Fall 2011 - Wheelock College

Fall 2011 

• The Campaign 

for Wheelock 

Leading Innovation & 

Inspiring Change 

• Policy Connections 

• Annual Report 

of Giving

Editor 

Christine Dall 

Production Editor 

Lori Ann Saslav 

Design 

Leslie Hartwell 

Photography 

Christine Dall 

Kasey Riley 

Don West 

Cover: 

Two New 

Master’s Degree Programs 

Now Online 

Beginning in January 2012, Wheelock will 

offer two graduate degree programs online, 

with courses starting throughout the year. 

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Wheelock Magazine 

Fall 2011 

Volume XXXII, Issue 1 

Wheelock Magazine invites manuscripts and 

photographs from our readers, although we do 

not guarantee their publication, and we reserve 

the right to edit them as needed. 

For Class Notes information, contact Lori Ann 

Saslav at (617) 879-2123 or lsaslav@wheelock.edu. 

Send letters to the editor to: Wheelock Magazine, 

Office for Institutional Advancement, Wheelock 

College, 200 The Riverway, Boston, MA 02215- 

4176, or email them to cdall@wheelock.edu. 

Fall 2011 T.O.C. 

1 A Message from the President 

3 The Campaign for Wheelock 

10 News Nuggets 

14 Making Policies Work for Children & Families 

16 Students 

19 Faculty 

20 Alumni Network 

Spotlight on Betty Bain Pearsall ‘71 

The Policy Connection 

27 Annual Report of Giving 

41 Class Notes 

Master of Science in Educational Studies: 

Achieving Excellence in Teaching Math and Science 

This 30-credit degree program focuses on STEM education (specifically 

mathematics and science content) and effective teaching methods for 

teachers of elementary school students in grades 1 through 6. 

Master of Science in Organizational Leadership 

This 30-credit degree program offers working professionals the skills 

and knowledge to lead diverse, multicultural organizations with a global 

perspective on social and organizational change. 

Start Dates and Application Deadlines 

Semester 1: Classes start Jan. 9, 2012. Applications are due Dec. 22, 2011. 

Semester 2: Classes start May 7, 2012. Applications are due April 13, 2012. 

Semester 3: Classes start Sept. 4, 2012. Applications are due Aug. 10, 2012. 

Online Learning Technology 

Wheelock’s online education courses use state-of-the-art online learning 

technology, which means a consistent format in each class taken; an 

account with access to the course syllabus, staff information, and discussion 

boards; and information about how to get Wheelock support services 

(including financial aid, writing help, academic advising, disability services, 

and online and physical access to the College’s extensive library). 

Faculty 

Dr. Irwin Nesoff, organizational leadership 

Dr. Michele Gibbons-Carr, organizational leadership 

Ms. Judith Richards, elementary education, math & science 

Dr. Debbie Samuels-Peretz, elementary education 

Dr. Charles Fidler, physical science, math & science 

Dr. Melissa Hanzsek-Brill, mathematics and mathematics education 

Contact 

For more information, go to the Academics/Online Degree Programs 

page on Wheelock’s website: www.wheelock.edu.

Dear Alumni and Friends, 

More than a century ago, Lucy Wheelock dared to open 

a new school in Boston to prepare young women to 

teach kindergarten—a revolutionary educational idea 

at the time. As Wheelock College’s 125th anniversary 

in 2013 approaches, we have many accomplishments to 

celebrate. From a small school with a first graduating class of 12, Wheelock 

has grown to be a national and world leader in higher education, 

preparing not only early childhood educators but also human services and 

child life professionals, juvenile justice advocates, and policy leaders—in 

all, 18,000 graduates dedicated to serving society by improving the lives of 

children and families. 

One of the most critical aspects of the College’s work today is to 

weave Wheelock’s historic mission into the ever-changing environment 

of contemporary society. Although children and families and their basic 

needs are much the same as they were generations ago, the world in 

which we all live has changed and con- 

tinues to change at a pace that requires 

Wheelock to be even more innovative 

and active as a leader in fields having the 

greatest impact on children and families. 

On October 12, 2011, Wheelock 

publicly launched The Campaign for 

Wheelock, an $80 million fundraising 

initiative that is unprecedented in the 

College’s history. We are fortunate to 

have for the Campaign co-chairs two outstanding 

leaders who have shown extraordinary dedication to the College 

and its mission for many years. Keena Dunn Clifford ’68 has led many of 

Wheelock’s corporation and trustee committees and major initiatives, and 

she is currently Assistant Clerk of the Corporation and a member of the 

Student Success Committee of the Board of Trustees. Robert A. Lincoln 

is the Treasurer of the Board of Trustees and serves on the Finance and 

Development Committees. He has been an outstanding and dedicated 

leader at Wheelock in many capacities, including as Chair of the Board 

of Trustees. 

The Campaign that they lead is a bold undertaking, but one that 

comes at an exciting time for the College. In 2005, Wheelock initiated a 

strategic plan that laid a clear path for revitalizing and growing the College 

as a learning community. Wheelock’s Board of Trustees and Corporation 

have led the College to exceed all of the plan’s fundraising objectives and 

achieve challenging goals, all while maintaining financial stability during 

difficult economic times. 

Wheelock is making enormous strides in fulfilling its mission, thanks 

to the strength of its faculty and curriculum and innovative programs that 

are opening new avenues for preparing more graduates who will improve 

the lives of the next generation of children and families. Enrollments at 

the undergraduate and graduate levels are healthy, and the quality of applicants 

is exceptional. On the Boston campus, the College has a striking 

new Campus Center and renovated interiors at Riverway House, the 

Library, and the Classroom Building. This much-needed modernization is 

contributing to a palpable new vitality in campus life. 

The Campaign for Wheelock will provide significant new resources 

needed for the College to pursue a future of growth and innovation. 

Both Annual Fund and endowment giving are central to this Campaign. 

One of the most critical aspects 

of the College’s work today is to 

weave Wheelock’s historic mission 

into the ever-changing environment 

of contemporary society. 

Ranch C. Kimball, Jackie Jenkins-Scott, A. Keena Dunn Clifford ’68, 

Robert A. Lincoln 

Contributions to the Campaign’s record Annual Fund goal will have an 

immediate impact on student access to a Wheelock education and expand 

its growing enrollment of outstanding students. New endowments— 

which we are calling the Five Firsts because they are the first in Wheelock’s 

history—will be dedicated to supporting scholarships, faculty, and the 

technological and other educational resources that are essential to the 

College’s purpose and indispensable for 

excellence. New support for programs and 

facilities will provide a base for expansion 

and make ongoing innovation possible. 

At the Campaign kickoff dinner in 

October, I was thrilled to be able to announce 

that during the silent phase of the 

Campaign, the College raised $54 million 

toward the $80 million goal, and that one 

of the key goals—a $5 million endowment 

for technology enhancement and 

innovation—had been fully funded. This is a transformational gift that 

will ensure continuing innovative use of technology, which is integral to 

every aspect of Wheelock’s educational mission today. 

Under Bob and Keena’s leadership, combined with that of Wheelock’s 

trustees, corporators, and current Chair of the Board of Trustees Ranch C. 

Kimball, The Campaign for Wheelock is making tremendous progress, 

but we have much more to do. Achieving our many goals, all of which are 

important to Wheelock, will be challenging, and it will take the support 

of our entire community to be successful. 

Wheelock could not do all that it does if it were not, at its heart, a 

strong community of dedicated individuals who make the College’s cause 

their cause, and who give to it the best they have in talent, time, and 

resources. It is our shared belief in Wheelock and its mission that will 

make this Campaign a success. 

In this season of thanksgiving and new beginnings, I want to say a 

special thank-you to all Wheelock alumni for the good work you do in 

the world and for all that you do for the College. Wheelock owes much of 

its excellent reputation to you, our alumni, who are regarded as the very 

best in your professions and recognized for the contributions you make to 

our world. 

I hope that you will share wonderful days and moments with your 

families, and especially with the children in your lives, in the weeks ahead. 

Sincerely, 

Jackie Jenkins-scott 

President 

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Lisa Biagetti Fred Foulkes Annette Hill Green Sara Hosmer Eliane Markoff Jane Roberts Mark Roberts 

Trustees 

Lisa McCabe Biagetti ’80 

A preschool and bilingual special education 

teacher, Biagetti has served previously on 

the Student Life Subcommittee of Wheelock’s 

Board of Trustees, on Wheelock’s 

Centennial Committee, and as an Alumni 

Association representative and class agent. 

In addition, she has served as the chair for 

Kids on the Block and parent leader for 

Families First. 

Fred Foulkes 

Professor Foulkes was a founding faculty 

member of the Institute for Educational 

Management at Harvard and is the founder 

and director of the Human Resources Policy 

Institute at Boston University’s School of 

Management. A former director of both 

Bright Horizons and Cambridge Medical, 

Foulkes is currently a faculty member of 

Boston University and a director of Panera 

Bread. 

Annette Hill Green 

A partner at the Law Offices of Donald E. 

Green, P.C., Hill Green is also a member of 

the Massachusetts Association of Women 

Lawyers, the Boston Bar Association, and 


Karen Sturges Leverett Wing Gary Bergstrom Valerie Mosley Genie Thorndike Lauren Widing 

Introducing Our New 

Trustees & Corporators 

I am delighted to introduce 13 new Wheelock College trustees and 

corporators, six of whom are alumni. Each individual brings a 

wealth of talent and experience to their leadership role in serving 

Wheelock’s mission to improve the lives of children and families. 

I very much look forward to continuing to work with them in 

the exciting year ahead and am grateful for their enthusiasm and 

commitment to the College’s future. 

— President Jackie Jenkins-scott 

the Boston Cares volunteer organization. 

She is a former minority delegate with the 

Massachusetts Academy of Trial Attorneys 

and a former board member of the Lupus 

Foundation of New England. 

Sara Hosmer ’93BSW 

Awarded the Lucy Wheelock Award in 2003, 

Hosmer has been an adjunct professor in 

Wheelock’s B.S.W. program and is a member 

of the Alumni Board, continuing the tradition 

of giving back to the College modeled by 

her great-aunt, Katharine “Kay” Hosmer 

Connor ’33. Currently Hosmer is the principal 

at the Martin E. Young Elementary School in 

Randolph, MA. 

Eliane Markoff 

Founder of Art in Giving, a corporate recognition 

company that combines the fine arts 

with recognition to benefit pediatric cancer 

research, Markoff is a known artist in the 

Boston area and a senior-level entrepreneur 

who also coaches executives in leadership 

and management skills. She has been a 

faculty member at Bentley University and has 

served on the board of overseers at Newton- 

Wellesley Hospital and the board of directors 

for the Brain Tumor Society. 

Jane Hertig Roberts ’73 

A kindergarten and first-grade teacher for 

more than 20 years, Roberts developed a 

teacher mentor program for the Newton 

Public Schools, founded the citywide Early 

Childhood Committee, and was a board 

member of Friends of Snow Library. She has 

mentored Boston Public Schools teachers 

since 2009 with Wheelock’s Educator 

Mentor Corps program. 

Mark Roberts ’76MS 

A member of Wheelock’s Alumni Endowment 

Committee and Executive-in-Residence/ 

Lecturer at Boston University School of 

Management, Roberts is a financial consultant 

specializing in banking, risk management, 

and capital markets. His career includes 

positions as director at Bank of Boston and 

senior vice president at FleetBoston Financial, 

in addition to numerous directorships 

and other leadership positions. Prior to 

his financial career, he taught elementary 

school for 11 years. 

Karen Sturges ’87MS 

A former elementary school teacher and 

head of the lower school at Pike School in 

Andover, Sturges serves on the board of 

overseers at Mother Caroline Academy and 

Education Center in Dorchester, where she 

is a volunteer teacher in the after-school 

program. She is also a trustee and volunteer 

at Recording for the Blind and Dyslexic, 

and she is the parent of Wheelock alumna 

Margaret McDermott ’86. 

Leverett Wing 

Executive director of Asian & Pacific Islander 

American Vote (APIAVote) in Washington, 

D.C., Wing is also executive director of the 

Massachusetts Asian American Commission 

and serves on Gov. Deval Patrick’s finance 

team. In addition, he serves on the board 

of overseers at Joslin Diabetes Center and 

WGBH-TV/Radio, as well as on the board of 

directors of the Asian Community Development 

Corporation. 

Corporators 

Gary Bergstrom 

As originator of the Putnam Companies 

International Fund, founder of Acadian 

Financial Research, and chairman of Acadian 

Asset Management Inc., Dr. Bergstrom has 

more than 25 years of leadership experience 

in global investing. He has a Ph.D. from MIT, 

where he also taught at the Sloan School of 

Management, and was married to the late 

Joan Bergstrom, founder of Wheelock’s 

Center for International Education, Leadership, 

and Innovation. 

Valerie Mosley 

Currently the senior vice president, partner, 

and fixed income portfolio manager at 

Wellington Management, Mosley holds an 

M.B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania 

and is a chartered financial analyst. She has 

previous experience as chief investment 

officer at P.G. Corbin Asset Management and 

in positions at Kidder Peabody and Chase 

Manhattan Bank. 

Geneva “Genie” S. Thorndike 

Genie Thorndike is a former co-chair of 

Wheelock’s Committee on Trustees and 

co-chair of the Development Committee 

of the Board of Trustees. She is a former 

high school English teacher and trustee of 

the Noble and Greenough School and is 

currently chair of the WGBH Ralph Lowell 

Society. 

Lauren McLachlan Widing ’08 

A second-grade teacher at The Fessenden 

School in West Newton, where she was formerly 

also a kindergarten teacher and dorm 

parent, Widing completed a semester abroad 

at University of Newcastle, Australia, while 

she was an undergraduate at Wheelock.

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The Campaign for Wheelock 

Leading innovation 

& insPiring change 

Campaign Goals In today’s world, the need is no less great than in Lucy Wheelock’s time for leaders with 

vision, passion, and the ability to inspire positive change. And no higher education 

institution is better prepared or more deeply committed to educate and advocate for 

children and families than Wheelock College. Last summer, the Wheelock College Board 

of Trustees voted to establish an $80 million goal for The Campaign for Wheelock, 

an ambitious fundraising initiative that will build on the College’s long list of achievements and 

secure a strong foundation for leadership in the decades ahead. 

Today’s Wheelock is a strong and purposeful learning community, growing stronger. Inspired 

by the College’s founding principles and mission, its vision is expanding to encompass a full 

range of disciplines and programs devoted to the education and needs of children and families 

Nearly one-third, or $25 million, of the $80 million in the 21st Campaign century. It goal is growing is designated its undergraduate for faculty 

and student programs and unrestricted gifts to and the graduate Annual enrollments Fund, essential and attracting support ever more which 

provides “ As we for plan scholarships for the future, and we the are financial flexibility talented and that dedicated allows the students. College It is to developing maintain its 

day-to-day 

building 

quality 

upon a 

of 

century 

operations 

of inno 

and 

vative 

to respond new to leadership new opportunities and for its challenges faculty and as 

thinking about children and families 

they arise. The remaining amount of the Campaign as an institution. goal — $55 And million it is expanding — is dedicated its impact to five 

rooted in the inspired vision of Lucy 

first-of-their-kind funds for Wheelock: endowments in the world for with Student new international Scholarships, partnerships, Professorships, 

Wheelock.” 

Innovation, and Technology Enhancement and service Innovation, learning programs, and a fund and for distance Campus learning 

— Jackie Jenkins-scott, 

Facilities Projects. 

capabilities. 

President of WheeLock coLLege 

Creative use of new technologies is making wider 

access to a Wheelock education possible and holds 

Purpose enormous potential for stronger, more collaborative teaching and learning both on and Goal off 

campus. The institutional collaborations the College is building with others who share its 

Annual Fund–Unrestricted values are increasing the ways it benefits children and families while educating its students. $ 8 million 

Two examples: While Wheelock is enhancing its academic curriculum to suit new under- 

Current Use–Restricted standings of children’s cognitive, social, and emotional development, it is also establishing $ 17 a million 

Connected Beginning Training Institute with United Way that focuses on early childhood mental 

Endowment health and a Together for Quality Initiative to improve early childhood and out-of-school-time $ 25 million 

• Student Scholarships programs throughout the state. 

$ 10 million 

• Professorships On Oct. 12, 2011, Wheelock began the public phase of The $ Campaign 5 million for Wheelock with 

• Innovation a kickoff event that brought students, faculty, and staff together $ with 5 million alumni and friends of the 

• Technology College. Enhancement Together they and shared Innovation information about programs and $ 5 activities million that are flourishing 

at Wheelock, envisioned new opportunities for Wheelock to advance its mission in the near 

Campus Facilities future, and learned Projects how the Campaign is designed to develop specific areas that are critical $ 30 to million 

turning vision into action. 

Total $ 80 million 

4 Fall 2011


off to a fabuLous start! 

Campaign Goals 

Five Transformational Firsts 

The Campaign for Wheelock kickoff event, held at WGBH studios 

on Oct. 12, was informative—in typical Wheelock fashion—as 

well as fun. Community energy and good vibrations fairly bounced 

off the walls as guests, students, and faculty alike shared their enthusiasm 

$10 Million – A New Level for Scholarship Endowments 

Financial for Wheelock’s assistance in the goals form and of scholarships accomplishments—past, is critical to Wheelock’s present, ability and to attract future. and retain the best 

students who are passionate about the mission and goals of the College. Today, Wheelock is building on pioneerin 

initiatives such as the Charles and Irene Frail Hamm ’60 $3 million challenge endowment for Urban Teacher 

Scholarships “ Our — the alumni largest are at the a diverse College group to date in many, — to raise many the ways, bar but with the an common eight-figure goal for endowed scholar 

ships. Achieving thread this I goal see in will them widen again access and to again a Wheelock is their dedication education, to ensure actively that do opportunities such as service 

learning are not their limited part to by improve a student’s society. ability Whether to pay, they and are prevent teaching career in schools choices or from being restricted by the 

Nearly amount one-third, of loan serving or debt $25 on a graduate million, school committees, must of the carry. $80 running million a service Campaign agency or goal volunteering is designated for faculty 

and student programs at community and unrestricted programs where gifts they to live, the they Annual put their Fund, Wheelock essential values support which 

provides 

$5 Million 

for scholarships 

– First Endowed Professorships 

and educations and to the work financial benefiting flexibility children, that families, allows and the communities, College to maintain its 

Funds to support Wheelock’s first endowed professorships, continuing education, professional development, and 

day-to-day quality 

research opportunities which of are operations 

for the outstanding heart of and a healthy to respond 

faculty society. to 

are long We new 

overdue. need opportunities more Investing Wheelock in gradu- and challenges as 

the creative energy of faculty who ar 

they responsible arise. The for remaining ates the out quality there amount of using education their of skills the the Campaign and College educations offers goal in to the — make years $55 a million difference.” ahead is — essential is dedicated if Wheelock to five is to continu 

first-of-their-kind to be a leader in higher funds education for Wheelock: and in endowments its core — Judy professional Parks for anderson Student areas. This Scholarships, ’62, fund trustee will provide Professorships, 

sorely needed support 

Innovation, for these important and Technology efforts. Enhancement and Innovation, and a fund for Campus 


$5 Million – First Endowed Fund for Innovation 

Wheelock has long been known as an innovator in higher education and in the professional fields that it prepares 

its students to enter. The College must have resources for programs, curriculum development, and collaborative 

Purpose Goal 

initiatives if it is to continue to respond creatively to the ever more complex, rapidly changing needs in higher 

education and in society. 

Annual Fund–Unrestricted $ 8 million 

$5 Million – First Endowed Fund for Technology Enhancement and Innovation 

Current Information Use–Restricted technology informs education at all levels and in every aspect, and keeping current $ 17 million with first-quality 

technology is a basic requirement at colleges and universities everywhere. At Wheelock, a technology endowment 

Endowment will ensure the ability to continue to advance teaching and learning through technology, to $ develop 25 million and access 

the most innovative technology-based curricula, to support excellent IT staff, and to invest in new technologies as 

• Student Scholarships $ 10 million 

they develop and are needed to continue the work of the College. Wheelock has always been ahead of the curve 

• Professorships 

in teaching education theory and practice. It must now empower 

$ 

its 

5 

students 

million 

to be leaders in using technology to 

• Innovation access and create new teaching and learning resources. $ 5 million 

• Technology Enhancement and Innovation $ 5 million 

$30 Million – First Fund for Facilities and a Sustainable President Campus Jackie Environment 

Jenkins-Scott (middle) 

Campus The effort Facilities to maintain, Projects upgrade, and expand facilities and equipment leads the is an applause ongoing for Wheelock’s challenge $ 30 two for million Wheelock. 

fabulous Campaign co-chairs, Robert A. 

Continuing to provide improvements to physical resources will be Lincoln crucial and to A. all Keena aspects Dunn of Clifford the College’s ’68. future: 

Total attracting new students and sustaining enrollment; supporting teaching and learning with modern $ 80 million classrooms, 

laboratories, studios, library facilities, and offices; and encouraging a vital sense of community through spaces 

for events, activities, and student services. Energy conservation and new initiatives to “green” Wheelock Wheelock’s Magazine 5building 

and campus environment are expensive but urgent needs that are in keeping with College values and that will

Nearly one-third, or $25 million, of the $80 million Campaign goal is designated for faculty 

and student programs and unrestricted gifts to the Annual Fund, essential support which 

provides for scholarships and the financial flexibility that allows the College to maintain its 

day-to-day quality of operations and to respond to new opportunities and challenges as 

they arise. The remaining amount of the Campaign goal — $55 million — is dedicated to five 

first-of-their-kind funds for Wheelock: endowments for Student Scholarships, Professorships, 

Innovation, and Technology Enhancement and Innovation, and a fund for Campus 



“ We all know that what makes 

Wheelock unique is its mission 

to improve the lives of children 

and families. There is no other 


college with this mission, and it 

qLast spring, Steven Goodstein ’14 (below right) and 

Matthew Lauzon ’14 (here with trustee Stephanie 

Bennett-Smith at the kickoff) put words and music 

together and created a rap about Wheelock. “Now, how 

many colleges do you suppose there are out there with 

students spontaneously rapping about their school and putting 

is a mission shared by our entire 

community—our students, 

faculty, staff, alumni, friends, 

and supporters. Tonight, we are 

recommitting ourselves to this 

mission by launching what 

will be a historic Campaign 

for Wheelock College.” 

—ranch c. kimbaLL, 

chair of the board of trustees 

Purpose Goal 

it on YouTube?” asked President Jenkins-Scott as she 


introduced their demonstration of the spirit and energy 

students bring to campus every day. 

Current Use–Restricted $ 17 million 

Endowment $ 25 million 


• Professorships $ 5 million 

• Innovation $ 5 million 


pJim and Anne Wingle Howard ’57 were 

among guests who heard from students, 

faculty, and staff about the College’s expanding 

programs, curriculum, and enrollment. 

p Cortney Tunis, Wheelock’s new Resource 

Center manager, and Charles “Chuck” 

Fidler, associate professor of physical science, 

spoke about the need for an endowment 

to ensure Wheelock’s best use of new 

teaching and learning technologies now and 

in the future. It was amazing to hear from 

them how educational technologies, both 

at the college level and at the elementary 

school level, are proliferating and changing 

practically overnight. Informed as we were 

about the need for endowed funds for technology, 

the surprise announcement later in 

the evening that the endowment had been 

completely funded was exciting to the 10th 

power, and welcomed with cheers! 

Campus Facilities Projects $ 30 million 


6 Fall 2011


LYRICS TO RAP CHORUS 

“ Welcome to Wheelock, 

Five Transformational Campaign Where everyone Firsts Goals 

is a realist, 

If they’re not an idealist, 

Welcome to Wheelock, 

A world of good to inspire, 

It’s a school we admire, 

$10 Million – A New Level for That Scholarship school is Wheelock, Endowments 

Financial assistance in the form of 

Wheelock, 

scholarships 

Wheelock!” 

is critical to Wheelock’s ability to attract and retain the best 

students who are passionate about the mission and goals of the College. Today, Wheelock is building on pioneerin 


Scholarships — the largest at the College to date — to raise the bar with an eight-figure goal for endowed scholar 

ships. Achieving this goal will widen access to a Wheelock education, ensure that opportunities such as service 

“ There’s a momentum at Wheelock 

learning are not limited by a student’s ability to pay, and prevent career choices from being restricted by the 

today Nearly that amount inspires one-third, of all loan of or debt us $25 who a graduate million, must of the carry. $80 million Campaign goal is designated for faculty 

are involved 

and student 

in this 

programs 

Campaign. 

and unrestricted gifts to the Annual Fund, essential support which 

We’re 

provides 

a small $5 Million college 

for scholarships 

– that First has Endowed an 

and the 

Professorships 

financial flexibility that allows the College to maintain its 

increasingly Funds global to support impact. Wheelock’s We’ve first endowed professorships, continuing education, professional development, and 


always been research a leader, opportunities and we for outstanding faculty are long overdue. Investing in the creative energy of faculty who ar 

they responsible arise. The for remaining the quality amount of education of the the Campaign College offers goal in the — years $55 million ahead is — essential is dedicated if Wheelock to five 

need to take that leadership to 

is to continu 

first-of-their-kind to be a leader in higher funds education for Wheelock: and in endowments its core professional for Student areas. This Scholarships, fund will provide Professorships, 

sorely needed support 

the next level. Our graduates will 

for these important efforts. 

make 

Innovation, 

vital, invaluable 

and 

contribu- 

Technology Enhancement and Innovation, and a fund for Campus 

tions Facilities to society. Projects. 

$5 Million The College’s – First Endowed mis- Fund for Innovation 

sion is powerful, Wheelock and has very long worthy been known as an innovator in higher education and in the professional fields that it prepares 

of our support.” its students to enter. The College must have resources for programs, curriculum development, and collaborative 

Purpose qChristina “Tina” Morris Helm ’64/’98MS (right) 

pL to R: Barbara Elliott Goal Fargo ’52, 

initiatives if it is to continue to talks respond with Donna creatively McKibbens, to the interim ever dean more and chair complex, rapidly Jim Scott, changing and Peter and needs Lisa in higher 

—susan brumL simon ’73, 

education and in society. of elementary education, and with Ellen Stowers (left) 

McCabe Biagetti ’80 celebrated 

chair of the corPoration 

Annual Fund–Unrestricted about the endowed scholarship Ellen and her family 

Wheelock’s latest achievements $ 8 million 

have established in memory of her daughter, Jennifer 

and new opportunities rising on the 

$5 Million – First Endowed Lee Fund Stowers for ’02. Technology Enhancement and Campaign Innovation horizon. 

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insPiring change. 

Continuing to provide improvements to physical resources will be crucial to all aspects of the College’s future: 

Total attracting new students and sustaining enrollment; supporting teaching and learning with modern $ 80 million classrooms, 


for events, activities, and student services. Energy conservation and new initiatives to “green” Wheelock Wheelock’s Magazine 7building 

and campus environment are expensive but urgent needs that are in keeping with College values and that will


and student programs and unrestricted gifts to the Annual Fund, essential support which 

provides for scholarships and the financial flexibility that allows the College to maintain its 

Nearly day-to-day one-third, quality or of $25 operations million, of and the to $80 respond million to Campaign new opportunities goal is designated and challenges for faculty as 

and they student arise. The programs remaining and amount unrestricted of the gifts Campaign to the Annual goal — Fund, $55 million essential — support is dedicated which to five 

provides first-of-their-kind for scholarships funds and for Wheelock: the financial endowments flexibility that for Student allows the Scholarships, College to Professorships, 

maintain its 

day-to-day Innovation, quality and Technology of operations Enhancement and to respond and Innovation, to new opportunities and a fund and for challenges Campus as 

they Facilities arise. Projects. The remaining amount of the Campaign goal — $55 million — is dedicated to five 


Innovation, and Technology Enhancement and Innovation, and a fund for Campus 

Purpose Goal 



Purpose Goal 


Annual 

Endowment 

Fund–Unrestricted 

$ 

25 

8 

million 

million 

Current • Student Scholarships Use–Restricted 


$ 10 million 

$ 5 million 

$ 17 million 

Endowment • Innovation 

• Technology Enhancement and Innovation 

• Student Scholarships 

$ 5 million 

$ 5 million 

$ 10 million 

$ 25 million 

• Professorships Campus Facilities Projects 

• Innovation 

$ 5 million 

$ 5 million 

$ 30 million 

• Technology Total Enhancement and Innovation $ 5 million $ 80 million 






Visit the Wheelock College website to follow our Campaign progress: www.wheelock.edu. 

Total $ 80 million

Five Transformational Firsts 


five transformationaL firsts 

for WheeLock 


$10 Million – A New Level for Scholarship Endowments 

Financial assistance in the form of scholarships is critical to Wheelock’s ability to attract and retain the best 

students who are passionate about the mission and goals of the College. Today, Wheelock is building on pioneering 


Scholarships — the largest at the College to date — to raise the bar with an eight-figure goal for endowed scholarships. 

Achieving this goal will widen access to a Wheelock education, ensure that opportunities such as service 

learning are not limited by a student’s ability to pay, and prevent career choices from being restricted by the 

amount of loan debt a graduate must carry. 

$5 Million – First Endowed Professorships 

Funds to support Wheelock’s first endowed professorships, continuing education, professional development, and 


research opportunities for outstanding faculty are long overdue. Investing in the creative energy of faculty who are 

responsible and student for the programs quality of education and unrestricted the College gifts offers to in the the Annual years ahead Fund, is essential essential if Wheelock support is which to continue 

to be provides a leader in for higher scholarships education and in the its financial core professional flexibility areas. that This allows fund will the provide College sorely to maintain needed support its 

for these important efforts. 


they arise. The remaining amount of the Campaign goal — $55 million — is dedicated to five 


$5 Million – First Endowed Fund for Innovation 

Wheelock has long been known as an innovator in higher education and in the professional fields that it prepares 

its students Innovation, to enter. and The Technology College must Enhancement have resources for and programs, Innovation, curriculum and a development, fund for Campus and collaborative 

initiatives Facilities if it Projects. is to continue to respond creatively to the ever more complex, rapidly changing needs in higher 

education and in society. 

$5 Million Purpose – First Endowed Fund for Technology Enhancement and Innovation Goal 

Information technology informs education at all levels and in every aspect, and keeping current with first-quality 


will ensure the ability to continue to advance teaching and learning through technology, to develop and access 

the most innovative technology-based curricula, to support excellent IT staff, and to invest in new technologies as 


in teaching education theory and practice. It must now empower its students to be leaders in using technology to 

access and create new teaching and learning resources. 



Endowment $ 25 million 


$30 Million – First Fund for Facilities and a Sustainable Campus Environment 

• Professorships $ 5 million 

The effort to maintain, upgrade, and expand facilities and equipment is an ongoing challenge for Wheelock. 

Continuing 

• Innovation to provide improvements to physical resources will be crucial to $ all 5 million aspects of the College’s future: 

attracting • Technology new students Enhancement and sustaining and enrollment; Innovation supporting teaching and $ learning 5 million with modern classrooms, 


for events, activities, and student services. Energy conservation and new initiatives to “green” Wheelock’s buildings 

and campus environment are expensive but urgent needs that are in keeping with College values and that will 

conserve financial resources in the long run. 





News NuggeTs 

Wheelock Teaching Program Cited as a Model 

Wheelock College was one of just 10 higher 

education institutions in the U.S. lauded 

for its strong student-teaching program in 

a recently released report by the National 

Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ). The 

report, based on a two-year study by the Council, described 

Wheelock’s program as a “model” design because the College 

requires that mentor teachers be fully qualified and also actively 

participate in the selection of mentor teachers. 

“ We are proud to be recognized by 

NCTQ as an exemplary institution 

with a model program.” 

—President Jackie Jenkins-scott 

The report noted that student teaching serves as the real-world 

classroom trial for nearly 200,000 teacher candidates each year 

and cited surveys of new teachers that suggest student teaching 

is the most important part of their teacher training experience. 

To understand what makes a student-teaching experience strong, 

the Council conducted a two-year review of the student-teaching 

programs at 134 higher education institutions across the country, 

looking at a variety of documents such as student-teaching 

handbooks and contracts between the programs and their partner 

school districts. 

In its report, the Council concluded that only a small 

fraction of the nation’s teacher-preparation programs do an 

adequate job of designing and overseeing their student-teaching 

field experiences. Most of these experiences are weak, the 

report said, because few teacher-preparation programs carefully 

select the mentor teachers who will work with the novice 

teachers. Too often, the report said, student teachers are simply 

thrown into whatever classroom happens to be convenient 

for the local principal. 

According to the report, only 14 percent of the programs in 

the study require mentor teachers to have all three of the following 

traits: at least three years of teaching experience, demonstrated 

high ability to improve student learning, and demonstrated skill 

at mentoring adults. The report also said that just under half of 

the teacher-preparation programs in the study exerted full control 

over the matching of student teachers with mentor teachers. 

The report also noted that the stakes in student teaching are 

high because teachers are being held to increasingly rigorous 

standards. It said teacher candidates deserve student-teaching 

programs that prepare them well, concluding that, “While we 

certainly identified some exemplary institutions, this review 

suggests that all too often, too many elements of student teaching 

are left to chance.” 

Not at Wheelock. Remarking that the College is often recognized 

as a national leader in teacher education, President Jackie 

Jenkins-Scott says, “We are proud to be recognized by NCTQ as 

an exemplary institution with a model program.”

Teacher Bound Program ― 

Something to Shout About 

This year marks the fourth year of Wheelock’s Teacher Bound 

Upward Bound Program, and it is a momentous one. In June, 

the program’s first cohort of 25 high school students who live 

in Boston and are interested in teaching careers graduated with 

a 100 percent success rate for themselves as a group and for the 

program. All of the students graduated from high school on schedule, were 

accepted at and enrolled in colleges or universities, and received financial 

aid packages that actually are allowing them to realize their hopes for higher 

education. That is an abundance of good news to shout about! 

“The success of this first class of scholars is a direct result of Wheelock 

College’s mission to improve the lives of children and families,” says Chris 

Sumner, Teacher Bound director. “Our community at Wheelock has provided 

life-changing opportunities, and we have all felt the impact of the students’ 

hard work, passion, resolve, and integrity.” Ceronne Daly, who is director of 

the Office of Pre-Collegiate and College Access Programs and created Teacher 

Bound, adds, “We would not have been as successful had we not had the support 

of so many departments and individuals on campus, including faculty and 

staff and two Wheelock students who had field placements with the program.” 

Teacher Bound is supported by a grant from the federally funded Upward 

Bound program with additional support from an anonymous foundation. 

A Reading Jumpstart for 

Wheelock’s Military Civic 

Engagement Program 

News NuggeTs 

AmeriCorps Grant to 

Aspire Institute Will Expand 

Educator Mentor Corps 

Wheelock College has received a $140,000 Ameri- 

Corps grant that will help to expand a Greater 

Boston-based teacher mentor program, Educator 

Mentor Corps (EMC), piloted by the College. EMC strives 

to improve teacher retention by connecting urban schoolteachers 

to skilled retired educator mentors. 

