wrung out after my time with as I looked deep into the shadows of being American. As it the BaAka in the Congo. From that experience, I learned how happened, family crisis took me to India for several months. Then far I was willing to go in order to reach a goal. I’m not sure I spent time in Paris. Months. And there was some Switzerland, that everyone is given the opportunity to really experience Germany and Austria in there. My wanderjahr was definitely a their absolute limit—and they may not need to. But I am wandering, but not entirely aimless. I followed romance to San grateful that I was given that chance, and it was central to my Watson experience. It has since framed my life with a different Juan Téotihuacan in Mexico and climbed the Pyramid of the Sun, perspective. and just off the courtyard where the fig tree was letting loose its fruits, plump and oozing, to plop onto the tiles, I spent fervent ike Youngblood ’87 spent his Watson year in a comparative weeks typing on yellow paper an ‘experimental’ novel … I tried study of cultural adaptation to extremely harsh environments. He is to put behind me the notion that I had wasted my Watson. The

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now the principal of the Youngblood Group, a consultancy that uses anthropology and human-centered design to imagine new solutions to our biggest challenges related to the environment, social justice and human equality.

My plan was to spend the summer half of the year traveling with nomadic camel herding people in the blazing hot Sahara Desert in northern Sudan and the winter half of the year above the Arctic Circle with native Greenlanders. I wanted to explore firsthand how these societies had adapted for survival in supremely unforgiving climates with very limited natural resources for food and raw material. The year went mostly to plan but, as with most Watsons, I encountered barriers and reality checks that kept me continuously reinventing the project. For Mike Youngblood ’87 with his camel; he spent time with Bedouin people in the Sinai Peninsula. instance, after a few months of false starts and mishaps in Sudan (including a very near miss in a hotel bombing), I shifted to Egypt occupational health and public health. I’ve really come full for the remainder of my desert phase, where I bought a camel circle. I started my Watson looking at health promotion in the and spent time among Bedouin people in the Sinai Peninsula. workplace, albeit not from a legal standpoint. I went to law school Over the course of the year, I came to view my host communities focusing on health law. Now I’ve bound those interests in law and in a very different way. I went into the year romanticizing their occupational health to create essentially a new practice area I call isolation but increasingly grew to understand how deeply their wellness law. I speak nationally. I’ve written a book. cultures and livelihoods were disrupted by pressures from the wider world around them. This stuck with me and laid a avid Worley ’88 turned his life-long passion for distance running foundation for my Ph.D. dissertation work on social movements into a year-long study in Norway, Kenya and Finland looking at the a few years later and my more recent book on a large social cultural conditions of countries that had movement in India. This also continues “The year was not just about studying this subject produced successful distance runners. He is to influence my current consulting in great London libraries, or touring recently built now a medical doctor in family practice in work on issues such as community collections of buildings, parks and places of work. Duluth, Minn. and director of health services development, criminal justice reform It was mainly about learning from and admiring at the University of Minnesota-Duluth. and homelessness. those planners who were driven to make life on a To this day, I think about my Watson grand scale better for others.” experience and the ways it still impacts arbara Zabawa ’93 studied health my life. I have a continued desire to travel care policy in the U.K., Sweden and —JEFF MARTIN ’74 examined how citizens and learn about cultures other than my Netherlands. She has continued her participate in new town planning in England and own. I’d hardly been outside the Midwest passion for health care and is now Scandinavia and the creation of “modern utopias.” before I embarked on my Watson, and it Attorney President of the Center for He is now a partner at the law firm of Hunton was so eye-opening to be immersed in Health and Wellness Law and a clinical Andrews Kurth in Washington, D.C. a rich and unfamiliar cultural experience. assistant professor at University of I think about how fortunate I was to be Wisconsin-Milwaukee. welcomed into the places I went. I’ve tried to adopt this in my own

I think back on my Watson year all the time. I remember the life, hosting people looking for a place to stay for a week or two. I whole year as being wonderful, but it was that moment when I also learned how to be more assertive and be more independent— opened the envelope standing in Kohler Hall and found out I got for me at that age was a big deal. You realize your own ability to the fellowship that I find myself reflecting on. It was a surreal handle more than you think you can. moment of “this is actually happening!” It was scary, it was

I remember my last day in Kenya. I spent the majority of exciting, it was truly awesome. I felt so alive in that moment. my time at St. Patrick’s High School, which is the epicenter of

I knew I wanted to work in health care while at Lawrence. running in Kenya. That last day, I had the opportunity to race My Watson reinforced my passion for preventive care and health 5K against many of the students who were part of my project promotion, but I was also able to widen my scope and look at and who I was living with. We trained together and talked about occupational health. It was foundational and carries through to the mentality of being a distance runner. I had that shared race what I do today. I spent time in the U.K. meeting with medical experience with these runners. It was amazing—and it had officers for major corporations like BP learning about company nothing to do with where I finished in that race. It turns out that health programs. In Sweden, I worked at the Public Health I ran against future Olympians, including Matthew Birir who won Institute and learned more about how the Swedish health care a gold medal for the steeplechase in 1992. It’s a very special thing system values employees. In the Netherlands, I met with people to know that I had that relationship with him, that I’d grown to who were working with HIV positive sex workers. know him and some of his family.

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be truly essential in my own life is the unique ability music has to bring people together and to support and encourage challenging discourse. The opportunity to see who I am in these different contexts, many very uncomfortable, and to process my privilege in such a powerful way are things that I am deeply grateful for.

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Sam Genualdi ’17 and his teacher, Nharira, playing mbira in Chimoio, Mozambique. Note from Sam: “Nharira passed away this year of what was likely malaria; he was not yet 40. Malaria is still the number one cause of death in Mozambique and other developing nations.”

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mily Copeland ’83 was awarded both a Fulbright and a Watson.

She traveled the globe from Washington, D.C. to Switzerland to Sudan, studying refugee relief from both a policy and field perspective. She earned her Ph.D. at the Fletcher School of Diplomacy and now teaches political science and international relations at Bryant University.

The Watson did a lot of things, but professionally, it broke that cycle of “how do I hire you with no experience?” and “how do I get experience if you won’t hire me?” I was interested in NGOs working with refugees and the connection between what they were saying they did and what was really happening on the ground. I traveled overland from Egypt to Sudan, and at the time, one of the big refugee flows in Africa was Ethiopians fleeing famine and civil war. There was a big emergency relief program going on with older refugee populations who had been there for years and the influx of newer populations of refugees. I worked with Doctors Without Borders (MSF) and also the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). I was hired to head up a local survey team to establish malnutrition in the refugee camps. It was life-altering—there’s no substitute for practical experience. I remember reading about one “model” organization, but when I got to Sudan, UNHCR and other aid folks were quite frustrated because that organization hadn’t adapted to rapidly changed conditions. I got real insight into the politics of aid.

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am Genualdi ’17 traveled to Scotland, Armenia, Peru, Brazil, atthew Magolan ’97 spent his Watson year in the Canadian Mozambique, Japan and Indonesia studying the deep musical Arctic with his project “A Year on Hudson Bay: Kayaking and the traditions in those countries and engaging in cross-cultural dialogue Discovery of Inuit Culture.” After 12 years working for the City of through collaborative music-making. He is currently serving as longMadison, he recently opened his own paddling shop and touring term resident musician in the center in Oxford, Wis. wilderness community of Holden My experience shaped the “My Watson year was one of the most fantastic and clearly lifeVillage, Wash., and working on his changing experiences I could have had, and at the same time a arc of my entire life. I’d always second album. been fascinated by stories of ridiculously implausible way for a 22-year-old (young!) man to

Of the many lessons Norwegian explorers and their begin to form impressions of the way the working world really learned throughout the year, reliance on traditional methods works.” one that I treasure most deeply in their Arctic explorations.

DAVID JONES ’71 spent his Watson year in England and Wales is having had the opportunity I decided to paddle up the immersing himself in Anglo-Welsh literature. After a career in to experience first-hand such Hudson Bay and live with varied lifestyles lived through local Inuit communities in journalism, he is now the managing editor of the journal, RHINO: music. There are as many ways the Arctic. I remember my The Poetry Forum. to live as a musician as there are family had to sign a waiver musicians, and that, I think, has been immensely important in far above and beyond the usual because the foundation was so aiding me to find my own path as a musician (and human being). concerned about the safety of my plan. A knee injury changed Especially having grown up in the cultural context of the United my itinerary, so I flew north but did end up paddling back south States, with very specific metrics for “success,” it was profound, at the end of my year. I was naïve in a way—I had no idea how for example, to study Tsugaru Shamisen in Aomori, Japan, from modernization was harming these communities. People I cared a master of the instrument, who also happens to be an apple about struggled with depression, suicide and addiction. But farmer. I was forced to contend with difficult questions on a daily my time there was also incredibly positive. I studied soapstone basis about my own identity and aspirations. What I have found to carving with one of the masters. I fished and I hunted. I earned the nickname “Umingmaq.” It means musk ox but translates as

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Valeria Rojas-Infantas ’08 at the Floreo Festival in Iquique, Chile.

“bearded one”—I had grown this scraggly beard. That year of freedom changed me. I returned to attend grad school, but it no longer felt like it fit, so I decided not to continue on that path and spent years sailing and delivering boats along the West Coast and Great Lakes.

I then spent some time as a professional paddling guide before leaving the industry and working for the City of Madison. Now, after the birth of my twin daughters five years ago, I am returning to the paddling life—just this year, I opened my own business and named it Umingmaq—my Watson experience is with me every day.

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I was born and raised in Peru, where there is a lot of discrimination. I’m mestizo and experienced discrimination in various ways myself. I really wanted to understand the roots of it, dig deep and understand why. I never imagined I’d go on a sabbatical year like the Watson—in Peru, the path is pretty clear: go to university, get a master’s and get a job.

The Watson gave me the opportunity to really get to know myself. There were moments when I would be doing something like herding goats that would have been unimaginable just a year before.

I never thought my journey would take me to so many places and help me meet so many people, people who I’m still in touch with 10 years later. My Watson topic wasn’t light, but there was a beauty in it. I learned so many things. I learned about intercultural bilingual education [a language model designed to assert space for indigenous language and culture in education—ed.]. I ended up being part of a committee for a congress in Latin America and met so many leaders who opened up my mind.

Taking a year to do something like the Watson? Nobody I knew had done something like this. Now I try to find time for discovery and getting outside of my comfort zone, which is not something I would have even thought about if it weren’t for the Watson. ■

This year's Watson Fellow, Meghan Murphy ’19.

WATSON AND BEYOND The Watson is far from the only prestigious fellowship earned by Lawrentians. Just this year, five students have earned nationally competitive fellowships.

The national fellowships include another Watson fellow, Meghan Murphy ’19. Right now, her plans will take her to India, Norway, Azerbaijan, Ireland and Mexico to explore musical traditions that incorporate violins and violin-like instruments.

Lawrence also continues its success with the Fulbright program. Milou (Emmylou) de Meij ’19 is the 58th Lawrentian to receive Fulbright honors. She will work as an English teaching assistant in Latvia as part of the Fulbright U.S. Student Program. Lawrence also landed on a prestigious list of U.S. colleges and universities that produced the most Fulbright students in 2018–19.

Margot (Margaret) Wulfsberg ’19 was awarded a Critical Language Scholarship to study Chinese in Changchun, China.

Willa Dworschack ’20 is the recipient of the Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation award in physics and astronomy. She is one of 496 undergraduates across the country being honored for their studies in math and science fields.

Hayoung Seo ’19 will be pursuing a master’s degree in China Studies with a focus on Confucianism with the help of her Yenching Academy Fellowship, which covers a full year of graduate study at Yenching Academy of Peking University in China.

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Robert Schleifer (standing) and the cast of Mass.

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INNOVATION AND OPERATICS By Ed Berthiaume

Photo credit: Ken Cobb

Opera and innovations went hand-in-hand for Lawrence this year, from sign language to a watery stage to grappling with national issues. Take a look at three productions that created groundbreaking art.

MASS The much-anticipated production of Leonard Bernstein’s Mass by Lawrence’s Opera Theatre Ensemble, led by award-winning Director of Opera Studies and Associate Professor of Music Copeland Woodruff, incorporated a Deaf character played by professional Deaf actor Robert Schleifer and sign language performance.

“My inspiration was two-fold—the obvious metaphor of our current society, where people have a difficult time listening to one another, and the inclusion of community members who might not necessarily attend an opera,” Woodruff said.

American Sign Language (ASL) and Pidgin Signed English (PSE) were used throughout the production. Twenty-one members of the student ensemble spent weeks learning to communicate in sign language.

“Distinctive productions like Mass provide students with a rich educational opportunity to practice being a singer-actor, hone full-bodied communication skills, as well as develop appreciation and respect for the experience of others,” Woodruff said. “We hope that students will learn that the arts can be a powerful vehicle for personal and societal awareness and change.”

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That speaks to the addition of Schleifer’s Deaf character, a statement on the difficulties we have in communicating when ideological differences come between us, be it political, religious or otherwise.

“It is rare—even at the national level—for a signed opera to be produced and performed,” Woodruff said. “The majority of our area’s theatre-going public would not ordinarily experience this type of performance. Mass will open dialogues about faith and inclusion to our community.”

It was a chance to talk about our often jumbled and conflicting faith journeys and the barriers that keep us from communicating effectively.

“It gives people a touchpoint around which to come together,” The Julie Esch Hurvis Dean of Spiritual Life Linda Morgan-Clement said.

For Schleifer, the blending of opera with sign language is powerful and moving.

“Bernstein’s Mass project has been both a challenging and awesome experience,” he said, “from the sound of the music itself and the abstract concepts portrayed through tone and inflection, which I cannot hear, relying on facial and body cues, figuring how to match American Sign Language with operatic language, to the awesome collaboration with Copeland and Kris [Kristine Orkin, a local interpreter for the deaf], who helped me understand the complexities of poetic language, appreciate the culture of opera, and together watch the beautiful magic unfold.”

There were opera singers and percussionists, trumpets, a cello, even a flute. There were dancers and a keyboardist and a bass player. Tuxedos were worn.

But there was a twist.

The stage? A fully functioning swimming pool.

Welcome to Breathe: a multi-disciplinary water opera, staged at Lawrence in March.

The mastermind behind Breathe is Gabriel Forestieri, a Boston-based choreographer and director who teamed with Lawrence Conservatory instructor Loren Kiyoshi Dempster, the composer and musical director for the production, two years ago to stage the water opera at Middlebury College in Vermont. An invitation from Margaret Sunghe Paek, an instructor of dance in the Lawrence Conservatory of Music and curator of the Lawrence Dance Series, brought the magic to the Buchanan-Kiewit Wellness Center.

“I saw the video of them in the water,” Paek said. “I said, ‘We need to bring that here to Lawrence. We need to bring some version of that here.’ With the Conservatory here and the wealth

of really great musicianship available and people who are really excited to try something different, you find there is a curiosity there,” Dempster said.

There were more than 20 performers in the cast including students from the college and conservatory, athletes—including a diver—and professional dancers from the community.

“It very much has the effect of performance art,” says Dempster. “We wear our tuxedos and get in the water. There are always these different things happening. It evolves into a thing with singers and percussionists and trumpet players.”

Some instruments hit the pool, like a hydrophone and box cello, and others were played from the deck. There was even a kayak in one scene. Almost every cast member ended up in the water at some point, and the entire pool was basked in dramatic lighting.

Breathe certainly made a splash—the production ended up going viral. Local news coverage turned into hits on news round-ups and social media shares around the world.

Photo credit: Paul Wilke

BREATHE: A MULTI-DISCIPLINARY WATER OPERA

Performers Gabriel Forestieri and Loren Kiyoshi Dempster (laying down with the cello) in the Wellness Center pool during Breathe.

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Derrell Acon ’10 (center) and his castmates in The Central Park Five sing in unison. Photo provided by Acon.

CENTRAL PARK FIVE Derrell Acon ’10 stood shoulder to shoulder in June with Antron McCray, one of the five New York City teenagers—now men in their 40s—wrongly convicted in the 1989 rape and beating of a Central Park jogger.

The Lawrence alumnus was days away from performing as McCray in The Central Park Five, an operatic retelling of the emotionally charged criminal case being performed in an opera house in southern California. An ACLU luncheon brought Acon, his castmates, and the five men they’d be portraying into the same room for the first time.

“It gave me a little more weight in terms of the responsibility I had to give an accurate picture to the audience and to be true to how I explored and continue to explore that character,” Acon said of meeting McCray.

The Central Park Five story is getting plenty of renewed attention on the heels of the recent release of Ava DuVernay’s Netflix mini-series, When They See Us, the intense retelling of the case that dominated headlines 30 years ago. While the Netflix series is getting the bulk of the attention, the jazz-infused opera production from composer Anthony Davis—more than three years in the making and separate from the DuVernay series—has drawn its fair share of looks as well, including from The New York Times and The Los Angeles Times.

“I wasn’t really anticipating any particular response,” Acon said after getting an enthusiastic welcome on opening night.

“I was more aware of my own responses, understanding that it would be a very emotional process for me. As a young black man in America, you know, a lot of these topics are very close to my own experience, and these struggles are very mirrored in my own life.

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“I think a lot about the rehearsal process, tending to all of these emotions, letting them out, having a lot of beautiful discussions with my colleagues, especially the five of us in the lead roles.”

Ten months ago, Acon relocated to southern California and connected immediately with the Long Beach Opera. The casting for The Central Park Five was just getting started.

“I sang for them and was invited to join the cast,” Acon said.

He was working with people he didn’t know while immersing himself in the West Coast arts scene. He jumped into the mix as the opera company’s manager of education and engagement, organizing and facilitating community conversations in the months leading up to the opening of The Central Park Five.

“The key word is community,” Acon says. “The arts have this ability to create a community. You may not always agree with the topic being put forth, but you are put in a position of contemplation, of consideration, and that is a communal experience. Having the community of the opera house and the guidance of the voices and actors on stage may be enough to spark the conversation and the courage needed to really dig into some of these topics.”

Acon, who serves on the Lawrence Board of Trustees as a Recent Graduate Trustee, earned multiple regional and national honors as a student and already has more than two dozen operatic roles on his resume.

Ten months after landing in southern California, Acon said he feels like he’s found his artistic groove. The work with Long Beach Opera is just the start of some promising things.

“I’m excited to see what comes next,” he said. “I’ve got a lot of opportunities, and they keep coming in. It’s very encouraging.”

Raising the Bar 50 Years of the VR The Viking Room, a cherished on-campus hangout for generations of students, is carved deeply into the history of Lawrence University.

Literally.

The names of students past and present cover the tables and booths, carved with affection, a metaphor of sorts for the deep bonds that alumni have with the place best known as the VR. Tucked in the lower level of Memorial Hall, it has served as a gathering place for students of drinking age—and faculty and staff—for five decades.

The VR, as it is affectionately known, is celebrating its 50th year as a bar. It had long existed as an on-campus lounge, ABOVE: Students gather in the Viking Room in the 1960s.

By Ed Berthiaume

but it didn’t serve alcohol until the first beer was tapped on March 7, 1969.

Mark Catron ’69 remembers it well. He was one of the original student bartenders, pouring beers during his senior year while soaking in the night life as “Bad Moon Rising” and “Sugar, Sugar” blasted from the speakers.

“The response was overwhelming. It was terrific,” said Catron, who visited the VR in early June while back on campus for his 50th class reunion. “People would come in after their afternoon classes and sit around and talk and have a beer or study.

“Fridays and Saturdays were very, very popular. There would be dances and a lot of music.”

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ABOVE: Mark Catron ’69 and Jake Yingling ’20 step behind the Viking Room bar during Reunion 2019.

Mark was one of the first bartenders at the VR; Jake is a current student bartender.

THE TIMES THEY ARE A-CHANGIN’ When Lawrence successfully sought a city liquor license and remade the VR into a bar, it was new territory. Not many college campuses featured their own bar. The drinking age was 18 at the time, which meant most every student was a potential customer.

It arrived at a time when college campuses were hotbeds for social change and political demonstrations. There was no shortage of talking points in the spring of ’69 as students gathered in the VR.

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a lot of change going on, a lot of people questioning the way things had always been.”

Introducing a bar on campus amid all that, well, that was either going to prove to be genius or crazy, Catron said.

“From the administration point, maybe it was a sort of experiment to see if the students were capable of handling it in a responsible way,” he said. “I never had the impression there was ever any doubt about that. But I’m sure there had to be some questions among the adults in the room.

“This was the same time we were occupying the dean’s office.

Lots of challenges were going on from a social standpoint. . . .

The campus was different when we left from when we arrived, and the bar was just part of that change.”

Susan Jasin ’69 was another of the original student bartenders. When she went to Appleton City Hall to get her

VR SIGNATURE DRINKS In addition to a pretty darn good selection of drafts, the VR also offers a couple of signature drinks. You can make a Lawrentian or an Honor Code for your next cocktail party!

THE LAWRENTIAN 1 shot of coconut rum 1 shot of blue curacao Sprite and sour mix Serve on the rocks with or without an umbrella.

THE HONOR CODE 1 shot of gin 1 shot of lime vodka Half grapefruit juice Half Sprite Top with grenadine Serve on the rocks.

bartender’s license, she said the workers there told her she was the first woman in the city to be licensed as a bartender.

“I kind of got a giggle out of that at the time,” she said.

“It was fun to do because it was different and nobody else was doing it. I was just me. I was just Susan. I was doing it because it was fun.”

A NEW DYNAMIC While the VR remains a big part of campus life 50 years later, much has changed from its heyday in those early years. When Wisconsin’s drinking age increased to 19 in 1984 and then 21 in 1986, the dynamic in the VR changed, with much of the student body no longer old enough to legally drink.

The VR managers began to more actively market the bar to faculty and staff. A 1988 memo from the then-managers of

the VR implored faculty and staff to increase their use of the bar, either as their own hangout or as an alternative classroom space.

“Keep in mind that the room is large, we play tapes upon request, and that our stereo does have a volume control if the music proves to be too loud,” the memo read. “Simply put, we would enjoy seeing more faculty and administrators using the VR on a regular basis, whether you choose to drink or not.”

Thirty years on, some faculty and staff continue to heed those words. And some jump in as guest bartenders, a long VR tradition.

The VR has gone through numerous changes in its management structure over the years. Presently, the bar is again managed by students, with oversight from Greg Griffin, director of the Warch Campus Center.

Jake Yingling ’20 frequents the VR with friends and works bartending shifts as a student worker. While he understands the crowds in the VR may be smaller now than in the ’70s and ’80s, there are still nights when the place is hopping. And he appreciates it being on campus.

“The busier nights are the better nights,” he said.

“Now being 21, I can come here to do work, I can hang out with friends. It’s a good place to kind of hang out and relax.”

Five decades worth of alumni would raise a glass to that.

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For more on the ceremony, including photos and videos of the day’s speeches, visit go.lawrence.edu/grad19.

Faculty Marshal Kathy Privatt led 351 graduates across College Avenue for the 170th Commencement, an outdoor ceremony replete with pomp, circumstance and tradition—along with a colorful assortment of umbrellas and rain gear. A light but steady rain did nothing to dampen the enthusiasm of what David Blowers ’82, chair of the Board of Trustees, called the “high point of the academic year.”

Provost Katie Kodat and President Mark Burstein join this year’s faculty award winners.

FROM L TO R: Katie Kodat; Associate Professor of Flute Erin Lesser (Excellence in Teaching Award); Walter Schober Professor of Environmental Studies and Professor of Geology Marcia BjØrnerud (Excellence in Scholarship or Creative Activity Award); Director of Jazz Studies José Encarnación(Excellent Teaching by an Early Career Faculty Member Award); and Mark Burstein.

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IN A TIME WHEN COMMUNITY IS SUCH A SCARCE COMMODITY AND PEOPLE OF DIFFERENT BACKGROUNDS AND VIEWS ARE LIKELY TO ARGUE, COMPETE OR IGNORE EACH OTHER, YOU CAME TOGETHER TO LEARN, TO CELEBRATE AND TO STRUGGLE, AS ONE COMMUNITY, WITH THE ISSUES THAT FACE LAWRENCE, THIS COUNTRY AND THE WORLD.”—PRESIDENT MARK BURSTEIN

I’D BEEN PAINTING MYSELF INTO A CORNER OF SERIOUSNESS IN ORDER TO KEEP FAILURE AT BAY. DON’T DO THAT. LET JOY AND SPONTANEITY EXIST SIDE BY SIDE. DON’T LET FEAR OF FAILURE KILL YOUR JOY.”—HONORARY DEGREE RECIPIENT AND SPEAKER LEE CHEMEL ’65

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STAGE AND SCREEN: LEE SHALLAT CHEMEL ’65 DELIVERS 2019 COMMENCEMENT ADDRESS Lee Shallat Chemel ’65 has forged an impressive career as a director in theatre and television, working behind the scenes on some of TV’s most iconic shows. She returned to Lawrence as the 2019 Commencement speaker, ready to impart insight and wisdom drawn from a professional career that she says has everything to do with her liberal arts education. An excerpted Q&A with Chemel appears below: ON HER EARLY MENTORS IN THEATRE AT LAWRENCE, DAVID MAYER III AND TED CLOAK: “I really believe that because of David Mayer and Ted Cloak, I found that theater was more than I thought it was. I really loved it although I still didn’t buy the idea of it as a career at that point.

But I became much closer to that idea. Lawrence opened my eyes completely to the richness of the arts, particularly the theater and the film arts. It was remarkable what an influence it had on me.”

ON MAKING THE TRANSITION FROM MILWAUKEEDOWNER TO LAWRENCE: “I was only at Lawrence for one year. But it was a year that was packed with amazing things for me. Downer was a very good school in that the professors there were kind of radical. . . . They were sharp people. They radicalized me politically. Got me involved in the Civil Rights movement. Linus Pauling came to talk with us, Upton Sinclair. It was amazingly rich for a tiny, tiny school. But Lawrence took that and just broadened it—everything became broadened and deepened.”

ON EMBRACING AND THRIVING AS A THEATRE DIRECTOR, EARNING FIVE L.A. DRAMA CRITICS AWARDS ALONG THE WAY: “It all happened through my education in a way. If I hadn’t had the background of this liberal arts education I wouldn’t have been able to make a living doing the teaching [acting] part while I searched for what finally struck home for me—the directing.”

ON TURNING TO TV DIRECTING IN THE MID-1980s: “That was another leap. I’d done some good directing, a lot of directing, to the point where in L.A., I had a little bit of a name.

There weren’t a lot of women directing in theater then. [Producer Joe Stern] said, Gary Goldberg has this new show called Family Ties. He’s looking for a woman director because there was some

pressure at the time to start hiring women. You can see how far that got after 35 years.

So, after almost 10 years [at South Coast Repertory], I just quit.

I had no idea if this was going to take me anywhere or whether I would succeed or not. I just moved up to L.A. and started observing on Family Ties…

I had the support of knowing that I was educated. And that sounds weird, but it was actually quite significant to me that I knew things. I knew I could analyze a script, I knew that I could understand things. I could communicate well, I understood tone, I understood people. I was older than a lot of people who start. So, I had lived some life, too. And these were the things that buoyed me up during these very tough times.”

ON MURPHY BROWN: “Murphy Brown was certainly a big jump up for me. That’s when my agent finally talked somebody into getting me onto what you’d call a real major show. And once I had Murphy Brown under my belt, that got me an Emmy nomination, and, all of a sudden, I was kind of accepted. I was brought into the club, I guess you could say.”

ON WHETHER LAST YEAR’S SERIES FINALE OF T H E MIDDLE MEANS THE END OF HER CAREER: “I got to be full-time on that for nine years, and we all became a family. That was a wonderful experience. I did the pilot for a spinoff from The Middle this fall, with the Sue character. It didn’t get picked up. I wrote a note to my agents and said, I’m not dead yet. But I don’t know. I feel maybe it’s time to give back again and do some other things. I’m at a crossroads, but I’ll see what comes up next season.”

ON RETURNING TO LAWRENCE WHILE NOT KNOWING WHAT COMES NEXT: “I’m like the graduates in a way. What am I going to do now?

I just want to be open to stuff. I feel like I am in an interesting place in my life.”

To read the full Q&A, including insights on Chemel’s working relationships with television icons like Jason Bateman, Michael J. Fox and Lauren Graham, visit go.lawrence.edu/chemel.

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REUNION

Alumni Award winners from L to R: Chuck Merry ’57 (Presidential Award), Jaime Nodarse Barrera ’05 (The Marshall B. Hulbert ’26 Young Alumni Outstanding Service Award), Joseph F. Patterson ’69 (The Gertrude Breithaupt Jupp M-D’18 Outstanding Service Award), Todd A. Mahr ’79 (The George B. Walter ’36 Service to Society Award), Zoe Ganos M-D’55 (Jupp Award) and Elizabeth R. Benson ’69 (The Lucia Russell Briggs Distinguished Achievement Award). Not pictured: Momodu E. Maligi ’04 (Nathan M. Pusey Young Alumni Distinguished Achievement Award). Know alumni deserving of recognition? Let us know by nominating them for an Alumni Award. Visit go.lawrence.edu/nominate.

REUNION Cooler than expected temperatures and sporadic rains didn’t rain out the fun at Reunion 2019! Performances at Memorial Chapel, alumni award presentations and plenty of social opportunities kept things festive.

REUNION FACTS AND FIGURES

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SPRING BREAK SPRINGBOARDS Lawrentians travelled the country over this year’s spring break for rich and engaging career and service opportunities.

VICTORIOUS

By Daniel Green ’20

SPRING BREAK: SILICON VALLEY Lawrentians had the opportunity to get an insider’s look at Silicon Valley with the annual “Shadow Silicon Valley Trek” organized by the Center for Career, Life and Community Engagement. From networking with alumni and meeting with recruiters to getting an in-depth look at some of the top companies in tech, students had a powerful career-focused spring break experience.

T H E D E S T I N AT I O N S : Cisco Systems Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Facebook Stanford University Google Apple LinkedIn AirBnB Salesforce Uber Handshake

BY THE NUMBERS

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As part of this year’s Presto tour, a group of Conservatory students traveled to Houston for a week of musicmaking and community engagement, culminating in a performance at Houston’s MATCH arts center. One of the highlights of the trip was time spent in the Beat Lab at Workshop Houston, a youth development agency and neighborhood resource that uses a hands-on, arts-based educational philosophy. Daniel Green ’20, one of the Presto students, shares his reflection on this transformative experience.

The vibe of our creative space in the Beat Lab at Workshop Houston wasn’t unfamiliar to me, though it was my first time being there. I usually spend most of my time in Sol Studios, where other students in the Lawrence community and I meet to collaborate and produce music together. The moment we arrived at the Beat Lab, people were writing, producing, engineering, recording, learning, teaching and enjoying each other. On the first day, we did some powerful team bonding exercises, forming a circle and using our bodies and artistic imaginations to interact with each other. We could see that the Workshop Houston students were not initially comfortable being vulnerable, but once they all participated and communicated more with us, they opened up and became more willing and eager to work with us each day.

As a large group, we got a lesson from Beat Shop Coordinator Cory Jordan on how to use FL Studio, a digital audio workstation tool. I had the opportunity to participate in learning something relevant and practical to what I wanted to do in the future alongside the students in the BeatLab. I appreciated that we got to learn something new with the BeatLab students because it helped to create an atmosphere of mutual respect between us all. Everyone I was with saw me and treated me like a member of the community—the resulting music was a testament to how genuine we were trying to be with each other.

On the very last day, right before we left, someone noticed that I’d been writing. I was hoping to not be put on the spot, and I almost slipped under the radar undetected. But I couldn't leave the space without showing some appreciation. The words I used on the resulting track, “Victorious,” were the product of my experience with a younger Workshop Houston student.

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Daniel Green ’20 records Victorious during the Presto tour.

Photo: Garrett Katerzynske

LY R I C S T O “ V I C T O R I O U S ” We randomly picked three words each from a wordsearch puzzle and created lyrics together. I’d been listening to what the students had been saying as they wrote their verses, and I tried to create something relatable and personal to complement the message they were conveying. I didn't realize how much I put into the lyrics because it felt really natural for me to write the way I did.

I felt immense support from my colleagues and teachers and even the Workshop Houston students—though I didn't initially think much of my work.

What made this experience a stand-out is the attitude we brought with us. Something about the spirit of service particular to this trip drew out many of the characteristics I didn't know still existed within me and within my colleagues and teachers— characteristics like heart, attitude, grit, consciousness.

I thoroughly enjoyed playing alongside them all and over the duration of the tour, I felt confidence rising up within me to perform to the best of my abilities. Everyone worked really hard to make the tour happen and, as a group and small community, we made a huge impact with the various skills we all had to offer.

I watched my colleagues get recorded and exchange their abilities and knowledge with the Worksop Houston students as I also shared more of myself with both the students and the Presto band. Through trial and error, we fused jazz and hip hop in a unique way. This process sparked some ideas for how I decided to approach collaboration in the rest of my time at Lawrence— I know this will have an invaluable and direct impact on my future in music. I feel everyone who was there and played a part in the experience could relate to that statement.

I'm still a kid. I've been sitting in class for a minute, In the back, I've been dreaming of making it big but somehow I'm stuck with this quiz and I ain't even study.

I've been too depressed and my eyes been stuck on this page of different equations.

I'm trying to take it all of my thoughts I put down and erase I wish I could save them.

Well, every day feels like a day in hell but I fear no evil my heart is so see-through.

Imagine an ocean emotions a sleeve in a bottle somehow that’s deep and so hollow.

Fragile and easily broken whatever you break me to pieces I show you my letters exposing a flow unforgettable might not be legible. I hope it still gets to you.

To hear an excerpt from “Victorious” and see the Presto experience, visit go.lawrence.edu/beatlab.

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SUSTAINABILITY BY THE NUMBERS 48,000 kWh of electricity from wind, 30,000 kWh from solar, and used 450,000 kWh of energy from renewable sources through WE Energies renewable energy program for a total of 528,000 kWh— enough to power 50 average households!

ENERGY: Produced

WASTE: Saved

330 rolls of paper towel and $3,659.70 due to the

installation of hand dryers in the Warch Campus Center.

WATER: Reduced water consumption by

18% in the past 5 years from fixture

upgrades during renovations and the installation of artificial turf at the Banta Bowl.

GROUNDS:

10 goats eliminating invasive species in the area around

SLUG in an environmentally conscious manner.

TRANSPORTATION:

FOOD:

23 bike racks on campus.

300 pounds of fresh produce every year from Lawrence’s Flex Farm, an

indoor hydroponic growing operation and recent addition to Andrew Commons.

BEE CAMPUS USA! Lawrence University has been certified as an affiliate of the Bee Campus USA program, making it the 71st campus in the nation to earn the bee-friendly designation—and only the second one in Wisconsin.

Among the bee-inspired efforts, faculty member Israel Del Toro and his team launched the Appleton Pollinator Project to turn area homeowners and gardeners into citizen scientists, helped install and study pollination sites across the Fox Cities and pushed students in the biology lab and campus environmental clubs to work to improve the on-campus habitat for bees.

An observation hive installed at Warch is the latest step in the on-campus efforts. There also are hexagon-shaped pollination boxes just southeast of Main Hall and in the S.L.U.G. (Sustainable Lawrence University Gardens) gardens on campus.

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TOP: Floréal Crubaugh ’20 holding one of the 10 goats on campus.

BOTTOM: One of the hexagon-shaped pollination boxes on campus.

FACING: Valeria Núñez ’22 next to hydroponic growing station.

FACULTY AND ALUMNI

BOO KS

MUSEUM ACTIVISM

Robert R. Janes ’70 and Richard Sandelly This ground-breaking volume brings together more than 50 contributors working across six continents to explore, analyze and critically reflect upon the museum’s relationship to activism. Museum Activism elucidates the largely untapped potential for museums as key intellectual and civic resources to address inequalities, injustice and environmental challenges.

T H E S TA L I N I S T E R A David Hoffman ’83 The Stalinist Era provides a new interpretation of Stalinism by placing it in its international context. Synthesizing new research on social changes, cultural affairs, gender roles, nationality policies, and diplomacy under Stalinism, this book provides a succinct account of a pivotal period in world history.

INDEPENDENCE CORRUPTED: H O W A M E R I C A’ S J U D G E S M A K E THEIR DECISIONS

Charles Benjamin Schudsen, Law and Literature Scholar in Residence (2006) and Björklunden Seminar Leader With engaging candor and drawing on personal experience, Schudson takes readers behind the bench to probe judicial minds analyzing actual trials and sentencings and into chambers to hear judges forging appellate decisions. He shows the financial, political, personal and professional pressures that threaten judicial ethics and independence.

REHEARSING THE CHOIR Stephen Sieck, Co-Director of Choral Studies and Associate Professor of Music Sieck shares his interviews with directors at eight of the most successful university choral programs in America and reflects on their approaches to teaching choirs. Interviews with students and observations of live rehearsals complement these director interviews to provide readers with a comprehensive look at how these choral programs consistently achieve success.

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2 MINUTES WITH 2 Minutes With … is a student-authored series of short features to introduce us to the passions and interests of Lawrentians on and off campus.

MARIA POIMENIDOU: LUCC LEADER LOOKS TO DO ‘AMAZING THINGS’ Story by Awa Badiane ’21 Yes, running a student government—a $400,000 budget and oversight of all clubs, committees, and student-related activities on campus—can be a bit overwhelming. But Maria Poimenidou ’20 has it down to a science.

The Lawrence University biochemistry and economics double major from Thaso, Greece, says it’s all about staying organized and pushing past any fears or doubts.

“Whenever I am afraid of something, I force myself to do it,” she says.

“I don’t want any fear I have to keep me from doing amazing things.”

The Lawrence University Community Council (LUCC) plays a huge role in decision making and oversight on campus. It operates as a shared governance council, meeting weekly and helping to shape campus climate.

As president, Maria oversees all that activity.

“The role of the president is overseeing all of that and keeping the big picture in mind and seeing how different things can occur through legislation or different events,” Maria says.

RIGHT AT HOME Maria was part of her student government in high school. When first coming to Lawrence from Greece, Maria became a freshman class representative as a way to make Lawrence “feel more like home.”

Her role in LUCC then evolved from a way to make friends and get involved to finding a way to make positive change on campus.

“I remember going to general council and not knowing what was happening,” Maria says. “Over the years that changed, I started to see things that can be improved.”

Maria stayed on the council as a sophomore class representative, then was elected vice president, then president.

Maria has kept a can-do mindset throughout her LUCC journey.

Leading up to her position as president, she ran for various offices a total of five times. She keeps running and stays involved because she is determined to create positive change on campus, she says. It’s only a few months into her presidency, but she’s already increased student engagement and improved the function of LUCC committees by creating a cabinet position that focuses on that.

BE CALM, STAY ORGANIZED As one can imagine, being a student—a double major, no less—and running the LUCC is a full load. We asked Maria for five tips on handling a busy schedule:

1: Do not be afraid to ask for help.

2: Prioritize what is important.

3: Create a schedule, and follow it.

4: Listen to yourself.

5: Take time for you.

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ENGAGED UNIVERSITY the economic & community impact o f l aw r e n c e u n i v e r s i t y

Lawrence commissioned an economic impact study from the Appleseed Foundation. It showed that Lawrence is an integral part of the Appleton community and the surrounding Fox Cities region, both contributing to and benefiting from the vitality of the community and the strength and stability of

Cultural Impacts From community education opportunities, to art and performances and space for community-sponsored events, Lawrence serves in multiple ways as a cultural, education, physical and natural resource for the Fox Cities.

