Passages by Linda Seligman Schulz, ’63 Arne Michaelsen, husband of Rachel Walter Michaelsen, ’42, by Jane Cudlip King, ’42 Luis Monguio, by Yvonne Steele Byron, ’50 Nancy Richter Monson, ’56, by Pamela Smyth Webster, ’56 Elizabeth Schohr Morton, ’50, by Louis Morton Elizabeth Shepherd Murray, ’33, by Elizabeth Bryant Miles, ’34 Eleanor Nelson, by Evelyn Fry Woelz, ’42 Evelyn Oremland, by Jerome D. Oremland Franklin Ott, by Margaret Saunders Ott, ’40 Robbyn Panitch, ’79, by Betsey Shack Goodwin, ’76 Barbara Tudor Parker, ’36, MA ’41, by Loadel Harter Piner, ’50 Margaret “Meg” Quigley, ’63,
by Marilyn Schuster, ’65 Mary Rand, MA ’78, by Yvonne Dechant Lorvan, ’78 Christine Ploeser Reese, ’70, MAT ’78, by Loadel Harter Piner, ’50 Betty Riback, mother of Donna Riback, ’61, by Mary Linda Doerfler Luhring, ’61, Betsy Frederick, ’61, Connie Gilbert, ’61, Ann Gordon Bigler, ’61, Carolyn Jensen Monday, ’61, Stuart Johnson Sliter, ’61, and Marcia McElvain, ’61 Keith Rice, by Tomoye K. Tatai Donald Robinson, husband of Audrey Coker Robinson, ’52, (deceased) by Sharon Smilie Clausen, ’52 Elizabeth Rosenblatt Rothschild, ’36, by the Palo Alto Area Mills College Club
Nathan Rubin, by Katharine Morton Austin, ’70, Mura Kievman, ’64, and Darlene Mahnke SimpsonBrown, ’52 Irene Wood Schulte, ’39, by Roger Schulte James Short, by Kimberly Kim Lim, ’55 Deborah Shwayder Sims, ’38, MA ’40, by Judith Vida, ’64 Carmen Campbell Smith, ’47, by Betty Blair Code, ’47 Marilyn ”Daz” Dalziel Spencer, ’54, by Betty Chu Wo, ’46 Dave Tatsuno, by Tomoye K. Tatai (Topaz 1945) Melody Clarke Teppola, ’64, by Mark Teppola, and Tiki Feller Ives, ’64, in joyous remembrance Jeanie Thomas, ’64,
by Josephine Patrick Rappaport, ’65 Mackey Thompson, husband of Adeline Hughes Thompson, ’36, by Eleanor “Elly” McDonald Meyer, ’36 Anna Tucci, by Mary Rose Kaczorowski, ’04 Michael Wallerstein, by Jerome D. Oremland Richard Wistar, father of Alice Wistar Herbert, ’85, by Alice Wistar Herbert, ’85 Jeffrey Wendt, son of Mary Church Wendt, ’52, by Sharon Smilie Clausen, ’52 Margaret Wertheimer Wolf, my mother, by Susan Wolf Kaufman, ’64
Phyllis Cole Bader, ’35, 1913–2005 Phyllis Cole Bader, ’35, passed away suddenly and peacefully early on Christmas morning, 2005. For 74 years, from the time she enrolled as a freshwoman, Phyllis was the epitome of a “Mills girl.” At the time of her death, at age 92, she was the marketing manager for the Palo Alto Area Mills College Club and was working at the Junior League resale shop in Menlo Park, California, where she lived. Phyllis was born in San Francisco, raised in Los Gatos, California, and was a resident of Portland, Oregon, after her marriage to William Bader in 1937. In Portland she capitalized on her music major, teaching music and voice privately, conducting children and adult church choirs, and teaching and counseling at Cleveland High School. She was an accomplished vocalist, accompanist and, throughout her life, an ardent attendee at and appreciator of musical events of all sorts. She was active in the Portland branch of the Alumnae Association of Mills College, including serving as president, and was instrumental in sending many a Portland area girl to Mills College through her work as a Student Referral Representative (later known as an Alumnae Admission Representative). Her close Portland friend, Mary Ausplund Tooze, ’44, said, “No one did more for the Mills College Portland Branch than Phyllis Bader.” She was also president of Beaux Arts, a Portland-area musical and cultural group, and was national president of the Rainbow Girls. Phyllis and Bill came to Palo Alto in 1980, to be near their daughter, Lorinda Bader Reichert, ’67, and their newly born grandchild, but returned to spend the summers in Portland. When Bill died in 1988, Phyllis moved permanently to Menlo Park, where she continued her two lifelong interests: music and Mills. When not volunteering at her granddaughter's school, she worked at the Junior League resale shop in Menlo Park. Just a few months before her death, she had led her class at its 70th Reunion. Phyllis in person was a striking figure. Indeed, she had maintained a striking figure, and she was never seen without great makeup, a faultless hairdo, and stunning clothes. No one missed her entry into a room. She practiced daily the gracious living that Mills taught on Wednesday nights, and her fellow members of the Palo Alto Area Mills College Club board delighted in her linens, silver, and china, and her signature dish, chicken legs. Would that we could have cloned her! Phyllis leaves her daughter, Lorinda of Palo Alto, her son, Reece Bader of Washington, D.C., three grandchildren, and four great-grandchildren. —Jane Cudlip King, ’42
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