Woodstock School Alumni Magazine Vol CIV, 2011
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<strong>Woodstock</strong> <strong>School</strong> <strong>Alumni</strong> <strong>Magazine</strong><br />
<strong>Vol</strong> <strong>CIV</strong>, <strong>2011</strong>
Quadrangle - 1<br />
<strong>Woodstock</strong> <strong>School</strong> <strong>Alumni</strong> <strong>Magazine</strong><br />
<strong>Alumni</strong> Office<br />
WOODSTOCK SCHOOL<br />
Mussoorie, Uttarakhand 248 179, India<br />
Tel: +91 (135) 263-5900, 263-2610, 263-2547<br />
<strong>Alumni</strong> Office Extension: 171<br />
Fax: +91 (135) 263-2885<br />
Email: alumni@woodstock.ac.in<br />
Web: www.woodstock.ac.in<br />
Table of contents<br />
Swan song: from the Principal .......................2<br />
Around the sundial .........................................3<br />
I remember <strong>Woodstock</strong> ....................................8<br />
Class jottings that sing ...................................9<br />
Visitors on the hillside ...................................11<br />
Back on the hillside .......................................12<br />
Graduation <strong>2011</strong> ...........................................16<br />
Baccalaureate address .............................16<br />
Commencement address ...........................19<br />
Valedictorian speech ...............................21<br />
Salutatorian speech .................................22<br />
Graduating Class of <strong>2011</strong> ........................23<br />
<strong>2011</strong> awards ..................................................24<br />
Distinguished <strong>Alumni</strong> <strong>2011</strong> ...........................25<br />
WOSA – 100 ..................................................26<br />
Gatherings.....................................................28<br />
Class reunions ..........................................28<br />
Other gatherings ......................................33<br />
Worldwide <strong>Woodstock</strong> Day ......................34<br />
Class jottings ................................................43<br />
Staff jottings ...............................................106<br />
Staff arrivals and departures ......................107<br />
In memoriam ..............................................108<br />
Editorial team<br />
Editors: Abhra Bhattacharjee ’92, Monica<br />
Roberts, Marcus Shaw ’87, Pete Wildman,<br />
Neva Whiteman<br />
Jottings assistance by<br />
Li-Chiang Chu ’59<br />
Layout & Design<br />
Randhir A. Malhan ’88 TSA Effects<br />
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The Quadrangle is available online at<br />
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Front cover: Steve Luukonnen<br />
Inside front cover: Taeyeong Jun<br />
Inside back cover: Abraham Okie<br />
Any ideas for improving <strong>Alumni</strong> services?<br />
Write to us at alumni@woodstock.ac.in
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Swan song: from the Principal<br />
Eleanor Nicholson, Principal<br />
In a few short weeks I’ll be back in Chicago,<br />
Illinois, USA—my beloved hometown. It<br />
will be VERY cold, possibly snowy and<br />
possibly icy. That’s Chicago for you, so<br />
what else is new? My little dachshund will<br />
run in circles around me, whimpering with<br />
happiness. My children and grandchildren<br />
probably won’t run around in circles and they<br />
never whimper, but they’ll be glad to see me.<br />
I will most certainly be glad to see them!<br />
But just because one is back doesn’t mean<br />
that things are unchanged. Six months as<br />
Principal of the most respected international<br />
school in India is a transformative adventure.<br />
Some reflections as the days dwindle down<br />
to a precious few.<br />
What have been the high points? The answer:<br />
a lot of memories that begin with B!<br />
• Bandarpunch: the staff summiting of<br />
that 22,000 feet mountain just before<br />
school opened was thrilling to me. It<br />
took courage, endurance, strength,<br />
collaboration and mutual care, all<br />
qualities we want to see in every member<br />
of the <strong>Woodstock</strong> community.<br />
• Being with kids: there is something so<br />
endearing (and frustrating) about kids<br />
in their elementary and senior school<br />
years. They are searching, exploring,<br />
questioning, seeking independence while<br />
at the same time they need the assurance<br />
that they matter and that they are loved<br />
and cared for. We need to offer that to<br />
every kid every day.<br />
• Belief that most of us—staff, faculty,<br />
Board, employees—are on the same<br />
page in our mutual dedication to and<br />
love for this great school.<br />
• Brigadoon: What an enormous pleasure<br />
to see a performance of the highest<br />
quality done by staff and students<br />
working together for a common cause.<br />
• Blankets: One of the more moving<br />
moments for me was the opportunity<br />
to give lovely new blankets to longestserving<br />
employees, including gentle and<br />
loyal Biddha-ji, who brings me a cup a<br />
coffee twice a day. His service record<br />
is more than 35 years at <strong>Woodstock</strong>. I<br />
haven’t done the same thing consistently<br />
for that many years except live.<br />
• Being a part of the Strategic Planning:<br />
the three day retreat to work on 2020<br />
Vision was an exciting high<br />
• Beauty: the sun rising and setting<br />
through the winterline, the ferns on the<br />
trees in the monsoon; the sun on the<br />
snow peaks as we flew in from Delhi<br />
yesterday<br />
No more B’s, but other letters muct be<br />
mentioned—C: excellent colleagues; most<br />
of all—the P—the possibilities that await<br />
this incredible school. L: Dr. Long will<br />
lead the way; I must say again how fortunate<br />
<strong>Woodstock</strong> is to have persuaded this<br />
extraordinary man to come to <strong>Woodstock</strong><br />
and forge the way forward.<br />
Any regrets?<br />
• Not entertaining every staff member in<br />
my home.<br />
• Knowing so few of the kids.<br />
• No time for exploration, hiking, working<br />
out, travel. <strong>School</strong>s are schools and<br />
somewhat like each other. In the day-today<br />
issues I was perfectly at home and<br />
to that extent I could have been in any<br />
school anywhere, even though I never<br />
lost sight of where I actually am!<br />
• Leaving so much yet to do, but then I<br />
know as well as anybody that a school<br />
is a work in progress; it’s never “done.”<br />
Where do I hope <strong>Woodstock</strong> will go and<br />
grow?<br />
• Every student must commit to a given<br />
number of hours (more than now) of<br />
community service.<br />
• The incredible resources of the Hanifl<br />
Center and outdoor education must be<br />
explored and integrated much more fully<br />
into both academic and social life.<br />
• I would like to see even greater<br />
opportunities for student leadership and<br />
responsibility.<br />
• The transition from the Junior <strong>School</strong><br />
must be engineered in a way that is<br />
sensitive to the social, emotional,<br />
cognitive and academic needs of the<br />
early adolescent.<br />
• <strong>Woodstock</strong> must become an educational<br />
leader in India. There can be workshops,<br />
speakers, conferences, and online<br />
presentations through which the school<br />
both leads and learns. Hanifl is a<br />
natural setting and a possible driving<br />
force is a continuation of the Winterline<br />
Centre.<br />
• I want 2020 Vision, Desired Learning<br />
Outcomes and the Religious Life Policy<br />
to be the beacons that guide everything<br />
that goes on every day on the ground<br />
at <strong>Woodstock</strong>. Anything that is not<br />
consistent with these documents should<br />
be discarded.<br />
• Every day in every classroom should be<br />
imbued with intellectual and personal<br />
excellence.<br />
• The deficiencies and stresses experienced<br />
in a small, closely-connected community<br />
in the Himalayan foothills must be<br />
ameliorated as much as possible and the<br />
joys of living in this magnificent setting<br />
must be magnified as much as possible.<br />
I am leaving with pleasure only because I<br />
know I will be back. <strong>Woodstock</strong> remains in<br />
my heart and on my calendar.<br />
Footnote: Dr. Nicholson has been invited<br />
to be the next President of the <strong>Woodstock</strong><br />
Board of Directors.
Around the sundial<br />
Abhrajit Bhattacharjee ’92, Director of Development<br />
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JULY 2010: Thirty-nine eager new staff began<br />
their new lives at <strong>Woodstock</strong>. Two of them<br />
had been professional actresses. Four families<br />
had children adopted from overseas: an<br />
American family with daughters from China,<br />
an Australian family withchildren from Colombia,<br />
a Swedish family with children from<br />
India who only spoke Swedish, and an Indian<br />
family with a daughter born in Malaysia. Our<br />
mosaic of cultural diversity kept growing!<br />
One hundred new students also joined <strong>Woodstock</strong><br />
this year and the excited students and<br />
parents crowded into the gym for orientation.<br />
AUGUST: To coincide with Indian (and Korean)<br />
Independence days, the annual Indian<br />
Cultural Festival welcomed Shagun Butani<br />
and her dance troupe who performed Chhau<br />
and Odissi classical dances to an appreciative<br />
school audience. Australian children’s author,<br />
August: Indian regional dance<br />
Jane Jolly, paid her first visit to <strong>Woodstock</strong>.<br />
Jane, author of Limpopo Lullaby, Glass Tears<br />
and Ali the Bold Heart, held readings and<br />
visited classes and was inspired to write a<br />
new book by our resident monkey population.<br />
Independence Day was celebrated with a<br />
“Bollywood” evening led by Danz’n’Buzz, a<br />
professional dance troupe who visited <strong>Woodstock</strong><br />
as Artists in Residence at the Winterline<br />
Centre for the Arts at <strong>Woodstock</strong> <strong>School</strong>. Students<br />
from grades 1-12 shook their hips in the<br />
gym to the strains of the latest Bollywood hits.<br />
The school community was shaken by the<br />
tragic news of the murder of Dan Terry,<br />
’65 and parent, and Tom Little, parent, who<br />
were part of a medical relief team that was<br />
ambushed and killed in Afghanistan. These<br />
two men risked their lives for decades to<br />
bring medical aid to remote communities in<br />
Afghanistan. WOSA mourned their passing<br />
and hundreds of emails, online messages and<br />
tributes which were shared with surviving<br />
family members.<br />
SEPTEMBER: Margaret ‘Midge’ Loehlin<br />
Shafer ’56 and Ashoke Chatterjee ’51 were<br />
recognised as members of the Distinguished<br />
<strong>Alumni</strong> Roll in a ceremony in Parker Hall.<br />
July: new staff enjoy the pool<br />
<strong>Woodstock</strong> celebrated the accomplishments of<br />
these two alumni, and students were inspired<br />
by their personal accounts of their contributions<br />
to social welfare, education, design and<br />
development.<br />
As the monsoon deluges continued, the<br />
<strong>Woodstock</strong> girls swimming team brightened<br />
up a dismal month by blitzing the pool at<br />
Wynberg Allen <strong>School</strong>. The team came first<br />
overall beating the other teams and bringing<br />
home the cup. <strong>Woodstock</strong>’s swimming team<br />
was reconstituted after decades thanks to the<br />
opening of a refurbished swimming pool at the<br />
renovated and restored Hostel, which opened<br />
for boys earlier in the year.<br />
The cross country team got almost as wet<br />
when three attempts to host the inter-school<br />
cross country meet at the top of the hill failed.<br />
Finally on September 21 <strong>Woodstock</strong> students<br />
raced against Wynberg Allen, Waverly Convent,<br />
St George’s College and Oak Grove<br />
<strong>School</strong>. Izaiah Vignali, Grade 5, broke the<br />
record for the sub-junior boys by crossing the<br />
winning line in 15.01 minutes.<br />
In September we also inaugurated the Development<br />
Associate Programme, where<br />
select students were offered internships in<br />
the Development Office. Twelve young Associates<br />
began working shoulder-to-shoulder<br />
with Development Office staff in the areas<br />
of journalism, photography, photo-editing,<br />
fundraising and alumni relations.<br />
OCTOBER: Once the rains petered out,<br />
some classes in the Junior <strong>School</strong> stopped by<br />
the Turner Organic Garden to create planting<br />
beds, clear weeds and plant produce. Based<br />
on the principle that kids that are involved<br />
in planting vegetables are more inclined to<br />
August: Jane Jolly (right) and friend Marina Duffie<br />
August: new student arrivals
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November: Just So stories come to Parker Hall<br />
eat them, the Turner Organic Garden sells its<br />
produce weekly in the Quad.<br />
We welcomed a team from the Rashtriya Life<br />
Saving Association, who worked with our<br />
staff and students to execute a pool audit for<br />
the new swimming pool. Eleven members<br />
of our residence team completed a 45-hour<br />
course and were certified as lifeguards,<br />
trained in the use of CPR, first aid, oxygen,<br />
water rescues and identifying and helping spinal<br />
injuries. This training got our magnificent<br />
pool off to a great start.<br />
October also saw 161 students in our Senior<br />
<strong>School</strong> sit for PSAT and SAT tests administered<br />
by the US College Board, an aptitude<br />
test used widely for admissions to American<br />
colleges.<br />
We said farewell to two very popular student<br />
teachers from St Olaf’s College in Minnesota,<br />
USA, Sarah Onstad and Elizabeth Knapp.<br />
At the completion of her three month stint at<br />
<strong>Woodstock</strong>, Sarah commented “The school’s<br />
philosophy on education and teaching has<br />
caused us to look at how we think, and now,<br />
after three months, we have learnt so much<br />
and done a lot more thinking here than at<br />
home. <strong>Woodstock</strong> opens up your mind and<br />
challenges your ideas”. Well done girls and<br />
good luck, we hope to see you back here at<br />
<strong>Woodstock</strong> one day.<br />
The third Mussoorie International Writers<br />
Festival was attended by writers, editors and<br />
book lovers over the course of four days with<br />
more than twenty-five authors and artists<br />
presenting talks, readings, exhibitions and<br />
performances.<br />
October also saw Activity Week begin with<br />
the usual excitement. Students travelled to<br />
Goa, Rishikesh, Dharamshala and other<br />
educational destinations, as well as staying<br />
in local villages and hiking the Garhwali<br />
hills.<br />
NOVEMBER: J Gabriel Campbell, ‘65 was<br />
added to the Distinguished <strong>Alumni</strong> Roll in the<br />
presence of his class mates at a ceremony in<br />
Parker Hall on November 18, for achievements<br />
in ecology sustainability and grassroots<br />
environmental awareness. Dr. Campbell has<br />
spent almost his entire life in the Himalaya<br />
after being born at Landour Community<br />
Hospital; he now lives and works in Nepal.<br />
We were delighted to hear that Dr. Tom<br />
Little, former <strong>Woodstock</strong> parent, was to be<br />
posthumously awarded the United States<br />
Presidential Medal of Freedom. Dr. Little led<br />
the ten-member team that was brutally murdered<br />
in Afghanistan. The Medal of Freedom<br />
is the United States’ highest civilian honour.<br />
President Obama described Dr. Little as “a<br />
humanitarian in the truest sense of the word”.<br />
Our lives were made even more pleasant and<br />
full of music this month with the visit of Vance<br />
George, Grammy award winner, celebrated<br />
choral director and former <strong>Woodstock</strong> staff<br />
member. Vance visited <strong>Woodstock</strong> for three<br />
weeks as a Winterline Centre for the Arts<br />
Artist-in-Residence. Vance first taught at<br />
<strong>Woodstock</strong> fifty years ago, in the late 1950’s,<br />
and his inspiring and fun presence on campus,<br />
working closely with the music department,<br />
made our lives<br />
brighter. Rehearsals<br />
for the Fall concerts,<br />
the Christmas concert<br />
and the Advanced orchestra<br />
all benefited<br />
from his expertise.<br />
November: <strong>Woodstock</strong> play the American Embassy <strong>School</strong> in Delhi<br />
In a very busy<br />
month, <strong>Woodstock</strong>’s<br />
long awaited production<br />
of Rudyard<br />
Kipling’s Just so<br />
Stories opened on<br />
the last Friday of the<br />
month to a capacity<br />
audience. Six students<br />
from the Advanced Drama class edited<br />
and created new twists from the original<br />
stories and prepared them for the stage.<br />
November is also when the <strong>Woodstock</strong> community<br />
celebrates the employees that do so<br />
much for all of us. Mr. Dana Crider explained<br />
why <strong>Woodstock</strong> celebrates Employee’s Day annually:<br />
“The biggest importance of celebrating<br />
it is to give us a chance to see what is missed if<br />
the employees are not here. We all take a lot of<br />
things for granted, especially employees who<br />
work day in and day out on our behalf”. The<br />
employees enjoyed a special sports day in a<br />
tradition that was initiated 38 years ago by Mr.<br />
Tom Alter ’68 and Mrs. Saroj Kapadia, former<br />
Hindi teacher and <strong>Alumni</strong> Secretary.<br />
Basketball was also the talk of <strong>Woodstock</strong><br />
as <strong>Woodstock</strong> senior basketball team beat<br />
the American Embassy <strong>School</strong> (AES) on<br />
their home turf in Delhi at the beginning of<br />
our season.<br />
DECEMBER: We began December with<br />
the great news that sixty-four students sat the<br />
Associated Board of Royal <strong>School</strong>s for Music<br />
(based in London but running examinations in<br />
over 90 countries) exams with an outstanding<br />
overall success rate of 92%.<br />
October: village children enjoy the Activity Week visit of <strong>Woodstock</strong> students
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December: Santa breakfast for the Junior <strong>School</strong> (inset: Quad Christmas<br />
presentations)<br />
We also counted down to<br />
Christmas with the traditional<br />
Junior <strong>School</strong> morning presentations,<br />
culminating in the<br />
Santa Breakfast. The quad<br />
dining room was decorated<br />
with hundreds of fairy lights<br />
and guests were served<br />
by Grade 6 ‘elves’. A hot<br />
breakfast warmed everyone<br />
and Christmas carols<br />
were sung with gusto. We<br />
also surveyed all the staff to see where they<br />
were going to spend Christmas and how<br />
they would celebrate it. Family and warmer<br />
climates were the winners, of course!<br />
FEBRUARY: Staff packed away their summer<br />
clothes and wrapped up warmly for<br />
a snowy start to the school year. We were<br />
warmed by the news that <strong>Woodstock</strong> <strong>School</strong><br />
had been named among the Top 10 International<br />
Residential <strong>School</strong>s of the world by<br />
AsianCorrespondent.com, a news service<br />
owned by Hybrid News Limited in the UK.<br />
SAT results were disclosed and a proud Head<br />
of Senior <strong>School</strong>, Andrew Plonka said: “Of<br />
particular note was the number of students<br />
who scored in the top 75-99 percentile<br />
worldwide, with well<br />
over half our test<br />
takers falling into<br />
the top quarter.<br />
The best news<br />
for this year’s students<br />
is their writing<br />
score, which is<br />
<strong>Woodstock</strong>’s best<br />
result in the six years<br />
that the SAT has included<br />
this subject.”<br />
MARCH: It was a month of awards<br />
for the Alter family. Tom Alter ’68 became<br />
<strong>Woodstock</strong>’s latest Distinguished Alumnus.<br />
Marty Alter Chen’60, herself a Distinguished<br />
Alumna of <strong>Woodstock</strong>, received a Padma<br />
Shree for her work in areas of employment,<br />
poverty and gender in India under the discipline<br />
of social work. The Padma Shree is<br />
among India’s highest civilian honours. Tom<br />
Alter was a recipient of this award in January<br />
2008.<br />
Another award was to Shonila Chander, head<br />
of the Social Studies department, for her exemplary<br />
contribution to the career guidance<br />
series for students at <strong>Woodstock</strong>. The ICS<br />
September: our Development Associates team<br />
Silver Jubilee memento was presented to<br />
Ms. Chander at an assembly in Parker Hall.<br />
Thomas Chandy, President of the Board of<br />
Directors, announced the successful completion<br />
of a thorough and inclusive principal<br />
search process and the appointment of Dr.<br />
Jonathan Long as the Principal of <strong>Woodstock</strong><br />
from December 1, <strong>2011</strong>. The Board also was<br />
delighted to announce that Dr. Eleanor Nicholson<br />
would serve as Interim Principal from<br />
June to December <strong>2011</strong>.<br />
The Hawaiian team from New Hope Diamond<br />
Head in Oahu visited again to lead the<br />
senior school retreat. Development Associate<br />
Makani Nakasone attended and declared that<br />
the students over a short twenty-eight hour<br />
period felt more connected to each other,<br />
more in touch with God and more in touch<br />
with themselves as individuals.<br />
In a month of awards Hanifl Centre received<br />
their own. The Confederation of Indian Industry<br />
Environmental Award for the Uttarakhand<br />
region was presented to the Centre for<br />
Outdoor Environmental Education. Some of<br />
the Hanifl Centre activities and programmes<br />
for which the award was given were the Gap<br />
Semester in the Himalaya, the Turner Organic<br />
Garden and the Fleming Nature<br />
Trail, as well as the Mussoorie<br />
Writers’ Festival with themes<br />
such as ‘Writing About Nature’<br />
and ‘Mountain Literature’.<br />
February: snowfall on the campus<br />
March: Distinguished Alumnus<br />
Tom Alter ‘68<br />
APRIL: We celebrated Easter<br />
as the beautiful weather returned<br />
to the mountain. In the subdued<br />
lighting of the Win Mumby<br />
gymnasium, <strong>Woodstock</strong> gathered<br />
together to celebrate Easter<br />
Sunday. Head of Science Ray<br />
Husthwaite, dressed as a Celtic<br />
monk, narrated the “back story”<br />
of Easter, beginning with creation<br />
and the fall of man spanning the
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April: Easter chapel featured a Celtic monk, head of science Ray Husthwaite,<br />
as narrator<br />
centuries to the Cross and Resurrection. Congregational,<br />
choral and solo songs punctuated<br />
the story.<br />
Hot on the heels of Easter was International<br />
Day, held in the gym due to inclement weather.<br />
<strong>Woodstock</strong> girls in beautiful costumes vied<br />
with a stars and stripes cake, displays, entertainment<br />
and food from around the world.<br />
April: Jazz Jam in the Quad<br />
The second offering from the Drama department<br />
for the 2010-<strong>2011</strong> school year was a<br />
clever production of Check Please. The story<br />
revolves around finding relationships, blind dating<br />
and speed dating. Potential romances were<br />
presented one after the other on stage in rapid<br />
fire timing, keeping the large crowd entertained.<br />
The Win Mumby Basketball tournament<br />
takes over <strong>Woodstock</strong> entirely for one week<br />
in April, from the ‘pep’ rally to the huge<br />
crowds at each match. This was the 11th annual<br />
tournament, and we celebrated our new<br />
Win Mumby gym with a victory: it had taken<br />
six long years, but <strong>Woodstock</strong> boys beat the<br />
Modern <strong>School</strong> in the final. The boys beat<br />
every team they played in the run up to the finals<br />
by double digits; however, the final game<br />
was tight and exciting. Bring on next year!<br />
<strong>Woodstock</strong> was joined by five other schools<br />
for its 7th annual Model UN conference,<br />
held on April 6. As the name suggests, these<br />
conferences model the working of the United<br />
Nations; different councils meet to discuss<br />
international issues. Students enjoyed the two<br />
day conference that tested their critical thinking<br />
and enabled them to consider how to deal<br />
with real world issues in an effective manner.<br />
The City Board of Mussoorie honoured Rev.<br />
Robert ‘Bob’ Alter on April 26 at his home in<br />
Mussoorie, Oakville. Tom Alter ’68, described<br />
his uncle as <strong>Woodstock</strong> graduate, staff member,<br />
parent, principal, friend, confidant, guru,<br />
comrade, missionary, padre, legend.<br />
A summer evening of jazz. <strong>Woodstock</strong>’s Jazz<br />
Band, under the baton of Ms. Megan Hagberg,<br />
practised solidly for three months to perform<br />
for a packed quad at the annual Jazz Jam. The<br />
band performed numbers by artists including<br />
Stevie Wonder, Joe Garland and Herbie Hancock.<br />
The standout performance was Feeling<br />
Good by Nina Simone.<br />
April: Check Please<br />
April: A visit from the Canadian High Commissioner<br />
MAY: Music continued with the Indian<br />
Music concert held in Parker Hall. Billed<br />
as a fusion of east meets west, Mr. Aloke<br />
Maiti and his students melded tradition with<br />
innovation. Although usually a showcase of<br />
April: International Day<br />
April: Model United Nations
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Page 7 April: Junior-Senior Banquet<br />
exemplary music students, this year students<br />
were from different levels of learning.<br />
Student Council (STUCO) elections saw democracy<br />
in action also this month. Students<br />
had to vote twice for the boy’s representative<br />
when the first election resulted in a tie.<br />
Yangla Lama and Shivamkar Misra were<br />
finally elected.<br />
In the scorching heat of the afternoon sun on<br />
May 15th the <strong>2011</strong> WOSA Tea was held in<br />
the Quad. This was the day that members of<br />
the graduating Class of <strong>2011</strong> joined WOSA.<br />
As this was the celebration of the 100th<br />
WOSA tea it was a very special one indeed.<br />
Welcome, Luminescence, to the global<br />
<strong>Woodstock</strong> society!<br />
Rupak Roy ’73 opened an exhibition of his<br />
paintings at Hanifl Centre. This was the final<br />
event for the semester for the Winterline<br />
Centre for the Arts.<br />
May: STUCO elections<br />
green and there were copious amounts of<br />
food and soft drinks. A wonderful afternoon,<br />
blessed by God.<br />
Graduation. Time to witness Luminescence’s<br />
transition from <strong>Woodstock</strong> family to the<br />
beginning of the new journey in their life.<br />
Looking sensational in suits and saris and in a<br />
beautifully decorated gymnasium, the “jeans<br />
and T-shirt” seniors had suddenly grown up.<br />
As the school year ended we said goodbye to<br />
several staff, and to one particular long serving<br />
couple. Sue Swanson ’67 and her husband<br />
Ron arrived in <strong>Woodstock</strong> in 2003, and this<br />
month returned to retire in the US. Sue in<br />
her role of Senior <strong>School</strong> Librarian and Ron<br />
in his role as Registrar will be sadly missed<br />
after a wonderful eight years.<br />
June: Commencement<br />
June: Another graduate for the Arthur family (staff)<br />
JUNE: As the year raced to an end, the Baccalaureate<br />
ceremony was held for the first<br />
time in many years at St Paul’s Church, Char<br />
Dukan. The students, attired in national dress,<br />
listened to Dale Seefeldt ’64 and former staff<br />
member, who addressed them in both Hindi<br />
and English. The sun shone, the lawns were<br />
May: spring music concerts<br />
June: baccalaureate service at St. Paul’s<br />
April: Dr. Long, principal designate, visits <strong>Woodstock</strong><br />
June: The Wood family with graduating daughter Abigail
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I Remember <strong>Woodstock</strong><br />
2012 will mark the 60th anniversary of the graduating class of 1952. Ed Erny ’52 shares his recollections.<br />
Childhood memories are soon<br />
forgotten, at least the greater<br />
part of them seem to become<br />
obscured amid the more ponderous happenings<br />
of later life. But last night I lay<br />
awake for an hour reviewing snatches of<br />
those now blissful days in <strong>Woodstock</strong>.<br />
No environment could have been richer<br />
with possibilities of boyhood’s dream and<br />
aspiration, nor as powerful and promising<br />
in the fulfillment of them. It was a unique<br />
and congenial society for me and one that<br />
will never be revisited except in memory!<br />
I remember Going-Up-Day. Brother Bob<br />
and I would be so excited we would hardly<br />
sleep. The hours were marked by impatient<br />
examination of the hands of the clock and<br />
complaints about the tediously slow passage<br />
of time.<br />
I remember piling into the green E.I.R.<br />
coaches, unrolling our bisters and settling<br />
down for delights: shooting cattys out<br />
the window, buying chai from the wallas,<br />
throwing the clay cups at monkeys, and<br />
robbing the sugar cane freight cars. We’d<br />
stop at Lucknow and catch sight of familiar<br />
friends. Parties from all over India would<br />
converge for the recounting of the winter’s<br />
happenings. It was an experience only<br />
surpassed by Going-Down-Day, for at that<br />
time the ominous future of bookwork did<br />
not dull our enjoyment, and the occasion<br />
was further enhanced by the excitement of<br />
being with the folks again!<br />
“<strong>Woodstock</strong>.” The word brings to mind a<br />
thousand visions. Early memories of the<br />
place for me centered in Ridgewood—the<br />
cement-block habitat for the “Chuts.”<br />
There was a guy I’ll call George. He was<br />
in a class above me but I once beat him up.<br />
Yet he was a dominating character we all<br />
disliked and feared. He had the entire dorm<br />
organized, and each man was his puppet.<br />
He gave us all names of comic characters,<br />
English comic characters. I was Merry<br />
Marvo, a fat little gentleman who was<br />
always blowing bubbles from his magic<br />
pipe. We were glad the year George failed<br />
to come back. I disliked fighting. I cannot<br />
remember ever losing my temper with a<br />
classmate. I always saved that retribution<br />
for my brother.<br />
Alec Thomson was my best friend. He was<br />
part Scottish, and his mother<br />
was a widow. We were like<br />
Jonathan and David, people<br />
would say, and we would<br />
never fight. Peter Beale was<br />
my arch rival and yet we<br />
were friends of a sort. He<br />
was a tough blond-headed<br />
guy and always half a step<br />
behind me in a foot race.<br />
We ran the three-legged race<br />
together and usually won.<br />
My first night at Ridgewood<br />
I cried, but that was the<br />
only occasion. I soon found<br />
myself caught up in the exciting fever of<br />
activity: sliding down the khuds; building<br />
huts; hiking to guides’ cabin; flying<br />
paper airplanes; cub scouts with Hullou<br />
(our puzzling name for Mr. Fleming); and<br />
countless other diversions. We liked to<br />
swim in the stream below Middles (the<br />
athletic arena later name Hansen field for<br />
a famous <strong>Woodstock</strong> flyer lost in World<br />
War II). Of course we had no such thing as<br />
bathing suits and, hence, once in the pool<br />
would take delight in suddenly crying out,<br />
“Dames! Dames!” We never called girls<br />
anything but dames.<br />
A rumor had it that Mr. Wardwell, whom<br />
we called Wardy, had his own private family<br />
pool downstream at a secluded spot,<br />
but I frankly never put too much stock in<br />
that. Wardy was the big guy in charge of<br />
Ridgewood. He had a bulk of a body and<br />
the kind of hair that lay in a flat, tight mat<br />
on the top of his head. We had all heard<br />
fearful reports of what discipline at the<br />
hands of Wardy could be like. He had a<br />
dog named Pip, much better behaved than<br />
his son, who once pushed Mark Landers’<br />
face into a dish of chocolate pudding and<br />
got the daylights whaled out of him by his<br />
mother, in front of everyone. She was a<br />
kindly soul but she could lay it on when<br />
she had to.<br />
Wardy had us line up by tables in front of<br />
the dining hall before every meal and stand<br />
at rigid attention while roll was taken. The<br />
guy up front had to holler “all present and<br />
accounted for”, or else name the delinquent<br />
member of the group. Once in the dining<br />
hall, Wardy would examine our hands and<br />
hair. We all lived in fear of Wardy. He had<br />
a whistle that he blew so loudly you could<br />
hear it halfway to Bear Mountain.<br />
Back of Ridgy was a hollow tree. It was full<br />
of red ants and, once inside it, a small boy<br />
could not help but wonder what it would<br />
be like to be trapped in such an enclosure.<br />
There was also the giant stride or maypole<br />
on which we swung many a happy hour.<br />
But they tore down the maypole and put<br />
in a basketball court. Then the wind blew<br />
the hollow tree over.<br />
Gradually we passed through the succeeding<br />
standards. Each year brought a slightly<br />
different environment: a new dorm room,<br />
new teacher, new dorm mom, new privileges,<br />
and new challenges.<br />
Sports Day was the highlight of the year<br />
for us. We would train months in advance.<br />
Religiously we would jog around the small<br />
track and save up money for spiked shoes<br />
and ankle bindings. Track was my specialty.<br />
I won the silver every year I competed,<br />
and my ability to take first place was the<br />
envy of my classmates. But something<br />
happened my freshman year in high school.<br />
My prowess on the field suddenly seemed<br />
to vanish. For the first time my classmates<br />
began to surpass me in foot races. I was<br />
stunned and my pride was severely hurt.<br />
Dao Zeun Chu, a Chinese boy who was a<br />
newcomer, was by far the fastest but, then<br />
I consoled myself, he was also the oldest.<br />
He was favored to win the silver that year<br />
but in the second race he pulled a muscle.<br />
I managed to eke out enough points to end<br />
up the winner by a single point. It was my<br />
third silver in three years, and I was almost<br />
ashamed to take it.