2,249 students in community education programs 1,500

Academy of Music participants

749 BjĂśrklunden adult education seminar attendees 31+ major performances, speeches, and events by visiting artists, musicians, and speakers

the local economy. These are some of the highlights from the

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report. See more at go.lawrence.edu/magimpact.

107,000

acres of the Lake Michigan shoreline preserved square feet of multi-use space in

Warch Campus Center

Economic Impacts

Service Impacts

From spending on goods, services and construction

At Lawrence, engagement in issues that affect the lives

to contributing to the area’s human capital, Lawrence,

of our neighbors is an essential element of both the

including its students and the visitors it draws, is an

education we provide and our long-term relationship

important economic driver and partner in the region.

with the community.

O N E Y E A R I N T H E F OX C I T I E S

642 students & 67 faculty or staff volunteered

1,059 jobs $41 million in earnings $70.3 million in regional economic output $6.4 million spent on goods, services, and construction

through the Center for Community Engagement

10,450 volunteer hours 100 agencies and organizations with ongoing Lawrence relationships the top five are: 1. appleton area school district

D E V E L O P I N G H U M A N C A P I TA L

886 graduates live in the Fox Cities 5% of area residents with a bachelor’s degree are

2. riverview gardens 3. brewster village 4. feeding america 5. boys & girls clubs of the fox valley

Lawrence graduates

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NEW ADDITIONS IN COMPUTER SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS MULTIPLY OPPORTUNITIES Lawrence is continuing its commitment to curricular innovation and providing students with classroom experiences that better prepare them for success at Lawrence and beyond. This fall, the university is offering a revamped computer science major and a new introductory calculus sequence.

Associate Professor of Computer Science Kurt Krebsbach ’85 with student.

COMPUTER SCIENCE

NEW CALCULUS SEQUENCE

Lawrence University is offering a newly configured major in computer science.

Catherine Kodat, provost and dean of faculty, says the revamped major better aligns with the rapidly changing world and all aspects of life that are now touched by computer technology.

“The increasing importance of computer science in every aspect of our lives is undeniable,” she says. “The world of computer science, while related to mathematics, has become a world of its own. Our new major will better prepare students to enter that new, expanded world.”

The redesigned computer science major will enhance learning opportunities in data science, software development and other computer programming areas. The mathematics-computer science major will be phased out over the next three years.

The mathematics-computer science major has had a great track record since being introduced in 1984, said Kurt Krebsbach ’85, a professor of computer science in the Department of Mathematics.

“We have had a remarkable record of achievement in our graduates from the computer science program,” he said, noting recent graduates have landed jobs with Apple, Amazon, Google and other leading tech companies.

But as the computer science field changes, so does the teaching, Krebsbach said. The retooled computer science major will broaden the offerings, with less emphasis on pure mathematics requirements. It will add new instruction in statistics and data science, provide more flexibility for students pursuing a variety of technology-related fields and require more exposure to the increasingly computational side of those emerging disciplines.

The number of students enrolled in computer science classes at Lawrence has more than tripled since 2011, Krebsbach said.

This fall, the Department of Mathematics is unveiling a new calculus sequence.

The new sequence replaces the old offerings of Calculus I, II and III with a reworked progression that shifts at what point in the sequence certain topics are taught, making the courses timelier and more relevant to students across disciplines. Calculus II is becoming Math 155: Multivariable Calculus, which contains some topics from Calculus II as well as topics previously covered in Calculus III. Calculus III has morphed into Math 200: Complex Sequences and Series, expanding many subject areas previously taught in Calculus II and teaching them at a second-year level. This approach allows students in majors like economics, chemistry and computer science to learn material that is more relevant to their majors, while students who are interested in physics or math have the opportunity for an earlier introduction to advanced mathematics topics. “We want the curriculum to make sense for a greater group while also providing a better ramp into college-level mathematics,” says Professor of Mathematics Alan Parks.

“The needs of our students are paramount,” he continues. “We always pay a lot of attention to the way our curriculum dovetails with the curriculum in other departments. We feel strongly that the connections we have across campus are vital, particularly in the lives of our students, because we have so many students in common.” The math department took advantage of new ideas and exciting changes like the computer science major and arrival of new faculty members to design the updated calculus sequence.

“We’re not reinventing the wheel, and nothing fundamental has changed in the way we approach what we do,” says Parks. “We are providing opportunities to make the curriculum fit better for more students in more disciplines.”

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LAWRENCE’S NEW B.M.A. DEGREE WIDENS THE PATH FOR STUDENT MUSICIANS Lawrence is introducing a new degree program: the Bachelor of Musical Arts (B.M.A.). The foundation is in jazz and improvisation, but the degree is built to accommodate a wide range of contemporary music making, opening the Conservatory of Music to a wider group of musicians.

The B.M.A., in place beginning this academic year, has a 50-50 split between music studies and another field in the liberal arts landscape, with expectations to connect the two. Flexibility, an ability to adapt quickly and a willingness to collaborate are all key attributes for anyone entering the world of music in the 21st century. Blending those core musicianship skills with an education in a student’s other field of interest is the next step in keeping the Conservatory forward-thinking.

The high standards haven’t changed. The audition process for acceptance into the Conservatory remains intact, and the skilldevelopment expectations continue to be top level. But for the B.M.A., the audition no longer needs to be tied to classical music training, opening the door for students who see their strengths and interests in jazz and contemporary improvisation.

It’s all about choices, said Brian Pertl, dean of the Conservatory.

The degree allows the Conservatory to welcome in musicians who don’t necessarily fit a certain musical footprint.

“To be able to give students high-level musical training will certainly broaden what they can do. But it also expands the musical culture of the Conservatory, mixing different genres and different musical sensibilities. This will be a huge advantage to everyone at the Conservatory.”

Pertl called the B.M.A. a natural progression for the Conservatory as it embraces and nurtures the modern musician.

“At Lawrence, we’ve already been incorporating so many of the elements of improvisation and world music into the trajectory of a classically trained musician for the same reason,” he said. “It’s going to be the flexibility of art, and of mind, that will help you to successfully create your musical life.”

To learn more about the new B.M.A., visit go.lawrence.edu/magbma

D-Day 70th anniversary: After all who were there are gone, what happens to history? — The Associated Press “In an age of disputed facts, disputed truth, personal truth, ’my truth’ and ’your truth’, how are we going to get at the actual truth when the actual participants are gone?

I am very concerned that when the last of these guys passes on, we’re going to start making up our own truth.”

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More schools follow Lawrence’s lead on test-optional admissions — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel “Students have so much more to them than that single score, but culturally, we place so much significance on it.”

—JERALD PODAIR, professor of history and Robert S. French Professor of American Studies, in a national story about the dwindling number of World War II veterans still alive

The Morning Show — Wisconsin Public Radio “About 25 percent of our students come from the state of Wisconsin, but 75 percent come from elsewhere.

We have 47 states represented on campus and actually over 70 countries around the globe. That kind of demand is essential for both the future of Lawrence but also for the learning experience; interacting with this diverse population is part of the learning we offer.”

PRESIDENT MARK BURSTEIN, in a live interview with Kate Archer Kent

KEN ANSELMENT, Dean of Admissions, on Lawrence being a pioneer in not requiring ACT or SAT tests for admission

Lawrence Jazz Ensemble wins back-to-back DownBeat awards — The Post-Crescent “The students in the Jazz Ensemble work together on music that is unique, challenging, and a joy to perform. This includes a lot of contemporary jazz rep and premier works from Lawrence’s student jazz composers and arrangers.”

PATRICIA DARLING, a music professor in the Lawrence Conservatory of Music who oversees the ensemble

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FIVE NEW FACULTY MEMBERS JOINING LAWRENCE Five new tenure-track faculty members will join Lawrence University for the start of the 2019–20 academic year, boosting the school’s academic prowess across multiple fields of study.

“I am delighted to be able to welcome five new tenure-track faculty to Lawrence this coming fall,” says Provost Katie Kodat. “These impressive new colleagues represent the best in their fields and will allow us to continue building on our strengths in mathematics, the sciences, and the humanities in the college, and in the voice program in the conservatory.”

Learn more about each new faculty member and what Kodat has to say about the strengths and talent they bring to Lawrence.

ABHISHEK CHAKRABORTY, statistics A Ph.D. in the Department of Statistics at Iowa State University, Chakraborty holds a master’s degree in statistics from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Kanpur, India, and a bachelor of science degree in statistics from St. Xavier’s College in Kolkata, India. He ranked fifth out of 200 entrants from 100 different countries in the Prudsys AG Data Mining Cup 2016, and placed 28th out of 193 entrants in 2018. He worked as a graduate teaching assistant at Iowa State.

“Abhishek joins a newly renamed Mathematics and Computer Science department as Lawrence’s second specialist in statistics,” observes Provost Catherine Kodat. “His research interests in data mining will fortify course offerings in data science as well as statistics more traditionally understood—an exciting contribution for a department in the midst of a renaissance.”

VANESSA D. PLUMLY, German Plumly comes to Lawrence from State University of New York at New Paltz, where she is a German lecturer and program coordinator in the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures and a Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies faculty affiliate. She earned her Ph.D. in German Studies in 2015 from the University of Cincinnati. Plumly earned the 2018 German Embassy Teacher of Excellence Award from the American Association of Teachers of German (AATG).

“Vanessa’s research interests in Afro-German culture, film, and gender and sexuality studies will enrich many areas of our curriculum beyond German: Ethnic Studies, Film Studies, and Gender Studies, to name three,” Kodat notes. “She joins us as our third Mellon Faculty Fellow for a Diverse Professoriate.”

RELENA RIBBONS, geosciences A visiting assistant professor in geosciences at Lawrence since 2016, Ribbons has a bachelor’s degree in environmental studies from Wellesley College, a masters in forest ecology from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, and doctorates in forest ecology, geosciences and natural resources from Bangor University and geosciences and natural resources management from the University of Copenhagen.

“Relena’s appointment to the geosciences department gives us additional expertise in important areas of environmental research, among them soil ecology and biogeochemistry,” Kodat says.

ESTELÍ GOMEZ, voice soprano, Gomez joins the Conservatory of A Music amid impressive success as a recording artist and performer. She is a vocalist with Roomful of Teeth, which won a 2014 Grammy Award with its debut CD. She holds a master of music degree from the McGill Schulich School of Music and a bachelor of arts degree in music from Yale.

Gomez, who has sung in more than 20 languages, has taught in private voice studios since 2006, mostly in New Haven, Connecticut, Montreal and New York City. “Estelí exemplifies the twin commitments to excellence in teaching and performance that characterizes our conservatory faculty,” Kodat says.

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AUSTIN SEGREST, English A visiting assistant professor of English at Lawrence since 2014, Segrest holds a doctorate in literature and creative writing (poetry) from the University of Missouri and a master’s from Georgia State University. He has received fellowships from the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference and the National Endowment for the Humanities, and previously served as the poetry editor of the Missouri Review.

“We now have three accomplished, actively publishing writers who are either tenured or on the tenure track in our English department, a great boon for our student writers in both the college and the conservatory,” Kodat observes.

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FOND FAREWELL TO RETIRING FACULTY Bruce Hetzler, a fixture in the psychology department for more than four decades, and Kenneth and Joanne Bozeman, key players in the growth and success of the Conservatory of Music, are retiring. The three have a combined 110 years of teaching at Lawrence.

BRUCE HETZLER has been a leading voice in the psychology department at Lawrence since 1977. You might even say his 42-year run has been magical.

Hetzler has often mixed his love of magic with his passion for teaching about the brain.

Much of his work at Lawrence focused on neuropharmacology, effects of alcohol on the brain, computer analysis of brain waves and neuroscience. He was part of a faculty group that launched the initial neuroscience program at Lawrence.

He and his students through the years published dozens of papers on a wide range of brain-focused topics, the latest being a study on why some people co-abuse methylphenidate (most common trade name is Ritalin) and alcohol. That paper, with coauthors Lauren W.Y. McLester-Davis ’18 and Sadie E. Tenpas ’17, was published in the June edition of the journal Alcohol.

He persevered with both his teaching and his magic after suffering a major stroke in the summer of 2011. Relearning magic tricks helped with his long and slow recovery. Now he hopes to dedicate more time in retirement to the physical therapy that’s needed to regain many of his magician skills.

“I have mixed emotions,” Hetlzer said of his retirement. “I’ve been here a long time, and I’ve loved it. I’ve enjoyed teaching, I’ve enjoyed doing research, and I’ve enjoyed working with students in the laboratory. But it has been 42 years, so I think it’s time for this chapter in my life to close.”

Music professor KENNETH BOZEMAN, retiring after 42 years on the Conservatory of Music faculty, has left an impressive imprint that’s difficult to measure.

He led the voice department for much of his tenure, in the process providing important leadership not just in the Conservatory but across campus. In addition to his work as a respected voice teacher, he has led or been a part of talent searches for Conservatory faculty and new deans and has played a big role in campus projects such as the expansion of the Music-Drama Center and the building of the Warch Campus Center.

In recent years, his focus has been in the growing field of acoustic voice pedagogy. He’s become an in-demand scholar on that topic across the country.

But it’s in the voice studio where Bozeman says his heart remains. “Voice teaching is totally one-on-one, so it’s pretty personal,” he says. “When you are working on someone’s voice, in a sense you are messing with their soul. Their sense of personal identity is wrapped up in their voice.”

Under his guidance, the voice department within the Conservatory has grown from about 40 students and four instructors to nearly 100 students being taught by five full-time studio faculty, one adjunct faculty, two choral directors, opera and theater directors, a vocal coach and other contributors.

Bruce Hetzler (L) and Ken Bozeman at Commencement 2019.

He said he’ll continue to do voice work in retirement, participating in workshops, presenting at conferences and offering private voice teaching focused on young professional singers.

JOANNE BOZEMAN has been an adjunct member of the voice department at Lawrence since 1993, teaching studio voice and related course work.

She also was a sought-after soloist in recital, concert and oratorio for nearly four decades.

“I’ll miss working with students in the long term, four or five years, developing their skill set and seeing them master certain things,” she says. “The change between an 18-year-old singer and a 21- or 22-year-old singer is a huge transition. It’s really exciting to be involved with that.”

Bozeman called working with the voice faculty in the Conservatory a joy.

“We don’t always agree with each other, but we really do get along,” she said. “I admire my colleagues’ skills in the studio, and we are friends. I’ll miss that kind of intimate relationship. I’ll miss the people in the office, and I’ll miss my wonderful colleagues all over the Conservatory.”

In addition to giving private voice lessons, Bozeman is working on a book with two other women about women’s singing voices as they go through perimenopause and menopause. To date, it includes interviews with nearly 60 women, ranging from elite professional singers to those who participate in community choirs.

It’s an emotional and very personal issue for women who want to continue singing as they age, Bozeman says.

“Some breeze through it,” she said. “Some struggle. I really struggled. That’s kind of what fueled my interest in the issue.”

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“ $ 2 . 5 M I L L I O N G I F T E S TA B L I S H E S C U T T I N G - E D G E O R G A N I Z AT I O N A L PSYCHOLOGY PROFESSORSHIP A $2.5 million gift will allow Lawrence to create an endowed professorship to teach the psychology of collaboration, adding to the school’s efforts to better prepare students for life after Lawrence.

BE THE LIGHT! L E A R N E R S . L E A D E R S . L AW R E N T I A N S .

C A M P A I G N U P D AT E

The generous donation from J. Thomas Hurvis ’60 to

create the J. Thomas Hurvis Professorship of Social and Organizational Psychology was announced at the May meeting of the Board of Trustees.

The new position will be based in the Department of

The generosity of Lawrence University supporters shone bright this

Psychology and will contribute regularly to the Innovation and

year for Be The Light!, the most ambitious fundraising campaign in

Entrepreneurship program, providing teaching that is focused

our history.

on cross-cultural collaboration, group life, ethical thought and

“The impact of philanthropic investment in the college is

moral judgment. It’s the type of study usually found in business

profound and enhances all aspects of the student experience,” says

schools or as part of doctoral programs. It will build on existing

Vice President for Alumni and Development Cal Husmann.

Lawrence strengths to allow students across disciplines to

access teachings that will better prepare them to be the leaders

This year has been exciting, with milestones like the public

launch celebration; investments in curriculum, classroom

of tomorrow, no matter their career direction.

enhancements and faculty positions; groundbreaking on critical campus renewal projects; near-record support for the Lawrence Fund and hundreds of gifts to the Full Speed to Full Need (FSFN) initiative.

“Lawrentians give back in so many ways,” observes Husmann.

“From financial gifts of all sizes, to volunteering as resources for the Center for Career, Life, and Community Engagement and admissions, to serving on boards and advisory groups. We in the Lawrence community are so grateful for this support.”

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It’s the type of study usually found in business schools or as part of doctoral programs.

The position is expected to be filled in time for the 2020–21 academic year.

For Hurvis, working collaboratively hits close to home,

and he believes strongly that the skills tied to collaboration are critical for success in almost any field.

“Partnership has been at the core of all of my life’s

success,” he said. “Collaboration requires skills and a personal inclination.

I am thrilled we can now ensure every Lawrence student

has the opportunity to develop these skills and better understand the importance of this work. Collaboration is easy to describe but very, very hard to do.”

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BE THE LIGHT! SPOTLIGHT SMALL COSTS, BIG BARRIERS THE HERBERT K. AND MORLA TJOSSEM FUND MAKING DIFFERENCE IN LIVES OF STUDENTS Imagine heading into the library for an intensive study session.

You heave your backpack onto a table and hear a distressing

connection between students and faculty, connections that

sound: the crunch of your glasses getting crushed by your math

extend outside of the classroom and well beyond graduation.

textbook. For some students, situations that many people might

The Tjossem Fund is a profound example of those connections.

write off as small inconveniences are the kind of

One of the hallmarks of the Lawrence experience is the

It is named for Emeritus Professor of English Herbert

unexpected costs that can derail their educational

Tjossem. He and his wife, Morla, forged relationships

opportunities.

with students for nearly 40 years, whether

Enter the Herbert K. and Morla Tjossem

through impromptu holiday meals or providing

Endowed Discretionary Fund for Student

mentoring and support, especially to

Assistance. Established in 2017 by Cory ’92

international students and domestic students of

and Michelle Nettles and the Tjossem

color. One of those students was Cory Nettles,

family, this fund helps alleviate the pressure

who recalls Herbert and Morla as instrumental

of unexpected incidental costs for students

in his own personal and academic successes at

whose financial challenges make a seemingly

Lawrence. He worked with the Tjossems to create

small expense a big problem.

a fund that could make an immediate difference in the

Those broken glasses are no thought experiment.

lives of students.

The Tjossem Fund recently helped a student who had been

attending classes and struggling to study for two weeks without

needs of students from underrepresented backgrounds, including

glasses. The fund helped cover the cost of replacement glasses

international, low-income and first-generation students. They

and the student was able to get back on track with coursework—

are able to request confidential grants from the fund, which is

this relatively small financial intervention quite possibly meant

administered by the Office of Student Life in coordination with

the difference between academic success or academic struggle.

the Financial Aid Office.

The same goes for situations like emergency dental repairs or bus

tickets to Chicago for a passport renewal.

remove barriers to academic success and completion and ensure

that all students have an equitable academic experience and the

“This type of funding makes a tangible impact in students’

The fund is open to all students, with an emphasis on the

The Tjossem Fund is just one way Lawrence is working to

lives, particularly among low-income and first generation students

opportunity to thrive.

who are making difficult decisions every day,” says Vice President

of Student Life Christopher D. Card. “The Tjossem Fund has

more about how you can be a part of this fund, please contact

made huge differences for our students and their ability to thrive.”

920-832-6548.

The Tjossem Fund welcomes support. If you would like to learn

ABOVE: Cory Nettles ’92 (L) recalls a “moving and special trip” with Herbert Tjossem to Normandy, France in April 2014 ahead of the 70th anniversary of D-Day.

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O’CONNOR’S ARRIVAL PUTS LIFE AFTER LAWRENCE INITIATIVES IN HYPERDRIVE Meet Mike O’Connor, the inaugural Riaz Waraich Dean of the Center for Career, Life, and Community Engagement (CLC). This vital new position, named for the longtime business partner of J. Thomas Hurvis ’60, is supported by a $2.5 million gift from Hurvis. He also issued a matching challenge, asking others to join him in supporting internships, career exploration, and curricular development through the CLC. $1.7 million has already been raised toward that additional $2.5 million.

Spend 10 minutes with Mike O’Connor, Lawrence University’s new Riaz Waraich Dean of the Center for Career, Life and Community Engagement (CLC), and he’ll drop a variation of “connected” into the conversation a couple dozen times.

Being connected to the CLC and its resources, be it through internships and fellowships or employment contacts and alumni resources, is something that will be part of every student’s journey from the moment they arrive during Welcome Week. It won’t be something to be put off until senior year.

“To me, the messaging for first-year students would be, the Center for Career, Life, and Community Engagement is just part of what you do as a Lawrentian,” O’Connor says. “It’s not a standalone entity. It’s interconnected, it’s part of the tapestry of Lawrence.”

O’Connor had been the director of the Career Exploration program at Williams College for the past five and a half years.

He and his family—wife, Kerrin Sendrowitz O’Connor, two daughters, Fiona Jayne, 3, and Isla Kelly, 7 months, two dogs and a cat—have embraced the move from the East Coast to Appleton.

He sees opportunities for enhanced connections at Lawrence in every direction he looks.

“Life After Lawrence has a lot of moving parts,” O’Connor says. “There’s a big employer initiative, and we’re building more pipelines for recruitment. More than that, though, is the potential for better integration with curricular goals and actualizing our alumni base at scale. We’ve got this amazing group of thousands and thousands of Lawrentians who want to help other Lawrentians. We’re working on tapping that power.”

For starters, career advising is being woven into Freshman Studies in new ways. A career communities initiative has been launched and will continue to be fine-tuned and rolled out to students across all areas of study. An interactive student-alumni mentor network is being developed.

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DID YOU KNOW? 99% of the class of 2018 are employed or furthering their education.

“That will give us the ability to connect with alumni based on a certain major or career interest or geographic area and be able to reach out to them in real time,” O’Connor says. “A student will be able to say, ‘Hey, I see you are working at Google in this data analytics role.

I’ve been thinking about that as a career, can I hop on a call with you for 10 or 15 minutes to find out more about it?’ Or maybe ‘I have this interview coming up and I need advice.’

“This is something we onboarded at Williams and it was just a complete gamechanger. It actualized our alums’ talents in real time in a useful way.”

Introducing an alumni affinity network to students will start during Welcome Week, although developing it and integrating it will be a work in progress.

“We’re trying to move on a lot of this very quickly,” O’Connor says.

There’s been encouraging cooperation from departments across campus as these initiatives have been explored, developed and tested.

“We’re lucky that we have a highly collaborative community with a lot of opportunities,” O’Connor says. “Not just our office but partnering with others across campus. The work of the CLC is really a team sport.”

Alexander Gym’s new horseshoe.

Construction under way in the upgrades around Memorial Hall.

S U M M E R R E N O VAT I O N P R O J E C T S P R O V I D E CAMPUS UPGRADES

By Isabella Mariani ’21 Maintaining the campus infrastructure at Lawrence is an investment in the well-being of students, faculty, staff and the surrounding community, which is why campus renewal is a key priority of Be The Light!. That was in full view this summer as multiple renovation projects took place across campus thanks to a series of gifts and support.

This summer’s more ambitious projects included new concrete at the plaza by Memorial Hall and an upgrade of its entryways, new hardscape on the Conservatory walkway, and the repaving of the Alexander Gym horseshoe, part of a facelift that includes lighting and new sidewalks. And while the installation of a generator may not seem like much, it kicks off the multi-million dollar renovation transforming Kohler Hall into a 21st-century living space.

Among the other key projects in play: • Music and Drama: Installing new doors and windows on the Music and Drama side of Shattuck Hall.

• Steam line: Replacing the portion of the steam line north of College Avenue, a continuation of the work that was done during spring term.

• Memorial Chapel: Lights are being added in front of the chapel to increase visibility and pedestrian safety along the walkways.

Isabella Mariani ’21 is a student writer in the Communications office.

Want to be part of the CLC’s alumni network? Just update your alumni profile at go.lawrence.edu/clcmag and check the “I want to be a career contact” box.

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WHEN MARCH MADNESS CAME TO LAWRENCE 1 5 Ye a r s L a t e r, B o n d s S t a y S t r o n g

By Ed Berthiaume Sometimes madness can be found in the unlikeliest of places.

Those who have even a passing curiosity of college basketball know the month of March is an unfolding tapestry of drama and strategy, unabashed joy and cruel heartbreak, playing out on hardwood courts across the country, often in spacious arenas housing hoops royalty but sometimes in small but achingly charming gymnasiums far from the spotlight.

So begins our flashback to 15 years ago, when the men’s basketball team from Lawrence University began its own magical dance through March Madness. It was a run that took the Vikings to the Division III Elite 8 before they suffered an agonizing 1-point overtime loss to the eventual national champions in a game that the then-Lawrence coach calls one of the greatest college

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basketball games ever played—even though the gymnasium in Tacoma, Washington, was mostly empty.

No, this is not a story that ended with a national championship.

History rarely remembers a team that came up two games short.

But March Madness is different. A good Cinderella story has legs, made of moments and memories that live on.

Until March 2004, Lawrence had never won an NCAA tournament game. Ever. It hadn’t happened in 101 years.

They would win three on this post-season journey, a fourth slipping from their fingers, a Final Four berth just a few ticks of the clock out of reach.

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Division III gets little love from national media, so this wasn’t quite the hysteria of Maryland-Baltimore County beating topseeded Virginia last year. But it was big here. The Post-Crescent, the daily newspaper in Appleton, chronicled Lawrence’s run through the 2004 tournament with equal parts excitement and astonishment. 

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“Those brainiacs over at Lawrence showed they can ball with anybody on the Division III level, and those of you who were paying attention no doubt had quite a ball following their Shock the Nation National Tour. One point, one play from a spot in the NCAA Division III Final Four. Lawrence University? Tell you what, folks, on a larger scale, this would be like Lehigh making it to the Elite Eight in Division I.” Mike Woods, The Post-Crescent

STILL WINNING As we check in with that 2003–04 team 15 years later, we find that those players who posted a 24-5 record and went undefeated at Alexander Gymnasium were far more than basketball players.

It turns out they were scholars, embracing the academic side of Lawrence as fervently as they attacked their basketball preparations.

Chris Braier, a sophomore that season who would go on to become the most accomplished player in Lawrence history, would also earn the status of Academic All-American. Now 34 and a physician assistant in Chicago, he earned his MBA in December from Northwestern University and has added clinical health care consultant to his resume.

Three other players from that team are now doctors—Kyle MacGillis, a hand/wrist/elbow surgeon in Oak Lawn, Illinois, Jason Holinbeck, an orthopedic surgeon in Wichita Falls, Texas, and Brett Sjoberg, a radiologist in Madison.

Chris MacGillis, brother of Kyle and the leading scorer with 22 points in that Elite 8 game, earned his law degree and is now a partner in a Milwaukee area law office.

Ben Klekamp earned his doctorate and now works as an epidemiologist in Florida.

ABOVE: Kyle MacGillis ’06 drives to the basket against UW–Stevens Point in the 2003–04 NCAA Division III tournament.

Another is a college basketball coach, another a financial advisor, another a director of business development, another a manager of a regional business. The list goes on.

Count John Tharp, the then-34-year-old coach of that team, impressed. Not surprised, but impressed.

“The greatness of that run wasn’t necessarily just the wins,” Tharp says as he chats from Hillsdale College, where he now coaches the Division II Chargers. “The greatness of the run was the collection of people that we had in the program at that time. You want to epitomize what a student-athlete is, it was the collection of guys that were on that basketball team.” 

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AN HISTORIC RUN By the time the tournament began in early March 2004, the Lawrence campus had already taken notice that something special was going on. Despite having no player taller than 6'6", the Vikings had imposed their will as they marched through the Midwest Conference schedule.

As the season rolled on, Alexander Gymnasium got down-right rowdy. It was full. It was loud.

The Appleton Fire Department had to turn people away because of fire code concerns.

“The vibe around campus, people were really excited,” Braier says.

“The first game, there was a row of chairs along the baseline at Alex, and by the end of the year they had to build a whole new bleacher section on the baseline because of the crowds.

“When you would come to games, a lot of times the women would play before us, so you would come in during the first half of the women’s game, and you started noticing that there would be a line to get into our games. You couldn’t find a parking spot an hour and a half before the game. That’s when you start thinking, man, this is kind of a big deal.”

They won all 12 home games.

Then came the tournament. The run began with a first-round 86-51 blowout of Lakeland at a packed Alexander Gym. “I can remember diving for a loose ball into the standing roomonly crowd in one of the corners and realizing that they’re 10 deep in the corners to watch this game,” Braier says.

Then it was on to Storm Lake, Iowa, a seven-hour bus trip into the round of 32.

“When we went to play Buena Vista and we were in Storm Lake, Iowa, we had a ton of students who were at that game,” Tharp recalls. “That’s a great effort to be there. It was amazing. To come out of that locker room and to see how many Lawrence kids were there, and just people from Appleton who were not even necessarily connected to Lawrence, that was incredibly special.”

Lawrence would beat Buena Vista 72-66, sending them to the Sweet 16 in Tacoma and a match up with Sul Ross State, a team from Alpine, Texas, loaded with size and talented junior college transfers. It was unchartered territory for any school from the Midwest Conference, which had never seen a team advance past the second round.

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Chris Braier ’06, here playing against Sul Ross State in the 2003–04 NCAA Division III tournament, was inducted into the Lawrence Athletic Hall of Fame in 2016.

the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, a Division III power located just 60 miles west of the Lawrence campus but light years away in terms of basketball history. The Pointers at the time had advanced to the Elite 8 twice in the previous decade and would go on to win back-to-back national championships in 2004 and 2005.

It was a nail-biter, neither team giving ground, filled with drama to the end—witnessed by no more than 400 or so people in a college fieldhouse nearly 2,000 miles from home. A late Stevens Point three-pointer sent the game into overtime—a bonus five minutes—and then Lawrence’s improbable journey came crashing down in the waning seconds of that extra period.

A made basket by the Pointers to retake the lead. Then a lastsecond shot that would have won the game for Lawrence fell short. The scoreboard read 82-81.

“I just remember being completely exhausted, dropping to the floor,” Braier says.

Just like that, the ride was over.

“You felt like that last shot, how does that not go in?” Braier says.

“It’s like we were in a movie. In the movie, that shot goes in.”

regular season and claiming the school’s first-ever No. 1 national ranking. They’d win a couple more tournament games, as well.

But they never quite recaptured the glory of 2004.

“It really was magical,” MacGillis says.

Puget Sound, the host school, had lost the night before to Stevens Point. Thus, witnesses in the arena that night were few.

“There weren’t more than 300 or 400 people in the crowd at that game, and it was probably one of the greatest college basketball games ever played,” Tharp says. “It was a phenomenal game.”

Stevens Point would roll through the next two games to claim a national championship. Lawrence was left with what might have been.

“I think when you talk to everybody they all think we were one or two possessions away from maybe having a chance to win a national championship,” Tharp says.

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“I think there was a sense of disappointment and heartbreak after that loss,” Tharp says. “Afterwards, and over the years, I think there is an obviously special place in everybody’s hearts about the run that was made.”

For Chris MacGillis, a senior on that team, the end of the journey hurt more than missing out on a chance at a national championship.

“I wasn’t emotional because we lost and I thought we should have won,” he says.

“I just remember becoming emotional because of how proud I was and how happy I was to be with this group of guys. We were a very tight group. We all relied on each other and we all cared about each other, and we still do to this day. I was more emotional about not being able to do this with these guys anymore than I was about losing.”

STILL TOGETHER Fifteen years later, most of the players on that team remain connected. There are job changes and weddings and children and other life moments to navigate. But the bonds formed during that memorable season remain to this day. For basketball players, a March Madness experience, no matter if it’s under the bright lights of D-1 or in the more dimly lit shadows of D-3, lodges in your soul and stays there forever.

When Braier was inducted into Lawrence’s athletic hall of fame three years ago, many of the players from that team made their way back to Appleton. Braier said it was a reminder to him of how special that group was.

“I always thought, man, these guys are ridiculously smart,” Braier says. “That was my first thought when I first dealt with my teammates.

“I don’t think at the time you realize how special of a group of individuals this was. It was just an everyday thing. . . . Everyone was such a high achiever. You didn’t think it was anything different. But then when you stepped away or you talked to friends from other teams, that’s when you realized it.”

The coaches remain as connected as the players, despite a decade and a half of travels and life experiences separating them from those three weeks of madness.

“Those guys are part of my life, and obviously things have changed a little bit with me being at a different school and those guys are all over the country now, but I think everyone knows where everybody is at and what everybody is doing,” Tharp says.

“But what makes it special, I still think to this day if anybody needed anyone else on that team, I think everybody would still be there for each other.”

Braier is getting married in September and most of his Lawrence teammates will be there.

There’s also a Las Vegas getaway every March that reunites many of them. No better time than March to recall that fleeting moment when Lawrence basketball got to dance.

“Man, I could talk about this forever,” Braier says.

Lawrence would continue to dominate the Midwest Conference for the next couple of years, going undefeated in the 2005–06

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Center fielder Amanda Karnatz ’20 makes an over-the-shoulder catch in Lawrence’s win over the University of Chicago at Whiting Field. Karnatz earned All-Midwest Conference and All-Great Lakes Region honors for the third consecutive season.

Josh Janusiak ’19 leads a group of runners in the 10,000 meters at the NCAA Division III Championships in Geneva, Ohio. Janusiak qualified for both the NCAA indoor and outdoor championships in 2019.

VIKINGS HIGHLIGHTS: WINTER AND SPRING 2019 CROSS COUNTRY Josh Janusiak ’19 is as good on the track as he is in the classroom.

The Lawrence track and field star earned a pair of trips to the NCAA Division III Championships in 2019 and was chosen as a first-team Google Cloud Academic All-American by the College Sports Information Directors of America. Janusiak, who finished with nine Midwest Conference (MWC) titles (six in track and three in cross country) qualified for the NCAA Championships five times (three in track and two in cross country).

A philosophy and Spanish major, Janusiak earned Academic All-America honors on the Cross Country/Track and Field squad for the second consecutive year. Janusiak joins elite company by becoming the ninth Lawrence student-athlete to be chosen for a first team.

Cade Francour ’20 hits a ground stroke in his 6-0, 6-0 win over Ripon College’s Junmo Kwan at the Lawrence Courts. The Vikings beat Ripon 8-2 for their 11th consecutive win over the Red Hawks.

Amanda Karnatz ’20 is the league’s top center fielder. Karnatz was chosen for the all-conference and all-region team for the third consecutive season and is just the sixth Lawrence player to earn a trio of all-region honors.

SOFTBALL It’s hard not to like Lawrence softball star Ceara Larson ’21, unless you’re an opposing pitcher.

Larson battered opposing pitching to the tune of a .467 batting average with nine doubles, 11 home runs and 34 runs batted in in 34 games. The sophomore catcher from Bettendorf, Iowa, was chosen as the Midwest Conference Player of the Year and was a first-team All-Great Lakes Region selection. Larson has been an all-conference and all-region selection in each of her two seasons.

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TENNIS Lawrence men’s tennis battled for the Midwest Conference title this spring, and the Francours, both coach and son, had notable achievements.

The Vikings qualified for the four-team MWC Tournament for the fourth consecutive season using a deep and balanced lineup. Their second-place finish is Lawrence’s best in the league since taking the runner-up spot in 2013.

Cade Francour ’20 won the MWC’s Elite 20 award, which goes to the student-athlete competing at the conference championships with the highest grade point average.

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TOP LEFT: Lawrence’s Kenya Earl ’21 (34) drives to the basket against Beloit College at Alexander Gymnasium. Earl, a first-team All-Midwest Conference selection, has piled up 837 points in her first two seasons with the Vikings.

RIGHT: Josh Koepplinger ’19 celebrates after scoring with 14 seconds left in regulation to forge a 3-3 tie with Marian University at the Appleton Family Ice Center.

LOWER LEFT: Erin Lengel ’21 was named the Outstanding Swimmer at the Midwest Conference Championships after winning three individual league titles.

BASKETBALL It would have been nearly impossible for Kenya Earl ’21 to improve on her rookie women’s basketball season in 2017–18, but she almost did it this past season.

The forward from Iowa City, Iowa, put together another stellar campaign and was a first-team All-Midwest Conference selection.

Earl was second in the Midwest Conference at 16.8 points per game as she shot 38.5 percent from the floor.

Men’s tennis Coach Steve Francour collected men’s career win No. 300 with a win over Ripon College in the regular season finale.

SWIMMING AND DIVING Lawrence women’s swimming and diving took home some hardware and broke records at the Midwest Conference Championships at Grinnell College. Swimming star Erin Lengel ’21 was named the meet’s Outstanding Swimmer and Lawrence’s Drew Fleek was named Women’s Coach of the Year after the Vikings finished second at the championships.

Lengel, a native of Doylestown, Pa., swam to three conference titles during her sophomore campaign, broke three school records and topped one MWC mark in the 100-yard freestyle. During the season, Lengel collected MWC Swimmer of the Week honors three times and has five of those awards for her career.

Both Lawrence University swimming and diving teams earned the Scholar All-America award from the College Swimming and Diving Coaches Association of America.

Earl’s name is all over the Midwest Conference leaders from this past season. She was third in rebounds per game, third in freethrow percentage, sixth in 3-point shooting, seventh at blocks per game and 15th at steals per contest.

HOCKEY Forward Josh Koepplinger ’19 made almost as many headlines around the world of NCAA Division III hockey after the season as he did during the 2018–19 campaign.

The native of Saginaw, Mich., finished his season as an AllNorthern Collegiate Hockey Association selection. Koepplinger led the Vikings in goals scored in each of his four seasons.

Koepplinger signed with the Macon (Ga.) Mayhem of the Southern Professional Hockey League and quickly made his presence felt. In his first week as a professional player, Koepplinger was named the SPHL Player of the Week.

The team captain this past season, Koepplinger graduated in June with a major in neuroscience.

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50 years beginning in south Florida, then south central on a lake and finally in northeast Florida which allowed her to explore the entire state in its various modes. Nancy was raised in Minnesota and is now in Wisconsin, again enjoying such treasures in the Midwest.

Sue Esser M-D’46 says “So nice to hear from M.D.C.!”

Sue still touches base fairly often with a couple of old “MDC” classmates. Doris (D.A.) Stilwell ’46, for example (via phone) and Thea Budde Brunsell ’48 (now in Madison).

Sally Gruetzmacher Holl M-D’47 has many memories after 2 years at Lawrence and 2 years at Milwaukee Downer, where she found so many of her high school friends, including Phyllis Young Hinrichs ’47, who she knew from Kindergarten. Phyllis is now in Littleton, CO. In Sally’s senior year at Downer, she was chosen prom queen. That included planning the whole event—where to have it, decorate it, the musicians and to pick up the President, take her to the dance, and have Sally’s date ask her to dance. She also had to send invitations to members of the Board—the President made her redo them and send them again.

How embarrassing was that. But Sally’s date was her future husband back home from the war. That made it all worthwhile.

Golden Reunion.

(Photo: Thompson Photo Imagery)

MILWAUKEE-DOWNER Marilouise Eschen Reid M-D’44 sends greetings to those with whom she attended Milwaukee-Downer College. Following graduation, Marilouise worked as an occupational therapist in the Milwaukee area. Later she and her husband, Howard (psychiatrist), relocated to Bemidji, MN, where they lived for many years enjoying the North Country and helping many people to become well. They discovered Airstream trailers to escape cold Minnesota winters while helping people medically in rural areas of Mexico and Honduras.

