also is the president of their condo association. Bob McPherson ’57 of Appleton, Wis., is a retired opera singer. He lived in New York City for 35 years and sang all over the east coast, including nine years at the Metropolitan Opera. He now has his own boat repair business, Robert McPherson Marina Repair, in which he contracts to do fiberglass repair of boats in the Fond du Lac, NeenahMenasha, Oshkosh and Green Bay areas of Wisconsin. Lowell Weber ’57 of Edina, Minn., is active in charitable work, especially with Meds on Wheels and Loaves and Fishes. Susan Pond Brady Wojtasik ’57 of New York, N.Y., continues to write and recently took a course in memoir writing from William Zinsser at the New School University. She has joined a small poetry writing group and continues in various church activities, the Massachusetts Arts Council in Washington, Mass., and the Archives Management Group of the Child Life Council. Arlene Ford Burke ’58 of Strawberry, Ariz., just celebrated her 50th class reunion from nursing school at Rockford Memorial Hospital. She now is retired and does volunteer and church work in Winslow, Ariz. Her husband, the Rev. Canon Norman C. Burke ’56 preaches at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Winslow and next year will note 50 years in active ministry. Donald P. Giegler ’58 of La Jolla, Calif., is a consultant for those building and using microprocessorbased radiation monitoring systems. Howard L. Dahlke ’59 of Winneconne, Wis., is retired, but still consulting for Wescon Products Co. Two artworks by Ann Kleboe ’59 of La Grange, Ill., were included in a juried show of senior artists (those 50 and older) at Renaissance Court in the Chicago Cultural Center. The mixed media works, “Union Station Inspiration” and “Downtown Journey,” were selected for the show that ran last fall. Ann has done artwork all her life, selling at street fairs and incorporating it into her work at a mental health center and as a mental health work and addiction counselor at hospitals.
1960s June 25-27, 2010 50th Reunion, Class of ’60 45th Reunion, Class of ’65 Verne Clark Lewellen Jr. ’60 of Harrisonburg, Va., retired in March 2005 from Atlantic Supply where he was in inside sales. He had worked in plumbing and heating supplies sales his entire career. Verne and his wife, Lois, had lived in Gaithersburg, Md., for more than 30 years. Four years ago, the moved to Harrisonburg to be closer to their son, daughter-in-law and two “wonderful granddaughters,” Kristen, 8, and Samantha, 10.
Evan Olson ’50
Barbara King McIntyre ’55
Ken Luber ’60 of Idyllwild, Calif., has published a novel, “Match to the Heart,” through Dog Ear Publishing. Information about the book is available at www.matchtotheheart.com. The Rev. Dr. Ray Schiefelbein ’60 of Independence, Mo.: “I’m retired but very active. Rona, my wife of 48 years, departed to be with the Lord last summer. That ‘tomorrow is a new day’ is an understatement.” Karen Carlson ’61 of Novato, Calif., had a 40year retrospective of her watercolor art, “Out of the Desert,” exhibited this spring in the Tiburon (Calif.) Town Hall. She was invited to exhibit her work by the Tiburon Heritage and Arts Commission. Carlson works at the circulation desk of the Belvedere-Tiburon Library. Margaret “Maggie” Johnston LeFevre ’61 of Palatine, Ill., retired from Hartford Insurance Co. in April 2008 after 16 years with the company. She was a group life and disability salesperson. “I am enjoying my two grandchildren, gardening and traveling,” Maggie said.
Susan Pond Brady Wojtasik ’57
Linn Janson Andrews ’65
Linn Janson Andrews ’65 of Anchorage, Alaska, recently was the featured quilter at the Anchorage Quilt Show. About 30 of her quilts were shown, as well as about 30 quilt tops (not made into quilts yet). John Burrows ’65 and Nancy Ostermeier Burrows ’66 of Jacksonville, Fla., care for a grandson two days a week. John tutors a student in reading one day a week at a neighborhood elementary school and still works as president of the John Burrows Co., a home inspection business. Nancy also does volunteer work with St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, currently working on developing a Greenhouse Project, a home for senior citizens; and Leadership Jacksonville, an organization that seeks to develop youth and adult leaders to assume greater responsibility as community trustees who improve the quality of life for self, family and community.
George L. Sievers ’61 of McMinnville, Ore., is retired from the Mortgage Guaranty Insurance Corp., based in Milwaukee. He worked for the company for more than 30 years, heading up the states of Alaska, Washington, Oregon, Montana and Iowa.
Betty Hileman ’65 of Santa Fe, N.M., built her own adobe home, mixing the mud, laying the adobes, doing the brick-on-sand floors and using cherry wood shipped from her Pennsylvania property for the cupboards and decking. She is retired after many years as a bureau chief and the director of the State Center for Health Statistics, and now works doing some scoring of ACTs and SATs. She also enjoys taking a BBC language course in Spanish, keeping up with friends, the opera, movies and traveling.
Elizabeth Black Kramer ’62 of Venice, Fla., writes that she completed her BSN at the University of Wisconsin and her MSU from Marquette. She married J. Lance Kramer, Ph.D., had two children, a son and a daughter, four grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. She now is retired and moved to Florida in 1992 “to enjoy the sun.”
John Hyde ’65 of Conover, Wis., retired Nov. 30, 2008, from Hyde & Lichter, a firm of organizational psychologists. He still has one client in Minneapolis. Hyde and his partner started the firm in 1984, so this year marks its 25th anniversary. He and his wife, Shari Tremberth Hyde ’65, winter in Pensacola, Fla. A lot of their time is spent with their four grandchildren.
Susan Ritter Kalanges ’63 of Chester, Va., is chairman of the Virginia Office for Protection and Advocacy with a term ending in July. She also works in other mental health-related activities.
Lana Johnson Meissner ’65 of Belmont, N.Y., started out at Alfred University as a reference librarian and worked up through various administrative positions: from head of public services to director of the library and university librarian. Then she also took over technology services and became a vice president to encompass the two AU libraries and all of information technology services. She retired from that position in 2006. After about a year, she was offered a part-time position as editor/content writer for the university’s Web page. She now does that as well as serving as director of the public Alfred Box of Books Library. She developed a Web site for it: www.alfredboxof bookslibrary.org.
Lynn Siebel Sundelius: ’63 of Kalispell, Mont., is training two clinical laboratory science interns in her job as a lead chemist in the clinical laboratory at Kalispell Regional Medical Center. “I had great hopes of retirement by now, but the shortage of qualified people coupled with the current state of the economy makes employment seem practical, at least for the short term,” she writes.
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