Following Sports Day was the interschool<br />
meet, magnificently called the Olympics.<br />
Before Sports Day and Olympics, I never<br />
could sleep much, a fact which did nothing<br />
to help my performance. Olympics was always<br />
an awesome affair; we’d walk several<br />
miles over the hills to St. George’s or Oak<br />
Grove. The great climax to my sports thrill<br />
was the day Alec and I took every first<br />
place but one event in the under-14 division.<br />
We both got big brown chenille Ws<br />
for our achievement, and the opportunity<br />
to attend the sportsman’s banquet to which<br />
we were expected to ask a girl - an ominous<br />
prospect for one totally inexperienced in<br />
that field. I asked Jeananne Constance to<br />
be my date. It was a terrifying evening.<br />
Sixth standard was the last standard we<br />
stayed at Ridgewood. From now on we<br />
would be recognized as “hefts,” no longer<br />
chuts. Still, as long as Bob was in school,<br />
I was known as “Chutty Erny.” We had a<br />
set of slang expressions quite peculiar to<br />
<strong>Woodstock</strong>, most of which have doubtless<br />
passed out of usage. “Buck off” meant<br />
show off; “squinch,” cheat; “chut,” small;<br />
“heft,” large; “packa ding chaunce,” terribly<br />
good; “bra,” brother; “sas,” sister;<br />
“taws,” marbles; “airzes,” airplanes;<br />
“gaff,” fun; and “homey,” homework. Most<br />
of this quaint vocabulary has slipped my<br />
mind but there were enough of these words<br />
to fill a small dictionary.<br />
The dames lived in what was called the<br />
College and at our age only sissies paid<br />
any attention to them. During the noon<br />
hour, we often bought treats from the<br />
ubiquitous cake wallas. Usually there<br />
were landslides after each heavy rain.<br />
I remember the Tehri Hills, Dhanaulti,<br />
Magru, Bear Mountain and Bears Cave,<br />
Pepper Pot, Bundar Poonch, Kellogg, the<br />
chakars, Mullingar, and skating parties.<br />
We sang “Shadows,” the <strong>Woodstock</strong> hiking<br />
song, and “Cheers for the brown and<br />
the gold.” I also remember “Charley’s<br />
Aunt,” “You can’t take it with You,” and<br />
“Tobias and the Angel,” and also prizegiving<br />
day, going-down-dinner, capture<br />
the flag down at the gravey (graveyard),<br />
the Hostie, Kincraig and Dehra, the buz<br />
(bazaar), Sobha’s (Sobha Ram’s), and a<br />
thousand other words, the mere mention<br />
of which brings back the indescribable<br />
flavor of all that was <strong>Woodstock</strong> to me.<br />
My great sorrow was that Dad was elected<br />
OMS president in 1950, forcing us to leave<br />
India and <strong>Woodstock</strong> after my freshman<br />
year.<br />
Class Jottings That Sing<br />
Abhra Bhattacharjee, ’92, Director of Development, <strong>Woodstock</strong> <strong>School</strong><br />
When I first joined the Development<br />
Office at <strong>Woodstock</strong> 18 months<br />
ago, I came from a communications<br />
background and I was very excited about<br />
the idea of redesigning some of our publications.<br />
When it came to our Quadrangle, Pete<br />
Wildman, our Head of Communications and<br />
Marketing, and quite the designer himself,<br />
warned me that I could mess with the cover, the<br />
editorial, the glossy paper stock and perhaps<br />
even switch from black and white to fourcolor,<br />
but I shouldn’t tamper with the Jottings.<br />
And so, although we innovated last year with<br />
on the Quad cover for the first time, we still<br />
had incredible contributions from more than<br />
70 classes of <strong>Woodstock</strong> alumni.<br />
“Jottings are what everyone wants to read,”<br />
says Li Chu ’59, our full time voluntary database<br />
administrator, and someone who has<br />
done more than her fair share of collecting<br />
and collating the Jottings over the last nine<br />
years. “They keep us connected. Everything<br />
else is just extra.”<br />
She is right.<br />
Jottings are the lifeblood of the Quadrangle.<br />
No matter how hard we work to create feature<br />
stories that are timely, provocative and<br />
just plain interesting, class notes will always<br />
overshadow them. They’re the first thing<br />
readers turn to when they get the magazine<br />
and the last thing they put down before they<br />
turn out the light.<br />
In one respect, we’re lucky. With Jottings, we<br />
know there’s something in every Quadrangle<br />
that people will read, regardless of its content<br />
or presentation. But let’s face it—to an editor,<br />
that endless name, rank, and serial number list<br />
of new jobs, marriages, children and deaths<br />
can seem very uniform, and I know that for<br />
many class secretaries, the thought of preparing<br />
the annual Jottings ranks somewhere be-<br />
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tween root canal surgery and telemarketing.<br />
Fortunately not everyone feels that way. As<br />
I prepared this article, I reached out to a few<br />
advancement colleagues to ask what they had<br />
learned in their experience of creating alumni<br />
publications. I also enquired of a handful of<br />
class secretaries that clearly enjoy what they<br />
do, and had a lot of great advice to share. They<br />
also asked if I could share some of their pet<br />
peeves with their classmates, to help make<br />
their annual exercise a lot easier. Here is what<br />
many of them said.<br />
Get Real<br />
My advancement peers at other schools<br />
and colleges tell me that their class notes<br />
section has become a lot hipper and more<br />
confessional through the years. <strong>Alumni</strong> at<br />
other institutions share life-affirming stories<br />
about their triumphs over disease, job loss or<br />
family tragedy with classmates they haven’t<br />
seen or spoken with in decades. For those of<br />
us that attended <strong>Woodstock</strong>, this should not<br />
be too difficult; after all we all survived the<br />
food, the hills, the leeches and the langurs<br />
together. It is remarkable to me how we are<br />
able to pick up our relationships with classmates<br />
or other alumni no matter how long<br />
it has been since we connected. Try and be<br />
real and honest when you send in your news<br />
to your class secretary – after all that is what<br />
a classmate and friend really wants to know.<br />
Many <strong>Woodstock</strong> alumni say they feel that<br />
if they haven’t achieved certain goals—<br />
a beautiful family, a stellar job, a Nobel<br />
Prize—then they aren’t worthy to<br />
write in. But you and your class secretaries<br />
can work to dispel that myth.<br />
One class secretary wrote, “Let’s not just<br />
talk about facts, let’s talk about feelings,<br />
and now I see my classmates being honest<br />
about the curveballs life has thrown them.”
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Her strategy clearly paid off. One of her<br />
classmates recently told her that she once<br />
felt none of her accomplishments were up<br />
to Quadrangle standards. Now she and her<br />
classmates “are getting comfortable talking<br />
candidly about our successes and our<br />
failures, about some of the really difficult<br />
choices we’ve made in our lives, and how<br />
we’re coping with the outcomes. I’ve drawn<br />
great strength from these honest and very<br />
personal conversations.”<br />
Develop a voice.<br />
Sometimes all it takes is one person to get<br />
things started. One class secretary told me<br />
that he set the ball in motion nearly 20 years<br />
ago. “My class notes were boring. There<br />
was a real sameness about them. At school<br />
what I loved about my classmates was<br />
how bright they were, how much fun they<br />
were to be around. But that wasn’t coming<br />
through in their notes several decades later.”<br />
He sent a message to his classmates suggesting<br />
that people “start opening up and<br />
reflecting on their lives more, as opposed<br />
to filing news of changed demographics<br />
and vital statistics.” With some prompting<br />
they complied. “After a year or two, they<br />
didn’t even need the prompt,” says the<br />
secretary. “The changed tone and content<br />
of the column carried itself, and we feel<br />
far more connected in each other’s lives.”<br />
A class notes column should have a distinctive<br />
voice and a clear sense of audience. For<br />
us, the best columns read like a conversation.<br />
“I try to give the column a real sense<br />
of the contributors’ voices,” says another<br />
contributor. “If someone writes me a letter,<br />
I try and include the news in their voice so<br />
that everyone could get a sense of reading<br />
the same letter I read.”<br />
Be inclusive.<br />
All too often, class notes focus on a single<br />
clique: Each year readers get an update<br />
on the doings of only the class secretary<br />
and his friends, to the exclusion of other<br />
classmates. Some of the most meaningful<br />
jottings come in from those class secretaries<br />
who keep track of both frequent contributors<br />
as well as those that parcel out their<br />
information gradually. Others target certain<br />
classmates or those that live in a different<br />
country - “lost” alumni - with special<br />
notes or an explicit invitation to write.<br />
Attitude is often more important than action.<br />
Saying “we want to hear from every one of<br />
you” and backing it up with a diverse mix<br />
of contributors, can go a long way toward<br />
reaching the silent masses. “If you see a<br />
person in the magazine who doesn’t usually<br />
contribute, it can inspire others to write in,”<br />
says Li Chu. “It really snowballs.”<br />
Ask questions.<br />
You may be surprised what people will tell<br />
you if you ask. Everyone has an opinion,<br />
and most people like to share them. That’s<br />
what class secretary Beth Norford ’80<br />
learned when she decided to solicit book<br />
recommendations from members of her<br />
<strong>Woodstock</strong> class. More than recommendations,<br />
she received critiques, analyses and<br />
meditations on classmates’ recent reading.<br />
“Asking questions opens the door for people<br />
to say more than what jobs they have, what<br />
their children do, or what their husband<br />
does. That narrow focus puts some people<br />
off,” Norford says. “This just gives another<br />
way for people to relate to each other.”<br />
Spurred by a similar idea, Mary Self<br />
Skarsten, ’69 has successfully queried<br />
her classmates on topics like “on turning<br />
50” and “what would be the top 3<br />
things you would like to do if we go<br />
back to Mussoorie”. The initial responses<br />
have generated more responses until it<br />
feels like everyone has something to say.<br />
If you’re worried that asking a question<br />
might preclude the exchange of personal<br />
news, don’t be. These class secretaries have<br />
found that sharing opinions and experiences<br />
related to certain topics seems to elicit more<br />
personal information. Another approach to<br />
soliciting more participation is to start a<br />
dialogue across the years. We are currently<br />
exploring if we could match up members<br />
of this year’s graduating class with some<br />
alumni from the class of 1961, hoping that<br />
the more seasoned class will have some<br />
words of wisdom for students who graduated<br />
50 years later.<br />
Make contributing easy.<br />
Both class secretaries and contributors have<br />
heavy demands on their time. As an alumni<br />
relations team, we should make it as easy as<br />
possible for alumni volunteers to participate.<br />
This year at <strong>Woodstock</strong> we are about to make<br />
a concerted effort to offer class secretaries as<br />
much support as possible. For the Class of<br />
2012, the class secretaries will go through a<br />
formal two-hour training session on campus<br />
shortly after they’re elected in which we tell<br />
them about our deadlines, give them advice<br />
on newsgathering and warn them about the<br />
dangers of using secondhand information. We<br />
also are starting to create a comprehensive and<br />
user-friendly handbook detailing the obligations<br />
of and guidelines for the job. Once these<br />
are ready we are hopeful that we can share<br />
these resources with other class secretaries<br />
around the world, accompanied by a conversation<br />
on Skype. And the commitment is that<br />
as an alumni relations team, we will make<br />
ourselves available via phone, fax, email and<br />
snail mail and respond quickly to questions -<br />
which is just basic customer service.<br />
We encourage class secretaries to find other<br />
efficient ways of soliciting information,<br />
such as creating Facebook pages, starting<br />
an email directory for the class or just making<br />
sure that they are able to attend regional<br />
gatherings near where they live. Please<br />
drop me a note at alumni@woodstock.<br />
ac.in; we would love to publish some of<br />
your ideas in our Letters to the Editor<br />
section in the next issue of the Quadrangle.<br />
Letters to the Editor<br />
Is there something in this issue of Quadrangle that you would like to comment<br />
on? Did one of the stories ring a bell and make you want to share your<br />
experience? There are two ways in which you can respond:<br />
• Email us at alumni@woodstock.ac.in. Letters received will be published online<br />
in the Quad section of the <strong>Woodstock</strong> website, and the most relevant will be<br />
published in the next edition of the Quad in Spring 2013.<br />
• Share Your Story is a new section of the alumni website designed to help you..<br />
share your story. Go to www.woodstockschool.in/share.
Visitors on the hillside<br />
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Here at <strong>Woodstock</strong> we have visitors every day. We would like to share some of these visitors who have contributed<br />
their talent to our wonderful community in the past twelve months. We offer just a glimpse of their visits and their<br />
generosity.<br />
Rahul Amin ‘71<br />
In December<br />
2010, Rahul Amin<br />
hosted an alumni<br />
gathering in Vadodara,<br />
Gujarat, and<br />
invited the Principal,<br />
Dr David<br />
Laurenson, and<br />
<strong>Alumni</strong> Secretary<br />
Monica Roberts<br />
to join him. Rahul<br />
had contacted<br />
Monica beforehand<br />
to discuss an idea. Realising how precious<br />
the yearbooks were for all alumni and<br />
worrying that the books were aging, he offered<br />
to digitise them to make them available to<br />
alumni and ensure their safety. Work began<br />
and class years from 1970 to 2010 are now<br />
completed, with work on the earlier books<br />
under way. Rahul then visited <strong>Woodstock</strong> in<br />
April and met with Ravi Narula, Head of Engineering<br />
and Facilities. He offered through his<br />
company to carry out environmental surveys;<br />
audits began in September monitoring water,<br />
energy, electric and sewerage. The reports will<br />
enable us to make significant reductions in<br />
operating costs by ensuring that all equipment<br />
runs more efficiently.<br />
Dan and Anne Lind (S)<br />
The Music<br />
department<br />
and the Development<br />
/<strong>Alumni</strong><br />
Office both<br />
benefit<br />
twice yearly<br />
from the<br />
visits of former staff Dan and Anne Lind.<br />
Retirement in America in 2006 gave them<br />
the freedom to spend some time in India and<br />
specifically <strong>Woodstock</strong>. Keen to volunteer but<br />
not sure what form it would take, Anne was<br />
invited by Steve Alter ’74, then Development<br />
Director, in the spring of 2009, to volunteer<br />
in the Development Office. This worked<br />
well alongside Anne’s work as President of<br />
WOSA-NA. Dan had retired from teaching<br />
but still had much to offer and began helping<br />
part-time with the young string players in the<br />
music department. He works with groups<br />
and individuals, helping them to hone their<br />
skills. After the initial visit the Linds now visit<br />
and volunteer for two months twice yearly in<br />
Spring and Fall. Head of Music Ravi Arthur<br />
comments: “Dan brings a lot of experience,<br />
but he also brings a lot of strings, sheet music<br />
and essential accessories whenever he comes<br />
– a very helpful service!” For her part, Anne<br />
recently coordinated the WOSA- 100 Celebrations<br />
in October <strong>2011</strong>.<br />
Vance George (S)<br />
Vance was invited<br />
to return to<br />
<strong>Woodstock</strong> as a<br />
Winterline Centre<br />
for the Arts Artistin-Residence.<br />
He<br />
first taught over<br />
fifty years ago at<br />
<strong>Woodstock</strong>, but<br />
has always maintained<br />
his ties with<br />
the school. The<br />
music department<br />
was thrilled to have an internationally recognised<br />
choral director working with our<br />
orchestras and choirs. With Fall concerts and<br />
the annual Christmas concerts due, Vance’s<br />
arrival in November 2010 took him straight<br />
to rehearsals and workshops and individual<br />
tuition for student musicians. Vance’s inspiring<br />
presence and wonderful zest for life, food and<br />
music enriched our campus for three weeks.<br />
Although a two-time Grammy award winner,<br />
Vance was naturally modest and his rapport<br />
with students gave them even more of an opportunity<br />
to develop their passion for music<br />
and creativity.<br />
Merryn Glover ‘87<br />
<strong>Woodstock</strong> has<br />
a record of producing<br />
successful<br />
authors, and<br />
writer Merryn<br />
Glover is no exception.<br />
As part of<br />
our immense pool<br />
of gifted alumni<br />
who constantly<br />
give back to<br />
<strong>Woodstock</strong>, Merryn<br />
visited on her<br />
extensive travels through Asia. Bringing her<br />
husband and two sons, she was keen to revisit<br />
her past and show her family the <strong>Woodstock</strong><br />
experience. She took time out to lead three<br />
workshops on short story writing. An author,<br />
playwright, teacher and poet, Merryn inspired<br />
young students to follow their dream of becoming<br />
writers and to remember to return to<br />
<strong>Woodstock</strong> and share their expertise.<br />
Jane Jolly<br />
We are not exactly<br />
easy to reach here<br />
at <strong>Woodstock</strong> but<br />
Australian author<br />
of children’s<br />
books, Jane Jolly,<br />
still managed to<br />
find her way here<br />
in August on her<br />
way to the Travelling<br />
Children’s<br />
Literature Festival.<br />
Ms Jolly, a<br />
teacher in Australia, read her children’s books<br />
to Junior <strong>School</strong> students and donated copies<br />
of her three published works to the library.<br />
This time junior school learnt what it takes to<br />
diligently persevere and become a published<br />
author. The heroes in Ms Jolly’s books are<br />
from multicultural backgrounds, as are the<br />
students who sat transfixed in the library as<br />
the stories came alive. Ms Jolly described<br />
her experience as “incredible; <strong>Woodstock</strong> is<br />
an amazing learning environment”. Ms Jolly<br />
returned to <strong>Woodstock</strong> again in October <strong>2011</strong><br />
with a <strong>Woodstock</strong>-inspired book soon to reach<br />
the printers. Good Monkey, Bad Monkey is<br />
the story of Rhesus and Langur monkeys that<br />
she encountered on her first trip. The Langur<br />
Patrol, the ‘good monkeys’, warn off the ‘bad’<br />
or cheeky rhesus monkeys. <strong>Woodstock</strong> is very<br />
proud to think that we have inspired a book<br />
that Jane will no doubt return to read to a new<br />
generation of <strong>Woodstock</strong> students.<br />
The <strong>Woodstock</strong> community<br />
benefits in many ways from the<br />
visits of alumni and others.<br />
Why not reach out to us with your<br />
skills and talents?<br />
Come back and visit us; you will be<br />
assured of a very warm welcome.
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Back on the hillside<br />
I never, ever, thought that I would find myself back at <strong>Woodstock</strong>. Having grown up in India – in Kolkata, to be precise<br />
– I had had my fill of urban chaos, and swore I would never return – even to the serenity of Mussoorie. My mind was<br />
made up. Marcus Shaw ’87 shares his thoughts.<br />
Never say never.<br />
Twenty-four years after graduation, things<br />
seemed different. What changed? Why did<br />
it take so long? Under what circumstances<br />
would I now consider returning? How could<br />
I use my skill set from the corporate world in<br />
an educational environment? I struggled with<br />
many of these questions – as do many of us. I’d<br />
like to share my journey, together with a few<br />
thoughts from other alumni who have returned<br />
to <strong>Woodstock</strong>. Perhaps you will find that our<br />
stories are not much different from your own.<br />
<strong>Woodstock</strong> has a way of luring us back. The<br />
childhood memories, friendships forged<br />
through trying times, rich traditions that have<br />
spanned a century or more - they all contribute<br />
to the lens through which we view and<br />
interpret our world. As truly global citizens,<br />
we have taken these things to every corner of<br />
the world, yet the formative years spent here<br />
have influenced us in ways that we cannot<br />
escape or deny.<br />
For some, the connection with <strong>Woodstock</strong> is<br />
an integral part of life from the day they leave.<br />
For others, myself included, there is a long<br />
cycle of reengagement - a season, perhaps, of<br />
learning to fly on our own before we reconnect<br />
with the past. I suppose that’s true of<br />
anyone, not just <strong>Woodstock</strong> people; after all,<br />
the years of college, marriage, child bearing,<br />
child rearing and life in general clamor for every<br />
free moment! But, as with the change in<br />
the seasons, we may find ourselves at a certain<br />
point with a yearning to revisit what was, in<br />
comparison with most people’s education, a<br />
truly extraordinary experience. In many ways<br />
I failed to appreciate all the <strong>Woodstock</strong> had<br />
to offer… and almost twenty-five years later,<br />
I am discovering that anew.<br />
Personally, I’d summarize the years since<br />
graduation in the following phases. I can’t<br />
speak for the stages that are yet to come;<br />
I’d love to hear from you more seasoned<br />
veterans!<br />
• College confusion<br />
• Long-term relationship<br />
• Children, diapers, schooling<br />
• Grad school<br />
• Gradually increasing levels of freedom as<br />
the kids gain more independence.<br />
That is where I found myself at when I<br />
received a phone call asking if I would<br />
attend a focus group for <strong>Woodstock</strong>. That<br />
was the start of a wonderful conversation<br />
that eventually led me back here on staff.<br />
The decision to come back to India and to<br />
<strong>Woodstock</strong> has presented some incredible<br />
opportunities for my family – all of which<br />
I am sure you can readily identify with:<br />
• Exposure to many different cultures.<br />
• Rich traditions that cross religious<br />
boundaries and foster tolerance for all.<br />
• An incredible environment of mutual<br />
respect and appreciation.<br />
• The opportunity to bond with my<br />
children as they experience what I did.<br />
Perhaps the biggest stumbling block for<br />
me was the assumption that I had nothing<br />
to contribute, or that the only thing we as<br />
alumni could do was give money. Nothing<br />
could be farther from the truth. When I<br />
arrived, I was surprised at just how many<br />
had actually returned to work at <strong>Woodstock</strong>.<br />
There are currently fourteen alumni on<br />
staff, teaching, working in dorms and in<br />
the support offices, all with unique talents<br />
that contribute to shaping the lives of an<br />
incredible group of kids. Why not join<br />
us? See what opportunities are available<br />
at www.woodstockschool.in/Employment<br />
We would love to hear your story! E-mail<br />
me at MarcusShaw@<strong>Woodstock</strong>.ac.in<br />
<strong>Alumni</strong> working at <strong>Woodstock</strong><br />
• Karen Tamminen ’69<br />
Residence Staff<br />
• Abhra Bhattacharjee ’92<br />
Director of Development<br />
• Marcus Shaw ’87<br />
<strong>Alumni</strong> Coordinator<br />
• Darab Nagarwalla ’80<br />
Outdoor and Environmental<br />
Education Coordinator<br />
• Anitra Mansson ’74<br />
Health Centre Coordinator<br />
• Judy Crider ’69<br />
Staff Welfare Officer<br />
• Rochita Rao Plonka ’98<br />
Head of English as a Second<br />
Language<br />
• Jeff Rollins ’76<br />
ICT Manager<br />
• Sue Rollins ’77<br />
Teacher<br />
• Haydn Wilkins ’05<br />
Residence Teacher<br />
• Kirsten Brady ’96<br />
Head of Admissions<br />
• Amy Seefeldt ’93<br />
Dean of Academics<br />
• Maya Dutt ’92<br />
Residence Staff<br />
• Ajay Mark ’71<br />
Head of Sports<br />
Maya Dutt ‘92<br />
I grew up at <strong>Woodstock</strong> and entered boarding in<br />
the sixth grade in 1984, and was in boarding<br />
until I graduated in 1992. These were some of the<br />
most important years of my life, and some of<br />
the relationships that I cherish the most from that<br />
time period are those that I continue to have with<br />
my dorm parents through the years. Working as a<br />
dorm parent here has given me the opportunity to give<br />
back to the <strong>School</strong>, and pay forward what these dorm parents invested in<br />
me so many years ago.
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Amy Seefeldt ‘93<br />
I loved my<br />
<strong>Woodstock</strong><br />
experience<br />
and was sad<br />
to leave, but<br />
actually never<br />
thought I’d<br />
return (other<br />
than to visit<br />
family). Through<br />
college, I drifted into studying education<br />
and history, moving to Atlanta for about<br />
ten years. After eight years teaching<br />
history at a college-prep school there, I<br />
started feeling restless. I heard about a<br />
history opening through Ms. Chander,<br />
and the rest is literally history. It just<br />
seemed like the right time to come back.<br />
A better question than why I came back<br />
is perhaps why I’m choosing to stay now.<br />
I’ve signed my second contract. I worked<br />
on the recent 2020 Vision. I’ve realized<br />
that, even as we imagine our communal<br />
future, it’s important to preserve the best<br />
parts of the <strong>Woodstock</strong> experience: the<br />
intense debates about everything from<br />
Wai Wai to reincarnation, the simplicity<br />
of walking to experience our world, the<br />
passion to see increased justice and<br />
equality in the world, music practice<br />
in the sunny Quad. It’s important to<br />
preserve a way of life that allows for bun<br />
omelettes at Char Dukhan. After being<br />
back for three years, and despite the<br />
occasional turmoil, I firmly believe that<br />
<strong>Woodstock</strong> is uniquely placed to find<br />
the road forward the world needs. Our<br />
natural, socioeconomic, and cultural<br />
environments, our Christian heritage,<br />
and the strange fearlessness that<br />
<strong>Woodstock</strong> students absorb seemingly by<br />
osmosis all conspire to forge an intense<br />
community of learning that I count it an<br />
unqualified privilege to serve.<br />
Sue Swain Rollins ‘ 77<br />
I love working with the students from<br />
many different nationalities and it is<br />
also nice to be able to work in a boarding<br />
school setting as you have more<br />
input into the students’ lives than in a<br />
day school. I feel that I am able to give<br />
many things to the students sharing<br />
my love of hiking, nature, history, cultures,<br />
crafts and writing in this lovely mountainous setting.<br />
Kirsten Bradby ‘96<br />
I was born in Mussoorie and<br />
spent my most formative years<br />
here, until the age of 13. I loved<br />
growing up here. I enjoyed<br />
the close sense of community<br />
at <strong>Woodstock</strong> as well as its diversity.<br />
I was very attached to the<br />
physical surroundings – the mountains, the trees,<br />
the khuds, the views, the misty green monsoons and<br />
the clear October skies. I was drawn back to <strong>Woodstock</strong><br />
through an email sent to alumni announcing<br />
a job opening to work as part of the admissions team,<br />
focusing on student recruitment around the world.<br />
At the time I was working long hours as a corporate<br />
finance lawyer in London, and had been hankering<br />
after something different. This role seemed like<br />
a good fit for me. I greatly value the education I received<br />
at <strong>Woodstock</strong>, and I felt that the wonderful<br />
opportunity <strong>Woodstock</strong> offers students in combining<br />
academic excellence with a well-rounded social and<br />
cultural education, all in the beautiful surroundings<br />
of the Indian Himalaya, was one which I would<br />
be keen to promote. Although moving from corporate<br />
law to school admissions was a big change, I’m<br />
happy I took the plunge. I love being back in these<br />
mountains, and I am enjoying being part of the<br />
community here. A lot of what makes this school so<br />
special is its students - the diversity of cultures, religions,<br />
backgrounds, abilities, talents and dreams<br />
they each bring with them. It is a privilege to be part<br />
of the admissions team, seeking to ensure <strong>Woodstock</strong><br />
continues to have a wonderful, motivated and diverse<br />
student body, and seeing individual lives transformed<br />
and horizons widened with each new intake<br />
of students to <strong>Woodstock</strong>.
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Ajay Mark ‘71<br />
…….I feel <strong>Woodstock</strong> has always been<br />
my home. I started working here in<br />
July 1981. I love working here and<br />
feel proud to have had this opportunity<br />
in my life to serve here for the<br />
past 31 years as part of the PE department.<br />
Both my daughters Ayesha ’02<br />
and Serena ’05 went through <strong>Woodstock</strong><br />
from Pre <strong>School</strong> to Grade 12. My parents both worked for<br />
30 years each. My nephew Amit Mark worked here for 6<br />
years and my Mother-in-law (Mrs. Indu Salve) worked<br />
here for 3 years. My wife Sanjaya is also working here<br />
for the past 29 years. At present she is the Head of Junior<br />
<strong>School</strong>. As a family we have served <strong>Woodstock</strong> for 129<br />
years in total so far. <strong>Woodstock</strong> has given me and my<br />
family much more than we can ever give back.<br />
Haydn Wilkins ‘ 05<br />
….. it feels fantastic to be back in<br />
Mussoorie, there really is nowhere<br />
else in the world such as Mussoorie.<br />
I returned as I wanted to live once<br />
again in India, as well to experience<br />
<strong>Woodstock</strong> from a new perspective<br />
having been a day scholar, a boarder<br />
and now a dorm parent. I am excited about working<br />
with the boys in Ridgewood, and making sure that they<br />
get the most of their <strong>Woodstock</strong> experience - as I did as<br />
a student - as their time in dorms and the friendships<br />
they form will be with them for life.<br />
Judy Crider ‘69<br />
For me coming back was<br />
not the feeling that I wanted<br />
to give back to the school,<br />
but that I was coming home.<br />
Three weeks after we arrived in<br />
September 1979 our daughter, Bonnie Beth, was<br />
born. We worked at Clifton Hostel for 9 years<br />
till 1988 with our fourth child being born in<br />
1984; went to the US for 1988-1989; returned in<br />
1989 and moved to Suncliff where Dana taught<br />
Math and I worked in the Quad Office. In 1994<br />
we went back to the US for one year while Dana<br />
worked on his BA degree. In 1995 I returned to<br />
WS with three children while Dana continued in<br />
the US to finish his BA degree with teaching certification.<br />
In 1996 I went to the Principal’s office<br />
to cover because the then secretary to the Principal<br />
did not return from vacation and then continued<br />
working there till 2010. In 2010 I moved into the<br />
HR department. Dana continued to teach Math<br />
and so much more. This has been our life. This<br />
has been the perfect place to raise four children.<br />
We have built many wonderful relationships with<br />
staff and students and hillside friends. We have<br />
influenced many students hopefully for the better.<br />
We have tried to instill the love of Jesus Christ<br />
in others by being role models and always having<br />
an open home. We have offered continuity and<br />
security.<br />
Work at <strong>Woodstock</strong> <strong>School</strong><br />
Would you like to experience <strong>Woodstock</strong> again, this time from<br />
a different perspective? Each year we recruit teachers, dorm<br />
parents and support staff into various roles at the school.<br />
Check the website at www.woodstockschool.in/employment<br />
to see what jobs are available now.<br />
It’s a great way of reconnecting with your roots, and passing on<br />
your experience to a new generation!
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Read two testimonials from weary but lifechanged<br />
young people just arrived back<br />
from the inaugural <strong>Woodstock</strong> Gap Semester.<br />
Chaperone, coordinator and translator Necha<br />
Varma, an experienced trekker, accompanied<br />
the travelers through all the activities. Meet<br />
Sarajane Clark from Washington and Varun<br />
Sarin from Virginia.<br />
How did you hear about the Gap<br />
Semester?<br />
SARAJANE: I graduated from High <strong>School</strong><br />
last year and my grand-dad Bob Harwood ’43,<br />
an alumnus, suggested it. I was open to having<br />
a gap year in a Himalayan environment<br />
VARUN: My father and Krishnan Kutty, head<br />
of Outdoor Education at <strong>Woodstock</strong>, shared a<br />
mutual friend who suggested the Gap Semester.<br />
I had just finished my sophomore year and<br />
wanted to take a break.<br />
When did you arrive?<br />
SARAJANE: We flew into India on August<br />
7, to begin on August 11. The timetable tries<br />
to allow 10–14 days for each activity.<br />
Where did you begin?<br />
VARUN: We began at the Landour Language<br />
<strong>School</strong> for a two-week conversational Hindi<br />
course, which gave us the basics to be able to<br />
ask for things, thank people and ask questions.<br />
It was hard but fun.<br />
SARAJANE: After that we went to the Hanifl<br />
Centre here at <strong>Woodstock</strong> for a two-week<br />
Intensive First Aid Course called Wilderness<br />
First Responder. This was so much fun and<br />
focused on rescue and dramatization of events<br />
that may happen while we are hiking and scaling<br />
mountains.<br />
And after that?<br />
SARAJANE: We then began our trek into<br />
the Rupin valley and attempted to cross the<br />
Rupin pass. However, very heavy rains and<br />
raging rivers prevented us from getting to the<br />
pass. We had to turn back just one day before<br />
the crossing. On the return, we trekked long<br />
hours and stayed in the jungle for a night before<br />
getting to a roadhead. This was a ten-day<br />
trek and was awesome.<br />
VARUN: Then it was on to a home-stay in<br />
a village called Demul, close to Kaza in the<br />
Lahul-Spiti District of Himachal Pradesh,<br />
where we helped build a greenhouse for the<br />
village people to use in winter to enable them<br />
to grow green vegetables. Demul sits at an<br />
altitude of 14,300 ft. The greenhouse was<br />
made of mud and local materials. The food<br />
at the home-stays was great and we felt very<br />
comfortable.<br />
The next stage of their journey brought them<br />
back to Mussoorie to participate in the 3rd<br />
Mussoorie International Writer’s Festival with<br />
the theme of “Mountain Literature”. They got<br />
an opportunity to interact with luminaries like<br />
Dr. George Schaller, Harish Kapadia, Jim<br />
Curran, Bernadette McDonald and others.<br />
After the Writer’s Festival, the group went<br />
to the Nehru Institute of Mountaineering,<br />
Uttarkashi, for a 16-day session to learn<br />
basic camping, trekking, rock climbing and<br />
mountaineering skills. The culmination of the<br />
training was an attempt to climb a peak called<br />
Draupadi-ka-Danda II (18,600 ft). They had<br />
to turn back about 300 ft below the summit<br />
because of hip-deep snow and worsening<br />
weather conditions.<br />
Next they left for the Kumaon region of Uttarakhand.<br />
They stayed with CHIRAG for<br />
ten days. Their time with this NGO was spent<br />
with an exposure to women’s self-help groups,<br />
children’s education, organic farming and village<br />
forestry issues. This was followed by ten<br />
days in the periphery of the Corbett National<br />
Park. The focus here was on human-animal<br />
conflict as it relates to wildlife tourism, the<br />
politics of eco-tourism, wildlife viewing, birding<br />
and angling.<br />
What did you get out of your Gap<br />
Semester?<br />
VARUN: I discovered myself. I am more<br />
independent than I thought I could be. I also<br />
learnt that I could be on my own and enjoy<br />
it. I came with no expectations and an open<br />
mind, I am proud of myself , I have grown and<br />
gotten stronger. I will have a month off and<br />
go back to my Psychology major. I will look<br />
at it differently now, because of the changes<br />
in me. I am so glad I did this. It challenges<br />
you not only physically but mentally as well.<br />
Sometimes during the semester I felt I was<br />
not part of the real world, or any world, due<br />
to the remoteness. It exposes you to cultures,<br />
but so do many things. This is really something<br />
so different. The trek was the hardest thing I<br />
have ever done both physically and mentally.<br />
SARAJANE: I thought I was used to pain<br />
through the physical challenge of all the sports<br />
I play, but with the mental challenge as well, it<br />
was such an achievement. I guess I learned I<br />
do not want to be a mountaineer! I got to know<br />
myself too. I understand my own personality<br />
through these challenges. Why would you not<br />
want to experience this?<br />
Sarajane returns to casual work for six<br />
months before going to college in the fall of<br />
next year. She has a choice of Washington,<br />
California and Montana. “I am still thinking<br />
through my decision. I look at things<br />
differently now.”