Eventually Marilouise relocated to Raleigh, N.C. after Howard’s death. She lives in an assisted care facility near her son’s family and also close to her two grandchildren’s families with three great grandchildren. She has been an avid watercolor painter and listens to many books on tape.

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Roylee Ross Pflughoeft M-D’45 is still enjoying life at Harwood Place in Wauwatosa.

Nancy Balster Schuler M-D’45 is in Florida avoiding the winter in Wisconsin. She was employed as a Certified Occupational Therapist, mostly in the Mental Health venues, for a total of 12 years along with marriage and three children, all of whom have survived and thrived. Her husband is 96 years old. MilwaukeeDowner was and still is a significant milestone in her long life of 95 years. The college and the friends, teachers and colleagues she met there have stood the test of time, although most of them have passed on.

Her first roommate, Rita Persenico Thomas ’47, is still a correspondent now and then as they have both made numerous changes geographically. Aside from her career as an O.T. and raising a family and being a helpmate to her husband in his various interests and careers, she has had an ongoing passion for the environment and ecological concerns, particularly birds and native plants. Florida was their home for

Harriet Zinneman Levy M-D’48 has lived in a very large retirement community for 16 years in the Maryland suburbs of Washington, D.C. and is still loving it. She keeps active with classes and other stimulating activities. Twenty years after graduation, she ventured into college once more and received her MLS, subsequently employed as a special librarian for a while. Harriet still keeps in touch with Nancy Bump Anderson ’48 and occasionally some others.

The last reunion she attended was her 50th—the lack of other reunions mostly due to the distance between Wisconsin and Maryland. She enjoyed her years at M-DC and sends her best to the few who remember her.

June Marinelle McCotter M-D’49 is living in Green Bay, and she is able to attend every Spring Reunion.

Because of Macular Degeneration, she is now unable to drive, so she rides to Appleton with Eileen Johnson M-D’66. June is usually the oldest M-DC Alum and the first to march in the classes’ parade holding the 1949 Banner while marching into the Chapel. June loves being in the Teakwood Room for luncheon again and again and visiting with other classes. She continues to be involved in activities and events, especially the Lifelong Learning Institute.

50-Year Connection.

(Photo: Thompson Photo Imagery)

Ruth Mehring Bernat M-D’49 has now been living with her daughter for 2 ½ years in N.C.—she does have a few problems (blind in right eye, 6 injections so far in spine, and they want to talk surgery! She really doesn’t know if it would help and since she can walk fine with no cane or walker. Ruth still does a fair amount of cut and sew (has a product she invented in the late 70s after retirement that both sells well and is gladly accepted if given (Micro Mitts). She does her own laundry, makes her own breakfast and lunch, and pays half or more on all the bills (bad case of braggadocio). Hi to all!

Barbara Stolzoff Edelson M-D’50 is healthy, happy and almost 90. She works at a food pantry once a week, belongs to a book club that is stimulating.

Barbara has 5 children, 8 grandchildren, who are the love of her life, and 3 great-grandchildren. “Life is wonderful!”

Mary E. Van Gorden M-D’51 says that life is good for her in Black River Falls. She is in her fourth year living at “Spaulding Place,” a senior housing cooperative, a great style of living for people her age. She is blessed with good health so she is able to keep busy with volunteer projects, two of which are building a hospice house in their community and passing “Medical Aid in Dying” legislation in Wisconsin. The first will be easier than the second!

Gloria Groleski Tolaro M-D’51, Sue Carroll Heinritz ’51 and Helen Cramer Francis ’51 graduated from M-DC in 1951, the Centennial year, with B.S. degrees in Occupational Therapy. They lived in McClaren Hall and became good friends. Together, they joined the Women’s Medical Specialist Corps of the Army during the Korean War along with 6 of their classmates and now, living in very distant parts of the country and strongly pushing 90 years of age, they remain friends after 68 years. How special is that? In 2015 they met in Phoenix to celebrate this friendship.

Gloria with her husband, Jay, of 65 years, remains independent and active by volunteering at the Y, quilting, studying genealogy, teaching swimming, and continuing to swim with a Masters team. There is hardly an extra minute in the day. Their children, Gina and Joe, also live in Arizona, a great boon and delight.

Come visit! There is no snow to shovel here.

Nancy Chadbourne Maze M-D’52 says with the recent “Me Too” news, she is beginning to appreciate all the more how protected you were at college. Everyone had to sign out and in again when you left and returned to the college campus. Men were not allowed upstairs in the dorm. They had to stay in the parlor when visiting women. When the men came upstairs you would yell “Man upstairs.”

Nancy enjoyed crew. “We were fortunate to have that remarkable experience. We had a well-rounded educational opportunity with art and music appreciation, and good writing lessons where I learned

enough to give me courage to research and edit a number of local history and genealogy books.”

Nancy works with the local woman’s club to organize bus trips for adults and students to Chicago to visit museums, music and drama events.

The M-DC location was very attractive between the river and Lake Michigan. She has a great niece who is attending University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, which now includes the Milwaukee-Downer Academy and College property. Her mother was surprised and pleased to see the beautiful university campus. “Of course we all enjoyed the good local German food!”

Nancy is still in contact with: Mildreth L. Thorberg (Bobbie Moon) and Margaret Weir Trayser.

Joyce Hardaker Patrick M-D’52 says “It is amazing how few people remember Milwaukee-Downer. At this age, I have proudly proved Miss Hadley’s err. I’m published and have talent, which she declared at our graduation in 1952. She stopped my English major, yet my triple major served me very well. Indeed, we received an outstanding education at Downer.”

Rightie Revercomb Pappenheim M-D’52 “All good wishes!”

Mary Lou Sell Anderson M-D’53 has many good memories at Downer. “We were sad to hear of Pat Cody’s ’53 passing. She was a ‘special fun person!’

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singing.” Pat was Mary Lou’s roommate at Björklunden in 2008—fond memories. She gives her best to all of her Downer friends. Hugs!

eternal for rain. Wonder of wonders, it is just starting to do so. Hurray!” Best wishes to all, especially class of MD’55.

Alpha Wetenkamp M-D’54 reports that nothing has changed.

Marye Toronyi Nash Kraemer M-D’55 is residing at the Veterans Center in Rocky Hill, Connecticut.

She is the oldest resident there and awaiting her 100th birthday on April 22, 2019. Recently she and her daughter went through a college album of Downer memories, including the regattas, and she fondly recalled many of her classmates. She has two children, two granddaughters and four greatgrandchildren—living in New York, Connecticut and Cambridge, MA. Birthday cards may be sent to her at D 225, Rocky Hill Veterans Home, 287 West Street, Rocky Hill, CT 06067.

Rita Abati Carlson M-D’54 wishes to say “Hi” to former classmates and friends. Her husband, Wayne, was gone 20 years in December. Their four children have six grandchildren who are busy going to school.

Most of them are in high school and two are freshman in college. Rita’s son and family live in St. Augustine, Florida, 2 ½ hours from Leesburg. The others live in South Carolina, Minnesota and Japan.

Rita keeps herself busy with her friends by playing cards and going to concerts and restaurants! After a stroke (2015) and open heart surgery (2016), she has spent a lot of time in rehab. No more playing golf because her balance is poor and inhibits a lot of physical energy. A walker helps her get around with long distance walks, but she can drive herself and walk short distances.

Swanny Voneida ’54 and Rita have been friends and have had many good times since college. Rita misses Marilyn Bernstein Goodman ’54 as they were friends in Leesburg for 20 years after they retired. “I am lucky to be alive and thank God for every new day.”

Joanne Bondi Kedzie’s M-D’55 third grandson got married up in Sacramento, CA, in May, and this provided a great time for a family reunion with members from So. Dakota, Nebraska, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Maryland, D.C., Arkansas and Washington joining in.

They also welcomed 2 new great-grandsons, bringing that total to 9 (6-b, 3-g) with 5 in grades K-6. Four are in high school and 4 are in college; 2 will graduate in May, (nursing and law school), 1 is studying in Norway, and 1 graduates next year. Three remain in the military service. Two work in D.C. area, and 1 is a home-school mom. Joanne’s 2 daughters and their husbands remain active and involved, as you can imagine.

She celebrated her 86th birthday and passed CA’s driving test the day before having her 1st cataract surgery. Second surgery followed a month later. Some eye issues, not solved by lens replacement, caused a temporary problem, but things are better now. Her mobility is slowed by arthritis but a cane helps. This is the start of Joanne’s 25th year as a Kaiser Hospice volunteer.

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Ruth Legler Qualich M-D’55 enjoys singing in 2 groups, birding trips, theater and orchestra concerts.

She remains active in church groups and AAUW. Ruth’s husband, Angelo’s, health is remarkably good and life at Freedom Village is interesting and easy. Cynthia and Mike were with them for a week of walking trails and theater going at Christmas. John and his family plan to be there in March. They had a good visit with classmate Lisa Avedon’s daughter, Madeline and her family when they were in Sarasota over the holidays.

Reminisced a great deal about Lisa who, by the way, arranged the blind date when Angelo and Ruth met 63 years ago! They plan on attending reunions at Lawrence as long as they are able.

Milwaukee-Downer Alumnae, family, and friends recently attended the funeral for Dorie Distell Brennan M-D’57, d. March 6, 2019. As the spunky Milwaukee-Downer Alumnae—Milwaukee Chapter President, Dorie helped achieve the transfer of loyalties to Lawrence at the time of the Consolidation.

Dorie and husband Bob raised their eight children with little outside help. Dorie had her Milwaukee-Downer College diploma framed and kept it hung over the sink.

The Memorial Service featured beautiful Scotch-Irish gospel hymns and ended with one the family thought Dorie would like best: I’ll Fly Away.

Barbara Lieberum Westhofen M-D’57 has vague memories of a bowling alley in the basement of one of the M-DC buildings. The pins were smaller than normal—duck pins? Which building? Does anyone remember bowling there?

Nona Roesler Kyle M-D’59 is living on Lake Winnebago.

Her husband passed away in 2004. She has a puggle dog, Milo, who is her buddy.

Lois A. Lind M-D’59 and husband, Marshall, spend most of their time in the Juneau, AK area. They are still able to boat and enjoy summers with family on the waters of southeast Alaska. They also maintain a condo in the Seattle area, which helps them keep in touch with their Washington daughter and grandchildren.

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Rev. Nancy A. Richards M-D’59 states that moving into Brookdale St. Peters was like moving into McLaren Hall, her dorm at Downer. Nancy was elected to the Resident Council last summer, 2018. In November she fulfilled the dream of her childhood—a full transit of the Panama Canal with stops in Central America and Mexico.

Prudence Schmidt Meyer M-D’60 says the skills from Downer academics and experiences pervade her life.

Bell choir, sheepshead, concerts, walks, reading and granddaughter activities are plentiful. Life is good.

Keren Dainow Rotberg M-D’60 and husband, Jay, are alive and well in North Carolina with two teenage grandchildren in NC and a 3- and 6-year-old in Los Angeles. Retirement is great with lots of time to quilt and read.

Kathleen Parmentier Hansen M-D’61 and her three “quad-mates” finally got together after many years down in Florida, where she is a resident. She also has a condo in Green Bay, so it’s easy for her to attend reunions.

Nancy Jay Larson M-D’62 has been living in Madison on and off since 1962. She has three children with spouses/grands. Nancy’s life has allowed her the ability of visiting Kona, HI (son and family), North Carolina (son and family) and Fort Collins, CO (daughter and family). In between—volunteering, crafting and enjoying all Madison has to offer. “Life is good.”

Dr. Carolyn King Stephens M-D’62 and husband, John, are in great health. In May of ’18 they took a riverboat trip up the Rhone and a train across Switzerland. The activity level was called “Keep the Pace,” and they did! Four adult children keep them moving between: Allison and David, Mercersburg, PA; John (LU ’87) and Helen, Fort Worth; Matthew and Claudia, LA; and Stephanie (LU ’91) and Bobby, Chicago. En route they try to catch any of their nine grandchildren, aged from 26 to 7. Carolyn retired from teaching in spring of 2016. “These days my work is interviewing, writing, and proof reading for two books based on interviewing personal profiles: Love and War in ’44 has stories from the greatest generation at my church, due to come out early in 2019. My book for Lawrence profiles Milwaukee-Downer alumnae and milestone group events since the Consolidation. It should be out at Reunion 2019.”

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Nancy Habetler Kaliebe M-D’63 is looking forward to the 55th class reunion this June. She hopes everyone will join her for this wonderful celebration. Nancy states that life has been interesting since the last reunion. Her youngest son, Kris, and his family moved to Tampa from New Orleans 2 yrs. ago. They lived with her for a short time then purchased a house on her street a block away. Nancy’s other son, Karl, and his wife live about a mile from her. “So you could say, the gang’s all here!” Nancy’s oldest granddaughter, Lydia, is a sophomore at the local high school. As a freshman, she took up crew and they went to the Nationals in Princeton, NJ, in May. Maybe Lawrence is in her future. Nancy has enjoyed some wonderful vacations to London, Paris, Russia, and Italy. Her next trip will be to Appleton to be with all of you!

Barbara Mathews Miller M-D’64 says everything is well in Bremerton. She finally decided that she no longer wanted to keep up a house and the yard work, so she moved to a senior residential apartment community in Bremerton. It must have been karma because she hasn’t looked back once. Barbara moved in October 2017, her house sold in less than 2 days for over asking, and she loves her 2 bedroom, 2 bath apartment—especially the twice a month cleaning service! “I am still active in the community theatre, though old lady acting roles become fewer and fewer as you get older—especially for women. I do work backstage, or in the lobby during shows so people will know I am still alive. A couple of years ago I started playing Mahjong twice a week. The group doesn’t play for money (or I would be living in a tent) but I can play a respectable basic game. Have to keep the brain cells firing. I go to the Y every day and sailed through a hip replacement a year ago.” Barbara’s mother just died at the age of 101! “We Mathews hang around for a long time.”

When Dr. Florence Vaccarello Dunkel M-D’64 was presented the North American Consortium for Insect Agriculture’s award for Excellence in Entomology Research and Leadership, she was introduced as the founder of the new industry of edible insects.

In her talk, “What’s for Dinner? Rethinking the Dinner Table,” Dunkel discussed her research on this alternate food source and her work to help encourage nutritious food choices by people around the world.

She also promoted the 31st Montana State University (MSU) Bug Buffet Week, which she and her students initiated and now hosts over 1000 for lunch.

Joining MSU as an entomology professor in 1988, she became the College of Agriculture’s first female department head and the second woman to chair an entomology department at any U.S. Land-Grant university. In 2018, she was honored by MSU as one of the 125 Extraordinary Ordinary Women in MSU’s 125 year history.

Her most recent book, Incorporating Cultures’ Role in the Food and Agricultural Sciences, documents how she engaged students in service-learning on the Northern Cheyenne and Apsaalooke reservations, as well as in “Peace Corps-type” projects in West Africa. One of these projects is credited with virtually eliminating malaria in a village in Mali. She is now using the same holistic, participatory process to eliminate stunting.

Her research on biocontrol of insects and biorational natural products resulted in safe alternatives to chemical pesticides, for which she has been awarded two patents, both sublicensed.

She continues her full-time, 12 month appointment at MSU intertwining her research, teaching and community engagement. She loves visiting her 6 grandchildren from 1 to 19 years (one of whom has applied at Lawrence) and her 3 children, skiing, fishing and organic gardening with her husband who remain self-sufficient in vegetables.

“Those years at Downer were great preparation for a fun life and love continuing to get to know my roommate Karen Krause Thunberg during these subsequent 59 years!”

Eileen Paulson Johnson M-D’66 and June McCotter ’49 attended the Alliance Francais luncheon in Milwaukee with other alums to honor the 100th anniversary of its founding by Downer French professor, Mlle. Seraphon. Eileen and June also enjoyed Reunion in June 2018, where they honored Betty Dombrose Brown with the Jupp Award. Two additional trips to Björklunden during the summer and fall made for lovely social times for them.

Travel included a month in Florida to escape winter in Wisconsin. Visits from 2 cousins enabled them to take 2 trips to the UP of Michigan to trace their ancestral lines, which include a fur trader from Ireland who married an Ojibwe woman. Look for the John Johnston homestead if you are ever in the Soo and a nice display in the museum on Madeline Island.

Eileen is active in Lifelong Learning Institute (serving on the curriculum committee), P.E.O., People for People, and book club. Three grandchildren live nearby, and she takes them to music lessons in the summer. They love to cook together, too. This is the third Christmas where she has involved them in Swedish traditions from her dad’s family. Swedish meatballs, rice pudding, rosettes, and the Santa Lucia costume are part of our Christmas Eve together.

LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY ’48 Alice Rossiter Holway writes: “I am so fortunate to have my oldest daughter, Ann, home living with me.

She is a nurse and has a good job—plus she takes good care of me. All of my kids except daughter Susan, who is in Salt Lake City, live really close by.

I have 13 grandchildren and one great grandchild.

All is well.”

Betty Van Horne Richards writes: “I am still enjoying my home of 61 years. Jim has been gone for 3 years.

I am driving Meals on Wheels & a friend to exercises 3 times a week. I do outreach activities in my church.

Some of my family are nearby & we keep close tabs on each other, I keep in touch with my roomie Carroll Hedges Dawson & her Jim, Jule Friar ’49 & Betty Messenger ’47. My e-mail is ebierich@aol.com.

I’d love to hear from you.”

’52 Louis Meyer I am presently living the good life in Las Vegas.

Approaching my 90th birthday, I recall all the good times at Lawrence University—football, fraternity, great professors like George Walter, and so many good friends. I am deeply blessed by many good memories and friends. Presently, I am deeply involved in church activities and various ministries. Being the spiritual leader of our men’s ministry affords me the opportunity to dig deeper into the wisdom contained in the Bible. I want to wish all of my past friends at Lawrence good travel along the road of life and happiness and smiles along the way. Thank you my friends of days past—the good times of my memories.

’54 Nancy Preston Johnson I spent two wonderful years at Lawrence. I have fond memories of Freshman Studies. Being able to read Karl Marx and Charles Darwin in the 1950s was amazing considering the then-political climate.

However, I transferred to the University of Vermont to be closer to Dartmouth College, where my high school boyfriend, Bill Johnson, was a student. That was a very strategic move on my part. I married Bill, and we had 55 years together. Bill was a Harvardtrained lawyer who served 31 years as a member of the New Hampshire Superior and Supreme Courts.

Together, Bill and I ran political campaigns, created businesses and raised two daughters. I have two adult grandchildren and one great grandson.

She looks forward to seeing many of you at Reunion, where Zoe Ganos ’55 will be honored as a recipient of the Jupp Award.

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Marilyn Date Kruecke I thank God for good health which enables me to have an active life. I am a Florida resident and spend winters in Venice there. I have discovered a need for tutoring young adults to read. It was a revelation that some have gone through our education system and have not learned this essential skill. The experience teaching first grade has enabled me to help. My daughter invited me to spend summers in the Peoria area. I built a small log home on their 20 acres. It’s such fun to have a small garden and to chuckle over the antics of my flock of chickens! I look forward to a visit from Jane Shonts Horstman ’54 in August.

James K. Lunney My wife Mickey died unexpectedly in October 2017.

We were married 56 years. Our 6 kids have been very supportive. I gave up biking in 2018. Now I try to do 7500 steps 4 times a week. I am living in a condo in De Pere, WI. Amy Potter Major Bill and I are still enjoying life at Franke @ Seaside in Mt. Pleasant, SC. Lots of activities, good food and friends. We both have taken up croquet and will soon have a bocce court. And I joined the art group and now enjoy acrylic painting. We’ve limited our travels to the USA. We went to Taos, N.M. to visit granddaughters and took a hot air balloon ride. Bucket list complete! Our mountain cabin in NC sold this spring, so we will experience our first full Charleston summer. We will be dreaming of Wisconsin.

Jack Nilles My wife, Laila, left this earth in 2016. For details, please visit www.forevermissed.com/laila-padorrnilles. Now I’m spending time watching my new great-grandniece grow—via the internet. I’m still active, though, fomenting more interdisciplinary research, particularly on the impending climate crises. After all, Lawrence got me into this interdisciplinary business, so I’m returning the favor. I urge everyone who is concerned about the future to seriously consider your energy usage, particularly its energy sources. Ma Nature isn’t concerned with your politics, just your physical impacts.

C. Daniel Sprich In early 2017, I moved to an independent resident apartment in a continuing care complex in Grand Rapids, MI. I had lived in Grand Rapids for 27 years and moved with my wife, Enid Gauerke Sprich, to a golf community outside of Knoxville, TN. Enid passed away in February 2012, and, as I was getting up in years, my children convinced me to move back to my current home. I am very happy here as my community is very active with social events, lectures, entertainment and trips to all kinds of entertainment sites. In addition my three children are near—two sons in Grand Rapids and a daughter in the Detroit area.

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We see each other quite frequently. To contact me my email is sprichdan@gmail.com.

Dr. Charles S. Watson I retired from the Indiana University (IU) faculty 15 years ago and have been working since as president of a small R&D company, Communication Disorders Technology, Inc. I was pleased to receive the RC Atkinson Lifetime Achievement Award from the IU Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences this past year. Enjoying five grandchildren and my wonderful wife, Betty; we will celebrate our 50th next year. You old folks with hearing loss who belong to AARP might try the telephone hearing test, which we developed and that AARP provides to its members without charge. (We do this on a nonprofit basis.)

Regards to all the 1954 class, sorry I did not finish with you; in Navy, 51-55.

Jane Shonts Horstman Fortunately, I am still as active as last year and enjoying my 50 years living in Australia. In 2018, I visited the States in July/August to catch up with friends and family in SFO, DEN and Chicago. In September, I took a trip from Darwin, W.A. to the uninhabited, sandy beach islands of Indonesia before going across the top of Papua and Papua New Guinea and on to the Solomon Islands to return to Australia.

(PNG is our closest neighbor just north of Australia).

In 2019, I visited our east coast galleries, including the National galleries in our capital, Canberra. I am a great admirer of Aboriginal art and have a small quality collection of 30 paintings and artefacts. My trip to the U.S. in July will again include visiting my dear roommate, Marilyn Date Kricke, as we carry the banner for 1932 and the LU class of 1954. Other personal interests include retiring from judging cats but continuing with my with my wine interests and Mah Jong.

’56 Joan Timmermann Anderson Steve and I are still alive and well and much too busy.

As I write this, we are looking forward to summer in Baileys Harbor, just a few miles from Björklunden.

If you come to Door County in the summer give us a call—920-839-9357—and maybe we can meet for lunch or coffee. We just returned from a wonderful week in New Orleans, celebrating our older granddaughter’s graduation from Tulane. Her 16-yearold brother will be spending the summer with us as a sailing instructor at the Ephraim Yacht Club—back to chauffeur time!

Shirley Cox Seefeld and Kenneth W. Seefeld We are still in St. George, UT, and love the weather and the scenery in this part of the state. We are now in our 4th house in St. George, the last two in Sun River, a golfing adult retirement community (but we are not golfers). Our health is good (as good as it can be

expected for our age!!!). We keep busy with volunteer activities—have not done much traveling recently other than to Prescott, AZ where our son lives. Currently we are without pets (have had cats)—probably too old to get any more! We exercise regularly at the fitness center, which also fills up much of our time. That is an up-to-date of our lives—we keep busy.

’58 Jacki Anderson Challoner writes that downsizing has worked for them. Jacki, her husband, Dave ’56, and their beagle have moved to a continuing care retirement community in Gainesville, Fla. called Oak Hammock. It is affiliated with the University of Florida where Dave worked for 16 years.

Allen Bonde is beating cancer. It is now almost 7 years since his partial laryngectomy and no signs of cancer’s return. Allen enjoys giving performances of Great American Songbook favorites to enthusiastic audiences at retirement communities.

Ruthann Boucher Stolzman and her husband, Burnel, have five grandchildren graduating from college this year. Ruthann is staying with her desktop publishing business and is working invitations for her 65th high school reunion.

Shirley Carter Delorme says she is in good health and does not plan to leave her Green Bay home except feet first. She enjoys playing the piano at a local assisted living facility twice a month. Shirley is also active in a group of people trying to get six innocent men acquitted of a murder they did not commit.

Jim Davis has taken up pickleball, a game that combines elements of tennis, badminton and ping pong. The ball is similar to a large whiffle ball and the paddles are made of wood or composition material.

Jim says it is a lot of fun to play as it does not require the ability to move around quickly that most of us no longer possess.

Joyce Freiberg Christie and her husband, Tom ’59 are in the final stages of downsizing. They will move to an apartment in Luther Manor, a life care community in Wauwatosa on July 2. Joyce and Tom have found downsizing to be a great deal of work deciding what to keep but are happy not to have to inflict this task on their children Sue Fortney Walby reports that she and her husband, Peter, are still doing the thing they have always done.

Peter enjoys his hobby/job of broadcasting high school sports in the Viroqua area. Sue continues to give piano and organ lessons and is the director of music at the First Presbyterian Church in La Crosse.

John Franke and his wife have relocated to an assisted living facility in Tucson. Their new address is 942 North Via Zahara Del Sol, Tucson, AZ 85748.

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Frank Gaylord reports that he continues to lead an active life in a couple of Madison-area churches and the community itself. This past September, three family members accompanied Frank on a Scandinavian cruise. A trip to Ireland is planned for August.

Arno Haering has relocated to the Twin Cities area to be closer to his children and grandchildren after the death of his wife, Judy, about a year ago.

Judy Huffman Sutherland and Helen Lofquist Zimmerman recently returned from an exciting two week birding trip to Cuba. Besides the many beautiful birds seen, they were captivated by the history and art of this fascinating island nation.

Jan Krause Gunlogson has returned to Alaska after a recent Lower 48 visit with her two daughters and the grandchildren. A highlight was a trip to Wisconsin to explore the family roots in Oshkosh and tour the Lawrence campus. Both daughters, college vocal music professors, were impressed with the Lawrence Conservatory and its facilities.

Tom Kayser has been living in an assisted living facility in St. Paul since the death of his wife, Marlene, last fall. Tom is an avid follower of the political scene both in Minnesota and nationally.

He enjoys hearing from classmates and can be reached at 651-696-3135.

Dave Mann and his wife, Marjorie, had a six week vacation trip in Europe last September. It began with a 21-day cruise in the western Mediterranean with visits to 19 ports in 8 different countries. They then spent a week in Barcelona, followed by a two week tour of Spain and Portugal.

Pat Mingeer Vornberg sees life today as a series of small accomplishments and small annoyances.

A recent accomplishment was finding and fixing the cause of her computer slowdown. An annoyance was having to wait five weeks for a certified birth certificate from Illinois needed to renew her Massachusetts driver’s license.

John Moore is understandably proud that a second edition of Reinforcement Learning by two of his former students has recently been published. Reinforcement learning is one of the most active areas in artificial intelligence and tries to maximize the total amount of reward it receives when interacting with a complex, uncertain environment.

Steve Pinkowski writes that he had a stroke last year and spent some time in rehab. With several greatgrandchildren to play with, Steve says life is good.

Mary Potter Ackerman keeps busy helping her artist husband with his pottery business. The physical part, setting up tents and schlepping pots, gets tougher every year but she still enjoys it. They are now greatgrandparents to four little boys.

Ulrike Scharmer Duchrow writes that the Duchrow clan of children, spouses and grandchildren gathered in Switzerland for skiing in January. Ulrike and her husband, Ulrich, enjoyed an Easter trip to Istanbul where they admired the beautiful mosques and the vestiges of the Christian past.

For Bill Swearingen and his wife, Carol, taking trips is an important part of their lives. They go to Nashville several times a year to see their daughter and grandchildren. A family reunion in Minnesota found Bill meeting relatives he did not know and others he did not recognize.

Caroline Tichenor (Tish) Winsor and her daughter hiked the Cotswolds in south central England last fall. The Cotswolds are a range of hills known for their scenic beauty. They hiked about 10 miles a day for three days and stayed in inns at night.

Merrily Watters Thomas and her husband, Dave, have spent a number of spring weekends traveling through the South seeing their fraternal twin grandchildren, Thomas and Emma, graduate from Berry College in Georgia and Sewanee in Tennessee respectively. They also watched Thomas play in a number of lacrosse games for Berry College.

Elisabeth Wilton reports that she is fully recovered from the heart operation of three years ago and the subsequent life threatening blood clots that followed.

Elisabeth has downsized to an apartment in a retirement community in McLean, VA. This community is filled with friendly and interesting folks, many of whom have travelled extensively.

Dave Wiese writes that they are snowbirding between homes in Washington state and Florida in a camper with a cat and a puppy while seeking equitable weather.

Lee Wolf is still involved in building apartment buildings in Colorado and South Dakota. Most are affordable under the Federal Affordable Housing Tax Credit Program. This program produces rental rates that are 35% below market rates.

Bob Martin is in his 21st year of thrice weekly floral deliveries. “It has been an ideal part time job. Every day is different. I have seen parts of the greater Chicago area that I never would have seen otherwise.”

’60 Dr. John J. Beck Barbara and I are still staying at Pine Crest Village Assisted Living, but I’m at the house every day. A daughter and her husband, 2 dogs and a cat are living there. I continue to serve on 3 boards. I still enjoy telling of fond memories and experiences from our years at Lawrence and my Sig Ep pledge class.

Kathleen Karst Larson Roger and I continue to live in McAllen, TX. We have lived here 52 years and have seen the area grow from a sleepy valley town to quite a metropolitan area.

Recently, McAllen has become a media mecca due to the prospect of building a wall along the border.

(We are not in any danger.) Although our traveling has become limited, we do remain active in various community activities. We have 6 grandchildren (TX and NJ), and recently became great grandparents.(TX) I do enjoy hearing from classmates.

Diane Thate Martin I’m still kicking and trying to keep up with former activities. I still play with the Allouez (80 piece) band that performs at the Meyer Theater, which holds over 900 people. We perform once a month Sept.–May. We do all styles of music. I also play in a summer band that plays every other Thurs. at Voyager Park in De Pere. I don’t play as much keyboard as I used too.

My husband, Paul, is still golfing and a helper to the sick and dying. I don’t know how he does this, but he is good at it. My daughter Becky is a choral director at Franklin Middle School in Green Bay, and Brenda is a guidance counselor at Menasha High School. I have 4 grandchildren.

Jack H. Morris Dianne and I can’t seem to stay in one place. Just moved from a beautiful, but way too large, lake house to a smaller patio home in Belmont, NC. Kept the boat, but far less home maintenance. This is our third house in Belmont since we retired here 15 years ago, and our 9th house since leaving Lawrence. Gaining some spare time and between books (my last one was published in 2017), travel awaits. Just returned from a 10-day pilgrimage to the Holy Land. We’ll be visiting family in LA and San Diego next week, with MN, WI and IL on the agenda for later this summer. Cheers.

Marilyn Low Schmitt Hi! I continue happily in The Clare retirement community in the heart of Chicago. Lots of lively people and much to do inside and out! My sister Phyllis is here now too, so that adds a pleasure. Good health so far, if diminishing gumption to take in all that Chicago offers. Hope you are all doing well. With fond memories, Marilyn (Low) Schmitt 55 E. Pearson St. Chicago, IL 60611 310-903-1973.

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Arthur E. von Plachecki Art von Plachecki, Bill Perkins, Chuck Wurster and their wives Margot, Margo, and Pat (Gilmore ’61) held their own mini reunion in Texas for 5 great days in April.

The tales of old were just as funny, particularly after a couple Texas beers. Art also served as Chairman of the Sherman CT Veterans Association scholarship committee. The funding for the scholarships is from a grant given to the Veterans Association by Walter B. Wriston, son of former Lawrence President Walter Wriston.

Rev. R. Scott Sherman (Scott) It’s actually THE decade birthday this month. Yes, I am younger than almost all of my classmates, but finally made it to Super Senior. That resulted in a family reunion with 44 of us in Door County, including Judy (Schroeder) (Sherman) Grimes ’61. Most of our time now is devoted to Heidi’s ovarian cancer healing, which seems to be doing quite well, and travel.

July takes us from home in Vero Beach, FL, to the West Coast to see friends and family. September is Ecuador and the Galapagos. We continue a little slower, certain, retired and quite happy. rscottsherman@comcast.net.

’62 Drew Becker Still active at the bar doing pro bono work and as a hearing officer for the Attorney Discipline Board.

We are moving to Petoskey as soon as our Burt Lake Cottage sells to a house we are totally renovating.

Daniel E. Began Still perking along. Kids and grandkids are the focus along with working on mental health projects, raising funds and trying to find ways to combat and deal with this awful disease for this and future generations of our children. A huge and growing problem with no where near enough answers and or dollars. No health without mental health.

Dr. David A. Bray Very, very proud of my sophomore, Logan. Lawrence has clearly been the place to be for him. I just returned from Amsterdam, where my wife, Leeza, attended her Public Relations Global Network meeting.

I am ready and willing to do prospective student interviews. Bratwurst for Memorial Day! Sharon Nustad Carlton After 15 years of retirement & a second marvelous marriage with spending 6 mo. in Florida & 6 mo. in Minnesota, I lost my husband and have gone back to work part-time. I am enjoying it, feeling productive and also excited to be moving into a senior co-op. So the next stage of life is beginning. I am near my daughter, family and many friends so feel very fortunate. My new address is 7070 153rd St. West #403. Apple Valley, MN 55124. Life is good.

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Ann L. Doemland Have now been back in the house I where I grew up, in Des Plaines, IL, for 30 years—longer than all the time I lived in NYC. Mostly retired from my massage and bodywork practice, but still do a little. Continue to play timpani in our local orchestra and continue my involvement with a women’s spirituality group.

Mary Beecher Price and Richard H. Price ’62 Like many peers, we are lucky and grateful as we move to a next phase—smaller, simpler, still in Ann Arbor, less of the treasures and detritus collected over 24 years in our beloved country house. We are nearer bike paths and the river, & though it’s a condo, it was designed by the same architect who created our longtime house, so lots will be familiar. Shedding and donating have been full time these past months, and we’ve learned how the rules of real estate selling have changed. But we are nearly there. The kids will be relieved not to have to sort and discard, and we will have a cozy spot nearer town. Reading, writing, and trying to stay fit, loving nearby concerts and cultural events Robert E. Waterman My wife Anne and I continue to enjoy living in Langley on Whidbey Island with our children nearby; two in Seattle and two on the Island. Our two granddaughters graduate from High School this year and will be attending colleges in Oregon. Our two 5 y-o grandsons keep us busy and “young.” I maintain my interest in local history, and much to my amusement, am referred to as the “local historian.” Except for a herniated disc, poor hearing and macular degeneration, I feel good.

After years of prodding by my wife, I am beginning the process of downsizing. I find discarding the memorabilia accumulated over a teaching career exhausting and depressing, but so be it.

’64 Virginia Allen continues to enjoy choral singing at nearby St. John’s Cathedral and to live in the Olin, a converted hotel from Denver’s Prohibition-era days.

She is working on another short story collection, this one entitled My Last Week on Earth. She would like to reconnect with Carol Reed ’64 and asks if anyone has contact information.

Pete Barile and his wife Barbara bought a 32-acre farm with eight cows near a lake in Morristown, TN. 2017. They are building a new house with guest house and multiple out buildings. He bought another company in October, is building a new factory for that company, and reports that, “Retirement is not in my vocabulary.”

Kathryn Gebhart Booth reports that since the death of husband Jim two years ago, she has “had to learn lots of new ways to live,” but that fortunately there has been a network of family and others to support

her. Despite the changes, she still volunteers at the historical museum and Quaker meeting, participates in book and movie groups, goes to theatre and movies, and has lunch with friends. She reports that great grandkids are a joy.

Gene R. Clark’s current plans involve lots of travel.

She lost her husband in Nov. 2015 and finds travel and time with the kids keeps her busy and out of trouble. Currently she has her 3rd grandson attending Lawrence and he’s a junior. “Hopefully the next one, in a year, will choose Lawrence too, but only time will tell.”

Gene travels from MN to the Rio Grande Valley of TX 4 times a year, as she is currently a TX resident.

She would like to sell her home in TX, so if you know anyone who wants to relocate to “the valley” please let them or Gene know.

Ross Davis and Kathleen Dinham Davis are “surviving the tribulations of old age with some humor and some challenges” and are grateful to still live in their home in southern Oregon. Their youngest son and his family live nearby. Kathleen recently retired after 25 years as Congregational Church organist but still plays the piano daily. They read a lot and follow the Oregon Ducks.

Linda Raasch Feldt and Bruce Feldt ’65 still enjoy their retired life in Marshfield, Wis. They have been members of the UW campus symphony for over 50 years—“probably the oldest ones on stage now.” They take trips to see their children in Minneapolis and Stoughton, Wis. They still enjoy the waters of Upper Michigan during the summer.

Bill Gralow and Sharon Lawrence Gralow ’65 continue to travel. Last year they did a river cruise through the Netherlands and Germany followed by a tour of Switzerland. The previous year they cruised from Dubai to Rome with their daughter and crossed Luxor and the Suez Canal off their bucket list.

Wren Ellsworth Gurney and Don Gurney ’65 recently joined a Life Plan Community, Goodwin House, in Falls Church, very close to their Arlington home of 48 years.

Downsizing to their new apartment was a massive job, but they had Herculean help from their two daughters.

They remain busy, with Wren maintaining the Arlington LWV’s webpage and Facebook sites, and Don serving as the League’s Treasurer.

Alice Darling Heyer and her husband, Fred, moved to Canterbury Tower in Tampa, FL, in 2016 after living in Fairfax, VA, for 29 years. The move was necessitated

by Fred’s 10-year journey with Alzheimer’s. Their son and grandchildren live nearby and provide loving support. In December 2018, it became necessary for Fred to move to a memory care facility in Tampa. They celebrated their 54th wedding anniversary on Dec. 12.

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Harry MacLean is still working as a labor arbitrator and writing books. The next one, a psychological thriller, should be out in 2021. Harry reports that one of these days, “I’ll hang it up and Julya and I will move to St. Petersburg, Florida to keep Betzer company.”

Karen McDonald has four children and seven grandchildren. She is keeping busy with boards and activities.

Jon McGinty and his wife of 10 years, Kathy, live on a farm west of Rockford, Illinois, and are semi-retired.

Jon still writes feature articles for Northwest Quarterly Magazine, a regional lifestyle/business magazine.

Jon’s son is a salesman in the Milwaukee area. Jon’s daughter is married and teaches science in a Rockford high school. Kathy’s daughters also live in Rockford.

Jon and Kathy travelled to Florida last year and remain active in their churches.

Norman Paulk and his wife, Vicki, remain focused on helping people sleep comfortably and stay on their CPAP therapy. Their CPAP Comfort Covers are helping thousands of them.

Class of 1964. (Photo: Thompson Photo Imagery)

Wren recently started a women’s chorus at Canterbury Tower.

Judy Thoresen Howe and George Howe live in Cornelius, North Carolina, just outside of Charlotte.

They would love to welcome classmates who pass through the area. They still love to travel. Judy’s new book for middle grade readers, The Freedom Stone, came out last October.

Walt Isaac and Barbara Ives Isaac continue to enjoy the mountains and wide open spaces of their Colorado home of 46 years. They remain active in their church and its choir, volunteer activities and traveling to see their kids and grandkids in North Carolina. Other trips last year included Australia, Tucson, Italy, Door County in Wisconsin, and the Danube from a river cruise ship.

Barbara is still downhill skiing; Walt recently gave it up for more golf.

Bruce Jensen enjoys retirement and being a grandparent. In December, his oldest grandson was admitted to college, and the youngest took his first steps. Bruce looks forward to their adventures over the next decades.

