Woodstock School Alumni Magazine Vol CIV, 2011

Woodstock School Alumni Magazine
Vol CIV, 2011

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Woodstock School Alumni Magazine
Alumni Office
WOODSTOCK SCHOOL
Mussoorie, Uttarakhand 248 179, India
Tel: +91 (135) 263-5900, 263-2610, 263-2547
Alumni Office Extension: 171
Fax: +91 (135) 263-2885
Email: alumni@woodstock.ac.in
Web: www.woodstock.ac.in
Table of contents
Swan song: from the Principal .......................2
Around the sundial .........................................3
I remember Woodstock ....................................8
Class jottings that sing ...................................9
Visitors on the hillside ...................................11
Back on the hillside .......................................12
Graduation 2011 ...........................................16
Baccalaureate address .............................16
Commencement address ...........................19
Valedictorian speech ...............................21
Salutatorian speech .................................22
Graduating Class of 2011 ........................23
2011 awards ..................................................24
Distinguished Alumni 2011 ...........................25
WOSA – 100 ..................................................26
Gatherings.....................................................28
Class reunions ..........................................28
Other gatherings ......................................33
Worldwide Woodstock Day ......................34
Class jottings ................................................43
Staff jottings ...............................................106
Staff arrivals and departures ......................107
In memoriam ..............................................108
Editorial team
Editors: Abhra Bhattacharjee ’92, Monica
Roberts, Marcus Shaw ’87, Pete Wildman,
Neva Whiteman
Jottings assistance by
Li-Chiang Chu ’59
Layout & Design
Randhir A. Malhan ’88 TSA Effects
The Quadrangle is available online at
Front cover: Steve Luukonnen
Inside front cover: Taeyeong Jun
Inside back cover: Abraham Okie
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Swan song: from the Principal
Eleanor Nicholson, Principal
In a few short weeks I’ll be back in Chicago,
Illinois, USA—my beloved hometown. It
will be VERY cold, possibly snowy and
possibly icy. That’s Chicago for you, so
what else is new? My little dachshund will
run in circles around me, whimpering with
happiness. My children and grandchildren
probably won’t run around in circles and they
never whimper, but they’ll be glad to see me.
I will most certainly be glad to see them!
But just because one is back doesn’t mean
that things are unchanged. Six months as
Principal of the most respected international
school in India is a transformative adventure.
Some reflections as the days dwindle down
to a precious few.
What have been the high points? The answer:
a lot of memories that begin with B!
• Bandarpunch: the staff summiting of
that 22,000 feet mountain just before
school opened was thrilling to me. It
took courage, endurance, strength,
collaboration and mutual care, all
qualities we want to see in every member
of the Woodstock community.
• Being with kids: there is something so
endearing (and frustrating) about kids
in their elementary and senior school
years. They are searching, exploring,
questioning, seeking independence while
at the same time they need the assurance
that they matter and that they are loved
and cared for. We need to offer that to
every kid every day.
• Belief that most of us—staff, faculty,
Board, employees—are on the same
page in our mutual dedication to and
love for this great school.
• Brigadoon: What an enormous pleasure
to see a performance of the highest
quality done by staff and students
working together for a common cause.
• Blankets: One of the more moving
moments for me was the opportunity
to give lovely new blankets to longestserving
employees, including gentle and
loyal Biddha-ji, who brings me a cup a
coffee twice a day. His service record
is more than 35 years at Woodstock. I
haven’t done the same thing consistently
for that many years except live.
• Being a part of the Strategic Planning:
the three day retreat to work on 2020
Vision was an exciting high
• Beauty: the sun rising and setting
through the winterline, the ferns on the
trees in the monsoon; the sun on the
snow peaks as we flew in from Delhi
yesterday
No more B’s, but other letters muct be
mentioned—C: excellent colleagues; most
of all—the P—the possibilities that await
this incredible school. L: Dr. Long will
lead the way; I must say again how fortunate
Woodstock is to have persuaded this
extraordinary man to come to Woodstock
and forge the way forward.
Any regrets?
• Not entertaining every staff member in
my home.
• Knowing so few of the kids.
• No time for exploration, hiking, working
out, travel. Schools are schools and
somewhat like each other. In the day-today
issues I was perfectly at home and
to that extent I could have been in any
school anywhere, even though I never
lost sight of where I actually am!
• Leaving so much yet to do, but then I
know as well as anybody that a school
is a work in progress; it’s never “done.”
Where do I hope Woodstock will go and
grow?
• Every student must commit to a given
number of hours (more than now) of
community service.
• The incredible resources of the Hanifl
Center and outdoor education must be
explored and integrated much more fully
into both academic and social life.
• I would like to see even greater
opportunities for student leadership and
responsibility.
• The transition from the Junior School
must be engineered in a way that is
sensitive to the social, emotional,
cognitive and academic needs of the
early adolescent.
• Woodstock must become an educational
leader in India. There can be workshops,
speakers, conferences, and online
presentations through which the school
both leads and learns. Hanifl is a
natural setting and a possible driving
force is a continuation of the Winterline
Centre.
• I want 2020 Vision, Desired Learning
Outcomes and the Religious Life Policy
to be the beacons that guide everything
that goes on every day on the ground
at Woodstock. Anything that is not
consistent with these documents should
be discarded.
• Every day in every classroom should be
imbued with intellectual and personal
excellence.
• The deficiencies and stresses experienced
in a small, closely-connected community
in the Himalayan foothills must be
ameliorated as much as possible and the
joys of living in this magnificent setting
must be magnified as much as possible.
I am leaving with pleasure only because I
know I will be back. Woodstock remains in
my heart and on my calendar.
Footnote: Dr. Nicholson has been invited
to be the next President of the Woodstock
Board of Directors.

Around the sundial
Abhrajit Bhattacharjee ’92, Director of Development
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JULY 2010: Thirty-nine eager new staff began
their new lives at Woodstock. Two of them
had been professional actresses. Four families
had children adopted from overseas: an
American family with daughters from China,
an Australian family withchildren from Colombia,
a Swedish family with children from
India who only spoke Swedish, and an Indian
family with a daughter born in Malaysia. Our
mosaic of cultural diversity kept growing!
One hundred new students also joined Woodstock
this year and the excited students and
parents crowded into the gym for orientation.
AUGUST: To coincide with Indian (and Korean)
Independence days, the annual Indian
Cultural Festival welcomed Shagun Butani
and her dance troupe who performed Chhau
and Odissi classical dances to an appreciative
school audience. Australian children’s author,
August: Indian regional dance
Jane Jolly, paid her first visit to Woodstock.
Jane, author of Limpopo Lullaby, Glass Tears
and Ali the Bold Heart, held readings and
visited classes and was inspired to write a
new book by our resident monkey population.
Independence Day was celebrated with a
“Bollywood” evening led by Danz’n’Buzz, a
professional dance troupe who visited Woodstock
as Artists in Residence at the Winterline
Centre for the Arts at Woodstock School. Students
from grades 1-12 shook their hips in the
gym to the strains of the latest Bollywood hits.
The school community was shaken by the
tragic news of the murder of Dan Terry,
’65 and parent, and Tom Little, parent, who
were part of a medical relief team that was
ambushed and killed in Afghanistan. These
two men risked their lives for decades to
bring medical aid to remote communities in
Afghanistan. WOSA mourned their passing
and hundreds of emails, online messages and
tributes which were shared with surviving
family members.
SEPTEMBER: Margaret ‘Midge’ Loehlin
Shafer ’56 and Ashoke Chatterjee ’51 were
recognised as members of the Distinguished
Alumni Roll in a ceremony in Parker Hall.
July: new staff enjoy the pool
Woodstock celebrated the accomplishments of
these two alumni, and students were inspired
by their personal accounts of their contributions
to social welfare, education, design and
development.
As the monsoon deluges continued, the
Woodstock girls swimming team brightened
up a dismal month by blitzing the pool at
Wynberg Allen School. The team came first
overall beating the other teams and bringing
home the cup. Woodstock’s swimming team
was reconstituted after decades thanks to the
opening of a refurbished swimming pool at the
renovated and restored Hostel, which opened
for boys earlier in the year.
The cross country team got almost as wet
when three attempts to host the inter-school
cross country meet at the top of the hill failed.
Finally on September 21 Woodstock students
raced against Wynberg Allen, Waverly Convent,
St George’s College and Oak Grove
School. Izaiah Vignali, Grade 5, broke the
record for the sub-junior boys by crossing the
winning line in 15.01 minutes.
In September we also inaugurated the Development
Associate Programme, where
select students were offered internships in
the Development Office. Twelve young Associates
began working shoulder-to-shoulder
with Development Office staff in the areas
of journalism, photography, photo-editing,
fundraising and alumni relations.
OCTOBER: Once the rains petered out,
some classes in the Junior School stopped by
the Turner Organic Garden to create planting
beds, clear weeds and plant produce. Based
on the principle that kids that are involved
in planting vegetables are more inclined to
August: Jane Jolly (right) and friend Marina Duffie
August: new student arrivals

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November: Just So stories come to Parker Hall
eat them, the Turner Organic Garden sells its
produce weekly in the Quad.
We welcomed a team from the Rashtriya Life
Saving Association, who worked with our
staff and students to execute a pool audit for
the new swimming pool. Eleven members
of our residence team completed a 45-hour
course and were certified as lifeguards,
trained in the use of CPR, first aid, oxygen,
water rescues and identifying and helping spinal
injuries. This training got our magnificent
pool off to a great start.
October also saw 161 students in our Senior
School sit for PSAT and SAT tests administered
by the US College Board, an aptitude
test used widely for admissions to American
colleges.
We said farewell to two very popular student
teachers from St Olaf’s College in Minnesota,
USA, Sarah Onstad and Elizabeth Knapp.
At the completion of her three month stint at
Woodstock, Sarah commented “The school’s
philosophy on education and teaching has
caused us to look at how we think, and now,
after three months, we have learnt so much
and done a lot more thinking here than at
home. Woodstock opens up your mind and
challenges your ideas”. Well done girls and
good luck, we hope to see you back here at
Woodstock one day.
The third Mussoorie International Writers
Festival was attended by writers, editors and
book lovers over the course of four days with
more than twenty-five authors and artists
presenting talks, readings, exhibitions and
performances.
October also saw Activity Week begin with
the usual excitement. Students travelled to
Goa, Rishikesh, Dharamshala and other
educational destinations, as well as staying
in local villages and hiking the Garhwali
hills.
NOVEMBER: J Gabriel Campbell, ‘65 was
added to the Distinguished Alumni Roll in the
presence of his class mates at a ceremony in
Parker Hall on November 18, for achievements
in ecology sustainability and grassroots
environmental awareness. Dr. Campbell has
spent almost his entire life in the Himalaya
after being born at Landour Community
Hospital; he now lives and works in Nepal.
We were delighted to hear that Dr. Tom
Little, former Woodstock parent, was to be
posthumously awarded the United States
Presidential Medal of Freedom. Dr. Little led
the ten-member team that was brutally murdered
in Afghanistan. The Medal of Freedom
is the United States’ highest civilian honour.
President Obama described Dr. Little as “a
humanitarian in the truest sense of the word”.
Our lives were made even more pleasant and
full of music this month with the visit of Vance
George, Grammy award winner, celebrated
choral director and former Woodstock staff
member. Vance visited Woodstock for three
weeks as a Winterline Centre for the Arts
Artist-in-Residence. Vance first taught at
Woodstock fifty years ago, in the late 1950’s,
and his inspiring and fun presence on campus,
working closely with the music department,
made our lives
brighter. Rehearsals
for the Fall concerts,
the Christmas concert
and the Advanced orchestra
all benefited
from his expertise.
November: Woodstock play the American Embassy School in Delhi
In a very busy
month, Woodstock’s
long awaited production
of Rudyard
Kipling’s Just so
Stories opened on
the last Friday of the
month to a capacity
audience. Six students
from the Advanced Drama class edited
and created new twists from the original
stories and prepared them for the stage.
November is also when the Woodstock community
celebrates the employees that do so
much for all of us. Mr. Dana Crider explained
why Woodstock celebrates Employee’s Day annually:
“The biggest importance of celebrating
it is to give us a chance to see what is missed if
the employees are not here. We all take a lot of
things for granted, especially employees who
work day in and day out on our behalf”. The
employees enjoyed a special sports day in a
tradition that was initiated 38 years ago by Mr.
Tom Alter ’68 and Mrs. Saroj Kapadia, former
Hindi teacher and Alumni Secretary.
Basketball was also the talk of Woodstock
as Woodstock senior basketball team beat
the American Embassy School (AES) on
their home turf in Delhi at the beginning of
our season.
DECEMBER: We began December with
the great news that sixty-four students sat the
Associated Board of Royal Schools for Music
(based in London but running examinations in
over 90 countries) exams with an outstanding
overall success rate of 92%.
October: village children enjoy the Activity Week visit of Woodstock students

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December: Santa breakfast for the Junior School (inset: Quad Christmas
presentations)
We also counted down to
Christmas with the traditional
Junior School morning presentations,
culminating in the
Santa Breakfast. The quad
dining room was decorated
with hundreds of fairy lights
and guests were served
by Grade 6 ‘elves’. A hot
breakfast warmed everyone
and Christmas carols
were sung with gusto. We
also surveyed all the staff to see where they
were going to spend Christmas and how
they would celebrate it. Family and warmer
climates were the winners, of course!
FEBRUARY: Staff packed away their summer
clothes and wrapped up warmly for
a snowy start to the school year. We were
warmed by the news that Woodstock School
had been named among the Top 10 International
Residential Schools of the world by
AsianCorrespondent.com, a news service
owned by Hybrid News Limited in the UK.
SAT results were disclosed and a proud Head
of Senior School, Andrew Plonka said: “Of
particular note was the number of students
who scored in the top 75-99 percentile
worldwide, with well
over half our test
takers falling into
the top quarter.
The best news
for this year’s students
is their writing
score, which is
Woodstock’s best
result in the six years
that the SAT has included
this subject.”
MARCH: It was a month of awards
for the Alter family. Tom Alter ’68 became
Woodstock’s latest Distinguished Alumnus.
Marty Alter Chen’60, herself a Distinguished
Alumna of Woodstock, received a Padma
Shree for her work in areas of employment,
poverty and gender in India under the discipline
of social work. The Padma Shree is
among India’s highest civilian honours. Tom
Alter was a recipient of this award in January
2008.
Another award was to Shonila Chander, head
of the Social Studies department, for her exemplary
contribution to the career guidance
series for students at Woodstock. The ICS
September: our Development Associates team
Silver Jubilee memento was presented to
Ms. Chander at an assembly in Parker Hall.
Thomas Chandy, President of the Board of
Directors, announced the successful completion
of a thorough and inclusive principal
search process and the appointment of Dr.
Jonathan Long as the Principal of Woodstock
from December 1, 2011. The Board also was
delighted to announce that Dr. Eleanor Nicholson
would serve as Interim Principal from
June to December 2011.
The Hawaiian team from New Hope Diamond
Head in Oahu visited again to lead the
senior school retreat. Development Associate
Makani Nakasone attended and declared that
the students over a short twenty-eight hour
period felt more connected to each other,
more in touch with God and more in touch
with themselves as individuals.
In a month of awards Hanifl Centre received
their own. The Confederation of Indian Industry
Environmental Award for the Uttarakhand
region was presented to the Centre for
Outdoor Environmental Education. Some of
the Hanifl Centre activities and programmes
for which the award was given were the Gap
Semester in the Himalaya, the Turner Organic
Garden and the Fleming Nature
Trail, as well as the Mussoorie
Writers’ Festival with themes
such as ‘Writing About Nature’
and ‘Mountain Literature’.
February: snowfall on the campus
March: Distinguished Alumnus
Tom Alter ‘68
APRIL: We celebrated Easter
as the beautiful weather returned
to the mountain. In the subdued
lighting of the Win Mumby
gymnasium, Woodstock gathered
together to celebrate Easter
Sunday. Head of Science Ray
Husthwaite, dressed as a Celtic
monk, narrated the “back story”
of Easter, beginning with creation
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April: Easter chapel featured a Celtic monk, head of science Ray Husthwaite,
as narrator
centuries to the Cross and Resurrection. Congregational,
choral and solo songs punctuated
the story.
Hot on the heels of Easter was International
Day, held in the gym due to inclement weather.
Woodstock girls in beautiful costumes vied
with a stars and stripes cake, displays, entertainment
and food from around the world.
April: Jazz Jam in the Quad
The second offering from the Drama department
for the 2010-2011 school year was a
clever production of Check Please. The story
revolves around finding relationships, blind dating
and speed dating. Potential romances were
presented one after the other on stage in rapid
fire timing, keeping the large crowd entertained.
The Win Mumby Basketball tournament
takes over Woodstock entirely for one week
in April, from the ‘pep’ rally to the huge
crowds at each match. This was the 11th annual
tournament, and we celebrated our new
Win Mumby gym with a victory: it had taken
six long years, but Woodstock boys beat the
Modern School in the final. The boys beat
every team they played in the run up to the finals
by double digits; however, the final game
was tight and exciting. Bring on next year!
Woodstock was joined by five other schools
for its 7th annual Model UN conference,
held on April 6. As the name suggests, these
conferences model the working of the United
Nations; different councils meet to discuss
international issues. Students enjoyed the two
day conference that tested their critical thinking
and enabled them to consider how to deal
with real world issues in an effective manner.
The City Board of Mussoorie honoured Rev.
Robert ‘Bob’ Alter on April 26 at his home in
Mussoorie, Oakville. Tom Alter ’68, described
his uncle as Woodstock graduate, staff member,
parent, principal, friend, confidant, guru,
comrade, missionary, padre, legend.
A summer evening of jazz. Woodstock’s Jazz
Band, under the baton of Ms. Megan Hagberg,
practised solidly for three months to perform
for a packed quad at the annual Jazz Jam. The
band performed numbers by artists including
Stevie Wonder, Joe Garland and Herbie Hancock.
The standout performance was Feeling
Good by Nina Simone.
April: Check Please
April: A visit from the Canadian High Commissioner
MAY: Music continued with the Indian
Music concert held in Parker Hall. Billed
as a fusion of east meets west, Mr. Aloke
Maiti and his students melded tradition with
innovation. Although usually a showcase of
April: International Day
April: Model United Nations

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exemplary music students, this year students
were from different levels of learning.
Student Council (STUCO) elections saw democracy
in action also this month. Students
had to vote twice for the boy’s representative
when the first election resulted in a tie.
Yangla Lama and Shivamkar Misra were
finally elected.
In the scorching heat of the afternoon sun on
May 15th the 2011 WOSA Tea was held in
the Quad. This was the day that members of
the graduating Class of 2011 joined WOSA.
As this was the celebration of the 100th
WOSA tea it was a very special one indeed.
Welcome, Luminescence, to the global
Woodstock society!
Rupak Roy ’73 opened an exhibition of his
paintings at Hanifl Centre. This was the final
event for the semester for the Winterline
Centre for the Arts.
May: STUCO elections
green and there were copious amounts of
food and soft drinks. A wonderful afternoon,
blessed by God.
Graduation. Time to witness Luminescence’s
transition from Woodstock family to the
beginning of the new journey in their life.
Looking sensational in suits and saris and in a
beautifully decorated gymnasium, the “jeans
and T-shirt” seniors had suddenly grown up.
As the school year ended we said goodbye to
several staff, and to one particular long serving
couple. Sue Swanson ’67 and her husband
Ron arrived in Woodstock in 2003, and this
month returned to retire in the US. Sue in
her role of Senior School Librarian and Ron
in his role as Registrar will be sadly missed
after a wonderful eight years.
June: Commencement
June: Another graduate for the Arthur family (staff)
JUNE: As the year raced to an end, the Baccalaureate
ceremony was held for the first
time in many years at St Paul’s Church, Char
Dukan. The students, attired in national dress,
listened to Dale Seefeldt ’64 and former staff
member, who addressed them in both Hindi
and English. The sun shone, the lawns were
May: spring music concerts
June: baccalaureate service at St. Paul’s
April: Dr. Long, principal designate, visits Woodstock
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I Remember Woodstock
2012 will mark the 60th anniversary of the graduating class of 1952. Ed Erny ’52 shares his recollections.
Childhood memories are soon
forgotten, at least the greater
part of them seem to become
obscured amid the more ponderous happenings
of later life. But last night I lay
awake for an hour reviewing snatches of
those now blissful days in Woodstock.
No environment could have been richer
with possibilities of boyhood’s dream and
aspiration, nor as powerful and promising
in the fulfillment of them. It was a unique
and congenial society for me and one that
will never be revisited except in memory!
I remember Going-Up-Day. Brother Bob
and I would be so excited we would hardly
sleep. The hours were marked by impatient
examination of the hands of the clock and
complaints about the tediously slow passage
of time.
I remember piling into the green E.I.R.
coaches, unrolling our bisters and settling
down for delights: shooting cattys out
the window, buying chai from the wallas,
throwing the clay cups at monkeys, and
robbing the sugar cane freight cars. We’d
stop at Lucknow and catch sight of familiar
friends. Parties from all over India would
converge for the recounting of the winter’s
happenings. It was an experience only
surpassed by Going-Down-Day, for at that
time the ominous future of bookwork did
not dull our enjoyment, and the occasion
was further enhanced by the excitement of
being with the folks again!
“Woodstock.” The word brings to mind a
thousand visions. Early memories of the
place for me centered in Ridgewood—the
cement-block habitat for the “Chuts.”
There was a guy I’ll call George. He was
in a class above me but I once beat him up.
Yet he was a dominating character we all
disliked and feared. He had the entire dorm
organized, and each man was his puppet.
He gave us all names of comic characters,
English comic characters. I was Merry
Marvo, a fat little gentleman who was
always blowing bubbles from his magic
pipe. We were glad the year George failed
to come back. I disliked fighting. I cannot
remember ever losing my temper with a
classmate. I always saved that retribution
for my brother.
Alec Thomson was my best friend. He was
part Scottish, and his mother
was a widow. We were like
Jonathan and David, people
would say, and we would
never fight. Peter Beale was
my arch rival and yet we
were friends of a sort. He
was a tough blond-headed
guy and always half a step
behind me in a foot race.
We ran the three-legged race
together and usually won.
My first night at Ridgewood
I cried, but that was the
only occasion. I soon found
myself caught up in the exciting fever of
activity: sliding down the khuds; building
huts; hiking to guides’ cabin; flying
paper airplanes; cub scouts with Hullou
(our puzzling name for Mr. Fleming); and
countless other diversions. We liked to
swim in the stream below Middles (the
athletic arena later name Hansen field for
a famous Woodstock flyer lost in World
War II). Of course we had no such thing as
bathing suits and, hence, once in the pool
would take delight in suddenly crying out,
“Dames! Dames!” We never called girls
anything but dames.
A rumor had it that Mr. Wardwell, whom
we called Wardy, had his own private family
pool downstream at a secluded spot,
but I frankly never put too much stock in
that. Wardy was the big guy in charge of
Ridgewood. He had a bulk of a body and
the kind of hair that lay in a flat, tight mat
on the top of his head. We had all heard
fearful reports of what discipline at the
hands of Wardy could be like. He had a
dog named Pip, much better behaved than
his son, who once pushed Mark Landers’
face into a dish of chocolate pudding and
got the daylights whaled out of him by his
mother, in front of everyone. She was a
kindly soul but she could lay it on when
she had to.
Wardy had us line up by tables in front of
the dining hall before every meal and stand
at rigid attention while roll was taken. The
guy up front had to holler “all present and
accounted for”, or else name the delinquent
member of the group. Once in the dining
hall, Wardy would examine our hands and
hair. We all lived in fear of Wardy. He had
a whistle that he blew so loudly you could
hear it halfway to Bear Mountain.
Back of Ridgy was a hollow tree. It was full
of red ants and, once inside it, a small boy
could not help but wonder what it would
be like to be trapped in such an enclosure.
There was also the giant stride or maypole
on which we swung many a happy hour.
But they tore down the maypole and put
in a basketball court. Then the wind blew
the hollow tree over.
Gradually we passed through the succeeding
standards. Each year brought a slightly
different environment: a new dorm room,
new teacher, new dorm mom, new privileges,
and new challenges.
Sports Day was the highlight of the year
for us. We would train months in advance.
Religiously we would jog around the small
track and save up money for spiked shoes
and ankle bindings. Track was my specialty.
I won the silver every year I competed,
and my ability to take first place was the
envy of my classmates. But something
happened my freshman year in high school.
My prowess on the field suddenly seemed
to vanish. For the first time my classmates
began to surpass me in foot races. I was
stunned and my pride was severely hurt.
Dao Zeun Chu, a Chinese boy who was a
newcomer, was by far the fastest but, then
I consoled myself, he was also the oldest.
He was favored to win the silver that year
but in the second race he pulled a muscle.
I managed to eke out enough points to end
up the winner by a single point. It was my
third silver in three years, and I was almost
ashamed to take it.

Following Sports Day was the interschool
meet, magnificently called the Olympics.
Before Sports Day and Olympics, I never
could sleep much, a fact which did nothing
to help my performance. Olympics was always
an awesome affair; we’d walk several
miles over the hills to St. George’s or Oak
Grove. The great climax to my sports thrill
was the day Alec and I took every first
place but one event in the under-14 division.
We both got big brown chenille Ws
for our achievement, and the opportunity
to attend the sportsman’s banquet to which
we were expected to ask a girl - an ominous
prospect for one totally inexperienced in
that field. I asked Jeananne Constance to
be my date. It was a terrifying evening.
Sixth standard was the last standard we
stayed at Ridgewood. From now on we
would be recognized as “hefts,” no longer
chuts. Still, as long as Bob was in school,
I was known as “Chutty Erny.” We had a
set of slang expressions quite peculiar to
Woodstock, most of which have doubtless
passed out of usage. “Buck off” meant
show off; “squinch,” cheat; “chut,” small;
“heft,” large; “packa ding chaunce,” terribly
good; “bra,” brother; “sas,” sister;
“taws,” marbles; “airzes,” airplanes;
“gaff,” fun; and “homey,” homework. Most
of this quaint vocabulary has slipped my
mind but there were enough of these words
to fill a small dictionary.
The dames lived in what was called the
College and at our age only sissies paid
any attention to them. During the noon
hour, we often bought treats from the
ubiquitous cake wallas. Usually there
were landslides after each heavy rain.
I remember the Tehri Hills, Dhanaulti,
Magru, Bear Mountain and Bears Cave,
Pepper Pot, Bundar Poonch, Kellogg, the
chakars, Mullingar, and skating parties.
We sang “Shadows,” the Woodstock hiking
song, and “Cheers for the brown and
the gold.” I also remember “Charley’s
Aunt,” “You can’t take it with You,” and
“Tobias and the Angel,” and also prizegiving
day, going-down-dinner, capture
the flag down at the gravey (graveyard),
the Hostie, Kincraig and Dehra, the buz
(bazaar), Sobha’s (Sobha Ram’s), and a
thousand other words, the mere mention
of which brings back the indescribable
flavor of all that was Woodstock to me.
My great sorrow was that Dad was elected
OMS president in 1950, forcing us to leave
India and Woodstock after my freshman
year.
Class Jottings That Sing
Abhra Bhattacharjee, ’92, Director of Development, Woodstock School
When I first joined the Development
Office at Woodstock 18 months
ago, I came from a communications
background and I was very excited about
the idea of redesigning some of our publications.
When it came to our Quadrangle, Pete
Wildman, our Head of Communications and
Marketing, and quite the designer himself,
warned me that I could mess with the cover, the
editorial, the glossy paper stock and perhaps
even switch from black and white to fourcolor,
but I shouldn’t tamper with the Jottings.
And so, although we innovated last year with
on the Quad cover for the first time, we still
had incredible contributions from more than
70 classes of Woodstock alumni.
“Jottings are what everyone wants to read,”
says Li Chu ’59, our full time voluntary database
administrator, and someone who has
done more than her fair share of collecting
and collating the Jottings over the last nine
years. “They keep us connected. Everything
else is just extra.”
She is right.
Jottings are the lifeblood of the Quadrangle.
No matter how hard we work to create feature
stories that are timely, provocative and
just plain interesting, class notes will always
overshadow them. They’re the first thing
readers turn to when they get the magazine
and the last thing they put down before they
turn out the light.
In one respect, we’re lucky. With Jottings, we
know there’s something in every Quadrangle
that people will read, regardless of its content
or presentation. But let’s face it—to an editor,
that endless name, rank, and serial number list
of new jobs, marriages, children and deaths
can seem very uniform, and I know that for
many class secretaries, the thought of preparing
the annual Jottings ranks somewhere be-
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tween root canal surgery and telemarketing.
Fortunately not everyone feels that way. As
I prepared this article, I reached out to a few
advancement colleagues to ask what they had
learned in their experience of creating alumni
publications. I also enquired of a handful of
class secretaries that clearly enjoy what they
do, and had a lot of great advice to share. They
also asked if I could share some of their pet
peeves with their classmates, to help make
their annual exercise a lot easier. Here is what
many of them said.
Get Real
My advancement peers at other schools
and colleges tell me that their class notes
section has become a lot hipper and more
confessional through the years. Alumni at
other institutions share life-affirming stories
about their triumphs over disease, job loss or
family tragedy with classmates they haven’t
seen or spoken with in decades. For those of
us that attended Woodstock, this should not
be too difficult; after all we all survived the
food, the hills, the leeches and the langurs
together. It is remarkable to me how we are
able to pick up our relationships with classmates
or other alumni no matter how long
it has been since we connected. Try and be
real and honest when you send in your news
to your class secretary – after all that is what
a classmate and friend really wants to know.
Many Woodstock alumni say they feel that
if they haven’t achieved certain goals—
a beautiful family, a stellar job, a Nobel
Prize—then they aren’t worthy to
write in. But you and your class secretaries
can work to dispel that myth.
One class secretary wrote, “Let’s not just
talk about facts, let’s talk about feelings,
and now I see my classmates being honest
about the curveballs life has thrown them.”

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Her strategy clearly paid off. One of her
classmates recently told her that she once
felt none of her accomplishments were up
to Quadrangle standards. Now she and her
classmates “are getting comfortable talking
candidly about our successes and our
failures, about some of the really difficult
choices we’ve made in our lives, and how
we’re coping with the outcomes. I’ve drawn
great strength from these honest and very
personal conversations.”
Develop a voice.
Sometimes all it takes is one person to get
things started. One class secretary told me
that he set the ball in motion nearly 20 years
ago. “My class notes were boring. There
was a real sameness about them. At school
what I loved about my classmates was
how bright they were, how much fun they
were to be around. But that wasn’t coming
through in their notes several decades later.”
He sent a message to his classmates suggesting
that people “start opening up and
reflecting on their lives more, as opposed
to filing news of changed demographics
and vital statistics.” With some prompting
they complied. “After a year or two, they
didn’t even need the prompt,” says the
secretary. “The changed tone and content
of the column carried itself, and we feel
far more connected in each other’s lives.”
A class notes column should have a distinctive
voice and a clear sense of audience. For
us, the best columns read like a conversation.
“I try to give the column a real sense
of the contributors’ voices,” says another
contributor. “If someone writes me a letter,
I try and include the news in their voice so
that everyone could get a sense of reading
the same letter I read.”
Be inclusive.
All too often, class notes focus on a single
clique: Each year readers get an update
on the doings of only the class secretary
and his friends, to the exclusion of other
classmates. Some of the most meaningful
jottings come in from those class secretaries
who keep track of both frequent contributors
as well as those that parcel out their
information gradually. Others target certain
classmates or those that live in a different
country - “lost” alumni - with special
notes or an explicit invitation to write.
Attitude is often more important than action.
Saying “we want to hear from every one of
you” and backing it up with a diverse mix
of contributors, can go a long way toward
reaching the silent masses. “If you see a
person in the magazine who doesn’t usually
contribute, it can inspire others to write in,”
says Li Chu. “It really snowballs.”
Ask questions.
You may be surprised what people will tell
you if you ask. Everyone has an opinion,
and most people like to share them. That’s
what class secretary Beth Norford ’80
learned when she decided to solicit book
recommendations from members of her
Woodstock class. More than recommendations,
she received critiques, analyses and
meditations on classmates’ recent reading.
“Asking questions opens the door for people
to say more than what jobs they have, what
their children do, or what their husband
does. That narrow focus puts some people
off,” Norford says. “This just gives another
way for people to relate to each other.”
Spurred by a similar idea, Mary Self
Skarsten, ’69 has successfully queried
her classmates on topics like “on turning
50” and “what would be the top 3
things you would like to do if we go
back to Mussoorie”. The initial responses
have generated more responses until it
feels like everyone has something to say.
If you’re worried that asking a question
might preclude the exchange of personal
news, don’t be. These class secretaries have
found that sharing opinions and experiences
related to certain topics seems to elicit more
personal information. Another approach to
soliciting more participation is to start a
dialogue across the years. We are currently
exploring if we could match up members
of this year’s graduating class with some
alumni from the class of 1961, hoping that
the more seasoned class will have some
words of wisdom for students who graduated
50 years later.
Make contributing easy.
Both class secretaries and contributors have
heavy demands on their time. As an alumni
relations team, we should make it as easy as
possible for alumni volunteers to participate.
This year at Woodstock we are about to make
a concerted effort to offer class secretaries as
much support as possible. For the Class of
2012, the class secretaries will go through a
formal two-hour training session on campus
shortly after they’re elected in which we tell
them about our deadlines, give them advice
on newsgathering and warn them about the
dangers of using secondhand information. We
also are starting to create a comprehensive and
user-friendly handbook detailing the obligations
of and guidelines for the job. Once these
are ready we are hopeful that we can share
these resources with other class secretaries
around the world, accompanied by a conversation
on Skype. And the commitment is that
as an alumni relations team, we will make
ourselves available via phone, fax, email and
snail mail and respond quickly to questions -
which is just basic customer service.
We encourage class secretaries to find other
efficient ways of soliciting information,
such as creating Facebook pages, starting
an email directory for the class or just making
sure that they are able to attend regional
gatherings near where they live. Please
drop me a note at alumni@woodstock.
ac.in; we would love to publish some of
your ideas in our Letters to the Editor
section in the next issue of the Quadrangle.
Letters to the Editor
Is there something in this issue of Quadrangle that you would like to comment
on? Did one of the stories ring a bell and make you want to share your
experience? There are two ways in which you can respond:
• Email us at alumni@woodstock.ac.in. Letters received will be published online
in the Quad section of the Woodstock website, and the most relevant will be
published in the next edition of the Quad in Spring 2013.
• Share Your Story is a new section of the alumni website designed to help you..
share your story. Go to www.woodstockschool.in/share.

Visitors on the hillside
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Here at Woodstock we have visitors every day. We would like to share some of these visitors who have contributed
their talent to our wonderful community in the past twelve months. We offer just a glimpse of their visits and their
generosity.
Rahul Amin ‘71
In December
2010, Rahul Amin
hosted an alumni
gathering in Vadodara,
Gujarat, and
invited the Principal,
Dr David
Laurenson, and
Alumni Secretary
Monica Roberts
to join him. Rahul
had contacted
Monica beforehand
to discuss an idea. Realising how precious
the yearbooks were for all alumni and
worrying that the books were aging, he offered
to digitise them to make them available to
alumni and ensure their safety. Work began
and class years from 1970 to 2010 are now
completed, with work on the earlier books
under way. Rahul then visited Woodstock in
April and met with Ravi Narula, Head of Engineering
and Facilities. He offered through his
company to carry out environmental surveys;
audits began in September monitoring water,
energy, electric and sewerage. The reports will
enable us to make significant reductions in
operating costs by ensuring that all equipment
runs more efficiently.
Dan and Anne Lind (S)
The Music
department
and the Development
/Alumni
Office both
benefit
twice yearly
from the
visits of former staff Dan and Anne Lind.
Retirement in America in 2006 gave them
the freedom to spend some time in India and
specifically Woodstock. Keen to volunteer but
not sure what form it would take, Anne was
invited by Steve Alter ’74, then Development
Director, in the spring of 2009, to volunteer
in the Development Office. This worked
well alongside Anne’s work as President of
WOSA-NA. Dan had retired from teaching
but still had much to offer and began helping
part-time with the young string players in the
music department. He works with groups
and individuals, helping them to hone their
skills. After the initial visit the Linds now visit
and volunteer for two months twice yearly in
Spring and Fall. Head of Music Ravi Arthur
comments: “Dan brings a lot of experience,
but he also brings a lot of strings, sheet music
and essential accessories whenever he comes
– a very helpful service!” For her part, Anne
recently coordinated the WOSA- 100 Celebrations
in October 2011.
Vance George (S)
Vance was invited
to return to
Woodstock as a
Winterline Centre
for the Arts Artistin-Residence.
He
first taught over
fifty years ago at
Woodstock, but
has always maintained
his ties with
the school. The
music department
was thrilled to have an internationally recognised
choral director working with our
orchestras and choirs. With Fall concerts and
the annual Christmas concerts due, Vance’s
arrival in November 2010 took him straight
to rehearsals and workshops and individual
tuition for student musicians. Vance’s inspiring
presence and wonderful zest for life, food and
music enriched our campus for three weeks.
Although a two-time Grammy award winner,
Vance was naturally modest and his rapport
with students gave them even more of an opportunity
to develop their passion for music
and creativity.
Merryn Glover ‘87
Woodstock has
a record of producing
successful
authors, and
writer Merryn
Glover is no exception.
As part of
our immense pool
of gifted alumni
who constantly
give back to
Woodstock, Merryn
visited on her
extensive travels through Asia. Bringing her
husband and two sons, she was keen to revisit
her past and show her family the Woodstock
experience. She took time out to lead three
workshops on short story writing. An author,
playwright, teacher and poet, Merryn inspired
young students to follow their dream of becoming
writers and to remember to return to
Woodstock and share their expertise.
Jane Jolly
We are not exactly
easy to reach here
at Woodstock but
Australian author
of children’s
books, Jane Jolly,
still managed to
find her way here
in August on her
way to the Travelling
Children’s
Literature Festival.
Ms Jolly, a
teacher in Australia, read her children’s books
to Junior School students and donated copies
of her three published works to the library.
This time junior school learnt what it takes to
diligently persevere and become a published
author. The heroes in Ms Jolly’s books are
from multicultural backgrounds, as are the
students who sat transfixed in the library as
the stories came alive. Ms Jolly described
her experience as “incredible; Woodstock is
an amazing learning environment”. Ms Jolly
returned to Woodstock again in October 2011
with a Woodstock-inspired book soon to reach
the printers. Good Monkey, Bad Monkey is
the story of Rhesus and Langur monkeys that
she encountered on her first trip. The Langur
Patrol, the ‘good monkeys’, warn off the ‘bad’
or cheeky rhesus monkeys. Woodstock is very
proud to think that we have inspired a book
that Jane will no doubt return to read to a new
generation of Woodstock students.
The Woodstock community
benefits in many ways from the
visits of alumni and others.
Why not reach out to us with your
skills and talents?
Come back and visit us; you will be
assured of a very warm welcome.

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Back on the hillside
I never, ever, thought that I would find myself back at Woodstock. Having grown up in India – in Kolkata, to be precise
– I had had my fill of urban chaos, and swore I would never return – even to the serenity of Mussoorie. My mind was
made up. Marcus Shaw ’87 shares his thoughts.
Never say never.
Twenty-four years after graduation, things
seemed different. What changed? Why did
it take so long? Under what circumstances
would I now consider returning? How could
I use my skill set from the corporate world in
an educational environment? I struggled with
many of these questions – as do many of us. I’d
like to share my journey, together with a few
thoughts from other alumni who have returned
to Woodstock. Perhaps you will find that our
stories are not much different from your own.
Woodstock has a way of luring us back. The
childhood memories, friendships forged
through trying times, rich traditions that have
spanned a century or more - they all contribute
to the lens through which we view and
interpret our world. As truly global citizens,
we have taken these things to every corner of
the world, yet the formative years spent here
have influenced us in ways that we cannot
escape or deny.
For some, the connection with Woodstock is
an integral part of life from the day they leave.
For others, myself included, there is a long
cycle of reengagement - a season, perhaps, of
learning to fly on our own before we reconnect
with the past. I suppose that’s true of
anyone, not just Woodstock people; after all,
the years of college, marriage, child bearing,
child rearing and life in general clamor for every
free moment! But, as with the change in
the seasons, we may find ourselves at a certain
point with a yearning to revisit what was, in
comparison with most people’s education, a
truly extraordinary experience. In many ways
I failed to appreciate all the Woodstock had
to offer… and almost twenty-five years later,
I am discovering that anew.
Personally, I’d summarize the years since
graduation in the following phases. I can’t
speak for the stages that are yet to come;
I’d love to hear from you more seasoned
veterans!
• College confusion
• Long-term relationship
• Children, diapers, schooling
• Grad school
• Gradually increasing levels of freedom as
the kids gain more independence.
That is where I found myself at when I
received a phone call asking if I would
attend a focus group for Woodstock. That
was the start of a wonderful conversation
that eventually led me back here on staff.
The decision to come back to India and to
Woodstock has presented some incredible
opportunities for my family – all of which
I am sure you can readily identify with:
• Exposure to many different cultures.
• Rich traditions that cross religious
boundaries and foster tolerance for all.
• An incredible environment of mutual
respect and appreciation.
• The opportunity to bond with my
children as they experience what I did.
Perhaps the biggest stumbling block for
me was the assumption that I had nothing
to contribute, or that the only thing we as
alumni could do was give money. Nothing
could be farther from the truth. When I
arrived, I was surprised at just how many
had actually returned to work at Woodstock.
There are currently fourteen alumni on
staff, teaching, working in dorms and in
the support offices, all with unique talents
that contribute to shaping the lives of an
incredible group of kids. Why not join
us? See what opportunities are available
at www.woodstockschool.in/Employment
We would love to hear your story! E-mail
me at MarcusShaw@Woodstock.ac.in
Alumni working at Woodstock
• Karen Tamminen ’69
Residence Staff
• Abhra Bhattacharjee ’92
Director of Development
• Marcus Shaw ’87
Alumni Coordinator
• Darab Nagarwalla ’80
Outdoor and Environmental
Education Coordinator
• Anitra Mansson ’74
Health Centre Coordinator
• Judy Crider ’69
Staff Welfare Officer
• Rochita Rao Plonka ’98
Head of English as a Second
Language
• Jeff Rollins ’76
ICT Manager
• Sue Rollins ’77
Teacher
• Haydn Wilkins ’05
Residence Teacher
• Kirsten Brady ’96
Head of Admissions
• Amy Seefeldt ’93
Dean of Academics
• Maya Dutt ’92
Residence Staff
• Ajay Mark ’71
Head of Sports
Maya Dutt ‘92
I grew up at Woodstock and entered boarding in
the sixth grade in 1984, and was in boarding
until I graduated in 1992. These were some of the
most important years of my life, and some of
the relationships that I cherish the most from that
time period are those that I continue to have with
my dorm parents through the years. Working as a
dorm parent here has given me the opportunity to give
back to the School, and pay forward what these dorm parents invested in
me so many years ago.

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Amy Seefeldt ‘93
I loved my
Woodstock
experience
and was sad
to leave, but
actually never
thought I’d
return (other
than to visit
family). Through
college, I drifted into studying education
and history, moving to Atlanta for about
ten years. After eight years teaching
history at a college-prep school there, I
started feeling restless. I heard about a
history opening through Ms. Chander,
and the rest is literally history. It just
seemed like the right time to come back.
A better question than why I came back
is perhaps why I’m choosing to stay now.
I’ve signed my second contract. I worked
on the recent 2020 Vision. I’ve realized
that, even as we imagine our communal
future, it’s important to preserve the best
parts of the Woodstock experience: the
intense debates about everything from
Wai Wai to reincarnation, the simplicity
of walking to experience our world, the
passion to see increased justice and
equality in the world, music practice
in the sunny Quad. It’s important to
preserve a way of life that allows for bun
omelettes at Char Dukhan. After being
back for three years, and despite the
occasional turmoil, I firmly believe that
Woodstock is uniquely placed to find
the road forward the world needs. Our
natural, socioeconomic, and cultural
environments, our Christian heritage,
and the strange fearlessness that
Woodstock students absorb seemingly by
osmosis all conspire to forge an intense
community of learning that I count it an
unqualified privilege to serve.
Sue Swain Rollins ‘ 77
I love working with the students from
many different nationalities and it is
also nice to be able to work in a boarding
school setting as you have more
input into the students’ lives than in a
day school. I feel that I am able to give
many things to the students sharing
my love of hiking, nature, history, cultures,
crafts and writing in this lovely mountainous setting.
Kirsten Bradby ‘96
I was born in Mussoorie and
spent my most formative years
here, until the age of 13. I loved
growing up here. I enjoyed
the close sense of community
at Woodstock as well as its diversity.
I was very attached to the
physical surroundings – the mountains, the trees,
the khuds, the views, the misty green monsoons and
the clear October skies. I was drawn back to Woodstock
through an email sent to alumni announcing
a job opening to work as part of the admissions team,
focusing on student recruitment around the world.
At the time I was working long hours as a corporate
finance lawyer in London, and had been hankering
after something different. This role seemed like
a good fit for me. I greatly value the education I received
at Woodstock, and I felt that the wonderful
opportunity Woodstock offers students in combining
academic excellence with a well-rounded social and
cultural education, all in the beautiful surroundings
of the Indian Himalaya, was one which I would
be keen to promote. Although moving from corporate
law to school admissions was a big change, I’m
happy I took the plunge. I love being back in these
mountains, and I am enjoying being part of the
community here. A lot of what makes this school so
special is its students - the diversity of cultures, religions,
backgrounds, abilities, talents and dreams
they each bring with them. It is a privilege to be part
of the admissions team, seeking to ensure Woodstock
continues to have a wonderful, motivated and diverse
student body, and seeing individual lives transformed
and horizons widened with each new intake
of students to Woodstock.

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Ajay Mark ‘71
…….I feel Woodstock has always been
my home. I started working here in
July 1981. I love working here and
feel proud to have had this opportunity
in my life to serve here for the
past 31 years as part of the PE department.
Both my daughters Ayesha ’02
and Serena ’05 went through Woodstock
from Pre School to Grade 12. My parents both worked for
30 years each. My nephew Amit Mark worked here for 6
years and my Mother-in-law (Mrs. Indu Salve) worked
here for 3 years. My wife Sanjaya is also working here
for the past 29 years. At present she is the Head of Junior
School. As a family we have served Woodstock for 129
years in total so far. Woodstock has given me and my
family much more than we can ever give back.
Haydn Wilkins ‘ 05
….. it feels fantastic to be back in
Mussoorie, there really is nowhere
else in the world such as Mussoorie.
I returned as I wanted to live once
again in India, as well to experience
Woodstock from a new perspective
having been a day scholar, a boarder
and now a dorm parent. I am excited about working
with the boys in Ridgewood, and making sure that they
get the most of their Woodstock experience - as I did as
a student - as their time in dorms and the friendships
they form will be with them for life.
Judy Crider ‘69
For me coming back was
not the feeling that I wanted
to give back to the school,
but that I was coming home.
Three weeks after we arrived in
September 1979 our daughter, Bonnie Beth, was
born. We worked at Clifton Hostel for 9 years
till 1988 with our fourth child being born in
1984; went to the US for 1988-1989; returned in
1989 and moved to Suncliff where Dana taught
Math and I worked in the Quad Office. In 1994
we went back to the US for one year while Dana
worked on his BA degree. In 1995 I returned to
WS with three children while Dana continued in
the US to finish his BA degree with teaching certification.
In 1996 I went to the Principal’s office
to cover because the then secretary to the Principal
did not return from vacation and then continued
working there till 2010. In 2010 I moved into the
HR department. Dana continued to teach Math
and so much more. This has been our life. This
has been the perfect place to raise four children.
We have built many wonderful relationships with
staff and students and hillside friends. We have
influenced many students hopefully for the better.
We have tried to instill the love of Jesus Christ
in others by being role models and always having
an open home. We have offered continuity and
security.
Work at Woodstock School
Would you like to experience Woodstock again, this time from
a different perspective? Each year we recruit teachers, dorm
parents and support staff into various roles at the school.
Check the website at www.woodstockschool.in/employment
to see what jobs are available now.
It’s a great way of reconnecting with your roots, and passing on
your experience to a new generation!

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Read two testimonials from weary but lifechanged
young people just arrived back
from the inaugural Woodstock Gap Semester.
Chaperone, coordinator and translator Necha
Varma, an experienced trekker, accompanied
the travelers through all the activities. Meet
Sarajane Clark from Washington and Varun
Sarin from Virginia.
How did you hear about the Gap
Semester?
SARAJANE: I graduated from High School
last year and my grand-dad Bob Harwood ’43,
an alumnus, suggested it. I was open to having
a gap year in a Himalayan environment
VARUN: My father and Krishnan Kutty, head
of Outdoor Education at Woodstock, shared a
mutual friend who suggested the Gap Semester.
I had just finished my sophomore year and
wanted to take a break.
When did you arrive?
SARAJANE: We flew into India on August
7, to begin on August 11. The timetable tries
to allow 10–14 days for each activity.
Where did you begin?
VARUN: We began at the Landour Language
School for a two-week conversational Hindi
course, which gave us the basics to be able to
ask for things, thank people and ask questions.
It was hard but fun.
SARAJANE: After that we went to the Hanifl
Centre here at Woodstock for a two-week
Intensive First Aid Course called Wilderness
First Responder. This was so much fun and
focused on rescue and dramatization of events
that may happen while we are hiking and scaling
mountains.
And after that?
SARAJANE: We then began our trek into
the Rupin valley and attempted to cross the
Rupin pass. However, very heavy rains and
raging rivers prevented us from getting to the
pass. We had to turn back just one day before
the crossing. On the return, we trekked long
hours and stayed in the jungle for a night before
getting to a roadhead. This was a ten-day
trek and was awesome.
VARUN: Then it was on to a home-stay in
a village called Demul, close to Kaza in the
Lahul-Spiti District of Himachal Pradesh,
where we helped build a greenhouse for the
village people to use in winter to enable them
to grow green vegetables. Demul sits at an
altitude of 14,300 ft. The greenhouse was
made of mud and local materials. The food
at the home-stays was great and we felt very
comfortable.
The next stage of their journey brought them
back to Mussoorie to participate in the 3rd
Mussoorie International Writer’s Festival with
the theme of “Mountain Literature”. They got
an opportunity to interact with luminaries like
Dr. George Schaller, Harish Kapadia, Jim
Curran, Bernadette McDonald and others.
After the Writer’s Festival, the group went
to the Nehru Institute of Mountaineering,
Uttarkashi, for a 16-day session to learn
basic camping, trekking, rock climbing and
mountaineering skills. The culmination of the
training was an attempt to climb a peak called
Draupadi-ka-Danda II (18,600 ft). They had
to turn back about 300 ft below the summit
because of hip-deep snow and worsening
weather conditions.
Next they left for the Kumaon region of Uttarakhand.
They stayed with CHIRAG for
ten days. Their time with this NGO was spent
with an exposure to women’s self-help groups,
children’s education, organic farming and village
forestry issues. This was followed by ten
days in the periphery of the Corbett National
Park. The focus here was on human-animal
conflict as it relates to wildlife tourism, the
politics of eco-tourism, wildlife viewing, birding
and angling.
What did you get out of your Gap
Semester?
VARUN: I discovered myself. I am more
independent than I thought I could be. I also
learnt that I could be on my own and enjoy
it. I came with no expectations and an open
mind, I am proud of myself , I have grown and
gotten stronger. I will have a month off and
go back to my Psychology major. I will look
at it differently now, because of the changes
in me. I am so glad I did this. It challenges
you not only physically but mentally as well.
Sometimes during the semester I felt I was
not part of the real world, or any world, due
to the remoteness. It exposes you to cultures,
but so do many things. This is really something
so different. The trek was the hardest thing I
have ever done both physically and mentally.
SARAJANE: I thought I was used to pain
through the physical challenge of all the sports
I play, but with the mental challenge as well, it
was such an achievement. I guess I learned I
do not want to be a mountaineer! I got to know
myself too. I understand my own personality
through these challenges. Why would you not
want to experience this?
Sarajane returns to casual work for six
months before going to college in the fall of
next year. She has a choice of Washington,
California and Montana. “I am still thinking
through my decision. I look at things
differently now.”

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Baccalaureate address
A Time to Remember
Rev. Dale Seefeldt ’64
Dr. Laurenson, esteemed teachers, staff, parents;
honored members of the Class of 2011:
Mrs. Seefeldt and I are delighted to be back
at Woodstock to celebrate the end of a great
school year and the graduation of a distinguished
group of students. Thank you for the
opportunity to be here…and for the honor of
being invited! I know all of you will understand
if I address my remarks primarily to the
members of the graduating class.
In 1965, near the end of my first year in college,
a rock group called the Byrds—yes, we
did have rock music back then—came out
with a hit song protesting the Vietnam War.
The title was “Turn, Turn, Turn.” They took
the words of Ecclesiastes 3:1-8, our text, adding
the line, “I swear it’s not too late,” after
the final verse about war and peace-a word
pair that had also attracted the attention of
Leo Tolstoy. So if it helps you listen, we are
talking about rock music!
But these are originally the words of Solomon,
the king of Israel known for his wisdom
and for the prosperity his people enjoyed.
Part of what he has to say is summed up
in his first couplet: “There is a time for
everything, and a season for every activity
under the heavens.” Here you can see
the parallelism that is essential to Hebrew
poetry—the same idea repeated in different
words, slightly rephrased, or two ideas related
because they are opposites, as in the next
fourteen lines. As soon as you recognize this
structure, you begin to understand what the
poet is doing. He’s talking about the whole
of human life— “everything…every activity
under the heavens.” In fact, his first pair of
contrasts sets parentheses around all human
life, beginning with birth and ending with
death—nothing is left out. The following
pairs are similarly—and stunningly—broad.
They make you respond and readily agree
because they are fundamentally human and
true for just about anyone: “a time to plant
and a time to uproot” (gardeners do it all the
time); “a time to tear down and a time to
build” (we can look out the window and see
that, no matter where we live!); “a time to
weep and a time to laugh” (just look around
you at the graduation ceremonies tomorrow!).
You’ll notice there’s even a time to keep silent—an
important lesson! In another place
Solomon says, “Even a fool who keeps silent
is considered wise; when he closes his lips,
he is deemed intelligent!” This is a strategy
worth considering as you start college! So the
poet is saying that each of these very different
activities has an appointed time.
This sounds reasonable, but when the list is
ended, he has something more to add: God is
the One who appoints the time. Verse eleven
completes the thought of verse one: “He has
made everything beautiful in its time. He
has also set eternity in the human heart, yet
no one can fathom what God has done from
beginning to end.” In other words, there is a
time for everything that happens to you, and
you can have confidence that God designed
your “times” to be beautiful—even if you
can’t understand how they all fit together just
yet. Having a sense of these “times” helps
us be ready for the bad times as well as the
good—they, too, are part of the rhythm of life.
With God in the picture, life makes sense.
Without Him in the picture, it is hard to find
purpose and meaning in what happens to us.
In fact, this is Solomon’s underlying thesis
throughout his book. In chapter twelve he
advises, “Remember your creator in the days
of your youth.” Along with the planting and
uprooting that is happening to you, along
with the mourning and dancing, the weeping
and laughing that tomorrow brings, you have
come to a time when it is also important to
remember.
First of all, remember where you came from.
Remember the parents who brought you here.
Remember your home, your family, your
land. I’m reminded of the joyful words that
burst out from Jaishankar Prasad at India’s
independence:
अरुण यह मधुमय देश हमारा।
जहाँ पहुँच अनजान क्षितिज को
मिलता एक सहारा।
सरस तामरस गर्भ विभा पर
नाच रही तरुशिखा मनोहर।
छिटका जीवन हरियाली पर
मंगल कुंकुम सारा।।
लघु सुरधनु से पंख पसारे
शीतल मलय समीर सहारे।
उड़ते खग जिस ओर मुँह किए
समझ नीड़ निज प्यारा।।
बरसाती आँखों के बादल
बनते जहाँ भरे करुणा जल।
लहरें टकरातीं अनंत की
पाकर जहाँ किनारा।।
हेम कुंभ ले उषा सवेरे
भरती ढुलकाती सुख मेरे।
मंदिर ऊँघते रहते जब
जग कर रजनी भर तारा।।
—जयशंकर प्रसाद
Prasad conjures up the images of beauty in
a new dawn, even the far horizon finding a
refuge, birds feeling at home, each finding her
own beloved nest, clouds like monsoon eyes
weeping merciful rain, and the eternal waves
of the sea finding a shore at last. I remember
my delight the first time I read this poem—
delight at the poet’s intense, unabashed joy in
the smallest details of his homeland. It is right
for you to take joy in where you come from
and who you are. I have learned much from
the parents of many of you as they have come
to visit the School over the years you have attended.
Woodstock would be nothing without
their searching questions, their patience, their
love and ready involvement in what happens
here. Remember where you came from—and
cherish it. Its value is beyond reckoning.
This is a time to remember. Look back,
remember where you came from. But look
around you too, remember where you are
now. Remember what you have learned here,
how you have grown. Remember your teachers
and your friends. Remember whom you
have loved, what you have shared. In short,

emember this School. It’s a rather nebulous
idea, in some ways—a school. You never really
know where the learning will take place.
It may happen while you’re sitting in a circle
around a stove, going over math homework
with friends. It may happen at the lunch table,
when someone puts a clever turn on words and
ideas that you have been thinking about too.
It may happen when you’re doing research on
your own and you stumble across one of the
world’s “great ideas.” It may happen when
you’re bored and flip ahead a hundred pages to
see what else is in the textbook—or any other
book, for that matter. It may happen when
someone you thought you knew stands up and
tells the student body all the reasons why they
would make a good governor, or committee
chair, or StuCo President—and you hear and
think, yeah, they’re right, they would make a
good one…or you think, actually, I could do
that too! Learning may happen in the dorm, on
Hansen Field…in the gym…on the road up to
school…or even…in a classroom! Remember
where you are now!
I taught ESL at Woodstock for ten years and
learned constantly from my students. One of
the first things I learned was that they were
really smart—or they would never be surviving
school in a different language! I learned
that kimchi comes from heaven—no, really, it
does—most people who eat it think Korea is
heaven! (I love kimchi, but my wife does not
love me when I eat it—something to do with
powdered shrimp and garlic). I kept copies of
many of the good papers students wrote. My
favorite was by a Japanese girl a number of
years back: “English is a Hard Language to
Think.” Her paper discussed—with intimate
knowledge—what it is like to know what you
think inside your own head and struggle to
find the right words and phrases to express
it clearly in someone else’s language, so that
it can enter their head. I wished I had read
that paper long before I started teaching. I
often got it out and read it over again at the
beginning of a new semester or school year.
Another favorite of mine was a well organized
essay by a Vietnamese student about
the advantages of letting ESL students be part
of non-ESL classes rather than making them
study separately in a class with other ESL
students—that essay was so convincing that it
helped us decide our policy as a school on this
issue. Then there was the masterpiece written
by an eighth-grade boy—again, arguing
from intimate experience—a five-paragraph
essay, with introduction, body and conclusion,
presenting compelling logic in favor of
doing away with after-school detention (This
one did not shape school policy, however!
In fact, it was written during—you guessed
it—after-school detention. It was his best essay
ever.) A school is a learning community,
for teachers as much as for students. The
mystery of learning is part of what makes it
worth remembering.
School is also worth remembering because
you have worked hard at it. For years you have
diligently prepared for quizzes, tests, examinations,
IGCSE’s, AP’s, SAT’s, and any other
alphabet soup that has been thrown at you. You
have prepared for both internal and external
examinations, for recitals, juries, and final
concerts. You may be tempted to ask, was I an
idiot for doing this? I don’t think so. The hard
reality is you live in a competitive world. One
reason you have what you have is because you
have worked hard for it. And what you don’t
have probably went to someone who worked
even harder! Our school motto is palma non
sine pulvere—no victory palms without the
dust of struggle.
One final thing that makes school worth remembering
is your own belief that what you
are doing right now is good and worthwhile.
You have invested your time, your effort, and
your life where you saw value. The Woodstock
School Creed ends with the sentence:
“Thus, in all these ways, we will transmit this
School greater, better, and more beautiful than
it was transmitted to us.” These words were
not invented by Woodstock. They come from
Plato’s Academy in Athens. They remind us
that we live not only for ourselves, but also
for those who follow after. This will be true of
your whole life. What will you do that is worth
passing on to someone else? What have you
done while here that you can point out to next
year’s new students and say, “I’m leaving that
behind to help you”?
A time to remember! Look back, remember
where you came from. Look around you,
remember where you are now. And looking
ahead, remember the One who appoints the
“times” in your life. Saint Augustine prayed,
“You have made us for yourself, and our hearts
are restless until they can find peace in you.”
Bhakti poet Ravi Das expressed a similar
thought through a series of vivid pictures:
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Lord, you are sandalwood, we are water,
your fragrance permeating every part.
Lord, you are the cloud, we the enraptured
peacock;
like the partridge entranced with the moon.
Lord, you are the lamp, we just the wick,
spreading light day and night.
French philosopher and mathematician, Blaise
Pascal said, “There is a God-shaped vacuum in
the heart of every man that cannot be filled by
any created being, but by God alone.” Think
again about Solomon’s words: “He has made
everything beautiful in its time. He has also
set eternity in the human heart.” That’s how
we’re wired. Even though we are very much
creatures of this earth, we can’t help but respond
to God.
I have climbed to Darwa Top, the ridge above
Dodital, and looked at Bandarpunch from there
nine times. The mountain is immense, with its
two peaks and many glaciers. You look at the
long valley leading up to the south side and try
to estimate how many days it would take to
walk up it to the main glacier…and you give
up. In the clear, bright morning air it looks as
though you are right there, and yet you can
also see that you are very small next to the
gigantic rock faces, boulders, and fields of
scree, the long, climbing valley, the towering
snow-covered peaks. That’s how we are before
God—very small, unable to handle the scope
on which He operates, but alive and aware of
the beauty He has made.
Before he died, Jesus told his followers that
he would be raised again on the third day.
Yet when women arrived at the tomb with
burial spices and found it empty, they seemed
perplexed. They were told, “He is not here; he
has risen! Remember how he told you!” And
it says, “Then they remembered his words.”
Sometimes you remember things better after
they come together and make sense. The resurrection
seemed impossible…until it happened.
Then everything made sense. A little like falling
in love…or graduating! A mystery until,
suddenly, you’re in the middle of it. On the
eve of India’s independence in 1947, Pandit
Nehru spoke of India’s approaching “tryst with
destiny.” His words were filled with a tender
awe and joyful anticipation that spread to those
who heard them:
Long years ago we made a tryst with destiny,
and now the time comes when we
shall redeem our pledge, not wholly or in
full measure, but very substantially. At the
stroke of the midnight hour, when the world
sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom.

