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DAVID ROBINSON ’64 of Warren, Conn., has
been retired for seven years. He travels, has two children and five grandchildren, and has a farm on a lake in northwestern Connecticut. DAN SICULAN ’64 of Columbia, S.C., retired
in February 2013 after 45 years in the market research business. His employers included Montgomery Ward, GENESCO, Long, Haymes and Carr (advertising), Wachovia Bank, SunTrust Bank, William M. Mercer Investment Advisory and SCANA Corp. PATTY GASS BRAIDWOOD ’66 of Virginia
Beach, Va., writes: “Semi-retirement is great – just enough challenge to keep the mind going and just enough time to travel and enjoy family. I continue with a variety of church duties – Vacation Bible School, Altar Guild and book study.”
by private donations and just made budget by $87 in 2012. MARY RASCHKA SIKORA ’66 of Orlando,
Fla., retired in the spring of 2013 from college classroom teaching of developmental math, but still is doing upper-level math tutoring at Valencia College and teaching English in small groups in her daughter’s second-grade classroom. She is active in watercolor painting, drawing, body conditioning and yoga. BARRY SIMON ’66 of Albuquerque, N.M., is executive producer for the New Mexico Gay Men’s Chorus concerts, “putting my drama minor and my time in chorus to use,” he says. He volunteers with a children’s reading program and teaches first-graders about symphony orchestras and instruments.
NANCY COX CARTER ’66 of Alfred, Maine, has a business, North Wind Picture Archives, specializing in history. Clients include publishers, television networks, museums and the National Park Service. Her pictures are carried by the Associated Press; her website, northwindpictures.com; and partner agencies in Paris, Berlin and London. She and her husband, Richard, enjoy travelling and fixing up homes in Maine and New Mexico.
GARY YERKEY ’66 of Washington, D.C., has a
BILL DESCHER ’66 and PATRICIA OLSON DESCHER ’66 of Ocean Springs, Miss.,
as division director of the Worldwide Instructional Design System (WIDS), which she helped establish in the 1990s. She continues volunteer work with the Ripon Education Foundation, Ripon Public Library and Ripon Community Appearance Committee. She and her husband, BILL NEILL ’67, enjoy traveling, gardening, sailing and participating in Ripon College activities.
recently cruised from New York to Bermuda with their three sons and their wives and all six grandchildren. A seventh grandchild is on the way. They still are working with their 22 McDonald’s restaurants. DAVE GEBHARDT ’66 and his wife, Marianne,
of Bloomingdale, Ill., travelled to Alaska for three weeks in July and celebrated their 44th wedding anniversary aboard a Princess cruise ship there. “We saw many glaciers and ate much salmon,” he says. They winter in Florida. ROGER GREILING ’66 of Roseville, Minn., and
new book, “South to Selma: ‘Outside Agitators’ and the Civil Rights March that Changed America,” about his participation in the Selmato-Montgomery voting rights march in 1965. It is available through Amazon.com http:// goo.gl/6a5va7. Read a full profile at http://goo. gl/8nvBk2
Ill., volunteers, travels, takes classes and spends time with family and friends. In 2012, she and her husband, John, spent five weeks in New Zealand. After she and a friend took Italian classes together, they rented a place in Bettona, Italy, in September.
SHARI VIZANKO MILLER ’66 of Stillwater,
received her designation as a certified meeting professional with emeritus status as of 2013.
Minn., is retired and keeps busy with volunteer work, babysitting her grandchildren and traveling.
NANCY OLIVER LEIFHEIT ’69 of Sycamore, Ill., reports that DAVE LEIFHEIT ‘67 is a
retired banker and now volunteers as a SCORE counselor and heads up the local AARP Tax-Aide tax preparation for senior citizens. Nancy earned a doctor of education degree and national board certification and has retired as the curriculum director of the Sycamore School District.
GEORGE SCHNEIDER ’66 of Wauwatosa,
Wis., still works full time in urgent care and occupational medicine during the day and two nights a week at the Greater Milwaukee Free Clinic. The all-volunteer clinic is funded
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Connected by Ripon KEVIN WARMACK ’79 of Chicago, Ill., recently received an invitation from PAUL GODBOLD ’83 of South Holland, Ill., to join his LinkedIn network. “In his message to me, he told about his Ripon connection but also the high school connection – Harvard St. George School. Outside of me, I know of one other Ripon/Harvard St. George connection: GEANNINE GRIFFITH HARRIS (’85 of Chicago Ill.). Harvard was a very small school here in Chicago, and the school itself closed in the late ’90s. Harvard gave the world Edgar Rice Burroughs, the writer of ‘Tarzan,’ and was the school from where Bobby Franks, the young man who was murdered by Loeb & Leopold, was abducted.”
NANCY GONIA BAJOREK ’69 of Elmhurst,
ALICE HALL HAYES ’69 of Washington, D.C.,
opened Hawaii’s only Life is Good Genuine Neighborhood Shoppe with a partner in August 2012.
Va., retired from government service in the Department of Defense on June 20, 2013. However, he adds, “Retirement lasted 30 days. I signed a one-year contract supporting a major set of construction litigation. I’m temporarily located in Aiken, S.C.”
JUDY WILKINSON NEILL ’68 of Ripon, Wis., has retired
his wife, Mindy, have worked on issues involving mental health awareness and advocacy for 15 years. Their daughter, Angela Greiling Keane, is president of the National Press Club.
WILLIAM MOORE ’66 of Lahaina, Hawaii,
NICHOLAS “CHIP” RETSON ’69 of Centreville,
GORDY MILLER ’69 of Lebanon, N.J., is the founder/principal at Alternative Investment Consulting LLC.
MARK HENKEL ’70 of
Rudolph Wis., celebrated 25 years of tae kwon do training in August 2013. He credits the year-round workouts for the fitness and control needed to continue litigating. He is a sixth-degree black belt, and his wife HILDE BORMANN HENKEL ’73 and sons, James and John, all train and teach tae kwon do. MARK CONRAD ’73 of Chetek, Wis., is the president of University of Wisconsin-Barron County Foundation and an associate lecturer in political science.