John Knopp is raising a Golden Retriever puppy, swims and plays tennis, and keeps records of wild birds in his yard. He still works as a biology examiner for the International Baccalaureate. He and his wife, Willette, will spend time in Nairobi this spring visiting their middle son and granddaughters. Additional trips this year will include Honolulu and Seattle to visit family and attend a Peace Corps reunion and a PCA driving tour to Quebec and upstate New York.

Bonnie Laird reports that life has not changed much since retirement in 2000. She continues to enjoy hiking on the Appalachian Trail and other mountainous areas, helping travelers navigate the Minneapolis airport, and learning about the world through new travels. She still drives back and forth to Green Bay to cheer on the Packers and hopes next season brings more smiles!

Patricia Joyce Laybourn, despite retiring from teaching Spanish in 2007, is still teaching. In an ESL program, she teaches English to Somali immigrants and international students at the University of Minnesota. She also does individual tutoring, including recently with a Buddhist monk from Vietnam. Patricia and husband Richard are considering trips this spring to Costa Rica and to Denmark, Richard’s country of origin.

Judy Bezanson Ruth and her husband John are happily retired. Five months a year they live in Mesa, Arizona, in a retirement community with lots of people and activities! Six months a year they live in their hometown of Cedar Rapids, Iowa; and when they return there in March, will move out of their big house of 30 years into a senior living apartment. In August, they are at a small lake in Northwest Wisconsin ... an old logging camp in Judy’s family for four generations.

They have 4 children and 7 grandchildren.

Russ Rutter and Margaret Lessels Rutter ’66 have been married for 53 years. Their daughter and sonin-law live in eastern Pennsylvania. Their son and son-in-law live in Houston. They have six grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. Russ and Margaret plan to travel to South America this year. Both recently celebrated passing the Illinois State driver’s tests required of all ancient characters over age 75. Russ is a retired English professor, but insists no one knows him anymore at the English Department.

Ralph Schuetz and his wife Nancy recently moved from their Annandale, Virginia, home of 26 years to a nearby senior living community. Last September, they hosted the Washington D.C. Alumni Club for a performance by Megan (Liz) Cole ’63. In 2017, Ralph and Nancy worked with Lawrence to establish the Joseph Hopfensperger Fund for Senior Experience in Theatre Arts. They invite participation in this fund as a part of your annual giving.

Bob Stephan and his wife Judith, after living 31 years in New Canaan, Connecticut, downsized seven years ago and moved to Bremen, Maine. They enjoy mid-coast Maine—its friendly people, Coastal Senior LAWRENCE

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Class of 1969. (Photo: Paul Wilke)

College Rotary Club, Bremen Library, birding, paddling, and visits with children and grandchildren. The also rent an apartment in Bedford, Massachusetts, which is close to family.

Robert Suszycki and his wife Frances (or FE) live in far western North Carolina at the start of the Blue Ridge mountains. Their woods abound with birds and other wildlife. FE avails herself of the local Senior and Wellness Center for workouts, and Robert enjoys playing both duplicate and party bridge in what would appear to be strictly 75-up company. Robert remains in touch with Dale Lewis ’64 and Sandy Kleppin Lewis ’63.

John Walsh and Darlene Verbrick Walsh still reside in Columbia, Maryland, where they happily watch their grandchildren grow and develop. Darlene retains her passion for historical preservation and volunteers with the Howard County Historical Society. John continues to provide outstanding customer service as a cart attendant at the Fairway Hills golf course.

Dick Woy and Jean Lampert Woy ’65 continue to work. Jean does freelance editing of college textbooks for high school Advanced Placement courses. Dick continues his management consulting business, working on projects addressing the opioid overdose epidemic. Last spring they did a six-day walk from central Slovenia south to the Adriatic coast at Trieste.

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’66 Curtis W. Buchholtz Curt Buchholtz retired from the National Park Foundation in November 2018. His experience with national parks began after his first year at Lawrence, starting work in Glacier National Park in 1963 with the encouragement of Professor George Walter. He spent 23 summers working in Glacier, mostly in firefighting and as a ranger. He was also a college history professor and a freelance writer. From 1985 to 2011, he served as the executive director of the nonprofit Rocky Mountain Nature Association in Estes Park, CO, working with Rocky Mountain National Park. For the last six years, he traveled the West as a director of major gifts for the National Park Foundation.

Annette Maffia Dluger I am sad to say my husband, Ron, was diagnosed with AMLeukemia in mid-January, did five days of chemo during our Polar Vortex, developed an infection, and spent February in the hospital. He died on March 5th. He had been teaching at North Park University in Chicago and is sorely missed by not only his family, but also by the many students whose lives he touched.

He was an outstanding teacher and a great friend.

Henry M. Kaiser Dr. Henry M. Kaiser encourages friends to visit www.neurofeedbackadvocacyproject.com to learn why neurofeedback might be the most exciting breakthrough in mental health in 40 years. A visit to www.milagroai.com will educate friends to a similarly impressive breakthrough in the application of AI to healthcare. I have several projects in my continuing

career as a strategic advisor, but these two are my main activities. Still single, and remembering Peggy with love and respect.

David A. Lawrence Still alive and kicking. We have taken to cruising and traveling this year, Southern Caribbean, Bermuda and round-trip NYC to Quebec and back plus a quick trip to Albuquerque, NM, for my brother’s 80th birthday and our usual 2 trips to Boothbay Harbor, Maine. The retired life is pretty good!

Michael H. Lee Spent the last two years traveling around the country and Canada—over 20,000 miles. Visited with Geoff and Anne Wheeler Bartol ’66 in Salt Spring Island, near Vancouver Canada. Write a blog at www.Intothe-Unknown.net and wrote a book about my travels at www.blurb.com/b/9300841-amazing-views. New address: 1804 Camden Dr., Glenview, Illinois 60025.

Marcia Glidden Parker and Thomas D. Parker ’65 We have moved from Stevens Point to Hortonville: W9141 Forevergreen Ct., Hortonville, WI 54944 Milton H. Rudi Hey, I’m still alive! Lifelong curiosity and desire to learn has been critical. Do you ever feel that “just when you learned all the answers, they changed all the questions?” Seems to me that will be a continuing theme going forward in life. But it’s changing so fast that will there ever be time to sit back and enjoy the ride?! And what’s the destination???? Love to you all, Milton “Mick” Rudi.

CLASS NOTES

J. B. deRosset (J.B.) My 55 and older tennis team will be playing for the USTA national title—Phoenix in October. I am old enough to be the father of most of my teammates.

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Rick Kroos Life in Hong Kong continues to be stable and rewarding in these chaotic times. Happenings around the world capture most of my attention, in particular the June 4th Tiananmen Square 30th Anniversary.

There will be demonstrations in HK as we challenge China’s interference to the “one country two systems” handover agreement. I will be in the UK in early June and will have a front row seat watching President Trump’s visit to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the D-Day invasion at Normandy and the June 7th retirement of the UK Prime Minister Theresa May. In the US, my attention has been drawn to the entry of Asian American Andrew Yang casting his hat into the ring for the Presidency in 2020. He has some interesting ideas to create changes in America. Most important, I remain in support of Lawrence’s programs focusing on China and Hong Kong. Last December I hosted faculty Jason Brozek, Amaya Balsekar and 10 students visiting Hong Kong after their travels in China.

The students’ interests, knowledge and enthusiasm were without question.

Jane Nelson Azzi and Corry F. Azzi ’65 The Azzi family has confronted change this past year and are overcoming the challenges found therein.

We decided Corry should go to the Mayo Clinic in Rochester to find out why he was not getting better with the RA in his lungs. We learned the RA in the lungs most often leads to pulmonary hypertension, and he became part of an NIH grant to study it and medication to alleviate it. I found out that I should stop ignoring the one great-grandfather of the eight not done, and am finally finishing the genealogy of our families, abandoned a decade ago. Our son and his family moved from Minneapolis to Denver last October, which presents new challenges for both of us. Our daughter and family remain in Memphis. Both of our ABC sons are wonderful. We will visit the one in Cleveland this summer, and the one in Tampa will visit us this fall. I continue to help as a volunteer librarian, historian and archivist-in-training at the Paper Discovery Museum. Speaking of the old alma mater, I am still coordinating the 50Y Connection. I have especially enjoyed the Lunch @ Lawrence Fridays this year. Joyce Anderson Beyer, one of my freshman year roommates, and her husband came down from Green Bay for two of them. Also at the first of these was Sue Wawak Gay, who came up from Germantown with her husband. I love seeing classmates and continue to enjoy Up North visits with Linda and Howard Hutchinson ’64 and Dave ’64 and Pat Brainard.

’70 Bill and Phyllis Russ Pengelly are still enjoying life in Bend even though everyone seems to be moving here, causing some of our favorite places to get ever more crowded. We keep busy with golf, walking the dog (now 1 ½ and still very much a puppy,) hiking and some pickle ball (Phyllis). Phyllis engages in conservation work with Oregon Natural Desert Association and also sews menstrual kits for women and girls in third world countries who would miss school or work without these supplies. The kits are so colorful and last for three years ... lots of fun and a great group of women. We are lucky to be healthy and hope to see lots of friends next June.

Paul B. Bauck We continue to enjoy retirement with travel, painting and music. I play and sing in four different groups on ukulele, guitar, banjo, bass, harmonica, and concertina. As the song says, I sings jazz, blues, rock, folk, and country and just get confused, not famous.

Jean recently got a new banjolele and is having fun with the happy sounds she makes. Our recent travels have been to Vancouver Island and to the California desert, both of which provide ample scenes for painting. We have enjoyed sharing some of our vacation adventures with Norman and Janet Baxter.

Next year Appleton? Has it really been 50 years?

Chris A. Bowers My wife, Joan, and I have been active travelers the last several years. Besides short regional trips to bike rail-to-trail routes and attending Björklunden seminars, our longer trips have been to the Canadian Rockies & PEI/NovaScotia. In the winter, we’ve done driving trips to Florida and Arizona. Next March, we’ll go to Australia & New Zealand. Recently I spent two days at Lawrence with about 16 members of our class, attending a workshop to begin planning our 50th Reunion in June 2020. It was good to meet students, President Burstein and staff, but spending time with classmates was the most rewarding. This reunion should be special, so lock in the dates and make plans to attend.

Dr. Peter R. Burzynski Now that the Class of ’70 has reached their 70s, the universe seems to be in alignment! Sue and I are enjoying life in southern Indiana, where we now realize we’ve lived longer in one place (Newburgh, 30+ years) than any other. Pete teaches 2-3 psychology courses each semester at a nearby community college—and loves at least trying to keep up with what’s going on in the brains of the post-millennial generation. Sue enjoys substitute teaching (no lesson plans or grading papers), averaging two days a week at younger daughter Mara’s elementary school. Both daughters, Mara and Myka, live within 20 miles, so we luxuriate in ongoing get-togethers and grandkid time. Life is good!

Dr. Bruce C. Campbell Hi all, I have totally retired and sold my Veterinary practice. It was a great 42 years of helping animals and their owners. Now I am a full time wood worker, trading my surgical skills for handling wood working tools. Sue has also retired from nursing and helps me in managing our forest sustainability program. Son Brian has his hands full with 15-year-old Jack who is a cello enthusiast and 13-year-old Emma a gifted dancer. Nathan still is shoeing horses and has taken up the art of blacksmithing. Darren just bought his first home and has relocated from Boston to Minneapolis.

Todd is an architect and is testing for his full licensure status. Cheers to all!

Julia Walfoort DeCock and Dennis R. DeCock ’69 After 30 years in our Evanston home, we downsized last summer to a townhome a mile away. It’s working our very well, although I still can’t drive past the old house unless I arrive there on autopilot! Denny retired several years ago and now “works” as a golf course ranger and does some volunteer work. Although I’m not retired, I work so little that I may not renew my real estate license at the end of the year. I play duplicate bridge and do some volunteer work. A few years ago I ran into Julie Gerken Koslow at a bridge game, and we’ve partnered occasionally since then.

Great partner—small world! Our kids and grands are all “out east” bur thriving. They are the grace notes in our lives.

Dr. Larry W. Einspahr Despite the death of my father last July (95 y.o.), the family and I continue to feel blessed by a balance of work, family, fun, and travel. I’m still trying to titrate my private practice to full retirement, but I continue to provide long-distance care for some of my autism spectrum patients—in the remainder of the time I have dedicated to working. I actively invest in the stock market. My greatest joy is sharing in the lives of three grandchildren, and have already started to “assistant” coach Avery (5 y.o.) in basketball and soccer. Additional fun comes in the form of competitive pickle ball and “table tennis.” The most recent travel has been an incredible trip to South Africa!

Dr. Gregory J. Exarhos As a Lab Fellow emeritus at Pacific NW National Lab in Richland, WA, I pursue basic research on thin films and laser-surface interactions. I teach an 8-week workshop to early career scientists entitled, Writing a Compelling Scientific Research Proposal, continue as Treasurer of the AVS, and co-chair of the annual Symposium on Laser Damage in Optical Materials.

Armed with a new clarinet, I regularly accompany my pianist wife, Cathy, at three weekend church masses, funerals and weddings. I enthusiastically engage in social swing dancing at numerous dance halls throughout the country. Cathy and I regularly visit our four children in Seattle, Riverside, CA, and Easton, PA. LAWRENCE

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John R. Fease We moved to Appleton 3 months after our 45th reunion. Barb and I love it here, and have become deeply involved with a number of "communities" in the Fox Valley—including Harmony Pizza Cafe—an enterprise started by some LU faculty and alums offering a “safe place for others” and serving fantastic Neapolitan-style, organic, locally sourced pizza. I am also a full-time ally/advocate/accomplice with our local Planned Parenthood Health Clinic, as well as the wider women’s healthcare issues, a local immigrants’ rights/protection group, and the LGBTQ-community.

Next up; participating in the planning of our 50th Reunion! Thankful for Phyllis’ tireless work to keep us connected.

Kathleen A. FitzPatrick, Ph.D. I have been retired for 4 years from the School of Health Sciences at Merrimack College in N. Andover, MA. As professor emeritus, I continue to collaborate and publish with my colleagues in research on teaching and learning pedagogy, and I do classroom visits for mentoring and evaluation of new faculty.

I also teach Tai Ji Quan: Moving for Better Balance and Tai Chi for Arthritis and Fall Prevention in the Active Living Center for Older Adults at the Merrimack Valley YMCA. I continue to serve as Board Member and evening meal coordinator at Bread and Roses community food program in Lawrence, MA. I’m also a yoga bum and am catching up on reading.

Carolyn Martin Keith and Elbridge G. Keith ’69 Gerry ’69 and I moved from Evanston, IL to Lino Lakes, MN, seven years ago to be near daughter Barb and her family. I’m not sure we’ll ever be true Minnesotans but it’s feeling more like home. After 17 Challenge Walks (3 days, 50 miles) and $160,000 raised for the National MS Society, my body decided I’d had enough.

These days I’m playing handbells at church, serving as our church’s financial secretary, and making mittens each winter for children in need at Barb’s school. Gerry is mostly retired from his consulting work and playing serious bridge again, recently achieving the rank of sectional master. We plan to attend Gerry’s 50th LU reunion this year and mine next!

Diane E. Kern Since Lawrence, I’ve lived in 5 states, did a MM at UTAustin, studied at Yale, been an orchestral musician, soloist, toured internationally with Chrysolith Duo, was an orchestral librarian, founded Chamber Musicians Alliance, taught college flute and arts administration, was Bangor Symphony education coordinator, and executive director of Opera Maine. I’ve also been a florist, jeweler, and international feng shui practitioner.

I’m concentrating now on something I’ve wanted for many years, being an end of life doula in my private practice, Trillium End of Life Doula, LLC. I help people with end of life plans, during illness I advocate, educate and care, after death I help families process grief.

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Lawrence P. Kupferman Retirement isn’t so bad; busy with many volunteer activities based around hiking, gardening, volunteer tax prep (in the winter), and bike/pedestrian matters.

Still have a part time job working on the bike ferry during the biking season—if you visit this neck of Vermont, try biking on the Colchester Causeway for a spectacular ride and views of Lake Champlain.

Grandkids in Washington, D.C. mean we drive there quite often. Best to all as we reach this next milestone.

John B. Laing, Jr. Can’t retire, because I don’t work. That is my standard line, anyway, and it is what I answer when people ask the obvious question. I get the laugh only when I tell them I teach at Northwestern University. Which I do.

Even now. Not much, only two courses a year—but it keeps me in touch with the world. At least as the world is seen through the eyes of my students, who generally have a very interesting perspective indeed.

Otherwise, Bonnie and I spend as much time as we can on the water. Sailing in Michigan; power boating in Florida. Between those activities and those of the grandkids, life is full and wonderful. Tomorrow: Charlie Gallmeyer’s son’s wedding! See you next June!

Dr. Jeffrey O. Leach Retirement still agrees with us. Golf and duplicate bridge occupy me when we’re not traveling with recent trips to SE Asia and Bavaria/Italy. My son has located his ENT practice an hour away so two little boys (6 & 4) are frequent entertainment. I am trying to put my liberal education to good use by striving to see as many Vermeers, daVincis and Caravaggios as possible before I run out of money.

Bert Lord and Juliana Cheng Lord ’70 We have been doing a bit of traveling over the past six months. In late April we went to Milan and Lake Como area, Austria and Switzerland, and Venice and had a wonderful two weeks seeing all the major cities.

Late last August Bert went on a two week excursion to the Galapagos islands. I took a pass on that one as I was concerned about getting seasick. Bert is minister of music at St. Clement of Rome in Romeo, Michigan. I am a seasonal tax pro with H&R Block and doing volunteer work for MMAP advising seniors and disabled with their Medicare and Medicaid issues.

Tom Maki Travel continues to be high on our bucket list. Crossing both oceans this year, we enjoyed a Yangtze River cruise, Terra Cotta Warriors, Beijing, and the Great Wall, as well as a Trans-Atlantic cruise to Bermuda, the Azores, France, Belgium, Holland, and Denmark.

As of this writing, we are completing a two-week return to Germany.

We have finally added two granddaughters of ages 3 & 1 and are awaiting another next month. We love our vacation home in Fremont on the Wolf River, only minutes from Lawrence!

Judith Pugh Meyer Last year, 2018, the year I turned 70, was a momentous year for my family and me. After 29 years of teaching at the University of Connecticut as a tenured associate professor of history, I taught my last classes at UConn, Women in History and Europe in the 17th Century, in May and then formally retired on September 1, 2018. In August my husband Paul and I took our whole family on a wonderful vacation to France, to Paris and Versailles: son Matthew and wife Olivia with their three children, Sophie (7), Gwen (4 ½) and Holly (1 ½); and son Timothy and his girlfriend Kristen. In June 2019, my latest research project will be published in the journal Church History.

Paul L. Mueller I have lived in Arizona for 31 years and do not miss the weather of my native Minneapolis or the pace of New York City during my early career years. I am retired from the practice of law, except for occasionally assisting friends. My days include hiking, a little tennis and lots of golf; I have also dipped my toe into pickleball. Getting older has its challenges, but life continues to be good.

John A. Nyman I am retiring this year from the University of Minnesota.

It has been an ideal gig: smart students, graduate classes with TAs, helpful colleagues, ample funding and a beautiful campus. We plan to travel, read and bike more. Speaking of traveling, Pat and I are leaving today for Sofia, Bulgaria. Last time I was in Bulgaria, Paul Schmidt and I were on the Orient Express bound to meet Ted Hope in Istanbul. Somewhere short of Sofia, we hit a tank car of benzene and had to turn around. This time will be different. We also plan to return to Germany to bike down the Neckar river with a stop in Bonnigheim. We will be raising a glass of the weiss for all you ex-Bonnigheimers from 1968. Prost!

Thomas R. Richardson and Brenda Barsamian Richardson ’70 Brenda and I have kept busy while enjoying retirement the last six years. Brenda spends several days each week volunteering as a docent at the Milwaukee Art Museum giving tours to mainly school groups. She also has audited at least one class per semester mostly in art history at UWM. I have been working the spring season as an assistant golf coach at USM, where I taught for 40 years before retiring in 2012.

I do golf (my game is still bad, Mueller) whenever the weather permits in Wisconsin and spend a lot of time at our cabin in the Kettle Moraine north of town.

Brenda and I clear trails on the property and cut what seems to be a never ending supply of firewood for the stove to keep in shape.

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Margaret Stalick Sanders and John A. Sanders ’68 John and I have found our 2017 move from Florida to Seattle to be a great decision. We enjoy more time with our West Coast daughters’ families and even see our N. Carolina son more often. We took sailing lessons and passed keelboat level so that we aren’t total bumps on the deck when we’re invited to sail with Pete House ’68 and our Seattle daughter’s family. We’ve enjoyed attending beautiful concerts with Martha Freitag ’73 whom we ran into during intermission at another concert. We love the music scene here! We continue to take thought-provoking seminars at Björklunden. Both of us are looking forward to the Class of 1970 reunion next June and hoping for a 2T reunion!

Dale R. Schuh And now for something completely different ... while taking more than a year’s worth of spare(?) time and listening to dozens of audio books, I finally completed a 13,200 piece jig-saw puzzle (no pieces missing).

Julie Eng Smith Steve and I have been happily retired for some time. We currently live in Naples, Florida, and spend our summers in Vail, Colorado. After many years in Minnesota and Wisconsin, we love following the warm sunshine. Our two adult sons still haven’t provided us with any grandchildren, but I guess that’s the price we pay for starting our family so late in life! We feel truly blessed to have our health and to live in such beautiful places—and we welcome LU classmates to get in touch if you’re ever in Naples or Vail!

Judith Stanfield Young and Timothy R. Young ’70 We hold steady in Oshkosh with one law practice, 2 daughters, 2 sons-in-law and 5 grandchildren. We are pleased that all of the adults and four of the kids (the one-year-old has no opinion yet) support the idea of getting out the vote in 2020 to restore the college’s ideals of intelligence and integrity to our national leadership. We need “Light!, More Light!” these days.

Join us in this and see you at the Reunion next June.

Carol Jegen Carol Jegen and her husband Frank Rippl ’69 moved to a new home after 41 years in the same house.

They were up to all their usual musical exploits when four months later, Frank passed away after complications from a fall. His loss has meant a huge hole in both Carol’s heart and the community. Carol is starting a memorial fund in his name to support young organists showing their love of teaching young people and maintaining the high quality of music in their community. Carol is still teaching voice lessons, running musical theatre camps, and music directing She Loves Me at Attic Theatre in Appleton this summer starring Matt Kierzek ’17. She hopes to see lots of familiar faces at the 50th reunion next June.

Myra Hillburg Myra and Bill Hillburg are finding it hard to leave their backyard pool and spa, but managed a getaway to Cuba with fellow Lawrentians and are looking forward to a seminar this summer at Björklunden. Myra, the 1970 Herman Erb Award winner, is pleased to see Lawrence has invested in its German program with a new professor.

Lon B. Isaacson We are at the JCK International Jewelry Show in Las Vegas buying Estate and Contemporary jewelry for clients, friends and family. This has been a decade long ritual. We traveled to Israel in early May with a friend who has helped me acquire many apartment buildings, now my primary business. Instead of 100 clients I now selfishly have but one. Prior to our Israel trip, I took my loyal effective office manager and property manager Maria Flores and her SO to Italy, their first trip there and our 12th. A highlight was visiting Modena’s Ferrari Museum and planning an acquisition to augment my classic car collection.

We travel to Prague and Budapest on June 12th, then to NYC in July, and to Hawaii in August to entertain Elissa’s granddaughters.

My daughter Jennifer concluded in June 2018 her service as series producer for the 6-episode NatGeo show MARS, and we celebrated by taking a longoverdue daddy-daughter trip to Japan. We loved it.

Jennifer is now working on a new show, but best, she is on the edge of engagement. Be well, be happy, make others happy, and you’ll be truly using your liberal arts skills.

Kris Bryan While playing horn a bit less each year, I am gradually returning to my keyboard roots. In May, I performed in the first of a Sunday afternoon recital series at the Hearthstone Historic House Museum in Appleton.

Along with my daughter, soprano Erin Bryan ’12 and mezzo soprano Lorna Stephens ’18, I participated in a traditional Victorian parlor Schubertiade, performing on a historic 1875 Kranich-Bach square grand piano.

Martha Hartzell I haven’t participated in news updates primarily because I didn’t actually graduate from Lawrence. I transferred after my sophomore year to Barnard and then, eventually, Goucher College, where I graduated in 1971. I married Criss Hartzell ’68, in 1969. We have three grown children, Laura, Robyn, and Catherine.

The younger two live in the East Bay Area where Criss and I are building a home for retirement. He is still doing research at Emory, and I have been retired as a preschool teacher/director for 8 years. I do volunteer work around literacy with adults and young children (immigrant-related) and registering newly sworn in U.S. Citizens to vote immediately after their ceremony.

We have lived in the metro Atlanta area since 1976,

even in the same house! Living close to our children and grandchildren will be joyful, but saying goodbye to friends, our garden and home, and favorite haunts will be hard.

’72 Joy Jaeckle Baggett Ken and I retired from our full-time teaching jobs in 2015, but I’ve been teaching yoga part-time at the community college ever since, so I’m not completely retired. However, since I don’t have to grade papers and I love teaching yoga, it doesn’t really count as a job. Since it doesn’t pay didly squat, I consider it volunteering, anyway. I’ve taken up quilting and am having a great time designing and creating again. If you’re in the El Paso area, please give me a call!

Marte Brengle Life is good. Jim retired two years ago, and we have really been enjoying our time together (something we never had before now). We’re making an effort to try all kinds of new things. I’m still working as a writer and editor for Digital Citizen and a forum moderator on Forumania. Just built myself a new computer, and Jim bought a new laptop. We’re definitely digital geezers. :) The kids are doing well. Dan’s a sergeant in security at the Music Center and lives in a classic old building in Koreatown. Meghan and her wife, Diane, both have challenging technical jobs, and their daughter, Evie, just finished kindergarten. She’s well on her way to being a techno-whiz like her mommies.

Timothy D. Brown Since retiring a couple of years ago I have been adjusting to a life of lower intensity, although I must say I’ve been surprised at how much stuff there still is that needs taking care of. Not that there is no time for indulging myself, just less than I expected. I have been finding time to enjoy my photography hobby.

The last of my 4 kids is on schedule to graduate and (hopefully) get a job and move out of the house this fall. That will bring more changes. Life goes on, doesn’t it?

Kevin W. Fenner We have been blessed with two wonderful grandsons— Leo (3 ½) and Miles (5 months). Our son’s wife is expecting a baby girl in November. We thought we wouldn’t have any grandkids for a long time! Since retiring two and a half years ago, we live in a Del Webb community, and we’re immersed in working with the local theater company. In the last year and a half, I’ve portrayed Buffalo Bill Cody in Annie Get Your Gun, and the Blind Hermit in Young Frankenstein, The Musical.

Since I hadn’t sung a solo in a production in over 50 years, the audience seemed to enjoy my performance. Currently, I’ve been asked to direct the summer production of The Odd Couple—Female Version. All is fun.

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Jeffrey A. Fox and Deborah Burns Fox ’73 Debby and I are loving life in the North Georgia Mountains. I am enjoying golfing when I want, volunteering as a board member of a community agency and working for LU as the Chair of the Lawrence Fund, as well as serving on the Viking Athletic Council. We love visiting our seven grandchildren and are working hard to see them matriculating at Lawrence beginning in the fall of 2024!

Michael R. Rossmeier Normally I want to spend part of the winter in warmer climes than Chicago, so in the last 3 years I’ve traveled to 12 countries in SE Asia, using my friend’s business in Ho Chi Minh City as a base. This winter I traveled around northern India—it’s less developed than I thought, you get to share the streets with cows, street dogs, goats, water buffalo, camels. When home I’ve been investing time and money in tech startups, most recently healthcare and edtech.

David George Healy Can’t recall when I last updated, but I finally did retire (third attempt!) in June 2017 from a 43-year career in higher education administration/teaching/coaching with the last three years at Jacksonville University and fifth institution as CFO. As part of that, Denise and I have settled into Florida living with also quite a bit of travel: Asia, India, the Americas and Europe.

Ships, planes, trains, highways, hiking paths. The wandering goes on and continues as we head for the South Pacific and Norway north of the Arctic Circle in months to come. Three kids are spread literally across the country enjoying good and varied lives. First grandchild expected in fall. LU 50th looms.

Dr. Ralph Sharp In retirement, I continue to take care of my wife, who is disabled. I also co-authored two chapters in school law books in 2018.

Dr. Cheryl Wilson Kopecky Hello, Rob and I have enjoyed lots of activity this spring traveling and then moving from our house to a townhouse within Elmhurst. Our new address is 205 N. Larch Avenue, Elmhurst, IL 60126. Now we can walk to the train, library, college, movies, restaurants and other key locations! This summer we’re eager to attend seminars at Björklunden, including Medieval Women: Life, Work, Space, and Place (July) and The Migration Phenomenon: Perspectives from Both Sides of the Atlantic (September.) A number of ’72 classmates are attending these seminars! Check out all of the seminar offerings and year-round travel opportunities for fun and learning with alumni and others.

Dr. Timm Menke I retired at the end of 2017 and am now professor emeritus of German at Portland State University with more time for my research and travel to conferences.

W. Pierson and Elizabeth A. Schoeppler Enjoying life in our “relatively” liberal Minneapolis community, attempting to make sense of this crazy world we live in. Beth and I are rounding out 30 years in our north Minneapolis home, which is beginning to show its age, just like me. Luke, 28, and Thomas 24, are living with us as we all struggle to pay off their college debt. I’m working part-time with an ed tech startup in town, supporting an online blogging platform for K-12 students. Enjoying riding my bike to work, weather permitting.

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Charles B. Siekman Diane and I have moved to Coconut Grove, Florida, where winter is the best season. We still vacation in Wisconsin, where summer is the best, and our children live year round. We will be traveling to England and Ireland this fall. We are going to Germany next year, where we will see the Passion Play in Oberammergau.

Of course, the play is all in German. I have been reading German language learning books in an attempt to re-learn the German I have forgotten since our days in Enigen. It hasn’t gotten any easier. I am looking forward to our fraternity reunion at Björklunden this August.

Constance Pfitsch Vanderhyden and Thomas A. Vanderhyden ’70 Thomas and I are currently visiting our son, Sam, and his wife, Adley, and our one and only granddaughter, Evangeline Lark, in Lyons, Colorado. We have visited often over this 1st year of Evangeline’s life. I am semiretired right now, enjoying my part-time interpreting position at Scenic Bluffs Community Health Center in Cashton, WI, about ½ hour away from our home outside of Viroqua, WI. Our son, Will, lives with his wife, Luisa, in Atlanta, GA. He is a translator of Latin American literature. His twin brother, Max, is an editor and lives with his partner, Curran, in Charleston, SC. We are all healthy and doing well, grateful for friends and family!

Dr. Karen R. Van Galder I have retired to Greenville, SC, after 40 years serving as a Christian educator in Presbyterian churches. I am active in the church I served 30 years ago, mostly teaching and baking for a tea ministry. Great to reconnect with friends from that time! I have a Vizsla puppy who keeps me very active! (He is also sweet and handsome.) I am also working in retail and have found it a rewarding ministry.

Dr. C. Stratton Warden New Address: 3110 1st St. W., Unit 102, St. Pete Beach, FL 33706. Moved into our condo last Thanksgiving and enjoying Pass A Grille’s idyllic beach.

In the midst of renovating—making senior friendly—our house in Kentucky and missing all my flowers around the pond. Our son, Chas, graduated from Washington University in St. Louis with honors and is heading to UVA Law after a gap year working for a candidate for AG of KY, then a KY congressman. Our daughter, Rachel, finished her junior year at University of Tampa and is working her first real job this summer. Enjoyed a recent visit with Charley ’72 and Diana Siekman in Miami. Would love to see friends from back in the day.

’74 Neil F. Brier I have cut back to working 4 days a week as the admissions front door person at the Dwight School in Manhattan and help on weekends with deliveries at Jalsa Grill and Gravy, a very popular (for good reason) Indian restaurant in Brooklyn.

Linda E. Carter I am greatly enjoying both family and work. We have two daughters and now have two grandchildren. I had no idea that being a grandparent would be so much fun! I retired from my career as a law professor in 2016, but I am still working on several projects in my fields of domestic and international criminal law. My work often takes me to The Hague and Nuremberg.

I focus on sub-Saharan Africa and have had the incredible opportunity to teach or research in both West and East Africa. We still live in Sacramento and welcome visitors!

Jacquelyne Nixon DenUyl Unfortunately, as many of you know, my LU husband of 44 years, R. Bruce DenUyl ’74, lost his battle to cancer 9/18/18. We also lost our son, Eric, in Dec. ’15. I am using our Telluride, CO, home as my main residence where I am an active part of the community, especially with the Telluride Adaptive Sports Program. I spend much of the summer/fall in Wisconsin and Michigan, where we have family cottages. Son Clark lives in Atlanta. We treasure our friends and family. My year round forwarding address is PO Box 22000 PMB 105, Telluride, CO 81435, denuyl@mac.com.

Carol Stoneman Dibble First full year of retirement! Travel included many visits to our new granddaughter, Ruby—only 2 hours away.

We also visited Jane (Eckley) Lennon and husband David in Oakland last July then traveled on to Len’s Air Force reunion on Bainbridge Island, WA; Boothbay, ME in August with family; Denver to visit Ann (Huntting) and Rich Wolter, and a cruise from Rome to Barcelona with stops along the Mediterranean rounded out 2018. In February of this year, we took a driving trip

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out West. Stayed with the Wolters again and with Mary Lynn (Campbell, ’75) and Dan Toycen in Mesa, AZ before hiking Canyonlands & Arches, UT. I just joined a second gym (yes, I’m crazy), but it keeps me out of the bars.

F. Martha Everett I finally finished working with students with mild/ moderate learning disabilities, and now I am with LegalShield/IDShield. The twins are 28. I accompany my husband as he demonstrates blacksmithing at various historical sites in the West.

Brian T. Farmer The biggest highlight of 2019 (so far) has been the trip my wife, Mariko, and I took during May to attend a wedding in Germany. The groom was the grandson of a guy I got to know during my days working at the airport in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, almost four decades ago. We have become very close friends over the years, and I am now considered to be virtually a member of the Mueller family. Mariko and I stayed for a week with them in Trochtelfingen, not far from Eningen, where I participated in LU’s program there during the winter and spring terms of 1973. It’s always great to get back to that area, to relive old memories and see how much things have changed.

Elizabeth Roberts Flavell I fully retired in October and have been enjoying the chance to travel more, visiting my new grandson Charlie in Austin, TX, and my 90-year-old parents in Palo Alto. We had a wonderful family reunion with all four generations in February. And my high school boyfriend and I have fallen back in love, to our mutual delight. Life is good.

Barbara Braun Griffith Barbara and Jeff Griffith had great experiences traveling to the Falkland Islands and South Georgia Island, to Egypt and Jordan, and to Botswana, Zambia and South Africa during the past year. To date, we’ve seen 10 species of penguins in the wild, floated in the Dead Sea, and ridden camels at the Giza Pyramids!

We are blessed to travel and then love to return to our beautiful mountain home in New Mexico.

Lisa Reese Hendrickson I have been retired since 2011 from teaching secondary school Spanish and enjoy having the options of how and with whom to spend my time. After retirement, my colleague and I have been active as world language curriculum consultants (Workshops for World Language Teachers) working with schools to design Standards-based thematic curriculum. I continue my work as an AFS Intercultural Exchanges volunteer, and I’m active in the Monroe Morning Optimist Club. I received the Distinguished Language Educator Award from WAFLT (Wisconsin Association for Language Teachers) in the fall of 2018. Husband

Andy and I enjoy travel and have just completed our fourth Viking River cruise in Southern France.

Catherine Roth Holcomb Retirement continues to be a blessing and busy. Our home in Delaware is the preferred hotel for daughters and friends with many visitors over the last year.

Older daughter Allison is still with National Park Service in West Virginia as an art conservator, and younger daughter Diane is a resident of Stockholm doing mathematical research. Both will join us for our usual summer cottage stay in Shell Lake, Wisconsin, with extended family. My multiple visits to Wisconsin continue as my 93-year-old mother is still with us and lives in Wauwatosa in an assisted living apartment.

Jeffrey W. Jackson Happily retired. Three wonderful grown children.

Traveling the world while photographing the adventures. Enjoying life on Lake Bloomington, Illinois.

Dr. Lilias Jones Jarding I retired from teaching at Oglala Lakota College on the Pine Ridge Reservation a couple years ago. And I went right to work for Thunder Valley Community Development Corporation (thundervalley.org). I’m doing evaluation for that organization and still live in Rapid City, SD. Larry and I enjoy where we live, riding Harleys, camping, and visits to the Twin Cities to see my kids. Tom does theater and improv and is a regular at Brave New Workshop. Lilias does training for a tech firm in the north woods. I also work to keep destructive mining projects out of the Black Hills (bhcleanwateralliance.org). Come visit our beautiful area! Life is good.

Ann Carpenter Kay I am a happy, healthy, physically active grandma of one, living in Minnetonka, MN, and planning to live with purpose to 100! I direct a children’s choir, instruct classroom teachers in how to use singing strategies, wrote a chapter for a 2019 Oxford text about music assessment, and work for The Rock ’n’ Read Project, a nonprofit my partner, Bill Jones, and I founded, dedicated to using singing to unlock children’s potential for reading and learning. With a $500,000 legislative grant, we are piloting a singing-to-read software; struggling readers have made phenomenal gains. I am ever grateful to LU for providing an excellent music education and encouraging creative and critical thinking!

Heidi Jacobson Knudsen Three years into retirement, I am still enjoying the liberation by returning to lap swimming and becoming much more politically active. I also continue to perform with Festival City Symphony. Eldest daughter Maiken (C, ’07) and her husband have moved back to Milwaukee with our 2-year-old granddaughter and Maiken is expecting their 2nd child in July. Son Nils

is still in Portland, OR, where he works for the Oregon Symphony. Younger brother Lars recently moved to Chicago from Charlotte for work. Rounding out the Knudsen Krew, youngest daughter Stine is working for a Milwaukee bank. A shout out to the girls from Ormsby (you all know who you are!).

Gerald C. Metscher Well, I finally retired this year! I now have time to babysit my grandson, complete all the household building projects, and start erasing items from the bucket list in the realm of travel and adventure. This year will see trips to Hawaii, the Virgin Islands, a Grand Canyon hike, and further hikes through the slot canyons of southwest Utah. When my wife retires in 18 months we envision a month in Europe. Also hope to start making some reunions! In 2020, it will be 50 years since my arrival at Brokaw Hall! Distant times, vivid memories.

Christy Wagner Nielsen Hi. Who remembers me? I was a bachelor of arts music major, emphasis in piano. My husband, Boyd, is now retired, but I am still teaching piano lessons.

It continues to be completely energizing for me. I am a junkie for continuing professional education in that field, belonging to three different professional organizations: Illinois State Music Teachers Association, Suzuki Association of the Americas, and National Guild of Piano Teachers. Life has been good to me.

Christopher J. Porter I retired in October 2018, and started planning an around-the-world trip, which I’d been postponing for many years. My late March to late April 2019 westerly circumnavigation of the globe began here in Concord, New Hampshire, with stops in Georgia, Hawaii, Japan, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Germany, and New York City. About a month later, Rick Chandler ’74 dropped by Concord for a day-long visit, as part of his counter-clockwise circumnavigation of the U.S. via Amtrak.

