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20 Sixties 1960 Meet Your Class Editor John Gilbert and his wife, Carlene, enjoy traveling, spending time with family, bicycling and fishing. Send your notes to: jdgilbert1937@gmail.com or 12313 Long St., Overland Park, KS 66213-2210. 1962 Meet Your Class Editor for 1961 and 1962 Earl Parsons retired in 2001, after more than 35 years in the health care industry - nursing homes, specifically. He was involved in building, owning and operating buildings in Iowa, Nebraska, Arizona and California. Being father to three wonderful girls and grandfather to identical twin girls, all living in the Denver area, has led to a lot of traveling. Parsons says, "If I knew grandfathering was going to be this cool, I would have skipped parenting and gone right to grandparenting!" Send your notes to: jephasarrived1@cox.net or 2601 W. Romley Ave., Phoenix, AZ 85041. Dr. Gary Hargroves lives in Fridley, Minn. He is a vice president for Thompson & Associates, which works through nonprofit organizations to provide planned giving expertise and assist donors with a personalized and comprehensive estate and charitable planning process. 1963 Meet Your Class Editor Send your notes to Don Hill: hilld@mercersburg.edu. 1965 Meet Your Class Editor Wayne Shively of Sioux City is currently a part-time employee of the Community Action Agency of Siouxland. He is retired after teaching English and language arts for 33 years. Send your notes to: shively130@aol.com. Dave Stead, executive director of the Minnesota State High School League since 1988, received the Bernie Saggau Award of Merit from the Iowa High School Athletic Association (IHSAA) during the boys’ state basketball tournament in Des Moines, which took place in March. The Bernie Saggau Award of Merit is the highest and most prestigious award given by the IHSAA. It is presented to those deemed worthy for their service to interscholastic athletics and their strong support of the purpose and values of interscholastic programs. 1966 Larry and Patrice (Nelson) Arndt 1968 recently moved to Denver, Colo., to be closer to their son and his family. While still living in Maysville, Ky., Larry was named a Paul Harris Fellow, Rotary’s highest honor. He also was Catching Up with The Alexander File Graduation Year: 1972 (Michael), 1972 (Linda) Major: Business (Michael), Psychology (Linda) Additional Degrees: Executive Management Program, Stanford University, 1986 (Michael) Current Residence: Fresno, Calif. Current Occupation: President and CEO, United Way of Fresno County (Michael), Regional Director for Community Bible Study based in Colorado Springs, Colo. (Linda) Michael and Linda (McFarlane) Alexander both recognize the impact a Morningside education has made in their lives. “My time at Morningside has influenced every area of my life in some way,” Linda said. “I’m so thankful for my liberal arts education that gave me exposure to so many different subjects, and my professors challenged me in areas of critical thinking that I really hadn’t experienced up until that time. My Morningside experience really provided the foundations for a lifetime of learning and organizational skills.” Linda is now the regional director for Community Bible Study, which is based in Colorado Springs, Colo. “My psychology studies especially helped me in areas of social and business-related relationships, as well as sales, management and communications,” she said. “I gained a greater understanding and confidence in myself and a greater understanding of people in general.” Michael went on to a 34-year business career with Kaiser Permanente in the healthcare industry, retiring as senior vice president and CEO of Kaiser’s San Francisco Medical Center. After a brief retirement, he took a leadership position as president and CEO of United Way of Fresno County. “Morningside gave me a very good business background, which has really helped me in my career commissioned by the governor of Kentucky as a colonel in the Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels, a nonprofit organization that does good works for communities and the state. In Iowa, Larry was inducted into the Sac Community School District Education Foundation Hall of Fame in 2011. 1967 Meet Your Class Editor for 1967 and 1968 Barbara (Kubiatowicz) Danger retired in 2001 after a 34-year career teaching English and working as a media specialist. She hopes to hear from classmates from both the classes of 1967 and 1968 because she started at Morningside with the class of 1968 and graduated early in 1967. Send your notes to: barbaradanger@comcast.net or 13222 Spencer Sweet Pea Lane, Eden Prairie, MN 55347. 