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Baccalaureate address<br />
A Time to Remember<br />
Rev. Dale Seefeldt ’64<br />
Dr. Laurenson, esteemed teachers, staff, parents;<br />
honored members of the Class of <strong>2011</strong>:<br />
Mrs. Seefeldt and I are delighted to be back<br />
at <strong>Woodstock</strong> to celebrate the end of a great<br />
school year and the graduation of a distinguished<br />
group of students. Thank you for the<br />
opportunity to be here…and for the honor of<br />
being invited! I know all of you will understand<br />
if I address my remarks primarily to the<br />
members of the graduating class.<br />
In 1965, near the end of my first year in college,<br />
a rock group called the Byrds—yes, we<br />
did have rock music back then—came out<br />
with a hit song protesting the Vietnam War.<br />
The title was “Turn, Turn, Turn.” They took<br />
the words of Ecclesiastes 3:1-8, our text, adding<br />
the line, “I swear it’s not too late,” after<br />
the final verse about war and peace-a word<br />
pair that had also attracted the attention of<br />
Leo Tolstoy. So if it helps you listen, we are<br />
talking about rock music!<br />
But these are originally the words of Solomon,<br />
the king of Israel known for his wisdom<br />
and for the prosperity his people enjoyed.<br />
Part of what he has to say is summed up<br />
in his first couplet: “There is a time for<br />
everything, and a season for every activity<br />
under the heavens.” Here you can see<br />
the parallelism that is essential to Hebrew<br />
poetry—the same idea repeated in different<br />
words, slightly rephrased, or two ideas related<br />
because they are opposites, as in the next<br />
fourteen lines. As soon as you recognize this<br />
structure, you begin to understand what the<br />
poet is doing. He’s talking about the whole<br />
of human life— “everything…every activity<br />
under the heavens.” In fact, his first pair of<br />
contrasts sets parentheses around all human<br />
life, beginning with birth and ending with<br />
death—nothing is left out. The following<br />
pairs are similarly—and stunningly—broad.<br />
They make you respond and readily agree<br />
because they are fundamentally human and<br />
true for just about anyone: “a time to plant<br />
and a time to uproot” (gardeners do it all the<br />
time); “a time to tear down and a time to<br />
build” (we can look out the window and see<br />
that, no matter where we live!); “a time to<br />
weep and a time to laugh” (just look around<br />
you at the graduation ceremonies tomorrow!).<br />
You’ll notice there’s even a time to keep silent—an<br />
important lesson! In another place<br />
Solomon says, “Even a fool who keeps silent<br />
is considered wise; when he closes his lips,<br />
he is deemed intelligent!” This is a strategy<br />
worth considering as you start college! So the<br />
poet is saying that each of these very different<br />
activities has an appointed time.<br />
This sounds reasonable, but when the list is<br />
ended, he has something more to add: God is<br />
the One who appoints the time. Verse eleven<br />
completes the thought of verse one: “He has<br />
made everything beautiful in its time. He<br />
has also set eternity in the human heart, yet<br />
no one can fathom what God has done from<br />
beginning to end.” In other words, there is a<br />
time for everything that happens to you, and<br />
you can have confidence that God designed<br />
your “times” to be beautiful—even if you<br />
can’t understand how they all fit together just<br />
yet. Having a sense of these “times” helps<br />
us be ready for the bad times as well as the<br />
good—they, too, are part of the rhythm of life.<br />
With God in the picture, life makes sense.<br />
Without Him in the picture, it is hard to find<br />
purpose and meaning in what happens to us.<br />
In fact, this is Solomon’s underlying thesis<br />
throughout his book. In chapter twelve he<br />
advises, “Remember your creator in the days<br />
of your youth.” Along with the planting and<br />
uprooting that is happening to you, along<br />
with the mourning and dancing, the weeping<br />
and laughing that tomorrow brings, you have<br />
come to a time when it is also important to<br />
remember.<br />
First of all, remember where you came from.<br />
Remember the parents who brought you here.<br />
Remember your home, your family, your<br />
land. I’m reminded of the joyful words that<br />
burst out from Jaishankar Prasad at India’s<br />
independence:<br />
अरुण यह मधुमय देश हमारा।<br />
जहाँ पहुँच अनजान क्षितिज को<br />
मिलता एक सहारा।<br />
सरस तामरस गर्भ विभा पर<br />
नाच रही तरुशिखा मनोहर।<br />
छिटका जीवन हरियाली पर<br />
मंगल कुंकुम सारा।।<br />
लघु सुरधनु से पंख पसारे<br />
शीतल मलय समीर सहारे।<br />
उड़ते खग जिस ओर मुँह किए<br />
समझ नीड़ निज प्यारा।।<br />
बरसाती आँखों के बादल<br />
बनते जहाँ भरे करुणा जल।<br />
लहरें टकरातीं अनंत की<br />
पाकर जहाँ किनारा।।<br />
हेम कुंभ ले उषा सवेरे<br />
भरती ढुलकाती सुख मेरे।<br />
मंदिर ऊँघते रहते जब<br />
जग कर रजनी भर तारा।।<br />
—जयशंकर प्रसाद<br />
Prasad conjures up the images of beauty in<br />
a new dawn, even the far horizon finding a<br />
refuge, birds feeling at home, each finding her<br />
own beloved nest, clouds like monsoon eyes<br />
weeping merciful rain, and the eternal waves<br />
of the sea finding a shore at last. I remember<br />
my delight the first time I read this poem—<br />
delight at the poet’s intense, unabashed joy in<br />
the smallest details of his homeland. It is right<br />
for you to take joy in where you come from<br />
and who you are. I have learned much from<br />
the parents of many of you as they have come<br />
to visit the <strong>School</strong> over the years you have attended.<br />
<strong>Woodstock</strong> would be nothing without<br />
their searching questions, their patience, their<br />
love and ready involvement in what happens<br />
here. Remember where you came from—and<br />
cherish it. Its value is beyond reckoning.<br />
This is a time to remember. Look back,<br />
remember where you came from. But look<br />
around you too, remember where you are<br />
now. Remember what you have learned here,<br />
how you have grown. Remember your teachers<br />
and your friends. Remember whom you<br />
have loved, what you have shared. In short,
emember this <strong>School</strong>. It’s a rather nebulous<br />
idea, in some ways—a school. You never really<br />
know where the learning will take place.<br />
It may happen while you’re sitting in a circle<br />
around a stove, going over math homework<br />
with friends. It may happen at the lunch table,<br />
when someone puts a clever turn on words and<br />
ideas that you have been thinking about too.<br />
It may happen when you’re doing research on<br />
your own and you stumble across one of the<br />
world’s “great ideas.” It may happen when<br />
you’re bored and flip ahead a hundred pages to<br />
see what else is in the textbook—or any other<br />
book, for that matter. It may happen when<br />
someone you thought you knew stands up and<br />
tells the student body all the reasons why they<br />
would make a good governor, or committee<br />
chair, or StuCo President—and you hear and<br />
think, yeah, they’re right, they would make a<br />
good one…or you think, actually, I could do<br />
that too! Learning may happen in the dorm, on<br />
Hansen Field…in the gym…on the road up to<br />
school…or even…in a classroom! Remember<br />
where you are now!<br />
I taught ESL at <strong>Woodstock</strong> for ten years and<br />
learned constantly from my students. One of<br />
the first things I learned was that they were<br />
really smart—or they would never be surviving<br />
school in a different language! I learned<br />
that kimchi comes from heaven—no, really, it<br />
does—most people who eat it think Korea is<br />
heaven! (I love kimchi, but my wife does not<br />
love me when I eat it—something to do with<br />
powdered shrimp and garlic). I kept copies of<br />
many of the good papers students wrote. My<br />
favorite was by a Japanese girl a number of<br />
years back: “English is a Hard Language to<br />
Think.” Her paper discussed—with intimate<br />
knowledge—what it is like to know what you<br />
think inside your own head and struggle to<br />
find the right words and phrases to express<br />
it clearly in someone else’s language, so that<br />
it can enter their head. I wished I had read<br />
that paper long before I started teaching. I<br />
often got it out and read it over again at the<br />
beginning of a new semester or school year.<br />
Another favorite of mine was a well organized<br />
essay by a Vietnamese student about<br />
the advantages of letting ESL students be part<br />
of non-ESL classes rather than making them<br />
study separately in a class with other ESL<br />
students—that essay was so convincing that it<br />
helped us decide our policy as a school on this<br />
issue. Then there was the masterpiece written<br />
by an eighth-grade boy—again, arguing<br />
from intimate experience—a five-paragraph<br />
essay, with introduction, body and conclusion,<br />
presenting compelling logic in favor of<br />
doing away with after-school detention (This<br />
one did not shape school policy, however!<br />
In fact, it was written during—you guessed<br />
it—after-school detention. It was his best essay<br />
ever.) A school is a learning community,<br />
for teachers as much as for students. The<br />
mystery of learning is part of what makes it<br />
worth remembering.<br />
<strong>School</strong> is also worth remembering because<br />
you have worked hard at it. For years you have<br />
diligently prepared for quizzes, tests, examinations,<br />
IGCSE’s, AP’s, SAT’s, and any other<br />
alphabet soup that has been thrown at you. You<br />
have prepared for both internal and external<br />
examinations, for recitals, juries, and final<br />
concerts. You may be tempted to ask, was I an<br />
idiot for doing this? I don’t think so. The hard<br />
reality is you live in a competitive world. One<br />
reason you have what you have is because you<br />
have worked hard for it. And what you don’t<br />
have probably went to someone who worked<br />
even harder! Our school motto is palma non<br />
sine pulvere—no victory palms without the<br />
dust of struggle.<br />
One final thing that makes school worth remembering<br />
is your own belief that what you<br />
are doing right now is good and worthwhile.<br />
You have invested your time, your effort, and<br />
your life where you saw value. The <strong>Woodstock</strong><br />
<strong>School</strong> Creed ends with the sentence:<br />
“Thus, in all these ways, we will transmit this<br />
<strong>School</strong> greater, better, and more beautiful than<br />
it was transmitted to us.” These words were<br />
not invented by <strong>Woodstock</strong>. They come from<br />
Plato’s Academy in Athens. They remind us<br />
that we live not only for ourselves, but also<br />
for those who follow after. This will be true of<br />
your whole life. What will you do that is worth<br />
passing on to someone else? What have you<br />
done while here that you can point out to next<br />
year’s new students and say, “I’m leaving that<br />
behind to help you”?<br />
A time to remember! Look back, remember<br />
where you came from. Look around you,<br />
remember where you are now. And looking<br />
ahead, remember the One who appoints the<br />
“times” in your life. Saint Augustine prayed,<br />
“You have made us for yourself, and our hearts<br />
are restless until they can find peace in you.”<br />
Bhakti poet Ravi Das expressed a similar<br />
thought through a series of vivid pictures:<br />
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Lord, you are sandalwood, we are water,<br />
your fragrance permeating every part.<br />
Lord, you are the cloud, we the enraptured<br />
peacock;<br />
like the partridge entranced with the moon.<br />
Lord, you are the lamp, we just the wick,<br />
spreading light day and night.<br />
French philosopher and mathematician, Blaise<br />
Pascal said, “There is a God-shaped vacuum in<br />
the heart of every man that cannot be filled by<br />
any created being, but by God alone.” Think<br />
again about Solomon’s words: “He has made<br />
everything beautiful in its time. He has also<br />
set eternity in the human heart.” That’s how<br />
we’re wired. Even though we are very much<br />
creatures of this earth, we can’t help but respond<br />
to God.<br />
I have climbed to Darwa Top, the ridge above<br />
Dodital, and looked at Bandarpunch from there<br />
nine times. The mountain is immense, with its<br />
two peaks and many glaciers. You look at the<br />
long valley leading up to the south side and try<br />
to estimate how many days it would take to<br />
walk up it to the main glacier…and you give<br />
up. In the clear, bright morning air it looks as<br />
though you are right there, and yet you can<br />
also see that you are very small next to the<br />
gigantic rock faces, boulders, and fields of<br />
scree, the long, climbing valley, the towering<br />
snow-covered peaks. That’s how we are before<br />
God—very small, unable to handle the scope<br />
on which He operates, but alive and aware of<br />
the beauty He has made.<br />
Before he died, Jesus told his followers that<br />
he would be raised again on the third day.<br />
Yet when women arrived at the tomb with<br />
burial spices and found it empty, they seemed<br />
perplexed. They were told, “He is not here; he<br />
has risen! Remember how he told you!” And<br />
it says, “Then they remembered his words.”<br />
Sometimes you remember things better after<br />
they come together and make sense. The resurrection<br />
seemed impossible…until it happened.<br />
Then everything made sense. A little like falling<br />
in love…or graduating! A mystery until,<br />
suddenly, you’re in the middle of it. On the<br />
eve of India’s independence in 1947, Pandit<br />
Nehru spoke of India’s approaching “tryst with<br />
destiny.” His words were filled with a tender<br />
awe and joyful anticipation that spread to those<br />
who heard them:<br />
Long years ago we made a tryst with destiny,<br />
and now the time comes when we<br />
shall redeem our pledge, not wholly or in<br />
full measure, but very substantially. At the<br />
stroke of the midnight hour, when the world<br />
sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom.
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A moment comes, which comes but rarely in<br />
history, when we step out from the old to the<br />
new, when an age ends…The appointed day<br />
has come—the day appointed by destiny.<br />
Without detracting from what that night<br />
meant for modern India, you, too, are at the<br />
eve of independence. You have been plodding<br />
along step by step, from grade 9 to grade 10,<br />
from first semester to second, from Day Three<br />
to Day Four, from homework to exam, from<br />
IGCSE to AP—it all seemed gradual. But<br />
now you’re at a watershed event. In one day<br />
you’ll move from child to adult. The words<br />
“in school” will no longer apply to you. This<br />
is a time to remember. Remember where you<br />
came from—your parents, your home, your<br />
land. Remember where you are now—what<br />
you have learned and shared at this school.<br />
And remember your Creator, the one who<br />
appoints a time for everything that happens<br />
and makes everything beautiful.<br />
One final word: when you leave this place,<br />
you, too, will not be forgotten. As you join the<br />
ranks of <strong>Woodstock</strong>’s distinguished alumni,<br />
we will…remember you.<br />
Dale Seefeldt attended <strong>Woodstock</strong> as a student<br />
from kindergarten until his graduation<br />
in1964. After completing a Bachelor’s degree<br />
in classical languages at Houghton College<br />
he joined the Army and was stationed in Okinawa<br />
as a radio decoder. He then returned<br />
to US where he completed a Master’s degree<br />
in linguistics at Northern Illinois, and a Master’s<br />
degree in Theology at Wheaton College.<br />
In 1976 he moved back to India, where, over<br />
the next 22 years, he completed a number of<br />
projects including a complete translation of<br />
the Bible into Hindi. He also served on the<br />
<strong>Woodstock</strong> <strong>School</strong> Board of Directors during<br />
this period.<br />
In 1998 he joined the <strong>Woodstock</strong> staff as head<br />
of the ESL department, and over the next 11<br />
years, he assumed the position of Head of High<br />
<strong>School</strong> for four years, and ended his career at<br />
<strong>Woodstock</strong> as the Head of Foreign Languages.<br />
During his time at <strong>Woodstock</strong>, Dale also taught<br />
religious education classes. He now works in<br />
Atlanta, Georgia, doing pastoral work with St.<br />
Paul’s Presbyterian Church.<br />
Do you have a nomination for the<br />
Distinguished <strong>Alumni</strong> Roll?<br />
We’d like to hear from you – alumni@woodstock.ac.in<br />
<strong>2011</strong><br />
Gabriel Campbell ’65, Tom Alter ’68<br />
2010<br />
Ashoke Chatterjee ’51, Margaret Loehlin<br />
Shafer ’56<br />
2008<br />
Bob Fleming Jr. ’54, Chris Anderson ’74<br />
2007<br />
Bhavenesh Kumari Patiala '50, TZ Chu '52,<br />
Dorothy Irene Riddle '60, Robert E. Scott '62<br />
2006<br />
Mark Kenoyer '70, Frank Mayadas '57<br />
2005<br />
Marty Alter Chen '60, Richard Brown '58,<br />
Gerry Williams '42<br />
2004<br />
Brig. Hukam Singh Yadav '38, Smt. Nayantara<br />
Sahgal '43, Dr. Frederick S. Downs '49<br />
2003<br />
Dr. Robert C. Alter '43, Dr. Robert B. Griffiths<br />
'52, Dr. Carl E. Taylor '32
Commencement address<br />
Jalabala Vaidya<br />
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Dear Principal Laurenson, Members of the<br />
Board, Distinguished Guests, Mr. Ben Lall,<br />
all the members of the faculty and staff:<br />
thank you for asking me to be here today to<br />
share this important step in the lives of the<br />
graduating class of <strong>2011</strong>. I speak to you all,<br />
you lucky students of <strong>Woodstock</strong> <strong>School</strong> who<br />
have chosen to make <strong>Woodstock</strong> their Alma<br />
Mater, their ‘generous mother’ to guide them<br />
in their learning and the formation of their<br />
characters and personalities, and specially,<br />
the class of <strong>2011</strong> for whom I am here today to<br />
wish Godspeed in your lives, and to say with<br />
Lord Krishna in the Bhagavad Gita, and in the<br />
words of T.S. Eliot, ‘fare forward travelers’.<br />
As many of you must know I am an actor, an<br />
artist, an entertainer, a person who makes you<br />
laugh and cry, to make you, the audience, aware<br />
of the meaning and the value of your existence.<br />
I am an artist who follows the path of Indian<br />
classicism, an outlook not conditioned or<br />
restrained by religion or any other sectarian<br />
consideration, but by a sense of the beauty<br />
of totality, that which is both manifest—creation,<br />
and that which is formless—unknowable,<br />
not perceivable by our five senses<br />
(or their extensions, like microscopes and<br />
telescopes), but nonetheless there, and also<br />
present in each one of us. Which does not<br />
mean that God, and we, do not laugh. ‘For<br />
God’s sake, God, are you God or aren’t you<br />
God?’ a character in one of my husband,<br />
Gopal Sharman’s films, asks.<br />
We both began our grown up lives as journalists<br />
in Delhi, though Gopal had trained to<br />
be a classical singer and I had enjoyed and<br />
excelled at theatre in school and University.<br />
We met as journalists. A couple of years later<br />
(we were married by then) a fairy tale took<br />
over our lives!<br />
Gopal was editing Sunday edition of the<br />
Indian Express newspaper, the Sunday Standard,.<br />
Every week end he wrote a piece for<br />
the paper under the pseudonym Nachiketas,<br />
a character from the Upanishads. It was<br />
either a story or a poem and I thought they<br />
were very beautiful. I was in love of course,<br />
which you might say could have influenced<br />
my judgment. One day a search was instituted<br />
for Gopal by the renownend scholar and<br />
intellectual and President of India, Dr. Radhakrishnan.<br />
He had recently had a cataract<br />
operation which had made him miss several<br />
Nachiketas pieces and he wanted the poet to<br />
come to Rashtrapati Bhavan and read them<br />
aloud to him. Gopal asked me to read his<br />
pieces aloud because he said I was a better<br />
reader. The President and his distinguished<br />
guests listened with rapt attention. Every<br />
now and then the President would stop me<br />
to explain to his guests how beautifully Gopal<br />
had used a difficult philosophical idea<br />
expressed in this or that Upanishad. They<br />
loved it all. Dr. Radhakrishnan said to me,<br />
you can’t just do this for us. The writing is<br />
so beautiful and modern and young, and yet<br />
based in our traditional thought! Many, many<br />
people should hear this. I have to tell you that<br />
the President was amazed to find that Gopal<br />
was young, North Indian, wore slacks and a<br />
turtle-necked tee and moved around the city<br />
on a bicycle, with a little Hermes typewriter.<br />
A few days later, the President arranged for us<br />
to perform at the Azad Bhavan auditorium in<br />
Delhi on Friday the 13th of January.<br />
We called our show ‘Full Circle’, Gopal’s<br />
poems and stories recited by me, and songs<br />
sung by Gopal. And here is the Fairy Tale bit.<br />
To the performance came not only the critics<br />
who wrote fulsome praise in their reviews<br />
the next day, but also several Ambassadors<br />
and we were invited to bring ‘Full Circle’<br />
to Rome, Belgrade, Zagreb and Lubljiana!<br />
So we set forth to conquer the world or at<br />
least Europe with our stories and poems and<br />
songs. And so we did! Rome, Belgrade, Zagreb,<br />
Lubljiana led to the Vatican, Munich,<br />
Frankfurt, Brussels, London! Rave reviews,<br />
front page pictures, full houses, proper theatres<br />
and television programmes too!<br />
The Fairy Tale happened for two unknown<br />
young Indians. We earned enough money to<br />
buy ourselves a shiny black VW Beetle and<br />
travelled through Europe soaking in the delights:<br />
Florence, the Alps, a Wagnerian opera<br />
in Munich, La Boheme in Zagreb, a musical<br />
in Lubljiana, Brecht play in Frankfurt, performing<br />
at the Theater Poeme in Brussels.<br />
The Writers Club in Belgrade, Spumanti<br />
wine, Rhine wine, dancing and drinking all<br />
night while men at nearby tables toasted me<br />
by smashing their glasses on the floor and<br />
calling out ‘La Bella Indiene’. Most wonderful<br />
of all: performing, performing, people<br />
listening to Gopal’s words. Communicating<br />
a sense of beauty, willy nilly a sense of India<br />
and Gopal’s beautiful voice making me cry<br />
real tears as he sang the Kabuliwala’s Ae<br />
Mere Pyare Watan song and as we ended<br />
with Iqbal’s Sare Jahan se Accha, Hindustan<br />
Hamara.<br />
And this brings me to something I have been<br />
told about, that in the Class of <strong>2011</strong>, there<br />
are quite a few of you who are thinking<br />
seriously about taking up one of the arts as<br />
a profession.<br />
The arts, whether painting, sculpting; film,<br />
television, photography; acting, directing;<br />
dancing, choreography; music, classical,<br />
instrumental or vocal, Indian or Western; or<br />
rock and metal, pottery, laser shows, installation<br />
art whatever—the arts all have several<br />
most important things in common.<br />
To practice an art you have to learn the craft<br />
of it. The craft often means a great deal of<br />
drudgery, like learning lines, for instance, or<br />
practicing scales. Hours and hours of work.<br />
No cheering audience, just hard, lonely<br />
work. If you don’t have the craft you do<br />
not have the means to communicate what<br />
burns inside you to be told. If you don’t<br />
have a passion that burns inside you to communicate<br />
something most dear, most true to<br />
you, forget it.<br />
Most people are happiest with the security<br />
of a regular job, the assured income, the<br />
well worn path upwards, the well earned<br />
retirement, the annual increment, the annual<br />
vacation. Yes, there is stress here too, fierce<br />
competition, office or business politics, family<br />
entanglements. But it is the better path for<br />
most of us, and not to be derided. Then too,<br />
each life has its opportunity for a moment of<br />
bravery, of true sacrifice, of true love, of the<br />
elation of having made the right, the dharmic<br />
choice.
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But the artist’s life is truly different. It’s like<br />
balancing on the highwire with no safety<br />
net, and the ground below is littered with<br />
those who fell off. Not just in the case of<br />
financial security of which there is none,<br />
but in the case of a misjudgment, an over<br />
estimation of one’s own talent. That talent<br />
has to have a spine of great integrity, an<br />
insight, an instinct for what is true and good<br />
and beautiful—Satyam, Shivam, Sundaram.<br />
One cannot exist without the other. Art, when<br />
it is great, is like a mystical experience. An<br />
experience of harmony and joy, a fleeting<br />
glimpse of divinity.<br />
Because it is the divinity in great art that<br />
touches the divine in each one of us with<br />
whom it communicates. But it is a long, long<br />
road, a long, long quest to get there.<br />
Are you prepared for all this unknown? You<br />
who are just eighteen and dew beaded fresh<br />
in your hair?<br />
Maybe some of you are. If you are lucky you<br />
will have a good arts school to carry you a<br />
little further on. Even if you do not find one<br />
you will still be an artist if it is inside you.<br />
I told you about a fairy tale start to Gopal<br />
and my lives. We are blessed to have had,<br />
to still have each other. Not that we have not<br />
experienced pain and want and going without,<br />
and people not able to see what we are doing.<br />
When we first met Gopal wrote this for me:<br />
A Woman<br />
A woman is not made: she happens, like<br />
The rainbow which just happens. She is<br />
The sun, the wind-chased cloud, the<br />
Evening, raintime and rainend<br />
But the rainbow —<br />
She just happens.<br />
And between the tips of the arch then<br />
I am strung like the string on<br />
A bow. Or better, like the singing string<br />
On a lute.<br />
Pluck me woman and see how I sing,<br />
This high strung string!<br />
Probably the most important lesson art<br />
teaches one is to focus on what one is doing<br />
so strongly, so intently, that one ’s self disappears,<br />
only the work remains. You are doing it<br />
to tell someone, something inside you, that is<br />
precious. The Welsh poet, Dylan Thomas said:<br />
In My Craft and Sullen Art<br />
Exercised in the still night<br />
When only the moon rages<br />
And the lovers lie abed<br />
With all their griefs in their arms,<br />
I labour by singing light<br />
Not for ambition or bread<br />
Or the strut and trade of charms<br />
On the ivory stages<br />
But for the common wages<br />
Of their most secret heart.<br />
Not for the proud man apart<br />
From the raging moon I write<br />
On these spindrift pages,<br />
Nor for the towering dead<br />
With their nightingales and psalms<br />
But for the lovers, their arms<br />
Round the grief of the ages,<br />
Who pay no praise or wages.<br />
Nor heed my craft or art.<br />
Jalabala Vaidya is a stage actress who has<br />
had a lifelong passion for opera and western<br />
classical music. Ms. Jalabala Vaidya is<br />
the Secretary of Akshara National Classical<br />
Theatre of India which was founded by poetplaywright<br />
Gopal Sharman, her husband.<br />
Akshara Theatre is well known for its theatrical<br />
productions, like the “Ramayana”, and<br />
is a non-profit making, non-governmental<br />
organization, established with the purpose of<br />
presenting live theatrical performances and<br />
to make recordings and films of drama, music,<br />
dance and poetry.<br />
Presented by Sareega Shetty ’10 on<br />
behalf of her grandmother, Jalabala<br />
Vaidya.<br />
Milestone Reunions<br />
Do you remember your graduation?<br />
What better way to celebrate your anniversary than by revisiting<br />
<strong>Woodstock</strong>.<br />
Take your seat again in Parker Hall. Walk the path from Hostel and<br />
Midlands – and bemoan the passing of years as you remember<br />
how you used to run up the hill! Walk the chakkar and see the<br />
snow peaks again.<br />
The <strong>Alumni</strong> Office can help you make your milestone reunion<br />
special by booking hotels, arranging transport from Delhi and<br />
organizing activities within the school.<br />
Contact Monica Roberts, <strong>Alumni</strong> Secretary, for more information<br />
at alumni@woodstock.ac.in.
Valedictorian speech<br />
Tariqa Farrell Tandon<br />
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Tariqa Farrell Tandon with her mother<br />
Good Morning Respected Chairman Mr.<br />
Chandy, Principal Dr. Laurenson, Teachers,<br />
Parents, Family and Friends of <strong>Woodstock</strong><br />
<strong>School</strong>, distinguished guests, fellow students,<br />
and Luminescence, Class of <strong>2011</strong>. It’s<br />
my privilege to address you this morning.<br />
So, a few weeks ago, we had WOSA tea,<br />
and at one point, all the alumni and longtime<br />
staff members were asked to complete<br />
the following sentence: “Because of <strong>Woodstock</strong>…”<br />
As I heard the various responses, I<br />
started to think about it – what would I say<br />
if I were asked that question? So, here are<br />
my responses:<br />
Because of <strong>Woodstock</strong>, I have hiked a<br />
hundred kilometres up to school every day.<br />
Because of <strong>Woodstock</strong>, I have learnt the<br />
value of diversity, especially in the dining<br />
hall. (Chicken Nilgiri, Chicken-do-pyaza,<br />
Chicken Makhan-wala, Chicken Masala,<br />
Chicken Hyderabadi). Strangely, they all<br />
have the same orange sauce.<br />
Because of <strong>Woodstock</strong>, I submitted assignments<br />
till the very last hour of my high<br />
school career.<br />
Because of <strong>Woodstock</strong>, I know the importance<br />
of citing my sources correctly.<br />
Because of <strong>Woodstock</strong>, I learnt to appreciate<br />
all the global forms of noodles.<br />
Because of <strong>Woodstock</strong>, I’ve learnt how to<br />
adjust to changes really well.<br />
Because of <strong>Woodstock</strong>, I understand the<br />
world I live in and I think globally.<br />
Because of <strong>Woodstock</strong>, I’ve been the recipient<br />
of a broad, liberal arts education that<br />
allowed me to get a taste of many different<br />
subject areas<br />
Lastly, because of <strong>Woodstock</strong>, hopefully, I<br />
have learnt how to give an effective speech.<br />
Though it is clear that <strong>Woodstock</strong> has given<br />
our class and each one of us something<br />
to take away, what have we done for this<br />
school? Yes, we are proud to be graduates<br />
of <strong>Woodstock</strong>, but why should <strong>Woodstock</strong><br />
be proud of us, Luminescence, the class of<br />
<strong>2011</strong>? While some of you may be modest,<br />
and might think that what our class has done<br />
for this school is no different from previous<br />
graduating classes, I think that right now,<br />
it is the perfect time to boast about our<br />
achievements as a class.<br />
We are one of the most authentic groups<br />
of people I have encountered, and I am not<br />
just saying this because I am a part of this<br />
class, but because I truly believe it. We are<br />
not fake – our problems are in the open, and<br />
we don’t try to cover up our flaws. Instead,<br />
we learn from them and learn to overcome<br />
them. Over the past 4 years, our class has<br />
risen from its problems like a phoenix rises<br />
from its ashes. That’s why our flag is so appropriate.<br />
It was because of our class that the<br />
Luminescence Fund came about, and we are<br />
the first class to achieve such a success. Each<br />
one of us contributed to the cause of higher<br />
education for the children of <strong>Woodstock</strong><br />
employees who have served us.<br />
It was under the leadership of members of<br />
our class that the assemblies were transformed,<br />
for example, the Friday student run<br />
assemblies were introduced. It was under the<br />
leadership of members of our class that the<br />
Jordi Village project came about to build a<br />
library in a local village, and the first successful<br />
goal-a-thon was held in support of<br />
this effort. It was largely because of the<br />
leadership of the senior boys in the basketball<br />
team that we had such a successful<br />
basketball season this year, and even won the<br />
Win Mumby basketball championship after<br />
centuries. It was because of hardworking<br />
members of our class that such a wonderful<br />
yearbook came out this year.<br />
We are one of the easiest classes to work<br />
with, and have dealt very well with all the<br />
challenges we’ve encountered – for example,<br />
we did not make a big fuss when we<br />
were told that our STAR weekend was to be<br />
held in Mussoorie itself. I know it sounds<br />
like I’m boasting as I go through this list, but<br />
I actually think that one of the qualities that<br />
has allowed these accomplishments is that<br />
we are humble and teachable. We keep trying<br />
to learn and that’s the basis for our success.<br />
So, we have our liberal arts educations, our<br />
global awareness, our authenticity and our<br />
willingness to work hard. But, the question<br />
is, what will we do with these now? We’re<br />
definitely going to face a whole new set of<br />
challenges. And these are the qualities that<br />
will enable us to take on the challenges.<br />
With our liberal arts education, we can appreciate<br />
not only the disciplines we major in<br />
when we go on to higher education, but also<br />
the human knowledge that resides in other<br />
disciplines as well. Our global awareness<br />
helps us understand how we all are interconnected,<br />
and helps us respect diversity. Our<br />
authenticity will help us build and maintain<br />
relationships, both professionally and personally.<br />
And, our willingness to work hard<br />
is our insurance to underwrite risks.<br />
Wherever each of our lives may take us, we<br />
should remember our unique identity we<br />
have forged together at <strong>Woodstock</strong>. There<br />
will be times when we may not succeed, but<br />
at these times, remember the phoenix in our<br />
class flag, and rise again. Be Luminescent,<br />
and remember, as Saint Francis of Assisi<br />
said, “All the darkness in the world cannot<br />
extinguish the light of a single candle”.<br />
And, the world, be prepared, for Luminescence,<br />
the Class of <strong>2011</strong>, is ready to shine.<br />
And that’s because of <strong>Woodstock</strong>.<br />
Thank You.
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Salutatorian speech<br />
Hyun Kue Jeong<br />
Hyun Kue Jeong amuses President of the<br />
Board Thomas Chandy<br />
Good Morning, distinguished guests, parents,<br />
staff, friends and my fellow graduating class<br />
of <strong>2011</strong>, it is an honour for me today to have<br />
the opportunity to share my thoughts at this<br />
formal occasion.<br />
A few days ago, some of my friends told me<br />
about Ms Seefeldt’s expectations of the student<br />
speakers at the graduation. She has allegedly<br />
said, “the valedictorian has been working on<br />
her speech for about two weeks, but the salutatorian<br />
will probably make up his speech just<br />
five minutes before the actual ceremony.” Well.<br />
I wasn’t too sure about that, at least at first. As<br />
much as I would have loved to refute such an<br />
appalling and degrading supposition (joke,<br />
Ms Seefeldt), I must admit that she was right as<br />
I eventually ended up putting off my preparation<br />
for this speech until yesterday night.<br />
Following the parents banquet yesterday<br />
which on a side note, gave an invaluable<br />
opportunity to hear from the perspective of<br />
parents, I was left baffled with the task of<br />
having to arrange the speech for the next<br />
morning. Although numerous questions were<br />
raised in my head due to complete lack of<br />
prior planning, the most fundamental among<br />
them was “what on earth am I even going<br />
to talk about?” As far as I was concerned,<br />
the Valedictorian speech had to do with the<br />
values of the <strong>Woodstock</strong> experience and I<br />
most certainly did not want to put all of you<br />
to sleep by discussing an identical matter in<br />
this joyful event.<br />
To be honest, I could have probably put together<br />
a usual generic speech without much<br />
difficulty saying stuff like the graduation is<br />
not the end but the new beginning and that<br />
this is a new chapter in our lives.. Whatever.<br />
But I am sure that we, who are no longer<br />
children but ladies and gentlemen, as Aman<br />
stated at the Baccalaureate, are already well<br />
aware of the presence of various challenges in<br />
the future. I instead hope to leave my friends<br />
with an advice that may prove to be helpful<br />
in addressing such challenges wherever you<br />
may find yourself.<br />
I had around two and a half hours of sleep<br />
last night, having not only to write this<br />
speech but also to finally prepare my gifts<br />
and pack all my belongings. The question<br />
is, am I going to learn from this experience<br />
and stop putting off the necessary work?<br />
For me the answer is probably NO. After<br />
all procrastination has always been a part<br />
of me, and it is now at the stage that it feels<br />
even wrong when I finish an assignment<br />
well before the due date. Nonetheless, I am<br />
willing to fix this issue eventually.; it may<br />
take consecutive days of all-nighters at college<br />
or failing in an assignment, but I am<br />
sure I will, in the near future, be motivated<br />
to take my work more seriously in a more<br />
demanding environment. I mean I didn’t do<br />
too badly here despite my tendency to be<br />
‘laid back’; after all I am salutatorian, not a<br />
bad achievement you know.<br />
By saying all this however, I am not warning<br />
you merely against procrastinating since I<br />
know that there are many hard-working in our<br />
class who in fact deserve to be here instead of<br />
me. What I have been attempting to tell all of<br />
you is that you should learn or at least, like<br />
me, be willing to learn from your mistakes.<br />
Many of my friends tell me that I would have<br />
been able to achieve anything had I put the<br />
effort in. Although I highly doubt that, it’s still<br />
I think very much possible. Similarly, learning<br />
from mistakes will allow you to transform<br />
your faults into your strengths, and such will<br />
help us encounter the inevitable challenges in<br />
life that must be dealt with.<br />
And that was my last minute prepared speech<br />
and congratulations to our class of Luminescence<br />
and all those who helped us to get<br />
here for the long-waited graduation which<br />
looked like it was never going to come but<br />
eventually did.<br />
Thank You.<br />
The SAGE Program offers high school students the opportunity to travel<br />
and study abroad as a way to gain greater understanding of the world and<br />
themselves. Travel abroad becomes a transformative experience, which is<br />
carefully designed to allow participants to grow intellectually, socially, and<br />
emotionally. We challenge students to move beyond their comfort zone, to<br />
think more critically about the world and themselves, and to become engaged<br />
and responsible global citizens.<br />
“A year on the SAGE Program means many things. It means adventure,<br />
new friendships, high-quality education and a broader world view. Perhaps<br />
my only regret is that I couldn’t stay longer.”<br />
–Sherry Cohen, Washington, DC<br />
For more information, visit the SAGE website at<br />
www.sageprogram.org
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Graduating Class of <strong>2011</strong><br />
Front row: Nan Onkka, Greg Miller, Ajay Mark, Ray Husthwaite, Shonila Chander, James Rice, Amy Seefeldt, Andrzej Plonka<br />
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,<br />
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,<br />
Anamika Sumit Bhatt, Chimey Dolkar, Penli Mongla Jamir<br />
Third row: Mina Zahin, Lalzirliani Chinzah, Devika Hastak, Sachika Mehra, Dharadipika Hopkins, Maria Asad-Dehghan, Seoyoung Kim, Nitisha Mohapatra, Sanghamitra Ghosh, Jeong Yeon Lim,<br />
Nayantara Shilpin Patel, Sonam Yangki Jattu, Makani Rose Nakasone, Ye Na Lee, Maren Tims Magill, Ashika Rachel Thanju, Rakchira Dalbot Shira, Shirly Susan Samuel<br />
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<br />
Gupta, Joseph R. Touthang, Sidharth Varma Datla, Rajiv More, Jocelyn Edmond Edouard Basseporte, Jeremy Sunil Arthur<br />
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<br />
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<br />
Not pictured: Trishla Golechha, Aurnab Aziz Saleh
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<strong>2011</strong> awards<br />
Each year, outstanding achievements by our students and staff are recognised in many ways. A number of awards have<br />
been established to honour the lives of teachers or students, and are much sought-after. The major awards and their<br />
recipients for the 2010–<strong>2011</strong> school year are recorded below.<br />
SENIOR SCHOOL AWARDS<br />
Valedictorian Tariqa Farrell Tandon<br />
Salutatorian Hyun Kue Jeong<br />
Best All-Round Student Award<br />
Se Min Suh<br />
Student Government Award<br />
Kritika Tara Deb, Yu Sung Eo<br />
Pratap Chatterjee Memorial<br />
Science Award Armaan Bindra<br />
Poad Music Shield Se Min Suh<br />
Mubarak Masih Indian Music Shield<br />
Trishla Golechha<br />
E. E. Miller International Award<br />
Tariqa Farrell Tandon<br />
Principal’s Award<br />
Sidharth Varma Datla<br />
Centennial Shield Grade 10 (Class of 2013)<br />
Mathematics Award Not Given<br />
Jimmy Cassinath Memorial Awards<br />
• Drama Maria Asad-Dehghan<br />
• Writing Not Given<br />
• Art Aurnab Aziz Saleh<br />
HIKING AWARDS:<br />
• W. Lowrie Campbell Memorial<br />
Hiking Cup Not Given<br />
• Karen Krenz Cup Not Given<br />
Champion House Award<br />
Condors<br />
Best Effort Award<br />
Abigail Wood<br />
Community Service Award<br />
Beverly Dempsey Harp<br />
Citizenship Awards<br />
• Grade 12 Sanghamitra Ghosh<br />
• Grade 12 Rajiv More<br />
Writing Awards Sanghamitra Ghosh,<br />
Nayantara Shilpin Patel, Shirly Susan<br />
Samuel<br />
Journalism Awards<br />
• Writing Devika Hastak, Fileona Endoxa<br />
Dkhar<br />
• Production Daniel Anand Rollins,<br />
Shreen Vaid<br />
Audio-Visual Crew Awards<br />
Daniel Anand Rollins<br />
Hiking Pins Shayan Nejad, Daniel Anand<br />
Rollins<br />
Certificates Of Outstanding Achievement<br />
• Mathematics Sungeun Moon<br />
• Science<br />
Biology Shirly Susan Samuel<br />
Chemistry Tariqa Farrell Tandon<br />
Environmental Science<br />
Abigail Jiang Ping Wood<br />
Physics Sungeun Moon<br />
• Social Studies<br />
Economics Hyun Kue Jeong<br />
History<br />
Adnan Raul Valdes Bhattacharjea<br />
• Modern Languages<br />
French Se Min Suh<br />
English<br />
Adnan Raul Valdes Bhattacharjea<br />
• Visual Arts Dharadipika Hopkins<br />
• Music<br />
Orchestra Maren Tims Magill<br />
Indian Music<br />
John Foster Latta Charles<br />
Scholastic Achievement with Silver Pin<br />
(3+ Awards)<br />
Grade 12 Hyun Kue Jeong, Ye Na Lee,<br />
Sungeun Moon, Yerim Park, Nayantara Patel,<br />
Shirly Samuel, Aman Sethi, Se Min Suh,<br />
Tariqa Tandon, Ji Eun Yang<br />
Scholastic Achievement<br />
Grade 12 Anamika Bhatt, Armaan Bindra,<br />
John Charles, Lalzirliani Chinzah, Siddhant<br />
Gupta, Dharadipika Hopkins, Amit<br />
Lalvani, Maren Magill, Makani Nakasone,<br />
Daniel Rollins, Kaanhari Singh, Adnan<br />
Valdes Bhattacharjea, Abigail Wood<br />
JUNIOR SCHOOL AWARDS<br />
Outstanding Academic Achievement<br />
Award<br />
• Grade 1 Sarahna Daliya<br />
• Grade 2 Warris Godara<br />
• Grade 3 Rohan Mathias<br />
• Grade 4 Alyse Zaheer<br />
• Grade 5V Healeam Jung<br />
• Grade 5W Noel Archer<br />
• Grade 6 Sharhirah Mathias<br />
Music Award<br />
• Grade 1 Sarahna Daliya<br />
• Grade 2 Armaan Bhattacharjee<br />
• Grade 4 Yaeyin Lee<br />
• Grade 5V Sadhvi Schoier<br />
• Grade 5W Tenzin Yigha<br />
• Grade 6 Elisabeth Pesavento<br />
Ruth Shepherd Award for Creative Writing<br />
Rohan Mathias (Grade 3)<br />
All <strong>School</strong> Awards<br />
Citizenship Award Niranjan Bennett, Su<br />
Lin Kim<br />
Head of <strong>School</strong><br />
Aryan Khanna<br />
Honor Roll<br />
• Grade 5 Noel Archer, Abhishek<br />
Bhandari, Nikunj Dalmia,<br />
Hyechan Jun, Healeam Jung, Summer<br />
Kang, Sophie Mero, Phunsok Norboo,<br />
Sadhvi Schoier, Kabish Shrestha, Tenzin<br />
Yigha, Jay Yunas<br />
• Grade 6 Assem Aggarwal, Meghna<br />
Das, Hyeji Jun, Aryan Khanna, Shanti<br />
Mathias, Sharhirah Mathias, Elisabeth<br />
Pesavento<br />
Hiking Awards, Gold Level<br />
Rohan Mathias, Padma Schoier, Noah<br />
Douglas, Sadhvi Schoier, Meghna Das,<br />
Shanti Mathias, Sharhirah Mathias, Vanalika<br />
Nagarwalla, Elisabeth Pesavento, Aashish<br />
Peters, Ambar Sarup, Niranjan Bennet,<br />
Suryaansh Garg, Ayaan John.<br />
Did you receive an award at <strong>Woodstock</strong> of which you are still proud? Tell us about<br />
it. Go to www.woodstockschool.in/share and Share Your Story.