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A moment comes, which comes but rarely in
history, when we step out from the old to the
new, when an age ends…The appointed day
has come—the day appointed by destiny.
Without detracting from what that night
meant for modern India, you, too, are at the
eve of independence. You have been plodding
along step by step, from grade 9 to grade 10,
from first semester to second, from Day Three
to Day Four, from homework to exam, from
IGCSE to AP—it all seemed gradual. But
now you’re at a watershed event. In one day
you’ll move from child to adult. The words
“in school” will no longer apply to you. This
is a time to remember. Remember where you
came from—your parents, your home, your
land. Remember where you are now—what
you have learned and shared at this school.
And remember your Creator, the one who
appoints a time for everything that happens
and makes everything beautiful.
One final word: when you leave this place,
you, too, will not be forgotten. As you join the
ranks of Woodstock’s distinguished alumni,
we will…remember you.
Dale Seefeldt attended Woodstock as a student
from kindergarten until his graduation
in1964. After completing a Bachelor’s degree
in classical languages at Houghton College
he joined the Army and was stationed in Okinawa
as a radio decoder. He then returned
to US where he completed a Master’s degree
in linguistics at Northern Illinois, and a Master’s
degree in Theology at Wheaton College.
In 1976 he moved back to India, where, over
the next 22 years, he completed a number of
projects including a complete translation of
the Bible into Hindi. He also served on the
Woodstock School Board of Directors during
this period.
In 1998 he joined the Woodstock staff as head
of the ESL department, and over the next 11
years, he assumed the position of Head of High
School for four years, and ended his career at
Woodstock as the Head of Foreign Languages.
During his time at Woodstock, Dale also taught
religious education classes. He now works in
Atlanta, Georgia, doing pastoral work with St.
Paul’s Presbyterian Church.
Do you have a nomination for the
Distinguished Alumni Roll?
We’d like to hear from you – alumni@woodstock.ac.in
2011
Gabriel Campbell ’65, Tom Alter ’68
2010
Ashoke Chatterjee ’51, Margaret Loehlin
Shafer ’56
2008
Bob Fleming Jr. ’54, Chris Anderson ’74
2007
Bhavenesh Kumari Patiala '50, TZ Chu '52,
Dorothy Irene Riddle '60, Robert E. Scott '62
2006
Mark Kenoyer '70, Frank Mayadas '57
2005
Marty Alter Chen '60, Richard Brown '58,
Gerry Williams '42
2004
Brig. Hukam Singh Yadav '38, Smt. Nayantara
Sahgal '43, Dr. Frederick S. Downs '49
2003
Dr. Robert C. Alter '43, Dr. Robert B. Griffiths
'52, Dr. Carl E. Taylor '32

Commencement address
Jalabala Vaidya
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Dear Principal Laurenson, Members of the
Board, Distinguished Guests, Mr. Ben Lall,
all the members of the faculty and staff:
thank you for asking me to be here today to
share this important step in the lives of the
graduating class of 2011. I speak to you all,
you lucky students of Woodstock School who
have chosen to make Woodstock their Alma
Mater, their ‘generous mother’ to guide them
in their learning and the formation of their
characters and personalities, and specially,
the class of 2011 for whom I am here today to
wish Godspeed in your lives, and to say with
Lord Krishna in the Bhagavad Gita, and in the
words of T.S. Eliot, ‘fare forward travelers’.
As many of you must know I am an actor, an
artist, an entertainer, a person who makes you
laugh and cry, to make you, the audience, aware
of the meaning and the value of your existence.
I am an artist who follows the path of Indian
classicism, an outlook not conditioned or
restrained by religion or any other sectarian
consideration, but by a sense of the beauty
of totality, that which is both manifest—creation,
and that which is formless—unknowable,
not perceivable by our five senses
(or their extensions, like microscopes and
telescopes), but nonetheless there, and also
present in each one of us. Which does not
mean that God, and we, do not laugh. ‘For
God’s sake, God, are you God or aren’t you
God?’ a character in one of my husband,
Gopal Sharman’s films, asks.
We both began our grown up lives as journalists
in Delhi, though Gopal had trained to
be a classical singer and I had enjoyed and
excelled at theatre in school and University.
We met as journalists. A couple of years later
(we were married by then) a fairy tale took
over our lives!
Gopal was editing Sunday edition of the
Indian Express newspaper, the Sunday Standard,.
Every week end he wrote a piece for
the paper under the pseudonym Nachiketas,
a character from the Upanishads. It was
either a story or a poem and I thought they
were very beautiful. I was in love of course,
which you might say could have influenced
my judgment. One day a search was instituted
for Gopal by the renownend scholar and
intellectual and President of India, Dr. Radhakrishnan.
He had recently had a cataract
operation which had made him miss several
Nachiketas pieces and he wanted the poet to
come to Rashtrapati Bhavan and read them
aloud to him. Gopal asked me to read his
pieces aloud because he said I was a better
reader. The President and his distinguished
guests listened with rapt attention. Every
now and then the President would stop me
to explain to his guests how beautifully Gopal
had used a difficult philosophical idea
expressed in this or that Upanishad. They
loved it all. Dr. Radhakrishnan said to me,
you can’t just do this for us. The writing is
so beautiful and modern and young, and yet
based in our traditional thought! Many, many
people should hear this. I have to tell you that
the President was amazed to find that Gopal
was young, North Indian, wore slacks and a
turtle-necked tee and moved around the city
on a bicycle, with a little Hermes typewriter.
A few days later, the President arranged for us
to perform at the Azad Bhavan auditorium in
Delhi on Friday the 13th of January.
We called our show ‘Full Circle’, Gopal’s
poems and stories recited by me, and songs
sung by Gopal. And here is the Fairy Tale bit.
To the performance came not only the critics
who wrote fulsome praise in their reviews
the next day, but also several Ambassadors
and we were invited to bring ‘Full Circle’
to Rome, Belgrade, Zagreb and Lubljiana!
So we set forth to conquer the world or at
least Europe with our stories and poems and
songs. And so we did! Rome, Belgrade, Zagreb,
Lubljiana led to the Vatican, Munich,
Frankfurt, Brussels, London! Rave reviews,
front page pictures, full houses, proper theatres
and television programmes too!
The Fairy Tale happened for two unknown
young Indians. We earned enough money to
buy ourselves a shiny black VW Beetle and
travelled through Europe soaking in the delights:
Florence, the Alps, a Wagnerian opera
in Munich, La Boheme in Zagreb, a musical
in Lubljiana, Brecht play in Frankfurt, performing
at the Theater Poeme in Brussels.
The Writers Club in Belgrade, Spumanti
wine, Rhine wine, dancing and drinking all
night while men at nearby tables toasted me
by smashing their glasses on the floor and
calling out ‘La Bella Indiene’. Most wonderful
of all: performing, performing, people
listening to Gopal’s words. Communicating
a sense of beauty, willy nilly a sense of India
and Gopal’s beautiful voice making me cry
real tears as he sang the Kabuliwala’s Ae
Mere Pyare Watan song and as we ended
with Iqbal’s Sare Jahan se Accha, Hindustan
Hamara.
And this brings me to something I have been
told about, that in the Class of 2011, there
are quite a few of you who are thinking
seriously about taking up one of the arts as
a profession.
The arts, whether painting, sculpting; film,
television, photography; acting, directing;
dancing, choreography; music, classical,
instrumental or vocal, Indian or Western; or
rock and metal, pottery, laser shows, installation
art whatever—the arts all have several
most important things in common.
To practice an art you have to learn the craft
of it. The craft often means a great deal of
drudgery, like learning lines, for instance, or
practicing scales. Hours and hours of work.
No cheering audience, just hard, lonely
work. If you don’t have the craft you do
not have the means to communicate what
burns inside you to be told. If you don’t
have a passion that burns inside you to communicate
something most dear, most true to
you, forget it.
Most people are happiest with the security
of a regular job, the assured income, the
well worn path upwards, the well earned
retirement, the annual increment, the annual
vacation. Yes, there is stress here too, fierce
competition, office or business politics, family
entanglements. But it is the better path for
most of us, and not to be derided. Then too,
each life has its opportunity for a moment of
bravery, of true sacrifice, of true love, of the
elation of having made the right, the dharmic
choice.

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But the artist’s life is truly different. It’s like
balancing on the highwire with no safety
net, and the ground below is littered with
those who fell off. Not just in the case of
financial security of which there is none,
but in the case of a misjudgment, an over
estimation of one’s own talent. That talent
has to have a spine of great integrity, an
insight, an instinct for what is true and good
and beautiful—Satyam, Shivam, Sundaram.
One cannot exist without the other. Art, when
it is great, is like a mystical experience. An
experience of harmony and joy, a fleeting
glimpse of divinity.
Because it is the divinity in great art that
touches the divine in each one of us with
whom it communicates. But it is a long, long
road, a long, long quest to get there.
Are you prepared for all this unknown? You
who are just eighteen and dew beaded fresh
in your hair?
Maybe some of you are. If you are lucky you
will have a good arts school to carry you a
little further on. Even if you do not find one
you will still be an artist if it is inside you.
I told you about a fairy tale start to Gopal
and my lives. We are blessed to have had,
to still have each other. Not that we have not
experienced pain and want and going without,
and people not able to see what we are doing.
When we first met Gopal wrote this for me:
A Woman
A woman is not made: she happens, like
The rainbow which just happens. She is
The sun, the wind-chased cloud, the
Evening, raintime and rainend
But the rainbow —
She just happens.
And between the tips of the arch then
I am strung like the string on
A bow. Or better, like the singing string
On a lute.
Pluck me woman and see how I sing,
This high strung string!
Probably the most important lesson art
teaches one is to focus on what one is doing
so strongly, so intently, that one ’s self disappears,
only the work remains. You are doing it
to tell someone, something inside you, that is
precious. The Welsh poet, Dylan Thomas said:
In My Craft and Sullen Art
Exercised in the still night
When only the moon rages
And the lovers lie abed
With all their griefs in their arms,
I labour by singing light
Not for ambition or bread
Or the strut and trade of charms
On the ivory stages
But for the common wages
Of their most secret heart.
Not for the proud man apart
From the raging moon I write
On these spindrift pages,
Nor for the towering dead
With their nightingales and psalms
But for the lovers, their arms
Round the grief of the ages,
Who pay no praise or wages.
Nor heed my craft or art.
Jalabala Vaidya is a stage actress who has
had a lifelong passion for opera and western
classical music. Ms. Jalabala Vaidya is
the Secretary of Akshara National Classical
Theatre of India which was founded by poetplaywright
Gopal Sharman, her husband.
Akshara Theatre is well known for its theatrical
productions, like the “Ramayana”, and
is a non-profit making, non-governmental
organization, established with the purpose of
presenting live theatrical performances and
to make recordings and films of drama, music,
dance and poetry.
Presented by Sareega Shetty ’10 on
behalf of her grandmother, Jalabala
Vaidya.
Milestone Reunions
Do you remember your graduation?
What better way to celebrate your anniversary than by revisiting
Woodstock.
Take your seat again in Parker Hall. Walk the path from Hostel and
Midlands – and bemoan the passing of years as you remember
how you used to run up the hill! Walk the chakkar and see the
snow peaks again.
The Alumni Office can help you make your milestone reunion
special by booking hotels, arranging transport from Delhi and
organizing activities within the school.
Contact Monica Roberts, Alumni Secretary, for more information
at alumni@woodstock.ac.in.

Valedictorian speech
Tariqa Farrell Tandon
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Tariqa Farrell Tandon with her mother
Good Morning Respected Chairman Mr.
Chandy, Principal Dr. Laurenson, Teachers,
Parents, Family and Friends of Woodstock
School, distinguished guests, fellow students,
and Luminescence, Class of 2011. It’s
my privilege to address you this morning.
So, a few weeks ago, we had WOSA tea,
and at one point, all the alumni and longtime
staff members were asked to complete
the following sentence: “Because of Woodstock…”
As I heard the various responses, I
started to think about it – what would I say
if I were asked that question? So, here are
my responses:
Because of Woodstock, I have hiked a
hundred kilometres up to school every day.
Because of Woodstock, I have learnt the
value of diversity, especially in the dining
hall. (Chicken Nilgiri, Chicken-do-pyaza,
Chicken Makhan-wala, Chicken Masala,
Chicken Hyderabadi). Strangely, they all
have the same orange sauce.
Because of Woodstock, I submitted assignments
till the very last hour of my high
school career.
Because of Woodstock, I know the importance
of citing my sources correctly.
Because of Woodstock, I learnt to appreciate
all the global forms of noodles.
Because of Woodstock, I’ve learnt how to
adjust to changes really well.
Because of Woodstock, I understand the
world I live in and I think globally.
Because of Woodstock, I’ve been the recipient
of a broad, liberal arts education that
allowed me to get a taste of many different
subject areas
Lastly, because of Woodstock, hopefully, I
have learnt how to give an effective speech.
Though it is clear that Woodstock has given
our class and each one of us something
to take away, what have we done for this
school? Yes, we are proud to be graduates
of Woodstock, but why should Woodstock
be proud of us, Luminescence, the class of
2011? While some of you may be modest,
and might think that what our class has done
for this school is no different from previous
graduating classes, I think that right now,
it is the perfect time to boast about our
achievements as a class.
We are one of the most authentic groups
of people I have encountered, and I am not
just saying this because I am a part of this
class, but because I truly believe it. We are
not fake – our problems are in the open, and
we don’t try to cover up our flaws. Instead,
we learn from them and learn to overcome
them. Over the past 4 years, our class has
risen from its problems like a phoenix rises
from its ashes. That’s why our flag is so appropriate.
It was because of our class that the
Luminescence Fund came about, and we are
the first class to achieve such a success. Each
one of us contributed to the cause of higher
education for the children of Woodstock
employees who have served us.
It was under the leadership of members of
our class that the assemblies were transformed,
for example, the Friday student run
assemblies were introduced. It was under the
leadership of members of our class that the
Jordi Village project came about to build a
library in a local village, and the first successful
goal-a-thon was held in support of
this effort. It was largely because of the
leadership of the senior boys in the basketball
team that we had such a successful
basketball season this year, and even won the
Win Mumby basketball championship after
centuries. It was because of hardworking
members of our class that such a wonderful
yearbook came out this year.
We are one of the easiest classes to work
with, and have dealt very well with all the
challenges we’ve encountered – for example,
we did not make a big fuss when we
were told that our STAR weekend was to be
held in Mussoorie itself. I know it sounds
like I’m boasting as I go through this list, but
I actually think that one of the qualities that
has allowed these accomplishments is that
we are humble and teachable. We keep trying
to learn and that’s the basis for our success.
So, we have our liberal arts educations, our
global awareness, our authenticity and our
willingness to work hard. But, the question
is, what will we do with these now? We’re
definitely going to face a whole new set of
challenges. And these are the qualities that
will enable us to take on the challenges.
With our liberal arts education, we can appreciate
not only the disciplines we major in
when we go on to higher education, but also
the human knowledge that resides in other
disciplines as well. Our global awareness
helps us understand how we all are interconnected,
and helps us respect diversity. Our
authenticity will help us build and maintain
relationships, both professionally and personally.
And, our willingness to work hard
is our insurance to underwrite risks.
Wherever each of our lives may take us, we
should remember our unique identity we
have forged together at Woodstock. There
will be times when we may not succeed, but
at these times, remember the phoenix in our
class flag, and rise again. Be Luminescent,
and remember, as Saint Francis of Assisi
said, “All the darkness in the world cannot
extinguish the light of a single candle”.
And, the world, be prepared, for Luminescence,
the Class of 2011, is ready to shine.
And that’s because of Woodstock.
Thank You.

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Salutatorian speech
Hyun Kue Jeong
Hyun Kue Jeong amuses President of the
Board Thomas Chandy
Good Morning, distinguished guests, parents,
staff, friends and my fellow graduating class
of 2011, it is an honour for me today to have
the opportunity to share my thoughts at this
formal occasion.
A few days ago, some of my friends told me
about Ms Seefeldt’s expectations of the student
speakers at the graduation. She has allegedly
said, “the valedictorian has been working on
her speech for about two weeks, but the salutatorian
will probably make up his speech just
five minutes before the actual ceremony.” Well.
I wasn’t too sure about that, at least at first. As
much as I would have loved to refute such an
appalling and degrading supposition (joke,
Ms Seefeldt), I must admit that she was right as
I eventually ended up putting off my preparation
for this speech until yesterday night.
Following the parents banquet yesterday
which on a side note, gave an invaluable
opportunity to hear from the perspective of
parents, I was left baffled with the task of
having to arrange the speech for the next
morning. Although numerous questions were
raised in my head due to complete lack of
prior planning, the most fundamental among
them was “what on earth am I even going
to talk about?” As far as I was concerned,
the Valedictorian speech had to do with the
values of the Woodstock experience and I
most certainly did not want to put all of you
to sleep by discussing an identical matter in
this joyful event.
To be honest, I could have probably put together
a usual generic speech without much
difficulty saying stuff like the graduation is
not the end but the new beginning and that
this is a new chapter in our lives.. Whatever.
But I am sure that we, who are no longer
children but ladies and gentlemen, as Aman
stated at the Baccalaureate, are already well
aware of the presence of various challenges in
the future. I instead hope to leave my friends
with an advice that may prove to be helpful
in addressing such challenges wherever you
may find yourself.
I had around two and a half hours of sleep
last night, having not only to write this
speech but also to finally prepare my gifts
and pack all my belongings. The question
is, am I going to learn from this experience
and stop putting off the necessary work?
For me the answer is probably NO. After
all procrastination has always been a part
of me, and it is now at the stage that it feels
even wrong when I finish an assignment
well before the due date. Nonetheless, I am
willing to fix this issue eventually.; it may
take consecutive days of all-nighters at college
or failing in an assignment, but I am
sure I will, in the near future, be motivated
to take my work more seriously in a more
demanding environment. I mean I didn’t do
too badly here despite my tendency to be
‘laid back’; after all I am salutatorian, not a
bad achievement you know.
By saying all this however, I am not warning
you merely against procrastinating since I
know that there are many hard-working in our
class who in fact deserve to be here instead of
me. What I have been attempting to tell all of
you is that you should learn or at least, like
me, be willing to learn from your mistakes.
Many of my friends tell me that I would have
been able to achieve anything had I put the
effort in. Although I highly doubt that, it’s still
I think very much possible. Similarly, learning
from mistakes will allow you to transform
your faults into your strengths, and such will
help us encounter the inevitable challenges in
life that must be dealt with.
And that was my last minute prepared speech
and congratulations to our class of Luminescence
and all those who helped us to get
here for the long-waited graduation which
looked like it was never going to come but
eventually did.
Thank You.
The SAGE Program offers high school students the opportunity to travel
and study abroad as a way to gain greater understanding of the world and
themselves. Travel abroad becomes a transformative experience, which is
carefully designed to allow participants to grow intellectually, socially, and
emotionally. We challenge students to move beyond their comfort zone, to
think more critically about the world and themselves, and to become engaged
and responsible global citizens.
“A year on the SAGE Program means many things. It means adventure,
new friendships, high-quality education and a broader world view. Perhaps
my only regret is that I couldn’t stay longer.”
–Sherry Cohen, Washington, DC
For more information, visit the SAGE website at
www.sageprogram.org

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Graduating Class of 2011
Front row: Nan Onkka, Greg Miller, Ajay Mark, Ray Husthwaite, Shonila Chander, James Rice, Amy Seefeldt, Andrzej Plonka
Second row: Anum Hashmi, Lan Huong Dang, Kaanhari Singh, Jivika Mehra, Anah Iqbal, Yerim Park, Jaza Samuel, Abigail Jiang Ping Wood, Shreen Vaid, Eun Bit Park, Maari Watanabe,
Shekinah Rachel Chandy, Neha Bali, Ji Eun Yang, Jae Eun Shim, Tariqa Farrell Tandon, Sonam Dickey Lama, Kritika Tara Deb, Reed Lauren Byg, Maynica Sachdev, Pema Yangchen Sadutshang,
Anamika Sumit Bhatt, Chimey Dolkar, Penli Mongla Jamir
Third row: Mina Zahin, Lalzirliani Chinzah, Devika Hastak, Sachika Mehra, Dharadipika Hopkins, Maria Asad-Dehghan, Seoyoung Kim, Nitisha Mohapatra, Sanghamitra Ghosh, Jeong Yeon Lim,
Nayantara Shilpin Patel, Sonam Yangki Jattu, Makani Rose Nakasone, Ye Na Lee, Maren Tims Magill, Ashika Rachel Thanju, Rakchira Dalbot Shira, Shirly Susan Samuel
Fourth row: Ngawang Dhonten, Benjamin Thapa, Arsh Bansal, Se Min Suh, Mohammed Salman Kanazawa, Sungeun Moon, Young Jin Lee, Aman Sethi, Harit Kohli, Karan Raj Kohli, Siddhant
Gupta, Joseph R. Touthang, Sidharth Varma Datla, Rajiv More, Jocelyn Edmond Edouard Basseporte, Jeremy Sunil Arthur
Back row: Daniel Rollins, Amit Minoo Lalvani, Shayan Nejad, Armaan Bindra, Bu Lee, Min Jae Park, Gitanjaya Dhakal, John Foster Latta Charles, Adnan Raul Valdes Bhattacharjea, Yeonwoong
Lee, Hyun Kue Jeong, Yu Sung Eo, Imaan Singh Dhaliwal, Tenzing Namgay Dorji, Aditya Vikram Das, Anshuman Deora, Gaurav Kusum Adhikari, Atif Husain, Jai Nalwa
Not pictured: Trishla Golechha, Aurnab Aziz Saleh

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2011 awards
Each year, outstanding achievements by our students and staff are recognised in many ways. A number of awards have
been established to honour the lives of teachers or students, and are much sought-after. The major awards and their
recipients for the 2010–2011 school year are recorded below.
SENIOR SCHOOL AWARDS
Valedictorian Tariqa Farrell Tandon
Salutatorian Hyun Kue Jeong
Best All-Round Student Award
Se Min Suh
Student Government Award
Kritika Tara Deb, Yu Sung Eo
Pratap Chatterjee Memorial
Science Award Armaan Bindra
Poad Music Shield Se Min Suh
Mubarak Masih Indian Music Shield
Trishla Golechha
E. E. Miller International Award
Tariqa Farrell Tandon
Principal’s Award
Sidharth Varma Datla
Centennial Shield Grade 10 (Class of 2013)
Mathematics Award Not Given
Jimmy Cassinath Memorial Awards
• Drama Maria Asad-Dehghan
• Writing Not Given
• Art Aurnab Aziz Saleh
HIKING AWARDS:
• W. Lowrie Campbell Memorial
Hiking Cup Not Given
• Karen Krenz Cup Not Given
Champion House Award
Condors
Best Effort Award
Abigail Wood
Community Service Award
Beverly Dempsey Harp
Citizenship Awards
• Grade 12 Sanghamitra Ghosh
• Grade 12 Rajiv More
Writing Awards Sanghamitra Ghosh,
Nayantara Shilpin Patel, Shirly Susan
Samuel
Journalism Awards
• Writing Devika Hastak, Fileona Endoxa
Dkhar
• Production Daniel Anand Rollins,
Shreen Vaid
Audio-Visual Crew Awards
Daniel Anand Rollins
Hiking Pins Shayan Nejad, Daniel Anand
Rollins
Certificates Of Outstanding Achievement
• Mathematics Sungeun Moon
• Science
Biology Shirly Susan Samuel
Chemistry Tariqa Farrell Tandon
Environmental Science
Abigail Jiang Ping Wood
Physics Sungeun Moon
• Social Studies
Economics Hyun Kue Jeong
History
Adnan Raul Valdes Bhattacharjea
• Modern Languages
French Se Min Suh
English
Adnan Raul Valdes Bhattacharjea
• Visual Arts Dharadipika Hopkins
• Music
Orchestra Maren Tims Magill
Indian Music
John Foster Latta Charles
Scholastic Achievement with Silver Pin
(3+ Awards)
Grade 12 Hyun Kue Jeong, Ye Na Lee,
Sungeun Moon, Yerim Park, Nayantara Patel,
Shirly Samuel, Aman Sethi, Se Min Suh,
Tariqa Tandon, Ji Eun Yang
Scholastic Achievement
Grade 12 Anamika Bhatt, Armaan Bindra,
John Charles, Lalzirliani Chinzah, Siddhant
Gupta, Dharadipika Hopkins, Amit
Lalvani, Maren Magill, Makani Nakasone,
Daniel Rollins, Kaanhari Singh, Adnan
Valdes Bhattacharjea, Abigail Wood
JUNIOR SCHOOL AWARDS
Outstanding Academic Achievement
Award
• Grade 1 Sarahna Daliya
• Grade 2 Warris Godara
• Grade 3 Rohan Mathias
• Grade 4 Alyse Zaheer
• Grade 5V Healeam Jung
• Grade 5W Noel Archer
• Grade 6 Sharhirah Mathias
Music Award
• Grade 1 Sarahna Daliya
• Grade 2 Armaan Bhattacharjee
• Grade 4 Yaeyin Lee
• Grade 5V Sadhvi Schoier
• Grade 5W Tenzin Yigha
• Grade 6 Elisabeth Pesavento
Ruth Shepherd Award for Creative Writing
Rohan Mathias (Grade 3)
All School Awards
Citizenship Award Niranjan Bennett, Su
Lin Kim
Head of School
Aryan Khanna
Honor Roll
• Grade 5 Noel Archer, Abhishek
Bhandari, Nikunj Dalmia,
Hyechan Jun, Healeam Jung, Summer
Kang, Sophie Mero, Phunsok Norboo,
Sadhvi Schoier, Kabish Shrestha, Tenzin
Yigha, Jay Yunas
• Grade 6 Assem Aggarwal, Meghna
Das, Hyeji Jun, Aryan Khanna, Shanti
Mathias, Sharhirah Mathias, Elisabeth
Pesavento
Hiking Awards, Gold Level
Rohan Mathias, Padma Schoier, Noah
Douglas, Sadhvi Schoier, Meghna Das,
Shanti Mathias, Sharhirah Mathias, Vanalika
Nagarwalla, Elisabeth Pesavento, Aashish
Peters, Ambar Sarup, Niranjan Bennet,
Suryaansh Garg, Ayaan John.
Did you receive an award at Woodstock of which you are still proud? Tell us about
it. Go to www.woodstockschool.in/share and Share Your Story.

Distinguished Alumni 2011
J. Gabriel
Campbell ’65
Dr. James Gabriel
Campbell has
spent almost his
whole life in the
Himalaya. Born
at Landour Community
Hospital,
Mussoorie, he followed
his father, uncle and aunts in attending
Woodstock from Upper Kindergarten to graduation
(with a couple of years in the US). His
winter family home was in Jalandhar, Punjab.
Gabriel has a Ph.D. and M.Phil in Anthropology,
Religion and South Asian Studies from Columbia
University and Union Theological Seminary,
New York (With Distinction) and an M.A. and
B.A. from Wesleyan University, Connecticut
in Anthropology and History and Religion
(magna cum laude). For these degrees he spent
two separate years of field research living in
villages of Himachal Pradesh and Jumla, Nepal.
He speaks Nepali, Hindi, Urdu and Punjabi and
has studied French, Tibetan and Sanskrit. He has
published six monographs and books and over
100 articles and papers.
Following five years as the executive head of
the US Education Foundation in Nepal (Fulbright
Program) and director of operations for
Mountain Travel Nepal, Gabriel’s career has
focused on natural resource management and
local livelihood improvement in a number of
countries in the Himalaya. He has worked with
international development agencies, including
USAID, United Nations, the World Bank and
NGOs, especially The Mountain Institute, as a
specialist in the human dimensions of development
and in management roles. As Director
General of ICIMOD - the International Centre
for Integrated Mountain Development - for over
seven years, Gabriel supervised a staff of 150,
built an international headquarters and worked
with countries throughout the Himalaya to increase
cooperation and knowledge sharing. In
this role he was given a number of awards by the
countries of the region, international agencies,
and several large private sector IT companies.
Among his accomplishments, Gabriel is credited
with being instrumental in:
• establishing Community Forestry in Nepal
and reversing deforestation in the hills and
mountains of that country (this is now a
global model of success);
• establishing community based national
parks around Mt. Everest and Mt. Makalu -
Qomolangma National Nature Preserve in
Tibet, China and Makalu-Barun National
Park and Conservation Area in eastern
Nepal;
• designing Eco-development programs for
7 Project Tiger national parks in India that
have been subsequently expanded to other
park areas;
• pioneering scholarship on shamanism in
far Western Nepal, community institutions
for natural resource management, validity
of social science survey methods and
methodology, monitoring systems for
forestry in India and tenurial aspects of
development; and eco-tourism in Sikkim;
• building regional cooperation between
Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, China,
India, Nepal, Myanmar and Pakistan in a
number of areas such as: flood forecasting,
biodiversity conservation, GIS and glacial
lake mapping, disaster preparedness,
watershed management and agricultural
development, eco-tourism, climate change
research and adaptation strategies, Himalayan
bee development, promoting gender equality,
and increasing social inclusion.
Gabriel lives mostly in Nepal with his wife, Dr.
Lynn Bennett, also an anthropologist known for
her pioneering work on women and social inclusion
in the World Bank. He is active in WOSA
meetings in Nepal, and when possible, the US
and was happy to help host the Woodstock Jazz
Band who visited Kathmandu for Jazzmandu
in October 2010. He was the Commencement
Speaker at Woodstock for the class of ‘06.
Tom Alter ’68
Tom Alter has been a
well-known face to Indian
movie-goers for more
than three decades. Apart
from acting in Hindi films,
Tom Alter has exhibited
talent in theatre, in sports
and in literature.
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Tom Alter, the son and
grandson of American Presbyterian missionaries,
grew up in north India in the towns of Rajpur
and Mussoorie. As a child, he studied Hindi and
Urdu and, consequently, was referred to as the
‘blue-eyed sahib with the impeccable Hindi.’
After studying in Woodstock School from 1st to
12th Grade and graduating in 1968, Tom worked
as a sports teacher at St. Thomas School in Jagadhri,
Haryana and came back to the Woodstock
as staff for about two years.
In the early 1970s Tom fell in love with the movies
(after watching the classic film Aaradhna)
which led Tom to enrol in the prestigious Film
and Television Institute of India (FTII), where
he studied with the likes of Naseeruddin Shah,
Shabana Azmi, and other stalwarts of cinema.
Having been featured in almost 100 films, Tom
Alter has worked with noted filmmakers such
as Satyajit Ray, V. Shantaram, Raj Kapoor,
Hrishikesh Mukherjee, Manmohan Desai,
Vidhu Vinod Chopra, Manoj Kumar and Ismail
Merchant. He has played many significant roles
in his career and has had the privilege of working
with the best in Hindi cinema and Hollywood.
No actor in Hindi cinema has acted in as broad
a range of movies.
In addition to acting, Alter has also ventured into
direction: he directed a one-shot episode for the
short-lived series ‘Yule Love Stories’ in the mid-
1990s. He also worked on the small screen in
a number of popular serials: Junoon which ran
for five years and won him rave reviews, Zabaan
Sambhalke, Ghutan and a talk show Mere Ghar
Aana Zindagi are some of the popular shows
Tom has been part of. Tom Alter also made his
mark in theatre. Significant productions include
William Dalrymple’s ‘City of Djinns’ where he
shared a stage with the legend Zohra Sehgal. A
solo play Maulana, based on the life and vision
of freedom fighter Maulana Azad, is also running
to rave reviews in India and abroad.
Cricket was more than a passion for Tom Alter.
From the late 1980s to the early 1990s Tom was
a sports journalist. He continues to play cricket
for a film industry team MCC (Match Cut Club),
with Naseeruddin Shah, Aamir Khan and Nana
Patekar among others. He still writes on cricket
for a number of national and international publications.
At the WOSA 100 celebrations, Tom
captained a team of alumni in a closefought
match against the team led by
former staff member Brij Lal. Tom
Alter has also written three books,
one non-fiction and two fiction: The
Longest Race, Rerun at Rialto, The
Best in the World.
In 2008 Tom Alter was awarded the
prestigious Padma Shree (one of
India’s highest public honours) by the Indian
government in recognition for his services to
the field of arts and cinema. Tom Alter stands
out in every part of his professional life. In
Woodstock, as a student, as a staff member and
as a parent, Tom Alter has been a proactive,
keen and involved alumnus, an integral part of
the Woodstock heritage.

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WOSA-100
Our First Century
The first WOSA meeting was held at Woodstock School in 1911. We
marked the centenary with celebrations in Delhi and on the hillside
during October 19th - 23rd. Here’s a flavour of what happened,
drawn mainly from Anne Lind’s (S) blog. Anne played a large part in
the organization of the event, and we’re glad she enjoyed it! You can
see many more of her photographs at http://anne-india.blogspot.com.
Wednesday 19th – early arrivals plus Delhi alumni were treated to a
Bollywood dance and dinner evening, courtesy of Sumana Bhasin ’85.
Thursday afternoon was coming up day for most of those who were
attending, and registration was set up at the Woodstock gate from
2:00, with a welcome banner and photos of everyone as they arrived.
Meanwhile, the Quad was being prepared with golden streamers
overhead and the class flags hung from the balconies. It was breezy
most of the time, so the fluttering gold was very attractive.
Following registration, everyone gathered in the Quad for the Welcome
Dinner hosted by Principal Eleanor Nicholson. The current
Woodstock staff were invited to come and interact with the alumni
visitors. It was very festive, if a bit chilly. Pandit Ajit Singh performed
on the Vichitra Veena, and we were treated to a 15-minute
sneak preview of the Fall school musical, “Brigadoon,” two weeks
away from its opening in Parker Hall. Lillian Skinner Singh, class
of 1939, cut the 100-year cake.
Friday morning we had an all-school assembly in the gym. The
school took this opportunity to honour long-serving staff, and
two young teachers from the music department, Bethany and Abe
Okie, performed a set of updated variations on “Shadows”, which
reached a climax when Principal Eleanor Nicholson
was pressed into duty as Lady Gaga. After the assembly was over, our
volunteers took the visiting alumni for tours of the school. One group
went to the dorms on the lower level, but others did not. We headed out
Tehri Road to the Hanifl Centre for lunch. Even the older ones made it
very well. (It’s about a kilometer and slightly uphill.) It was pleasant
to sit around the grounds at Hanifl eating our box lunches.
After lunch, Friday got even busier. The Mela was held in the Quad
from 3:00 to 6:00. Vendor stalls ranged from food to handicrafts to
books. Following the Mela, the advanced student recital was held in
Parker Hall. Many students and visitors attended the recital, and they
still had time to get down to Hostel for the Pool Party and dinner. The
dinner had stalls serving many Indian food items, made fresh right in
front of us. Yum!
Saturday was a mostly open day. Some went to Wynberg Allen for
the inter-school sports, others to the bazaar. In the evening a dinner
was held at Rokeby Highlands at the top of the hill, hosted by Sanjay
Narang ’81. It was quite chilly, but there were several fires at which we
could warm ourselves. There was a lot of dancing, eating, and visiting.
Sunday we had a service in Parker Hall. Eleanor Nicholson and Amitavo
Roy (S) played a violin duet for the prelude and postlude. Four
alumni gave short reflections on how Woodstock influenced their
lives. Other alumni and former or long-term staff read the scriptures
and led the prayers.
Following the service, we headed to Hanson Field for the alumni cricket
match. For those of you who haven’t been here, it is below even the
lower dorms. We had a box lunch. The entire class of 1981 came, with
some of their members joining
in. There were two sides, led
by Tom Alter and Brij Lal, who
were probably the ones who first
brought cricket to Woodstock in
the 1960s. Everyone who played
seemed to have a great time.
And in the end the two sides
were tied (after 20 overs each).
It was a full and tiring weekend,
but a worthwhile and memo-
rable way to mark the passing
of 100 years of WOSA. Here’s
to the next 100!

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Gatherings
Class reunions
Class of 49
Mobile, AL - OCT 24-29, 2011
Attendees: Paul and Becky von Tucher,
Nedra Bloom (Becky’s sister and co planner)
and Don and daughter Catherine,
Helen (Banker) and Ivan Syswerda, Harvella
(Bauman) Stutzman and daughter
Sue Gillis, Betty (Bauman) Shelly, Bill
and Norma Parson, Anna Mae (Whitcomb)
Lennington, Diana (Bond) Holtshouser,
Reed Hunt and Joyce Moulton, Bob and
Eva Forsgren, Fred and Mary Downs, Joe
and Joan Chacko, Al (48) and Kathy Bauman,
Harold and Maxine Wilkinson. Bob
and Norma Jean Erny were unable to come
when Bob became ill.
Our schedule included visits to the Fort
Conde Welcome Center, Conde-Charlotte
House Museum, Mobile City Museum,
Tour of Dauphin Island Sea Lab Estuarium,
Bellingrath Gardens and Delchamps Gallery
of Boehm Porcelain, Fairhope, AL on
the Eastern Shore of Mobile Bay, and Gulf
Shores beach.
On Thursday night we enjoyed an Indian
Khanna cooked by Joe Chacko and friends,
followed by a class meeting and a documentary
video presented by Hal Wilkinson
about his mother’s father traveling to the
Arctic as a missionary. Hal’s mother was
born in the Yukon.
On Friday we toured the Oakleigh antebellum
mansion and historic complex. Each
evening we gathered at a local restaurant
for dinner and visiting.
Harvella (Bauman) Stutzman
Class of 51 – 60 years
well represented there back in our days at
the Mussoorie Olympics. In those days of
the late forties we moved up and down like
village goats. These days some of us move
somewhat more slowly.
Let one picture suffice to point to our presence
in the event which was the capstone of
the reunion for us – the School Assembly.
The picture shows several members of the
class, each a Veri Important Person (please
note the spelling of the first word to indicate
that we are “Truly” important persons).
Class of 51: Judy Landry, James Loehlin, Carolyn Smith (F), U Kyaw Win, Warren Hall Crain,
Pronoti Sinha, Ashoke Chatterjee, Charlene Chitamber Connell, John Morgan
The Class of ’51 was pleased to have mustered
a mighty contingent of fifteen people
(all of whom were somehow related to our
class or to one of our classmates, and several
of whom were actually proud members
of the Class of 51). We participated fully,
though not in full strength, at every one of
the events of WOSA 100. Be it noted that
in our day we were constrained to move
between Hostel/College/Ridgewood daily
with a weekly trek up as far as Kellogg
Church for Sunday worship and occasional
trips down to Hansen Field. This past month
we found events as far flung as the Hanifl (I
still can neither spell nor pronounce that!)
and some maidan even above Rokeby. None
of us however made it as far as Wynberg
Allen this time, though of course we were
Some of us have pointed to this reunion
as our last visit to Woodstock. I would
surely not include Ashoke in that, and almost
certainly I will myself be back. I doubt,
however, that we will have such a strong
contingent should we schedule a seventy
year or seventy-five year reunion. We will
certainly, however, continue to support and
boost Voodistock Iskool in whatever way is
appropriate for each of us. And we will hope,
though “Hulloo” is not around to modify the
lyrics, that one day we will sing of “Woodstock,
known over all the world!” “Hand”
rhymes well with “Land”. What rhymes
well with “world”? Perhaps: “Woodstock,
proudly our flag unfurled!”
Warren Hall Crain

Class of 65 – 45 years
“Pray for the people of Afghanistan. Pray for
the men who murdered my husband,” she said
in a quiet but firm voice as she handed out toy
Afghani camels to the assembled members of
the Woodstock class of 1965 gathered around
the table.
Speaking was Seija Terry, widow of Dan Terry,
our beloved classmate who, along with nine
other aid workers, had recently given his all in
the service of his Lord. Listening in respectful
silence were all 15 of us (plus kids and
spouses) who could afford the time and cost of
a trip last November to Woodstock to celebrate
Dan’s life and wax nostalgic once again as we
walked the covered passageway, stood in the
Quadrangle, chatted with Mrs. Kapadia, and
posed under the Lyre Tree.
Thank you especially to all the wonderful
faculty and staff at Woodstock, who rolled
out the red carpet for the Class of 65. Heck,
the last time I was a visitor at the principal’s
residence, it was to work off a straight gating;
and now I’m sipping chai, munching pakoras,
downing gulab jamuns, and shaking hands
with the good man himself.
In addition to the memorial service for Dan,
we were also privileged to attend an all-school
assembly, honoring classmate Dr. J. Gabriel
Campbell, recipient of the Distinguished
Alumnus Award, for his marvelous work as an
anthropologist in the Himalayas. (You can find
him on the web.)
Of course, we reserved one day for sightseeing.
My group decided to make the long trek
to Surkunda, you remember, out Tehri Road
past first and second Jabarkhet, Bears’ Hill,
the Gap, Suakoli, Dhanaulti, and then that
last killer mile straight uphill to the temple at
the top—exit taxi—and catch a breathtaking
view of the snows.
That night we sat around the campfire at
the Himalayan Castle and sang the mandatory
Woodstock songs while Jonathan Larson
played his guitar. After a while we broke into
a spirited rendition of “Jana, Gana, Mana,”
and with us we soon had several other hotel
residents clapping hands and singing India’s
national anthem in an unforgettable scene of
spontaneous patriotism.
All too soon it was time to catch the bus down to
Dehra and the Shatabdi Express back to Delhi,
for some to return home, for some to visit family,
for others to tour the Plains and the places of
their childhood, and for others to catch a flight
to Kathmandu as guests of Gabriel and his wife.
A side trip to Chitwan National Park, complete
with a ride on elephant back to spot chital,
sambhar, peafowl, and rhinos lurking in the
bushes—ask Jonathan—proved the highlight
of the Nepal experience, especially the drive
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back up over the mountains on roads that
people in their right minds—other than Dan
Terry—would never dream of navigating with
something other than a helicopter.
A Thanksgiving dinner at the Campbell residence
provided the final exclamation point on
a trip filled with them. Here we were in Kathmandu,
Woodstock grads (with a sprinkling
of spouses and kids thrown in) raised in India,
munching down Butterball turkey, cranberries,
mashed potatoes, and pumpkin pie in a
colonial rose garden and giving thanks in the
best American tradition.
I must admit that it took me a while to get acclimated
to life back in the U.S.—the congestion
in my lungs lingered for a month or two and
the “Delhi belly” a tad longer—but, seriously,
the memories are worth your time if your class
ever decides to have a reunion at Woodstock.
A smaller group of the Class of 65 met this
summer at Ft. Collins-WOSA and helped to
lead with song and story a gathering to recall
the work and vision of Daniel Terry. They were
joined by Dan’s sister Ruth and his daughters
Anneli ’99 and Saara ’02, who assembled
a photo essay on Dan’s life. A plan is under
discussion to launch an annual event at Woodstock
that would foster the values and practice
of peacemaking that marked Dan’s life.
by Marv Modder, for the class of ‘65
Class of ’65 at Woodstock School l-r front row: Cathy Forman, Mary Kay (Burkhalter) Larson, Dale Brown, Hilary (Roxburgh) McKenzie, J. Gabriel
Campbell, Karen (McCray) Modder-Border, Jessie Lacy back row: John Alter, Jonathan Larson, Derek Bean, Joanna (Gough) Roy, Delbert
Friesen, Marvin Modder, Greg Hartman, Daniel Blosser not pictured Anju (Dayal) Mathur

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Class of 71 – 40 years
The 40th reunion of the Class of 71 was
held in Flagstaff AZ over the weekend of
July 15-17. ANITA JOHNS HOWARD had
graciously offered to host. Little did she
realize what she was getting herself into!
Although the reunion officially started on
Friday, by Thursday evening there was
quite a crowd. Numerous pots of chai were
made and drunk as we reconnected with
classmates, renewed friendships and just
continued from where we left off 40+ years
ago. Friday we gathered back at Anita’s
house to welcome those arriving that day.
Some classmates took the opportunity to
do some sightseeing – the Grand Canyon
and Sedona both being within easy driving
distance of Flagstaff.
For dinner Anita cooked us an amazing
Mexican buffet with Hibiscus Margaritas.
We sat over dinner talking until the full
moon rose over the valley, and it was
chilly enough to move to the fire pit. MIKE
SINGH has just finished a documentary,
Valentino’s Ghost, about the West’s conception
and misconceptions of Arabs,
and he had brought a copy of it with him.
The film was shown and it proved to be
a provoking film prompting some great
discussions.
Saturday was more of the same: sightseeing,
hanging out, drinking chai and
of course the endless talking, laughing
and even some crying. Mike was interested
in hearing about our experiences
as third culture kids and spent his time
interviewing and videotaping classmates
and spouses. It made for some interesting
and emotional discussions. That evening
Anita had arranged Hindustani khanna for
us. But prior to that, we had namkeen and
pakoras, prepared by Iris, Judy, Tejal and
Roopa. The khanna was delicious. There
were close to 40 people at dinner so it was
held in the community hall at the firehouse
where Anita’s husband, Don, is the Fire
Chief! After dinner we had the mandatory
singing of Shadows and the sharing
of slides. The plans for our next reunion
were revealed - India in 2014, details to
be disclosed at a later date. Iris Hunter,
Bruce Ferguson and Rahul Amin are the
planning committee.
After cleaning up the firehouse (many
hands made light work) we returned to
Anita’s house for more chai, talk, and a
second showing of Mike’s documentary.
Some of us stayed up until the wee hours
talking around the firepit. It was a special
evening.
Sunday, amid cups of chai, promises to
keep in touch and chants of Vadodara in
2014, the group began to break up. By
mid-afternoon there were eight classmates
and five spouses remaining. It was decided
that we should go visit a park which had
lava flows from an extinct volcano and
some old Native American ruins. The vistas
were beautiful and the talk continued
to be invigorating, even though we were
all exhausted.
On Monday the rest of us left and I am
sure that Anita was glad to have her house
back. We missed all of you who weren’t
able to make it and hope that all of you
will be in India for our 43rd Reunion!!
The list of attendees included: Rahul
Amin, Bob Conrad, Smruti Bhagat
Dale, John Davis, Bruce Ferguson, Gary
Gamble, Gary Geisbrecht, Cheryl Groff,
Anita Johns Howard, Iris Hunter, Mohan
Gupta Kejriwal, Anne Marriott, Michael
Midkiff, Bharat Patel, Gary Peterson,
Monroe Sawatzky, Victor Schoonmaker,
Bill Scott, Martha Brown Sill, Judy King
Sims, Mike Singh, and many spouses and
partners.
Judy
Class of ’71 in Arizona L to R: Gary Giesbrecht, Gary Gamble, Judy Sims, Michael Singh,Bruce Ferguson, Anne Marriot, Smruty Bhagat, Bill
Scott, Monroe Sawatzky, Anita Howard, Iris Hunter, Bharat Patel, Cheryl Groff Hess, Martha Brown Sill, John Davis, Rahul Amin, Mahendra Mohan
Gupta, Mohan Gupta Kejriwal, Michael Midkiff, Victor Schoonmaker and Gary Peterson.

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Class of 76 – 35 years
We had a wonderful class reunion near Minneapolis
this summer. Those who came were:
SHARON GETTER (who is still teaching in
Lhasa), MARK and JENNIE NANAKUL
SOMERS (MI), CHERI (McKinley) and
Gary MARSHALL (KY), JEFF and SUE
SWAIN ROLLINS (at WS), DEAN JOHNS
BERNARD (MA), with daughter Asha,
MARY FEIERABEND GERARD (WI),
NANCY SACKMAN (SC), with son, Josh,
ANDREA STUTZ MITCHELL (VA),JOY
GARRISON SIMPSON (ON), and JAN
PLUMMER and Tony DAVIDSON, who
organized this for us. We obviously have
adjusted to technology since WS - half of
us pulled out our laptops to share our pictures
and view our missing classmates on
Facebook. We had a wonderful weekend
together, talking, eating, going on walks and
going on a boat tour to see the eagles. It was
fun to talk with TULIKA on the phone in
Calcutta. We hope to do this again in about
5 years, but small get-togethers will always
take place between now and then.
Joy
Class of 76 reunion w/ WS friends: L-R Back row: Mark Somers, Mary Feierabend Girard, Jan
Plummer Davidson, Sharon Getter, Joy Garrison Simpson, Jeff Rollins, Carol Remington Ivance
’78 2nd row: Ronda Getter Ren ’73, Cherie McKinley Marshall, Jennie Nanakul Somers, Andrea
Mitchell, Nancy Sackman, Josh Sackman, Sue Swain Rollins ’77, Cheryl Lindquist Higgins ’75
In front kneeling: Dean Johns Bernard with his daughter Astha, Debbie Getter Thoe ’75, Robin
Thoe’07
Class of 81 – 30 years
It so happened that the 100th anniversary of
WOSA coincided with the 30th anniversary of
our class’ graduation from Woodstock. Thanks
to the generous contributions of room, board
and local transportation from Sanjay Narang
- and the tons of organizational work from
himself, Nabil Sheber, Pinder Bhangra, and
staffers Sharon Machado and Vanessa Pretto
(both by now part of the ‘81 family) - about 23
classmates, plus 20 of their family members,
were able to attend. Financial contributions
from other classmates helped pave the way for
a few who would not otherwise have been able
to join us - huge thanks to the donors for that!
The very full schedule started, for some, on
Tuesday the 18th in Delhi, where Sara Ahmed
gave a dinner at her house for classmates and
Delhi-based alumni. On the 19th many met
at the WOSA Gala in Delhi (which someone
else will have to report on - jet lag and Delhi
Belly prevented me from attending). The 20th
saw most of us wending our way to Landour
via plane, train, and automobile. We were accommodated
at Rokeby (now, under Sanjay’s
ownership, a beautiful and very comfortable
hotel), in the guest rooms at Oakville (thanks,
Steve and Ameeta!), and at Sanjay’s and Pinder’s
homes.
That evening we all met in the Quad for the
WOSA dinner, a great occasion to chat with
many old friends and former and current staff
members. It was great to see George Ruddock
back for a semester, teaching some of our kids
who are now at WS! Then we went up to Sanjay’s
beautiful home at Bothwell Bank to talk
on the deck by a fire and dance the night away
to that old folks’ music we enjoy. ;-)
The next morning we were served an excellent
breakfast at Rokeby (including peanut butter
for our toast or pancakes, of course!), then
headed for the fancy new gym for assembly
with the current students and staff. Those who
wished toured the campus, and some were
even interviewed by the journalism class. That
afternoon there was a Mela in the Quad (what
we used to think of as June Sale - the school
held it late this year for the benefit of visiting
alumni), followed by a dinner and dance given
by Sanjay at the newly-revamped Hostel. The
excellent catering was done by Omi (of Omi’s
sweet shop fame), with a long row of stands
offering everything from chaat to dosas to barfi
to mocha coffee. This was the first Woodstock
dinner I have ever attended where it wasn’t
necessary to wait in line to get fed.
The dance in Hostel gym was carried on earsplittingly
by a DJ flown in from Bombay.
And it wasn’t even necessary to walk up the
hill afterwards - cars were standing by on
Ridgewood Field to take us home.
Saturday morning we all met for a catered
breakfast at Mt. Hermon. The day was mostly
free. I should mention that we spent the various
free times hanging out in Pinder’s garden (as
manager of Rokeby, he and his family live in
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at Tenzing’s home Shanti - with several new
rooms added on, it was able to accommodate
a number of classmates and other alumni.
Saturday evening Sanjay threw a Diwali
party for WOSA and staff at the “Highlands”
overlooking Rokeby - a party area complete
with hot tubs. There was great food, danceable
music provided by a duo from Bombay and a
band of Woodstock staff (including Darab),
fireworks, and even a belly dance exhibition
by an alumna.
The emotional highlight of the evening was
when the class gathered closely around Jeet
(he couldn’t get any of the band’s amps working
with his guitar) to hear a song he had
composed for the occasion: “Thirty Years
On”: My sisters and my brothers when will
we discover Why we have to come back to
this place That loves us like a mother, teaches
us like a father Years that we’ve been gone
and still we do belong here just the same…
which left us all bawling. I hope he’ll make a
recording available soon.
Though Jeet wasn’t expecting such a big
crowd, of course it touches all of us, not just
the class of ‘81.
Sunday those who wished had their choice of
church services to attend, followed by brunch
at Rokeby. Then we piled into cars to drive
down to Hanson Field for a cricket game with
captains Brij Lal and Tom Alter. Men who
had not played in decades bravely took the
field, eventually battling to a tie. Many of us
had never actually sat through a cricket game
before, and enjoyed it (along with the snarky
commentary from the stands). There were
two more days of activities in and around
Mussoorie, but I left on the Monday to see
some other parts of India with my traveling
companion.
Thanks are also due to the alumni office and
everyone else at Woodstock for all the hard
work that went into making this a memorable
visit. It was great to see everyone, both classmates
and others. My only regret, as usual, is
that there is never enough time to talk with
everybody!
Deirdre
Class of 86 – 25 years
The Class of 86 had our 25th reunion in
Edison, over the July 4 weekend. It was graciously
hosted by ANSHU AGGARWAL at
his home. Lots of fun for everyone – some
of us were meeting after 25 yrs and it was
wonderful catching up. Having the spouses
and kids there added to the fun. Members
from surrounding classes were also invited.
In attendance were Anshu and wife, Rashi,
children Om and Maya, FAISAL KHAN,
BOBBY SINGH, MURCHANA MOHAPA-
TRA SATPATHY, JUNAID ALIM and
wife, Tabassum, MANOJ BHASIN, JOSH
SHERER, SIM KIM KELLNER, ANJALI
TANDON RUSSANO with husband, Pete,
and VIJAY GOYAL and wife Ritu, children
Zoya and Abhimanyu. CHRIS HALE
dropped by for a short while.
Also present were MANOJ AGGARWAL
’87, TARUN CHACHRA ’87 and wife
Neema, children Diya and Krish, PAWAN
AGARWAL ’88 and wife, Divya, children
Jagat and Mira, and ANIL TECKWANI
’89 - his brother, NARESH, ’84 dropped by.
VIJAY KANCHI ’87 was able to join us for
drinks on the first night, along with KOKIL
CHACHRA ’00, Tarun’s cousin.
On that first evening, everyone enjoyed
Indian-Chinese cuisine at a local restaurant,
followed by a raucous night at a local watering
hole. The following morning Faisal took
Junaid and Tabassum on a whirlwind tour of
Manhattan and picked up MANDHIR SAWH-
NEY on the way back for a party at Anshu’s
house that night. On Sunday, Murchana laid
out a fantastic brunch at her home - it was
raining hard, reminding us of the monsoons
in Mussoorie. Anjali’s ‘86 yearbook provided
many laughs, and wonderful memories as
well. Although the world has shrunk and
we are in constant touch via facebook and
email, it was truly fantastic to see the familiar
faces and growing families and to reconnect.
Everyone had lots of news about various
schoolfriends and the varying and interesting
life experiences they have had, and there are
rumors afoot that another reunion in another
five years is already being planned!
Faisal
Class of 01 – 10 years
For the Class of 2001, coming back to Woodstock
was like coming back after a short holiday.
The only exception is that everything
has changed. (Which was very devastating).
Our dorm rooms had become hallways and
toilets, our old nooks and crannies, open
spaces. The non-electric, non-wifi, noncushy
comforts that made us independent,
strong-willed, capable human beings - gone.
Don’t get us wrong: I’m sure the kids of
Woodstock today aren’t complaining, but
as Daniel said to one dorm parent: “but
we used to have to shower together, there
were no cubicles!” These were the things
that made Woodstock what it was... and as
we huff and puff to Chardukhan to stuff our
faces with Bun Omelettes and Wai Wai with
Cheese, complaining of how old and unfit
we are... we remember so much and Thank
you Woodstock and the people who made
us who we are.

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Other gatherings
WOSA-NA Reunion Conference
2011
More than 130 WOSA members gathered in
Fort Collins, Colorado, for the 25th North
American reunion. The program was especially
rich, with a plenary keynote address by
Ved Nanda, Professor of International Law at
Denver University. Workshop sessions were
given by NGOs working in many parts of
the world. Memories of Dan Terry ’65 were
shared in one session by his friends and family.
The Sunday evening concluding program was
given by Philip Lutgendorf, former WS staff
member, who is writing a book, Chai, Why?
The Sunday celebration was led by Jerry
Weaver ’59, with the assistance of Vance
George (S) leading the choir and piano by
Robert Bonham ’59. Attendees were generous
in giving an offering for the education of WS
employees’ children.
Willie Knierim ’59 led the local committee,
all of whom spent long hours making sure that
everything went like clockwork.
During the business meeting on Friday evening
the membership approved the merger
of WOSA-North America with Friends of
Woodstock (FWS). The new configuration will
help clarify the tax-exempt status of WOSA-
NA, and at the same time connect FWS more
closely to the alumni community.
Max Marble ’67 put together a video of the
reunion that can be seen at:
http://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=1OefeLYD2pY
Many photos are available at: https://picasaweb.google.com/117237456728956801777/
WOSA2011
This photo of the Sunday morning choir was
taken by David and Cookie Wiebe (S).

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Worldwide Woodstock Day
China
Mussoorie
The Netherlands
London

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Dubai
Chicago

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Goshen, IN
Iowa
Knoxville, TN
Madison, WI

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Madison, WI
Michigan

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Meadowwood Farm
Philadelphia
Salt Lake City

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St. Paul, MN
St. Paul, MN
Sunnyville, CA

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Southern California
Toronto
Toronto
Toronto
Wooster, OH

WOSA–NA / Friends of Woodstock
REUNION CONFERENCE 2012
Seattle Pacific University
Seattle, Washington
July 20 – 23, 2012
Save the dates and plan a vacation around the reunion.
Details and registration at our website as available.

