In Memoriam 1930-1939 Ruby F. Landes ’33, ’37 Marian K. Patton ’37, ’41 Wilma O. McGurren ’38, ’41 1940-1949 Lucy J. Papen ’40 H. Carroll King ’41 George W. Wood ’41 Kathryn H. Owings ’44 Herman F. Son ’44 Janie L. Uhler ’45 Gladys O. James ’46 Eulah L. Lowe ’46 William C. Wiegers ’46 Francis M. Coogan ’47 Everett E. Draper ’48 Ernest Norcross ’48 Robert D. Joy ’49 Beulah L. Krager ’49 1950-1959 Marjorie W. Helvey ’50 Janet Irwin ’50 Ruby M. Owen ’50, ’74 Twylia J. Preston ’50
William L. Eckelberry Jr. ’52 Thurman L. Stone ’52 Eleanor Kivett Wessley ’54, ’58 Theola Bradley ’56 Thelma D. Blank ’58 Kathryn V. Blumhorst ’57, ’86 Martha L. Johnson ’57, ’72 Robert Lee Briggs ’58, ’62, ’69 Frederick J. Kiehl ’58 Sue Noble Markham ’58 Don E. Phillips ’58 Paul R. Sheridan ’58 Willis R. Arnold Jr. ’59 1960-1969 Jack P. Cummins ’60 David E. Kerr ’60 John E. Murphy ’60 Beverly Phillips Bunch ’61 Robert E. Motsinger ’61 Margaret W. Means ’62
CORRECTION: Tom Boland In our Spring 2010 Today, we incorrectly listed Tom Boland ’70 as deceased. We’ve since learned that UCM alumnus Tom Boland is very much alive and that it was another Tom Boland, not affiliated with our university, who passed. We regret the error and apologize to both Tom and our readers. Russell Ireland Russell Ireland, U.S. Air Force retired colonel and a 1975 UCM graduate who helped establish the university’s flight instruction program, died Dec. 25, 2008. Ireland was in the ROTC program at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and later joined the Merchant Marine. He entered the Army Aviation Cadet training program in 1940 and when ordered to active duty, became a flight instructor in AT-6s at Mather AFB in Sacramento, CA.
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George C. Newton Jr. ’62, ’68 Dimple B. Brown ’64 Gordon L. Corson ’64 John T. Duncan ’64 Barbara C. Miller ’65 Roberta K. Finnie ’66 Michael Chambers ’69 1970-1979 Janice S. Barnes ’70 Mary E. Harrison ’70 Julia E. Baysinger ’71 Joseph M. Rinehart Sr. ’71 Kathryn J. Schieszer ’71 James L. Tipling ’71 Virginia G. Anthony ’72, ’73 Paul M. Ackley ’73 Mary C. Frye ’73 Thomas O. Scholle ’73 Billy J. Brown ’74 Robert G. Haning ’74 Pierre J. Gramlich ’75 Vernon L. Meinders ’76 Shirley J. Feeback ’77
He flew bombing missions in B-29s on the Pacific Front until the end of World War II. He flew air refueling operations out of Japan in the Korean War and helped establish the 320th Air Refueling Squadron. He established the UCM flight instruction program after he retired from the military in 1966 and remained an active flight instructor well into his 70s. Ronald Long Ronald Long, professor emeritus of English, died May 6, 2010. During his 35-year career at Central Missouri, he designed the master of arts program in Teaching English as a Second Langauge and successfully guided its official approval through the state. He was one of the first UCM faculty members to embrace computer technology in the early 1980s and developed one of the campus’ earliest microcomputer labs. Before he began his career at UCM in 1975, he taught in Uganda for two
Beula H. Neuhart ’77, ’81 Helen F. Gestaut ’78 Mary E. Eblen ’79 Darlene Williams ’79
David A. Ulett ’93 Mark R. Logsdon ’94
1980-1989 Janice K. Blankenship ’81, ’92 Stephen T. Sanders ’81 Bill Patrick Colvin ’82, ’88 Mary Elizabeth Wilkie ’82 Ted J. Berberich ’83, ’87 Raymond L. Moore Sr. ’83 Scott Jackson Wenger ’83 John G. Siriano ’84 Stephen D. Spears ’84 Jane C. Bishop ’88 Kyle K. Kuda ’88
College High Alumni Garland Riddle ’40 Gladys Kidney ’41 Richard Feldman ’58 Mary Ann James ’60 Dorothy Jean Kropp ’63
1990-1999 Kari D. Wright ’90 Rebecca J. Weyrauch ’92
2000-2009 Kent D. Shilling ’05
Former Students Beverly Belle Carter Augustine Mildred Dodd Davis Friends Arnold R. Adler Billie H. Bagby Shirley J. Bechtold Dorothy A. Benson Robert B. Benson Richard M. Collins Alfred D. Cowan Mary Burt Dee Mildred O. Dobson
years and was an adjunct faculty member at the University of TexasPermian Basin and California State University-Long Beach. Memorials are suggested for the TESOL students in honor of Ronald Long through the UCM Foundation, Smiser Alumni Center, Warrensburg, MO 64093. Lucille Meverden Lucille Meverden, 89, a long-time Warrensburg teacher, died Dec. 13, 2009. She received a master’s degree from UCM in 1979 and taught remedial reading at Southeast Elementary School for 20 years. Her husband, Merville, preceded her in death in 1985. He taught math and science at the secondary level, was a superintendent, taught at the university level and served many years as a Central Missouri administrator. The two established a scholarship encouraging students to become secondary education teachers. Memorials are suggested to the Merville L. Meverden Scholarships through the UCM Foundation.
John D. Hartmann Roberta Ireland Don Jeffries Wesley B. Johnson William Kimberlin Ben Kinnaman Dolfrine Korff Paul L. Laffey Orval Lenger Eric W. Logeman Harvey Lovewell Mary J. Murphy Dana L. Schaadt Mary P. Schlotzhauer Patrick J. Seifner Alan D. Skouby Helen M. Smith Mary Dee Spears Dan D. Stuart Vivian L. Sutton Shirley Underwood Patricia W. VanderLinden Ima M. West Thelma Marie White Mildred Wilcox Doris E. Yager
Colleen Nance Colleen L. Nance, who with her husband, Paul, donated an extensive collection of Middle East art and artifacts to UCM, died March 26, 2010. She married Paul Nance 64 years ago. They moved to Saudi Arabia in 1953 where he worked for Aramco for 31 years. During that time, they traveled to 50 countries and gathered what became the largest collection of Middle East items in the U.S. After opening and operating a private museum for many years at their home near Lone Jack, MO, they donated their collection to UCM in 2003. The Nance Collection is exhibited in James C. Kirkpatrick Library, where it has attracted viewers from throughout the world. A source of global education and cross-cultural understanding for people of all ages and cultures, it spans the history of a culture from the Stone Age to its transformation by the discovery of oil.