Spring 11 MASTER.indd - Thunderbird Magazine

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Comings & goings
All your personal news that’s fi t to print…
You can be sure we’ll catch the big news about you: Nobel
Prize nominations, when you take your company public or if
you’re the first MBA into space. But we can only know about
those happenings in your life that are less publicized if you tell us
about them. We’re not too particular; we want to hear it all — the
good, the bad and the ugly.
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1940s
Alfred Eriksson ’47 is still
enjoying the old map and print
business. He shows his items
at an antique market. … John
Backer ’47 recently moved to
Phoenix from Tucson, Arizona,
and turned 85. He says he plans
to live to 100.
1950s
Sheridan Risley ’50 has been
retired for 26 years and lives
in Springfi eld, Virginia. He is a
member of his community’s
Resident Council Finance Committee
and serves as precinct
captain of the Republican Party.
… Toby Madison ’51 is retired
and living in Gainesville, Florida.
He became a U.S. citizen in 1950
but hopes to move back to New
Zealand, where he was born. …
Ed Campeau ’53 is retired and
living in Granville, Ohio, a college
town near Columbus. He and
former T-bird roommate Bob
Udell ’53 still keep in touch. …
Charles White ’53 is 83. He
fl ies his own airplane, travels the
world and attends aviation trade
shows. He also operates his own
business selling vortex generator
kits for general aviation aircraft.
… Van Crichfield ’53 has
retired to Colorado and Arizona
after years of mission work in
Poland, Austria, Slovenia and
Croatia. … John Eikenberry
’53 was hired by a typewriter
corporation just before the
completion of his Thunderbird
degree. He lived and worked in
Buffalo, New York; Mexico City,
Mexico; and Havana, Cuba. Since
returning to the United States,
he has taught high school music
and Spanish, and has been an
elementary school principal
and a superintendent in various
Arizona communities. He retired
in 1989 and lives with his wife,
Betty, in the adult community of
SaddleBrooke north of Tucson,
Arizona. … Robert Morehouse
’53 is retired after a long banking
career in Asia. He continues research
affi liations with Harvard’s
Reischauer Institute of Japanese
Studies and the Fairbank Center
for Chinese Studies. … Ken
Nelson ’54 and his wife, Nina,
along with their daughter and her
husband, enjoyed a monthlong
cruise around South America
in 2010. … Phil Sidel ’54 is
in his eighth year of retirement
from the University of Pittsburgh,
where he spent 34 years helping
social scientists and others use
computers. He and his wife,
Irene, still live in Pennsylvania.
Learn more at members.verizon.
net/philip.sidel. … Jim Jackson
’56 earned another Thunderbird
degree in 1976 and has retired to
Tucson, Arizona, after many years
in South America. … Fritz Friederich
’56 and his wife, Nancy,
are enjoying retirement and
looking forward to seeing many
T-bird friends at the 11/11/11
Tower event. Friederich is also
proud that he has preserved
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