1969 The Rev. John Blair is a clergyman at St. Ninian’s Uniting Church in Lyneham, Australia. From 2002 to 2010, he served the Australian Outback as a Flying Padre for the Uniting Church. Based in Broken Hill, New South Wales, and flying a Cessna 182, he ministered to families and workers on sheep and cattle stations, from 20,000 to 1 million acres in size, in or near the Far West of New South Wales. Blair met his wife, Rebecca (White) 1971, during his junior year at Morningside. She had just returned after a year in Brazil as an exchange student. Now they have one son, Matt, who is teaching with his wife in Beijing. James Dunlap was named District VI vice president for the American Society of Farm Managers and Rural Appraisers, representing North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Montana and Wyoming. Dunlap is president of Dunlap Appraisal and Agri-Management Inc. in Sioux Falls, S.D., which performs commercial and agricultural appraisal work in eastern South Dakota, western Minnesota, northwest Iowa and northeast Nebraska, as well as farm management work in eastern South Dakota and western Minnesota. He is an accredited rural appraiser and a member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors. Dennis Gray of Murphy, N.C., wrote the book “The Civil War in Cherokee, Clay and Graham Counties,” which was published by the Cherokee County Historical Museum in North Carolina. He became a grandparent for the first time with the recent birth of Aubrey Elizabeth Gray. Seventies 1970 Mary (Haley) Wiltgen retired in May 2010 after 30 years of teaching special education
Michael & Linda (McFarlane) Alexander By Dave Rebstock on the business side of health care – from finance to marketing to business planning,” Michael said. “I also minored in psychology, and that provided me with the ability to better understand people and what they are going through and to communicate with people.” Michael and Linda met in the fall of 1968. “I guess you would say he observed my silliness with a friend on the way back to Dimmitt Hall after a theatre production,” Linda said. “He called me the next day, and two and one-half years later, we were married at the end of our junior year.” Michael and Linda were both actively involved in Morningside’s Greek system, Michael as a Delta Sigma Phi and Linda as an Alpha Delta Pi. As a Delta Sig, Michael developed a friendship with the late Paul Splittorff 1969, who went on to post-Morningside fame as a longtime Major League Baseball pitcher with the Kansas City Royals. “He was my pledge dad in Delta Sig and the one who encouraged me to try out for the swim team,” Michael said. “He was a great advisor to me my freshman year. He held me accountable as far as making sure I went to class and had good grades, and he also opened my eyes in introducing me to people on campus.” Both Michael and Linda said the campus dances and Greek events were among their favorite activities as students. “The weekend dances were held in the cafeteria and were something that Linda and I enjoyed doing on a regular basis,” Michael said. “I also have great memories of being a part of the Delta Sigs and the camaraderie of that group of individuals,” he said. “I still communicate with many of them even though we live in all different parts of the country.” “We had great theatre productions and music concerts to see when we were there,” Linda said. “Attending football and basketball games, as well as Greek events, also provided a full calendar of social activities. My ADPi sisters are still close treasured friends and we meet frequently across the country for reunions.” and social studies at South Sioux City High School in Nebraska. She currently supervises student teachers for various local colleges. Mary and her husband, Ed, enjoy spending time with their two granddaughters. 1971 Kathryn Lindquist is the chief marketing officer for the international investment banking firm Taylor-DeJongh, which is based in Washington, D.C., with offices in London, Paris and Dubai. She recently joined the board of directors for the Maryland Public Television Foundation. She also is on the Thunderbird Global Council Board for Thunderbird School of Global Management in Glendale, Ariz., from which she received her master’s degree. Stan Wisnieski was an umpire at the 2011 Iowa High School Girls State Softball Tournament in Fort Dodge in July. Wisnieski has worked the most state tournaments of any umpire in the history of the event. 