Hope Davis Preston Norm and I are in the middle of retiring to Portland, OR. That means I’m living in an apartment here, and Norm is in NJ getting our house ready to put on the market. I came out early to go through Master Gardener training and oversee construction of the house we’re building as soon as the final permits come through. Hopefully Norm will join me in the next couple of months. Both boys in California, so our odds are visits have increased significantly.

Kenneth E. Richter Hi all. Just trying to extricate myself from 34 years as a Navy oceanographer in San Diego—maybe January.

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Class of 1979. (Photo: M. C. Kinney Photography)

into a more lucrative career than mine, though maybe not as much fun. Our daughter is starting graduate school in geology at the U of Miami, doing global climate change things. My wife wants to move to Bend, OR—good skiing and biking. Good beer. We have two dogs about the size of sofas that would probably like it, too. We also have friends and family there, as well as a bunch of nieces and nephews that would want to crash during ski season. Hope to see you all sometime.

William B. Strubbe Everyone is retiring but me! My wife is retired, but I am still practicing law in Cincinnati. We have kids in Cincinnati, D.C. and Detroit. A couple years ago Chris Sheldon invited me to a mini party with a bunch of friends from freshman year—Chuck and Cryn Ephraim, Jan and Dennis Quinlan, Dave Barclay. It was really one of the best experiences of my last five years. We followed up with Jan and Dennis in Appleton on a side trip from a wedding. Wonderful time. Great school.

Wonderful people. Thank you!!!

Kathy Daugherty Wawer I’m retired from my full time career (school library media) and am enjoying working part time at my incredible local library. This summer I am taking my grandson to Glacier National Park through a Road Scholar program. I have a daughter on each coast (what’s that all about?) leading interesting and fulfilling lives. However they aren’t child-oriented, and my one grandson is the only grandchild I will get.

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Mary R. Niebling Retired from Capstone Community Action in Barre, VT, after 26 plus years of service as the community economic development director. I will join my husband, Dave Spence, in retirement at our home in Plainfield and family “camp” in South Hero, Vermont.

Now that I am not working, I look forward to having my Lawrence friends come visit, finally. I also look forward to gardening, reading, napping, traveling, and many other activities I didn’t have time for previously.

’76 Katherine Greene Ball Our news is our recent move to a lovely spot outside of River Falls, Wisconsin. We have both been retired for a few years and have been pondering where we wanted to be. With our daughters and their families on the East and West Coasts and our son and his family near the Twin Cities, we decided to stay in the middle close to a major airport and used the St. Croix River corridor as our target. We completed our move from Illinois a month ago and are embracing the rural life. We got a head start in the garden with asparagus and strawberries left behind and morels in our woods and no lack of projects (and some challenges) to keep us young. And plenty to enrich visits with our 6 grandchildren!

Randall B. Colton Three years ago I retired from teaching. Current activities: playing violin in the Central Wisconsin Symphony Orchestra and viola in a professional string quartet; exploring Irish fiddling; 3 years outreach to schools as "map ambassador" with the Giant

Wisconsin Map in a National Geographic program for schools, a project coordinated by the Wisconsin Geographic Alliance; facilitator for Project WET and for Population Education; travel with my partner, Barbara Seiser, a psych nurse practitioner, on 5 continents over the past year; swimming; XC-skiing; tai chi; yoga; and paddling and pedaling pursuits. 2 children: Andrew (31), massage therapist; Katrine (29), doctor of chiropractic.

James B. Cowen Another year and much to tell. Our daughter is getting married in October, and our son is headed for an engagement in the next few months. It is grand when the kids move on. All is wonderful in our household: business is good, hiking is still active and Leslie continues to win her tennis matches. We hope everyone from our LU class is healthy and happy.

Dr. Robert G. Gillio As most of you are approaching retirement, I have launched a new career and have moved to a tiny town in the Appalachia region of PA called Huntingdon.

They have a 22-bed hospital and needed a doctor to help with pulmonary disease and with designing a population health initiative to help drive down health care costs. My wife, Beth (a registered dietitian and nutrition professor), moved here a little over a year ago, and we are working part time in the hospital and part time creating a program. (www. theForceforHealth.com). It is kind of like the Co-op from my Lawrence days as we are trying to keep all citizens healthier as one approach. Come visit and canoe or hike and stay with us.

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The Reverend Barbara A. Kelley I am still enjoying being the rector at St. James Episcopal Church in Langhorne, PA, having been here for 11 years now. After doing interim ministry for 20 years, it is nice to have more stability and to watch the young people grow into adulthood. Of course, aging isn’t just for the young ... I can’t believe I will have to apply for Medicare in a few months ... we aren’t that old, right?! My mother is my inspiration for the future, for at the age of 93 she is the motivator for travels we have taken together over the last 8 years from a cruise along the Norwegian coast to see the Northern Lights, an African safari, and trips to Japan, China and South America. See you at the 50th reunion!

Edward G. Langer Retired Dec. 31 and promptly signed up for a Czech language class. In August I am guiding a dozen people back to our ancestral district in the Sudetenland.

Thus, the Czech.

Blane D. Lewis My wife Marga, our two daughters (Kay and Violet), and I are living in Canberra, Australia. I am a professor of economics at Australian National University, and Marga is actively engaged in a variety of side businesses. Kay is off to university next year, and separation anxiety (mine) has already started to kick in full-force. Violet still has a long way to go, and I’m thankful for that. I was in the U.S. last April on business—my first trip there in over 12 years. It might have been weird, but it wasn’t. Hello to all my friends from ’76.

Susan L. Medak I’m going into my 30th season running Berkeley Repertory Theater, where we are feeling pretty good, with a Pulitzer for best new play, and 12 Tony Award nominations as well as best new play and best new musical nominations, for productions we’ve helped nurture. My husband and I trekked a portion of the Jomolhari Trail in Bhutan with Sue Cook and other friends last fall. Our son, Ben ’11, is gainfully employed in Las Vegas. Life is good.

Dr. John R. Ranck II and Andrew M. Hardacker ’73 I continue to enjoy tutoring tooters at Northeastern University and being asst. director for the Chamber Music Workshop of the Composers Conference, now at Brandeis University. In March, 2019 I had a glorious week in Denver visiting relatives, soaking in as much as he could during two days’ spent at the Clyfford Still museum, and attending performances of the Colorado Ballet and Symphony. I was very lucky to have avoided blizzards before and the day after my time there.

Joseph M. Troy After 20 years serving as a Circuit Court Judge, I returned to private practice. Loving my role as Papa Joe to 5 grandkids. I thank all my classmates, who helped make the Lawrence years so interesting, challenging, and joyful. Peace

’78 Brian L. Buchholz This summer I and my HTH (home town honey), Judy, celebrated our 40th wedding anniversary. We are long-time empty nesters, but our son, Andrew, and daughter-in-law, Sara, live just a few miles down the road. Judy’s been in banking for 35 years, and I have been employed at Faulks Bros. Construction in Waupaca for 41 years. We both are looking forward to retirement soon and golfing as much as possible.

Jeanette Kohr Gowen I probably haven’t shared that my husband, Rich, died in 2016. On a good note, our 28-year-old daughter just graduated from Georgia State with a master’s degree in bio and a 4.0! I am still working full time.

Went to Israel then later London and Scotland with Georgia Festival Singers. I am also enjoying the pool I built in my back yard thanks to Rich’s insurance.

David F. Hill and Linda Ericson Hill ’77 Linda and I continue to enjoy good health and being grandparents to our 5 grandkids. In 2014 I sold my business and then became president of the company I sold to. After 2 years they sold, and I decided to retire. Then, after 2 years of retirement, I received a call to return to work as president of a new startup company. Hence I am back working full time, but certainly enjoying our time in Naples, Florida, playing golf and pickleball and enjoying the fine weather. For the summers, we decided to sell our KC home and built a new home on a lake in Wisconsin, near our grandchildren. So after leaving Lawrence, we finally return to Wisconsin.

’79 Karl Albrecht and wife, Barbara, are enjoying their relocation to Bath, Maine. Karl helped neighbor and fellow Lawrentian, Bruce Hauptli ’70, at a college fair this fall in nearby Brunswick. Karl also volunteered for Maine Senator Angus King’s reelection campaign.

Leslie Allen is living in Marquette, Michigan, beginning her tenth year as a candlemaker and a vendor at the Downtown Marquette Farmers Market.

Still an inveterate writer: PeaPickleFarm.com.

StoriesofWax.com.

After listening to tapes and taking classes at the Alliance Française, Meg Malde Arnosti rented a cute little apartment in Aix-en-Provence in January, where

she studied French and explored. Her landscape design work with Southview Design is going well. Don Arnosti built up the Izaak Walton League of Minnesota as conservation director, and was recently appointed executive director. He looks forward to continuing to expand their environmental programs, focused on clean water and addressing climate change through energy and habitat, while hiring a great young team of people to work with him. Unfortunately, Don’s mother, Connie, died in December 2018.

LinaBeth Barber and husband, John Meadows, enjoy winters in Tucson, AZ, and then spend the hot months in Montone, in Umbria Italy in their rebuilt medieval house. While in Italy, LinaBeth has volunteered for U.S. based “Civitella Ranieri Foundation” which hosts artists-, writers- and composers-in-residence from all over the world in a 15th Century Italian castle from May to October. And that is where she will be in June instead of attending reunion.

After living in the Pacific Northwest, Kyle S. Bollmeier and family are now living in Richmond, VA, and enjoying the diverse people, great arts and music scene. Kyle bikes (both foot and gas power) in and around the Blue Ridge Mountains. Kyle loved living in the Blue Ridge raising his daughters through their high school years and seeing them off to college. Elsa is at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service, and Greta is at Elon University. Kyle looks forward to seeing people at Lawrence reunion. “See you on the turf.”

John and Mary Ellen Boyle are still living in Manasquan, NJ, and enjoying life at the Jersey Shore.

John works for Gemini, Inc. as an outside salesperson, covering the northeast U.S. and occasionally traveling to corporate hq in MN. Son Owen and daughter Kate both work in Manhattan. Wife Mary Ellen works for AIG, and they both are getting closer to retirement every day.

Susan Chandler and husband, Bruce L. McLellan, are living in Minneapolis. As the executive director of Madeline Island Chamber Music, Sue spends several summer months on Madeline Island. Sue sees Julia Hannan (who lives in Seattle) as regularly as possible.

Sue eagerly anticipates seeing everyone at the 40th Reunion!

Richard J. Faust retired from CSC in August 2015, then started working for CA Technologies in October 2015 as a web security consultant. Rich recently acquired a 1981 Beechcraft A36TC for cross-country flying. Rich and his wife Nancy are now enjoying trips to see friends and family, outings with the Southwest Bonanza Society (Rich is a board member) and other aviation events, such as EAA Airventure, the huge annual air show in Oshkosh. Last November, Rich and Nancy visited John and Teri Bill in Palm Desert, CA. LAWRENCE

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Jeffrey R. Hawley ’79 married Rose Lee and moved to Orange County, CA, after living in the Bay Area for nearly 30 years. Jeff and Rose live in San Clemente— famous for being the Western White House during the Nixon years. Jeff enjoys playing tennis—singles, doubles, tournaments and still has a terrible backhand. Together, Jeff and Rose have been to Provence, Singapore, Australia.

Richard F. Herndon retired in 2011 from Southern Illinois University School of Medicine after 32 years.

Besides traveling with wife, Carol, he served on the board of his county historical society, on the board of a house museum and acts as a docent at the DanaThomas House in Springfield.

Kris L. Hoffman retired on March 2nd after a 40-year career with the U.S. Department of Defense. Her career has been great, taking her across the country multiple times (while living in Illinois, Florida, and California) and outside the country to Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and England. Kris is looking forward to slowing down in the next phase of her life and doing leadership training and mentorship.

Mary Jo Johnson lives in Wausau, WI, and married Bruce Lamont in 2011. Together they have 4 adult kids and will be first-time grandparents this year! Mary Jo is CEO/Owner of EO Johnson Business Technologies, helping businesses with information/data needs. Mary Jo remains friends with Chris Siewert Edgecomb ’78 and Cheryl Posner ’80.

After a lay-off turned into early retirement, Grace Jones is busy with a part-time job at her local yoga studio and started a seasonal job as a tax preparer.

A few years ago, she discovered the joy of playing the harpsichord and now studies baroque keyboard music! Still singing in a very good church choir. Still going to lots of performances. For the past 20 years, Grace has hosted young opera singers performing with Wolf Trap Opera, including Lawrentian Zoie Reams ’14.

See you in Appleton in June.

Elizabeth Dodge Kaprelian also found the whole retirement thing not working out so well. Liz recently took a part-time job with her church as the Director of Children and Youth Ministry. The interim job allows Liz and husband, Jim, to travel and do other things that they enjoy. They have two upcoming weddings: a spring wedding for their son, and one of their daughters is getting married in the spring of 2020. Life is busy and fun, and perfectly normal for them.

Cheryl Vermillion Knuppel retired in 2015 after teaching high school French & English for 11 years, followed by 18 years working for Kimberly-Clark Corporation.

She now spends time with their 4 ½ year old grandson, volunteering, reading, hiking, and traveling. Cheryl’s latest adventure was trekking to Everest Base Camp in Nepal with a group of 30 from the midwest!

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Kathryn A. Krohn-Gill knew being a grandparent would be fun, but had no idea how much. Their first granddaughter was born in March, and second granddaughter expected in May. The family tradition continues with two children who are emergency physicians after surviving as children of two physicians.

Regina Swingen Lee plans to retire this year as an Assessment Librarian and also head of special projects at Tennessee Technological University in Cookeville, TN. In early December she spent a couple days with Kim (Narotzky) O’Donnell and her husband, Jim, in Spring, TX, while she was at a conference.

Regina’s boyfriend is Zion, a 4-year-old German Shepherd with boundless energy—either wide open, or crashed at my feet. Regina travels to Madison frequently to visit her 100-year-old mother, still living at home. She plans to attend the reunion in June.

Roelif M. Loveland says “of course I am coming to the reunion! It will be a blast! See you there!” Roelif and wife, Anne, live in Peru, IL—in the “Illinois Valley” surrounded by cornfields and deer and the beautiful Illinois River. Anne said about the reunion, “YOU go and have fun with your old friends—I’ll stay home with the 5 dogs!” Roelif and Anne are avid apiarists now, and Anne sells the honey at her Fourth Street Bakery in Peru. All three of Roelif’s sons are grown, and Roelif continues working at their 171-year-old family business—Maze Nails.

Astrid Strasburger Manoli and Yiannos Manoli ’78, recently spent four months in Pacific Palisades at Thomas Mann’s “White House for German Exile.”

Coming back to Freiburg in January, Astrid was able to translate “Green Eggs and Ham” to her two granddaughters.

Andrew D. McNeill is enjoying working as a college counselor at the Taft School in Connecticut. Work takes Andy to college campuses, including the University of Georgia, where he spent time catching up with Professor Debra Mohnen. Mark Alfano’s 60th birthday party was a blast, and Scott Matsumoto did a worthy cameo on stage. Andy booked his ticket to Appleton for your (gulp!) 40th and hopes to see everyone then!

Scott D. Myers is enjoying his second attempt at retirement. Scott and wife, Luvie, have been able to spend time traveling to many interesting places around the world, as well as to their summer home in Michigan. However, Scott made the mistake of launching a music festival a couple years ago, which has now grown to about 15,000 attendees. Between the festival, the Lawrence board, and a few other things, Scott stays busy. He is looking forward to seeing folks at the 40th reunion this June.

From the slopes of Colorado in January to celebrating New Year's on the beach in Mexico, Kent Rose got around during 2018, his first year of retirement after a career in law and business. With the last of 4 off to college, he enjoys new-found flexibility and freedom and reports that winters are for skiing downhill and X-C, other seasons for hiking or biking or any form of exercise, preferably outdoors. He’ll be at the Reunion in June and looks forward to seeing old friends and classmates in Appleton.

John Rowland is in Racine and has two of his children nearby so he gets to see his 4 grandkids often. He runs the family insurance agency. Soccer refereeing and photography are his free time pursuits, along with helping his mother after his father’s death. Recently bought a condo and is having fun getting it just the way he wants it! John plans to attend reunion.

Thomas C. Spear was awarded one of the Grands Prix of the Académie française, Le Prix du rayonnement de la langue et de la littérature françaises in 2018 and was inducted into l’Ordre des francophones d’Amérique in Québec.

Robert J. Stevens is retiring this July after 32 years in family medicine in Green Bay. He and Janet ’82 will stay in Suamico, WI, on their 10-acre farmette. Sons Paul ’10 and Sam ’13 are both family physicians in Appleton and Milwaukee respectively. Robert and Janet have 3 grandchildren, 1 dog and 2 cats.

Travel continues to be a high priority with a Spanish excursion this fall. Biking and hiking Wisconsin awaits.

Janet’s oboe in various musical groups provides welcome pleasure.

Michelle Mahn Swodzinski sold her house, moved into an apartment with her daughter and their two dogs. Shelly’s daughter graduated from Eau Claire.

Shelly teaches piano, voice and guitar after retiring from teaching music and directs her church choir.

Shelly is very proud of a former church choir member who was admitted to Lawrence in music.

When Gail L. Von Drashek’s daughter went off to college, and Gail moved to Arizona to help her aging parents. Living with her parents was challenging but well worth it. Gail’s father passed away at Christmas, and she has begun the quest to map out what the next 20 years should look like. Travel. Camping. Gail has taken up scuba diving and loves it. She volunteers at a Raptor Rescue. Gail regularly visits the Bay Area to see her daughter, a PhD student at Berkeley.

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’80 Kurt E. Amend In December 2018, I returned to the Washington DC area after two plus years heading up Raytheon Company’s office in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. My wife, Alice Wells, is still with the Department of State, focused on U.S. policy in South and Central Asia. We graduated our youngest, Phoebe, from NYU several weeks ago and, in keeping with the times and as of this writing, are a perfect three-for-three in boomerang children in our basement. Oh my.

Rick Davis and Julie E. Thompson ’81 Finishing my fourth year as dean of the College of Visual and Performing Arts, George Mason University.

Just staged Menotti’s The Medium, which brought back memories as that was the first opera I ever directed (LU,1980), along with The Jumping Frog of Calaveras County. Thank you, John Koopman, for taking a chance on a theater major with opera dreams. Off-campus I staged a second production (revised version) of John Henry’s Republic Undone, which takes a critical view of the presidency of Woodrow Wilson. Also recently won the Franklin Smith Prize for Comedia Translation (awarded by the Association for Hispanic Classical Theatre) for my version of Calderón’s The Phantom Lady.

Sheri L. Greenberger It has been a few years since I contributed—so here goes. I have owned my own business for 16 years—helping people have a better relationship with their dogs. Bark Busters Home Dog Training, a really fun and fascinating job, different everyday! It is a worldwide franchise, started in Australia. I am going to make my first abroad trip to attend the 30th Annual Conference in Wollongong during September.

FBook has been great for “hooking up” with people I lost contact with so many years ago. I have had the chance to meet up with Beth Pasierb in MD a few times, and Peter Wehr stopped by when he was taking his son around to colleges. If you are near Holland, Michigan—call me!

Ellen A. Meyers I completed my MA in Clinical Mental Health from Adler University. I passed the boards and received my license to be a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC).

Patricia Behn Regan Patti Behn Regan teaches eurythmy and music at the Berkshire Waldorf School in Great Barrington, MA. She also sings in the Cantilena Chamber Choir in Lenox, MA, and teaches music during the summer at Sunbridge Institute in Spring Valley, NY. Married to Joe Regan for 20 years—a software architect at Ernst & Young and a SUNY/Stonybrook music grad—their son, Joseph, is starting at SUNY/Albany in the fall, studying computer science and music. A recent visit to Lawrence brought back many wonderful memories.

What a good foundation LU has provided for all that has come after!

Daniel K. Stifter Reunions always remind me of one thing; wow is Rick Young old. 40 years is an astonishing amount of time. I remember our 5th reunion and seeing all the doddering, grey haired, end-of-life fogeys running around and being unable to contemplate that happening to us. Well, it happened to all of us, didn’t it? I’ve been semi-retired for 5 years, but keep busy with travel, teaching, consulting, and being a part owner of a strategic planning software firm, which is gaining momentum at the exact time I’m losing mine. Still married, both kids successfully launched.

Definitely not at end of life, life is good! Looking forward to seeing all my doddering, grey haired, old fogey friends in 2020!

Nancy Elliott Curtis Hello, classmates. I love living in Pittsford, NY, with my husband, Chris, who is retired. I continue to serve as the VP of content for Logical Operations (www.logicaloperations.com). Our son, Chet, just graduated from SUNY’s Binghamton University with a degree in mechanical engineering, and our daughter, Faith, just completed her freshman year at Binghamton as an electrical engineering major.

I’m a long-time soloist in the choir and otherwise active at my church, St. Paul’s Episcopal in Rochester, NY, and I participate in other organizations and volunteer activities in the area. Lately I’ve enjoyed reconnecting with some of my Lawrence Pi Phi sisters and other Lawrence friends on Facebook.

Jon Zilber Just finished my fifth book in less than a year (writing/ editing, that is—who has time to read books?): a history of Silicon Valley pioneer 3Com, a multigenerational memoir about overcoming the stigma of being born into the untouchable caste (Richard Nixon has a cameo), a manifesto about “smart villages” in India, a how-to guide about climate change, and a coffee table book by a prominent designer. Also had a staged reading earlier this year of a one-act play about an imagined dinner conversation between Einstein and George W. Bush. I play piano every Wednesday at a local wine bar. Emma is helping to launch a farm-totable restaurant in Missoula, and Rose is a designer in Portland (OR)

Reverend Catherine B. Dempesy-Sims Unsure of when I last updated everyone, in November of 2017 my love, my life, my wife of not quite five years, died. I can’t even begin to describe the pain of this ... but I will say that Sarah Brown Bryan ’83, who would pass away from the same disease of lung cancer just months later, was a source of great hope to me. And Lizz and Bruce Loder ’82. They have walked with me every single step of this time. Finally, without my sister and brother-in-law, Anne and Mark Lee ’76, I wouldn’t be standing. Why do I share this? Because this is the Lawrence Difference. Thank you, LU. Thank you, friends.

Jeffrey M. Griese (Jeff) Life is full and rich for us as we navigate the waters of being empty-nesters ourselves, yet feel like we are the middle of a sandwich cookie! I continue as CHRO of ZS Associates, while Jayne rocks out as daughter, Mom and grandmom! Her parents live nearby in an assisted living facility and absorbed a lot of focus and energy from her. And with 6 grandchildren, Jayne is constantly on the go! Summer plans are to camp our way out to Prince Edward Island and back. The 40th Reunion in 2020 is definitely in our plans!!

’82 Julie Thome Carver I live in Plymouth, Wisconsin, with my husband of 33 years, Andrew. We have two daughters, Abigail, a high school special education teacher who resides in the Milwaukee area, and Rachel Carver Stichnoth ’11, a geologist who resides with her husband, Miller Stichnoth ’11 and their son, Albert James, in Chicago.

I retired from my position as Food Safety Director at Sargento Foods in February 2019 and have just launched a consulting business, Midwest Food Safety Solutions LLC. We are celebrating several family weddings this summer where LU alumni are abundant, including my three siblings Dave Thome ’78, Mary Thome Marshall ’79 and Cathy Thome ’84.

Edwin L. Fuller I am a LEAD Organizer with Leaders for Equality & Action in Dayton, OH. Jill Kaar Hanson I am still an enrolled agent, office manager and instructor for H&R Block. I write and present programs on dolls and paper dolls for clubs, conferences and magazines. Jerry & I travel as much as possible. We are making a concerted effort to spoil our great nieces and nephews and now our first great-great niece. I haven’t been back to Appleton in 35 years, so a trip is planned for the fall to see the campus in full color.

Dr. Kim Johndro Harmon This past year has been one of lots of changes. Ron and I retired from medicine a little over a year ago and moved from Chicago to Denver. It was just in time to welcome our first grandchild, Everett. They live in Denver, so it’s all good. We are adjusting to retired life, hiking, taking classes, traveling, and of course spending time with family. It feels great to be downsized, empty nesting, and no longer paying tuition bills for any of our 4 kids! Ironically enough, our oldest son met and fell in love with a fellow medical student while at Loyola—she’s from Appleton!! Small world!

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Carrie L. Kuehl I’ve embarked on a second career in dietetics and am finishing my second year as a school nutrition specialist in Slinger, WI. Elizabeth Lutton Luscher I retired last year after 23 years at the Corona Public Library. I am enjoying getting a variety of projects done, including repairing an old desk, making a scrapbook of me and my husband’s 25th anniversary trip to Paris, being involved in a local congressional campaign, and reviving my yoga practice. After my husband, Jeff, retires in 2020, we look forward to traveling, getting involved in various causes, and enjoying life!

Michael E. Mol Two big new changes in my life—one happened 6 months ago, and one happens in 3 days. Six months ago, my first granddaughter was born, and Julia Mae has been a wonderful addition to our family!! And in 3 days, after 36 years teaching either high school or junior high math, I am getting out of the classroom!!!

I am retiring but with no serious idea what the next chapter of my life holds, excepting grandpa’ing of course!!

Robin Revis Puri My daughter, Maya, is a proud Lawrentian, Class of 2022! Maya grew up in Southern California so it

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was no easy task to get her to consider Lawrence. As expected, she loves Lawrence but hated the winter— it didn’t help that it was one of the harshest and longest winters in Appleton. My son, who graduated from Notre Dame last May, has also been living in Wisconsin for the past year. He began his career with Epic Systems in Madison, WI last July. My nest is empty, but it is warm since I wisely decided to stay in Southern California.

Thomas R. Quill I am living vicariously through an LA neighbor and current Lawrentian, Moreau Halliburton, Class of 2022! I enjoyed live streaming LU Women’s Basketball games with Moreau’s parents and other neighborhood friends—so great to see LU spirit wear in the area!!

I’ve also been working with other LA area alums to get the LU Club of Los Angeles off the ground. The distance and time to travel in this vast metropolis are creating some challenges, but we’ll get there.

Personally, Albert and I are looking forward to our next travel adventure with Mary Takahashi ’83 and Karl Kramer ’82. Destination: Iceland in November.

Janet Steiner Stevens and Robert J. Stevens ’79 All is well here in Suamico. I no longer have horses, but stay busy teaching and performing on the oboe. I recently compiled a photo and history display for my church’s sesquicentennial celebration. My husband, Rob ’79, and I are looking forward to his 40th

Reunion. Our sons, Paul ’10 and Sam ’13, are married and settled down with children of their own now. Rob retires this summer, and we look forward to more time with the grandchildren and a more flexible travel schedule. A bike trip to Spain is on the fall calendar, and we’ll spend the summer sort of training for it.

Living near Appleton, we visit Lawrence on occasion and enjoy its many offerings to the community.

David C. Trimble David in an instant. Still living in DC. Still doing oversight for Congress on nuclear nonproliferation, dirty bombs, and nuclear weapons cleanup issues.

How did a philosophy major get here? No doubt I owe it to Professors Dreher and Boardman for teaching me how to think! Still happily married with a labradoodle and two kids. Oldest is finishing junior year and actively looking at colleges (OMG $$$). Youngest will be a sophomore in the fall and has made me a fan of some wacky Japanese anime (who doesn’t love Jo Jo!!!).

David L. Weber After working as a civil litigation attorney for 29 years, I was appointed as Circuit Court Judge, Branch II, in Door County, WI, in 2016. I was elected to a six-year term in 2017. I have been married for 30 years and have two grown daughters.

Classes of of 1983, 1984, 1985. (Photo: M. C. Kinney)

’83 Professor Elizabeth Ann De Stasio never has a dull moment teaching at LU in an ever-changing environment. She is involved in the Posse Foundation, mentors a group of students from NYC, works on inclusive pedagogy in science education and is an editor for the Genetics Society of America publication.

She and Bart T. De Stasio ’82 are now officially empty-nesters. Their sons, who graduated from Lawrence in 2012 and 2017, are doing well in their fields of Law and I.T. Elizabeth and Bart are excited by their growing family as both sons will be getting married in 2019.

Dawn Pubanz Gergen and William H. Gergen P’14 are fortunate and blessed to follow their children around and spend their vacation time with them. Their son, Henry, is a professional musician with Royal Caribbean after graduating from LU Conservatory of Music. On his ships, they have followed Henry to the Mediterranean, the Baltic and, more recently, to Australia and New Zealand. They love visiting their daughter who is in grad school in Washington. D.C. Martha C. Girard resides on Milwaukee’s east side with her awesome husband, Wayne Wasserman. Their children are now adults, and Martha is totally involved in her new business: Doula Woman where she works as a full spectrum birth and postpartum doula. She works at the Blooming Lotus Bakery, runs, practices/ teaches yoga and stays outside as much as possible,

often by the river. Her phone is always on so call any time: 262-902-8714.

Cynthia Jones Glavin and her husband, John, live in Glen Ellyn, IL. Cynthia works at a local middle school as a special education aide. Their oldest daughter will graduate from Lewis & Clark College in May, and their second daughter is finishing up her sophomore year at Regis University. Cynthia had a wonderful opportunity to travel to Norway to see the Northern Lights and stay in the Ice Hotel in February but will miss the reunion this summer.

Robert J. Greene “retired” from the U.S. Air Force Bands program after 20 years of service in 2007 and is currently a senior web developer at BAE Systems in Hudson, NH. In his spare time, he performs with various Boston area ensembles, including the Boston Civic Symphony, Mercury Orchestra and the MIT Symphony Orchestra. He is also a member of Patriot Brass Ensemble—Boston and serves on its national Board of Directors. His interests have turned to politics in recent years, with a big transition from activist to legislator in November 2018 as a newly elected member to the New Hampshire House of Representatives.

Charles F. Hunter just hit 29 years in the Foreign Service but was on furlough working with the State Department’s Board of Examiners while seeking an assignment to go abroad again this summer. He had

the pleasure of doing an hour-long discussion by videoconference with Prof. Jason Brozek’s foreign policy class at LU. He remains active with barbershop singing and the choir at All Souls Episcopal Church.

Follow www.ramochai.com to hear his partner’s newest album. He is proud that Innes Maxwell ’20, represents the fourth generation of the family to attend Lawrence starting with his grandfather, Alex Hunter ’28. He hopes to attend the reunion in June.

Paul O. Jenkins published Teaching the Beatles which he co-edited with his brother, Hugh, in July 2018. In November, he and Hugh presented a paper (based largely on the book) at an international symposium on the White Album held at Monmouth University. Paul and his wife, Mary, live in Goffstown, NH with their two dogs (Luke and Pippa). Paul is the university librarian at Franklin Pierce University.

Beverly J. Larson and her husband, Gary, welcomed a granddaughter to the world in February 2018. In the fall they explored four Balkan nations and saw the lingering costs of war and division in two. This year they look forward to traveling in Australia and New Zealand.

Lawrence A. Leporte, after 22 years in law practice, mostly in England, retired and moved to California.

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school. His hobbies are running, swimming, reading, arguing, and basking in the reflected glory of their children’s achievements.

Paul McComas has produced and performed in his adaptation of Sam Shepard’s Fool for Love since Feb. ’17 which memorializes Shepard and raises funds/awareness for Les Turner ALS Foundation to fight the disease that felled Sam. As a traveling show, they head for Milwaukee, Kalamazoo, Rapid City and parts unknown. Last year, the expanded 15th Anniversary Edition of Paul’s novel Unplugged won a Silver Medal at the Independent Publishers Awards and a Bronze at the Living Now Awards. He and Maya Kuper adapted it into a full-on stage musical.

The show and its soundtrack album, Unplugged: A Survivor’s Story in Scenes & Songs, support RAINN...

Paul and Heather moved into a townhouse last September with Sam their greyhound and are loving the extra space.

Lisa K. Nadziejka lives in Grand Rapids, MI, and made a mid-life career change into social work. She is now a LMSW in private practice. Lisa specializes in depth psychology in treating emotionally wounded individuals, and her approach is informed by the creative works of Carl Gustav Jung. Lisa’s daughter, Brynley, graduated from LU in 2014 and now works as a geologist in St. Paul, MN. Leslieann Schwartz lives in Chicago with her husband and daughter who is a senior in high school and currently applying to college. Their son is raising pigs, chickens, and market vegetables on the farm she grew up on. Learn more at avromfarm.com. Leslieann is happy to still be working as a photographer documenting architecture as well as people. She recently completed a big project using black and white film, which reminds her of the Lawrentian darkroom.

She is looking forward to the reunion!

Einar H. Tangen first visited China 20 years ago and decided if there was going to be a Renaissance in his lifetime it would be there. He is currently an economic and political affairs commentator in Beijing. Son Evan and daughter Norris finished university in the U.S. and are starting their careers in China.

’84 Carol Arnosti and husband Andreas are both faculty members in the Department of Marine Sciences at UNC. Their two daughters, Alison and Kathryn, will soon be starting to look at colleges—hard to believe how fast time flies!

Brad P. Aspgren married April K. Whitescarver on 8/12/2017 in Dallas, TX with three Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity brothers attending the wedding: Paul Smith ’83, from Fargo, ND, Jon Hofer ’85, from Hartford, CT and Chuck Ray ’85, from Chicago, IL. April and Brad 62

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honeymooned in gorgeous Norway, enjoying many fjords while hiking, kayaking and relaxing.

Dr. Thomas D. Brucker and his wife Debra, of 26 years, live in Brookfield, WI. Both daughters, Elizabeth, 21, and Margaret, 18, are attending college at UCBoulder. After 20 years as a pathologist in private practice, he is currently working at the Clement J. Zablocki VA Medical Center. Hobbies include cycling and playing saxophone (tenor and bari) in the Brookfield Civic Band. They like to travel, mostly to Utah and Idaho, to see family and for great outdoor hiking and mountain biking. He is looking forward to the 35th reunion!

Angela Colman Chatten has been working at home for Humana for the last 20 years while enjoying life with her hubby of 31 years. Their eldest, Alica, has just started her PhD program in Linguistics at NYU, and their youngest, Caitlin, is a junior at Case Western studying psychology and economics. Liberal arts is alive and well in their family!

Karen Phipps Dosh, RN, is nurse manager at the Wakota Life Care Center in West St. Paul, MN, and sidelights as ultrasound nurse at Tandem Family Resource Center. She and husband, Chuck, will celebrate their 35th wedding anniversary this summer on their sailboat in the Apostle Islands. They enjoy the company of their three kids and two cute grandchildren (ages 4 and 1). Karen keeps busy advocating for the care of her dad. Hobbies (besides sailing) include Civil War-era civilian reenacting (lots of dancing, cooking period food, eating, teaching, and croquet), perennial gardening, sewing, and board games.

Christine Pasko Falls kicked cancer’s **s in 2017 with a “miraculous” response to immuno/ chemotherapy. Semi-retired from her attorney career, she chairs mandatory arbitration and remains president of the Mediation Council of Illinois. She has reclaimed her inner artist and has taken up painting! She and her husband, Tim, of nearly 34 years, are enjoying a “second honeymoon”. Awaiting the wedding of their oldest son Alex to Diana in June, Christine sings in his choir where he is a minister of worship arts. Their middle son, Matthew, has degrees in material science engineering and works in Aviation.

Their youngest, Joseph, is working in game design.

David S. Graber teaches Russian and German at UNCW in Wilmington, North Carolina. Hurricane Florence hit there in early September, left a lot of destruction and shut down the university for 4 weeks, and the damage continues to be a challenge. It has been amazing to see the community come together in support.

Hitoshi Hirano is currently shooting a feature-length film for a Russian natural resources company up in the Arctic Circle. It is an action film around oil workers working on a rig. He has also started to give life coach sessions to professionals from the point of view of a movie director directing scenes in their real lives. He has been living in Moscow, Russia, for the past 25 years and actively participates in stock and crypto currency trading seminars.

Janine D. Judd Tea lives in the Twin Cities with her husband Dan and son Daniel. She is a clinical social worker (MSW, LICSW) serving people diagnosed with serious mental illnesses, substance use and cooccurring disorders. She loves cheering on her kid as a “Basketball Mom” (no mini-van though!) They enjoyed being on campus last summer with LU family members for cousin Teddy Kortenhof’s ’18 graduation, and a Waupaca wedding celebration for cousin Jessica Bonsall Hoarn ’09. They bleed blue & white as part of the 30 Hunting-Kortenhof LU family legacy!

Rebecca A. Latorraca and Jean-Piero A. Sgriccia’s P’22, older daughter, Isabella, graduated from Cairo American College in 2018 and chose to join the LU class of 2022. Rebecca went back to Lawrence for the first time since 1984 to enjoy the beautiful campus, the inspiring convocation, and their daughter’s wonderfully diverse class. Rebecca continues to work for USAID and their second assignment to Egypt has been as fascinating as the first.

Katherine Moore Lauderbaugh has been working at Northern Trust for over 25 years and was promoted to senior vice president in 2018. She lives in Evanston, IL, with her husband Gregg and 2 children.

Jill A. Manuel has leveraged over two decades in broadcast news to launch her own business in 2018. JCat Group, LLC provides consulting services to newsrooms, companies, brands, and individuals who want to break through in today’s fragmented media environment. It’s been fun so far, working with clients as varied as local TV newsrooms, cloud service providers, cybersecurity and retail supply chain companies. Jill has also enjoyed reconnecting with fellow Lawrence cluster reunion committee members working on planning an extraordinary experience in June for the classes of ’83, ’84 and ’85.

Patrice Skalko O’Morchoe and David O’Morchoe ’83 are enjoying their 27th year in the Pacific NW. David’s ophthalmology practice is adding another partner, which will allow David to slow down to part time and help Pat with some household tasks so she can devote more time to the piano, to knit, to sew, to make cards and to pursue volunteer activities! They enjoy boating on the Salish Sea and are blessed that their two children, Caitlin and Christopher, continue to live nearby and enjoy their careers. They look forward to seeing everyone at the reunion!

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Dr. David P. Rabago loves being a family medicine doc; he sees patients, and does some teaching and research at UW in Madison. Who knew the benefits of getting an education before medical training? Wife Alek has a similar gig though she is better known. Son Alek (16) drives a car. Daughter Eva (9) is in love with life about 10 times a day so generally brings the joy.

Elizabeth Sheridan Rammer and husband, John, reside in the Minneapolis area and enjoy summer getaways at “R Retreat,” their cabin at Lutsen, MN. Elizabeth joined the Hospitality Minnesota trade organization as CEO in mid-2018, where she oversees three trade associations and a foundation. She continues to serve on the Senior Community Services Board of Directors, where she fuels her passion for “reimagining aging” to help older adults stay in their homes longer. She and John are looking forward to attending the reunion.

Lindsey S. Robb is enjoying his role as assistant director of the Rivers School Conservatory in Weston, MA, where he also teaches piano and music theory.

Last May, he married Marin Vulic and through his family has enjoyed getting to know the beautiful country of Croatia.

Dorothy Dreher Robin is thrilled to have started her own business in Sept. 2017, doing what she loves: helping others and teaching. She and her husband will celebrate their 33rd wedding anniversary this June.

Their children are thriving, and they are enjoying life!

Dorothy is looking forward to seeing LU classmates this summer!

Brian R. Smigelski and wife, Barb O’Brien, live and work in the Milwaukee area. His Geology major is put to good use as a partner at DeWitt LLP specializing in business and construction litigation. Their children have fled the nest. Mike is in his third year of Columbia University’s urology residency program in NYC. Katie is in her first year of Vanderbilt’s MBA program in Nashville.

