PASSAGES Gifts in Honor of The Quarterly regrets an error in spelling for a gift made by Koh, Tomoye, and Sharon Tatai, ’80. The gift was made in honor of Kik and Sachiye Toyofuku. Isabelle Hagopian Arabian, ’45, by Jim and Laura Lundegaard Anderson, ’45 Class of 1952 by Jacquelyn Jagger Parsons, ’52 Melissa Stevenson Dile, ’91, by Jennifer Moxley, ’93
Elaine Wertheimer Ehrman, ’47, by the Palo Alto Area Mills College Club Peggy Faletti by Sara McClure, ’81 Dr. Janet Holmgren, by the Palo Alto Area Mills College Club Kymberly Jackson, ’99, by Jennifer Moxley, ’93 Jane Cudlip King, ’42, by Suzanne Adams, ’48 Carol Lennox, ’61, by Dr. J. Roussel Sargent Esther Mirmow by Rita Lipson and Miriam Lurya
Megan Thomas, ’93, MA ’98, by Regan Browning Calvin, ’93 Mabel Barnett Walters, ’68, by Joan Wolowick Dark, ’75
Patricia Yoshida Orr, ’63, by Akira and Toshiko Yoshida Cecily Peterson, ’88, by Barb Barry, ’94, and Cheryl Murray Joseph and June Burley Rensch, ’52, by Jacquelyn Jagger Parsons, ’52 Edward Rosenfeld by Phyllis Cole Bader, ’35 Sharon Tatai, ’80, by Suzanne Adams, ’48 Cynthia Taves, ’48, by Suzanne Adams, ’48
Gifts in Memory of The Reverend Elspeth McAlpine Alley, ’46, by Lucile Pedler Griffiths, ’46, MA ’47, Dorothy Jane McVeigh Raney, ’45, and Betsy Taves Whitman, ’46 Doree Kerr Alston, ’44, by Elaine Johnson Gutleben, ’44
Vin Prothro VIN PROTHRO, A FORMER TRUSTEE OF MILLS COLLEGE and Co-Chair of Mills’ Sesquicentennial Campaign, died on November 16, 2000, at the age of 58. Mr. Prothro was a well-known philanthropist and corporate leader. He was President and CEO of Dallas Semiconductor Corp., which he founded in the 1980s. The company manufactures silicon chips. Mr. Prothro volunteered on behalf of many organizations, including the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, where a chair was endowed in his name; the Dallas Museum of Art; Southern Methodist University; and the Dallas Zoological Society. In addition to his role as Co-Chair of the Sesquicentennial Campaign, Mr. Prothro and his wife, Caren Harvey Prothro, ’63, also a Co-Chair, are the donors of a challenge grant to help raise money for the renovation of the music building at Mills. Mr. Prothro was a graduate of Stanford University and held an MBA from Harvard. He is survived by his wife, Caren Harvey Prothro, ’63, his parents, Charles and Elizabeth Prothro, his son, Vincent Harvey Prothro, his daughter, Nita Prothro Clark, ’91, two brothers, a sister, and two granddaughters.
Doree Kerr Alston, ’44 DOREE KERR ALSTON died on July 24, 2000, in San Francisco, following a
long illness. Doree, an active member of the American Society of Interior Designers since 1975, was a well-known and highly successful interior designer and color consultant who devoted over 50 years to her profession. She was a decorator in the design department of W&J Sloane from 1947 until 1954, when she opened her own studio, Doree Kerr Associates, in San Francisco. Her work, which also covered architectural design, included major commercial projects such as Robert Mondavi Winery and the Lane Publishing Company’s Sunset Magazine office building and test kitchens, as well as numerous private homes in the Bay Area and nationwide. Doree was a consummate artist in every respect and took great pleasure painting during her leisure time. She was also a gourmet cook, having taken lessons from Julia Child. And she was a generous benefactor to Mills. The daughter of William J. Kerr, former president of UC Medical School, and wife of the late Edwin F. Alston, noted San Francisco psychoanalyst, Doree is survived by her son, Farnum, and granddaughter, Greer. — Elaine Johnson Gutleben, ’44
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