Plaid takes spotlight at annual Women’s League fashion show There’s no doubt about it! Plaids have the votes of fashion conscious coeds this fall. … Onlookers “oohed” and “aahed” all the way through the dream wardrobe, from the red plaid p.j.’s and duster to a roman blue ruffled formal. — The Post, 1960. Photo: 1960 Athena; Dad’s Weekend Varsity O show
president of the Michigan Boating Industries Association. He was inducted into the Michigan Society of Association Executives Hall of Fame and the Michigan Boating Industry Association’s Hall of Fame and received the Van Snider Award — named in his honor — from the Michigan Sea Grant program. He and his wife, Elizabeth Stephens Snider, BSED ’68, live in Farmington Hills, Mich. Fred Whissel, BSJ ’68, became the 70th inductee into East Muskingum School District’s Distinguished Alumni Hall of Fame, for achievements in journalism, business and community service. He and his wife, Barbara, reside in Jackson, Wyo. Robert Williams, MED ’68, and his wife, Sandra Hall Williams, BSED ’64, have 13 grandchildren, one of whom will attend Ohio next fall, becoming the fourth generation of Williamses to attend Ohio. He and his wife reside in Cincinnati.
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Annie Craycroft Carter, AB ’69, is retiring after 35 years as an occupational therapist. She resides in Sarasota, Fla. Stanford Feldstein, AB ’69, is a part-time Spanish instructor at the University of Toledo and would like to hear from fellow residents of Bush Hall from the years 1965–69. He can be reached by email at stan43606@ yahoo.com. He resides in Toledo, Ohio. John Keller, BSED ’69, is in his 39th year of teaching. He lives in Las Vegas. John Luff, BS ’69, received the SBE Broadcast Engineer of the Year Award. He is a media technology consultant and owns his own company, HD Consulting. He and his wife, Betty, reside in Sewickley, Pa.
Criss Somerlot, BSED ’69, was inducted into the Ohio Track & Cross Country Coaches Hall of Fame. He coached 30 years of high school track and field at Centerville High School and was a 2004 and 2008 U.S. Olympic coach. He and his wife, Rita, reside in Powell, Ohio. Michael Stewart, AB ’69, received the Ohio Project Learning Tree 2010 Outstanding Educator of the Year Award and was nominated for the National PLT Outstanding Educator Award for 2011. He lives in Springfield, Ohio.
more than 40 years in the journalism field, including jobs at the Athens Messenger, The Columbus Dispatch, Dow Jones & Co., Long Island Newsday, The Chicago Sun-Times and the Tampa Tribune. He lives in Cypress, Texas.
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Terri Foland Bush, BSED ’72, retired from teaching language arts and speech at Fort Frye High School in 2009. She resides in Vienna, W.Va. Kathleen Cash McConnell, AB ’72, is a professor of English as a second language at Suffolk County Community College and co-authored “Can Your ESL Students Explain Data in Tables and Graphs? Fostering Information Literacy Through a Demographic Study of a City” in the International Journal of Learning. She resides in Manorville, N.Y. Karen Mueller Moore, BA ’72, is president of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel
and oversaw the move of its headquarters from Los Angeles to Washington, D.C. Patricia Patten, AB ’72, MA ’74, is dean of admissions at Virginia Wesleyan College. She resides in Virginia Beach, Va. Jeffrey Wagner, BBA ’72, works in banking and is a semi-professional poker player with a world ranking. He resides in Diamond Bar, Calif. Gary Wilkins, BBA ’72, was inducted into the Northern Ohio PGA Hall of Fame in October. He and his wife, Kathryn, reside in Norwalk, Ohio.
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Kathleen Fallon, AB ’73, traveled this past year to Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Belize, Chicago, Seattle, Florida and Athens, Ohio. She is a social worker at University Hospitals Case Medical Center in Cleveland. Steven Kannry, BGS ’73, completed
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Marcia Silver Cohen, AB ’70, retired after 35 years with Pittsburgh Public Schools and is enjoying traveling. John Duerr, BSIT ’70, retired as a senior loss prevention specialist with FM Global after 39 years with the company. He and his wife, Betty, reside in Louisville, Ky.
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Betty Robinson Bross, BSED ’71, taught high school math before acquiring her master’s degree at the University of Dayton. She works as a counselor/director of guidance. She and her husband, William Bross, AB ’71, MBA ’90, reside in Tipp City, Ohio. Dave Fendrick, BSED ’71, MED ’73, was promoted from general manager to president within Round Rock Express, the minor league baseball franchise based in Round Rock, Texas. Steven Lowe, BSED ’71, retired as a social studies teacher and served as mayor of Marysville, Ohio. He is a GED teacher at London Correctional Institution. William Prewitt, BSJ ’71, retired from the Houston Chronicle after
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