1930s and 1940s
Jottings
Class of 1935
We have reconnected with MARGERY
MILLER MILLS, who has moved from PA to
an assisted living facility in CT & celebrated
her 91st birthday. Due to a tired heart, she
uses a motorized scooter to go any distance,
but otherwise walks freely. She enjoys participating
in activities & keeps in touch via
email with old friends in PA & elsewhere.
She enjoys living within 45 minutes driving
distance of her daughters Kay & Bobbi and
her son Rober who lives in Syracuse NY.
Margery is the one who got in touch with her
classmates & prepared these notes. ELLEN
COLVIN PARKER now uses a walker &
although she has some vision is considered
legally blind. She enjoys listening to audio
books & to news on TV. She’s a member of
a Sat morning walking group, attends bible
study & enjoys other activities in the village
where she lives. She has 3 children, John
in Arlington VA, Tom in OR & a daughter
in MN. ROBERT BOYLES is in an apt in
Assisted Living at The Oaks, next door to a
beautiful park where he enjoys taking walks.
When I called, he had just returned from a
family reunion at Lake Lure SC, where he
saw almost all of his children. MARGARET
TAYLOR COURTWRIGHT still lives in
her own home. She enjoys gardening & is
a member of a garden club. She still drives,
is active in church work & volunteers at the
hospital doing sewing, craft work, etc. She
uses the computer to stay in touch with her
son in CA & with friends. Her daughter lives
in MD. Bravo! KITTU PARKER RIDDLE
is happy & healthy but doesn’t remember
much these days. She enjoys walking their
dog short distances with the help of crutches.
Margery Miller Mills ’35 on her 91st birthday with her daughters
and son
She is still involved in their Disciple Church
and her 3 children visit her regularly. She &
Margo send their best wishes to all. DRES-
SEL NISSER’s son reports that he is settled
in New Delhi & is well. He is still active
& enjoying his retirement years with wife
Gladys, sons Ian & Jeff, daughter-in-law
Michelle & grandchildren Jessica, Kevin &
Kathy.—Margery
Class of 1936
ALICE WRIGHT CONKEY is now living at
an assisted living facility in Hanover, NH &
has settled in well. She has just welcomed her
8th great-grandchild, a girl, Marin Conkey.
Class of 1937
MARY BRANCH DAILEY is a resident at
Copeland Oaks retirement community &
is handicapped by macular degeneration,
coronary problems & diabetes, plus what the
doctor calls an essential tremor, which makes
it hard to write & to read. I have a good friend
who has volunteered to type this letter for
me. MARY’s closing message: Remember,
I am not an invalid. I am up & going about
the everyday necessities of life, thanking
God for all of my blessings here at Copeland
Oaks. DAVID WILSON’s home in NJ was
caught by the recent heavy rains; his driveway
was washed out twice, and the basement
flooded, with loss of electricity during the
rains from Hurricane Irene. His children
helped him celebrate his 91st birthday last
summer. He has some health challenges but
is holding his own. ARTHUR WISER recalls
the longtime association with 3 WS graduates.
He, along with DOUGLAS MOODY
(dec.) & MERRILL MOW ’45, have been
members of a Christian
Church Int’l Community,
formerly known as a Bruderhof.
They joined this
unique community shortly
after WW II, during which
they had maintained their
strong pacifist convictions.
We live like the
early Christians. (See Acts
2:44-46: common property;
non-violence; prayer;
forgiveness; no divorce
& remarriage in our communities.)
Regarding the
relationship of the 3 WS
friends, he adds: my son,
Steve married DOUG &
30s CLASS REPS
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Fredericka Ahrens Cobren 1933
1915 Marthas Rd, Alexandria, VA
22307-1953
USA
703-765-6909
Margery Miller Mills 1935 *
7322 Ashlar Vlg
Wallingford
CT 06492-3098
USA
mmills@ashlarvlg.org
203-265-2745
N Laurence Burkhalter 1937
2433 Hamilton Dr
Ames, IA 50014-8203
USA
burkey@ghhome.com
515-296-5015
Lorita Shull Fisher 1939
586 Colton St
Monterey CA, 93940-4412
USA
glfisher@redshift.com
831-375-8301
*
Passed away in January 2012.

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At the Curry Club gathering in Toronto on May 28, 2011 L-R: Lillian
Skinner Singh ’39, Barb Eadie Ruttle ’78, Neil Ruttle, Veer Singh,
Bobby Singh ’86, Barbara Herman ‘S, Ruth Graham Hilliard ’40
Ruby MOODY’S daughter, Martha. Steve &
Martha had a daughter named Lizzie. Now, a
generation later, MERRILL MOW’S grandson,
Andrew has married Lizzie Wiser, who
is DOUG’s & my common granddaughter!
In closing his message, ARTHUR writes:
as we all, Class of 37, draw near the end of
our lives, I want to thank & greet the others
for our yrs together. We have a lot to be
grateful for. LAURENCE BURKHALTER’s
daughter, Karol Crosbie is the editor of the
Wooster College Alumni Magazine. Over
the yrs, she has brought him into contact
with members of the Wooster/WS connection.
These include ALFIE CAMPBELL (P),
GORDON SHULL ’41, TOM STRICKLER
’40, JANE WALLACE ANDERSON ’46 &
BOB ’43 & ELLEN (S) ALTER. Following a
visit with several of these folks last spring, I
was sent a copy of an article by the late BOB
ALTER, written in Mar ’11, entitled On Being
a Christian Agnostic. I recommend the
article to all who, like myself, question the
accuracy of many Biblical stories. On the
cover of the article is a beautiful photograph
with the title Dawn Over the Tehri Hills from
BOB ALTER’S Bench at Oakville.—Burky
Class of 1939
LOWELL BOLLINGER (as reported by
his wife Joanne): after 22 yrs of dealing
rather successfully with the challenges of
Alzheimer’s, Lowell has entered a care
facility in a pleasant location in ME. At 88,
he is an active, engaging man with limited
cognition, playing at horseshoes, swimming
& taking walks. He continues to remember
that his time in India was an extremely important
part of his life as well as describing
in his limited way that he was a sports hero in
those early days. We all remember our Sports
Day athlete. LORITA SHULL FISHER lost
her husband of 66 yrs on Apr 9. He had an
operation for a valve replacement, which
was successful. However, it was followed
by 2 debilitating strokes that left him unable
to swallow, helpless &
unaware of anything. In
honoring his advance
directive, which indicated
he must not be
kept alive artificially,
if he lost his brain, the
family brought him
home to be under the
care of hospice for 10
days. He was a remarkable
individual with
many accomplishments
including a career as
diplomat in the Foreign
Service, author, professor
& world traveler. Lorita’s daughter Kathy,
a nurse, lives in an apartment in our home
& is a great support for her. Lorita continues
to be in good health and spirits. CAMERON
LYON reports that he did nothing notable
this yr. He & Lorraine attended the WOSA/
NA reunion in Eugene OR where he had a
good visit with DOROTHY LLEWELLYN
RODGERS. Dottie lost her husband, Dick
Wilson, who died peacefully at home with
hospice help on Feb 12. By moving to a
retirement community in Bloomington, IN,
to be near her daughter and family, she is
adjusting to a new life in a new environment.
Her activities include taking part in:
a reading club, bean bag baseball, chair
volleyball, ½ hr. exercise classes.& sorting
files which she didn’t have the energy to do
before she left CA. JOHN MANRY has just
finished his 5th yr at Edgemont Retirement
suites in Calgary, CAN. He says he is well
looked after but is slowing down – ‘I sure
couldn’t handle the Landour khud now’. He
does find various projects to keep him busy
& appreciates the help from his daughter
who lives close by. HENRY SCHOLBERG
was proud to represent the Class of 39 when
he attended the 150th anniversary of WS
in Mussoorie in 04, Henry’s name was on
the Wall of Fame at the MN History Center
during the 09-10 exhibit of The Greatest
Generation, for service in Dr. Ancel Keys’
starvation experiment. He was also the honored
recipient of the Immortal Chaplains
for Humanity, as a non-combatant volunteer
during WW II. This yr, he celebrated his
90th birthday & 60th wedding anniversary.
LAWRENCE TEMPLIN reports they are
living in a house they built 45 yrs ago, in a
mutual care-giving arrangement with their
son, with a little help from their local home
health org. He writes poetry – at a rate of 1 to
2 per wk, which is about par for my reluctant
Muse. MARY LONG VATH is doing pretty
well, considering she has pulmonary disease
& osteoporosis. Her appreciated caregiver
is her son-in-law, in whose house she now
lives & with whom she shares her limited
life.—Lorita
Class of 1940
It’s been great keeping up with all 10 grands
and 12 greats as they participate in various
bike races & tours. BILL SUPPLEE keeps
remembering how invigorating it was for
him he was their age. Now he spectates
& applauds! A reasonably content retiree,
NORM WILLIAMS lives in Riderwood
Village, Silver Spring, MD. with wife Wini,
whom he married 68 yrs ago after working
as a deckhand on a Great Lakes ship delivering
coal to the blast furnaces in Gary IN. He
had rejected military conscription & flunked
out of Oberlin College, where they had met.
He served in various government roles on
environmental issues, primarily the control of
strip mining for coal in WV & in Congress,
nationally. They have 5 grown children,
all living their own interesting lives. He is
writing his memoirs (entitled My Life with
Wini) & cursing Microsoft for its absolutely
abominable Windows Vista program. He also
published Gandhi’s American Ally: how an
educational missionary joined the Mahatma’s
struggle against untouchability, iUniverse,
2008. DAVID MOOMAW is now mostly
retired from volunteer medical practice and
remains well & in touch with the ‘County We
Care’ medical program in Jacksonville FL,
with the mission to provide medical care for
uninsured & underinsured patients in the area.
Yesterday marked the arrival of his 2nd great
grandchild, born in Winter Park FL.—Bill
Class of 1941
It saddens HELEN CONSER MAYBURY
that so many of the class have passed away.
She & her husband recently celebrated their
65th wedding anniversary with children &
grandchildren in San Francisco. They now
have 10 wonderful grandchildren. Helen
recently published a book, entitled For the
Souls & Soils of India, a memoir of her
parents who were 2 courageous individuals
who resolved to serve God & His people.
They spent 37 years in India as well as 9
yrs in Home Missions after their retirement.
In addition to their personal history, their
letters tell the story of India during a time
of tremendous upheaval & historical significance,
meetings with great leaders, such
as Jawaharlal Nehru & Mahatma Gandhi, as
well as Vinoba Bhave, the author of the landgift
or sarvodaya movement. A non-violent
revolutionary in the tradition of Gandhi, he
collected millions of acres of land to distribute
to the landless. The book can be ordered
online at xlibris.com or amazon.com.—Helen

Class of 1942
RUTH GILSON NYCUM only went through
6th standard at WS, but has many memories
of the time there. She has 4 children. She was
a librarian at CSU Fullerton for 17 yrs. At
age 85, Ruth now lives in an Assisted Living
Facility, Oakmont of Chino Hills CA. She
has physical problems, but her mind is clear
& she does many things on her computer
as secretary of the Resident Council & for
the Emeriti of CSUF. STAN & BEVERLY
BRUSH are deep into the Pharmaceutical
Stage with her doing better than he is; driver
has been added to her other duties. Stan has
finished the 1st draft of his Pakistan memoir
of teen years at Forman College in Lahore
in the 50s & 60s. Both fondly remember a
visit from BRUCE FOSTER & his daughter
last yr. They recently had lunch with JANE
WALLBROWN ’52 & a mutual friend at
Medford Leas NJ. Great time reminiscing.
MARJORIE HILL has continued to be active
in India right up to the present. She was honored
by the Nat’l UCC meeting last spring,
for significant leadership & service over her
whole life in support of women & children
in the mission field in Madhya Pradesh &
Chattisgarh. BETTY STUNTZ ALLEN is
now on the Resident Council of her Retirement
Community & has attended her 2nd
statewide meeting of ConCCRA (Continuing
Care Residents’ Assoc. of CT). Lots of good
discussion & ideas for deepening & improving
relationships in each community. Weekly
meetings of the Singing Group, the Writing
Group, a Scrabble gang, monthly meetings
of the Council & 2 Missions Committees &
the State Board of Church Women United -
now Historian & Subscription Secretary for
the CWU Newsletter - keep me hopping. I
enjoy them all, but have decided not to renew
my 2 CWU jobs, which run out in Dec.
With son Ken & Peggy here in Cheshire &
their youngest Jonny now at Yale School of
Music, I have already been to 2 superb concerts
in Woolsey Hall, plus many concerts
in the new auditorium in our Center. No
shortage of entertainment! Every once in a
while I see PEGGY ALLISON, here or at
their church. A couple of times I have seen
their sons - who look just like Les! Smile &
all. Peggy lives in a similar retirement community
a few miles from here in Hamden,
CT. BILL & DOROTHY VAUGH WHIT-
COMB live at Oakwood Village, a Lutheran
retirement community in Madison WI. Bill
is now having trouble getting around as his
legs and hands are getting very numb, from
severe neuropathy. He spends much time in
our workshop making many furniture items
for our church, the YMCA, our own use &
for our institution and residents. I work in
40s CLASS REPS
G. William Supplee 1940
118 Normandy Rd
Columbia, SC 29210-8106
USA
bsupplee@aol.com
803-765-9415
Dorothy Vaugh Whitcomb 1942
Dorothy Madison
WI 53718-8350, USA
dwhitcom@wisc.edu
608-230-3050
Tom and Mary Stewart Cummings
1943
1685 Davis Dr
Merritt Island, FL 32952-5934
USA
tfc@mail.bradley.edu
321-454-3802
Elizabeth Cummings Deitz 1944
109 Hickory Hollow Dr
Amherst, OH 44001-2063
USA
ejdeitz@centurytel.net
440-988-2714
Ruth Nave Leibbrand 1945
11279 Taylor Draper Ln Apt 216
Austin, TX 78759-3954, USA
MissyDon@austin.rr.com
512-342-8828
the library at church & here at Oakwood, in
charge of archives at both places. I took the
Master Gardener course some yrs ago so I am
chair of our Grounds committee regarding
the gardens on campus & the vegetable plots
residents have in the summer. Our 4 children,
all WS alumni, live nearby. It is a delight
for the class to be in touch with MUSHIR
HASAN RAZWI who was in our class in
Standards 3-6. He now lives in Germany,
remembers quite a few of the classmates &
some remember him too. Communications
are by email, through his daughter.—Dorothy
Class of 1943
We were shocked to hear last winter that
BOB ALTER had a recurrence of cancer,
nothing further could be done. He & Ellen
returned to WS for 2 weeks in the spring &
BOB joined the angels in Jun. Our sympathy
& love to ELLEN. Great remembrances of
him at WS memorial service & WOSA-NA in
Fort Collins. Patricia & MARTIN AHRENS
Lynn Roadarmel Kowalske 1946
616 Dianne Dr
Melbourne, FL 32935-6419
USA
wkowalske@cfl.rr.com
321-254-4943
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Ann Leeder Pickett 1947
40 Wagon Trl
Black Mountain, NC 28711-2560
USA
alpickett47@bellsouth.net
828-669-6977
Robin Parker 1948
3227 O Neall Rd
Waynesville, OH 45068-8683
USA
Robin48Parker@aol.com
513-897-4676
Harvella Bauman Stutzman 1949
5250 Copper Dr
Colorado Springs, CO 80918-5000
USA
hbstutz@msn.com
719-260-1443
are happy to welcome son Robert, wife Sarah
& Jack (2) back to Scotland after 10 yrs in
US. They enjoyed a visit by sister FREDER-
ICKA, ‘33. Next spring BERT BENADE is
probably going to Forman’s 150th anniversary
celebration, his father taught physics
there. He took a 5 day railroad trip with a
great-great grandson of the Forman founder.
BERT is working on oral history of people
who live in neighborhood for Hyde Park
Hist. Soc. PAUL COOLE was our only
representative at WOSA reunion, the oldest
class there. His blood circulation problems
& wheelchair didn’t keep him from attending.
DES HOLLINGBERY is not traveling
much because Marj is unable to go along. To
keep in shape, he’s covering several miles
per week as well as gardening. Has been
one of our most regular attendees of WOSA
reunions & misses them badly. Jeanne &
HUGH MUMBY have joined their bionic
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made it possible for HUGH to work on a 100
ft. fir tree that hit their cabin. He is Jamadar,
Khansama, Mali, Chowkidar, Chuprasi, Mistheri
etc. all rolled into one. STEVE ROOT
was principal at Kodai when BOB ALTER
was principal at WS & they cooperated on
mutual school problems. His son taught at
WS until ’91 & grandson TIM ’99 did gr 12
there & next yr goes to Afghanistan with his
wife. MARIAN LOEHLIN DAVIES (broken
hip healing), BETTY SMILEY BREMER
(using walker to protect from osteoporosis,
appreciating lower altitude of St. Louis
vs CO ), ALYCE BANKER HEYBOER
(gardening, scrabbling, reading, following
beloved Tigers) & MARY STEWART
CUMMINGS (watching manatee, alligator,
many birds in backyard canal, daily health
club exercise) are still involved in a snail
mail round robin. TOM tries to keep up with
MARY. Any others who would like to join
the round robin contact us.—Tom and Mary
Class of 1944
FRANCES BRUSH SCHILLINGER discovered
that amazon.com has editors that
will take her manuscript, put it on a disc &
at no charge to her list it for sale. Her book,
Between Two Worlds, Memories of An
American Growing Up in India, is a collection
of 80 stories from her early yrs. She also
writes a monthly column for their retirement
home news featuring their cat, Noodles.
Another resident responded with his dog’s
view. She continues her food demonstrations.
RUTH SUTHERLAND & Paul PULLIAM
were in Santa Fe in May & Jun helping their
daughter during & after surgery; then to
Portland to help their daughter-in-law for 2
mo. after knee replacement while husband
Eric was working for USAID in Afghanistan.
RUTH & Paul enjoyed visits over Labor
Day & again in Oct for a wedding & family
reunion. MIKE & Pam JAMES were out of
the flooding in Brisbane. His Type 1 diabetes
has ruled their driving & other tasks
which help the family, putting extra loads
on Pam. BRUCE AMSTUTZ & Nan enjoy
good health & travels. He arranged a 2-wk
trip with friends to Scotland’s Western Isles,
involving a small-ship cruise from Oban & a
stay on the Isle of Mull. Glacier NP & the Canadian
Rockies lured them in Sep/Oct. TED
WRIGHT & sister ALICE ’36 met BRUCE
& Nan for lunch. TED missed his planned
India trip (including an 8-day luxury tour of
Rajasthan) due to a light stroke which left
him with mild aphasia. He was able to enjoy
his ME house last summer, however. CEC-
ILY MARTIN BOOTH is managing well in
spite of atrial fibrillation. She enjoys her 7
grandchildren & took a 1-wk trip with her 2
daughters up AUS’s coast to Coff’s Harbor.
MARY LUTLEY GEE is enjoying her new
flat, a visit from her American sister, her son
David with wife Fiona & their 3 as well as
the London reunion of her N China School.
She is active in her Nailsworth church. Her
son Jim, with his band Pendragon, played in
Sweden; he keeps his regular job with social
services. She sadly attended the funerals of a
nephew & 2 sr friends. LAUREL LOADER
DOWNWARD’s son-in-law, after chemo, radio
therapy & a stem cell transplant, is ahead
of lymphoma & back at work. LAUREL has
had cataracts removed successfully but is
dealing with tendonitis. JOAN MERRILL
MACHATA is active with family & church
& has enjoyed her summer camp in the NY
Adirondacks 4 times this yr. She plans 2 mo
in a trailer on Chockoloski Is. FL this winter.
With her brothe, ART MERRILL ’46 &
Margaret at a UT condo, she visited western
NP’s including Grand Canyon, Bryce, Zion,
Hoover Dam & Snow Mt. With her sons,
she enjoyed the DC NBA playoffs. DORIS
COLVIN BELL is happy that son Donald
now lives with her, helping immensely with
upkeep of her home in Pittsburgh. He raises
orchids & is an active member of the P’gh
Orchid Society. Daughter Kathryn & family
moved from Seattle & now live 5 minutes
away. Their youngest daughter’s wedding
in NYC drew the entire Bell family together
for 4 days, for the 1st time ever. DORIS
continues participating in her church choir,
Women’s Assoc, Global Links project, SS
class & more. She is the one who keeps her
sisters in touch. Sister RUTH ’36 died in
May; ELLEN ’35 lives in Tampa & JOYCE
’41 is in Dallas. Doris & Don drove down
to see her in Oct. TOM WILSON’s card is
the chapel interior at MIT designed by Eero
Saarinen, architect. His description: “Like a
cascade of light, a full height metal sculpture
by Harry Bertoia glitters from a circular skylight
down onto an unadorned marble alter”.
TOM & Rene continue their architecture
plans & UN involvement; however business
is slow because of the US recession. Their
Baltic cruise in June included Moscow & St
Petersburg, all photographed with TOM’s
new camera. Both are well & the trips to the
UN include visits to TOM’s brother DAVID
’37 in NJ. Bea BLASDELL is very grateful
for their retirement center for there are
activities for FRANCIS when she is busy.
Both have health issues; FRANCIS, now
in the nursing section, uses a walker & Bea
has started a mo’s radiation. Their families
encourage them. ALICE ALTER WATKINS
is still working on her family booklet of their
life in Syria, Lebanon & India. She manages
to find time between classes, book clubs &
gatherings. Her brother also lives in the same
condo area. She was able to visit her sister’s
family & Phil’s family in Denver. We were
able to visit DOTTY KOENIG POWERS &
Erl in Atlanta, in their gorgeous garden, enjoying
chai together, as we drove back from
visiting TOM & MARY ’43 in FL. DOTTY’s
health has kept her close to home. She uses
a cane outdoors to deal with back pain. ERL
had a scary bout with bacteremia. However,
they were able to visit his daughter in PA
for a week, a trip to WV to attend the wedding
of Erl’s oldest grandson & had a great
week in Chicago enjoying the Oriental & Art
Institute while visiting his son, Peter. All of
Dotty’s family is in Atlanta where they visit
often. Their activities include their church
group, the Atlanta Symphony, occasional
plays, concerts & lectures at Emory U &
museums. LOIS LYON NEUMANN was
our class rep to the WOSA reunion in CO,
staying with JANE CUMMINGS in Boulder
for an extra visit. She continues on her church
vestry, helping with planning & the pastoral
prayer team & additional pastoral needs. Her
childhood Indian friend is now a doctor in
London & visiting her included a drive to
Cornwall & other beautiful English haunts.
We, ELIZABETH CUMMINGS DEITZ &
Jim, celebrated our 60th wedding ann’y by
gathering at our son & daughter-in-law’s
home in Dayton OH. Most of the grandchildren
were able to join our 2 older generations
even though 7 of the 11 are now in college.
Our MN cabin was a happy gathering place
for the families. In the winter we enjoy the
Cleveland orchestra, concerts by Oberlin
conservatory students & faculty, book discussion
groups & the outreach programs of
our church.—Elizabeth
Class of 1945
Three 45ers attended WOSA Reunion
at CSU in Ft Collins: DOUG PICKETT,
DICK BOLLINGER & yours truly. It was
very good with interesting innovations in
programming & an extensive silent auction.
CSU has a lovely campus & Ft Collins
is definitely an appropriate setting. What
surprised me was that other than PAUL
COOLE ’43 & LOIS LYON NEUMANN
’44, the Class of 45 attendees were at the
top of the list for being the oldest alumni in
attendance. We Chuts have become Hefts!!
Thelma Alley Anderson’s passing on Dec
11 2010 was preceded by sister-in-law Liz
Templin Alley’s ’42 on Memorial Day.
THELMA was married to Bob Anderson
for 45 yrs. They had 3 children, an adopted
Dutch son, 4 grands & 3 great-grands. VIV-
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retirement facility. She travels a lot, occasionally
getting together with MARIE
TEMPEST EYRE for a trip. MARIE finally
found an apt in the UK that suits her needs
& is near her family. Being legally blind
does not prevent VIVIAN from enjoying
life & traveling. She spent 5 wks with a
friend in Malta, in a hotel that had several
restaurants.She is going to Italy in Oct. &
hopes to be able to spend the winter in FL
with her niece. Sandy is having trouble with
her hip, so BOB WILLIAMS is adding a gr
fl bedroom & bath, doing all the work himself.
He also keeps busy with the American
Patriot Council he started, wears his 1776
army uniform & carries a 13-star Betsy Ross
flag to rallies & celebrations such as Jul
4. MARGUERITE PARRISH HOWARD
writes that Hobart finally retired from his job
as Field Supt for their church in India. However,
they will continue speaking & raising
funds for India & plan another trip there in
Oct. They moved from Tulsa to Greenville,
SC to be near daughter EVELYN ’71 & John
LETTIERI. Daughter, PATRICIA ’74 & Bill
LYONS live in Chesapeake, VA & daughter
LINDA ’78 & TED ’78 NIEHAUS in Clinton,
WI. I phoned BETI WEIR WEISS just
as she was leaving to attend a grandson’s
engagement party. She lost her husband Nov
a yr ago, says she is doing all right & that
she has a very supportive family. She lives
on the farm in a house built especially for
retirement; son & daughter & their families
also live on the farm & the other children
nearby. We extend our sympathies to BETI
& family. JOE DUERKSON visited India
with Mary Lou’s blessing as he left her
with twin sister Betty & niece Diane. She
had a basal ganglion stroke & has recovered
nicely, able to get out & about, has resumed
driving & has good cognition. JOE’S trip
was to help celebrate the Dhamtari Christian
Hospital’s Centennial. He also visited
St Stephen’s Hosp in Delhi, Sewa Bahan
Hosp in Jagdeeshpur & the Christian Hosp
in Champa. He had a great trip, met many
wonderful people & was glad to be home.
DON RICKARD & Elaine have slowed
down & don’t drive on trips anymore; she
has battled 2 kinds of cancer in the past 3
yrs. They both have vertigo, but Elaine’s is
worse. She also battles ataxia, which affects
muscles & balance. DON’s brother SAM ’41
had ALS & was bed-ridden when he died,
brother JOHN lives in NC. TOM & Janice
HAZLETT continue to enjoy good health,
but no longer spend their winters in FL.
They cruised to the harbors of ME & other
eastern states, during which time TOM did
his best to decimate the lobster population.
They have 2 sons, a daughter & 5 grandkids.
Stu Leeder ’45, Sally Lynn and Bill Duff ’45, Marj Bery, Vivian Nicoll Norden ’45, Raj Bery ’45
RUTH WILKINSON PHILLIMORE moved
to Ottawa, CAN a couple of yrs ago to be
near daughter & brother BOB ’51. She no
longer drives & truly misses her car. She
is considering moving to an assisted living
facility & is busy making a DVD of her India
days. Son & 2 grandsons live in Calgary.
RUTH STEWART says she is still healthy,
works part time for the CIA & enjoys the
cultural activities available in DC in her
spare time. She attended the ’10 WOSA
Reunion for a day. SITA BERY SARWAL
is keeping in good health. She went with
friends for 10 days to Mashobra, a hill station
near Simla. In Jun she was at Ananda,
a spa near Rishikesh which is rated as one
of the top in the world. GORDON YOUNG
says his travels consist of trips within 200 mi
of home base as he hates plane travel now.
Brother BILL ’50 died recently in Chiangmai,
Thailand, where he had lived since the
early 60s. Gordon has been busy writing
& publishing 3 books. RAJ & Marjorie
BERY are happily settled in a good retirement
community in MD, just outside of DC.
They took visiited the Sinai Peninsula, Petra
in Jordan & even managed a quick trip to
Jerusalem & took a holiday in India. They
have been together with BILL & Sally Lynn
DUFF, STU LEEDER & VIVIAN for lunch
regularly. They are also regulars at the DC
Curry Club & have another monthly group
mtg in downtown DC. Late last yr JOYCE
REYNOLDS COUPAL had a stroke-like
incident which was diagnosed as TGA. She
was thoroughly checked out & is doing
fine except has problems with short-term
memory. She discovered some writings of
her father about his life in India which she
is busy assembling to have them published.
Otherwise, she & Frank keep busy with
their 5 offspring & numerous grandkids.
BILL DUFF has recovered nicely from the
blood clots & heart ailments so his gen’l
health is good. He & Sally Lynn have been
participating in a Muslim/Christian/Jewish
dialogue group monthly to discuss issues
& books they have read, they have learned
a lot. They attended a Muslim wedding &
enjoyed it hugely. Bill is trying to write
more but finds it difficult to concentrate
on his research of ancient documents, in
particular The Mishna, in order to get some
further insight on 1st Century Judaism &
Christianity. BETTY ANN SUMMERS
DYKSTRA & Peter are doing pretty good
health wise although he has problems with
balance. Betty Ann resigned from the Mtn
Home Orch & the Orch Board, but not until
she was instrumental in getting a new home
for the Orch at AR. Mtn State U. She plays
viola in several groups & does a lot of solos.
They have received a marvelous exercise
machine called Power Plate which is new
to the US & supposed to be very good for
older people. AL BJERKESTRAND regrets
not making it to the WOSA Reunion but he
didn’t want to leave Bonnie although she
is doing well in her fight against ovarian
cancer. They were delighted to announce the
birth of their first great grandson, Beckett.
A granddaughter graduated valedictorian of
her class & plans to attend Seattle Pacific
U, Bonnie’s Alma Mater. DOUG & ANN
’47 PICKETT visited son Mark, Sinipii & 3
grands in Oulu, Finland , located 150 mi N of
the Arctic Circle, clean, modern city with no
trash or litter. They fared so well on this trip
that they were encouraged to attend WOSA
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to his doctor & tests revealed that he has
myelodysplasia, a condition where his bone
marrow is not producing RBC of adequate
size & quality. A good doctor, medications
& an unusual regimen keeps him functioning
normally. They keep busy volunteering in
their retirement community. DICK & ANNA
MAE (S) BOLLINGER stayed with friends
in Ft Collins & attended the WOSA khanna
as well as having a couple of meals with us.
One can’t help but be envious of their obvious
good health; life in a retirement facility
in Centennial certainly agrees with them.
RUTH NAVE LEIBBRAND’s trip to Ft
Collins was her only one as she finds travel
more & more difficult. The fact that grandson
Nicholas is attending CSU was another
reason to visit. Her son Steve drove over
from St Charles MO & grandson Andrew
drove up from Denver a couple of times
during my week’s stay after the reunion. I
had hoped to experience some considerably
cooler weather, but the temperature was in
the 90s every day, albeit a bit cooler than
Austin. Our TX summer has been a burner:
we have broken the all-time record of 69
days of 100+ F., around 38+ C. I stick my
nose outside of the AC only when I HAVE
TO!! I keep busy with friends, clubs, bridge,
activities here at the Renaissance & trying
to keep healthy.—Ruth
Class of 1946
FRANK LOEFFLER is retired from his ob/
gyn practice, lives in Aldeburgh, Suffolk, the
home of Benjamin Britten & the location of
a world famous annual music festival; 10
grands, 1 great, a garden, golf, bridge &
volunteer work keep Eve & him busy. Eve’s
father was the founder of the Paralympic
Movem’t which highlighted sports for the
disabled. Eve was recognized for her work
with the disabled & was awarded with an
OBE last yr; that included a day’s outing
to Buckingham Palace. Georgie writes that
JERRY SUMMERS is maintaining pretty
well with his Alzheimer’s, with the help of
medication. He is planning to take a class
through the local state U sr program entitled
Writing Your Slice of Life. He remembers his
early life & WS well so will enjoy writing
about it & it will be good for the children
& grands. They will both be taking 2 other
classes. DOTTIE LONG REID & Joe live
in a mobile home park in Union Cty CA
near SF Bay, 6 mi from their daughter. She
plays bridge 2x/ wk in an Am contract bridge
league. IRENE DUNN writes: best trip -
train ride & hike to UCDavis Arboretum;
best museums - Tutankhamun & Picasso;
best book - Growing Up bin Laden by Jean
Sasson; best exercise - aerobics & hiking.
Sasson’s sister-in-law lives in her establishment
& when Irene raved about the book,
she received a signed copy. It was written
by bin Laden’s 1st wife & 1 of his sons.
JEAN ALLISON VAN HORNE & LYNN
ROADARMEL KOWALSKE stayed with
JANE WALLACE ANDERSON & Jim on
their sheep farm to attend our 60th reunion
at the Coll. of Wooster. ART MERRILL &
Margaret were also there & came down for a
visit one evening. Jane writes that the farm is
still flourishing & keeps Jim very busy. She
went with 3 kids & 2 grands to MI for a wk
traveling, relaxation & bonding. In Mar they
made a trip to FL where they visited Lynn
& 90+ yr-old aunts. They are planning a fall
trip to New England to visit grands in Boston.
PEG ROSS VAN HORNE & Paul had their
60th anniversary in Jul with their 4 children
& 9 grands. Peg had a hip replacement in
Mar but has recovered nicely. MARGARET
LOEHLIN SHAFER ’56 & husband moved
to their retirement community & he gave
lectures on Islam & the Middle East as he
had been the head of that dept at Fordham U.
Peg & Paul enjoy the activities & events in
their community & Peg is head of the Health
Care Comm. Our sympathy goes out to JUNE
BAUR DEWSBERRY & Art on the death of
her brother Ralph, of congestive heart failure.
Art had a triple heart bypass but has been
recovering well. June travelled to TN for
Ralph’s memorial while Art was taken care
of by family members. He is finally off the
Bd of Directors but continues his securities
arbitrations. FAITH LUBBERS BLIGHT &
Dick live in a complex for retired Wycliffe
Bible Translators in Dallas. Faith had cataract
surgery & a knee replacement but says
she’s almost back to normal. Dick helps by
preparing books as aids for Bible translators
around the world. Last yr they had their 3rd
great-grand. ARTHUR MERRILL & Margaret
Morris visited many of the Nat’l Parks in
Mar. Her brother & wife joined them for part
of the time & JOAN MERRILL MACHATA
’44 was also there for 2 wks. In Jun they
went to Art’s 60th at Wooster where he was
elected class secretary for the Wooster Bulletin.
ELEANOR MILLER INFORZATO
lives in Oxford PA but says they were less
affected than many by the hurricane. She is
getting an Art Exhib program going in her sr
complex & has a Watercolors 1 class. She is
also on the activities committee & joined a
local art group. She sent a lovely card made
from one of her paintings, a talented artist
indeed. HAZEL SELZER KAHAN says
that the most transformative thing she did
this yr was to go back to Lahore, where she
was born. The last time she was there was
in ’71 and 40 yrs younger. She has a travel
blog at www.hightidings.wordpress.com.
LYNN ROADARMEL KOWALSKE went
to Grandparents’ Day in Dallas in Apr, the
Wooster 60th in Jun to visit family in GA
in Jul & in the fall trips to the U FL Gator
football games. My 2nd great-grand was born
in Mar.—Lynn
Class of 1947
JACQUETH JAMES RILEY & JOYCE
CAMPBELL live in AUS & keep in touch.
JACKIE travelled to Brisbane, via Kingscliff
in southern NSW for a friend’s 80th birthday
celebration for nursing friends. Another
friend who joined them took Jackie back to
Brisbane where she was able to spend a wk
with bro MIKE ’44 & family. She was also
able to visit with JOYCE. Unfortunately
MIKE was in hospital but she visited him every
day. Life has slowed down for JACKIE
though she continues book club, patchwork
& exercise classes. JOYCE visited son &
family in Sydney & returned in Oct. to celebrate
the holiday season. She enjoys her
chats with JACKIE about WS. KENNETH
SCHERLING & Barbara live in BC, CAN.
They remain close to home, taking care of
house & garden & Barbara’s mother (100)
who lives nearby. KEN enjoys his morning
visits to the Gym 3x/wk. They are happy that
son Grant often visits from Washington DC.
From France we have reports from PETE
COLUMBANI & GORDAN HENDERSON
& Nelleke. PETE has been in & out of the
hospital in Marseilles with several medical
problems, with good results. GORDON is
suffering from sore back, knees & legs that
make walking difficult. However, visits with
friends will be rewarding when the KAVI
SINGHs visit. The HENDERSONS are
looking forward to her cousin Margo & family
returning to St Cyprien on a permanent
basis. Neleke now has a big job translating
the contents of a large web site belonging to
an estate agent friend in Ibiza, Spain, from
French into Dutch. NINA ALLEY KIPP
lives in Media PA. Her family continues
their father’s tradition of an annual family
reunion begun 58 yrs. ago. This yr some
60 were present. NINA is proud of her 7
grands & 10 great grands. Folks came from
Belgium, AUS & 10 US states. Of the 6
in her family only sister ERMA ’40 & she
remain. BARBARA BOND NUTT & Edgar
are enjoying their newish home in a Retirement
Community in Concord, NH. BONDIE
exercises by swimming to help ease the
pain of arthritis. Visits to their Benton summer
cottage remain pleasant. HAROLD
CLOSSON & Mary Ann remain busy in
their home & community in Cochiti NM.
BETTY DAVIS DEAN substitute teaches

in Greencastle IN & is happy for the break
during summer. She made a trip to FL to see
sister MARJORIE ’50 for a fun time. LULU
WAGMAN BOYER & David finally sold
their house after 2 yrs on the market, to a
young family with 2 boys who should enjoy
the ocean property with the old windsurfer &
even older surfboard they left tucked under
the house. Selling the house felt like a ton
of bricks had been lifted from their shoulders.
They continue to enjoy the activities at
their retirement complex. HENK PARSON
& GEORGIA spent last Christmas at Lake
Tahoe where HENK again played the part of
Santa Claus, driving in on a snow mobile!
They continue their volunteer work with the
Nat’l Park Service in Yosemite. GEORGIA
has put together a Library for the Resource
Mgmt Div, over 1000 books & manuscripts
to date, more pouring in. Remember this is
on-the-job-training & a lot of fun. HENK
is continuing with large scale document
scanning into Park servers, to have the
documents available for res. For the summer
mo they were given the additional task of
surveying & locating all Interpretive Signs
in Yosemite, hundreds of them & hundreds
of mi of driving. They have completed 20
yrs. of volunteer work in different places.
While with the Nat’l Parks, all it has cost
the Park Service is the electric power for
their RV. How proud we are of their services!
KAY MCLAUGHLIN lives in Boulder CO
with working daughters nearby. ERNIE
FORDHAM & Betsy live in La Grange IL.
No more heart problems, he reports, but
now knee pain, so he’s looking at a knee
replacement. They welcomed a distant
relative & husband from Scotland who were
chasing down family genealogy. CHUCK
HAZLETT & Pattie in Palm Coast FL enjoy
the sunny weather. They also enjoyed their
trip at Christmas to visit daughter in MI &
to Atlanta for a wedding. JOAN GREEN
SMITH says nothing unusual happens in
her home in Austin TX, but she continues in
great gratitude for family & friends, curiosity
& activity & the beauty of each day. JIM
WHITE & Virginia lead a busy life with their
extended family. Medical problems keep
their doctors busy. ANN LEEDER PICK-
ETT & DOUG ’45 lead a busy life in their
retirement home in Black Mountain NC.
This yr their activities have been trimmed
down due to medical problems. After her
yrly mammo screening ANN had radiation
for DC in situ. Doug is being treated for
his RBC condition. During the winter mo,
HERBERT FEIRABEND & Beverly continue
to help build homes in MEX just across
the border from TX. STANLEY SUBHAN
& Helen live in NJ. Each yr they attend a
family reunion. This yr they spent a wk in
Tricase Porto on the heel of the boot of Italy.
In Sep STAN visited India with the Brussels
part of the family. They spent some time in
Mussoorie visiting WS & Happy Valley,
had 4 days in Varanasi & finally 2 in Hyderabad.
In England, GORDON GILBERT
& Patricia, OYSTEIN HOLTH & Claire &
ELSIE MAEVE FROST keep in touch. They
miss visits with CHRISTINE FULLILOVE
PEARCE who lost her fight with cancer in
the spring. OYSTEIN HOLTH officiated
at her Memorial service. KAVI SINGH &
Devika live in New Delhi, he teaches English
to a group of young students & manages
the family property in Bahraich along with
his son who got married this yr. This fall,
they visited daughter & family in London
& will take a side trip to France to visit the
HENDERSONS. VIJAY INGLE has moved
to Indore, MP. SHIRISH PATEL & Rajani
celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary
early in Jun with a small dinner for family
& a few close friends. Early that morning,
thinking over all the wonderful things that
had happened to them over the last 50 yrs,
he said to her “I have never come across
anyone else I’d rather be married to.” “Huh”,
she said, bringing him down to earth with a
thud as usual, “Haven’t had much of a social
life, have you?” (Touché, Rajani.) —Ann
Class of 1948
Class of 48 – That was 63 yrs ago! AL
BAUMAN & Kathy were the only class
members to attend WOSA meeting this yr.
He also took sister HARVELLA ’49. He is
very active in church as #1 handyman &
carpenter. ARVID BERG & Marlys recently
spent several wks with her sister in AL.
Wintering in FL, where other WS connections
such as BOB ’49 & EVA FORSGREN
escape the winter chill, is a pleasure. IAN
BRADSHAW & friend Mary Sue have been
wandering the world again this yr: Europe,
Mediterranean, many points in the US & a
northern lights up the coast of Norway, plus
several visits with son in FL. MARGARET
BROOKS HUSTON & Al have moved to
NC where they are working with JAAR,
where the church trains pilots for support of
remote mission stations in South America.
Margaret is working in the mission nursery
while Al is active in their museum. Their
daughter is building a house nearby with
facilities for Brooksie & Al. BOWEN CON-
SER continues a quiet life in Fullerton CA .
His legs don’t take him on long jaunts, but
shorter ones are a pleasure. Just part of not
dying yet. SNEIH DASS CHARAN & Kirti
have moved into a retirement home where
life is pleasant with new friends & less
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housekeeping. He spends much of his time
in a wheelchair, but is actually somewhat
ambulatory & very much communicative.
Their calendar is full of pleasant happenings
with friends & events. They would enjoy
visits from others. JOHN GAULT lives
in Bendigo AUS where he was recently
honored with a dinner celebrating 50 yrs of
service with the Bendigo Hosp & St. John
of God Hosp. It was a gala occasion featuring
speeches, music and arts. John played
the viola part of Mozart’s trio KV 498 for
clarinet, viola, and piano that was featured.
He has played violin & viola for many yrs
with the Bendigo Symph Orch & is about
to retire. He writes the most interesting
letters with snippets of adventures about
home & the world. MARVIN HARPER &
Judy continue happily in their Willingboro
NJ home. He is active in photography &
restoration of vintage planes at the museum.
They are planning a tour of the White Mtns
& are enjoying children & grands. HELEN
HILL STURBAUM & Bill are doing well.
He had knee replacements & is happy with
the results. They rented cabins at a lake
this yr with children & families, including
guitars & fiddles, for a memorable time together.
Their grandson DAVID ABUD ’10,
who attended 2 yrs at WS, is now studying
at Columbia U; he had such a good time in
India that he recently went back for a visit.
LOIS HOSTETLER BJERKESTRAND &
David report a low key life full of church
functions such as choir, art projects, writing
projects for social events & such. She
leaves the outdoor work to David. In Oct,
she visited daughters in MI & SC. Actually,
quite an active life for what she calls
‘geezerhood’. DAVID LE SHANA & Becky
celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary
in HI, with the entire family waiting there to
help with the celebrations – all 27 of them!
What a good time! David continues as chair
of a board of trustees at the college & travels
quite a bit in that capacity. WALTER ME-
RIAN & Darlene now live in a retirement
community in Sterling KS, where Walter &
his dog visit older folks to cheer them up. He
& his son still do an annual deer hunt – with
success. Walter still speaks Hindi as well as
English! CHARLES OGDEN & Anita are in
Moraga, CA. Anita is very active with work
with underprivileged women in Kasganj
where Charles grew up during his India
days. They are very involved with children
& grands. IRWIN HLA SHWE has been in
a nursing home in CA for a good number
of yrs. ROBIN PARKER has enjoyed visits
from Abby, Bergs, Watkins & Bradshaws at
his home in S OH. There is always plenty
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took a tour of the Hawaiian Islands when
his granddaughter was married there. He &
Abby visited Russia, Finland & Norway.
Cruising along the Norwegian fjords offered
many photo opportunities. JIM RYBURN
has quite a busy life in Feilding NZ. He is
very active in the Presb Ch, in 2 sizeable
choirs & practicing for a presentation of
The Messiah. As a member of the Probis
Club, he went on a trip to the N Island &
later with 3 friends toured the S Island. He
helps Hospice with housekeeping as well as
working with patients in writing their biographies.
ABBY SALZER STADTLANDER
turned 80 & got a chainsaw for her birthday
from her son. Upon arriving at her camp at
Lake Champlain this spring, she was met
by a flood that brought much debris onto
her place. Fortunately, the house was high
enough on cinder blocks to keep the water
out, but for about a mo she had to wade to
get in & out of the house. She hosted a WS
Focus mtg at her house in Hartford last Jan,
is a member of the church council; she extends
an open invitation to WS classmates
to visit at Lake Champlain and/or Hartford.
BETTY SCHERLING HAZEN & Norm
live in a retirement home in Lawrence, KS,
where they are close to daughter. She still
has on display, her Silver W for WS athletic
achievements! LEO TELLER & Lorna are
in AUS. He is still coping with the results
of a stroke. Recently when Johnny’s wife
passed away, Leo wrote a letter of condolence
which was very much appreciated by
Johnny as well as the rest of us, because we
all knew of the tremendous effort involved.
MARGUERITE THOBURN WATKINS &
Gordon say they are both becoming bionic,
he with a hip replacement & she with a
cornea transplant (done outpatient). For fun
they traveled about the Eastern seaboard
attending a granddaughter’s wedding, the
50th wedding anniversary of brother TED,
’49 & visiting WS friends & classmates.
They are downsizing & Gordon is dismantling
& selling his magnificent model
railroad system. MARTY WEIR CLOSE
& Ray are doing just fine for being as old
as the rest of us in our class. He lost his
brother last yr. As an aside, Marty was in
the same hospital at the same time when our
classmate ED WISER passed away; though
she did not it know it at the time. They do
enjoy short trips visiting friends & family.
JOHN WENDER has moved from London
to Winchester where he is closer to daughter
Juliet & family. This is working out nicely
after the passing of Sherry, John’s wife of
many yrs. He visited the Bergs & Robin on a
3 weeks jaunt to the US. He is full of stories
about his very active life as a photographer.
HOWARD WHITFIELD continues the good
life in Redland CA, where he enjoys life on
the internet.—Robin
Class of 1949
NANCY ALDRICH INMAN enjoyed a
Mediterranean cruise with sister & brotherin-law
to Mikonos, Santorini islands & Istanbul.
She is writing her ‘after India’ stories &
is well. HELEN (BANKER) SYSWERDA &
Ivan spend winters in FL. They keep active
in their church & with family. BETTY BAU-
MAN SHELLY attended granddaughter’s
college graduation in VA & a 4th generation
Jefferson Medical School graduation in PA.
Another granddaughter graduated from home
schooling. Due to surgery, she did not attend
WOSA but attended the class reunion in
Mobile AL in Oct. HARVELLA BAUMAN
STUTZMAN welcomed her first greatgrand
in Apr. She attended WOSA & also went to
Mobile. She still enjoys quilting & reading.
DIANA BOND HOLTSHOUSER attended
her oldest grand’s Eagle Scout ceremony. She
has spent time with children & family in DC,
SC, and VT. Guests were BISHAM & Kathy
PARMAR & sister MIDGE ’50. She had
knee arthroscopy in Jul; plays in the church
bell choir & attended the Mobile reunion.
RUTH BROCK GILCHRIST enjoys quilting
& keeping in touch with children, grand
& greatgrand. JOE CHACKO & Joan enjoy
retirement & spend time with children doing
handy work & babysitting. Joe is involved
with retirees of Union Oil, Scouts & the
Black Point improvement club. He had left
hand surgery .They were in Mobile. FRED
DOWNS & Mary went to Israel, Palestine
& Jordan in May. They attended a missionary
reunion at the Am Baptist conference
in Green Lake, WI with daughter SUSAN
’78, visited ELLEN ALTER in Wooster OH
& son MILTON ’81 in VA. They were at
the Mobile reunion. BOB ERNY & Norma
Jean enjoy good health & have traveled
to New England, CAN, CA, HI & visited
children in IN, TN, PA & VA. They have six
greatgrands and they were at Mobile. BOB
FORSGREN & Eva spent the summer in
Sweden, wintered in FL with the BERGS
’48, KURTZ (S) & SHERERS (S). In the
spring they enjoyed gatherings at the home
of ROBIN PARKER ’48, in OH with other
WS’ites. Family activities include soccer,
long walks, climbing, picking strawberries
& good fishing. They were at Mobile. DAVE
KETCHAM & Gwen (Hillary) are enjoying
retirement & continue in reasonably good
health. DILSHAD NAJMUDDIN & Joy live
in Lahore, Pakistan. Travel to the States has
been limited this yr. They spent some time
in Singapore. LUELLA OSGOOD SPIRUP
& Dick keep busy with church & family;
have two greatgrands to add to their many
blessings. BISHAM PARMAR & Kathy attended
his nephew’s wedding in VT, visited
with Diana in NH & her sister Barbara They
drove to Quebec City & went whale watching
at Tadoussac where they saw 15 blue whales
& 2 other species. At the Atlantic Ocean, they
observed the sandcastle competition. In Sep,
Oct they visited in the Netherlands, France,
Italy & India, Belgium & Luxembourg. BILL
PARSON & Norma spent time in San Francisco,
S CA, HI & Cabo San Lucas MEX.
At Christmas, 15 family members visited
from Europe. Bill’s esophageal cancer does
not seem to be as aggressive as had been
anticipated. He is not in pain, eats well, but
tires easily & needs blood transfusions. In
Mar & May, they went to Holland MI to visit
friends & a 100th birthday celebration. They
were at the Mobile reunion in Oct. LISTA
(Paulus) WINGER EGER experienced the
east coast earthquake, cupboards flew open
& things fell on the floor. She sings in the
choir & now has help with her gardening due
to arthritis. She enjoys reading, spends time
with her sister Miriam in Harrisburg, PA.
JOHN SHAW & Abby drove 6,000 miles this
summer visiting family & friends. John still
enjoys golfing & painting. Abby has had knee
surgery this fall. TED THOBURN & Sandy
have moved from ME winters to Bluffton
SC to a new house with fenced backyard
for the dog & Ted’s trains. Relatives came to
celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary in
Aug. They have found a new church & enjoy
the community & the friendly neighborhood.
Guest rooms are available. PAUL VON
TUCHER & Becky with her sister Nedra
planned the class reunion in Mobile in Oct.
Son Martin runs a farm in south Germany,
Fritz is COO of Luca fashions in NY. Lisbeth
is a lawyer with Chubb in Munich. Paul is
active as past president of the English speaking
Franconia Society & family cultural fdn
in Nuremburg. Last fall, they cruised on the
Rhone & Saone Rivers in France & took a
trip to Minorca in the summer. ANNA MAE
WHITCOMB LENNINGTON continues to
deliver Meals on Wheels in St. Joseph MO.
She coordinates an Angel Food Ministries
program she started at her church. She quilts,
reads & works her garden. The family gathered
in MO to celebrate her 80th birthday
in Jul. HAROLD WILKINSON & Maxine
drove to FL last Mar & to the reunion in
Mobile. In Jun ’10, Hal had surgery for colon
cancer with lymph node & liver involvement.
With naturopathic treatment, it seems that the
cancer has been arrested. He gets CT scans &
blood tests every 3-4 months. A great success
story.—Harvella

1950s
Jottings
Class of 1950
DOREEN FRANCES BARLOW lives in
Western AUS. After a dry & lifeless summer,
the winter rains partly refilled the lake
opposite her home. Black swans & other
birds returned. She belongs to the Fremantle
Harbour Theatre & enjoys the shows. The sr
morning tea once a mo at St. Paul’s Anglican
Church remains a pleasure. HAROLD
BERGSMA & Lily Chu live in San Diego
CA. He travels & writes books. Rupa Press
of India has signed a contract to publish
his newest book, Bonded, a story of poor
carpet-weaver children in PAK. See www.
haroldbergsma.net. LILI VON TUCHER
BOWES has had a busy yr—a visit from
her daughter & friend who live in Juno AK,
a visit to sister LORE ’54 in the UK & time
spent with brother PAUL ’49 & wife Becky
in Germany. She will present a paper on her
life in India at the Quaker Yrly Mtg in Jan.
MARJORIE DAVIS BRINES & family have
been through a yr of sorrow. Her husband
Bill passed away after suffering greatly. He
is with the Lord & he is missed. I am the
survivor. With all the prayers & support of
the church, life is an experience of God’s
love. BARRY COATS would like to have
attended the WOSA reunion in Ft. Collins but
distance & scheduling conflicts clouded any
travel plans he might have made. LOIS DU-
ERKSEN DECKERT & Marion did attend
the WOSA reunion. They live in N Newton
KS. After last yr’s garden bounty, they are
in an endless hot, dry cycle in KS. Without a
well, they would have no 2011 garden. Their
yard looks like an example of desertification
& the vegetable garden produces sparingly.
RICHARD MENZEL lives in Vermillion SD
& maintains interest in wildlife conservation.
A recent big thrill for him has been talking
a music prof into orchestrating a tone poem
he wrote about 35 yrs ago. It is a sextet for
English horn (ie alto oboe, alto shahnai),
string quartet & bell (13.5 minutes). DAVID
MITCHELL & SYNNOVE ’55 keep active
in retirement & in touch with the churches
in PAK & their fellow missionaries. David
hopes to participate in a pastors’ retreat & the
25th anniversary of the Assoc. of Evangelical
Churches. He was granted a visa to return to
PAK. ELEANOR GRIFFITHS RANDEL
lives in San Leandro CA. Her eldest daughter
recently died of breast cancer. Eleanor is still
coping with the trying & painful times her
daughter had. She hopes the new flowers
she planted will thrive in the cool off-shore
breezes. LYNN WATSON VINING & Robert
have a cottage on Lake Huron & spend
much of their summer there. Their beach is
noted as one of the best in Ont CAN. 2 of
their 3 sons & Lynn’s mother live in the US
so they travel several times a yr to visit them.
In winter they keep active skiing. They enjoy
their 8 grandchildren. LI CHUN CHU WU
& Robert traveled to China twice in the past
yr & saw many of the famous sites along
the Silk Road. They left for another visit to
China in Aug. Li Chun injured her rotator
cuff while trying to prune thicker branches
on their trees & might require surgery.—Lois
Class of 1951
60 YEARS! CAN YOU BELIEVE IT? Twice
classmates have met this yr to celebrate.
In CO the LOEHLINS, SULLIVANS,
HOSTETLERS, PARKERS, CONNELLS,
KEN BONHAM & son, Lynn & Janet
STRICKLER & WINS attended WOSA/NA
after being entertained at the Wins’ mtn-top
home the night before. At the reunion, WIN
read a tribute to BOB ALTER ’43 to whom
(along with ELLEN) we had dedicated our
Whispering Pine. In Oct the following attended
the WOSA Gala at WS: the WINS, the
CONNELLS, JIM LOEHLIN & son Dave,
JUDIE LANDRY & daughter Adena, KEN
BONHAM, MARGARET WARD, ROBIN
SHARPE, WARREN CRAIN, JOHN
MORGAN with friend & sister, ASHOKE
CHATTERJEE & PRONOTI SINHA. A
BIG THANKS is due WARREN for arranging
the class part of our trip. Our sympathy
reaches out to AL BARROWS who continues
working in Brazil under Fellowship Int’l
Mission. Wife Virginia suffered with lung
cancer & passed away 3 days after their 53rd
wedding anniversary in Jun. He says he lived
with an Angel unawares for 53 yrs. We will
meet again in Glory. Praise the Lord! I sure
miss her! CHRIS & Margo APPLEBY have
had a great yr. They’ve played golf all over
Norfolk & managed to keep reasonably fit.
They vacationed in Scotland & Northumberland
seeing Hadrian’s Wall & other old
Roman sites, in spite of Margot’s health. She
has another stent to be fitted, so maybe this
will do the job. MEITI OPIE & hubby have
been working hard around house & property,
enjoying their wild AUSian landscape.
Kangaroos hopped quite close to the house
a few times recently. She still enjoys singing
in a French language choir & every Tues
after school picks up their granddaughter to
practice piano under her strict supervision.
Son Mike, wife Tamar & little Aviv live a
5-min drive away. They spent May/Jun in
CA between renters. JOHN ANDERSON
& Doris have been kept very busy since
50s CLASS REPS
Lois Duerksen Deckert 1950
PO Box 475
North Newton, KS 67117-0475
USA
deckert@bethelks.edu
316-283-4352
Judie Schiller Landry 1951
718 Lake Heather Rd
Knoxville, TN 37934-4865
USA
gliderwishtn@tds.net
865-966-0063
T.Z. Chu 1952
12796 Normandy Ln
Los Altos Hills, CA 94022-4609
USA
tzchu@tzchu.com
650-941-5522
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Marianna Presler McJimsey 1954
119 E San Miguel St
Colorado Springs, CO 80903-2313
USA
rmcjimsey@comcast.net
719-471-1765
Verda Hostetler Bialac 1955
5216 Hamilton St
Omaha, NE 68132-1352, USA
vbialac@cox.net
402-933-7802
Pat McGavran Sheafor 1956
2678 S Shore E
Frankfort, MI 49635-9553
USA
psheafor@gmail.com
231-352-4879
Judy Ebright Warner 1957
30 College Ave
Buckhannon, WV 26201-2645
USA
judyewarner@msn.com
304-472-1907
Jacquelyn Horton Benjamin 1958
PO Box 249
Emmett, ID 83617-0249
USA
jacquelyn.benjamin@gmail.com
208-398-7103
Li-chiang Chu 1959
24 Pine Ln
Los Altos, CA 94022-1639
USA
LiChuCalif@att.net
650-949-1279

