ROBERT C. BENSON ’76 of Newark, Delaware, has retired after 30 years in the Crop Protection (AG) Division for the DuPont Co. He now is “fixing up the house, caching up on things I’ve put off and, hopefully, will enjoy my hobby of collecting rocks and minerals.”
KITTY NORTON ’76 of Clemson, South Carolina, has been promoted to assistant vice president at Wells Fargo Advisors in Seneca, South Carolina, after 16 years with the company. GERALD D. ROTHROCK ’76 of Canton, Maine, retired in June 2014 after a 34-year career with the Central Intelligence Agency. Most of his assignments were focused on Middle Eastern issues, “an area of the world I first became interested in during a Middle East history class at Ripon,” he says. PATRICK SAUNDERS ’76 of New Franken, Wisconsin, retired after 37 years in public education, then was selected as the director of Ph.D. Studies and assistant professor of education at Marian University.
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DAVE OLENCHEK ’87 of Brookfield, Wisconsin,
Connected by Ripon RUTH MIALE ’81 of Lawrenceville, New Jersey, says that many years ago, she visited her friend, LUDY D’ANGELO ’83, in New Jersey. “When I was living in Princeton (Ludy’s hometown) with my soon-to-be husband, Elan Sicroff, Ludy called to say he wanted to stop by with his girlfriend (also soon to marry him!) Georganne Cassatt took one look at Elan and asked, “Don’t I know you from Oberlin?” She and my husband had been freshmen together in Ohio.
MARK A. GREENE ’80 of Laramie, Wyoming, has received Ripon College’s Distinguished Alumni citation. He is the director of American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming. He has taken leadership roles and earned numerous honors with the Society of American Archivists.
JEFF RYAN ’80 of South Portland, Maine, has signed with Down East Books, who will publish his first book, Appalachian Odyssey: A 28-year hike on the Appalachian Trail. The book chronicles his nearly three decades of hiking the 2,100 mile trail in sections with a childhood friend. It is a story of friendship and perseverance, punctuated with humor and stunning photography. Visit Jeff’s website: www. feedthevision.com.
RICHARD WEBSTER ’76 of Shoreline, Washington, has retired as a victims advocate with the Seattle Police Department. He and his wife, Arlene, enjoy travelling, and he continues to design support systems for tensioned fabric structures, including tents. He holds two patents, and products on the market use his designs.
LARRY NEUMANN ’81 of Racine, Wisconsin, writes: “Dental practice is still going strong, traveling to Thailand this spring to visit our son who is there teaching English. Life is good!”
Dublin, Ohio, has been inducted into the Ripon College Athletic Hall of Fame. He was a four-year starter on the gridiron, earning First Team AllConference honors at linebacker for three seasons, was the team’s Most Valuable Defensive Lineman and earned Associated Press Little All-America honors in 1978.
California, has been promoted to principal project manager at Nuance Communications, and received remote office status. “So now I can live anywhere,” she says.
PHILLIP J. TROBAUGH ’88 of St. Paul, Minnesota, was board-certified as a labor and employment specialist by the Minnesota State Bar Association. He is the charter school liaison in the Department of Education for the State of Minnesota.
COLLEEN TOWNSEND ’89 of Napa, California, is chief medical officer of Community Health Clinic 06, serving Napa County.
The 1990s MICHELLE RIEDER ’90 of Aurora, Illinois, received a degree in accounting from Aurora University in May 2015.
KAREN MCCULLOCH CHILSTROM ’92 and her husband, John, of Austin, Texas, welcomed a son, Joseph Christopher, into their family in January 2014. Joseph, who was then 10 years old, was adopted from western Ukraine.
JUDEE STOJSAVLJEVIC FISCHER ’92 of Racine, Wisconsin, is a clinical study manager at AbbVie (spinoff of Abbott), supporting an oncology compound in development to target brain tumors.
BOB WELCH ’92 of Madison,
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DEBORAH HANNI DAMROW ’88 of Oakland,
KIRSTEN HERDER WALDRO ’92 of St. Louis Park, Missouri, is an international trade compliance officer at TE Connectivity. She graduated from Marquette University Law School in May 2011.
REBECCA GALLOWAY ’78 of Seattle, Washington, worked for 10 years at Planned Parenthood and has been with the University of Washington for 14 years. “In both places, I try to help people get the most out of their computer,” she says. “I’ve done some hiking, but mostly I love swimming in the local lakes.”
Tennessee, retired as a colonel in the United States Marine Corps. He now is vice president of operations for Paragon Systems, a national security company.
chair of the math department at Hartland Arrowhead High School, was recognized as outstanding Wisconsin teacher of mathematics at the spring meeting of the Wisconsin Mathematical Association of America, hosted at Ripon College by the Department of Mathematical Sciences.
CHARLIE SCHEIPS ’81 of New York, New York, spoke at Ripon College April 29 to promote his new book Elsie de Wolfe’s Paris: Frivolity Before the Storm about the “international smart set” of Paris in the years just before World War II. He is a curator, art adviser, artist, writer and cultural historian.
LON MICHELS ’84 of Palm Springs, California, opened the Lon Michels Gallery (lonmichels.gallery) in January 2015.
Wisconsin, gave a public presentation, “The Interplay of Wisconsin Politics from a Lobbyist’s Perspective,” on campus March 31. Welch served in the State Legislature for 20 years before he established The Welch Group, a full-service government relations and public affairs firm. He ranks among the top 10 of individual lobbyists in Wisconsin.
JUDY BARTOLETT ’93 of Roseville, Minnesota, married Char Miller, July 19, 2014. She works for Minnesota Wild.
LINDA MENSCH BISAREK ’93 of Hillsboro, Wisconsin, is an after-school coordinator at Hillsboro Elementary School.
KARIN HANKWITZ ’93 of Madison, Wisconsin, has a son, Christopher James, born May 1, 2014. PAUL GARDETTO ’85 of Brookfield, Wisconsin, retired as a colonel from the Air Force in September 2014. He works from home in Milwaukee as a health economics adviser for Thermo Fisher Scientific.
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