Distinguished <strong>Alumni</strong> <strong>2011</strong><br />
J. Gabriel<br />
Campbell ’65<br />
Dr. James Gabriel<br />
Campbell has<br />
spent almost his<br />
whole life in the<br />
Himalaya. Born<br />
at Landour Community<br />
Hospital,<br />
Mussoorie, he followed<br />
his father, uncle and aunts in attending<br />
<strong>Woodstock</strong> from Upper Kindergarten to graduation<br />
(with a couple of years in the US). His<br />
winter family home was in Jalandhar, Punjab.<br />
Gabriel has a Ph.D. and M.Phil in Anthropology,<br />
Religion and South Asian Studies from Columbia<br />
University and Union Theological Seminary,<br />
New York (With Distinction) and an M.A. and<br />
B.A. from Wesleyan University, Connecticut<br />
in Anthropology and History and Religion<br />
(magna cum laude). For these degrees he spent<br />
two separate years of field research living in<br />
villages of Himachal Pradesh and Jumla, Nepal.<br />
He speaks Nepali, Hindi, Urdu and Punjabi and<br />
has studied French, Tibetan and Sanskrit. He has<br />
published six monographs and books and over<br />
100 articles and papers.<br />
Following five years as the executive head of<br />
the US Education Foundation in Nepal (Fulbright<br />
Program) and director of operations for<br />
Mountain Travel Nepal, Gabriel’s career has<br />
focused on natural resource management and<br />
local livelihood improvement in a number of<br />
countries in the Himalaya. He has worked with<br />
international development agencies, including<br />
USAID, United Nations, the World Bank and<br />
NGOs, especially The Mountain Institute, as a<br />
specialist in the human dimensions of development<br />
and in management roles. As Director<br />
General of ICIMOD - the International Centre<br />
for Integrated Mountain Development - for over<br />
seven years, Gabriel supervised a staff of 150,<br />
built an international headquarters and worked<br />
with countries throughout the Himalaya to increase<br />
cooperation and knowledge sharing. In<br />
this role he was given a number of awards by the<br />
countries of the region, international agencies,<br />
and several large private sector IT companies.<br />
Among his accomplishments, Gabriel is credited<br />
with being instrumental in:<br />
• establishing Community Forestry in Nepal<br />
and reversing deforestation in the hills and<br />
mountains of that country (this is now a<br />
global model of success);<br />
• establishing community based national<br />
parks around Mt. Everest and Mt. Makalu -<br />
Qomolangma National Nature Preserve in<br />
Tibet, China and Makalu-Barun National<br />
Park and Conservation Area in eastern<br />
Nepal;<br />
• designing Eco-development programs for<br />
7 Project Tiger national parks in India that<br />
have been subsequently expanded to other<br />
park areas;<br />
• pioneering scholarship on shamanism in<br />
far Western Nepal, community institutions<br />
for natural resource management, validity<br />
of social science survey methods and<br />
methodology, monitoring systems for<br />
forestry in India and tenurial aspects of<br />
development; and eco-tourism in Sikkim;<br />
• building regional cooperation between<br />
Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, China,<br />
India, Nepal, Myanmar and Pakistan in a<br />
number of areas such as: flood forecasting,<br />
biodiversity conservation, GIS and glacial<br />
lake mapping, disaster preparedness,<br />
watershed management and agricultural<br />
development, eco-tourism, climate change<br />
research and adaptation strategies, Himalayan<br />
bee development, promoting gender equality,<br />
and increasing social inclusion.<br />
Gabriel lives mostly in Nepal with his wife, Dr.<br />
Lynn Bennett, also an anthropologist known for<br />
her pioneering work on women and social inclusion<br />
in the World Bank. He is active in WOSA<br />
meetings in Nepal, and when possible, the US<br />
and was happy to help host the <strong>Woodstock</strong> Jazz<br />
Band who visited Kathmandu for Jazzmandu<br />
in October 2010. He was the Commencement<br />
Speaker at <strong>Woodstock</strong> for the class of ‘06.<br />
Tom Alter ’68<br />
Tom Alter has been a<br />
well-known face to Indian<br />
movie-goers for more<br />
than three decades. Apart<br />
from acting in Hindi films,<br />
Tom Alter has exhibited<br />
talent in theatre, in sports<br />
and in literature.<br />
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Tom Alter, the son and<br />
grandson of American Presbyterian missionaries,<br />
grew up in north India in the towns of Rajpur<br />
and Mussoorie. As a child, he studied Hindi and<br />
Urdu and, consequently, was referred to as the<br />
‘blue-eyed sahib with the impeccable Hindi.’<br />
After studying in <strong>Woodstock</strong> <strong>School</strong> from 1st to<br />
12th Grade and graduating in 1968, Tom worked<br />
as a sports teacher at St. Thomas <strong>School</strong> in Jagadhri,<br />
Haryana and came back to the <strong>Woodstock</strong><br />
as staff for about two years.<br />
In the early 1970s Tom fell in love with the movies<br />
(after watching the classic film Aaradhna)<br />
which led Tom to enrol in the prestigious Film<br />
and Television Institute of India (FTII), where<br />
he studied with the likes of Naseeruddin Shah,<br />
Shabana Azmi, and other stalwarts of cinema.<br />
Having been featured in almost 100 films, Tom<br />
Alter has worked with noted filmmakers such<br />
as Satyajit Ray, V. Shantaram, Raj Kapoor,<br />
Hrishikesh Mukherjee, Manmohan Desai,<br />
Vidhu Vinod Chopra, Manoj Kumar and Ismail<br />
Merchant. He has played many significant roles<br />
in his career and has had the privilege of working<br />
with the best in Hindi cinema and Hollywood.<br />
No actor in Hindi cinema has acted in as broad<br />
a range of movies.<br />
In addition to acting, Alter has also ventured into<br />
direction: he directed a one-shot episode for the<br />
short-lived series ‘Yule Love Stories’ in the mid-<br />
1990s. He also worked on the small screen in<br />
a number of popular serials: Junoon which ran<br />
for five years and won him rave reviews, Zabaan<br />
Sambhalke, Ghutan and a talk show Mere Ghar<br />
Aana Zindagi are some of the popular shows<br />
Tom has been part of. Tom Alter also made his<br />
mark in theatre. Significant productions include<br />
William Dalrymple’s ‘City of Djinns’ where he<br />
shared a stage with the legend Zohra Sehgal. A<br />
solo play Maulana, based on the life and vision<br />
of freedom fighter Maulana Azad, is also running<br />
to rave reviews in India and abroad.<br />
Cricket was more than a passion for Tom Alter.<br />
From the late 1980s to the early 1990s Tom was<br />
a sports journalist. He continues to play cricket<br />
for a film industry team MCC (Match Cut Club),<br />
with Naseeruddin Shah, Aamir Khan and Nana<br />
Patekar among others. He still writes on cricket<br />
for a number of national and international publications.<br />
At the WOSA 100 celebrations, Tom<br />
captained a team of alumni in a closefought<br />
match against the team led by<br />
former staff member Brij Lal. Tom<br />
Alter has also written three books,<br />
one non-fiction and two fiction: The<br />
Longest Race, Rerun at Rialto, The<br />
Best in the World.<br />
In 2008 Tom Alter was awarded the<br />
prestigious Padma Shree (one of<br />
India’s highest public honours) by the Indian<br />
government in recognition for his services to<br />
the field of arts and cinema. Tom Alter stands<br />
out in every part of his professional life. In<br />
<strong>Woodstock</strong>, as a student, as a staff member and<br />
as a parent, Tom Alter has been a proactive,<br />
keen and involved alumnus, an integral part of<br />
the <strong>Woodstock</strong> heritage.
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WOSA-100<br />
Our First Century<br />
The first WOSA meeting was held at <strong>Woodstock</strong> <strong>School</strong> in 1911. We<br />
marked the centenary with celebrations in Delhi and on the hillside<br />
during October 19th - 23rd. Here’s a flavour of what happened,<br />
drawn mainly from Anne Lind’s (S) blog. Anne played a large part in<br />
the organization of the event, and we’re glad she enjoyed it! You can<br />
see many more of her photographs at http://anne-india.blogspot.com.<br />
Wednesday 19th – early arrivals plus Delhi alumni were treated to a<br />
Bollywood dance and dinner evening, courtesy of Sumana Bhasin ’85.<br />
Thursday afternoon was coming up day for most of those who were<br />
attending, and registration was set up at the <strong>Woodstock</strong> gate from<br />
2:00, with a welcome banner and photos of everyone as they arrived.<br />
Meanwhile, the Quad was being prepared with golden streamers<br />
overhead and the class flags hung from the balconies. It was breezy<br />
most of the time, so the fluttering gold was very attractive.<br />
Following registration, everyone gathered in the Quad for the Welcome<br />
Dinner hosted by Principal Eleanor Nicholson. The current<br />
<strong>Woodstock</strong> staff were invited to come and interact with the alumni<br />
visitors. It was very festive, if a bit chilly. Pandit Ajit Singh performed<br />
on the Vichitra Veena, and we were treated to a 15-minute<br />
sneak preview of the Fall school musical, “Brigadoon,” two weeks<br />
away from its opening in Parker Hall. Lillian Skinner Singh, class<br />
of 1939, cut the 100-year cake.<br />
Friday morning we had an all-school assembly in the gym. The<br />
school took this opportunity to honour long-serving staff, and<br />
two young teachers from the music department, Bethany and Abe<br />
Okie, performed a set of updated variations on “Shadows”, which<br />
reached a climax when Principal Eleanor Nicholson<br />
was pressed into duty as Lady Gaga. After the assembly was over, our<br />
volunteers took the visiting alumni for tours of the school. One group<br />
went to the dorms on the lower level, but others did not. We headed out<br />
Tehri Road to the Hanifl Centre for lunch. Even the older ones made it<br />
very well. (It’s about a kilometer and slightly uphill.) It was pleasant<br />
to sit around the grounds at Hanifl eating our box lunches.<br />
After lunch, Friday got even busier. The Mela was held in the Quad<br />
from 3:00 to 6:00. Vendor stalls ranged from food to handicrafts to<br />
books. Following the Mela, the advanced student recital was held in<br />
Parker Hall. Many students and visitors attended the recital, and they<br />
still had time to get down to Hostel for the Pool Party and dinner. The<br />
dinner had stalls serving many Indian food items, made fresh right in<br />
front of us. Yum!<br />
Saturday was a mostly open day. Some went to Wynberg Allen for<br />
the inter-school sports, others to the bazaar. In the evening a dinner<br />
was held at Rokeby Highlands at the top of the hill, hosted by Sanjay<br />
Narang ’81. It was quite chilly, but there were several fires at which we<br />
could warm ourselves. There was a lot of dancing, eating, and visiting.<br />
Sunday we had a service in Parker Hall. Eleanor Nicholson and Amitavo<br />
Roy (S) played a violin duet for the prelude and postlude. Four<br />
alumni gave short reflections on how <strong>Woodstock</strong> influenced their<br />
lives. Other alumni and former or long-term staff read the scriptures<br />
and led the prayers.<br />
Following the service, we headed to Hanson Field for the alumni cricket<br />
match. For those of you who haven’t been here, it is below even the<br />
lower dorms. We had a box lunch. The entire class of 1981 came, with<br />
some of their members joining<br />
in. There were two sides, led<br />
by Tom Alter and Brij Lal, who<br />
were probably the ones who first<br />
brought cricket to <strong>Woodstock</strong> in<br />
the 1960s. Everyone who played<br />
seemed to have a great time.<br />
And in the end the two sides<br />
were tied (after 20 overs each).<br />
It was a full and tiring weekend,<br />
but a worthwhile and memo-<br />
rable way to mark the passing<br />
of 100 years of WOSA. Here’s<br />
to the next 100!
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Gatherings<br />
Class reunions<br />
Class of 49<br />
Mobile, AL - OCT 24-29, <strong>2011</strong><br />
Attendees: Paul and Becky von Tucher,<br />
Nedra Bloom (Becky’s sister and co planner)<br />
and Don and daughter Catherine,<br />
Helen (Banker) and Ivan Syswerda, Harvella<br />
(Bauman) Stutzman and daughter<br />
Sue Gillis, Betty (Bauman) Shelly, Bill<br />
and Norma Parson, Anna Mae (Whitcomb)<br />
Lennington, Diana (Bond) Holtshouser,<br />
Reed Hunt and Joyce Moulton, Bob and<br />
Eva Forsgren, Fred and Mary Downs, Joe<br />
and Joan Chacko, Al (48) and Kathy Bauman,<br />
Harold and Maxine Wilkinson. Bob<br />
and Norma Jean Erny were unable to come<br />
when Bob became ill.<br />
Our schedule included visits to the Fort<br />
Conde Welcome Center, Conde-Charlotte<br />
House Museum, Mobile City Museum,<br />
Tour of Dauphin Island Sea Lab Estuarium,<br />
Bellingrath Gardens and Delchamps Gallery<br />
of Boehm Porcelain, Fairhope, AL on<br />
the Eastern Shore of Mobile Bay, and Gulf<br />
Shores beach.<br />
On Thursday night we enjoyed an Indian<br />
Khanna cooked by Joe Chacko and friends,<br />
followed by a class meeting and a documentary<br />
video presented by Hal Wilkinson<br />
about his mother’s father traveling to the<br />
Arctic as a missionary. Hal’s mother was<br />
born in the Yukon.<br />
On Friday we toured the Oakleigh antebellum<br />
mansion and historic complex. Each<br />
evening we gathered at a local restaurant<br />
for dinner and visiting.<br />
Harvella (Bauman) Stutzman<br />
Class of 51 – 60 years<br />
well represented there back in our days at<br />
the Mussoorie Olympics. In those days of<br />
the late forties we moved up and down like<br />
village goats. These days some of us move<br />
somewhat more slowly.<br />
Let one picture suffice to point to our presence<br />
in the event which was the capstone of<br />
the reunion for us – the <strong>School</strong> Assembly.<br />
The picture shows several members of the<br />
class, each a Veri Important Person (please<br />
note the spelling of the first word to indicate<br />
that we are “Truly” important persons).<br />
Class of 51: Judy Landry, James Loehlin, Carolyn Smith (F), U Kyaw Win, Warren Hall Crain,<br />
Pronoti Sinha, Ashoke Chatterjee, Charlene Chitamber Connell, John Morgan<br />
The Class of ’51 was pleased to have mustered<br />
a mighty contingent of fifteen people<br />
(all of whom were somehow related to our<br />
class or to one of our classmates, and several<br />
of whom were actually proud members<br />
of the Class of 51). We participated fully,<br />
though not in full strength, at every one of<br />
the events of WOSA 100. Be it noted that<br />
in our day we were constrained to move<br />
between Hostel/College/Ridgewood daily<br />
with a weekly trek up as far as Kellogg<br />
Church for Sunday worship and occasional<br />
trips down to Hansen Field. This past month<br />
we found events as far flung as the Hanifl (I<br />
still can neither spell nor pronounce that!)<br />
and some maidan even above Rokeby. None<br />
of us however made it as far as Wynberg<br />
Allen this time, though of course we were<br />
Some of us have pointed to this reunion<br />
as our last visit to <strong>Woodstock</strong>. I would<br />
surely not include Ashoke in that, and almost<br />
certainly I will myself be back. I doubt,<br />
however, that we will have such a strong<br />
contingent should we schedule a seventy<br />
year or seventy-five year reunion. We will<br />
certainly, however, continue to support and<br />
boost Voodistock Iskool in whatever way is<br />
appropriate for each of us. And we will hope,<br />
though “Hulloo” is not around to modify the<br />
lyrics, that one day we will sing of “<strong>Woodstock</strong>,<br />
known over all the world!” “Hand”<br />
rhymes well with “Land”. What rhymes<br />
well with “world”? Perhaps: “<strong>Woodstock</strong>,<br />
proudly our flag unfurled!”<br />
Warren Hall Crain
Class of 65 – 45 years<br />
“Pray for the people of Afghanistan. Pray for<br />
the men who murdered my husband,” she said<br />
in a quiet but firm voice as she handed out toy<br />
Afghani camels to the assembled members of<br />
the <strong>Woodstock</strong> class of 1965 gathered around<br />
the table.<br />
Speaking was Seija Terry, widow of Dan Terry,<br />
our beloved classmate who, along with nine<br />
other aid workers, had recently given his all in<br />
the service of his Lord. Listening in respectful<br />
silence were all 15 of us (plus kids and<br />
spouses) who could afford the time and cost of<br />
a trip last November to <strong>Woodstock</strong> to celebrate<br />
Dan’s life and wax nostalgic once again as we<br />
walked the covered passageway, stood in the<br />
Quadrangle, chatted with Mrs. Kapadia, and<br />
posed under the Lyre Tree.<br />
Thank you especially to all the wonderful<br />
faculty and staff at <strong>Woodstock</strong>, who rolled<br />
out the red carpet for the Class of 65. Heck,<br />
the last time I was a visitor at the principal’s<br />
residence, it was to work off a straight gating;<br />
and now I’m sipping chai, munching pakoras,<br />
downing gulab jamuns, and shaking hands<br />
with the good man himself.<br />
In addition to the memorial service for Dan,<br />
we were also privileged to attend an all-school<br />
assembly, honoring classmate Dr. J. Gabriel<br />
Campbell, recipient of the Distinguished<br />
Alumnus Award, for his marvelous work as an<br />
anthropologist in the Himalayas. (You can find<br />
him on the web.)<br />
Of course, we reserved one day for sightseeing.<br />
My group decided to make the long trek<br />
to Surkunda, you remember, out Tehri Road<br />
past first and second Jabarkhet, Bears’ Hill,<br />
the Gap, Suakoli, Dhanaulti, and then that<br />
last killer mile straight uphill to the temple at<br />
the top—exit taxi—and catch a breathtaking<br />
view of the snows.<br />
That night we sat around the campfire at<br />
the Himalayan Castle and sang the mandatory<br />
<strong>Woodstock</strong> songs while Jonathan Larson<br />
played his guitar. After a while we broke into<br />
a spirited rendition of “Jana, Gana, Mana,”<br />
and with us we soon had several other hotel<br />
residents clapping hands and singing India’s<br />
national anthem in an unforgettable scene of<br />
spontaneous patriotism.<br />
All too soon it was time to catch the bus down to<br />
Dehra and the Shatabdi Express back to Delhi,<br />
for some to return home, for some to visit family,<br />
for others to tour the Plains and the places of<br />
their childhood, and for others to catch a flight<br />
to Kathmandu as guests of Gabriel and his wife.<br />
A side trip to Chitwan National Park, complete<br />
with a ride on elephant back to spot chital,<br />
sambhar, peafowl, and rhinos lurking in the<br />
bushes—ask Jonathan—proved the highlight<br />
of the Nepal experience, especially the drive<br />
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back up over the mountains on roads that<br />
people in their right minds—other than Dan<br />
Terry—would never dream of navigating with<br />
something other than a helicopter.<br />
A Thanksgiving dinner at the Campbell residence<br />
provided the final exclamation point on<br />
a trip filled with them. Here we were in Kathmandu,<br />
<strong>Woodstock</strong> grads (with a sprinkling<br />
of spouses and kids thrown in) raised in India,<br />
munching down Butterball turkey, cranberries,<br />
mashed potatoes, and pumpkin pie in a<br />
colonial rose garden and giving thanks in the<br />
best American tradition.<br />
I must admit that it took me a while to get acclimated<br />
to life back in the U.S.—the congestion<br />
in my lungs lingered for a month or two and<br />
the “Delhi belly” a tad longer—but, seriously,<br />
the memories are worth your time if your class<br />
ever decides to have a reunion at <strong>Woodstock</strong>.<br />
A smaller group of the Class of 65 met this<br />
summer at Ft. Collins-WOSA and helped to<br />
lead with song and story a gathering to recall<br />
the work and vision of Daniel Terry. They were<br />
joined by Dan’s sister Ruth and his daughters<br />
Anneli ’99 and Saara ’02, who assembled<br />
a photo essay on Dan’s life. A plan is under<br />
discussion to launch an annual event at <strong>Woodstock</strong><br />
that would foster the values and practice<br />
of peacemaking that marked Dan’s life.<br />
by Marv Modder, for the class of ‘65<br />
Class of ’65 at <strong>Woodstock</strong> <strong>School</strong> l-r front row: Cathy Forman, Mary Kay (Burkhalter) Larson, Dale Brown, Hilary (Roxburgh) McKenzie, J. Gabriel<br />
Campbell, Karen (McCray) Modder-Border, Jessie Lacy back row: John Alter, Jonathan Larson, Derek Bean, Joanna (Gough) Roy, Delbert<br />
Friesen, Marvin Modder, Greg Hartman, Daniel Blosser not pictured Anju (Dayal) Mathur
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Class of 71 – 40 years<br />
The 40th reunion of the Class of 71 was<br />
held in Flagstaff AZ over the weekend of<br />
July 15-17. ANITA JOHNS HOWARD had<br />
graciously offered to host. Little did she<br />
realize what she was getting herself into!<br />
Although the reunion officially started on<br />
Friday, by Thursday evening there was<br />
quite a crowd. Numerous pots of chai were<br />
made and drunk as we reconnected with<br />
classmates, renewed friendships and just<br />
continued from where we left off 40+ years<br />
ago. Friday we gathered back at Anita’s<br />
house to welcome those arriving that day.<br />
Some classmates took the opportunity to<br />
do some sightseeing – the Grand Canyon<br />
and Sedona both being within easy driving<br />
distance of Flagstaff.<br />
For dinner Anita cooked us an amazing<br />
Mexican buffet with Hibiscus Margaritas.<br />
We sat over dinner talking until the full<br />
moon rose over the valley, and it was<br />
chilly enough to move to the fire pit. MIKE<br />
SINGH has just finished a documentary,<br />
Valentino’s Ghost, about the West’s conception<br />
and misconceptions of Arabs,<br />
and he had brought a copy of it with him.<br />
The film was shown and it proved to be<br />
a provoking film prompting some great<br />
discussions.<br />
Saturday was more of the same: sightseeing,<br />
hanging out, drinking chai and<br />
of course the endless talking, laughing<br />
and even some crying. Mike was interested<br />
in hearing about our experiences<br />
as third culture kids and spent his time<br />
interviewing and videotaping classmates<br />
and spouses. It made for some interesting<br />
and emotional discussions. That evening<br />
Anita had arranged Hindustani khanna for<br />
us. But prior to that, we had namkeen and<br />
pakoras, prepared by Iris, Judy, Tejal and<br />
Roopa. The khanna was delicious. There<br />
were close to 40 people at dinner so it was<br />
held in the community hall at the firehouse<br />
where Anita’s husband, Don, is the Fire<br />
Chief! After dinner we had the mandatory<br />
singing of Shadows and the sharing<br />
of slides. The plans for our next reunion<br />
were revealed - India in 2014, details to<br />
be disclosed at a later date. Iris Hunter,<br />
Bruce Ferguson and Rahul Amin are the<br />
planning committee.<br />
After cleaning up the firehouse (many<br />
hands made light work) we returned to<br />
Anita’s house for more chai, talk, and a<br />
second showing of Mike’s documentary.<br />
Some of us stayed up until the wee hours<br />
talking around the firepit. It was a special<br />
evening.<br />
Sunday, amid cups of chai, promises to<br />
keep in touch and chants of Vadodara in<br />
2014, the group began to break up. By<br />
mid-afternoon there were eight classmates<br />
and five spouses remaining. It was decided<br />
that we should go visit a park which had<br />
lava flows from an extinct volcano and<br />
some old Native American ruins. The vistas<br />
were beautiful and the talk continued<br />
to be invigorating, even though we were<br />
all exhausted.<br />
On Monday the rest of us left and I am<br />
sure that Anita was glad to have her house<br />
back. We missed all of you who weren’t<br />
able to make it and hope that all of you<br />
will be in India for our 43rd Reunion!!<br />
The list of attendees included: Rahul<br />
Amin, Bob Conrad, Smruti Bhagat<br />
Dale, John Davis, Bruce Ferguson, Gary<br />
Gamble, Gary Geisbrecht, Cheryl Groff,<br />
Anita Johns Howard, Iris Hunter, Mohan<br />
Gupta Kejriwal, Anne Marriott, Michael<br />
Midkiff, Bharat Patel, Gary Peterson,<br />
Monroe Sawatzky, Victor Schoonmaker,<br />
Bill Scott, Martha Brown Sill, Judy King<br />
Sims, Mike Singh, and many spouses and<br />
partners.<br />
Judy<br />
Class of ’71 in Arizona L to R: Gary Giesbrecht, Gary Gamble, Judy Sims, Michael Singh,Bruce Ferguson, Anne Marriot, Smruty Bhagat, Bill<br />
Scott, Monroe Sawatzky, Anita Howard, Iris Hunter, Bharat Patel, Cheryl Groff Hess, Martha Brown Sill, John Davis, Rahul Amin, Mahendra Mohan<br />
Gupta, Mohan Gupta Kejriwal, Michael Midkiff, Victor Schoonmaker and Gary Peterson.
