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18 AWARDS & HONORS Distinguished Alumni Award David Holub 1970 of Sioux City received this award from the Morningside College Alumni Association. He was a member of the Morningside College Alumni Association Board from 1995 to 2012, most recently as president. A senior vice president at Security National Bank in Sioux City, Holub also has served as a board member for Boys and Girls Home and Family Services, The Alpha Center and Siouxland Chamber of Commerce. Outstanding seniors recognized by alumni association Jessica Boschen, a biology major from Newman Grove, Neb. Garth Hamilton, a psychology counseling major from Lincoln, Neb. Lindsay Noteboom, an English education major from South Sioux City, Neb. Whitney Postma, a nursing major from Ireton, Iowa Wert Award Dr. Jack Hill, associate professor of psychology, received the Lucille and Charles Wert Faculty Award, which recognizes the faculty member judged by his or her peers to best exemplify the ideals of the academic teaching profession at Morningside. HONORARY DOCTORATES Lin Benchun, former president of Hwa Nan Women’s College in Fuzhou, China, received an honorary doctorate in recognition of his assistance with renewing ties between Hwa Nan Women’s College and Morningside College. A Morningside graduate was involved with the founding of Hwa Nan in 1908, and the first three Hwa Nan presidents were Morningside graduates. Lin served as a visiting instructor at Morningside this spring. See the story on page 10. The Hon. Jack K. Mandel, chairman of the board for the Nicholas Education Foundation in Santa Ana, Calif., and a retired Orange County (California) Superior Court judge, received an honorary doctorate for his work with high school students in Santa Ana, Calif. He is co-founder of the Nicholas Academic Centers in Santa Ana, which provide mentoring and tutoring programs that help inner-city high school students overcome poverty and social restrictions to attend college and earn four-year degrees. Ten Santa Ana high school graduates who were part of the Nicholas Academic Centers program are enrolled at Morningside. Nursing Alumna of the Year Cmdr. Sherri (McGinnis) Santos 1989 of San Antonio, Texas, clinical coordinator of the Medical Education & Training Campus at Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio. Awards from ODK Honor Society Faculty Person of the Year Dr. Jackie (Brummond) Barber 1995, associate professor of nursing. First-Year Teaching/Advising Award Andre McWell, director of the Student Success program, which helps first-year students make the transition into college. Staff Member of the Year Sherry (Streyffeler) Swan 1984, administrative assistant for the religious studies, history and political science, philosophy, and theatre and dance departments. National Alumni Educator of the Year Brendan Burchard 1964, a teacher and coach at Bishop Heelan High School in Sioux City. Siouxland Alumni Teacher of the Year Mary (Peter) Dermit 1993, health science head teacher for the Sioux City Community School District. OTHER NOMINEES: Sioux City – Robert Barry 1983, East Middle School; Richelle Burr 2003, Emerson Elementary School; Imelda Garcia 2004, Irving Elementary School; Charles Hoberg 1994, North High School; Nicole (Schmoll) Margeas 1992, Riverside Elementary School; Kelly McElrath 2011, East High School; Steven McHugh 2001, West High School; Mary Miller 1988, Crescent Park Elementary School; Debbie Parrott 1994, Joy Elementary School. South Sioux City – Joseph Schmith 2003, South Sioux City Middle School. Iowa – Beth (Brooks) Kirby 1982, West Monona Central Elementary School, Onawa. South Dakota – Mary (Gambaiana) Hamstra 1980, Dakota Valley Elementary School, North Sioux City.