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retiring in ’98. After 12 yrs in India, 5 in
Chicago & 9+ in PA as Assoc Pastor in a
church which ministers to over 500, they
have decided it is time to slow down & will
move to www.GreenHillsrc.org near their
daughter. MARGARET WARD will travel to
India via AUS where she will visit a cousin.
MARGARET & Dan SULLIVAN report
that their apt (at top of a 16-story bldg) did
a major shake, rattle & roll on Tues Aug 23
when the heaviest earthquake in over 100
yrs hit the E Coast. The epicenter was about
85 mi SW of DC. Luckily nothing broke!
Immediately afterwards, hurricane Irene, full
of howling wind & driving rain, passed by.
After WOSA they saw more of CO. They are
both still working-sort of - & beginning to
look forward to a trip to Indonesia & AUS.
Ruth & MIKE CONDON had a quiet summer
with no travel. They went to Boston in
Sep to spend a weekend with their son. WIN
is looking forward to our 60th at WS with
Riri tagging along. Then they head for Goa
to link up with a boyhood friend, a teacher of
the Catholic Christian Brothers in Tuticorin.
Together the 3 of them will visit Ratnagiri
to retrace the steps of King Thibaw, the last
king & tyrant of Burma who was exiled there
when the British conquered Burma in 1886.
In exchange, the last Mogul emperor of India
was exiled to Burma. From Ratnagiri, they
went to Mae Sot, Thailand to teach Burma
refugee children for a mo, which they have
done in the past. Though BILL GILSON
has had several medical setbacks, things
seem to be under control at present. He is a
spokesman for Kirkwood Orange, where he
lives. See him at bekirkwoodorange.com.
He is also president of the resident council,
which keeps him busy. ALAN JACKSON
(78) & brother Tom (81) hiked for 3 days
in the mtns of Glacier Nat’l Park in Sep.
Alan & son Mark(48) completed every mi
of this yr’s Bicycle Tour of CO in Jun, 460
mi for 7 days going through several high
passes. In Apr, TARA VARGAS took a trip
to S Italy with eldest daughter Yasmine &
brother STANLEY ’47. They met with bro
MALCOLM’s ’44 family & spent a wk in an
old Italian villa on the coast on the heel of the
boot, as beautiful as all the travel pictures!
The people are so friendly, but no one wants
US $, only euros & the exchange rate was
terrible. Nothing really new here, say the
BUSHNELLS, except that they didn’t go up
to the mtns for the 1st time in many yrs. Fortunately,
they have A/C at home - nearly a mo
of 90 plus degrees. WALT tends the garden,
even when it’s 90! ASHOKE CHATTERJEE
is grateful for the wonderful chance to be
with BOB & ELLEN following their visit
to Mussoorie & all the thoughts & emotions
that went with it. His book Rising, published
after 3 yrs of effort, is a story of a group of
women & their effort to transform the lives
of communities in one of Gujarat’s most
challenging environments. A huge amount
of other work continues in water, sanitation,
crafts, culture & with 2 grands 7 & ), it’s
24/7 & no sign of rest & retirement! Phyllis
& GORDON HOSTETLER toured across S
NE stopping at Red Cloud, Willa Cather’s
home town. Phyllis helps in the county
library. Son Mike is one of the unfortunates
looking for work, they hope that things will
turn around soon. The 3 grandsons 19, 17,
8 are growing up quickly. LOUISE GAULT
JOY lives in the country town of Heathcote
where gold was found in the early 1850s.
She & Dary have coffee most days in the
Heathcote Gallery & Winery, the original
Craven’s Grocery shop. They plan tours of
the Pink Cliffs to show friends. The earth is
colored due to the implements used in gold
digging. She is Secretary for Friends of
Vellore VIC, busy arranging functions for
visitors from the Christian Medical College
where her parents worked for 25 yrs. Brother
JOHN ’48 lives nearby in Bendigo - much
gold found there with beautiful bldgs. She
has 3 children in Melbourne & 1 in Sydney
and loves reading Roman history & science.
NIRMAL CHAND continues to keep us all
up-to-date on addresses & adds to the news
when he has some - a great boon to the class.
TONY & Teddy Parker are in temporary
residence in CA awaiting a move to NV. The
CONNELLS also felt the quake, but neither
they nor LOEHLINS had real damage from
Irene. CONNELLS stay constantly busy with
church music & grands. KEN DYE spent 2
wks in hospital with pneumonia, so had to
miss the CO reunion. PRONOTI SINHA
works constantly to make the eye clinic a
viable place of healing. With so much violence
& crazy weather around the world we
who travel may be foolhardy, but we wish
the whole class could have been with us this
yr at our alma mater one more time.—Judie
Class of 1952
JOAN BERGSMA MANLEY & David make
their home in Vallejo CA, not too far from
daughter & family. She reads a great deal but
has not written for some time. Her health is
good but at times feeling a bit frail, as we all
do. DARLENE BURROWS TENNISON
lost Bill early Sep a yr ago, after a valiant
battle against melanoma. Darlene, following
his wish, remains active with a small chorus
group, Sweet Adeline & was able to join
them for a nation-wide contest in Seattle
during Oct ’10. MARY CHU YAO &
brother John had planned to visit China this
summer but the intolerable heat at DC reminded
them of the folly of climbing the
Great Wall in the summer heat. Mary continues
to teach English & finds the experience
challenging, rewarding & ultimately
satisfying. DAO-ZEUN (TZ) resumed working,
managing the leading supercritical fluid
chromatograph co while continuing to advise
univ chem depts as a volunteer. He & Irmgard
are delighted with son-in-law’s transfer
to San Francisco; the grandchildren & family
now live only a half-hr away, instead of
across the country. BARBARA & Brian
CLARK are healthy & enjoying life at home
& at the cottage. They are grateful for their
thriving children & grands, particularly
thankful for the continued life of son Steven
at St. Peter’s hosp. CAROL DOUGLAS
LAMBDIN suffered a stroke & is not making
progress at the rehab center. The family is
considering moving her to a long-term nursing
home to make her as comfortable as
possible. JEAN DOWNIE volunteers at a
nature center & church, which she attends
regularly, singing in the choir. For exercise,
she walks 30-40 min at least 3x/ week.
Daughter Beth & partner Bee have moved
to Shutesbury MA to be closer to work &
have a larger home. JANE DOWNS WALL-
BROWN continues her work as church administrator,
travels & keeps up with
classmates & friends. She plans to spend
Christmas in Hyderabad visiting son Sheldon
who is the CEO of Int’l School for Film &
Media there. ED & Rachel ERNY remain
active with OMS & teaching English to local
Chinese immigrants. Ed wrote a most interesting
article recalling his early days at
Ridgewood. The article was also shared with
WS ’54 & has received a flood of comments
from WS alumni recalling their early days at
Ridgewood & WS (featured in this issue –
Ed.). PEGGY EWING DEVINE & John live
an isolated country life on a 28-acre lot, but
plan to move to Boulder City NV when their
current home has sold. Peggy has quit her
job at the coffee house for health reasons,
but misses her co-workers; her closest girlfriend
lives 40 plus mi away! Peggy, one of
the youngest in our class, celebrated her 75th
birthday last Jan. BOB GRIFFITHS is the
Distinguished Otto Stern U Prof of Physics
at Carnegie Mellon U. His research is focused
on applying consistent history methods
to quantum info theory & computation that
he pioneered & on determinism & free will
at the interface between sci & Christian
theology. He still hasn’t retired, but will
likely do so in the near future. PHYLLIS
HALL KING’s husband Ed went through a
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stay at their CAN lakeside home. Ed recovered
well enough to take part in a magical
wk at Lake Tahoe, a gift for Ed’s 80th birthday
from & with their 3 children & grands
(10 to 19). Phyllis said it reminded her of
WS days. QUENTIN & Carole HERD celebrated
his father’s 100th birthday on Aug
21. Caring for their grandchild Ben (7) keeps
Carole busy. Ben’s mum, their daughter, is
a business bigwig & dad is a DI in a UK
police force. Quentin’s small orchard &
vegetable plot is flourishing & he expects a
very good crop of red delicious apples. AN-
NIKKEN HOEG-RASMUSSEN shared a
most moving report on her & the Norwegian
public’s immediate reaction & subsequent
response to the incomprehensible tragedy in
their country. She was rightfully proud of
Norway’s very measured responses. DITA
KASHYAP & Tony HOLLINS enjoyed a
mo-long tour of Rajasthan, Simla, Goa, as
well as visiting relatives & friends in Delhi
& Mumbai. They also managed their annual
2-wk stay in S France with daughter Katie
& grands who are now teenagers. Katie has
become an entrepreneur, selling Indian cloths
& jewelry on the web. Older daughter Sue
is a successful production mgr for 2 BBC
programs. JOHN LEEDER has not had many
communications with friends & family. He
appears to be well otherwise. BRUCE & Kay
MERRILL enjoyed a good summer in the
Adirondacks after a great wk in Guantanamo
Bay, where son Lee is Deputy Public Works
Officer for the US Navy. Son Keith is well
on his way to having a custom-built camp
completed on the same lake with the parents.
ROGER & Carol MINCHIN enjoyed their
visit to son & family living & working close
to the shore of Lake Geneva in Switzerland.
Their last days in Switz coincided with TZ’s
visit to Basel, but unfortunately they were
not able to meet. We last heard from PAUL
MITCHELL in Nov ’10 following his birthday.
Donna & their daughters took him out
to lunch to celebrate. He & Donna are
blessed with good health & learning how to
retire with grace & dignity. What a wonderful
statement! BILL NAJ is enjoying living
in a home he built on a beautiful spring-fed
lake. He fishes & entertains family & friends.
He has just celebrated his 78th birthday &
very grateful for the blessings of excellent
health, comfortable life, a great family &
friends. The highlight of the yr was a coastto-coast
trip to visit daughter, 2 sons & 2
granddaughters in Ft Lauderdale, Denver &
Santa Barbara. EVA NEUENHOFER is recovering
nicely from operation & chemotherapy
and, together with Harry, celebrated
oldest granddaughter’s graduation from U of
San Francisco. Eva shared a moving recollection
of European kids attending WS immediately
after WWII & released from the
internment camps in India. She also shared
with us interesting newspaper columns by
Hazel Kahan ’56 describing her recent visit
to PAK. NANCY RYBURN MENCE’s husband
Don passed away in Nov ’10 after
valiantly battling recurring leukemia for
many yrs. He died peacefully in bed. Our
love & sympathy are with Nancy & the family.
Nancy is looking after sister HELEN ’41
& enjoyed a family reunion in early Aug at
Taupo NZ. GINNIE SERVICE McCOR-
MICK gets about with the help of a walker
& wheelchair & is looked after by caregivers
& her 4 children. MARGUERITE SCHER-
LING SCHWEITZER & Jerry enjoy visiting
children & grands whenever possible. Marguerite
& daughter Julie plan to visit Yangon
in Mar to find her father’s burial site. They
are searching for an English-speaking local
who can help them locate the site. Her parents
served as missionaries in Burma where
Marguerite spent her youth. DAVID &
Corinne SCOTT had a good yr of interesting
educational & fun family travel – Egypt,
Ethiopia, Panama, CO & IN. In addition to
continuing WS responsibilities there was
increased involvement in the Asian American
Forum in Washington DC. LALI SINGH
visits daughters & grands in Kelowna &
Sunshine Coast as often as she can & they
come often to visit her. After a cruise to AK
in Aug, she had a knee replacement operation.
We look forward to news about her
successful operation & rapid full recovery.
DAVID & Elouise SMITH have returned to
their old homestead in Ozark AL. They made
a valiant effort traveling to Fort Collins by
train for the WOSA reunion, overcoming
physical & health challenges & the notorious
American trains. They enjoy visits from 6
children, 13 grands & 5 greatgrands. BOB
& Susan STEWART are enjoying a pretty
laid back retirement but have attended a lot
of auctions collecting antique tools such as
planes, levels, saws - that being Bob’s hobby.
They live in a Ponderosa pine forest & are
cutting quite a few trees for fire mitigation
& for winter heating. Their biggest trip this
yr was to Fort Collins for the WOSA reunion.
ELIZABETH (Liz) SUTHERLIN REES
looked forward with excitement to an unexpected
visit to Britain in Oct. She is grateful
for her & family members’ good health. Son
Giles & family live in Christchurch, 2-hr
drive away; they were rattled but unharmed
by the series of devastating earthquakes &
resulting liquefaction that brought down
many bldgs in this historic city. JIM TAY-
LOR wrote that they are learning to live with
uncertainty, expressing his measured pleasure
with Joan’s successful chemotherapy
but is also conceding that periodic chemotherapy
may be necessary. Jim himself has
fully recovered from his heart attack. He is
the intellect of our class writing widely-read
weekly columns astutely observing & reflecting
on events that take place around the
world. JOSIE THOBURN HERNDON &
Dale enjoy the summer on the CA coast &
entertained visits by many family members
& friends. Back home they help care for
grandkids & are active in church. Josie enjoys
AAUW, line dancing & book study
group. Dale is great at fix-it & computers.
LIBBY THOBURN SHEATHER & Harry
enjoy living in a 55-and-over community
where they participate in many of the activities.
Libby serves on 2 committees offering
advice & assistance with landscaping
issues & conducts a chorus for Christmas &
other events. The highlights of the yr included
the wedding of Libby’s granddaughter
in Jul & celebrating brother TED’s ’49 &
Sandy’s 50th anniversary in SC. ALEX
THOMSON had a successful heart surgery
in Jun to replace aortic valve & repair the
mitral value. Six weeks earlier he found it
difficult to breathe after taking trash cans out,
his legs & joints were swollen & he had
unaccountably put on about 20+ lbs. due to
water retention. He is regaining his health
but finds recovery slow & frustrating, especially
because he had to stop his law practice.—TZ
Class of 1954
We mourn the death of MURIEL THIESSEN
STACKLEY who died of cancer, Jan 29. Her
family roots were Mennonite & she touched
many lives as a writer, pastor & peacemaker.
We send deepest sympathies to Kamal
& MALTI NANDA KHANNA whose eldest
son Madhav died Dec ’10 of cancer, to Kathe
& BILL MOSHER on the death of Bill’s
mother, Alice Wynne, and to KARIS MAN-
TON, whose brother Tom died in Feb. ALI-
SON SODDY THURSFIELD serves on the
British Unitarians Nat’l Executive while also
both playing & coaching croquet. Paul &
ANN EICHER WELTY enjoy their IN lake
cottage with children, 7 grandchildren & 2
great-grandchildren. They & Nancy &
DAVE HOLMES visit regularly. ANNE
BURGOYNE HOLMAN, who is living in
Port Townsend WA, has found a good market
for her paintings through a local artist co-op.
ARNIE CHESHIRE in Toronto writes for
AirForce magazine, keeps in touch with his
local MP & looks forward to the retirement
of wife Simone in 2 yrs. Kathe & BILL
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events were Mosher and Schrader family
reunions. Linda & BOB FLEMING flourish
in OR where RAY SMITH visited them. Bob
will be doing research at 3 Brazilian biomes:
the Atlantic rainforest, the Pantanal wetlands
& the Cerrado savannah. In Washington DC,
BOB SERVICE attends to rightsizing for the
US State Dept, holding the line against ever
larger embassies and consulates abroad. Bob
plays golf & Karol enjoys gardening. They
plan travels to Vienna, Prague & Budapest.
Carmen & BRUCE JOHNSON love living
in downtown Denver CO where they garden,
bicycle (using Denver’s bike sharing program),
attend sporting & cultural events &
enjoy grandchildren. Bruce was on the planning
committee for the Ft. Collins CO
WOSA reunion. Brenda & CLEM DOUG-
LASS live near Minneapolis MN. They have
lovingly nurtured their high-functioning
autistic son, Dax, who is now enrolled in a
program for 18-21 yr olds to learn to live &
work independently. CONNIE SANFORD
TRAVAILLE is teaching KG in Spartanburg
SC where she keeps busy with church, gardening
& family. She hopes to celebrate
retirement in ’12 by attending the Seattle
WOSA reunion. DAVE EVANS & Molly
made their annual summer trek (since ’96)
from CA to Nobleboro ME, near the coast.
Dave recommends a movie, My Favorite
Year, significantly (for our class) set around
1954. On a sad note, Molly has been diagnosed
with early stages of dementia. Her
personality and sweet disposition are unchanged.
The motto of Nancy and DAVE
HOLMES is “Gotta keep movin’ while we
can”. Recent travels from their FL home
include Israel, Croatia, Slovenia & the eastern
Adriatic as well as Ft. Wayne IN to visit
Paul & ANN EICHER WELTY. DIXIE
CORTNER BROOKE enjoys skyping with
2 grandsons in London, kayaking & attending
plays & concerts with Julian & ROBBIE
FOSTER CROWELL, who also live in
western MA. She spent time in Costa Rica.
Wade & ELIZABETH (MURIEL) HAGEN
SMITH attended the adoption ceremony in
England of daughter Karen’s Abigail. The
colorful ceremony included a judge in wig
& lavender-hued stole. Travels from their
Richmond VA home included Grasse, the
world perfume capital in Provence FR. EVA
SEEGALL CHANDLER’S new hobby is
taking photos in south Devon UK of skies,
clouds, landscapes & the people in between.
Son David, professor of int’l politics at U of
Westminster, travels worldwide. Daughter
Debi, a chiropodist, lives nearby. Eva welcomed
a visit from Tony & DITA KASHUP
HOLLINS ’52. Ed & IDA ALTER STRICK-
LAND, who live in Los Gatos, south of San
Francisco, enjoyed a wonderful trip with
Overseas Adventure Travel to Machu Picchu
& the Galapagos Islands. They visited longtime
friends in Wales & went sightseeing in
Scotland. ILSE PAULSSEN NAJ traveled
from Minneapolis MN to Western AUS to
visit Michael & MARGRIT BUTZ WALMS-
LEY. They had so much fun remembering
all the mischief, silly & stupid things they
did while at WS and at home in Bombay.
While visiting her daughter in Denver, Ilse
joined Carmen & BRUCE JOHNSON &
MARIANNA PRESLER MCJIMSEY for
dinner at an Indian restaurant. Ev & JERE-
MY DAVENPORT are happily celebrating
52 years of marriage, as they continue to
enjoy the closeness of their kids, grandkids
& great-grandkids. They are still RVing
around the Pacific NW & staying active in
hobbies and srs’ organizations. Gordon and
JOANNA REITTER GREEN have moved
from their mtn home back to San Jose CA to
be close to children and grandchildren. She
has enjoyed reading the 75-100 letters that
she wrote to her parents in Rangoon while
she was at WS. Her mother had saved them
all. JOHN CHU is the full time lab manager
at the CA State Prison in Soledad. Wife Judy
is a Licensed Vocational Nurse, also at the
Soledad prison & also working full time.
John’s triple by-pass surgery of 2 years ago
was very successful; he primarily has to
watch his diet. KAVAL SINGH GULHATI
(Delhi) had a lovely reunion with MIREILLE
THIMAYYA CHENGAPPA in Bangalore &
later visited her daughter Amrita’s organic
farm in Kumaon. Amrita went to Kodai
where she met husband Santosh, a German.
Kaval wrote, “Viva Indian multiculturalism”.
We congratulate KENNETH STEPHENS,
Claremont CA, who has completed his memoirs
The Meaning of These Days: Memoir of
a Philosophical Pastor & is looking for a
publisher. Access portions of the book on
http://themeaningofthesedays.com. LORE
VON TUCHER is beautifully settled in
Leamington Spa UK, near her 2 sons & their
families. She is improving her bridge, playing
the violin in chamber music groups &
holidaying in the Persian Gulf, the Azores,
SE France, Iceland & Ireland. Michael &
MARGRIT BUTZ WALMSLEY excitedly
showed ILSE PAULSSEN NAJ how they
live down-under in W AUS. When Margrit
tells people here that we are all in touch with
each other after all these years, they are
absolutely astounded. The Walmsleys celebrated
their 50th with a trip to Dubai, Rome,
Florence, Venice & an E Mediterranean
cruise. Glenn & MARY ELLEN ENS-
MINGER ATWOOD moved into a 2-bedroom
independent living apt near Akron,OH.
Mary Ellen is the Regent for her Daughters
of the American Revolution chapter. The
Atwoods are active in their church, work out
regularly & conduct genealogical research.
They enjoyed dinner with Maria & RICH
PARKER on a Columbia MO visit. MYRA
DOWNIE VANUXEM flew with her niece
and grandnieces to Queensland, AUS to
visit Myra’s sister Joyce & family. While
visiting the Great Barrier Reef, they watched
the release of 4 green turtles which had ingested
plastic & recovered at the Turtle
Hospital. Myra noted the dangers to worldwide
wildlife that plastic imposes. KARIS
MANTON lives in Mattoon, IL She has an
int’l family of 4 children, 1 born in Mexico,
1 in Canada & 2 in the US. RAY SMITH
would like to sell his co so that he can retire.
However, he is keeping it going so that his
7 employees do not have to join the ranks of
the unemployed. He and Letty enjoy the
fruits of their extensive orchard in LA
County. He looks forward to the ’12 WOSA
Seattle reunion. RICH PARKER helps care
for his grandson Dontay (2). Rich continues
to serve on two Columbia MO citizen boards
dealing with renewable energy and energy
conservation & has been on the boards long
enough so that he occasionally has some
influence. Maria works full time on the night
shift at a nearby nursing home. Julian and
ROBBIE FOSTER CROWELL are pleased
with their spacious & bright new apartment
in the Loomis Village retirement community
in South Hadley MA; although the
waiting was stressful, they were able to sell
their house. They would love to have Class
of 54 visitors for New England’s legendary
leaf peeping season. Orval & RUTH BAUR
WILLIMANN enjoyed the visits to their MI
lake home of all of the Willimann children
& grandchildren, including 13 biological
grandchildren & 3 significant others. They
totaled 27 around the table. Thank goodness
for the girls who love to cook & are real
gourmets in the kitchen. Aloke & SUNITA
CHAND BOSU, who live in S CA, celebrated
Sunita’s 75th birthday & their 50th anniversary
with a European trip. Sunita hones
her magician skills. Even folks who do not
know her name know her as the magician
lady. She continues to compile family history
albums dating from her great-great
grandfather. During WIN MCGAVRAN
GRIFFEN’s visit with her granddaughter
Mena (3), to the Pacific Asia Museum in
Pasadena CA, Mena stood in front of a
Hindu god & exclaimed loudly, “He’s naked”.
Then she moved on to one with a loin
cloth &, said in a very loud voice, “He has
underwear on”. The music playing in the gift
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sponded by putting her fingers in her ears.
Win observed, “Ah, age 3”. Mena’s mother’s
family is from Gujurat, but Mena has yet to
learn the joys of India. MARIANNA PRE-
SLER MCJIMSEY enjoyed the Ft. Collins,
WOSA reunion. For 20 mo, she chaired a
5-member parish committee, which researched
& photographed the 48 windows
(dated 1898-2005) of Grace and St. Stephen’s
Episcopal Church, Colorado Springs
CO. The 112 page hardbound book, published
in Oct, includes full-page photos of
each window & accompanying texts. Editing
& publishing the Whispering Pine in ’54 was
excellent training.—Marianna
Class of 1955
ESTHER BALPH HOLGATE & John stayed
home this yr. In Feb she tripped & crashed,
landing on a knee. No bones broken, but it
took her 6 wks to walk again. John has had
cataract surgery, then it will be ESTHER’s
turn. KATHY BASKETTE MOLLOHAN
recently googled Nagpur, where her family
lived. The image that came up was not the
Nagpur (very definitely a village) she knew.
KATHY loves to read, hike. She & Kent went
to DC to visit their new grandniece, the 1st
baby in the family in 40 yrs. Claude &
BECKY BECKER MOREL welcomed their
10th grand (8th grandson) born on Valentine’s
Day, named August Nels Olson. In Apr
they enjoyed an Amtrak trip to IL to take part
in the baptism of both little boys. She hopes
to have her 2nd book finished soon. PAUL
BOYTAR & MOUCHE BROCKE DEETH
are in AUS. PAUL & Catherine in Brisbane
that was flooded. Their house on high ground
was spared but power outage & rd conditions
made it very difficult. MOUCHE lives in N
QLD at a higher elevation. MOUCHE’s
Mike suffered a severe stroke a few yrs ago
& is now in a care facility. She now runs the
animal preserve, the house & visits Mike,
4.5 hrs away, no time for her art. PRIS DE
VOL COX & Tom enjoy reading together.
PRIS keeps busy, belongs to a Community
Bible Study Group, loves to play dominoes.
PINKY EBRIGHT HAYES & Kirby stand
beside their children as the economy plays
havoc with jobs, a cutting-horse trainer son
& a son-in-law’s job with American Airlines
that moved away. One bright note, PINKY
& sister JUDY ’56 visited a cousin in San
Francisco, going by train. FRANK EMER-
SON has given up tennis to save his knees
& back for doing other sports with Mary, like
cross country skiing, walking/hiking & biking.
They spent 3 wks skiing in the Laurentians
& Adirondacks, a wk in Rome
concentrating on Caravaggio paintings.
Tragedy struck PEGGY ENSMINGER MOE
& Roger when their house
burned down in Jul. Both
got out safely but lost almost
all. Then PEGGY
was hospitalized with a
bleeding ulcer & vein from
which she miraculously
recovered. They will be
moving into a retirement
center. PEGGY & Roger
celebrated their 54th wedding
ann in Aug. They are
fortunate to have all children
nearby. JOHN
(DICK) GILSON & Tura
have been to NC, a granddaughter’s
wedding in Nashville, then a rodeo
& huge craft show at the state prison
with another granddaughter & family in LA.
JOHN regrets he wasn’t able to participate
in the sr games this yr. RUTH GRIFFITHS
DOYLE is enjoying the lake-effect snow in
Batavia NY. She took a trip to the ME coast
to take in the glory of the fall colors. KATHY
HARTLEY ORANJE celebrated her granddaughter’s
5th b’day in Germany. She then
went to the US in Jul/Aug, including a cruise
to AK with daughter & family. FRED &
Carole HOLLOSZY are grandparents to
Gabriela (5) & Elisa (1/2). FRED still works
part time in his dental practice & enjoys taking
challenging classes on a variety of topics.
VERDA HOSTETLER BIALAC spends
time reading, writing, class repping & visiting
family & friends. She also belongs to a
study group to which she presents an annual
paper. She & George visited PRAMA SON-
DHI BHANDARI & Ranji in Chicago while
visiting their daughter & spent time in Ancaster
ON with daughter & son-in law who
moved there from super-hot San Antonio.
VERDA spent time in IN with family. She
& ANN WORKMAN DWYER upheld the
class at WOSA/NA. JEAN KESSELRING
BONNEY & Dick are kept busy with volunteering,
family, friends & hobbies. This yr
in Oct they will take the train to CA to a
Kesselring reunion (7 of them with spouses)
& stay on the Pacific Ocean. After meeting
RUTH ’57 & husband at the Cousins’ Reunion,
they will spend a few days with them
in Santa Cruz. BILL KINZIE has had 2 hip
replacements & feels like a new man! No
more pain & walking is beginning to be a
pleasure again. He still plays in the Richmond
Philharmonic Orchestra, wife Lib
continues her interest in scrap booking.
CAROL LUBBERS BABCOCK has a new
3rd grand, Emily Margaret. In Austin to
visit her son, she enjoyed a stay at Lost Pines
Resort. She also flew to IL to be with sister
ALTYE ’48, who suffered a bad heart attack.
Verda Hostetler Bialac, Ruth Thoburn Osborn, Wayne Osborn &
Keith Osborn at RUTH & Wayne’s 50th Anniversary, Iowa City, IA
This yr has been one of transition for BETTY
ANN MCELDOWNEY CONARD & Dick.
With their house up for sale, they have
moved into a condo, one on the river, with
beautiful views. Dick is working on a revision
of how health care is delivered - creative
& good ideas. BETTY ANN has focused on
enjoying grands & helping convey them back
& forth from school or activities. Bicycle
riding & reading are a real joy. DON & Esther
MACKAY took a 40 day trip with a
group of 19 to SE Asia. MADHU MEHTA,
living on 3 continents in FL, Baden Baden
& India, continues to run her textile business
INDIA SILK. In addition she is Pres of the
India US Chamber of Commerce Inc, S FL
& VP of ABICC (Assoc. of Bi-national
Chambers of Commerce in FL) in Miami.
Son Kalyan, a pilot, lives nearby, owns an
air charter. Daughter Shalini & Hatim are
parents of 3 little girls in Palo Alto, she takes
every opportunity to spend time with them.
EILEEN NEEVE SWINFEN spent 7 wks in
S France with daughter-in-law Rachel with
twin boys (11 mo) who had to have an adult
each accompany them on the plane. Cecily
(2.5) had a seat to herself. Son Jonathan
drove down with all the baby clobber. They
have bought the home next to EILEEN in
France. EILEEN will return to France in Aug
for 2 more mo. Daughter Kerenza & Josh
have moved to Devon, Jonathan & Rachel
have moved to Oxfordshire for a larger
house. EILEEN will miss having both children
on her doorstep. BOB REAM & family
spent 3 wks in Peru, mostly in the Cuzco
area, a 5-day trek to Machu Picchu through
hi mtn passes & wonderful little villages,
then to Lake Titicaca, with a host family out
on one of the islands. Another 4-day trek
visiting the ruins around Cuzco & the sacred
valley, including celebrating BOB’s 75th
birthday. Fantastic adventure & truly amazing
what the Incas did during their short time
in power, before being annihilated by the
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Class of 56 at WOSA Reunion- Bruce Woolever, Margaret Shafer,
Jane Choulett & Steve Holm
of honey & continues to serve as Chair of
the MT Fish, Wildlife & Parks Commission,
wife Ann continues as chief legal counsel in
the governor’s office. Son Jake graduated as
valedictorian from Helena HS & is off to CO
College. Daughter Tarn completed a MS in
plant sci at U MT & son Rolf continues work
with the Nat’l Marine Mammal lab out of
Seattle, but currently is in DC area for 2 yrs
with Sacha & Griffin (5). STEWART ROB-
INSON has reported on the extensive damage
& continual after-shocks of the
earthquake in Christchurch, NZ. Son Alan’s
wedding date soon after was still observed,
in spite of the many volunteer hrs they put
in at the Red Cross. GRANT SMITH works
as head of the all-volunteer Land Trust of the
E Panhandle of WV & also is organizing a
lifelong learning course on Afghanistan &
its Neighbors at Shepherd U. He & Renny
go to Washington once a week, where Renny
volunteers at the Smithsonian Center for
Folklife & GRANT retains a title at the
Central Asia Caucasus Inst. PRAMA SON-
DHI BHANDARI & Ranji attended the 30th
celebration of the Art of Living held in
Berlin in Jul at the Olympic Stadium. They
stayed in Europe meeting friends, then
headed for Chicago for a mo’s visit with
daughter Anuradhika & family, followed by
a stay with their son in NYC. DAVID ’50 &
SYNNØVE SVENDBERG MITCHELL had
to put on hold their yrly trip to PAK due to
SYNNØVE’s major back surgery. LYLE &
Clare THOBURN have been to Europe with
their church group Young at Heart. They
thoroughly enjoyed each of the 6 countries
they visited. Clare reported that LYLE took
special interest in the mechanics of windmills
& the roundhouse bridge crane running
on a curved runway at the
NC transportation museum.
RUTH THOBURN
OSBORN & Wayne celebrated
their 50th wedding
anniv last Dec. All children
attended with spouses &
companions, coming from
CA, OR & NY. The members
of the original wedding
party were also there,
Wayne’s brother the best
man & VERDA the bridesmaid.
Their children gave
them 50 gold presents! A
fantastic celebration. Our
class is grateful that IAN
WEEKS sent reports on
PAUL BOYTAR,
MOUCHE & themselves.
He also reported that JAC-
QUETH JAMES RILEY
’47 & LOUISE GAULT JOY ’51 were also
safe from the floods. ALENE WILSON
WYATT must never be home but when she
is, she enjoys reading, water aerobics, playing
bridge & Mah Jong. In Sep-Oct she took
a trip to Italy & Sicily with JHi friends. ANN
WORKMAN DWYER & Tom McKenna are
enjoying life in beautiful Stowe, VT. They
had a record snowfall last winter, then came
the floods of summer. Stowe was lucky,some
commuting staff who live in the mtns were
hit hard. Tom & JOANNE YODER HOLTZ-
INGER last yr went to Kenya & Tanzania on
a photo safari, saw fabulous wildlife. This
yr they are going to SE Asia,they will jouney
down the Irrawaddy River. Tom’s prizewinning
dahlias are known all over Goshen,
IN.—Verda
Class of 1956
JANE COLLINS CHOULETT is our most
faithful WOSA reunion attendee. She,
Midge, Bruce & Steve were our representatives
this yr. Midge & Byron Shafer stayed
with Jane in Nov. STEVE HOLM & Glenda
continue to be involved in family & community.
They attended the WOSA reunion
in Ft Collins where it was great to see many
old friends & classmates. HAZEL SELZER
KAHAN reports that the most transformative
thing she did this yr was to go back to
Lahore, the town of her birth. The last time
she was there, was in ’71 & she was 40 yrs
younger! Her travel blog is at www.hightidings.wordpress.com
& is recommended
reading. She is writing her life story as
well. MARGE BAKER KIEHL & Marvin
were in Scottsdale for 10 days with JOYCE
SHUMAKER SHAW, her daughter Diane
& Johnnie & Dianne Singh; had a wonderful
& nostalgic time together after about 54
yrs! Like being with good family. DIETER
BUTZ has recently reconnected. He now
lives in Pampelonne, France together with
wife Hedy. He is retired, spends a lot of his
time caring for Hedy who has recently lost
her eyesight & has become quite frail. He
is now contactable by email and welcomes
messages. BILL MCKELVEY recently
retired from UCLA & has some 20 papers
already started or planned that he needs to
write, not to mention editing 5-6 books on
Complexity Science for Routledge & then,
at some point to start on all the other books
he would like to write. DANIEL MITCH-
ELL & Margaret continue to witness to
their faith in their retirement community
in CA.TED MOSHER has moved into a
retirement community & is happy to be in
such a secure environment. He is traveling
less, though he did get to a family reunion
this summer. Health issues are part of his
life now as they appear to become for all
of us. BECKY SNYDER PETERS (W.J.) is
undergoing treatment for a brain tumor but in
good spirits. The treatment is a rigorous one
which involves travel to Duke U in NC. The
doctors are impressed with her good physical
condition, undoubtedly related to climbing
the hills all those yrs ago, not to mention
her professional abilities, genes & lifelong
care. TOM MANTON’s death saddened all
of us. His zeal for making the world a more
peaceful place will be missed. ELISABETH
TOYBERG PETTERSSON (Eric) had a
short-term infection control assignment in
Serbia this yr, working for a Danish engineering
company that specializes in hospital
waste management. We ran 15 workshops
all over the country, 40 nurses at a time,
which was most interesting & gratifying. Liz
contributed by giving lectures on injection
safety & hygiene, assisted local professionals
put together a nat’l guideline on injection
safety. She & Eric had a most interesting &
beautiful 3-wk trip through Estonia, Latvia
& Lithuania in Jun. These countries are
close to Denmark but not well known as
they were occupied by Russia, yet much
of their old history has been tied up with
Denmark & Sweden. TOM SCOVEL promised
Janene that when he retired, he would
write a book about his childhood in China
& their remarkable yr teaching there in ’79.
Although the book focuses on China, the WS
& India yrs helped Tom contextualize what
he experienced & witnessed within an Asian
framework & forced him, even as a boy, to
reflect on the contrasts between democracy
& dictatorship. Any WS alumni who are
book agents should feel free to contact Tom!
MARGARET LOEHLIN SHAFER & Byron

moved into a retirement community near
Princeton, NJ. They spend their summers at
their home in upper NY state. Midge is writing
her autobiography. They visited with Bob
Alter briefly in Wooster just 2 wks before he
died. Their 10 mins with Bob & Ellen found,
Bob quintessentially Bob, his eyes twinkled
& he was full of his usual good humor. He
& Ellen asked that Midge take their love to
the WOSA Reunion in Fort Collins. Midge
reports that she, Bruce & Steve attended KG
together some yrs ago. PAT MCGAVRAN
SHEAFOR & Scrib are celebrating their
50th anniversary this yr with a number of
trips. Family traveled together to NYC &
Boston this spring & a cruise from NYC to
Quebec happened early Oct. Pat returns to
S India (Kerala & Chennai) with daughter
Sarah in Jan 2012. JOHNNIE SINGH is
the official phone contact for the class. His
cheery & informative calls keep the class
secretary informed about classmates & lift
the spirits of those receiving his calls. He
& Dianne organized the mini-reunion with
Marge Baker Kiehl & Joyce Shumaker Shaw
this past spring. Johnnie is still working full
time keeping track of his clients’ accounts.
DIANA SINGH-ROY continues to travel,
with special interests in birds. She shares
some of her photographs with us. She &
NIRA MUKERJEE BENEGAL will be
visiting Bharatpur in Nov. Early fall founds
Diana in London & then Seville & Cordoba.
MELVIN SNYDER & Jean celebrated their
45th anniversary this yr. They are enjoying
retirement. BRUCE WOOLEVER & Pat
enjoyed the WOSA reunion at Ft Collins &
spent a few days visiting youngest son in
San Diego.—Pat
Class of 1957
We are looking forward to our 55th class
reunion in Oct ’12 in Lewes, DE, under the
capable leadership of JUDY CARPENTER
MILLER, CAROLE CARPENTER EDI-
SON, MARIAN GRIFFITHS DEMCISAK
& DAN KOBAL. It will be exciting to see
everyone again. We are happy that HARVEY
& Yuko KLINE have recently gotten in touch
with us. They are settling in Portland OR
after living outside the US for 20 yrs, mostly
in the Kobe/Osaka area where he taught in
Japanese Univ. MARY CAROL SNEAD
BOSERUP had a warm & memorable 70th
birthday celebration with family; however
she & Dan are now waging a serious battle
against Dan’s cancer which was diagnosed
in Apr. The prognosis is grim but not entirely
without hope. AYESHA SINGH BERGER
went back to India after almost 25 yrs &
there was really a change; one can literally
feel that the country & the people are very
dynamic & hopeful. JUDY CARPENTER &
Charlie MILLER took a yr off for Charlie’s
health but are again playing bridge, gardening,
being with family & friends, assisting
with ESL classes at the local high school &
enjoying a leisurely retirement. CAROLE
CARPENTER & Ed EDISON love being
near family, playing bridge, going to an occasional
movie or dinner out & are very content
being homebodies. JOAN BENEDICT
AKERS enjoys her grandkids. She works
for a travel agency in Boston & worked
overtime recently rebooking itineraries for
people who were stranded after hurricane
Irene plowed through. RICKEY & Dagne
SOLLID celebrated their silver wedding anniversary,
take care of aging parents, enjoy
their family, work with Habitat for Humanity,
Bandelier Nat’l Monument & the Los
Alamos Sr Center. They narrowly escaped
the horrible fire that consumed thousands
of acres near Bandelier. FRED & Karen
KOKEN spent time at the idyllic ranch in
WY riding the hi-country, are planning a
driving trip through the NW & watch Seattle
Mariners baseball. ANN ALDRIDGE & Paul
DAHL have short trips planned to beautiful
places nearby, help with grandkids; Paul has
the exciting assignment of teaching their
oldest grandson to drive. MARY FOLSOM
& Ken KELLER welcomed their 3rd great
grandson & celebrated their 50th wedding
anniversary by cruising the Hawaiian Islands
with their adult children. ASHOK &
Carolyn MAYADAS both retired from full
time jobs but Ashok continues to consult on
internet learning through his new co Mayadas
Strategy Group LLC which he partners
with Carolyn. Ashok was keynote speaker
at a conference in Israel & goes to WS as a
member of the Board of Directors. LARRY
& Ineke CUNNINGHAM cruised along the
coast of Norway then later went to Chile
& Ecuador, Larry gives lectures at the med
school, talks on professionalism & does
work as a legal expert in malpractice cases.
They both read extensively & do aerobic
exercises at the YMCA. JUDY DILLING-
HAM took 4 friends to India & will be in
Mussoorie for the 100th anniversary of
WOSA. She volunteers both at St. Paul’s
Episcopal Church & the White Elephant
Sale benefitting the Oakland Museum of
CA. BETH PARKER JACKS is enjoying her
retirement especially because all 3 daughters
& families live close by, she ferries grandchildren
to & from school & keeps declining
appeals to go back to work. MARIAN
GRIFFITHS & John DEMCISAK attended
her 50th reunion at the College of Wooster
OH where they met up with JIM & Karen
HAVENS & later saw JEANO CRAIN &
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Dan MORENO. Marian is involved in running
a volunteer tax preparation site & John
is on the property committee of the church
& works at the local air museum. MARK &
Sharon WELCH have had to stay fairly quiet
because of Sharon’s major back surgery. She
may have to have more surgery but certainly
is better off than before. They keep active in
their church, enjoy their 2 little shih tzus &
love visits with their family. He & RICKEY
have not been on any big game hunts recently
but they Skype frequently. JANET &
Bill ANDERSON are savoring this piece of
life when they are healthy & have the time
to enjoy it. Janet spends every min she can
outdoors doing something active with friends
because she loves it; Bill is the homebody
who gardens, cooks & reads. DAN SAN-
FORD has assumed the position of interim
Pastor at Ankeny Church of the Brethren in
Ankeny IA and he & Marlene are enjoying
being a part of this church. They went to FL
to participate in their niece’s wedding & had
a wonderful family time with Dan’s sisters
Connie & Vicky & their families. ESTHER
SHULL RILEY spends a tremendous amount
of time trying to change the stalemate in
Israel/Palestine. She & Barry enjoyed a visit
from their daughter & family this summer,
went to 2 of Esther’s 50th college reunions
in Oberlin OH & North Manchester IN & are
going to Barry’s 50th reunion at Stanford.
JIM & Karen HAVENS had a good visit with
Marian & John Demcisak & showed them
where he creates & displays his sculptures;
later they visited Judy & Carole & husbands
in Lewes, DE & toured the facilities for our
55th class reunion. COURT DASPIT came
through hurricane Irene unscathed & attended
the Curry Club meal in Philadelphia
where more than 2 dozen former students,
gathered for an evening. The turn-out clearly
showed how completely the nat’l composition
of the student body has changed. He
has attended 3 events in Philly’s annual
Live Arts & Fringe festival, hopes to attend
at least 8 more. DAVID & Eleanor FIOL
are still in Dehradun, but they expect to be
in the States by the end of Oct where they
will do considerable traveling to churches &
individuals who have been involved in their
work; but they are also hoping to develop
some property they bought in NC where they
plan to retire next yr. RUTH KESSELRING
& Nick ROYAL still do some childcare for
grandson Ravi (5) & they enjoyed a good
visit with JOAN BENEDICT AKERS & her
granddaughter. Ruthie tutors adults in basic
skills & is hoping to finish a writing project
soon. JERRY HOWARD recently lost his
dear Dad & has been working hard on sorting
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Estelle and Peter Clack
things from India. Wanda continues her treatments,
but she was able to meet with teacher
friends for a long breakfast in Rochester.
DON & Carolyn EMMERSON’s house in
Nikko, Japan survived the quake unscathed.
Don has traveled for conferences, talks &
research to Hanoi, Honolulu, Jakarta, Kuala
Lumpur, Monterey, Singapore, Vancouver to
name a few. They enjoy vacations with their
kids & grandkids. JEANO CRAIN & Dan
MORENO spent the winter in TX. Jeano
line dances, does therapy with her dogs,
while Dan cares for his large cactus collection.
ROBIN PILLEY still writes software
for Colmac Coil in WA & builds trails on
weekends on his beautiful land in the mtns.
ELLEN BARTLETT & Ken NODELMAN
shuttle back & forth from CT to NY where
Ellen is still doing college guidance. Len
paints, she plays the cello. DAN & Lois KO-
BAL took Amtrak from NY to San Francisco
& many places in between in connection with
The Explorers Club. They enjoy their kids
Bonnie McGraw and Joanne Gray
& grandkids. As for me, JUDY EBRIGHT
WARNER, I am so thankful that Stephen
& family are here in town & that I can still
drive to visit with my other 2 children &
grandkids often. I volunteer with Meals on
Wheels, am on several committees in the
church & community, I hope we can all meet
together next yr in Lewes, DE for our class
reunion!—Judy
Class of 1958
STELLA ACTON-GREENE lives with sisters
MURIEL ’60 & Shirin in Bethlehem PA;
she is writing a family history. CAROLYN
REINOEHL BAKER & Stu will travel to Tiberius,
Israel as hospitality volunteers. They
enjoy 7 grands. JOHN BARRON was in
Zimbabwe in Aug; celebrating the marriage
of youngest granddaughter, Fiona. JACQUE-
LYN HORTON BENJAMIN & Immanuel
travelled to McCall & Coeur d’Alene ID,
Cody WY & Scottsdale AZ; visited KEITH
JOHNSON & Janet in Spokane; had a phone
call from CHUCK CLOUD. MARGARET
SNYDER BENSENHAVER is the bookkeeper
for John’s business; 2 daughters &
8 grands visit; sister BECKY ’56 has been
diagnosed with a brain tumor. RICHARD
BROWN works with AEA in Afghanistan,
Albania, Bosnia, Georgia, and PAK. BETSY
ROSE CARR & Wes vacationed at Cape
Cod with 3 children & grands the wk before
Hurricane Irene. WALLACE CHRISTY &
Barb are retired & live on Kelleys Island OH
in the summer & Chincoteague Is VA in the
winter. ESTELLE NEEVE CLACK & Peter
retired from The Salvation Army after 44
yrs of service in 6 countries; they will live
in Bethel OH. TERRY CONNELL & Charlene
toured India in Oct/Nov, including WS
& Isabella Thoburn College. JOHN DEAN
will publish an e-book: Innovation IT Project
Mngmt for Non-Dummies. BARBARA
CHRISTY FILNER climbed Half Dome in
Yosemite Nat’l Park CA; visited MEHER-
NUSH KAPADIA & PAMELA TENTI in
Oct. ROSEMARY BLICKENSTAFF
FLORA travelled in France and Turkey.
JEAN BENEDICT HURLEY
visited PAMELA TENTI; & enjoys
families of PAMELA & MONDIRA
LALL in US. KEITH JOHNSON’s
son Scott will marry in Capetown,
South Africa; he & Janet spent two
wks in Puerto Vallarta. JERRY JUDY
& Alice traveled to Ireland, Peru &
Ecuador. MEHERNUSH KAPADIA
is looking forward to seeing BAR-
BARA FILNER & PAMELA TENTI.
MONDIRA TALUKDAR LALL
spent 3 mos in Port Liberte NJ with
youngest son, then to Dubai to visit
middle son & finally to Bangalore to visit
oldest son. MAYA TANDON MALHOTRA
& Promodh cruised from Baltimore MD to
Newfoundland via ME; their son married in
Sep. LYNDA BUFFINGTON McCREARY
retired from teaching after 40 yrs; thus far,
the TX fires have spared her home. PAM
BADHWAR MEHRA’S mother died in
May; she does color therapy. BRENDA
NOE MONTGOMERY & Bob summered
in MI & were joined by their children & 14
grandkids! SHIV NANDA works in Dubai
& London, vacationing in NYC; Madhu
spends time in India with ailing mother &
NYC with children; they were in India over
Diwali. BOB NICOLL continues research
at Geoscience Aus; gave a couple of papers
in Perth in Jul & collected samples in Brisbane.
MARCHIENE VROON RIENSTRA
& John summered in Sedona AZ; she has a
blog www.spiritualbouqets.blogspot.com;
her mother is 99. BARBARA WELCH
WAGNER SILLASEN is teaching a gr 2/3
combo class; she enjoys 3 children & 3
grands. JEAN MITCHELL SPITZER & Bob
bird watched in IL, AZ, FL, CO, WI, OH &
Ecuador; they also work to feed the homeless
in Du Page Co. MARY ELLEN MACKAY
STEGENGA & Kees are involved in the
literary & artsy community of Lakefield
ON, CAN. ANN HIGGINS STRUMPEN-
DARRIE visited college jr yr roommate
near Salzburg, Austria; played barefoot in
the snow with granddaughter (3). PAMELA
MORADA TENTI celebrated 70th birthday
and 50th anniversary, with visits from classmates
BARBARA FILNER, JEAN HUR-
LEY & MEHERNUSH KAPADIA. JUDY
BENHAM WEINSTEIN & Steve celebrated
50th anniversary with 10 family members at
Pine Butte Guest Ranch in MT; travelled to
Costa Rica, Hilton Head & the Netherlands.
DIANE HOLLOWAY YIM & Cal survived
earthquake, hurricane and floods.—Jackie
Class of 1959
JACK DAY is busy in retirement – served
as interim pastor of a congregation for the
yr, ending in Jun, now teaching a course in
religion & health every spring at the Howard
U School of Divinity in DC, continues to
consult on health care issues with the United
Methodist Gen’l Bd of Church & Society. In
between he & Fran visit 3 granddaughters
in FL with mother Cathe & 3 more in NJ
with parents Jimmie & Bridget. They are
looking forward to a month in AUS & NZ in
Nov. During Feb-Apr, MARILYN BECKER
PETERS took 2 mission trips to Honduras
& Costa Rica. A group from her church was
in Honduras for 10 days to teach First Aid
& values from the book of Proverbs, at the

private school named after her mother. She
is overjoyed about youngest son’s marriage
in Jul in Sacramento, still walking 5 miles
a day & babysitting grandkids. LINDSAY
FISKE HOFFMANN is enjoying grandson
Ben. She & Dana drove across the country to
a family reunion on Cape Cod, visiting relatives
on the way & back. Then, in late Aug
they went out on their boat, Yeta, for several
wks, sailing N to the Broughtons islands nr
the N end of Vancouver Island on the inside.
MAUDIE BROOKSHIER DAVIS & John
flew to Honolulu & Maui HI & Boston. the
first of the yr. Having been a VA County Republican
chairman for 5 yrs & a Presidential
Inaugural chairman 4 times, she is ready to
pass the baton in Dec. They are planning
more trips to Europe, India & possibly a
world cruise while John’s health is stable. Her
Mom will reach 90 in ’12. FOLKER PFEN-
NIG has enjoyed receiving the Quadrangle
& the Brown & Gold, after having been out
of touch for many yrs, but reconnecting at
the ’10 WOSA/NA gathering. He is now
planning a visit to Istanbul. GAIL PILLEY
HARRIS made a sentimental journey back
to WS last yr with ROBERT’s group, for the
1st time since ’57, also enjoyed some of the
other exotic places, like Khajuraho, Orchha &
Ramthambore. She made a delightful visit to
HELEN ARNOTT ’60 in frozen Edmonton,
explored Banff Nat’l Park with her. In Jun,
she was in Borneo as the Commencement
speaker at Methodist Pilley Institute in Sibu.
This visit included an overnight stay at Damai
resort on the S China Sea & a quick
look at some orangutans at Semenggoh
Wildlife Preserve in Kuching. A
great yr! JERRY WEAVER led the
Sunday services at the WOSA/NA
reunion this yr. He continues to work
pretty much full time - though with
a lot of flexibility to do things with
children & grandchildren. Cathy
is volunteering with 4 different
non-profits. ROBERT BONHAM
helped inaugurate the new Clayton
Center for the Arts on the Maryville
College campus, played a Chopin
& Schumann recital, celebrating
their 200th birthdays, taught at the
10th annual Keyboard Wellness
Seminar in Denton, TX, organized
& led a Visit to Exotic India trip.
Participants included classmates
PHILIP MCELDOWNEY, GAIL
PILLEY HARRIS & Lyn & ALICE
SOKOLOVE CLAGUE. A trip to
visit sacred sites in India is being
planned for ’12. JANE MILLER
POWELL is retired, spends a lot of
time in her vegetable garden, goes
walking & sometimes visits Switzerland to
look after her grandson. PHILIP MCELD-
OWNEY joined the Class of 60 at WS for
their 50th reunion & then went on ROBERT’s
Exotic India 4-wk tour with 9 others including
a wk in a Rishikesh ashram, seeing a
tiger at Ranthambore Park. He again joined
ROBERT & other class members (WILLIE
was the Chair of the reunion comm & MC,
KATHY helped with registration, JERRY
lead the service as VANCE GEORGE (S)
conducted the choir, LI dropped by) for
the Ft Collins reunion in Jul. He continues
to enjoy gardening, photography, music
& added an IPad2 so he can facetime
with others on the Internet. LIZ FOSTER
performed with her Australian choir, The
Grassroots Union Choir, at the birthplace
of the trade union movement in Tolpuddle
UK. BONNIE MCGRAW has been serving
as an interim pastor at the Fountain City IN
United Methodist Church, but is now in the
process of moving to the Sacramento CA
area, to be near her daughter & family. The
most important event for BARBARA JUDY
BOWES was the birth of her 1st grandchild,
Grayling Elizabeth, with 3 trips to Boston to
be with her since her birth in Feb. The longest
trip was to travel with brother JERRY ’58
& wife Alice to the Amazon, Machu Picchu
& the Galapagos. WINNIE KNOX FILES
keeps busy with family & grandkids, still
enjoy curling, camping & travel. In May, we
are hosting a river cruise on the Elbe River,
Germany. GIL OSGOOD continues to work
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on the remodeling of the bldg to which his
church will be moving. He has enjoyed learning
to use various power tools that were not
available when he took Industrial Arts class
at WS! KIRAN MEHRA & Celeste live in
Inyokern, located in the high desert region
of CA on the Eastern side of the S Sierra
Mtns for over 21 yrs & have grown to love
the desert. He is still a practicing architect.
The rest of the time is spent on farm projects
& some writing that has been going on for
yrs. Celeste stopped working as a registered
nurse & now spends her time running our
farm, breeding pure bred Lipizzaner horses
for the last 5 yrs. Check out kcrlipizzaners.
com Our youngest GITA ’08 is now going to
UC Santa Cruz. DAVID MANTON is doing
okay. He has to use a walker these days because
of the disequilibrium from Parkinson’s.
Unfortunately, he still falls & gets bruised up
from time to time, but no major injuries. His
vision isn’t great either, but he reads large
print books & enjoys going out for the local
jazz gigs & our Sat afternoon trips for brunch
& the library. LI CHU is not sure where the
past yr has gone. Last Apr found her in quite
a cool & wet Mussoorie & the cool weather
has also manifested itself in her vegetable
garden. Tomatoes finally started ripening
towards the end of Aug, but the discovery of
another fertilizer has helped to balance the
soil for much improved yields. The heavy
Spring rains have resulted in large yields on
the fruit trees – will be trying to dry persimmons
this yr!—Li

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Jottings
Class of 1960
KATHY WARNER ADAMS is better off
health wise & keeps busy with church
activities. Many in our class have lost their
parents & this yr JOHN ALLEN BEACHY
lost his father & BRUCE HOLDEREED
his mother. HELEN DOBSON ARNOTT
& the Canadian Rockies join in welcoming
visitors! LANCE BROWN & Aloise continue
to enjoy Tucson AZ retired living
with travel to Italy in May, Lake Tahoe in
Jul & trips planned for southern CA to
visit grandson. Their home is open to any
WSkite traveling through Tucson. MAR-
TY ALTER CHEN keeps busy coordinating
a global network in support of the
working poor, especially women, called
WIEGO www.wiego.org & teaching at
Harvard Kennedy School. Marty & Lincoln
have 2 children & 6 grandchildren:
their daughter Alexis & family live nearby
in Boston & son Greg & his family live in
Bangladesh but spend 6 weeks each summer
with Marty & Lincoln. Marty was
awarded a top civilian award, a Padma
Shri, by the Government of India on Apr
1, for her work on issues of women, employment
& poverty in India. Marty’s
husband, children & mother (BARRY
BEACH ALTER) attended the ceremony
at Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi.
LEON DILLINGHAM spent 6 mo in
Landour during ’10 taping the school &
the hillside trails. He is now editing them
into a documentary of the school incl the
residences, bldgs, classrooms, connecting
trails etc. He hopes to have it completed
for the Jul ’12 reunion in Seattle. ANN
ALDRICH DOCKERY & Doc are doing
fine & welcome visitors to their campground
in Blairsville, GA. BARBARA
BENHAM FRIED finds retirement busy
& interesting. Apr ’10 she traveled with
JANE CUMMINGS (S) on the wonderful
Himalayan Odyssey Tour. She is enjoying
her 5 grandchildren, 2 in Cheyenne WY.
She bought a small cottage on an inland
lake near son’s cottage in Jul ’10. The
family has all been able to get there this
summer & the grandchildren/cousins (1 to
9) have had some good times there. She
currently works for her husband in his law
office, after retiring from teaching in Detroit
in 2004 & also helps take care of her
97 yr old mother. It was so great to get
back to WS & see how well the school is
progressing! CAROL RUGH GREEN has
become more involved in efforts to stop a
new nuclear weapons plant in Oak Ridge
TN. She & Jim went to CAN when son
Chris ’90 married Erin Orr. JUDY BROWN
HEATH & Ron are both retired & enjoying
it immensely: trips to FL & OR this Fall.
They enjoy their growing grandchildren
& great grandson. Life is good! REAM
LAZARO REAM spent time in the US
army, went to college on the GI Bill in CO
while active in the anti-war & civil rights
movements. He has for the last 35 yrs
worked in public transit & is presently the
contractor technical lead for the fed government
on bus safety & security for the
nation. Ream lives in Scottsdale AZ with
wife Valerie. They have 5 children & 4
grandchildren with 2 more on the way. His
personal interests include writing poetry,
listening to country music, bike riding &
60s CLASS REPS
Edith Theis-Nielsen 1960
Moltkesvej 44 St. TV.
Copenhagen F, DK-2000
Denmark
etheisn@hotmail.com
+45 38 86 77 12
Julie Bunce Elfving 1961
11491 S Wilder St
Olathe, KS 66061-7331
USA
prairie1flower@yahoo.com
913-764-3424
Sue Warner Birkinshaw 1962
4899 Kiwana Dr
Ogden, UT 84403-4213
USA
joinesbirkis@yahoo.com
801-479-3601
Suzanne Turner Hanifl 1963
41 Sandalwood Ln
Barrington, IL 60010-4026
USA
suzhani@aol.com
847-381-6257
William Riddle 1964
4005 91st Ave SE
Mercer Island, WA 98040-4103
USA
billriddle1@comcast.net
206-232-5963
Daniel Blosser 1965
Box 1154
Phnom Penh
Cambodia
danblosser@twr.org
playing fantasy sports. Spiritually, Ream
searches for guidance from & struggles to
live up to the teachings of Jesus & Buddha.
His memories of the WS experience: fun,
life changing & wonderful! RODNEY
JONES was busy this yr with a project on
India-Pak-China security relations & US
foreign policy, with trips to New Delhi &
to 3 cities in PK. He was in Thailand for
a conference on the same subject in the
fall. VICKY BYG JOSHI & husband
travel a lot, regularly to India & their
condo in FL & this yr to Africa. They have
2 daughters & 4 grandkids (1½ -25)!
RUTH (LACY) LONG & Arnold spent
time rafting, kayaking & hiking in the
Yukon, Tetons, Yellowstone & Sedona. All
31 Lacy descendants & spouses gathered
to scatter the ashes of Hank & Elizabeth
on the Chesapeake where they loved to
Jessie Lacy 1965
11116 Saffold Way
Reston, VA 20190-3820
USA
jessielacy@gmail.com
609 203-1860
Catherine Whitcomb 1966
618 Sheridan Square
Evanston, IL 60202-4752
USA
indiacate@gmail.com
847-869-6920
Margo Warner Curl 1967
1468 Rumbaugh Cir
Wooster, OH 44691-3009
USA
renraw1468@yahoo.com
330-321-4755
Steve Wilkens 1968
2870 Holiday Ct
Morgan Hill, CA 95037-6323
USA
spwilkens@sbcglobal.net
408-506-6421
Mary Self Skarsten 1969
7 Appian Drive
Willowdale, ON M2J 2P7
Canada
maryselfskarsten@hotmail.com
416-223-4787