Wheelock will use the funds to recruit and train 40 retired 

teachers to serve as many as 50 K-12 mentee teachers per 

year in Boston and Chelsea. The College will work in collaboration 

with the Boston Public Schools, Chelsea Public Schools, 

ReadBoston, WriteBoston, the Massachusetts Service Alliance, 

and other partners to place mentors with teachers in schools. 

To date, Wheelock and BPS have already successfully 

recruited and placed 14 retired educators to mentor 16 novice 

teachers. The AmeriCorps grant will support the program for a 

year and can be extended for up to three years. 

One of the innovative new programs run by 

Wheelock’s new Center of Excellence for 

Supporting Military Families is designed to 

raise awareness among Wheelock Jumpstart 

students about issues facing children in 

military families. During the 2011-2012 academic year, 

75 Jumpstart students will learn ways to support militaryconnected 

children and then work with two to four 

children at five different preschool centers in Roxbury and 

Dorchester. These service learning hours will be in addition 

to time that Jumpstart students spend reading more 

than 1,500 books with 200 preschool children each year 

(left, senior Laylin Chong presents Jumpstart diploma to 

her student). 

Student preparation includes sessions with Dr. Shirley 

Malone-Fenner, dean of Arts and Sciences, who originated 

the Center, and Barbara Powers, a military family 

life consultant with the Family Program of the Massachusetts 

National Guard. Sessions focus on the topic of how 

deployment affects preschool-aged children and practices 

for supporting them in the preschool environment. The 

students also provide packets of support information and 

resources for parents and the care providers. 


News NuggeTs 

Partnering with Boston 

Public Schools to Combat 

Childhood Obesity 

Wheelock’s Aspire Institute and the Boston Public 

Schools (BPS) are partners in Health Connections, 

a strategic plan to advance student health 

and wellness with the help of $4.6 million in 

funding from the Centers for Disease Control 

and Prevention and the U.S. Department of Education. 

A sweeping survey of the state of student health in Boston has 

shown that, on average, 40 percent of BPS students across grades 

and gender are at unhealthy weights, and 82 percent of high school 

students report not eating the recommended daily amount of fruits 

and vegetables. This fall, the schools will increase the number of 

physical education teachers by 10 percent; conduct fitness assessments 

for students in grades 4 through 9; integrate physical activity 

across the school day through activity promotions, cross-curricular 

lessons, movement breaks, and recess; and incorporate tobacco 

policy and prevention strategies into the schools through student 

engagement and professional development. 

“We are pleased to be working with the BPS to elevate the 

importance of student health and wellness,” says Jake Murray, senior 

director of the Aspire Institute. “From the superintendent on down, 

there is a clear, strong commitment to better coordinate health and 

wellness services and improve the quality of these services.” 


The Boston Globe Features 

Wheelock Athletics 

Wheelock College Director of Athletics 

Diana Cutaia outlined her unique 

athletics philosophy in a front-page 

Boston Globe article: Keep the focus on improvement, 

enjoyment, character, and team building, 

and the wins will follow. The article generated considerable 

response in the media and several positive 

letters to the editor of the Globe. Go, Wildcats! 

Connected Beginnings Training 

Institute Now at Wheelock 

The Connected Beginnings Training Institute (CBTI) has moved 

to Wheelock, merging with the College’s Aspire Institute 

and taking up residence on the Brookline Campus. The Institute’s 

mission is closely aligned with Wheelock’s, and this 

is an exciting opportunity to integrate CBTI’s professional 

development, research, and policy improvement efforts with Wheelock’s 

academic programs and policy work. 

Founded in 2006, CBTI works across public systems, such as early 

childhood and mental health, and professional disciplines to ensure that 

those who work with very young children and their families understand 

and can skillfully promote their social and emotional well-being. 

CBTI designs, evaluates, and helps deliver evidence-based professional 

development courses and workshops. It also supports a network of 

highly qualified trainers who are available through the Institute to deliver 

courses and workshops throughout the Commonwealth. To learn more, 

visit the CBTI website at http://connectedbeginnings.org.

A Grand Reopening for 

Mattahunt Community Center 

Wheelock celebrated the 

reopening of the Mattahunt 

Community Center 

in October, capping off 

the transformation of the 

formerly city-run facility into a center managed 

by the College and hailed as a model for future 

community centers across Boston. 

Located in the Mattahunt School in Mattapan, 

the Center had long been a valued asset 

for neighborhood children and families. But 

severe budget constraints prompted the City of 

Boston in 2010 to stop providing services there. 

Wheelock, which is already participating in a 

variety of programs serving the Greater Boston 

community, stepped forward to lead the effort 

to revitalize the Center. With renovations now 

completed and financial backing from groups 

such as the United Way and the Boston Foundation 

in place, Wheelock will take charge of the 

Mattahunt’s programming for the next four 

years, while the City of Boston retains ownership 

of the building. 

Renovations completed during the summer 

included reopening of the Center’s formerly 

unused pool, creation of a brand-new computer 

access area, extensive repainting and refurbishment 

of the building and grounds, and the addi- 

Wildcat Volunteers Prep for Opening 

Great things happen when great people get together, and that 

was certainly the case in September when Wheelock staff and 

student-athletes joined City Year volunteers and the Boston 

Celtics CommUNITY Crew to help prepare the Mattahunt School and 

Community Center for the grand reopening. They spent the day painting 

colorful murals and inspirational words from historical figures on walls, 

building an outdoor classroom and benches as well as a flower bed for the 

playground area, organizing the school’s library around six new computers 

and workstations that had been added, and naturally—with the Celtics 

there—sprucing up a basketball court. One question: Where were our 

favorite mascots, Willy and Wilma? 

tion of a brand-new mural to the community 

room. Many volunteers, including members of 

the Boston Celtics and City Year organizations, 

assisted in completing the projects. 

Programming at the center—provided by 

Wheelock and several partner organizations— 

includes free reading and math tutoring, nutrition 

education, an ongoing youth advocacy 

seminar and outdoor program, youth sports, 

swimming and yoga lessons, English classes for 

non-native speakers, and young professional 

seminars and workshops. 

Smiles all around for the reopened Center 

Cutting the Ribbon 

(L to R): Marta Rosa, special assistant to the president 

for government and external affairs; Kory Eng, assistant 

vice president of Community Impact (United Way of 

Massachusetts Bay and Merrimack Valley); Adrian 

Haugabrook, vice president for enrollment management 

and student success; Barbara Elliott Fargo 

’52; Franklin Shearer, program associate (The Boston 

Foundation); Gareth Kincaid, co-chair of the Wheelock- 

Mattahunt Task Force; Elizabeth “Nicky” Wheeler 

L’Hommedieu ’54; Lynne Wyluda Beasley ’66; 

Elizabeth “Chippy” Bassett Wolf ’54; Brandi Brooks, 

student (John D. O’Bryant School of Mathematics and 

Science); Robert Consalvo, Boston city councilor; Jose Ruiz, 

community service officer; and Rashad Cope, director 

of Mattahunt Community Center 

Mattahunt makes a splash! 


Wheelock’s New 

Political Science 

Major 

Featured in Inside Higher Ed 

Wheelock is developing an innovative 

curriculum for a new political science 

major that has already attracted the 

attention of Inside Higher Ed, the 

daily online publication focused on 

college and university topics, based in Washington, D.C. 

(www.insidehighered.com). An article in the publication 

written by Elizabeth Murphy noted that the College 

is actively addressing an issue written about in a recent 

report by the American Political Science Association 

(APSA) that said political science is “often ill-equipped 

to address in a sustained way why many of the most 

marginal members of political communities around the 

world are often unable to have their needs effectively 

addressed by governments.” 

American Studies Chair Gail Dines, who will also chair 

the political science and global studies major, says that 

Wheelock seems to be ahead of the curve in respect to APSA’s 

report: “For us, the major will take the issues they say are 


Making Policies Work 

for Children and Families 

Lucy Wheelock insisted that her students who were learning to be Boston kindergarten 

teachers should have a strong sense of ethics and civic responsibility and should 

be knowledgeable, engaged citizens of the world. They had to be if they were to be 

what she called “world changers.” Her foundational commitment to public responsibility 

and the greater good is evident everywhere at Wheelock today. Two examples are 

a new political science major in development and recent public testimony by faculty 

member Dr. Diane Levin ’69MS. 

ignored—race, inequality, gender, marginalization—and 

make them front and center.” 

The new curriculum will offer traditional political science 

courses that explore how the political system works, but it 

will specifically focus on global minority issues and human 

rights violations, including sex trafficking. Other classes that 

are planned include Women and Globalization, Food and 

the Global Economy, Human Rights as World History, and 

Sociology of Minority Groups. Students will also be expected 

to complete an internship with a human rights organization. 

Dines says that when she was researching how to put 

the curriculum together, she looked at other institutions’ 

offerings but could not find many programs that followed 

an interdisciplinary approach to political science and global 

studies. Wheelock faculty from anthropology, sociology, 

social work, and other disciplines worked together to 

develop what will be an innovative curriculum that Dines 

expects can be useful to other colleges as well. 

Luis Fraga, a leader of the special task force that completed 

the APSA report and a professor of political science 

at the University of Washington, noted that Wheelock’s 

curriculum has many of the report’s recommendations and 

suggestions already embedded within it, and, while there 

are a number of programs around the country that have 

elements of interdisciplinary approaches, he’s “not familiar 

with any other department that is as systematic as Wheelock 

in what it seems to be attempting.”

Advocating for 

Teaching 

Media Literacy 

Many Wheelock faculty members are professionally 

and personally committed to 

civic responsibility and publicly advocating 

for children and families. Professor 

Diane Levin’s (’69MS) November testimony 

before the Massachusetts Joint Committee on Education 

calling for standards in teaching media literacy in grades K-12 

is one example of how faculty extend their roles as educators 

beyond the classroom, sharing their research and knowledge 

to inform public understanding of issues affecting children. 

“ Media are teaching 

children many social, 

emotional and intellectual 

lessons caring 

adults do not want 

them to learn . . .” 

Testimony Given Before Joint Committee on Education in 

Support of Proposed Senate Bill 1956 

Directing the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary 

Education to develop standards for teaching media literacy K-12 

Submitted by Diane Levin, Ph.D. 

November 1, 2011 

I am a Professor of Education at Wheelock College in Boston, who has 

spent the past 25 years researching the impact of media and technology 

on children from birth-to-8, and teaching media literacy courses to teachers 

and parents around the world. I have written eight books, including Remote 

Control Childhood, Teaching Young Children in Violent Times, and So Sexy 

So Soon. 

Harmful Lessons 

Media have transformed childhood. Forty-two percent of children from 

0-to-8 have a television in their bedrooms. Many children now spend 

more time glued to screens than doing anything else but sleeping, and 

time spent watching television continues to increase rapidly. Media are 

teaching children many social, emotional and intellectual lessons caring 

adults do not want them to learn and which children do not have the 

cognitive abilities to resist. 

1. Violence. Starting at very young ages, violence, in both programs 

and products linked to them, is the common fare for boys. In its Policy 

Statement on Media Violence, the American Academy of Pediatrics 

has concluded that children’s exposure to media violence contributes 

to aggressive behavior, desensitization to violence, and fear of being 

harmed. The AAP strongly supports media literacy education for children 

to counteract the harm being caused by media violence. 

2. Sexualization. Sexualized behavior and appearance are the 

common fare in media programming for girls. Almost from birth, girls see 

images that tell them how they look and what they buy determines their 

value. It contributes to eating disorders, low self-esteem, depression, and 

mean-spirited behavior. 

3. Commercialization. Marketing to children through the media 

is a $17 billion-a-year business. Children 2-to-11 see more than 25,000 

advertisements per year—many of which promote violence for boys and 

sexualization for girls. In addition to further escalating harmful lessons 

about gender roles and how people treat each other, these ads promote 

an unhealthy focus on buying instead of achievement as the source of 

success and happiness. 

Media Literacy: Right from the Start 

By not providing media literacy education in our schools we have given 

media producers and marketers too much control over today’s children’s 

education. 

Parents cannot fight the forces of media in their children’s lives on 

their own. They need the help of teachers, who have been trained to promote 

the optimal development and learning of children and are thereby 

best suited to counteract the onslaught of today’s media. 

Children also need the help of schools. Too often they are left to their 

own devices to make sense of the harmful content they see. Too often, 

as children try to figure out what they see, they are lured away from the 

other vital lessons schools are responsible for teaching, such as literacy 

and math. 

Requiring media literacy in Massachusetts’ schools right from the 

start will make a real difference in children’s lives and go a long way to 

improving their social, emotional and intellectual well-being. 

Thank you for considering this most important bill. I strongly urge 

you to pass it. 



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CHALK ARTISTS IN ACTION 

Summer 2011 

Was summer really only a 

few months ago? As is 

now the summertime 

norm, Wheelock was alive 

with activity generated 

by on-campus groups that included the very 

artistic Wheelock Singapore students pictured 

here, Upward Bound/Teacher Bound high 

school students from Greater Boston, and 

English Learning Center students from all 

over the world who were here for English 

language courses. 

LARSEN ALUMNI ROOM 

PATIO TRANSFORMED!

Ava Jennings ’12 participated in 

the 2011 service learning program 

in West Africa and found it to be a 

life-changing experience. 

Photo by Cate Payne 

What Wheelock Students Do on Break 

International Service Learning 

sTudeNTs 

More and more Wheelock students are investing intensive classroom 

time preparing to participate in international service learning 

programs and returning from them eager to share what they have 

learned and how it has changed them. As participation grows, the value that 

the programs add to the undergraduate education Wheelock offers becomes 

more evident to students and faculty alike. 

This academic year, during the 2012 winter and spring breaks and in 

May, a mix of five new and returning programs is being offered. 

Winter Break 2012 – Inclusionary Practice in the Eastern Caribbean: 

Service Learning in Barbados with Dr. Felicity Crawford; and Cross-Cultural 

Perspectives on Helping Children Cope with Stress: Service Learning in Singapore 

with Dr. Paul Thayer 

Spring Break 2012 – Lessons from Belfast, Northern Ireland: How Early 

Childhood Programs Can Help Children Affected by Violence Heal with Dr. 

Diane Levin ’69MS; and Cross-Cultural Service Learning in Puerto Rico with 

Drs. Jane Yedlin and Tina Durand 

May 2012 – African History, Culture, and Spirituality: Benin and Ghana, 

West Africa with Dr. Joyce Hope Scott 

WILDCATS Leave Paw Prints 

All Over Fall Season! 

At the end of the fall season, the Wheelock College men’s soccer team received the New 

England Collegiate Conference (NECC) Team Sportsmanship Award for the third straight 

year! Not only that, but on the women’s field hockey team, junior Despina Savvoulides 

was named NECC Field Hockey Player of the Year and joined junior defender Alanna Phil on the 

NECC All-Conference first team. Plus, senior midfielder Kylie Hefford and sophomore goalkeeper 

Michelle Greene were voted to the All-Conference honorable mention squad. 

Despina is the first player in the College’s history to capture the Player of the Year honor. 

A co-captain this season, she started all 17 games for the Wildcats and scored 13 goals to tie 

for the league lead, in addition to racking up 28 points to 

place second among NECC leaders. Alanna earned first-team 

honors on the All-Conference team for the second straight 

year and now matches Despina, the only other Wildcat to 

do so. The New Hampshire native is majoring in elementary 

education/human development and finished her career with 

70 games played to tie Julie Kilcoyne ’11 (2007-2010) for 

the most in school history. 

Kylie earned honorable mention on the All-Conference team 

after scoring two goals and adding an assist as one of the best 

two-way midfielders in the league. The elementary education 

major’s field savvy earned her respect from the league’s coaches 

as early as her rookie season, when she was selected to the 

All-Conference first team as a freshman. Michelle joined Kylie 

on the honorable mention squad after a stellar year as the 

Wildcats’ starting keeper. A special education major, Michelle 

currently ranks second on Wheelock’s victories list with nine, 

while maintaining a 2.62 career GAA to place her third on the 

Wildcats’ all-time list. 

The Wildcats finished the season with a 5-12 overall mark, 

including a 4-1 record in league play, to earn the number one 

seed in the NECC Tournament. It was the first time in school history 

that Wheelock had captured the top seed. Go, Wildcats! 


sTudeNTs 

Applying Research to Service 

M.S.W. students collect data for a 

domestic violence program 

It started with a student in Wheelock’s Master of Social Work (M.S.W.) program who 

wanted to serve New Orleans with the social work skills she was learning at the College. 

At the time, there were no Wheelock service trips designed for M.S.W. students, 

but, after much networking, Assistant Professor of Social Work Dr. Nicole Dubus 

developed a trip that would help students understand the unique needs of the Katrina 

survivors, the community needs of New Orleans, and the issues related to an important 

social work issue: domestic violence. 

Last May, four students spent a week in New Orleans conducting research on 

a project that will help shape how emergency shelter will be provided to the city’s 

domestic violence victims in the future. 

After a domestic violence center in New Orleans was destroyed by Hurricane Katrina in 

2005, the shelter’s clients were scattered and difficult to reach. Rather than starting from 

scratch and rebuilding the facility, the shelter’s staff instead began providing women with 

vouchers for hotel rooms. They found that by using this method, they could serve more 

people and tailor the services to meet the individual needs of women and families better 

than they could when they had a single physical shelter. 

“ People try to understand how a woman stays in a violent relationship. 

It’s how we stay in New Orleans knowing any day we could 

flood again. . . . You get your kids ready for school, you go to work, 

you learn to live with the fear as if it is not there.” 

A 

year after President Obama signed 

the Affordable Care Act into law, the 

state of health care policy in the U.S. 

has never been more in the news, and it is a 

frequent topic of discussion in Wheelock’s 

Child Life and Family Studies Department. 


—Mary Claire Landry, Director of the New Orleans Family Justice Center 

Students Bring Dr. Judith S. Palfrey and 

Focus on Health Care Policy to Wheelock 

Dr. Judith S. Palfrey (center) talked health care policy 

with Wheelock Child Life Organization students; the 

organization’s 2010-2011 president Rachel Schumacher 

’11 (left of Dr. Palfrey); faculty; and staff. 

The visit to campus this year by Judith S. 

Palfrey, M.D., which was sponsored by the 

department and the student-led Wheelock 

Child Life Organization, focused the discussion 

spotlight on access to affordable health 

care for children and families. 

Dr. Nicole Dubus and four M.S.W. students: Meghan 

Coonan, Brianna Boffoli, Emily Birkhead, and Heather 

Farrell standing by the rising Mississippi River 

After six years of providing vouchers, the staff wanted to evaluate which approach, 

shelter-based or non-shelter-based, was more beneficial. Wheelock students Meghan 

Coonan ’12, Brianna Boffoli ’13, Emily Birkhead ’12, and Heather Farrell ’12 

collected information and stories from past recipients of the emergency housing. 

Already skilled in research interviewing, field note writing, and data analysis, the 

students learned more about domestic violence in New Orleans by observing civil and 

criminal court proceedings, touring service agencies, visiting neighborhoods still abandoned 

post-Katrina, and sitting in on a national steering committee meeting of the Family 

Justice Center, a service center for victims of family violence and their children. At the end 

of the trip, they produced a detailed report of their findings which is now the beginning of 

a Domestic Violence/Sexual Assault Services Program evaluation that will help determine 

how domestic violence victims in New Orleans receive emergency shelter in the future. 

“This was a very productive service learning research project,” says Dr. Dubus. 

“And we developed a network with wonderful organizations and people—the Catholic 

Charities Archdiocese of New Orleans; Mary Claire Landry, who is director of the 

Domestic Violence/Sexual Assault Services and the New Orleans Family Justice Center; 

Dr. Jenkins from University of New Orleans; Dr. Brown from Loyola University; and the 

many people we worked and laughed with during our stay.” 

Dr. Palfrey is the immediate past president 

of the American Academy of Pediatrics, 

director of the International Pediatric 

Center at Children’s Hospital, and first lady 

Michelle Obama’s appointment to lead 

her Let’s Move! initiative to fight childhood 

obesity. Dr. Palfrey’s discussion with 

students centered on where we are headed 

in health care reform, the need to provide 

all children with the right health care when 

and where they need it, and the need to 

ensure that their families and communities 

are also healthy. “Too often, we see the 

consequences of families’ ill health fall on 

their children,” she said. “If we are to truly 

reform our health care system, we will embrace 

the notion that the health of everyone 

in the community really matters. There are 

solutions. We need only compare ourselves 

to other industrialized nations who spend 

less on health care and get better outcomes 

than we do.”

Corpus Mirabile (Wondrous Body), 2011 

by Gregory Miguel Gómez and Peter Andruchow 

Welded stainless steel and black anodized cast aluminum 

Williamson College of Business Administration, 

Youngstown State University 

Natural Numbers and Business 

Metaphors in Gregory Miguel 

Gómez’s Latest Sculpture 

Associate Professor Gregory “Greg” Gómez’s 

large-scale metal sculptures are permanently 

on view at more and more sites around the 

country. His latest, Corpus Mirabile (Wondrous Body), was 

a year and a half in the making and is now installed at 

the Williamson College of Business Administration at 

Youngstown State University. 

“The design of the sculpture is inspired by the Fibonacci 

number, the logarithmic number sequence found 

in many forms in nature,” he says. “Corpus Mirabile is 

a metaphor for ‘the Corporation,’ an ever-expanding 

entity, with form, made of many parts, working together, 

and going through cycles. The open surface of Corpus 

Mirabile, revealing its strong inner structure, suggests the 

values of trust and transparency, in matters of business.” 

AWARD-WINNING FACULTY 

FaCulTy 

Dr. Eleonora Villegas-Reimers Receives 

Excellence in Education Award 

Dr. Eleonora Villegas-Reimers, who is an associate professor in 

elementary education and human development and a member 

of the Massachusetts Board of Early Education and Care, was 

honored at the Statehouse on Oct. 6 for her work in Massachusetts on 

behalf of children and families. Gov. Deval Patrick and Secretary Paul 

Reville, members of the Legislature, and many community leaders, 

families, and children gathered at the Statehouse to honor Dr. Villegas- 

Reimers, among other Latino-American educators, with the Excellence 

in Education Award. 

New England Aquarium Ocean Stewardship 

Award for Dr. Charles “Chuck” Fidler 

Now in its second year, the 

New England Aquarium’s 

Ocean Stewardship Award 

is given to teachers who have been 

working to promote an ocean 

conservation ethic in their classroom. 

Nominated by their educational 

colleagues, these educators model 

active, hands-on teaching that 

engages students in ocean stewardship 

and its importance. In October, 

the Aquarium presented Dr. Chuck 

Fidler, assistant professor in physical 

science, with this year’s award, 

and everyone at Wheelock knows why. Fidler inspires his undergraduate 

students by sharing his passion for the ocean and leading them on direct 

in-the-field learning experiences within New England’s local coastal areas. 

And students love it. Dr. Fidler is never at a loss for students to fill his 

classes. By showing the importance of our local coastal ecosystems and 

our impact on them, Dr. Fidler is a true ocean steward. 



alumNi NeTwORK 

Cape Cod 

The Cape Cod network was humming all 

summer and fall, from Hyannis to East 

Orleans to Brewster, with three gatherings 

of alumnae and one professor emerita. 

All Together for a Club Picnic 

In addition to a luncheon at the Hyannis Yacht Club, Cape 

Cod alumni were together at a picnic hosted by Patricia 

Slater Carey ’45 in her home. 

(standing L to R) Jill Schunick Putnam ’74/’84MS, Gwynne 

Wiatrowski Guzzeau ’93MS, Carol Reed Newsome ’60, 

Harriet Blanchard ’75, Virginia Richard Angelo ’94MS, Susan 

Towle Huckman ’55, Marion Turnbull Mangels ’59, and 

Maryanne Weber Lockyer ’45 

(seated L to R) Frances Perkins (professor emerita), Patricia 

Slater Carey ’45, Miriam “Mimi” Gibbs Dubuque ’43, Anne 

Tremper Hall ’49, Marilyn “Lyn” Peck Kenyon ’45/’69BS, and 

Barbara Mead Anthony ’60MS 

Intercollege Alumni Day at the Cape 

Cod Museum of Natural History 

Paula Davison ’74, Alumni Association board member; 

Kasey Riley ’03/’07MSW, associate director of Alumni 

Relations; and Jane Hertig Roberts ’73, trustee (pictured 

left L to R), were among those who participated in a Halloween 

adventure on Oct. 30 at the Cape Cod Museum of Natural History, 

which they shared with alumni of the Colleges of the Fenway, 

Smith College, and Lesley University. And an adventure it was, 

since the fluke storm that caused power outages up and down the 

East Coast for the next week began as the group explored the two 

floors of the museum and joined with kids in fun activities, including 

a green Treat Trail through the Museum’s wild garden lighted 

by luminarias and jack-o’-lanterns. As the storm ramped up, there 

was just time before sprinting home to network a bit and talk about 

other possible intercollege alumni gatherings and collaborations.

Fall Alumni Symposium Honors Louise Marsden 

’11MS with Elizabeth Palmer Peabody Award 

The Fall Alumni Symposium, held in September, was a definite hit with a lineup of 

topics so rich and timely it was hard to choose among them. More than 70 alumni 

and faculty members participated in the day’s thought-provoking seminars, workshops, 

and discussions and then had a chance to network at the afternoon reception. 

Director of Athletics and Sport-based Initiatives Diana Cutaia gave an inspiring keynote 

explaining how Wheelock Athletics is challenging athletes to use sport as a tool for peace 

building and positive personal growth—an approach that is winning considerable recognition 

in the Boston press, not to mention games on the field. Special thanks go to Susan 

Constable ’82 and faculty members Paul Thayer, Linda Banks-Santilli ’85, Irwin Nesoff, 

Petra Hesse, Castagna Lacet, and Nicole Dubus for sharing their knowledge during event 

workshops covering a range of topics that included autism, bullying, and effective leadership. 

At the event, President Jackie Jenkins-Scott presented Wheelock’s Elizabeth Palmer 

Peabody Award to Louise Marsden ’11MS, who received her master’s degree in care and 

education in early childhood settings with a concentration in leadership and public policy 

from the College’s off-campus program in Maine. Louise is vice president of Child & Family 

Services for People’s Regional Opportunity Program for community action in Portland, 

ME. As a strong early care and education leader, she collaborates with others to ensure that 

Maine’s children have access to high-quality, developmentally appropriate, culturally responsive 

early childhood experiences in child care, Head Start, and pre-K programs at 14 sites in 

Cumberland County. 

Louise’s vision of social justice embodies Wheelock’s mission and guides her in developing 

policies and putting them into practice. Recognizing the relationship between quality 

early childhood experiences and a strong democratic society, Louise has designed an in-house 

model of mental health and support services for her state’s Head Start programs and was 

instrumental in writing and implementing policies that are grounded in anti-bias education 

to support the needs of immigrant and refugee populations. 

Louise deserves congratulations on her award and appreciation for all that she does to 

improve the lives of children and families. 

President Jackie Jenkins-Scott 

(left) presents Wheelock’s 

Elizabeth Palmer Peabody Award 

to Louise Marsden ’11MS. 

“ As a student, Jennifer found her 

philosophical niche at Wheelock. 

As a teacher, she found her heart 

was with the children of Boston’s 

inner city. A teacher development 

endowment at Wheelock is the perfect 

place for Jennifer’s legacy to reside.” 

—EllEn StowErS 

Jennifer Stowers Quintal 

Teacher Development 

Endowed Scholarship 

Established 

The late Jennifer Lee Stowers ’02 

brimmed with passion for educating 

children and their families and communities, 

for integrating music into young 

lives, and for addressing social justice issues. In 

honor of Jen and her dedication to improving 

the lives of children, her family has established 

an endowed scholarship fund that will benefit 

Wheelock students. In awarding the scholarship 

each year, Wheelock will show preference 

to graduate students pursuing their professional 

careers. 

“This endowment is a way to support other 

like-minded, energetic, and passionate professionals 

who choose to follow Jennifer’s lead in 

serving inner-city children, families, and communities,” 

says Ellen Stowers, Jennifer’s mother. 

“Our hope is that these students will experience 

the same sense of purpose and joy that Jennifer 

experienced in her work. I’m thinking she’d like 

that—a great deal—because when I close my 

eyes, I can still see her smiling.” 


alumNi 

Rachael Thames ’07/’08MS 

Wheelock World Service Leader 

Wheelock World Service Day started just two years ago, in 2009, when the Alumni 

Association Advocacy and Community Service Committee was looking for a new 

and active way to connect with the mission of the College. Committee Chair Rachael 

Thames ’07/’08MS then took on leadership of the initiative the group came up with—a day 

when alumni could gather for service in their home communities, strengthening their ties to each 

other and to the College, and increase Wheelock’s visibility around the world. 

“Our first World Service Day was held on April 17, 2010, and there were service projects in 

Cape Cod, MA; Nashua, NH; Stoneham, MA; Boston, MA; Portland, OR; San Francisco, CA; 

Sarasota, FL; and Singapore,” Rachael says. “The service projects ranged from reading to babies 

to cleaning up the Muddy River. It was lots of fun and a wonderful experience to have alumni 

working alongside other alumni and with their families, and introducing Wheelock and its mission 

to others in their communities.” 

Rachael believes strongly in living Wheelock’s mission and was inspired by it to choose a 

job with a similar mission and values. At Horizons for Homeless Children, where she teaches 

preschool, the mission is to improve the lives of homeless children and their families. There, 

Rachael provides children with a positive early education experience that is focused on play and 

supports their social and emotional development. She feels fortunate to work with children who 

have experienced the trauma of homelessness and to use the knowledge and skills she gained at 

Wheelock to provide them with high-quality care and learning experiences. 

Rachael sees Wheelock World Service Weekend as another opportunity for her and other 

volunteers to put what they have learned from their College experience to good use on behalf 

of children. “For the upcoming April 20 to 22 service weekend, we want to reach out to 

everyone in the Wheelock community,” she says. “We are calling for students, alumni, faculty 

members, parents, families, and all of our Wheelock friends to participate and to encourage 

all of their friends and family to join us too. To those who volunteered last year, I thank you 

and would like to welcome you back. Your compassion and action on behalf of others will help 

make the world a better place!” 


“ Together we can inspire, engage, 

and act to make a difference!” 

When teaching preschool and when 

volunteering, Rachael loves bringing 

young imaginations to life through 

reading and play. 

Wheelock 

World Service Weekend 

Is Coming— 

April 20–22, 2012 

Calling all alumni to join Wheelock 

students and faculty in making 

a difference during Wheelock’s 

next annual World Service Weekend on 

April 20-22, 2012. Encourage other 

alumni (make it a mini-Reunion!), family, 

and friends to spend some quality time 

together having fun while helping others. 

Join an already-organized volunteer event 

in your community or coordinate your 

own, then contact us for your studentdesigned 

Wheelock World Service T-shirts 

to wear. If this is your first time out on 

this event and you need guidance, call 

Kasey Riley, associate director of Alumni 

Relations, at (617) 879-2286 or email 

her at kriley@wheelock.edu. Visit our 

Wheelock World Service Weekend website 

to check out all the details, log in 

your hours, add photos, and share your 

experience: www.wheelock.edu/worldservice.

Leader in the 

Spotlight 

INTERVIEW 

Betty Bain Pearsall ’71 

University Director of Child Care, 

City University of New York 

As university director of child care at the 

City University of New York (CUNY), 

Betty Bain Pearsall ’71 coordinates CU- 

NY’s 19 child care centers and makes it 

possible for young parents to pursue higher 

education while knowing their children are 

getting quality care and education.“Caring 

for the whole child, supporting and mentoring 

the parent, teaching advocacy—every 

day I have an impact on hundreds of children 

and families, applying and passing on 

what I learned from Wheelock,” she says. 

WC: How did you decide on a career in early 

childhood education and care (ECEC), Betty? 

BP: Early childhood education and care has 

really always been a part of my life. My mother 

went to Hunter College and Bank Street College 

of Education and taught 4-year-olds, and 

my godmother was director of a child care 

center in New York City where my great-aunt 

was also the cook and I substitute taught when 

I was a Wheelock undergrad home on vacation. 

Good quality education and care is a value my 

family is committed to. 

WC: And now you are at both ends of 

the educational spectrum, coordinating 

19 ECEC centers at the City University 

of New York? 

BP: Yes, at the City University campuses, we 

provide care only for children whose parents 

are students at the University. We do this because 

our emphasis is on access to and success 

in higher education. A Wheelock scholarship 

provided me with access to the foundation 

of my education, at a residential college, that 

broadened my experience in the world. This is 

similar to what I try to do at CUNY by providing 

quality child care and early education. 

For student parents, child care can be the 

main obstacle barring the way to higher education 

or to remaining in college once enrolled; 

this is especially so for first-generation college 

students. Having care available and knowing 

their children are getting quality care and an 

early childhood education allows parents to 

focus on their studies and achieve that goal of 

higher education. 

We provide other educational benefits too 

that build toward success for children and 

parents. Right from the start, the children at 

CUNY are in an environment where the goal 

of higher education is the norm; learning and 

growing in a community that cares about 

education are natural parts of their early experience. 

We also provide support and education 

sessions for parents so they can learn more 

about being strong advocates for their children 

and how to work with other parents to demand 

good child care and quality education later, 

after they have graduated and are working and 

their children are in school. We are helping 

educate parents to be leaders in advocacy. 

WC: You are also the president of the 

National Coalition for Campus Children’s 

Centers, a nonprofit organization dedi cated 

to supporting early childhood education 

in the college and university setting. How 

did you prepare to be such a leader? 

BP: I believe that experience builds on itself, 

and you grow into positions of responsibility 

and leadership. As I taught, I gained more 

and more experience in the classroom, and I 

pursued two master’s degrees and learned more 

through higher education. Then I went the next 

step and started an early care and childhood 

program at Queens College, where I developed 

more confidence and leadership and advocacy 

skills, and then I went to York College, where 


they were constructing a building and starting 

a child care program at the same time, so I 

worked with staff through this process. I was 

starting a program, advocating for funds, going 

to construction meetings, wearing a jacket to 

meet with the president, and then running 

down to attend to fixing faucets or hula with 

the children. I did it all and I learned from it all. 

But I think preparation for leadership began 

for me at Wheelock with faculty who challenged 

me and mentored my development and my 

sense of professionalism and commitment right 

from the start. I continue that model of education 

and mentoring of staff and parents in my 

role directing CUNY’s child care centers now. 

WC: You received a 2011 Making a Difference 

Award from Wheelock at Reunion, and you 

are a member of the Corporation. How do 

you think Wheelock has changed since your 

undergrad years and how is it the same? 

BP: When I was at Wheelock, I was inspired 

by the idealistic mission to make the world 

a better place for children, but I was one of 

few African-American students, and there 

was a general lack of cultural awareness and 

competency. It was a time when Wheelock 

students couldn’t wear pants to class and had 

responsibilities at each dorm, such as tea duty 

or answering the door! But it was also a time 

of great change: The civil rights movement was 

strong; black students were speaking out and 

formed a student union; and there were the 

Vietnam War discussions and protests. 