Class Notes By Dave Rebstock Editor’s Note: We would love to hear from you! Everyone is excited to find out what is going on in your life. Class editors, thanks for all of your help in getting this information to us! Please send your news to your class editor, or to: Karen Dreessen Morningside College 1501 Morningside Ave. Sioux City, IA 51106 alumni@morningside.edu 712-274-5107 Class Editors 1943 Dr. Mary (Cruikshank) Grefe 1953 Bruce Norris 1959 Dick Daily 1960 John Gilbert 1961-62 Earl Parsons 1963 Don Hill 1965 Wayne Shively 1967-68 Barbara (Kubiatowicz) Danger 1972 Donna (Tack) Ricks 1980 The Rev. Dale Schoening 1981-82 Michael Madsen 1989 Penny May 1990 Tom Gerking 1991 Troy Sparks 1992 Jami (Walquist) McCuddin 1993 Eric Wylie 1995 Jennifer (Rice) LeMar 1996 Kristin Johnson 1997 Brian M. Clarke 1998 Amber (Ellerbroek) Hegarty 1999 Jami (Wheatcraft) Langholdt 2001 Allison (Hallquist) Newman 2002 Tasha (Segebart) Eldridge 2003 Mike Eldridge 2004 Erin Mulvany 2007 Brian Hamilton 2009 Trey Blackburn 2010 Cassie Dickerson 2011 Tennessee Bryant Forties 1943 Meet Your Class Editor Dr. Mary (Cruikshank) Grefe recently retired after serving 12 years on the Morningside College Board of Directors. She currently resides in Des Moines, Iowa. Send your notes to: marygrefe@aol.com. 1944 Dorothy (Dawson) and Dale Green 1950 of Estherville, Iowa, celebrated their 65th wedding anniversary on May 3, 2012. 1948 Darwyn “Tony” and Joan (Meyer) Snyder 1949 of Omaha, Neb., celebrated their 64th wedding anniversary in December 2011. In addition, Darwyn was inducted into the Nebraska Wind Symphony Hall of Fame in April 2011. Back in 1977, Snyder and a small committee launched a community band in Omaha. Volunteers quickly formed a large concert band that became the Nebraska Wind Symphony, which Snyder conducted for the first 18 years. He also directed Omaha Westside High School’s bands for 21 years and was the school district’s fine arts coordinator for 12 years. Fifties 1950 Col. George “Bud” Day was inducted into the Iowa Aviation Hall of Fame at the Iowa Aviation Museum in Greenfield in October 2011. The Rev. Thomas and Irma (VanderVelde) McKeown 1951 of Douglas, Mass., celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary. They were married on May 29, 1951, in Emmetsburg, Iowa. 1952 Doug Gresham and his wife, Jean Austen, live in Lantzville, British Columbia. They reported the recent births of three greatgrandchildren: Kamran Sharifirad, born June 11, 2011; Braden Lawson, born Oct. 12, 2010; and Kaydence Dunn, born Sept. 11, 2008. 1953 Meet Your Class Editor Bruce Norris lives in Council Bluffs, Iowa, with his wife, Dione. He taught in the public schools and at the junior college level for 38 years. He has been doing volunteer work at Lewis Central High School in Council Bluffs for the past 19 years. Send your notes to: loweregister@msn.com. Judith Dirks received the 2011 Good Neighbor Award from the Rotary Club of Northfield, class Minn. She notes was honored for her work on the city’s Human Rights Commission and for her many years of service helping immigrants to become U.S. citizens. 1956 The Rev. Dr. Roger and Beverly (Lindberg) Swanson 1957 are back in Iowa! Married on Roger's graduation, the Swansons went to Drew University in Madison, N.J., for seminary, then on to a career in the United Methodist Ministry for over 50 years. Roger served in New Jersey as a pastor for 35 years and then with the General Board of Discipleship and the Florida Conference in evangelism ministries. Beverly finished her degree at Kean College in Union, N.J., also getting a master's degree. They have two children. Their daughter, Rachel, lives in Colfax, Iowa. Roger and Beverly are independent living residents at Park Centre in Newton, Iowa. 1958 Dr. David Lohr is retired and lives in Churdan, Iowa, with his wife, Christine. They have four children and 16 grandchildren. Lohr earned a Doctor of Medicine degree from the University of Iowa in 1961 and went on to complete an internal medicine residency in 1967 and an infectious diseases fellowship in 1975. He retired from the U.S. Air Force in 1991 after 28 years of active duty, including 14 years overseas in Vietnam, Germany, Egypt and the Philippines. Joyce (Arnold) Sievers of Smithville, Tenn., has been a member of the Tennessee Council on Developmental Disabilities since 2000 and served as it chair from 2007 to 2010. Kent Watkins was featured in a New York Times article on Jan. 5, 2012. The article, “18th-Century Artisans, Tracked the Modern Way,” shared how Watkins has done more than 5,000 hours of research over the last seven years about his distant cousin, Mary Tillinghast, who ran a workshop in Greenwich Village from the 1880s to early 1910s that designed stained-glass windows, mosaics, tapestries, murals and tombs. Watkins is working on a book about Tillinghast, who was called “the most versatile artist we can boast of among the women in this country” in an 1896 magazine profile. Watkins is an urban-planning consultant who lives in Bethesda, Md. He is chair of the National Academy of Housing and Sustainable Development. Watkins is currently helping to underwrite, from the Kent Watkins Fund at Morningside, the digitization of The Collegian Reporter since 1896. Watkins received a Distinguished Alumni Award from the college in 1988. 1959 Meet Your Class Editor Dick Daily lives in Blue Springs, Mo. He has been retired since 2000. Send your notes to: rcdaily@comcast.net or 3813 S.W. Jackson St., Blue Springs, MO 64015. 19
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