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Class of 76 – 35 years<br />
We had a wonderful class reunion near Minneapolis<br />
this summer. Those who came were:<br />
SHARON GETTER (who is still teaching in<br />
Lhasa), MARK and JENNIE NANAKUL<br />
SOMERS (MI), CHERI (McKinley) and<br />
Gary MARSHALL (KY), JEFF and SUE<br />
SWAIN ROLLINS (at WS), DEAN JOHNS<br />
BERNARD (MA), with daughter Asha,<br />
MARY FEIERABEND GERARD (WI),<br />
NANCY SACKMAN (SC), with son, Josh,<br />
ANDREA STUTZ MITCHELL (VA),JOY<br />
GARRISON SIMPSON (ON), and JAN<br />
PLUMMER and Tony DAVIDSON, who<br />
organized this for us. We obviously have<br />
adjusted to technology since WS - half of<br />
us pulled out our laptops to share our pictures<br />
and view our missing classmates on<br />
Facebook. We had a wonderful weekend<br />
together, talking, eating, going on walks and<br />
going on a boat tour to see the eagles. It was<br />
fun to talk with TULIKA on the phone in<br />
Calcutta. We hope to do this again in about<br />
5 years, but small get-togethers will always<br />
take place between now and then.<br />
Joy<br />
Class of 76 reunion w/ WS friends: L-R Back row: Mark Somers, Mary Feierabend Girard, Jan<br />
Plummer Davidson, Sharon Getter, Joy Garrison Simpson, Jeff Rollins, Carol Remington Ivance<br />
’78 2nd row: Ronda Getter Ren ’73, Cherie McKinley Marshall, Jennie Nanakul Somers, Andrea<br />
Mitchell, Nancy Sackman, Josh Sackman, Sue Swain Rollins ’77, Cheryl Lindquist Higgins ’75<br />
In front kneeling: Dean Johns Bernard with his daughter Astha, Debbie Getter Thoe ’75, Robin<br />
Thoe’07<br />
Class of 81 – 30 years<br />
It so happened that the 100th anniversary of<br />
WOSA coincided with the 30th anniversary of<br />
our class’ graduation from <strong>Woodstock</strong>. Thanks<br />
to the generous contributions of room, board<br />
and local transportation from Sanjay Narang<br />
- and the tons of organizational work from<br />
himself, Nabil Sheber, Pinder Bhangra, and<br />
staffers Sharon Machado and Vanessa Pretto<br />
(both by now part of the ‘81 family) - about 23<br />
classmates, plus 20 of their family members,<br />
were able to attend. Financial contributions<br />
from other classmates helped pave the way for<br />
a few who would not otherwise have been able<br />
to join us - huge thanks to the donors for that!<br />
The very full schedule started, for some, on<br />
Tuesday the 18th in Delhi, where Sara Ahmed<br />
gave a dinner at her house for classmates and<br />
Delhi-based alumni. On the 19th many met<br />
at the WOSA Gala in Delhi (which someone<br />
else will have to report on - jet lag and Delhi<br />
Belly prevented me from attending). The 20th<br />
saw most of us wending our way to Landour<br />
via plane, train, and automobile. We were accommodated<br />
at Rokeby (now, under Sanjay’s<br />
ownership, a beautiful and very comfortable<br />
hotel), in the guest rooms at Oakville (thanks,<br />
Steve and Ameeta!), and at Sanjay’s and Pinder’s<br />
homes.<br />
That evening we all met in the Quad for the<br />
WOSA dinner, a great occasion to chat with<br />
many old friends and former and current staff<br />
members. It was great to see George Ruddock<br />
back for a semester, teaching some of our kids<br />
who are now at WS! Then we went up to Sanjay’s<br />
beautiful home at Bothwell Bank to talk<br />
on the deck by a fire and dance the night away<br />
to that old folks’ music we enjoy. ;-)<br />
The next morning we were served an excellent<br />
breakfast at Rokeby (including peanut butter<br />
for our toast or pancakes, of course!), then<br />
headed for the fancy new gym for assembly<br />
with the current students and staff. Those who<br />
wished toured the campus, and some were<br />
even interviewed by the journalism class. That<br />
afternoon there was a Mela in the Quad (what<br />
we used to think of as June Sale - the school<br />
held it late this year for the benefit of visiting<br />
alumni), followed by a dinner and dance given<br />
by Sanjay at the newly-revamped Hostel. The<br />
excellent catering was done by Omi (of Omi’s<br />
sweet shop fame), with a long row of stands<br />
offering everything from chaat to dosas to barfi<br />
to mocha coffee. This was the first <strong>Woodstock</strong><br />
dinner I have ever attended where it wasn’t<br />
necessary to wait in line to get fed.<br />
The dance in Hostel gym was carried on earsplittingly<br />
by a DJ flown in from Bombay.<br />
And it wasn’t even necessary to walk up the<br />
hill afterwards - cars were standing by on<br />
Ridgewood Field to take us home.<br />
Saturday morning we all met for a catered<br />
breakfast at Mt. Hermon. The day was mostly<br />
free. I should mention that we spent the various<br />
free times hanging out in Pinder’s garden (as<br />
manager of Rokeby, he and his family live in<br />
a charming “log cabin” on the property) and
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at Tenzing’s home Shanti - with several new<br />
rooms added on, it was able to accommodate<br />
a number of classmates and other alumni.<br />
Saturday evening Sanjay threw a Diwali<br />
party for WOSA and staff at the “Highlands”<br />
overlooking Rokeby - a party area complete<br />
with hot tubs. There was great food, danceable<br />
music provided by a duo from Bombay and a<br />
band of <strong>Woodstock</strong> staff (including Darab),<br />
fireworks, and even a belly dance exhibition<br />
by an alumna.<br />
The emotional highlight of the evening was<br />
when the class gathered closely around Jeet<br />
(he couldn’t get any of the band’s amps working<br />
with his guitar) to hear a song he had<br />
composed for the occasion: “Thirty Years<br />
On”: My sisters and my brothers when will<br />
we discover Why we have to come back to<br />
this place That loves us like a mother, teaches<br />
us like a father Years that we’ve been gone<br />
and still we do belong here just the same…<br />
which left us all bawling. I hope he’ll make a<br />
recording available soon.<br />
Though Jeet wasn’t expecting such a big<br />
crowd, of course it touches all of us, not just<br />
the class of ‘81.<br />
Sunday those who wished had their choice of<br />
church services to attend, followed by brunch<br />
at Rokeby. Then we piled into cars to drive<br />
down to Hanson Field for a cricket game with<br />
captains Brij Lal and Tom Alter. Men who<br />
had not played in decades bravely took the<br />
field, eventually battling to a tie. Many of us<br />
had never actually sat through a cricket game<br />
before, and enjoyed it (along with the snarky<br />
commentary from the stands). There were<br />
two more days of activities in and around<br />
Mussoorie, but I left on the Monday to see<br />
some other parts of India with my traveling<br />
companion.<br />
Thanks are also due to the alumni office and<br />
everyone else at <strong>Woodstock</strong> for all the hard<br />
work that went into making this a memorable<br />
visit. It was great to see everyone, both classmates<br />
and others. My only regret, as usual, is<br />
that there is never enough time to talk with<br />
everybody!<br />
Deirdre<br />
Class of 86 – 25 years<br />
The Class of 86 had our 25th reunion in<br />
Edison, over the July 4 weekend. It was graciously<br />
hosted by ANSHU AGGARWAL at<br />
his home. Lots of fun for everyone – some<br />
of us were meeting after 25 yrs and it was<br />
wonderful catching up. Having the spouses<br />
and kids there added to the fun. Members<br />
from surrounding classes were also invited.<br />
In attendance were Anshu and wife, Rashi,<br />
children Om and Maya, FAISAL KHAN,<br />
BOBBY SINGH, MURCHANA MOHAPA-<br />
TRA SATPATHY, JUNAID ALIM and<br />
wife, Tabassum, MANOJ BHASIN, JOSH<br />
SHERER, SIM KIM KELLNER, ANJALI<br />
TANDON RUSSANO with husband, Pete,<br />
and VIJAY GOYAL and wife Ritu, children<br />
Zoya and Abhimanyu. CHRIS HALE<br />
dropped by for a short while.<br />
Also present were MANOJ AGGARWAL<br />
’87, TARUN CHACHRA ’87 and wife<br />
Neema, children Diya and Krish, PAWAN<br />
AGARWAL ’88 and wife, Divya, children<br />
Jagat and Mira, and ANIL TECKWANI<br />
’89 - his brother, NARESH, ’84 dropped by.<br />
VIJAY KANCHI ’87 was able to join us for<br />
drinks on the first night, along with KOKIL<br />
CHACHRA ’00, Tarun’s cousin.<br />
On that first evening, everyone enjoyed<br />
Indian-Chinese cuisine at a local restaurant,<br />
followed by a raucous night at a local watering<br />
hole. The following morning Faisal took<br />
Junaid and Tabassum on a whirlwind tour of<br />
Manhattan and picked up MANDHIR SAWH-<br />
NEY on the way back for a party at Anshu’s<br />
house that night. On Sunday, Murchana laid<br />
out a fantastic brunch at her home - it was<br />
raining hard, reminding us of the monsoons<br />
in Mussoorie. Anjali’s ‘86 yearbook provided<br />
many laughs, and wonderful memories as<br />
well. Although the world has shrunk and<br />
we are in constant touch via facebook and<br />
email, it was truly fantastic to see the familiar<br />
faces and growing families and to reconnect.<br />
Everyone had lots of news about various<br />
schoolfriends and the varying and interesting<br />
life experiences they have had, and there are<br />
rumors afoot that another reunion in another<br />
five years is already being planned!<br />
Faisal<br />
Class of 01 – 10 years<br />
For the Class of 2001, coming back to <strong>Woodstock</strong><br />
was like coming back after a short holiday.<br />
The only exception is that everything<br />
has changed. (Which was very devastating).<br />
Our dorm rooms had become hallways and<br />
toilets, our old nooks and crannies, open<br />
spaces. The non-electric, non-wifi, noncushy<br />
comforts that made us independent,<br />
strong-willed, capable human beings - gone.<br />
Don’t get us wrong: I’m sure the kids of<br />
<strong>Woodstock</strong> today aren’t complaining, but<br />
as Daniel said to one dorm parent: “but<br />
we used to have to shower together, there<br />
were no cubicles!” These were the things<br />
that made <strong>Woodstock</strong> what it was... and as<br />
we huff and puff to Chardukhan to stuff our<br />
faces with Bun Omelettes and Wai Wai with<br />
Cheese, complaining of how old and unfit<br />
we are... we remember so much and Thank<br />
you <strong>Woodstock</strong> and the people who made<br />
us who we are.
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Other gatherings<br />
WOSA-NA Reunion Conference<br />
<strong>2011</strong><br />
More than 130 WOSA members gathered in<br />
Fort Collins, Colorado, for the 25th North<br />
American reunion. The program was especially<br />
rich, with a plenary keynote address by<br />
Ved Nanda, Professor of International Law at<br />
Denver University. Workshop sessions were<br />
given by NGOs working in many parts of<br />
the world. Memories of Dan Terry ’65 were<br />
shared in one session by his friends and family.<br />
The Sunday evening concluding program was<br />
given by Philip Lutgendorf, former WS staff<br />
member, who is writing a book, Chai, Why?<br />
The Sunday celebration was led by Jerry<br />
Weaver ’59, with the assistance of Vance<br />
George (S) leading the choir and piano by<br />
Robert Bonham ’59. Attendees were generous<br />
in giving an offering for the education of WS<br />
employees’ children.<br />
Willie Knierim ’59 led the local committee,<br />
all of whom spent long hours making sure that<br />
everything went like clockwork.<br />
During the business meeting on Friday evening<br />
the membership approved the merger<br />
of WOSA-North America with Friends of<br />
<strong>Woodstock</strong> (FWS). The new configuration will<br />
help clarify the tax-exempt status of WOSA-<br />
NA, and at the same time connect FWS more<br />
closely to the alumni community.<br />
Max Marble ’67 put together a video of the<br />
reunion that can be seen at:<br />
http://www.youtube.com/<br />
watch?v=1OefeLYD2pY<br />
Many photos are available at: https://picasaweb.google.com/117237456728956801777/<br />
WOSA<strong>2011</strong><br />
This photo of the Sunday morning choir was<br />
taken by David and Cookie Wiebe (S).
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Worldwide <strong>Woodstock</strong> Day<br />
China<br />
Mussoorie<br />
The Netherlands<br />
London
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Dubai<br />
Chicago
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Goshen, IN<br />
Iowa<br />
Knoxville, TN<br />
Madison, WI
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Madison, WI<br />
Michigan
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Meadowwood Farm<br />
Philadelphia<br />
Salt Lake City
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St. Paul, MN<br />
St. Paul, MN<br />
Sunnyville, CA
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Southern California<br />
Toronto<br />
Toronto<br />
Toronto<br />
Wooster, OH
WOSA–NA / Friends of <strong>Woodstock</strong><br />
REUNION CONFERENCE 2012<br />
Seattle Pacific University<br />
Seattle, Washington<br />
July 20 – 23, 2012<br />
Save the dates and plan a vacation around the reunion.<br />
Details and registration at our website as available.
1930s and 1940s<br />
Jottings<br />
Class of 1935<br />
We have reconnected with MARGERY<br />
MILLER MILLS, who has moved from PA to<br />
an assisted living facility in CT & celebrated<br />
her 91st birthday. Due to a tired heart, she<br />
uses a motorized scooter to go any distance,<br />
but otherwise walks freely. She enjoys participating<br />
in activities & keeps in touch via<br />
email with old friends in PA & elsewhere.<br />
She enjoys living within 45 minutes driving<br />
distance of her daughters Kay & Bobbi and<br />
her son Rober who lives in Syracuse NY.<br />
Margery is the one who got in touch with her<br />
classmates & prepared these notes. ELLEN<br />
COLVIN PARKER now uses a walker &<br />
although she has some vision is considered<br />
legally blind. She enjoys listening to audio<br />
books & to news on TV. She’s a member of<br />
a Sat morning walking group, attends bible<br />
study & enjoys other activities in the village<br />
where she lives. She has 3 children, John<br />
in Arlington VA, Tom in OR & a daughter<br />
in MN. ROBERT BOYLES is in an apt in<br />
Assisted Living at The Oaks, next door to a<br />
beautiful park where he enjoys taking walks.<br />
When I called, he had just returned from a<br />
family reunion at Lake Lure SC, where he<br />
saw almost all of his children. MARGARET<br />
TAYLOR COURTWRIGHT still lives in<br />
her own home. She enjoys gardening & is<br />
a member of a garden club. She still drives,<br />
is active in church work & volunteers at the<br />
hospital doing sewing, craft work, etc. She<br />
uses the computer to stay in touch with her<br />
son in CA & with friends. Her daughter lives<br />
in MD. Bravo! KITTU PARKER RIDDLE<br />
is happy & healthy but doesn’t remember<br />
much these days. She enjoys walking their<br />
dog short distances with the help of crutches.<br />
Margery Miller Mills ’35 on her 91st birthday with her daughters<br />
and son<br />
She is still involved in their Disciple Church<br />
and her 3 children visit her regularly. She &<br />
Margo send their best wishes to all. DRES-<br />
SEL NISSER’s son reports that he is settled<br />
in New Delhi & is well. He is still active<br />
& enjoying his retirement years with wife<br />
Gladys, sons Ian & Jeff, daughter-in-law<br />
Michelle & grandchildren Jessica, Kevin &<br />
Kathy.—Margery<br />
Class of 1936<br />
ALICE WRIGHT CONKEY is now living at<br />
an assisted living facility in Hanover, NH &<br />
has settled in well. She has just welcomed her<br />
8th great-grandchild, a girl, Marin Conkey.<br />
Class of 1937<br />
MARY BRANCH DAILEY is a resident at<br />
Copeland Oaks retirement community &<br />
is handicapped by macular degeneration,<br />
coronary problems & diabetes, plus what the<br />
doctor calls an essential tremor, which makes<br />
it hard to write & to read. I have a good friend<br />
who has volunteered to type this letter for<br />
me. MARY’s closing message: Remember,<br />
I am not an invalid. I am up & going about<br />
the everyday necessities of life, thanking<br />
God for all of my blessings here at Copeland<br />
Oaks. DAVID WILSON’s home in NJ was<br />
caught by the recent heavy rains; his driveway<br />
was washed out twice, and the basement<br />
flooded, with loss of electricity during the<br />
rains from Hurricane Irene. His children<br />
helped him celebrate his 91st birthday last<br />
summer. He has some health challenges but<br />
is holding his own. ARTHUR WISER recalls<br />
the longtime association with 3 WS graduates.<br />
He, along with DOUGLAS MOODY<br />
(dec.) & MERRILL MOW ’45, have been<br />
members of a Christian<br />
Church Int’l Community,<br />
formerly known as a Bruderhof.<br />
They joined this<br />
unique community shortly<br />
after WW II, during which<br />
they had maintained their<br />
strong pacifist convictions.<br />
We live like the<br />
early Christians. (See Acts<br />
2:44-46: common property;<br />
non-violence; prayer;<br />
forgiveness; no divorce<br />
& remarriage in our communities.)<br />
Regarding the<br />
relationship of the 3 WS<br />
friends, he adds: my son,<br />
Steve married DOUG &<br />
30s CLASS REPS<br />
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Fredericka Ahrens Cobren 1933<br />
1915 Marthas Rd, Alexandria, VA<br />
22307-1953<br />
USA<br />
703-765-6909<br />
Margery Miller Mills 1935 *<br />
7322 Ashlar Vlg<br />
Wallingford<br />
CT 06492-3098<br />
USA<br />
mmills@ashlarvlg.org<br />
203-265-2745<br />
N Laurence Burkhalter 1937<br />
2433 Hamilton Dr<br />
Ames, IA 50014-8203<br />
USA<br />
burkey@ghhome.com<br />
515-296-5015<br />
Lorita Shull Fisher 1939<br />
586 Colton St<br />
Monterey CA, 93940-4412<br />
USA<br />
glfisher@redshift.com<br />
831-375-8301<br />
*<br />
Passed away in January 2012.
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At the Curry Club gathering in Toronto on May 28, <strong>2011</strong> L-R: Lillian<br />
Skinner Singh ’39, Barb Eadie Ruttle ’78, Neil Ruttle, Veer Singh,<br />
Bobby Singh ’86, Barbara Herman ‘S, Ruth Graham Hilliard ’40<br />
Ruby MOODY’S daughter, Martha. Steve &<br />
Martha had a daughter named Lizzie. Now, a<br />
generation later, MERRILL MOW’S grandson,<br />
Andrew has married Lizzie Wiser, who<br />
is DOUG’s & my common granddaughter!<br />
In closing his message, ARTHUR writes:<br />
as we all, Class of 37, draw near the end of<br />
our lives, I want to thank & greet the others<br />
for our yrs together. We have a lot to be<br />
grateful for. LAURENCE BURKHALTER’s<br />
daughter, Karol Crosbie is the editor of the<br />
Wooster College <strong>Alumni</strong> <strong>Magazine</strong>. Over<br />
the yrs, she has brought him into contact<br />
with members of the Wooster/WS connection.<br />
These include ALFIE CAMPBELL (P),<br />
GORDON SHULL ’41, TOM STRICKLER<br />
’40, JANE WALLACE ANDERSON ’46 &<br />
BOB ’43 & ELLEN (S) ALTER. Following a<br />
visit with several of these folks last spring, I<br />
was sent a copy of an article by the late BOB<br />
ALTER, written in Mar ’11, entitled On Being<br />
a Christian Agnostic. I recommend the<br />
article to all who, like myself, question the<br />
accuracy of many Biblical stories. On the<br />
cover of the article is a beautiful photograph<br />
with the title Dawn Over the Tehri Hills from<br />
BOB ALTER’S Bench at Oakville.—Burky<br />
Class of 1939<br />
LOWELL BOLLINGER (as reported by<br />
his wife Joanne): after 22 yrs of dealing<br />
rather successfully with the challenges of<br />
Alzheimer’s, Lowell has entered a care<br />
facility in a pleasant location in ME. At 88,<br />
he is an active, engaging man with limited<br />
cognition, playing at horseshoes, swimming<br />
& taking walks. He continues to remember<br />
that his time in India was an extremely important<br />
part of his life as well as describing<br />
in his limited way that he was a sports hero in<br />
those early days. We all remember our Sports<br />
Day athlete. LORITA SHULL FISHER lost<br />
her husband of 66 yrs on Apr 9. He had an<br />
operation for a valve replacement, which<br />
was successful. However, it was followed<br />
by 2 debilitating strokes that left him unable<br />
to swallow, helpless &<br />
unaware of anything. In<br />
honoring his advance<br />
directive, which indicated<br />
he must not be<br />
kept alive artificially,<br />
if he lost his brain, the<br />
family brought him<br />
home to be under the<br />
care of hospice for 10<br />
days. He was a remarkable<br />
individual with<br />
many accomplishments<br />
including a career as<br />
diplomat in the Foreign<br />
Service, author, professor<br />
& world traveler. Lorita’s daughter Kathy,<br />
a nurse, lives in an apartment in our home<br />
& is a great support for her. Lorita continues<br />
to be in good health and spirits. CAMERON<br />
LYON reports that he did nothing notable<br />
this yr. He & Lorraine attended the WOSA/<br />
NA reunion in Eugene OR where he had a<br />
good visit with DOROTHY LLEWELLYN<br />
RODGERS. Dottie lost her husband, Dick<br />
Wilson, who died peacefully at home with<br />
hospice help on Feb 12. By moving to a<br />
retirement community in Bloomington, IN,<br />
to be near her daughter and family, she is<br />
adjusting to a new life in a new environment.<br />
Her activities include taking part in:<br />
a reading club, bean bag baseball, chair<br />
volleyball, ½ hr. exercise classes.& sorting<br />
files which she didn’t have the energy to do<br />
before she left CA. JOHN MANRY has just<br />
finished his 5th yr at Edgemont Retirement<br />
suites in Calgary, CAN. He says he is well<br />
looked after but is slowing down – ‘I sure<br />
couldn’t handle the Landour khud now’. He<br />
does find various projects to keep him busy<br />
& appreciates the help from his daughter<br />
who lives close by. HENRY SCHOLBERG<br />
was proud to represent the Class of 39 when<br />
he attended the 150th anniversary of WS<br />
in Mussoorie in 04, Henry’s name was on<br />
the Wall of Fame at the MN History Center<br />
during the 09-10 exhibit of The Greatest<br />
Generation, for service in Dr. Ancel Keys’<br />
starvation experiment. He was also the honored<br />
recipient of the Immortal Chaplains<br />
for Humanity, as a non-combatant volunteer<br />
during WW II. This yr, he celebrated his<br />
90th birthday & 60th wedding anniversary.<br />
LAWRENCE TEMPLIN reports they are<br />
living in a house they built 45 yrs ago, in a<br />
mutual care-giving arrangement with their<br />
son, with a little help from their local home<br />
health org. He writes poetry – at a rate of 1 to<br />
2 per wk, which is about par for my reluctant<br />
Muse. MARY LONG VATH is doing pretty<br />
well, considering she has pulmonary disease<br />
& osteoporosis. Her appreciated caregiver<br />
is her son-in-law, in whose house she now<br />
lives & with whom she shares her limited<br />
life.—Lorita<br />
Class of 1940<br />
It’s been great keeping up with all 10 grands<br />
and 12 greats as they participate in various<br />
bike races & tours. BILL SUPPLEE keeps<br />
remembering how invigorating it was for<br />
him he was their age. Now he spectates<br />
& applauds! A reasonably content retiree,<br />
NORM WILLIAMS lives in Riderwood<br />
Village, Silver Spring, MD. with wife Wini,<br />
whom he married 68 yrs ago after working<br />
as a deckhand on a Great Lakes ship delivering<br />
coal to the blast furnaces in Gary IN. He<br />
had rejected military conscription & flunked<br />
out of Oberlin College, where they had met.<br />
He served in various government roles on<br />
environmental issues, primarily the control of<br />
strip mining for coal in WV & in Congress,<br />
nationally. They have 5 grown children,<br />
all living their own interesting lives. He is<br />
writing his memoirs (entitled My Life with<br />
Wini) & cursing Microsoft for its absolutely<br />
abominable Windows Vista program. He also<br />
published Gandhi’s American Ally: how an<br />
educational missionary joined the Mahatma’s<br />
struggle against untouchability, iUniverse,<br />
2008. DAVID MOOMAW is now mostly<br />
retired from volunteer medical practice and<br />
remains well & in touch with the ‘County We<br />
Care’ medical program in Jacksonville FL,<br />
with the mission to provide medical care for<br />
uninsured & underinsured patients in the area.<br />
Yesterday marked the arrival of his 2nd great<br />
grandchild, born in Winter Park FL.—Bill<br />
Class of 1941<br />
It saddens HELEN CONSER MAYBURY<br />
that so many of the class have passed away.<br />
She & her husband recently celebrated their<br />
65th wedding anniversary with children &<br />
grandchildren in San Francisco. They now<br />
have 10 wonderful grandchildren. Helen<br />
recently published a book, entitled For the<br />
Souls & Soils of India, a memoir of her<br />
parents who were 2 courageous individuals<br />
who resolved to serve God & His people.<br />
They spent 37 years in India as well as 9<br />
yrs in Home Missions after their retirement.<br />
In addition to their personal history, their<br />
letters tell the story of India during a time<br />
of tremendous upheaval & historical significance,<br />
meetings with great leaders, such<br />
as Jawaharlal Nehru & Mahatma Gandhi, as<br />
well as Vinoba Bhave, the author of the landgift<br />
or sarvodaya movement. A non-violent<br />
revolutionary in the tradition of Gandhi, he<br />
collected millions of acres of land to distribute<br />
to the landless. The book can be ordered<br />
online at xlibris.com or amazon.com.—Helen
Class of 1942<br />
RUTH GILSON NYCUM only went through<br />
6th standard at WS, but has many memories<br />
of the time there. She has 4 children. She was<br />
a librarian at CSU Fullerton for 17 yrs. At<br />
age 85, Ruth now lives in an Assisted Living<br />
Facility, Oakmont of Chino Hills CA. She<br />
has physical problems, but her mind is clear<br />
& she does many things on her computer<br />
as secretary of the Resident Council & for<br />
the Emeriti of CSUF. STAN & BEVERLY<br />
BRUSH are deep into the Pharmaceutical<br />
Stage with her doing better than he is; driver<br />
has been added to her other duties. Stan has<br />
finished the 1st draft of his Pakistan memoir<br />
of teen years at Forman College in Lahore<br />
in the 50s & 60s. Both fondly remember a<br />
visit from BRUCE FOSTER & his daughter<br />
last yr. They recently had lunch with JANE<br />
WALLBROWN ’52 & a mutual friend at<br />
Medford Leas NJ. Great time reminiscing.<br />
MARJORIE HILL has continued to be active<br />
in India right up to the present. She was honored<br />
by the Nat’l UCC meeting last spring,<br />
for significant leadership & service over her<br />
whole life in support of women & children<br />
in the mission field in Madhya Pradesh &<br />
Chattisgarh. BETTY STUNTZ ALLEN is<br />
now on the Resident Council of her Retirement<br />
Community & has attended her 2nd<br />
statewide meeting of ConCCRA (Continuing<br />
Care Residents’ Assoc. of CT). Lots of good<br />
discussion & ideas for deepening & improving<br />
relationships in each community. Weekly<br />
meetings of the Singing Group, the Writing<br />
Group, a Scrabble gang, monthly meetings<br />
of the Council & 2 Missions Committees &<br />
the State Board of Church Women United -<br />
now Historian & Subscription Secretary for<br />
the CWU Newsletter - keep me hopping. I<br />
enjoy them all, but have decided not to renew<br />
my 2 CWU jobs, which run out in Dec.<br />
With son Ken & Peggy here in Cheshire &<br />
their youngest Jonny now at Yale <strong>School</strong> of<br />
Music, I have already been to 2 superb concerts<br />
in Woolsey Hall, plus many concerts<br />
in the new auditorium in our Center. No<br />
shortage of entertainment! Every once in a<br />
while I see PEGGY ALLISON, here or at<br />
their church. A couple of times I have seen<br />
their sons - who look just like Les! Smile &<br />
all. Peggy lives in a similar retirement community<br />
a few miles from here in Hamden,<br />
CT. BILL & DOROTHY VAUGH WHIT-<br />
COMB live at Oakwood Village, a Lutheran<br />
retirement community in Madison WI. Bill<br />
is now having trouble getting around as his<br />
legs and hands are getting very numb, from<br />
severe neuropathy. He spends much time in<br />
our workshop making many furniture items<br />
for our church, the YMCA, our own use &<br />
for our institution and residents. I work in<br />
40s CLASS REPS<br />
G. William Supplee 1940<br />
118 Normandy Rd<br />
Columbia, SC 29210-8106<br />
USA<br />
bsupplee@aol.com<br />
803-765-9415<br />
Dorothy Vaugh Whitcomb 1942<br />
Dorothy Madison<br />
WI 53718-8350, USA<br />
dwhitcom@wisc.edu<br />
608-230-3050<br />
Tom and Mary Stewart Cummings<br />
1943<br />
1685 Davis Dr<br />
Merritt Island, FL 32952-5934<br />
USA<br />
tfc@mail.bradley.edu<br />
321-454-3802<br />
Elizabeth Cummings Deitz 1944<br />
109 Hickory Hollow Dr<br />
Amherst, OH 44001-2063<br />
USA<br />
ejdeitz@centurytel.net<br />
440-988-2714<br />
Ruth Nave Leibbrand 1945<br />
11279 Taylor Draper Ln Apt 216<br />
Austin, TX 78759-3954, USA<br />
MissyDon@austin.rr.com<br />
512-342-8828<br />
the library at church & here at Oakwood, in<br />
charge of archives at both places. I took the<br />
Master Gardener course some yrs ago so I am<br />
chair of our Grounds committee regarding<br />
the gardens on campus & the vegetable plots<br />
residents have in the summer. Our 4 children,<br />
all WS alumni, live nearby. It is a delight<br />
for the class to be in touch with MUSHIR<br />
HASAN RAZWI who was in our class in<br />
Standards 3-6. He now lives in Germany,<br />
remembers quite a few of the classmates &<br />
some remember him too. Communications<br />
are by email, through his daughter.—Dorothy<br />
Class of 1943<br />
We were shocked to hear last winter that<br />
BOB ALTER had a recurrence of cancer,<br />
nothing further could be done. He & Ellen<br />
returned to WS for 2 weeks in the spring &<br />
BOB joined the angels in Jun. Our sympathy<br />
& love to ELLEN. Great remembrances of<br />
him at WS memorial service & WOSA-NA in<br />
Fort Collins. Patricia & MARTIN AHRENS<br />
Lynn Roadarmel Kowalske 1946<br />
616 Dianne Dr<br />
Melbourne, FL 32935-6419<br />
USA<br />
wkowalske@cfl.rr.com<br />
321-254-4943<br />
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Ann Leeder Pickett 1947<br />
40 Wagon Trl<br />
Black Mountain, NC 28711-2560<br />
USA<br />
alpickett47@bellsouth.net<br />
828-669-6977<br />
Robin Parker 1948<br />
3227 O Neall Rd<br />
Waynesville, OH 45068-8683<br />
USA<br />
Robin48Parker@aol.com<br />
513-897-4676<br />
Harvella Bauman Stutzman 1949<br />
5250 Copper Dr<br />
Colorado Springs, CO 80918-5000<br />
USA<br />
hbstutz@msn.com<br />
719-260-1443<br />
are happy to welcome son Robert, wife Sarah<br />
& Jack (2) back to Scotland after 10 yrs in<br />
US. They enjoyed a visit by sister FREDER-<br />
ICKA, ‘33. Next spring BERT BENADE is<br />
probably going to Forman’s 150th anniversary<br />
celebration, his father taught physics<br />
there. He took a 5 day railroad trip with a<br />
great-great grandson of the Forman founder.<br />
BERT is working on oral history of people<br />
who live in neighborhood for Hyde Park<br />
Hist. Soc. PAUL COOLE was our only<br />
representative at WOSA reunion, the oldest<br />
class there. His blood circulation problems<br />
& wheelchair didn’t keep him from attending.<br />
DES HOLLINGBERY is not traveling<br />
much because Marj is unable to go along. To<br />
keep in shape, he’s covering several miles<br />
per week as well as gardening. Has been<br />
one of our most regular attendees of WOSA<br />
reunions & misses them badly. Jeanne &<br />
HUGH MUMBY have joined their bionic<br />
classmates (STEVE, MARY & TOM) with<br />
replacement hip & knee, respectively. This
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made it possible for HUGH to work on a 100<br />
ft. fir tree that hit their cabin. He is Jamadar,<br />
Khansama, Mali, Chowkidar, Chuprasi, Mistheri<br />
etc. all rolled into one. STEVE ROOT<br />
was principal at Kodai when BOB ALTER<br />
was principal at WS & they cooperated on<br />
mutual school problems. His son taught at<br />
WS until ’91 & grandson TIM ’99 did gr 12<br />
there & next yr goes to Afghanistan with his<br />
wife. MARIAN LOEHLIN DAVIES (broken<br />
hip healing), BETTY SMILEY BREMER<br />
(using walker to protect from osteoporosis,<br />
appreciating lower altitude of St. Louis<br />
vs CO ), ALYCE BANKER HEYBOER<br />
(gardening, scrabbling, reading, following<br />
beloved Tigers) & MARY STEWART<br />
CUMMINGS (watching manatee, alligator,<br />
many birds in backyard canal, daily health<br />
club exercise) are still involved in a snail<br />
mail round robin. TOM tries to keep up with<br />
MARY. Any others who would like to join<br />
the round robin contact us.—Tom and Mary<br />
Class of 1944<br />
FRANCES BRUSH SCHILLINGER discovered<br />
that amazon.com has editors that<br />
will take her manuscript, put it on a disc &<br />
at no charge to her list it for sale. Her book,<br />
Between Two Worlds, Memories of An<br />
American Growing Up in India, is a collection<br />
of 80 stories from her early yrs. She also<br />
writes a monthly column for their retirement<br />
home news featuring their cat, Noodles.<br />
Another resident responded with his dog’s<br />
view. She continues her food demonstrations.<br />
RUTH SUTHERLAND & Paul PULLIAM<br />
were in Santa Fe in May & Jun helping their<br />
daughter during & after surgery; then to<br />
Portland to help their daughter-in-law for 2<br />
mo. after knee replacement while husband<br />
Eric was working for USAID in Afghanistan.<br />
RUTH & Paul enjoyed visits over Labor<br />
Day & again in Oct for a wedding & family<br />
reunion. MIKE & Pam JAMES were out of<br />
the flooding in Brisbane. His Type 1 diabetes<br />
has ruled their driving & other tasks<br />
which help the family, putting extra loads<br />
on Pam. BRUCE AMSTUTZ & Nan enjoy<br />
good health & travels. He arranged a 2-wk<br />
trip with friends to Scotland’s Western Isles,<br />
involving a small-ship cruise from Oban & a<br />
stay on the Isle of Mull. Glacier NP & the Canadian<br />
Rockies lured them in Sep/Oct. TED<br />
WRIGHT & sister ALICE ’36 met BRUCE<br />
& Nan for lunch. TED missed his planned<br />
India trip (including an 8-day luxury tour of<br />
Rajasthan) due to a light stroke which left<br />
him with mild aphasia. He was able to enjoy<br />
his ME house last summer, however. CEC-<br />
ILY MARTIN BOOTH is managing well in<br />
spite of atrial fibrillation. She enjoys her 7<br />
grandchildren & took a 1-wk trip with her 2<br />
daughters up AUS’s coast to Coff’s Harbor.<br />
