ALUMNI NEWS God many ways for many years, and traveled the backroads of America for thousands of miles!” Laura Spencer Davis ’68 was elected 2017–2018
president of the Tualatin Valley chapter of the Oregon Music Teachers Association (OMTA). Laura has enjoyed teaching private piano in her home studio for more than 25 years. She loves it so much that she hopes to continue teaching “until I’m 80!” She has also published a full-color piano book, Carols for a Family Christmas, featuring favorite traditional Christmas carol arrangements in four different skill levels. Chris Dewees ’68 published a book, A Life Among
Kristen Schmidt ’75, ’76 is a professional harpist. The book by Chris Dewees ’68, A Life Among Fishes (ORO Editions), presents his skills in Japanese fish printing (gyotaku).
Laura Spencer Davis ’68 has published a full-color piano book, Carols for a Family Christmas, featuring favorite traditional Christmas carol arrangements in four different skill levels.
Fishes, which presents his skills in Japanese fish printing (gyotaku). Nancy Bailey Franich ’68 wants everyone to come
to the reunion May 18–20, 2018: “You won’t want to miss out on all the fun of this historic occasion. Having made it to our 70s, the most important thing is that we are still alive, able to enjoy each other’s friendship, and share the memories of our great years at Redlands. Hope to see you there!” Chris Lampe ’68 is the California League historian
for baseball and was instrumental in helping to create the first California League Hall of Fame. He travels to minor league baseball games all over the country; a highlight was throwing out the first pitch at the California-Carolina League All-Star Game in Lake Elsinore in 2016. Chris manages the Los Altos Vault and Safe Deposit Company in Los Altos, Calif., and with his wife, Leigh, runs a weekly trivia game. While visiting his oldest son, Lyndon, in Madison, Wis., he stopped by to visit Jeri Inness ’68 in Winona. Chris is planning to be at the 50th reunion in May. Susan Bartley Lea ’68 and her husband, Bob, live
Bill Rydeen ’66 is still working in survey research
at ISA and enjoying life in Los Angeles. He is a member of the Fraternal Order of Eagles, an organization that performs charitable work in Canada and the United States. Bill keeps up with the U of R sports teams through email.
1967 Steve Carmichael ’67 reports that his class had a
great 50th reunion and raised more than $3.3 million in donations with a contribution rate of 42 percent, which is a great result. He says, “If you didn’t make the 50th reunion, be sure to come to our 55th, which will be here before you know it.” Harold Knight ’67 taught English at Southern
Methodist University (SMU) for 15 years and retired in 2014 after 35 years of college music and English teaching. He now tutors athletes at SMU in English and teaches high school equivalency English at the Aberg Center for Literacy in Dallas. He retired from 50 years as a church musician, writes constantly, and works as an advocate for the people of Palestine.
1968 Jackie Bennett Bossuet ’68 reports, “I turned out
to be a decent citizen, a reasonably good mother, married 43 years so far, dabbled in the arts, served
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in Monterey, Calif. Susan is delighted that her only grandchild recently moved there from Phoenix. She hopes to see many of her classmates at the 50th reunion in May.
1970 Mary Nelson Hunt ’70 gave a week-long 70th birthday party for her husband, Ken Hunt ’69. The
event on Coronado Island included a bike ride each weekday with a variety of rides designed by Bill Lowman ’70 and Brian Cole ’70. There were fun events each evening, including great dinners and even a lawn-bowling lesson and match. It all culminated in a party on Friday night. Numerous U of R friends attended throughout the week, including Misi and Bob Ballard ’69, Bill Bryden ’69, Brian Cole ’70 and Jean McMurry Cole ’70, Cathy Gage Curtis ’70, Heather Hunt Dugdale ’96, Gretchen and Jon Erb ’70, Steve and Leslie Miller Grafstrom ’69, Gary Gray ’70 and Joan Griesbaum Gray ’73, Terry and Sue Schmidt Johnson ’70, Carolyn and Bill Lowman ’70, Shelia Rowe Moses ’70 and Denny Moses ’70, and Terry Schultz ’72 .
1971 Daniel Tsang ’71 was awarded a Fulbright U.S.
School grant to research protest culture in Hong Kong as the former British Crown Colony observes 20 years since its handover to China. It’s his second Fulbright grant; his first was awarded in
Manina Zscheile Moles ’75, Doris Baldwin Moberg ’75, Catherine Gilpin O’Neill ’75, and Barbara Rowe Wood ’75 gather at Doris’s daughter’s wedding. 2004 to perform research in Vietnam. Tsang is distinguished librarian emeritus at University of California, Irvine, where he worked for more than 30 years before retiring in July 2016.
1973 Lyndy Barcus Dye ’73 says the class’s 45th reunion
will be celebrated next year during Alumni Reunion Weekend, May 18–20, 2018. The luncheon will be on Saturday along with other campus activities. Please save the date and plan to come for the day or spend the whole weekend. Plans are also being made for a Friday night warm-up activity and a Sunday brunch. If you have suggestions or would like to join the reunion committee, send a message to pldye@sbcglobal.net or the U of R Alumni Office. If you (or someone you know) are not receiving U of R mailings, update your contact information, including a current email address. Jim Hazlett ’73, Brad Nelson ’72 , and Dan Daniel ’74
belong to a group on Facebook called “University of Redlands Music and Drama Alumni: 1968–1974.” They had a reunion in June, and were given a tour by School of Music Dean Andrew Glendening, sang several songs with former “Feast of Lights” Director Jeffrey Rickard ’69, and were joined by Wayne Bohrnstedt, U of R faculty emeritus and former chair of the school of music.
1974 Susan Cox Stevens ’74 will publish Things We Might
Miss: New and Collected Poems with Finishing Line Press in December 2017. Her previous chapbooks, With Ridiculous Caution (2013) and O, But in the Library (2017), were also published by Finishing Line Press. A retired college instructor, she is working on a novel about the philosophical ethos in 1960s Alaska.
1975 Doris Baldwin Moberg ’75, Manina Zscheile Moles ’75, Catherine Gilpin O’Neill ’75, and Barbara Rowe Wood ’75 connected in July at two
different weddings, which provided opportunities for these close friends since their U of R days to get together. Doris’s daughter, Diana, married William Taylor in Pleasanton, Calif., on July 16; and Manina’s daughter, Elisa, married Vijay Rajan in San Jose, Calif., on July 22.