By Dave Rebstock Editor’s Note: Keep sending us your news! Everyone is excited to find out what has been going on in your life. Thank you, class editors, for all of your help in getting this information to us. Please send your news to your class editor, or to: Karen Dreessen Morningside College 1501 Morningside Ave. Sioux City, IA 51106 alumni@morningside.edu 712-274-5107 Class Editors
1943 Mary (Cruikshank) Grefe 1953 Bruce Norris 1960 John Gilbert 1961-62 Earl Parsons 1963 Don Hill 1965 Wayne Shively 1967-68 Barbara (Kubiatowicz) Danger 1972 Donna (Tack) Ricks 1980 The Rev. Dale Schoening 1981-82 Michael Madsen 1989 Penny May 1990 Tom Gerking 1991 Troy Sparks 1992 Jami (Walquist) McCuddin 1993 Eric Wylie 1995 Jennifer (Rice) LeMar 1996 Kristin Johnson and Lynn Kogelmann 1997 Brian M. Clarke 1998 Amber (Ellerbroek) Hegarty 1999 Jami (Wheatcraft) Langholdt 2001 Allison (Hallquist) Newman 2002 Tasha (Segebart) Eldridge 2003 Mike Eldridge 2004 Erin Mulvany 2007 Brian Hamilton 2009 Trey Blackburn
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Meet Your Class Editor Dr. Mary (Cruikshank) Grefe recently retired after serving 12 years on the Morningside College Board of Directors. She currently resides in Des Moines, Iowa. Send your notes to: marygrefe@aol.com.
Wash. Delta Kappa Gamma is a professional organization that was founded in 1929 and has a membership of more than 100,000 women educators.
1957
Shirley (Hansen) Fornia was selected as corresponding secretary for Abu Bekr Shrine Kan-Duettes, a unit composed of widows and other survivors of Shriners who continue the work of the Temple and the Abu Bekr Transportation Fund.
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Sixties
Col. George “Bud” Day served as the parade marshal for Sioux City’s 2010 River-Cade Parade to personify the parade theme “We Support Our Troops.” A few months later, the Florida Legislature designated the highway entering Eglin Air Force Base as Col. Bud Day Boulevard. Then earlier this year, Day flew a P-51 in Destin, Florida, and an F-100 at Ellington Field in Houston, Texas.
Meet Your Class Editor John Gilbert and his wife, Carlene, enjoy traveling, spending time with family, bicycling and fishing. Send your notes to: jdgilbert1937@gmail.com or 12313 Long St., Overland Park, KS 66213-2210.
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John and Charma (Harmelink) Lind celebrated their 50th anniversary with their children and grandchildren at their church, The Kirk of Dunedin Christian Church, in Dunedin, Fla., on June 5, 2011, followed by a week at Celebration World Resort in Kissimmee, Fla. Charma was Morningside’s 1961 Homecoming queen, while John was a member of the track team. John said, “I met Charma on Jan. 2, 1961. At the end of the year, we sold our textbooks for $100 and used the proceeds to pay for our wedding on June 2, 1961. We have been in love ever since.”
Leon Harbeck and his wife, Barb, Sioux City, celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary with an open house on Aug. 1, 2010, at Whitfield United Methodist Church in Sioux City. He sold real estate, worked for the post office and retired from Toy National Bank after 23 years.
Doug Gresham and his wife, Jean Austen, are the great-grandparents of Kaydence Dunn, born Sept. 11, 2009, and Braden Lawson, born Oct. 13, 2010.
1953
Meet Your Class Editor Bruce Norris lives in Council Bluffs, Iowa, with his wife, Dione. He taught in the public schools and at the junior college level for 38 years. He has been doing volunteer work at Lewis Central High School in Council Bluffs for the past 18 years. Send your notes to: loweregister@msn.com.
1956
Dr. Constance L. “Connie” (Carlson) Hoag, professor emeritus at the University of South Dakota in Vermillion, co-authored an international historical document, “Our Heritage Volume III,” the 1970-2008 history of the Delta Kappa Gamma Society International. The 32-month project, documented on CD by Full Effect Productions of Sioux City, was officially presented to the Delta Kappa Gamma Society International at its convention held in July 2010 in Spokane,
Gary Anderson, a reverse mortgage specialist in Georgetown, Texas, played for the Rusty Pistols basketball team that won the gold medal at the 2010 Texas Senior Games. The team is representing Texas at the 2011 National Senior Games being held June 16-30 in Houston, Texas.
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Meet Your Class Editor for 1961 and 1962 Earl Parsons retired in 2001, after more than 35 years in the health care industry - nursing homes, specifically. He was involved in building, owning and operating buildings in Iowa, Nebraska, Arizona and California. Being father to three wonderful girls and grandfather to identical twin girls, all living in the Denver area, has led to a lot of traveling. Parsons says, "If I knew grandfathering was going to be this cool, I would have skipped parenting and gone right to grandparenting!" Send your notes to: jephasarrived1@cox.net or 2601 W. Romley Ave., Phoenix, AZ 85041.
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