MARY LUTLEY GEE is enjoying her new<br />
flat, a visit from her American sister, her son<br />
David with wife Fiona & their 3 as well as<br />
the London reunion of her N China <strong>School</strong>.<br />
She is active in her Nailsworth church. Her<br />
son Jim, with his band Pendragon, played in<br />
Sweden; he keeps his regular job with social<br />
services. She sadly attended the funerals of a<br />
nephew & 2 sr friends. LAUREL LOADER<br />
DOWNWARD’s son-in-law, after chemo, radio<br />
therapy & a stem cell transplant, is ahead<br />
of lymphoma & back at work. LAUREL has<br />
had cataracts removed successfully but is<br />
dealing with tendonitis. JOAN MERRILL<br />
MACHATA is active with family & church<br />
& has enjoyed her summer camp in the NY<br />
Adirondacks 4 times this yr. She plans 2 mo<br />
in a trailer on Chockoloski Is. FL this winter.<br />
With her brothe, ART MERRILL ’46 &<br />
Margaret at a UT condo, she visited western<br />
NP’s including Grand Canyon, Bryce, Zion,<br />
Hoover Dam & Snow Mt. With her sons,<br />
she enjoyed the DC NBA playoffs. DORIS<br />
COLVIN BELL is happy that son Donald<br />
now lives with her, helping immensely with<br />
upkeep of her home in Pittsburgh. He raises<br />
orchids & is an active member of the P’gh<br />
Orchid Society. Daughter Kathryn & family<br />
moved from Seattle & now live 5 minutes<br />
away. Their youngest daughter’s wedding<br />
in NYC drew the entire Bell family together<br />
for 4 days, for the 1st time ever. DORIS<br />
continues participating in her church choir,<br />
Women’s Assoc, Global Links project, SS<br />
class & more. She is the one who keeps her<br />
sisters in touch. Sister RUTH ’36 died in<br />
May; ELLEN ’35 lives in Tampa & JOYCE<br />
’41 is in Dallas. Doris & Don drove down<br />
to see her in Oct. TOM WILSON’s card is<br />
the chapel interior at MIT designed by Eero<br />
Saarinen, architect. His description: “Like a<br />
cascade of light, a full height metal sculpture<br />
by Harry Bertoia glitters from a circular skylight<br />
down onto an unadorned marble alter”.<br />
TOM & Rene continue their architecture<br />
plans & UN involvement; however business<br />
is slow because of the US recession. Their<br />
Baltic cruise in June included Moscow & St<br />
Petersburg, all photographed with TOM’s<br />
new camera. Both are well & the trips to the<br />
UN include visits to TOM’s brother DAVID<br />
’37 in NJ. Bea BLASDELL is very grateful<br />
for their retirement center for there are<br />
activities for FRANCIS when she is busy.<br />
Both have health issues; FRANCIS, now<br />
in the nursing section, uses a walker & Bea<br />
has started a mo’s radiation. Their families<br />
encourage them. ALICE ALTER WATKINS<br />
is still working on her family booklet of their<br />
life in Syria, Lebanon & India. She manages<br />
to find time between classes, book clubs &<br />
gatherings. Her brother also lives in the same<br />
condo area. She was able to visit her sister’s<br />
family & Phil’s family in Denver. We were<br />
able to visit DOTTY KOENIG POWERS &<br />
Erl in Atlanta, in their gorgeous garden, enjoying<br />
chai together, as we drove back from<br />
visiting TOM & MARY ’43 in FL. DOTTY’s<br />
health has kept her close to home. She uses<br />
a cane outdoors to deal with back pain. ERL<br />
had a scary bout with bacteremia. However,<br />
they were able to visit his daughter in PA<br />
for a week, a trip to WV to attend the wedding<br />
of Erl’s oldest grandson & had a great<br />
week in Chicago enjoying the Oriental & Art<br />
Institute while visiting his son, Peter. All of<br />
Dotty’s family is in Atlanta where they visit<br />
often. Their activities include their church<br />
group, the Atlanta Symphony, occasional<br />
plays, concerts & lectures at Emory U &<br />
museums. LOIS LYON NEUMANN was<br />
our class rep to the WOSA reunion in CO,<br />
staying with JANE CUMMINGS in Boulder<br />
for an extra visit. She continues on her church<br />
vestry, helping with planning & the pastoral<br />
prayer team & additional pastoral needs. Her<br />
childhood Indian friend is now a doctor in<br />
London & visiting her included a drive to<br />
Cornwall & other beautiful English haunts.<br />
We, ELIZABETH CUMMINGS DEITZ &<br />
Jim, celebrated our 60th wedding ann’y by<br />
gathering at our son & daughter-in-law’s<br />
home in Dayton OH. Most of the grandchildren<br />
were able to join our 2 older generations<br />
even though 7 of the 11 are now in college.<br />
Our MN cabin was a happy gathering place<br />
for the families. In the winter we enjoy the<br />
Cleveland orchestra, concerts by Oberlin<br />
conservatory students & faculty, book discussion<br />
groups & the outreach programs of<br />
our church.—Elizabeth<br />
Class of 1945<br />
Three 45ers attended WOSA Reunion<br />
at CSU in Ft Collins: DOUG PICKETT,<br />
DICK BOLLINGER & yours truly. It was<br />
very good with interesting innovations in<br />
programming & an extensive silent auction.<br />
CSU has a lovely campus & Ft Collins<br />
is definitely an appropriate setting. What<br />
surprised me was that other than PAUL<br />
COOLE ’43 & LOIS LYON NEUMANN<br />
’44, the Class of 45 attendees were at the<br />
top of the list for being the oldest alumni in<br />
attendance. We Chuts have become Hefts!!<br />
Thelma Alley Anderson’s passing on Dec<br />
11 2010 was preceded by sister-in-law Liz<br />
Templin Alley’s ’42 on Memorial Day.<br />
THELMA was married to Bob Anderson<br />
for 45 yrs. They had 3 children, an adopted<br />
Dutch son, 4 grands & 3 great-grands. VIV-<br />
IAN NICHOL NORDEN is keeping healthy<br />
& nicely settled into an independent living
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retirement facility. She travels a lot, occasionally<br />
getting together with MARIE<br />
TEMPEST EYRE for a trip. MARIE finally<br />
found an apt in the UK that suits her needs<br />
& is near her family. Being legally blind<br />
does not prevent VIVIAN from enjoying<br />
life & traveling. She spent 5 wks with a<br />
friend in Malta, in a hotel that had several<br />
restaurants.She is going to Italy in Oct. &<br />
hopes to be able to spend the winter in FL<br />
with her niece. Sandy is having trouble with<br />
her hip, so BOB WILLIAMS is adding a gr<br />
fl bedroom & bath, doing all the work himself.<br />
He also keeps busy with the American<br />
Patriot Council he started, wears his 1776<br />
army uniform & carries a 13-star Betsy Ross<br />
flag to rallies & celebrations such as Jul<br />
4. MARGUERITE PARRISH HOWARD<br />
writes that Hobart finally retired from his job<br />
as Field Supt for their church in India. However,<br />
they will continue speaking & raising<br />
funds for India & plan another trip there in<br />
Oct. They moved from Tulsa to Greenville,<br />
SC to be near daughter EVELYN ’71 & John<br />
LETTIERI. Daughter, PATRICIA ’74 & Bill<br />
LYONS live in Chesapeake, VA & daughter<br />
LINDA ’78 & TED ’78 NIEHAUS in Clinton,<br />
WI. I phoned BETI WEIR WEISS just<br />
as she was leaving to attend a grandson’s<br />
engagement party. She lost her husband Nov<br />
a yr ago, says she is doing all right & that<br />
she has a very supportive family. She lives<br />
on the farm in a house built especially for<br />
retirement; son & daughter & their families<br />
also live on the farm & the other children<br />
nearby. We extend our sympathies to BETI<br />
& family. JOE DUERKSON visited India<br />
with Mary Lou’s blessing as he left her<br />
with twin sister Betty & niece Diane. She<br />
had a basal ganglion stroke & has recovered<br />
nicely, able to get out & about, has resumed<br />
driving & has good cognition. JOE’S trip<br />
was to help celebrate the Dhamtari Christian<br />
Hospital’s Centennial. He also visited<br />
St Stephen’s Hosp in Delhi, Sewa Bahan<br />
Hosp in Jagdeeshpur & the Christian Hosp<br />
in Champa. He had a great trip, met many<br />
wonderful people & was glad to be home.<br />
DON RICKARD & Elaine have slowed<br />
down & don’t drive on trips anymore; she<br />
has battled 2 kinds of cancer in the past 3<br />
yrs. They both have vertigo, but Elaine’s is<br />
worse. She also battles ataxia, which affects<br />
muscles & balance. DON’s brother SAM ’41<br />
had ALS & was bed-ridden when he died,<br />
brother JOHN lives in NC. TOM & Janice<br />
HAZLETT continue to enjoy good health,<br />
but no longer spend their winters in FL.<br />
They cruised to the harbors of ME & other<br />
eastern states, during which time TOM did<br />
his best to decimate the lobster population.<br />
They have 2 sons, a daughter & 5 grandkids.<br />
Stu Leeder ’45, Sally Lynn and Bill Duff ’45, Marj Bery, Vivian Nicoll Norden ’45, Raj Bery ’45<br />
RUTH WILKINSON PHILLIMORE moved<br />
to Ottawa, CAN a couple of yrs ago to be<br />
near daughter & brother BOB ’51. She no<br />
longer drives & truly misses her car. She<br />
is considering moving to an assisted living<br />
facility & is busy making a DVD of her India<br />
days. Son & 2 grandsons live in Calgary.<br />
RUTH STEWART says she is still healthy,<br />
works part time for the CIA & enjoys the<br />
cultural activities available in DC in her<br />
spare time. She attended the ’10 WOSA<br />
Reunion for a day. SITA BERY SARWAL<br />
is keeping in good health. She went with<br />
friends for 10 days to Mashobra, a hill station<br />
near Simla. In Jun she was at Ananda,<br />
a spa near Rishikesh which is rated as one<br />
of the top in the world. GORDON YOUNG<br />
says his travels consist of trips within 200 mi<br />
of home base as he hates plane travel now.<br />
Brother BILL ’50 died recently in Chiangmai,<br />
Thailand, where he had lived since the<br />
early 60s. Gordon has been busy writing<br />
& publishing 3 books. RAJ & Marjorie<br />
BERY are happily settled in a good retirement<br />
community in MD, just outside of DC.<br />
They took visiited the Sinai Peninsula, Petra<br />
in Jordan & even managed a quick trip to<br />
Jerusalem & took a holiday in India. They<br />
have been together with BILL & Sally Lynn<br />
DUFF, STU LEEDER & VIVIAN for lunch<br />
regularly. They are also regulars at the DC<br />
Curry Club & have another monthly group<br />
mtg in downtown DC. Late last yr JOYCE<br />
REYNOLDS COUPAL had a stroke-like<br />
incident which was diagnosed as TGA. She<br />
was thoroughly checked out & is doing<br />
fine except has problems with short-term<br />
memory. She discovered some writings of<br />
her father about his life in India which she<br />
is busy assembling to have them published.<br />
Otherwise, she & Frank keep busy with<br />
their 5 offspring & numerous grandkids.<br />
BILL DUFF has recovered nicely from the<br />
blood clots & heart ailments so his gen’l<br />
health is good. He & Sally Lynn have been<br />
participating in a Muslim/Christian/Jewish<br />
dialogue group monthly to discuss issues<br />
& books they have read, they have learned<br />
a lot. They attended a Muslim wedding &<br />
enjoyed it hugely. Bill is trying to write<br />
more but finds it difficult to concentrate<br />
on his research of ancient documents, in<br />
particular The Mishna, in order to get some<br />
further insight on 1st Century Judaism &<br />
Christianity. BETTY ANN SUMMERS<br />
DYKSTRA & Peter are doing pretty good<br />
health wise although he has problems with<br />
balance. Betty Ann resigned from the Mtn<br />
Home Orch & the Orch Board, but not until<br />
she was instrumental in getting a new home<br />
for the Orch at AR. Mtn State U. She plays<br />
viola in several groups & does a lot of solos.<br />
They have received a marvelous exercise<br />
machine called Power Plate which is new<br />
to the US & supposed to be very good for<br />
older people. AL BJERKESTRAND regrets<br />
not making it to the WOSA Reunion but he<br />
didn’t want to leave Bonnie although she<br />
is doing well in her fight against ovarian<br />
cancer. They were delighted to announce the<br />
birth of their first great grandson, Beckett.<br />
A granddaughter graduated valedictorian of<br />
her class & plans to attend Seattle Pacific<br />
U, Bonnie’s Alma Mater. DOUG & ANN<br />
’47 PICKETT visited son Mark, Sinipii & 3<br />
grands in Oulu, Finland , located 150 mi N of<br />
the Arctic Circle, clean, modern city with no<br />
trash or litter. They fared so well on this trip<br />
that they were encouraged to attend WOSA<br />
this yr. Experiencing fatigue, Doug had gone
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to his doctor & tests revealed that he has<br />
myelodysplasia, a condition where his bone<br />
marrow is not producing RBC of adequate<br />
size & quality. A good doctor, medications<br />
& an unusual regimen keeps him functioning<br />
normally. They keep busy volunteering in<br />
their retirement community. DICK & ANNA<br />
MAE (S) BOLLINGER stayed with friends<br />
in Ft Collins & attended the WOSA khanna<br />
as well as having a couple of meals with us.<br />
One can’t help but be envious of their obvious<br />
good health; life in a retirement facility<br />
in Centennial certainly agrees with them.<br />
RUTH NAVE LEIBBRAND’s trip to Ft<br />
Collins was her only one as she finds travel<br />
more & more difficult. The fact that grandson<br />
Nicholas is attending CSU was another<br />
reason to visit. Her son Steve drove over<br />
from St Charles MO & grandson Andrew<br />
drove up from Denver a couple of times<br />
during my week’s stay after the reunion. I<br />
had hoped to experience some considerably<br />
cooler weather, but the temperature was in<br />
the 90s every day, albeit a bit cooler than<br />
Austin. Our TX summer has been a burner:<br />
we have broken the all-time record of 69<br />
days of 100+ F., around 38+ C. I stick my<br />
nose outside of the AC only when I HAVE<br />
TO!! I keep busy with friends, clubs, bridge,<br />
activities here at the Renaissance & trying<br />
to keep healthy.—Ruth<br />
Class of 1946<br />
FRANK LOEFFLER is retired from his ob/<br />
gyn practice, lives in Aldeburgh, Suffolk, the<br />
home of Benjamin Britten & the location of<br />
a world famous annual music festival; 10<br />
grands, 1 great, a garden, golf, bridge &<br />
volunteer work keep Eve & him busy. Eve’s<br />
father was the founder of the Paralympic<br />
Movem’t which highlighted sports for the<br />
disabled. Eve was recognized for her work<br />
with the disabled & was awarded with an<br />
OBE last yr; that included a day’s outing<br />
to Buckingham Palace. Georgie writes that<br />
JERRY SUMMERS is maintaining pretty<br />
well with his Alzheimer’s, with the help of<br />
medication. He is planning to take a class<br />
through the local state U sr program entitled<br />
Writing Your Slice of Life. He remembers his<br />
early life & WS well so will enjoy writing<br />
about it & it will be good for the children<br />
& grands. They will both be taking 2 other<br />
classes. DOTTIE LONG REID & Joe live<br />
in a mobile home park in Union Cty CA<br />
near SF Bay, 6 mi from their daughter. She<br />
plays bridge 2x/ wk in an Am contract bridge<br />
league. IRENE DUNN writes: best trip -<br />
train ride & hike to UCDavis Arboretum;<br />
best museums - Tutankhamun & Picasso;<br />
best book - Growing Up bin Laden by Jean<br />
Sasson; best exercise - aerobics & hiking.<br />
Sasson’s sister-in-law lives in her establishment<br />
& when Irene raved about the book,<br />
she received a signed copy. It was written<br />
by bin Laden’s 1st wife & 1 of his sons.<br />
JEAN ALLISON VAN HORNE & LYNN<br />
ROADARMEL KOWALSKE stayed with<br />
JANE WALLACE ANDERSON & Jim on<br />
their sheep farm to attend our 60th reunion<br />
at the Coll. of Wooster. ART MERRILL &<br />
Margaret were also there & came down for a<br />
visit one evening. Jane writes that the farm is<br />
still flourishing & keeps Jim very busy. She<br />
went with 3 kids & 2 grands to MI for a wk<br />
traveling, relaxation & bonding. In Mar they<br />
made a trip to FL where they visited Lynn<br />
& 90+ yr-old aunts. They are planning a fall<br />
trip to New England to visit grands in Boston.<br />
PEG ROSS VAN HORNE & Paul had their<br />
60th anniversary in Jul with their 4 children<br />
& 9 grands. Peg had a hip replacement in<br />
Mar but has recovered nicely. MARGARET<br />
LOEHLIN SHAFER ’56 & husband moved<br />
to their retirement community & he gave<br />
lectures on Islam & the Middle East as he<br />
had been the head of that dept at Fordham U.<br />
Peg & Paul enjoy the activities & events in<br />
their community & Peg is head of the Health<br />
Care Comm. Our sympathy goes out to JUNE<br />
BAUR DEWSBERRY & Art on the death of<br />
her brother Ralph, of congestive heart failure.<br />
Art had a triple heart bypass but has been<br />
recovering well. June travelled to TN for<br />
Ralph’s memorial while Art was taken care<br />
of by family members. He is finally off the<br />
Bd of Directors but continues his securities<br />
arbitrations. FAITH LUBBERS BLIGHT &<br />
Dick live in a complex for retired Wycliffe<br />
Bible Translators in Dallas. Faith had cataract<br />
surgery & a knee replacement but says<br />
she’s almost back to normal. Dick helps by<br />
preparing books as aids for Bible translators<br />
around the world. Last yr they had their 3rd<br />
great-grand. ARTHUR MERRILL & Margaret<br />
Morris visited many of the Nat’l Parks in<br />
Mar. Her brother & wife joined them for part<br />
of the time & JOAN MERRILL MACHATA<br />
’44 was also there for 2 wks. In Jun they<br />
went to Art’s 60th at Wooster where he was<br />
elected class secretary for the Wooster Bulletin.<br />
ELEANOR MILLER INFORZATO<br />
lives in Oxford PA but says they were less<br />
affected than many by the hurricane. She is<br />
getting an Art Exhib program going in her sr<br />
complex & has a Watercolors 1 class. She is<br />
also on the activities committee & joined a<br />
local art group. She sent a lovely card made<br />
from one of her paintings, a talented artist<br />
indeed. HAZEL SELZER KAHAN says<br />
that the most transformative thing she did<br />
this yr was to go back to Lahore, where she<br />
was born. The last time she was there was<br />
in ’71 and 40 yrs younger. She has a travel<br />
blog at www.hightidings.wordpress.com.<br />
LYNN ROADARMEL KOWALSKE went<br />
to Grandparents’ Day in Dallas in Apr, the<br />
Wooster 60th in Jun to visit family in GA<br />
in Jul & in the fall trips to the U FL Gator<br />
football games. My 2nd great-grand was born<br />
in Mar.—Lynn<br />
Class of 1947<br />
JACQUETH JAMES RILEY & JOYCE<br />
CAMPBELL live in AUS & keep in touch.<br />
JACKIE travelled to Brisbane, via Kingscliff<br />
in southern NSW for a friend’s 80th birthday<br />
celebration for nursing friends. Another<br />
friend who joined them took Jackie back to<br />
Brisbane where she was able to spend a wk<br />
with bro MIKE ’44 & family. She was also<br />
able to visit with JOYCE. Unfortunately<br />
MIKE was in hospital but she visited him every<br />
day. Life has slowed down for JACKIE<br />
though she continues book club, patchwork<br />
& exercise classes. JOYCE visited son &<br />
family in Sydney & returned in Oct. to celebrate<br />
the holiday season. She enjoys her<br />
chats with JACKIE about WS. KENNETH<br />
SCHERLING & Barbara live in BC, CAN.<br />
They remain close to home, taking care of<br />
house & garden & Barbara’s mother (100)<br />
who lives nearby. KEN enjoys his morning<br />
visits to the Gym 3x/wk. They are happy that<br />
son Grant often visits from Washington DC.<br />
From France we have reports from PETE<br />
COLUMBANI & GORDAN HENDERSON<br />
& Nelleke. PETE has been in & out of the<br />
hospital in Marseilles with several medical<br />
problems, with good results. GORDON is<br />
suffering from sore back, knees & legs that<br />
make walking difficult. However, visits with<br />
friends will be rewarding when the KAVI<br />
SINGHs visit. The HENDERSONS are<br />
looking forward to her cousin Margo & family<br />
returning to St Cyprien on a permanent<br />
basis. Neleke now has a big job translating<br />
the contents of a large web site belonging to<br />
an estate agent friend in Ibiza, Spain, from<br />
French into Dutch. NINA ALLEY KIPP<br />
lives in Media PA. Her family continues<br />
their father’s tradition of an annual family<br />
reunion begun 58 yrs. ago. This yr some<br />
60 were present. NINA is proud of her 7<br />
grands & 10 great grands. Folks came from<br />
Belgium, AUS & 10 US states. Of the 6<br />
in her family only sister ERMA ’40 & she<br />
remain. BARBARA BOND NUTT & Edgar<br />
are enjoying their newish home in a Retirement<br />
Community in Concord, NH. BONDIE<br />
exercises by swimming to help ease the<br />
pain of arthritis. Visits to their Benton summer<br />
cottage remain pleasant. HAROLD<br />
CLOSSON & Mary Ann remain busy in<br />
their home & community in Cochiti NM.<br />
BETTY DAVIS DEAN substitute teaches
in Greencastle IN & is happy for the break<br />
during summer. She made a trip to FL to see<br />
sister MARJORIE ’50 for a fun time. LULU<br />
WAGMAN BOYER & David finally sold<br />
their house after 2 yrs on the market, to a<br />
young family with 2 boys who should enjoy<br />
the ocean property with the old windsurfer &<br />
even older surfboard they left tucked under<br />
the house. Selling the house felt like a ton<br />
of bricks had been lifted from their shoulders.<br />
They continue to enjoy the activities at<br />
their retirement complex. HENK PARSON<br />
& GEORGIA spent last Christmas at Lake<br />
Tahoe where HENK again played the part of<br />
Santa Claus, driving in on a snow mobile!<br />
They continue their volunteer work with the<br />
Nat’l Park Service in Yosemite. GEORGIA<br />
has put together a Library for the Resource<br />
Mgmt Div, over 1000 books & manuscripts<br />
to date, more pouring in. Remember this is<br />
on-the-job-training & a lot of fun. HENK<br />
is continuing with large scale document<br />
scanning into Park servers, to have the<br />
documents available for res. For the summer<br />
mo they were given the additional task of<br />
surveying & locating all Interpretive Signs<br />
in Yosemite, hundreds of them & hundreds<br />
of mi of driving. They have completed 20<br />
yrs. of volunteer work in different places.<br />
While with the Nat’l Parks, all it has cost<br />
the Park Service is the electric power for<br />
their RV. How proud we are of their services!<br />
KAY MCLAUGHLIN lives in Boulder CO<br />
with working daughters nearby. ERNIE<br />
FORDHAM & Betsy live in La Grange IL.<br />
No more heart problems, he reports, but<br />
now knee pain, so he’s looking at a knee<br />
replacement. They welcomed a distant<br />
relative & husband from Scotland who were<br />
chasing down family genealogy. CHUCK<br />
HAZLETT & Pattie in Palm Coast FL enjoy<br />
the sunny weather. They also enjoyed their<br />
trip at Christmas to visit daughter in MI &<br />
to Atlanta for a wedding. JOAN GREEN<br />
SMITH says nothing unusual happens in<br />
her home in Austin TX, but she continues in<br />
great gratitude for family & friends, curiosity<br />
& activity & the beauty of each day. JIM<br />
WHITE & Virginia lead a busy life with their<br />
extended family. Medical problems keep<br />
their doctors busy. ANN LEEDER PICK-<br />
ETT & DOUG ’45 lead a busy life in their<br />
retirement home in Black Mountain NC.<br />
This yr their activities have been trimmed<br />
down due to medical problems. After her<br />
yrly mammo screening ANN had radiation<br />
for DC in situ. Doug is being treated for<br />
his RBC condition. During the winter mo,<br />
HERBERT FEIRABEND & Beverly continue<br />
to help build homes in MEX just across<br />
the border from TX. STANLEY SUBHAN<br />
& Helen live in NJ. Each yr they attend a<br />
family reunion. This yr they spent a wk in<br />
Tricase Porto on the heel of the boot of Italy.<br />
In Sep STAN visited India with the Brussels<br />
part of the family. They spent some time in<br />
Mussoorie visiting WS & Happy Valley,<br />
had 4 days in Varanasi & finally 2 in Hyderabad.<br />
In England, GORDON GILBERT<br />
& Patricia, OYSTEIN HOLTH & Claire &<br />
ELSIE MAEVE FROST keep in touch. They<br />
miss visits with CHRISTINE FULLILOVE<br />
PEARCE who lost her fight with cancer in<br />
the spring. OYSTEIN HOLTH officiated<br />
at her Memorial service. KAVI SINGH &<br />
Devika live in New Delhi, he teaches English<br />
to a group of young students & manages<br />
the family property in Bahraich along with<br />
his son who got married this yr. This fall,<br />
they visited daughter & family in London<br />
& will take a side trip to France to visit the<br />
HENDERSONS. VIJAY INGLE has moved<br />
to Indore, MP. SHIRISH PATEL & Rajani<br />
celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary<br />
early in Jun with a small dinner for family<br />
& a few close friends. Early that morning,<br />
thinking over all the wonderful things that<br />
had happened to them over the last 50 yrs,<br />
he said to her “I have never come across<br />
anyone else I’d rather be married to.” “Huh”,<br />
she said, bringing him down to earth with a<br />
thud as usual, “Haven’t had much of a social<br />
life, have you?” (Touché, Rajani.) —Ann<br />
Class of 1948<br />
Class of 48 – That was 63 yrs ago! AL<br />
BAUMAN & Kathy were the only class<br />
members to attend WOSA meeting this yr.<br />
He also took sister HARVELLA ’49. He is<br />
very active in church as #1 handyman &<br />
carpenter. ARVID BERG & Marlys recently<br />
spent several wks with her sister in AL.<br />
Wintering in FL, where other WS connections<br />
such as BOB ’49 & EVA FORSGREN<br />
escape the winter chill, is a pleasure. IAN<br />
BRADSHAW & friend Mary Sue have been<br />
wandering the world again this yr: Europe,<br />
Mediterranean, many points in the US & a<br />
northern lights up the coast of Norway, plus<br />
several visits with son in FL. MARGARET<br />
BROOKS HUSTON & Al have moved to<br />
NC where they are working with JAAR,<br />
where the church trains pilots for support of<br />
remote mission stations in South America.<br />
Margaret is working in the mission nursery<br />
while Al is active in their museum. Their<br />
daughter is building a house nearby with<br />
facilities for Brooksie & Al. BOWEN CON-<br />
SER continues a quiet life in Fullerton CA .<br />
His legs don’t take him on long jaunts, but<br />
shorter ones are a pleasure. Just part of not<br />
dying yet. SNEIH DASS CHARAN & Kirti<br />
have moved into a retirement home where<br />
life is pleasant with new friends & less<br />
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housekeeping. He spends much of his time<br />
in a wheelchair, but is actually somewhat<br />
ambulatory & very much communicative.<br />
Their calendar is full of pleasant happenings<br />
with friends & events. They would enjoy<br />
visits from others. JOHN GAULT lives<br />
in Bendigo AUS where he was recently<br />
honored with a dinner celebrating 50 yrs of<br />
service with the Bendigo Hosp & St. John<br />
of God Hosp. It was a gala occasion featuring<br />
speeches, music and arts. John played<br />
the viola part of Mozart’s trio KV 498 for<br />
clarinet, viola, and piano that was featured.<br />
He has played violin & viola for many yrs<br />
with the Bendigo Symph Orch & is about<br />
to retire. He writes the most interesting<br />
letters with snippets of adventures about<br />
home & the world. MARVIN HARPER &<br />
Judy continue happily in their Willingboro<br />
NJ home. He is active in photography &<br />
restoration of vintage planes at the museum.<br />
They are planning a tour of the White Mtns<br />
& are enjoying children & grands. HELEN<br />
HILL STURBAUM & Bill are doing well.<br />
He had knee replacements & is happy with<br />
the results. They rented cabins at a lake<br />
this yr with children & families, including<br />
guitars & fiddles, for a memorable time together.<br />
Their grandson DAVID ABUD ’10,<br />
who attended 2 yrs at WS, is now studying<br />
at Columbia U; he had such a good time in<br />
India that he recently went back for a visit.<br />
LOIS HOSTETLER BJERKESTRAND &<br />
David report a low key life full of church<br />
functions such as choir, art projects, writing<br />
projects for social events & such. She<br />
leaves the outdoor work to David. In Oct,<br />
she visited daughters in MI & SC. Actually,<br />
quite an active life for what she calls<br />
‘geezerhood’. DAVID LE SHANA & Becky<br />
celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary<br />
in HI, with the entire family waiting there to<br />
help with the celebrations – all 27 of them!<br />
What a good time! David continues as chair<br />
of a board of trustees at the college & travels<br />
quite a bit in that capacity. WALTER ME-<br />
RIAN & Darlene now live in a retirement<br />
community in Sterling KS, where Walter &<br />
his dog visit older folks to cheer them up. He<br />
& his son still do an annual deer hunt – with<br />
success. Walter still speaks Hindi as well as<br />
English! CHARLES OGDEN & Anita are in<br />
Moraga, CA. Anita is very active with work<br />
with underprivileged women in Kasganj<br />
where Charles grew up during his India<br />
days. They are very involved with children<br />
& grands. IRWIN HLA SHWE has been in<br />
a nursing home in CA for a good number<br />
of yrs. ROBIN PARKER has enjoyed visits<br />
from Abby, Bergs, Watkins & Bradshaws at<br />
his home in S OH. There is always plenty<br />
for him to do about his place. In May he
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took a tour of the Hawaiian Islands when<br />
his granddaughter was married there. He &<br />
Abby visited Russia, Finland & Norway.<br />
Cruising along the Norwegian fjords offered<br />
many photo opportunities. JIM RYBURN<br />
has quite a busy life in Feilding NZ. He is<br />
very active in the Presb Ch, in 2 sizeable<br />
choirs & practicing for a presentation of<br />
The Messiah. As a member of the Probis<br />
Club, he went on a trip to the N Island &<br />
later with 3 friends toured the S Island. He<br />
helps Hospice with housekeeping as well as<br />
working with patients in writing their biographies.<br />
ABBY SALZER STADTLANDER<br />
turned 80 & got a chainsaw for her birthday<br />
from her son. Upon arriving at her camp at<br />
Lake Champlain this spring, she was met<br />
by a flood that brought much debris onto<br />
her place. Fortunately, the house was high<br />
enough on cinder blocks to keep the water<br />
out, but for about a mo she had to wade to<br />
get in & out of the house. She hosted a WS<br />
Focus mtg at her house in Hartford last Jan,<br />
is a member of the church council; she extends<br />
an open invitation to WS classmates<br />
to visit at Lake Champlain and/or Hartford.<br />
BETTY SCHERLING HAZEN & Norm<br />
live in a retirement home in Lawrence, KS,<br />
where they are close to daughter. She still<br />
has on display, her Silver W for WS athletic<br />
achievements! LEO TELLER & Lorna are<br />
in AUS. He is still coping with the results<br />
of a stroke. Recently when Johnny’s wife<br />
passed away, Leo wrote a letter of condolence<br />
which was very much appreciated by<br />
Johnny as well as the rest of us, because we<br />
all knew of the tremendous effort involved.<br />
MARGUERITE THOBURN WATKINS &<br />
Gordon say they are both becoming bionic,<br />
he with a hip replacement & she with a<br />
cornea transplant (done outpatient). For fun<br />
they traveled about the Eastern seaboard<br />
attending a granddaughter’s wedding, the<br />
50th wedding anniversary of brother TED,<br />
’49 & visiting WS friends & classmates.<br />
They are downsizing & Gordon is dismantling<br />
& selling his magnificent model<br />
railroad system. MARTY WEIR CLOSE<br />
& Ray are doing just fine for being as old<br />
as the rest of us in our class. He lost his<br />
brother last yr. As an aside, Marty was in<br />
the same hospital at the same time when our<br />
classmate ED WISER passed away; though<br />
she did not it know it at the time. They do<br />
enjoy short trips visiting friends & family.<br />
JOHN WENDER has moved from London<br />
to Winchester where he is closer to daughter<br />
Juliet & family. This is working out nicely<br />
after the passing of Sherry, John’s wife of<br />
many yrs. He visited the Bergs & Robin on a<br />
3 weeks jaunt to the US. He is full of stories<br />
about his very active life as a photographer.<br />
HOWARD WHITFIELD continues the good<br />
life in Redland CA, where he enjoys life on<br />
the internet.—Robin<br />
Class of 1949<br />
NANCY ALDRICH INMAN enjoyed a<br />
Mediterranean cruise with sister & brotherin-law<br />
to Mikonos, Santorini islands & Istanbul.<br />
She is writing her ‘after India’ stories &<br />
is well. HELEN (BANKER) SYSWERDA &<br />
Ivan spend winters in FL. They keep active<br />
in their church & with family. BETTY BAU-<br />
MAN SHELLY attended granddaughter’s<br />
college graduation in VA & a 4th generation<br />
Jefferson Medical <strong>School</strong> graduation in PA.<br />
Another granddaughter graduated from home<br />
schooling. Due to surgery, she did not attend<br />
WOSA but attended the class reunion in<br />
Mobile AL in Oct. HARVELLA BAUMAN<br />
STUTZMAN welcomed her first greatgrand<br />
in Apr. She attended WOSA & also went to<br />
Mobile. She still enjoys quilting & reading.<br />
DIANA BOND HOLTSHOUSER attended<br />
her oldest grand’s Eagle Scout ceremony. She<br />
has spent time with children & family in DC,<br />
SC, and VT. Guests were BISHAM & Kathy<br />
PARMAR & sister MIDGE ’50. She had<br />
knee arthroscopy in Jul; plays in the church<br />
bell choir & attended the Mobile reunion.<br />
RUTH BROCK GILCHRIST enjoys quilting<br />
& keeping in touch with children, grand<br />
& greatgrand. JOE CHACKO & Joan enjoy<br />
retirement & spend time with children doing<br />
handy work & babysitting. Joe is involved<br />
with retirees of Union Oil, Scouts & the<br />
Black Point improvement club. He had left<br />
hand surgery .They were in Mobile. FRED<br />
DOWNS & Mary went to Israel, Palestine<br />
& Jordan in May. They attended a missionary<br />
reunion at the Am Baptist conference<br />
in Green Lake, WI with daughter SUSAN<br />
’78, visited ELLEN ALTER in Wooster OH<br />
& son MILTON ’81 in VA. They were at<br />
the Mobile reunion. BOB ERNY & Norma<br />
Jean enjoy good health & have traveled<br />
to New England, CAN, CA, HI & visited<br />
children in IN, TN, PA & VA. They have six<br />
greatgrands and they were at Mobile. BOB<br />
FORSGREN & Eva spent the summer in<br />
Sweden, wintered in FL with the BERGS<br />
’48, KURTZ (S) & SHERERS (S). In the<br />
spring they enjoyed gatherings at the home<br />
of ROBIN PARKER ’48, in OH with other<br />
WS’ites. Family activities include soccer,<br />
long walks, climbing, picking strawberries<br />