oat. ANNE HINDERER LOPEZ MOR-
RIS lives in Chico CA, near the OR border.
She was at WS in 56-57 & will never
forget it, loved it there. Now retired, 3
kids, 3 grandkids (almost all grown up),
works a little at the library, voluntees at a
homeless shelter. JIM MCKELVEY continues
to live in the wooded hills just N of
Colorado Springs in an underground, passive
solar home he built. Now retired from
teaching, Jim spends his time in Bible
study, running, biking, volunteering for
driving groups and rebuilding in disaster
areas, gardening. Singing to God’s glory
is his passion, in church, see first-pres.org,
and to shut-in groups. JULIA RITTER-
SHAUSEN BEERS & Jim are enjoying
Carpe Diem, where she still dyes fabrics,
performs on her dad’s violin now, travels,
attends concerts & plays, preserves her
local hills in Whittier CA & finds fun in
every day web.me.com/gojulia. ANIL
RAIKHY enjoys retirement in Pacific
Palisades CA, plays tennis 3-4 time per
wk, eating healthy foods & traveling (latest
cruise to Panama Canal) with Liz.
Daughter, Nicole, is not married, so no
grandkids, but a new Yorkshire Terrier
puppy. JIM RUGH though retired, continues
to provide training in evaluation to
staff & partners of many int’l developm’t
agencies. During the past yr he traveled to
14 countries. Recognized as one of the
leading experts of int’l program evaluation,
he received a lifetime achievement
award from the profession & is the American
rep to the Int’l Org for Cooperation
in Evaluation, where he serves as VP.
ANGELA SANDERS enjoys retirement &
works with others trying to get summer
jobs for Nepalese students who attend
college in the US. She enjoyed a WOSA
group meeting in Naples Fl where she met
with the FORSGRENS (S) & others. LES-
LIE SAUER & Sharon celebrated the arrival
of their 4th grandchild, Eli
Christopher Foraker-Sauer, on Jun 17.
PENNY SHUMAKE) PIETRE continues
to be involved with her non-profit org,
grandchildren, travel, friends & music.
BONNIE MCGRAW ’59 visited her recently,
and she looks forward to seeing
DALE FINLAYSON ’59 soon & anyone
who comes this way. SAGAR RANA &
EDITH THEIS-NIELSEN had a chat by
phone. SAGAR is fine with no major
health issues & still lives in Lalitpur, Nepal
with his wife. His daughter, now 40,
has 2 children (14 & 15). ALAN ROBIN-
SON & Yvonne continue to thrive on the
hilltop at Kaeo, NZ. The latest idea is to
start plantations of timber trees of various
sorts, on a relatively large scale, to help
combat global warming & to be able to
earn by selling carbon credits, starting
with about 12,000 pine trees & a few
thousand redwoods. JAGDISH SAGAR
worked 38 yrs as a civil servant with many
interesting tasks. He took a law degree in
’06 which was 2 yrs after retirement & is
now a partner in India’s leading intellectual
property law firm, Anand & Anand,
practicing in New Delhi. Wife, Gita, is
also a retired civil servant. They have a
married daughter, but no grandkids & a
son, who is not married. JAGDEV SINGH
is still doing family practice in Alamogordo
NM until he has enough money to retire,
but he is seriously thinking of
reducing his workload substantially. He &
his wife, a retired lawyer, travel all they
can to many interesting parts of the world:
Europe, India, S America & the US. DA-
VID STEIN & Achva have become involved
in developing a Master Plan for the
Greenbelt in Auroville, Tamil Nadu, where
they visited twice this yr & have been
tremendously recharged by the renewed
contact with the problems & opportunities.
It represents a microcosm of all the issues
involved in creating a sustainable response
to the impossibility of creating an American/European
standard of living for the
entire world. They also welcome visits
from friends at their home in Jersey City
- only 2 stops from Manhattan on the
PATH train! BOB WALTNER & Barbara
(S) continue settling into their retirement
in Mulvane KS. They are engaged in gardening,
book discussion groups & travel
to see 4 grandchildren. Bob’s trip to Taiwan
was delayed by several mos with
unexpected double bypass heart surgery,
but good recovery. BARRY WHETSTONE
continues to enjoy retirement yrs & stays
in touch with brothers David ’63 & Raymond
’69. He enjoys visiting with grandsons
in Birmingham, AL, but the highlight
of the yr was the birth of a granddaugher
in May. Grace Adair Whetstone was named
for her great grandmother, great-great
grandmother & great-great grandfather.—
Edith
Class of 1961
JULIE BUNCE ELFVING continues to be
active with the Extension Master Gardeners
program, which provides enjoyable
camaraderie & a sense of giving back to
the community. She serves on the board
& exec committee of The KS Rural Center,
was involved in the search for a new
Exec. Dir. Water aerobics, karate & tai
chi round out the active side of her life.
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She took a brief garden-focused trip to the
Brandywine Valley area of eastern PA &
Philly area. At the WOSA reunion in Jul
she enjoyed conversations with Max, Walt,
Woody & other WS alumni.: During the
last yr WALT BELL managed to achieve
3 bucket list items: a rim-to-rim hike of
the Grand Canyon, climbing Mt. Sinai &
a hole-in-one in golf (1st in 50 yrs). They
travelled to the Middle East a yr ago. Syria
was calm at the time & they had a wonderful
trip, including a visit to Damascus.
They were especially blessed to visit the
site where Saul (enroute from Jerusalem
to Damascus) supposedly stopped to
water his horse & was blinded by the
Lord. A grandmother with her daughters
& granddaughter gave us some apples &
coffee. One of the greatest experiences of
his life! MIMI SORLEY HINTERKOPF
had delightful visits with WILLI KRE-
ITZ in TN in Jun & JANET SMITH in
KY.WILLI WELLMAN KREITZ is still
living in TN, made it thru this very hot
summer because of AC! Looking forward
to a long & pleasant autumn, if hopes &
prayers are answered. The highlight for
SUZANNE LA ROCQUE MCCLINTOCK
has been the birth of the 1st grandchild,
Gavin David McClintock, in May. She is
still in Sheridan WY exercising, gardening
& a few crafts. Travels have been to
the NE states last fall for leaf peeping,
Dallas & Branson & St. Louis MO for
fun & mtgs. Husband is the AARP WY
state Rep for the tax prep program. BAR-
BARA MACDONALD does watercolors,
has joined the Kitchener Waterloo Art
Society, is thinking of doing landscapes of
Mussoorie. Grandson continues to grow &
dazzle. PAUL MCGRAW’s son Oliver (26)
was married at their IN house overlooking
the Ohio River, officiated by Paul’s sister
BONNIE ’59. He & Marty have enjoyed
visits from old friends, including Phyllis,
the widow of JIM MCMEEKIN, who recently
remarried. In their camping trailer,
they visited HENRY PRESLER ’58 & others
& Paul helped JOHN WILSON cut 100
foot tall Aspen trees for firewood. JOHN
PARK was at WS only in gr 9. Although
at 1st he hated having to go to India, it
was an amazing yr & he has many fond
memories of escapades & experiences.
He returned to CAN, got an engineering
degree, worked for a couple of yrs, got
a MBA, worked as a mngmt consultant,
then started his own co & retired at the
ripe old age of 54. Now he is a compulsive
day trader in the stock market. This spring
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that while it is nice to have the flexibility
to stop any time to eat or sleep, there is a
lot of work involved. The unit is not big
enough to live in comfortably, but is too
big to drive around places they want to see.
Maybe a Plan B. He greatly enjoyed the
WOSA reunion, getting reacquainted with
Walt, Woody & Julie, hope we can all get
together soon. WOODY TURNER practices
law in Leesburg VA, but takes time
with Trudy for children, grandchildren,
travel & hiking. Enjoyed visiting with
classmates & other alumni at the WOSA
reunion & looking forward to next yr in
Seattle. JOHN WILSON is working on
his adventure-thriller novel, draft three.
In spite of Mr. Swain, he was 67 before
beginning to understand the concept of
sentences, so has room for yrs of learning.
He attend Linda’s Continuing Movement
class - all 3 of them for 30 Thursday evenings
– a lot of movies went unwatched.
After 20 yrs of movement work, he has the
best standing & walking posture & easiest
movement since 5 yrs old. That’s cool.
May peace & health be with you & with
us all in the world. Definitely avoid reading
the front page or watching the news.
Definitely treasure your friends..—Julie
Class of 1962
After a yr of mending from Buddy’s 4-way
bypass, Kathleen’s new aortic valve &
Carol’s health issues, CAROL ALDRICH
SANDLIN & Buddy celebrated life with a
trip to Venice plus a 12-day Mediterranean
cruise that included Croatia, Turkey &
Greece. Although only at WS for Gr 12,
CLAIRE BRAIBANTI HAROLD feels it
was a memorable experience. After a long
silence she surprised us with some news
about her life. Claire is semi-retired from
her interior design business & is loving being
a grandmother to 7 who all live in the
Durham NC area, not far from her. JOAN
BROWNE BROOKS & Stuart together
founded the Madison Savoyards theatre,
a non-profit corp. They put on plays &
musicals at the request of charitable org
who reap the benefits of the production,
minus costs. Joan is living with & caring
for her mother whose short-term memory
is getting shorter. MARGARET CLOUGH
SWETNAM along with several cousins,
including Judy, wife of BRUCE SELLARS
’59, traveled to India late last yr to attend
the centenary celebrations of the college
founded by their grandparents. The Allahabad
Agricultural Inst, now known as
the Sam Higgenbottam Inst of Agriculture,
Tech & Sci, gave them a royal welcome.
DAVID EAKIN initiated our latest emailings
on surgeries, therapies, new & improved
body parts since we are not getting
any younger. The conversation was getting
a bit competitive. Dave continues his business
plus he & Tess spend time keeping up
their property which includes the garden, a
pond, a meadow & great expanses of lawn.
Visits from grandchildren & their parents
have been welcome diversions. GARY
EMBLEN attributes WS for his great career
as a swimming coach with 42 yrs in
aquatics & 26 of those coaching at Lewis
& Clark College in Portland OR. He says
he has retired, has dried out & is becoming
wrinkled. He has urged his retired prof
friends to look into teaching at WS. Gary
has appreciated all the school & class news
over the yrs - all stirring up great memories
that he doesn’t dare divulge to the public!
DOUGLAS ENSMINGER imagined
spending his declining youth in leisure
but finds himself busy preaching several
Sun a mo in smaller congregations that
cannot afford well-trained clergy. Doug &
Linda are headed for a cruise to AK with
daughter Megan & family. CHARLES
GIBB was horrified at the Apr tornado
destruction of nearby AL cities & thankful
that his home is nestled just right in the
hills to avoid much of the wind. Chuck &
Diane have numerous trips planned, all
involving opportunities to fly fish: Yellowstone,
Jackson Hole & even, next spring,
Spain. MARILYN GOOD SINGH enjoys
painting scenes from the OR coast, This
was reflected in the paintings she did for
her exhibit as guest artist at the Apr solo
show of daughter Melissa at the Tinman
Gallery in Spokane WA. A painting she did
of an oak grove was donated to the Green
Belt Land Trust art auction. JILL GOOD-
FRIEND continues with her grief counseling
business specializing in bereaved
“pet parents”. She visited daughter Alexa,
husband & their 2 sons in HI & while there
carried out her mother’s & brother’s last
wishes by placing their ashes into the
Pacific in a Hawaiian surfing ceremony.
Although retired, CHARLOTTE HEATH
FRASER does some social work consulting
as she is still passionate about making
sure kids in the system have the best lives
they possibly can. She & husband moved
back to OR where they can be near all
the grandkids & great grands & family.
CHARLES HORTON writes he has been
retired 4 yrs yet has continued working.
But now he has lined up travels with his
wife to numerous places including Singapore,
Kuala Lumpur, Beijing & Ulaan
Baatar. After that, maybe South Africa &
Namibia & the class 50th Ann trip to India.
MARY MAE GINN has moved from
her home in Cleveland to an apt in a great
walking neighborhood in Lakewood OH.
SUSAN HOSTETLER GUIPE attended
the WOSA reunion in along with her siblings.
As with other WS families, this has
become a great time for a family reunion.
DANIEL JANTZEN has been researching
what really happened to the Central Asian
explorer William Moorcroft & whether he
spent 12 yrs in Tibet in the early 1800s.
A related activity has been to assemble a
digital library of books, journal & maps
on the exploration of the Himalaya, Tibet
& Central Asia. Dan keeps a car parked
in Haridwar & makes several trips a yr
to India, Nepal & the Himalaya for a mix
of consulting & exploring. GEORGE
MCBANE & Gail made a surprise appearance
at the WOSA reunion. They
have retired from their work in PAK but
are planning to go to South America for
a stint & then hopefully back to PAK. In
the meantime George is recovering from
shoulder surgery. Having been at KS State
U since ’76 ARUNA NAYYAR MICHIE
& Barry have set actual dates for retiring.
Enough is enough, she says. DAVID
SALMON & Christine took the Inland
Passage cruise up to AK marveling at the
beauty of the lush fjords & glaciers. After
that trip David took his mother & sister to
the tri-annual family reunion. After selling
his business in Apr & retiring, DAVID
SCHOONMAKER is now active on FWS
& WS Boards, which includes visiting
India 4 times a yr. He is also trying to take
up golf. David & Eva visit their house
in South Africa to break up the northern
hemisphere winters. Sons Sean & Allen
are in Oakland & Hong Kong, so family
reunions are a challenge. At this time of
her life VICKI SCOVEL HARRIS is appreciative
of living in Small Town Midwest
USA after living in distant parts of
the world & several USA areas. With this
setting in mind know that she, as Community
Rel Assist of little ol’ Cameron Hosp
in Angola IN, ended up being in charge
of organizing Cameron Hosp’s 3rd yr’s
entry into the town’s parade - Cameron’s
Bedpan & Kazoo Band. SUE WARNER
BIRKINSHAW sent to all Warner cousins
bound copies of research on her paternal
grandmother’s ancestry & descendants.
This endeavor was sweetened by meeting
& sharing information with distant living
relatives. DOUGLAS WILKENS & Fran
are brand new grandparents to Kristian
August Wilkens, son of Joel & Sara. The
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plans on moving to live nearby. As to the
Class of 62’s celebrations for Yr 50 - so
far the plan is for gathering just ahead of
the ’12 WOSA reunion in Seattle and/or
a trip back to WS for those who wish to
travel. Keep in touch!—Sue
Class of 1963
This past yr had BARBARA AUSTIN
getting settled in a condo in Naples Fl.
My partner & I live in the same bldg
as LAUREL BURGESS, which makes
retirement even better. Health is good,
weather here perfect & life is good. TED
CHITAMBAR has been in TX for 2 yrs,
still acclimating. We have joined a church,
becoming more active in the varied ministries
that are offered. This summer, we
rented a house on a lake in VT & had
8 of 12 grandchildren. DORETTA EL-
LIOTT CRAWFORD’s mother, Almeda
Elliott, passed away last Feb. (Mother of
MARGO ’58 & DeeJay ’63.) She & my
Dad Leon Elliott who passed away in ’02
ran Childers Lodge guesthouse in Landour
from 50 to’62 & were active at WS functions.
The big trip for LOUISA (RICE)
GOEBEL was to China, where her parents
had been married in 36. We went with a
group of MBA students from Winthrop
U In Rock Hill, SC, led by a cousin who
teaches there. Our son Paul & grandson
Reed (11) went along. Paul & I are doing
well, he is very involved in a Peace Conf
at Lake Junaluska, NC. We do other volunteer
activities & try to see children &
grands in Memphis, TN & Spokane, WA.
For JOY RICE GRAY, the yr started with
a great tour of N India & Nepal. I was
amazed to find how familiar the landscape
& flora & fauna felt. I loved stunning waiters
with my Hindi; being there at wedding
season was a plus. Paul has not retired so
SUZANNE TURNER HANIFL is home
most of the yr. We did spend more time in
Naples FL last winter as he was recuperating
from heart valve replacement. Both of
us play golf & enjoy the 6 grandchildren
visits. We spent 2 weeks in Italy with
daughter Kerry & family in Aug. KAREN
ANDERSON HOLDEN formally retired
in ’09 from the U WI-Madison, but “still
teach in the School of Pub Affairs & continue
my research on retirement behavior
& financial literacy. An article on very
young children’s cognitive developm’t &
understanding of financial concepts led to
an invitation to advise Sesame Workshop
as they developed the ideas & script for a
now released DVD For Me, For You, For
Later aimed at teaching pre-schoolers
about savings. It was a thrill to see a day
Jackie and Ted Chitambar '63 at home
of filming! I continue playing
& dancing to Cajun music: with
the Cajun Strangers (see www.
cajunstrangers.com) & an allwomen’s
band, the Prairie Bayou
Cajun Band. (www.prairiebayouband.com)”.
HANK LACY
loves semi-retired life on the
water along the Patuxent River,
just off the Chesapeake Bay. Son
Henry lives nearby in Arlington
VA & daughter Lillian in Manhattan
with Michael & daughter
Alice (17 mos). ELLEN (ELLIE)
DOBSON LIVINGSTON attended the
WOSA reunion with sister JANICE ’65
& cousin MARCIA MCKELVEY OLSEN
’66; we had a marvelous time reacquainting
ourselves with many from our past!
I’m still in Denton TX where 2 children
& 4 grandchildren live, working part time
as a caregiver for the elderly & also for
a precious 20-mo old boy! I’m active in
my local Denton Bible Church, as well
as enjoying family & many friends. ED
SEELY met Karen, got married, living in
same area, selling her house, remodeling &
adding to his old house & enjoying his new
life. Has gained 3 children & 7 grandchildren!
Still enjoying golf & travel. VIVIA
DAY TATUM & Jim have continued to enjoy
hosting vacationers on Lake Norman.
They meet many people from all over the
country & their lives are fuller because of
it. Daughter Carolyn & family live nearby
so they enjoy watching grandson Michael
play soccer & baseball. Daughter Brenda
& family live in NJ & visit back & forth.
Vivia has enjoyed tutoring students preparing
for the GED program at Mitchell
College. She also has joined a kayak club
that meets to paddle on the lake. After a
memorable trip to India last yr DAVID
WAGNER & Connie have stayed pretty
close to home. He has done a fair amount
of gardening, botanical work & a little
teaching, Connie has done pottery & spent
a lot of time doting on our new grandson.
The big effort has been a top to bottom
remodeling of our kitchen, from the floor
literally through the roof. Three new skylights
have brought new illumination. We
are looking forward to a little regional
travel. KAREN ESKILDSEN WILCOCK
has finished a 2nd yr of retirement & life
just keeps getting busier. Our granddaughter
was 1 in Dec; my new puppy is keeping
me on my toes. We have had quite a few
short trips this yr - MN, MD, MA & GA,
birding on Monhegan Island. David had
consulting assignments in Haiti, Ghana,
Mali & Burkina Faso. We also tried a session
at the John Campbell Folk School in
NC. I wove block designs in rag rugs &
David discovered he should have been a
painter all along. The garden is producing
enough for a farm stand (which we do
not have) & various volunteer activities
(library, coastal recycling comm, the Ark
Animal Shelter, Food Pantry, District Pub
Health Coordinating Comm.) absorb the
rest of our time. We are also active in the
local UU church. I wake up every morning
feeling happy to be in such a lovely
coast of ME, grateful to be retired & also
mindful of our good fortune compared to
so many. BETSY WOODMAN is working
on the 2nd of a series of 3 novels set
in a fictional Himalayan town. The first,
Jana Bibi’s Excellent Fortunes, is due out
in May; from Henry Holt & Co, Inc. Jana
Bibi is a Scottish woman who gets talked
into becoming a fortune-teller. She has a
multilingual talking parrot. Hi to all my
beloved WS friends.—Suzanne
Class of 1964
Leroy Carpenter lives in Greenville SC
& works as a software consultant for Infor,
traveling all over the world. CHRIS
DUEWEL attended a mini-reunion at
JOANNE BUCKWALTER HIGH’s vacation
home in Rehobeth Beach, DE with
Pam Bradburn, Mary Holdereed Early,
SITA KASHYAP LICHTENSTERN,
Amy Forman March & Lani Good Jelen.
The 7 of them spent 4 days of renewal of
friendships, remembrances of WS days,
sightseeing, beach bumming & shopping.
Yoga teacher Lani even treated them to
a yoga lesson. They were sorry that Rachel
Finney had to cancel at the last min.
Conversation began about a possible—
gulp!—50th class reunion in ’14. CHRIS
& husband Ed Zahniser also visited Chris’
brother JOHN DUEWEL ’62 in Indonesia.
NANCY LINDELL GARRISON lives in
MN, enjoys puttering in the yard & gardens
in their new home where they moved
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speaks fluent French) who live mainly on
the nearby French Polynesian islands of
Tahiti & New Caledonia, as well as from
France. She also plays an active part in her
local Anglican Church, including playing
the organ on some Sundays. JUNE teaches
part-time, enjoying gardening & settling
into her new home. Her elder son Jono
is a chartered accountant & younger son
David is in his 5th yr studying Optometry;
all going well, he has a job lined up
next yr in Sydney AUS. BILL VIRGIN‘s
granddaughter Kathryn Virgin is studying
at WS this yr in gr 12. Bill’s position at
S Asian Welcome Centre Inc. in Toronto
is changing to half time basis. He was in
Ludhiana at CMC in Sep & at WS for the
Alumni celebration in Oct.—Bill
Class of ’64 women at Rehobeth Beach DE. L to R: Mary Holdereed Early, Pam Bradburn, Sita
Kashyap Lichtenstern, Joanne Buckwalter High, Chris Duewel, Lani Good Jelen, Amy Forman March
Methodist mission board in Oct. SITA
KASHYAP LICHTENSTERN continues
to enjoy retirement & visiting daughters &
grandchildren regularly. She & Dave travel
as much as possible, going to Madeira in
Feb & then to Wales with friends in May
& Jun. In Apr she spent 3 wks in India,
meeting BARBARA BYG MAHAJAN &
ANNE ROBINSON, to make their annual
pilgrimage to WS! She recommends it to
anyone who hasn’t been back. It is always
so amazing to be back in Landour, walking
(not running anymore!) up & down the
hillside & seeing familiar places & meeting
friends. They had lunch with SAROJ
KAPADIA (S) at Rokeby, now a hotel
with gorgeous views & delicious food!
They stayed in a guest room at the school
& the sights & sounds brought back many
happy memories. They were there during
the Win Mumby Basketball Tournament &
enjoyed cheering the WS Boys to victory
in the Final! Following the mini-reunion
in DE after returning home, it was good to
meet with Pat Meehan Johnson in London,
on a visit from Sydney. BARBARA BYG
MAHAJAN writes that her son Brij ’91 &
son Akim (4 & ¾) came to India for the
WOSA gathering in mid-Oct, as well as
her sister, SUNITA ’81 & VICKY’s ’60
daughter, SHASHI JOSHI ’82! She has
started doing yoga 3 times a wk at home,
plus goes to a meditation group where she
leads some Tai Chi exercises before they
meditate. She is also VP for the ladies
org, Global League of Women (GLOW).
Barbara is in touch with the DAYAL family,
they talk regularly & meet quite often.
INDU ’68, HARISHWAR/DEEPAK ’66 &
VIJAY ’70 are still very involved in the
Arpana Community, RAJNI ’71 lives in
Palam Vihar, out near the airport & ANJU
’65 in Noida. Barbara always enjoys having
& meeting visitors who are passing
through Delhi! DON PARKER lives in
Denver with wife Renee, plays golf with
friends & occasionally travels to SE Asia
as a consultant on water resources. BILL
RIDDLE & Barbara spent 3 wks in India
last Jan & Feb, touring northern India on a
wonderful trip & seeing a tiger up VERY
close at Ranthambore NP. They enjoyed
seeing BARBARA BYG MAHAJAN &
niece REED BYG ’11 in Delhi. STEVE
SAWATZKY is in Denver, works full
time fixing transmissions. He has had
surgeries on his back & shoulder, both of
which went well, but is looking forward
to retirement & something a little less
strenuous. ANDREA RICHARDS SUR-
PLIS writes that she enjoys getting emails
from classmates. She & JUNE CHRISTIE
SHARROCK send Kiwi greetings from
Auckland NZ! They would welcome any
classmates visiting Auckland & would
love to show them the sights of their beautiful
city. Andrea has recently cut down
her hrs at the bank where she has been
working for the last 13 yrs & is enjoying
not having to get up so earl & having 2
days a week off! She enjoys looking after
all the French speaking customers (she
Class of 1965
JOEL BJERKESTRAND & Sue have been
in AZ for 37 yrs, they live in Scottsdale.
He retired 7 yrs ago from parish ministry,
4 parishes in 32 yrs (2 in Ventura CA &
30 in AZ). Sue is an ES teacher & retires
at the end of this school yr. They have 2
children & 5 grands - all in the Phoenix
area. The last 7 yrs Joel has taught on the
univ level as an adjunct prof, officiated
weddings & funerals, taught Sun morning
adult ed classes & volunteered with AZ
Leaderforce. DAN BLOSSER & Rose Ellen
will be in Cambodia 1 more yr, returning
to US in Jul ’12. So if you want to visit
(with B&B) please come before that date.
We will be relocating to the small town of
Blythe GA, 20 mi S of Augusta, retiring
from overseas service but will continue to
serve with Trans World Radio for any short
term assignments or projects that can be
handled over the internet. We have enjoyed
our time in Cambodia, but look forward
to being home with family & friends &
take part in more reunions. I thoroughly
enjoyed the class reunion in Mussoorie.
JIM BROWNE is in Hilliard OH, just W
of Columbus, pastor of Hilliard Presbyterian
Church, with children scattered from
PA, TN to right here in town. Ginny is at
OCLC as an archivist & a res librarian.
We enjoy life & are beginning to keep
our eyes open for some mission place that
needs a pastor & a librarian for when we
retire! GABRIEL CAMPBELL & Lynn are
dividing their time between Kathmandu &
the UP of MI. He works part time on trying
to improve the livelihoods of the poor &
community mngmt of forests & natural
resources, but easing into retirement. Lynn
is completing a book on multiculturalism
& social inclusion in Nepal. They were
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Class of ’65 at WOSA-NA Reunion l to r: Janice (Dobson) Blankenship,
Beth (Hawkes) Decker, Mary Kay (Burkhalter) Larson, Jonathan
Larson, Allan Keislar, Dale Brown.
FIE, who is doing wonderfully & son
Chris, who is finishing up uni in London
while working full time. Alfie’s limerick
composition on Chris was put to music by
bro JEFF ’68 & nephew Cameron & other
family members gathered in CA. Alumni
coming through Kathmandu are asked to
look Gabriel up. ANJU DAYAL MATHUR
enjoyed spending time with 16 classmates
with some spouses, after 48 yr, in Noida,
Delhi & at WS. A tour of the new WS revived
a lot of memories. Memorial service
for DAN TERRY brought grief to all & we
prayed for his peace. This visit was also
momentous for our class as Gabriel Campbell
received the Distinguished Alumni
Award. Upendra & I visited son Sanjeev
and family in Hong Kong, a planned visit
of 45 days extended to 3½ mo. JANICE
DOBSON BLANKENSHIP retired from
teaching & admin in the Broken Arrow
Pub Schools in OK after 36 yrs in educ.
She will continue to work part time in
various positions in the field in the Tulsa
area. Husband Duane is also semi-retired
so plenty of time to exercise & work on
projects together. Janice & sister ELLEN
DOBSON LIVINGSTON ’63 drove to the
home of cousin MARCIA MCKELVEY
OLSEN ’66 in Colorado Springs. Then
the 3 of them drove N to the WOSA reunion.
It was fun to reconnect with WS
friends again! CATHY FORMAN is in
New Haven, with 3 grandsons in Brooklyn
& in the process of moving mother Ruth,
from DC to a retirement home near her,
so lots of commuting to see the boys &
pack up mom. I am also back to teaching
Op Mngmt at the local state uni, online &
ground. The trip to WS & Kathmandu was
so important for me, a time warp, having
been gone so long. But the magical nature
of Landour itself
remained the same; I
had forgotten that, lost
in the midst of adolescent
turmoil. ALLAN
KEISLAR (Anand
Kishore das Babaji)
is writing, practicing
multi-religious bhajan
& delving ever
deeper into the lifegiving
mysteries of
transcendental tantra
with goddess-guru Savitri
Devi. Allan’s latest
book, God’s Work
Among Us, presents
stories from various
faith traditions as integral
parts of humanity’s
common faith journey. In Aug JESSIE
LACY gathered with the extended Lacy
family to celebrate the lives of parents
Hank & ELIZABETH PICKETT ’35
LACY & to scatter their ashes. It was a day
of memories & gratitude for their lives &
the life & love they gave to us. Last fall,
it was a joy to share the experience of our
class reunion with daughters Elizabeth &
Miranda Doxology sung before breakfast,
the walk through the bazaar, hot cups of
chai, jalebies hot off the fire, chatting with
Mrs. Kapadia, langurs racing across the
roof, the snows, the crisp night air, rain
on the tin roof, exploring Doshisha, the
familiar & the exotic, old friends & new,
but most of all, the camaraderie of our
group. Although Lee & KAY MARING
ROSSELLE still run our Mirror Place
business, we have cut back hrs so consider
themselves semi-retired. Fortunately, we
have very competent employees. We fly
small airplanes & were able to take oldest
grandson Alex with us to AirVenture
in Oshkosh WI, where we camped next
to the wing of the plane. I am going to
Portland, OR for the Karachi Am School
reunion. KAREN MCCRAY MODDER-
BORDER asks: has anyone else noticed
how incrementally faster time passes the
more birthdays we celebrate? Thoughts of
our reunion give me joy over & over again!
I remain very busy as night shift nursing
supervisor, serving in the church choir,
on the week-end services team, directing
dramas & many other opportunities. David
& I will be traveling to Greece, Israel
& Egypt, missions trip to Thailand - 2nd
time. Son Ben has also been living with
us, actively looking for employment, Nate
remains in Milwaukee taking classes on a
ministerial track, Sam & Liz, with Uriah
& Willa live nearby, Josh & wife Kristin
will welcome Hank in Dec to join Jack
(5) & Finn (2). We were all together the
last wkend of Aug & spent much time in
our pool - such fun! MARVIN MODDER
is just lovin’ our little acre an hr N of
Chicago along Lake MI. Great vegetable
garden this yr with bountiful yields. Glad
that sons are nearby, all now college grads.
The oldest, Josh, the urologist soon to have
a 3rd boy to keep him busy. I still edit my
union newsletter, the GLUE & teach an
occasional adjunct course at Concordia;
& Mary continues the good fight as pres
of the Kenosha Ed Assoc. The lives of
EMRYS REES & Usha changed forever
when they added HIV/AIDS work to their
free hospital in S India in ’02. Over 5,000
positive cases benefited from treatment.
We have been able to keep children from
becoming HIV positive through our Prevention
of Mother to Child Transmission,
a project which now covers 4 million.
Our toughest task is getting funding to
help about 100 HIV positive kids, many
of whom were once in the AIDS categories,
improving their immune system with
govt. help, but also improving their lives.
We are in the final stages of setting up a
home for 8 HIV orphans, trying to find the
funding to finish the construction. PATTY
RIDDLE won 2 gold medals (in the 500
m & match sprint) at the Masters Bicycle
Track Nat’ls in PA, also helping her coach
write a book about coaching bicycling &
being a volunteer volleyball coach at a
local HS.—Jessie
Class of 1966
This is the 45th yr since we graduated.
CLAIRE BLICKENSTAFF BEERY continues
to teach Child Developm’t at Santa
Rosa JC & is Dir of Parents Place at Jewish
Family & Children’s Services. Oldest
daughter Willow was married in a beautiful
outdoor wedding in Berkeley CA,
Mama Claire’s jazz band provided some
of the music. Daughter Mira was awarded
the 2-yr Stegner Fellowship in poetry at
Stanford U, has published her 1st book of
poetry, is completing her PhD & moving
with husband Greg & Tillie (2) to Berkeley.
Youngest Zoe is a sr at SF State U
studying Broadcast Engineering & Communication
Arts. EVELYN BRYANT
PITTS reports that Dan is starting a new
pet food business specializing in whole
ingredient/less processed therapeutic diets
available by veterinary prescription. She
teaches math at Washburn U in Topeka.
Son Kevin married Jessica. Daughter Michelle
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Chicago as an accountant. DON CAMP
retired from the US Foreign Service. He
will be in NYC as the SE Asia advisor at
the US Mission to the UN. Daughter Catherine
is at the Columbus College of Art &
Design. He is helping to plan festivities
surrounding the 50th anniversary of the
Peace Corps. JANET EDLEFSEN & Frank
both work a 4-day wk, enjoy spending as
much time as possible out on their boat
kept in Anacortes, N of Seattle, where they
can quickly cruise in the San Juan & Gulf
Island & this yr travelled farther N to
Desolation Sound. Last Apr RICHARD &
SUZANNE MCCULLOCH FRIEDER-
ICKS visited Portland OR during Spring
Break to see their youngest grand, Adelle
Marie Nelson. They helped move ETTA
MCCULLOCH (S, 96), into a retirement
center. They also helped move Carl (90)
& Betty Anne (88) Friedericks to another
apt in the center where they live. They are
back in Hong Kong for another 2 yr contract;
Suzy teaches KG & Richard journalism,
film, web design & meditation at the
HS. LINDA GAMBLE MCKENDRY is
primary care-giver for her parents with the
help of 11 other people over each mo,
including siblings who rotate one weekend
a mo, to come & stay where they are living.
Jim bought a farm 4 hrs drive away
& lives there in a 5th wheel trailer each
summer. They rent the land. Their daughter,
Shelley Anne lives there with her
mother. She still does design work with a
few clients. MIRIAM HAQQ PRABHA-
KAR’s eldest son, Joshua & wife Josie
were blessed with Isaiah Aleem. It was a
joy to be in the US for the birth, making
her a proud grandmother for the 1st time!
She returned to Andhra Pradesh mid Aug
& is happy to be back & working again.
REBECCA HILL enjoys the group of WS
alumni STEVE VAN ROOY ’68 has organized
in the Dallas area as she lives 65 mi
E. She was a social worker, then an Officer,
retired from the Army, then became a
school teacher & volunteer for Nat’l
Council for Int’l Visitors. For 7 yrs she
helped parents before their death. FRAN-
CES HILLIARD DAWSON’s 2nd grand,
Kate, arrived in early Aug. Love at first
sight! Michael, posted in Colorado Springs
with NORAD, came to Calgary to meet
her. They drove back to Col Springs seeing
so much of interest & beauty on the way.
CARLTON HOKE has designed & built
sets for Hershey HS, the Hershey Area
Playhouse, the vacation Bible School
props & an adobe house for the summer
Sunday School program at his church.
They took a Caribbean cruise. He is preparing
photographs for his dad’s (98) 5th
book, A Rich Mosaic. MARCIA MCK-
ELVEY OLSEN’s engineer daughter has
finished school & after 2 yrs, is now ready
to clean teeth & give shots as a dental
hygienist; She enjoyed having cousins
JANICE ’65 & ELLEN ’63 DOBSON for
several days. She travelled with daughter
to NY to see son & grands, Ulysses (4) &
Miranda (1) & was expecting a visit by
oldest brother, BILL ’56. BILL MCVICK-
ER has re-appeared after many yrs. Following
a career in electronics, in the navy
& in San Diego, he did electrical contracting,
home schooled their kids, took in
foster children & adopted 11 of them.
They now live on 5 acres a few min from
Nevada City, CA. He now has a Master’s
in psych to be licensed to practice marriage
& family therapy. He has completed
the state requirements to qualify for the
state exams & is waiting to take the final
exam. Bill & Kathleen started a nonprofit
counseling agency that is slowly
growing, www.touchedbyachild.org. Only
7 children still at home, they have 6 grands
with one on the way. MARY MERCHANT
ANDERSON has 3 children & 7 grands,
all within 3 mi! They enjoy taking them
camping up in N MN. She works fulltime
as a school nurse at a large, diverse inner
city ES. They are involved in ministry at
their church, especially missions/trips/
girls club & srs. RUTH MORRIS PAIGE
retired from Wright State U & they celebrated
by visiting with RAJAN at PHILIP
DEVOL. She & Harvey began their retirement
with a birding trip to the Highlands
of Ecuador, saw 22 species of hummingbirds
at one sanctuary. They visited 9 islands
in the Galapagos & ended with a 4
day, 35 mile trek in the Andes of Peru to
explore the Little Sister of Macchu Pichu.
The trek was arduous (at a little over 1 mi/
hr) but rewarded by exploring the ruins
with just their guide & 3 other trekkers.
Son Eugene was married in Sep. DAVID
RUGH is enjoying retirement after 34 yrs
of doing research on AK’s whales, currently
working on a 55ft woodshed & a
3-story addition to their home on the
Olympic Peninsula. There have been excursions
onto the sea ice north of Barrow
AK, to count bowhead whales; to the
NOAA in Silver Spring, MD, to receive a
Distinguished Career Award; to Lancaster,
PA, for a nephew’s wedding & to little
Gabriola Island BC, for another nephew’s
wedding (CHRIS GREEN ’90 with mother
CAROL RUGH GREEN ’60 & aunt
KIM RUGH BERGIER ’69 attending).
JUDY SCHEUERMAN BENDER’s husband
Larry is in remission from colorectal
cancer & doing well. They are enjoying
retirement on Hat Island (Gedney Island)
where they have been for 10 yrs. PHIL
SCHOONMAKER’s little book (only 126
pages) of 16 short stories & vignettes from
his India yrs, Mish-Kid Mosaic, is available
on amazon.com. He works with
Steinway retail in Boston, teaches piano
& does tech work on the side. SHERRY
SERGEANT COX’s daughter Stephanie
was married (after receiving her BSN-RN,
passing her nursing boards & working full
time) & Sarah finished her BS & works
for a PT clinic. Sherry’s mother JUNE
SERGEANT (S), continues to decline with
Alzheimers but still at home in NE. Despite
a broken wrist for KAREN SMYRES
WOLNER & a torn right hamstring for
John, the yr has been good. They welcomed
1st grandchild, a beautiful little
boy, to son Jason & Lisbel. Daughter Kim
& Caleb are established at their jobs in
DC. However, Karen’s mother, Mary.has
advanced Alzheimer, only seems to recognize
husband Bob. PAUL SPOTTSWOOD
works as an anesthesiologist, has been on
mission trips to Rivas, Nicaragua &
Guiamaca, Honduras. Lydia is a moderator
on an online forum for parents with children
with eating disorders & leads the
Bldgs & Grounds Comm at church Son
Mark is an Asst. Prof of Law at FL State
U; Erin working on PhD at Cornell U &
Jayne is finishing MA at DePaul U &
works full-time as a social media dir for
Kemper Insurance. BETSY TAYLOR
spent much of the summer writing a memoir
of parents Mary & CARL TAYLOR
’32. HELKE WOLFF FERRIE recovered
from a sickness caused by EMF radiation
from a Smart Meter attached to her house
without her knowledge; the removal of
that device, other remedial action & successful
treatment has now restored health
& eyesight – see www.kospublishing.com.
Helke & Robert hosted wedding of oldest
granddaughter MIRANDA BRAR ’08 who
married a Pakistani businessman (born in
Canada); 2nd grand YSOLT BRAR ’11 has
started pre-meds at U of Toronto. Daughter
BRONWYN ’89 works in Mussoorie
for MGVS. RUTH YODER DYAL & son
Jon had an incredible, nostalgic journey
back to WS summer of 10. Meeting with
Cate & Jack in Delhi & together finding
Dolma in her Tibetan Antique shop was a
highlight. The most overwhelming moment
was learning of the tragic death of
DAN TERRY ’65 while they were visiting
the school - old memories flooding back.
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David Rugh while counting bowhead whales during their migration
past Point Barrow, the northernmost tip of Alaska. He was standing
on a perch of sea ice piled about 30 feet above sea level, and
it was cold (-20 deg F much of April), so the ice in his beard is real.
Behind David is a canvas windbreak and radio antenna.
Betsy Taylor waiting to get arrested in front of the White House in Sept 2010 as part
of "Appalachia Rising" - an environmental justice coalition of people concerned about
climate change & devastating strip-mining in Appalachia (called "mountaintop removal").
She is the one holding a white cross in the back row. In the front row are James
Hansen (preeminent climate scientist in US) & grassroots Appalachian activists with
whom she's worked for years. It was pouring down rain...but spirits undimmed.
John & Barbara Chaffee, Rajan Kose, Phil DeVol (all 1966) Carlton Hoke ’66 family summer 2011
Steve Cox, daughter Stephanie, Sherry Sergeant Cox ‘66, and daughter Sarah at Stephanie’s
graduation with a Bachelor’s in Nursing, May 2011
Frances Hilliard Dawson ’66 with daughter Kathleen's
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Ginny Blickenstaff Crane, Claire Beery's mom
Claire Blickenstaff Beery at daughter Willow's wedding
Claire's daughter Zoe and friend
Claire's daugher Mira and daughter Tillie
Claire Beery's daughter Willow married Lew with Claire playing vibes
Herbert Reaid, spouse of Betsy Taylor ’66 Cate Whitcomb ’66, Ahmad Omair ’93, Harishwar Dayal ’66 Anne Robinson ’64

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Phil Schoonmaker, Marcia McKelvey Olsen,
Cate Whitcomb (all 1966) at WOSA reunion in
Ft. Collins
WOSA people attending funeral service for Rachel Green, daughter of Patricia Whitcomb Green
’72, Mark Baur ’72 Cate Whitcomb ’66, Bill Whitcomb ’42, Patricia Whitcomb Green ’72, Joy
Morris ’72, in back, Dorothy Vaugh Whitcomb ’42’, John Davis ’72
Warren Reese with grandson David waiting
for lunch.
Mary Merchant Anderson’s family when granddaughter Emily Garren was Miss Robinnsdale. Front Row, L-R Svea, Annika, Megan and Austin.
Middle row: Betsy, Mara, Heidi, Queen Emily, Mary Merchant Anderson and Preston. Back row: Aaron, Keith and Chris. Heidi is the oldest and is
married to Chris, a fireman: children are Emily, Mara, Annika and Svea. Betsy, the middle daughter, is married to Aaron, Delta pilot: children are
Megan, Austin and Rebecca Joy (not shown). Preston is 23 and new grad of Bethel Univ. Currently working at 3-M and looking to grad school. Has
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Suzy McCulloch Friedericks, Harishwar Dayal,
Richard Friedericks (all '66), in Delhi, Oct.
2011
Evelyn Bryant Pitts ’66 (second on the right) at son Kevin's wedding. Husband Jim on left and
daughter Melissa on right.
Donald Camp ’66 with wife Betsy leaving
daughter Catherine at college
John Wolner, Jason (son), Karen Smyres Wolner ’66, Lisbel Martinez (D-i-L), Kim (daughter),
Caleb Judy (S-i-L)
Left: Rajan Kose ’66, Cate Whitcomb ’66
with husband Jack Hinz (S)
Mirian Haqq Prabhakar ’66, Miriam's son Joshua
and wife Josie with Grandson Isaiah Aleem
taken June 2011

Hopkins, considering specializing in Epidemiology/Public
Health. Jamie (Jon’s
twin) is finishing a Masters in Bio-Ethics
at U Penn & applying to med schools.
Husband Jim had a hip replacement, but
has recovered completely. Ruth went with
a delegation of Ob/Gyns to China &
Shangri-La (an autonomous region of
Tibet). She is still doing both Ob & Gyn
& assoc clinical teaching for students from
FSU med school. They just hired a new
partner, who was one of the 1st students
they helped train. Other gathered news
includes a get-together at JOHN
CHAFFEE’s newly renovated barn (luxurious!)
outside of Binghamton NY with
RAJAN KOSE & PHIL DEVOL. A minireunion
took place in Delhi in Oct with
HARISHWAR DAYAL & SUZY & RICH-
ARD FREIDERICKS. BILL MARBLE &
Lynette celebrated their 36th wedding
anniv. He is retired but provides transportation
for people in the Family Promise of
Greater Modesto. CATE WHITCOMB is
back in Evanston with JACK HINZ (S)
after 2.5 yrs in Delhi. She is retired from
full-time employment but filling her days
with volunteer work for the League of
Women Voters archive at the 1st United
Methodist Church & as a member on the
U Christian Ministries Board at Northwestern.
She & Jack will be leading a
group of Northwestern students to India
for spring break. Most classmates have
indicated that a 50th reunion in ’16 will
be our next class gathering.—Cate
Class of 1967
SUSIE BARR DUMONT is grateful for
the wonderful spouses her children have
chosen. HEATHER BEAN MCALLISTER
is now a grandmother with little Chloe
born in Apr. GEORGE ’68 & BETH
ANN BURKHALTER TAYLOR have
been staying in Boulder CO, hoping to
make it a permanent move soon. TOM
CARTER’s wife Georgia survived her
first yr of retirement in style. Son Matt is
in grad school at U WI Madison this all
in inorganic chemistry; daughter Thea &
husband celebrated their 1st anniversary
in Aug; Stephanie continues to edit film &
video projects from her home in Toronto.
He expects to work a few more yrs, but curiosity
about his folks’ experience in India
is pointing to a possible full-time writing
project. MARG GROFF provides educ
programs through the Kohler Arts Center
in Sheboygan WI, but hopes to be able to
return to WA. TIM LARSON has changed
schools where he teaches math & now his
youngest son Luke is his dept head. TIM
took a motorcycle trip to the Snake River
canyon in ID with brother-in-law GORDIE
DEAN (S), husband of BETTE ’69. MAX
MARBLE enjoys serving on the US Board
for the Ludhiana Christian Medical College
& Hospital with regular trips to India
to attend meetings. Daughter Laura & son
Andrew have both purchased homes in
Tucson AZ this yr. He is looking forward
to coordinating our 45th reunion at WS in
’12. YVONNE PARKER is retired & still
mourning the passing of her father last fall.
MARY ELLEN REDDING KUBO’s son
Micah, an army nurse stationed at Madigan
Gen’l Hospital in Tacoma, was married in
Aug. Her mother MILLIE REDDING published
a memoir Wherever He Leads about
their work in China & India. GLENYS
ROBINSON MATHER feels fortunate to
have all 3 kids in Auckland as she & David
now have 5 grandchildren. RON (S) &
SUE SCOTT SWANSON left WS in Jun
after 8 yrs on staff & are settling into life
in MN. She says she is learning to be an
American & Minnesotan once again. They
live a half mile from her mother & closer
to siblings & friends. Daughter Becky was
married this summer & lives in MA; son
Paul lives in IN. KEN WALDOCK has
been on a short assignment in Malta & is
heading off to an assignment in Shillong,
NE India later this yr. STUART WALKER
wrote on a trip to Russia visiting Moscow,
Saint Petersburg, Novosibirsk & the
Vladimir area. He is still teaching. LUCY
WILSON DORENFELD still is busy
with her practice of elder law; husband
Jim Litchfield is raising a therapy puppy.
LUCY, MARG & I (MARGO WARNER
CURL) had a girls’ weekend in WI in early
Jun. MAX, BETH ANN, YVONNE & I
all made it to the WOSA reunion in Fort
Collins in Jul. As of Oct 10 my husband
TOM STRICKLER ’40 has been living in
a care center. I retired in May & am still
finding my way as a retiree. Please watch
for information regarding class trip to WS
in Oct/Nov 12!—Margo
Class of 1968
CYNTHIA BRUSH & husband Bill Grey are
pleased their Santa Rosa CA home is now
solar. Their graphics/web design business is
as interesting as ever. They especially enjoy
teaching clients about on-line marketing.
Cynthe constantly dabbles in creative activities:
makes prize-winning gourmet preserves
(6 ribbons – 11 Marin County Fair / Bestof-Show
for Honey Rose Petal Jam in 10).
An active photographer member of CA State
Parks Fdn, she’s honored her photographs
are getting public recognition: a northern
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Steve Van Rooy ’68 & first grandson Isaiah
CA Lost Coast image has been published by
CSPF-09 Parklands Newsletter & 11 Annual
Report; Sierra Club-10 Yodeler newsletter;
plus it’s part of a current 11 show promoting
State Parks at our CA State Senator’s Sacramento
office. Dannon Yogurt has selected 2
other CA Parks images for their 11 Live Your
Active Culture campaign. Most recently,
Travel+Leisure Magazine TravelandLeisure.
com of American Express has requested use
of a Sonoma coastal image for their web promo
of beautiful US coastal hikes. LARRY
KING was just getting back from some time
in Cabo - no tv, no phone, no newspapers,
no computers! Still retired & loving the life.
Barb & Larry have 2 grandboys who live 15
min from them. MARBETH JOHNS retired
from Disability Law Center of AK a few yrs
ago. She continues to operate & work at her
own small business fixing dental handpieces.
Other than that she spends time at her cabin
in Homer, gardens, bikes, sksi, visits family
in WA & AZ, or goes to her condo in Lake
Havasu City AZ. GRAHAM HICKS retired
in Dec 10 after 32 yrs of newspapering in
Edmonton AB, CAN, 20 of them as a daily
columnist with the Edmonton Sun. Now
he’s busy as a communications consultant
& freelance journalist. Maria’s & his 3 girls
are all studying, 2 at the U of AB, the oldest
in radio/TV at Ryerson U in Toronto. The
WS connection continues with the alwaysentertaining
ELDON & Ruth GAMBLE
often visiting from near-by Calgary &
vice-versa. Come visit the Gambles & Hicks
in AB! TEMPEE SHELLY HOWELL is
thrilled to have 11 grandchildren. In this
past yr all 4 children had a baby, she considers
it an incredible joy. Howard & she are
still working with the church in Millington
TN. He is the Family Life Minister & Song
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Tom and Kath Robinson Loane ’69 and family
classes & is Dir of their Prison ministry.
Tempee still works with the teen girls,
teaches a ladies Bible class, parenting class
& works as secretary in the Prison Ministry.
She recently quit her ‘paying’ job to help
with grandchildren. She states, ‘My cup runs
over!’ STEVE WILKENS continues to do
electrical contracting in the Silicon Valley
in CA. Nadene retired in Jun after having
worked for the Santa Clara County of Educ
for more than 30 yrs as administrator &
director for the Head Start program. They
celebrated her retirement by taking in a vacation
traveling through the Canadian Rockies
where she had spent many summers while
growing up. While in Calgary, they were
able to have breakfast & a brief visit with
ELDON & wife. They are looking forward
to having their first grandkid in Feb. STEVE
VAN ROOY continues to run a property
mgmt company in Dallas TX. This spring
he & wife spent 2 weeks in Nepal visiting
missionary friends. Their 3 girls are now
launched; the oldest is married & teaches
Paul Hamilton ’69, Kath Getter Lindquist ’69, and Dan Nave ’69
school, the 2nd is married & a physician.
The youngest is a labor & delivery nurse.
For having two grandkids, he celebrates
with, “Yea!” MIKE NICHOLS moved this
yr to Paris, doing some traveling & learning
French. FRED BARNS continues to
live in Thailand doing rice exporting. KEN
BLICKENSTAFF has had a momentous yr.
His younger son, Brian, got married in WI
(which turned into a mini family reunion
with brother & sister-in-law REID & JUNE
BLICKENSTAFF ’70 in from China & sister
ROSEMARY FLORA ’58 attending from
AUS. Ken’s older son, Michael, received
his BA with honors after many yrs of school,
then work, travel & more school. Ken retired
from his work as a quality mgr for a mfg
co after 11 yrs to pursue other interests. He
continues to teach Constitutional Law to
graduate students at Claremont Graduate U
& also on the faculty at the UC Riverside
teaching in 2 law-related programs. Life is
good but busy!—Steve
Class of 1969
Since 50 &’51 are
the birth yrs of our
class, half of us have
turned 60. Birthdays
were marked in various
ways. JANET AL-
LEN MACHULA took
her granddaughter to
a parade only to have
her announce that her
Naani was 16! Made
Janet, grandma of 7
feel young! JAMIE
CLAYTON LED-
FORD spent it in FL with her favorite
person, grandson Matthew. JOY FINNEY
spent each night of her birthday week-end
being feted by family & friends & a curry
dinner with classmates TARIQ KIDWAI,
ELLEN MCINTOSH TODD, DOUG
NAVE & MARY SELF SKARSTEN. PHIL
GROSS climbed Mt Kinabalu in N Borneo
with MIKE FLUECKIGER (S), husband of
JOYCE BURKHALTER FLUECKIGER
’70. ADA HAAGEN BRUCE thought she
turned 60 last yr when the family celebrated
husband Michael’s 60th by going to a
Caribbean resort. PAUL HAMILTON &
Lynn went parasailing, in FL having driven
Paul’s parents there for a vacation. (This
was a nice respite for Paul who travels all
over NA giving workshops on the use of
digital learning tools to meet unique learning
needs of students.) DOUG KEISLAR
has an age-defying plan to have birthdays
in 10yr increments, making him 69 this
birthday in honour of our class yr, then
79, 89 etc hoping to collect big on talk
shows, social security etc. Wife Jane had a
gathering of longtime friends to celebrate.
DAVID JENNINGS says 60 is middle-age
if going for 120. Among other things he
is a bilingual announcer for special events
around Halifax NS. KATHY ROBINSON
& TOM LOANE not only turned 60 in May
but also celebrated their 40th wedding
anniv at their NS oceanside cottage with
kids & grandkids. TERRY MIDKIFF had
to work but enjoyed greetings from far &
wide. MARG PATTON BOSTER & Greg
spent it with kids & grandkids. KERRY
POOR LEIGH had an ancient croning
party with friends ushering her into her
wisdom yrs. While preparing his classes
for N VA Community College, DIPAK
ROY experienced a 5.9 earthquake in
central VA a wk before his 60th. MARY
SELF SKARSTEN’s kids put on a Chai
Teaparty for her Canada Day 60th in
Toronto attended by siblings STEPHEN
SELF ’73, SHARON SELF RANSON
’76 & RUTH SELF FERGUSON ’78 &
Bette Larson Dean ’69, Nancy Barr Patten ’69, Mark

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Members of the Class of ’69 at Joy Finney’s 60th Birthday get-together
at Mary Self Skarsten’s on October 15th, 2011. L to R:Tariq
Kidwai, Doug Nave, Joy Finney, Mary Self Skarsten, Ellen Macintosh
Todd
classmates JOY FINNEY, ELLEN MCIN-
TOSH TODD & KIM RUGH BERGIER.
CAROLYN TURNER & Arnold fulfilled
a dream & drove to Boston for a long
wk-end. More grandchildren blessed the
families of JANET ALLEN MACHULA
& Paul, ANGIE COWART CHEEK (Amelia
born to son Steven Oct in ’10), ADA
HAAGEN BRUCE & Michael (grandson
Jaden to daughter Courtney in Feb),
JOANN PHILLIPS GIBSON (Jackson to
daughter Lindsey in May). DOUG NAVE
is proud Grandpa to Ada (13mo) born to
daughter Carmen living in Waterloo ON
& John Robert (6mo) born to daughter
Lenore living in Toronto). Many agree
being a grandparent is the best club ever &
JOHN WHITCOMB asks how to nudge the
process forward in a politically, socially,
ethically, morally, gently, successful
fashion as his 2 kids are busy pursuing
professional lives. On the other hand, our
parents are advancing in yrs & also into
eternity. CHERYL BEACHY PAULO-
VICH went from home in AZ to see her
Dad (92) in Goshen before he died, just
before Easter, leaving his wife of nearly 70
yrs. ANGIE COWART CHEEK’s parents
in their 90s live near her. WIM FRAN-
Cheryl Beachy Paulovich ’69, Marg Patton Boster ’69, Doug
Nave ’69, Janet Allen Machula ’69
KEN travelled from
his home in Rwanda
to Holland to visit his
2 grandkids & father
(91). KATHY GET-
TER LINDQUIST
returns to India each
Feb to visit her father
(86) who is still active
in mission work.
HARALD GRUBER
was pleased to travel
from IA to Germany to
have time with his father
for his 89th birthday
in Jun, just before
he died. CAROL JOHNSON COCHRAN’s
Dad (93) & living near Carol in OR, died
last Jan after a yr of multiple health problems.
TOM MCCULLOCH & Lesley live
in WA near Tom’s Mom who just published
her memoirs. TARIQ KIDWAI, Tania &
2 daughters flew to India in Dec 10 upon
hearing that his mother (94) had a stroke.
She died in Jun. Other sad losses include
LOIS FEIERABEND ROSKO’s husband
Bill who died suddenly of a heart attack
just before Christmas 10. Fortunately,
Lois’ daughter & granddaughter live with
her & her parents & sister MARY FEI-
ERABEND GIRARD ’76 live next door in
Madison WI. BETTE LARSON DEAN’s
sister MARTHA LARSON THOMSEN
’72 died of cancer Feb 24 in Mpls, MN.
& KATHY ROBINSON LOANE’s sister
Terry Robinson died on Jul 10 of complications
from cancer surgery also in Mpls.
On a positive note CHERYL BEACHY
PAULOVICH (Chaplain of a Srs Centre
in Phoenix) was ordained in the Mennonite
Church by STANLEY FREISEN
’58 on Nov 10. TITUS PRESLER & Jane
are in Peshawar PAK where he is Dean
at Edwardes College, but were in VT in
Aug for Jane’s successful back surgery.
JUDY SMITH CRIDER
& Dana attended youngest
son Jonathan’s wedding
where KATHARINE
LEHMAN WALKER (S)
sister of ANNE LIND (S)
officiated. Finally what
would Jottings be without
mini-reunions of which
we had our share. In late
Fall 10 PAUL HAMIL-
TON did an ed seminar
in Mpls & had dinner
with KATH GETTER
LINDQUIST & DAN
NAVE. BETTE LAR-
SON DEAN & Gordie
David Jennings ’69
took Spring Break in northern MN & saw
NANCY BARR PATTEN & Mark in Apr.
MARC MUMBY had a business trip to
DC & was given a bicycle tour of the city
by JOHN BURKHALTER in Jun. BETTE
& Gordie traveled to Scandinavia in Jul
to see relatives in Sweden & stayed with
MARY SELF SKARSTEN’s relatives in
Bergen, Norway. During a trip to Phoenix
in Sep, to visit sister MARY NAVE DAVIS
’72, DOUG NAVE & Jane also met with
JANET ALLEN MACHULA, CHERYL
BEACHY PAULOVICH & MARG PAT-
TON BOSTER. After her sister Terry’s
memorial service in Mpls, KATH ROBIN-
SON LOANE met with KATH GETTER
LINDQUIST, BETTE LARSON DEAN &
DAN NAVE.—Mary
Marc Mumby ’69 and John Burkhalter ’69 in DC

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1970s
Jottings
Class of 1970
SUSAN KIM HILLS is working as a
nurse in SF, recently widowed, sons
doing well, starting to travel again.
Big 60th bday back in Mussoorie 5/12!
CAROL ARLOFF RUSSELL has enjoyed
a busy yr of retirement from the
Baltimore City Public Schools where
she was an Instrumental Music Instructor,
teaching & directing an after-school
citywide Suzuki String Program. She
now enjoys teaching private cello lessons
2 days a wk at 2 local Music &
Arts stores. The majority of her students
come from public county schools in the
Baltimore MD area. Recently, she moved
her mother (87) into assisted living, then
into nursing care in Lancaster PA, where
she receives full time supervision for her
dementia; for several yrs she had been
taking care of her long distance. CAROL
& Walt, are actively involved in the Baltimore
Bicycling Club, leading rides and
volunteering with special events. They
just completed a 2 wk loaded bicycle
tour from Spokane WA into ID and BC,
around the scenic Int’l Selkirk Loop. She
stays in touch with other WS graduates
through the local Baltimore Area Curry
Club. JIM MOTAVALLI has a book
coming out in Nov, High Voltage: The
Fast Track to Plug in the Auto Industry
(Rodale). I write about greening the car
industry for the NY Times, NPR’s Car
Talk, Mother Nature Network & PlugIn-
Cars.com & live in CT with wife Mary
Ann & daughters Delia (14) & Maya
(17). The book is on Amazon. RUTH
TERRY is enjoying playing with her 1st
grandson while working hard to become
a Certified Occupational Therapy Asst
as a career for the 2nd half of her life.
REID & JUNE ROADARMEL BLICK-
ENSTAFF continue to work for the
Shanghai American School. He is the HS
orchestra & choir teacher & JUNE is in
the Admission Office. REID traveled to
Beijing for the AMIS (Assn for Music
in Int’l Schools) Orchestra Festival at
the Int’l School Beijing, where he met
JOHN EVANS & Lynne. They were in
the US at the end of Aug for the wedding
of JUNE’s oldest daughter, Anjali
Prasertong & Rob Kerkovich. Anjali’s
2 sisters, SONYA ’06 & JOANNA (S)
were also there. They have a guest
room in their apt & welcome visitors.
ELDON CLAASSEN & Jan
work in Fort Wayne IN with
refugees, primarily from Somalia
& Burma. We thank
God for the opportunity to
relate with int’ls. Daughter
Anna graduated from HS in
Jun & Sarah is in gr 10. EL-
DON’s Dad, Curt Claassen,
lives nearby in Berne IN. At
93, he recently recorded a
CD of piano hymns. ELDON
& Jan met DORA WARREN,
JOHN EDWARDS & Alison
70s CLAss REPs
Nancy Johns Erickson 1970
2517 Copperwood Dr
Lebanon, MO 65536-5975
USA
nancy416@fidmail.com
417-532-4724
Judy King Sims 1971
1010 Lakeway Ave
Kalamazoo, MI 49001-4965
USA
Jbirdblue@gmail.com
616-388-5220
Mary Nave Davis 1972
3331 E Merlot St
Gilbert, AZ 85298-9083
USA
Maryndavis@mac.com
480 585-3353
Mary Ina Flisher Hooley 1973
330 S Jackson St
Bluffton, OH 45817-1012
USA
hooleymi@bluffton.edu
419-369-4040
Lyle Powell 1974
7508 N G St
Spokane, WA 99205-7351
USA
ljampowell@yahoo.com
770-683-4770
John and Velma Thiessen Grose
1975
81 N Green Tree Trl
Chapel Hill, NC 27516-0308
USA
johnhgrose@gmail.com
919-933-5549
Class of ’70: John Edwards, Dora Warren & Eldon Claassen
Joy Garrison Simpson 1976
16 James St, W #105
Guelph, ON N1G 1E2
Canada
nyagali@yahoo.com
Susan Strickler Polstra 1977
Marnixkade 67-2
Amsterdam, NL1015 XX
Netherlands
susan.polstra@xs4all.nl
+31 (0)2 06 22 41 58
Carol Remington Ivance 1978
6559 Craig Ave
Inver Grove Heights, MN 55076-
1701
USA
carotsuep@gmail.com
James Hackney 1979
42 Madie Hill Dr
Leicester, NC 28748-9310
USA
omjhack1@yahoo.com
828-683-4062

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at DORA’s father’s 90th birthday. JOHN
is a medical doctor in MN. VINTA
SHUMWAY OVIATT enjoyed a talk by
the Dalai Lama this past May at nearby
UC Irvine. One of the highlights of my
life is meeting him in person when I was
12, along with Miss WESSELS, a former
teacher who became a missionary to the
Tibetan exiles & ran a girls’ school that I
stayed at several times. We had tea with
the Dalai Lama in a small room on the
other side of Landour in the Tibetan area.
I remember that he was very friendly,
had a great laugh - which he still does -
& asked about my school. He appeared
much older when I saw him this May
but not changed that much in his spirit
& I thoroughly enjoyed his informal but
thoughtful discussion about the social
& political issues in US, China, Tibet
& the world. DAVE PREWITT & Carol
are in their 7th yr at the American Int’l
School/Dhaka, Bangladesh (Dave’s 41st
yr in Asia.) He has earned his professional
counseling license & plans of
retiring to their CT home in the not too
far distant future. TERRY WEIDMAN
RUSSELL retired from her nursing job at
Providence Medical Center in Portland
OR in time to prepare for the wedding
of daughter Christina in Aug. Brothers
TIM ’80 & DAVID ’75 & their families
also attended. TERRY still volunteers at
her free, church sponsored clinic which
serves the unemployed & working poor.
RUTH HARPER AXELROD teaches
mngment part-time in MD; both she &
husband, David Canfield, are deeply
involved in local volunteer work—she
to help clean up the Chesapeake Bay &
he to raise money for local nonprofits.
Their mo-long pilgrimage-of-the-heart
to India starts at the WOSA Centenniel
Celebration. POLLY PETERSON &
JAMES GEDDES (S) are in San Diego
enjoying being near kids & grandkids.
Due to the state of the job market, work
is sporadic but we have taken on several
volunteer opportunities. POLLY has
spent most of the last 6 mos helping to
develop a Community Center for the
Arts for neighborhood kids. We also like
to visit with WSites whenever we can.
PAUL SMYRES lives in Millerton, NY
with wife of 10 yrs, Priscilla. She’s a
Jungian psychoanalyst & artist. He’s still
doing aerial photography & taking flight
lessons, as well as working on his many
websites/blogs with internet advertising.
He does social media marketing for
brother PHILIP’s ’87 UK online book
co, Fatbrain.co.uk. Older son Robert
& wife & daughter Sarah &
husband live nearby. Younger
son Evan lives in Thailand,
works for Philip. I have 2
granddaughters & one on the
way in Thailand. My parents
are still alive in N FL, but
mom (88) is fading now. Fond
memories of India & WS are
still with me. I enjoy hearing
from WSites. JOHN EVANS
& Lynne are starting their 3rd
yr at the Int’l School of Beijing.
John also serves as Pres
of the 1,200 member Overseas
Assn for College Admission Counseling.
In Jul in Calgary, CAN, he chaired the
annual OACAC summer conference of
over 700 attendees from all around the
globe. Lynne & JOHN enjoy being close
to their 2 kids & 4 grandchildren who
live in Hong Kong & Chengdu. MARK
KENOYER, was elected to the Am Ac
of Arts & Sciences, a very big nat’l
honor. He continues to teach at the U of
WI, Madison in the Dept of Anthro. He
goes to PAK each yr to work at the site
of Harappa & also visits India to meet
with archaeologists & collaborate on
various archaeology projects in Gujarat.
He was able to visit Dhaka to give
lectures; spent a mo in China at the site
of Anyang & gave lectures at the Inst
of Archae in Beijing & took a short trip
to Mongolia & South Korea where he
participated in mtgs, gave lectures &
visited many archaeological sites. For
summaries of his work & photos, see
www.harappa.com BRUCE BROWNE
has taken a job in Doha, Qatar, teaching
at the Community College of Qatar
(CCQ), Theatre & Public Speaking. Life
in Qatar is interesting - a very modern
city with some interesting quirks & very
warm: it has been about 104 most days
since I’ve been here. A little like living
in the plains of India, except we have
the advantage of air conditioning! Our
house in Sheboygan is on the market &
Nan will join me once that encumbrance
is taken care of, which could be a while.
Our plan is for her to come here in Jan, as
by then I will have a Qatari ID, which allows
family to live here without a tourist
permit. NANCY JOHNS ERICKSON &
Don live in Lebanon MO. I am involved
in volunteering through Crosslines & my
church. My parents live in Sedona AZ
near sister ANITA ’71 & brothers MAR-
TIN ’75 & GEORGE ’76. I just visited
them & took my mother to the Indian
dinner for ANITA’s class reunion which
Reid Blickenstaff '70, Lynne & John Evans '70 in Beijing
she & I enjoyed thoroughly.—Nancy
Class of 1971
Last Mar MARTI PATEL was fortunate
to catch up with VICTOR SCHOON-
MAKER & friends on a beautiful remote
island off tropical southern Thailand. In
Oct, she caught up with her former HS
roommate REBECCA JENNINGS, as
well as RAHUL AMIN, sister NANDITA
AMIN ’73 & BHARAT PATEL ’71 at
the WOSA 100 in Mussoorie. After the
celebrations, she & Rebecca will be travelling
to Rajasthan to visit YASHWANT
SINGH ’71 & brother RAJENDRA ’72.
In between life & work, her passion for
photography & blogging – see sanuksanuk.wordpress.com
- keeps her busy!
This has been another yr of movement
for REBECCA JENNINGS, winding up
her work as a trainer throughout Aboriginal
communities in remote AUS & visiting
classmates in LA, family in CAN,
winding up with Oct WOSA reunion.
I’ll be settling soon! BOB CONRAD
recently won the Distinguished Alumni
Award for the School of Info Sci at the U
TN in Knoxville. He has been the library
director at Oak Ridge Nat’l Lab since
05. KITTY PURGASON is still training
ESL/EFL teachers at Biola U in the Los
Angeles area, had a sabbatical semester
which included travel to Kuwait, Oman,
Tajikistan, China & Vietnam. She held
a small reunion in her room with some
of those who couldn’t make Flagstaff.
ANNE MARRIOTT works full time as
a radiologist at a large community hospital
in Mississauga CAN & keeps busy
gardening, doing volunteer work for her
church & holidaying at their cottage N
of Toronto. She & David Wunker, along
with daughter Claire will be visiting
ADAM (S) & Darcy in Dec – Adam is
currently on the teaching staff at WS.
They will also be travelling around Rajasthan
& doing the Golden Triangle.