From what I see of today’s Wheelock, it has 

that same idealistic mission that inspired me; 

however, it is more diverse, and there is more 

awareness of the importance of cultural competency. 

And it’s wonderful to see the College 

capitalizing on its outstanding faculty and taking 

the lead in advocating for children in so many 

new ways. When I reflect back, it is amazing to 

me how much I was absorbing and learning, 

even talking informally with faculty, and how 

strong the faculty was and still is today. 

WC: Do you have a message for today’s 

Wheelock students? 

BP: Take advantage of all that is offered to you 

at Wheelock. You may not know the impact of 

all the interactions you are having on campus, 

all the classes; but take in the knowledge, all of 

it. Decide on your dream and then follow it. 

Wheelock has a lot to offer, and when you get 

into the world, you will realize how important 

your Wheelock experience is and will be for the 

rest of your life. It will take you far. 



The Policy Connection 

Help make it a straight line to better policies for children. Get involved. 

Join with other alumni, students, faculty, and staff. Make a difference. 

The Policy Connection—Wheelock’s initiative that keeps alumni as well as students, 

faculty, and staff informed about current policy issues on local, state, and federal levels 

that impact children and families—is expanding its activities under the direction of 

Marta Rosa, special assistant to the president for government and external affairs, and Lauren 

Marquis ’11MS, director of development and alumni relations. 

Last fall, alumni checking the Policy Connection page on Wheelock’s website could find 

topics such as the Social Impact of Casinos in Massachusetts, the 2010 Massachusetts Anti- 

Bullying Law, and Immigration in Massachusetts. Updated monthly, the site also has an 

advocacy guide and regularly features information about federal and state budgets, connections to 

elected officials, and links to organizations, new research, and much more. In coming months, 

there will be even more because the Policy Connection wants your input! 

Civic engagement is a founding value of the College that originated with Lucy Wheelock. 

Today, connecting with others in our extended Wheelock community to talk over or organize 

around issues impacting the lives of children and families is easy. Check in with the Policy 

Connection on Wheelock’s website. Follow policy issues on Twitter@WheelockPolicy, and like 

us on Facebook at Facebook.com/WheelockPolicy. 

Lois Barnett Mirsky ’54 

Joins the Policy Connection 

Lois Barnett Mirsky ’54 is a current member of the 

Corporation and, during many years of proactive 

involvement with Wheelock, has been a member 

of the Board of Trustees and of the Alumni Board and a 

director of Alumni Affairs and of the Annual Fund. Now 

she is joining the Policy Connection to facilitate keeping 

alumni up-to-date and engaged with policy issues. 


Dear Alumni, 

WHO are the people who are professionally equipped to meet the 

needs of children and families in their classrooms and in their communities? 

WHEELOCK ALUMNI. 

WHO are the people who can be advocates in their cities, towns, 

states, and in our nation’s capital to monitor legislation that affects 

children and families? WHEELOCK ALUMNI. 

There are more than 15,000 of us across the country and the globe. 

We can be a strong force that can oversee what is good and what is not 

good in bills pending in our city councils, in our state capitals, and in 

the Congress of the United States. Our Wheelock education (no matter 

in what year we graduated) is what binds us together in wanting the 

best for all children and for all families. 

I am inspired and proud to join with Marta Rosa, special assistant to 

the president for government and external affairs, and Lauren Marquis 

’11MS, director of development and alumni relations, in making sure 

you get the information you need to be connected to the Policy Connection 

and to be an advocate for children and families everywhere. I am 

excited about this new endeavor and invite you to be a part of it as we 

build an alumni Policy Connection network. You will read more about 

the Policy Connection and how you can be involved in the weeks and 

months to come. Follow the Policy Connection on Twitter@Wheelock 

Policy, on Facebook at Facebook.com/WheelockPolicy, and of course on 

Wheelock’s website at www.wheelock.edu. 

Lois Mirsky ’54

Maine Alumni 

Talk Policy 

Wheelock alumni in Maine presented 

a policy panel in October 

that focused on policies and 

practices in their state that improve the lives 

of children and families. Judy Reidt-Parker 

’85/’97MS, an early childhood policy analyst 

at Maine Children’s Allliance, moderated 

the panel consisting of Jaci Fowle Holmes 

’73/’76MS, Maine Department of Education 

Child Development Services director and early 

childhood consultant; Peter C. Stuckey, state 

representative; and Sheryl Peavey, director of 

the Early Childhood Initiative of the Maine 

Department of Health and Human Services. 

Twenty-one undergraduates, alumni, and 

members of the local community in Waterville, 

ME, attended the event, focusing much 

of their discussion on cuts in Head Start and 

other early childhood services in Maine and 

the undermining impact on children and 

families, especially in the most rural areas 

where poverty is deepest. Jaci and Sheryl gave 

a presentation about a Race to the Top (part 

of the American Recovery and Reinvestment 

Act) grant they wrote to gain education reform 

funds to build upon and sustain what Maine is 

already doing well in early education and care. 

After the discussion, there was a tour of an 

Educare site, the first in New England, which 

is designed to serve between 150 and 200 

children from low-income families in the most 

critical brain development stage from 6 weeks 

to 5 years. A private/public partnership, 

Educare Central Maine is in a state-of-the-art 


Judy Reidt-Parker ’85/’97MS and Jaci Fowle Holmes ’73/’76MS (middle L to R with Sheryl Peavey of the 

Maine Department of Health and Human Services and State Representative Peter C. Stuckey) are among 

alumni organizing others in Maine to address policy issues affecting children and families. 

TRUCE 2011-2012 

ANNUAL TOY SELECTION GUIDE 

Toys of Value and Toys to Avoid 

green building which will also serve as a professional 

development and resource center for 

child care professionals across the state, as well 

as a teaching lab for students seeking an early 

childhood degree in Maine. 

The group is planning another policy 

event for the spring. For information, email 

Terri Houston, director of major gifts and 

planned giving, at thouston@wheelock.edu. 

This annual review helps parents choose toys that promote healthy 

play and avoid toys that undermine it. In our current age of technology, 

media, and marketing to children, TRUCE reminds us that it is especially 

important to make informed toy choices. 

The Guide includes Toy Tips for Infants in addition to a Toys of Value 

section suggesting games and toys that promote manipulative, dramatic, 

and physical play. Another section notes harmful toy trends in categories 

that include toys that make violence and/or sexiness the focus of play, 

toys and games linked to 

media, children’s “books” 

linked to push buttons and electronics, and 

electronics aimed at infants and toddlers. 

To view the Guide online and to find 

more complete information about dealing 

with today’s play and media, go to www. 

truceteachers.org. 



Retired Teachers 

are Gifted 

Give your gifts of knowledge, 

perspective, and experience to 

a new teacher. Join the Wheelock 

Educator Mentor Corps! 

Wheelock College’s Aspire Institute 

is recruiting retired teachers in order 

to expand its Educator Mentor 

Corps (EMC) program, which mobilizes experienced 

educators to inspire and retain those 

entering the field. 

What do EMC mentors do? 

EMC mentors work with new teachers in 

the Greater Boston area during their first 

few years in the classroom to enhance their 

professional skills. 

Ideal mentor candidates are retired or working 

part time, have 10 or more years of experi- 

Officially retired? 

What’s your next act? 

If there ever was any truth to the vision of 

lazy, purpose-free days conjured by the word 

“retired,” it’s far over the hill now. With 

people living healthier and longer lives, more 

and more are actively developing second and 

even third acts following their official retirement. 

Is this especially so for Wheelock alumni, who 

are known for their energy, sense of purpose, 

and service? We’d like to know. 

What are alumni who have moved on from 

longtime careers doing now? Are you finding 

different ways to be involved with children and 

families? Or have you taken off in an entirely 

new direction? 

We’ve received notes from alumni asking us 

to do a story on the subject. One alumna planning 

a retirement that would require less physical 

strength asked for ideas about what she might 

do to “help children.” Are you using what you 

learned years ago at Wheelock and during your 

career to help raise grandchildren? Are you tutoring 

young readers? Volunteering in a hospital? 

Writing a book? Organizing a workshop or community 

program? Opening a gallery? 

Share your “retirement” news and ideas 

with the editor, Christine Dall, at cdall@wheelock. 

edu or write her at Wheelock College, 200 The 

Riverway, Boston, MA 02215. 


ence working as educators, and live in or can 

travel to the Greater Boston area. Mentors work 

with mentees one to two days per week during 

the school year. They also belong to a learning 

community of other mentors, Wheelock faculty, 

and staff from host schools that meets one to 

two days per month during the school year and 

three to five days during the summer. The EMC 

program receives AmeriCorps funding, which 

also provides small stipends for mentors. 

Mentors serve as Wheelock Educatorsin-Residence 

and, as part of a professional 

learning community at the College, have access 

to free college and continuing education 

courses and other campus benefits. They may 

also serve as guest lecturers, develop their 

own workshops, and participate in research 

and policy initiatives. 

Where do EMC mentors serve? 

EMC mentors are matched with second- and 

third-year Boston Public Schools teachers. Each 

mentor works with one or two new teachers 

and is placed in collaboration with the BPS 

Office of Teacher Development and Advancement. 

Host school sites integrate EMC mentors 

as professional colleagues, including them 

in schoolwide professional development and 

instructional improvement efforts. 

Interested? Yes! 

Contact aspire@wheelock.edu. 

10 Years in Social Work: 2002–2012 

Wheelock’s Social Work Celebration & Conference Is March 23 

The theme for Wheelock’s Social Work Month event last March was “The Clinician as 

Social Activist”—an appropriate title recognizing the active voice with which Wheelock 

alumni advocate for children and families in every setting where they work. The theme 

for the next gathering coming up on March 23, 2012, is “10 Years in Social Work: 2002-2012.” 

The daylong event will be a 10-year reunion for Wheelock’s first M.S.W. graduating class (hurrah!) 

and a conference offering Continuing Education Unit workshops. Mark your calendars 

now, and stay tuned for more detailed information coming your way. 

New Wheelock Works Social Media! 

Wheelock Works has new interactive 

Facebook and LinkedIn integrations allowing you to easily 

connect to your Facebook and LinkedIn accounts— 

and making professional networking an absolute breeze. 

Follow us @wheelockCCPD or like us on Facebook!

WheeLock 

coLLege 

annuaL rePort 

of giving 

2011-2012 


Cornerstone society 

Lucy Wheelock 

Benefactors 

($50,000 or more) 

Beth Atwood ‘57* 

Suzanne Baker Bethke ‘59* 

Keena Dunn Clifford ‘68 

Patricia Cook ‘69 

Mr. and Mrs. Albert Creighton 

Sylvia Tailby Earl ‘54 and James Earl 

Irene Frail Hamm ‘60 and 

Charles Hamm 

Holly Horton ‘76MS* 

Carol and Robert Lincoln 

Ellen Haebler Skove ‘49 

Suzanne Hamburger Thurston ‘54 

President’s Council 

($25,000 to $49,999) 

Judith and Robert Anderson 

Barbara Mead Anthony ‘60MS 

Beedee and Ted Ladd 

Frances Tedesco Lathrop ‘54* 

Wheelock Fellows 

($10,000 to $24,999) 

Stephanie Bennett-Smith and Orin 

R. Smith 

Elizabeth Townsend Dearstyne ‘62 

and William Dearstyne 

Susan Sharp Dorrance ‘67 

Sally Reeves Edmonds ‘55 

Elizabeth Grimm Hoskins ‘56 

Edith Hall Huck ‘48 

Kathy and Bob Jaunich 

Dr. and Mrs. Gordon Marshall 

Cecily and Alan Morse 

Frances Nichols ‘63 

Phoebe O’Mara ‘66 

Barbara Grogins Sallick ‘61 

Froebel Associates 

($5,000 to $9,999) 

Gary Bergstrom 

Ellen Cluett Burnham ‘60 

Madeleine Gatchell Corson ‘59 

Tina Feldman Crosby ‘67 

Zelinda Makepeace Douhan 

‘63/’75MS 

Walter Einstein 

Thordis Burdett Gulden ‘66 

Mitchell Harris 

Tina Morris Helm ‘64/’98MS and 

Bill Helm 

Nancy Kelly Hershey ‘69 

Anne Wingle Howard ‘57 

W h e e l o c k c o l l e g e • A n n u A l R e p o R t o f g i v i n g 2 0 1 1 - 2 0 1 2 

The Cornerstone Society recognizes our most generous donors who make an 

annual gift of $1,250 or more to Wheelock College. These individuals, along with 

the students they support, are the cornerstones of Wheelock’s future. The College 

would like to thank the following individuals for their leadership support: 


Marcia Rudd Keil ‘34* 

Linda Gordon Kendall ‘61 

Lyn Peck Kenyon ‘45/’69BS 

Judy and John Knutson 

Sonia Loizeaux ‘57 

Pamela Long 

Persis Luke Loveys ‘54 

Martha-Reed Ennis Murphy ‘69 

Suzanne Newton 

Linda Bullock Owens ‘69 

Ruth Bailey Papazian ‘56 

Gertrude Van Iderstine Phillips ‘43-’44 

and Thomas L. Phillips 

Page Poinier Sanders ‘65 

Katharine duPont Sanger ‘66 

Thekla Reese Shackelford ‘56 

Kate and Ben Taylor 

Geneva S. Thorndike and 

William Thorndike Jr. 

Helen Small Weishaar ‘45 

Carole Hayes Williams ‘66 

Elizabeth Bassett Wolf ‘54 

White and Gold Circle 

($2,500 to $4,999) 

Steven Aveson ‘78 

Joan Wolfers Belkin ‘70MS 

Lisa McCabe Biagetti ‘80 

Barbara Pratt Dancy ‘62 

Barbara Tutschek Ells ‘60 and 

Robert H. Ells 

Barbara Elliott Fargo ‘52 

Susan Grearson Fillmore ‘56 

Deirdre Conrad Frank ‘65 

Maria Furman 

Janet Marshall Haring ‘64 

Priscilla Alden Hayes ‘62 and 

Robert Hayes 

Anne Mulholland Heger ‘49 

Priscilla Chase Heindel ‘47 

Sally Schwabacher Hottle ‘59 

Jackie Jenkins-Scott and Jim Scott 

Jone LaBombard ‘80MS 

Elizabeth Wheeler L’Hommedieu ‘54 

Olivia Hutchins Meek ‘52 

Toby Congleton Milner ‘70 

Shirley Hotra Neff ‘58 

Ginger Neaher Pape ‘71 

Abby Squires Perelman ‘73 

Nancy Fowle Purinton ‘64 

Adelaide Duffy Queeney ‘88MS 

Marcia Carlson Rintoul ‘66 

Mark E. Roberts ‘76MS and 

Jane Hertig Roberts ‘73 

Susan Bruml Simon ‘73 

Ann Emerson Spaulding ‘53 

1888 Circle 

($1,250 to $2,499) 

Judy McMurray Achre ‘58 

Ruth Flink Ades ‘53 

Julia Alden ‘94MS 

Margaret Benisch Anderson ‘53 

Ginger Mercer Bates ‘54 

Henriette Pennypacker Binswanger ‘56 

Linda Larrabee Blair-Lockwood ‘65 

Joan Sullivan Buchanan ‘53 

Joyce Pettoruto Butler ‘73 

Jean Heard Carmichael ‘62 

Julia Challinor ‘75 

Mr. and Mrs. William H. Christmann 

Geraldine Walsh Clauss ‘51 

Louise Close ‘77 

Kathryn Smith Conrad ‘73MS 

Madeleine Tufts Cormier ‘66 

Ellen Tague Dwinell ‘61 

Lynne Siegal Fox ‘73 

Kristine Sheathelm Gerson ‘79 

Joan Blanchard Gray ‘50 

Patricia Conzelman Greeley 

‘52/’90MS 

Mary Bloomer Gulick ‘57 and 

Bob Gulick 

William R. Hall 

Cynthia Hallowell ‘58 

Ann-Penn Stearns Holton ‘47 

Susan Towle Huckman ‘55 

Janet Ferry Jenney ‘52 

Stella Barnes Johnson ‘55* 

Roberta and Tom Kelly 

Phyllis Forbes Kerr ‘64 

Ranch C. Kimball 

Jane Kuehn Kittredge ‘63 

Mildred Griffith Kohler ‘36 

Catherine Ley Lawler ‘82 

Mary Pescatello Lewis ‘69 

Helene Stehlin Lortz ‘60 

William A. Lowell, Esq. 

Kathleen Wilson Mallet ‘65 

Marion Turnbull Mangels ‘59 

Anne Marie Martorana 

Mary Meeker ‘58 

Carolyn Bail Miller ‘71 

Constance Bell Moser ‘76 

Robin Mount 

Anne Hallowell Newton ‘66 

Maryann Mylott O’Rourke ‘60/’98MS 

Delleyne Eldridge Osborne ‘59 

Linda Port 

Michelle Porter ‘85 

Nancy Garnaus Rice ‘50 

Betty Appel Schaffer ‘60 

Priscilla Janeway Sherwood ‘51/’89MS 

Sally Clark Sloop ‘68 

Patricia Cotter Smart ‘56 

Maryellen Nelson Smiley ‘49 

Joseph C. Smith 

Eleanor Labosky Stanwood ‘67 

Nancy Clarke Steinberger ‘65 

Beatrice Clayton Stockwell ‘55 

Karen Sturges ‘87MS 

Joan I. Thorndike 

Lisa and Rex Thors 

alumni scholarships 

Anonymous (1) 

Judith Parks Anderson ‘62 



Madeleine Gatchell Corson ‘59 

Tina Feldman Crosby ‘67 

Elizabeth Townsend Dearstyne ‘62 

and William Dearstyne 

Thordis Burdett Gulden ‘66 

Sylvia Buffinton Tompkins ‘55 

Ann Fisher Tuteur ‘67 

Amaryllis Morris Volk ‘55 

Mary Ann Baker Wagner ‘62 

Florence Milman Walker ‘50 

Loraine Nettleton Watson ‘63 

Joan Anderson Watts ‘65/’83MS 

Joann Bridgman Webster ‘48 

Nancy Clay Webster ‘66 

Judith Schwarz Weinstock ‘70MS 

Linda A. Welter 

Elsa Weyer Williams ‘54 

Annette Stevens Wilton ‘56 

The Alumni Scholars Program brings together individuals 

at the heart of Wheelock College: students and alumni. 

Alumni Scholars donors make an annual gift of $5,000 

to support one undergraduate or graduate student during 

their time at Wheelock. These contributions help 

defray the cost of a Wheelock education, and through 

an exchange of letters and meetings at events, the 

donors are kept up-to-date about their students’ studies 

and activities. Reciprocally, students learn about their 

supporters and their Wheelock experience. The students 

join the College in thanking the following individuals: 




Linda Bullock Owens ‘69 





* Deceased

Named Funds 

Scholarship and Loan Funds 

Anonymous (2) 

Donald Bergen Abbott Memorial Scholarship Fund 

George I. Alden Scholarship Fund 

Judy Parks Anderson ’62 Endowed 

Scholarship Fund 

Anthony Family Scholarship Fund for 

Graduate Students 

Bronwyn Baird Endowed Scholarship Fund 

Marjorie Bakken Endowed Scholarship Fund 

Bank of Boston Endowed Student Loan Fund 

Ruth Kelliher Bartlett ’24 Memorial Fund 

John L. Bates Scholarship Fund 

Bernard W. and Helen Sagoff Berkowitch ’28 

Memorial Scholarship Fund 

Black Mountain Foundation Scholarship Fund 

The Catherine E. Bose ’75 Scholarship in 

Mathematics and Science 

The Barbara Brahms ’36 Scholarship Fund** 

Gladys Brooks Endowed Scholarship Fund 

Gertrude Flanders Bullen ’52 Memorial 


Centennial Scholarship Fund 

Daniel S. Cheever, Jr. Scholarship Fund 

The James Christmann Writing Award Scholarship 

Ruth Clapp ’34 Loan Fund 

Clover Converse Clark ’20 Memorial Trust 

Class of 1954 Endowed Scholarship Fund 

Class of 1956 Endowed Scholarship Fund 

Carolyn Burrell Cochran ’19 Scholarship Fund 

Katherine Wendell Creighton ’92 Scholarship Fund 

Nancy LeCount Currier ’50 Memorial 


Ennis-Murphy Scholarship Fund 

Elinor Frumkin Feldman ’52 Revolving Student 

Loan Fund 

Marguerite Franklin ’17 Revolving Loan Fund 

The Frances Graves 1909 Charitable Fund 

Cynthia M. Gregory ’26 Endowed 


Ellen Gertrude Loomis Hall Endowed 


Margaret Hamilton ’23 Arts Scholarship Fund 

Irene Frail Hamm ’60 Endowed Urban 


Evelyn Hausslein Child Life Scholarship Fund 

William Randolph Hearst Endowed 


Molly Cooper Hershey ’23 Fund for Student Aid 

Aldus C. Higgins Foundation Endowed Loan Fund 

Myrl Rose Crocker Howe ’34 Scholarship Fund 

Marian Clifton Hurlin ’22 Scholarship Fund 

Barbara Jack ’30 Endowed Scholarship Fund 

Kathleen Magee Jaunich Scholarship 

Margery Hall Johnson Endowed Scholarship 

Ruth Appleton Burge Johnson 1910 


Marcia Rudd Keil ’34 Endowed Scholarship Fund 

Lyn Peck Kenyon and Walter Kenyon Scholarship 

Katherine Ehrler Kurth Scholarship Fund 

Gloria Williams Ladd Endowed Scholarship Fund 

Frances B. and Paige D. L’Hommedieu 



Wheelock donors have the opportunity to establish a fund in honor or 

in memory of individuals or organizations. These named funds support 

a number of College efforts, including scholarships, campus improvement, 

and faculty support. Wheelock is grateful for these substantial 

gifts that will serve the College in perpetuity. 

** New fund in fiscal year 2011 

Elizabeth Ann Liddle ’47 Fund for 

International Students 

Agnes M. Lindsay Trust Scholarship 

Lowell Scholarship 

Kathryn Severance Makosky ’30 Endowed 


Margaret H. and Robert W. Merry 


Gwen Morgan ’76MS Scholarship Fund 

Janice Porosky Olins ’33 Scholarship Fund 

Phoebe O’Mara Endowed Fund** 

Patricia Knowlton Paine-Dougherty ’50 


Henry H. and Edith Nicholson Perry ’19 


Theresa Perry Scholarship Fund 

Mildred Engler Peterson ’24 Scholarship Fund 

The Harold Whitworth Pierce Charitable 

Trust Scholarship 

The Catherine Pursel Emergency Student 

Loan Fund 

William E. and Bertha E. Schrafft Charitable Trust 

Endowed Fund 

Saul M. Silverstein Endowed Scholarship Fund 

Ching Yee Soong ’65 Scholarship Fund 

The Ellen G. Sullivan Endowed Scholarship 

Susan Swap Community Service Scholarship Fund 

Mary A. Sweeney ’56 Scholarship Fund 

Suzanne L. Thurston ’54 Endowed 


Marion H. Towne Scholarship Fund 

Frances M. Tredick Endowed Scholarship Fund 

Frances M. Tredick 1902 Scholarship Fund 

Wheelock Club of Portland Scholarship 

Wheelock College Alumni Association Scholarship 

Wheelock College Alumni Endowed 


Wheelock College Urban Teachers Scholarship Fund 

Lucy Wheelock Endowed Scholarship Fund 

Lucy Wheelock Student Loan Fund 

Betsy Reed Wilson ’55/Let’s Face It Visiting 

Health Scholar 

Marjorie Cohn Wolf ’51 and William H. Wolf 

Perpetuating Loan Fund 

Math & Science Student Recognition Awards 

Library Funds 

Alma Bent ’42/’43 and Janet Higginbotham 

Washburn ’42/’43 Library Fund 

Linda Munroe Brady Memorial Book Fund 

Beatrice Garnaus Library Fund 

Nancy Corwin Gordon Memorial Book Fund 

Altina Mead Memorial Fund 

Jone Sloman Library Fund 

Other Funds 

CAR Endowed Faculty Fund 

Sandra Nesson Kivowitz ’56 Memorial Fund 

Edward H. Ladd Award for Academic 

Excellence and Service 

Cynthia Longfellow Teaching Recognition Award 

Master of Social Work Restricted Scholarship 

Math and Science Endowed Prize Fund 

The Dr. Sau-Fong Siu B.S.W. Student 

Assistance Fund 

Dr. Jeri Faith Traub Student Prize for 

Special Education 

Wheelock Faculty Fund 

Wheelock Family Theatre Endowed Fund 

Math and Science Endowed Prize Fund 

Each spring at the Math & Science Student Recognition Awards Ceremony, Peter Foukal presents 

cash prizes supported by a fund he established to recognize the additional intellectual rigor required 

of students studying math and the high academic achievement of two individual students. 

In 2011, Danielle Vaughan ’13 (left in photo), a member of the Honors Program and a Colleges of 

the Fenway STEM Scholar who is pursuing a professional major in elementary education, received one 

award. Lisa Kriszun ’12, who is a Passion for Action Scholar completing a double major in elementary 

education and math/science with a focus on environmental science, received the second prize. 

Walter Burke Awards 

Wheelock’s Mathematics and Science Department created an annual award in memory of 

Professor Walter Burke, which is presented to one or more seniors who demonstrate Walter’s 

enthusiasm for science and/or mathematics and who share that enthusiasm with others 

in a teaching or community service context. Bielka Liriano ’11, a math major who intends to be an 

elementary math teacher, received the 2011 award. 


Giving at a Glance 

W h e e l o c k c o l l e g e • A n n u A l R e p o R t o f g i v i n g 2 0 1 1 

Excellent stewardship of resources, thoughtful fiscal planning during uncertain 

times, and dedicated alumni and friends of Wheelock who gave generously 

combined to make FY 2011 a strong year for the College. 

Endowment 

The endowment had a second year of strong 

growth. For the year ended June 30, 2011, the 

endowment earned 20.5 percent, ending the year 

with a market value of $43.7 million. Although 

recent market volatility has resulted in a decline 

since June 30, the diversification of the endowment 

investments is intended to provide growth over the 

long term. For FY 2011, the endowment provided 

nearly $2 million in operating support for scholarships 

and other programs. 

Annual Fund 

In FY 2011, Wheelock alumni, faculty, staff, 

and friends contributed $1.2 million to the Annual 

Fund against a goal of $1.1 million. This 

is $100,000 more than the established goal and 

$100,000 more than was raised in FY 2010, 

when funds raised during the College’s biennial 

Passion for Action Leadership Award Dinner 

(included in FY10 on the chart) are discounted. 

Wheelock is fortunate and very grateful to have 

such a wide community of supporters who, despite 

the continuing challenges of the economy, 

have increased contributions of current-use unrestricted 

dollars and gifts restricted for student 

scholarships. 

Generous giving to the Annual Fund affirms 

the value that donors place on the College’s mission 

and their confidence in the education Wheelock 

provides so that its graduates can make the extraordinary 

contributions to society that they do. 


$60.0 

$50.0 

$40.0 

$30.0 

$20.0 

$10.0 

$0.0 

$1,600,000 

$1,400,000 

$1,200,000 

$1,000,000 

$800,000 

$600,000 

$400,000 

$200,000 

39.3 

34.0 

34.6 

Value of Wheelock Endowment 

(in millions of dollars) 

39.2 

41.9 

44.6 

2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 

50.9 

Annual Fund Giving 

FY 2007-2011 

$0 

FY07 FY08 FY09 FY10 FY11 

47.1 

35.6 

38.5 

43.7

2010-2011 

Anniversaries Celebrated 

The 2010-2011 academic year marked Wheelock’s 

20th anniversary of educational partnerships 

in Singapore and Wheelock Family 

Theatre’s 30th year of providing professional, 

affordable family theater for all. 

Enrollment Record Achieved 

Following a record-breaking number of admissions 

applications, Wheelock enrolled 298 

new students in September 2010, the largest 

incoming class in its history. 

New Academic Programs Launched 

The College initiated a number of new 

programs, including a new grant-supported 

General Education Program, the revised 

Psychology and Human Development major 

with new specialized strands in Developmental 

and Counseling Psychology, and two new 

minors in Autism and Writing. 

Peace Corps Master’s Degree Program 

Developed 

The Peace Corps and Wheelock partnered 

to offer selected students the opportunity to 

combine Peace Corps service abroad with a 

Master of Science in Educational Studies. 

Pilot Healthcare Academy Initiated 

Wheelock and Southern Vermont College 

in Bennington, VT, initiated an intensive onecredit 

program of study for high-achieving 

juniors to learn about health care issues in 

underserved urban and rural environments. 

Partnership with United Way Expanded to 

Five Different Projects 

United Way and Wheelock partnered to 

present last year’s Early Education and Care 

Community Dialogue and the Youth Symposium 

Think Tank; to bring the Connected 

W h e e l o c k c o l l e g e • A n n u A l R e p o R t o f g i v i n g 2 0 1 1 

A Year of Action for Children, Families, and Education 

Beginnings Institute to Wheelock; to develop 

United Way leaders through Wheelock’s new 

Organizational Leadership master’s program; 

and to initiate the Mattahunt Community 

Engagement Planning Project. 

Child Assessment Institutes Organized by 

Aspire Institute 

Aspire Institute collaborated again with the 

Department of Early Education and Care to 

offer professional development institutes to 

early childhood education providers. 

Healthy Connections Plan Developed for 

BPS Children 

To strengthen student health and wellness 

policies and programs in the Boston Public 

Schools, Wheelock’s Aspire Institute contributed 

to developing a strategic plan that 

outlines key steps for improvement. 

Wheelock Athletics Approach Lauded on 

Boston Globe Front Page 

Wheelock College Director of Athletics Diana 

Cutaia outlined her unique philosophy toward 

athletics in a Boston Globe article: Keep the 

focus on improvement, enjoyment, character, 

and team building, and the wins will follow. 

Teacher Bound/Upward Bound’s First 

Graduating Class a Resounding Success 

The Teacher Bound/Upward Bound program 

celebrated its fourth year at Wheelock 

College, graduating its first class of 25 high 

school scholars. An impressive 100 percent of 

the students have been accepted to a college 

or university and received scholarships. 

International Students Hosted to Support 

Understanding and Leadership 

Wheelock’s Center for International Education, 

Leadership, and Innovation developed a 

program to host international student leaders 

as part of a U.S. State Department initiative 

designed to promote better understanding of 

the U.S. abroad and to help develop future 

world leaders. 

Student/Faculty/Staff Exchange 

Agreements Expanded 

A new exchange agreement between Wheelock 

and the Institute of Technology Sligo in Ireland 

is one example of the College’s expanding 

educational outreach that is creating a range of 

international opportunities for joint research 

and student, faculty, and staff exchanges. 

“Together for Quality” Coaches Recruited 

Wheelock College’s Aspire Institute began 

recruiting field coaches for Together for Quality, 

a new statewide collaboration designed 

to improve the quality of early education and 

out-of-school-time programs. 

A Second Youth Symposium Brought Youth 

Together for Leadership Discussions 

Wheelock hosted its second Youth Symposium 

on Oct. 25, 2010. Legal scholar Charles 

J. Ogletree Jr. and best-selling author and 

actor Hill Harper led a discussion centered on 

leadership and mentoring with 500 middle and 

high school students from the Boston area. 

Mattahunt Community Center 

Partnership Established 

Wheelock partnered with the City of Boston 

and the Mattapan community to re-establish 

the Mattahunt Community Center with new 

initiatives for children’s academic achievement 

and youth leadership and development. 