& good fishing. They were at Mobile. DAVE<br />
KETCHAM & Gwen (Hillary) are enjoying<br />
retirement & continue in reasonably good<br />
health. DILSHAD NAJMUDDIN & Joy live<br />
in Lahore, Pakistan. Travel to the States has<br />
been limited this yr. They spent some time<br />
in Singapore. LUELLA OSGOOD SPIRUP<br />
& Dick keep busy with church & family;<br />
have two greatgrands to add to their many<br />
blessings. BISHAM PARMAR & Kathy attended<br />
his nephew’s wedding in VT, visited<br />
with Diana in NH & her sister Barbara They<br />
drove to Quebec City & went whale watching<br />
at Tadoussac where they saw 15 blue whales<br />
& 2 other species. At the Atlantic Ocean, they<br />
observed the sandcastle competition. In Sep,<br />
Oct they visited in the Netherlands, France,<br />
Italy & India, Belgium & Luxembourg. BILL<br />
PARSON & Norma spent time in San Francisco,<br />
S CA, HI & Cabo San Lucas MEX.<br />
At Christmas, 15 family members visited<br />
from Europe. Bill’s esophageal cancer does<br />
not seem to be as aggressive as had been<br />
anticipated. He is not in pain, eats well, but<br />
tires easily & needs blood transfusions. In<br />
Mar & May, they went to Holland MI to visit<br />
friends & a 100th birthday celebration. They<br />
were at the Mobile reunion in Oct. LISTA<br />
(Paulus) WINGER EGER experienced the<br />
east coast earthquake, cupboards flew open<br />
& things fell on the floor. She sings in the<br />
choir & now has help with her gardening due<br />
to arthritis. She enjoys reading, spends time<br />
with her sister Miriam in Harrisburg, PA.<br />
JOHN SHAW & Abby drove 6,000 miles this<br />
summer visiting family & friends. John still<br />
enjoys golfing & painting. Abby has had knee<br />
surgery this fall. TED THOBURN & Sandy<br />
have moved from ME winters to Bluffton<br />
SC to a new house with fenced backyard<br />
for the dog & Ted’s trains. Relatives came to<br />
celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary in<br />
Aug. They have found a new church & enjoy<br />
the community & the friendly neighborhood.<br />
Guest rooms are available. PAUL VON<br />
TUCHER & Becky with her sister Nedra<br />
planned the class reunion in Mobile in Oct.<br />
Son Martin runs a farm in south Germany,<br />
Fritz is COO of Luca fashions in NY. Lisbeth<br />
is a lawyer with Chubb in Munich. Paul is<br />
active as past president of the English speaking<br />
Franconia Society & family cultural fdn<br />
in Nuremburg. Last fall, they cruised on the<br />
Rhone & Saone Rivers in France & took a<br />
trip to Minorca in the summer. ANNA MAE<br />
WHITCOMB LENNINGTON continues to<br />
deliver Meals on Wheels in St. Joseph MO.<br />
She coordinates an Angel Food Ministries<br />
program she started at her church. She quilts,<br />
reads & works her garden. The family gathered<br />
in MO to celebrate her 80th birthday<br />
in Jul. HAROLD WILKINSON & Maxine<br />
drove to FL last Mar & to the reunion in<br />
Mobile. In Jun ’10, Hal had surgery for colon<br />
cancer with lymph node & liver involvement.<br />
With naturopathic treatment, it seems that the<br />
cancer has been arrested. He gets CT scans &<br />
blood tests every 3-4 months. A great success<br />
story.—Harvella
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Jottings<br />
Class of 1950<br />
DOREEN FRANCES BARLOW lives in<br />
Western AUS. After a dry & lifeless summer,<br />
the winter rains partly refilled the lake<br />
opposite her home. Black swans & other<br />
birds returned. She belongs to the Fremantle<br />
Harbour Theatre & enjoys the shows. The sr<br />
morning tea once a mo at St. Paul’s Anglican<br />
Church remains a pleasure. HAROLD<br />
BERGSMA & Lily Chu live in San Diego<br />
CA. He travels & writes books. Rupa Press<br />
of India has signed a contract to publish<br />
his newest book, Bonded, a story of poor<br />
carpet-weaver children in PAK. See www.<br />
haroldbergsma.net. LILI VON TUCHER<br />
BOWES has had a busy yr—a visit from<br />
her daughter & friend who live in Juno AK,<br />
a visit to sister LORE ’54 in the UK & time<br />
spent with brother PAUL ’49 & wife Becky<br />
in Germany. She will present a paper on her<br />
life in India at the Quaker Yrly Mtg in Jan.<br />
MARJORIE DAVIS BRINES & family have<br />
been through a yr of sorrow. Her husband<br />
Bill passed away after suffering greatly. He<br />
is with the Lord & he is missed. I am the<br />
survivor. With all the prayers & support of<br />
the church, life is an experience of God’s<br />
love. BARRY COATS would like to have<br />
attended the WOSA reunion in Ft. Collins but<br />
distance & scheduling conflicts clouded any<br />
travel plans he might have made. LOIS DU-<br />
ERKSEN DECKERT & Marion did attend<br />
the WOSA reunion. They live in N Newton<br />
KS. After last yr’s garden bounty, they are<br />
in an endless hot, dry cycle in KS. Without a<br />
well, they would have no <strong>2011</strong> garden. Their<br />
yard looks like an example of desertification<br />
& the vegetable garden produces sparingly.<br />
RICHARD MENZEL lives in Vermillion SD<br />
& maintains interest in wildlife conservation.<br />
A recent big thrill for him has been talking<br />
a music prof into orchestrating a tone poem<br />
he wrote about 35 yrs ago. It is a sextet for<br />
English horn (ie alto oboe, alto shahnai),<br />
string quartet & bell (13.5 minutes). DAVID<br />
MITCHELL & SYNNOVE ’55 keep active<br />
in retirement & in touch with the churches<br />
in PAK & their fellow missionaries. David<br />
hopes to participate in a pastors’ retreat & the<br />
25th anniversary of the Assoc. of Evangelical<br />
Churches. He was granted a visa to return to<br />
PAK. ELEANOR GRIFFITHS RANDEL<br />
lives in San Leandro CA. Her eldest daughter<br />
recently died of breast cancer. Eleanor is still<br />
coping with the trying & painful times her<br />
daughter had. She hopes the new flowers<br />
she planted will thrive in the cool off-shore<br />
breezes. LYNN WATSON VINING & Robert<br />
have a cottage on Lake Huron & spend<br />
much of their summer there. Their beach is<br />
noted as one of the best in Ont CAN. 2 of<br />
their 3 sons & Lynn’s mother live in the US<br />
so they travel several times a yr to visit them.<br />
In winter they keep active skiing. They enjoy<br />
their 8 grandchildren. LI CHUN CHU WU<br />
& Robert traveled to China twice in the past<br />
yr & saw many of the famous sites along<br />
the Silk Road. They left for another visit to<br />
China in Aug. Li Chun injured her rotator<br />
cuff while trying to prune thicker branches<br />
on their trees & might require surgery.—Lois<br />
Class of 1951<br />
60 YEARS! CAN YOU BELIEVE IT? Twice<br />
classmates have met this yr to celebrate.<br />
In CO the LOEHLINS, SULLIVANS,<br />
HOSTETLERS, PARKERS, CONNELLS,<br />
KEN BONHAM & son, Lynn & Janet<br />
STRICKLER & WINS attended WOSA/NA<br />
after being entertained at the Wins’ mtn-top<br />
home the night before. At the reunion, WIN<br />
read a tribute to BOB ALTER ’43 to whom<br />
(along with ELLEN) we had dedicated our<br />
Whispering Pine. In Oct the following attended<br />
the WOSA Gala at WS: the WINS, the<br />
CONNELLS, JIM LOEHLIN & son Dave,<br />
JUDIE LANDRY & daughter Adena, KEN<br />
BONHAM, MARGARET WARD, ROBIN<br />
SHARPE, WARREN CRAIN, JOHN<br />
MORGAN with friend & sister, ASHOKE<br />
CHATTERJEE & PRONOTI SINHA. A<br />
BIG THANKS is due WARREN for arranging<br />
the class part of our trip. Our sympathy<br />
reaches out to AL BARROWS who continues<br />
working in Brazil under Fellowship Int’l<br />
Mission. Wife Virginia suffered with lung<br />
cancer & passed away 3 days after their 53rd<br />
wedding anniversary in Jun. He says he lived<br />
with an Angel unawares for 53 yrs. We will<br />
meet again in Glory. Praise the Lord! I sure<br />
miss her! CHRIS & Margo APPLEBY have<br />
had a great yr. They’ve played golf all over<br />
Norfolk & managed to keep reasonably fit.<br />
They vacationed in Scotland & Northumberland<br />
seeing Hadrian’s Wall & other old<br />
Roman sites, in spite of Margot’s health. She<br />
has another stent to be fitted, so maybe this<br />
will do the job. MEITI OPIE & hubby have<br />
been working hard around house & property,<br />
enjoying their wild AUSian landscape.<br />
Kangaroos hopped quite close to the house<br />
a few times recently. She still enjoys singing<br />
in a French language choir & every Tues<br />
after school picks up their granddaughter to<br />
practice piano under her strict supervision.<br />
Son Mike, wife Tamar & little Aviv live a<br />
5-min drive away. They spent May/Jun in<br />
CA between renters. JOHN ANDERSON<br />
& Doris have been kept very busy since<br />
50s CLASS REPS<br />
Lois Duerksen Deckert 1950<br />
PO Box 475<br />
North Newton, KS 67117-0475<br />
USA<br />
deckert@bethelks.edu<br />
316-283-4352<br />
Judie Schiller Landry 1951<br />
718 Lake Heather Rd<br />
Knoxville, TN 37934-4865<br />
USA<br />
gliderwishtn@tds.net<br />
865-966-0063<br />
T.Z. Chu 1952<br />
12796 Normandy Ln<br />
Los Altos Hills, CA 94022-4609<br />
USA<br />
tzchu@tzchu.com<br />
650-941-5522<br />
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Marianna Presler McJimsey 1954<br />
119 E San Miguel St<br />
Colorado Springs, CO 80903-2313<br />
USA<br />
rmcjimsey@comcast.net<br />
719-471-1765<br />
Verda Hostetler Bialac 1955<br />
5216 Hamilton St<br />
Omaha, NE 68132-1352, USA<br />
vbialac@cox.net<br />
402-933-7802<br />
Pat McGavran Sheafor 1956<br />
2678 S Shore E<br />
Frankfort, MI 49635-9553<br />
USA<br />
psheafor@gmail.com<br />
231-352-4879<br />
Judy Ebright Warner 1957<br />
30 College Ave<br />
Buckhannon, WV 26201-2645<br />
USA<br />
judyewarner@msn.com<br />
304-472-1907<br />
Jacquelyn Horton Benjamin 1958<br />
PO Box 249<br />
Emmett, ID 83617-0249<br />
USA<br />
jacquelyn.benjamin@gmail.com<br />
208-398-7103<br />
Li-chiang Chu 1959<br />
24 Pine Ln<br />
Los Altos, CA 94022-1639<br />
USA<br />
LiChuCalif@att.net<br />
650-949-1279
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retiring in ’98. After 12 yrs in India, 5 in<br />
Chicago & 9+ in PA as Assoc Pastor in a<br />
church which ministers to over 500, they<br />
have decided it is time to slow down & will<br />
move to www.GreenHillsrc.org near their<br />
daughter. MARGARET WARD will travel to<br />
India via AUS where she will visit a cousin.<br />
MARGARET & Dan SULLIVAN report<br />
that their apt (at top of a 16-story bldg) did<br />
a major shake, rattle & roll on Tues Aug 23<br />
when the heaviest earthquake in over 100<br />
yrs hit the E Coast. The epicenter was about<br />
85 mi SW of DC. Luckily nothing broke!<br />
Immediately afterwards, hurricane Irene, full<br />
of howling wind & driving rain, passed by.<br />
After WOSA they saw more of CO. They are<br />
both still working-sort of - & beginning to<br />
look forward to a trip to Indonesia & AUS.<br />
Ruth & MIKE CONDON had a quiet summer<br />
with no travel. They went to Boston in<br />
Sep to spend a weekend with their son. WIN<br />
is looking forward to our 60th at WS with<br />
Riri tagging along. Then they head for Goa<br />
to link up with a boyhood friend, a teacher of<br />
the Catholic Christian Brothers in Tuticorin.<br />
Together the 3 of them will visit Ratnagiri<br />
to retrace the steps of King Thibaw, the last<br />
king & tyrant of Burma who was exiled there<br />
when the British conquered Burma in 1886.<br />
In exchange, the last Mogul emperor of India<br />
was exiled to Burma. From Ratnagiri, they<br />
went to Mae Sot, Thailand to teach Burma<br />
refugee children for a mo, which they have<br />
done in the past. Though BILL GILSON<br />
has had several medical setbacks, things<br />
seem to be under control at present. He is a<br />
spokesman for Kirkwood Orange, where he<br />
lives. See him at bekirkwoodorange.com.<br />
He is also president of the resident council,<br />
which keeps him busy. ALAN JACKSON<br />
(78) & brother Tom (81) hiked for 3 days<br />
in the mtns of Glacier Nat’l Park in Sep.<br />
Alan & son Mark(48) completed every mi<br />
of this yr’s Bicycle Tour of CO in Jun, 460<br />
mi for 7 days going through several high<br />
passes. In Apr, TARA VARGAS took a trip<br />
to S Italy with eldest daughter Yasmine &<br />
brother STANLEY ’47. They met with bro<br />
MALCOLM’s ’44 family & spent a wk in an<br />
old Italian villa on the coast on the heel of the<br />
boot, as beautiful as all the travel pictures!<br />
The people are so friendly, but no one wants<br />
US $, only euros & the exchange rate was<br />
terrible. Nothing really new here, say the<br />
BUSHNELLS, except that they didn’t go up<br />
to the mtns for the 1st time in many yrs. Fortunately,<br />
they have A/C at home - nearly a mo<br />
of 90 plus degrees. WALT tends the garden,<br />
even when it’s 90! ASHOKE CHATTERJEE<br />
is grateful for the wonderful chance to be<br />
with BOB & ELLEN following their visit<br />
to Mussoorie & all the thoughts & emotions<br />
that went with it. His book Rising, published<br />
after 3 yrs of effort, is a story of a group of<br />
women & their effort to transform the lives<br />
of communities in one of Gujarat’s most<br />
challenging environments. A huge amount<br />
of other work continues in water, sanitation,<br />
crafts, culture & with 2 grands 7 & ), it’s<br />
24/7 & no sign of rest & retirement! Phyllis<br />
& GORDON HOSTETLER toured across S<br />
NE stopping at Red Cloud, Willa Cather’s<br />
home town. Phyllis helps in the county<br />
library. Son Mike is one of the unfortunates<br />
looking for work, they hope that things will<br />
turn around soon. The 3 grandsons 19, 17,<br />
8 are growing up quickly. LOUISE GAULT<br />
JOY lives in the country town of Heathcote<br />
where gold was found in the early 1850s.<br />
She & Dary have coffee most days in the<br />
Heathcote Gallery & Winery, the original<br />
Craven’s Grocery shop. They plan tours of<br />
the Pink Cliffs to show friends. The earth is<br />
colored due to the implements used in gold<br />
digging. She is Secretary for Friends of<br />
Vellore VIC, busy arranging functions for<br />
visitors from the Christian Medical College<br />
where her parents worked for 25 yrs. Brother<br />
JOHN ’48 lives nearby in Bendigo - much<br />
gold found there with beautiful bldgs. She<br />
has 3 children in Melbourne & 1 in Sydney<br />
and loves reading Roman history & science.<br />
NIRMAL CHAND continues to keep us all<br />
up-to-date on addresses & adds to the news<br />
when he has some - a great boon to the class.<br />
TONY & Teddy Parker are in temporary<br />
residence in CA awaiting a move to NV. The<br />
CONNELLS also felt the quake, but neither<br />
they nor LOEHLINS had real damage from<br />
Irene. CONNELLS stay constantly busy with<br />
church music & grands. KEN DYE spent 2<br />
wks in hospital with pneumonia, so had to<br />
miss the CO reunion. PRONOTI SINHA<br />
works constantly to make the eye clinic a<br />
viable place of healing. With so much violence<br />
& crazy weather around the world we<br />
who travel may be foolhardy, but we wish<br />
the whole class could have been with us this<br />
yr at our alma mater one more time.—Judie<br />
Class of 1952<br />
JOAN BERGSMA MANLEY & David make<br />
their home in Vallejo CA, not too far from<br />
daughter & family. She reads a great deal but<br />
has not written for some time. Her health is<br />
good but at times feeling a bit frail, as we all<br />
do. DARLENE BURROWS TENNISON<br />
lost Bill early Sep a yr ago, after a valiant<br />
battle against melanoma. Darlene, following<br />
his wish, remains active with a small chorus<br />
group, Sweet Adeline & was able to join<br />
them for a nation-wide contest in Seattle<br />
during Oct ’10. MARY CHU YAO &<br />
brother John had planned to visit China this<br />
summer but the intolerable heat at DC reminded<br />
them of the folly of climbing the<br />
Great Wall in the summer heat. Mary continues<br />
to teach English & finds the experience<br />
challenging, rewarding & ultimately<br />
satisfying. DAO-ZEUN (TZ) resumed working,<br />
managing the leading supercritical fluid<br />
chromatograph co while continuing to advise<br />
univ chem depts as a volunteer. He & Irmgard<br />
are delighted with son-in-law’s transfer<br />
to San Francisco; the grandchildren & family<br />
now live only a half-hr away, instead of<br />
across the country. BARBARA & Brian<br />
CLARK are healthy & enjoying life at home<br />
& at the cottage. They are grateful for their<br />
thriving children & grands, particularly<br />
thankful for the continued life of son Steven<br />
at St. Peter’s hosp. CAROL DOUGLAS<br />
LAMBDIN suffered a stroke & is not making<br />
progress at the rehab center. The family is<br />
considering moving her to a long-term nursing<br />
home to make her as comfortable as<br />
possible. JEAN DOWNIE volunteers at a<br />
nature center & church, which she attends<br />
regularly, singing in the choir. For exercise,<br />
she walks 30-40 min at least 3x/ week.<br />
Daughter Beth & partner Bee have moved<br />
to Shutesbury MA to be closer to work &<br />
have a larger home. JANE DOWNS WALL-<br />
BROWN continues her work as church administrator,<br />
travels & keeps up with<br />
classmates & friends. She plans to spend<br />
Christmas in Hyderabad visiting son Sheldon<br />
who is the CEO of Int’l <strong>School</strong> for Film &<br />
Media there. ED & Rachel ERNY remain<br />
active with OMS & teaching English to local<br />
Chinese immigrants. Ed wrote a most interesting<br />
article recalling his early days at<br />
Ridgewood. The article was also shared with<br />
WS ’54 & has received a flood of comments<br />
from WS alumni recalling their early days at<br />
Ridgewood & WS (featured in this issue –<br />
Ed.). PEGGY EWING DEVINE & John live<br />
an isolated country life on a 28-acre lot, but<br />
plan to move to Boulder City NV when their<br />
current home has sold. Peggy has quit her<br />
job at the coffee house for health reasons,<br />
but misses her co-workers; her closest girlfriend<br />
lives 40 plus mi away! Peggy, one of<br />
the youngest in our class, celebrated her 75th<br />
birthday last Jan. BOB GRIFFITHS is the<br />
Distinguished Otto Stern U Prof of Physics<br />
at Carnegie Mellon U. His research is focused<br />
on applying consistent history methods<br />
to quantum info theory & computation that<br />
he pioneered & on determinism & free will<br />
at the interface between sci & Christian<br />
theology. He still hasn’t retired, but will<br />
likely do so in the near future. PHYLLIS<br />
HALL KING’s husband Ed went through a<br />
3rd stent procedure in May & experienced<br />
mild strokes which delayed their traditional
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stay at their CAN lakeside home. Ed recovered<br />
well enough to take part in a magical<br />
wk at Lake Tahoe, a gift for Ed’s 80th birthday<br />
from & with their 3 children & grands<br />
(10 to 19). Phyllis said it reminded her of<br />
WS days. QUENTIN & Carole HERD celebrated<br />
his father’s 100th birthday on Aug<br />
21. Caring for their grandchild Ben (7) keeps<br />
Carole busy. Ben’s mum, their daughter, is<br />
a business bigwig & dad is a DI in a UK<br />
police force. Quentin’s small orchard &<br />
vegetable plot is flourishing & he expects a<br />
very good crop of red delicious apples. AN-<br />
NIKKEN HOEG-RASMUSSEN shared a<br />
most moving report on her & the Norwegian<br />
public’s immediate reaction & subsequent<br />
response to the incomprehensible tragedy in<br />
their country. She was rightfully proud of<br />
Norway’s very measured responses. DITA<br />
KASHYAP & Tony HOLLINS enjoyed a<br />
mo-long tour of Rajasthan, Simla, Goa, as<br />
well as visiting relatives & friends in Delhi<br />
& Mumbai. They also managed their annual<br />
2-wk stay in S France with daughter Katie<br />
& grands who are now teenagers. Katie has<br />
become an entrepreneur, selling Indian cloths<br />
& jewelry on the web. Older daughter Sue<br />
is a successful production mgr for 2 BBC<br />
programs. JOHN LEEDER has not had many<br />
communications with friends & family. He<br />
appears to be well otherwise. BRUCE & Kay<br />
MERRILL enjoyed a good summer in the<br />
Adirondacks after a great wk in Guantanamo<br />
Bay, where son Lee is Deputy Public Works<br />
Officer for the US Navy. Son Keith is well<br />
on his way to having a custom-built camp<br />
completed on the same lake with the parents.<br />
ROGER & Carol MINCHIN enjoyed their<br />
visit to son & family living & working close<br />
to the shore of Lake Geneva in Switzerland.<br />
Their last days in Switz coincided with TZ’s<br />
visit to Basel, but unfortunately they were<br />
not able to meet. We last heard from PAUL<br />
MITCHELL in Nov ’10 following his birthday.<br />
Donna & their daughters took him out<br />
to lunch to celebrate. He & Donna are<br />
blessed with good health & learning how to<br />
retire with grace & dignity. What a wonderful<br />
statement! BILL NAJ is enjoying living<br />
in a home he built on a beautiful spring-fed<br />
lake. He fishes & entertains family & friends.<br />
He has just celebrated his 78th birthday &<br />
very grateful for the blessings of excellent<br />
health, comfortable life, a great family &<br />
friends. The highlight of the yr was a coastto-coast<br />
trip to visit daughter, 2 sons & 2<br />
granddaughters in Ft Lauderdale, Denver &<br />
Santa Barbara. EVA NEUENHOFER is recovering<br />
nicely from operation & chemotherapy<br />
and, together with Harry, celebrated<br />
oldest granddaughter’s graduation from U of<br />
San Francisco. Eva shared a moving recollection<br />
of European kids attending WS immediately<br />
after WWII & released from the<br />
internment camps in India. She also shared<br />
with us interesting newspaper columns by<br />
Hazel Kahan ’56 describing her recent visit<br />
to PAK. NANCY RYBURN MENCE’s husband<br />
Don passed away in Nov ’10 after<br />
valiantly battling recurring leukemia for<br />
many yrs. He died peacefully in bed. Our<br />
love & sympathy are with Nancy & the family.<br />
Nancy is looking after sister HELEN ’41<br />
& enjoyed a family reunion in early Aug at<br />
Taupo NZ. GINNIE SERVICE McCOR-<br />
MICK gets about with the help of a walker<br />
& wheelchair & is looked after by caregivers<br />
& her 4 children. MARGUERITE SCHER-<br />
LING SCHWEITZER & Jerry enjoy visiting<br />
children & grands whenever possible. Marguerite<br />
& daughter Julie plan to visit Yangon<br />
in Mar to find her father’s burial site. They<br />
are searching for an English-speaking local<br />
who can help them locate the site. Her parents<br />
served as missionaries in Burma where<br />
Marguerite spent her youth. DAVID &<br />
Corinne SCOTT had a good yr of interesting<br />
educational & fun family travel – Egypt,<br />
Ethiopia, Panama, CO & IN. In addition to<br />
continuing WS responsibilities there was<br />
increased involvement in the Asian American<br />
Forum in Washington DC. LALI SINGH<br />
visits daughters & grands in Kelowna &<br />
Sunshine Coast as often as she can & they<br />
come often to visit her. After a cruise to AK<br />
in Aug, she had a knee replacement operation.<br />
We look forward to news about her<br />
successful operation & rapid full recovery.<br />
DAVID & Elouise SMITH have returned to<br />
their old homestead in Ozark AL. They made<br />
a valiant effort traveling to Fort Collins by<br />
train for the WOSA reunion, overcoming<br />
physical & health challenges & the notorious<br />
American trains. They enjoy visits from 6<br />
children, 13 grands & 5 greatgrands. BOB<br />
& Susan STEWART are enjoying a pretty<br />
laid back retirement but have attended a lot<br />
of auctions collecting antique tools such as<br />
planes, levels, saws - that being Bob’s hobby.<br />
They live in a Ponderosa pine forest & are<br />
cutting quite a few trees for fire mitigation<br />
& for winter heating. Their biggest trip this<br />
yr was to Fort Collins for the WOSA reunion.<br />
ELIZABETH (Liz) SUTHERLIN REES<br />
looked forward with excitement to an unexpected<br />
visit to Britain in Oct. She is grateful<br />
for her & family members’ good health. Son<br />
Giles & family live in Christchurch, 2-hr<br />
drive away; they were rattled but unharmed<br />
by the series of devastating earthquakes &<br />
resulting liquefaction that brought down<br />
many bldgs in this historic city. JIM TAY-<br />
LOR wrote that they are learning to live with<br />
uncertainty, expressing his measured pleasure<br />
with Joan’s successful chemotherapy<br />
but is also conceding that periodic chemotherapy<br />
may be necessary. Jim himself has<br />
fully recovered from his heart attack. He is<br />
the intellect of our class writing widely-read<br />
weekly columns astutely observing & reflecting<br />
on events that take place around the<br />
world. JOSIE THOBURN HERNDON &<br />
Dale enjoy the summer on the CA coast &<br />
entertained visits by many family members<br />
& friends. Back home they help care for<br />
grandkids & are active in church. Josie enjoys<br />
AAUW, line dancing & book study<br />
group. Dale is great at fix-it & computers.<br />
LIBBY THOBURN SHEATHER & Harry<br />
enjoy living in a 55-and-over community<br />
where they participate in many of the activities.<br />
Libby serves on 2 committees offering<br />
advice & assistance with landscaping<br />
issues & conducts a chorus for Christmas &<br />
other events. The highlights of the yr included<br />
the wedding of Libby’s granddaughter<br />
in Jul & celebrating brother TED’s ’49 &<br />
Sandy’s 50th anniversary in SC. ALEX<br />
THOMSON had a successful heart surgery<br />
in Jun to replace aortic valve & repair the<br />
mitral value. Six weeks earlier he found it<br />
difficult to breathe after taking trash cans out,<br />
his legs & joints were swollen & he had<br />
unaccountably put on about 20+ lbs. due to<br />
water retention. He is regaining his health<br />
but finds recovery slow & frustrating, especially<br />
because he had to stop his law practice.—TZ<br />
Class of 1954<br />
We mourn the death of MURIEL THIESSEN<br />
STACKLEY who died of cancer, Jan 29. Her<br />
family roots were Mennonite & she touched<br />
many lives as a writer, pastor & peacemaker.<br />
We send deepest sympathies to Kamal<br />
& MALTI NANDA KHANNA whose eldest<br />
son Madhav died Dec ’10 of cancer, to Kathe<br />
& BILL MOSHER on the death of Bill’s<br />
mother, Alice Wynne, and to KARIS MAN-<br />
TON, whose brother Tom died in Feb. ALI-<br />
SON SODDY THURSFIELD serves on the<br />
British Unitarians Nat’l Executive while also<br />
both playing & coaching croquet. Paul &<br />
ANN EICHER WELTY enjoy their IN lake<br />
cottage with children, 7 grandchildren & 2<br />
great-grandchildren. They & Nancy &<br />
DAVE HOLMES visit regularly. ANNE<br />
BURGOYNE HOLMAN, who is living in<br />
Port Townsend WA, has found a good market<br />
for her paintings through a local artist co-op.<br />
ARNIE CHESHIRE in Toronto writes for<br />
AirForce magazine, keeps in touch with his<br />
local MP & looks forward to the retirement<br />
of wife Simone in 2 yrs. Kathe & BILL<br />
MOSHER’S children & grandchildren live<br />
near them in the Ashville, NC area. Big
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events were Mosher and Schrader family<br />
reunions. Linda & BOB FLEMING flourish<br />
in OR where RAY SMITH visited them. Bob<br />
will be doing research at 3 Brazilian biomes:<br />
the Atlantic rainforest, the Pantanal wetlands<br />
& the Cerrado savannah. In Washington DC,<br />
BOB SERVICE attends to rightsizing for the<br />
US State Dept, holding the line against ever<br />
larger embassies and consulates abroad. Bob<br />
plays golf & Karol enjoys gardening. They<br />
plan travels to Vienna, Prague & Budapest.<br />
Carmen & BRUCE JOHNSON love living<br />
in downtown Denver CO where they garden,<br />
bicycle (using Denver’s bike sharing program),<br />
attend sporting & cultural events &<br />
enjoy grandchildren. Bruce was on the planning<br />
committee for the Ft. Collins CO<br />
WOSA reunion. Brenda & CLEM DOUG-<br />
LASS live near Minneapolis MN. They have<br />
lovingly nurtured their high-functioning<br />
autistic son, Dax, who is now enrolled in a<br />
program for 18-21 yr olds to learn to live &<br />
work independently. CONNIE SANFORD<br />
TRAVAILLE is teaching KG in Spartanburg<br />
SC where she keeps busy with church, gardening<br />
& family. She hopes to celebrate<br />
retirement in ’12 by attending the Seattle<br />
WOSA reunion. DAVE EVANS & Molly<br />
made their annual summer trek (since ’96)<br />
from CA to Nobleboro ME, near the coast.<br />
Dave recommends a movie, My Favorite<br />
Year, significantly (for our class) set around<br />
1954. On a sad note, Molly has been diagnosed<br />
with early stages of dementia. Her<br />
personality and sweet disposition are unchanged.<br />
The motto of Nancy and DAVE<br />
HOLMES is “Gotta keep movin’ while we<br />
can”. Recent travels from their FL home<br />
include Israel, Croatia, Slovenia & the eastern<br />
Adriatic as well as Ft. Wayne IN to visit<br />
Paul & ANN EICHER WELTY. DIXIE<br />
CORTNER BROOKE enjoys skyping with<br />
2 grandsons in London, kayaking & attending<br />
plays & concerts with Julian & ROBBIE<br />
FOSTER CROWELL, who also live in<br />
western MA. She spent time in Costa Rica.<br />
Wade & ELIZABETH (MURIEL) HAGEN<br />
SMITH attended the adoption ceremony in<br />
England of daughter Karen’s Abigail. The<br />
colorful ceremony included a judge in wig<br />
& lavender-hued stole. Travels from their<br />
Richmond VA home included Grasse, the<br />
world perfume capital in Provence FR. EVA<br />
SEEGALL CHANDLER’S new hobby is<br />
taking photos in south Devon UK of skies,<br />
clouds, landscapes & the people in between.<br />
Son David, professor of int’l politics at U of<br />
Westminster, travels worldwide. Daughter<br />
Debi, a chiropodist, lives nearby. Eva welcomed<br />
a visit from Tony & DITA KASHUP<br />
HOLLINS ’52. Ed & IDA ALTER STRICK-<br />
LAND, who live in Los Gatos, south of San<br />
Francisco, enjoyed a wonderful trip with<br />
Overseas Adventure Travel to Machu Picchu<br />
& the Galapagos Islands. They visited longtime<br />
friends in Wales & went sightseeing in<br />
Scotland. ILSE PAULSSEN NAJ traveled<br />
from Minneapolis MN to Western AUS to<br />
visit Michael & MARGRIT BUTZ WALMS-<br />
LEY. They had so much fun remembering<br />
all the mischief, silly & stupid things they<br />
did while at WS and at home in Bombay.<br />
While visiting her daughter in Denver, Ilse<br />
joined Carmen & BRUCE JOHNSON &<br />
MARIANNA PRESLER MCJIMSEY for<br />
dinner at an Indian restaurant. Ev & JERE-<br />
MY DAVENPORT are happily celebrating<br />
52 years of marriage, as they continue to<br />
enjoy the closeness of their kids, grandkids<br />
& great-grandkids. They are still RVing<br />
around the Pacific NW & staying active in<br />
hobbies and srs’ organizations. Gordon and<br />
JOANNA REITTER GREEN have moved<br />
from their mtn home back to San Jose CA to<br />
be close to children and grandchildren. She<br />
has enjoyed reading the 75-100 letters that<br />
she wrote to her parents in Rangoon while<br />
she was at WS. Her mother had saved them<br />
all. JOHN CHU is the full time lab manager<br />
at the CA State Prison in Soledad. Wife Judy<br />
is a Licensed Vocational Nurse, also at the<br />
Soledad prison & also working full time.<br />
John’s triple by-pass surgery of 2 years ago<br />
was very successful; he primarily has to<br />
watch his diet. KAVAL SINGH GULHATI<br />
(Delhi) had a lovely reunion with MIREILLE<br />
THIMAYYA CHENGAPPA in Bangalore &<br />
later visited her daughter Amrita’s organic<br />
farm in Kumaon. Amrita went to Kodai<br />
where she met husband Santosh, a German.<br />
Kaval wrote, “Viva Indian multiculturalism”.<br />
We congratulate KENNETH STEPHENS,<br />
Claremont CA, who has completed his memoirs<br />
The Meaning of These Days: Memoir of<br />
a Philosophical Pastor & is looking for a<br />
publisher. Access portions of the book on<br />
http://themeaningofthesedays.com. LORE<br />
VON TUCHER is beautifully settled in<br />
Leamington Spa UK, near her 2 sons & their<br />
families. She is improving her bridge, playing<br />
the violin in chamber music groups &<br />
holidaying in the Persian Gulf, the Azores,<br />
SE France, Iceland & Ireland. Michael &<br />
MARGRIT BUTZ WALMSLEY excitedly<br />
showed ILSE PAULSSEN NAJ how they<br />
live down-under in W AUS. When Margrit<br />
tells people here that we are all in touch with<br />
each other after all these years, they are<br />
absolutely astounded. The Walmsleys celebrated<br />
their 50th with a trip to Dubai, Rome,<br />
Florence, Venice & an E Mediterranean<br />
cruise. Glenn & MARY ELLEN ENS-<br />
MINGER ATWOOD moved into a 2-bedroom<br />
independent living apt near Akron,OH.<br />
Mary Ellen is the Regent for her Daughters<br />
of the American Revolution chapter. The<br />
Atwoods are active in their church, work out<br />
regularly & conduct genealogical research.<br />
They enjoyed dinner with Maria & RICH<br />
PARKER on a Columbia MO visit. MYRA<br />
DOWNIE VANUXEM flew with her niece<br />
and grandnieces to Queensland, AUS to<br />
visit Myra’s sister Joyce & family. While<br />
visiting the Great Barrier Reef, they watched<br />
the release of 4 green turtles which had ingested<br />
plastic & recovered at the Turtle<br />
Hospital. Myra noted the dangers to worldwide<br />
wildlife that plastic imposes. KARIS<br />
MANTON lives in Mattoon, IL She has an<br />
int’l family of 4 children, 1 born in Mexico,<br />
1 in Canada & 2 in the US. RAY SMITH<br />
would like to sell his co so that he can retire.<br />
However, he is keeping it going so that his<br />
7 employees do not have to join the ranks of<br />
the unemployed. He and Letty enjoy the<br />
fruits of their extensive orchard in LA<br />
County. He looks forward to the ’12 WOSA<br />
Seattle reunion. RICH PARKER helps care<br />
for his grandson Dontay (2). Rich continues<br />
to serve on two Columbia MO citizen boards<br />
dealing with renewable energy and energy<br />
conservation & has been on the boards long<br />
enough so that he occasionally has some<br />
influence. Maria works full time on the night<br />
shift at a nearby nursing home. Julian and<br />
ROBBIE FOSTER CROWELL are pleased<br />
with their spacious & bright new apartment<br />
in the Loomis Village retirement community<br />
in South Hadley MA; although the<br />
waiting was stressful, they were able to sell<br />
their house. They would love to have Class<br />
of 54 visitors for New England’s legendary<br />
leaf peeping season. Orval & RUTH BAUR<br />
WILLIMANN enjoyed the visits to their MI<br />
lake home of all of the Willimann children<br />
