ALUMNI NEWS
Passings
Passings reflect deaths before Sept 3.
The College Bob Cooper ’41, May 8. Family members
include grandson Jason Gallo ’15. Jim McAndrew ’43, June 4 Geri Wool Robertson ’44 , Aug. 7. Family
members include daughter Johanne Robertson Dyerly ’72 and grandson Kevin Dyerly ’00. Bonnie Carner Rams ’45, June 1 Don Russell ’45, May 5 Ruth Harden English ’47, June 13 Helen Newcomb Riggins’47, June 29 Marilyn Butler Leach ’48, April 24 Kay Cullen Waters ’48, April 26. Family
Doris Watson Palmer ’64 , May 30 Jeffrey Wilkens ’64 , July 7. Family members
include daughter Paige Wilkens ’02. Bob Engberg ’65, July 12. Family members
include wife Sherry Netzley Engberg ’65. Norma Driver Gold Pucek ’66, June 13 Mary Manell Lord ’66, June 23. Family
members include husband John Lord ’66. Dee George Seitel ’66, June 23. Family
members include husband Steven Seitel ’65. Phillip Wilson ’67, May 30. Family members
include mother Valerie Phillip Wilson ’42. John Ferman ’71, April 25 Hans “George” Huettig ’71, June 14, 2018. Virginia Higbee ’77, July 4 Eric Kenyon ’89, July 16 Jim Starr ’99, May 19
members include brother Roger Cullen ’54.
Johnston
Dotty Wagner Wise ’48, Aug. 1
Ben Groseclose ’98, July 23. Family members
Arlene Bailey Holmes ’50, June 28.
include sister Susan Groseclose ’93.
Family members include daughter Susan Holmes Porter ’76. Pete Algra Jr. ’51, May 1 Dorlyne Hochuli Genrich ’51, Aug. 1 George Graham ’52, July 15. Family members
Schools of Business and Education Bonita Berge ’76, Aug. 18 Betty Stieringer ’77, June 24
include wife Patricia Phillips Graham ’53.
Stephen Ward ’77, June 12
Florence Schmidt Condos ’53, Aug. 1. Family
Jean Wilson ’78, Aug. 15
members include sister Ruth Schmidt Wilkerson ’51.
Nancy Dehart ’79, Aug. 7
Norman Fox ’53, May 18 Linda Peterson Burrows ’54 , April 20 Richard Clements ’54 , Aug. 1 James Calderhead ’55, Nov. 2, 2018 Frank Perri ’56, May 26. Family members
Dirk Brinkman ’80, June 21 Julie Graca Megareus ’81, June 22 Virgil Stites ’81, July 29 Stella Johnson ’84 , Dec. 27, 2018 Howard Perkins ’84 , July 8
include wife Audrey Hartman Perri ’58.
Doreen Waters ’85, Aug. 1
Bud Bare ’59, July 17. Family members
Ardell Harmsen Loomer ’91, June 13
include wife Darilyn Dorriss Bare ’59, daughter Melinda Bare Makos ’86, and brother John Bare ’66.
John Wibbels ’95, July 12
Martha Hernandez Lopez ’59, June 14
Ann Inthapanti ’03, June 21
Gail Sutphen Bomberger ’60, Jan. 2
Friends
Michael Lynn ’60, June 15
John Moore, July 27. Cortner Society member.
Barry Martin ’60, March 15 Stephen Kellogg ’61, July 14 Kenneth Wiens ’61, July 9. Family members
include sister Lorraine Wiens Culton ’59. Alice Hunt ’62 , Dec. 1, 2018 Steve E. Taylor ’62 , Aug. 17
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Barbara Merrick ’98, Nov. 18, 2018
In Memoriam Olga Gonzalez died on Sept. 4. She was
89. Born in Cuba, Gonzalez held degrees from the University of Havana in law and accounting. She worked as a teacher and as a lawyer before escaping the Castro regime in 1966 and settling in Redlands.
Gonzalez received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Riverside, and worked as a beloved professor of Spanish language and literature at the University of Redlands for almost 48 years. Her great passions in life were her family, travel, and teaching. She was selected as the Mortar Board Professor of the Year for 2004–05, and also received a prestigious King Juan Carlos of Spain Fellowship. Her areas of expertise included Latin American and Peninsular contemporary literature, Spanish culture, and Hispanic women novelists. Gonzalez gave lectures around the world, in places including Spain, Mexico, Canada, and Brazil. An accomplished author, she published books on Gabriel García Márquez and Fidel Castro. She traveled throughout Europe, Asia, and the Americas and was joined in her adventures by her husband of 63 years, Pastor. Gonzalez is survived by her husband; two daughters, Olga and Leila; and four grandchildren. Barbara Wormser passed away on July 7.
Born in 1937 in Stockton, California, she graduated from Scripps College in 1959 with a degree in international relations and economics and pursued a graduate degree in political science from University of California, Santa Barbara. While at Scripps, Wormser met her husband of more than 60 years, Laurence. The couple moved to Redlands, where they owned and managed several businesses, including Redlands Camera, Audio Graphic Supply, and Professional Photosystems Corp. For more than five decades, Wormser served her community in many capacities, including as commissioner of the San Bernardino County Regional Parks Advisory from 1990 to 2016. Elected in 1985 to the Redlands City Council, she served as mayor pro tem in 1987. In 1990, Wormser founded Inland Harvest, with an aim to end food waste and feed those in need. Since its inception, the organization has collected more than 31 million pounds of fresh surplus food from restaurants, cafeterias, bakeries, markets, and donors and distributed it the same day to shelters and programs in the Redlands, Greater Riverside, Yucaipa, and San Bernardino communities. She was a founding leader of Town and Gown, serving as president, and was affiliated with the Friends of Armacost Library. Wormser is survived by her husband, Larry; three children, Carolyn Wormser Medina ’86, Paul Wormser, and Stephen Wormser; three grandchildren; sister, Nancy Cook Aldrich; sister-in-law, Bea Cook; and several nieces and nephews.