1972 Meet Your Class Editor Donna (Tack) Ricks lives in Grinnell, Iowa, with her husband, Al Ricks 1973. She retired in 2008 from her position as a speech coach and English and speech teacher at Dike-New Hartford High School in Dike, Iowa. She loves being a grandmother to Ella and Tyce, who are the children of daughter, Sarah, and son-inlaw, Shane Van Waardhuizen. She continues to be active in the Iowa High School Speech Association (IHSSA), judging contests and serving as a consultant to area schools and as secretary of the IHSSA Hall of Fame. Send your notes to: djrteach@msn.com or 1698 E. 142nd St. S., Grinnell, IA 50112. Don “D.B.” McCulloch retired from teaching at Spirit Lake Middle School in Spirit Lake, Iowa, and is the owner of Iowa Great Lakes Coins in Spirit Lake. He is married to Joan (Wolf) 1972. 1973 Linda Brant has edited three young adult paranormal novels written by her niece, Nancy Straight. “Meeting Destiny,” “Destiny’s Revenge” and “Destiny’s Wrath” are available in e-book and paperback. Brant is a retired English teacher who still directs speech and drama activities at Charles City High School in Charles City, Iowa. She is currently directing Neil Simon's “Rumors” for the Stony Point Players in Charles City. Dr. Kris (Toyne) O’Clair is coordinating a second "edition" of the English Language Acquisition (ELA) Summer Academy for the Denver Public Schools in Colorado. The month-long program enrolls 4,000 English language learners – students ranging in age from 5 to 14 with over 130 different native languages. O’Clair interviews over 300 ELA-qualified teachers for the 17 school sites. In addition to providing instruction to improve academic language in both mathematics and literacy, the academy also serves as a practicum for newly-hired teachers in the Denver Public Schools. O’Clair commented that the experience was a full circle from her student-initiated experience as a Morningside junior when she taught English to Spanish-speaking migrant children in her hometown of Muscatine, Iowa, during the summer of 1972. Ken Spies of Hinton, Iowa, is a broker associate with Century 21 ProLink. He has served as president of the Greater Sioux City Board of Realtors for 2011-2012. The Greater Sioux City Board of Realtors also named him Realtor of the Year for 2011, and he was named one of the top 20 associates in the Heartland Region, a region composed of 64 Century 21 offices. 1974 Luci Ferrin of Sibley, Iowa, retired after 35 years of teaching instrumental music for the Sibley-Ocheyedan Community School District. She was honored by the Iowa Bandmasters Association, Iowa State Education Association and National Endowment for the Arts for her 35 years in music education. Ferrin is now the accounts receivable-technology manager at Motorvation Engineering in Sibley. 1975 Delbert Christensen was an umpire at the 2011 Iowa High School Girls State Softball Tournament in Fort Dodge. Carol (Gonigam) Dietz, Jenny (Engelke) Jorgensen, Gloria (Jelken) Miller, Jean (Passer) Roemer, Joy (Engdahl) Shah, and Maggie (Neidigh) Stewart gathered at a crafters’ bed and breakfast in Stuart, Iowa, in July 2011 to mark the 40th anniversary of when they met as freshmen in the fall of 1971. Several of them had not kept in contact since they left Morningside, but they found each other through Facebook. Over their reunion weekend, they made crafts, visited a winery, and shopped in the dollar store in downtown Stuart. They are planning a second get-together and hope others will join them. Dale Howard recently finished co-authoring “Ultimate Study Guide: Advanced Microsoft Project 2010,” his 15th book about Microsoft Project and Microsoft Project Server. Howard is vice president of education for MSProjectExperts and is considered one of the world’s top trainers on how to use the Microsoft Project and Microsoft Project Server software. Over the past 11 years, he has traveled nationally and internationally to conduct training for clients and traveled regularly to the company headquarters in New York City to conduct open enrollment classes. He has held the honorary title of Microsoft Project Most Valuable Professional for the past eight years. Dale and his wife, class notes 21
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