Annual Fund Goal Exceeded 

Annual Fund contributions in FY 2011 

reached $1.2 million, exceeding the established 

goal by $100,000. 


associate 

degree donors 

1973 

Deborah Maher 

Elaine Douglass Munn 

Priscilla Paquette 

1974 

Barbara Carter Brathwaite 

1979 

Virginia Breedy 

1984 

Marlene Ross 

1988 

Karen Flowers Cagan 

1990 

Jewel Russell 

1995 

Binnie Aronoff 

undergraduate 

degree donors 

1929 

Constance Putnam 

1932 

Elinor Raymond Martin 

1933 

Olive Russell Frost* 

Rozilla Morton Roberts 

1934 

Corinne Martin Bryan 

Marcia Rudd Keil* 

Elizabeth Drowne Nash 

1935 

Mary Hammer Heron* 

1936 

Mildred Griffith Kohler 

1937 

Carolyn Schmidt 

Katherine Douglas Smith 

Mary Wyman 

1938 

Anita Drucker Leibowitz 

Nancy Brown Stevenson 

1939 

Estelle Levy Dine 

Jean Warner Eaton 

June Jellison MacGinnis 

Pearl Corliss Putnam 

1940 

Lois Burns 

Inez Gianfranchi Snowdon 



1941 

Arlene Drake Dickinson 

Barbara Finkel Jacobs 

Bettina Beebe McCleary 

Lucy Parton Miller 

Ruth Kemball Tupper 

1942-’43 

Carolyn Fisher Cadman 

Janice Gifford Rogers 

Jean Mealey Slavin 

Helen Roberts Thomas 

Marilyn Dushame Passanisi 

1943-’44 

Harriet Spring Critchlow 

Marjory Perry Johnson 

Jean Sullivan Riley 

Sally Keating Walsh 

1945 

Sophy Church Hansen 

Lyn Peck Kenyon 

Maryanne Weber Lockyer 

Jane Spaulding 

Helen Small Weishaar 

Jane Pearson Wold 

1946 

Jane Clapp Donaldson 

Medora Wilson Douden 

Cordelia Abendroth Flanagan 

Margaret Lewis Glover 

Rosamond Holt Haley 

Louise Vialle 

1947 

Anonymous (1) 

Sara Latham Coonley 

Daphne Tait Cooper 

Barbara Bolinger Crabtree 

Mary Hemphill Haring 

Priscilla Chase Heindel 

Ann-Penn Stearns Holton 

Elizabeth Berry Horner 

Claire Mead Hyde 

Ruth Hirons Irving 

Judith Klubock Medalia 

Edith Goddard Pangaro 

Betty Payne Schlieder 

1948 

Jocelyn Van Allen Anderson 

Martha Kinne Baribault 

Ann Bieberbach Brown 

Elizabeth Higgins Button 

Agnes Fitzgerald Davis 

Phyllis Fishman Grossbaum 

Edith Hall Huck 

Janet Gall Leonard 

Elizabeth McHenry 

Katharine Crosby Nasser 

Marian Mac Kenzie Peacock 

Faith Webster Peak 

Jeanne Girard Quinzani 

Edith Huntley Ridley 

Lila Abrash Rosenthal 

Sally Hunter St. John 

Carolyn Blount Street 

Barbara Sturgis 

Dorothy St. Clair Webb 

Joann Bridgman Webster 

Ruth Chickering Wheeler 

1949 

Anonymous (1) 

Laura Anne McPhee Burton 

Jean Dickson Chiquoine 

Elizabeth Gibson Damon 

Margaret Ames Davis 

Margaret Edwards Francis 

Lois Anne Gilbert Galbraith 

Adeline Marino Gerbino 

Anne Tremper Hall 

Anne Mulholland Heger 

Marjorie Rappold Lawrence 

Doris Jackson Marshall 

Jane Bartlett Mason 

Jane Felton Parker 

Frances Cummings Partridge 

Barbara Ferguson Pieper 

Carol Root Roth 

Janice McGuire Rothery 

Mary-Hylda Mitchell Schwarz 

Suzanne Small Shanahan 

Ellen Haebler Skove 

Maryellen Nelson Smiley 

Marjorie Pritchard Stevens 

Ann Haldeman Tatem 

Mariah MacGilvra Temby 

1950 

Nancy Spencer Adams 

Jean Rogers Duval 

Harriet Schnider Felper 

Jane Lockwood Ferguson 

Barbara Moog Finlay 

Joan Blanchard Gray 

Barbara Shafran Greenglass 

Mary Hathaway Hayter 

Ruth Falvey Hill 

Emily Wright Holt 

Nancy Blue Lane 

Beverly Maurath Newell 

Patricia Knowlton Paine- 

Dougherty 

Jane Munroe Rice* 

Nancy Garnaus Rice 

Dorothy Hutchens Seelow 

Catherine Hargrave Sykes 

Barbara Thompson Trainor 

Florence Milman Walker 

Edith Nowers White 

Edith Runk Wright 

1951 

Beverly Boardman Brekke-Bailey 

Louise Butts 

Geraldine Walsh Clauss 

Nancy Noelte Cloutier 

Georgianna Hale Dana 

Suzanne Post Day 

Elizabeth Lawson Forrester 

Shirley Stevens French 

Sydney Snell Fulford 

Judith Handley Garvey 

Elizabeth Cahill Haskell 

Margaret McCormick Kelly 

Katharine Buck Larkin 

Janet Boynton Means-Underhill 

Nancy Williams Mohn 

Laura Richardson Payson 

Sarah McKey Pieksen 

Priscilla Janeway Sherwood 

Gloria Aisenberg Sonnabend 

Helen Taft Staser 

Jean Turner Strodel 

Joanne Eastwood Tainsh 

Nancy Cummings Thurber 

Dorothy Etherington Thurnherr 

Sally Phelps Waite 

Carol Pounds Wales 

Grace Viard Ward 

Mary Rothwell Wattles 

Joan Wiggin 

Elizabeth Valentine Wood 

Mary Gallo Young 

1952 

Carolyn Cederholm Allison 

Margaret Boethelt Barratt 

Patricia Wolcott Berger 

Katharine Hodgdon Brown 

Margaret Kind Childs 

Ann Sibley Conway 

Elaine Barnes Downing 

Catherine Gaffey Everett 

Barbara Elliott Fargo 

Patricia Davis Ferguson 


Ann Foote Grey 

Anne DeLamater Hansen 

Nancy Dodd Horst 

Cornelia Krull Hutt 

Janet Ferry Jenney 

Cecily Chandler Kalin 

Margot Herring Kuniholm 

Virginia Bell Libhart 

Olivia Hutchins Meek 

Ann Harvie Ormond 

Mary Gonis Pegg 

Jean Ingalls Perkins 

Mary Major Rubel 

Barbara Seif 

Nancy Morris Souville 

Edith Winter Sperber 

Betty Koenig Thomas 

Joanna Smith Virden 

Joan Smith Walter 

Marjorie George Widegren 

Elizabeth Wood 

Rosemary Fettinger Worth 

1953 

Ruth Flink Ades 

Ellen McMillan Aman 

Patricia Russell Amendola 

Margaret Benisch Anderson 

Barbara Johnston Baggesen 

Priscilla Buckingham Banghart 

Joan Sullivan Buchanan 

Joan Halloran Corning 

Ann Carter Craft 

Ruth Shedden Crane 

Katherine Reardon Currier 

Suzanne Terry Curry 

Alicia Eager Davis 

Justine Cavanaugh Donnelly 

Cynthia Cranton Dygert 

Alice Palmer Gemmer 

Elizabeth Dewey Giles 

Patricia Kelly Greichen 

Shirley Hamilton 

Jennifer Thorne Hayden 

Josepha Loskill Jenks 

Janet Knightly Jones 

Ruth French Kiemle 

Gail Maurath Lyon 

Mary Roberts Mahoney 

Nancy Brown Meagher 

Nancy Oppy Merrifield 

Elizabeth Gerow Peterson 

Thekla Polley Putnam 

Patricia Day Rowland 

Ruth Angier Salinger 

Jane Palmer Schaefer 

Dorothy Steinberg Shaker 

Ann Emerson Spaulding 

Marjorie Linn Strong 

Sally Williams Tallamy 

Sally Karr Torrey 

Anita Green Waters 

Winifred Magee Williams 

Patricia Lea Woodward 

1954 

Betsy Hunter Ambach 

Barbara Hirshberg Atlas 

Ginger Mercer Bates 

Sylvia Tailby Earl 

Lois Nesbitt Flanagan 

Nancy Rosenwald Foilb 

Nancy Shapiro Hurwitz 

Frances Tedesco Lathrop* 

Elizabeth Wheeler 

L’Hommedieu 

Margaret DeLuca Loughead 

Persis Luke Loveys 

Eileen O’Connell McCabe 

Caroline Howard McCarty 

Meta Curtze Meacham 

Lois Barnett Mirsky 

Penny Power Odiorne 

Lydia Bartlett Phalen 

Patricia Andrews Richmond 

Frances Levine Rogovin 

Frances Vail Russell 

Nancy Loeb Silbert 

Nancy Pennypacker Temple 

Suzanne Hamburger Thurston 

Elsa Weyer Williams 

Virginia Thomas Williams 

Elizabeth Bassett Wolf 

1955 

Diane Codling Bartlett 

Nancy Merry Bergere 

Marilyn Dow Byrne 

Sally Reeves Edmonds 

Margaret Labourdette Garesche 

Joan Brassel Gerace 

Anne Vermillion Gleason 

Lillian Prakelt Goss 

Bonnie Simon Grossman 

Dorothy Wayman Grudzinski 

Joleen Glidden Ham 

Anne Close Haskell 

Josephine Smith Howard 

Susan Towle Huckman 

Stella Barnes Johnson* 

Joan Butler Kimel 

Joan Nelson Leighton 

Charlotte Cooper Lopoten 

Louise Baldridge Lytle 

Sheila Mahoney 

Betsey DeWitt Matteson 

Cynthia Weekes Montesi 

Norma Geremia Paliotti 

Penelope Kickham Reilly 

Stephany Lindquist Rogers 

Kathleen Rooney 

Judith Haskell Rosenberg 

Ruth Shannon 

Martha Clancy Sheehan 

Sally Orcutt Short 

Patricia Brennan Smith 

Mary Jane McAuliffe Songer 

Beatrice Clayton Stockwell 

Janet Bradley Taylor 

Judith Barrett Theroux 

Sylvia Buffinton Tompkins 

Amaryllis Morris Volk 

Ann Butler Yos 

1956 

Julie Bigg Veazey 

Henriette Pennypacker 

Binswanger 

Ann Melrose Blauvelt 

Wilma Rayment Brady 

Peggy McCreery Broadbent 

Nancy Tilden Brown 

Margaret McLean Caywood 

Mary Lou Center 

Paula Boehn Clifford 

Barbara Bihari Cohen 

Lucy Faulkner Davison 

Mary Bates Duplisea-Palmer 

Evelyn Jenney Eaton 

Susan Grearson Fillmore 

Catherine Maniatakis Frantzis 

Dorothy Dorfman Goldstick 

Persis Goodnow Hamilton 

Elizabeth Grimm Hoskins 

Barbara Ice Lake 

Patricia Markle Levy 

Wilma Kinsman Marr 

Alyce Marie Preston Midgley 

Ruth Bailey Papazian 

Elizabeth Buckstaff Paterson 

Mary Louise Stickles Perkins 

Adeline Bradlee Polese 

Marlene Hahn Powers 

Nancy Griggs Razee 

Beverly Haley Richter 

Dorinda Hicks Sayre 

Thekla Reese Shackelford 

Susan Waters Shaeffer 

Barbara Silverstein 

Patricia Cotter Smart 

Constance Foote Smithwood 

Gretchen Sterenberg 

Judith Rosenthal Tobin 

Frances Streit Tripp 

Candace Palmer Vaughan 

Sally Stearns Wagner 

Dorothy Weiss 

Annette Stevens Wilton 

1957 

Beth Atwood* 

Joan Patterson Brown 

Sallie Farrel Brown 

Gail Angleman Brusch 

Anita Stulgis Chouinard 

Virginia Plumer Crook 

Theone Zacharakis Curtiss 

Katrina Hoadley DeLude 

Judith Stock Farmer 

Dawna Wight Fowler 

Janice Wright Freelove 

Mary Bloomer Gulick 

Priscilla Ann Hill Harrison 

Margot Block Haselkorn 

Harriet Weil Hodgson 

* Deceased

Anne Wingle Howard 

Deborah Carlson Jacklin 

H. Barbara Knowles Jacobsen 

Barbara Stagis Kelliher 

Maureen Rolfe Kelly 

Sara Sibley Lenhart 

Sonia Loizeaux 

Phoebe Parker McMillan 

Cecily Beal Mills 

Ellen O’Donnell Page 

Susan Hunt Raasch 

Mary Lou Cudhea Reed 

Nancy Weltman Schattner 

Shirley Collins Schwarz-Gutherz 

Mardrivon Cowles Scott 

Janet Spaulding 

Dorothy Donahue Sullivan 

Mary Hartwell Truesdell 

1958 

Judy McMurray Achre 

Nancy Alexander Anderson 

Carole Leclerc Barry 

Nancy Hallock Cooper 

Marcia Potter Crocker 

Susan Howland Devey 

Regina Frankenberger Dubin 

Mary McBride Felton 

Jean Tulloch Griffith 

Cynthia Hallowell 

Charlotte Pomeroy Hatfield 

Marion Cook Houston 

Sandra MacDonald Ingmanson 

Laura Lehrman 

Laura Burhoe Maier 

Mary Meeker 

Audrey Shulman Nachbar 

Shirley Hotra Neff 

Carolyn Lucas Norris 

Sara Beckwith Novak 

Martha Newton Roberts 

Julie Russell 

Margaret Weinheimer Sherwin 

Susan Smith 

Carol Yudis Stein 

Elizabeth Sturtz Stern 

Janice Seybolt Theron 

Patricia Dodd Ulmer 

Sara Dunbar Waters 

Jean Cutler Whitham 

Sybil Magid Woodhouse 

1959 

Annette Rogers Barber 

Suzanne Baker Bethke* 

Alice Thompson Brew 

Rosalie Bradstreet Bromfield 

Barbara Sahagian Carlson 

Sally Brewer Cervarich 

Bonnie Steele Clark 

Madeleine Gatchell Corson 

Emmy Groeneveld Crosby 

Gretchen Truby Duce 


Margot Moore Greener 

Patricia Haas 

Sandra Hall Haffler 

Jeanne Wilson Hatch 

Betsy Forssell Hestnes 

Sally Schwabacher Hottle 

Lynne Grove Ives 

Barbara Hampson Ivey 

Mary Keeler Kuhn 

Joan Pannier Langley 

Helen Doughty Lester 

Susan Van Aken Lippoth* 

Marion Turnbull Mangels 

Virginia Ludwig McLaughlin 

Brenda Sherman Merchant 

Marcia Holmes Musto 

Mary Runyon Obaidy 

Delleyne Eldridge Osborne 

Patricia vom Lehn Overman 

Elaine Fogel Parks 

Diantha Sheldon Patterson 

Doris Geer Petusky 

Alicia Atlin Stokes 

Judith Scott Stolp 

Patricia Wise Strauss 

Helen LaMontagne Warmuth 

1960 

Joan Adams 

Katharine Cummings Bannon 

Barbara Broomhead Bromley 

Joan Gardner Buchanan 

Ellen Cluett Burnham 

Beverly Weitzel Damen 

Barbara Tutschek Ells 

Irene Frail Hamm 

Peggy Oliver Hedeman 

Helene Brunelle Hickey 

Carolyn Riotte Hyler 

Jane Coulter Langmaid 

Helene Stehlin Lortz 

Margaret Washburne Miller 

Deanne Williams Morse 

Nancy Mullervy Newbrook 

Carol Reed Newsome 

Maryann Mylott O’Rourke 

Sara Thompson Orton 

Phyllis Pisano 

Constance Schumacher Pratt 

Elizabeth Appel Schaffer 

Virginia Franks Seegel 

Barbara Underwood Walker 

Anne Pelletreau Woodbury 

1961 

Joan Nolet Bennert 

Helen Clark 

Miriam Curtin Cushing 

Dorothy Sideris Davis 

Eleanor Kushner Dinitz 

Sara Jane Goldstein Drescher 

Norma Brawley Dugger 

Ellen Tague Dwinell 

Mary Jo Severson Fenyn 

Elizabeth Han Fung 

Avery Thompson Funkhouser 

Anne Willis Gallagher 

Elizabeth Horton Ingraham 

Linda Gordon Kendall 

Marjorie Wilson Kingston 

Jeannette Kwok 

Judith Johnston Laurens 

Linda Shemwick Lindquist 

Eleanor Snyder Markowitz 

Diana Cobb Mead 

Nancy Miller 

Juliet Miller Moynihan 

Margaret Knowles Rodgers 

Anne Perrine Rutherford 

Barbara Grogins Sallick 

Gail Spivack Sandler 

Sally Cessna Schanck 

Virginia Colquitt Schroder 

Nancy Gebting Secker 

Jan Smart Stansbury 

Gail MacAllister Sytsema 

Helen Parker Tucker 

Betsy Mark Weiner 

Beverly Burnham Winans 

1962 

Daphne Angelis Abodeely 

Joann Seidenfeld Adler 

Judith Parks Anderson 

Susan Bromfield Barber 

Martha Smith Bentley 

Phoebe Walther Biggs 

Carol Tarr Bolter 

Jean Heard Carmichael 

Ruth Weeks Clark 

Jenny Tincher Cleaves 

Barbara J. Pratt Dancy 

Elizabeth Townsend Dearstyne 

Elaine Bober Diamond 

Penelope Petrell English 

Roberta Weiss Goorno 

Linda Marvin Hastie 

Priscilla Alden Hayes 

Elizabeth Gregg Horn 

Sabra Brown Johnston 

Derreth Montgomery Kavanagh 

Roberta Goodale Kulas 

Mary Koenigsberg Lang 

Patricia Pierce Loring 

Judith Rominger Lutkus 

Anne Sullivan Lyons 

Susan Haley Markee 

Janet Easton Martin 

Lorna Ramsden McCollum 

Mary Joanna Ginty Neish 

Judith Sherman Nevins 

Betsy Miller Radler 

Sara Kiley Reid 

Laura Sibley Rhodes 

Mary Richardson Rivers 

Jean Barclay Rook 

Jane Saltzman Rosenberg 

Mari Porter Seder 

Emily VanderStucken Spencer 

Mary Schubert Stearns 

Marie Harris Thomas 

Judith Gollub Trieff 

Hilly Gillespie van Loon 

Marion MacKay Verdick 

Brenda Richmond Verduin-Dean 

Roberta Loveland Vest* 

Mary Ann Baker Wagner 

Priscilla Plant Wing 

Georgia Bradley Zaborowski 

1963 

Judith Hughes Arreola 

Susan Memery Bruce 

Gloria Maravell Clark 

Heather Hughes Dahlberg 


Cynthia Jepsen Farquhar 

Carolyn Collins Farrell 

Margaret Fenner 

Charlotte Giovanella Fullam 

Bette Mosher Geci 

Barbara Hamilton Gibson 

Jessie Hennion Gwisdala 

Christine Theander Harper 

Jane Kuehn Kittredge 

Jan Vary Kutten 

Jacquelyn Taft Lowe 

Susan Cross MacElhiny 

Elizabeth Craft Meuer 

Nancy Clark Migneault 

Susan Wise Miller 

Nancy Ware Morrow 

Elizabeth Kellogg Morse 

Frances Nichols 

Sally Weatherbee O’Neill 

Lynn Sanchez Paquin 

Sally Pease 

Carolyn Stanton Peirce 

Christine Price Penglase 

Marjorie Sanek Platzker 

Marthanne Uhlinger Pressey 

Anne Little Reiley 

Carolyn Allen Seaton 

Judith Thompson Seeley 

Carol Steele Shively 

Elizabeth Robinson Smith 

Eleanor Starkweather Snelgrove 

Alice Parke Watson 

Loraine Nettleton Watson 

Laurel Holmes Whitaker 

Nancy Preston Wisneskey 

Delores Watt Yeats 

1964 

Susan Greenleaf Anderson 

Anne Fallon Aubourg 

Judith Reutter Blanton 

Sarah Dewey Blouch 

Linda Bostrom Caplice 

Perrine Colmore 

Jean White Comstock 

Mary Jane Blackburn Cook 

Elizabeth Wilson Crowther 

Sarah Beebe Davis 

Nancy Ashton Dewey 

Diane Abitbol Fogg 

Jeanette Polhemus Glesmann 

Noel Stoodley Gray 

Deborah Niebling Grubbs 

Janet Marshall Haring 

Christina Morris Helm 

Carol Jeffers Hollenberg 

Barbara Hodge Holmes 

Mary Wolf Hurtig 

Kathleen Magee Jaunich 

Phyllis Forbes Kerr 

Joan Steele Light 

Priscilla Nelson Linville 

Jessi MacLeod 

Judy Holmes Marco 

Roberta Gilbert Marianella 

Laura Brown Marshall 

Carolyn Humphrey Miller 

Gladys Tilley Miner 

Suzanne Mullens Morgan 

Sudie Nostrand 

Barbara Wilson Parks 

Priscilla Harper Porter 

Nancy Fowle Purinton 

Hilda Wright Rhodes 

Rachel Ripley Roach 

Loretta Buechling Schaefer 

Mary Ellen Freeman Smith 

Ann Meigher Smith 

Marjorie Blum Walker 

Janet Larsen Weyenberg 

1965 

Anne Goepper Aftuck 

Barbara Curtis Baker 

Joan Griffith Ballog 

Nancy Rosenberg Bazilian 

Linda Larrabee Blair Lockwood 

Cynthia Cooper Buschmann 

Anne Bonner Ceccarelli 

Mary Dominick Connors 

Barbara Stevenson Cox 

Joanne Malynoski Dall 

Elsa Chaffee Distelhorst 

Ann Connor Doak 

Paula Aufsesser Elkind 

Karen Ellsworth 

Sandra Tilton Elmer 

Cordelia Glass Fenton 

Karen Murkett Franchot 

Deirdre Conrad Frank 

Nancy Watkins Ghirardini 

Kate Young Hewitt 

Dana Seeley Hirth 

Jane Kingman Hudgins 

Susan Madtson Johnson 

Sarah Spaulding Jonick 

Darcy Black Keough 

Susan Kosoff 

Gloria Williams Ladd 

Julia Clymer Lloyd 

Kathleen Wilson Mallet 

Adele Abate Manfredi* 

Edwina Burke Marcus 

Trisha Henderson Margeson 

Janne Pontius Mathes 

Christina Moustakis 

Mary Barnard O’Connell 

Madelaine Cohen O’Shea 

Page Poinier Sanders 

Helen Birdsall Shepherd 

Karen Gold Sokol 

Nancy Clarke Steinberger 

Elizabeth Earle Stevenson 

Heidi Snow Stowe 

Penelope Traver 

Joan Tulis Trisko 

Susan Wells Vogel 

Joan Anderson Watts 

Susan Hilsinger Weiner 

Daphne Hastings Wilcox 

Gwen Lloyd Wirtalla 

1966 

Patricia Roh Aldrich 

Lynn Barhydt 

Lynne Wyluda Beasley 

Diana Palmisciano Brown 

Mary Turnbull Burnight 

Patricia Miller Callard 

Laurie Knowles Carter 

Judith White Chapman 

Sharon Jenks Collinson 

Madeleine Tufts Cormier 

Nancy Wise Cutler 

Nancy Wicke Demarest 

Pamela Chesley Dennett 

Barbara Baker Dowd 

Christina Kovacs Durkin 

Hope Binner Esparolini 

Mary Hallock Fields 

Lucy Olsen Fischer 

Patricia Phillips Fraser 

Mary Byrnes Frueauf 

Susan Leeb Fuhrer 

Joanne Moskey Grady 

Thordis Burdett Gulden 

Pamela Carey Haggett 

Martha Somers Henderson 

Joan Diesinger Hendriks 

Susan Clark Howard 

Susan McKee Kessler 

Karen Kitfield Koeppl 

Marka Truesdale Larrabee 

Ruth McLean Lizotte 

Patricia Lewars Lucy 

Margery Conley Mars 

Jane Martin McMackin 

Andrea Price Morse 

Anne Hallowell Newton 

Stephanie Arnold Nickerson 

Joan Carey Noble* 

Nedra Michel Nobleman 

Phoebe O’Mara 

Katherine Winkler Page 

Susan Lodge Peck 

Isota Epes Potter 

Andrea Murphy Powning 

Jennifer Mott Raun 

Jane Wolcott Ready 

Heather Robinson Reimann 

Marcia Carlson Rintoul 

Ruth Ann Welsh Rooney 

Elizabeth Zwirner Ruggiero 

Katharine duPont Sanger 

Suzanne Algeo Schenck 

Karen Kuhl Schwalm 

Marcia Beehler Shankle 

Sylvia Thorndike Sheriff 

Natalie Palmer Stafford 

Ann Linden Stewart 

Barbara Stockton 

Susan Magennis Underwood 

Wendy Stuek Voit 

Elizabeth Marks Voss 

JoAnn North Walden 

Martha Walke 

Nancy Clay Webster 

Patricia Wild 

Carole Hayes Williams 

Carol Needham Winston 

E. Linda Masters Young 

1967 

Elizabeth Edwards Bell 

Ruth Rupkey Bell 

Ann Libby Bingham 

Ellen Fitzgerald Brown 

Virginia Stout Burau 

Ingrid Hasskarl Chalufour 

Tina Feldman Crosby 

Carol Armstrong Dillon 

Susan Sharp Dorrance 

Charlotte Gignoux Dwyer 

Donna Pulk Elliott 

Susan Wells Ferrante 

Judith Lambert Foster 

Julia Devereux Glynn 

Susan Burtch Hyde 

Elizabeth Muhlfeld Ingram 

Shyla Leary Irving 

Lucy Schade Jackson 

Donna Johnson 

Linda Moritz Katz 

Sally Desmond Kensel 

Donna Klemka 

Blair Bartol MacInnes 

Jeanne Doyle Marinelli 

Carole Knaust Meehan 

Linda Hoe Palmer 

Heather Kateley Pettengill 

Betsy Simmonds Pollock 


Jeannette Stone Reynolds 

Beverly Boden Rogers 

Doryl Lloyd Rourke 

Jennifer Stevens Senger 

Eleanor Labosky Stanwood 

Katharine Lancaster Thompson 

Laura Shapero Thomson 

Margery Peirce Thurber 

Nancy Sullivan Tryzelaar 

Ann Fisher Tuteur 

Carolyn Wright Unger 

Elizabeth Griswold Vershay 

Susan Todd Wolfe 

Joan Blackman Youngman 

1968 

Susanne Hall Alford 

Susan Stein Backer 

Louise Phelan Barber 

Jane Carpentier Batchelder 

Sandra Gustavsen Batten 

Rosalind Schonberger Brezenoff 

Melanie Waszkiewicz Chadwick 

Keena Dunn Clifford 

Ellen McLellan Collins 

Monica Freese Eppinger 

Francine Gitnick Franke 

Leslie Smith Gill 

Laura Chotkowski Hardy 

Susan Terragni Howe 

Sarah Jarvis 

Gretchen Burleigh Johnson 

Ellen Hilcoff Kerstein 

Margery Linn Kirsch 

Carol Tonseth Konz 

Cynthia Blum Kramer 

Tobie Goldman Levine 

Margaret Merrill Loutrel 

Katherine Sayford Lucibello 

Susan Ordway Lyons 

Kathryn de Sano Mahoney 

Deborah Harpending McConnell 

Lynn Grearson McWilliams 

Lynne Brown Moores 

Lou Ann Colonnese Mulcahy 

Faith Schultz Perkins 

Herrika Williams Poor 

Marlene Shama 

Cynthia Carpenter Sheehan 

Marjorie Moss Shekarchi 

Janice McLean Simpson 

Sally Clark Sloop 



Judith Velho-Baker 

Rosemary Douglass Vena 

Candace Erickson Weiler 

Jane Desisto Worthley 

Carlotta Dyer Zilliax 

Susan Ackerman Zwick 

1969 

Linda Minker Abramson 

Patricia Coughlin Adams 

Sara Burns Adams 

Charlotte Lowell Allan 

V. Bonnie Blick Benedict 

Juliet Silverman Besser 

Janice Bevan 

Cheri Breeman 

Susan Kilbourn Burkhard 

Margaret Graham Caswell 

Deborah Melia Clark 

Patricia Cook 

Molly Day 

Hope Dean 

Aliisa Leino DiMartinis 

Constance Marsden Fratar 

Nancy Grant 

Daphne Hunsaker Hall 

Judith Hall 

Roberta Petitmaire Harnisch 

Suzanne Hayden 

Nancy Kelly Hershey 

Jane Luke Hill 

Nancy Stone Hindlian 

Cynthia Lockett Hooks 

Anne Harrison Howell 

Lyn Peck Kenyon 

Roberta Schwartz Klopfer 

Robin Kuhn 

Helen Lee Lai 

Susan Hadden Lawrence 

Priscilla Phelan Lentowski 

Mary Pescatello Lewis 

Sara Fish Longenecker 

Joan Birkenstock May 

Jane McDonough 

Catherine Wells Milton 

Margrete Miner 

Martha-Reed Ennis Murphy 

Nancy Stewart Nadig 

Linda Bullock Owens 

Dell Redington 

Elizabeth Webster Saba 

Elaine Isserlis Sheftel 

Rita Sladen Sosa 

Jane Riley Taylor 

Susan Dunn Taylor-Conner 

Joan Brazer Walker 

Linda Gordon Wurzel 

1970 

Anonymous (1) 

Susan Costello Bryant 

Elise Burbank Burbank 

Jill Hastings Cane 

Mary Ann Allen Cowherd 

Ellen Kirby Cummings 

Daphne Voyatzis Damplo 

Barbara Dugan Doggett 

Maureen Heisler Garber 

Linda Weiss Glasman 

Renee Fox Gould 

Alison Carr Harris 

Jane Kellogg 

Julie Sinclair Kingsley 

Suzanne Salter Krautmann 

Jane Kromm 

Lauren Loeb Lerner 

Denise Chateauneuf Macey 

Susan Kelley Markowski 

Toby Congleton Milner 

Deborah Weinberg Mizrahi 

Deborah Mayo Rockwell 

Janet Frost Russell 

Marion Scott 

Kluane Baier Snyder 

Jermain Mueller Steiner 

Susan Ormsby Stoehr 

Mary Barber Stone 

Martha Steele Strachan 

Jill Meyer Suchke 

Barbara Peterson Sweeney 

Dona Fusselmann Vaccaro 

Deborah Glickman Waldman 

Eloise Dale Welz 

Pamela Wong 

Priscilla Hussey Worrall 

1971 

Ann Bachini Aghababian 

Phoebe Hemenway Armstrong 

Karen Srulowitz Berman 

Morgan Shannon Butler 

Valentine Callahan 

Nancy Liberman Cohen 

Jane Boyle Cohn 

Margaret Vinton Cole 

Margery Feinburg Cooper 

Phyllis Jew Danko 

Gwynneth DeLong 

Cynthia Knowles Denault 

Dorothy Donahue 

Sara Holcomb Dorman 

Carolyn Morrill Follmer 

Gioia Caiola Forman 

Felice Shapiro Friedman 

Beverly Granger 

Pamela Wright Grossman 

Beverly Janson Hammond 

Elizabeth Hirsch 

Elaine Tavolieri Jarvis 

Priscilla Jeffery 

Betsey Josselyn 

Judith Millstein Langer 

Elizabeth Leydon 

Sheryl Berman Lovit 

Ruth Hughes McGee 

Carolyn Bail Miller 

Ginger Neaher Pape 

Betty Bain Pearsall 

Yvonne Petitmaire 

Geraldine Robinson 

Nancy Millican Rogers 

Susan Rubel 

Elizabeth Sands 

Donna Van Stone Schmidt 

Renae Ross Starker 

Shirley Meier Vautin 

Patricia O’Shea Vonnegut 

Ruth Steinhausen Wachterman 

Sylvia Birnbaum Yasner 

1972 

Lynn Geronemus Bigelman 

Barbara Tarr Drauschke 

Alice Liberman Eberhardt 

Susan Whiting Finan 

Alexena Thun Frazee 

Cynthia Johnson GaNun 

Linda Jeter Harris 

Mary Barbour Hatvany 

Janice Pearson Hildreth 

Louisa Miller Hoar 

Sarah Taliaferro Hutson 

Helena Marshall Keiser 

Jill Rosing Landel 

Elizabeth Hile Lindsay 

Beverly Tarr Mattatall 

Miriam Hughes McGuire 

Vicki Caplan Milstein 

Susan Rowe Morison 

Barbara Zimmermann Murphy 

Barbara Pinto Napoleone 

Raylene Davidson Newbury 

Kathryn Worrell Newton 

Anne Bagley Nielsen 

Karen Lundquist Peterson 

Mary Dickerson Pierson 

Pamela Goering Pierson 

Carol Myers Pressman 

Kimberly Cross Reichert 

Sharon Flavell Rickard 

Diane Palmer Soderland 

Nancy Martell Stevenson 

Marjorie Taft 

Sally Van Zandt Turk 

Gayle Ziegler Vonasek 

Nancy McClement Waage 

Betsey Greenwald Zimmering 

1973 

Christine Appert 

Sandra Birdsall Atteberry 

Andrea Newmark Baker 

Lynn Emerson Brownell 

Joyce Pettoruto Butler 

Jeannette Byers 

Ginny Holmes Carroll 

Nancy Cottrill 

Deborah D’Amico 

Jane Bonte Dwyer 

Susan Eblen 

Lynne Siegal Fox 

Marilyn Levick Fyfe 

Jean Burrill Gailun 

Pamela Pappas Goode 

Dana Brewer Hahn 

Laurel Bravman Kaplan 

Elizabeth Browning Kuch 

Diane Ellicott Kwiatek 

Jane Mackintosh Lasdow 

Ann Bradford Ligums 

Elizabeth Clarke Magruder 

Wendy Millett Manninen 

Ernestine Manns 

Ellen Luckenbach Moomaw 

Diane Yeterian Moore 

Diana Stiehl Palmer 

Priscilla Paquette 

Abby Squires Perelman 

Carol Bigelow Riggs 

Jane Hertig Roberts 

Sally Bechert Robinson 

Susan Mahoney Segar 

Mildred Shelton 

Susan Bruml Simon 

Deborah Wyatt Wallace 

Marion Brigham Williams 

Robin Young 

1974 

Karyn Brotman 

Paula Davison 

Rita Abrams Draper 

Susan Dunn 

Kay Eng 

Susan Blaine Gilbert 

Nancy Lamb Handler 

Stephanie Kavanagh Hoff 

Margot Jackler 

Laura Keyes Jaynes 

Rebecca Kaminsky 

Debra Crossman Kwiatek 

Jessie Norton Lazenby 

Nancy Rose Logan 

Linda Look 

Alice Stasio Macfarland 

Mary Ellen Piantedosi Margosian 

Julie Moffatt 

Betsy Kinney Morgan 

Dana Nelson 

Janet Leonard O’Loughlin 

Susan Brown Pendlebury 

Jill Schunick Putnam 

Linda Zaniewski Rosado 

Diane Rothauser 

Susan Palmason Ruggiero 

Naomi Resnick Schwartz 

Andree Gros-Daillon Severance 

Sandra Smith 

Judy Spiridigliozzi 

Dayl Walker 

Nancy Smythe Zanios 

1975 

Carol Bryce Bibeau 

Harriet Blanchard 

Cathie Brown 

Julia Challinor 

Beth Nusbaum Curtiss 

Elizabeth Davol 

Donna Stacy Draeger 

Patricia Gardiner Hill 

Amanda Carey Hogan 

Carol White Jones 

Rachel Henowitz Levine 

Helen Hymerling Liberatore 

Suzanne Smith MacEwan 

Audrey Liberman Matson 

Susan Crispen Miller 

Mila Moschella 

Dorothy Currier Payne 

Cheryl Adami Phillips 

Paulette Sweetnam Raimo 

Anne Fairbanks Reggio 

Joseph Richards 

Judith Rosenbaum 

Barbara Stevens Rowe 

Patricia Gontrum Sare 

Nancy Smalzel 

Kathy Witt Sturges 

Harriet Romeiser Thomas 

Nancy Drummond Tindal 

Nancy Toole 

Mary Ainslie Tracy 

Patricia Ward 

Sara Wragge 

1976 

Lesley Halpert Aaron 

Louisa Lothrop Affleck 

Judith Waitt Aswad 

Regina Bachini 

Terry Goldberg Bromfield 

Alison Tischer Brown 

Lisa Milanese Evans 

Carolee Fucigna 

Nadine Heim 

Marianne Beckman Henderson 

Tracy Robertson Howard 

Brita Josephson 

Amy Kitzen 

Richard Lang 

Laura Rohde Lindsay 

Lucy Rand MacDonald 

Patricia McGowan McManus 

Constance Bell Moser 

Ruth Murphy 

Daria Lyons O’Connor 

Bonnie Page 

Dale Zabriskie Pomerantz 

Nora Ray Richards 

Kathy Richter-Sand 

Patricia Grief Sammataro 

Geraldine Small 

Sally Snipes Snipes-Wells 

Diane Gould Thompson 

Mary Lou Carney Upton 

Laurie Merrick Winegar 

Angela Barresi Yakovleff 

1977 

Ellen Broderick 

Judith Birofka Brown 

Susan Trementozzi 

Charbonneau 

Victoria Ash Christian 

Louise Close 

Margo Pelias Coffey 

Deborah Calish Douglass 

Nancy Oberlin Dzomba 

Andree Howard 

Kathryn Morton Ivory 

Jeanette Lake 

Margaret Smith Lee 

Susan Colicchio Littleton 

Margaret McCarthy 

Cherry Whitaker Reiniger 

Sheila Stewart 

Wendy Carter Taylor 

Nancy Pike Tooker 

Cynthia Lauriat Vaughan 

Susan West 

Audrey Zabin 

1978 

Anonymous (1) 

