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NORTHROP CLASSMATES OF JOLLEY FULLERTON WHITE ’51 GATHERED AT WOODHILL COUNTRY CLUb TO CELEbRATE HER LIFE. JOLLEY PASSED AWAY PEACEFULLY JULY 24, 2017, IN MARIN COUNTY, CALIFORNIA. ANGLING ENTHUSIAST JACK MITHUN ’55 MODELS THE LATEST IN FISHING FASHION.
storyteller and recently performed in the Ojai Storytelling Festival in Ojai, California, and the Living History Tour in Los Angeles. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife of 32 years, Aleka Corwin. They have two adult children: an artist and a voiceover performer.
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Scott LaBounta is news director for a nine-station radio group in Helena, Montana, and also provides high school football play-by-play. He has cut down on stage work but has done some community theater in My Fair Lady, Music Man and 1776. He writes, “I married the girl I took to the Blake prom, and my daughter just made me a grandfather at the ripe old age of 68.” REUNION
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Jim Colburn traveled to England in September 2016 to visit friends in Devon, Cornwall and Wales. He is enjoying being a grandparent.
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Shanly Heffelfinger Weber lives in Boulder, Colorado, where she teaches and is involved in both the Naropa University and Somatic Experiencing Institute
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communities. Her daughter, Chloe Peavey Weber, is a junior at Naropa University after studying for two years at the University of Puget Sound. She writes, “I have been traveling extensively, teaching with Peter Levine’s work (Waking the Tiger) and connecting with old friends. I am honored to work in the field of trauma and help others with the tragedies of this past decade. Please look me up if you are ever in the Colorado area (Shanly@shiftingawareness.com) and please check out my website www.shiftingawareness.com.”
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Katherine Dunn and her husband, Martyn, relocated their Apifera Farm from Oregon to mid-coast Maine in 2016. For the past 13 years, Katherine has taken in elderly and special-needs creatures and given them hospice care or a forever home. In May, they loaded up 33 animals and drove from Oregon to Maine, spending each of the five nights in a different barn along the way and sleeping in stalls with the animals. Once they settled in Maine, Apifera Farm became a 501[c][3] so they could expand their work to help elderly and special-needs people by sharing the animals with them during eldercare visits and farm
MEMbERS OF THE NORTHROP CLASS OF 1961 GATHERED IN JUNE TO CELEbRATE THEIR 56TH REUNION. PICTURED (FRONT ROW, L TO R) LAWNY WITCHER PFLAUM, CYNTHIA SPENCER, RICKI KUTCHER GREEN, PAM ODENDAHL JOHNSON, MARY EGERMAYER O'ROURKE (MIDDLE ROW, L TO R) JEANNE WILLIAMS, CINDY LARSON LACKEY, ELEANOR ELWELL ZEFF, KATIE bROOKS FLANNERY, MIMI HEERSEMA SMITH (bACK ROW, L TO R) JUDY CRAbTREE STARbUCK, NINA KNObLAUCH, LUCY WARNER bRUNTJEN, CYNNIE bINGER bOYNTON, LISA REED, LAURIE SYVERTON SHULL AND JOY FLINSCH HOWARD.
healing days. Katherine has been a full-time artist and writer since 1996 and is the author and illustrator of four books. She shares her experiences through her blog (apiferafarm.blogspot.com) and has many book ideas percolating. Catherine Stock Lefeber (See In Print & Production) Ted Snelgrove has taken on a new role as chief commercial officer at Guardant Health, a biotechnology company in Redwood City, California, that sells blood tests to track and, potentially, detect cancer.
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Sally Ankeny Reiley started racing in 2014 at age 54 with the goal of running the Boston Marathon to raise money for the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Hospital. Since then she has run three more Bostons and raised $132,000 for eye research.
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Laura Sahr Schmit reports all her kids are off to college and beyond. She recently opened a family law firm, Nancy Zalusky Berg, LLC, with colleagues in Minneapolis’ North Loop, where she specializes in divorce and
custody matters. Laura writes, “Even though it is a tough and sometimes heartbreaking area of law, my favorite part of the job is helping families through difficult transitions.” She continues to pursue her love of theater, directing two shows a year at Jefferson High School. She can be reached at lauras@nzbfamilylaw.com.
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A couple of years ago, Eddie Villaume taught himself to write and file patents, and he hasn’t looked back. In 2016, he received his first U.S. patent for an automated bicycle seat and handlebar mechanisms application through which a rider can make adjustments during a workout by pressing a button. Since then, he has received two more patents, one for a programmable noise cancellation device and another for an emergency light system. He will soon file patents for a new video game platform; another noise cancellation system; a motor vehicle safe driving device and system; and a new method to manufacture bottles and containers. Eddie also writes creatively and is in the process of starting a nonprofit.