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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
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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.
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