retired from the New Hampshire Department of Education in 2006. “I spent a year propping up my 18th-century house in order to sell it, selling it and buying and fixing up a condo,” she writes. “Am now writing free-lance and tutoring in English.”
Jack Ankerson ’64
John Ryberg ’67
Nancy Hutt Ackley ’63 of Pewaukee, Wis., retired in May 2010 as a career consultant with Waukesha County Technical College. She had worked there for 34 years. She now is active with the Volunteer Service Club, enjoys gardening and hanging out with her grandchildren. She and her husband, Russell Ackley ’62, also manage a sailing race organization on local lakes. Frank J. Gold ’63 of Larkspur, Calif., married Alice Kaufman, Oct. 10, 2010. Sandra Steiner Karkossa ’63 of Okauchee, Wis., is a retired Spanish teacher and now is selling real estate. Jack Ankerson ’64 of Norfolk, Va., executive director of the Hampton Roads Sports Commission in Virginia Beach, was inducted into the Hampton Roads Sports Hall of Fame Oct. 26. He has spent more than 30 years on the sports scene in Hampton Roads. He has served as an administrator and broadcaster with the American Basketball Association’s Virginia Squires, the Norfolk Tides baseball team and Old Dominion University. His voice is well-known to sports fans throughout the region, having served as sports and program director at WTAR radio station in Norfolk for several years. He also served as general manager of the San Antonio Spurs and in 1974 was named by The Sporting News as ABA Executive of the Year. At Ripon, he earned allconference honors in basketball in 1963 and 1964 and later had a brief football career with the St. Louis Cardinals. Jack’s brother, Doug Ankerson ’66, is in the Ripon Athletic Hall of Fame. Dianne W. Ashley ’64 of Eastham, Mass., retired in 2002 as a teacher at Yorktown High School. During her 30 years there, she taught all levels of English — basic, regular and advanced placement, as well as American literature, British literature, Literary Magazine and World Literature. Since moving to Cape Cod, she has been a volunteer naturalist for the Wellfleet Bay Audubon Society, specializing in increasing the numbers of Diamondback Terrapin Hatchlings, an endangered turtle species. She also is a political activist protesting the Iraq War through Arlington East, making a seven-part video series called “The Plight of the Palestinians,” and directing a play about Iraq in Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom’s Peace and Justice Theatre Festival. She writes poetry, and a poem will be published in the anthology, Poets Against the War. Another poem earned second place in a Veterans for Peace poetry contest last year.
Richard M. Borchers ’68
Charles W. Graeber ’68
William H. Descher ’66 and Patricia Olson Descher ’66 of Doretta M. Miller ’70 Ocean Springs, Miss., were planning a fall cruise from Venice to Istanbul. They continue to be productive in their family business which includes their two youngest sons.
Jeve Chang Chang ’64 of Honolulu, Hawaii, retired Aug. 28, 2008, as director of the Extension Education Division for Kamehameha Schools. She now is primary caregiver for her husband, Charles, and is on a contract with Kamehameha Schools to serve as a site supervisor for interns from the Chaminade University Counseling Program. She has six grandchildren, ages 1 through 8. “They are my joy and, at times, my respite,” she says. “I’m still playing tennis, am writing a children’s book about Alzheimer’s disease from the perspective of a child; and traveling when I can.” Jim Haag ’64 of Kennett Square, Pa., writes: “I’m sort of retired but do almost full-time consulting in the pharmaceutical industry.” Jim was a wrestler in college and still participates in jiu jitsu and mixed martial arts training. He holds a third-degree black belt in tai kwon do and started when he was 55. Richard L. Moschel ’64 of Ely, Minn., writes, “This is my 40th year in the classroom. I am substitute teaching three days a week and playing softball two days a week. Finished the basement in my Ely, Minn., log home this summer.” Sheila Stangel Christiansen ’65 of Elm Grove, Wis., has made many trips with her sons to Scotland, China, Russia, Europe, Africa and throughout the United States. Christiansen is active in Elm Grove and is the president of the Elmbrook Historical Society. Ann Hassler ’65 of Hilo, Hawaii, is semi-retired, does occasional substitute teaching (K-12) and is very active in her church, where she is senior warden and choir director. “Love living in Hawaii!” she writes. She has six grandchildren. Douglas E. Powell ’65 of Sun Prairie, Wis., is retired from Nothrop as an material management accounting system criteria manager. He says he is enjoying his retirement. Stephen C. Rogers ’65 and Pamela Beekman Rogers ’66 of Lake Mills, Wis., have been married for almost 43 years, and their first grandchild was born in January. They have a condo in Fort Myers, Fla., and travelled to Italy and Spain in April. Both work part time. Steve coaches varsity tennis for both girls and boys at Jefferson High School; and Pam is a Jefferson County Board supervisor, an elected position, and is currently in her sixth term in office. Christine A. Davidson ’66 of Portsmouth, N.H.,
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John Ryberg ’67 of Atlanta, Ga., retired Sept. 10, 2010, as a pension sales consultant with Standard Insurance Co. in Portland, Ore. He now plans to do more physical exercise, such as walking, calisthenics and swimming on a daily basis; attend more live music concerts; reading; travel; and more time at his Charleston, S.C., home. “All of these physical items were put on hold after an accidental fall Sept. 17, 2010, which broke a hip bone,” he writes. “Healing that will sideline me for a couple of months. ARRGH!” Susan Smith Amacher ’68 of Lake Shore, Minn., has been elected to a four-year term on the Lake Shore (Gull Lake, Minn.) City Council. Richard M. Borchers ’68 of Denver, Colo., has been named among the top five percent of lawyers in the nation in Super Lawyers Corporate Council Edition. A former U.S. District Court magistrate judge, Borchers was nominated and evaluated by his peers as being among the best alternative dispute resolution providers in the nation. He was recognized at the state level in 2009. He is the founder of Denver’s Legal Resolution Center. Charles P. Burton ’68 of Suffern, N.Y., writes, “After 10 years as a real estate attorney for Toys ‘R’ Us, I was laid off in 2003, only to be brought back as a consultant in 2005 to current date. Became domestic partner to Elaine Craine in 2008.” Charles W. Graeber, M.D., ’68 of Farmington, Conn., is an associate program director at the University of Connecticut; and a primary care residency site director in nephrology at the Hospital of Central Connecticut. Carol Marbet Nero ’68 of Palatine, Ill., retired in 2009 from NAC Corp., which her husband, Gilbert, owns. Prior to that job, she was a teacher for many years. She also is a recent grandmother to twin girls born in April 2010. Robert E. Pellegrino ’68 of Madison, Wis., married Gloria Boone, Feb. 20, 2010. He is a retired principal of and current part-time field data collector for the Center for Disease Control. His research is related to dating violence prevention. He visited Olympic training and research sites in China with University of Wisconsin-Madison kinesiology students. Linda M. Bryson ’69 of South Elgin, Ill., says that