Class Notes 1929
1961 Three of the twelve members of the Park Class of ’61, (left to right) Tom Teel, Greg Zolezzi and Jim Worrall, gathered for a mini-reunion in Old Mission Bay, just north of Traverse City, MI, in August. It was particularly meaningful for Tom, who missed the 50th reunion in May owing to the marriage of his youngest daughter in San Diego. Greg reports, “A good time was had by all!”
• Louise Adams Donner of Littleton, CO celebrated her 100th birthday this summer. Louise enjoys playing tennis and riding her three-wheel bicycle and continues to live independently. She attended Tudor Hall from grades 2 through 12, and recently told The Phoenix that her memories of her years there include rollerskating to school, driving to school in her brother’s Ford Roadster, and breaking windows in the school building at 32nd and Meridian Streets while playing baseball. “I broke more windows than anybody else!” she recalls. While a student a Wellesley, she won the college women’s ski competition for two years at Lake Placid and later, as a golfer, made it to the quarterfinals of the US Open. She is the aunt of Pete Adams ’58 and Jane Adams Bunn ’61.
Louise Adams Donner ’29 with her nephew Pete Adams ’58.
1944
2000 Park Tudor alumni and faculty attending Kate Lehman’s wedding included (left to right): Jeff Kittle, Caroline Kittle, Lauren Kittle, Carolyn Fennimore, Laura Howard, Kate Turner Stamatkin, Chelsea Searles, Ben and Kate Trumbull, Kasey Kruse Wakefield, Alex Genetos, Abigail Lynn, Annie Bao, John Kittle, Annie Kruse, and Katie Kruse. Not pictured: Cheri Lynn Dick, Mary Golichowski.
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• Jean Rikhoff has just published her memoir, “Earth, Air, Fire and Water,” available on amazon.com in hardcover, softcover and Kindle versions. Rikhoff has lived in several foreign countries. When she returned to the United States, she began teaching at SUNY Albany and eventually became chair of its English Division. After retiring, she began writing her memoir, which has been called “very original with its combination of humor and pathos and Rikhoff’s extraordinary ability to fall into adventures wherever she is living.”