Class Notes
By Vianna (Miller) Hobbs Please send your news to: Jeanie Dolphin Morningside College 1501 Morningside Ave. Sioux City, IA 51106 alumni@morningside.edu 712-274-5363 or 800-831-0806, ext. 5363
Bud and Dorie Day Patriots’ Trail. The half-mile walking trail features signs marking different points in Bud’s life, a freedom memorial, a photo wall and a garden dedicated to Dorie. Bud was one of America’s most highly decorated servicemen, and he lived near Fort Walton Beach.
1960
Dr. Leslie Steffe is a distinguished research professor of mathematics education at the University of Georgia.
Jim Umbarger and his wife, Marlene, celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary on May 30, 2015, in Tulsa, Okla. Jim is a U.S. Air Force Korean War veteran and is retired from Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corp.
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Adeline (Hall) Anderl blows out the candles with her son Jim at her 102nd birthday party at Sunrise Retirement Community in Sioux City. Adeline was born on Sept. 30, 1913, in White Lake, S.D. She started her career teaching English, drama, rhetoric and debate in the Le Mars Public Schools and later at East Junior High School in Sioux City. She taught Sunday School at Morningside Presbyterian Church and is an active member of several local organizations. She married Wayne “Andy” Anderl in 1940. He died in 2009. They have three children: Dick 1964 and Bill, both now deceased, and Jim, who lives in St. Paul, Minn. They have four grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.
1943
Dr. James L. Adams and his wife, Luverne, celebrated their 70th wedding anniversary on June 3, 2015, as well as his 94th birthday on June 29. Adams is a retired professor of mathematics from the Minnesota State University at Mankato and has spent 43 years in the education field. James and his wife have retired to the lake region of Alexandria, Minn.
1961
Elmer Menage has been inducted into the Minnesota Interscholastic Athletic Administrators Association Hall of Fame. He is also a member of the hall of fame for his high school in Rock Rapids, Iowa, and a member of the Minnesota Football Coaches Hall of Fame. Menage served as the activities director in Luverne, Minn., from 1968 to 1998. He served on many Minnesota State High School League committees, and his community involvement includes serving as a member of the Lions Club, Optimist Club, Toastmasters Club and Grace Lutheran Church. He also was a charter member of the Luverne Booster Club, and he is a driver for the Retired Senior Volunteer Program.
1962
Charles LeMaster Jr. retired from Western Iowa Tech Community College in Sioux City after 24 years in September 2014.
may be downloaded through his publisher Smashwords.com on a smart phone or an electronic reader for a nominal fee. Sutherland is currently writing a science fiction thriller titled “Rockets of Ages.” He is also fattening a plot file for a fifth novel titled “The Fall Guys.” He has won numerous awards for his short stories and novels that he has entered in contests at writers’ workshops he has attended throughout the United States.
1968
John Withhart directs and plays lead alto saxophone in a 17-piece big band of retired musicians in Sun City, Ariz. He is director of a group called Jammers that offers weekly concerts poolside. He also plays lead alto saxophone in the All Stars big band that plays in the Phoenix area, and he plays saxophone or clarinet with numerous groups in the Sun City area.
1970
Dr. Randall Bergen retired after 40 years of podiatric medicine and surgery. He plans to visit his kids and attend more Morningside College events. Larry Countryman was elected treasurer on the executive committee for the Boys Club of Sioux City. The Rev. Greg Wolfe recently celebrated two years of retirement from full-time ministry in the West Michigan Conference of the United Methodist Church. However, he is still serving three-quarter time at the small Napoleon United Methodist Church in West Michigan.
1971
Milton Aunan II serves as senior vice president and chief financial officer for UnityPoint Health – Cedar Rapids Region and was recently named the Financial Executive of the Year (Nonprofit Division) by the Corridor Business Journal. Ed Benton is a software engineer at Lockheed Martin in Cape Canaveral, Fla. The military draft caused him to join the U.S. Air Force and put him in electronics. He has been working technical jobs ever since.
1950
The late Col. George “Bud” Day and his wife, Dorie, were honored last year when the city of Fort Walton Beach, Fla., dedicated the new
1963
Gary Martin Sutherland has published three novels. They are “Laughed to Death,” a comedic mystery; “T’Whom It May Concern,” a supernatural suspense story; and “Nailing the Board,” a satirical mystery. These e-books
Kathryn Lindquist retired from TaylorDeJongh, an independent investment banking firm providing strategic, project finance and corporate advisory services. She is currently serving on the Thunderbird Executive Leadership Council, now a part of Arizona State University, and also on the Maryland Public Television Foundation Board.