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Bob Conrad ’71: always looking for a new trail to hike
After a stint in Washington DC, where
he served as Deputy Med Director of the
State Dept, BROOKS TAYLOR & Betsy
have moved to Johannesburg, South
Africa where he is now the State Dept’s
Regional Medical Mgr for Sub-Saharan
Africa. This means that he supervises the
care provided by 35 State Dept physicians,
nurse practitioners & physician
assistants in 26 different countries. He
will be on the road a lot. Betsy will be
painting & both are thrilled to be back
in Africa, though they’ll miss being near
children, Andrew & Sarah, who are both
still in Boston. They’ll be there 3 yrs.
Come visit! BETH ROADARMEL has
been working for the last 4 yrs establishing
an assisted living & sr care facility in
Chiang Mai, Thailand. She visited sister
JUNE BLICKENSTAFF ’70 & REID in
Shanghai, China last Apr.
Class of 1972
We mourn the loss of MARTHA LAR-
SON THOMSEN who passed away at
home with her family present on Feb 24.
She & Jeff served with the Mennonite
Class of ’71: Greta Mason, Smruti Bhagat, Anita Johns, Becca Jennings
& Kitty Barnhouse at Kitty's in Pasadena, banner by Iris Hunter
Central Committee in Africa. Martha we
carry you in our hearts! OREEN LONG
EDDYis a nurse at St Joseph’s Hospital
in Phoenix AZ currently with the family
med residents, Jerry is retired. Son
Andrew (25) is with the forest service,
Jonathan (27) looking for work with
the Fire Dept. They took a wonder vacation
to Moab UT & saw all the sites,
met Jerry’s HS friends, then visited his
parents in CO. SHALINI PRAKASH
AGARWAL is transitioning from the
security of a corp job to starting a small
business. Her favorite way to unwind
is to be out in the mtns & has beautiful
trails close by. Her son has settled in
Seattle, daughter SHEENA ’02 is in DC
working in develop’nt. Shalini reconnected
with WOODMAN TAYLOR, dir
of the SE Asia Center, whose preferred
mode of transport is the bike, even in the
middle of winter in Chicago! REBECCA
KOSE NOAH & Mike are in Eugene OR,
where he enjoys work with Holt in the
Philippines & Haiti. Bec resigned from
Holt 2 yrs ago. Currently she works part
time as an educ asst with pre-school
children with autism. They garden, hike
& Bec absolutely loves time with 3
grandsons. PEGGY SMYRES RAMSEY
has a full house with daughter, son in
law & 3 children living with her, along
with 3 cats & a dog! The time spent
with all of them is precious & she is so
very grateful. PATRICIA WHITCOMB
GREEN-SOTOS faced the very difficult
death of youngest daughter, Rachel, in
Feb. Each family member is grieving in
their own way. She has cut down her hrs
as a nurse in the Newborn ICU to 60%.
She & husband Peter treasure their time
together & with their families. Patty
attended MARK BAUR’s wedding to
Sadaf, whom he met skydiving. Mark
was radiant with joy
& we wish them both
all of the happiness
in the world! MARY
CONRAD LO & Matthew
thoroughly enjoy
their new home in
MD. Mary loves being
in a place where
so many classmates
live or visit. Last
summer she had curry
dinner with JANINE
CLAYTON, joined
by KENYON ER-
ICKSON & ZAHRA
COX RICHARDS.
She has connected
with classmates JENNY MULL REILLY,
RAY KAWATA & Jen, LOIS KNISS
JONES & DALE(S) at a local monthly
curry club. In Aug she reconnected with
TOM WYON & Karen, after being out
of touch for 40 yrs! BARBARA PHIL-
LEO MILLER works for a USDA agency
& finds working for the Fed govt these
days is a little trying, will retire in 3 yrs.
Ken is mostly retired, helping a local
dairy with haying & taking care of the
homestead. They visited Zion, the Grand
Canyon & Bryce with their sons who
came from CO & San Diego, as well as
camping in ME with them. During a trip
to WI they stayed with PAT WHITCOMB
GREEN-SOTOS & Pete; GIL HALSTED
& Stefania came over for a great dinner.
JANINE CLAYTON & Rick are working
for the US Forest Service in the Pacific
NW, but are starting to think about retirement.
They have taken a couple of
trips to Europe; one of the highlights
was Tosca at La Scala in Milan, on their
must do list. Janine’s mother is keeping
busy at home in AZ full of energy & good
attitude! In her own words, MARGARET
RHODES BURNETT’s news still centers
around cancer, living with the sense of
death in the background, which can be
frightening, but also living as though
forever. A complicated mixture. I draw
with soft pastels & I’ve started writing
again, just when I feel like it. I tend
to do things when I feel like it now;
cancer gives you permission to do that.
JANE LOANE GORMAN finds her job
as a speech-language pathologist for
the school bd in Toronto, stimulating &
enjoyable. Tom looks forward to retiring
from his HS teaching. They re-energize
at their peaceful cottage in Nova Scotia.
Both kids live at home; Dan (22) works
long hrs for an organic food distributor,
interested in heavy equipm’t, Emma
(20) enjoying work at a local restaurant.
DIANE MCLAIN-SKILLICORN
& BRUCE SKILLICORN in Drakes
Branch VA & can now interact with the
world after having exchanged dial-up
connection for hi-speed internet! Bruce
has been accepted into a well-known
juried artists org & is taking part in some
excellent exhibitions. Diane became a
grandmother & feels blessed to care for
little Mia 3 days/wk, although with a 3
hr commute. Bruce’s 3 grandkids live
in AUS. Bruce’s father came from AUS
to visit over Thanksgiving. And youngest
daughter Christina came for the
mo. They all took a wonderful jaunt to
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was thrilled to share a white Christmas
with his daughter—unheard of in AUS.
MARY RUTH POWELL works 68 hrs
a wk between her job as custodian at
an ES & running the welding lab at
W WY CC, her 18th yr. She estimates
that she walks an average of 8 mi/day
between her 2 jobs & takes advantage
of season tickets provided by the CC to
see Broadway shows in Salt Lake City.
Mary represented our class along with
PAT & SHALINI at the WOSA reunion.
Although I am far from any classmate, I
continue to share, in spirit, your joys &
sorrows. MARY NAVE DAVIS works as
a home care PT in the Phoenix area. She
trekked the Grand Canyon in Mar, something
she has wanted to do for a long
time! JOIE MORRIS DEWOLF works
as an outpatient nurse at a county mental
health clinic & Dave is with Post in
Battle Creek. They travel a lot to see kids
& just got back from Bliss Fest in Upper
MI where they camped with the Class of
79 & saw DAVID BUNCE. They took a
trip to Trinidad & Tobago to celebrate
youngest son’s graduation from Duke.
The Indian cricket team happened to be
there at the same hotel, so they had great
fun watching all the ‘tamasha’! Rachel
just finished up her Masters in sustainable
systems & is pursuing a career in
yoga. Sarah & Jake are in Pittsburgh,
busily building onto the homestead for
arrival of their 3rd child. GIL HALSTED
works as a reporter at WI Public Radio.
Stefania continues as a nurse in the recovery
room at the Univ Hosp, very active
in her union & in working with state
Peace & Justice Network. They took
their annual trip to Italy to see Stefania’s
family. Son, Ien spent 6 wks in Tuscany
which included a solo bike camping trip
around the Island of Elba. Gil got a stent
in his coronary artery this May & says
now he really has to quit smoking & eat
better! LOIS KNISS JONES still does
mediation. She has been training in the
Dialogue Educ method of adult ed & will
be offering Parent Ed classes in the fall.
DALE (S) continues teaching & doing
his own art—currently pastel landscapes.
They recently visited their daughter in
San Francisco & while there had lunch
with JOHN LOWE. REBECCA RABE
& KEVIN KOSE ’70 had a wonderful
trip to India visiting 3 places they had
never been to before: Ranthambore, Goa
& Karwar. Kevin hadn’t been back to the
Motherland for 22 yrs & found he is as
attached to the place as he always was!
He returned again in Feb to work with
Becky Rabe Kose ’72 and Kevin Kose ’70 (middle) with their two sons and families.
Op Smile in Assam, where their medical
team performed 500 corrective facial
surgeries in 1 mo! On the home front,
kids & grandkids are well & Rebecca’s
mother (90) recently celebrated her
birthday with most of the family present.
RUTH ANDERSON BRADING enjoys
living in the N Beaches area of Sydney,
working in a local hospital 3 days/wk.
She remains passionate about building
local churches & still loves running!
Youngest son (23) lives with them &
attends uni. She became a grandma &
although her gorgeous granddaughter
lives in England, Ruth has been over to
see her 3 times since she was born! Another
highlight was a snorkeling holiday
in Fiji, celebrating 31 good yrs of marriage!
DAVID MARRIOTT has retired as
a lawyer from the Appeals branch of the
Public Prosecutor’s Office in Edmonton
AB. He and wife Janice Storeshaw live
in Leduc AB.—Mary
Class of 1973
MARK HACKNEY is currently working
at Publix grocery store in Crystal River
FL in the customer service department.
He has written his memoirs of growing
up in India called There & Back Again,
Almost Paradise - Twenty Yrs in India
& hopes to publish it. He also hopes to
start a canned chicken curry business.
KIMMY THIESSEN WARREN works at
a naturopathic clinic very close to their
new home in Federal WA. They welcome
guests in their home as they come
to the US World Vision office, where
JONNY works, for workshops/meetings.
They also do impromptu gatherings for
BBQs or just to let folks come & enjoy
the beautiful sunsets over the Olympic
Mtns & Puget Sound. KIMMY spends
Mondays at the Seattle Cancer Treatment
& Wellness Center with sister KAREN
THIESSEN MINER who has a Caring
Bridge Site where she loves to get words
of encouragement. Son Dan & Alison
live in Portland, daughter Rachel & son
Ben & Sarah in Seattle. Jun 21 the Warren
family celebrated their Dad, Charles’
90th birthday at the Ebenezer Mennonite
Church in Bluffton OH. This included
BETH ANN BAKER ’64, RUTH WAR-
REN ’67 & DALE ’64 SEEFELDT,
DORA WARREN ’70, JONNY & KIM-
MY, BARBIE WARREN ’78 & PAUL
’77 WINDSOR & families. What an
Gil Halsted ’72 calls in a story to NPR in Madison,
WI

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At Charles Warren’s 90th birthday celebration: L to R: Ruth Bauman
Swygart, Mary Ina Hooley, Jonny & Kimmy Thiessen Warren, Paula Unrau
honoring celebration! The class of ’73
was represented by JONNY, KIMMY,
MARY INA HOOLEY, PAULA UNRAU
& RUTH BAUMAN SWYGART. Other
WSkers present were ELDON CLAAS-
SEN ’70 & his dad CURT, Linda Sommer
(S), Mary Bauman (P) & Ruth Unrau (P).
CARLA PETIEVICH continues to work
with the Hoshyar Fdn & was in Pakistan
last Mar. She works with the Fdn’s partners
on grant writing, serves as a liaison
between them & large donors who work
in an Anglophone environment. The Fdn
supports 3 neighborhood literacy centers
in urban & suburban slums of Lahore,
3 girls’ secondary schools in Mansehra
Dist., Khyber Pakhtunkhwa & partners
with the new al-Hamd Educ’l Girls’ HS
in Baagarian Village, outside Lahore.
SUSAN GROSE LOCKETT went to part
time, working 3 days a wk. In Aug 10
Andrew (S) took retirement & has now
set up his own consultancy for all things
involved in Early Childhood educ. He
has also become involved in helping out
at a centre for asylum seekers & refugees
in UK. He is nearly fully recovered
from his back operation in Feb. Daughter
Anjali has qualified as a teacher in
London, beginning in Feb. BONNIE
SMITH LUTZ spent 2 mos in the US at
the beginning of the yr visiting family
& friends. A grandson, Blaze Aslan,
was born 12/31/10 to oldest daughter,
BRONWYN ’00; he has a 16 mo old
sister, Mirea. Bonnie’s youngest, JOEL-
LAH ’06, graduated from Wheaton May
10 & is staying with Bronwyn & Trent
in Boston. Middle daughter, BONNIE
RACHEL ’03, moved to England in Oct.
10 where she is working at a YWAM base
in Holmstead. JULIE KEARS-NOEL is
managing & doing hair in the same salon
where she has worked for 19 yrs & continues
to love her work. MARY INA &
DON (S) HOOLEY are planning a 3-mo
sabbatical in India
Sep-Dec. Don will
be doing research on
Mental Math, visiting
ES in the Mussoorie
area. They hope to
enjoy some hiking
to spots such as Kedarnath,
Badrinath,
Valley of the Flowers,
Yamnotri & Dodi
Tal.—Mary Ina
Class of 1974
BINAYAK BANER-
JEE is currently
working as an Enterprise Architect for
Whirlpool Corp (yes, I can get you a
deal on appliances) about 3 hrs from
home. Enika teaches Japanese at the
local CC. Maintaining 2 establishments
is expensiv & I miss my family tremendously.
Eldest son is a HS soph, into
robotics, a 12 yr old who just finished
gr 6 & a 10 yr old who finished gr 4,
so you can see that I have Betsy beat
on the youngest child category. DAVID
BUCKNER is in Vietnam, slowly making
connections. I’m not sure how long
we’ll be here, but probably a few more
yrs. We’re maintaining Linnaea Farm
as home base/permanent address/mailing
address. SCOTT BUNCE & Elise
continue to enjoy watching & assisting
son Rowan & partners as their eco-agri
farm grows & becomes more viable.
They have added a commercially certified
kitchen & food processing area
which allows them to sell into stores &
restaurants. Elise continues to grow her
greenhouse business while working full
time as a psych nurse. Acacia is finishing
credits for her Psych major while
beginning classes in nursing at N MI U.
I am busy building a new woodworking
shop & plan to remodel kitchen & front
entry area once the shop is functional.
AMY BURKHALTER & Chris have had
a yr of loss - 4 deaths: his mother, my
mother, a brother-in-law on Chris’ side
sister-in-law & friend MARTHA LAR-
SON THOMSEN ’72 from the Larson
clan at WS. I’ve named & branded my
10-yr-old mngmt consulting business,
Vital Focus, LLC & will get out on the
internet. Chris is wrapping up a career
as a tool-maker with Ford Motor Co &
starting a new career as a realtor. He discovered
his love of houses while buying
& reviving a couple of distressed ones.
We got to visit with CINDY PETERS in
Durham, NC to explore the area for possible
relocation. DEBORAH CONRAD
BROOKS’ family is involved with Tribal
Trading teas from Tribal Brazil. We are
represented several places all over the
globe. They have 5 grandchildren - see
twelvetribes.com. JUDY FLISHER GIN-
GER working in Labor & Delivery area
of the hosp & keeps busy. We went to a
resort in Briggs ID, close to the Tetons
& Yellowstone, had a relaxing time &
enjoyed the beauty of the mtns. We built
a roof over our patio, a challenge & fun.
Daughter is a nurse, working in an OB/
Gyn office & working towards her Bachelor’s;
son was in the army & is looking
to go back to school. STEVE HARPER
joined a consulting firm & manages
software developm’t projects for a med
device co. Elizabeth is composing music
& running her publishing business
SeafarerPress.com. Simon is a soph at
U MI in Ann Arbo, in a program called
Performance Arts Tech where he gets
to study his 2 passions – music & tech.
Oliver started at the U Mi Nl, interested
in psych & econ. RACHEL LINDELL
NELSON enjoys a busy schedule of
helping Nepali refugee families fit into
life locally. I have appreciated how their
smiles, hospitality, language, clothes etc
have taken me back in time & stirred up
good memories. Have also found some
American friends, without any overseas
experiences, who enjoy the ministry
just as much as I do which is refreshing.
ANITRA MANSSON just started her
3rd & last yr at WS Health Centre. Son
Nigel will be graduating & they will be
returning to the States. Time for college
& job applications! Last winter they
traveled around India with the school
Winter Tour which was great fun. This
summer was college visits in the Pacific
NW where they spent some time with
LYLE POWELL & PEGGY NAUMANN.
KEVIN MCCONEGHEY & Terez are
happy & active grandparents looking at
career changes. I have been involved in
training in Motivational Interviewing. I
had dinner with MARGIE ROBINSON
’73, who visited Madison with husband
Scott. PEGGY NAUMANN gave ANI-
TRA & NIGEL ’12 MANSSON a quick
tour of Portland & then relaxed over
Thai food. CINDY PETERS lost her
dad, Tom Peters, in Nov 10 so we join
with Amy, Betsy & others who have lost
parents recently in celebrating their lives
of service. On the upside, my nephew
& wife welcomed their 2nd daughter!
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she is a great-grandmother! I continue to
work at Duke U in the Nicholas School
of the Env & still enjoy my house. LYLE
POWELL is looking forward to a 3rd yr
teaching JROTC at local HS. Madison
just started her 1st yr at WSU, joining
Aubrey now a sr. Jo & I are enjoying
reconnecting with old friends. Really
enjoyed get together with Anitra & son
Nigel. With parents back East, we still
do a long summer road trip. We were
lucky to spend a couple hrs with KAREN
ANDERSON ATTERBERRY near Peoria
& JOHN HACKNEY in FL. Better
pre-planning on my part would have
allowed a few more. ANDREW PRIOR
took an opportunity of voluntary leaving
banking after nearly 32 yrs with the
same bank & now happy in an admin
role with a local recycling co. Son David
just announced his engagement, daughter
Sarah recently bought her own place so
I am looking forward to being an empty
nester. I have caught the jogging bug &
have completed a half marathon, planning
an annual half marathon & a couple
of 10 kilometer runs each yr. KEITH
RIGGIN’s son, Aron married fellow
Army specialist Ashley Robertson in
Apr 10 - both joined the Army in 08 &
met at the Defense Language Institute
in Monterey CA where they were put
through Arabic & Middle East training.
Daughter Jadeite’s wedding to Jonathon
Zimmerman was here in VA in Jun. Lan
& I will be grandparents in Jan. Both
kids ended up marrying missionary kids.
Maybe all that talk about WS over the
yrs rubbed off on them, their subconscious
kicked in when selecting great
life partners. BETSY SCOTT MURPHY
is part of a geriatric consult service at
the local hospital. I enjoy it, but it can
be emotionally draining. My favorite
population is the over 90s. John runs
the Bullington Center, a horticultural
learning center in Henderson Count,
NC, though we are holding our breaths
with recent state budget cuts. Oldest son
Gordie has graduated, looking for a job
in the area of visual communications/
journalism, 2nd son, Joey (20), is in NZ
for a semester & very much into running
marathons; youngest is in gr 8 who takes
after his grandfather Ken Scott, showing
promise as a pianist. My dad (95) though
very frail, can still play from memory
every piano piece he ever learned though
some of them take too much energy for
him to play now. DESIREE SPONNER
TRATTLES & Chris are safely back in
Europe, after some harrowing experiences
sailing through the
waters with pirates in the
Indian Ocean. For additional
details you will need to talk to
them. AMANDA WAMPLER
SMITH in TN lives off-grid,
driving a hybrid, growing
fruits, vegetables & chickens,
watching wild turkeys
& white-tailed deer, learning
a little of the Cherokee language
& also Spanish, teaches
ESL in gr K-5. She sometimes
can talk to a new student
in Hindi or Gujarati. For
BECKY WILSON TORRES, the tornado
missed them but the red lightning was
impressive. My son was in Brazil for his
best friend’s wedding. JOHN WYSHAM
& Solange, with a friend to Chincoteague
Island. While Solange lazed on the beach
with snacks & a beach umbrella, I took
off in my kayak, saw dolphins. Landing
with the surf, sitting in a kayak is a
LOT harder than going out because you
lose all steering control when the waves
outrun the craft. —Lyle
Class of 1975
For the past several yrs MARK BAU-
MAN & Janice have enjoyed hosting
int’l students for periods of 3-9 mo. He
works at WISCAP, the statewide assn.
for community action agencies serving
low-income households in WI. ELISE
DEWSBERRY is the Artistic Director of
the Ac for New Musical Theatre in LA &
gets to do a lot of singing - what a great
life! Happily married to ’cellist Stephen
Green for nearly 30 yrs & mother to community
organizer Rebecca (24). DON &
MILLY SACKMAN HANNA are still
in Charleston SC, for 29 yrs now. Don
is busy with medical practice & church
ministry. Milly retired from nursing in
Feb, adjusting to empty nest syndrome;
yrly travels to India to see parents &
help in the work there. MARTHA
MANCHESTER KAUTZ & husband
celebrated their 30th wedding
anniversary with a trip to the CA
coast. We also enjoyed a time in
ME with family & had some time
with our children; Peter is stationed
in NC, Sarah, in graduate school
in Ireland. DAVID WEIDMAN &
Tom are almost finished building a
timber frame home that they have
been working on for 12 yrs! It will
be good to have a Sun afternoon off
to go for a hike or just read a book.
Tom has taken a position as the
Stephen, Elise Dewsberry '75, and Rebecca Green
Dean of Students at the Putney School,
one hr south. Did an Alaskan cruise for a
much-need vacation. JANE PETERSEN
BRANDES continues to enjoy life in the
Pacific NW, close to daughters & family.
She has been consulting in Home Care
& Hospice for the past yr & enjoys the
flexibility & challenge. NYC for 7 mo
was a highlight. An eventful yr for NATE
RABE, which saw him get promoted &
then made redundant! Since Mar he has
been consulting to Australian & Int’l
NGOs. Still living in Melbourne, AUS
with Yvonne, Mose (8) & Esther (4).
Always welcome for a visit! MARK
RODDA visited WS for the first time in
30 yrs with wife Linda. Their youngest
son Michael is a SAGE student & has
loved it. They plan to be back for the
Class of 12 graduation next spring.—
Contributed online
Class of 1976
SAM NORASAK’s oldest son Kirk has
an internship at NASA in VA & Ron attended
the volunteer Develop program
for Earth & Science also at NASA during
the summer break. JOHN WHITE teaches
HS special ed & works with students
who have autism. Beverly teaches KG.
Oldest son Jacob teaches HS history,
third son Nicholas is preparing to be a
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Sarah Hunter '78 in her art studio
band director & his wife-to-be will teach
ES. Within a yr 3 of our sons will have
moved out of our home, leaving Nathan,
who is finishing gr 10. LAUREL BUNCE
POLAREK, still living on our houseboat,
still Wildschooling gr 8, still hiking,
kayaking & serenading our neighbor
harbor seals with Bollywood filmigeet!
Life as usual. MARCY NIEHAUS
LLOYD’s family took a trip to WI to see
her brother TED & LINDA HOWARD.
STANLEY SCISM had 6 books published,
5 are Scripture studies, (one was
written by his mother when she was a
college teacher in India). He had 4 books
published in 10, including a Christmas
drama set in the Himalayas, called, logically
enough, A Himalayan Christmas.
You can write to Stanley stanleyscism.
com & ask for an order form. JEFF &
SUE ’77 (SWAIN) ROLLINS: We’re
enjoying the beginning of another yr at
WS. Jeff is the head of the IT dept this yr
& Sue is teaching gr 4. It has been loads
of fun working with the kids at school
while living on the hillside. We are
feeling a bit sad about our empty nest,
but are beginning to find other things
to occupy our time & enjoy hearing our
kids’ stories about the many things they
are doing. DANIEL ’11 is working on
getting settled in college, Chris & wife
Katie are working in NM & Asha &
husband Ty & our grandson Andrew are
working & living in Colorado Springs.
Our daughter PRIYA is also working at
WS & greatly enjoys her job as the Admin
Assistant to the person in charge of
all dorm activities. LYNETTE(BEACHY
BAUMAN & Leon with daughters
Anjuli & Bethany & husband Gabe
went to India, 1st time back since
they left in 89. We spent most of
our time in Mussoorie with only
a short visit to Agra, Jaipur &
Fatehpur Sikri. ANDREW WEDE-
MAN spent a lot of time commuting
back & forth between Lincoln
NE & China over the past few yrs,
2 yrs teaching for Johns Hopkins
at their Nanjing graduate center,
back at the U NE for 2.5 yrs. I was
on sabbatical last Spring & spent
a semester at Peking U. Andrew
is Assoc Prof, Dept of Poli Sci &
Dir of the Asian Studies Program.
MARY FEIERABEND GERARD
moved back to WI this past yr.
She is working at the Dane County
Time Bank, org & helping people in
the community. Mary is also mentoring
young ladies & helping her
parents at home. Joel, her oldest, moved
back to FL & Renee is in colleg in MI.
MARGARET MARRIOTT GUENTHER
lives N of Edmonton & works as an accountant
for the AB Treasury Branch.
NORM REINHARDT has now spent
10 yrs in China, married there last yr.
He has 6 grandchildren now! SUSAN
KRAMPITZ & Larry WEIL are still in
Mozambique at CAM. They were able
to get 5 acres out in the country for the
school this past yr. Susan is teaching
& Larry in administration. TULIKA
PRAKASH PABRAI announced that her
oldest son Kunal was engaged! He has
a very successful business (with family
all involved) called Fresh & Naturelle
Ice Creams. As for our losses this yr,
LYNETTE & HEATHER (WINDSOR)
DODSON both lost their fathers, AMY
LOWE lost her mother this Aug & JUDI
FLICKNER’s mom passed away last
Aug. We still have our class yahoo group
for email contact & a class group (with
a few friends) on Facebook. Classmates,
if you are not on one of these groups,
email JOY GARRISON SIMPSON.—Joy
Class of 1977
ABU RIZVI continues to work at the
U VT and lives in Burlington. Looking
forward to seeing WS alums in the US,
India or wherever. PAUL HACKNEY
moved to Kabul, Afghanistan where he
works with the UN, flying VIPs around
the country. He was also able to visit
Cairo during a UN flight and enjoyed
seeing their wonderful historic treasures
first hand. Delhi is a 2-hr flight from
Kabul so has visited friends and family
in India regularly. One of the downsides
to living in Kabul is not being able to
do much personal flying so my hang
glider is stored in the States collecting
dust. Daughter Heidi graduated uni
with double degrees in theater arts and
counseling, moving to NYC soon; son
Jason is completing degrees in theater
arts and outdoor ed and is a candidate for
the US bobsled team for the next Winter
Olympics.—Contributed online
Class of 1978
This yr saw the home-going of 3 of our
more well known dads. Dr RAJ AROLE,
who co-founded Comprehensive Rural
Health Project, Jamkhed, along with
wife, Dr Mabelle, left us in May. CRHP
is an internationally renowned org &
considered to be a global model in
community-based health & developm’t,
has been featured in Nat’l Geographic.
Dr SHOBHA AROLE & brother RAVI
’85, are now overseeing the work. Jun
brought the passing of Rev BOB ALTER
’43, who is well known in the WS community,
so I won’t make an attempt to list
his accomplishments here! He was the
principal for our gr 3-12 yrs & always
took a personal interest in each of us. In
Aug Dr. Raymond Windsor was released
from his long battle with Parkinson’s. He
was a cardiac surgeon & concert pianist
& wore many other hats as well. He & Dr
Arole worked together in several org including
the Emmanuel Hosp Assn, which
continues to serve many who would
otherwise be without medical care today.
NEIL HANKS writes he hasn’t been in
touch with very many people. The last
classmate visited was Mits in Portland
2 summers ago. He works at the local
airport as a mechanic & wife Cheryl for
Food for the Hungry CAN. WILL FOS-
TER says he is enjoying teaching at AZ
State U, doing res in Chinese Sci, Tech
& Society. ANDREW ALTER moved to
Sydney in Jul 10 to take up a new position
at Macquarie U. Wife FRANCES
EADY ALTER (S) continues to work
at the U of New England but travels to
Sydney regularly. MARK WINDSOR
& Annie had a yr of traveling. After 3
mo teaching back at WS, they traveled
S as far as Ooty. Loved being back at
WS & in India. We’ve just visited 30
friends in Europe then back to NZ early
for Dad’s funeral. He was a great guy!
SARAH HUNTER had a great yr & all
is well. Her daughter has just entered
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big art show in Toronto with 25 new
works & is enjoying her day job as an
arts administrator. JAMES HACKNEY
’79 visited, which was wonderful: we
are in touch fairly often; also in touch
with SUSAN TOWNSEND FENDROCK
regularly. She wishes all classmates &
other friends at WS a wonderful yr. This
summer BABS EADIE RUTTLE & Neil
drove across the upper peninsula of MI
to Duluth MN to see SUZIE ROLLINS
NORDSTROM, traveled through WI,
IL, IN, MI and back home. It was lovely
to see Suzie 29 yrs since the last time.
Jennifer is back home to go to Uni. It
was a treat to hear from JIM WATTS,
long time MIA. He actually found Boz
on Google Earth! He’s been in NY with
wife Maurine & daughter Lyn (16) teaching
biblical studies at Syracuse U for the
past 12 yrs. His conference travel takes
them far & wide including to India a few
yrs back. LINDA HOWARD NIEHAUS’
homeschooling days are over, now that
Bethany is a freshman at OR U in the
honors program. TED NIEHAUS is still
working at Fairbanks Morse Engine in
Beloit WI as well as on many projects
on their organic farm. He also leads
the Sun service at their local nursing
home. The farm keeps Linda busy too,
but she is enjoying having time now
for other interests. Their oldest, Rachel
(25) graduated from Taylor U in 10 &
just started a writing internship in Ft
Wayne IN. Michael (21) is living with
Ted’s parents as a caregiver as Ted’s
dad has Parkinson’s & mom dementia.
As a result of this experience, his plans
have changed & he has started a nursing
program at South TX College. I
(CAROL REMINGTON IVANCE) spent
a fun evening with BONITA JANZEN
’79, RUTH SANWALIA NAVE (S) &
KATHY GETTER LINDQUIST ’69 in
May. I also enjoyed the co of several
’76ers during their Indian meal night
at their reunion in Jul. I currently have
an empty nest as my baby, Jessa (18) is
in Tanzania for 5 mo with YWAM. My
other children Heather (24) & Austin
(21) live in Mpls - not too far. Find me
on FB or the WOSA alumni site at www.
facebook.com/wsalumni .—Carol
Class of 1979
After many yrs we heard from MARY
ANNA KAMPARS, who enjoys life in
Fresno CA with her 3 cats. Here we enjoy
locally grown fresh fruit & vegetables
yr round. It’s good eating! My
current project is writing a children’s
book, to be self-published
sometime next yr.
I also keep busy at
church & with friends &
family. For STEVE ME-
CARTNEY, Samantha
Louise Chu Mecartney
arrived Dec ’10, all
10.34 lb of her. Hiede &
Samantha were in Apia
with me this summer &
really enjoyed it. I have
been here for over 2 yrs
& hope to move to Manila.
FAITH KENOYER
works at Cairo Covenant
School where it has been
a very eventful yr, a special experience.
As a massage therapist at a major hotel
CLARE GERTCH meets people sometimes
on unusual career paths. When the
rodeo was in town, she massaged a
roper ranked 5th in the world. As it’s
been their ritual for the last 8 yrs, she &
John went to Holland & England in Nov.
YASMEEN MERCHANT has given up
the corp world & trying her hand at furniture
restoration with a friend. Even if
it does not pan out, I’ve enjoyed it so
far. Still trying to fight the good fight
part time, heard that ONGC thinks they
are going to set up a gas refinery &
power plant in ecologically fragile Dahanu,
we will have to give them a fight
for their money. Go Yas! SHOBHANA
CHELLIAH joined in for our collective
50th celebration, so great to finally meet
classmates, soul mates, shared history.
It’s been quiet for Shobhana & family.
Son Timothy moved to the dorms at the
U N TX, having a grand time. She is
filling spare time with travel, proposal
writing, students, kettle bells & music.
SHARON SETO is back-to-school,
teaching a section of IB geography &
1/8 of the way through an MBA. Still
enjoying her job at UWC-USA. Robin is
studying dance at the NM School for the
Arts in Santa Fe & in gr 11, loving life.
DORIEN ’06 works with migrants in
detention with the legal assistance org
Florence Project in Phoenix. She is enjoying
the luxury of living alone for the
1st time. Steve is the IT director at
UWC, sings in choir & organized a TED
X conference in Nov. DEANNE LEHM-
AN works at the European Parliament in
the AV unit. She has not left journalism
far behind as she is the webmaster/coordinator
of a multimedia website for
media professionals, providing journalists
with photos, video footage, audio &
Bonita Janzen ’79, Carol Remington Ivance, ’78, Ruth Sanwalia
Nave S, Kathy Getter Lindquist ’69
media packages on all activities the EP
is involved in. Benno continues to write
for newspapers, magazines & publishes
books. With Deanne’s heavier workload
he is now soccer dad, cook, chauffeur,
butler, maid, etc. Christopher (13) is in
gr 9, in a French school that also has an
English mother tongue section. His big
loves are soccer (he plays in the Belgian
nat’l competition) & animals. Anna
Vandana goes mostly by Anna now because
most people cannot pronounce her
beautiful Indian name properly! She
turned 13 & is in gr 7. She also plays
soccer & loves music, taking piano lessons
& singing in the church choir.
KIRBY STARR has‘worked for the PA
DOT for 16 yrs after retiring in ’95 from
the Navy, now a construction mgr responsible
for highway & bridge construction,
presently overseeing 2 bridge
& 2 other projects. I got married with
Melanie, now have 2 wonderful step
children in addition to my 2. Only one,
my stepdaughter, in HS lives with us.
My daughter will have a 2nd son. My
son is a jr in college in IN & lives with
his mother. He is a HS football & track
coach. My stepson is in his 1st yr of
college at St. Vincent College in Latrobe
PA, on their football team. My parents
BILL & JANET STARR (S) are doing
well. We attended brother CHRIS’ ’81
wedding to GARGI BAROOAH (S)
around Easter in Lynchburg VA. ANITA
LUTHRA has switched jobs again, working
for IBM, travelling a lot, enjoying
her kids. Her son & daughter are in college
& her other daughter just got back
after a yr & a half in Thailand & is adjusting
to being back in the States. She
lives in NC & goes to as many WS events
as she can. ANITA SUNDARAM was
very pleased to recover from a torn meniscus
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trips in Jul to MI & Toronto! Wonderful
to see friends & family & escape the heat
& humidity of FL summers. I’m planning
long-overdue trip to India. NATHAN
TAYLOR celebrated his 50th in style
with a surprise Indian theme party. Maya
even managed to bring in a professional
Indian singer who sang him Sheila ki
jiwani among other songs! They have
now finished the house in Lebanon &
stayed there for the 1st time this summer.
N & M also managed a 1 wk cruise of
the Norwegian Fjords, absolutely breathtaking!
BB RANA is in Jakarta, now for
7 yrs working with WHO. I’ve not met
anyone from WS, wonder if anyone is
here in Jakarta? My daughter has finished
HS & will be going to AUS for
college. After that we will be free to
travel & maybe meet some of the classmates
or attend reunions. While waiting
for visas for the UK HUGH KEMP &
Karen were in Christchurch NZ in the
earthquakes of Feb. They now live in
Gloucester UK where he is Head of Missions
at Redcliffe College. Culture shock
plus: Hugh says that it was the British
who taught India about red tape! HUGH
STODDARD at the U NE College of
Medicine is the Asst. Dean for Medical
Educ. He spends most of his time contemplating
how he will be able to afford
college tuition next yr & looking longingly
at planes flying overhead that are
taking other people to wonderful &
fascinating places. The day after his
note, as if on cue to make his life exciting,
Warren Buffett was outside his office
window handing out Dilly bars!
JANE NICHOLLS FOOTE enjoyed the
pictures from our collective 50th birthday.
She works for the NZ Ministry of
Agricul & Forestry as Border Training
& Quality Mgr & when not at work does
yoga & zumba & dreams about working
in Italy. Robin contracts as a sr business
analyst & has just done up 2 vintage
motor bikes & remembers in his dreams
the Tiger Moth flight he went on for his
birthday. Kids x2 both grown, Rebekah
in Toronto coming home at Christmas,
Nicholas going to London. KHOOROSH
KHOSRAVI has been busy with kids
going back to school & getting ready for
winter in VT, thinking to visit WS
maybe in Mar depending on how things
go. He splits his time between VT &
CAN. CAROL DODGSON KLOOSTER
is a hospice social worker serving the
rural counties SW of St. Louis. Alison
(21) is in her final yr at the U Chicago
& Anya (19) in her 2nd yr at the U MO-
Columbia. Now that there are no more
sporting events to attend both she & Dale
use their free time running. Carol ran in
her 1st half marathon in Apr & again in
Nov. Perhaps a marathon is next! BO-
NITA JANZEN works with an agency
that provides residential services for
developmentally disabled adults who
live in community homes; encouraging
staff to understand how to support vulnerable
people make the best choices in
their daily lives. I still live in the heart
of Winnipeg & have enjoyed the co of
son Anand (23), for several mo this yr.
He continues to focus on developing
artistic skills. Anisha (16) entered gr11.
She spends a lot of time with 2 new
miniature horses, one that will foal next
yr. I enjoyed driving to MI with Anisha
to see some of you for our collective
50th birthday celebration. Extended
family here in Winnipeg & Steinbach is
also a regular draw as our clan gathers
for birthdays, graduations & to see off
the older cousins as they launch into
their young adult lives. MERTI DJLAN-
TIK RITTGERS has been busy. Son
Tobie is now in Iraq, I took some classes,
renewed my OT career, went to Belgium
& Holland for a mo as my
Honorary Dad passed away from skin
cancer. But I also got a chance to visit
with DEANNE LEHMAN for a weekend
in Brussels! KIRAN CUNNINGHAM’s
son Kyle is a sr at Wooster & Brian a sr
in HS; she was the one who hosted our
birthday celebration at their cottage the
Pebble, on the shores of Lake MI. We
enjoyed the beach & sun, bonfires, stories,
sailing, paddling, good khanna,
some deadly jungle-rules croquet, not
being connected to any grid excepting
electric, sunsets to die for & stars not
seen since Mussoorie! A good crowd
stayed on to attend Blissfest music festival
nearby complete with Irish-listing
bhangra! JOIE MORRIS DEWOLF ’72
& Dave also joined us at Bliss where we
also met up with DAVID BUNCE ’67.
We had a good crowd at the Pebble,
Kiran, Russ & family, Carol, Dale, Allison
& Anya, Sharon, Steve, Dorien &
Robin. KEVIN SCOTT, Martha & GA-
RETH ’12 sandwiched us between 2
music festivals & a visit to nearby
friends, Anita S, Shobhana. MONUJ
BOSE made time for us after a recent
trip to India, Bonita & Anisha came
down from Winnipeg & JAMES HACK-
NEY was there to make sure everyone
was overfed! I have had a busy WS-addled
yr with a concert visit from STAN
LEHMAN (S) & Kevin, a visit from a
few Canadian friends, an impromptu trip
to Toronto where I connected with ARIF
MAHMUD & family, CARLA REIMER,
HEATHER HILLIARD, SARAH HUNT-
ER ’78, Jane’s daughter Rebekah,
BRIGID WARWICK VAN DER BORGH
’80, NICOLE GARGA O’HARA ’80,
HEIDI FURCHA ’81 & my new brother
CHRIS HALE ’85. The Toronto trip was
followed by a visit from Joie & Dave &
then Chris brought his band Aradhna
down for a concert in the Asheville area;
a short visit from DAPHNE WYSHAM
(ask her about her life-threatening river
rescue & arrest in front of the White
House). A family reunion in Jun followed
by the 50th gathering in Jul.
Throw in some camping & biking & life
is good. Come visit & stay in touch!—
James

1980s
Jottings
Class of 1980
After many yrs it’s great to have news of
JAWAD SHERDIL, who, thanks to Facebook
has reconnected with the class; living in Mission
Viejo CA. JULIA NIEHAUS SOPER
writes that she & Bob haven’t done much
traveling since their trip to India last summer
but they’ve been busy making improvements
to their home in S TX. Julia has moved to
half-time work as a student nurse & reports
that this summer she acted in a movie! DAR
SEAMAN SILLIMAN writes that life as
always is busy & full for her & Tom. We are
milking 6 cows at our little micro-dairy & still
making a living by selling raw, organic milk,
pasture-raised eggs & meat. I just applied
for a food processor’s license (commercial
kitchen) which will allow us to make some
value added products to sell in our store. We
will start out with jam & jelly & things like
zucchini & pumpkin bread & berry muffins.
Our basic rule will be that a main ingredient
has to be from the farm. If that goes well,
we will branch out into other things. I think
cheese is on hold indefinitely as we keep selling
out of milk. Savannah is in MS, loving it
& keeping busy in her spare time riding Olive
& helping out on the farm. She did very well
in her 1st yr in 4-H Club & won an award for
the best Novice rider of the yr for King Co
WA. VINAY MEHRA has opened 2 restaurants
in Delhi, a Subway & a new one named
Kebab Fresh in Jun. He says that, he is now
a restaurateur more than a jeweler. Daughter
JIVIKA ’11 graduated from WS & is now
Fardis Nejad ’80 - Mediterranean diet
80s CLASS REPS
Beth Norford 1980
306 Oak St Apt B
Charlottesville VA 22903-5546
USA
434-973-8627
bnorford@mac.com
Deirdre Straughan 1981
1 Saint Francis Place Apt 2911
San Francisco CA 94107-1350
USA
720-371-4107
deirdre@straughan.com
Karen Fiol-McKerihan 1982
2869 Doncaster Drive
Charleston SC 29414
USA
843-766-7786
ublak@aol.com
Anshuman Magazine 1983
CBRE India, PTI Building GF,
Parliament St
New Delhi 110001
India
+91-11-2332-2769
anshuman.magazine@cbre.com
Sisi Crotty Lance 1984
Tudor Lodge 2A Ashley Rise
Walton-on-Thames KT12 1ND
UK
taina.lance@verizon.net
Robina David Sommers 1985
64354 Limberlost Lane
Goshen IN 46526
USA
574-534-6452
4sommers@frontier.net
Faisal Khan 1986
1425 2nd Avenue
San Mateo, CA 94401-2105
USA
faisalkhan@gmail.com
Avalon Pinto 1987
1/FO-3 Model’s Harmony
Caranzalem - Taleigao
Goa 403 002
India
+ 91 832-2461635
avalon.pinto@gmail.com
Mohana Rao 1988
PO Box 24929 Sharjah
UAE
mrao_online@yahoo.com
Ena Singh Murphy 1989
9219 Briary Lane
Fairfax VA 22031
USA
703-426-5753
EnaMurphy@aol.com
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studying in Switzerland
at the LeRoche School
of Hotel Mngmt, one of
the top 3 such schools
in the world! Son Armaan
completed gr 8 at
WS with a 4.00 GPA,
continuing to add to the
distinction of the Mehra
name. In addition to his
academic achievements,
Armaan has launched
an India club at WS &
spends Sunday afternoons
running math &
L to R: Jonathan, Caleb, niece Noelle, Abby, Michael, Amy and David
Dye at Noelle's graduation in Iowa
English classes for employee
children. From
AMY MCCAULEY DYE: our family is doing
well in spite of financial difficulties due to spend some time with FARDIS NEJAD
this yr! BETH NORFORD was fortunate
to the economic recession. David is looking this summer at his home in gorgeous Volos,
for employment, which might move us away Greece. He is doing well parenting his 3 boys
from our home in San Antonio. I continue to & running a successful real estate business in
homeschool 4, with my oldest to graduate the area. Oldest son SHAYAN ’11 graduated

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Class of 80s second generation – Shayan Nejad and
Jivika Mehra at graduation, 2011
with Vinay’s daughter Jivika. He’s now back
in Greece after a brief stint in Mumbai where
he appeared in a TV commercial doing stunts.
Fardis is planning to host the class for a collective
50th birthday celebration next summer.
If you think you might enjoy swimming in the
Aegean, hanging out in mtn villages on beautiful
Mt Pelios & enjoying multiple glasses of
ouzo, accompanied by delicious Greek food,
then you should keep a close eye on your
email as Fardis finalizes dates for this gathering.
From Greece Beth traveled to S Asia &
writes from Lucknow, India: I spent the past
yr organizing a non-profit corp in the US to
work on improving schools, with a focus on
teacher training. I’ve just finished 5 wks in
Kathmandu at the Rato Bangala School, with
which I’ve been associated with for over 20
yrs. I’m going to be editing a book about
their story, so was busy with that as well as
with teacher training. In India I’m seeking
out potential future projects & will also be in
Mussoorie or about a wk attending celebrations
for the 100th anniversary of WOSA. I
phoned DARAB NAGARWALLA & learned
that he, Naz & Vanalika are planning to attend
a family wedding in Kashmir next summer.
SUDHA KAUL’s son Arjun is another ’11 HS
graduate & has started his 1st yr at UC Berkeley,
where we’re sure he’ll do well. Hoping
to meet some of you in Greece next summer
to catch up in person. See you there!—Beth
Class of ’80: Beth Norford and Fardis Nejad
Class of 1981
Life is busy with our children aged 6, 8,
10, and 12. As TINA FIOL SIMPSON
nears 50 yrs, she understands why most
women have their children much earlier
than she did! SheI still works from
home as a recruiter for Mission to the
World (PCA) where she has been for
22 yrs, counting 2 yrs teaching English
in Japan. Her husband Bo still works
as a commercial real estate appraiser,
where he’s been for 2 decades as well!
We hope that shows stability rather
than that we’re dull! My Dad, BRUCE
FIOL ’56, accepted a new position with
MTW (my employer, as well as his former
employer) as US Director for the
India, Sri Lanka Partnership. He loves being
more involved with India again! It’s been a
busy yr for SARA AHMED. She developed
applied res projects on food and nutritional
security in S Asia, launched a res initiative
on the Indus Basin, visited China and NG and
was at the Stockholm World Water Wk as a
Lead Rapporteur. The Class had a reunion at
Woodstock during the WOSA 100 celebrations.—Contributed
online
Class of 1982
KATHRYN BUCKNER SWANSON’s
family is back Stateside after 3 yrs at WS.
DANIEL (S) pastors a Lutheran church in
New Castle County DE, and she is at a Lutheran
service agency providing emergency
assistance to families. Their 4 kids are close
by. MARSHALL JOHNSON is enjoying
life with 3 kids & recently had a wonderful
beach vacation for a wk, 1st in yrs. Rebecca
is enjoying home schooling the kids through
the Veritas program here in Alpharetta GA,
near Atlanta. Marshall continues in his role
for ADVA.—Contributed online
Class of 1983
KAIRAS MISTRY is back with Marriott Int’l
as a curriculum designer. I left the restaurant/
airline catering business after 4 yrs with a
wealth of knowledge & experience that is
serving me well in my
new position. Still living
in Summit NJ & enjoying
life in general. It has
been a busy yr for AMY
WILSON. My daughter
(8) & son (9) spent the
winter skiing & learning
to skate on their hockey
skates. They think I am
moving up on the cool
scale as I am taking skating
lessons as well, in
hopes of joining an ice
Lunch in Mussoorie:. Imon Ghosh ’82, and Saroj
Kapadia (S)
hockey league. Work as the HR, Ops & Fin
Mgr for my brother KRISHNAN’s ’95 co continues
to keep me going. GURINDER RANA
has retired from both the US.Army & Federal
Civil Service. I have returned to India, living
in Gurgaon, currently professionally engaged
with a US enterprise doing business in India &
the ME, in the delightful post of Program Dir
& Principal Consultant. Behind my success is
my wonderful better half Sonia who works as
a sr consultant at TCS. LISA VERGHESE has
settled in Chennai & life has continued pretty
much in the same vein. If you would like to
know more about my work, see elizabethverghese2.wordpress.com;
always welcome
contributors to the blog. SERENA LAROIA
NGUYEN has been in St Louis MO for 5 yrs.
I decided to stay at home & after a rocky start
am loving every moment. If anyone is coming
my way, please make sure to contact me.
MADHU MALHAN is in the Greatest City
in the World, NYC, working at an ad agency,
Publicis USA & adjusting to an empty nest
with her son a soph at St. Lawrence U. She
was in Delhi last summer, where she was
delighted to reconnect with several alumni
at a lovely lunch hosted by ANSHUMAN
MAGAZINE. STEPHANIE TURCO WIL-
LIAMS, living in Bahrain since 09 & serving
at the US Embassy. Tom & I have 2 wonderful
1st time together at beach for Gerrick, Greydon & Sela Johnson

Class of 82 in Bangkok- Parit Phandcharuneedhi, Philip
Simrose and Yao
& active children Alec (11) & Erin (9). We are
lucky to have a small group of WS grads in
the vicinity from across the generations, including
VINITA SUNDARAM HENRY ’81,
NATHAN TAYLOR ’79, RAHUL KUMAR
ALI ’90, NAUSHER ALI ’90, DANA SMITH
’92 & MAYUKH CHATTERJEE ’89. All are
welcome to visit! VIGYAN RANA has been
8 yrs in Dubai, Mgr Dir of Viacom dxb www.
viacomdxb.com providing wireless solutions.
Eldest son started in U MA Boston. Twins
boy & girl will be off to uni in 2 yrs. Looking
forward to reunion if one is planned. Wendy
& DUSHYANT MANCHANDA & 4 kids are
in sunny Las Vegas as he is busy in consulting
& tech support in the SF Bay Area. MEEN-
AKSHI VARANDANI lives in New York
& recently visited India. She plans to bring
students from Pratt U to India later this yr for
development & sustainability projects. Kylie
& ROB STONE have a busy (& noisy) life
with 5 kids at home from 9 to19, and a business
that doesn’t stop, thanks to the demand
for Australian resources. If you’re heading to
the western side of ‘down-under’, look us up
and say hello! KAREN HUNTER JONES
is an ordained priest & motivational speaker
in England. SHAHRAM SEPAHI lives in
Heidelberg West, AUS. CHAND MEHRA’s
daughter SACHIKA ’11 is in college in LA
this yr, while son continues at WS. VALMIK
MUNDKUR lives in Gurgaon while his 2 sons
continue their tennis training program in Italy.
For myself, I continue to live in New Delhi
with my wife & daughter as my son recently
joined WS in gr 11.—Anshuman
Class of 1984
SAM EBRAHIM works in UK in high tech,
designing/deploying tech to enable agile
workforce. Wife Sarah works as receptionist
at a physio. Adam is 7 & Noah 9. They
just moved into their renovated home closer
to London. PHIL FIOL & Amina are still
in Dehradun with daughters
Ashlyn (6) & Anna (4), where
Phil leads an int’l church/Bible
school. He hopes to meet with
Fenocians during WOSA 100
in Oct. JOE GILLESPIE has
sold a painting after attending an
annual art show for 4 yrs, proving
that perseverance pays off!
PAOLO GUIDOTTI transferred
to Bangkok from HK as Regional
Country Manager Indochina &
Indonesia for VF Corp (apparel).
TONY (SURIND) GULRAJANI
launched a new solar energy
vertical market initiative which
is going well, albeit with lots of
travel. He is looking forward to
Nov holidays in Bombay with Rashmi & son
Avi (3). SUE STONE HAKE deserves the Superwoman
Award: she has raised/is raising 10
children (toddler to 26 yrs), has 3 businesses
(online toy store selling worldwide www.jellybeantoys.co.uk,
a pet caring business with a
daughter & child minding) & still volunteers
as school governor & PTA Chairperson.
Whew! Two daughters got married over the
summer. SAJNI BAMMI KHANNA enjoyed
meeting with many other Delhi-ites like
Anshuman ’83 & KOHLI. KOHLI & Seema
proudly watched son Harit graduate from WS
in May. He was hoping for an invite to the grad
party but it got rained out. Harit is off to uni
while daughter Upsana is in final uni yr, with
Seema keeping home/business fires burning.
SISI LANCE is loving life in England & has
overcommitted herself to volunteer positions
at school & ex-pat women’s club. She &
Nicolas are excited to introduce their 3 kids
to India/WS for WOSA 100 in Oct. ALEX
MANTON is busy juggling his int’l photography
business, raising 2 boys post-divorce &
adding film-making to his resume. In Apr he
& his family had a small memorial service in
Mussoorie for his father, who recently passed
away. Alex has enjoyed visits at his Singapore
home with NILMINI,
MONISHA, ARJUN &
MONICA ROBERTS (S)
& welcomes more visitors.
SHABNAM MERCHANT
& Daniel starred in the
documentary Battle for
Brooklyn - www.battleforbrooklyn.com,
about their
7 yr (ultimately unsuccessful)
battle to prevent their
home from being destroyed
to make way for a sports
arena. CHRIS MEYER
has a new position as hospitalis
(hospital MD) in
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hometown Brattleboro VT. They survived
Hurricane Irene but the town was in nat’l
news for flooding damage. Eldest daughter
just became a teen. JENNY WRAY OLSON
is in the middle of tenure review so has been
putting in long hrs as professor. Son Calvin
is learning to drive. She took daughter Livia
to NYC for her 13th bday & enjoyed meeting
with NARESH, JIGME & MADHU ’83.
ARJUN SARUP took son Ambar for his 1st
trip to London, where they enjoyed museums
& attended a huge airshow. They also
met with MARY, JIGME & Sisi. ANDREW
SHAMRAO & Mahi are doing well & enjoying
parenthood w/ Zareena (4) & Zimraan
(2). NARESH TECKWANI & family had
a fab time visiting Sisi’s family in Surrey
over Easter break. They partook in the Royal
Wedding festivities & enjoyed seeing SAM
EBRAHIM & PUCHKA ’85. Highlight was
attending a football match where son Nikesh
witnessed his beloved Gunners take down his
daddy’s Red Devils.—Sisi
Class of 1985
MANA KHANDVALA is currently working
as an architect in Philadelphia; husband John
keeps his architectural practice in NYC and
travels between the 2 cities. Our son Anav
(2) is a constant source of wonder and joy to
us. If anyone is travelling through the area
please contact me! Heather & AJAY PIL-
LAI have been happily married for 16 yrs &
have been blessed with Joel, Joshua, Josiah
& Jonathan. FARAH KHAN SIDDIQUI and
family celebrated son Ali’s graduation from
high school. CATHY MANN EVANS also
celebrated son Sean’s high school graduation.
PHILIP THURMAN has a HS graduate who
will be a freshman in College. Man, Froggies,
we are getting old. I have been having the time
of my life doing what I love to do and 21 yrs of
marriage to my best friend. Life is awesome!
SUNG HAN KIM and family were stationed
in India last year by a Korean Trading co to
promote and do market res for their products.
Cathy Evans '85 and family celebrating Sean's graduation