George M. Smith ’84 passed the 30 year mark as a Minnesota resident. He has a private voice studio, and recently finished 10 years as the voice teacher for Minnesota Opera’s Resident Artist Program. It’s fun and satisfying seeing his singers actually make a living as classical musicians.

Robert A. Willis has marked his thirty-third year in the classroom with the School District of Waukesha. He is thankful for the great kids in his various chemistry classes. His wife, Kim, continues to make a difference in the lives of the special education students she works with in the New Berlin School District. Their two sons are busy building their own careers: one an arborist and plant health care specialist, and the other just starting in soil and water management.

Dr. Guocun Yang helped found the Chinese American Professors’ Association of Connecticut and became its first treasurer. He teaches in the fields of American history and modern China at Manchester Community College and has chaired the Department of Global Studies since 2009. He served on the Board of Directors of the Association for the Study of Connecticut History (ASCH) from 2004 to 2015, elected president in 2009 and 2011. His wife, Sharon, has worked at UConn since 1990. Their daughter, Aileen, earned her MA from UConn and will start classes in the Stern MBA program at NYU in February 2019 while working full-time at State Street.

’85 Resli E. Costabell has no kids, is self-employed, London based, avoids paperwork. So no change there.

Her mother died in October and Lawrence friends rallied ’round: Anne, Lee, Leila, Michelle, Jeff, Michael M, Michael D, Mike W, Karin, Kurt, Brad, Kristi—so many supportive and loving people. Her mother loved Cecilia Merrill Berger ’88. Cecilia treated Resli’s mother to a private violin concert by phone before she passed; and, at her mother’s services, a gorgeous recording was played of Cecilia playing her violin.

Resli performed with her choir on the main stage of the O2 Arena.

Stephen J. Edwards has a lot happening in LA. His daughter, Bella, is a junior at Emerson College in Boston—majoring in communications while his daughter, Addie, is a junior at Marymount High School in LA and is playing club volleyball. Stephen is currently directing his 2nd documentary film— Syndrome K. They flew to Rome and interviewed one of the three 3 doctors who made up a fake disease called “Syndrome K” to save Roman Jews from being deported to Auschwitz! The film comes out in 2019, which is the 75th anniversary of the U.S. 5th Army liberating Rome. Stephen has co-founded a new music licensing company called mVibe (the largest collection of cover recordings of hit songs in the world for film/ tv/ads/trailers/promos/internet etc.) which launches in 2019 while also writing lots of music—for TV/Film which is still his “day job!”

teacher in an elementary school. She teaches the FL ESOL courses for teachers working towards their state certification. Cynthia presented at the Sunshine State TESOL conference 2018 and will present at the SWFL Regional TESOL conference 2019 to train teachers how to most effectively teach English language learners. In her coaching and mentoring capacities, she felt the need to develop another skillset to better support adults in their development so she began a second masters in clinical mental health counseling at Florida Gulf Coast University. Anticipated graduation 2022.

Jennifer Nilsson Halgren enjoys work helping wonderful clients with marketing strategy, planning and execution and she finds herself losing track of time at the office, but fits in exercise (or at least a sauna!), reading—and occasional visits to see her son, who earned a BA from Indiana last spring and works in Chicago, and her daughter, who earned an MPH from Columbia last spring and works in NYC. She loves getting together with LU friends many times a year!

John F. Ide left JP Morgan after 27 years and pursued a business development position with a smaller, more entrepreneurial asset management firm. Their oldest son graduated from University of Denver in 2017 and works for a technology start up. Their daughter graduated from Lehigh in 2018 and currently works for Northern Trust in their Fund Accounting Group. Their youngest son is a sophomore at CU Boulder. He and Nancy moved to Lincoln Park and are now are a short walk to the lake, restaurants and shops. With two of their three kids in Colorado they see a lot of skiing in their future!

Jeffrey M. Johnson and Lisa Muller Johnson are celebrating 28 years in the same house in Deerfield, IL. As empty nesters Lisa has time to pursue her passion for photography while Jeff continues to log 11,000 miles per year bike riding.

Tanja Scribner Felton is looking forward to the Cluster Reunion! While busy in Milwaukee, they are hoping to adopt another greyhound this spring, having lost their dear Precious last July. Their son graduated from the University of Minnesota and has taken a job with Bankers Life in Edina. Their daughter is a junior at Miami of Ohio. She spent the first semester studying abroad in Rome, Italy, and is preparing for another trip to Zambia in May.

Jane Kotwicki Kresin is working on marketing and publicity for the up-and-coming Swedish/American music duo, 7000apart, who is releasing their debut album We Are More in summer 2019. Son Jonathan Kresin and his wife, Amelie Eiding, compose and perform indy/organic pop and have earned awards including the Shure Off The Beaten Track International Mobile Recording Finalist; WIXX Pop Radio Big Break Winner and International Festival Of Pop Music Radio Award in Italy (Best Original Song for the song “Someone To Be”). On a separate note, Jane and husband Stephen Kresin celebrated their 30th wedding anniversary.

Cynthia Mader Fisher has been living in Fort Myers, Florida, since 2006, after finishing her masters in elementary education from the U of Phoenix. She works for the Lee County School District (LCSD) as a teacher, teacher coach, trainer, mentor and lead

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understand and support our national parks—and the incredible species (especially bears!) that live there.

In her “real” life, Stacey does public relations for Smith College.

Dr. Timothy M. Sievers is cruising into middle age, looking at 29 years of marriage and all adult children.

All is well—healthy and happy, slowing down now with no overnight call or weekends with his anesthesia practice. Downsizing homes and excited about the new chapter!

Sandra Wilson moved to Evantson 8 years ago and is in the retirement pipeline for School District 219, Niles North High School with 3 ½ more years. In addition to teaching Sociology, she teaches World History at the regular and AP levels. Her son received his PhD in electrical engineering from Northwestern in June. Her daughter is the third generation to work as a teacher and is in her fourth year as a special education teacher near Champaign-Urbana. Sandra got married again in 2015 and they travel as much as they can.

They explored the Mayan ruins at Chichen Itza and Coba on the last day of 2018.

’86 Stephen L. Albrecht and Jennifer Wilkinson Albrecht ’89 Our younger daughter graduated from high school this spring so Jennifer and I are about to become quasi-empty-nesters. It will be an adjustment, but we are excited. I am now in my 10th year of working for Kindred Healthcare doing government affairs work across the country and sometimes in Washington, D.C. I have become an avid runner and have logged a number of half marathons and other races. We are happily living in a historic neighborhood in Indianapolis and the welcome mat is always out for fellow Lawrentians.

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Mary A. Blasing After 26 years working as a Park Ranger with both U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service and the National Park Service I retired in 2016. I moved back to Arizona, where I garden and volunteer with Girls on the Run. My home projects are interspersed with frenzied bouts of traveling. I plan to backpack a 500 mile section of the Pacific Crest Trail this September and will hopefully continue exploring the world and my own backyard as much as possible.

when she was in Chicago this spring and visited the museum. It’s hard to believe that three decades have passed since our graduation. Following the tradition of Erika Neuendorf-Gottschalk, Tammy Teschner, and Rick Dowd, my firstborn is off to Lawrence in the fall. Class of 2023! Looking forward to seeing some familiar faces at parents’ weekend in the near future.

Kristin Vorpahl Erickson 2019 is busy as usual. We just finished celebrating graduations for 4 nieces (HS) and 3 nephews (college). I am celebrating 19 years as a county social worker and about 25 years in the social services field.

We are traveling to several out of town concerts and taking a trip to the West Coast with friends over the summer. We hope to squeeze in a camping trip or two, and we spend as much time as we can with our two 15 year old Springer spaniels. We love to visit with Lawrence friends near and far whenever we can, and we are looking forward to our next reunion weekend.

Caroline Neumiller Pfeffer Our oldest son, Benjamin, graduated (again) from the University of Miami with his masters in accounting and will start with RSM in Miami this fall. David, our youngest had a semester abroad in Japan—he begins his student IS this fall as a senior at the College Of Wooster and a major in comp sci. My husband Jeff and his company, Capx Partners, have joined ranks with Accord Financial and continue with equipment finance to middle market companies—Both Caroline and Jeff volunteer and support Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center in Skokie/Chicago—Jeff as chair of the board of directors, and Caroline as events chair for the Women’s Leadership Committee/annual Soiree and benefit.

Jeffrey J. Geppert and Cathryn Torresani Geppert ’82 Our son is working in Chicago as a healthcare consultant, and our daughter is working in Philadelphia in socially conscious commercial real estate. We remain in Columbus Ohio, almost 15 years as a research scientist at Battelle.

Elizabeth Schaupp Sidles and Charles S. Sidles ’85 I am still married to Chuck Sidles. My son Charlie will be a junior at Northwestern, and daughter Addi will be a freshman at Williams. I am in the process of relaunching myself back into the paid workforce.

Stay tuned.

Karen Pleasant Gonzalez No news is good news. Alive, employed and blessed. kpgon64@gmail.com

Rebecca Sigler-Africano This May our youngest son, Paul, graduated from high school and will be attending the University of Washington. Before he made his decision, Paul and I spent a lovely couple of days at LU in April for a LUX (me with my fingers crossed); he liked it more than he thought he would, and I was blown away by all of the amazing additions to the campus!! I can’t believe I

Colleen M. McVeigh-Buist I am privileged to continue working as a conservation educator at the Field Museum of Natural History.

Delia Duchicela and I had a chance to catch up briefly

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will be an “empty nester!” I’m not sure what the next phase of my life has in store for me, but I do know that it will be an adventure. Unfortunately, I won’t be able to attend the upcoming reunion; however, I hope to connect with many of you soon!

Carol Rupnow Willick I am happily married as of August 10, 2018 to John Stearns II, so I am now Carol Stearns instead of Carol Willick, nee Rupnow. Our family recently appeared in Elm Leaves magazine. Son Christian just graduated from MLC in New Ulm, MN with a 4.0 for all 4 years of college and was awarded the Brooke Scholarship to Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary. He also received the Via, Veritas, Vita award and the Top Scholar award.

Son Evan has 1 more year at MLC and is studying to become a teacher. He is engaged to be married to Megan in 2020—she is studying to be an early childhood educator. I started a small company in 2019 called Gozes, LLC—I make roses out of running gels for long distance racers.

Betsy A. Wood I got married last fall at the Old Mill in Little Rock, Arkansas (seen in the opening credits of Gone With the Wind). My husband and I are working toward integrating our households of pets. We have traveled to Hawaii and the East Coast together and look forward to an overseas trip eventually. I continue to enjoy my job as an advisor with Biological Systems Engineering at UW–Madison and also participate in community theater, swing dancing, and horseback riding. I’m happy to reconnect with any classmate who remembers me after so long!

Fred Slater My wife, Eileen Sliwinski ’87, and I have lived in Seattle for 22 years now. We enjoy hiking, climbing, and skiing in the area. We have been blessed with good health. I work full time as a software developer for F5 Networks, but Eileen has retired from her teaching career and now divides her time between painting and managing our AirBnB. If you remember the Committee of Public Safety (1983-1986), I still play music. I am now with a band called Massy Ferguson, playing original rock and touring both locally and internationally (Spain and UK in 2019). We have a new album out, for which you may read reviews online.

’88 J. Stephen Cowles and Cyndy Zimmerman Cowles ’84 I have been promoted to Deputy General Counsel for Baltimore County Public Schools, the 25th largest school system in the country. My wife, Cyndy Zimmerman, is the director of enrollment operations for Goucher College. She and I are looking forward to our oldest son, Matthew, starting college in the fall at the Elliott School for International Affairs in Washington, D.C. Our younger son, Michael, is

entering his senior year of high school. We recently celebrated our 30th wedding anniversary and still live in Maryland.

Elizabeth Keggi Life in Appleton keeps getting more and more interesting! I spend much of my free time enjoying the arts at Lawrence and in the wider community. I enjoy singing in a terrific church choir (gotta use that music degree somehow!), and I continue to write and present poetry. I’d love to hear from old LU friends.

I am training manager and senior tutor at Dyslexia Reading Connection, a regional nonprofit that provides one-on-one reading and math training for dyslexic kids, teens, and adults. I’ve worked as a tutor for about 12 years, and for the past two years I have also been the trainer for new and continuing tutors. It’s hugely rewarding work.

Troy J. Merryfield I still work at NASA in Mission Assurance. Currently I am working on the next Mars Mission (Mars 2020) and a new inflatable heat shield for entry through planetary atmospheres. The new heat shield will save on payload volume and mass so that a larger payload may be carried to other planets. Unfortunately, these projects mean LOTS of travel to California from my home in Virginia.

Louis J. Wool I am still teaching social studies at Wheeling High School. I am currently teaching a career pathway in Law. I teach four different law courses, including a college/high school dual credit course through Eastern Illinois University as well. I am spending a lot of time taking care of my Dad, who is not in the greatest of health. I am glad to be able to not only help, but spend time with him. My Mom died of cancer nine years ago, and I think about her every day. I have an eight-year-old pit bull rescue dog named Tess. She is the best buddy/companion that I could ever ask for.

Enjoy reading and biking over my summers.

David J. Zeitchick and Leslie R. Williams ’90 I’m completing my 22th year teaching social studies and coaching football and track at Highland Park Senior High School in St. Paul. I’m still married to Leslie Williams, who is also a teacher. We have a senior in college (Tatum), a senior in high school (Seth) and a freshman in high school (Whitney). It’s been a great run, and we’re hopeful it’ll continue.

’90 Nara Hulbert Detienne and Thomas D. Detienne ’88 I am celebrating my 28th wedding anniversary with Tom this June, and we are traveling to Spain to visit our son, Reece, who is studying abroad (UW-Madison, ’22). Our oldest daughter, Natalie ’16, graduated

from LU and is finishing her second year as a biology teacher. Our middle daughter, Isabel, graduated this June from St. Norbert College (summa cum laude) with a degree in psychology and is working at Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin, Milwaukee as a child life specialist—got a job right out of college! I am teaching high school biology and just finished my 26th year. We’ve been adding to our dive log with trips to Bonaire and Grand Cayman—revisiting great spots from LUMP! Stephanie Millay Dustin I started a new job this year after staying home to homeschool my children for 16 years. My new job is at the local elementary school as a library teacher.

I teach Kindergarten through 5th grade. I am having a great time. I still teach senior fitness classes in my spare time. I am celebrating my 23rd wedding anniversary this summer. I will have 2 boys in college this fall, and my daughter is a high school sophomore.

My husband is a high school music teacher. Life is good.

Kim Kimberly Holland TJ & I love being empty nesters and will be celebrating our 26th wedding anniversary in June. Our son, Jack, graduated from VA Tech in May where he gave the commencement speech. His business consulting job is local so we are thrilled he will be in the area. Our daughter, Meg, is at University of Mary Washington.

She is active in her sorority & does a lot of volunteer work. The most meaningful of her work is at a therapeutic riding center where she is 2nd in charge.

My new photography business is doing well. I decided I might as well get paid for doing what I love.

Christopher L. McNulty In 2018, I was appointed chair of the Department of Art & Art History at Auburn University.

Gail Feldman Micheau and Tim A. Micheau ’88 Things have been pretty steady with us, no big changes to report. We had fun learning about lacrosse this spring since our son started playing. I am reliving my semester in Europe experiences currently as my daughter sends updates on her adventures overseas. Looking forward to our 30th reunion next year, hope a lot of you can make it.

Gregory A. Petit Nancy and I are pleased to announce that our daughter, Brielle ’19, has graduated from Lawrence University with a double major in Psychology and Spanish. Brielle will continue her studies at Portland State University where she will pursue her Ph.D. in psychology. Grayson Petit ’18 continues his studies at Vilnuis University, in Vilnuis, Lithuania, and will graduate with his masters in eastern European and Russian studies in February 2020.

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Dr. Michael P. Underwood I completed my 16th season as principal trombone of the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra with two performances of Mahler’s Fifth Symphony. I will premiere two new solo works at the International Trombone Festival this summer at Ball State University, and I will present master classes at the university in Xuzhou, China. I presented a lecture of the life and music of Ann Giffels at the Music

by Women Conference in Columbus, Mississippi.

I performed the Albrechtsberger Alto Trombone Concerto as a featured soloist with the ASO in March.

Mary H. Wiltjer I still live in Chicago and teach mathematics at Glenbrook South H.S. I was very honored to be named Illinois’ High School Mathematics Teacher of the Year in 2019 (with the T. E. Rine Award). I was on the author teams for two mathematics textbooks. Outside of education, I keep busy with family and friends, including my rescued Basset Hound.

’92 Sarah Gilbertson Armstrong Sarah Gilbertson Armstrong joined the Fine Arts faculty of the Canterbury School in New Milford, CT, in 2016. She is chair of the theatre department, director of Choral Studies and Liturgical Music, and founder of the Canterbury Carillon Guild. She and husband Dylan are dorm parents of 30 senior and post-grad girls. Sarah is a member of New England’s Professional Chamber Choir, Voce. The first American choir to be signed into management with Signum Records, their star is on the rise! This coming year will see the release of their new CD, Blessing, as well as performances with renowned composers Eric Whitacre and Paul Mealor. See more at www.voceinc.org.

Dorota B. Dabrowski It is now 27 years since I left Lawrence and moved to Poland. I have run into a few LU trustees over the years and my former international church pastor (Mark Atkinson) is an LU alum. As the managing director of the American Chamber of Commerce in Poland for the past 17 years, I meet a lot of Americans visiting Poland and would love to hear from any LU alumni coming through Warsaw. It is an exciting place! On a personal note: my lovely daughter, Dafne, is now nine; in 2018 I married Marc Winterscheid, a German; my Polish grandmother will soon turn 96!

Shelley A. Davis Professionally, I continue to serve as the president of the Forest Preserve Foundation. We mostly fund youth conservation internships and ecological restoration of the Preserves. I have a busy civic life—which includes serving on the Lawrence Board of Trustees, chairing the Albert Pick Jr. Fund board (a private Chicago focused Foundation), and serving on the Illinois Juvenile Justice Commission. I’ve taken up storytelling performance, which is a great way of combining my 66

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choir kid identity with my love of personal essay writing. Personally, our daughter is finishing up her high school freshman year, and our son is finishing 5th grade and ready for middle school.

Brett Lane We are enjoying the Baltimore/DC region now with two Gen-Zs (non-snowflakes) who have acquired an encyclopedic knowledge of Anime, MTG, and youtubers and seem to be doing well in high school.

I reached the 10-year anniversary of starting an education consulting firm (INSTLL) and continue to enjoy working with states and districts across the east coast and New England. If you are in education or working with state, districts, and non-profits, don’t hesitate to reach out. On a broader note, I wonder if this is actually the “post-modernity” state of affairs that we were all worried about? Hope that Lawrence is still having folks read some Plato.

Jay W. Roberts I am currently writing this while leading a group of my students in Freiburg, Germany, where we are focused on sustainable urban planning. From here, we are off to Copenhagen. As for my news, I am about to begin a one-year sabbatical from my institution (Earlham College), where I have been working as associate vice president for Academic Affairs. I have been awarded a year-long fellowship with the American Council on Education (ACE) and will be placed at another institution to work alongside the President and senior leadership. Other than that, our oldest daughter successfully navigated her freshman year of high school, and Liverpool beat Barcelona 4-0, so life is good!

’94 John A. Bachhuber and Mary Dercks Bachhuber ’92 have lived in Roseville, MN, for the last 9 years.

John works at Thrivent Financial in human resources, and Mary volunteers extensively in the Roseville Area School District. Their eldest, Owen, is a freshman at the UMN-Twin Cities with an “impressive collection of reptiles, amphibians and invertebrates.” Younger brother Daniel, a high school junior, is passionate about tennis and trumpet. Their golden-doodle, Lucy, is great at encouraging them to walk after dinner and has eliminated any need of a doorbell. Living within a few minutes of the State Fairgrounds, they invite alums to give them a call if heading to the fair (or any other time)!

Kendra Boettcher Craven has been a flutist in the U.S. Army Band for 23 years. As a member of the band she does concerts on the steps of the Capitol, has marched in the Inaugural Parades, played at political events in the D.C. area, and participated in ceremonies at Arlington Cemetery. She is married to another soldier in the band, Rob Craven, and they have 2 children, ages 10 and 11. They live in a suburb of Washington D.C. where they keep busy with other musical jobs in the area and many kid’s activities.

Adam D. Demers ’94 is an independent graphic designer providing brand-building and designcommunication services to museums, arts organizations, publishers and private businesses.

He lives with his wife, Andrea, and dog Baxter in Minneapolis, MN. Karen A. deVries and her family moved to Colorado this past summer to teach in the women’s and ethnic studies department. Her partner, Jessi, is the new head of research at UCCS. Their son’s father is a veterinarian at the Colorado Springs zoo, so they’re able to spend more family time together and get to know the animals, a very agreeable situation. She misses Montana but not the weather and is looking forward to exploring some trails once she gets a new knee over spring break. She’s looking forward to seeing everyone at the upcoming reunion.

Roger S. Duncan reports that his 2 daughters are both happy and well, playing little league and working on reading. “I’m amused that some of you are sending your kids to Lawrence soon.” Martina, his wife, works while Roger stays at home, rows and does photography (www.rogerduncanphoto.com). He reenlisted in the Navy Reserve and transferred his GI Bill to his kids. “Those of you who remember me from class will understand that sentiment, I’m sure.”

Kimberly Pichler Frankenhoff works at Krause Publications as an online content editor for the firm’s coins division. There she will soon begin data entry for the award-winning Standard Catalog of World Coins series. She is tickled to announce that she and her husband, Brent, have been promoted to grandparents.

Their son, Brad, and his girlfriend, Madalyn Gran, welcomed Aurora Nicole Frankenhoff on Nov. 7, 2018.

Marilyn M. Hein went on a trip to the Holy Land last July on a tour led by Billy Graham’s daughter. She wrote six Power Point presentations so she could remember all she had learned. She understands the Bible so much better now having experienced the topography and geology of the land of Jesus.

Ariana Bliss Kamisonoda’s fills most days with teaching and busy family life, but she does find time to enjoy gardening, pottery, and reading as well.

Daughter Amami (19) is now at Waseda University in Tokyo, studying sports medicine and sailing. She placed 20th at the Youth World Sailing Championships last year in Italy. Her son, Ryujiro (16), loves being with his friends, fishing, and testing his parents’ patience while, Shintaro (15), is happiest when out on the ocean. She says, “Raising three unique kids in a different country and culture has helped me deepen my appreciation for the value of diversity and learn to love unconditionally.”

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Elizabeth Pepper Lahti is living the dream in Portland, OR, with her husband, Jeff, and three kids. Life is filled with work, carpools, and homework and as much mountain biking, skiing, and playing tennis as they can. Last year they got off the grid and moved to Peru for almost 5 months for a sabbatical trip of a lifetime.

She recently started a nonprofit called Northwest Narrative Medicine Collaborative, where she tries to bring her English major alive while keeping her day job as a doctor.

Kirsten R. Lies-Warfield retired after 20 years in the army band and looks forward to a fully musical life playing gigs and teaching around Washington D.C., composing and traveling to present her “Pershing’s Dis-Owned” show. Patrick R. Warfield enjoyed his first sabbatical as an associate professor at the University of Maryland, where he is associate director of the School of Music. Together they look forward to celebrating their 25th wedding anniversary shortly after their 25th LU reunion.

F. Raphael (Rafe) Lyford lives in the Twin Cities area with his wife, Julie, and two teenage daughters Madilynn and Katherine. He works at Synchrony but for the past 2 years he’s been starting up an internal cloud computing platform-as-a-service from scratch.

He’s also excited about exploring what’s possible with the developing technology of 3D printers. With his own printers, he has designed and/or printed everything from plastic cup holders to wooden ukuleles to model railroads. Outside of work, he enjoys spending time with his family, going to softball games and getting ready for a teenage driver. Rafe continues to do his music through composing on his laptop studio and playing casually with friends in the basement.

Rebecca L. Mezoff runs her own tapestry art and education business out of her studio in Fort Collins, CO. She married Emily Haire in 2012. www.tapestryweaving.com Joan Wittlinger Nyamhondoro has been working in higher education for fifteen years but is now branching out. She has reached the half-way point for the Ed. D. in Educational Leadership and will begin her dissertation in the spring through the University of the Cumberlands, KY. Her daughter completed her master’s at King’s College—London and Joan has enjoyed trips there to visit. “This last year has brought some ups and downs as I lost my dad to a battle with cancer just before Christmas but also got engaged to Marcus Gray in September, and we are making future plans for our shared life.”

Andy Pearsons is teaching in Charlotte, NC. He is happily married to Ava Williamson and has one young daughter; they are expecting a son in April. Andy and Ava also work with another Lawrentian at the Wise Acre Organic Strawberry Farm, where they’ve started

an organic, wood-fired pizza kitchen. They enjoy hiking, the beach, and exploring the outdoors in their spare time.

Lana Robotewskyj finished her master’s degree in music in ’96 from the University of WI Madison, received an associate degree in culinary arts in 2011, and travels for both work and leisure. Lana attended a music festival in Arcidosso, Italy, most recently to study with LU’s very own, Cathy Kautsky. “Such a treat to work with Cathy!” Lana owns Melodiya Piano Academy in Sun Prairie and aside from all the music, Lana enjoys taking care of 10-year-old Bosco the Beagle. Lana is excited to perform a 2 piano piece with John Ruben Piirainen ’94 at the LU reunion this June—appropriate as Lana and John performed their junior and senior recitals together at the Con. Lana hopes to see all of her “connie” friends at the reunion!

Shad R. Wenzlaff: “Why didn’t I major in art history at LU? But truly, I have no regrets. I can’t quantify how fortunate I am.” Shad finished his MA in art history in spring 2000 from UW-Milwaukee. Living there connected him with many fellow LU alums. He’s grown addicted to travel and in May will connect with April Eisman ’94 in Dresden. On two previous trips, he had the great fortune of taking lessons with Cathy Kautsky in Italy. Shad calls Madison home, teaching piano there and art history at Edgewood College, where he is director for student research. “I live a rewarding life and have a wonderful and supportive partner: Brad. (Yes, our names rhyme).” His connection with LU continues as some alum’s children call him “Uncle Shad” while others who studied piano with him also call or called LU home.

’96 P. Seth Ducey I have been appointed Executive Director of the Golden State Youth Orchestra in Palo Alto, CA. The organization has 450 students and 6 music ensembles. Previously, I was Director of Operations and Education for the Oakland Symphony.

Dr. Rebecca J. Whelan A lot has changed since I last reported. I was recruited into a faculty position in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of Notre Dame.

It seemed too good an opportunity to pass up, so in summer 2018, I said goodbye to Oberlin College, where I had been a faculty member for nearly 14 years, and relocated to South Bend. You can find my lab on Instagram at www.instagram.com/whelanlab_nd.

We continue to focus on developing new detection strategies for early-stage ovarian cancer. In addition to teaching graduate and undergraduate courses, I’m busy mentoring, managing my lab, writing grant proposals, and getting familiar with my new hometown.

’98 Keith A. Harris This year was my busiest with over 50,000 flight miles. I made my debut with the Israeli Opera company in Tel Aviv as Albert in their production of Werther. I also recorded my first solo album, Keep on Climbing, and wrote a book about my life with dyslexia called, The Odds Against: Finding the Advantage in Your Disadvantage. This year my wife, Maire, and I celebrate 8 wonderful years of marriage. In closing I want to extend a very special congratulations to Ken and Joanne Bozeman.

Daniel G. Kolev I am living in the Chicago area with my wife and three boys. After spending close to 20 years in management consulting and finance, I left the corporate world to focus on my own company, Alteya Organics, which specializes in the manufacturing and sales of certified organic beauty products. My hobbies include tennis, skiing, traveling and taking the kids to their multiple extracurricular, sport, and music activities.

Dr. Richard J. Tirk and Suzanne Hickman Tirk ’98 Suzanne and I are finishing up year 7 living in Oklahoma. We have 2 kids, Simon (5) and Malia (3), and recently moved to the college town of Norman. I’m teaching trumpet and jazz at Southwestern Oklahoma State University, and Suzanne teaches clarinet at the University of Oklahoma.

Peter C. Kolkay On May 16, 2019, I performed the premiere of MarkAnthony Turnage’s Massarosa for bassoon and string quartet at the Rose Studio at the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. I was joined by the Calidore Quartet (who played at Lawrence in October 2018), and we also performed Joan Tower’s Red Maple.

Both pieces were written for me and both composers were in attendance. Link to a review and photo here: http://newyorkclassicalreview.com/2019/05/ tower-and-turnage-works-for-bassoon-quintet-givensupreme-advocacy-at-cms.

Joy Gerrits Vertz So excited to have opened the first Drybar blowout salon in WI (located in the Third Ward of Milwaukee).

My husband of 21 years, Tim and I, have two sons.

Flynn just graduated and is off to Tulane University and Sawyer who is an upcoming sophomore. I also still own a portrait studio for the past 16 years, located in Mequon, WI.

Mary McNamara Bernsten and Benjamin W. Bernsten ’97 I continue to teach junior high and high school art at Keith Country Day School in Rockford, Illinois, while getting my masters in human services administration.

Ben Bernsten ’93 and I are married 19 years, this year, and we have four sons. Ben is president of Goodwill Industries of Northern Illinois. We serve our LAWRENCE

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community on various boards and can do a bit less driving now that our oldest son has a license! We had a niece and a nephew attend Lawrence in the past eight years, and we currently have a couple aspiring Vikings under our roof. Lawrence and its superb tradition of preparing students for lifelong learning continues to influence how we live our lives with meaning and purpose.

Dr. Joseph T. Tennis Hello friends and classmates! I am happy to report that I am healthy and happy. I am still an associate professor and associate dean for faculty affairs at the University of Washington Information School. I am a proud uncle of two beautiful young people. I continue to travel quite a bit, but still love coming home to Seattle. I had a wonderful time at last year’s reunion. I cannot wait to visit campus again!

Angela Bier I join my friend, Joe Tennis, in celebrating the pleasures of last year’s reunion and hope to see many familiar faces at future reunions. I continue to live with my husband, Jimmy, and two girls just south of Milwaukee. Several years ago I left my career in medicine. Lifelong learning and all that, you know? I’m having a go at writing and recently learned to sail. Life is good.

’00 Jennifer McConaghy Aleckson We became a family of four this year when Alice Katherine (born 1/2/19) joined Victoria Marie (born 10/7/17). Life with two-under-two in Brooklyn, NY, means we’ve traded Broadway shows and the NY restaurant scene for playdates and the local playground scene. Paul continues to manage endowment investments at the Ford Foundation, and I left American Express in 2017 (after 10 years) to head digital product for Merryfield, a new discovery & rewards platform for clean-label products. We travel back to the Midwest as frequently as we can to see family and friends. Go Vikes!

Robyn E. Cutright I’m starting a new position as interim director of the Center for Teaching and Learning at Centre College, where I’ve been on the faculty since 2009. After I help to hire a permanent director in spring 2020, I’ll be back to my current job as associate professor of anthropology at Centre. I continue to conduct archaeological research in Peru, travel as much as I can, and enjoy gardening and cooking with husband Drew and our dogs here in Lexington, Kentucky.

Dr. James M. Daley and Rene Rusch Daley You know those “do not remove under penalty of law” tags they put on mattresses? Well, I cut one of them off.

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Jesse D. Gilbert I have been enjoying the climate in Colorado. My most recent endeavor is volunteering time at a shelter for homeless cats.

Dr. Jeffrey T. Ramsey We recently moved to New Berlin from Cudahy, WI. I am the director of student services at Herzing University, Online and also an adjunct instructor in the history department at Southern New Hampshire University and my wife, Christina, is the director of financial aid at Herzing University, Brookfield. Timothy (8) and Samuel (4) just finished 2nd grade and K3 at Wauwatosa Catholic School, respectively. I’m looking forward to our next class reunion—I can’t believe it has been almost 20 years!

Jessica Seaberg Seidlitz Hi! I live in Savage, MN, with husband Mike and our two kids, James (6) and Anna (4). We are just finishing James’ first year of school and kindergarten has been awesome. Anna will start kindergarten in the fall. I am a realtor with Edina Realty in the Savage/ Prior Lake office. Mike is a project manager with the Metropolitan Airport Commission (MAC). We are avid Vikings fans (not Lawrence, sorry!) in the winter, and have gotten into horse racing in the summer! Hope to make it to campus this year as I have been majorly missing all things Lawrence and Appleton! If anybody is relocating to MN, or wants to buy or sell a house, please reach out!

’02 Ryan M. Albashian Ryan M. Albashian is a flight instructor, commercial pilot and a civilian parachute technician. He designs and constructs skydiving equipment internationally, is a sport skydiver and an international organbuilding specialist. The only American organbuilder with permanent residency and self-employment permission in the Republic of Germany and European Union, he has worked with significant historic organs throughout Europe and published various articles on organ pipe construction, sound and treatment techniques. He is featured in bestselling author Matthew B. Crawford’s book [2015] titled The World Beyond Your Head: On Becoming an Individual in an Age of Distraction.

Crystal M. Chan My first novel, Bird (Simon & Schuster), was published a couple of years ago and also in eight other countries around the world. My most recent novel, All That I Can Fix (Simon & Schuster) was published last year in the U.S. and has received a lot of great reviews.

Both novels are for children—middle school and young adult—and feature mixed-race protagonists in the Midwest. I was the Artist In Residence at Benedictine University teaching a course called Writing Compassion and I’m very active online as a race and compassion activist.

Chuck Erickson I am starting my fourth year as an independent educational consultant with College Connectors. I am really loving working with students and parents on the college search and application process. I also enjoy touring college campuses, and I should reach campus #150 by the end of 2019. Although I had a minor health setback this past fall, I am feeling good and getting better every day. I am excited to spend some time this summer with my husband, so we can celebrate 13 years of being together! He is still teaching in the Green Bay area and loves it, even with the 30 minute commute each way. Keep in touch and let us know if you are coming to Appleton!

Debra L. Fisk I live in Madison, WI, and work for the UW–Madison in a lab researching vascular eye diseases. I got married last fall (September 2018) to Cole Ruby and now have a 6-year-old step son. My father passed away in March of this year. I have been skating with Madison Roller Derby for 8 seasons now and will be traveling to Minneapolis and Baltimore with the Dairyland Dolls this summer.

Ryan Gebler and Meagan Otto Peeters Gebler Meagan has been a physical therapist at Orthopedic Spine & Therapy in Appleton since March 2011.

In April 2019, Ryan was promoted to director of financial aid at Lawrence. In May 2019, our son (Otto Gebler) turned two. We enjoy living close to campus, downtown Appleton, and all of the wonderful city parks. Life in Appleton is good!

Nathan S. Heffel and William J. Burrow ’00 My husband, William, and I finalized the adoption of our 2-year-old daughter, Maya in November 2018.

After a successful stint as Mid-Day Editor of NPR’s All Things Considered in Washington, D.C., I’ve decided to pursue other avenues outside of public radio.

This gives my family the option to relocate to rural Colorado, a place that better suits us. We look forward to returning to the Centennial State and creating our forever home.

Andy R. Kazik Living in De Pere, WI. Married, 3 Kids, Co-Owner of Green Bay Jiu Jitsu. Midwest Sales Manager for Sunbelt Supply. Living Happy.

Melanie A. Kehoss My husband and I are finishing out our eighth year in Arlington, VA. Folks in the area can catch me this September at the opening of my solo show at Schnider Gallery, at the reception for Places in Paper, a national show I am curating, and at the Arlington Visual Art Studio Tour, which I am managing.

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Beth Achille Lambert I live in Fairfield, Maine, with husband, Greg, and two daughters, Lillian (14) and Paige (8). I am director of standards and instruction for the Maine Department of Education, and am active in local community theatre as both an actress and director.

Tamara E. Palmer After more than a decade together, I finally got married on May 18, 2019, in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, to Stephen Nance of Edmond, Oklahoma. We continue to live in Fort Worth, Texas, with our rescue dog, Willie.

This fall, I will be celebrating 8 years in business with my partner at InFocus Campaigns, where we are proud to promote Democratic and progressive campaigns throughout the country. I have also taken up running and am training for my first marathon this June.

Dr. Nathan Schreiber My wife, Catherine Savage, gave birth to baby boy, Daniel, in 2018, joining our nearly 4-year-old Maya.

Kristen P. Shaffer and Colleen Perry Shaffer ’02 Kris Shaffer co-authored The Tactics and Tropes of the Internet Research Agency, a report prepared for the United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence about Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election on social media. His book, Data versus Democracy: How Big Data Algorithms Shape Opinions and Alter the Course of History, will be published July 2019 by Apress.

Jason P. Shanda I, along with my wife and 9-year-old son, live in De Pere.

I recently took a job at M3 Insurance working with employers on their employee benefits packages.

Beth A. Zinsli I returned to Lawrence in 2013 to work as the curator of the Wriston Art Galleries and as an assistant professor of art history. I also direct the Museum Studies program and serve as chair of the Convocations committee. It’s a pretty good gig, and my students and colleagues are consistently amazing.

’03 David A. Chidsey is a high school music teacher in the Hudson Valley area of New York State. In addition to teaching guitar classes and music history, he directs the chamber ensembles and advises the Tri-M music honor society.

Anneliese M. DeDiemar resides in Washington, D.C. with her wife, Lacey Capps. Anneliese is the director of marketing and communications for the Equipment Leasing & Finance Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to inspiring thoughtful innovation and contributing to the betterment of the $1 trillion equipment leasing and finance industry.

She also draws on her extensive experience in arts marketing as a consultant and presenter on non-

profit integrated marketing and communications best practices, including seminars for the American Marketing Association and Americans for the Arts, among others.

Jennifer Dieter sold her house after 10 years in Appleton, and moved to Minneapolis in fall 2016 to take a position as the development director at The Aliveness Project, a community center that provides supportive services for people living with HIV. In August 2018, she was appointed acting executive director/leadership consultant. Jennifer has been enjoying life in the Twin Cities, especially reconnecting with several friends from Lawrence.

Carolynn M. Dude will finally finish her medical training this June with the conclusion of her fellowship in Maternal Fetal Medicine (high risk obstetrics) at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. She is currently interviewing for faculty positions. In October, she married Marco Rathjen, and they are raising his eight year old twins, Rem and Lena. Carolynn hopes to make it back to Appleton this summer for reunion even though it’s a week before her board exam!

Mark A. Growdon and Martha Nelson Growdon were elated to move back into their Houston home on December 23, 2017, after four months spent rebuilding due to Hurricane Harvey, even though the drywall wasn’t sanded and the doors weren’t yet hung. Just a few months later, they moved to Reno, Nevada, where they have been enjoying the mountains and exploring with their sons who have been learning Spanish and starting music lessons. Martha has three jobs, including one as an Usborne Books & More educational rep, so the kids have learned to ask if books around the house are theirs or mom’s! While they have had the pleasure of hosting some friends already, Mark and Martha extend an invitation to any LU classmates!

Jason K. Hanna and Courtney A. Hanna-McNamara continue to live and work in DeKalb, IL, where Jason is an associate professor of philosophy at Northern Illinois University. Jason recently published In Our Best Interest: A Defense of Paternalism (OUP, 2018) and co-edited The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Paternalism (2018). Courtney works for the local public school district where their daughters are enrolled in kindergarten and second grade.

Molly A. Johannessen has recently started working for Kaplan Medical as a medical learning consultant fostering institutional partnerships for continued student success.

Akinjide O. Kolade moved to Cleveland, Ohio, in 2016 to work for Progressive Insurance as a product manager and is married with two kids, a 6-year-old boy and a 3-year-old girl.