Jane Anderson 

Steven Aveson 

Susan Boyce-Cormier 

Kim Davidson 

Louisa Esser 

Lora Anderson Goldman 

Katharine Winthrop Hagen 

Mary Deegan Hare 

Catherine Murray Horn 

Susan Flaherty King 

Laurie Rockett Lupton 

Janet Bell Matlock 

* Deceased

Lynese Marshall Pearson 

Donna Craveiro Sawyer 

Nancy Nickerson Snow 

Brooke Stark 

Patricia Mucci Tayco 

Nancy Martinelli Waiculonis 

Janet Welz-Kavanagh 

Karen Musser Whitla 

Arlene Botelho Williams 

1979 

Marcia Alevizos 

Sherrill Holland Batson 

Brenda Stone Clover 

Audrey Foster 

Maura Houlihan German 

Kristine Sheathelm Gerson 

Christine Bassick La Forest 

Donna LaRoche 

Rebecca Sakshaug Pagano 

Julie Hyde Pooler 

Rosemary Rehm-Schantz 

Anna Saladino Ricardo 

Cornelia Conyngham 

Romanowski 

Elizabeth Plourde Steinkamp 

Molly Thompson 

Tina St. Clair Visscher 

1980 

Lisa McCabe Biagetti 

Sigrid Carvelli Bott 

Michaela Penny Cole 

Holly McAlpine Dulac 

Jane Aldrich Furr 

Robin Gardner 

Heather Rodts Garland 

Cynthia Garvin 

Kathleen Formica Harris 

Laureen Dillon Hart 

Bobbie Van Suetendael Helbig 

Jane Henshaw Kinkead 

Theresa Flaherty McCarthy 

Sheryl Stein Mervis 

Edward Schantz 

Patricia Barone Sokoly 

Frances Pemberton Tyler 

1981 

Cynthia Brookings Bachman 

Donna Michel Brophy 

Dawn Lawlor Brown 

Bonnie Wichowski Cicco 

Virginia Connor 

Carolyn Phelps Dent 

Janine Hart-Hueber 


Sarah Bowman Merry 

Alexis Foster Reed 

Jean Ricciardelli 

Cynthia Dill Rosenthal 

Catherine Barry Smith 

Anne Marie Bergeron Tavares 

Sarah French Wilkins 

Christine Winchester 

1982 

Laura Asseng Bachinski 

Deborah Moir Buehler 

Beth Bacon Cebula 

Susan O’Halloran Constable 

Kathleen Mello Friedrichsen 

Amy Gilzinger Fulton 

Catherine Ley Lawler 

ElizaBeth Ritchie McCay 

Karen Mutch-Jones 

Barbara Madison Ripps 

Faye Raymond Severy 

Bette Spettel 

Mari Dalton Walkowicz 

Lisa Nord Zack 

1983 

Judith Jacobs Albertine 

Zoraida Correia Bohn 

Lisa Jurman Cedergren 

Paula Clark 

Karen Mello Diamond 

Evelina Ecker 

Jennifer Estabrook 

Gail Rothstein Forstater 

Nadine Snyder Heaps 

Pamela Lee Kania 

Laurel Massey Leibowitz 

Susan Marr 

Lora Lopes Nielsen 

Claudia Tillis Weger 

Deborah Wurgler 

1984 

Katherine Bliss 

Lee Block 

Joan Cycenas 

Lynn Pennacchini Dion 

Denise Keegan Dunn 

Julia White Kimball 

Martha McNulty 

Nancy Kaufman Polster 

Elizabeth Stobart 

Susan Potter Sweeney 

Jody Mount Vorenberg 

Jill Weiner 

1985 

Linda Banks-Santilli 

Linda Edwards Beal 

Elizabeth Fixx Gumina 

Nora Broughton Jestus 

JoAnn Chambers Meehan 

Michelle Porter 

Judith Santos 

Elyse Blank Smith 

Kimberly Rice Thompson 

Stephanie Poly Zapatka 

1986 

Roberta Press Fraser 

Margaret Sturges McDermott 

Marlene Ross 

Pamela Senese 

Julie Simon 

1987 

Laura DeNucci Crosby 

Kathleen Hurley DeVarennes 

Jean Dresley 

Lisa Evaneski 

Caryn Pokraka Montella 

Dianna Cannoles Parr 

Luanne Peters Wilson 

1988 

Deborah Nevins-Geswell 

Arlene Cromwell Vincent 

1989 

Kolleen DeCarolis Callaghan 

Tinamarie Sheehan DeRaps 

Paula Auger Edwards 

Kimberly Kelly Gray 

Kathleen Brooks Hannon 

Jodi Steinbaum Kaplan 

Laura Kramer MacMillan 

Karen Matheny 

Gregory Orkiolla 

Elizabeth Estes Picazo 

Kristin Read 

Maureen Griffin Reen 

Nanci King Shepardson 

Kimberlee Mellis Tynan 

Sonya Strange Wich 

Vickie Williams 

1990 

Heather Rogers Bergman 

Karen Flowers Cagan 

Lori Ann Langlais Hickey 

Melissa Kanzinger Ingerson 

Michelle Pine Lemme 

Eleanor Cannon Smith 

Maria Puente Walker 

Lisa Wojtowicz Wood 

1991 

Julie Golden Abrahams 

Sherri Bresette Ahlers 

Erin Sweeney DeSantos 

Alyssa Greeley 

Lisamarie Horne-Titus 

Meredith McArdle 

Julie Roscoe Orkiolla 

Leah Socorro 

1992 

Laura Mahon Garand 

Patricia Hyde 

Carla Grevatt Jackson 

Cammie Mitchell Jones 

Karen Delaney O’Neil 

Amy Rheault-Heafield 

Heather Bogli Zilora 

1993 

Golden Bryant 

Patricia Bys Carando 

Deborah Cooper Crane 

Elizabeth Bigham Dilts 

Robin Weissman Heard 

Sara Hosmer 

Nina Mortensen LaPlante 

Brenda Noel 

Rochelle Perry-Craft 

Renee Minotti Rhoads 

Elizabeth Goldentyer Roberts 

Leandra Poliquin Sargent 

Gayle Critikos Saxonis 

Amy Hambleton Signore 

Kerriann Kreitner Tavzel 

Karin Blumberg Taylor 

Tara Daniels Wider 

1994 

Gina DiGennaro 

Rene Assetta Guilbeau 

Sonja Swanson Holbrook 

Kyla McSweeney 

Lisa Ann Strolin-Smith 

1995 

Skye Dunbar Bomba 

Rebecca Stavro Myerov 

1996 

Jennifer Clark Leach 

Joel Ludington 

Kiet-Phoung Mach 

Sonya-Lee Costantino Zezza 

1997 

Jenny Fogel Miller 

Susan Harmon 

Elizabeth Rackliffe 

1998 

Gina Iannessa Antidormi 

1999 

Heather Fournier Bower 

Catherine Marciello 

Katherine McKibbens 

Tricia Roth Sherman 

Jane Sanders Wuestkamp 

2000 

Jennifer Blanco 

Christina Keiser 

Carrie Lagasse Yespy 

2001 

Alison Phillips Efstathiou 

Holly Evans 

Kristin Furlani Furlani Kuhi 

Renee Poindexter Polonsky 

Nicole Slamin-Rivera 

2002 

Suzanne Lewis 

2003 

Cynthia Cunningham 

2004 

Colleen Pierce Brown 

Karen Chacon 

Jessica Craw 

Kelly McLoud Duda 

Mary Clare Moller 

2005 

Gregory Cass 

Aimee Glassick Dill 

Rosa Del Rosario Jaime 

LaTanya Steele 

2006 

Katherine Landau 

Caitlyn Anamateros Olsen 

Annie Smith 

2007 

Rachael Thames 

2008 

Chelsea Schreiber Beckett 

Anne Hegarty 

Shannon Pittman 

2009 

Rebecca Gould 

Rachelle Joseph 

Amy McKenna 

Andrea Vigneaux 

2010 

Robin Greene 

Lauren Wilson 

Laura Stanley 

Molly Thomas 

Alyssa Wahlberg 

Lauren Wilson 

graduate 

degree donors 

1955 

Louise Butts 

Elizabeth McHenry 

1956 

Velma McEvoy Lindberg 

1960 

Barbara Mead Anthony 

Susan Hunt Raasch 

1962 

Virginia Gleason Crocker 

Deborah Carlson Jacklin 

Dorothy Ulf Mayer 

Barbara Sturgis 

Sally Stearns Wagner 

1963 

Katherine Lanning Winters 

1964 

Helen Martin 

Ellen Smith 

1965 

Lucy Faulkner Davison 

Dorothy Staples Egbert 

Elizabeth Page Gilbert 

Susan Vetter Shoff 

Margaret Reynard Vidale 

Georgia Bradley Zaborowski 

1967 

Sara MacGilvra Angus 

Elizabeth Horton Ingraham 

Judith Klubock Medalia 

Ann Faude Newbury 

1968 

Peter Abuisi 

Alice Turner Elliott 

Barbara Shafran Greenglass 

Nancy Wilde Hahn 

Nancy Blum Levin 

Virginia Austin Watkins 

Linda Fuller Wolk 

1969 

Anonymous (1) 

Joann Bush 

Shirley Yett Chodin 

Elizabeth Coates 

Anne Willis Gallagher 

Diane Blumsack Korelitz 

Karen Tilbor 

1970 

Joan Wolfers Belkin 

Katherine Reardon Currier 

Julia Devereux Glynn 

Ruth Harlow 

Barbara Kelley 

Martin Lerman 

Deborah Brown Tifft 

Judith Schwarz Weinstock 

1971 

Susan Eisenhart Alexander 

Janet Osborn Davis 

Sarah Leach Jackal 

Susan London Killip 

Sharry Hofer Langdale 

Betsye Petersen Sargent 

James Wood 

1972 

Sandra Tavares Augustinho 

Virginia Clark 

Constance Stampler Rabinovitz 

Marlene Shama 

Martha Stearns 

Joyce Wells 

1973 

Lynn Barhydt 

Louisa Lehmann Birch 

Kathryn Smith Conrad 

Judith Fleischman 

Renee Fox Gould 

Jean Healey 

Margaret Neville Holmes 

Judith Hawkins Johnson 

Joanna Phinney 

Sara Rowland 

Mary Cooper Wild 

1974 

Yvonne Arcand 

Barbara Beauchamp 

Harris Hochberg 

Harriet Foss Koch 

Mary Baker McConnell 

Sally Pease 

Steven Silvestri 

1975 

Beth Reiter Blanchard 

Frances Collins 

Aliisa Leino DiMartinis 


Dody Phinny Gates 

Marilyn Idyll Hamly 

Susan Clark Howard 

Susan Kosoff 

Barbara Zimmeth Maged 

Robert McCorkle 

Marjorie Parker Mitchell 

Barbara Zimmermann Murphy 

Marjorie Moss Shekarchi 

Hildred Dodge Simons 

Deborah Imri Tully 

Wendy Warnecke 

Cynthia Mahler White 

Joan Blackman Youngman 

1976 

Bess Emanuel 

Marilyn Grimes Fraktman 

Joanne Moskey Grady 

Judith Flynn Haskell 

Holly Horton* 

John Magnani 

Mark Roberts 

Virginia Beth Sauer 

Judith Scott Stolp 

Lois Strother 

1977 

Maureen Riley Acorn 

Maureen Rooney Brentrup 

Joyce Calogero 

Penny Greenberg Murphy 

Lorraine Damaduk Parmelee 

Susan Raymo 

1978 

Linda Minker Abramson 

Sharon Jackson Clark 

Karen McKeever Eichenlaub 

Marianne Mandato Foley 

Annie Hale 

Marie Langdon 

Jane Mackintosh Lasdow 

Wendy McLeish 

Marilyn Nutting 

Dell Redington 

Geraldine Robinson 

Claudia Rodgers 

Margaret Morgan Sutphin 

Mary Beth Claus Tobin 

Gayle Ziegler Vonasek 


1979 

Susan Blandy 

Janet Hermsmeier Bossange 

Jean Gardner Cole 

Deborah D’Amico 

Lisa Diamant 

Kathryn Parsons Liebowitz 

Dorothy Lifka 

Mary Mitchell 

Mildred Paden 

Kathleen Mooney Parrish 

Gale Westcott Rome 

Virginia Franks Seegel 

Kathy Simons 

David Thomas-Train 

1980 

Betty Beach 

Nancy Bigelow 

Elizabeth Neavitt Frank 

Carol Tonseth Konz 

Jone LaBombard 



Michael McCormick 

Miriam Hughes McGuire 

Jolene Christoff Pearson 

Cheryl Adami Phillips 

Barbara Silverstein 

Nancy Pennypacker Temple 

1981 

Mary Warren Brague 

Mary Clausen-Beck 

Sandra Heidemann 

Joni Schaffner Reynolds 

Diane Rothauser 

Nancy Wild 

1982 

Anonymous (1) 

Alison Wrenn Baclig 

Martha Cipullo 

Lou Anne Condon Collins 

Jean McIntyre Hodgkins 

Stephanie Kavanagh Hoff 

Patricia Hertel Kemp 

Laura Knight 

Sandra Barreiro Ledvina 

Joyce Adachi Morimoto 

Diane Pucci 

Susan Selya Rosen 

Christina Larson Sabella 

1983 

Christine Hudson Abrams 

Idie Benjamin 

Susan Wells Ferrante 

Darlene Howland 

Mary Kloppenberg 

Robin Kren 

Ilene Kaplowitz Lieberman 

Nancy Pettitt 

Nancy Sullivan Tryzelaar 

Joan Anderson Watts 

1984 

Elinor Worley Beatty 

Elaine Croteau Cady 

Pamela Carey Haggett 

Massachusetts Department of Early 

Education and Care (MDEEC) Grant 

Supports Aspire Assessment Institutes 

A 

$93,000 grant from the MDEEC awarded last June is 

supporting Wheelock’s Aspire Institute collaboration 

with Associated Early Care and Education, which offers 

assessment institutes for early childhood educators. Centered 

on teaching educators about effective, appropriate use of child 

assessment in preschool programs, the grant-supported institutes 

are providing practitioners with a rigorous learning opportunity 

to strengthen their teaching practice and advance as professionals. 

The college credit-bearing institutes teach participants to: 

• Use assessment data to individualize instruction and link it to 

curriculum 

• Identify and respond to the needs of English language learners 

and children with special needs 

• Document and share information about children’s growth and 

development with parents 

• Foster continuous improvement of their programs and services. 

Christine Hammond 

Alan LaRue 

Sally Mazur 

Ann Pallies-Card 

Mona Posinoff 

Jill Schunick Putnam 

Ruth Shannon 

Phyllis Springer 

Emily Quigley Welch 

1985 

Jane Anderson 

Mary D’Addario 

Jennifer Estabrook 

Mary Garvey Gronski 

Lucy Rand MacDonald 

Randall McKeeman 

Sarah Parker 

1986 

Carolyn Nickerson Betz 

Carol Ridgley Campbell 

Cynthia Nelson Donahue 

Gail Westfall Line 

Patricia McGowan McManus 

Susan Montrone-Cobleigh 

Carol Nolan 

Robert Quinn 

Theresa Kernes Woods 

1987 

Giovonne Calenda 

Josephine Saltonstall Hetzeck 

Lucy Matson Hudson 

Cynthia Cole Lawrence 

Jill Partin 

Bette Spettel 

Karen Sturges 

Silvana Vollero 

Cheryl Whipple 

1988 

Suzanne Harkness-Wood 

Marie Peirent 

Adelaide Duffy Queeney 

Sally Van Zandt Turk 

Barbara Wilson 

Susan Wolff 

1989 

Katherine Bliss 

Winifred Hagan 

Sytske Humphrey 

Marlene Ross 

Priscilla Janeway Sherwood 

Margaret Franck Sparks 

Barbara Peterson Sweeney 

Candace Erickson Weiler 

1990 

Jean Bayless-Albrecht 

Barbara Corey 


Patricia O’Shea Vonnegut 

1991 

Anonymous (1) 

Charlotte Lowell Allan 

Eleanor Almond 

Sally Butler 

Kaori Hattori De Panepinto 

Sharon Howard 

Michelle Pine Lemme 

Meredith Huxtable MacNeill 

Shelia Nowosacki 

Nora Ray Richards 

Ruthann Sneider 

Denise Stacke 

Jane Riley Taylor 

Lianqin Wang 

Phyllis Wendorff 

Louisa Wilking 

1992 

Patricia Abel 

Catherine Gaffey Everett 

Leah Fechtmann 

Jessi MacLeod 

Bonnie Page 

Mary LaPointe Richardson 

Ted Scheu 

Leslie Short 

Joyce Walworth 

Judith Omansky Weinberg 

1993 

Susan Bohn 

Jennifer Christensen 

Camille Dante 

Elizabeth de Forest 

Diane DiMaina 

Jane Aldrich Furr 

Clare Birch Harrington 

Deborah Gilmore Hartline 

Andrea Hippert 

Patricia Hnatiuk 

Susan Ludden 

Robyn Geogan Noble 

Betsy Nordell 

Vivian Swoboda 

Patricia Mucci Tayco 

1994 

Julia Alden 

Lisa Davis 

Susan DeLuca 

Mary Faraci 

Gail Coppins Gettens 

Robin Weissman Heard 

Jennifer Wieland Knowles 

Juliet Nagle 

Rochelle Perry-Craft 

Kaye Scherer 

Nancy Smalzel 

Eleanor VanDeusen 

Andrea Weaver 

1995 

Mary Casey 

Carolyn Cohen Corliss 

Lynn Policano Howard 

Ellen Hilcoff Kerstein 

Suzanne Taylor King 

Jennifer Matteson 

Evemarie Brosnihan McNeil 

Karen Fragola Mullen 

Geraldine Pedrini 

Susan Priore 

Melissa Testa 

Carolyn Tobey 

1996 

Carol Berlin 

Kristen Langdon Cohen 

Claudia Davidoff 

Kathryn Jones 

Heather Peach 

Sylvia Micka Smith 

Rebecca Merrill Thompson 

1997 

Lynette Lemay 

Kyla McSweeney 

Julie Sacchetti 

Pamela Senese 

Debra Smith 

Jennifer Leary Stratton 

1998 

Dawn Gonthier 

Christina Morris Helm 

Lorgia Henriquez-Melendez 

Margaret Mullen Hurder 

Lois Mousley 

Maryann Mylott O’Rourke 

Sondra Rudofsky 

Amanda Gauthier Vanderlan 

Rebecca Wilson 

1999 

Gina Iannessa Antidormi 

Sharon Febo 

Maureen Jutras 

Dianna Cannoles Parr 

Ricardo Weir 

2000 

Deborah Brightman 

Julia Van Trees Coelho 

Lissa Fernandez 

Susan Crispen Miller 

Melissa Morgan 

2001 

Nancy Connolly 

Jacquelynn Grote Pleis 

Julie Thomson 

2002 

Holly Hart Baumm 

Esme DeVault 

Yue-Li Lim 


2003 

Phanenca Babio-James 

Jennifer Blanco 

2004 

Yael Lenkinski 

Catherine Marciello 

Francis Ng Kok Liang 

Bette Renoni 

Renalyn Te 

2005 

Kimberly Wright Brooks 

Colleen Pierce Brown 

Mary Clare Moller 

2006 

Aaron Sinay 

2007 

Zoey O’Sullivan 

2008 

Angie Rinehart 

Rachael Thames 

2009 

Heather Vinci 

2010 

Anne Hegarty 

2011 

Anonymous (1) 

Patricia Devlin 

Jeff Joseph 

Lauren A. Marquis 


Anne Meade 

Matthew Power-Koch 

Kristin Read 

Andrea Vigneaux 

* Deceased

Board of Trustees 

and members of 

the Corporation 



Stephen H. Anthony* 

Steven Aveson ‘78 

Lynne Wyluda Beasley ‘66 

Stephanie Bennett-Smith 

Lisa McCabe Biagetti ‘80 

Grace Macomber Bird 

Margaret G. Blakelock 

Ellen Cluett Burnham ‘60 

Joyce Pettoruto Butler ‘73 

Julia Challinor ‘75 



Jeff Coburn 

Kathryn Smith Conrad ‘73MS 

Susan O’Halloran Constable ‘82 

Patricia Cook ‘69 

Madeleine Tufts Cormier ‘66 

Christina Cox ‘05 

Barbara Tarr Drauschke ‘72 

Ellen Tague Dwinell ‘61 

Sally Reeves Edmonds ‘55 


Peter Foukal 

Betty Fuchs 

Maria Furman 

George A. Hall* 

William R. Hall 

Mitchell Harris 

Tina Morris Helm ‘64/’98MS 

John Jackson 

Kathleen Magee Jaunich ‘64 

Michael J. Jolliffe 

Kathryn D. Jones ‘96MS 

Thomas Kelly 


Ranch C. Kimball 

John F. Knutson 

Edward H. Ladd 



William A. Lowell, Esq. 

Vicki Caplan Milstein ‘72 

Lois Barnett Mirsky ‘54 

Juan Carlos Morales 

Alan Morse 

Mila Moschella ‘75 

Robin Mount 



Bonnie Page ‘76/’92MS 

Heather Peach ‘96MS 

Marianna C. Pierce 


Linda Port 

Nancy Fowle Purinton ‘64 

Paul Reville 

Doryl Lloyd Rourke ‘67 

Barbara Grogins Sallick ‘61 

Thekla Reese Shackelford ‘56 

Susan Bruml Simon ‘73 

Ellen Haebler Skove ‘49 

Kate Taylor 

Daniel S. Terris 

Geneva S. Thorndike 


Lisa Thors 

Barry Wanger 

Kahris D. White-McLaughlin 


Faculty/staff 

Nina Aronoff 

Linda A. Banks-Santilli ’85 

Deborah Beck 

Kathleen Kirk Bishop 

Debra Borkovitz 

Gregory Cass ’05 

Marcia McClintock Folsom 

Marjorie Hall 

Paul Hastings 

Terri Houston 

Jackie Jenkins-Scott 

Jeff Joseph ’11MS 

Susan Kosoff ’65/’75MS 

Lauren A. Marquis ’11MS 

Anne Marie Martorana 

Donna McKibbens 

Brenda Noel ’93 


Ivy Schram 

Kenneth P. Spritz 

Julie Thomson ’01MS 

Valerie Thornhill-Hudson 

Andrea Vigneaux ’09/’11MS 

Linda A. Welter 

Julie Wollman 

Parents 

Susan Alnes 

Margaret Andrews 

Mr. and Mrs. George Bernazani 


Mr. and Mrs. Richard B. Dalbeck 

Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Donovan 

Mr. and Mrs. Gary Finley 

Paul M. Greeley 

Brian Hawthorne 

Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Jakiel 

Mr. and Mrs. John D. Link 

Andrew O’Shea 

Mr. and Mrs. Rick Schaefer 

Anita Stevens 

Michael Zellman 

Friends 

Anonymous (1) 

Louis Abramovitz 

Rosanna and Jeffrey Arey 

Louise Baylis 

Barbara Beatty 

Mr. and Mrs. Richard Beaubien 

M. Gregory Bohnsack 

Russell Brownlee 

Peter Buhl 

Philip E. Burnham Jr. 

Nancy Carey and Dewitt Brown III 

Ann E. Christmann 


Patricia Comeau 

James P. Comer 

Laura Donnell and Kevin Oullette 


Judith Reed Emmons 

Lisa Fontana and Richard Tierney 

Peter Foukal 

Barbara Fritzberg 

Mr. and Mrs. M. Dozier Gardner 

Diana Garmey 

Mr. and Mrs. Leon Goodman 

Patrick Grant 

Jenny and Wulf Grote 

Michael Gruenbaum 

Mr. and Mrs. Steven Hofener 

Dr. and Mrs. John Howard 

Bryant H. Jackson 

Mr. and Mrs. Edward C. Johnson III 

Henry P. Johnson Jr. 

Michael J.A.H. Jolliffe 

Mr. and Mrs. Roger Joslin 

Dr. and Mrs. John W. Keller 

Mr. and Mrs. John Kilcoyne 

Mr. and Mrs. Dan LaMunyon 

Mary and Orlando Lightfoot 

Barbara Lincoln 

Courtney L. Arsenault ’11 

Gabrieal B. Babin ’11 

Andrea M. Breen ’11 

Leah Breen ’11 

Caitlin R. Burke ’11 

Wilson Y. Chang ’11 

Heather Charest ’11 

Class of 2011 

Christina N. Cutrone ’11 

Emily R. Decker ’11 

Megan E. Douglass ’11 

Jessica L. Dugan ’11 

Gabrielle C. Egan ’11 

Claire Everhart ’11 

Lauren M. Fiore ’11 

Anne E. Gladfelter ’11 

Kristen Greco ’11 

Doug Lober and Ann Bitetti 

Barbara Lombard and Angiulo Etal 

Pamela Long 

Ann Longfellow 

John Lowell 

Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Lowell 

Herbert MacKinnon 

Robert Markel 


Josephine McGowan 

Joseph McNulty 

James Millinger 

Jennifer Morrison and Dick Marks 

Tracey Mullane 

Suzanne Newton 

Nancy Olins 

Elizabeth C. Olson 

Susan Peirce 

Mr. and Mrs. Peter Tin-Yau Poon 

Barbara Pothier 

Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Pothier 

William Rawn 

Elizabeth Schobernd 

Mr. and Mrs. Donald Seale 

R. Robert Siegel 

Sau-Fong Siu and Yum-Tong Siu 


Dr. and Mrs. Bob Stammer 

Edward Stollof 

The Sullivans 

Ellie Svenson 

Walter Swap 

Anne F. Grenham ’11 

Jessica S. Harding ’11 

Emily P. Harrington ’11 

Lisa E. Hayes ’11 

Alyson C. Kantor ’11 

Caitlyn Kerr ’11 

Julie A. Kilcoyne ’11 

Katherine C. Laude ’11 

Carrie L. LeGeyt ’11 

Kiva Leibowitz ’11 

Marci C. Leno ’11 

Donna McKibbens 

Krista L. Minard ’11 

Mary Moffat ’11 

Sarah K. Montany ’11 

Sarah A. Novak ’11 

Evelyn C. O’Connor ’11 

Arthur H. Thornhill Jr. 

Kathryn Vitale 

Mr. and Mrs. Eustis Walcott 

Seth H. Washburn 

Mr. and Mrs. William D. Weeks 

Mr. and Mrs. James Wheeler 

J. Michael Williamson 

alumni 

Organizations 

Service Learning Expanded to Puerto Rico 

senior Class gift 

Class of 1950 

Class of 1961 

Class of 1966 

Class of 2011 

The Alumni Association 

Wheelock Club of Greater Portland 

Strong service learning opportunities for students foster broader perspectives 

and deeper understanding. As a result of Wheelock’s new partnership 

with Puerto Rico’s Universidad del Sagrado Corazón, 11 service learning 

students went to San Juan with Instructor in Language and Literacy Jane Yedlin, 

Assistant Professor of Human Development Tina Durand, and Instructor in 

Social Work Wendy Williams ’93. Their intensive schedule included service 

learning at a local school; visits to community organizations, cultural institutions, 

and natural environments; and immersion in the history and culture of the area 

as well as the opportunity to acquire new Spanish-language skills. 

The Class of 2011 has designated their gift to go toward the College’s Global 

Service Learning Fund, which provides support for service learning activities. 

Sarah L. Onofri ’11 

Christine A. Pellerin ’11 

Elizabeth Perdomo ’11 

Meredith A. Race ’11 

Nicole T. Rapsis ’11 

Michaela Ross ’11 

Aisha O. Sanders ’11 

Carol Schneider ’11 

Rachel E. Schumacher ’11 

Kelsey Soberg ’11 

Samantha M. Suarez ’11 

Lindsay Sullivan ’11 

Lauren J. Webber ’11 

Kara M. Widdison ’11 

Carley Williams ’11 

Nicole K. Zina ’11 


Katherine Leigh Doherty, 

Dan Reulbach, Shelly Bolman 

Thanks to donors to wheelock Family Theatre in its 30th year! 

In addition to theater productions, classes, and community outreach programs, Wheelock Family 

Theatre also offers open houses free to the public each year as part of the Fenway Cultural 

District’s Opening Our Doors event. This fall, WFT showcased sample classes, hosted the National 

Braille Press story hour, and presented two student performances: Once on This Island and 

Barnyard Dance, a collection of stories, poems, and dance. For most of the 225 people who 

attended, this was their first time on Wheelock’s campus and in the Theatre—a wonderful 

introduction to the College and to the power of the theater to engage, educate, and entertain. 

Thanks to 2010-2011 donors who made it all possible! 

Anonymous (8) 

Sella and Varujan Abalian 

The Abbrecht Family 

Actors’ Equity Foundation 

Amy Almeida 

Josh Alwitt 

Mr. and Mrs. Robert G. 

Anderson 

Atlantic Philanthropies Director/ 

Employee Designated Gift Fund 

Lucy Ayanian 

Janet Bailey 

Marjorie, Martha, and 

Maggie Bakken 

Charles G. Baldwin 

Bank of America 

Sanjay Banker and Sejal Patel 

Ann Barlow 

Anamaria and James Barron 

Diane and Michael Baxter 

John Bay 

Judy and Ken Berk 

Teresa Betit 

Alan and Debbie Bieri 

Susan Bigger and Kevin Belanger 

Kathleen Kirk Bishop 

Ann Bitetti and Doug Lober 

Linda Cabot Black Foundation 

Nancy and Jacob Bloom 

Danny Bolton 

Debra Borkovitz 

Linda Bosse and David Seeley 

Boston Parents Paper 

Kimberly F. Boucher 


Mrs. F. Elwood Bray 

Elizabeth Breen 

Cheryl and Leonard Brown 

Monique McIntyre Brown 

Carola Cadley 

Patricia and Dennis Cahill 

Leann Canty 

Jacqueline Cathcart-Miller and 

Craig Miller 

Elizabeth Cerasuolo 

Carole Charnow 

Thomas Chevalier 

Marla Choslovsky and 

Paul Greenberg 

Keena Clifford 

Catherine and Jeff Coburn 

Deborah Cohen 

Ellen Colton 

The Frances Coni Family 

Sheila Cook 

Jennifer Coplon and Robert 

Frank 

Robert Crabtree 

Deborah Cooper Crane 

Tina and Harvey Crosby 

Stephanie D’Alessandro 

Mindy d’Arbeloff 

Daughters Fund, a Donor 

Advised Fund of Combined 

Jewish Philanthropies 

John Davin 

Sarah and Richard deLima 

Sandra and William Discepolo 

Andrea E. Doane 

Bob Doane 

Patrick Dober 

Lauren and George Doherty 

Catherine Donahue 

Zelinda and John Douhan 

Barbara Drauschke 

The Duvall Family 

Sally Reeves Edmonds 

Natalie Eldridge and 

Libba Ingram 

Kay Arden Elliott 

Bess Emanuel and John 

Vyhnanek 

John Englert 

K Estrella 

Priscilla Fales 

Courtney Fallon 

Barbara Elliott Fargo 

Dawn and John Fattore 

Imogene Fish 

Judith L. Fleischman 

Bobbi Fox 

Jo Freedman 

Shirley Stevens French 

Ellie Friedland 

Teresa and Mark Frye 

Betty and Larry Fuchs 

Hilary Gabrieli 

Meryl Galaid 

Eileen and John Gallagher 

Mr. and Mrs. Adolfo Garcia 

Andrea Genser 

Virginia Gettings 

Kate Gilbane 

Betsy and Ed Giles 

Erin Gilligan and Hoil Kim 

Margaret and Fred Gilligan 

Lisa and Allan Gillis 

Joseph W. Glannon 

Susan Gochenour and 

Steven Rosen 

Laurie Gold 

Susan Gold 

Melissa Goldbach 

Melissa Goldstein 

Google 

Gonzalez & Associates 

Adria Goodson 

Alicia Gordon 

Leslie E. and Charles B. Gordon 

Dot Gorenflo 

Nicolette and Scott Greb 

Shelly Greenfield and 

Allan Brandt 

Karen Gregg 

Jean Guttman 

Lily Halpern 

Persis G. Hamilton 

Keith F. Harris 

Susan Harris-Sharples and 

Ben Sharples 

Stephanie and Kevin Hawkinson 

The Hermanson Family 

Myra Hindus 

Andrea C. Hoffman 

Ann-Penn Holton 

Maya Honda and Wayne O’Neil 

Lawrence A. Horlick 

Photo by Charles G. Baldwin 

Elizabeth Jacobs 

Jacqueline Jacobs 

Pat Jehlen 

Drs. Paula Johnson and 

Robert Sands 

Joeritta Jones de Almeida 

Jeanne and Norton Juster 

The Kaim Family 

Lynn and David Kaminski 

Louis Kampf 

Helen Kass 

Sara A. Kelley 

Anne Harvey Kilburn 

Alexa and Ranch Kimball 

Sally Kindleberger 

John King 

Edgar Klugman 

Judy and John Knutson 

Susan Kosoff 

Ingrid Kotch 

Danny LaChance 

The Lando Family 

Nina and T.J. LaPlante 

Matthew T. Lazure 

Sherry Leibowitz 

Diane Levin and Gary Goldstein 

Nicky and Paige L’Hommedieu 

Jack Liu 

Mary Loeken 

Diane Lopez 

Blair MacInnes 

Peter Maheras 

Ulla and Willem Malkus 

Connie and John Marasco 

Carol and Gordon Marshall 

Allan and Anne Marie Martorana 

Massachusetts Cultural Council 

Brian Masters 

Mary and Mike McConnell 

Lisa McElaney and Abe Morell 

Jeri McElroy and Bill Hutchinson 

Donna and Thomas McKibbens 

Teresa Medeiros 

Cheryl Mihalovich 

Melissa and Alan* Miller 

C.L. Monrose 

Elizabeth A. Moore 

Elizabeth Moriarty 

Mila J. Moschella 

Joanne C. Moses 

Robin Mount 

The Mussafer Family 

Grace Napier and 

William Monnen 

Greg Nash 

Antonia and Joseph Nedder 

Charlotte W. Neinas 

Shelly Nemirovsky 

Anne H. and John W. Newton 

Suzanne R. Newton 

The Niziak Family 

Lucy Noyes 

Lisa Johnson Ogrinc 

Suzanne Olbricht 

Carol A. Olmstead 

Maura and Rodney Panneton 

PARTNERS+simons 

Elaine and Joe Paster 

Peabody Foundation 

Charlotte and Ed Peed 

Mary ElizaBeth Peters 

Joel C. Peterson 

Deloris Pettis 

Nina and Cameron Pforr 

Gamalia Pharms 

Alfreda Piecuch 

Deb Poppel 

Frances G. Pratt 

Lana Preston 

J.G. Pyne Arts Magnet School 

Adelaide M. Queeney 

Kimberly Raynor 

Marchelle and James Raynor 

Thecla Ree 

Harriet and Jordan Robbins 

Ilyse Robbins and Glen Mohr 

Deborah Samuels-Peretz 

Rosemary Sanborn 

Brooke and Neal Sandford 


Ginger Sauer 

Jennifer Schaffer 

Johanna Schneider 

Rebecca Schulman 

Herman Scott 

Kathleen O’Neill Seidel 

The Carl and Ruth Shapiro 

Foundation 

Chip and Elizabeth Sheeran 

Carla Silva 

Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Singer 

Barbara B. Slater 

Ruthann Sneider 

Rachael Solem 

Dan Solomon and 

Mindy Berman 

Joy and John Sorota 

Linda Spengler 

Devorah S. Sperling 

Judy Spiridigliozzi 

Mr. and Mrs. George R. Sprague 

Jane Staab 

James Stanley 

Jessica Walling Stokes 

Martha E. Stone 

Hope Haslam Straughan 

Marilyn Tarmy 

Anthony, Jane, and 

Lauren Tempesta 

Ruth and Jonathan Tepper 

Becky Thompson 


Thu-Hang Tran and Mark S. Day 

Louise and Edward Tsoi 

Meegan Turet 

Judy Ulman 

Shifteh Veyssi 

Donna and James Viola 

Roberta Turri Vise 

Laura R. Walter 

Barry, Wendy, and Sarah Wanger 

Maureen Ward-Nault 

Karen Watson 

Joan Watts 

Cheryl Weber 

Susan Weir 

Dr. and Mrs. Earle Weiss 

Jack Welch 

Jessie Wenning 

Wheelock College 

Claire White 

Donna White 

Lee and Steve Whitfield 

Martha and Jeff Winokur 

Julie Wollman 

Karen Worth 

Yawkey Foundation 

* Deceased

in Honor of 

Deborah Lisansky Beck 

Elyse Blank Smith ’85 

Class of 1963 

Jan Vary Kutten ’63 

Irwin Nesoff 

Anonymous (1) 

Patricia Devlin ’11MS 

Jeff Joseph ’11MS 

Lauren A. Marquis ’11MS 

Anne Meade ’11MS 

Matthew Power-Koch ’11MS 

Kristin Read ’89/’11MS 

Andrea Vigneaux ’09/’11MS 

Susan Bruml Simon ’73 

Ellie Svenson 

Dr. Hope Haslam Straughan 

Yael Lenkinski ’04MSW 

Gayle Ziegler Vonasek ’72/’78MS 

Sally Clark Sloop ’68 

in memory of 

Jennifer Wystrach Bohnsack ’73 

M. Gregory Bohnsack 

Ellen Luckenbach Moomaw ’73 

Barbara Robinson Brahms ’36 

Anonymous (1) 

Louis Abramovitz 

Rosanna and Jeffrey Arey 

Louise Baylis 

Mr. and Mrs. Richard Beaubien 

Russell Brownlee 

Lisa Fontana and Richard Tierney 

Leon Goodman 

Jenny and Wulf Grote 

Mr. and Mrs. Michael Gruenbaum 

Mr. and Mrs. Steven Hofener 

Mr. and Mrs. Dan LaMunyon 

Mr. and Mrs. Donald Seale 

R. Robert Siegel 

Dr. and Mrs. Bob Stammer 

Edward Stollof 

Diane Schmelter Buhl ’63 

Peter Buhl 

Louise Hassel Burnham ’61 

Philip E. Burnham Jr. 

