1960s Class of 1961
WALTER BELL sold his PA home of 40+ yrs & moved to a 55+ community located 3 miles away in Allentown in the spring. LYNN BLICKENSTAFF has been splitting time between travels in India & abroad & volunteering at the neighboring ashram. GEORGE DUNKELBERG keeps busy with volunteer work. He remembers Woodstock & friends there fondly. JULIE (BUNCE) ELFVING is enjoying life in a continuing care retirement community, still, & hopefully for a long time, as an independent living resident. Gardening around my cottage & with the Extension Master Gardener Program. MIMI SORLEY HINTERKOPF & Peter live in Nashville, TN, near a son & his family. WILLIS WELLMAN KREITZ lives outside of Knoxville, TN. Grandson, age 34, passed away in March; it broke his heart. BARBARA MACDONALD lives in Kitchener, Ontario. Retirement means more time for reading books, painting & sketching & wishing I knew way back when what I know now. SUZANNE LAROCQUE MCCLINTOCK enjoys life in Sheridan, WY. YMCA, volunteering, pickleball, travelling, & grandkids. PAUL MCGRAW spends 2 weeks out of every 3 at property on the Ohio River & the 3rd week in Indianapolis with their son, who is a contractor, & 2 grandchildren. FRANKLIN PRESSLER chops wood, reads a lot, holds premature babies each week, & enjoys visits to & from family. STANLEY SWENSON is still alive & kicking in paradise, all is well in HI. He did a month skiing in March in Pacific NW & Sun Valley, ID, & a month fishing on Coeur d’Alene lake. WOODROW TURNER is in perpetual retirement after 5 yrs at WS, 4 yrs at Emory U, 5 yrs in the Air Force/Viet Nam, 3 yrs in law school & 45 yrs practicing law. It’s time for a vacation with family! JOHN WILSON had 5 trips, 8 cities, one remembrance ceremony, 2 graduations, extended visits with extended families & work friends plus waterfalls, oriental gardens, movies, the death of a family cat, & a first Uber ride.
Class of 1962
DOUG WILKENS is concentrating on his health after diagnosis of pancreatic cancer and the surgery and chemo that is following. Doug has been such support over the years in locating lost classmates and in procuring and setting up the public address equipment for Parker Hall. JOHN DUEWEL’s wife Retno is bedridden after experiencing 2 debilitating strokes. She perks up when on FaceTime with their grandson in
the USA. John works in Indonesia for flood management projects. We were sorry to learn of the death of SUSAN HOSTETLER GUIPE’s husband Jack last year. JOE DEVOL, retired from his teaching at Cal Baptist U, is volunteering in his church’s Visitation Ministry, visiting members who are recovering from health issues. CHARLOTTE HEATH FRASER is volunteering on an advisory board for a youth agency she had worked for earlier. Char commented on the importance of having one’s affairs in order & all legalities up to date – a good reminder for all of us. Downsizing her stash of books is one of CONNIE BUCKLEY DENT’s main projects other than her rescue dogs & participation in PEO. DAVE SALMON spends much of his time looking after Chris who has COPD with complications & his mother who is 95. He has been replacing his orchard with other trees, flowering bushes, & bulbs. MARILYN GOOD SINGH paints, is in a writing group, & has done public readings at Corvallis art events. ARUN MEHRA & Kiran made another trip to the USA to visit son Manik & family, posting nice family photos on Facebook. When not pursuing her passion of quilting VICKI SCOVEL HARRIS works part time for a realty company. She & Jim plan a trip to England in fall to visit sister Judy. CHARLES GIBB, Diane, & friends took a 7000 mile trip out west, marveling at the range of magnificent scenery as they did fly fishing & touring. GARY EMBLEM appreciated the out-of-the-blue call from Charles that included showing off the 3-ft-long fish caught in AK. Gary & Judi took a wonderful month-long Viking tour with an extended stay in Amsterdam. CAROLYN MUIRHEID PRIBBLE took her youngest grandson on a safari in Tanzania. This unforgettable trip included the Serengeti park. Congratulations to TROY WHITE & Millie who celebrated 50 yrs of marriage. SUE WARNER BIRKINSHAW drove up to WA & OR to visit siblings & included a visit with MARILYN. Sue & Marilyn took many walks in wooded wonderlands around Corvallis. Actually, Marilyn walked & Sue ran to keep up with her. NORMA POONG ST JOHN’s granddaughter Ilana celebrated her marriage on Maui, HI. REED JUDY writes of his enjoyment watching the marching band at football games of his alma mater WVU. Internet searches have given some info on once-upon-a-time classmates. Searching for ANN LIDDLE who was at WS for 5th, 6th and 10th grade died in November 2015. JOAN TRUMBULL, who left after 4th Std. lives in Australia. Her father was a senior NYTimes correspondent & the family moved often. BERNARD ROBINSON, known to us by his Ridgewood nickname “Fuzzy”, had parents who worked for The Salvation Army in Pakistan. In 1954 CAROL BENEDICT
60s CLASS REPS 1960 Edith Theis-Nielsen etheisnielsen@hotmail.com 1960 Jim Rugh jimrugh@mindspring.com 1961 Julie Bunce Elfving prairie1flower@yahoo.com 1962 Sue Warner Birkinshaw sewbeetwo@gmail.com 1963 Suzanne Turner Hanifl suzhani@aol.com 1964 William Riddle billriddle1@comcast.net 1965 John and Bett Alter johncopleyalter@gmail.com 1965 Daniel Blosser danblosser@twr.org 1966 Catherine Whitcomb indiacate@gmail.com 1967 Margo Warner Curl mcurl@Wooster.edu 1968 Paul Seefeldt paulseefeldt@gmail.com 1969 Mary Self Skarsten maryselfskarsten@hotmail.com
& family were on the same passenger steam ship as MARGARET CLOUGH & family traveling from NYC to Liverpool. DAVID SCHOONMAKER & PETER DOWNS made a quick trip to PA to visit with DOUG W after his surgery. They had arranged a video conference call with CAROL & NORMA - a good visit for the 5 of them recounting memories of our lives so many years ago. PETER notes that Woodstock’s Class of ’62 is an enduring group of people: we are fiercely loyal to all those in the class. He has always been amazed that this loyalty, commitment & strength for one another has endured for 57 years now: the forged bonds of a family.
Class of 1963
STEVE FIOL has a new granddaughter, Olykai from his daughter Natalie. He enjoyed the Nov 1963 class reunion in Orlando, FL, sponsored by TED CHITAMBAR. Steve continues to work as a freelance stage director of opera & musical theatre directing 1-4 productions a year in the midwest. Wife Rebecca is a professor of dance at the U of IL. She often works Quadrangle 47