Jonathon J. Kragh lived in Arizona for 10 years where he became a thanatologist. After earning a degree in mortuary science, he is now a funeral director in Chilton, Wisconsin. He finds this career to be very rewarding, mixing anatomy, psychology, cosmetology, interpersonal skills, logistics and office work. Jonathon also helps coach the high school baseball team and plays on the men’s team during the summer. While living in Arizona, he met his wife, Ashton, and they are eagerly expecting their first child!

Angela S. Meyers designed and taught a facultyled study abroad course entitled, “Listening to Luxembourg: Music and Cultural Identity” at Sacred Heart University’s Luxembourg City, Luxembourg campus. She was able to travel with students to Germany, France and the Netherlands and considers it the most meaningful teaching experience of her 15-year career!

Clara C. Muggli-Toyloy lives in Decorah, Iowa, with her husband, Darryl, and their two children, Olive (4) and Zeno (3), as well as the newest additions to the family—four chickens. Clara has a variety of gigs and occupations, including freelance landscape design, non-profit work at the local community action agency, and launching an organic cut flower micro-farm.

Shelley Ebert Navis and Peter M. Navis live in Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin, with their two children, Rachel (10) and Michael (7). Peter works for Walworth County as an assistant corporation counsel, and Shelley works part-time as a school counselor at Lakeview Elementary School in Whitewater. Shelley has completed seven marathons in six different states while Peter enjoys cycling and cross-country skiing.

Brett K. Olson earned his master’s degree in coastal zone management and has been employed in the air quality monitoring section of the Broward County Environmental Protection Department for over eight years. Prior to that, he found himself in an AA meeting after years of excessive drinking and partying. He shares that “the most important thing to me is my spiritual path,” and he is active in AA and ACA. He lives in Oakland Park, Florida.

Sarah Krile Radermacher is embarking on her thirteenth year working for AFS Intercultural Programs.

She works from her home in Minnesota where she and her husband, Jonathon, are raising their two young kids, Marie (1) and Charlie (4).

Katie A. Reimer is pursuing a Master of Divinity degree at Union Theological Seminary in New York City and expects to graduate in Spring 2020. She was honored to co-lead worship last June for over one thousand people at the Wisconsin Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church, which involved a four month planning process and allowed her to LAWRENCE

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continue to explore her passion for worship leading and writing liturgy and songs. She is the artistic and executive director of the Mimesis Ensemble (www. mimesisensemble.org), a NYC based group dedicated to performing music from the 20th and 21st centuries, which presented a concert this fall at Carnegie Hall on migration journeys as expressed through music.

Jordan L. Webster and her husband, Enrique Romero, welcomed a baby boy, Teo, on July 21, 2018.

’04 Nicholas L. Aschbrenner and his wife, Sarah, live in Saint Paul, Minnesota, and welcomed a daughter, Ida Bernice, on January 4, 2018.

Sara Bergene Bayram lives in Falls Church, Virginia, with her husband, Yakup, and their daughter, Miriam (2 ½), and miniature schnauzer, Jasper. She is an attorney in the civil division of the U.S. Department of 70

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Justice where she has worked since 2010. She enjoys traveling and visited the old London Study Centre at 7 Brechin Place last year, which brought back many amazing memories!

Elizabeth A. Becker became both a newly tenured associate professor at Saint Joseph’s University and a cancer survivor in the past year. She is also the director of the Behavioral Neuroscience Program and faculty affiliate to the Kinney Center for Autism.

Elizabeth and her husband, Wade, live just outside of Philadelphia with their two children, Madeline (9) and Everett (8). She and her family enjoy days at the Jersey Shore, hikes in the mountains, and trips to nearby NYC and DC, as well as caring for their backyard chickens and hosting a CSA (farm share).

Jennifer K Burns is the box office manager at the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center in Great Barrington, Massachusetts.

Robert V. Campagna was the head writer for seasons twelve and thirteen of Marriage Bootcamp on the WE channel. He is an active member of both the Writer’s Guild of America and the Producer’s Guild of America.

He lives in Los Angeles with his dachshund and keeps in touch with fellow LU alumni in the City of Angels.

Christopher M. Chan’s novella “Hunger Pains” was published in the inaugural issue of the Milwaukeebased pulp fiction publication Serial Magazine (www.serialpulp.com). Chris was nominated for “Best Milwaukee Author” in Shepherd Express’ 2018 “Best of Milwaukee” poll.

Katharine R. Chapman has been a family nurse practitioner since January 2017, at a Federally Qualified Health Center near her home in Cleveland Heights, Ohio. She enjoys her easy 10-minute commute and the population of patients that she works with, specifically, the underserved of urban Cleveland. She is also a full-time faculty member at

the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing at Case Western Reserve University and working on completing her Doctorate of Nursing Practice with an emphasis on education. She bought a house in 2013, which she shares with her two German Shorthaired Pointer dogs, Radar and Nadia.

Anne Hyde Crites lives in Springfield, Missouri, with her husband, Will, and their two kids. She is the assistant director at The Victim Center, a local nonprofit that serves victims of violent and sexual crime.

Ray S. Feller is a dean at MIT and raising “two goofy kids,” Leonardo and Ramona, in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts.

Dimitri M. Gooden is a project manager with GB Energy, which manages the Texaco brand in Jamaica.

He and his wife, Danielle, have been married for five years and have two daughters.

Jesse W. Guillen works for the City of Santa Fe, New Mexico, overseeing all legislation for the City Council. He passed the Certified Sommelier level exam from the Court of Master Sommeliers in 2017 and provides pairing services to a local catering company.

He spends his free time with his two children, Rafael, born in September 2016, and Zahara, born in May 2018, and continues to play soccer when possible. He writes, “I’m looking forward to reunion with the TGTF crew in June!”

Christopher J. Henning is a research analyst with the Department of Justice in Madison, Wisconsin.

Nathan P. Jacobs moved back from Russia and is living in Door County.

Elizabeth A. Kruesi is a freelance science journalist and editor, with expertise in astrophysics and space exploration. Occasionally, she also covers physics, engineering and science policy. She and four other

writers founded the Austin Texas Science Writers in late 2017 to build a local community of science communicators. She and her husband, Jacob Hoberg, also bought their first house in 2017.

Poonam Kumar is a partner at a large global law firm and a mom to a kindergartner. She and her husband are beginning to put down roots in the Twin Cities.

Erica L. Marshall joined the Kane County State’s Attorney’s Office as an assistant state’s attorney in December 2018.

Vered Meltzer has represented District 2 on the Appleton City Council since first winning election in 2014. She would like to see more Lawrence alumni, or even current students, run for local office!

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reside in Burlington, Vermont. Ashley is a city project manager for South Burlington where she manages projects at three Natural Areas, as well as projects aimed at closing bicycle/pedestrian infrastructure gaps. She is also working on a Regional Conservation Partnership initiative that includes five different municipalities. She and her family enjoy spending time along the shores of Lake Champlain, sledding, hiking and kayaking.

Amy B. Seeboth-Wilson completed her master’s degree in urban and regional planning at the University of Wisconsin. After a few years working as a regional planner, she landed a “sweet gig” as sustainability coordinator for UW-Platteville. She is happily married with two sons (2 ½ and 12), five chickens, a bunch of solar panels and a big garden.

In January, Lauren A. Semivan’s solo exhibition “Door into the Dark” was on view at Silver Eye Center for Photography in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Her work was recently featured on Detroit Public Television, in Harper’s Magazine, and in Essay’d, a collection of essays on Detroit-based artists published by Wayne State University Press. She looks forward to a solo exhibition at the Wriston Art Center Galleries this September.

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September. Andrea is entering her fourteenth year with Epic and her ninth year as an EMT with the McFarland Fire & Rescue Department. Corey joined the Citizens Utility Board of Wisconsin as a policy analyst in 2017, after working for seven years in a similar role for the Wisconsin Public Service Commission. They live in Madison.

Larilaril O. Snoddy resides in Hampton, Virginia, with her five year old twins, Micah and Lelah. She has served as director of the TRiO Educational Talent Search Program at Hampton University since 2015.

Most of her work since Lawrence has focused on developing college access programs and initiatives for underserved and first generation youth.

Emily L. Sportsman and David P. Schultz live in Dexter, Michigan, with their two children, Elinor (6) and Julian (3). Emily is a school psychologist at a high school in Ann Arbor. David works as a conductor and violist with several orchestras in Michigan and enjoys composing.

After graduating, Marisa Linley Tenney married her “Army boyfriend,” Will, and moved to Germany, where she worked as an education counselor on the military base. After five years, the Army sent them to Boston, where they welcomed their first child, Anthony, in January 2011. Since then they have moved to Louisiana, Georgia, Colorado, back to Georgia, and now they are in Kansas, where they hope to stay until

Will retires from the Army. In the midst of these moves, they welcomed three more children, Alessandra in April 2013, Gianna in August 2015, and Carmine in October, 2016. The children keep them very busy, and Marisa spends her days acting as a chef, housekeeper, chauffeur, nurse, and personal shopper for their crew.

Karina S. Zeier is teaching English and history in Montevideo, Uruguay, where she plans to make her permanent home. She is learning the Rio Platense dialect of Spanish, attempting to dance tango and competing on a women’s futbol 5 soccer team in city competitions.

’05 Changez A. Ali is an investigative journalist in Pakistan covering security and regional affairs and has been published in the Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, Seattle Times and Baltimore Sun, among others. Contrary to all expectations, he recently got married!

William F. Bollow is the CFO of a small real estate investing company. He and his wife are celebrating seven years of marriage and raising their only child, a Maltese Yorkie.

Nicky C. Endres is excited to announce their first recurring role in the third season of the Netflix reboot of One Day at a Time, which was released on February

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8, 2019! Nicky also made their stand-up comedy debut at the Laugh Factory in December. Follow Nicky on Instagram, @Mx.NickyE, if you’d like to see “Hollywoodsy actor” and hairstyling stuff.

Michelle C. Fitzpatrick married Dan Peterson on March 17, 2018 and the couple welcomed their first child, a boy named Jackson, on January 8, 2019.

Michelle is still working at Centene Corporation as director of regulatory operations for their commercial insurance lines of business.

Tanya M. Harsch self-published a children’s book, Sometimes a Shoe Is a Shoe, which is available through lulu (www.lulu.com/spotlight/tanyaharsch) and the usual online book sellers. Her paintings have travelled the country for various exhibitions, but Tanya usually stays home and enjoys her garden.

Leah E. Iversen and Peter J. Iversen welcomed their second daughter, Eliza, in 2017. Peter works in development for the School of Public Health at Indiana University, while Leah continues to work for IU Health as a social worker in Population Health.

Sarah E. Leet is enjoying life in Appleton while meeting people from all over the country and the world via her Airbnb. She earned her MBA from St. Norbert College in 2018.

Miranda J. Munro and Daniel Casner ’06 welcomed their fourth child, Colin Glen, on August 19, 2018.

He was a hearty 10.75 pounds and 22 inches long!

Daniel works for Anki in San Francisco, while Miranda runs a 4-H club and homeschools their two older children. As they adjust to being a family of six, Miranda reports that life is “full, exhausting, and good.”

Ellen E. Renker and her husband, Patrick, welcomed their son, Liam, on July 16, 2018. Ellen was able to take six months off of her work as an environmental planner at Caltrans. She celebrated ten years of employment with the state of California in September.

Helen M. Truax and Jesse D. Norton welcomed their second son in October 2017.

’06 Bonnie E. Alger In January 2019, I graduated from Army Basic Combat Training at Fort Jackson, SC, and subsequently graduated from Army Officer Candidate School at Fort Benning, GA, in April 2019. As a newly commissioned 2nd Lieutenant I will spend the summer at the Army School of Music in Virginia Beach for the Basic Officer Leadership Course before moving to my first duty station as a Band Officer in September 2019. Sadly, on April 25, 2019, my father, Harry William Alger, passed away from recurrent esophageal cancer.

Parker A. Anderson-Genne Parker Genné resides in Minneapolis with her soonto-be husband Tom Johnson and continues to work as an educator and artist at Kairos Alive, a social impact organization that is powered by the arts. As lead teaching artist, program manager and performer, she is passionate about Kairos Alive’s mission to positively impact the social determinants of health by focusing on older adults in intergenerational and intercultural communities via Kairos’ Digital Dance Floor Network.™ Parker also performs with her comedy cabaret character “Ms. Luisa” and creates music-theater productions inspired by folktales, in collaboration with multidisciplinary artists, with her new producing company “Folktopia.”

Hannah F. Bergren We are pleased to announce that God has blessed us with our first child. Samuel Jacob Bergren was born on February 7, 2019. I am enjoying life at home with Samuel and feeling so blessed!

Christopher W. Bowman and Erin McCarthy Bowman I was awarded the Minnesota State Bar Association’s Professional Excellence Award for 2019. The award honors members of the bar who strive to meet the many responsibilities of being an attorney, including efforts to improve the administration of justice and practice of law, efforts to promote access to justice, efforts to serve and govern the profession, and service of benefit to the community. I received the award for pro bono work I did on two family-law appeals before the Minnesota Supreme Court, one concerning the notice requirements of Minnesota’s name change statute and the other addressing presumptions in child custody determinations.

Daniel Casner and Miranda J. Munro ’05 In the past year, Miranda Munro (’05) and I welcomed our 4th child, Colin, and continued our backyard farming and involvement with 4-H and the local Maker community. This May, Anki, the robotics startup I was working for, folded suddenly but I’ve made a pivot to become a product creation leader at Sonos where I will definitely be applying all my liberal arts skills and everything I picked up from contact with the conservatory and will get to spend more time with my family. 2019 is shaping up to be an extremely exciting year.

Katrina R. Elsen My husband, Greg, and I have been enjoying our time teaching at Nansha College Preparatory Academy in southern China! I am going into my third year of teaching and have been busy actively building a strong Drama program for my Chinese students. I am proud to have my first graduate who will be studying theatre at university this fall! Greg and I have been galivanting around Southeast Asia for the past two years and look forward to our continued adventures as we further explore the Far East.

Jonathan P. Griffith Jon is a Chief Petty Officer in the U.S. Navy. After enlisting in 2010, he has been stationed on the USS Carney (DDG 64). He is currently on shore duty north of Seattle, WA, at the Pacific Fleet’s Afloat Training Group. His travels abroad include the Mediterranean, the Persian Gulf, and Japan. Jon met his wife, Tara, in Jacksonville, and they married on the beach in Santa Barbara, CA, in the fall of 2018. Tara is an interior designer who enjoys traveling, the arts, and being out in nature. They are both excited to move overseas for Jon’s next assignment. Jon is currently pursuing a Master’s in Organizational Leadership. His hobbies include computer programming, hiking, and gardening.

Siri R. Hellerman My husband and I recently bought a house in South Minneapolis, where I work as the outreach programs manager at the Bakken Museum. I’m also an actor, improviser and voice-over artist, and perform regularly in the Twin Cities.

Abak A. Hussain I live in Dhaka, my hometown, and for the last seven years have been working at Dhaka Tribune, where I am the editor of the Editorial and Op-Ed pages. I have been married since 2013 to Sabrina Fatma Ahmad, who is also a journalist. After Lawrence, I went to Canada to attend graduate school in Ontario in Theory and Criticism. I think I’ve finally found my niche writing columns and editorials on the political situation in Bangladesh—I’m much better at it than I ever was at economics (which was my major at Lawrence). Reach me at abak.hussain@gmail.com.

Danielle M. Lythjohan For the past 5 years, I worked as a data manager for the Institute for Research on Poverty on the National Child Support Noncustodial Parent Employment Demonstration (CSPED) which had its final impact report published this past March. I also recently got engaged and purchased my first house.

Peter A. Maldonado and Sarah Mohrmann Maldonado ’08 Peter & Sarah welcomed their second son, August James, to the family in March 2018. His big brother Oliver is keen to make him laugh at every opportunity.

Acting on a sense of higher purpose after watching 22 Marvel movies over the past decade, Peter decided to pursue a life of vigilante justice and snuff out the burgeoning Rhode Island-Russian crime syndicate headed by Lou Perella.

Claire E. Mallory and Eric B. Cline ’05 We are happily living in Chicago, where Eric works as a software engineer, and Claire works as a user experience researcher/designer. Turns out that 9-5s suit us much better than our former lives as freelance musicians! We’re expecting our first child (a daughter) at the end of July.

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Shannon A. McCue Shannon McCue currently lives in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. She is the director of the West Alabama Arts Education Collaborative, which is part of a statewide initiative with the goal of bringing arts education programs to all public school students in Alabama.

She is also a music education consultant and has written teacher study guides for orchestras, including the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Tuscaloosa Symphony. In her spare time, she plays viola with the Alabama Symphony and Tuscaloosa Symphony Orchestras. She married Jacob Adams, professor of viola at the University of Alabama, on February 19, 2017, and their son, Isaac Joseph Adams, was born on January 5, 2018.

Henry C. McNeil It’s been a crazy couple of years for me, and I’ve packed pretty much every major life milestone into the last 24 months—got engaged, adopted a pet, lost a parent, bought a house, got a new job, and got married. I’m currently living in Omaha, NE, with my wife, Megan, and our corgi, Jiggles. I am working as a software engineer II at the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, and am also going to school part-time at the University of Nebraska Omaha for my master’s in computer science. In my free time, I enjoy board games, reading, producing electronic music, yoga, traveling, and spoiling our dog.

Laura K. Muller This past May, Laura graduated from UW-Madison with her doctor of physical therapy degree and currently works as a physical therapist and massage therapist in Madison, WI. Still eager to put her Lawrence music degree to work, she continues to perform (gleefully) with the Madison Opera and the Handphibians—a Brazilian drumming bateria.

Jennifer C. Murphy I’ve been working as a geologist for the U.S. Geological Society for over 7 years now and still enjoy it. My spouse, Jack Blair, and I are expecting our 3rd child this year.

Matthew A. Murphy I live in Manhattan with my husband, Edward (a newly minted full stack developer in the fintech industry), and have enjoyed returning to campus on a regular basis as a member of Lawrence’s Alumni Association Board of Directors.

Rachel E. Pauli and Benjamin P. Pauli ’06 Ben Pauli and Rachel Long Pauli celebrated the birth of their son, Henrik Ian Pauli, on May 29th, 2019 in Winona, MN. Lou E Perella After a rousing career in the culinary arts, I have decided to begin a new adventure in a life of crime. I 74

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started with petty crimes but am quickly moving up to bigger heists. I have moved to Russia to learn at the elite Russian Crime Academy. I wish I had taken some Russian classes at Lawrence though. Please do me a favor and don’t tell anyone. I’ll update you more in the fall. Laura and Lucy are doing phenomenally! Lucy’s new favorite word is "poop." A chip off the old block!

Victoria Miller Rakowski Life bustles on as my husband, Jeremy, and I celebrated 9 years of marriage in March, in the midst of our maple syrup season. Our 5 kids and their 5 cousins, along with my in-laws, make it a great family tradition! In February 2019 I celebrated 1 full year of owning/operating Treats By Torie LLC, my licensed home bakery of custom cakes and more. Each order brings unique design challenges, and it feels great using my Studio Art BA on a daily basis! We’ve continued as foster parents since 2015, and adopted our 5th child in 2016, completing our "forever family."

Beekeeping has become a favorite hobby for Jeremy and I, as is raising chickens on our 6 acres of white pines. Central WI life is good!

Duncan P. Ryan Dr. Duncan P Ryan, MS, PhD, LLC, QED is welcoming another nuisance raccoon into this world with his domestic partner and furry man’s best friend Niji (it’s complicated). He continues his work as a charlatan in his impressive career and takes great pleasure reading the updates of fellow classmates as they abandon their obligations as millennials to indefinitely postpone major life events and succumb to traditional lifestyles.

’08 Bryan J. Althouse and Margaret D. Porco Margaret and Bryan live in Madison, WI. Margaret continues her work focusing on ending the cycle of poverty through community development, social justice, and sustainable housing. Bryan is building his practice as a financial advisor with Capital Wealth Advisory Group. Our son (Olin) will be five this summer and our daughter, Aurora just turned two in March. As a family, some of our favorite things include breakfast smoothies, gardening, macaroni and cheese, and pretty much anything Disney related. Margaret and Bryan are very sad that Game of Thrones has ended.

The spin offs look ok, but let’s be honest, they won’t be the same...

Mallory J. Carl It has been a busy year! On New Year’s Eve, Mallory got engaged to her fiancé, Spencer, and they also just adopted a three month old puppy named Aria.

Needless to say, life has been crazy with wedding planning and puppy training, but it has all been wonderful! Mallory is also on the planning committee for the 2019 Walk to End Alzheimers. Needless to say, life has been crazy but it has all been wonderful!

Paul S. Salomon Paul Salomon has co-designed Periodic: A Game of the Elements, a tabletop board game published by Genius Games. After a successful Kickstarter campaign, Periodic will be available in game stores July 22nd.

Sarah K. Curry Hey ’08 friends! I like robots. I also am intrigued by medicine. So I decided to work at the intersection of the two, and I’m now developing neural networks that analyze medical imagery. This research is part of a master’s program at ETH Zurich, where I’d been living and studying for a couple years. I recently moved to Vancouver to work with a research group here (but am technically still a student at ETH). I’ll graduate at the end of the summer, and after a sanity break, I’ll figure out what medical robots I want to develop next. I love it! I hope you all are doing well. Cheers!

Scott M. Sandersfeld First Lieutenant Scott Sandersfeld is an armored reconnaissance platoon leader in the U.S. Army. He has been stationed at Fort Drum, NY, since 2017.

Marianne Griffin I live in Madison, WI, with my husband, Seth Pourciau.

We welcomed our daughter, Rowen Laird, born August 2018.

Lauren E. Walsh Lauren (Walsh) Knieser is married with two energetic and fun-loving children and works for the federal government to improve national health security. She remains passionate about both domestic and global travel and is learning to master planes, trains, and automobiles with little ones in tow.

Meghan R. Konkol I’m happy to share that I married Alex Konkol in Milwaukee, WI, in September 2018. I continue to enjoy my career as a freelance French to English translator.

A curveball came my way in December 2018, when I was diagnosed with stage three triple-negative breast cancer. I have been undergoing treatment since then, and continue my fight against breast cancer with the support of a strong community of friends and family (including many Lawrentians!). I would like to extend my heartfelt gratitude to everyone who has reached out to show support and love. It means the world to me!

Stephanie M. Wille I currently live in Bismarck, North Dakota. In April of this year, I completed my master of education with an emphasis in Autism Spectrum Disorder. I am continuing to work as a Board Certified Assistant Behavior Analyst (BCaBA) with Anne Carlsen Behavioral Health, located in Bismarck.

Asher M. Perlman After spending years at The Second City comedy theater in Chicago, Asher Perlman moved to New York where he now lives in Brooklyn and works as a staff writer for The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.

Beth Piontek My husband, Brett, and I welcomed our daughter, Audrey Ellen Piontek, on Friday, November 23, 2018. She is the light of our lives!

Drew Ryan After 4 years and 110 episodes, my interview/spotlight series “Reel Geek Girls” wraps up this year. The series was created to provide a platform for women in the entertainment industry to talk about issues of harassment and gate-keeping they’ve faced while also put an end to the concept of “Fake Geek Girls.” All geeks are real geeks. I have also started a comedy monologue service for young women and am continuing to assess my plans as a creator and how I can get Disney to pay me to advocate for them.

Alice I. Shepro In June 2018, my husband and I welcomed our second child. That same month I completed my master’s in education, but am currently taking a break from teaching as we are stationed in North Dakota with the U.S. Air Force. The kids, dog, and I are spending the fall and winter adventuring around the U.S. and prepping for a probable move overseas when my husband returns from deployment next spring.

Benjamin G. Welden My wife, Laura, and I welcomed baby Margot Jane Welden into the world on March 8, 2019. Big brother Hardy is settling into his role as her strategic advisor.

Emily Weinberg Wold We welcomed a baby girl this past January. Maris Lucinda Wold is a tiny peanut of a human, just like her mom:)

’09 Jayce E. Apelgren married the love of his life, Katee Apelgren, on September 30, 2017, after meeting in dental school at the University of Minnesota in 2012. The couple recently moved from Eau Claire, Wisconsin, to Minneapolis, Minnesota, and hope to open a dental practice in 2019.

Elizabeth Baus and husband, Adam, welcomed their first child, Margaret Marie Elizabeth Baus, in January of 2018. They recently purchased their first home and are in St. Paul, Minnesota.

Andrew Blair recently completed a master’s degree in curriculum and instruction from UW–Madison. He currently lives in St. Paul, Minnesota with his partner, Elin, and their dog. Andrew is currently teaching English as a Second Language at Como Park Senior High School.

Alison Blegen and Lucas Below ’10 were married on November 4th, 2017, in Poynette, Wisconsin.

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I never imagined myself going to college 1,500 miles away from home. Specifically, I never imagined myself at Lawrence. None of it would have been possible without the Lawrence Fund.

Without it, I would never have had life-changing opportunities like working on the first Native American mural on campus or representing my Indigenous peers on the local news. Being a Lawrentian means many things to many different people. For me, being a Lawrentian means being the voice of change and without the Lawrence Fund none of those opportunities to initiate change would have been possible.”

—Taneya Garcia ’22

Felicia Behm Elenum married Zachary Elenum in February 2018. They bought their first home, and Felicia began a new job teaching middle school band, orchestra, and choir.

Support students like Taneya with your gift to the Lawrence Fund today!

Susan Chadwick left her position at Lawrence this summer to move to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and begin a new job as the director of financial aid at Bryn Mawr College.

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After six years, Laura Hauer left her position as a violinst in the Orquesta Sinfonica Sinaloa de las Artes. Laura now recently completed her first year as a pianist and vocal coach in the Taller de Opera de Sinaloa in Culiacan, Mexico.

Kaitlin A. Hawkinson recently became a new homeowner, purchasing a duplex in South Minneapolis, Minnesota. While navigating her new life as a landlady, Katie continues to work in theatre and will be stage managing Cyrano de Bergerac at the Guthrie Theater this spring.

Rachael Holly and her husband, Pete, currently live in Prescott, Arizona, with their daughter Myra. Last year, Rachael began a position teaching in Special Education at Prescott High School working with students with severe emotional disabilities. “Not only has it been the most difficult job I have ever had, it is by far the most rewarding. I love what I do and cherish the connections I make with my students.”

Ashlee James lives in Akron, Ohio, with her husband of three years and their black lab. This year she will be graduating with a Juris Doctor from The University of Akron School of Law. She is looking forward to completing school, passing the Ohio bar exam, and pursuing a career in child welfare law.

Caroline Jorgenson is completing a Master of Library and Information Science program at UCLA in June 2019 (which is why she will be sadly missing reunion).

The degree emphasis is on film librarianship and preservation, so let a lady know if you need any films cataloged.

Gwendolyn C. Kelly-Masterton is currently working in the financial aid office at Northwestern University in Evanston, IL.

Madhuri Vijay published her first novel, The Far Field, with Grove Atlantic (U.S.A.) and Grove Press (U.K. and India).

Matthew Yauch is gettin’ hitched June 15! Should he attend reunion weekend and cancel the nuptials?

Tempting. He met his fiance, Lauren, while they were classmates in medical school at Des Moines University. He has since finished his family medicine residency and has been working at a clinic with Allina Health in the Twin Cities since August 2018. Lauren is completing her pediatric endocrinology (diabetes and, oh yes, gland stuff) training at the University of Minnesota. Matthew missed the Beta and L.U.S.T.y times. Who wants to play wiffle ball in the quad and then go to the VR and then go to Cleo’s to have mystery shots and then Sal’s?

’10 Elizabeth Nerland Anderson We welcomed a baby girl, Sophia Violet, in September 2018. So far, life as a family of three has been exciting and exhausting, but it keeps us on our toes!

Carolyn A. Desrosiers Carolyn Desrosiers (formerly Armstrong) lives in the Appleton area with her husband, Skander, and 2.5-year-old daughter EvaSophia. Carolyn serves as community engagement manager for the Community Foundation for the Fox Valley Region, where she has been instrumental in the success of the Foundation’s Bright Idea Fund, and other competitive grant programs. She loves working to help nonprofits achieve their missions. The Desrosiers Family enjoys traveling to Skander’s home country of Haiti once a year, and more frequent trips to Elizabeth, New Jersey, where several of Skander’s family members reside.

Derek Micke and Theresa Micke ’10 welcomed Hannah Lynn Micke on December 12, 2018, and she is joined by her big brother, Hudson Micke. After five years in Raleigh, North Carolina, they are now settled back in Wausau, Wisconsin. Theresa is a physician assistant at Aspirus Hospital, and Derek is a teacher at Mosinee High School.

Paul R. Dietrich Paul Dietrich released his first album of original large ensemble jazz music in late March with the Paul Dietrich Jazz Ensemble’s album Forward, which features special guest drummer Clarence Penn (of the Maria Schneider Orchestra). Members of the 18-piece band include Lawrence alumni Jessica Jensen ’10, Carl Kennedy ’11, Megan (Hamm) Moran ’06, David Cooper ’87, and Kurt Dietrich ’73.

Matthew Sells is currently living in the Ukrainian Village neighborhood of Chicago and just started a new position with a web development consultancy, in which he is excited to make some cool applications you might soon download on your phone. He has been staying busy by learning new languages (like Swedish) and has started to delve into jazz piano. He also started painting thanks to the plethora of Bob Ross videos on YouTube. Chicago is wonderful, and he can’t wait to see what the future holds! Matthew also has a pet snake named Aurelia, and she’s adorable.

Jared C. Frazier I moved to Eugene after college, where I worked in the mental health field and applied to grad schools.

After a few months in Europe, where I got to see several Lawrentians, I moved to the Bay Area for grad school (Psy.D.) in clinical psychology. After 4 years, I took a year-long break in LA, before deciding to direct commission with the U.S. Army. In 2017, I moved to Tacoma, WA, to begin my pre-doc internship at Madigan Army Medical Center. I was awarded my Psy.D. last year and decided to stay for my post doc. I

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passed the national licensing exam earlier this week!

In January, I’m hoping to be assigned to a combat operational stress control unit that works out of Baumholder, Germany.

Jennifer L. Gabriele I am teaching and coordinating the 200 level Spanish classes at The University of Kansas. My partner, Grace Waltz, and I got married on May 25th in Lawrence, Kansas, surrounded by friends and family. Our favorite Lawrentians Beth and Paul Stevens, Lynn Gilge, Hattie Miles-Polka, and Rosa Tapia were present at our wedding and good times were had by all at our Lawrence to Lawrence mini-reunion!

Gustavo C. Guimaraes Tara Harvey ’09 and Gustavo Guimaraes continue to live in Berlin, Germany. We have been busy in our works. Tara is a manager for a company in the city and Gustavo is a software and Blockchain engineer providing consulting services for companies in various countries.

Maura Cook Lamensky and Travis J. Lamensky Casimir “Caz” Cook Lamensky joined our little family on May 24, 2019. He is an absolute joy!

Michael R. McCain I will be marrying my fellow Lawrentian MacKenzie Fye ’11 this July at Björklunden!

Kathryn Schuld McKnight Received master of arts degree in Music Education from the University of St. Thomas—May 2019.

Carolyn M. Schultz I graduated in May with my masters in education from UW-La Crosse.

Lara E. Wasserman The impossible is happening—I’m getting married!

On October 19th of this year, I’ll finally get to call my person my HUSBAND!

’12 Alex A. Ajayi I am an assistant professor of psychology at Augsburg University in Minneapolis.

Jonathan T. Bruehl Getting hitched in June 2019!!!

Zachary E. Fannin I am a cataloging librarian at the Library of Congress, where I create bibliographic records in science, medicine, and agriculture. I have reached the halfway point in my first year of training in descriptive cataloging; next year I will be trained in subject cataloging, whereafter I will create whole item records independently and train other employees. I plan

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to participate in the BIBFRAME Initiative, a project testing a new bibliographic data model, and to help improve metadata for the LOC’s Web Archive, creating and refining XML records for the subject and name authority files. I would like to work more in non-MARC metadata and subject authorities, and to conduct research in ontology.

Samuel R. Lewin I got married on June 4.

Dain C. Lopez I’ve been working in a historical sound recordings collection (cylinders and 78rpm records) at a university library and keeping busy in my free time giving private French lessons and co-hosting a weekly show focused on music from Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean from the ’50s to the ’70s on a local community radio station. In December of last year I passed the DALF C1 exam, and this fall I’ll be going to French Guiana to work as an English language assistant at the high school level for the school year.

Rana A. Marks Rana Marks graduated with her MBA from the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University in 2019. She moved to Seattle, Washington to begin a new role as sustainability manager at Amazon.

Neel Patel and Anna K. Jankowski ’12 Neel Patel is happily married to Anna Jankowski, and they are still living in Portland, OR. Neel is starting year 3 of 5 of radiology residency at Oregon Health and Science University, and Anna is working as a labor and delivery nurse in Portland. We enjoy living out west immensely but will always make the time to visit the Midwest when we can!

Michael A. Pope Enjoying life in Chicago. Working full-time in nonprofit fundraising, singing and teaching music lessons parttime as well. I travel a lot for work, so I have gotten to see a bunch of my Lawrence friends all over. Haven’t been back to Appleton or Lawrence in like a year or so though. Might plan a trip this summer to see Mile of Music. Hope everyone is doing well. If you are passing through or living in Chicago, hit me up on Facebook!

David E. Rubin This June, I completed a fellowship at Community MusicWorks in Providence, RI, and moved back to Boston, where I am entering my fourth season with musiConnects, a non-profit chamber music residency.

I’ve spent the past several summers in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, where I teach alongside some incredible Lawrentians (at Superior String Alliance, a music camp for middle—and high-school students), and in Switzerland, where I perform with the Orchestra of the Lucerne Festival Academy. I love teaching young violinists and exploring my interests as a performer—

playing new music, and playing old music in new ways —and am really thankful to have found a community of inspiring colleagues.

Alison M. Scattergood I relocated to Seattle, WA, a little over a year ago and started my own video production company, Oak Light Films. We specialize in nonfiction storytelling for the commercial and entertainment sectors. I have several projects currently in production, both client-based and independent ventures including but not limited to a web series for the city of Seattle and a documentary around global climate change. The last documentary I worked on for Ken Burns, The Mayo Clinic; Faith, Hope, Science premiered nationwide on PBS fall 2018. This summer, 2019, I’ll be traveling to Peru, where I’ve been hired to be a photojournalist for the Pan American Games in Lima.

Margaret H. Schmidt This year, after some twists and turn both professionally and personally, I decided to make a change. In May 2019, I moved back to Massachusetts to start at the Victim Rights Law Center, serving survivors of sexual assault and rape. I will continue to focus on privacy, safety, and education needs of survivors. Additionally, I accepted a nomination to join the LUAA Board of Directors. I remain excited and optimistic about the coming years.

Elizabeth D. Shimek This past February, I took a leap and left my private legal practice to work as chief of staff for Wisconsin State Representative Greta Neubauer (D-Racine), who was newly elected in January. It’s fantastic to be back in the political world and public service, and I’m looking forward to taking on our first full legislative session in January 2019.

Avram Steiner I have completed a doctorate in mathematics! Yay! For the next couple of years, I’ll be doing a postdoc at the University of Western Ontario. Also yay!

Ariana Flood Thelen Ariana Flood (now Thelen) graduated with a Master’s in Social Work from the University of Michigan in 2015 and now lives near Ann Arbor Michigan. She is currently a mental health therapist serving adults, with a focus on those older than 62. Ariana married Timothy Thelen in 2017, and together she and Tim have enjoyed travel around the U.S. and to Europe with hopes to continue to explore wonderful places.

Ariana and Tim have a dog, Bauer, who is 1.5 years old, and seeming forever a puppy. Cheers to all you fellow Lawrentians out there!

Carolyn R. Tomecek I live in a western suburb of Chicago, and I teach English at Riverside Brookfield High School. I also

continue to be the co-chair the LU Club of Chicago with Claire Conard ’14. (If you live in the Chicago area, please reach out to me if you’re interested in planning events!) I am halfway through a master’s in English literature program at Northwestern University, and I also run the food blog/Instagram, Chasing the Taste, when I can find the time! In June, I married David Christensen, and we look forward to starting our lives together.

Kathryn J. Van Marter-Sanders (Katie) Katie was a Peace Corps volunteer in Zambia from 2014-2016. This year she got the chance to briefly go back and visit her friends there. She is currently working at the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) in D.C. (Katie Van Marter frogjenius@gmail.com)

’14 Amel T. Abbas Well, it’s been a crazy ride after life at LU. I am now a certified and licensed physician assistant in Missouri (Kansas City, where I currently practice) and Kansas.

Last year, I got engaged to my LU sweetheart who is now a second-year med student! Life is moving too fast for us, but we try to enjoy every bit of it, especially with our furry little one, Rio. He was actually my LU graduation surprise :) Much love to all!

Anna Buchholz Bagiackas After almost three years at Arts Midwest in Minneapolis, I got married to Tom Bagiackas and we moved to southwest Germany with the U.S. Air Force.

We are traveling as much as possible on our prolonged honeymoon, and I am learning German, a little French, and how to cook in our European size kitchen. I am also doing some freelance writing and looking for remote work opportunities! Prost to all my LU friends!

Andrew M. Breuninger I graduated from The University of Texas at Austin with my doctorate of musical arts in vocal performance, and this spring I got engaged to Marina Kerkhofs.

She also graduated from UT with a degree in French, a minor in anthropology and is earning a teaching certificate. We have been traveling a lot this year, to places such as Hong Kong, the UK, the Netherlands, and Mexico. Soon we will be moving to wherever employment takes us.

John L. Canfield I have spent the past two years in Atlanta working in an Italian restaurant in the evenings and singing a lot during the day. This fall I am headed back to school to pursue a master’s in voice performance at Indiana University. I think about my time at Lawrence frequently and fondly, and I am always happy to hear from LU friends.

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Thomas H. Chesnutt Living as a stowaway in San Francisco. Software engineer at consulting firm. Slowly turning into processor. 110100111010001101111. Pls send help.

Claire A. Conard I’m continuing my work in non-profit fundraising through my job at DePaul University and my volunteer role for Women in Comedy. In my spare time, I sing with the Chicago Artists Chorale and explore Chicago with Pat Mangan. We love living in the city and never want to leave! We’re both looking forward to our 5th Cluster Reunion in June 2020!

Katherine M. Dannecker-Stevens and Samuel R. Stevens ’13 I graduated with my master’s degree in art therapy in May. My husband (Sam Stevens) and I also celebrated two years of marriage on May 27th. Sam is heading into his third year of family medicine residency. We’re loving the warmer weather and beer garden season in Milwaukee with our daughter, Sage, and dog, Kylo.

Brenna L. Decker This past year has been a whirlwind of updates. I moved to Utah to start my Ph.D. in biology at USU, where for the first time I am in a molecular lab. The next few years will consist of DNA extraction and sequencing ultra-conserved elements (UCEs) to examine the phylogeny and behavioral evolution of spider wasps (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae). Four publications are in the works for my project, including a collaboration with Canberra, Australia. In addition to those, two publications from my master’s work in Illinois are under review. I am excited to see what the next five years in Utah will bring, and I’m thankful for other Lawrence grads here in Utah and back in the Midwest!

Peter P. Ehlinger It’s been a rich five years since graduation. In the summer of 2014, I moved to Boston to work as a senior research assistant/clinical research coordinator with the Massachusetts General Hospital, The Fenway Institute, and the Harvard Center for AIDS Research.

Following three years of clinical research development in Massachusetts, I moved to Eugene, Oregon, where I am pursuing my PhD in counseling psychology at the University of Oregon. I have completed two out of six years in the program so far, developing my program of research and providing therapy to a variety of populations. I’ve also been pretty busy hiking with my six-month-old Australian Cattle Dog puppy, Neptune!