James Christmann 

Ann E. Christmann 


Maureen Murphy Coakley ’58 

Janet Gall Leonard ’48 

Professor Philip Craig 

Elizabeth Goldentyer Roberts ’93 

Katherine Wendell Creighton 


Creighton Narada Foundation 

Margaret Derwin ’09 

Rebecca L. Gould ’09 

Sydney Feldman, father of 

Tina Feldman Crosby ’67 

Joan Blackman Youngman ’67/’75MS 

Samantha Keller Gordon ’94 

Elizabeth Goldentyer Roberts ’93 

George A. Hall 

Judith Parks Anderson ’62 

Barbara Beatty 

Nancy Carey and Dewitt Brown III 

Judith Reed Emmons 

Mr. and Mrs. M. Dozier Gardner 

Diana Garmey 

Patrick Grant 

Marjory Perry Johnson ’43-’44 

Mr. and Mrs. Edward C. Johnson III 

Dr. and Mrs. John W. Keller 


Barbara Lombard and Angiulo Etal 

John Lowell 

Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Lowell 

Robert Markel 

Josephine McGowan 

Elizabeth C. Olson 

Susan Peirce 

Barbara Pothier 

Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Pothier 

The Sullivans 

Arthur H. Thornhill Jr. 

Valerie Thornhill-Hudson 

Kathryn Vitale 

Mr. and Mrs. Eustis Walcott 

Mr. and Mrs. William D. Weeks 

Mr. and Mrs. James Wheeler 

Louise Brown Johnson ’68MS 

Henry P. Johnson Jr. 

Frances Tedesco Lathrop ’54 

Virginia Thomas Williams ’54 

Helen Casten Lewis ’49 

Mary-Hylda Mitchell Schwarz ’49 

Elizabeth Ann Liddle ’47 

Mary Hemphill Haring ’47 

Harriet Faris Long ’33 

Pamela Long 

Cynthia Longfellow 


Barbara Burrows MacKinnon ’52 

Herbert C. MacKinnon 

Mary MacKay Marcus ’52 

Barbara Seif ’52 

Sally Larsen McAlpine ’53 

Barbara Fritzberg 

Elizabeth Dewey Giles ’53 and 

Edwin Giles 

Barbara Lincoln 

Winifred Magee Williams ’53 

Traci Raeburn McNulty ’89/’94MS 

Joseph McNulty 

Janice Porosky Olins ’33 

Nancy Olins 

Mr. and Mrs. George Michael Pelias 

Margo Pelias Coffey ’77 

Helen Hoyt Smith ’50 


Mary Anne Dresser Stringham ’49 

Laura Donnell and Kevin Oullette 

Anne Tremper Hall ’49 

Bryant H. Jackson 

Mr. and Mrs. Roger Joslin 

Elizabeth Schobernd 

Susan Swap 

Dr. and Mrs. John Howard 

Walter Swap 

Jeri Traub 


Janet Higginbotham Washburn 

’42-’43 

Seth H. Washburn 

Wilson Darling Craig Wright 

Emily Wright Holt ’50 

Cynthia Longfellow 


Barbara Burrows MacKinnon ‘52 

Herbert C. MacKinnon 

Shirley Kellerman McBain ‘45 

Gordon McBain 

Sandra Therese Oshetski McCooey 

Carol Bryce Bibeau ‘75 

Corporations 

Anonymous (1) 

Admissions Advantage 

Aetna Foundation, Inc. 

Biogen Idec 

Blue Cross Blue Shield of 

Massachusetts 

Bristol-Myers Squibb Company 

Century Bank 

Children’s Hospital Boston 

Delta Dental 

First Clearing, LLC 

General Electric Foundation 

Goldman Sachs Philanthropy Fund 

IBM Corporation 

Jenzabar, Inc. 

Mobil Foundation, Inc. 

Morgan-Worcester Inc. 

Northwestern Mutual Foundation 

The Pfizer Foundation Matching 

Gifts Program 

The Procter & Gamble Fund 

Schwab Charitable Fund 

Susquehanna International Group, LLP 

TD Insurance 

Thomas G. Gallagher Mechanical 

Contractors 

Towers Perrin 

Tufts Health Plan 

United Technologies Corporation 

University Health Plans 

Wellington Management Company 

Matching Gift Program 

The Williams Companies Inc. 

Foundations 

Anonymous (2) 

Thomas & Joann Adler Family 

Foundation 

The James E. & Constance L. Bell 

Foundation 

The Boston Foundation 

Bromley Family Fund of the Princeton 

Area Community Foundation 

Clover Clark Memorial Trust Fund 

The Clifford Family Foundation 

Olin J. Cochran Trust 

The Columbus Foundation 

Combined Jewish Philanthropies 

Community Foundation for the 

Greater Capital Region 

Community Foundation of Western 

North Carolina, Inc. 

Creighton Narada Foundation 

The Davis Educational Foundation 

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund 

Perpetual Trust Graves Charitable Fund 

The Helena Foundation 

The Hottle Family Foundation 

The Jackson Foundation 

Jaunich Family Foundation 

The W.K. Kellogg Foundation 

Kenwood Foundation 

Agnes M. Lindsay Trust 

Lortz Family Foundation 

Ralph A. Loveys Family Charitable 

Foundation 

Meek Foundation 

Morgan Stanley Smith Barney Global 

Impact Funding Trust, Inc. 

The New York Community Trust 

The Nichols Trust 

The Parker Foundation 

The Peabody Foundation (WFT) 

Rochester Area Community 

Foundation 

The Schott Foundation 

The FAO Schwarz Foundation 

The Carl & Ruth Shapiro Foundation 

(WFT) 

Silicon Valley Community Foundation 

Sondik Foundation 

Ben & Kate Taylor Foundation 

Alan D. and Judith Tobin Foundation 

Vanguard Charitable Endowment 

Program 

Webster Family Foundation 

The Frances and Michael Williamson 

Family Charitable Fund 

The Winston-Salem Foundation 

The Hans & Elizabeth Wolf Foundation 

The Yawkey Foundation (WFT) 

Organizations 

AmeriCorps 

Biogen Idec 

Boston Plan for Excellence 

Colleges of the Fenway 

Emmanuel College 

Jumpstart 

JustGive 

Massachusetts Technology 

Collaborative 

National Spiritual Assembly of Baha’is 

of the United States 

Pitcairn Trust Company 

Ready to Learn Providence 

Simmons College 

Suffolk University 

TRUiST 

UC Irvine 

UMass Boston 

United Way of Massachusetts Bay and 

Merrimack Valley 

United Way of Rhode Island 

Up2Us 

Upward Bound 

gifts in Kind 

Patricia Slater Carey ’45 

Keena Dunn Clifford ’68 and 

Chris Clifford 

Barbara Tarr Drauschke ’72 

Barbara Moog Finlay ’50 

Elizabeth Grimm Hoskins ’56 

Susan Towle Huckman ’55 

Lyn Peck Kenyon ’45/’69BS 

Helen Martin ’64MS 

Beverly Tarr Mattatall ’72 

Mila Moschella ’75 

Margaret Weinheimer Sherwin ’58 

Joan Anderson Watts ’65/’83MS 

Davis Educational Foundation 

Support for General Education 

During 2010-2011, Wheelock College received 

grants from 45 different foundations, 

support that is integral to the quality of the 

College’s curriculum and programs and that adds value 

to a Wheelock education. A grant from the Davis 

Educational Foundation provided continued support 

for completing implementation of Wheelock’s new 

General Education curriculum and for developing a 

long-term plan for assessment of how well the curriculum 

engages students and helps them meet carefully 

developed and defined learning outcomes. 


Heritage society 

The Heritage Society recognizes individuals who have 

included Wheelock College in their estate or trust plans. 

The College gratefully acknowledges the following individuals 

for leaving a special legacy that will perpetuate 

our mission to improve the lives of children and families: 

Current Members 

Anonymous (8) 

Anonymous Lead Trust 

Lois Abbott 

Judy McMurray Achre ‘58 

Ruth Flink Ades ‘53 

Virginia Pratt Agar ‘64 

Nancy Wilson Ainslie ‘44 


Margaret Benisch Anderson ‘53 


Christine Hollands Ashton ‘33 

Margaret Boethelt Barratt ‘52 

Deborah Devaney Barton ‘70 

V. Bonnie Blick Benedict ‘69 

Joanne Bobrink Bennett ‘49 

Joan Chiappetta Benson ‘69 

Charlotte Braverman Blonder ‘63MS 

Elizabeth Palmer Bradley ‘64 

Lorian Brown ‘68MS 

Mary Turnbull Burnight ‘66 

Carol Sinnamon Carpenter ‘70 

Sarah Carter ‘66 

Mary Lou Center ‘56 

Melanie Waszkiewicz Chadwick ‘68 

Daniel S. Cheever Jr. 

Clover Clark Memorial Trust 


Olin J. Cochran Trust 

Mary H. Corcoran 

Christina Cox ‘05 

Rebecca Berry Cramer ‘36 

Harriet Spring Critchlow ‘44 

Lora Erhard Crouss ‘37 

Sarah Beebe Davis ‘64 

Elizabeth Brayton Dawson ‘51 

Elizabeth Townsend Dearstyne ‘62 and 

William Dearstyne 

Nancy Wicke Demarest ‘66 

Jeannette Milligan Doane ‘42 

Jean Rogers Duval ‘50 

Robert L. Duven 

Evelyn Jenney Eaton ‘56 

Barbara Tutschek Ells ‘60 


Betty C. Fuchs 

Lois Anne Gilbert Galbraith ‘49 

Katrina Buckelmueller Gale ‘57 

Natalie Smith Garland ‘53 

Elizabeth Dewey Giles ‘53 and 

Edwin Giles 

Frances Graves Perpetual Trust 

Alyssa Greeley ‘91 

Patricia Conzelman Greeley ‘52/’90MS 

Mr. and Mrs. Paul Greeley 

Beverly Simon Green ‘50 

Cynthia Hallowell ‘58 

Jeanne Wilson Hatch ‘59 

Mary Barbour Hatvany ‘72 

Priscilla Chase Heindel ‘47 

Emily Hewitt 

Elizabeth Berry Horner ‘47 

Elizabeth Grimm Hoskins ‘56 

Jane Hanna Houck ‘57 


Robert C. Howe 

Susan Terragni Howe ‘68 and 

John B. Howe 


Jeanette McIntosh Ingersoll ‘67 

Josepha Loskill Jenks ‘53 

Maria Lind Johnson ‘68 

Carol White Jones ‘75 

Christine Jones ‘71 


Mildred Griffith Kohler ‘36 

Robin A. Kren ‘83MS 

Edward H. Ladd 

Gloria Williams Ladd ‘65 

Laura Lehrman ‘58 

Lauren Loeb Lerner ‘70 

Susan Cahn Levine ‘67 



Sonia Loizeaux ‘57 

Pamela Long 

Persis Luke Loveys ‘54 

Lucy Smith Lundin ‘46 

Louise Baldridge Lytle ‘55 

Margaret Ryan MacIntyre ‘38 

Meredith Huxtable MacNeill ‘91MS 

Ann MacVicar ‘65 

Kathryn de Sano Mahoney ‘68 


Olivia Hutchins Meek ‘52 

Carolyn Humphrey Miller ‘64 

Carol Moore ‘48 

Deanne Williams Morse ‘60 

Katharine Crosby Nasser ‘48 

Anne Hallowell Newton ‘66 and 

John Newton 

Frances Nichols ‘63 

Mary Nisula ‘70 

Mary Runyon Obaidy ‘59 

Lynn Odell ‘66 

Penny Power Odiorne ‘54 

Phoebe O’Mara ‘66 


Patricia Knowlton Paine-Dougherty ‘50 

Elizabeth Buckstaff Paterson ‘56 

Carol Drew Penfield ‘52 

Jean Ingalls Perkins ‘52 

Elizabeth Gerow Peterson ‘53 

Priscilla Harper Porter ‘64 

Constance Putnam ‘29 

Thekla Polley Putnam ‘53 

Marylin Quint-Rose ‘48 

Jeanne Girard Quinzani ‘48 

Judith Haskell Rosenberg ‘55 

Stanley and Marcia Rumbaugh 

Sarah Lippincott Sakols ‘55 

Ruth Angier Salinger ‘53 

Valessia Samaras ‘83 



Carlile Lowery Schneider ‘78/’79MS 

Dorothy Hutchens Seelow ‘50 

Susan Waters Shaeffer ‘56 

Margaret Weinheimer Sherwin ‘58 

Barbara Silverstein ‘56 

Sally Clark Sloop ‘68 

Inez Gianfranchi Snowdon ‘40 

Ann Emerson Spaulding ‘53 and 

Charles Spaulding 

Renae Ross Starker ‘71 

Martha Stearns ‘72MS 

Catherine Hargrave Sykes ‘50 

Sylvia Buffinton Tompkins ‘55 

Grace Viard Ward ‘51 

Joan Bradish Waters ‘48 

Edith Nowers White ‘50 

Joan Wiggin ‘51 

Daphne Hastings Wilcox ‘65 


Winifred Little Williams ‘41 

Annette Stevens Wilton ‘56 

Harold E. Wyer 

Former Members 

Elizabeth Abbott ‘24 

Frank C. Abbott 

Margaret Wilson Alexander ‘14 

Stephen H. Anthony 

Beth Atwood ‘57 

Bronwyn Baird ‘64 

Marion Baker 

Francis F. Bartlett 

Laura Smith Bemis ‘28 

Suzanne Baker Bethke ‘59 

Catherine Bose ‘75 

Evelyn Burr Caldwell ‘24 

Charles Rendell Calkins Jr. 

Edith Macnaughtan Cather ‘40 

Maureen Murphy Coakley ‘58 

Katharine Hosmer Connor ‘33 

Janet Woodbury Cooper ‘31 

Ruth Corney Trust 

Wilhelmina Scheuer Cottone ‘36 

Eleanor Day Cottrell ‘34 

D. Clifford Crummey 

Lois Hardy Daloz ‘32 

Anne Walker Davis ‘43 

Helen McMullin Dimock ‘33 

Frances Dogherty ‘24 

Alice Dwinell ‘34 

Jane Parkman England ‘40 

Ellen Brewer Flood ‘34 

Edith Steere Floyd ‘30 

Joan Crane Freeman ‘54 

Yumiko Furuhata ‘58 

Dorothy Mercer Gilbert ‘24 

Elizabeth Bartlett Gilbert ‘37 

Nancy Corwin Gordon ‘67 

Dorothy Greene ‘27 

George A. Hall 

Helen Coots Hall ‘32 

Eva Neumann Hartman ‘67 

Helen Ruslander Haskell ‘28 

Edna Charlton Hays ‘27 

Colby Hewitt Jr. 

Muriel Hirt 

Mr. and Mrs. Myron Hoffman 

Holly Horton ‘76MS 

Myrl Crocker Howe ‘34 

Rodney Huck 

Marian Clifton Hurlin ‘22 

Barbara Jack ‘30 

Louise Steele Jackson ‘28 

Betty Jane Jalley ‘50 

David S. Johnson 

Margery Hall Johnson ‘38 Trust 

Stella Barnes Johnson ‘55 

Chester Jones 

Dorothy Kano ‘71 

Marcia Rudd Keil ‘34 

Alice Keith ‘39 

Jeannette Vannah Kemp ‘38 

Mary Neal Kendall ‘33 

Jane Ann Hartzell Knebel ‘51 

Frances Tedesco Lathrop ‘54 

Virginia Davis Lincoln ‘31 

Wilma Dodge Marshall ‘23 

Rhoda LeFavour Martin ‘31 

Nancy Merryman Mattox ‘46 

John F. McAllister Jr. 

Margaret Merry 

Ann Porter Mullen ‘49 

Adeline Little Murray ‘38 Trust 

Janice Porosky Olins ‘33 

Jean A. Osmond ‘34 

Janet La Foy Otto ‘26 

Edith Rizer Paffard ‘38 

Sandra Gewinner Perry ‘64 

Suzanne Pierce ‘41 

Elizabeth Pursel 

Robert N. Pursel Trust per the will of 

Catherine Pursel ‘25 

Mary Quirk ‘18 

Mary Barnhardt Ridenhour ‘40 

Elizabeth Cox Robbins ‘33 

Elizabeth Sylvester Robinson ‘40 

Libby Walker Schroeder ‘65 

Jessie Hahn Shaffer ‘38 

Diana Holland Shafroth ‘50 

Lucile Edson Smith ‘44 

Wilma Roberts Sowerby ‘34 

Ellen G. Sullivan ‘58MS 

Patricia Blackmer Thibodeau ‘49 

Ruth Baker Ursul ‘60 

Margaret Cahill Vogel ‘33 

Katharine Pulis Waldron ‘28 

Judith Clark Weaver ‘47 Trust 

Katharine Lewars Weymouth ‘42-’43 

Marjorie Ferris Wilcock ‘37 

Charles Wintermeyer and Nancy Jane 

Carroll Wintermeyer ‘45 

Faith Butterfield Wyer ‘40

Thanks to Louise Butts ’51/’55MS for sending in this photo showing eight of the 11 Class of 1951 members 

who attended Reunion 2011, gathered with banners in hand for a photo op on the quad. (L to R): Jerry 

Walsh Clauss, Pat Gindele Guild, Priscilla Janeway Sherwood ’51/’89MS, Judy Handley Garvey, 

Sally McKey Pieksen, Laura Richardson Payson, Louise Butts, Nancy Williams Mohn 

This Wheelock Magazine includes Class Notes 

news that was received before Aug. 19, 2011. 

1937 

reunion 2012 

June 1–3 

Lora Erhard Crouss wrote to Wheelock back in 

April to say that she was already thinking ahead 

to her 75th Reunion in 2012! She’d like to know 

if any other classmates are considering returning 

to campus to celebrate next spring. I (Lori Ann in 

Alumni Relations) sent her a list of those of you 

from 1937 living in Massachusetts. If any of you 

are thinking about attending Reunion, please let 

me know at (617) 879-2123. Thank you. 

1940 

Marion Cockrell Schickel was in touch with 

Wheelock back in March, sharing proudly about 

her late husband’s career as an architect and 

their 13 homeschooled children. A biographical 

piece she sent about her son Jacques—“part of a 

large and varied family of artists, architects, and 

designers”—told of his sculpture and pottery 

and of his art studio in Dryden, NY, Maryhill 

Clayworks (www.MaryhillClayworks.com). Inez 

Gianfranchi Snowdon is well and still volunteers 

at her church “Bright Box,” a second-timearound 

store that sells “clothing, dishes, and most 

anything,” she writes. “The shop is doing very 

well. We give some money to the church and 

various organizations.” 

1941 

Lucy Parton Miller 

Joanne Lilly Abbott writes: “I’m still here and 

grateful for my ability to enjoy life and see my 

family. I’m grateful that they all live in Colorado 

and mostly in the Denver area. My 6-monthold 

great-grandson is the newest addition and a 

darling.” Joanne would be glad to welcome any 

Wheelock grad who is visiting in Denver. Alice 

Johnson Talbot says everything is about the same 

with her. She visits her children and grandchildren 

as often as she can, and she does volunteer work 

and is in craft fairs when she’s in New Jersey. 

1942-’43 

Stevie Roberts Thomas 

reunion 2012 

June 1–3 

1945 

Jean Reilly Cushing 

Sophy Church Hansen called Wheelock in late 

May to share her news. At 89, she is still leading 

an independent life. Her adult family members 

live nearby and are very helpful, and her four 

grandchildren have all done well after graduating 

from college. Sophy’s sister, Frances, broke her leg 

and wrist and has been in a nursing home for two 

years. Mary “Polly” Davies Wolff has been busy 

working at the hospital as a volunteer for many 

years and also works at the Woman’s Club and 

church as a volunteer. She has a son with two children 

in Florida and a daughter with two children 

living near her; the grandchildren are all in college. 

1947 

reunion 2012 

June 1–3 

1950 

Edith “Anne” Runk Wright 

Nancy Spencer Adams keeps in touch with 

Bev Maurath Newell, Kent Wright Holt, and 

Barbara Thompson Trainor. They are all living 

in, or in the process of moving into, condos. 

While owning a condo may be “the way to go,” 

Nancy still has her same house and mows her 

own lawn, which seems to grow larger each year. 

However, her views of nature include watching 

a pair of Canadian geese walk over the freshly 

Class NOTes 

mowed grass with five goslings this May and 

having a nesting swan in her front yard. The 

hatching date for three cygnets was June 10, 

2011. I (Anne) rename you Swan Lady, Nancy. 

Still active and able to travel, Marjorie 

Johnson Cilley and her husband are very 

thankful for their health and many blessings. 

They spend the summer months in Illinois and 

the winters in Arizona. Marjorie writes: “This 

spring we had the privilege of spending the 

month of May in Austria and Czech Republic. 

This was a combined trip to visit our grandson 

and his family in Vienna and do mission work 

in Czech Republic. Our grandson teaches at 

the International Christian School of Vienna. 

Our grandson and wife have two little boys, 

and we were able to get to know our little 

great-grandsons better. While in Czech, we 

were able to speak and minister in six different 

churches.” Summer 2011 plans for Marjorie 

and Charles included traveling to California 

for a grandson’s wedding and celebrating their 

60th wedding anniversary while there. Polly 

Page Cobb writes that she’s very busy with her 

growing family of 15 wonderful grandchildren 

and six super grands. Grandson Chris, doctor 

of osteopathy, met Mary Hartwell Truesdell 

’57, who joined in a “fun” conversation about 

Wheelock College back in the ’50s. 

Janet Cole Crohn says all is well in her “octogenarian 

world”! Her two grandchildren, Nolan 

(27) and Leah (25), are both third-generation 

teachers. Their mother teaches third grade in 

Mount Kisco, NY; Nolan is a science teacher in 

a private school in New York City; and Leah is a 

kindergarten teacher in Marblehead, MA. Three 

cheers for them—NO, make it 1,000 cheers! 

Janet keeps busy playing bridge, has joined a 

book club, and partakes in other “senior activities.” 

Jean Rogers Duval loved the addition of 

our class Ode. Thank you, Jean. 

Barbara “Buzz” Moog Finlay and Jack 

are “chugging along” after having a lovely 60th 


wedding anniversary gathering with family at the 

Wayside Inn in Sudbury, MA. They also had a terrific 

trip along the Rhine and Mosel rivers, seeing 

“cathedrals by the hundreds and vineyards by the 

thousands!” Buzz wrote of having gone to the Class 

of 1951’s Reunion and having had a grand time 

seeing Sally McKey Pieksen ’51. Dot Hutchens 

Seelow was supposed to join her but was ill at the 

last moment. “And where were the other Carlton 

girls?” Buzz wonders. Jane Munroe Rice’s husband, 

Norman, called Wheelock during the summer to let 

them know of Jane’s passing in mid-June. A longtime 

resident of Reading, MA, she taught kindergarten 

in Melrose and Reading and was an officer 

of Wheelock’s Longview Club in the 1970s. 

Sydney Weaver Schultheis and husband Walt 

celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary at the 

elegant Ocean House in Watch Hill, RI, on June 

30. Their lovely party was beautifully planned and 

executed by Walt. We (I [Anne] attended) had cocktails 

on the deck overlooking the ocean followed by 

a delicious buffet dinner. Then came dancing and a 

special live music selection of songs selected by Walt, 

which included his own version of “Once in Love 

with Amy” changed to “Once in Love with Sydney.” 

There were many toasts and tributes, including 

those by the three Schultheis sons. As Sydney’s maid 

of honor, I found it indeed an honor to be there to 

see Sydney and Walt dancing with the true loves 

of their lives—each other. Viva! Katie Hargrave 

Sykes and husband Bob celebrated their 60th anniversary 

by taking 25 from their family to Alaska 

in July. They were on a cruise ship for a week— 

“fabulous, perfect weather!”—and then went to see 

Denali National Park for three days. Katie connects 

with Nancy Sayles-Evarts on Facebook. “Love that 

with getting all the pictures,” she writes. 

Edith Nowers White and husband Russ 

continue to enjoy life in Florida but do get the 

opportunity to travel to the North on occasion. 

They spent Christmas 2010 and New Year’s in 

Kennebunkport, ME, with daughter Susan and her 

family, enjoying lots of lobster and lots of snow! 

With no problem keeping busy, Edie attends the 

Venice Theatre; is a member of the Venice College 

Club, where she serves as friendship chairman; 

enjoys many church activities; and watches Red 

Sox games when they’re on TV. They are so happy 

they made the move to Florida (more than 11 years 

ago now)! “With daughter Carol [White Jones 

’75] and husband Bill here in Florida, and only 


Reunion Snapshot 

“ Three of us stayed in the new Campus Center and Student Residence 

(CCSR), which was so convenient to all the events. We were guided, 

watched over, and treated to a very well organized Reunion Weekend by 

the energetic and dedicated members of our Alumni Office/Committee/ 

Staff. The Wheelock spirit we knew 60 years ago is so alive today. It 

was exciting and reassuring to learn how it is reaching out to and 

meeting challenges facing children and families in places worldwide— 

such a proud and giant step from our freshman class of Community 

Backgrounds!” —Louise Butts ’51/’55MS 

75 miles away, we see them fairly regularly,” Edie 

writes. “The others—in Georgia, Pennsylvania, and 

Maine—call regularly. Travel plans at this point 

call for being in Massachusetts in mid-September 

[2011] to attend our 65th Sharon High School 

reunion—we were both members of the Class 

of 1946. Then in October we expect to be in 

Pennsylvania for a baby shower: Our granddaughter 

Jennifer is expecting in January of 2012, making us 

great-grandparents for the first time.” 

This summer I (Anne) found it good to be 

back in Paradise, RI, after a long, cold, snowy winter 

in New York. However, I’d kept up my spirits 

with stimulating and delightful visits to Nancy 

Sayles-Evarts in nearby Garrison and a week with 

Carolyn Livingston Epes and husband Morgan 

in Buffalo, NY. The Epeses plan to move into their 

own quarters at the home of son Charlie and wife 

Stephanie. I also see my former roommate Mary 

Hathaway Hayter frequently. We are both fans 

of the opera, concerts, theater, and any movie that 

stars George Clooney. 

My hair may be turning white and my energy 

level has lowered, but I’m still burning with 

enthusiasm. This flame took me to Paris for 10 

days in July, and right after returning, I was ready 

for an immediate trip back! 

1951 

Louise Butts 

On a cool, sunny June weekend, 12 of us attended 

the 60th class reunion. We were delighted to have 

Mr. Meredith travel from New Hampshire and 

join our class for the Alumni Luncheon! 

Our last class notes appeared on pages 6 and 7 

in your brochure received in late spring announcing 

Class of 1951 60th Reunion (it had the small photo 

of 2006’s 55th Reunion “group of eight”). In the 

summer mailing, Reunion 2011 Recap, the last page 

includes a photo of the 60th group. We hope you 

all saw these! 

Priscilla Janeway Sherwood ’51/’89MS and 

Jerry Walsh Clauss led our class in the annual 

procession along the Riverway—we were the 

next-to-oldest class at Reunion! They were joined 

by Pat Gindele Guild, Judith Handley Garvey, 

Sally McKey Pieksen, Laura Richardson 

Payson, Louise Butts ’51/’55MS, and Nancy 

Williams Mohn. They were all joined a bit later 

by Betty Cahill Haskell, Gloria Aisenberg 

Sonnabend, Robbie Rothwell Wattles, and 

Joanne Eastwood Tainsh. 

Three of us stayed in the new Campus Center 

and Student Residence (CCSR), which was so convenient 

to all the events. We were guided, watched 

over, and treated to a very well organized Reunion 

Weekend by the energetic and dedicated members 

of our Alumni Office/Committee/Staff. The 

Wheelock spirit we knew 60 years ago is so alive 

today. It was exciting and reassuring to learn how 

it is reaching out to and meeting challenges facing 

children and families in places worldwide—such 

a proud and giant step from our freshman class of 

Community Backgrounds! 

Pat Gindele Guild shared that, like many of us, 

she is slowing down a bit—less garden work, minimum 

subbing but enjoys going to schools on occasion, 

pleased with some programs, frustrated with 

others. And sadly, news reached us that Charlotte 

“Charley” Sears MacVane recently lost her longtime 

battle with Lyme disease. Our thoughts are 

with classmates and families of classmates whose 

loved ones have passed on. 

“What fun to be back at Wheelock for our 60th 

Reunion!” writes Judy Handley Garvey. “The new 

building is fabulous! It was good to see a few more 

members of our class than at the 55th. We were 

treated royally.” Judy treasured the time she spent 

that same weekend with daughter Elizabeth and her 

husband, who live in Jamaica Plain. Good health 

allows her to be very active with her family and in 

her community. 

Due to illness and/or other events, some classmates 

sent word they were not able to attend—we 

missed you all. Beverly Boardman Brekke-Bailey 

has moved to Springfield, IL, to be nearer her family. 

Sydney Snell Fulford enjoyed reading about “the 

Zallen’s grilled cheese members”—she was one of 

those saying they also went on to Brigham’s for ice 

cream! We learned that Connie Brennan Ryan was 

recovering from knee surgery, and a health problem 

kept Sue Post Day from attending the Reunion. 

Barbara “Buzz” Moog Finlay ’50 attended Reunion 

2011 and sent this photo of Sally McKey Pieksen ’51 

and former roommate Laura Richardson Payson ’51.

Jane Steele Milchen ’51/’69MS moved to Amherst, 

NH, after her husband Al’s death. She lives in her 

own wing of her daughter’s home, has given up tennis 

after 70 years, takes trips with church and Red 

Hats groups, plays bridge three days a week, and 

keeps up with grandchildren and great-grandchildren. 

Jane visits often with Sally McKey Pieksen, 

who has hopefully told Jane all about Reunion. 

Congratulations to Joan Wiggin, who wrote that 

she received a lovely pewter bell in honor of 40 years 

as director of her church’s handbell choir. 

Our next class reunion—the 65th—is only five 

years away! Do some long-range planning, but in 

the meantime, stay in touch by snail mail, email, 

telephone—so that we’ll keep information coming 

in Wheelock’s Class Notes for the Class of 1951! 

1952 

Ann Sibley Conway 

reunion 2012 

June 1–3 

1953 

Libby Gerow Peterson 

“Living in two places makes the year speed by, making 

both areas too short,” writes Ruth Flink Ades, 

who lives in Sarasota, FL, for seven months and at 

the beach in Padanaram, South Dartmouth, MA, 

for the remainder of the year. She and husband 

Alan enjoyed another very busy summer in the 

North with all 15 of their grandchildren: “They 

keep us all running!” The oldest are in college, and 

the youngest, daughter Andrea Ades Woolner’s 

(’88) two, are 2 and 5. Ruth wrote in early July, 

when she and Alan were about to leave to visit the 

southern National Parks out West and were planning 

their 43rd trip to Israel for the fall. Patricia 

Russell Amendola and husband Warren are “completely 

happy and content” with their lovely home, 

their boat (The PAT-SEAS), and their cocker spaniel, 

Patch. Their three boys are all close by, and their 

six grandchildren, ages 8 to 34, are great! Pat and 

Warren’s main interests now are gardening, golfing, 

and especially family and friends. 

“I’m climbing up from three operations in the 

last year,” Peggy Ann Benisch Anderson writes. 

“My goal is to walk alone and drive again.” She 

talks with some Colchester girls frequently, and all is 

well with them. “We don’t mention the word ‘age,’” 

she says. Peggy Ann’s oldest granddaughter, Brooke 

Anderson, has applied to Wheelock for her master’s 

degree and a scholarship. “Don’t forget annual giving 

every year,” she adds, “and that, yes, girls, our 

60th Reunion is coming in 2013—save the date!” 