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Farah Khan '85 and family at son Ali's high school graduation
He has decided to stay in India with his family!
Congratulations to NIGEL SEQUEIRA
on his ordination as a priest on Jun 29. We
all rejoice with you, Nigel! MIN KI YU and
JAY ROADARMEL live near each other in
Pleasanton CA. Give them a shout if you are
coming to San Francisco. Our family took a
trip to Disney World in May, right after school.
We had a great time! Stay tuned for a 30th
class reunion in Delhi/WS in ’15.—Robina
Class of 1986
PRAVIN AGARWAL is managing the family
bus in Aligarh, India. He is married & has
2 children. JUNAID ALIM has been in Austin
TX for the last 5 yrs. He has 2 girls (12,
7). He was lucky to attend the 25th reunion
in NJ. Also went to WS after a long time &
met with fav teacher, Ms. CHANDER, still
misses WS 25 yrs later. STEPHAN ANDER-
SON is in Stratford ONT, about an hr & a
half from Toronto, married for 8 yrs now.
They have a adopted Sarah (2) & hope to
adopt another child in the near future. Wife
Robina Sommers ’85 and family enjoying Disneyland
Tori works for a MD &
Stephan is an Inventory
Controller at a local family
business. His dad is doing
well-still working & sister
DEB ’89 is married, has
twin boys & owns a few
franchises of Subway Restaurants,
so hit us up for a
sandwich if you are ever in
this neck of the woods!
KATHY BAKER PRO-
KOPCHUK is married &
living in CAN, with husband
& 4 children! RANA
BANERJEE lives & works
as an analyst in London, wife Mita is a
schoolteacher. They have an infant son &
toddler daughter. Rana often gets together
with Jamie & Faisal joins them every time he
can make it across. ANGELA BERNDT
TURCK is married & living in Germany. Her
older son is now a student in gr 11 at WS.
MANOJ BHASIN lives in Long Island NY
& welcomes contact with anyone from WS.
From NZ, PHILIP CAUGHLEY & family
visited Nepal & India this winter, to show our
children some of the places that played important
roles in our family history. Unfortunately,
due to job & school constraints, we
can only go in winter, so our visit to Mussoorie
will be brief & won’t see WS in operation,
but it should still be a real adventure
& learning experience for us all. SAM
CHAMBERLAIN lives in London, working
for Christian Aid. HYUNG MEE CHOI, a
CPA, has a son Calvin. She is married to Joon
Choi & lives in Los Gatos CA. SABIRA
CHOUDHURY BALLAND spent some time
in India last yr & met with SUMANA, ’85.
She is now in the Washington DC
area. ANDREW COVE has a daughter
Michelle (25!), lives in Sydney
AUS with wife & works in IT. He
spends his spare time in his boat,
fishing. ANILA LAL DAMODHAR
is an ophthalmic surgeon & has returned
to Bangalore with husband &
2 young children. MANOJ DHARI-
WAL is a doctor in Minneapolis,
MN. He remembers his WS days
fondly. JAMIE DICKINSON is a
schoolteacher in England, has a son
Max (7) who passed his martial arts
exam recently. LISA FIOL POW-
ERS has been working as a Health
Program Mgr at Peace Corps Mongolia
in Ulan Bataar, Mongolia since
07.. JEREMY FROST is in Los
Angeles, working hard as an immigration
attorney, with their own
law firm, keeping him insanely
busy! SHENA GAMAT was recently in the
Bollywood movie Band, Baja, aur Baraat &
has received wide critical acclaim for her
work in that movie; daughter Aditi is 13.
ANSHU GOEL AGGARWAL has moved to
Dubai from Cyprus, busy raising 2 boys.
CRAIG GINGERICH recently relocated to
Shanghai. He is still keeping up his running
on the Shanghai streets. FRED GOLDSMITH
is a surgeon in Ireland & has a position that
allows him to commute back & forth to Bermuda.
He often posts pictures of beachside
picnics, making all his classmates very jealous.
His son & daughter are enjoying the time
in the Caribbean as much as he & his wife
are. VIJAY GOYAL lives & works in CT &
brought his family to the reunion in Jul.
GURPREET GREWAL is now based in
Zurich. He looks after the commercial insurance
portfolio for a large insurance co.
CHRIS HALE is busy traveling the world
with wife Sara & Aradhna bandmates. Recently,
they released a new album & many
classmates were able to enjoy the videos
shared via facebook. JENNY HANKINS is
a doctor in CAN. She is married, has 2 children.
RAUL HARRI & Marjaana have 3 great
children Riki (18), Esa (16) & Amy (10). Son
Riki graduates from HS this Jun. Time flies…
it seems like only yesterday that we were
graduating! Raul serves as a MS principal at
Int’l School of Qingdao www.isqchina.com.
UBAH HUSSEIN lives in NYC & works in
retail. SHALINI JANDIAL GEORGE is an
attorney & teaches constitutional law at Suffolk
U in Boston. She is married, has 2 children,
both of whom want to be lawyers.
ABBAS JARRAHIAN is an Assist Prof
Pharma at OH Northern Uni. When he is not
busy publishing research papers, Abbas enjoys
working out & eating Indian food. He &
Kathy have 3 children. DAVID JENSEN lives
in San Francisco. He is married & works in
the Office of the City Attorney of San Francisco,
in the area of family law. Dave enjoys
exploring the outdoors & keeping his language
skills honed: he currently speaks 6
languages fluently. WOLFGANG
KALTHOFF lives with wife & 2 children in
Germany, enjoys meeting with WS folks. He
recently finished his MBA and, with the backing
of his former employer SAP launched his
own co - Treasury Intelligence Solutions,
GmbH - which helps manage treasury accounts
efficiently. SONIA KEWALRAMANI
is a doctor in Houston TX & also working
in real estate. She often visits her brother
HEMANT ’89 in CA & enjoys participating
in Gujarati community events in the Houston
area. Besides working, travelin & enjoying
a nephew born in May, FAISAL KHAN flies
his tiny plane & wants to get an amphibious

pilot’s rating to explore the world.
He is a krav maga instructor, does
lots of sports, dabbles in photography
& film & volunteers. Faisal
hopes to visit WS in the near future
with his Japanese girlfriend Keiko.
FAIZA ALI KHAN is managing a
hotel in Long Island & would love
to hear from anyone in the area. She
is married with 2 children. FRAN-
CIS KIWANUKA lives in London
& works in finance. He enjoys meeting
up with other WSers in London,
as well as those passing through.
CHIKA KUMASHIRO WILMS
recently received an award for her
work as a Faculty Advisor at the Int’l
School of Kuala Lampur, Malaysia.
After yrs of living in Dubai, SHALI-
NI KURIEN JOHN relocated to
Bangalore, India, with husband & 2
sons. She is enjoying being back in
India, close to her brother & parents.
JEFF LEHMAN is the ICT Coordinator
at Samworth Enterprise Acad
& lives in Desborough, England. He & wife
ALISON ’87 have their hands full raising
Daniel, Micah & Aradhana. CINDY
LIENERT SMITHIES is a teacher, living in
Christchurch NZ. CHRISTINE MACKEY
now teaches at William Dunbar Public
School, Toronto & coaches the girl’s volleyball
team. She lives in nearby Pickering
with son Keenan. BINDIYA MADAN
KALRA, husband & twin daughters have
moved to Perth AUS, are settling in, enjoying
new digs & intend to explore AUS extensively.
KENNETH MBOIJANA is in Zurich,
Switzerland, with his 3 daughters. His girlfriend
hails from Puerto Rico & US & they
often travel to visit her family in NYC. He
recently took a position with Kraft Foods as
a product mgr in commodity trade - interesting,
has him traveling to Africa a lot. He keeps
visiting Uganda because eventually he wants
to retire back home, so he is looking at different
opportunities there. Kenneth’s mum
passed on in 00. CONCHIE MCCAULEY
HENDERSON lives in La Mirada CA &
enjoys her 3 children, taking them to outdoor
activities made possible by the CA climate.
ROBERT MEYER with wife & 2 boys (10,
8), has just bought a quirky little house situated
in a small apple orchard with a tree for
a staircase. With New England fall at hand,
there is plenty of cider to be made. MUR-
CHANA MOHAPATRA SATPATHY is a HR
consultant & lives in Monroe Township NJ,
with Prasanna & 2 daughters, Latitia & Ankita.
MATUNA MOSTAFA KHANDKER
recently went to the US to help her son settle
into U VT; daughter Paryssa still has a couple
of yrs before going to college. Matuna works
to improve the lot of the indigenous people
of AUS through FAHCSIA, a government
agency. She is in Canberra. SHAHID
MUHITH is married, living in Dhaka. After
a stint working as an architect he moved back
to Bangladesh to become a politician. SAR-
FARAZ NOUSHI got married in’01 & relocated
to PA with her husband. After living in
AUS for a while, they have once again moved
back to the US & are currently in the New
York tri-state area. They have a son. RAM
PADMANABHAN lives in CAN. He is married,
has 2 children & works as an IT consultant.
MAMATA PANDAY is an auditor for
the State of CA, living in Orange County with
her husband, an architect. They have twin
sons. GAYATRI PATNAIK is an exec editor
at Beacon Press in Boston & lives in Arlington
MA with partner Chris. ANUJ PURI is a
professor at U CA Berkeley. His wife is a
psychologist & life coach. SHAWNEE
ROSIN lives in Santiago, Chile, working with
the indigenous people on a variety of social
projects. MATTHEW RUDOLPH lives in N
CA & is a visiting prof at Georgetown U. His
girlfriend Vasundhara is from India & studies
Poli Sci at U CA, Berkeley. ANJALI TAN-
DON RUSSANO & Pete, recently relocated
to Naples FL. They are looking forward to
the completion of their home, which they
designed with their 3 daughters in mind!
Anjali works as a Physician Asst, while Pete
is a biotech executive. During the reunion,
Anjali’s reminiscences of her WS days were
hilarious, especially when Pete added his own
take to the stories he had been hearing over
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Class of 86 in NJ - LtoR - Josh Sherer, Bobby Singh, Vijay Goyal, Junaid Alim, Anshu Aggarwal, Chris
Hale, Anjali Russano, Faisal Khan, Murchana Satpathy, Mandhir Sawhney, Sim Kellner, Manoj Bhasin
the yrs—it was as if Pete had attended WS as
well! SUNIL SAINI is a doctor in Uplands
CA. His wife is also a doctor. MANDHIR
SAWHNEY manages a hotel in London,
which recently won an award for being very
green. He is married & has a son & daughter.
JOSH SHERER lives in Greenwich Village
NYC, working as a prod mgr for various
shows, has daughter Serena (12). Josh was
responsible for the set design of the Vagina
Monologues as well as various other offbroadway
shows & numerous music concerts,
including some big-name performances in
Central Park. BOBBY SINGH is married, has
2 children & lives in Toronto. He works in
finance. SHARON NORRISH TIMOTHY is
married, has 2 children & is a nurse. DEVA-
NAND VASWANI works as an architect in
Dubai, UAE. AMBAREEN WALI
BENISCHE is married, living in Falls Church
VA, with husband & 2 daughters. She works
for the US government as a security contractor.
SIM KIM KELLNER is married & living
in Minneapolis MN. She works as a business
consultant & enjoys spending free time traveling
& being active in the Twin Cities arts
scene. Sim reminded everyone of numerous
escapades from our times at WS at our Jul
reunion. HUI KYONG YU-KIM’s daughters
are 15 & 12. Her husband is still a pastor in
Los Angeles & they live in Pasadena CA.
SANJANA SAWHNEY BEDI writes: I live
in Dusseldorf Germany since 1992. Got 2
kids, my daughter is 15 and son is 11. They
both go to German school. I am not working
and my husband is in real estate. I visit India
every summer.—Faisal

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Jason Steadwell's '87 wedding in Mexico
Class of 1987
LORRIE DOMAN-SHEYDAYI & family
are doing well. I had a great time at the
WOSA/NA reunion in Ft Collins! Next
yr in Seattle, Jul 20-22, we’ll host one of
CHAOS’s 25th reunions. Can’t wait to
see everybody! Mark your calendars &
buy your tickets!! MERRYN GLOVER
APPLEBY & the family are taking a 7
mo sabbatical travelling around the world,
to return home in Apr; she participated
at the Writers’ Conference held at WS in
Sep & conducted several workshops with
Anna, Susanna '87 and Matthew Hurley
students. SUSANNA TAYLOR HURLEY
was thrilled to be able to take her 2 college
age kids to India for 2 wks last summer!
It was great to see everything after 14 yrs,
also good to still see some familiar faces at
WS! Since Feb AVALON PINTO has been
transferred back to Oman working in the
interiors. Linette & Savannah continue to
live in Goa, where Savannah attends gr 2. I
go home every alternate mo to be with them.
MARCUS SHAW moved back to WS in Jul
to work with the Alumni & Developm’t Office.
It has been an incredible experience for
our whole family! Please come
visit! BONZI CROTTY moved
to Chapel Hill NC summer 10
& LOVES it! Jill working for
GSK & I am CEO of our home.
Declan started KG & loves it.
We can walk/ride/scoot, or drive
to school. The twins are still
happy balls of fire, in school 3x
a week. Love my life. TARUN
CACHRA is still living in NJ &
working in NYC. My elder son
has just started HS (yep we are
getting old), had an opportunity
to attend the class of ’86 reunion
in Jul which turned into a class
of the ’80’s reunion. Got to see
a lot of familiar faces from the
past, although MANOJ AG-
GARWAL, VIJAY KANCH &
I were the only ones from the
Class of 87. Sheba & ANDI
EICHER are completing 10 yrs
of HIV/AIDS care work in the
Mumbai/Thane area. Asha (10)
& Enoch (8) are blossoming -
Asha loves the violin & Enoch
sings & plays the keyboard. Come & visit us
in Thane! We blog at: andi-sheba.blogspot.
com. ANAND SINHA, Ratna & their 30
mo old daughter have decided to unsettle
and move from Gurgaon to Patna. He has
recently accepted a position with the Gates
Fdn to lead their health systems project in
Bihar.—Contributed online
Class of 1988
ANDY MALHAN is in Delhi, running a
graphic design & visual communication studio.
Last yr I did a photography course with
the legendary OP Sharma & it has breathed
fresh life into my work - I’m doing much
more photography than before. I just got
back from a shoot on the outskirts of Karnal
where I spent the day wading through rice
paddies & kneeling in muddy water to get
the right shot, all the while worried that I’d
slip & wreck my camera! I’m thoroughly
enjoying this - it’s reconnecting me with the
2 things I am most passionate about: people
& nature. RAJESH PANDAY, wife Yuko
& cocker spaniel Coco are trying to live a
tranquil life away from the hustle & bustle of
the world’s fashion capital, in a small town
called Abbiategrasso, 20 km from Milan.
We moved into a wonderful apt in a recently
restored 14th century convent (now apartments
only) with frescoes on the outer walls
& an ancient Italian portico. I run a small
communications consultancy that tries to put
responsibility & accountability back into the
sordid business of marketing & PR. ERIC
NORD & wife Andrea continue working at
Penn State U as researchers in plant ecology.
Son Joel (11) is into making music & fencing
& daughter Emma (8) enjoys dancing &
cooking. They are looking for college biology
teaching jobs. MOHANA RAO is in the
UAE, running Ideal Management Essential,
a Business & Marketing consultancy since
06. Started a bespoke & prêt-à-porter jewelry
line in 07; launched the new collection
from MOHANA - La Primavera online now.
SONAM CHODEN DORJI writes, paints &
travels,. Has 3 kids.Tenzin Wangchuk (18)
& daughters Drayang (10) & Tsherim (4).
We live in Thimphu, Bhutan, working with
husband, businessman Wangdi Jamyang; we
are in the process of inaugurating Bhutan’s
first pharmaceutical co & have established
a bio-research wing where many new & interesting
insect/plant fungi are being studied
for further development - cure for cancer?
MANISH ACHARYA lives in McKinney TX
with wife Pragya & 2 kids (Ahan & Zoya) &
Chase (9 mo yellow lab) & works for Essilor
of America in business developm’t. ROHINI
DATTA has been in Mumbai since graduation.
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Declan 5 Henry & Elliot 3. Emerald Isle 2011
from here & went on to join the Media industry.
I was last with Channel V India for 4 yrs
handing production & have been with The
Walt Disney Co India Pvt. Ltd. since 04, 7 yrs
now. REENA DATTA SABLOK is married
& settled in Delhi with 3 daughters (18) (13)
& (3). In her spare time she still manages to
play her sitar! PHILIP BRETSKY is a happy
husband & dad with 3 wonderful kids, Kira
(6) Nicholas (4) & Sabine (1). We settled in
Santa Monica CA where I have an Internal
Medicine practice. While living in Los Angeles
has its challenges (earthquakes, traffic
& celebrity trials) the beaches & wonderful
weather more than make up for it. BARB(ie)
BURGER just finished Command General
Staff College (professional mid-level military
edu) and has started a Fellowship with
the Dept of Homeland Security in Washington
DC. Next Sep she will be reunited with
her currently deployed husband. KETAKI
BHATTACHARYYA’s sons, Zach & Noah
are 15 & 10. Happily, husband Josh has
passed the one yr mark free from any sign
of melanoma. I recently became a certified
hypnotherapist & am teaching hypnobirthing
classes. YASMIN, now YASMIN PATEL
HARRISON, was married on Jun 12 in
Toronto & celebrated with many of her WS
friends. YUKA MAKINO has been posted by
the World Bank to Dhaka, Bangladesh since
Dec 10 for a period of 3 yrs. It is great to already
have friends here, SO YOUNG PARK,
INA CHAUDHURY ISLAM, NAVEEDA
AHMAND KHAN & ZAFAR SOBHAN!
Emily Saunders has 2 kids who have started
school, Henry off to KG & Julia preschool.
So far so good - touch wood! I’m using the
free mornings to do some part time language
teaching. I work with a non-profit co in PA
(we’re in WA) that offers online language instruction
to PA public school
kids. So 3 days/wk I get up
at 4:50am, throw on some
clothes & wander down the
40 ft of hallway to my office
(Shortest. Commute. Ever.)
where I don headsets & mic
& class begins (time difference
means their 1st period
class is 5:10am for me). I
teach 2 classes before 7am &
then kids go off to school &
I return home to teach a 3rd
section of Russian 1A. I’m
looooving it! I get to work
in a field that I love & be a
stay-at-home mom! I recently
got an email about the 12
WOSA reunion, to be held in
Seattle- yay! It’d be very cool
if anyone wants to make that
one. I can provide free digs in our humble
guest room (albeit we’re about an hr away
in Olympia, but still...) Anyway, something
to look forward to!—Mohanna
Class of 1989
ENA SINGH MURPHY lives in Fairfax VA
right outside of Washington DC. She works
as a Corporate Paralegal for a government
contractor. I have 2 kids: Eian (6) in 1st gr
and Vikram (1). KAZI ZEESHAN HASAN
is very busy living with wife and 2 kids (3
and 5) in Dhaka. Recently he started a small
software co focusing on open-source Enterprise
Resource Planning (ERP software).
KAZI ZAHIN HASAN’s animation studio
Toon Bangla completed its 1st short film
Cybele McKague '89 in Sydney
Murgi Keno Mutant (Attack of the Killer
Mutant Chickens) that will be shown at the
Atlanta Underground Film Festival and the
Philadelphia Film & Animation Festival!
BALGOVIND PANDE lives in Montreal.
He has 2 kids, enjoys work and family life.
CYBELE MCKAGUE has been travelling
about and so far has been to London, Dusseldorf,
Honolulu, Seattle, Orlando (to go to
Harry Potter world) and Sydney AUS for a 2
day visit! Off to Europe in a mo and off to see
RAE-LYNN! RAE-LYNN STEADWELL
lives in Mississauga ON. We had a relatively
quiet year, began the year at my brother JA-
SON’s ’87 wedding in Mexico with my niece
and nephew attending, and a wonderful vacation
for our family and friends celebrating the
occasion. ANITA DE PREE currently lives in
Dubai with husband, Alan, 3 daughters, and
2 dogs!—Contributed online
Woodstock at Yasmin’s wedding: Gurbeen Bhasin ’88, Aditi Mayadas ’90, Chris Mackey ’86,
Promila McMullen-Ghuman ’88, Yasmin Patel Harrison ’88, Jitanjli Datt ’91.

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1990s
Jottings
Class of 1990
MONICA FLORES DE SCHMIDT & Kurt live
in N Mexico with their kids Klaus (12) Nina (10)
& Zara (5). Klaus is planning to attend WS for
his jr yr which is not that far away. SIMRAN
SINGH MALHOTRA & family recently moved
from New York to London & everyone seems
to like the change. She is enjoying motherhood
with Armaan (5) & Amaya (3). Simran continues
to work as an independent graphic designer &
looks forward to any WS reunions in the area.
GAURAV SURI & family, including kids Sophia
(14) Emma (9) & Dominic (7) have moved
to Pondicherry. He is the GM for The Promenade
hotels. SUSAN COPP ANDERBERG still has
the same address until the beginning of the yr
when their house will finally be ready! Congrats
for holding class record on baby no 4 in Dec.
Very busy with the 3 they have, Olivia (4) Elvira
(3) & Klara (1)! Enjoying life as a busy mom
& with healthy & happy family. EVA KOZAK
SCHAWOHL returned to Switzerland in Feb
due to change in Indian visa rules that cut short
her visit to Ahmedabad with partner Dave. She
is concentrating on setting up a tourist info site
for Interlaken & looking for work. Son Oliver
(19) finished his apprenticeship with flying
colours, started a new job in Aug before going
to the army & daughter Magdalena (17) is very
active in scouts & leads kids between the ages of
9 & 11. She left school & found an apprenticeship
as a landscape gardener: in 3 yrs she’ll be
qualified. KERRIE DODGE VAN WOERDEN
& family have had a very shaky yr since Sep
10 in Christchurch. They have had over 7000
aftershocks since the big earthquake of 7.2
magnitude. Life has been rather disruptive for
the children’s schooling & they have lived with
a constant fear of when the next big one will be.
It has tested faith to trust in the Lord but he has
been faithful. While they all feel emotionally
exhausted, they can see the light at the end of
the tunnel. David works in his confectionery pkg
business; she continues to work with Leadership
network & has completed hosting a 3 day pastors’
conference. They caught up with JEFF &
RUTH AUTY (S) on one of their home visits.
After 11 yrs in NYC, CHRIS GREEN continues
his creative work with the design collective
Chris Green Kinetics. More importantly, he
married Erin in Aug in BC. Best wishes from
us. From Delhi, ASHOK MITTAL is working
hard to turn his dental clinic venture into a
multi chain network. SANTOSH DEVADAS
(goalchi) is enjoying a busy life working in IT
in Bangalore. RAHUL KUMAR ALI married
Zareena in a grand & stylish wedding amidst
the wild Bandhavgarh Tiger Reserve in Madhya
Pradesh; it was amazing to see the number of
friends who took the time to travel & be part of
the celebrations, put together with great support
by brother SALIL KUMAR ALI ’83. They had
booked 2 resorts & we had a fantastic time. Attending
were VIKAS, ASHOK, RONOJOY &
JAI. VIKAS GOYAL is working hard to develop
his new business venture of garden, landscape
& outdoor living products in India, with great
support form wife Shilpi & kids Purvi (14) &
Samarth(12)—Vikas & Simran
Class of 1991
WERAPUN LIMSETTOE lives in Thailand.
Our son Jun (6) has entered gr 1 in a good day
school in Bangkok, daughter June (2) is a little
rebel, just like me. Otherwise, life is great. NEE-
At Rahul Kumar Ali’s wedding- Jai Xavier, Vikas Goyal, Rahul, Zareena, Ronojoy Chatterji, Sajili, Salil Kumar
Ali ’83, Shilpi, Ashok Mittal
Simran Malhotra '90 and children Armaan and
Amaya
TA PATEL CRAWFORD lived in CO for almost
3 yrs, the best part was living close to NESA.
However, after the birth of our son, Dylan, we
decided to move back closer to family. So in Mar
we returned to our old home. I was fortunate to
keep my job with McKesson, now work out
of my home. I run the marketing communications
for a div, but also took on a product role.
So between having a baby, the move & work,
life is busy & good! Also keeping running, did
a few races & trained for a half in Oct & Jan.
CHIHO MAKINO was discharged from the
hospital after a stay for 2 wks for meningitis.
The Makino-Geier family moved to Singapore
early Sep, she is working for Citibank.
MONI BANERJEE BRISSON &
Jean-Marc were delighted to welcome
a Neil Banerjee Brisson, on Sep 29 10.
The darling baby is perfect (except for
the fact that he doesn’t sleep at night!)
& mommy & papa are totally in love
with him. Moni is enjoying staying at
home, watching Neil reach his milestones.
For the time being, they are
living in the Washington DC region.
They would have loved to attend the
reunion, but logistically it will end up
being too difficult with a baby. The
update from KATE WOOD RICHER
in Ottawa CAN is that I had my 3rd
baby in the fall & for that reason can’t
join you all at the reunion. My girls (3)
& (5) are getting so big! I’ll be taking
another yr or 2 off & then will be back
to work as a lawyer with CAN’s Dept
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on staff. Monica’s daughter ARADHANA ’10
showed Ajay & me around the school. She was
a great source of information & really friendly.
Thought it was hilarious that the kids who are
graduating now hadn’t even been born when
we graduated! ALKA WALTER-KUPPACHI
has lived in Charleston SC for the 3 yrs & has
now moved to Iowa City IA. Husband Sarat will
join the faculty of transplant nephrology & I will
attempt to get back into residency. Aaarrrgh. It
is an uphill task having to start all over again
& when I get in, I WILL be the grandma of the
class! Unfortunately, there is no choice! My
Indian degrees or work experience are of no
worth here. Tanvi is a gr 1 with attitude, Anika
(2) a happy personality who tries to keep up
with her older sister. Don’t know if any of you
will be in Iowa or close to it. I know Sumi ’91
& Devi ’91 went to college there so will check
with them. As the year winds to a close we have
had the opportunity to speak with, meet with &
remember times that have gone by. The Class
of 91 organized their 20-yr reunion during the
Oct celebrations of WOSA’s 100 yrs. To all of us
that were there thank you for making the effort
& to those that were not I hope that the pictures
speak at least some of the thousand words they
represent.—Palden
Alka Walter '91, with Tanvi and Anika
US for a study course. The interesting news is
that SMITA JHA has moved to Delhi & I have
met her a couple of times & RAJEE ARYAL
was also in Delhi, regarding medical care of her
mother who underwent a knee operation recently
& the three of us got together. Rajee & I last met
on graduation day in WS, way back then & I
suspect it had been equally long for Smita & her.
It was wonderful catching up after so long; we
did speak about a mini -reunion in USA for all
those who are there & in touch. We will keep you
posted! NANDITA ’91, RAJEE ’91 & SMITA
JHA spent a few hours together in Delhi before
Nandita flew out to the States & Rajee left too.
I hadn’t seen Rajee in 20 yrs. And maybe I need
glasses, but everyone looked the same! I went
up to Mussoorie in May & had a great time. Met
ABHRA B ’92 & MONICA ROBERTS, both
Moni Banerjee '91with Neil
90s CLASS REPS
Vikas Goyal 1990
Moti Vilas
D - 121 , Sector - 36
Noida UP 281 303
India
vikas@kamleshoverseas.com
Simran Singh Malhotra 1990
13 Eton Ave, Flat 4
Belsize Park
London, NW3 3EL
United Kingdom
simransingh11@hotmail.com
718-275-9612
Palden Tshering 1991
Chhundu Enterprises
PO Box 131
Phuentsholing
Bhutan
palden_t@yahoo.com
Sonia Virik 1992
391 Ashoka Colony
Randhir Lane
Karnal HR 132 001
India
soniavirik@hotmail.com
+91-184 2253392
Anil McMullen 1993
14 Wellwood St
Richmond Hill ON L4S 0C4
Canada
anilmcmullen@hotmail.com
Sarah Doebler 1994
24 Forestdale Rd
Minneapolis MN 55410-2546
USA
sarahdoebler@yahoo.com
612-929-0272
Saumitra Jha 1995
144 Valley St
San Francisco CA 94131-2419
USA
jha_saumitra@gsb.stanford.edu
Elton Rohrer 1996
1504 Welldow Ln
Fullerton CA 92831-2221
USA
forzaviola96@hotmail.com
Anindita Ghosh John 1997
E4 1:3, Nerul Sea View CHS,
Sector 6, Nerul, Navi Mumbai
Mumbai MH 400 706
India
anindita.john@gmail.com
+91 22 26403179
Sangeeta Kumar Ghugloth 1998
sangeetaangelakumar@gmail.com
Sakshi Singh 1999
6501 Liberty Ave Apt F1
North Bergen NJ 07047-3392
USA
singhsakshi@hotmail.com

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Class of 1992
The class has been busy planning our 20th yr
reunion these past few mos. Discussions have
been ongoing, largely on Facebook, so those
of you not on, please join. This yr has seen a
number of additions to our ’92 family, with the
wonderful welcome of a few lovely babies. We
have also had a few weddings & some scheduled
to take place this yr. LALI, MAYA R & SID also
visited India. ABHRA BHATTACHARJEE &
MAYA DUTT are working at WS. Abhra’s boys
are in school, Farhan in gr 3 has started piano
lessons & Armaan thinks his gr 1 teacher is cool!
But news for the jottings has been scarce & slow
since this time I could not bully the class into
giving me news, so I regret to say this yr our jottings
will be short. The news that surprised us all
is that ASHISH SETHI got married this Christmas!
He’s still in Sydney, but the wedding took
place in Delhi. So here’s what came in as news.
VINEETA WADHWA is back in Bombay, loves
being here, the chaos is strangely addictive. I’m
working on a TV Show & a website for custom
made clothes, so that’s been keeping me busy.
I was able to see KAPIL, ASHIMA NARAIN,
RUCHI ’91, Ashima’s sister & APOORVA
SHRIVASTAVA ’91. Fun mini-reunion! The
class reunion sounds like sooooo much fun!!
I hope I’ll still be in India next summer, don’t
know just yet. MOA YADEN can’t make it for
the WOSA 100. I have a big concert coming up,
playing for an int’l American blues/jazz artist
in Dimapur, have been slogging it out practicing.:
In Jul, PRIYA SATOW & Richard had a
baby girl, Kiran Emmanuelle Crothers. We are
enjoying being new parents & adjusting to life
in Bujumbura, Burundi, after spending some
time in the US for the birth. Rich continues to
work as head of IRC Burundi & Rwanda, while
I am a full-time mum for a while. Also, en route
to the US for the delivery, we met with LALI
SWART at Schiphol Airport, which was great
fun! EMILY KAIGA: got married last yr & now
a new mum. Her daughter was born Jul. 13, still
living in Nairobi, Kenya. BINOD GURUNG
met FRANCIS THIAK ’93 briefly on the street
a few mos back. We were going to go out for a
drink before he left but we never got round to
it. He was here in Hong Kong for a bit. SID-
DHARTHA TULADHAR was just in Delhi,
met for lunch with RAHUL, ISHAN, DEVIKA
& APOORVA. MAYA RAO NAKHDJAVANI
was in Delhi! I have been very busy, studying
in a global MBA program. It’s a long shot but
JAMES DUCE could be in Sri Lanka next summer
probably Aug some time. I guess I want
an excuse to come up to Mussoorie, it’s been a
very long time & I would love to come back.
I am married to my lovely wife Victoria & we
have 2 amazing girls, India & Xanthe. We still
live in Scotland. HELEN GODON TREMEN-
HEERE still works the same as before, Jessica
now 9 & Joshua 7. Chris has a new job with
VW. SANGEETA KARLE -GITE & family,
husband Abhijeet, Maya (6) & Varun (4) still live
in Houston TX. I keep busy with kids, school
& indoor activities in the Houston summer heat
& outdoor fun in our milder winters. All is well
and, I am very happy. I am working in Oil & Gas
in our family business. I like the work as well the
flexibility. MALINI ANAND NIJAGAL is still
living in San Francisco CA with husband & 2
children. I still work in Marin but now for Marin
Community Clinics providing OB/GYN care to
the County’s uninsured women. I am hoping to
attend the class’s 20th yr reunion in 12! KAPIL
GUPTA got transferred to Bombay earlier this
yr & we (wife & 2 sons) have settled in nicely.
I am planning to attend the WOSA 100 along
with my elder son Karan & looking forward to
our 20th reunion next yr! As for me, not much
has changed. Hubby has left his job & is chilling
at home with Harshan (8) & me. We will be
attending WOSA 100 & am looking forward to
meeting Kapil, Abhra & Maya D. We will take
that opportunity to throw around some ideas
for our class reunion. We hope to fix the dates
soon. Please inform me of any change of contact
information & try your level best to come for
the reunion.—Sonia
Class of 1993
Another yr has flown by & before we know it,
the Class of 93 will be planning its 20th reunion!
Hope there will be many classmates who will
have good suggestions &/or ideas for it! JOASH
& BECCA are happily exhausted with 3 children.
Benjamin (started KG this fall), Olivia
(4) & Zachary (2). Becca enjoys bird watching,
while Joash practices on his electrical guitar!
Becca continues to work at the Helen DeVos
Children’s Hosp and Joash is keeping busy with
a full pediatric practice. ANDY & Sonya are in
Baku running their language business which is in
its 3rd yr. Charis is in gr 6, Micah gr 4 & Joel gr
1. The others, Eden, Gabriel & Gideon, are still
at home. They now have 6 kids after adopting
2 nephews from Sonya’s side of the family. His
parents are still at WS & will come to visit the
family during the winter. JON & family enjoyed
being back in the States for most of 09, spending
time with family & friends, before returning to
Chiang Mai, Thailand. Their kids are all doing
well. Sean (7) is really enjoying gr 2 at Grace
Int’l School, Anna (5) could not be happier in
Montessori & Ellie (2) is at home being as cute
as ever! Jon is also learning the Thai language &
like Joash is getting back into playing the guitar.
GAURAV works as an emergency physician
in Indianapolis. He is also in graduate school
working on an MBA. The family had a great
trip to Yellowstone, Grand Teton & Glacier Nat’l
Parks. Daughters Anya, Ava & Asha are now 5,
7 & 8 .DIA & family have had a busy yr with
husband Mike starting as a pilot for Southwest
Airlines & Dia taking over the local MOMS
Club. Son Krishan has started KG & daughter
Rohini preschool, quite the handful, but always
the life of the party! Dia had a chance to get together
with JOY, SUJOY & KARUNA in Delhi
last Jan, where Joy made a phenomenal meal for
them all. Dia’s kids loved Joy’s cooking & overall
it was a great mini reunion! TATT or TODD,
is living in Hong Kong with Anu & son, Ashwin
(3). The family relocated from London in Nov
10 & is settling into a new way of life in Asia.
Tatt works for Wells Fargo, Anu is a homemaker
& Ashwin is taking Chinese language as well as
soccer classes for toddlers! During Jun - Jul, Tatt
met NAVEEN & SEKHAR in NYC as well as
YOSHIA in Tokyo. SASHI & Asavri has been
living in NYC since Aug 10 where they both
work at Mt Sinai Medical Center. Sashi has
been promoted as an Instructor & continues to
do cancer drug discovery research. They live in
Queens & have found a wonderful South Asian
(Indian & Pakistani) congregation to worship
with. They are planning a mo long vacation to
England, Ireland (where they will be with the
Bartons) & India. AMOL & wife Rupal moved
to Dallas TX in Oct ’10, followed by the birth
of son Avi in Dec Congratulations! It was great
to hear from SHARIKA after many yrs! She
lives in Mumbai with husband & kids Ronin
(3) & Ryan (2). Her husband has just signed a
movie with director Anurag Kashyap & Sharika
is writing a book, almost halfway through! We
may have our 2nd class author, after Omair!
OMAIR is continuing to work with the Friedrich
Naumann Fdn out of their Delhi offices,
handling their conflict resolution/human rights
programmes for S Asia (Tibet & Kashmir). His
new novel, Jimmy the Terrorist, was published
last yr by Hamish Hamilton/Penguin India &
was the joint winner of the Vodafone Crossword
Award this yr, probably India’s best lit award!
It was also long-listed for the DSC Lit Prize for
South Asian Lit. Congratulations to Omair also
for his marriage to Sabah Hamid. SEKHAR &
Fatima are doing well. Their son Sebastian Jai
keeps them quite busy & highly entertained!
Sekhar works as a Dir in a boutique mngmt
consulting firm based in NYC. SRIKAR & Aditi
got married in May & had a great honeymoon
in Greece! The few months since the wedding
have been quite busy with family get-togethers
& house hunting. They are planning another
trip to India & hoping to catch up with a few
classmates! PHIL writes that he is married to
Cecilia with a 9 mo old baby boy, Hugo, who
loves his food & sleep! Having spent last yr in
Cambridge UK, where Cecilia did her Masters
& Phil practised law, they have just bought a
house in the northern part of Melbourne, which
backs on to a pleasant little stream. Phil continues
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to hear from WSkers in Melbourne! ABRA lives
in Seattle with husband Chris & son Adam (2).
She works at PATH, a global health nonprofit,
in the area of maternal/neonatal health tech. She
looked forward to traveling to Nepal for work
last Sep. MARIE & family moved to Sri Lanka
at the end of the yr & her boys Noah (9) & Kamille
(6) have adjusted very well to their new
school & life & have already made close friends.
She & husband Thomas are continuing their
projects in the Maldives & move back & forth
when required. They recently acquired an island
from the governm’t to carry out aquaculture
activities & train youth in this field. The coral
frame project they are working on is doing great
& you can view it on www.reefscapers.com. Marie
is still involved in the mngmt of sharks in the
Maldives. She has managed to work alongside
other conservationists to implement the largest
shark sanctuary in the world. She travelled to the
US for a shark meeting in Jun & was very happy
to meet AVINASH after 18 yrs! VARSHA &
family live in BC, CAN. Husband Sanjeet works
in Richmond at the Hilton. Daughter Mehr is 2
& son Veer 6. Varsha works with the Ministry
of Children & Family Developm’t. She is planning
a trip to India. INNI had a busy yr at work,
attended a couple of interesting conferences,
Pacific Environmental Security Conf held in
Honolulu in Mar & the 2nd S Asian Maritime
Security Conference held in Colombo, Sri Lanka
in Jul. Her kids are keeping them busy! Zayan
is in gr 4 & Zaba in gr 1. ANNA works for a
financial co, State Street Corp in Fitchburg, MA.
supporting an online cash mngmt system. She
& her husband have daughter Nassra (8) & her
husband’s nephew Ikuji (5) also lives with them;
they are the constant joy of their lives! PORUS
& family are keeping well & he keeps busy in
growing their hospitality business in Mumbai.
Over the summer, they had a nice family holiday
in France, including Euro Disney. They also
had a brief stay in Mussoorie; he visited WS &
met AMY, MISS CHANDER & MR MARK.
MACHUT writes that the Shishaks arrived
safely in Rangoon, Burma on Jul 29, together
with their 11-mo Rhodesian Ridgeback pupp &
are slowly settling in. He is the Economic/Commercial
Officer at the US Embass & Liina is
consulting with the social marketing healthcare
NGO Population Services Int’l. They expect to
be there for 3 yrs. JOHANNES started in Jun
as a support engineer with the German software
giant SAP in Galway, Ireland. They service the
new Cloud Tech of SAP in his dept. ANJALLEE
married Harinder Hallan on Jul 23. What was
to be planning for an engagement, turned out to
be an exciting & busy wedding! She works at
the CIBC Bank. JOY & family live in Gurgaon.
Son Nathan is in gr 2 & Rachel started school
this yr, so Joy is enjoying some time to herself!
She also enjoyed the mini-reunion with DIA,
KARUNA & SUJOY. Her
Nathan & Dia’s Krishan
played very well together!
Life is good at my end: just
celebrated 9 yrs of marriage
with Kajal. Son Akash (7)
started gr 2 & keeps us busy
with school, swimming,
karate, soccer, ice-skating
& more. We had a nice trip
to various cities & towns in
Quebec during the summer.
Well that about wraps it up
from my end! Hope to hear
from many more of you next
yr!—Anil
Class of 1994
The Class of 94 has been
busy expanding its family
with offspring this past yr,
working hard at home & on
careers with too many wonderful
projects too count.
You can tell which stage of
life we are in. EKATERINA
WITJES-SAOUNINA & Endrik are in Belgium,
close to Antwerp, 2 adorable sons, Illian-Nikita
(5) & Victor-Alexei (2). KATE is still running
her children’s goods wholesale bus, but plans on
taking a break from work for a couple of yrs to
spend more time with the kids, travel & organize
their wedding party. Vimala Aldis CRISPIN
lives in Bangkok with journalist husband Shawn
& sons Dylan (7) & Shay (3) who love superheroes.
She is with Child Frontiers, working
to improve the care & protection of children.
RAHUL GANDOTRA’s film is nearing the
end of its festival life & has gotten into the 1st
round of the Oscars, maybe making it to the final
ten. He is also preparing his 1st feature, which
is an expansion of the short, aiming to shoot
around Oct 12. RINGAE NUEK & husband
are in London & have spent the past few mos
working on some iPhone & iPad apps. With son
Odysseus (2.5) & new baby girl in Sep, Ringae
will be taking the next few mos off to look after
both of them.SUNAYANA JHALANI DYER in
Boston MA had some visitors: Erik Geissal &
wife Katie, then Sacha Bouter & Martin & will
meet up with KIM PAES soon. SUNAYANA
works at Wellesley College going on 4 yrs,
managing & planning events. Her children
Annika (6) is in gr 1 & Kai (2) is in preschool/
daycare at Mass General Hosp where husband
Teague works. Celebrating their 8 yr anniversary
this mo. JIGME TSERING made a switch after
10+ yrs in the govt, to the corp world. Wife Tashi
has finished her MA in AUS & son Tsheyang is
happy have the family together again. PENNY
MULDOON PORTER in Melbourne is still a
private speech pathologist with 2 kids! Isobel,
Kurt '94 and Amy Asher and family
the older started school this yr, exciting at 1st but
very old hat now! ERIK GEISSAL & Katie are
expecting a baby in late Feb. Erik enjoys being
a primary care doctor & loves Portland, with
their small home farm & brewing beer as well.
SACHA BOUTER & Martin are in Washington
DC, but leaving in the Fall & heading to Islamabad,
PAK. She met with MACHUT SHISHAK
’93 & VAMSEE KANCHI ’93 & families in
DC. FARAHANAZ POLLARD WASSON has
moved to Mumbai for the next 3 yrs with Jay’s
work. Zavin & Zaira love their new school &
they are looking forward to a trip to Mussoorie.
MANAV KOHLI just hit a milestone of 10 yrs of
marriage! Daughter Anaiya (5) started going to
school & son Ayaan (3) is in play school. KURT
ASHER has been happily married to Amy since
00. We have 5 beautiful children; Hannah,
Abigail, Isaac, Joanna and Lydia. We currently
live in Newton KS. I have been working as the
Office Manager of our family business since 05.
ARJUN BHALLA is living in London, working
as Web Developm’t Team Leader for asos.com.
He will be celebrating 5 yrs of married life with
Joti in Feb! Since his promotion & move to the
Legal Aid head office, JAY CADIRAMEN has
also moved now lives in Brisbane, loving inner
city living. He’s now a registered Family Dispute
Resolution Practitioner too, assisting separating
families with disputes. SALLY AHN MOON
lives in Washington DC metro area with a very
active a girl (3), a boy (1) and a husband of 10
yrs! The kids are keeping us really busy. I work
as an IT consultant mainly working for federal
gov. SARAH DOEBLER, Tim, Selma (5) &
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Wedding photo! Adi Anand and Natasha Anand Class of 95
starting KG & preschool & all are well. Come
visit & stay in touch! 20 yr reunion coming up
in Fall 14 in Mussoorie! —Sarah
Class of 1995
This has been a slow news yr for the Class of
95 with a few important exceptions. PRITICA
SHAH got married in India in Dec. Since then
she’s been commuting between LA & Shanghai,
where she is helping set up a new China office
for her co. She’s enjoying learning Chinese &
the joys of living behind the Great Firewall
of China. HARBIR SINGH also was married
this past yr, in Mar. MARK BRADBY & wife
Vanessa welcomed daughter Vivienne Marie
to the world on Aug 23. Vivienne’s precocious
nature was immediately evident: she was born
on their living room floor. Mark continues to
work as a mech engineer in Minneapolis &
keeps busy taking his son Henry (1.5) on adventures.
GOURI UPPAL GUPTA also was a
recipient of a bundle of joy, in the form of son
Milo, born May 26. Nepal’s answer to Gordon
Ramsay, JONNY MENDIES is expanding his
Red Dingo restaurant into a boutique B&B, in
addition to taking over as Food & Beverage mgr
At Harbir's wedding, L to R: Alpana Singh '97, Jonathan Mendies
'95, Harbir '95, Isaac Hishey '95. Anil Singh '96
at the Hotel Himalaya. He enjoys the challenge
of running a successful business despite the difficulties
caused by the recent political instability.
A few mtns away, KESANG DORJEE is once
more hitting the road, this time running leader
workshops for Bhutanese girls & showing a
documentary on the recent Bhutanese elections.
Meanwhile, down in the plains, MANEESHA
SARIN CHAWLA continues to do important
work running Gharkamai, a portal to help women
work & gain income at home. As usual, TX
continues to provide the most faithful correspondents.
ADITYA ANAND completed 12 yrs at
Hoover’s this past May & is working part time
on the side at a local booking/promotions agency
called Transmission Entertainment. He reports
that wife Natasha is beautiful & awesome & 4
cats & 1 dog keep us busy as well. The only fly
in his ointment is the failure of India’s much
vaunted batting line-up. SAMEER GUPTA &
wife, Mitali, also live in Austin, which serves as
a respite from their jetsetting lifestyle, which this
yr included Lusaka, Hong Kong & Bangkok.
Sameer continues to battle the lions & sharks
of corporate America in his role as the Global
Powertrain Product Mgr of Freescale Semiconductor,
a spinoff from Motorola. Among the
strategic decisions he has
to consider are China’s
rise in the automobile
market & the correspondingly
reduced importance
of US markets. Sameer’s
latest corporate acquisitions
include a little 12lb
stud Maltese called Benji.
Sameer sees MAHJA-
BEEN HASAN often &
new arrival to TX, ABI-
RAL MALLA, as well.
Mahjabeen is in Dallas,
where she has completed
10 yrs as a teacher & is looking forward
to seeing her sister, FARHIN
’06, a recent graduate of TCU, join
her. To escape the TXan heat, she
travelled to Bangkok & Bangladesh.
The word on the grapevine is that New
Yorker, PEMA NORBU, is engaged.
Others in the NY area include West
Coast transplant HIROKO McVEY,
PATRICIA CUMMINGS, perennial
student JONATHAN CLEVELAND
& KIMULI KASARA. Kimuli is
considering branching out from her
job as a Columbia U prof to a sideline
running a bar in Fort Portal, Uganda. I
expect to hold a named chair at that bar.
Fellow academic, PAVEL KAPINOS
continues to plod along the tenure
track at Carleton, while keeping track
of kids, Alina & Ivan & the fortunes
of Arsenal FC. I, SAUMITRA JHA, am back
at Stanford Business School after a yr off from
teaching, spent mainly writing & perambulating
around the World Bank in Washington, DC,
where wife, Jessica, is an economist working on
human developm’t in South Asia. I was happy
to run into KEYA BANERJEE (who continues
to do amazing media design work in Bombay)
last Dec. MIRA LUTGENDORF DEBS &
husband, Alex, are spending the yr at Berkeley/
Stanford on leave from Yale, so it is nice to see
them regularly as well.—Saumitra
Class of 1996
First let me personally thank ZARINE for all
the hard work that she has put in over the last 15
yrs as sect’y. I certainly hope to emulate her as I
take the reins. ZARINE moved to Edinburgh &
loves it there. She particularly enjoys the mo of
Aug when the festival is on! Work is demanding
but the wkends are filled with beautiful Scottish
walks along the coastline. She’s looking
forward to Christmas, snow & using her new
wood burning fire stove. ARCHANA & Tim
took a yr off from running their own tourism
bus in Tasmania & with son Tariku toured
India & Ethiopia via EUR & Kenya. They will
be celebrating 10 yrs of marriage in Feb 12. In
their travels they met RADHIKA in Mumbai as
well as PRANEETA, GAURAV & wife Mudita.
They also met MANAV, JESSICA & AJAY, as
well as DEEPA, ANIL & MATT ABRAHAM
in Mussoorie. KIRSTEN is back at WS, working
as Head of Admissions & got engaged over
the summer to Ed. She visited Bhutan in Nov
& enjoyed meeting some WS alumni there,
including GAMA whom she hadn’t seen in
19 yrs. If anyone’s planning a visit to WS, let
her know! GAMA left her job at the Bhutan
Youth Dev Fund back in 09 & she’s opened a
clothing shop for women & children as well as
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Wedding party of Pritica Shah '95 Dec16, 2010 in Kumarakom
alumni want to travel to Bhutan contact her!
LISA is doing well. Her 2nd daughter was born
on Jul 29, her older daughter 4 already. LIMA
& Anisha had their 1st child, Aidan on Mar 10.
The baby keeps them entertained with his new
found ability to roll over. LIMA states that he is
still the same, with a few more lbs around the
sides. JESSICA got married on Feb 5 10 to Ravi
Goundar at a small, but beautiful ceremony in
City Hall in SF. She works at Sensis Agency, a
digital marketing agency. JON WEIER is living
in Toronto with Jennifer, whom he married 3 yrs
ago. He is currently in his 3rd yr at the U of W
ONT completing a PhD in History. They have
just adopted a dog named Ritz. RACHANA
was in India (Delhi & Mussoorie) for the first
time in 15 yrs. She met up with the Kapoor
gang, ANIL, MARGARET & her son. She
also met KIRSTEN & Mrs CHOPHEL (S) &
JUDY CRIDER ’69. DEEPA is working as a
Personnel Admin for a US-based co, all from the
comfort of her home! Her son Jason is now 4 &
is as naughty as can be. RADHIKA did a short
stint with Anytime Fitness India as their Head
of Nutrition Svcs & has started her own private
nutrition consulting. She is still in Mumbai,
though she spent a large part of summer in the
US taking advanced nutrition courses. Power
Vinyasa Flow classes are her latest addiction &
Bikram Hot Yoga! She met GAURAV & wife
Mudita in Delhi & Mumbai. They in turn are
living & working in Noida, where they run an
independent bus. They visited their Landour
home this summer on top of the hill & met MRS.
ROBERTS & MRS. CRIDER at Rokeby briefly.
HUBERT has daughters Neela & Juno, both
born in NZ. They all survived the massive quake
last yr & experienced over 7,000 aftershocks. He
& family have decided to go back to Vienna after
5 yrs in NZ due to the ongoing shakes. MEILIN
started a new job as head designer at Gatsby &
she will be spending New Year’s in LA with
ELTON, wife Marla & the parents. Marla &
I are still in CA & our big news is that we are
expecting our 1st child in May! We meet on a
regular basis with AMIT & wife Chris. Contact
me if you wish to join group page on facebook
for our class. —Elton
Class of 1997
JOHANNES SOARES has been living in
London, enjoying the London life & enjoying
his work, which is oil & gas exploration of
the UK sector. He finally managed to sell his
apt & has moved. RYAN
BLOCHER works with
Beike Biotech developing
a documentary film about
int’l adult stem cell patients
seeking treatments in China.
I’m glad to have mom with
us in China teaching. BETH
HUDSON KVERNEN &
husband Josh are living in
Washington, DC. They welcomed
Nathaniel (Than) to
their family in Feb & Beth
just started a small graphic
design firm called Silk
Road Studio. DEVIN AR-
RINGTON started nonprofit
musicianswithamission.org
which encourages talented
musicians to use their gifts
to uplift the spirits of patients
& caregivers by being part
of an org that connects them
to local healthcare facilities.
DAVID MENDIES & Jessica
have 4 children, 3 boys
& a baby girl. We’re living in
Kathmandu, Nepal. DAVID
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RASKINO & PRIYA LEHMAN ’92
have completed 1 yr in Seattle since
moving from Atlanta & we’re getting
used to the wet :-). He is still working
at Microsoft Research. Priya’s nephew
ANDREW LEHMAN just started
at WS this summer too! BRIAN
OOMMEN is living in Philadelphia
PA where he is doing his residency in
neurology. Having left the USA for
good in Sep 09, LOVILY VITO CHI-
SHI & family are serving at Christ For
The Nations Bible College, Kohima
NG, since Jan ’10. She heads the
Alumni Assn & Children’s Ministry
& Khetoshe is the Principal. They are
blessed with 3 & a half kids.—Contributed
online
Class of 1998
JOSHUA JOHN enjoys watching his
delightful daughter Abigail Diya grow cuter by
the day! I am really glad to be living & loving
in Delhi with wife Asha! Other than that I still
have the joy & privilege of leading Capital City
Church in ND, which is filled with people from
over 21 nations & 19 Indian states; there must
be over a dozen WSkers too. I held my 8th
group show in Mar & my 2nd solo art exhibition
Before the Womb - Beyond the Tomb in Apr.
Currently I am working on updating my site
headrushART.com & painting for an upcoming
show. I still enjoy taking hundreds of bikers on
short breakfast runs out of Delhi. LANTHARI-
L to R: Amit '96 & Chris Roy, Elton Rohrer '96 & Marla Pendley On
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Lizzy Seefeldt Grezda's Daniel and Abigail at the top
of a 'mountain' climbed in a village in Albania
MA SAENKHAMWANG is working for IT co
in Bangkok. ANNA CORPRON AUYEUNG
continues to run theworkingproof.com, a website
that pairs limited edition art prints with a
charitable contribution. But, our most exciting
news is that in Feb we welcomed daughter Vera
to the world. JULIA DEUTSCHMANN lives
in Melbourne AUS, currently working in a HR
role for an IT consulting co. I am engaged to
Alex Gavric, to be married in 2012. EMILY
VIRGIN HILLIER has been married to Keith
for 10 yrs & proud Mom to Joshua (6) &
Samuel (4). KRISTY HOLLAND, in Boulder
CO, looked forward to her 1st-ever Curry Club
gathering in Denver & works as the editor of the
skills & survival sections of Backpacker magazine.
After teaching at Delhi U for 5 yrs, SON-
ALI PATTNAIK is teaching both undergrad &
The Little family- Jim, Nathaniel, Eliana, Aaron, Kathryn Hunerwadel
'99 and Caleb born April 2011
grad lit students in Mumbai, an exciting
change. I have been publishing in the
areas of cultural studies, literature &
poetry. AMY MALL and Sherwin Ovid
welcomed Zaid Tashi Emmanuel Ovid
in Feb. The family is enjoying their new
member immensely, living in Chicago
where they continue their involvement in
the arts and food justice initiatives. This
yr,they participated in an exhib with the
U WI about watershed issues, and their
video work with Family Farm Defenders
was featured. They were also able to
visit Sherwin’s family for a reunion in his
home country of Trinidad and Tobago.
LIZZY SEEFELDT GREZDA is still
in Tirana, Albania, where she serves in
church and teaches. We had a fantastic
family break at a village in the mountains
of Albania this summer. Our kids, Daniel
(4) and Abigail (2) relished all the new
experiences of farm life. LAURA JEF-
FERY’s first book has been published,
Chagos islanders in Mauritius and the
UK: Forced displacement and onward
migration – see amazon.com. She had her 1st
experience of fieldwork with a family, now
expecting their 2nd child.—Contributed online
Class of 1999
SHAHRIAR SHAFIULLAH works as a Unix
System Admin for Loyalty Mngmt Group in the
UK. Since graduation in 99, he has been a bit
of a gypsy, moving between Houston, Miami
& Bangladesh. Finally settled in London about
3 yrs back & really enjoying living in this great
city. Dubbed Professional Mama by husband of
9 yrs, KATHRYN HUNERWADEL LITTLE
juggles the demands of 4 little children. Add
homeschooling to the mix & she feels like a
hamster on a wheel. Motherhood is her greatest
accomplishment, biggest challenge & such a
blessing! SHARON JOHN ABRAHAM works
with husband JONATHAN
ABRAHAM ’01 in an org
called Developmt Assoc
Initiatives in New Delhi.
A good yr for JAMIE AL-
TER, 3 mos in Mussoorie,
writing, playing cricket &
riding motorbikes. met up
with AKASH CHELVAM
& ATUL ROY & RONJOY
RAO ’00. Professionally,
he wrote 2 cricket books &
acted in a Hindi film & has
moved to Delhi. VICTO-
RIA ALDERTON lives in
Brighton UK with son Luke
(10) & working in the family
estate agent bus, which
is going from strength to
Jamie Alter '99 and Ronjoy Rao '00 in Mussoorie
strength. I’m also the VP of the Brighton &
Hove Estate Agents Assoc. Looking forward to
brother PETER’s ’01 wedding in May. ANNA
KIDDER TEMPLETON got married in 10 &
moved to Scotland where they are enjoying
the North Sea beaches, beautiful highlands &
lovely pace of life. The rest of the time, she
is a hard working research fellow with the
Scottish Dental Practice Based Res Network!
HATAIKAN KAMOLSIRISAKUL works
with Thomson Reuters & transferred to Dallas
TX early this yr, should be in Dallas for a yr or
2; expecting a new family member early 12 :)
If anyone is in the area, please give a shout!—
Contributed online
Rochita Rao ’98 and Andrzej Plonka (S) were
married at St. Paul’s Church, Mussoorie on
October 1st, 2011.