Dr. Emily K. Hoylman I am pursuing a second year of residency, specializing in ambulatory care pharmacy, and will complete my training in the summer of 2020. I look forward to supporting my community through preventative medicine and chronic disease management in the 78

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future! I am eagerly planning my December wedding to Jake Johengen ’15, who is busy finishing up his last year of medical school. Our cat, Amadeus, is absolutely thrilled that we have moved to a new apartment with better sunspots.

Fanny Y. Lau and James P. Cartwright ’14 It’s been a very full year! After getting engaged, we finally got hitched in a whopping three ceremonies in a pecan orchard outside Houston, TX, before tearing up the dance floor with fellow Lawrentians.

After a honeymoon in Italy, we moved from NYC to Philadelphia, where I will be starting law school at Temple University’s Beasley School of Law in the fall. Jamie will start commuting to NYC for his gig at Betterment, where the cold brew is strong and the financial innovation is stronger. We are thankful for our Lawrence family for being a rock during this year of change.

Michael A. Mangian and Chelsea Hameister Mangian ’14 I am deciding what his next step will be. Chelsea is working on a Master’s in Elementary Education.

Cameron is turning five this August and will start kindergarten this fall. He is excited to learn and play!

Nathaniel M. Nichols-Weliky-Fearing After teaching in Chicago for four years, I recently moved to Sacramento, CA. I just started a new job as an executive assistant at NEXGEN Asset Management.

I’m excited to be getting married in August back in Door County, WI! Nicholas J. Paulson I will be starting my PhD in higher education at the University of Michigan, Fall 2019.

Genevieve K. Schooler Juan Pablo Murillo and I will be getting married August 18 in Seattle, Washington. We are happy fur parents to Joey the cat and Zico the GermanShepherd. This fall will be my third year teaching middle school orchestra and fifth year teaching overall. In December, I plan to graduate with a master’s of music education from Central Washington University. Pablo and I will celebrate the completion of my degree by taking our postponed honeymoon to Bolivia for Christmas and New Year’s!

Kevin M. Specht I finished my first year as the band director and music teacher at Concord Community Schools in Concord, MI. I’m excited to continue building the band and music programs and help Concord gain a reputation for excellence in these areas. As of late 2018, my wife, Elena, and I now have a Golden Retriever named Tucker (named after Tristan Tucker ’14). Tucker, like his namesake, is loving, playful, and loyal.

Stephanie M. Thomas Since graduating from Lawrence in 2014, I attended graduate school at Antioch University New England in Keene, NH. I completed a MA in Dance/Movement Therapy & Counseling in 2018. I still live in Keene, and currently work for Easterseals, NH. I miss Lawrence sometimes, I hope all of you are doing well!

Schuyler T. Thornton This summer I am performing in the orchestra at Ohio Light Opera. This fall I will be entering my third year of my DMA in Flute Performance at Rutgers University’s Mason Gross School of the Arts. I am on the flute faculty of the Mason Gross Extension Division and am the Treasurer of the New Jersey Flute Society.

Elizabeth T. Vidulich Completed my Master’s in curriculum and instruction at UW-Madison this August. Currently working in student engagement with the Madison Metropolitan School District. Recently abandoned distance running in favor of weight lifting. Loving hanging with Chelsea Johnson ’14 around Madison and visiting Tara Jensen ’14 in Chicago.

Nicole M. Wanner Evan Flack ’14 and I got engaged on Lake Superior last September; I can’t believe it’s been eight years since we met as freshman residents of Colman Hall!

I also earned my doctor of veterinary medicine (DVM) in May 2018 and recently finished my first semester working toward a PhD in epigenetics at the University of Minnesota.

Dakota Williams Five years after our graduation and I’m still working at Lawrence. Wow! I primarily work with alumni groups that have a shared identity or interest, including our Pride Alumni Network, Black Alumni Network, Alumni of Color, Conservatory alumni, etc. If you have any questions or interest in these groups, let me know. In addition, I still freelance as a horn player quite a bit, subbing with local symphonies, playing with a wind quintet, and with VENTO Winds. I’m looking forward to seeing everyone at our 5th Cluster Reunion in June 2020.

Alexander J. York I am finishing my first year working at the Opéra national de Paris and will be making my mainstage debut next season in Verdi’s opera, Don Carlos.

In addition, I have discovered a softball league (composed of mostly expats) here, and that makes me about equally as happy!

CLASS NOTES

’16 Joseph F. Bazydlo I have had the opportunity to apply my degree in anthropology in a completely unexpected way. I decided to pursue further education in software development, and I have since been working as a front-end developer at a data company called Rebate Bus. We are building a software platform that centralizes information about utility rebates and helps consumers adopt green technology by making energyefficient products more affordable. I have combined my background in anthropology and my skills in software development to take a new approach to user-centered software design. I hope to use my field research skills to make our software more user-friendly and more focused on our users’ goals.

Zach M. Ben-Amots I just completed my journalism master’s degree at Northeastern University and am currently working at ABC 7 Chicago as a digital video producer.

Sarah E. Coffman I’m pursuing a doctorate of historical performance practice at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland. This summer I’m presenting my thesis on the “unwritten tradition” of 15th-century Italy at the International Medieval Meeting at Lleida, Spain.

Timothy E. Dahlstrom I was promoted to senior international sales manager at Admitad GmbH, at their Moscow, Russia office.

I’ll be working with an Admitad Investment project called Get.Uniq. My responsibilities will be traveling to conferences throughout Europe and the U.S. and speaking about how Get.Uniq can help Western companies enter the Russian market.

Alexandra W. Damisch I am a data scientist in Chicago. John O’Neill ’18 and I recently got engaged, and intend to marry in 2020.

Daniel H. Davis Danny is currently a rising 3rd-year law student at the John Marshall Law School in Chicago. He’s currently spending the summer clerking at the law offices of Costa Ivone, a workers compensation and personal injury firm handling case management and drafting arbitration memoranda. Danny currently lives in the Wicker Park neighborhood of Chicago with three other Lawrence alums: Rose Nelson ’16, Nathan Whiteman ’16 and Lucy Bouman ’15. Besides work and school, he’s taking improv classes at the iO theatre in Chicago and developing his culinary skills, with an emphasis in French and Japanese dishes. He’s also very disappointed in the ending of Game of Thrones.

Jonathan P. Hanrahan Jon Hanrahan ’16 remains a producer for public radio’s On the Media. This is his fourth year at WNYC. He continues to live in Greenpoint, Brooklyn with his partner, Sarah Axtell ’17, along with Gabe Peterson ’17 and his partner, Abbey Edmunds.

Hannah M. Jeruc I’ve spent the better part of the last three years driving lonely desert highways, sleeping on the ground, living with random roommates, working in kitchens, ascending peaks and chasing the next adventure.

Thanks to ORC and the friends and mentors I found there, I’ve discovered a real passion for the outdoors.

Now I work as an outdoor educator, teaching people of all ages how to recreate, survive and thrive in the wilderness. My plans for the future include starting my own outdoor education business, climbing lots of rocks and adopting at least one dog!

Corby E. Johnson Attending the University of Denver Publishing Institute during the 2019 summer semester, July through August.

Margaret L. Johnson In May, I graduated cum laude from Marquette University Law School. In September, I will be joining the Investment Management team at Godfrey & Kahn, S.C., a law firm in downtown Milwaukee.

Tracy J. Johnson I am completing my studies to receive my master’s degree in social work from the University of Chicago.

I will graduate in June, and plan on staying in Chicago to work.

Alison R. Kleppin This spring, Alison Kleppin graduated from Vanderbilt University with a Master’s in Human Development Counseling. She and Benjamin Clark ’16 have subsequently relocated to St. Paul, Minn., where Alison will work as a full time counselor to youth and families dealing with OCD and anxiety.

Anne E. Leung In January, I graduated from Arcadia University as a Doctor of Physical Therapy and presented the research I’ve been working on for the last two years at the American Physical Therapy Association’s annual Combined Sections Meeting. I’m now continuing to work on research regarding youth athletes’ performance on functional outcome measures and pursuing a clinical specialty in orthopedic care through a residency program—because apparently, after 20 years of school, I’m not sick of homework yet.

Isabella C. Mirgaux and Russell P. Brannen ’15 I work at a small charter school in St. Louis, Mo., where I teach middle school English. It has been an exciting experience being able to prepare our youth for the future! In the summer, I also work for this program called Aim High, which is a summer enrichment program that allows students from St. Louis city schools to be introduced to concepts that they will be learning the next school year. I love what I do and can’t wait to see what this next year brings me!

Ian H. Pelton I accepted a job at a non-profit called Beyond 12, where I am a life coach for underrepresented college students. The job required me to move to the Bay Area, so I’ve been living in California for the past couple of months now. Much better weather than my time being a Lawrentian lol.

Lucinda C. Pipkin I’m finishing my first year working with middle school special education students as a paraprofessional in Minneapolis Public Schools. Soon, I’ll be starting a summer job as the summer program coordinator with Youth Performance Company. I took many theater classes there as a kid, so things are really coming full circle! My chef boyfriend Manton and I are loving city life with our kitty, Squeak.

Hannah G. Shryer I’m living in Saint Paul, Minn., working in local hospitals and clinics to conduct two child development research studies with teams at the University of Minnesota and the University of Michigan.

David D. Voss I am currently living in Brooklyn and just graduated from Stony Brook University with a master of arts degree in composition. I teach piano to a studio of 20+ students, and I play mandolin with a local bluegrass group made up of Stony Brook students and alumni called Taylor Ackley and the Deep Roots Ensemble. I recently performed a recital of original songs on campus, which was well received, and had a number of compositions read by both the Stony Brook Symphony Orchestra and new music group Yarn/Wire.

Going forward, I hope to work on commissions, find more opportunities to perform as a singer-songwriter in the city, and create a new album of original songs in collaboration with my friends.

Alek J. Wasserman I embarked on my next adventure by enlisting in the North Carolina Army National Guard as a pianist in the 440th Army Band in Raleigh. I’m very pleased that I get to continue my civilian career as a music educator while soldiering and performing on the side. By the time this magazine goes out, I’ll probably be finishing Basic Combat Training. Hope everyone else is happy and healthy!

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’18 Tamanna Akram After working as the advancement coordinator for a year at Writers Theatre, Tamanna is excited to attend the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the fall. She will be pursuing a master of international public Affairs at the La Follette School and working with the Wisconsin Center for Education Research as a project assistant.

Emma M. Arnesen After graduating, I accepted a position as a congressional caseworker for the House of Representatives.

Hope A. Basil Since graduation, I have been working on different political campaigns across the country. I worked on a congressional race in Michigan, the Chicago mayoral race, and I am currently in South Carolina working on Elizabeth Warren’s presidential campaign.

Hailey M. Bomar I finished my fellowship in the Lawrence Admissions Office in May, and will be moving to Iowa City, IA, with Linder Wendt ’19. My fellowship at Lawrence helped me discover a true passion for working in higher education, and I’m excited to start working as a financial aid advisor at the University of Iowa in late July, after we return from a month-long adventure in Alaska!

Aedan R. Gardill My wife and I have been happily married for the past year and look forward to many more wonderful years together. We just bought a house in the Madison, WI area, as I continue studying physics in graduate school at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Trent Z. Guerrero After graduating in spring 2018, I was selected for a fall internship program at the National Renewable Energy Lab in Golden, Colorado. Since the end of that internship in December 2018, I returned for a second internship that ended in May 2019. Now I have been hired on as a full-time, full-benefits, research technician working on multiple projects at the lab.

Ideally, I’ll be working here at NREL for another year or so while I apply to graduate schools and meet with professors who I am interested in doing research with while pursing a Ph.D.

Christina L. Hanson I married my best friend Stephen Lawrence on July 21, 2018, and now we are expecting our first child this July!

Hitkarsh Kumar I am presently a graduate student in the Department of Philosophy at Rice University in Houston, TX. If you’d like to stay in touch, the best way to reach me is through email.

Amanda M. Leonard I am working as a staffing & compliance coordinator with the Sumer Institute for the Gifted in Stamford, CT. Augustus J. Lowry Used to complain about how LU got out in June, but I now realize that’s better than not getting out at all... #employment Eva M. Tourangeau I will wrap up my post-bachelors internship at Los Alamos National Laboratory in Los Alamos, NM, in August 2019 and begin a Statistics Ph.D. program at the University of Washington–Seattle at the end of September.

Nijesh Upreti I am deeply passionate about the positive impact technology can bring to our world. I am optimistic about global emphasis on big data and collective artificial intelligence to make our lives better by helping us invest in creative and collaborative endeavors.

Colin S. Wolff I will be leaving the country in August 2019 to volunteer for the Peace Corps in Ukraine as a youth development specialist. I will be in Ukraine for 27 months in total. This is a very exciting step for me and I couldn’t have done it without the help and encouragement of many people at Lawrence.

Dr. Meghan E. Sapia ’08 and husband Weston.

MARRIAGE AND UNIONS William P. Mullen ’90 and Stephanie Lauenstein, Lugano, Ticino, Switzerland, May 30, 2019 Lauren A. Semivan ’04 and John A. Shimon, Appleton, WI, September 1, 2018 Michelle C. Fitzpatrick ’05 and Dan Peterson, Oak Lawn, IL, March 17, 2018 Meghan Frear Sapia ’08 and Weston Sapia, Colorado Springs, CO, May 19, 2018 Jayce E. Apelgren ’09 and Katee Apelgren, Minneapolis, MN, September 30, 2017 Fanny Y. Lau ’14 and James P. Cartwright ’14, Philadelphia, PA, June 16, 2018 Susan Reeves and Brett McCleneghan, were married October 20, 2018 in Houston.

CORRECTIONS Kirstin Jansen Johnson ’95 was incorrectly listed as Kristin Dougan ’95.

John Howe’s ’67 class note in the last issue was incorrectly listed under Cynthia Russell Howe ’67.

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Michell Fitzpatrick ’05 married March 17, 2018, to Dan Peterson.

Colin Casner, born August 2018 to Daniel Casner ’06 and Miranda J. Munro ’05.

Teo Lee Romero, born September 21, 2018, to Jordan Webster ’03 and Enrique Romero.

Dimitri M. Gooden ’04 and Danielle, St Andrew, Jamaica, a daughter, Amira, January 23, 2018

Madolyn Machon Brown ’07 and Ivan, Honolulu, HI, a son, Drew Ivan, January 31, 2018

Michelle C. Fitzpatrick ’05 and Dan Peterson, Oak Lawn, IL, a son, Jackson, January 8, 2019

Heather Wing Sandler ’07 and Gabriel, Highland Park, IL, a son, George, August 27, 2018

BIRTHS

Elizabeth Freeman Billings ’05 and Jeffrey ’03, Bayside, WI, a son, Jackson S., February 5, 2019

Giang H. Bui ’08, Amsterdam, Netherlands, a son, Sem Floris Tuan, September 30, 2018

Lisa Beth Chessin Walker ’97 and William, Minnetonka, MN, a daughter, Lilian Marlene, August 21, 2018

Elizabeth Jenne Renker ’05 and Patrick, San Diego, CA, a son, Liam Patrick, July 16, 2018

Adam B. Gorham ’08 and Beth, Corte Madera, CA, a daughter, Clara, August 17, 2018

Miranda J. Munro ’05 and Daniel Casner ’06, Livermore, CA, a son, Colin Glen, August 19, 2018

Jack C. Peters ’08, Seymour, WI, a daughter, Melany Jewel, July 17, 2018

Chorthip Peeraphatdit ’05 and Timothy M. Sullivan ’05, a son, Merlyn Aurelius, June 25, 2018

Yangqing Xu ’09 and Jian Pan, Wilmette, IL, a daughter, Emery Lucia, July 30, 2018

Leah Sinn Iversen ’05 and Peter ’05, Bloomington, IN, a daughter, Eliza, December 27, 2018

Emily Mohr Hughes ’10 and David, a son, Owen, September 17, 2017

Kimberly F. Reece ’06, Jacksonville, FL, a daughter, Morgan, June 30, 2017

Sae Goto ’11, Tokyo, Japan, a daughter, Shin, June 27, 2018

Zubair A. Hakim ’07 and Caroline Klaeth Eriksen, Oslo, Norway, a son, Axel Eriksen, November 15, 2018

Sarah Bonner Potts ’13 and Colin ’13, Clayton, NC, a daughter, Ada Laine, January 9, 2019

Jackson (at 25 days old) with Elizabeth Freeman Billings ’05 (left), Jeffrey S. Billings ’03 and their two golden retrievers— Lexie and Lawrence.

Elizabeth Godfrey VanDenzen ’98 and Brian ’99, Santa Fe, NM, a daughter, Celia Locklin, December 12, 2017 Kelly Fowler Carlson ’01 and Kevin, Davenport, IA, a daughter, Korra M., July 19, 2018 Miriam Lara-Meloy Lara-Mejia ’03 and Elkin, San Leandro, CA, a son, Luca Wilde, December 5, 2017 Jordan L. Webster ’03 and Enrique Romero, Palo Alto, CA, a son, Theo, July 21, 2018 Andrea Blimling Singletary ’04 and Corey ’00, Madison, WI, a son, Leo Jordan, September 5, 2018 Romain Daniel, son of Joanna de Plas ’94.

Katherine M. Dannecker-Stevens ’14 and Samuel R. Stevens ’13, Milwaukee, WI, a daughter, Sage, February 25, 2018 Jackson Thomas Peterson, son of Michelle C. Fitzpatrick ’05.

Eliza Iverson, daughter of Peter J. Iversen ’05 and Leah E. Iversen ’05.

IN MEMORIAM

DECEASED ALUMNI Mary Younglove Johnson ’43, Kenosha, WI, March 27, 2019.

Virginia Cossmann Quirk ’43, Naples, FL, January 29, 2019.

Jean Kieweg Schleis ’43, Black Creek, WI, May 18, 2019. Survivors include a niece, Laurie A. Hamachek ’69; a niece, Holly Hamachek Ashby ’78; and a daughter, Gretchen Schulz Rahmlow ’70.

Phyllis Schief Seipp ’43, Wausau, WI, December 3, 2018.

Les Stumpf ’43, Kaukauna, WI, March 20, 2019.

Marjorie Iwen Buckley ’44, Waverly, PA, March 2, 2019.

Beverly Rose Sellman M-D’44, Hico, TX, December 24, 2018.

Dorothy Inks Wolf ’44, Indialantic, FL, January 15, 2019.

Rosella Juergens Butzler ’45, Midland, MI, May 10, 2019.

Shirley Fox Cuff ’45, Wisconsin Rapids, WI, March 1, 2019.

Bernice Koepp M-D’48, Milwaukee, WI, February 2, 2019.

Marjorie Johnson Rosebush ’48, Appleton, WI, February 21, 2019.

Nancy Stillman Spencer ’48, Ashland, OR, November 22, 2018. Survivors include a granddaughter, Sarah Calkins Degen ’71; and a sister-in-law, Sarah Spencer Ward ’53.

Dorothy Eilert Stowell ’48, Atlanta, GA, November 25, 2018.

Robert C. Bauernfeind ’49, Medford, WI, May 11, 2019.

Marian Gillet Kuhn ’49, Montrose, CO, March 31, 2019.

Ruth Franz Raynor M-D’49, Cape Coral, FL, February 6, 2018.

David O. Schanke ’49, Ripon, WI, March 4, 2019.

Eugene S. Bondar ’50, Washington, PA, April 7, 2019.

Carol Brand Elliot M-D’50, Lubbock, TX, January 13, 2019.

Gladys Toepfer Stradling M-D’45, Hatboro, PA, November 23, 2018.

Rosalie Keller Griesse ’50, Minneapolis, MN, May 26, 2019. Survivors include a son-in-law, Randon B. Woodworth ’78; and a daughter, Elizabeth J. Griesse ’78.

Kathryn Ligare Lillyman ’46, Franklin Grove, IL, July 17, 2018.

Evelyn Mularkey Peterson ’50, Rothschild, WI, December 18, 2018.

Joan Meier Mueller ’47, Madison, WI, February 1, 2019. Survivors include a daughter, Laura Mueller Just ’73.

Robert J. Staffeld ’50, Bend, OR, December 19, 2018.

Leland R. Munger ’47, Bee Cove, TX, December 21, 2018.

Ted F. Pancerz ’47, Dallas, TX, November 7, 2018.

Joy Van Minden Cohn M-D’51, Milwaukee, WI, February 19, 2019.

George Th. Diamandopoulos ’51, Boston, MA, March 22, 2019.

Gloria J. Weir ’47, February 18, 2019.

John L. Fried ’51, Minocqua, WI Milwaukee, WI, May 23, 2019. Survivors include a nephew, Robert L. Heilbronner ’80.

Walter J. Chilsen ’48, Wausau, WI, December 25, 2018.

Shirley Pomeroy Herndon ’51, Little Rock, AR, February 21, 2019.

Robert C. Eisenach ’48, Dayton, OH, December 25, 2018. Survivors include a nephew, Robert E. Spoo ’79.

Sue Pepper Joys M-D’51, Valparaiso, IN, January 20, 2019. Survivors include a brother, Robert S. Pepper ’66.

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Betty Bohl Mueller ’51, West Chester, PA, February 13, 2019.

When asked “why do you give?” I could easily say it is due to the academic rigor, small class sizes, and unique support system Lawrence offers, but that would be a truly incomplete response. Although the benefits associated with attending Lawrence are meaningful, my motivation to give does not stem from them. The opportunities presented to me while at Lawrence were only possible because of the generosity of others. I was able to attend and remain enrolled because alumni invested in my education through financial giving, and in turn, it is my responsibility to pay it forward.

Estate planning does not have to be complicated, it is not only for those with significant assets, and including Lawrence in our plans did not have to come at any sort of loss to our children. Joining Legacy Circle gave us the chance to continue paying it forward.

—Gacia Coronado ’10 and Travis Rhodes Join Gacia and Travis in the Lawrence-Downer Legacy Circle.

Visit legacygiving.lawrence.edu to learn more.

IN MEMORIAM

Peggy Gluck Rasch M-D’51, Waukesha, WI, February 20, 2019.

Donald Schroeder ’51, Cloquet, MN, March 4, 2019. Survivors include his wife Pauline Kokke Schroeder ’51.

Daniel H. Teas ’51, Bloomington, IL, June 28, 2019.

He was preceded in death by his mother, Dorothy Normington Teas ’23; an uncle, Roy Normington ’22; a sister, Sarah Teas Sorenson ’53 and her husband Robert I. Sorenson ’51. Survivors include daughters Molly M. Teas ’79 and Virginia Teas Gill ’83; a niece, Karen S. Sorenson ’77, and her husband, Richard S. Jerde ’73; and a grandson, William John Gill ’18.

Thomas O. Kloehn ’54, Wausau, WI, December 1, 2018. Survivors include a sister, Gretchen Kloehn Berggren ’57; a daughter, Barbara Kloehn Gresik ’82; a son-in-law, James V. Bruno ’81; and a daughter, Ellen Kloehn Bruno ’83.

Mary Alice Green Kopf ’54, Seattle, WA, January 17, 2019.

Ruth Riemeier McKinstry ’54, Chandler, AZ, March 18, 2019. Survivors include her husband, John R. McKinstry ’55.

Roman T. Vanden Heuvel ’51, St. Paul, MN, January 18, 2019.

Kendall A. Parker ’54, Neenah, WI, December 13, 2018. Survivors include his wife, Carol Miller Parker ’61; a brother, James L. Parker ’57; a sister-in-law, Sandra Laue Miller ’62; and a brother-inlaw, David C. Miller ’62.

Charles F. Connelly ’52, Appleton, WI, January 29, 2019.

Thomas L. Wright ’54, Laramie, WY, November 15, 2018.

Janet Bowers Ford M-D’52, Osage, IA, December 15, 2018.

Charles J. Hopkinson ’55, Glen Ellyn, IL, February 13, 2019.

Barbara Behnke Johnson ’52, Oklahoma City, OK, February 9, 2019.

Betty Key Hurd M-D’55, Rocky Mount, VA, November 17, 2018.

Roger W. Kirkeide ’52, Appleton, WI, December 25, 2018.

Constance Clarke Purdum ’55, Los Angeles, CA, April 6, 2019. Survivors include a son, Stephen C. Purdum ’87; and a daughter-in-law, Julie Stoker Purdum ’87.

Gretchen Wilterding Maring ’52, Ellison Bay, WI, December 30, 2018. Survivors include a cousin, Martha Colburn Rasmus ’67; a niece, Martha Davis Pohl ’75; a nephew, Robert C. Davis ’74; a nephew, Colburn T. Davis ’77; a cousin, R. Marshall Colburn ’62; a sister-in-law, Susan Frinak Wilterding ’65; and a brother, Mark A. Wilterding ’67.

Nancy Owen Goldbeck ’56, Neenah, WI, January 12, 2019.

Betty Kohler Hopkinson ’56, Redding, CA, May 1, 2018.

John W. Monsted ’52, Glenshaw, PA, November 28, 2018.

Diane Yampol Schroeder M-D’56, Brookfield, WI, January 1, 2019.

William D. Peterson ’52, Appleton, WI, December 28, 2018.

Gordon C. Wagner ’56, Bonita Springs, FL, December 6, 2018.

Helen Forwark Strahl ’52, Medford, OR, May 5, 2019.

Dolores Distell Brennan M-D’57, Grafton, WI, March 6, 2019.

Barbara Frederickson Jackson M-D’53, Lake Linden, MI, March 20, 2019.

George W. Challoner ’57, Jefferson, WI, February 25, 2019.

Kermit B. Knudsen ’53, Dallas, TX, January 13, 2019.

Charlotte Strong Ganser M-D’57, Waxhaw, NC, December 16, 2018.

Jane Baumann Savitt M-D’53, Neshkoro, WI, April 3, 2019.

Marilyn Adamson Bartelt ’58, Brookfield, WI, December 20, 2018.

Mitzi Wulk Britton ’54, Appleton, WI, March 20, 2019.

Bert E. Elliott ’58, Sylvania, OH, May 8, 2019. Survivors include his wife, Suzanne Whitmore Elliott ’57; a cousin, John J. Thorse ’55; and a brother, Stephen R. Elliott ’64.

Nancy Gibson Greene ’54, Pacific Palisades, CA, March 24, 2019.

William “Bill” Perreault, a biology professor who spent 35 years on the Lawrence University faculty before retiring in 2006, passed away on June 1, 2019. He was 81.

Perreault began his career at Lawrence in 1971.

At the time of his retirement, he said he still relished the challenge of trying to coordinate molecular techniques with microscopy techniques and the interplay between them in search of a better understanding of how cells work.

When Lawrence was planning its new Science Hall in the late 1990s, Perreault personally designed the plans for the building’s microscopy suite. Over the years, he individually tutored more than 100 students—and a few faculty colleagues along the way—on the finer points of using either Lawrence’s transmission electron microscope or the scanning electron microscope.

Before arriving at Lawrence, Perreault spent seven years in the U.S. Army, reaching the rank of captain. Two of his years in the service were spent as a microbiologist at the U.S. Army Biological Laboratories at Fort Detrick in Maryland.

Originally from Cohoes, N.Y., an upstate mill town near Albany, Perreault often served as the biology department’s “welcoming face.” He taught the introductory course Principles of Biology for 33 of his 35 years. He said he took particular joy in teaching it because the course attracted many students from disciplines outside of the sciences.

“I like to think part of my legacy will be the sheer number of students who received an understanding of the beautiful science of biology because they took my intro class,” Perreault said.

Perreault and his wife, Marvia, were married for 56 years and have four children, Bill, Michele, Melanie, and John. Michele ’90 and Melanie ’90 are Lawrence alumni.

“He lived a life full of love, travel and bad pranks,” his family wrote in his obituary.

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IN MEMORIAM

Richard Yatzeck, professor emeritus of Russian, passed away on March 7, 2019, at the age of 86.

George W. Purucker ’58, Fort Atkinson, WI, May 21, 2019.

Bynum E. Vickory ’58, Pinehurst, NC, February 4, 2019.

Yatzeck had one of the longest tenures in Lawrence University’s history. He joined the faculty in 1966, retiring in 2014 after a distinguished 48-year career at Lawrence that included leading students on multiple summer-long treks through Eastern Europe.

Mary Kett Buren ’59, Evanston, IL, March 14, 2019.

Ellen Carow Squillace M-D’59, Shoreline, WA, February 12, 2019.

Karin Swenson Armstrong ’60, Glen Ellen, CA, March 17, 2018.

Upon his retirement nearly five years ago, Yatzeck noted that he wasn’t much of a fan of the modern world, preferring instead to savor the wonders of the 19th century and the writings of Tolstoy, Pushkin and Dostoevsky. “When you read a book, you have to make your own pictures so that you’re exercising your imagination,” he said. “What is this guy saying, what would it look like?”

Yatzeck began organizing every-other-year trips to Russia and Eastern Europe with former professor George Smalley shortly after he joined the faculty in 1966. Traveling in seven Volkswagen buses, as many as 35 students would participate in the trips throughout the continent.

He chronicled his experiences in the 2012 book, Russia in Private, a collection of his observations of Russian life. Yatzeck’s scholarly work included a dozen published poems, but he also wrote extensively about the outdoors, including 11 articles for Gray’s Sporting Journal. His first book was 1999’s Hunting the Edges, a collection of his musings about the philosophical, not the practical, aspects of the outdoors.

Marcia Duin Mentkowski M-D’61, Milwaukee, WI, January 27, 2019. Survivors include a niece, Lynn Bebeau ’89.

Peter L. Bylow ’62, Brookfield, WI, December 15, 2018.

Martin L. Green ’62, Pittsford, NY, January 11, 2019. Survivors include a niece, Katherine M.L. Pratt ’98.

James H. Bayer ’63, Appleton, WI, February 1, 2019. Survivors include his wife Jeanette Daly Bayer ’63; and a nephew, Shane S. Swamer ’91.

John C. Decker ’63, Davenport, IA, March 11, 2019. Survivors include a cousin, Marion White Lardner ’53; and a daughter, Catharine E. Decker ’92.

Brian R. Fay ’63, Ocala, FL, October 17, 2017.

Barbara Heinke Thomsen ’63, Fort Worth, TX, February 14, 2019.

He is survived by his wife Diane Yatzeck, children Elena Yatzeck (Ellen Meyers), Tanya Yatzeck (Stephen Schickedanz), Sarah Farrell (Steve Farrell) and David Yatzeck (Stephanie Yatzeck), five grandchildren and two nieces.

Mary Reinholz Anderson ’64, Beloit, WI, January 2, 2019.

Wanda V. Dole ’64, Chicago, IL, November 23, 2018.

He passed along his love of literature to his children. His family shared in his obituary that he never lost that desire to teach and maintained his quick wit and the mischievous sparkle in his eyes.

Richard L. Schwanbeck ’64, Elk Grove Village, IL, December 28, 2018.

Kathryn Connelly Shulman ’64, Shoreview, MN, February 3, 2019. Survivors include her husband, Richard H. Shulman ’65.

Constance (Connie) Clarke Purdum ’55 graduated from Lawrence with a degree in government. She later attended Moser Business School in Chicago and worked as the secretary for the dean of men at Western Illinois State Teachers College (now known as Western Illinois University) in Macomb, Ill. She became a homemaker and her involvement in her local community included service as vice chair of the board of directors of the McDonough District Hospital and advisory board chair for the Salvation Army. She also was one of the tri-chairs of the United Way in 1983. Additionally, Connie served as chair of the Republican Party of McDonough County (Illinois) from 1967–1972.

Pamela F. Smith ’64, Madison, WI, March 27, 2019.

Patricia Hamon Fulda ’65, Baltimore, MD, January 8, 2019. Survivors include a brother, Peter G. Hamon ’67; and a sister-in-law, Ann Kesselring Hamon ’66.

Alan Manson ’65, Exeland, WI, February 13, 2019.

Richard T. Stuart ’65, Sandwich, NH, November 30, 2018. Survivors include a sister, Anne Stuart Galli ’67.

John C. Firmin ’67, Somerville, MA, March 23, 2019.

Connie was a member of the Lawrence University Board of Trustees from 2003–2006, serving on the Academic Affairs, Student Affairs and Development Committees. In 2006, she was a member of the Alumni Engagement Campaign Working Group at Lawrence, laying the groundwork for the final stages of the university’s $160M More Light! campaign. She also served on her 45th reunion steering and 50th reunion gift committees. Connie was a loyal supporter of the college and provided leadership commitments for the Lawrence Fund, student scholarships, and the construction of the Warch Campus Center.

Lyman Rhoades ’68, Denver, CO, April 11, 2019.

Connie was preceded in death by her husband, Jerry. Their son, Stephen, and his wife, Julie Stoker Purdum, are both 1987 Lawrence graduates.

Eric L. Smithback ’74, Columbia, NJ, February 10, 2019. Survivors include his wife Martha Anderson Smithback ’75; a nephew, Geoffrey A. Barrow ’93; a nephew, Christopher H. Anderson ’02; and a brother-in-law, Christopher J. Anderson ’68.

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Robert A. Belman ’69, Ann Arbor, MI, April 19, 2018.

John J. O’Dea ’73, Montevideo, MN, November 28, 2018.

Peter W. Webster ’73, Jamaica Plain, MA, October 17, 2018. Survivors include a brother-in-law, John J. Wolfe ’76; and a sister, Anne Webster Wolfe ’76.

IN MEMORIAM

Marianne K. Herrmann ’77, Milwaukee, WI, April 23, 2018.

Sharon Fenlon, Appleton, WI, December 22, 2018, mother of Jessica M. Fenlon ’93.

Joyce Richman, North Oaks, MN, January 8, 2019, mother of Freya Richman ’86.

Travis L. Orth ’03, Menomonie, WI, January 13, 2019.

Survivors include his wife, Julia M. Liebich ’01.

Mary Futchik, Naples, FL, March 28, 2019.

Lowell M. Schmidt, Kaukauna, WI, March 21, 2019.

Ellen Gunter, Appleton, WI, March 19, 2019.

Charles W. Spalding, Williamsburg, VA, January 26, 2019.

Zachary H. Suechting ’13, Chicago, IL, January 18, 2019. Survivors include a cousin, Anna Suechting Jacobson ’08; an aunt, Susan Hardy Suechting ’74; and an uncle, Ralph P. Suechting ’72.

FAMILY, FRIENDS AND STAFF Helen Armitage, Appleton, WI, February 10, 2018.

James A. Armitage, Appleton, WI, March 15, 2019.

Marian Athens, Appleton, WI, March 16, 2019.

Marilyn D. Beyer, Egg Harbor, WI, April 24, 2019.

Connie Arnosti, St. Paul, MN, December 6, 2018, mother-in-law of Margaret Malde-Arnosti ’79, mother of Donald A. Arnosti ’79, mother-in-law of Regula Vitt Arnosti ’83, mother of David N. Arnosti ’82, mother of Carol Arnosti ’84.

Joseph C. Asch, Paris, October 9, 2018, husband of Elizabeth Austin Asch ’81.

Joseph L. Baer, Milwaukee, WI, May 26, 2019, father of Thomas M. Baer ’74, father of William J. Baer ’72.

Virginia A. Bare, Manitowoc, WI, April 17, 2019, wife of Thomas J. Bare ’61.

Anthony J. Baumann, Appleton, WI, February 10, 2019, father of Michael J. Baumann ’09.

Constance M. Berner, Oshkosh, WI, March 19, 2019, grandmother of Mark D. Puestohl ’11, grandmother of Monita Mohammadian Gray ’92, grandmother of Martonius A. Mohammadian ’94.

Lowell D. Hanson, Bristol, WI, February 15, 2019, father of Alena Jae Hanson ’20.

Jeanette Hochkammer, December 9, 2018, grandmother of Karl A. Hochkammer ’92, mother of William O. Hochkammer ’66.

Jack H. Howard, Maryland Heights, MO, June 27, 2018, husband of Deborah Waite Howard ’67.

Peter Jabas Nancy Lee Kailas, Thiensville, WI, March 22, 2018, mother of Christopher C. Kailas ’82.

Norman Kaufman Gary Kiecker, Excelsior, MN, November 25, 2018, husband of Sarah Flom Kiecker ’82.

Richard A. Stack, Menasha, WI, April 21, 2019.

Sonja St. John, January 18, 2019.

Betty A. Thome, Neenah, WI, February 26, 2019, grandmother of Allison R. Thome ’13, grandmother of Rachel Carver Stichnoth ’11, grandmother of Elizabeth Marshall Anderson ’09, mother of David G. Thome ’78, mother of Catherine R. Thome ’84, mother of Mary Thome Marshall ’79, mother-in-law of Douglas D. Marshall ’78.

Carol Torresani, Middleton, WI, December 18, 2017, mother-in-law of Jeffrey J. Geppert ’86, mother of Cathryn Torresani Geppert ’82.

Sylvia Vaccaro, Madison, WI, December 16, 2018.

James F. Kress, De Pere, WI, May 12, 2019.

Joanna M. Ver Halen, River Forest, IL, January 19, 2019, mother of Alison M. Ver Halen ’09.

Maury Laws, Appleton, WI, March 28, 2019.

Evelyn M. Weber, Appleton, WI, March 28, 2019.

Jane Lesh, Mill Valley, CA, January 19, 2019.

Glen C. Winge, Fremont, WI, December 19, 2018.

Nilda V. Linger, Cranford, NJ, August 8, 2018, mother of Marc B. Linger ’14.

Paul M. Wong, Wauwatosa, WI, February 27, 2019, father of Andrew J. Wong ’06.

Raymond G. Mollner, St. Paul, MN, June 6, 2018, father of Elizabeth Mollner Mullikin ’00.

Gerald S. Wroe, January 7, 2019.

Brenda J. Muehe, Racine, WI, March 29, 2019.

Richard L. Yatzeck, Bear Creek, WI, March 7, 2019, husband of Diane Kessler Yatzeck ’71.

Elsa S. Bondar, Washington, PA, February 9, 2018.

Joan E. Brengel, Milwaukee, WI, December 31, 2018, grandmother of Walker F. Brengel ’14, grandmother of Peter F. Brengel ’12, grandmother of F. Taylor Brengel ’09, grandmother of Henry C. Brengel ’06, mother of Douglas A. Brengel ’72.

Robert V. Cadieu, January 11, 2019.

Eileen Champeau, Sister Bay, WI, May 31, 2018.

Rod DeMaranville, Sturgeon Bay, WI, October 2, 2017.

Judith Dobbs, February 1, 2019.

Jack C. Ellsworth, Sherborn, MA, March 20, 2019, father of Chris Ellsworth O’Crowley ’78.

B J Ö R K LUND E N -S P O N S O R E D TR AVE L : A Va c at i on wi t h a Fo cus NEW: GHANA • FEBRUARY 29–MARCH 12, 2020 Explore nature, history and culture in Accra, the Cape Coast, Kumasi and Akosombo with Professor of Government Claudena Skran and Sarah Ehlinger Affotey ’11.

HERITAGE OF AMERICA • SEPTEMBER 6–14, 2020 From battlefields to memorials, New York to Yorktown, follow the epic story of American democracy with Robert S. French Professor of American Studies Jerry Podair.

To learn more and secure your spot, visit: go.lawrence.edu/magtrip19

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The Big Picture Convocation speaker Matika Wilbur of Project 562 delivered an address,

“Changing the Way We See Native America” and spent a week as artist-in-residence working with students to create a mural celebrating Native identity.

The wheat paste mural was installed on the Buchanan-Kiewit Wellness Center.

To learn more about the project, visit go.lawrence.edu/mural562

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