Cynthia Cranton Dygert still enjoys living in the 

Southwest and having all three children and two 

great grandchildren nearby. She has done a little 

traveling and has loved entertaining friends and 

family from the East during the winter months. “It’s 

always fun to visit with Janet Knightly Jones and 

her husband, Bob,” she writes. “We eat together at 

Judy McMurray Achre ’58 and Marcia Potter Crocker 

’58 enjoyed a spring lunch together in Venice, FL. 

one of our many favorite restaurants once a month.” 

Cynthia still works in downtown Phoenix three 

days a week and finds being in the midst of all of 

the ASU students—and ASU’s growth—exciting! 

Hearty congratulations to Alicia Eager, who 

recently got married for the first time! Alicia met 

Dudley Davis at Regency Oaks, the Clearwater, FL, 

retirement community she moved into in 2001, 

and they were married Feb. 12. They spent their 

honeymoon in Sarasota and then took another trip, 

to China aboard the Diamond Princess, in April. 

(Google “Alicia Eager Regency Oaks” to see the 

March 16 St. Petersburg Times story.) Betsy Dewey 

Giles and husband Ed celebrated their 58th wedding 

anniversary this year and are happy and well! 

In July they were headed to a family wedding in 

Oregon and also planned to spend some time touring 

in that area and go up into Washington to visit 

more family. “In talking with Peggy Ann Benisch 

Anderson,” Betsy writes, “we both agree that our 

60th Reunion isn’t far off. Hope we get a great 

turnout in ’13!” 

We are sorry to have to pass on the sad news 

that Josepha Loskill Jenks’ husband, Ken, passed 

away in February from a massive stroke. “We 

had 40 wonderful years together,” Jo writes. “We 

shared many interests and particularly loved to 

travel. We have been to many places far and wide, 

and I will always treasure our years together.” 

Regina Daly Lundstrom and husband Robert 

have enjoyed living in Wisconsin and seeing their 

Chicago-area children more often, but they do 

miss Cape Cod and think often of their wonderful 

10 years there. 

I (Libby) was so very happy to hear from you 

all and enjoy catching up on “the news.” I had 

another chip taken out of my heart when I lost my 

Japanese Chin, “Nikki,” in the spring. She was my 

pal. I enjoy keeping in touch with my Wheelock 

pals. It is a blessing! I flew up to George and Sue 

Terry Curry’s in July and spent a wonderful week 

with them at their lovely home in Merrimac, MA. 

The weather was quite warm but every minute was 

delightful, from seeing daughter Jane’s new horses 

and farm to having lobster rolls on the coast of 

Maine. My son, Joe, and his wife, Joanne, joined 

us from their home in Denver for two of the days. 

Joanne’s parents live in Beverly, MA. It was a visit 

full of fun and recalling old memories. 

1955 

Penny Kickham Reilly 

Nancy Cerruti Humphreys 

Anne Vermillion Gleason and husband Ted 

now live in an apartment three blocks from the 

Washington National Cathedral in D.C. Both 

retired from “various teaching jobs,” they still find 

time to write, and Anne recently self-published a 

book of poetry titled Pay Attention. Their youngest 

daughter and her family live nearby, and they have 

two other married daughters—and seven grandchildren 

who make them very happy. Anne and 

Ted’s travel is now limited because of a muscle disease 

Ted has, so they welcome friends to visit them. 

“This carries much love to all,” Anne writes. “I am 

ever grateful for my Wheelock education which led 

to very special teaching experiences both here and 

in Boston.” 

Louise Baldridge Lytle is “feeling very much 

at home” in her retirement community in Verona, 

PA, especially now that more and more people 

she has known for a long time are moving there, 

too. In addition to enjoying serving as editor of 

the quarterly publication to which the residents 

contribute original prose and poetry, she also still 

reads to the health care residents occasionally. In 

the spring Louise traveled to North Carolina to 

help her daughter celebrate her birthday and see a 

new puppy! This fall she took a cruise from New 

York City to Montreal. When Kathleen Rooney 

and husband Douglas weren’t traveling (to Portugal 

and Florida) in late 2010 and early 2011, they were 

spending time with children and grandchildren 

and participating in “interesting, sometimes challenging 

volunteer activities.” She adds: “While our 

health remains good, our nephew was diagnosed 

with metastatic kidney cancer. This was stunning 

news. Because he and his family live in town, we are 

blessed to be able to help. We just never know. He 

has successfully completed two surgeries and radiation, 

but the future is far from clear.” 

1957 

Joan Patterson Brown 

Class NOTes 

reunion 2012 

June 1–3 

1958 

Margaret “Maggie” Weinheimer Sherwin 

Nancy Buhrendorf Grindlay phoned one day and 

I (Maggie) chatted with her for almost an hour. 

She and her children and grandchildren spent 

Christmas in Hawaii. The grandchildren (all boys) 

are ages 23, 11, and 9, and, along with their parents, 

are located in North Carolina, San Francisco, 

and Las Vegas. Marcia Potter Crocker and Judy 

McMurray Achre and their husbands enjoyed a 

spring lunch together in Venice, FL. Seems they 

never ran out of conversation! Molly McBride 

Felton will eventually be moving to the Portland, 


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ME, area from “down east” to be more accessible to 

Boston and nearer children and grandchildren. 

Mannie Cook Houston writes that son Bill 

is now working in Wellington, New Zealand, as 

a petroleum geologist. Mannie loves the time she 

spends with 2+-year-old grandson Colin. She says 

she needs super fast sneakers because he runs like a 

deer! Sue Howland Devey was diagnosed with cancer 

in January and by April had undergone two surgeries. 

She says recovery is slow, but the prognosis is 

excellent. She had a 14-day Caribbean cruise with 

her daughter and granddaughter in January, and she 

was making plans to travel to Turkey in May. 

Carole Leclerc Barry and husband Dave 

took a wonderful trip to South America in March. 

They flew into Rio de Janeiro, where they stayed 

three days before boarding a Holland America 

ship that took them to Buzios, Ilha Grande and 

Santos, Brazil. They then sailed to Montevideo, 

Uruguay, and then to Buenos Aires, Argentina. 

There were a lot of fascinating side trips along 

the way. They will be returning to Marblehead, 

MA, for the month of July to reconnect with old 

friends and fellow teachers from Carole’s days at 

Tower School. Sybil Magid Woodhouse and 

Woody have been in Reno, NV, for 11 years but 

get out of that locale for a few weeks each year. 

This time it was Oceanside, CA. Their granddaughter 

is graduating from high school and 

hopes to be a veterinarian, and their grandson is 

on his way to becoming a registered nurse. Sybil 

says her mom is 94 years old and as feisty as ever 

in a San Francisco nursing home. 

Carol Yudis Stein is traveling from Florida 

northward this year to attend the graduation of 

her oldest granddaughter from Bucknell and two 

others from high school. In addition, she, husband 

Jim, and her daughter and family cruised in the 

Caribbean in April. Their grandsons loved the 

“camp” aboard the ship. Carol continues to volunteer 

at a local hospital and is involved in many 

community activities. She and Jim have tickets to 

the Palm Beach Pops, but she misses the Boston 

Pops. The Steins enjoyed a winter visit from Laura 

Lehrman, who had some illnesses behind her and 

was escaping the New York City snow and cold. 

Laura, in addition to her Florida trip, was planning 

to visit Yellowstone Park in May. She is taking part 

in a playwriting program at an off-Broadway theater 

called Mind the Gap that matches elders with 

high schoolers to write together. Their production 

was staged in December. She is also interviewing 

for a paid position with ReServe, a wonderful 

organization that places retired professionals with 


not-for-profit organizations that need help. Part 

of a group called United for Action, she is now an 

activist against hydrofracking and suggests we view 

the movie Gasland. Laura loves the time she has 

with her two grandchildren. “I appreciate my ties 

to Wheelock more and more with the passing of 

time,” she writes. 

Liz Sturtz Stern reports that retirement is 

exhausting, especially with all her community activities 

in Pinehurst, NC. While she was in Florida 

visiting, she spent a day with Judy McMurray 

Achre, and they picked up the conversation right 

where they left off at their last get-together. Liz was 

looking forward to visiting with Alice Thompson 

Brew ’59 this summer in Wyoming. Liz’s son and 

family are moving to Leesburg, VA, where he will 

open the evolutionary genetics lab for the Howard 

Hughes Medical Investigators program. 

I (Maggie) had a long newsy note from Martha 

Newton Roberts. Although she was at Wheelock 

for only two years, she enjoys being connected to 

our class. She graduated from Pratt Institute of Art 

and got her master’s degree at Instituto Allende in 

Mexico and went from there to the Kamehameha 

School for Girls in Hawaii. It was there she met her 

husband, and they were married in Pennsylvania 

in 1962. They lived in Hawaii for seven years, and 

their two daughters were born there. Their son 

was born in Washington, D.C., after they returned 

there. They have eight grandchildren who join 

them at a summer cottage in New Hampshire. Nice 

to hear from you, Martha. 

And that’s it for ’58! 

1960 

Deanne Williams Morse 

Greetings, classmates! At our 50th Reunion I agreed 

to be the class scribe and was looking forward to 

getting in touch with all of you on a regular basis. 

Unfortunately, life took an unhappy turn and my 

husband, Steve, died in November 2010. Since 

then I have been busy grieving, selling our home 

of 35 years, and finding a new place to live. I have 

been blessed with wonderful love and support from 

many, many people, including many of you. You 

have my heartfelt thanks. 

I have recently moved and am thrilled to have 

been welcomed back to the Wheelock Institutional 

Advancement Office on a part-time basis. I am 

ready to pick up my scribe responsibilities. I sent 

out a quick email to those for whom the College 

has an email address and was so happy to hear from 

many of you. 

Thanks to all who responded, including Libby 

Brown Hall and Nancy Brooks Nelson. I 

enjoyed seeing Libby at a Wheelock brunch at 

Ellen Cluett Burnham’s last year. I also heard 

from Susan Robbins Berger, who promises to 

send news next time. 

Delma Romano de Comellas writes: “No 

matter the distance, all of you are so close to me. 

I appreciate, so deep in my heart, your friendship. 

I hope we could get together in the near future.” 

Thoughtful Delma was also in touch with the 

College just to check in and make sure everything 

was all right after the Virginia-centered earthquake 

in late August. Sue Rideout Jewett writes, “As 

for Wheelock news, I have none. We are much the 

same as at Reunion time—no major changes and 

not much new. However, I do love to read about 

my classmates.” I (Dee) hope to see Sue on one of 

my trips to Vermont to visit my daughter who is a 

professor at Middlebury College. 

Jane Coulter Langmaid wrote in August, as 

she was anticipating being asked to evacuate from 

their place in Scituate, MA (Humarock Beach) 

due to Hurricane Irene. She was headed to her 

son’s home in Merrimack, NH. She wrote: “In 

March, Brad and I, still eager for adventure, took 

a two-week trip to Macchu Picchu with Overseas 

Adventure Travel. We returned with chilling tales 

of raging rivers, 14,000-foot altitudes along with 

hair-raising switchbacks, all without guardrails 

anywhere. Our second week was spent at a more 

relaxed pace in the Galapagos Islands photographing 

some beautiful birds highlighted by the 

unusual-looking blue-footed booby! The summer 

passes too quickly but is filled with good times with 

family and friends in New England. We find that 

the D.C. area suits our maturing joints and need 

for warmth these days.” 

Carol Reed Newsome, Ellen Cluett 

Burnham, Reta Schoonmaker King, and 

I (Dee) had a mini reunion in April down on 

the Cape. We attended a fabulous Cape Cod 

Symphony concert. Carol’s husband, John, is on the 

Symphony Board. Maryann Mylott O’Rourke 

’60/’98MS came out of retirement to spend the 

year as interim director of the Y Children’s Center 

in Greenwich, CT. Sara Thompson Orton 

writes: “My husband, Eliot, and I celebrated our 

50th wedding anniversary on July 15 in Las Cruces. 

Our two children, spouses, and two grandchildren 

came, as well as one of my brothers and my husband’s 

cousin, and friends from our 41 years in Las 

Cruces. We enjoyed dinner, dancing, a live band, an 

original song performed by our son and two granddaughters 

(ages 15 and 18), and fabulous food. It 

was a regular love fest, and incredibly fun! These 

celebrations become more precious the older we get 

. . . and older we do get!” Jean Randlett spent the 

summer in Winchester, MA. She and I (Dee) had a 

lovely visit in Florida last winter. 

Antonia Reardon writes: “My husband, 

Bob, continues to battle mesothelioma. I don’t 

know what I would do without the support of my 

friends, especially my ‘girlfriends,’ so very important 

to have. I recently had a vacation with my family 

in Lewes, DE—a welcome respite staying with 

my brother, Dennis, and his wife, Allison. Bob’s 

kids took care of him in my absence. Being among 

friends and relatives is like having a giant hug, 

rejuvenating my spirit!” Joyce Small Sherr is still

on Martha’s Vineyard six months of the year and 

keeps busy kayaking and playing tennis. She has a 

studio space there and is painting and always trying 

new techniques. She speaks to Betty Ann Erickson 

Ludington, who spent the summer in Rhode 

Island. Janet Burt Slaton and Paul have three children 

and 10 grandchildren and feel very fortunate 

that they all live nearby. “It is nice because we can 

go to all their football and baseball games . . . and 

can meet for dinner anytime,” she writes. Having 

her oldest grandchild, Tyler, now at Clemson (on a 

baseball scholarship) makes Janet think that maybe 

she’ll get her master’s there! 

Bobbie Underwood Walker wrote: “I loved 

being back in Boston for the first time in 50 years 

last June. And I know that it sounds ridiculous that 

I have no news from this past year, but nothing 

worth reporting—just a new baby and a niece’s 

wedding, which meant that I traveled to Hilton 

Head Island twice, once in April to meet our son 

and wife and three kids who live in London and 

then in June for the wedding. Our three sons and 

all of their children plus the Londoner’s in-laws 

will be with us on the big island of Hawaii for 

Christmas. It’ll be very exciting to get that many 

people together at such a distance.” 

I hope that those of you who are not emailers 

will please write so we can all keep in touch. 

Write early and often to our Class Notes section 

of the Wheelock Magazine and website. Go to 

this address on Wheelock’s web page http://www. 

wheelock.edu/alum/alumupdates.asp or write to me 

at dmorse@wheelock.edu or Deanne Morse, Alumni 

Office, Wheelock College, 200 The Riverway, 

Boston MA 02215. 

1961 

Ginnie Colquitt Schroder 

Twenty-two of us gathered at Wheelock for our 

50th Class Reunion in early June. Actually, there 

were 23 of us, counting Philip Burnham, husband 

of Louise Hassel Burnham, who passed away nine 

years ago. (He is listed as an official “alum” by the 

Alumni Office!) Philip joined us for the Cabaret 

show at the Wheelock Family Theatre on Friday 

night, and for the Class Dinner on Saturday night, 

where he read his poem about proposing to Louise 

in Muddy River Park. 

From the notes and emails I’ve received since 

the Reunion, all are in agreement that it was a 

wonderful weekend, well planned by the efficient 

and most cordial Alumni Office staff and assisted 

by a student crew that reminded more than one of 

us of who we were 50 years ago . . . Wheelock girls 

through and through. Though things have certainly 

changed on the Wheelock campus, the students 

remain caring, passionate about their school, and 

friendly in every way. Those in our class who were 

housed on the fifth floor of the new (two years old) 

Campus Center and Student Residence had an 

“Birthday Greetings VI; 

The Riverway” 

In honor of Louise Hassel Burnham ’61 

by Philip E. Burnham 

“Birthday Greetings VI; The Riverway” is 

one of a series of poems Philip E. Burnham Jr. 

wrote for his wife, Louise Hassel Burnham 

’61, on the occasion of her birthday in the years 

after her death. The poem first appeared in the 

Emerald Necklace Conservancy newsletter, and it 

was awarded the 2010 Elizabeth Warren Prize 

by the New England Poetry Club. It describes 

an October night in 1959, when Philip proposed 

to Louise on the Riverway. Alumni were 

delighted and moved by his reading of the 

poem at Reunion 2011, and we include it in 

this issue of Wheelock Magazine as a tribute 

to Louise and because it evokes the familiar 

Riverway so beautifully. Thank you, Philip. 

Birthday Greetings VI; The Riverway 

out of a muddy river, a water’s way 

of creation, a dream of ponds and paths, 

an ocean waiting at the end of a stream 

at the beginning, a meander chain 

of light-catcher pools strung together 

like rough-cut jewels on a ripple necklace 

where broad salt marshes once spread 

over a brackish flood, now routed 

between sculpted banks, cleared of underbrush 

and shadowed in stands of beech and oak. 

it was when October slept in the trees 

and the river’s reeds remembered summer 

sunlight filtering down to the water 

where ducks and geese, swans and herons 

swam and flew into the evening 

on a night halfway to winter 

you and i sat on a bench in this house of leaves, 

inlaid with river, a ceiling of stars, 

i asked you to imagine forever, 

and when i asked again, you said yes. 

so you brought me your dream of creation, 

channeling my meanderings 

clearing banks of overgrown intentions 

designing paths through a landscape 

planting brave trees into the future 

settling shallows with tawny reeds 

stirring the air with the wings of water birds 

making an emerald necklace of our lives, 

an intentionally civilized wilderness 

forty years before we came to the ocean. 

opportunity to get to know some of the students 

and staff firsthand. They helped to make our time 

on campus very special. 

Ellen Tague Dwinell, Joan Nolet Bennert, 

Julie Miller Moynihan, and Linda Shemwick 

Lindquist commented especially on the wonderful 

conversations and reminiscences that seemed to go 

on and on throughout the weekend. We decided 

that the joy of seeing each other and reconnecting 

was more important than what house we were in, 

or where our life journey took us after graduation. 

I think Ellen said it particularly well: “We picked 

Class NOTes 

up where we left off. . . . We do feel the same 

inside as we felt 50 years ago, a little wiser and 

more experienced—we hope.” 

Everyone shared news of travels, family, and 

health, as well as plans for the coming months. 

Avery Thompson Funkhouser reports that she 

and John were soon to welcome a new grandson 

into their family. John Funkhouser has been experiencing 

some health issues, so it was especially 

nice to see him. Norma Brawley Dugger and her 

husband, John, were planning a rail trip through 

Canada and then on to Seattle for a wedding in 

mid-July, plus (for Norma) a trip to Australia with 

her sister in August. Norma is still singing with the 

Choral Arts Society of Washington, D.C.—45 

years of participation and still going strong! Susan 

Schaefer Goodnough is pursuing publication of a 

children’s book she has written and illustrated. 

Julie Miller Moynihan and husband Dick 

used their RV to make the trip to Boston, stopping 

along the way in Baton Rouge, LA; Asheville, 

NC; Williamsburg, VA; Washington, D.C.; and 

Mystic, CT, to mention just a few spots of interest. 

Sara Jane Goldstein Drescher and husband Ira 

also took this opportunity to visit with family and 

friends on the way to Boston. Their trip included 

a stop in the Washington, D.C., area to see Jaye 

Kwok and to visit with a cousin, plus a stay in 

Katonah, NY, to visit a daughter. By the way, Jaye 

had hip surgery on July 19 and wrote shortly afterward 

that she was doing very well with her recovery. 

Many of us had a chance to speak with her during 

the Reunion Weekend. She was so wishing she 

could be there, too. 

The longest trip back to Boston was clearly 

that made by Diana Cobb Mead, who, along 

with husband John, made the trek from Auckland, 

New Zealand! I was fortunate enough to have Judy 

Johnston Laurens fly from Santa Fe, NM, to join 

me on St. Simons Island, GA, for a few days before 

we made the flight to Boston. Linda Shemwick 

Lindquist notes that she and four other classmates 

(Joan Nolet Bennert, Ginny Roswell Riegel, 

Helen Lampros Eddings [now deceased], and Gail 

Spivack Sandler) have maintained a round-robin 

letter throughout these 50 years. Peter and Linda 

Lindquist were hosts for Chuck and Martha 

Young Hansen over the weekend, while Fred and 

Ginny Roswell Riegel stayed just around the corner 

from the Lindquists’ B&B. 

It was also great to see Helen Clark, Nancy 

Miller, Taffy Burnham Winans with husband 

Bill, Judy O’Connell Perkins and husband Jim, 

Elizabeth Han Fung and husband Chris (along 

with their son and daughter-in-law and a darling 

baby granddaughter!), and Dotty Sideris Davis 

and husband Peter. Mary Rees Nann and husband 

John and Barbara Grogins Sallick and husband 

Bob were not able to be with us for the entire 

weekend but made the effort to be there for the 

Class Dinner. What a great group! You’ll be proud 

to know that we gave $2,000 from our treasury 


Class NOTes 

Reunion Snapshots from the ’61-ers 

Top: “Old friends are something to hold dear, as are 

memories of Wheelock,” says Judy Johnston Laurens 

(right), shown here with Sara Jane Goldstein Drescher 

at Reunion Weekend’s Sunday Brunch in the CCSR. 

Top right: 50th Reunion celebrants Ellen Tague Dwinell, 

Judy O’Connell Perkins, Martha Young Hansen, and 

Dotty Sideris Davis hear all about “Wheelock today” 

from Jackie Jenkins-Scott. 

Lower right: Helen Clark, Linda Shemwick Lindquist, 

and Ginny Roswell Riegel at the Saturday luncheon 

at Reunion 

toward the class gift, bringing our total donation to 

approximately $27,000! Bravo! 

This column would not be complete without a 

heartfelt “thank-you” to all classmates who worked 

through phone calls and emails to help make our 

50th such a well-attended event: Helen Clark, 

Mary Jo Severson Fenyn, Judy Johnston Laurens, 

Sara Jane Goldstein Drescher, Linda Shemwick 

Lindquist, Avery Thompson Funkhouser, Ellen 

Tague Dwinell, Norma Brawley Dugger, Joan Nolet 

Bennert, Elizabeth Han Fung, Helen Parker Tucker, 

and Jaye Kwok. 

Please note the photos above and look for your 

classmates there! 

Carol Engster Calapso had hoped to get to 

Reunion but broke her wrist in early spring and 

didn’t end up being able to travel. She is a retired 

schoolteacher who is living with her husband 

in Rome, where she’s been for many years. She 

taught at Marymount International School there 

for 30 years and at a private nursery school before 

that. She writes: “Now I give some private lessons 

and assist a friend, the mother of one of my 

former students, who is a guide here. We have a 

group of English-speaking walkers who reside here 

in Rome for a few years and enjoy getting to know 

the city better. I get to see all of the sites that I had 

never seen because I was teaching, but I enjoyed 

that as well.” Carol has a son, a project engineer, 

who was married in Milan last October, and a 

daughter who is a teacher. 

1962 


reunion 2012 

June 1–3 

Roberta Weiss Goorno 

Roberta Loveland Vest’s daughter, Amy, emailed 

to let Wheelock know of Roberta’s passing on June 

23. Her obituary spoke of her many years working 

as a reading specialist in the Fairfax County (VA) 

Public Schools: “Sharing her lifelong love of books, 

Bobbi dedicated her career to nurturing reading 

and writing skills in elementary school children.” 

She also taught in Maryland, in Okinawa for the 

Department of Defense, and as a Title I specialist. 

In retirement, Bobbi was very active in the Fairfax 

County Retired Educators and read to children in 

housing crisis through The Reading Connection. 

We will miss hearing about her activities in and 

around Reston and her travels and visits with children 

and grandchildren. 

1963 

Jane Kuehn Kittredge 

It was great to receive news from Martha Bucknam 

Brogan. She and Jack welcomed their sixth grandchild 

and will babysit Kate’s Jack while she works. 

As always, it was wonderful to chat with my 

(Jane’s) Riverway roommate Susan Memery 

Bruce. She and Bill are caring for his two grandsons, 

ages 8 and 10, and find it quite a change 

overseeing their school and other activities. The 

boys are fortunate to have such good loving care. 

Susan and Bill were to have a much-needed vacation 

to Florida for a week. Susan sees her son and 

wife, who are happily situated in Weare, NH, 

and even more of her daughter, who is a librarian 

closer to home. 

Nan Ware Morrow writes: “Yes, Jane is right 

to remind ALL our classmates to be setting aside 

the end of May 2013 for our 50th Reunion. 

It does not seem possible that we are going to 

be celebrating our 50-year friendships! WOW! 

Let’s see if we can break all attendance records 

for Wheelock for a 50th Reunion. That is our 

goal: to encourage all our classmates to return to 

Boston in May 2013.” In the spring, Nan and 

Bob had a “grand little driving trip” (Bob drove 

more than 2,200 kilometers) around the southeastern 

corner of France from Mont Blanc to Aix 

en Provence and back to Geneva, Switzerland. 

After two weeks in France, they flew to Istanbul, 

Turkey, for a week and enjoyed exploring a new 

city and experiencing another culture. “This 

autumn we will visit South Africa for a month,” 

she wrote in June. “It will be spring there, and we 

hope to see lots of animals and their offspring!” 

Elsie Kellogg Morse writes that she, Lorna 

Waterhouse Chafe, Peggy Fenner, and Susie 

Steele Weems are happy to be able to get together 

occasionally to share the beauties of the Maine 

coast. “Doug and I continue to enjoy our teaching,” 

Elsie writes, “though less of it is in the category of 

‘fee for service.’ The loveliest part of volunteer work 

is the chance it gives you to name your hours and 

especially your getaway times.” Last winter they had 

a spectacular trip down the Nile with Wilderness 

Travel—ending the week before January’s demonstrations. 

This year they’re treating themselves 

to one of their trips in the Caucasus. Elsie is also 

enjoying getting back into docent work at the 

RISD Museum in Providence. If anyone would like 

to arrange a tour, just let her know! 

Wonderful family Christmas pictures arrived 

from Bonnie LaBrecque Enders and Sally 

Weatherbee O’Neill, who are fortunate to get 

their families, each numbering more than a dozen, 

together for gatherings. 

My most frequent contact is Lynn Sanchez 

Paquin. Once again she is busy with her cottage 

rentals on Block Island along with visiting friends 

and family and getting a little time on the beach. 

She celebrated her big “seven-decade” birthday at 

her and Gordon’s Fort Lauderdale, FL, condo during 

the winter. “[It] wasn’t too painful,” she writes,

“because I had broadcast my coming age during 

the year to get comfortable with the number.” Now 

she wonders how one prepares for a 50th college 

reunion. If there’s a cake involved, she’s thinking it 

should have just five candles total—one to represent 

each decade—instead of 50! Also last winter, Lynn 

enjoyed a visit in her home in Florida with her 

daughter and two granddaughters, who at the time 

were first- and fifth-graders. It was a time to just 

relax and spend time with these active and interesting 

girls. Lynn’s mom lives in the same complex and 

has a companion, which affords Lynn the opportunity 

to travel with Gordon. Doing all they can 

to see the world in “cruising segments,” they had a 

trans-Atlantic cruise which included the British Isles 

and four days in Paris. This November (2011) they 

were looking forward to a European riverboat cruise 

which will take them to the Christmas markets. 

Wheelock roommates Marjorie Sanek Platzker, 

Lani Tomita Sakoda, and Susan Wise Miller 

recently got together for dinner in Los Angeles. “We 

are still working in different disciplines and enjoy 

each other and life!” Marjorie writes. 

Eleanor Starkweather Snelgrove sent a 

picture card and newsletter. John passed away 

in November 2010 but was able to enjoy 

Thanksgiving with the family. Laura’s (Wheelock 

’96) baby, Sarah, is thriving, and daughter 

Becky, also Wheelock ’96, has moved back with 

Ellie as she is taking classes for a doctorate and 

interning in Worcester, MA. In January, Ellie 

went on a Grand Circle Tour trip to Vietnam, 

which included Laos, Saigon, and Cambodia. In 

March her plan was to go to visit Ireland. (If all 

went as planned, Ellie, Nan Ware Morrow, Zee 

Makepeace Douhan ’63/’75MS, and I [Jane] 

met this fall to begin making plans for our 2013 

Reunion. Reserve the dates of May 31 to June 2.) 

Greetings for my (Jane’s) new decade birthday 

arrived from Laurie Nettleton Watson, who feels 

25 years old, and Alice “Pixie” Parke Watson, 

who is enjoying life and taking some mini vacations. 

I celebrated my birthday with granddaughter 

Emily, who turned 13 on the same day. Dave and 

I spent a week in Michigan with our daughter and 

family at that time. Lauren, who is now enjoying 

her second career as a registered nurse, and her 

husband, who has been a strength and conditioning 

trainer for more than 15 years at the University of 

Michigan, rented a cottage in Grand Haven near 

Lake Michigan. The weather was gorgeous and we 

enjoyed the beach, shops, restaurants, and musical 

fireworks display immensely. 

Last fall I and three other women went on a 

weeklong Alpine Tour, which included magnificent 

scenery and short stays in Italy, Switzerland, 

Austria, and Germany. It culminated with two 

days in Oberammergau, where it was a thrill to see 

the Passion Play (presented only every 10 years). 

Mother’s Day week Dave and I spent in Venice, FL, 

visiting his 104-year-old mom. Since that time, she 

Wheelock roommates Lani Tomita Sakoda, 

Marjorie Sanek Platzker, and Susan Wise Miller 

(all Class of ’63) at a Los Angeles restaurant 

passed away peacefully in her sleep, and a family 

committal service was held as she requested. 

It was a pleasure to have lunch with Terri 

Houston from Wheelock, who is director of major 

gifts and planned giving. She shared with me 

information regarding her membership in Altrusa 

International. The group is anxious to form a chapter 

in the Greater Manchester, NH, area, and that 

avenue is being explored. It was enjoyable working 

with the women on a diaper drive to benefit New 

Horizons here in town. Dave keeps busy with various 

sports all year round, and I continue to participate 

in church and organizational activities along 

with weekly yoga class and the gym when I feel 

really motivated. 

All of us look forward to class news, so keep it 

coming my way. 

Wishing you all good health and happiness in 

the days ahead. 

1964 

Phyllis Forbes Kerr 

Roberta Gilbert Marianella 

Jessi Ruth MacLeod ’64/’92MS sent Wheelock a 

wonderful family photo collage when she wrote to 

let us know of her successful move from Maine to 

Alexandria, VA, last year. 

1965 

Taffy Hastings Wilcox 

“I continue to travel the world as my children aren’t 

very cooperative about producing grandchildren,” 

writes Trina Wilson Mallet. “I was in Bahrain 

three days before they started demonstrating 

there—a very exciting time to be in the Middle 

East. I also visited Qatar, Oman, and the U.A.E. 

I will visit Cuba in September.” Trina still attends 

Wheelock’s Alumni Book Group, where she sees 

Joan Anderson Watts ’65/’83MS and Sue Bright 

Belanger. She was planning to go up to Maine 

sometime during the summer to spend time at Ann 

Tribou Kuhns’ camp on Lake Webb (in Weld). 

In their 69th years and in “reasonably good 

health,” Joan Tulis Trisko and husband Ralph 

divide their time between their lovely home in 

Bowie, MD, and their beach cottage on Sandy 

Neck, Barnstable, MA. Every March they travel to 

Europe to enjoy “the beautiful German/Austrian 

Alps, the wonders of Venice, and the culinary 

delights of Paris.” Participating in their five grandchildren’s 

school and recreational activities helps 

them recapture their youth, and Joan’s volunteer 

activities include a book club and Bible study at 

her church, reading to children at a day care, and 

acting as treasurer for Fish of Greater Bowie, a 

senior volunteer service group. “A special thankyou 

to all of you for the great Reunion in June 

2010,” Joan writes. “I look forward to the next 

one in 2015.” 

I (Taffy) am in close touch with my college 

roommate and longtime friend, Barbara Curtis 

Baker, and her husband, Ellis. They enjoy a very 

busy life of retirement on Cape Cod. They are 

involved in theater, church leadership, Williston 

Northampton alumni activities, and hosting a 

stream of guests. In addition, they travel to Milton 

one day a week to care for their youngest grandchild. 

A trip to Alaska to visit their daughter and 

her family is also a yearly event. 

I was saddened to learn of the recent death 

of another old Riverway friend, Adele Abate 

Manfredi, from her roommate, Nancy Bonner 

Ceccarelli. Nancy wrote, “I feel fortunate to have 

been her friend since Wheelock matched us as 

roommates 50 years ago.” Adele’s commitment 

and contribution to education and her town, 

even in the last few months, as she battled cancer, 

make Wheelock proud. Her kids have said of their 

mom’s legacy, “If you want to honor our mom, get 

involved and give back to your community.” 

Bibi, which is Swahili for grandmother, and my 

two cocker spaniels spent a glorious two weeks in 

the Blue Ridge Mountains, where I rented my own 

cottage about 20 minutes outside of Charlottesville. 

It was the perfect way to visit my son and his 

wife and their eight children. (Yes, they welcomed 

their eighth child in May, and I have 11 grands 

altogether.) My daughter and her family joined us 

for three days, too. I ran “Bibi’s Day Camp” by 

mustering up all my good Wheelock training, and 

the kids—age 11 and under—had a great time. 

1966 

Margery Conley Mars 

Hope Binner Esparolini’s husband, Ramon, 

passed away on June 25. I (Margery) know this is 

a great loss for Hope and the family. May she know 

that we all are thinking of her with special love at 

this difficult time. 

1967 

Betsy Simmonds Pollock 

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1968 

Marilyn Rupinski Rotondo 

Cynthia Carpenter Sheehan 

I (Marilyn) changed careers in the ’80s and earned 

my M.S.W. from University of Connecticut. Since 

then I’ve had a private psychotherapy practice as 

well as worked with troubled teens. My area of 

interest has been eating disorders. In 2002 I took 

an adult acting class at Hartford Stage Co. and 

was really bitten by the acting bug! Since then I’ve 

been in plays and even an indie movie. I played a 

zombie in the movie and was apparently a good 

one! Who knew? Usually, I get cast as the mother 

or aunt, which makes sense agewise. I wish I’d done 

this years ago at Wheelock. Who knows? Maybe 

it can still happen. I also do voice-over work. My 

time at Wheelock has actually been a help in both 

social work and the acting gigs. My two children 

are married and live near Boston and up in New 

Hampshire. I’m not a grandmother yet but keep 

hoping. I get up to the Boston area once in a while. 

The campus really looks fabulous! I love reading 

about people I remember from Wheelock and 

would love to hear from anyone. 

1969 

Linda Bullock Owens 

Tasha Lowell Allan 

C.E. Smith Tomlinson is studying with Los 

Angeles acting coaches, has an agent, and is auditioning 

for TV/film, commercials, and voice-over 


Morgan Shannon Butler ’71 attended Reunion this year for the 

first time and writes that she is sorry she waited so long. “It was 

great fun seeing classmates, touring the old and new parts of the 

campus, and attending the wonderful events that the College planned 

for the weekend,” she writes. “It would be great to see even more of 

our class at the 45th!” 

C.E. Smith Tomlinson ’69 has an agent and is busy with voiceovers 

for commercials, narration, and cartoon characters. 

spots. In August, she was waiting to hear about a 

role in a feature film being shot in Georgia in addition 

to some TV roles. C.E.’s “day job” involves 

working with special ed kids in an elementary charter 

school. She recently visited her older son, “Dr. 