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Jottings
Class of 2000
VIDUR KAPUR, with a little help from
wife, Lotte, had a little girl named Zara.
He received the Acorn Award for his work
with the Guoman Hotel chain. JESSICA
BRAID PANGAS just moved from an
island at one end of the country to an
island at the other, from temperate Tassie
to tropical Galiwin’ku, a remote Indigenous
community in N/E Arnhem Land
AUS. She & her husband are working for
an org called Why Warriors that work in
cross cultural communication, educ &
enterprise facilitation. They’re having
another baby in Jan. & currently living
in a tent. SARA FLAMING GROUT &
husband Mar, live in the country in KS
& both work at a local school, Peabody
Burns Junior Senior High School. She is
the school social worker & he a teacher.
Their son Nolan turns 2 in Jan. MEGHA
CHADHA just finished her training in
Psych (finally!) & started a job as an
attending Psychiatrist in downtown Chicago.
Very big mental transition because
it feels like the end of an era but she is
really liking her new position & loves
the fact that she has more time than ever
before! Her parents have retired from
Africa & moved back to India. LIESEL
WILKINS MADDOCK has moved back
to Melbourne with Sam & has taken a
position with a non-profit org called the
Global Poverty Project, which focuses
on advocacy & education. I am the Media
& Comms Mgr & right now we’re
working on a campaign called The End
of Polio, which is calling on world leaders
to fully fund global polio eradication
initiatives. I am expecting my 1st child
in Mar, which Sam & I are very excited
about. We’ve already bought our season
pass to the local ski resort for next yr &
now all we have to figure out is who’ll
watch the bub while we go snowboarding!
GLORIA PUDAITE NORTHRUP is still
in Denver CO. She & her husband took a
tour of Scotland & England in Aug. They
met with Prodigy classmates in London.
Gloria is a college prof at Metropolitan
State Coll of Denver. They are expanding
their family & welcoming their 1st child
on April 4. EUN SHIN LEE continues
working for the org committee preparing
for World EXPO in Yeosu, Korea from
May to Aug 12. She became the Dir for
the Foreign Languages Div & will be
00s CLASS REPS
Daniel Allen Smith 2000
4037 Mission St
San Francisco CA 94112-1016
USA
totoisfree@yahoo.com
502-905-0307
Daniel Russell 2001
12 Bedford Road
St Albans AL1 3BQ
United Kingdom
daniel@russellweb.net
.+44 1727 752652
Rohini Uppal 2001
8916 Arley Dr
Springfield VA 22153-1505, USA
urohni@gmail.com
703-8663081
Sheena Agarwal 2002
1818 Calvert St NW
Washington DC 20009-1906, USA
sheena320@gmail.com
Kilangla Yanger 2002
kilangyanger@gmail.com
Daniela Bhutia 2003
Vallstedter Weg 7
Lengede D-38268, Germany
danielabhutia@hotmail.com
Eunae Grace Hur 2004
12313 Valley View Av, Apt 14
Whittier CA 90604-2741, USA
grace_eunaehur@yahoo.com
701-330-2518
Helen Russell 2005
Flat1 173a, Cavendish Rd
London SW12 0BW
United Kingdom
helenjanerussell@gmail.com
Lokesh Todi 2005
225 Northern Ave Unit 501
Boston MA 02210-2060, USA
lokeshtodi@hotmail.com
Suheil Tandon 2006
F-86 Sarita Vihar
New Delhi DL 110 044
India
suheiltandon_2006@yahoo.com
+91 11 26947516
Neeti Uniyal 2006
85 Bain Terrace
9 Garfield St
Launceston TAS 7249
Australia
neetiu@gmail.com
Nicole Lemire 2007
6714 Wetmore Ave
Everett WA 98203-5216, USA
kuna23@gmail.com
425-438-8712
Jamyang Choedon 2008
75 3rd Ave TN 706
New York NY 10003-5527, USA
jamyangc@gmail.com
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Ananya Kejriwal 2008
Mailbox 210, Olin College of
Engineering
1 Olin Way
Needham MA 02492-1233
USA
ananya.kejriwal@students.olin.edu
Arish Rajkarnikar 2008
15 Dudhope Gardens
Dundee DD3 6TX
United Kingdom
arishrajkarnikar@gmail.com
Atirav Gupta 2009
18 Route De Cojonnex
Ecole Hoteliere De Lausanne
Lausanne 25 CH-1025
Switzerland
atirav.gupta@ehl.ch
Lisa Shrestha 2009
c/o Mrs Sangeeta Shrestha
DFID PO Box 106
Kathmandu, Nepal
shrestha.lisa@gmail.com
+97-714-3522 Ext 40
Aditya Todi 2010
531 Lasuen Mall, Mail Box 17415
Stanford CA 94305-3003, USA
atodi@stanford.edu
Jennifer Wu 2010
Sikkim Manipal Institute of Medical
Sci
Old Girl’s Hostel, 5th Mile, Tadong
Gangtok SK 737102
India
jw54us@yahoo.com
Sanghamitra Ghosh 2011
207 A Rajpur Road
Dehradun UK 248 009, India
sanghamitraghosh30@gmail.com
Amit Lalvani 2011
2091 Stadium Dr
TCU Box 293166
Fort Worth TX 76129, USA
amitlalvani15@gmail.com

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Andrew ’01, Monica and Louise Kemp (S)
happy to assist if anyone wants to visit.
TONIKALI YEPTHOMI WEHI is living
in Auckland NZ with hubby Maxim.
Enjoying the rugby world cup as NZ is
hosting it this yr. Go the All Blacks! Our
1st baby is due on Dec 20 & looking
forward to parenthood. SHRUTI GAN-
GULY is still in NYC, have started my
last yr of my MBA/MFA program at NYU
& am doing various things as part & also
independent of school. I’m producing a
feature film with James Franco & his production
co & James will be in the movie
too. Then I’m writing my thesis which is
a short animated film set between New
Delhi & Mussoorie. SENTILA PONGEN
is on maternity leave right now as I had
my second son in Jun. Yes, we feel really
blessed! I’m also supposed to be studying
for my CS exams which is next Jun & do
a million other things but...I’m just planning
on enjoying my kids at my own pace,
space n time...till I’m satisfied. JOHN
HUDSON & wife Chelsea now living in
Silver Spring MD with our 3 daughters
Adelaide (5) Sydney (3) & Nadia (1). I am
currently a Project Engineer for a commercial
construction firm (Hensel Phelps
Construction Co.) & am working on the
construction of a Marriott Marquis Hotel
Mark Thornsen '01
in downtown DC. It is a
3 yr project & we hope
to stay in the area for a
while. Chels is starting
back up her photography
bus & I still spend a lot
of time hunting & fishing
when not at work or
spending time with the
family. VIJAY ROY &
wife Emma celebrate
their son Elijah (1), life
has totally changed with
him around. We are living
in exciting times &
I’m finally learning how to swim, yippee,
will be in AUS for Christmas. ARJUN
SIKAND is importing into Asia & Asia
Pacific all American foods from the US,
also doing professional photography.
SUNG YEON CHOI MORROW is still
in Chicago- going on 10 yrs! Happily
married & working as a Nat’l Organizer
for Interfaith Worker Justice which has
him traveling quite a bit domestically
so gives me a good chance to catch up
with old friends, like Arish & Melanie
in NYC! TENZING TEKAN lives in San
Francisco where is currently working
for Bain & Co. He’s working on brushing
up on his Tibetan. DANIEL SMITH
also lives in SF. He is one yr away from
an MFT degree with a Drama Therapy
twist. —Daniel
Class of 2001
It is 10 yrs since the Class of 01 graduated
from WS & scattered around the
globe. Most people have now settled
into the patterns of working life. Some,
whether out of nostalgia for student days
or other motivations, are contemplating
retraining, while others are discovering
for themselves the ups & downs of being
young parents. For tips on healthy babies
one may wish to consult SABINA THY-
LE who is in her 2nd yr of her pediatric
residency at UCLA. Also in the healing
profession, ROHINI UPPAL is working
as an ICU nurse in VA & beginning to
explore other career options. Let’s see
what the future holds! BENITA SAMUEL
BECKER & Chris have moved to Boston.
While he pursues his M Arch degree,
Benita works in different healthcare
settings as a RN. She travels frequently
to Calvin College MI to serve on their
Alumni Bd, also part of their Presidential
Search Comm. SAHAJO HAERTEL
continues to educate children in NY &
MARIO WYON is similarly employed.
He works in Arcata CA as a gr 5/6 Spanish
teacher in a bilingual charter school.
HUGH EVANS continues work with the
Global Poverty Project & has moved to
NYC. In the same city, ZOMAWII KHI-
ANGTE & Filippe celebrated the birth of
Eva. SAIRA MALIK moved to Washington
DC in Oct to start a consulting job in
federal public safety & criminal justice.
Also in DC is NITIN JAIN, working on
water & sanitation projects at the World
Bank. He is in the middle of applying
to MBA programs, hopes to be moving
in that direction. Also on the MBA
path, SHASHWAT MODY has moved to
Philadelphia to pursue an MBA at The
Wharton School, U PA. Look him up if
you are in the area. RAHUL CHERIAN
is also in the area & has recently met
up with others like ROHINI UPPAL &
TSERING WANGDI. JAE IL SHIM is
living in Lynchburg VA & planning to go
to graduate school. ASHISH THOMAS,
Kristin Isabella & Zander have returned
to Nashville TN for a season. Ashish
works as a Business Process Consultant
& a Keynote speaker. ANDREW KEMP &
Monica celebrated the birth of daughter,
Cambria, in Dec 10. They currently live
in El Paso TX. BRIE MILGROM was
recently hired at a gluten-free bakery in
Portlan, OR. She loves it & is training to
be the assistant mgr. She also practices
yoga, dancing & generally enjoys life.
She is sad to miss the reunion but sends
warm regards. SEEMA SHARAN has
recently married & is looking forward
to coming back to WS for the reunion.
She took a 2 yr break from working to
travel the world & no doubt has plenty
of exciting travel stories to share! HAN-
NAH FONG KENNEDY is living with
husband in Ithaca, upstate NY, where
she is a PhD student at Cornell U. Her
res focuses on TB immunology. ROHIN
LAL is working & living in Philly with
wife Therese. They are enjoying their
time there. SAMUEL CHOI & his wife
are living in Thailand but we don’t know
if he has managed to travel as far south as
Singapore where JUNGSENARO LONG-
KUMER is currently living. TSERING
YANGZOM SADUTSHANG is enjoying
life in Sydney AUS where she has moved
with her work at Royal Bank of CAN.
Also nearby is RAMEEZA AHSAN who
has begun a Master’s prog in Adelaide.
CASSANDRA BREDT KING has persevered
all yr to organise classmates to
meet up in Mussoorie in Oct. She lives
in Melbourne with Robert & children,
Maia (4) & Joshua (2). Cassy opened a
childcare centre in May & is working

Tanushree '01 and Rajat Agarwal
there full time as Dir & Room Leader.
She is enjoying it thoroughly. Taking
to the skies, JOON HUR has been hired
to be a pilot for Korean Air. Many congratulations
Joon on fulfilling your 17-yr
dream. He will start flying int’l after his
training so look out for Joon arriving at
an airport near you! ANNA DAVYDOVA
is still with Fidelity Int’l now based in
FL. She & Donald are enjoying the Miami
sunshine. Her colleague SIMONI TODI
MITTAL works in the Fixed Income Div
with a focus on metals, mining & energy
sector from her London base where she
& Hritik are based. Simoni has met up
with a few WS friends in London during
the summer including SHIVANGI
CHATURVEDI MAJITHIA. TSHERING
WANGMO has been developing a hotel in
Bhutan & is currently negotiating a mgmt
deal with one of the int’l hotel chains.
Maybe Bhutan should be the next reunion
venue considering that PALDEN THIN-
LEY, KINLEY KLEIN, SONAM CHUKI
ZIMBA & YANGCHEN WANGCHUK
are all based there. HARUKO UEDA
is still working for Ernst & Young as
senior auditor but has left the Big Apple
for the comforts of Phoenix AZ. JAYA
KAPUR also working for Enst & Young,
lives in Delhi. On a stint in London
Cassandra King '01 children Joshua and Maia
earlier this yr she caught up
with many WSkers including
Miniushka, Dalia, Daniel
& Simoni. MINAL MEHTA
continues to design fabulous
clothing for Indian & int’l clientele..
ANGELO DAIMARI
& TIATEMJEN JAMIR are
continuing to make music in
Delhi. LIANMAWII HAUH-
NAR is also in Delhi & is hoping
to make it to the reunion.
JONATHAN ABRAHAM
married SHARON JOHN ’99
on Jan 2. They have moved to
Delhi where they are heavily involved in
the local community. Also Delhi based.
AYESHA GAREWAL-KARLA has left
Barclays & is a freelance trainer. Ayesha
& husband are coming up to their 1st
wedding anniversary. With the 10-yr
WS reunion as well, it has been a yr of
changes & milestones & Ayesha is looking
forward to more! BHAVESH JAIN
lives in Bombay with his wife & RAY
KALLIMEL is also in the same city. Ray
is working with Cushman & Wakefield
Valuations & Investment Advisory. In
the NE, LALRINTLUANGA JAHAU is a
busy father to 3 girls & leads a hectic Life
in Aizawl. He is planning to meet with
others at WS. TANUSHREE HAZARIKA
AGARWAL is a busy publisher & is continuing
to run the 2 publications, focused
on NE India - Eclectic Times & Vibes.
In 10, she launched another unit, the 1st
ever Integrated Marketing Solutions co
in the NE. Any free time Tanu fills with
attending a lot of friends’ weddings!
MARK THORSON finished a Master’s
in Library and Info Sci this year and is
in the process of finding a job. SONAM
PENJOR has been acting in Bhutanese
movies. MARIA CHACKO is finishing
an internship at Ambedkar Dental College
in Bangalore and works part time at
a dental clinic. MONIKA SINGH
SANFORD is practicing banking
law and trying to travel as
much as possible! MINIUSHKA
MUJTABA got married in Jun to
her longstanding Welshman &
has left the UK for a glamorous
life in LA where her husband is
working as visiting professor at
Pepperdine Uni, while Mini is
working on her surfing skills.
PETER ALDERTON got engaged
the day before Valentines to his
lovely girlfriend Louise & will be
married in May. SOLVEIG TAY-
LOR had a baby boy in Sep. She
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Anjalika Kapur ’02 (1983–2010)
& Paul are moving back to Uzbekistan
after a short visit with family in the UK.
TIATEMJEN JAMIR is in Delhi, en route
to completing the Civil Services exam, if
all goes well, discovering photography &
music along the way. DANIEL RUSSELL
& DALIA MAJUMDER RUSSELL have
moved to St Albans & are enjoying their
much shorter journeys into London for
work. They looked forward to catching
up with various WSkers in Oct. —Dalia
& Rohini
Class of 2002
PETER A has gone incognito...yet again!
SHEENA A lives in DC working with the
int’l developmt co DAI; met ALISHKA &
SUNAINA this summer in NYC. SHRUTI
A was recently married & lives in Delhi,
congrats! ALISHKA A is still working
away in the advertising field at Lifebuoy
in Bombay, though she managed to make
a trip to NYC & Philadelphia (albeit for
work) & catch up with fellow Euphorians.
JEREMY B moved to Columbus, GA to
start his Master’s in guitar performance at
the Schwob School of Music. REBECCA
B is in Mumbai, freelancing as a special
educator & also getting involved in event
mngmt related to interior decorating. JA-
COB B is in Cincinnati working at Xavier
U & has been freelancing for magazines
such as Reader’s Digest, including his
fascinating story on a falsely convicted
man in their Aug edition (available in the
Indian edition too). RAJAT B is in the
process of moving westward to San Jose
to work for eBay. BEN B is finishing up
school for videography & sneaked off to
Cuba during the summer. AYESHA C is
happily married in Duluth MN, finishing
her MBA with a concentration in Bus
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L to R: Lara Kanga ’03, Jenti, Helen Litvinenko ’03, Sheena Uppal ’03
and Kavita Mandaliya ’03
United Health Care. SHINY LC is still
living in CA & loving life with husband
& beautiful daughter. JONATHAN C is
working towards his PhD at Purdue &
more excitingly, got married this summer!
NAWANG E is enjoying life as a
new mommy & somehow still has time
for a 2nd job, working for the Tributary
Fund, an environmental NGO that works
with conservation. MONIKA G is putting
her MBA to use as a Marketing Mgr at financial
tech firm, RTS Realtime Systems.
NATALJA J is loving married life & still
settled in Riga. SATOKO K met up with
LALREM L & KILANG Y while visiting
Philadelphia to interview for her residencies
& eventually joined the amazing internal
med & peds departments at Baylor
U. SUPRIYA KJ is busy moving forward
with her perfumery bus & working on
launching mass market products. VANI
TK is living the married life in Delhi &
working in the clothing & fashion industry.
YOWA K currently taking a short
break from work to learn French in Montpellier,
France. Très bien! YUVRAJ K is
busy expanding his successful restaurant
chain, Moti Mahal Delux, into Chennai
& Kathmandu, with plans to go global
soon! He is now also on the class list for
happily married - congrats! LALREM L
has completed her MBA & is enjoying the
city of brotherly love, PA. NAI L is busy,
busy, busy being a new mommy & still
living in Atlanta. Congrats! ROMONG
L has finished working in CA & is now
back in India, jamming on the guitar with
old WS folks while looking for jobs.
SREYASA M just finished her MA in
Conflict, Peace & Developm’t Studies
& is now working in the Edu Section of
Asian Developm’t Bank in Kathmandu.
NUPUR M is currently in Delhi, working
towards becoming a community/public
artist & will be attending the Rhode
Island School of Design after a yr- congrats!
DANIEL M is living in Kathmandu
& helping
with his family’s
NGO. NADIA M
was most recently
enjoying the sun in
CA visiting her sister,
MINIUSHKA
’01. HAI DANG N
is finishing his PhD
from the U of MN
& looking forward
to embarking on
his post-doc work,
congrats! ELINOR
P or known to her
kindergarteners & parents as Principal
Pain is now super busy being the head
of the int’l KG school in Shanghai, but
managed to catch up with JAKRIN B in
Bangkok & SHEENA D when she was
in town. SOLOMON P graduated with
his Master’s from UCCS & made time
to visit ASHWIN P in Chicago. DEKI P
has been in Bhutan for the last 2.5 yrs
enjoying home & working at Druk Holding
& Investments. PERNIA Q recently
got married in a beautiful wedding in
Delhi that was attended by ALISHKA,
VIR, MOLONA, KEZIA, SUPRIYA,
KILANG, VANI, SANJANA, YUVRAJ
& countless others who flew from far &
near to celebrate this occasion, congrats!
SONAM R made a detour in Delhi & met
with KEZIA, MOLONA & RUMONG,
but is currently in Bangkok working for
the Int’l Union for Conservation of Nature
as a Programme Officer. AMAN R
is taking a break from his IT job & doing
his MBA in Manila. JUNG HYUN R is
in graduate school in Tokyo but makes
frequent trips to Seoul where she last
spent a few mo working as a freelance researcher
at the Korean Int’l Coop Agency.
Fortunately, her Tokyo family was not
affected by the earthquake. SUNAINA S
is in full swing of the NYC fashion scene,
currently interning at Michael Kors after
working for Tom Ford over the summer &
will be graduating this Fall from Parson
with her Master’s degree in fashion marketing.
SARATH S got married recently
& is en route to adding yet another superb
feather to his hat after completing
his PhD in Econ from UC Berkeley to
have a JD from Yale, where he starts this
fall, congrats! SANJANA S managed to
take some time off lawyer biz & had a
beautiful engagement party in Gurgaon,
congrats! DEENA T is still gallivanting
between Chennai (for work) & MI (for
her doctorate) & loves long bike rides
(although that was not supposed to be a
corollary). MOLONA W is working hard
at W+K ad agency in Delhi but always
making time to nosh the latest Delhi culinary
enticements. JESSICA W is once
again hitting the books as a full-time student
finishing up her prereqs for nursing
to join a program by next yr, good luck!
KILANG Y has dived deep into the community
at Penn working hard on her PhD
in molecular biology while taking part in
(and grateful for) the graduate student
government & other such activities not
involving test tubes & pipettes. KEZIA
Y is living in New Delhi, completing a
Master’s in Environment & Developm’t
from Ambedkar Univ, School of Human
Ecology & can’t wait to be an aunt come
winter! —Kilang & Sheena
Class of 2003
RAHUL AGARWAL is an engineer at
Polar Mobile in Toronto. SANEN AIER
just spent some time in Singapore, but
will be back in India, where he hopes to
meet classmates. MANASI BHATE is
finishing off her grad school degree in
chem at Columbia U. JOHN BRAID is a
mtn bike & trekking guide in Tasmania.
He works hard during the summer, then
takes the rest of the yr off to go travelling.
He just spent 3 mos in China & Laos.
KSHITIJ CHAWLA got married last
summer. He specializes in Phys Med &
Rehab & works as a Resident Physician
at the hospitals in Winnipeg CAN. He
often travels to Toronto & meets Rahul &
Sherry Masih. ELINA (JONG SIL) CHO
moved to Hong Kong a couple yrs ago
where she works at Bloomberg but travels
often to India. TSHERING CHODEN just
graduated from the Leiden Institute of
Adv Comp Sci & works at the Nat’l Stats
Bureau. CHAN YOUNG CHOI lives in
Seoul & is in the Rep of Korea Defense
Intelligence Command. He recently met
with NANAKO YAMAMURO. NAM-
DOL CHOPHEL completed her degree
in law. She was involved in human
rights related res, but now looks forward
to begin practicing in Delhi. SONAM
CHUNGYALPA works at the Manjusri
City School in Gangtok, Sikkim where
the 6.9 magnitude earthquake struck on
Sep 18. JASON COLEMAN lives near
Cincinnati OH with his wife & his 2yr old
son. He’s a Programs Mgr at Five Seasons
Family Sports Club doing billing & payroll.
ARUN DANIEL is back in CAN after
having spent a couple mo in FL, where his
wife, Tina, was doing a course. They’ll
both be attending KAVITA’s wedding in
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had a monsoon wedding in Mussoorie in
Jul & now lives in England. She is taking
a break from the world of cooking,
just enjoying being a housewife. SUMIR
GANGULY is working as an account
mgr at Saatchi & Saatchi (advertising) in
Dubai. He says he recently got some new
Tibetan tattoos. REUBEN GERGAN, you
may think you can hide out in Leh, but
we all know you’re there & that you’ve
got access to the internet. BIBEK GU-
RUNG is in the US army based in Joint
Base Lewis-McChord in Tacoma WA.
MERENLA IMKONG’s back in NG.
IRINA ISSAEVA HAYES married Brendan
Hayes on Mar 29 in Aruba. She’ll be
moving to Toronto CAN soon. OSWIN
JOSEPH’s still working as sr analyst at
Citi in NYC. FLORENCE JOUTE’s still
working & living in Delhi. NATASHA
KAPUR EARLY lives in Bahrain with
daughter Kyla (1) & husband. She’s been
busy setting up her own bus & opening
up a baby shop. ISHITA KAUL works in
Delhi, she often meets SAKSHI MEHRA,
SHEENA UPPAL, KARAN MADHOK &
others that pass through Delhi. REETI
KHARE finished her PhD in virology
& gene therapy. She is working as a research
fellow in a virus lab at the Mayo
Clinic. She met KARAN M, SHEFALI
S & SURABHI P at her sister’s wedding
last yr. WOON YEE KOH after having
visited India, just moved to Singapore
for her work. HELEN PROVOTOROVA
LITVINENKO has celebrated her 5 yr
anniversary. She started a new job in Jan,
project mgr for Oojo.com now working in
the travel industry. MOA LONGKUMAR
lives & works in Bangalore & met WOON
YEE K during her visit. KARAN MAD-
HOK works with the Basketball Federation
of India (BFI), as a writer & Head of
Media Relations. He’s got a blog about
basketball in India hoopistani.blogspot.
com. He lives in Delhi but says he’s not a
fan, so travels a lot. DHONDUP RODER
stayed with him a few mo while in India
for work & he regularly meets SHEFALI
S & SURABHI P when they’re in town.
KAVITA MANDALIYA was in Nairobi
for the past yr, taking a yr off to spend
time with family & travel. She’s getting
married in Nov in India after which she’ll
be moving to Vancouver & focusing on
a career in culinary arts & restaurant
mngmt. SHERRY MASIH is in NYC;
he opened a branch of his Indian export
bus in NYC last yr, Raise India LLC,
promoting Indian handicrafts. He also
works for an NGO. He meets SAURABH
NIRAULA, OSWIN JOSEPH, SHIVI-
KA SINHA, RAHUL
AGARWAL & ARUN
DANIEL regularly.
BETH MCALEER
NG finished her degree
in Speech Language
Path & moved
back to CAN, got
married. She is working
with Saskatoon
Public Schools as a
consultant & is thinking
about opening up
a private practice.
KARINA MEMON lives in Denton TX
with her fiancé & daughter Myra. She
works at 1st Am Mortgage Services.
AKIKO MORIMOTO SADZIAK is still
in Tokyo, working as a system engineer.
She got married last Apr. WANGCHUK
D NAMGYAL has moved back home to
Bhutan. He started his own bus which has
kept him very busy. SAURABH NIRAU-
LA finished his econ (grad) degree at
the U Cincinnati & lives in Washington,
DC. AYLA PARIYAR lives in Edinburgh
where she works as a freelance journalist.
PAURAVI PATEL is working toward
a specialization in pediatric pharmacy
at Stanford Med School & working as a
clinical pharmacist at Lucile Packard’s
Children Hosp. LE DUC PHAM works in
Osaka for a local consulting co but will
be moving back to Vietnam to get married
at the end of the yr. He’s also in the process
of applying for an MBA at INSEAD
(France) for next Fall. DONNA PINTO
works in Arlington TX. SURABHI PU-
DASAINI has lived in Kathmandu for the
last 3yrs, working for Himal Southasian.
She recently quit her job & went on a 2
mo roadtrip in US where she met DONNA
P & REETI K. She often meets KARAN
M, SHEFALI S & ASHWINI T. She’s now
back in Kathmandu working as a freelance
writer. PEM ZAM RABGYE lives
& works in Thimpu, Bhutan. TALINA
RUSH is in Qatar, working as a primary
school teacher. She’s planning on getting
married next yr. YUN KYOUNG RYU
got her PhD in Biology/Neurosci from
Johns Hopkins U & lives in Baltimore
MD. SHEFALI SALDANHA works in
Bombay for a Micro Housing Finance
start-up; she hopes to start grad school
soon & regularly meets Karan & Surabhi.
MICHAEL SCHICK lives in Heidelberg,
doing a Masters in Sports Mngmt. JAE
HEE SHIM graduated from Case Western
Reserve Uni in DMD Dentistry & lives in
Clevland, Ohio. KONG JOO SHIN lives
in NYC but went back to S. Korea for a
Class of ‘04 Tenzi, Grace, Afshaan & Esther in Boston in June
visit in Aug. SONJOY SINGHI works
at DreamWorks Animation & hopes to
become a Dir soon. SHIVIKA SINHA
works at Epsilon Interactive as a Sr
Strategic Consultant in NYC. She & her
sister recently wrote an interesting review
of the Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975.
CHONI TENZIN went back to visit family
in Bhutan during the summer. She
lives in Calgary CAN & works in child
services. ERNEST TANDON finished
college in NY & works for Nintendo
CAN (the video game co). He regularly
meets TENZING GAPHEL & JIGME
SADUTSANG who also live in Toronto.
He plans to do a Masters or law next yr.
ASHWINI TODI is in Nepal working in
his business. He says there are lots of
WSkers in town so they meet whenever
they can. JIGME TSHERING quit his
job in the Govt in Bhutan to get into
private bus. He currently does managing,
2 wheelers, tourism & hotel. SHEENA
UPPAL is working in Delhi & met up
with Kavita, Lara, Helen & myself in
London, then flew to Ibiza for Kavita’s
bachelorette party. CHARLES WAITARA
is a lawyer in his own practice in Dar es
Salaam. NANAKO YAMAMURO is in
her 4th yr as an IT engineer in Tokyo.
Over weekends she enjoys playing violin
with friends. SONAM YANGKI visited
Singapore , but otherwise works in
Thimpu. LARA KANGA & I still live in
London. She works in a co that does PR
for classical music.. —Daniela
Class of 2004
ESTHER LEE is working at Boston U
but will be heading back to Korea to
spend some time with family & lovely
WS friends in Korea! AFSHAAN ALTER
is living in & enjoying Boston MA, now
working at a local uni. In Apr she visited
Grace Hur in CA & she returned the favour
in Jun. In May, I was honored to be
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Ahmed Shadman ’05 marries Mehnaz.
working on a PhD in Econ at UCL, London.
Part of my res has involved working
with the UN on a Millennium Develop’t
Goal (MDG) program in India. I expect
to spend time next yr there implementing
policy interventions. JEMIMA HOF-
MANN is about to finish her 3 yr Bachelor
of Health Sci in Midwifery after which
I am planning to work in Auckland for a
while in order to hone my newly acquired
skills. Following that, who knows what
will happen? TENZING YUTHOK is
Serena Mark ’05 and husband
studying at Whistling Woods
Int’l Mumbai, a film institute.
I am specializing in Direction
& at the end of my 2nd term
& planning to go for further
studies. JEREMY CHACKO
is living in Victoria BC where
his wife goes to school. RU-
BINA SHIOTANI graduated
with MPH in Global Health
from Emory U in May & now
working with a global healthcare
consultancy firm. SHEVA
MCRAE works with at-risk
teenagers with Mental Health
issues or those in trouble with
the law. I teach art 3 times a week, dance
with a swing dance troop (teach classes/
do hired gigs/perform/compete), play
the drums in a band & study. AVINASH
THOMAS is living the New York life.
HAIDER TANGOO finally started building
a house in Kashmir... any one coming
to Srinagar next yr, look me up.—Contributed
online
Class of 2005
It has been a yr full of milestones for
Eminence, filled with marriages, engagements
& the first babies! We would like
to congratulate PRATEEK AGARWAL,
PRIYANKA AGARWAL & PRIYAN-
KA AGRAWAL (NOW CHOKHANI),
ADAM KEMP, AHMED SHADMAN,
MILLE KOJIMA, SERENA MARK &
SONIA DHINGRA who all got married.
ABDULLAH SAMADI & wife Tahmina
had a baby girl called Abreen & are living
in AUS. MILLIE KOJIMA MUROI’s
son, Kanta was born in Mar. SHARONE
DANIEL spent part of the yr in India
learning to farm, visiting family. She got
engaged to her Brazilian boyfriend & will
be moving to Brazil as soon her paper
work comes through. YEERAE KIM announced
her engagement. MUDITA TODI
is doing her MBA at ISB in Hyderabad.
RAHUL AGRAWAL is no longer in
NC, has moved to CA & is working for
Square 1 Bank. SHIRAAZ LALL has
been promoted to Systems Administrator
in an IT firm. BENNETT SAMUEL
is working in cardiac intensive care & is
working on a Master’s in Health Admin.
JEREMIAH RAO is in Mumbai working
as a photo editor at Lonely Planet Mag.
PRIYANKA AGRAWAL CHOKHANI
has moved to AUS with her husband & is
now a journalist. SHREYASI MUKERJI
is pursuing a PhD in nano-scale mech
eng at IIT-Kanpur. HAYDN WILKINS
is working as dorm parent at Ridgewood.
Millie Kojima '05 with her new family
ASAKI TAKATSU works for Toyota Motors.
DENIS KANT MANDAL works in
Moscow, but still leads a uni student’s
life. YENA KIM graduated from FIT.
She is working in a fashion designer in
NYC. JAN TYMPEL is planning to get a
PhD soon. ROHAN PODDAR has been
working in NYC for a while & plans to do
his MBA soon. His house is in the same
neighborhood as SHREEYA SINHA’s,
who has been working as a journalist with
the Asia Society. HUY NGUYEN got his
Master’s from VA Tech. He is working for
Freescale Semiconductor designing chips
for automotives. TAHSIN CHOUDHURY
is pursuing a MS in Chem & Petr Engg
at U Calgary. SHAILESH KUMAR has
finished his MS in Aerospace Engg & is
about to finish his MBA. He is working
as a Sr. Financial Analyst with United
Airlines. He met with KANISHK JOSHI
in MT. ABDULLAH SAMADI works is
an HR Assoc for Cargowise. APURVA
THANJU is beginning his 2nd yr as a
MD candidate. He met ANH TUAN &
AMIR SHAKYA in Singapore & crashed
with SHUBHA ARYAL in Kathmandu.
JUN YOUNG CHUNG recently finished
his military service. He is back in the
USA finishing his last semester. He is
still actively involved in jazz. AHMED
SHADMAN got married, he has been
working HSBC for 2 yrs. He bumped into
PISITSAK CHATCHOTIKAWONG in
Bangkok airport during his honeymoon.
RITIKA ROY finished her Bachelor’s
in edu & is currently doing a teaching
internship at WS.Junior School. TARA
KAPUR has been living in Mumbai for
the last 3 yrs. She is working with Econ
Times reporting on marketing & advertising.
NAOMI WATANABE is the head
teacher for a humanistic school in LA.
She is working towards adopting a niece
& nephew who she is raising with her
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& sees NICK WILEY on a regular basis.
MICHAEL LONGKUMAR is working at
a marketing agency for AT&T. He plans
to start his own marketing firm soon. JEE
HYE LEE is starting her last semester of
Master’s degree at the Grad School of
Int’l Studies at Seoul Nat’l U. BENJA-
MIN GODBERSEN is still working as a
product mgr at small web co. HIMAYU
SHIOTANI is working with UN on disarmament
issues. He is also finishing his
Master’s in CA. ANDREW POORTA,
back in the Netherlands, is working with
an NGO in The Hague. MENUO AO is
still studying in Edinburgh. She is going
to complete her Master,s in Lit in Nov.
LOKESH TODI works as an analyst at
the Analysis Group. He has been very
busy applying to MBA schools. He met
with HELEN RUSSELL when he visited
his sister in England & saw TENZIN
NORZIN in New York. HELEN RUS-
SELL is currently living in London with
her boyfriend & working at Pratham UK.
She met with TARA KAPUR & JER-
EMIAH RAO when she was in Mumbai
for work & also with TENZIN NORZIN
& AKSHAY BIRLA when she visited
NYC.—Lokesh & Helen
Class of 2006
It’s been 5 years since the class of Intrepid
graduated. Hopefully we are all
living up to our class name & either making
some sort of difference to the world
or working towards it! I would like to
start off with congratulating PRATIKSHA
PATHAK on her wedding. We wish you
all the happiness in the world Pratiksha!
SHREYA AGGARWAL has been back &
forth between India & AUS. KANNAGI
BHATT visited India and had a reunion
with Tim, Aftab, Prithvi, Sunny, Kanishk,
Kabir & Kanika. She is now back in AUS
getting serious about her photography.
KEREN BHUJEL is at SOAS, London,
finished her Master’s degree and is back
in Nepal. AFTAB DERE was busy working
on documentaries all around India this
year. He’s just taking a bit of time off
now. YANGCHEN DOLKAR is on OPT
status now! She graduated with honors
in Apr, interned at Int’l Rescue Comm
for 5 mos during her final semester &
then got a job as an associate buyer for a
catalog/marketing co. She’s intending on
doing her Master’s soon but will remain
in NY for a while. RISHI GARG is still
working as a Marketing Co-ord and enjoying
it, met with Shreya A, Kannagi &
myself which was exciting. ANSHU GIRI
is at grad school for his MBA. ISAAC
GERGAN is back in Vancouver for some
more studies. He is doing well but would
love to catch up with everyone soon!
NGAWANG GONSAR (Udonla) started
grad school this yr! This past summer
she caught up with Keren in London, and
then met Sirawon & Pema in India for a
short reunion. They squeezed in a short
but nostalgic trip up to Mussoorie. She
also for some odd reason keeps running
into Mangboi ’07 back in the States! JE-
SHURUN HOFMANN has been gracing
the lands of Europe for some time now,
whilst studying community developm’t
online from several universities in AUS.
It is a blessing since he can be engaged
in different humanitarian projects at the
same time, which stands in line with his
passions. He hopes to soon dive into
Humanitarian Aid. THOMAS JEFFERY
is starting his 2nd year of a MA in Social
& Political Thought at Sussex U & freelancing
as a policy researcher & journal
editor. He is planning to escape this dismal
island after he graduates & hopes to
catch up with Intrepid people whom he
misses a lot. CHEON HA JEON Finished
his Master’s Program at Yale & is currently
getting a PhD in Optics at CREOL.
HAE WON JUNG finished working as an
intern at KAIST & volunteering in Indonesia.
He’s back in Rochester to pursue
his study in Optics. PIA KAPOOR is juggling
modeling & working as an asst dir
on a Bollywood film. She hopes to do her
Master’s & PhD soon in criminology or
behavioral neurosci in the US. SIRAWON
KHATHING graduated last Jan & is now
working as a vis comm designer in a studio
called DRAWATER. EUN HAE KIM
(GRACE) lives in New York & works
as a Program Officer at a community
fdn, hopes to be in business school for
the next update! HARSHITA MANN is
currently in Delhi working in the admin
dept at Lancers Int’l School. SONYA
PRASERTONG traveled to
Shanghai to visit her mom
& stepdad, JUNE & REID
BLICKENSTAFF ’70 for a
few mos, got to see Kumiko
and Isaac during that trip,
which was amazing! Moved
to Lexington KY in Aug to
begin a Master’s program in
Geography at the U KY. KIN-
LEY RINZING is in Thimpu
doing well and working at
Fusion grill-restaurant. TEN-
ZIN NORZOM SHRESTHA
moved to LA & is in nursing
school. PRARTHANA SINGH
Adam Kemp ’05 and wife.
works as a Bus Res Analyst, in the past
few mos she’s caught up with Sirawon,
Pema M, Samira ’05 Sunny, Aftab, Tim
S, Kanika & Kabir. She regularly visits
WS because she can’t get enough of it!
TIMOTHY SMITH has found a job at a
start-up co doing micro-machining. Life
is good and people should visit! SUHEIL
TANDON recently completed a Master’s
in Sport Mngmt from Loughborough
U in the UK. He plans to head back to
India in search of work within the sports
field. VARUN TODI is a Sr Associate at
Pricewaterhouse Coopers LLP, has been
working there for the past 2 years as an
auditor. He was looking forward to being
a qualified Chartered Accountant by the
end of 11. TSHERING YANGDEN is just
doing odd part time jobs at the moment,
odd as in dog sitting, being a driver, personal
assistance etc. She has 5 mos left in
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In Canada, L-R:Avalok Kaul, Charisma Kundan, Shoichiro
Kanahara, Duc Duong Tran
CA so she is trying to make the most of
her time there & have fun! SAMRIDHI
savoured the last few mos of being in Uni
before graduating in Dec with a Master’s
degree from U Melbourne. Exhilarating!
As for me, I have been working in retail
mngm’t for the past year & am now about
to build my second house so it’s a busy
summer for me! I hope to see at least
some of you. Till next time –arrivederci!
—Neeti
Class of 2007
NAYANTARA KHANNA is in the last
yr at Savannah College of Art & Design,
doing architecture. Just got her 1st car
with boyfriend Lee. Got the last season of
Dexter! Woohoo! Debating if she wants
to go to the W Coast or to flight school
on the E Coast. ANNALISA GRAHAM
is living in Los Angeles, working in the
film industry for a production co. She
produces TV shows/programs & hopes
to work on a feature film - or a music
video would be really fun; also works as
a freelance photographer’s assistant on
the side. SRUTI ARTHUR is working as
a music teacher for the primary school
in Candor In’l School, Bangalore, really
enjoying myself! CLARA SWANSON
In Mumbai, L-R:Shubhaish Bhutiani ’09, Rachit Kumar ’09, Aditya
Todi ’10, Shahid Judge ’09
graduated from St Olaf College
& is refining her adaptive
arts by moving again. She
spent the summer working at
a wine-specialty restaurant in
rural WI & just moved with
her parents to a new city in
DE, which she plans to take
by storm. PURNIMA MA-
LIK graduates with a BFA in
Photography next May, with
some Graphic Design Tools
on the side. She has a job as a
Digital Fine Arts Studio Lab
Monitor at CA College of the Arts right
now. She will be moving up to Vancouver
BC. RANVEER NAGAICH just finished
with Uni, doing an internship in Mumbai
right now. ARPITA HERBERT is in her
final yr of Master’s at the U Delhi. —
Contributed online
Class of 2008
ANANYA is finishing her sr yr at Olin.
She misses everybody & invites you to
visit her in Boston. TRISHNA attends
U N TX as a full time student, majoring
in biology, minor in chemistry. She
misses & thinks about her best friends
from WS every day. AIDAN is a senior
at Occidental College. He just finished
a 10-wk college res program with the
Religious Studies Dept. He sees the
EBY-MCKENZIES (S) occasionally, as
well as DAVE & ALLISON WEBER (S)
& ran into ANNALISA GRAHAM ’07
at a café. SHEMA is a sr at Lake Forest,
double majoring in History & Sociology/
Anthropology. KRISHA graduated from
the U Cambridge, Anglia Ruskin with
a 1st class degree in optometry. She is
currently pursuing a higher degree from
the same school. NEETHA has graduated
from her yr in Bangalore. SHALVI Is in
Sweden studying Int’l
Tourism & doing a term
in Spain. NIMA is in
Brock U in CAN, majoring
in business admin.
DAWA is in OCAD, in
Toronto CAN studying
Industrial Design. KRIS-
HANT is in his sr yr at
U Bridgeport majoring
in Industrial Design.
PRASAN is in Purdue U,
IN. He misses Nepalese
parties. BENJAMIN is
in his sr yr, majoring
in Environmental Sci &
plays on the tennis team.
SIDHANT Is in his sr
yr at Babson College. MASANA is still
at Azusa Pacific U in Los Angeles. She
worked for a term helping less fortunate
communities in LA. ROSS is back in
TX working for Apple, Inc. as a Developer
Support Agent. She works at nights
because she is in a European team that
supports Italy, among other countries.
She misses India terribly! ARISH is currently
in his 3rd yr of Business Studies
at the U Abertay, Dundee, UK; he had an
eventful summer with fellow classmates
& also with AMIR ’05 & Amit ’07 in
Kathmandu. HELENA is in her final yr
at Mary Baldwin College. She’ll graduate
with a BA in Theater & a teaching license
at the end of 12. KATE just graduated
from Cambridge U in History. She is
currently doing an internship in Parliament,
which will ideally lead to a job
in British politics. CHAGAN spent the
summer in Washington DC, interning at
Center on Budget & Policy Priorities, will
be a sr at Goshen College, still majoring
in Business & Communication. This semester
some more recent WS grads will
be joining her at Goshen. MAYANKA is
currently studying Pol Sci & Asian Studies
at Saint Joseph’s U, Philadelphia. She
recently met Krisha, Mikhail in London
& also meets other Woodstocker’s in
NE USA often. MIKHAIL is in London
studying film; he is looking forward to
finally going to Old Trafford to watch
Man Utd this yr. GAUTAM is going
to U Nottingham for MSc Marketing.
RAVINA graduated this yr from NMIMS
& is currently doing a journalism course
in Chennai, at Asian College of Journalism.
She met classmates NIHARIKA,
ANGELA & VARKHA this summer in
Delhi. JAMYANG is enjoying studying
in the Big Apple; she has taken NYU by
storm (no pun intended). SHABAB is a
sr at Earlham College, IN. He is trying
his best to stay out of trouble. AVASH &
SHAEL are doing well at RIT. JOSHUA is
in his sr yr at Illinois Wesleyan. ANGELA
graduated this yr, she misses everyone.
VARKHA had a quality vacation in Nepal
over the summer. She is back in Australia
studying hard.—Arish
Class of 2009
The Class of 09, Tenacious, has had
another successful yr. All of us have
been busy doing a lot, but there always
seem to be enough time in the day to
relax, think & get in touch with each
other. Memories of WS never seem to
fade away. SANGEUN (SARAH) CHO
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Class of ’09 L-R:Sonam Yangchen, Abhishek Sinha, Montazer
Mehdi, Michelle Ralte in Australia
at a mutual friend’s concert at Syracuse
U. SHAHID JUDGE is in his sr yr doing
a BA course with History major at St.
Xavier’s College, Mumbai. He travelled
with the WS cricket team to Patiala.
VAHINI MALLIPUDI is a magazine
photographer, so people in need of a FB
profile pic know where to look! FATEMA
SITABKHAN has transferred to Media
Arts, experiencing something new every
day! MITALI GUPTA interned at UN,
NYC, for the summer & is now studying
abroad in London. SHOICHIRO
KANAHARA visited the ’09 gang in
Toronto, spent his summer in Shanghai
learning Chinese. He is going to be in
Japan for the following yr. RAAG SETHI
is studying at Chapman U, CA & part
of design for change, IN’s largest design
contest. NEHA ABRAHAM is studying
history in Delhi. SAMITA THAPA met
JEFF LEHMAN (’86, S) & DAN KOOP-
LEICHTY (S), while studying at Goshen
College. PRABARNA GANGULY is
majoring in biochem. KRON AUNGVI-
TULSATIT enjoys the British accent
while study at U of the Arts, London.
SULAGANA CHAUDHARI is enjoying
her penultimate yr at law school in
UK while having many ’09 reunions in
London & Cardiff. MENDA TENZING
changed her major to int’l bus & is enjoys
the little WS community at Mercyhurst
College. HILARY SMITH is studying
abroad in MEX. JAMES YOO is having
a blast in college & has made his personal
resolution to meet more ’09 people living
around NYC this yr. TARIKA LALL
is spending her Fall studying at King’s
College, London. ABHISHEK KUMAR
does not get sick of the Melbourne life;
if only there were Char Dukan, it would
be perfect. AVANINDRA SAKLANI is
studying Econ at U Bristol, UK & spent
his summer catching up with friends from
’09. JONATHAN PALJOR is starting 3rd
yr of college in Singapore.
RICHA EKKA is in AUS
studying abroad at James
Cook U, doing a geology
major, is interested in coral
reefs & animal conservation
projects in Kenya. SONAM
YANGDEN met JEANNE
YU (S) while she was visiting
Bhutan. MONTAZERUL
MEHDI is enjoying his time in
AUS & meets regularly with
the Aussie ’09 gang. SANAM
KHANNA has converted to a
Parisienne for this semester,
enjoying baguettes on the
Champs-Elysees. PRITHA RAJOURIA
has been travelling in Cambodia & Thailand,
teaching English to Buddhist monks
& is now transferring to Manhattanville
College NY. RUDRA BAJPAI is studying
at UBC, Vancouver, playing football &
involved in ex-curricular activities such
as MUN. PUJA SEN had an externship
in Buddakan NYC; you might recognize
the restaurant from the engagement scene
in the movie Sex & the City! JAGRATO
ROY is doing int’l bus mngmt at U
Liverpool, UK, visits ATIRAV GUPTA
in Lausanne often. ERI TAKEUCHI
participates in Student Government &
is actively involved in Pre-Dental activities,
including shadowing a dentist
after classes. These days, she lives with
cute squirrels instead of scary monkeys!
can’t wait till a reunion! miss you guys
so MUCH!—Atirav & Lisa
Class of 2010
Last summer, ARADHANA ROBERTS
went back home to India: it was such a
blessing seeing my parents, family & WS.
Miss you all! Soph yr has begun and I am
looking forward to another challenging
yet exciting yr. DAVID ABUD met mad
WSkers while in India this summer, having
mad good times at college, changed
my major to econ. ADITYA TODI got to
meet ANANT, ANGAD, SAHIL, MARK,
RISHABH, SHAHID ’09, SHUBHASH-
ISH ’09, RACHIT ’09;.having a wicked
good time at college! DEVIKA JAJOO
reports that Delhi U can be tough at
times because the environment is a little
aggressive; nevertheless it’s been a good
learning experience. ANIRUDH VOHRA
is back from the US, doing law in India,
very polar, but worth it. AUNG MYA
KYAW is doing economics at McGill.
TOKUJI TANAKA has decided to major
in linguistics. Life at Brock U is great
for ESTHER KHIANGTE who spent the
summer in Toronto & met with many people
from the same background. She could
not make it to a Curry Club get together
in Toronto, but will try her best to make
it the next time. KIRSTEN HOWARD is
in 1st yr, studying Arts at the U British
Columbia. For SWATI GOEL, visiting
WS this summer as an alumna was an
experience almost difficult to accept. She
wishes she could go back & relive her
time as a student. NIKLAS KAMBER is
currently taking a gap-year from college,
spending it in Asia. After finishing his
1st yr of college in OH, HOYUN RYU
is back in Korea to join the air force in
Nov. He was in India to visit classmates,
which was great.—Aditya & Lisa
Class of 2011
IMAAN DHALIWAL is attending Pratt
in NYC & is studying Interior Designing.
MAYNICA SACHDEV is studying in Chulalongkorn
U in Bangkok & is doing a BA in
Language & Art. ROBYNNE HOWARD is
studying Biol & Int’l Developm’t at McGill
U. ADITYA DAS is at Purdue U studying
mech engineering. SHIRLY SAMUEL is at
Hope College MI majoring in Biol & doing
a minor in French. ARMAAN BINDRA is
at St. Olaf in MN. NEHA BALI is in the
U Las Vegas, studying towards a BSBA.
ANAMIKA BHATT is at Mount Allison U
in NB CAN, planning to major in Psych.
JEREMY ARTHUR is at MS Ramaiya College
of Hotel Mngmt in Bangalore, doing
a Bachelor’s in hotel mngmt. GAURAB
ADHIKARI is at the College of St. Scholastica,
studying accounting. SONAM JATTU
is studying Engineering Sci in Trinity U
in San Antonio TX. ADNAN VALDES
BHATTACHARJEA is studying Philo &
History at the U BC. ABIGAIL WOOD
is doing a double major in Poli Sci & the
French Horn at the Truman State U in MO.
SHREEN VAID is studying Political & Int’l
Rel at the U Manchester. MAARI WATA-
NABE is doing a BA in Fashion Mngmt
at the London School of Fashion. YSOLT
BRAR is studying Life Sci at Toronto U.
RAJIV MORE is doing a BA Bus Admin at
Flame School of Liberal Edu in Pune. GI-
TANJAYA DHAKAL, ASHIKA THANJU
& BENJAMIN THAPA are at Goshen
College, IN. DANIEL ROLLINS is at the
U of New Haven, CT. JAZA SAMUEL is
studying at the CA College of the Arts in
Oakland, CA. JEONG YEONLIM is at
SUNY Binghamton. AMIT LALVANI is attending
TX Christian U. SANGHAMITRA
GHOSH is in Wilson College, Mumbai,
studying for a Bachelor’s of Mass Media.
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Staff
Jottings
ELLEN ALTER was able to visit Landour
with BOB in Apr before his peaceful passing
on Jun 19. COL ARUN BANSAL is
retired in Meerut, where he golfs, travels
& has full-time husband duties. JAMES
& WILLI BARTON are in Ireland, promoting
marriage & marriage preparation
course. They spent Jan in Hong Kong
where they met with JEFF & RUTH
AUTY & several former students. PAUL
& KIRSTEN BAYNHAM are working in
Shan State, Burma, with Partners Relief &
Developm’t. JANELLE BLOCHER, having
lost husband STEPHEN in Oct 10, has
spent the past yr teaching at an int’l school
in Qingdao, China, where sons Eric &
Ryan are also working. CHRIS & KAREN
COOKE are in Wuxi, China, where they
are teaching at Eton House Int’l School.
They spent the past yr in Oudtshoorn, SA.
JEYAKUMAR & JOYCE DANIEL are in
Chennai, where Jeyakumar is exec dir of
SEESHA & Joyce continues with the Leprosy
Mission. PRIYANATHAN & CHRIS-
TY DINAKARAN moved to Stavanger,
NOR, last yr. Priyanathan works at the Int’l
School of Stavanger & Christy at the British
School. PHILIP & KAY AOKI JACOB
have relocated to Gurgaon from the Am
Int’l School in Egypt. Philip is focusing on
the Gateway Trust for autism & Kaye is an
edu consultant. KATHLEEN FORANCE
JOHNSON has published a series of articles
about SE Asian Textiles in Textiles
Asia Journal & the Journal of the Textile
Society of America. DAVID & NAOMI
FORBES live N of Inverness, Scotland,
where she teaches in a school for special
needs & he has a consultancy co with his
brother. ELLEN GOODELL enjoys retirement
& travels whenever possible. She
enjoys meeting with former students. SU-
ZANNE SELBY GRENAGER has finished
her 1st book, Bare Naked at the Reality
Dance. JARED & EMILY HATCH spent
last yr teaching in Syria & are currently
teaching in Daegu, Korea. They enjoyed
meeting the BOVENS, BURCHELLS &
VANOPSTALS over the summer in the
Chicago area. DAVID LAURENSON is
project dir at CUNY for a new program
designed to attract science graduates into
the teaching profession. PHILIP LUT-
GENDORF teaches at U of IA & working
on a book Chai: Why, presented at the
WOSA-NA reunion conference. JENNY
MCINTOSH is in Wellington, NZ, where
she works for Skylight, a social enterprise
providing support & resources for anyone
experiencing grief, loss, trauma & transition
of any kind. MEG MUCKLESTONE
is retired in AUS, volunteering part-time
with SIM. SHEENA MCKEAN MULHOL-
LAND enjoyed a reunion with STEPHA-
NIE SOKHI PICKETT (S) & family at the
BARTONS in Jun. Sheena teaches French
in after-school clubs & Rod is engaged in
parish ministry. JASWANT PAUL SHER-
RING - lived to see his 70th birthday in
October 2011. He will be held in loving
memory by wife Vimla and children ZU-
BIN ’87, YASMIN ’88 and BENJAMIN
’95. He started his life in Mussoorie on
staff with Woodstock and continued to
bring his dedication and hardwork to his
new career in Evanston, Il. We will miss
him. GERTRUDE “TRUDY” NELSON is
in assisted living in Edmonton, AB, following
a good recovery from a lumpectomy.
MARK & DOROTHY PLATER are in
Nottingham, UK, Dorothy doing stained
glass & Mark teaching at a univ in Lincoln.
PETER SETO & NATALIE BATES are
on Anderson Island, WA, where Peter is
running their car on waste veg oil, using
waste foam panels from a door factory to
insulate the house & regularly visiting the
local dump to reclaim useful things before
they hit the landfill. Natalie works at improving
the efficiency of super computers.
MALCOLM & JUNE SHEPHERD are at
Grace Academy in Dehra Dun. TED & EL-
EANOR VONK are in Grand Rapids, MI
& are active in promoting Christian educ
in Niger. GEOFF & PAULINE WILLIAMS
take ministry trips to India & Nepal twice
a yr. DEBBIE WITTIG teaches at Wesley
Int’l School in Malang, East Java, ID. She
has added white water rafting to her list of
adventures! ADDIE AMSTUTZ YODER
is adjusting to a life without Dave, who
passed away last yr. —Anne
sTAFF REP
Anne Lind
1311 Winsted Drive
Goshen IN 46526-4688
USA
annelind@me.com
574-538-2334
Interested in working at
Woodstock?
For full information visit
www.woodstock.ac.in

Staff arrivals and departures
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Departing staff
• Atula Ahuja, Residence Staff
• Sujata Archer, Health / General Teacher
• Annamarie Craig, Social Studies Teacher
• Aman Dang, College Counselor
• William Garcia, English Teacher
• Merideth Garcia, ESL Teacher
• Paul Gerberding, Head of Department - Art
• Jennifer Gross, Associate Librarian
• Megan Hagberg, Music Teacher
• Anil Jain, ICT Manager
• Sangeeta Lall, Social Studies Teacher
• David Laurenson, Principal
• Mijung Park, Residence Staff
• James Rice, Chemistry Teacher
• Siddhartha Roy, Sr. Accountant
• Dag Schöier, Software developer
• Ronald Swanson, Registrar
• Susan Swanson, Head Librarian
• Lauren Terry, Physical Education Teacher
• David Wood, Teacher - Grade 5
• Gail Wood, English / Drama Teacher
January arrivals
• Maya Dutt, Residence Staff
• Themneivah Singh, Nurse
• Gayathri Parthasarthy, Music Teacher
• Rajneesh Daniel, Junior School
Technology Teacher
• Meredith Dyson, English/Social Studies
Teacher
July arrivals
• Andrew Cooper, Jr. School Teacher
• Brian Hazlett, Residence Staff
• Christina Marye, Residence Staff
• David Webb, Social Studies Teacher
• Eleanor Nicholson, Interim Principal
• Haydn Wilkins, Residence Staff
• Heather Webb, General Music Teacher
• Holey Berg, Social studies
• Ingrid Bakke, Music
• J C Sharma, Chemistry Teacher
• Jay DeCoux, RE Teacher
• Katelyn Erickson, Art Teacher
• Lindsay Boyd , Band Teacher
• Marcus Shaw, Alumni Engagement &
Gifts Officer
• Marney Lewis, Social Media Specialist
• Matthew Brodie , English Teacher
• Nilesh Talaulicar, Admin Assistant, Senior
School
• Pam Wiggins, Junior School Teacher
• Rebecca Layton, Art Teacher
• Sarah Colwell, Jr. School Librarian
• Shannon Schultz, PE Teacher
• Sonal Sharma, Health Teacher (Half-time)
• Suman Mitra, Residence Staff
Departed staff who served over five years
Sue Swanson (8yrs)
Susan Swanson has contributed to Woodstock in many ways, and the students
and school have benefited because of her dedication and love. She was hired
in 2003 as the School Librarian and Head of the Learning Resources Center. In
her time at Woodstock, she ruled over the stacks, shushing seniors and pushing
all students and staff towards academic excellence. She demanded silence in
the library but spoke loudly in meetings and assemblies—truly a force to be
reckoned with. She dealt in three areas as Librarian—administration, collection
management, and instruction/outreach.
Sue contributed to the school in many more ways: she was the staff and advisor
and a chaperone for the Model United Nations programs between 2004 and 2006
and again between 2009 and 2011 (she coordinated the program from 2006 to
2009). Plus, she was the homeroom teacher of the class of 2010. Susan will be
missed, not just for
her work in the library
but also for
her love for Woodstock
School.
Ron Swanson
(8yrs)
Few people have
contributed as
much to Woodstock
over the past eight
years as Ronald
Swanson has. He
arrived in 2003 as
an accompanying
spouse, here with
his wife Susan, who was hired as School Librarian. According to her, “We
came because I had a job, and we stayed because he had one.” In fact, he had
two primary roles: for three years, he was an Administrative Assistant in ICT,
and for the past five years, he has been the Registrar. His ICT accomplishments
include keeping departmental data and records and training himself in HTML
so that he could be the webmaster for WS Wire. Many of the services available
on the wire – such as the announcements system and study hall signups – are
there because Ronald debugged and implemented them. In 2006, Ronald moved
to the Registrar’s office and his work has included: Adding the transcript back
page for student activities and external exam results; implementing the demerit
system for Saturday Morning Detention; consolidating and organizing old student
files, beginning the systematic computerized cataloging of old student files;
assuming the duties of Cambridge Examination Officer; organizing and summarizing
external examination results for PSAT, SAT, IGCSE, and AP exams;
helping to implement and maintain the Naviance software system for managing
American college applications; and assuming the role of scheduler for Senior
School courses.
Finally, he helped new administrators in countless ways, providing detailed
advice, usually with a touch of humor and always with humility and kindness.
His dedication to Woodstock is unsurpassed, and any teacher who has turned
in late grades or comments at the end of a marking period knows that Ronald
was always willing to work many hours into the night and on weekends to make
sure the job was done.

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Gargi Barooah (9 years)
Mrs. Gargi Barooah joined the Woodstock music department in July 2002 as a
piano teacher. Since then she has taught elementary school general music, beginning
strings, violin and music theory courses. She has taught advanced piano
students, of whom many have performed excellently at recitals, both formal
& informal besides being featured as soloists in concertos performed with the
advanced orchestra. Her piano students have obtained excellent results in the
Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music examinations. Many of them
have passed advanced grade level examinations with merit and distinction. Mrs.
Barooah has the credit of being the first music teacher to have a student succeed
in a diploma level performance examination. Her theory students have also had
a high level of success in the external examinations.
Mrs. Barooah has been meticulous in her teaching approaches. She has always
been a willing accompanist for students at recitals and for external examinations;
as such she always ensured that students had adequate rehearsals with her before a
performance. She has been a great team player in the music department. Her contribution
during
her eight and
a half years in
our community
has been
enormous and
will be greatly
missed by all.
Chris Starr
(8 years)
Five years ago,
a young(ish)
man joined
the Development
Team at
Woodstock
School. Not
new to the
school (after
all he was here as a “chut”), Chris Starr ’81 brought with him well-honed skills
and experience in educational media and website design and usability. In addition
he had an already well-developed love and understanding of what Woodstock
was all about.
Over these past few years, Chris, has been a beloved, valued and highly contributing
member of the Development Team. He has introduced and supported
many new initiatives and programmes such as the wsalumni website, the STAR
programme, World Wide Woodstock Day, and the Raise Your Hand Campaign.
A filmmaker of considerable talent, he produced the video, “A Day In The Life
of Woodstock” and was co-producer of the student documentary film project,
“Palayan: A Story of Exodus”. Chris has represented Woodstock to alumni in
countries around the world from the USA to Australia, New Zealand, England
and Singapore.
His co-workers on the Development Team will remember Chris for his unique
sense of humour, his ability to inject joviality into our coffee hours and team
gatherings, and the hilarity which emanated from the alumni office he shared
with Monica. Chris leaves Woodstock with more than just his love for Woodstock
intact: he has found another deeper love with Gargi Barooah. As Chris
and Gargi leave Woodstock and plan for their marriage and new careers in the
US, we send them with our love, affection, respect and prayers for God’s blessings
on their future.
In memoriam
Detailed in memoriams are online at
www.wsalumni.com
• ALTER, ROBERT ’43 died on Jun 19, 2011.
He is survived by wife ELLEN, and sons
STEVE ’74 and AMEETA ’73, JOSEPH ’77,
ANDREW ’78, granddaughter SHIBANI
’02 and many nephews and nieces.
• ANDERSON, THELMA ALLEY ’45
passed away on Dec 11, 2010, survived by
her husband Robert.
• AROLE, RAJ, father of SHOBHA ’78 and
RAVI ’85 passed away in May 2011.
• BADHWAR, MRS, mother of PRAMILLA
’58 passed away on May 5, 2011.
• BARROWS, VIRGINIA passed away on
Jun 17, 2011, survived by her husband
ALDEN ’51.
• BEACHY, JOHN passed away on Apr
19, 2011, survived by wife Miriam, and
children CHERYL PAULOVICH ’69,
JOHN ALLEN ’60, LYNETTE ’76 and
LEON BAUMAN (S), and KENYON ’78.
• BITTENBENDER, ED, father of AMY
SHOFNER ’73, PHILIP ’75 and LIPIKA
MAZUMDAR ’79, PETER ’77 and
KAREN KLEIN (S).
• BLOCHER, STEVE (S) died on Oct 13,
2010, survived by wife JANELLE (S), and
children RYAN ’97 and KIRSTEN ’98.
• BRINES, WILLIAM, husband of
MARJORIE DAVIS BRINES ’50, passed
away on Jul 5, 2010.
• CRESSMAN, LEONA (S) died on Dec
2, 2010.
• DAVIES, RUTH COLVIN, sister of
ELLEN PARKER ’35, LUCILE KRAVITZ
’38, JOYCE KRAUSE ’41, and DORIS
BELL ’44 passed away on Mar 21, 2011.
• EADIE, DAVE died on Mar 4 2011,
survived by his wife Jean and daughters
MARILYN CAILLIER ’70 and
BARBARA RUTTLE ’78.
• ELLIOTT, ALMEDA passed away on Feb
3, 2011, survived by husband Leon and
daughters MARGARET COOK ’58 and
DJ CRAWFORD ’63.

• FISHER, GLEN, husband of LORITA
SHULL FISHER ’39, passed away on
Apr 9, 2011.
• FOSTER, BRUCE ’42 died on Sep 21,
2011, survived by sisters DOROTHY
HARROLD ’48, ROBERTA CROWELL
’54, LIZ ’59 and JANET ANDERSON ’57.
• FRANCIS, JASON husband of LINDA
WEISENBECK FRANCIS (S), died on
Jan 11, 2010.
• GREEN , RACHEL, daughter of PATTY
GREEN-SOTOS ’72, granddaughter of
BILL ’42 and DOROTHY VAUGHN
’42 WHITCOMB, niece of CATE
WHITCOMB ’66 and JACK HINZ (S),
JOHN ’69 and BOB WHITCOMB ’77,
and cousin of KATE WHITCOMB ’02,
passed away on Feb 17, 2011.
• GRANT, SHIREEN GUZDER ’27 died
on May 17, 2008..
• GRUEBER, HANS, father of URSULA
WIESE ’68, HARALD ’69, WOLF ’72
and HANNA BOEKER ’79, passed away
on Jun 17, 2011.
• HARVEY, BERNEITA (S), wife of
EARLE HARVEY (S), died on Sep 28,
2011.
• HOLDERREED LOUISE, mother of
BRUCE ’60, MARY EARLY ’64 and
MARGARET ULLOM ’66, passed away
on Mar 14, 2011.
• HOLMES, DOROTHY, mother of CATHY
HOLMES (S) passed away on Aug 26,
2011.
• HOLMES, PAULA (S) died on Mar 18,
2011.
• HOWES, HAROLD (S), husband of Alice
(S), passed away on Nov 11, 2011.
• JOHNSON, DOROTHY, died Dec 18,
2010, and GEORGE JOHNSON on Jan
10, 2011. They were the parents of PHILIP
’60, CAROLYN COCHRAN ’69, and
DAVID ’72.
• KAPADIA, THEMINA GUZDER, ’29
died on Jul 29, 2011.
• KAPUR, ANJALIKA ’02, sister of
TARIKA LALL ’09, passed away on
Dec 25, 2010.
• KHANNA, MADHAV, elder son of
Kamal and MALTI NANDA KHANNA
’55, and nephew of SHIV NANDA ’58,
died on Dec 28, 2010.
• KIDWAI, PROFESSOR, mother of
TARIQ KIDWAI ’69 died Jun 16, 2011.
• LOWE, THELMA, mother of JOHN
’72, TIM ’74, AMY ’76 and SARAH ’79
passed away on Aug 18, 2011.
• MALHAN, Ramesh Chandra, father of
MADHU ’83 and ANDY ’88, passed
away peacefully on Nov 4, 2011.
• MANTON, THOMAS ’56 died on Jan
19, 2011, survived by sons ALEX ’84
and ERIC ’89, sister KARIS TAYLOR
’56 and brothers DAVID ’59 and WILL
’63.
• MARRIOTT, DOUGLAS, father of
ANNE ’71, DAVID ’72 and MARGARET
GUENTHER ’76, died on Aug 7, 2011
• MENCE, DON, husband of NANCY
RYBURN MENCE ’52, passed away
on Nov 25, 2010.
• MINER, KAREN THIESSEN ’73 died
on Sep 21, 2011, survived by husband
Robert, parents ARTHUR ’40 and
JEANNETTE THIESSEN, and sisters
KIM ’73 and JON ’73 WARREN and
VELMA ’75 and JOHN ’75 GROSE.
• PEARCE, CHRISTINE FULLILOVE
’47 passed away on Jan 17, 2011.
• PETERS, THOMAS, passed away on
Nov 11, 2010, survived by wife Jean and
children CYNTHIA ’74, MARIAN ’75
and JEFF ’78.
• PHILLIPS, DOROTHY LINDEN ’42
passed away on Dec 19, 2010, survived
by husband Aubrey.
• ROSKO, BILL, husband of LOIS
FEIERABEND ROSKO ’69, passed
away on Dec 16, 2010.
• SKALAK, ANNA ALLISON ’41 passed
away on Apr 24, 2011.
• SHERRING, JASWANT (S) passed
away on Oct 20, 2011. He is survived
by wife Vimla, son BENJAMIN ’95
and daughters ZUBIN ’87 and YASMIN
CHUNG ’88.
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• STACKLEY, MURIEL THIESSEN
’54 died on Jan 29, 2011, survived by
siblings ARTHUR THIESSEN ’40 and
DOROTHY THIESSEN ANDERSON
’59.
• STRAUGHAN, AL died on Aug 16,
2011 survived by wife Ruth, daughter
DEIRDRE ’81 and granddaughter
ROSSELLA LAENG ’08
• THOMSEN, MARTHA LARSON
’72 died on Feb 24, 2011, survived by
siblings JONATHAN ’65 and MARY
KAY BURKHALTER ’65 LARSON,
TIM LARSON ’67, BETTE LARSON
DEAN ’69 and SARA LARSON
WIEGNER ’75.
• WAIT, HAZEL (S) passed away on Dec
9, 2010.
• WHITFIELD, FREDERICK ’37 passed
away on Oct 27, 2010.
• WIEBE, COOKIE, Staff and Parent, died
on Oct 31, 2011, survived by husband
DAVID (S) and daughter ABRA STAFFIN
WIEBE ’97
• WILLIAMS, LESTER (P) passed away in
2011, survived by wife Edith.
• WINDSOR, RAYMOND passed away
on Aug 10, 2011. He is survived
by wife Gwen and children DIANE
RUSSELL ’72, JOHN ’74, HEATHER
DODSON ’76, PAUL ’77 and
BARBARA WINDSOR ’78 and MARK
’78 and ANNE MCGREGOR (S), and
grandson BEN (S) and EMERALD (S)
WINDSOR.
• WOODMAN, RUTH, mother of BETSY
WOODMAN ’63.died on Jan 12, 2011.
• YODER, DAVID (S), husband of ADDIE
YODER (S), died on Apr 10, 2011.
• YOUNG, BILL ’50, passed away on Apr
1, 2011, survived by brothers GORDON
’45 and sister HELEN SUTER ’46
• ZANTINY, NANCY BADLEY ’32
passed away on Dec 10, 2010, survived
by husband William.

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teachers.
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