Gifts in Memory of
Received February 16–May 31, 2010
Leila Abu-Saba, MFA ’07, by Scott Hoshida, MFA ’07
Shirley Jaquez, mother of Linda Jaquez-Fissori ’92, by Karlin Sorenson ’92
Laura Balas, MA ’92, by Helen and Arne Hovdesven
Charles Larsen by Elizabeth Terhune ’90
Virginia Vollmer Barr ’46 by Agilent Technologies, Corporate Development
Edward LeFevour by Elizabeth Terhune ’90
Mark Caldwell by Thomas Koster, Judith Stonefield, Marilyn and Murry Waldman
Mary Halsted Lonergan ’68 by Gretchen FitzGerald Chesley ’68, Nancy Bernheim Rogers ’47, Frances Weiler Varnhagen ’52, P ’79, Kazuko Tsunematsu Tajima ’69, MA ’71
Sybil “Syb” Johnson Dray ’41, P ’72, by Paula Merrix Sporck ’46 Marie Everett ’63 by Bette Krause Spagel ’63, P ’79, Connie Young Yu ’63, Sally Kettering Etterbeek ’63 Jessica Feller ’09 by Karen Anderson and Harold Wolverton, Peggy Chang and Gerald Knezevich, Amy Chung, Lee and Timothy Connor, Candis Cousins, The Friday Seminar Group, Eileen and D.E. Feldman, Alice and Fred Feller, Nancy and Michael Feller, Theresa Fisher, Bicycle Club, Judith Ford, Marjorie Gelb and Mark Aaronson, Eric Glassgold, Sara Grunstein, William Guilford, Katherine Gunz, Howard Hamburger, William Joost, Billy Karp, Alan Kubler, Maureen Kurpinsky, Jalyn and Laurence Lang III, Law Offices of Buresh, Kaplan, Jang, Sharon and Jack Levin, Mary Malcolm and James Hardy, Patricia Marra, Catherine McKenzie, Thomas Ogden, Suzanne Pallak, Andrea Saltzman, Analyst Support Network of the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis, Marjorie Schlenoff, Dena Sorbo, Ann and Robert Spears, George Stewart, Tony Johnson, Kate and Lowell Turner, Julie Ziegler Allyson Fremouw by Anita Aragon Bowers ’63, P ’84 Irving Goldberg, father of Nancy Goldberg Todes ’60, by Ellen Locke Crumb ’59, P ’94 Denyse Gross ’72 by April Ninomiya Hopkins, MFA ’03, Kenneth Morrison Clara Mears Harlow ’30 by J. Robert Israel Elizabeth Rulison Harrington ’40 by Helen Smith Evelyn Lenker Hart ’41 by Jean Morgan Randall ’41 William Irvine by Gretchen Hardman-Riedell ’61 My lost classmates by Carolyn Richter Kelemen, MA ’74 Winsome Blossom Nembhard by Lois Nembhard ’90 Cecily Jones Welmers ’61 by Thomas Welmers
Sylvia Jaureguy Love ’47 by Suzanne Brund Lamon ’47, Marilyn Steinmetz Lynch ’47, P ’72, P ’74, Norma Ross Maris ’47, Janet Clark McCoy ’47, Elise Feldman Rosenfeld ’47 Boitumelo “Tumi” McCallum ’09 by Margaret Moja, Teboho Moja, P ’09 Margery Foote Meyer ’45 by Isabelle Hagopian Arabian ’45, Emilie Reese Green ’45, P ’79, KerryLynn Blau-Williams ’65, Dr. Marion Ross ’44, Marian McCormack Wilkie ’45, P ’78 Rudolph Papale, husband of Catherine Genaro Papale ’48, by Nancy Lindauer Garrison ’48, Cynthia Taves ’48 Kathryn Yost Powell ’47 by Betty Blair Code ’47 Doris Richards ’59 by Ellen Locke Crumb ’59, P ’94 Joan Goforth Schippmann ’54 by Diane Marie Whyte ’54 Barbara Miller Schlauch ’48 by Nancy Butts Whittemore ’48 Anne Sherrill by Elizabeth Terhune ’90 Edward Stern, P ’68, by Susan Stern Fineman ’68 Richard Stern, father of Cheryl Stern Seltzer ’59, by Susan Stern Fineman ’68 Susan Burnett Taha ’49 by Pauline Royal Langsley ’49, P ’78, P ’83, Cynthia Taves ’48, Margaret Clarke Umbreit ’49 Letitia Thoreson Teeter ’57 by Suzon and David Gordon Nancy Goldberg Todes ’60 by Ellen Locke Crumb ’59, P ’94 Mae Louise Ford Town ’34 by Elizabeth Bryant Miles ’34 Lucy Turner-Powers ’64 by Helen Peterson Brainerd ’64 Richard Wolf, P ’64, by Susan Wolf Kaufman ’64 Christina Wolfe, P ’96, by Shannon Wolfe ’96 Jack Young, husband of Meredith Crossley Young ’53, by Betty Chu Wo ’46
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Shirley Jaquez, mother of Linda Jaquez-Fissori ’92, May 9, in Pueblo, Colorado. Abner Kaplan, husband of Marie Henschel Kaplan ’49, April 2, in Rancho Palos Verdes, California. Clement Renzi, husband of Dorothy Ohannesian Renzi ’48, December 1, 2009, in Fresno, California. Rose Ruderman, mother of Elizabeth Ruderman Miller ’70, June 1, 2009, in Port Jervis, New York. Marion Souyoultzis, daughter of Vera Skaggs Long ’35 (deceased) and sister of Trustee Nan Fink Gefen, April 6, in Piedmont, California.
Edward Stern, father of Susan Stern Fineman ’68 and Margaret Stern Thornton ’65 and uncle of Cheryl Stern Seltzer ’59, April 18, 2009, in Fargo, North Dakota. Richard Stern, father of Cheryl Stern Seltzer ’59 and uncle of Susan Stern Fineman ’68 and Margaret Stern Thornton ’65, May 2, 2009, in New York. Richard Wolf, father of Susan Wolf Kaufman ’64, February 23, in Ellicott City, Maryland.
Jack Young, husband of Meredith Crossley Young ’53, April 16, in Tigard, Oregon.
Faculty and Staff Leslie Scalapino, 1944–2010 Contemporary poet and writer Leslie Scalapino, who taught graduate poetry workshops and craft classes in the Mills College MFA program, passed away May 28 in Berkeley, California. She received her BA in literature from Reed College in Oregon in 1966 and her MA in English from the University of California at Berkeley in 1969. O and Other Poems, published in 1976, was the first of her 30 books of poetry, prose, inter-genre fiction, plays, essays, and collaborations. In 1988, her long poem way received the Poetry Center Award, the Lawrence Lipton Prize, and the American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation. Her plays have been performed from coast to coast. She founded O Books in 1986 and released nearly 100 titles from emerging poets and innovative writers. Survivors include her husband, Tom White. fa l l 2 0 1 0
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