Jack,” who is doing a “postdoc” in psycholinguistics 

at Cardiff University in Wales, and spent a wonderful 

time in London with her sister-in-law. Son 

Clark (Chapman Film School, M.F.A.) is finishing 

his last year at Teach For America in Texas. 

1970 

Jackie Hanifl Carnevali writes: “Working hard to 

develop our fourth campus school project in slums 

of India. Check out our new website: www.navionicsfoundation.org. 

On the family front, son Ben is 

getting married in September, with lots of friends 

and family coming to Cape Cod for the celebration. 

Had great skiing last winter and are expecting to live 

again this coming year in the Dolomites so Giuseppe 

can further develop his ski app for smartphones.” 

“We are ‘over the moon,’ as they say!” writes 

Mary Ann Allen Cowherd after the June birth 

of her and Leonard’s first grandchild. Their busy 

summer began when son Leonard’s twin, Charles, 

spoke—and received a standing ovation—at the 

Wall of Honor Ceremony at the Virginia Capitol 

just before Memorial Day weekend. July activities 

included getting together with family for the 

Bishop’s Bluegrass Festival at Shrine Mont, their 

diocesan retreat center in Orkney Springs, VA, over 

Fourth of July weekend; a trip to Chicago to see 

another showing of Letters Home; and a wedding in 

Albuquerque, NM. They were planning to rest in 

Old Saybrook, CT, for the month of August. Mary 

Curtis Skelton loves being a grandmother of three, 

and she now has her 98- and 101-year-old parents 

living with her. “In addition to managing a bath 

showplace, I am their major caregiver and organize 

their full-time care,” she writes. “Note: Our generation 

is the last one that is expected to outlive our 

parents, by five years, according to insurance professionals. 

We’d all better start saving more money!” 

1971 

Gwynne DeLong 

Morgan Shannon Butler attended Reunion this 

year for the first time and writes that she is sorry she 

waited so long. “It was great fun seeing classmates, 

touring the old and new parts of the campus, and 

attending the wonderful events that the College 

planned for the weekend,” she writes. “It would 

be great to see even more of our class at the 45th!” 

Felice Shapiro Friedman sent regrets for this year’s 

Reunion as she and her husband were in Paris. 

She asked to send love to everyone and has fond 

memories of Peabody and of getting ice cream at 

the Dirty Drug. She writes that her life is wonderful 

in Manhattan, where she and her husband returned 

after 20 years in Baltimore. She has three children 

and four grandchildren, and she is still busy and 

active in New York with educational issues and various 

not-for-profit boards and organizations. Julia 

Ellen Davis asked to say hi to all. She continues to 

live in Charleston, SC. She and her sister are making 

arrangements to celebrate the life of their mother, 

who recently passed away. Priscilla Jeffery wrote 

some more about the NGO she is in the process of 

starting up, Community Partnership of Akuapim 

South, in Ghana. “It is a community organization 

which will focus on microfinance, education, and 

sustainable agriculture,” she writes. Priscilla retired 

from teaching in 2009, and the following year she 

moved from Denver to Connecticut to be near her 

children and grandchildren. 

In keeping with tradition, our class was having 

so much fun at the luncheon catching up that 

we “missed” our class meeting. Sound familiar? I 

(Gwynne) will be happy to continue as scribe for 

another five years as long as you continue to share 

with me. It’s been a pleasure, actually. Reunion 

this year was very special, and more so because 

one of our own, Betty Bain Pearsall, was honored 

by her longtime friend and classmate, Beverly 

Granger. Beverly nominated Betty for a “Making 

a Difference” Service Award and did a lovely job 

presenting it to her that Saturday. For those of 

you who did not attend, I wish I could adequately 

share how welcome, appreciated, and catered to our 

College made us all feel during the entire weekend. 

On a personal note, my mother, a Wheelock 

alumna from the Class of ’42/’43, passed away in 

December, but her college roommate is still going 

strong and has asked me to bring her to Reunion 

next year. So, if all goes well, I’ll have stories to tell. 

Blessings to you all! 

1972 

Bonnie Paulsen Michael 

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1973 

Jaci Fowle Holmes 

Regina Frisch Lobree 

Lynn Beebe turned 60 this year and says she still 

rides her bike everywhere within a 10-mile radius of 

her home, using her car only about twice a month. 

(“I rode my bike to Roxbury and South Boston for 

student teaching and work while at Wheelock,” she 

writes.) “Trying to live a bit closer to the land here 

in Skagit Valley [WA],” she is happy to report that 

her garden is taking off after three years of work.

Lynn still volunteers with the Swinomish Tribe 

after-school support program as well as (volunteer) 

teaches science to the tribal preschoolers one day a 

week and subs in the preschool. Having completed 

her term as president of the docents of the Museum 

of Northwest Art, she continues to volunteer as 

a school tour leader. She loves being a stepgrandmother 

to a 4-year-old who comes to stay with her 

and her husband for a few days every couple of 

months. They get away for two or three trips a year 

and most recently have been to the Yucatan, the 

San Diego area, and Italy. 

“My life is rich and full and very happy,” writes 

Deb D’Amico ’73/’79MS, who married Tom 

Musco in 2008 and instantly became stepmother 

to his two grown children. Now in her sixth year as 

principal at Hardy Elementary School in Arlington, 

MA, she adds: “This is by far the most challenging 

work I’ve done in my nearly 40-year career. It 

is satisfying to work hard at such important work. 

The school community is vibrant and very supportive 

of children and teachers. The kids continue 

to amaze and delight me. At the end of the day, it is 

how children think and learn that fascinates me the 

most, a legacy from my years at Wheelock.” 

Amanda Griggs Miles retired from Broward 

County (FL) Schools at the end of last year. Her 

twin boys graduated from high school in June and 

are now in college—Michael in Orlando and Rob 

in Boulder, CO. “Life is good at 60!” Amanda says. 

Abby Squires Perelman and husband Steve retired 

in June 2008, sold their house in Connecticut, and 

now split their time between Nantucket, MA, and 

West Palm Beach, FL. They are loving retirement! 

Both of their sons are married, and they have two 

sons each; one lives in Manhattan, and the other 

recently moved from Manhattan to Scarsdale. 

All continues to be well for me (Regina) in 

North Carolina, and I am teaching again this year. 

I have been enjoying my two grandchildren, Trey 

and Samantha, and feel lucky to have both of my 

adult children still living in North Carolina as well. 

1974 

Laura Keyes Jaynes 

Nancy Blumenthal Lewis teaches at the 

McDonogh School, an independent school in 

Baltimore County, MD. In the spring, she wrote: 

“My second-graders and I are currently working on 

a play I wrote, ‘Hawaii, What Really Happened.’ 

It is the story of Queen Liliuokalani, Hawaii’s last 

queen, and we are incorporating music and song as 

we tell the story. We are having a lot of fun.” The 

performances were held in May. 

1975 

Leslie Hayter Maxfield 

“Lordy, are we old!” writes Judith Black. “In the 

’60s it was hard to imagine we would live this 

long. I continue to create and tell stories around 

One of two paintings that Wanda Arrington Meekins 

’74 had on display at a museum in Gastonia, NC, in March 

the world. This past spring I offered performance 

programs and workshops for adults and students 

in Finland, Amsterdam, and Paris, and then joined 

friends and family in Tuscany to enjoy a house 

won in the MassMouth big ‘Mouthoff.’ To view 

this four-minute story about waiting for my son 

to return from combat duty in Iraq, go to http:// 

www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOVgkVCQ2AQ.” (That 

son, Solomon, now lives in D.C. and works for 

the DOD.) Back home in the Marblehead, MA, 

area, Judith runs a peer mentoring program, sings 

with a women’s chorus called Calla Lily, cooks at 

a homeless shelter, raises a big organic garden, and 

“[continues] to try to earn a living.” She adds, “The 

education received at Wheelock continues to resonate 

through all my work.” 

Dorothy Cresswell is in her final year of teaching 

kindergarten in Leverett, MA, and has loved it. 

Her children are grown, and she is a grandmother 

to four delightful little girls, ages 6 months to 4 

years. “I’m still in a five-part women’s band, and we 

produced our third CD last year,” Dorothy writes. 

“My wife, Dusty, and I live on a lake in western 

Massachusetts and plan to start ‘A Space for Grace’ 

when I retire, a support network for those with 

chronic illness and their caregivers. At this time we 

lead The Healing Circle Singers and are Caring 

Companions in our church. So my life is in transition, 

but it’s all about love and taking care of one 

another, isn’t it?” 

Stephanie “Abbi” Fletcher Deeran got a kick 

out of the reference to someone from ’75 having 

“given birth to Hope” in this year’s scribe note. 

“Yes, I gave birth to Hope in October 1991,” she 

writes, “and she is now a junior at UMass-Amherst, 

majoring in chemistry. Time doesn’t just fly—it 

goes at warp speed!” Abbi lives in a gorgeous condo 

in Salem, MA, and is a full-time special education 

English and reading teacher in the Lynn public 

school system. She works with inner-city middle 

school students, primarily boys, with social and 

emotional issues. “It has taken me a while, but I 

now have four professional-level teaching licenses 

and am closing in on number five,” she writes. “Of 

the several positions I’ve had in my life, this particular 

public school teaching is by far the most chal- 

lenging and, at the same time, the most rewarding. 

It saddens me that teachers are shouldering so much 

criticism now and are being made scapegoats of the 

failing economy. It puzzles me that teachers will 

be held accountable (and now, fired) for students’ 

failing MCAS scores, when there are so many other 

factors that affect successful learning.” 

In the spring, Patricia Gardiner Hill wrote, “I 

have just completed my 25th year teaching fourth 

grade at Agnes Irwin [Rosemont, PA], making 

my total teaching years . . . 35!” Nancy Smalzel 

’75/’94MS still works at FEMA in Boston but is 

now the recovery division cadre manager. Daughter 

Jessica, 14, graduated from Derby Academy and will 

start at the Cambridge School of Weston this fall. 

Which ’75 alum is “busy wearing six different 

hats these days”? That would be Debbie Cann 

Westcott. Monday to Friday she sells air time for 

Pat Sajak’s 1430 WNAV AM radio in Annapolis, 

MD, and every weekend she is a comfort consultant 

at HealthyBack, a store providing back, 

neck, and shoulder relief to baby boomers. “In and 

around all of that,” she writes, “I consign clothing 

and household items at two local consignment 

stores, rent out the lower level of my home on a 

monthly basis, kitty cat sit locally, and I’m still running 

my Wheelock B&B [most guests have family 

at the Naval Academy or go to the area for boat 

shows].” Last December Debbie fell and fractured 

her right shoulder, and she is still trying to get back 

to 100 percent mobility. 

1976 

Angela Barresi Yakovleff 

Maryanne Galvin was happy to have her short 

documentary Real Danger: Restraints and Our 

Children shown at both the Downtown Boca 

Film Festival (Boca Raton, FL) in April and the 

Hope and Freedom Film Festival (Long Beach, 

CA) in May. 

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1977 

Margaret Smith Lee 

Lisa Brookover Moore 

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1980 

Elizabeth Corning DeMille 

Kathy Formica Harris 

“My strong educational foundation from Wheelock 

has certainly helped me get this far along in my 

career!” writes Ann Marie Christian Dargon, who 

became the superintendent of schools in Ashland, 

MA, in May 2010 and enjoyed her first year in the 

position very much. 

The biggest news in Cindy Richardson 

Wallace’s life in the spring was that daughter 

Dayna graduated from High Tech High North 

County, “an AMAZING charter high school.” 


Class NOTes 

Kathy Walsh Berube ’81 and Wheelock roommate Donna 

Williamson Garner ’81 at York Beach in Maine in July 

She continues, “I love the culture of this school— 

project-based learning, team effort, true friendships 

between teachers and students. It is a model 

for powerful youth education.” In August Dayna 

was off to Humboldt State University in northern 

California. “I prefer The Riverway as a college 

address, but she likes redwoods!” Cindy writes. 

1981 

Kathy Walsh Berube had a visit from Wheelock 

roommate Donna Williamson Garner (from 

New Zealand!) in July. They met at York Beach 

in Maine. Both child life majors at Wheelock, 

Kathy is the director of volunteer services at 

Maine Medical Center in Portland, and Donna is 

a lecturer at the School of Maori in Christchurch. 

Janet Zung Craddock writes: “The Reunion 

was lovely, the weather was gorgeous, Boston 

was beautiful, and the company of friends was 

amazing. Cindy Brookings Bachman, Karen 

Gunnerfeldt Banks, Rosemary James Wolpe, 

and I enjoyed a wonderful time!” 

Since last August, Marion Ferguson (Newton) 

Heller ’81/’81MS has been a “German-learning 

homemaker” living in Munich with husband Chris 

and son Max, 10. Max is attending a German 

Montessori school as a fifth-grader. Marion says 

they will be there for a minimum of two years. 

“This is a very exciting time,” Jean 

Ricciardelli wrote in May. “My daughter will be 

attending Wheelock in the fall! My son, Cameron, 

is finishing his sophomore year at the University 

of Southern Maine, and Maddy is in middle 

school.” An “ed tech” at a local high school, Jean 

works with special education students who are 

mainstreamed, helping them in math and biology. 

She loves her work. 

Spring 2011 was a very busy season in 

Colleen Miller Rumsey’s house. Husband 

Stuart started a new job, Sean graduated from 

high school, and Erin graduated from college. 

“It’s hard to believe I have a college graduate as 

I still remember our ’81 Wheelock graduation 

vividly!” Colleen writes. “Truly, where does the 

time go? I was sorry to miss Reunion, but I was 

busy with all the spring traditions of prom and 

beach night for Sean, and as much as he would 

have loved a weekend alone at our house, I still 

also vividly remember being an 18-year-old!” 


“ I enjoyed reading the Spring 2011 Wheelock Magazine, particularly about the 

Mattahunt Community Center. I found the story inspiring and a reflection of the 

values and beliefs of Wheelock. I remain proud of my education, which has been a 

strong influence in my career as a social worker.” 

—Judith Farrell Santos ’85 

Colleen is thankful to be teaching first grade and 

to have enough seniority not to be laid off. “I 

hope the current Wheelock graduates are able to 

find teaching jobs,” she adds. “Our class graduated 

into a recession, and I recall being thrilled 

that I finally was hired by Head Start to teach in 

the fall of ’81.” 

Colleen has decided that—after 30 years!—she 

would like to pass the class scribe job on to someone 

else. (Thank you for your outstanding service, 

Colleen!) If anyone is interested in taking that 

on, please contact Lori Ann Saslav in the Alumni 

Relations Office at (617) 879-2123 or lsaslav@ 

wheelock.edu. Thanks! 

1982 

Barbara Madison Ripps 

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1983 

Carol Rubin Fishman 

“Life is great!” writes Laurie Wartenberg Finkle. 

When not subbing in the local elementary school 

(which is basically a full-time job), she helps 

out in a kindergarten class in the inner city in 

Albany and has dabbled in some catering jobs (“a 

LOT of work for one person”). Son Josh graduated 

from Carnegie Mellon in May 2010 and 

loves his job designing toys for Little Tykes. “He 

often goes to local day cares just to watch the 

kids interact,” she writes. “Remember all those 

times WE did that?!” Son Justin just graduated 

from Cornell and either will work in Boston 

or will go to grad school at Imperial College in 

London. After a semester in Sevilla, Spain, and 

then an internship in Buenos Aires, daughter 

Jessica is a junior at the University of Vermont in 

Burlington. Sara Grande Gavens has been working 

as an instructional coordinator for the Board 

of Cooperative Educational Services (BOCES) 

for the past four years. She writes: “Through our 

BOCES, I deliver training to teachers and work 

with school district administrators in the Greater 

Capital Region of New York on the integration 

of educational technology with classroom 

curriculum. This is actually something I have 

dreamt of doing since my Wheelock days when 

I was one of the first students to take advantage 

of the new Computers in Education courses that 

Wheelock offered on their very first PCs—Radio 

Shack versions with a tape deck to record our 

data!” Sara and husband Andy continue to be 

very active in their synagogue, and Sara recently 

completed her term as vice president of education 

on its board of trustees. They spend a lot of 

their free time on the soccer fields watching their 

daughters play. 

Laid off in 2010, Laurel Massey Leibowitz 

has done lots of long-term subbing since then— 

as a full-time reading consultant, a K-1 special 

educator, and a kindergarten teacher. She didn’t 

think it was too likely that a permanent kindergarten 

position would open up for her for 

this year, but she is thankful that she got herself 

“back into the realm of regular and special ed” 

and continues to be busy running their special 

needs baseball and bowling. This year Laurel 

and husband Steve bought two kayaks—“a 50th 

birthday bucket list checkoff”—and in late June 

they christened them on Cape Cod. Laurel had a 

lovely visit with Mary Sienkiewicz Minalga earlier 

that month, and she was excited that Mary’s 

son, Alex, was headed to UConn (honors program, 

studying biology) in the fall because that’s 

only about 12 minutes from her! Mary herself 

checked in early in the summer and also wrote 

of her great visit with Laurel. She continues to 

enjoy her private clinical social work practice. 

“It focuses on the treatment of children and 

adolescents,” she writes, “though I occasionally see 

adults with medical concerns.” She feels she’s had 

a wonderful and rewarding career and feels lucky 

to have been able to be flexible so she could “‘be 

there’ for all of Alex’s pursuits” (e.g., playing viola 

and tennis). Mary and husband Bob celebrated 

24 years of marriage in August and were looking 

ahead to having more time on their hands—with 

Alex’s going off to college—as “bittersweet.” 

Congratulations to Carrie Sobel Rubin, 

who finished her Ph.D. in Social Work and is 

working full time at Fairfield Ludlowe High 

School (Fairfield, CT). Sam graduated from Clark 

University and is living in Brooklyn trying to 

break into entertainment production; Josh is in 

California studying transportation design; and 

Sara is a junior in high school. Claudia Tillis 

Weger has started an intergenerational program 

at Ossining Children’s Center, where she works as 

director. She was hoping to see Wheelock friends 

in New York during the summer. Her daughter, 

Emily Weger ’10, graduated from Bank Street 

College of Education in July and now teaches first 

grade at Little Red School House in New York 

City. Son Ben is at Ithaca College and wants to be 

a high school history teacher. 

Greetings, ’83ers! I (Carol) am still subbing 

and job hunting locally and may resort to looking 

for employment outside our field. With the 

recession and my age, interviews are few and far 

between. My oldest, Rachel, headed for college 

(Muhlenberg) in August to study psychology, get 

an elementary ed certificate, and minor in dance.

I think she takes after me! Josh, now in ninth grade, 

hopes for more solos in chorus and a reasonable 

homework load to allow for participation on the 

squash and baseball teams as well as in the school 

play. Subaru of America has been good to Charlie 

and vice versa. I’m looking forward to seeing you 

at our next gathering! 

1985 

Linda Edwards Beal 

“New adventures daily . . . new lessons to be 

learned at every turn” is how Nancy Olson 

Disharoon described her work in May as she 

was completing her second year as principal in a 

public middle school. “My husband of 26 years, 

Ben, continues to be my main supporter!” Her 

younger child, El, was graduating from high 

school at the time, and her 21-year-old daughter 

was finishing her second year of college. 

1986 

The Alumni Relations Office is looking for a new 

class scribe to—at Wheelock’s expense and with 

help from the College—gather news from classmates 

once a year for the Wheelock Magazine and 

the Class Notes that Wheelock updates on the website 

a couple of times a year. If anyone is interested 

in taking that on, please contact Lori Ann Saslav in 

the Alumni Relations Office at (617) 879-2123 or 

lsaslav@wheelock.edu. Thanks! 

1987 

Kathleen Hurley DeVarennes 

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1991 

Congratulations to Gretchen Carney and Ed Geary 

Jr., who are engaged to be married next March 17 

at the Daniel Webster Estate in Marshfield, MA. 

They have been together for more than 12 years! 

Gretchen mentioned that she passes by Wheelock’s 

Hawes Street location—opened in 2003 but still 

“new” for her—daily. 

1992 

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1993 

Robin Weissman Heard ’93/’94MS was originally 

afraid she’d have to describe herself in this 

batch of Class Notes as “moved and lonely,” but 

she was back in touch with Wheelock in August 

to say she had “a new perspective on [her] life” 

since a wonderful New England vacation she’d 

taken in July. Previously in Merritt Island, FL, 

she is now settling nicely into her new home in 

Jennifer Clark Leach ’96 and Rachelle Basich Doring 

’95 at Jen’s lakefront summer home last summer 

rural Summerville, SC, “a lovely historic village 

settled by wintering Northerners.” (Her husband 

took a job with Boeing in South Carolina.) They 

are about 30 minutes northwest of Charleston. 

Since her 10- and 13-year-olds started school, 

she has joined the Y to participate in Zumba, has 

met some wonderful neighbors, and has started 

a new skin care business, Beauty Society Inc. 

In addition to her Wheelock professors, Robin 

fondly remembers Maria Mazzarella, Carri 

LaCroix Pan ’94/’98MS, and Tanya Montas 

Paris ’93/’96MS. Robin visited Wheelock in 

early July and got tours of both campuses. She 

writes: “I was flooded with great memories of 

my college experience and life in Boston. It was 

amazing to see how much the buildings had 

changed, though I know the spirit of the school 

remains. My heart is still there, and I’m wearing 

all my gifted advertising proudly! I hope to visit 

again, possibly to attend my next Reunion.” 

1994 

Megan De Witt, husband Anthony, and their 

daughters (Abby, 3, and Ella, 8 months) are 

relocating from New Jersey back to the Boston 

area this year. Megan is a licensed clinical social 

worker with a private practice in both New Jersey 

and New York City and plans to obtain her 

Massachusetts license and continue to practice 

independently. 

1995 

Rachelle Basich Doring is still living in 

Patterson, NY; has been married to Billy since 

1997; and has two boys, 7 and 11. The past 

few years she has been home with her boys a lot 

but also has cared for another baby, has done 

some substitute teaching in her district, and has 

worked at her second career—photography. She 

invites classmates to check out some of the work 

she’s done (weddings, bar/bat mitzvahs, etc.) 

with her boss at www.glenncuddihyphotography. 

com. Rachelle has enjoyed reconnecting with 

several old ’95 and ’96 Wheelock friends through 

Facebook and was especially glad that she and 

her kids were able to get together with Jennifer 

Clark Leach ’96 and her kids early this past 

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summer at Jen’s lovely lakefront summer home. 

As schedules allow, she’d love to spend time with 

other Wheelock friends. 

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1997 

Leigh Barnes received a master’s degree in 

Educational Administration from the University 

of New England in June and would like to 

become a school librarian supervisor/director. In 

the spring, Jenny Fogel Miller was chosen to 

receive the Social Worker of the Year in Aging 

Award for 2011 given by the Rhode Island chapter 

of the National Association of Social Workers. 

This award is given annually to social workers 

who have made major contributions to the field 

of aging and have made a significant difference 

to seniors in Rhode Island. 

1999 

Staci Ruben married Rich Federman on June 18 

and they went to Greece for their honeymoon. 

2000 

Sara McGarry recently bought her first house with 

her longtime boyfriend. 

2002 

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2003 

Amy Mitchell was married to Joseph Lauro in 

the Grand Cayman Islands on April 21, and now 

they live in their new home in Hudson, NH. 

“Surrounded by our closest family and friends, 

we celebrated this new chapter in our lives with 

a Caribbean flair,” Amy writes. She continues to 

teach mathematics in Lowell, MA. 

2004 

Jennifer Thurston Carey ’04/’05MS and her 

husband welcomed a healthy baby girl, Samantha 

Marie Carey, on Jan. 8. 

2007 

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Daniel Joseph Gonzalez recently founded Color 

Continuum, a nonprofit media and arts company. 

“Color Continuum’s mission is to support individual 

and community arts for the LGBT community 

throughout North Carolina and beyond,” he writes. 

“By supporting and creating new art including but 

not limited to photography, film, theater, television, 

print, etc., Color Continuum promotes equality 

and advocates for the LGBT community. Website 

to come soon.” 


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Associate Degrees 

Stella Barlow-Reese ’77AS has written a children’s 

book and had it published last year, The 

Princess of Topaz: An African American Saga (by 

Stella M. Reese). 

Master’s Degrees 

Receiving Wheelock’s August E-Newsletter 

prompted Ramona Patterson ’77MS to write: 

“As I read [the newsletter], my memory goes 

back to when I first went to Wheelock and took 

my first course, which was children’s literature, 

and then when, with Joan Bergstrom’s assistance, 

I later graduated with my master’s from wonderful 

Wheelock. I enjoy the school’s email and look 

forward to many more wonderful memories. 

Sometimes I wish I were much younger than I 

am now so I could join the students in many of 

the exciting things you are all doing at this time. 

My ‘way back when’ activities at dear Wheelock 

will always mean so very much. Joan introduced 

me to dear Wheelock, and it has been love and 

always will be.” 

“I feel honored and humbled that they put 

their trust in me,” wrote David Siedlar ’91MS 

during the summer, after being offered a position 

as senior translation consultant for the Foreign & 

Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of the Huai’an 

Municipal People’s Government in China. He 

started work in August, and his responsibilities are 

“assisting in the translation of key materials, introducing 

and promoting Huai’an, and helping guide 

translator training.” Earlier in the year, David, 

who also teaches English to students in preschool 

to high school there, wrote about the wonderful 

pleasure he’d recently had seeing one of his students, 

a high school junior, do so well in a competition 

that she was accepted into a program that 

will allow her to finish high school in Singapore 

and then remain there for college. Congratulations 

on both counts, David! 

Wheelock is very proud of Sarah Nadolny 

Roberts ’93MS, who was a finalist for 

Massachusetts Teacher of the Year for 2011! A 

third- and fourth-grade teacher at the South Shore 

Charter Public School in Norwell, MA, she was 

nominated by school administrators, fellow teachers, 

parents, students, and community members. 

The award ended up going to another educator, 

but Sarah was recognized and praised for, among 

other things, working with her students to find 

creative ways to recycle and save energy and teaching 

them to “walk the talk when it comes to service 

learning.” In 2010 her work led South Shore 

Charter to win national recognition as “America’s 

greenest school”: The school was awarded a 

$20,000 “green makeover,” a $3,000 scholarship 

for the class, and a new electric-hybrid school bus. 

After working in international schools in 

Italy, London, and Bangladesh, Julia Alden 


’94MS is now at one in Singapore, and she is 

hoping to connect with some Wheelock alums 

who graduated from a program there. Julia also 

recently went back to school and got a degree 

in Education and International Development. 

Matt Robertson ’97MS writes: “Although I am 

no longer working directly in child development, 

my master’s degree from Wheelock (Infant and 

Toddler Development) has led me to focus my 

financial advisory practice on meeting the needs 

of families who have children with special needs. 

Although not officially working in the child 

development world, I remain actively involved 

in supporting early intervention and other 

child/family-related efforts here in the state of 

Washington.” 

Congratulations to Maureen Powers 

Maiocco ’98MS, who received the 2011 

Distinguished Faculty Award from SUNY 

Canton, where she is a professor and director 

of the thriving and popular early childhood 

program. Colleagues say Maureen is a “model 

educator” and outstanding mentor, and “[m]any 

of her students credit her with their educational 

success,” according to a story in the May 17 St. 

Lawrence Plaindealer. 

Dave McGrath ’99MS has written five books 

since graduating: Poems from a Tragic Comic, 

Poetry Volume II: Swirls of the World and More on 

the Flavory Girls, III Sides to Every Poem, Episode 

IV Play: 40 Selected Poems by David H. McGrath, 

and E-lationship. He also wrote: “In 2010, I wore 

a different T-shirt every day and wrote about 

them at http://davestshirts.blogspot.com/. I took 

donations for the T-shirts to benefit Hope Lodge 

[in Worcester, MA] (where I work), which is a 

house run by the American Cancer Society that 

provides free rooms to cancer patients from all 

over the world who are getting treatment in local 

hospitals. The T-shirt money went toward renting 

a rink for the event Skating for Hope, a Relay 

for Life on ice to benefit Hope Lodge (see news 

story at: http://www.necn.com/12/03/10/-Dave- 

McGrath/landing.html?blockID=504240).” Dave 

got back in touch with the Alumni Relations 

Office in August to let us know that his event, 

held on July 30, took in almost $15,000 for 

Hope Lodge, and he skated for a whole 24 hours, 

taking only bathroom and equipment breaks. 

Also in attendance were the mascots from the 

Worcester Sharks and the Worcester Tornadoes; 

the Boston Bruins Ice Girls with their mascot, 

Blades; and members of the Star Wars 501st in 

full costume. The day included a Boston College 

alumni game and a Westboro High Alum vs. 

Saint John’s Alum game—Westboro is Dave’s 

hometown, and Saint John’s, in Shrewsbury, is 

where Dave went—in memory of two Saint 

John’s grads Dave knew who’d passed away from 

cancer. Congratulations to Dave on this tremendously 

successful event! 

Arrivals 

04/05 Jennifer Thurston Carey, a daughter, 

Samantha Marie 

Unions 

53 Alicia Eager to Dudley Davis 

99 Staci Ruben to Rich Federman 

03 Amy Mitchell to Joseph Lauro 

In Memoriam 

29 Frances Bannerman Churchill 

30 Jeanette Gardner Langlois 

33 Olive Russell Frost 

34 Jeanette Woodruff Fischer 

34 Shirley Bonnemort Schmalz 

34 Roberta Hooper Story 

35 Beatrice Hall 

35 Mary Hammer Heron 

36 Mary “Betty” Kelliher Bangs 

36 Elinor Livingston Sirinek 

37 Laura Dodge Brown 

39 Elizabeth Weitz Faulb 

40 Mary Brewer Allen 

41 Ruth Hargreaves Backhurst 

41 Ada Louise Johndroe Lytle 

41 Jane Kiefaber Noland 

41 Dorothy Robertson Parrish 

42-43 Mary Louise Steele Callaway 

42-43 Genevieve Mott Humes 

42-43 Marybelle Wood Moon 

42-43 Barbara Sartwell Mullen 

43-44 Mary McConnell Bailey 

43-44 Jane Robertson Campbell 

43-44 Berenice Beard Candage 

43-44 Martha Prouty DeNormandie 

43-44 Jean Saltonstall Haussermann 

43-44 Mary Howe Johnson 

45 Jane Tomlinson Lamb 

46 Mary Farrar 

46 Alma Nathanson Solar 

47 Helen Evans Hanson 

47 Anne Whitney Vinnicombe 

48 Barbara Wells Fenn 

48 Harriet Hoffman Frost 

49 Jevene Baker Littlewood 

50 Jane Munroe Rice 

51 Nancy Horton Evans 

51 Charlotte Sears MacVane 

52 Patricia Christopher Germain 

53 Lois Hormel Walker 

58 Beverly Filley Burland 

58 Anne Britton Taggart 

59 Virginia Gordon Hagan 

59 Susan Van Aken Lippoth 

59MS Nancy L. Reider 

62 Roberta Hyde Hayward 

62 Roberta Loveland Vest 

65 Adele Abate Manfredi 

66 Carol Vogelsohn Ladd 

66 Joan Carey Noble 

96/97MS Eilene S. Meyerhoff

Students on a Mission 

Wheelock students are idealistic and eager to serve children and families when they graduate. 

Amelia Gifford ‘04: 

“We are a team of superheroes, ready to change the world around us with the ability to teach, 

comfort, and heal families. Stand up and let the world know how much our children matter.” 

Their commitment to the College’s mission lasts a lifetime. 

Jane Luke Hill ‘69: 

”I have never separated myself from the needs of children and the improvement of 

educational environments. That is the finest legacy that Wheelock leaves with all of us.” 

Wheelock promises students that their educations will transform them—that they 

will be prepared to serve well, to be leaders in their fields, and successful 

advocates for children and families. Eighty-two percent of the College’s students 

graduate into professions that serve society. Almost all will be underpaid in proportion to the 

contributions they make, but they have set their goals on a higher prize. 

Whether they choose careers in early childhood and elementary education, social work, 

child life, juvenile justice, or organizational leadership, Wheelock students graduate with the 

knowledge and skills to achieve their stated goals: “make a difference in a child’s life,” 

“serve my community,” “contribute to society,” “change the world.” 

The Wheelock College Annual Fund and The Campaign for Wheelock 

will prepare more Wheelock graduates with the knowledge 

and skills they need to change the world. 

www.wheelock.edu/campaign 

Wheelock Magazine cover3

CELEBRATE . . . 

Your Wheelock Spirit on 

World Service Weekend, 

April 20-22, 2012! 

REUNION 2012 

June 1-3 

If your class year ends in a “2” or “7,” come back to campus on June 1-3, 

2012, for Reunion and enjoy the events and programs Wheelock has 

planned to make your Reunion a highlight of your year. Catch up with 

roommates and friends, dine and dance under the stars, come to the cabaret, 

take a campus guided tour, attend faculty lectures, stay in campus dorms, 

rekindle that undergrad spirit, and enjoy Boston—it’s all happening 

Reunion Weekend 2012. 

Save the Date 

Alumni Gatherings 

February 6 • noon 

Sarasota Alumni Luncheon 

Palm Aire Club 

Sarasota, FL 


Naples Alumni Luncheon 

Port Royal Club 

Naples, FL 


Cape Cod Potluck Luncheon 

March 2 • noon 

Jupiter Island Alumni Luncheon 

Jupiter Island Club 

Hobe Sound, FL 

April 19 • noon 

NYC Alumni Luncheon 

University Club 

New York, NY 

April 26 • noon 

Weston area Alumni Luncheon 

Golden Ball Tavern and Museum 

Weston, MA 

The $80 million Campaign for Wheelock—the largest 

capital campaign in the College’s history—is officially launched! 

Learn about the Campaign’s goals in this issue of Wheelock Magazine 

and on the Campaign web page at www.wheelock.edu. 

200 The Riverway 

Boston, MA 

02215-4176 

(617) 879-2123 

The Urban Nutcracker 

(with BalletROX) 

Dec. 3-18, 2011 

The Wizard of Oz 

Jan. 27-Feb. 26, 2012 

Katherine Leigh Doherty, a 

Wheelock Family Theatre 

favorite who is sure to warm 

your hearts this winter 

season, returns to perform 

as Dorothy in The Wizard 

of Oz (Jan. 27 – Feb. 26). 

Non-Profit Org. 

U.S. Postage 

PAID 

PROVIDENCE, RI 

PERMIT NO. 421 

Wheelock Family Theatre’s 

2011-2012 Season! 

RIFFS 

(with BalletROX) 

March 3-6, 2012 

The Miracle Worker 

April 13-May 13, 2012 

www.WheelockFamilyTheatre.org 

alumni special event 

Feb. 24 • 7:30-9:30 p.m. 

School Vacation Week Show 

at a special alumni price! 

For ticket information, contact 

Kasey Riley at kriley@wheelock.edu.

Fall 2011 - Wheelock College

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