Class notes
1967
Charley Berl wrote in April that he is living in and loving Fort Worth. “Two years ago, I was fully retired for wounds sustained in Vietnam, 1968. I had the privilege to return to college (at age 47) at Texas Christian University, graduating at age 52 in December of 2000.” Charley would love to hear from classmates from 1966 and 1967 and can be reached at greywolf3rd@yahoo.com.
Charley Berl with daughters (L to R) Christina, Leilah and Elise Thirteen members of the class of ’67 got together at a restaurant in Chadds Ford for a collective 60th birthday party. Sandy Krieger Hobbs reported that is was a great party, complete with a birthday cake decorated with a WFS banner in blue and white icing.
1969 • Reunion Year
Lissa Cook Coady wrote, “I have worked 25 years as an RN with 20 years at Chambersburg Hospital on the Behavioral Health Unit. Robert and I have been married 34 years.”
1978
Lissa and Robert also raise sheep on their 38-acre farm. She wrote, “Our oldest daughter is married and has three children who give us much joy. Both daughters live within an hour drive, and my father lives next door.”
Marci Lobel received the 2008 Strickland Daniel Distinguished Mentoring Award from the American Psychological Association. The award Jane McCormick Hogan wrote in is given annually by the spring of 2009, “We have one the APA’s Division wonderful daughter, Annie, who of the Psychology of is a Duke student. We love coming Women to recognize to Wilmington, for it is a magiexcellence in mentorcal place. We always zip through ing students. Marci Alapocas to pay our respects to was also elected a my parents who provided me and Fellow of the APA. my family with a wonderful life Her research focuses on School Road.” Jane is retired on psychosocial Marci Lobel ’78 with her husband Louis and from the University of North aspects of women’s children Maya and Carlos Carolina at Chapel Hill where she reproductive health, was Health Administrator. particularly the impact of prenatal maternal stress on adverse birth outcomes. Marci is James Jordan is a partner with Miller Nash in a professor and Director of the Social and Seattle, WA. His focus is on complex comHealth Psychology Doctoral Program at Stony mercial litigation, with an emphasis on Native Brook University. She and husband Dr. Louis American issues. James was previously a Peña are the parents of two children, Carlos special-education teacher, counselor, and social and Maya Peña-Lobel, ages 14 and 7, who worker. He enjoys family and friends, with keep the family busy with soccer, basketball, whom he skis, hikes, river-rafts, and attends baseball, swimming, and math competitions. rock/blues concerts.
1979 • Reunion Year
1971
Kathryn Hoopes Bowen (See 1939.)
Steve Johnson still owns and drives the 1967 Mustang convertible he had in high school. Steve and his family live in Jacksonville, FL.
1973
Pam Hoopes (See 1939.)
1974 • Reunion Year
Carol Mullin Holzman reported that she is the Director of Resident Services at Cadbury in Lewes, a Quaker-guided continuing care retirement community. She is working toward a Nursing Home Administrator license.
At the class of ’67 collective birthday party, seated: Richard Stat; first row: Chris Strahan Barker, JoAnn Tigani Sears, Laura Geesey Payne, Ona Murdoch Hamilton, Jay Resnick; back row: Sandy Krieger Hobbs, Gail Wollerton Corby, Rilla Sharpless Taylor, Josephine Martin Bayard, Margie Hirschland Robinson, Warren Deitcher, and Doug Freeman
Robert Heaton, Jr. (See 1957.)
1977
Louis Hoffman has been at the forefront of campaign finance reform in Arizona, and was appointed to serve as Commissioner of the Citizens Clean Elections Commission. Louis says his “real job” is as a patent lawyer, taking advantage of the recently developed market for intellectual property. He has been married to his wife, Kathy, for more than 20 years and they have two children.
Randy Sabbagh wrote, “My partner and I became one of 18,000 gay/lesbian couples to get married in California. We tied the knot after 19 years together.”
1984 • Reunion Year
Dagmar Krewson Dunn (See 1988.) Tina Kerr-Stover wrote that she earned her pilot’s license when she turned 40. She also volunteers fostering abused and abandoned dogs and cats.
1985
Rob Hoopes, Jr. (See 1953.)
1988
Renee Dobbs Biery and Brandon Biery announced the arrival of Elliott Durbin Biery on May 5, 2009 – “Cinco de Mayo birthday.” Amy Johnston Colbourn and Dagmar Krewson Dunn ’84 had a brush with fame when they met Astronaut Buzz Aldrin and his wife, Lois, at the 2009 PNC Bank Common Wealth Awards. Aldrin received the award for distinguished service in science. Amy Baker Deitrich ’88 (See 1957.) Fall 2009 • Friends magazine
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