& grandchildren, including 13 biological<br />
grandchildren & 3 significant others. They<br />
totaled 27 around the table. Thank goodness<br />
for the girls who love to cook & are real<br />
gourmets in the kitchen. Aloke & SUNITA<br />
CHAND BOSU, who live in S CA, celebrated<br />
Sunita’s 75th birthday & their 50th anniversary<br />
with a European trip. Sunita hones<br />
her magician skills. Even folks who do not<br />
know her name know her as the magician<br />
lady. She continues to compile family history<br />
albums dating from her great-great<br />
grandfather. During WIN MCGAVRAN<br />
GRIFFEN’s visit with her granddaughter<br />
Mena (3), to the Pacific Asia Museum in<br />
Pasadena CA, Mena stood in front of a<br />
Hindu god & exclaimed loudly, “He’s naked”.<br />
Then she moved on to one with a loin<br />
cloth &, said in a very loud voice, “He has<br />
underwear on”. The music playing in the gift<br />
shop was an Indian raga to which Mena re-
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sponded by putting her fingers in her ears.<br />
Win observed, “Ah, age 3”. Mena’s mother’s<br />
family is from Gujurat, but Mena has yet to<br />
learn the joys of India. MARIANNA PRE-<br />
SLER MCJIMSEY enjoyed the Ft. Collins,<br />
WOSA reunion. For 20 mo, she chaired a<br />
5-member parish committee, which researched<br />
& photographed the 48 windows<br />
(dated 1898-2005) of Grace and St. Stephen’s<br />
Episcopal Church, Colorado Springs<br />
CO. The 112 page hardbound book, published<br />
in Oct, includes full-page photos of<br />
each window & accompanying texts. Editing<br />
& publishing the Whispering Pine in ’54 was<br />
excellent training.—Marianna<br />
Class of 1955<br />
ESTHER BALPH HOLGATE & John stayed<br />
home this yr. In Feb she tripped & crashed,<br />
landing on a knee. No bones broken, but it<br />
took her 6 wks to walk again. John has had<br />
cataract surgery, then it will be ESTHER’s<br />
turn. KATHY BASKETTE MOLLOHAN<br />
recently googled Nagpur, where her family<br />
lived. The image that came up was not the<br />
Nagpur (very definitely a village) she knew.<br />
KATHY loves to read, hike. She & Kent went<br />
to DC to visit their new grandniece, the 1st<br />
baby in the family in 40 yrs. Claude &<br />
BECKY BECKER MOREL welcomed their<br />
10th grand (8th grandson) born on Valentine’s<br />
Day, named August Nels Olson. In Apr<br />
they enjoyed an Amtrak trip to IL to take part<br />
in the baptism of both little boys. She hopes<br />
to have her 2nd book finished soon. PAUL<br />
BOYTAR & MOUCHE BROCKE DEETH<br />
are in AUS. PAUL & Catherine in Brisbane<br />
that was flooded. Their house on high ground<br />
was spared but power outage & rd conditions<br />
made it very difficult. MOUCHE lives in N<br />
QLD at a higher elevation. MOUCHE’s<br />
Mike suffered a severe stroke a few yrs ago<br />
& is now in a care facility. She now runs the<br />
animal preserve, the house & visits Mike,<br />
4.5 hrs away, no time for her art. PRIS DE<br />
VOL COX & Tom enjoy reading together.<br />
PRIS keeps busy, belongs to a Community<br />
Bible Study Group, loves to play dominoes.<br />
PINKY EBRIGHT HAYES & Kirby stand<br />
beside their children as the economy plays<br />
havoc with jobs, a cutting-horse trainer son<br />
& a son-in-law’s job with American Airlines<br />
that moved away. One bright note, PINKY<br />
& sister JUDY ’56 visited a cousin in San<br />
Francisco, going by train. FRANK EMER-<br />
SON has given up tennis to save his knees<br />
& back for doing other sports with Mary, like<br />
cross country skiing, walking/hiking & biking.<br />
They spent 3 wks skiing in the Laurentians<br />
& Adirondacks, a wk in Rome<br />
concentrating on Caravaggio paintings.<br />
Tragedy struck PEGGY ENSMINGER MOE<br />
& Roger when their house<br />
burned down in Jul. Both<br />
got out safely but lost almost<br />
all. Then PEGGY<br />
was hospitalized with a<br />
bleeding ulcer & vein from<br />
which she miraculously<br />
recovered. They will be<br />
moving into a retirement<br />
center. PEGGY & Roger<br />
celebrated their 54th wedding<br />
ann in Aug. They are<br />
fortunate to have all children<br />
nearby. JOHN<br />
(DICK) GILSON & Tura<br />
have been to NC, a granddaughter’s<br />
wedding in Nashville, then a rodeo<br />
& huge craft show at the state prison<br />
with another granddaughter & family in LA.<br />
JOHN regrets he wasn’t able to participate<br />
in the sr games this yr. RUTH GRIFFITHS<br />
DOYLE is enjoying the lake-effect snow in<br />
Batavia NY. She took a trip to the ME coast<br />
to take in the glory of the fall colors. KATHY<br />
HARTLEY ORANJE celebrated her granddaughter’s<br />
5th b’day in Germany. She then<br />
went to the US in Jul/Aug, including a cruise<br />
to AK with daughter & family. FRED &<br />
Carole HOLLOSZY are grandparents to<br />
Gabriela (5) & Elisa (1/2). FRED still works<br />
part time in his dental practice & enjoys taking<br />
challenging classes on a variety of topics.<br />
VERDA HOSTETLER BIALAC spends<br />
time reading, writing, class repping & visiting<br />
family & friends. She also belongs to a<br />
study group to which she presents an annual<br />
paper. She & George visited PRAMA SON-<br />
DHI BHANDARI & Ranji in Chicago while<br />
visiting their daughter & spent time in Ancaster<br />
ON with daughter & son-in law who<br />
moved there from super-hot San Antonio.<br />
VERDA spent time in IN with family. She<br />
& ANN WORKMAN DWYER upheld the<br />
class at WOSA/NA. JEAN KESSELRING<br />
BONNEY & Dick are kept busy with volunteering,<br />
family, friends & hobbies. This yr<br />
in Oct they will take the train to CA to a<br />
Kesselring reunion (7 of them with spouses)<br />
& stay on the Pacific Ocean. After meeting<br />
RUTH ’57 & husband at the Cousins’ Reunion,<br />
they will spend a few days with them<br />
in Santa Cruz. BILL KINZIE has had 2 hip<br />
replacements & feels like a new man! No<br />
more pain & walking is beginning to be a<br />
pleasure again. He still plays in the Richmond<br />
Philharmonic Orchestra, wife Lib<br />
continues her interest in scrap booking.<br />
CAROL LUBBERS BABCOCK has a new<br />
3rd grand, Emily Margaret. In Austin to<br />
visit her son, she enjoyed a stay at Lost Pines<br />
Resort. She also flew to IL to be with sister<br />
ALTYE ’48, who suffered a bad heart attack.<br />
Verda Hostetler Bialac, Ruth Thoburn Osborn, Wayne Osborn &<br />
Keith Osborn at RUTH & Wayne’s 50th Anniversary, Iowa City, IA<br />
This yr has been one of transition for BETTY<br />
ANN MCELDOWNEY CONARD & Dick.<br />
With their house up for sale, they have<br />
moved into a condo, one on the river, with<br />
beautiful views. Dick is working on a revision<br />
of how health care is delivered - creative<br />
& good ideas. BETTY ANN has focused on<br />
enjoying grands & helping convey them back<br />
& forth from school or activities. Bicycle<br />
riding & reading are a real joy. DON & Esther<br />
MACKAY took a 40 day trip with a<br />
group of 19 to SE Asia. MADHU MEHTA,<br />
living on 3 continents in FL, Baden Baden<br />
& India, continues to run her textile business<br />
INDIA SILK. In addition she is Pres of the<br />
India US Chamber of Commerce Inc, S FL<br />
& VP of ABICC (Assoc. of Bi-national<br />
Chambers of Commerce in FL) in Miami.<br />
Son Kalyan, a pilot, lives nearby, owns an<br />
air charter. Daughter Shalini & Hatim are<br />
parents of 3 little girls in Palo Alto, she takes<br />
every opportunity to spend time with them.<br />
EILEEN NEEVE SWINFEN spent 7 wks in<br />
S France with daughter-in-law Rachel with<br />
twin boys (11 mo) who had to have an adult<br />
each accompany them on the plane. Cecily<br />
(2.5) had a seat to herself. Son Jonathan<br />
drove down with all the baby clobber. They<br />
have bought the home next to EILEEN in<br />
France. EILEEN will return to France in Aug<br />
for 2 more mo. Daughter Kerenza & Josh<br />
have moved to Devon, Jonathan & Rachel<br />
have moved to Oxfordshire for a larger<br />
house. EILEEN will miss having both children<br />
on her doorstep. BOB REAM & family<br />
spent 3 wks in Peru, mostly in the Cuzco<br />
area, a 5-day trek to Machu Picchu through<br />
hi mtn passes & wonderful little villages,<br />
then to Lake Titicaca, with a host family out<br />
on one of the islands. Another 4-day trek<br />
visiting the ruins around Cuzco & the sacred<br />
valley, including celebrating BOB’s 75th<br />
birthday. Fantastic adventure & truly amazing<br />
what the Incas did during their short time<br />
in power, before being annihilated by the<br />
Spaniards. He keeps bees & harvested 10 gal
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Class of 56 at WOSA Reunion- Bruce Woolever, Margaret Shafer,<br />
Jane Choulett & Steve Holm<br />
of honey & continues to serve as Chair of<br />
the MT Fish, Wildlife & Parks Commission,<br />
wife Ann continues as chief legal counsel in<br />
the governor’s office. Son Jake graduated as<br />
valedictorian from Helena HS & is off to CO<br />
College. Daughter Tarn completed a MS in<br />
plant sci at U MT & son Rolf continues work<br />
with the Nat’l Marine Mammal lab out of<br />
Seattle, but currently is in DC area for 2 yrs<br />
with Sacha & Griffin (5). STEWART ROB-<br />
INSON has reported on the extensive damage<br />
& continual after-shocks of the<br />
earthquake in Christchurch, NZ. Son Alan’s<br />
wedding date soon after was still observed,<br />
in spite of the many volunteer hrs they put<br />
in at the Red Cross. GRANT SMITH works<br />
as head of the all-volunteer Land Trust of the<br />
E Panhandle of WV & also is organizing a<br />
lifelong learning course on Afghanistan &<br />
its Neighbors at Shepherd U. He & Renny<br />
go to Washington once a week, where Renny<br />
volunteers at the Smithsonian Center for<br />
Folklife & GRANT retains a title at the<br />
Central Asia Caucasus Inst. PRAMA SON-<br />
DHI BHANDARI & Ranji attended the 30th<br />
celebration of the Art of Living held in<br />
Berlin in Jul at the Olympic Stadium. They<br />
stayed in Europe meeting friends, then<br />
headed for Chicago for a mo’s visit with<br />
daughter Anuradhika & family, followed by<br />
a stay with their son in NYC. DAVID ’50 &<br />
SYNNØVE SVENDBERG MITCHELL had<br />
to put on hold their yrly trip to PAK due to<br />
SYNNØVE’s major back surgery. LYLE &<br />
Clare THOBURN have been to Europe with<br />
their church group Young at Heart. They<br />
thoroughly enjoyed each of the 6 countries<br />
they visited. Clare reported that LYLE took<br />
special interest in the mechanics of windmills<br />
& the roundhouse bridge crane running<br />
on a curved runway at the<br />
NC transportation museum.<br />
RUTH THOBURN<br />
OSBORN & Wayne celebrated<br />
their 50th wedding<br />
anniv last Dec. All children<br />
attended with spouses &<br />
companions, coming from<br />
CA, OR & NY. The members<br />
of the original wedding<br />
party were also there,<br />
Wayne’s brother the best<br />
man & VERDA the bridesmaid.<br />
Their children gave<br />
them 50 gold presents! A<br />
fantastic celebration. Our<br />
class is grateful that IAN<br />
WEEKS sent reports on<br />
PAUL BOYTAR,<br />
MOUCHE & themselves.<br />
He also reported that JAC-<br />
QUETH JAMES RILEY<br />
’47 & LOUISE GAULT JOY ’51 were also<br />
safe from the floods. ALENE WILSON<br />
WYATT must never be home but when she<br />
is, she enjoys reading, water aerobics, playing<br />
bridge & Mah Jong. In Sep-Oct she took<br />
a trip to Italy & Sicily with JHi friends. ANN<br />
WORKMAN DWYER & Tom McKenna are<br />
enjoying life in beautiful Stowe, VT. They<br />
had a record snowfall last winter, then came<br />
the floods of summer. Stowe was lucky,some<br />
commuting staff who live in the mtns were<br />
hit hard. Tom & JOANNE YODER HOLTZ-<br />
INGER last yr went to Kenya & Tanzania on<br />
a photo safari, saw fabulous wildlife. This<br />
yr they are going to SE Asia,they will jouney<br />
down the Irrawaddy River. Tom’s prizewinning<br />
dahlias are known all over Goshen,<br />
IN.—Verda<br />
Class of 1956<br />
JANE COLLINS CHOULETT is our most<br />
faithful WOSA reunion attendee. She,<br />
Midge, Bruce & Steve were our representatives<br />
this yr. Midge & Byron Shafer stayed<br />
with Jane in Nov. STEVE HOLM & Glenda<br />
continue to be involved in family & community.<br />
They attended the WOSA reunion<br />
in Ft Collins where it was great to see many<br />
old friends & classmates. HAZEL SELZER<br />
KAHAN reports that the most transformative<br />
thing she did this yr was to go back to<br />
Lahore, the town of her birth. The last time<br />
she was there, was in ’71 & she was 40 yrs<br />
younger! Her travel blog is at www.hightidings.wordpress.com<br />
& is recommended<br />
reading. She is writing her life story as<br />
well. MARGE BAKER KIEHL & Marvin<br />
were in Scottsdale for 10 days with JOYCE<br />
SHUMAKER SHAW, her daughter Diane<br />
& Johnnie & Dianne Singh; had a wonderful<br />
& nostalgic time together after about 54<br />
yrs! Like being with good family. DIETER<br />
BUTZ has recently reconnected. He now<br />
lives in Pampelonne, France together with<br />
wife Hedy. He is retired, spends a lot of his<br />
time caring for Hedy who has recently lost<br />
her eyesight & has become quite frail. He<br />
is now contactable by email and welcomes<br />
messages. BILL MCKELVEY recently<br />
retired from UCLA & has some 20 papers<br />
already started or planned that he needs to<br />
write, not to mention editing 5-6 books on<br />
Complexity Science for Routledge & then,<br />
at some point to start on all the other books<br />
he would like to write. DANIEL MITCH-<br />
ELL & Margaret continue to witness to<br />
their faith in their retirement community<br />
in CA.TED MOSHER has moved into a<br />
retirement community & is happy to be in<br />
such a secure environment. He is traveling<br />
less, though he did get to a family reunion<br />
this summer. Health issues are part of his<br />
life now as they appear to become for all<br />
of us. BECKY SNYDER PETERS (W.J.) is<br />
undergoing treatment for a brain tumor but in<br />
good spirits. The treatment is a rigorous one<br />
which involves travel to Duke U in NC. The<br />
doctors are impressed with her good physical<br />
condition, undoubtedly related to climbing<br />
the hills all those yrs ago, not to mention<br />
her professional abilities, genes & lifelong<br />
care. TOM MANTON’s death saddened all<br />
of us. His zeal for making the world a more<br />
peaceful place will be missed. ELISABETH<br />
TOYBERG PETTERSSON (Eric) had a<br />
short-term infection control assignment in<br />
Serbia this yr, working for a Danish engineering<br />
company that specializes in hospital<br />
waste management. We ran 15 workshops<br />
all over the country, 40 nurses at a time,<br />
which was most interesting & gratifying. Liz<br />
contributed by giving lectures on injection<br />
safety & hygiene, assisted local professionals<br />
put together a nat’l guideline on injection<br />
safety. She & Eric had a most interesting &<br />
beautiful 3-wk trip through Estonia, Latvia<br />
& Lithuania in Jun. These countries are<br />
close to Denmark but not well known as<br />
they were occupied by Russia, yet much<br />
of their old history has been tied up with<br />
Denmark & Sweden. TOM SCOVEL promised<br />
Janene that when he retired, he would<br />
write a book about his childhood in China<br />
& their remarkable yr teaching there in ’79.<br />
Although the book focuses on China, the WS<br />
& India yrs helped Tom contextualize what<br />
he experienced & witnessed within an Asian<br />
framework & forced him, even as a boy, to<br />
reflect on the contrasts between democracy<br />
& dictatorship. Any WS alumni who are<br />
book agents should feel free to contact Tom!<br />
MARGARET LOEHLIN SHAFER & Byron
moved into a retirement community near<br />
Princeton, NJ. They spend their summers at<br />
their home in upper NY state. Midge is writing<br />
her autobiography. They visited with Bob<br />
Alter briefly in Wooster just 2 wks before he<br />
died. Their 10 mins with Bob & Ellen found,<br />
Bob quintessentially Bob, his eyes twinkled<br />
& he was full of his usual good humor. He<br />
& Ellen asked that Midge take their love to<br />
the WOSA Reunion in Fort Collins. Midge<br />
reports that she, Bruce & Steve attended KG<br />
together some yrs ago. PAT MCGAVRAN<br />
SHEAFOR & Scrib are celebrating their<br />
50th anniversary this yr with a number of<br />
trips. Family traveled together to NYC &<br />
Boston this spring & a cruise from NYC to<br />
Quebec happened early Oct. Pat returns to<br />
S India (Kerala & Chennai) with daughter<br />
Sarah in Jan 2012. JOHNNIE SINGH is<br />
the official phone contact for the class. His<br />
cheery & informative calls keep the class<br />
secretary informed about classmates & lift<br />
the spirits of those receiving his calls. He<br />
& Dianne organized the mini-reunion with<br />
Marge Baker Kiehl & Joyce Shumaker Shaw<br />
this past spring. Johnnie is still working full<br />
time keeping track of his clients’ accounts.<br />
DIANA SINGH-ROY continues to travel,<br />
with special interests in birds. She shares<br />
some of her photographs with us. She &<br />
NIRA MUKERJEE BENEGAL will be<br />
visiting Bharatpur in Nov. Early fall founds<br />
Diana in London & then Seville & Cordoba.<br />
MELVIN SNYDER & Jean celebrated their<br />
45th anniversary this yr. They are enjoying<br />
retirement. BRUCE WOOLEVER & Pat<br />
enjoyed the WOSA reunion at Ft Collins &<br />
spent a few days visiting youngest son in<br />
San Diego.—Pat<br />
Class of 1957<br />
We are looking forward to our 55th class<br />
reunion in Oct ’12 in Lewes, DE, under the<br />
capable leadership of JUDY CARPENTER<br />
MILLER, CAROLE CARPENTER EDI-<br />
SON, MARIAN GRIFFITHS DEMCISAK<br />
& DAN KOBAL. It will be exciting to see<br />
everyone again. We are happy that HARVEY<br />
& Yuko KLINE have recently gotten in touch<br />
with us. They are settling in Portland OR<br />
after living outside the US for 20 yrs, mostly<br />
in the Kobe/Osaka area where he taught in<br />
Japanese Univ. MARY CAROL SNEAD<br />
BOSERUP had a warm & memorable 70th<br />
birthday celebration with family; however<br />
she & Dan are now waging a serious battle<br />
against Dan’s cancer which was diagnosed<br />
in Apr. The prognosis is grim but not entirely<br />
without hope. AYESHA SINGH BERGER<br />
went back to India after almost 25 yrs &<br />
there was really a change; one can literally<br />
feel that the country & the people are very<br />
dynamic & hopeful. JUDY CARPENTER &<br />
Charlie MILLER took a yr off for Charlie’s<br />
health but are again playing bridge, gardening,<br />
being with family & friends, assisting<br />
with ESL classes at the local high school &<br />
enjoying a leisurely retirement. CAROLE<br />
CARPENTER & Ed EDISON love being<br />
near family, playing bridge, going to an occasional<br />
movie or dinner out & are very content<br />
being homebodies. JOAN BENEDICT<br />
AKERS enjoys her grandkids. She works<br />
for a travel agency in Boston & worked<br />
overtime recently rebooking itineraries for<br />
people who were stranded after hurricane<br />
Irene plowed through. RICKEY & Dagne<br />
SOLLID celebrated their silver wedding anniversary,<br />
take care of aging parents, enjoy<br />
their family, work with Habitat for Humanity,<br />
Bandelier Nat’l Monument & the Los<br />
Alamos Sr Center. They narrowly escaped<br />
the horrible fire that consumed thousands<br />
of acres near Bandelier. FRED & Karen<br />
KOKEN spent time at the idyllic ranch in<br />
WY riding the hi-country, are planning a<br />
driving trip through the NW & watch Seattle<br />
Mariners baseball. ANN ALDRIDGE & Paul<br />
DAHL have short trips planned to beautiful<br />
places nearby, help with grandkids; Paul has<br />
the exciting assignment of teaching their<br />
oldest grandson to drive. MARY FOLSOM<br />
& Ken KELLER welcomed their 3rd great<br />
grandson & celebrated their 50th wedding<br />
anniversary by cruising the Hawaiian Islands<br />
with their adult children. ASHOK &<br />
Carolyn MAYADAS both retired from full<br />
time jobs but Ashok continues to consult on<br />
internet learning through his new co Mayadas<br />
Strategy Group LLC which he partners<br />
with Carolyn. Ashok was keynote speaker<br />
at a conference in Israel & goes to WS as a<br />
member of the Board of Directors. LARRY<br />
& Ineke CUNNINGHAM cruised along the<br />
coast of Norway then later went to Chile<br />
& Ecuador, Larry gives lectures at the med<br />
school, talks on professionalism & does<br />
work as a legal expert in malpractice cases.<br />
They both read extensively & do aerobic<br />
exercises at the YMCA. JUDY DILLING-<br />
HAM took 4 friends to India & will be in<br />
Mussoorie for the 100th anniversary of<br />
WOSA. She volunteers both at St. Paul’s<br />
Episcopal Church & the White Elephant<br />
Sale benefitting the Oakland Museum of<br />
CA. BETH PARKER JACKS is enjoying her<br />
retirement especially because all 3 daughters<br />
& families live close by, she ferries grandchildren<br />
to & from school & keeps declining<br />
appeals to go back to work. MARIAN<br />
GRIFFITHS & John DEMCISAK attended<br />
her 50th reunion at the College of Wooster<br />
OH where they met up with JIM & Karen<br />
HAVENS & later saw JEANO CRAIN &<br />
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Dan MORENO. Marian is involved in running<br />
a volunteer tax preparation site & John<br />
is on the property committee of the church<br />
& works at the local air museum. MARK &<br />
Sharon WELCH have had to stay fairly quiet<br />
because of Sharon’s major back surgery. She<br />
may have to have more surgery but certainly<br />
is better off than before. They keep active in<br />
their church, enjoy their 2 little shih tzus &<br />
love visits with their family. He & RICKEY<br />
have not been on any big game hunts recently<br />
but they Skype frequently. JANET &<br />
Bill ANDERSON are savoring this piece of<br />
life when they are healthy & have the time<br />
to enjoy it. Janet spends every min she can<br />
outdoors doing something active with friends<br />
because she loves it; Bill is the homebody<br />
who gardens, cooks & reads. DAN SAN-<br />
FORD has assumed the position of interim<br />
Pastor at Ankeny Church of the Brethren in<br />
Ankeny IA and he & Marlene are enjoying<br />
being a part of this church. They went to FL<br />
to participate in their niece’s wedding & had<br />
a wonderful family time with Dan’s sisters<br />
Connie & Vicky & their families. ESTHER<br />
SHULL RILEY spends a tremendous amount<br />
of time trying to change the stalemate in<br />
Israel/Palestine. She & Barry enjoyed a visit<br />
from their daughter & family this summer,<br />
went to 2 of Esther’s 50th college reunions<br />
in Oberlin OH & North Manchester IN & are<br />
going to Barry’s 50th reunion at Stanford.<br />
JIM & Karen HAVENS had a good visit with<br />
Marian & John Demcisak & showed them<br />
where he creates & displays his sculptures;<br />
later they visited Judy & Carole & husbands<br />
in Lewes, DE & toured the facilities for our<br />
55th class reunion. COURT DASPIT came<br />
through hurricane Irene unscathed & attended<br />
the Curry Club meal in Philadelphia<br />
where more than 2 dozen former students,<br />
gathered for an evening. The turn-out clearly<br />
showed how completely the nat’l composition<br />
of the student body has changed. He<br />
has attended 3 events in Philly’s annual<br />
Live Arts & Fringe festival, hopes to attend<br />
at least 8 more. DAVID & Eleanor FIOL<br />
are still in Dehradun, but they expect to be<br />
in the States by the end of Oct where they<br />
will do considerable traveling to churches &<br />
individuals who have been involved in their<br />
work; but they are also hoping to develop<br />
some property they bought in NC where they<br />
plan to retire next yr. RUTH KESSELRING<br />
& Nick ROYAL still do some childcare for<br />
grandson Ravi (5) & they enjoyed a good<br />
visit with JOAN BENEDICT AKERS & her<br />
granddaughter. Ruthie tutors adults in basic<br />
skills & is hoping to finish a writing project<br />
soon. JERRY HOWARD recently lost his<br />
dear Dad & has been working hard on sorting<br />
through family records, photos & beautiful
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Estelle and Peter Clack<br />
things from India. Wanda continues her treatments,<br />
but she was able to meet with teacher<br />
friends for a long breakfast in Rochester.<br />
DON & Carolyn EMMERSON’s house in<br />
Nikko, Japan survived the quake unscathed.<br />
Don has traveled for conferences, talks &<br />
research to Hanoi, Honolulu, Jakarta, Kuala<br />
Lumpur, Monterey, Singapore, Vancouver to<br />
name a few. They enjoy vacations with their<br />
kids & grandkids. JEANO CRAIN & Dan<br />
MORENO spent the winter in TX. Jeano<br />
line dances, does therapy with her dogs,<br />
while Dan cares for his large cactus collection.<br />
ROBIN PILLEY still writes software<br />
for Colmac Coil in WA & builds trails on<br />
weekends on his beautiful land in the mtns.<br />
ELLEN BARTLETT & Ken NODELMAN<br />
shuttle back & forth from CT to NY where<br />
Ellen is still doing college guidance. Len<br />
paints, she plays the cello. DAN & Lois KO-<br />
BAL took Amtrak from NY to San Francisco<br />
& many places in between in connection with<br />
The Explorers Club. They enjoy their kids<br />
Bonnie McGraw and Joanne Gray<br />
& grandkids. As for me, JUDY EBRIGHT<br />
WARNER, I am so thankful that Stephen<br />
& family are here in town & that I can still<br />
drive to visit with my other 2 children &<br />
grandkids often. I volunteer with Meals on<br />
Wheels, am on several committees in the<br />
church & community, I hope we can all meet<br />
together next yr in Lewes, DE for our class<br />
reunion!—Judy<br />
Class of 1958<br />
STELLA ACTON-GREENE lives with sisters<br />
MURIEL ’60 & Shirin in Bethlehem PA;<br />
she is writing a family history. CAROLYN<br />
REINOEHL BAKER & Stu will travel to Tiberius,<br />
Israel as hospitality volunteers. They<br />
enjoy 7 grands. JOHN BARRON was in<br />
Zimbabwe in Aug; celebrating the marriage<br />
of youngest granddaughter, Fiona. JACQUE-<br />
LYN HORTON BENJAMIN & Immanuel<br />
travelled to McCall & Coeur d’Alene ID,<br />
Cody WY & Scottsdale AZ; visited KEITH<br />
JOHNSON & Janet in Spokane; had a phone<br />
call from CHUCK CLOUD. MARGARET<br />
SNYDER BENSENHAVER is the bookkeeper<br />
for John’s business; 2 daughters &<br />
8 grands visit; sister BECKY ’56 has been<br />
diagnosed with a brain tumor. RICHARD<br />
BROWN works with AEA in Afghanistan,<br />
Albania, Bosnia, Georgia, and PAK. BETSY<br />
ROSE CARR & Wes vacationed at Cape<br />
Cod with 3 children & grands the wk before<br />
Hurricane Irene. WALLACE CHRISTY &<br />
Barb are retired & live on Kelleys Island OH<br />
in the summer & Chincoteague Is VA in the<br />
winter. ESTELLE NEEVE CLACK & Peter<br />
retired from The Salvation Army after 44<br />
yrs of service in 6 countries; they will live<br />
in Bethel OH. TERRY CONNELL & Charlene<br />
toured India in Oct/Nov, including WS<br />
& Isabella Thoburn College. JOHN DEAN<br />
will publish an e-book: Innovation IT Project<br />
Mngmt for Non-Dummies. BARBARA<br />
CHRISTY FILNER climbed Half Dome in<br />
Yosemite Nat’l Park CA; visited MEHER-<br />
NUSH KAPADIA & PAMELA TENTI in<br />
Oct. ROSEMARY BLICKENSTAFF<br />
FLORA travelled in France and Turkey.<br />
JEAN BENEDICT HURLEY<br />
visited PAMELA TENTI; & enjoys<br />
families of PAMELA & MONDIRA<br />
LALL in US. KEITH JOHNSON’s<br />
son Scott will marry in Capetown,<br />
South Africa; he & Janet spent two<br />
wks in Puerto Vallarta. JERRY JUDY<br />
& Alice traveled to Ireland, Peru &<br />
Ecuador. MEHERNUSH KAPADIA<br />
is looking forward to seeing BAR-<br />
BARA FILNER & PAMELA TENTI.<br />
MONDIRA TALUKDAR LALL<br />
spent 3 mos in Port Liberte NJ with<br />
youngest son, then to Dubai to visit<br />
middle son & finally to Bangalore to visit<br />
oldest son. MAYA TANDON MALHOTRA<br />
& Promodh cruised from Baltimore MD to<br />
Newfoundland via ME; their son married in<br />
Sep. LYNDA BUFFINGTON McCREARY<br />
retired from teaching after 40 yrs; thus far,<br />
the TX fires have spared her home. PAM<br />
BADHWAR MEHRA’S mother died in<br />
May; she does color therapy. BRENDA<br />
NOE MONTGOMERY & Bob summered<br />
in MI & were joined by their children & 14<br />
grandkids! SHIV NANDA works in Dubai<br />
& London, vacationing in NYC; Madhu<br />
spends time in India with ailing mother &<br />
NYC with children; they were in India over<br />
Diwali. BOB NICOLL continues research<br />
at Geoscience Aus; gave a couple of papers<br />
in Perth in Jul & collected samples in Brisbane.<br />
MARCHIENE VROON RIENSTRA<br />
& John summered in Sedona AZ; she has a<br />
blog www.spiritualbouqets.blogspot.com;<br />
her mother is 99. BARBARA WELCH<br />
WAGNER SILLASEN is teaching a gr 2/3<br />
combo class; she enjoys 3 children & 3<br />
grands. JEAN MITCHELL SPITZER & Bob<br />
bird watched in IL, AZ, FL, CO, WI, OH &<br />
Ecuador; they also work to feed the homeless<br />
in Du Page Co. MARY ELLEN MACKAY<br />
STEGENGA & Kees are involved in the<br />
literary & artsy community of Lakefield<br />
ON, CAN. ANN HIGGINS STRUMPEN-<br />
DARRIE visited college jr yr roommate<br />
near Salzburg, Austria; played barefoot in<br />
the snow with granddaughter (3). PAMELA<br />
MORADA TENTI celebrated 70th birthday<br />
and 50th anniversary, with visits from classmates<br />
BARBARA FILNER, JEAN HUR-<br />
LEY & MEHERNUSH KAPADIA. JUDY<br />
BENHAM WEINSTEIN & Steve celebrated<br />
50th anniversary with 10 family members at<br />
Pine Butte Guest Ranch in MT; travelled to<br />
Costa Rica, Hilton Head & the Netherlands.<br />
DIANE HOLLOWAY YIM & Cal survived<br />
earthquake, hurricane and floods.—Jackie<br />
Class of 1959<br />
JACK DAY is busy in retirement – served<br />
as interim pastor of a congregation for the<br />
yr, ending in Jun, now teaching a course in<br />
religion & health every spring at the Howard<br />
U <strong>School</strong> of Divinity in DC, continues to<br />
consult on health care issues with the United<br />
Methodist Gen’l Bd of Church & Society. In<br />
between he & Fran visit 3 granddaughters<br />
in FL with mother Cathe & 3 more in NJ<br />
with parents Jimmie & Bridget. They are<br />
looking forward to a month in AUS & NZ in<br />
Nov. During Feb-Apr, MARILYN BECKER<br />
PETERS took 2 mission trips to Honduras<br />
& Costa Rica. A group from her church was<br />
in Honduras for 10 days to teach First Aid<br />
& values from the book of Proverbs, at the
private school named after her mother. She<br />
is overjoyed about youngest son’s marriage<br />
in Jul in Sacramento, still walking 5 miles<br />
a day & babysitting grandkids. LINDSAY<br />
FISKE HOFFMANN is enjoying grandson<br />
Ben. She & Dana drove across the country to<br />
a family reunion on Cape Cod, visiting relatives<br />
on the way & back. Then, in late Aug<br />
they went out on their boat, Yeta, for several<br />
wks, sailing N to the Broughtons islands nr<br />
the N end of Vancouver Island on the inside.<br />
MAUDIE BROOKSHIER DAVIS & John<br />
flew to Honolulu & Maui HI & Boston. the<br />
first of the yr. Having been a VA County Republican<br />
chairman for 5 yrs & a Presidential<br />
Inaugural chairman 4 times, she is ready to<br />
pass the baton in Dec. They are planning<br />
more trips to Europe, India & possibly a<br />
world cruise while John’s health is stable. Her<br />
Mom will reach 90 in ’12. FOLKER PFEN-<br />
NIG has enjoyed receiving the Quadrangle<br />
& the Brown & Gold, after having been out<br />
of touch for many yrs, but reconnecting at<br />
the ’10 WOSA/NA gathering. He is now<br />
planning a visit to Istanbul. GAIL PILLEY<br />
HARRIS made a sentimental journey back<br />
to WS last yr with ROBERT’s group, for the<br />
1st time since ’57, also enjoyed some of the<br />
other exotic places, like Khajuraho, Orchha &<br />
Ramthambore. She made a delightful visit to<br />
HELEN ARNOTT ’60 in frozen Edmonton,<br />
explored Banff Nat’l Park with her. In Jun,<br />
she was in Borneo as the Commencement<br />
speaker at Methodist Pilley Institute in Sibu.<br />
This visit included an overnight stay at Damai<br />
resort on the S China Sea & a quick<br />
look at some orangutans at Semenggoh<br />
Wildlife Preserve in Kuching. A<br />
great yr! JERRY WEAVER led the<br />
Sunday services at the WOSA/NA<br />
reunion this yr. He continues to work<br />
pretty much full time - though with<br />
a lot of flexibility to do things with<br />
children & grandchildren. Cathy<br />
is volunteering with 4 different<br />
non-profits. ROBERT BONHAM<br />
helped inaugurate the new Clayton<br />
Center for the Arts on the Maryville<br />
College campus, played a Chopin<br />
& Schumann recital, celebrating<br />
their 200th birthdays, taught at the<br />
10th annual Keyboard Wellness<br />
Seminar in Denton, TX, organized<br />
& led a Visit to Exotic India trip.<br />
Participants included classmates<br />
PHILIP MCELDOWNEY, GAIL<br />
PILLEY HARRIS & Lyn & ALICE<br />
SOKOLOVE CLAGUE. A trip to<br />
visit sacred sites in India is being<br />
planned for ’12. JANE MILLER<br />
POWELL is retired, spends a lot of<br />
time in her vegetable garden, goes<br />
walking & sometimes visits Switzerland to<br />
look after her grandson. PHILIP MCELD-<br />
OWNEY joined the Class of 60 at WS for<br />
their 50th reunion & then went on ROBERT’s<br />
Exotic India 4-wk tour with 9 others including<br />
a wk in a Rishikesh ashram, seeing a<br />
tiger at Ranthambore Park. He again joined<br />
ROBERT & other class members (WILLIE<br />
was the Chair of the reunion comm & MC,<br />
KATHY helped with registration, JERRY<br />
lead the service as VANCE GEORGE (S)<br />
conducted the choir, LI dropped by) for<br />
the Ft Collins reunion in Jul. He continues<br />
to enjoy gardening, photography, music<br />
& added an IPad2 so he can facetime<br />
with others on the Internet. LIZ FOSTER<br />
performed with her Australian choir, The<br />
Grassroots Union Choir, at the birthplace<br />
of the trade union movement in Tolpuddle<br />
UK. BONNIE MCGRAW has been serving<br />
as an interim pastor at the Fountain City IN<br />
United Methodist Church, but is now in the<br />
process of moving to the Sacramento CA<br />
area, to be near her daughter & family. The<br />
most important event for BARBARA JUDY<br />
BOWES was the birth of her 1st grandchild,<br />
Grayling Elizabeth, with 3 trips to Boston to<br />
be with her since her birth in Feb. The longest<br />
trip was to travel with brother JERRY ’58<br />
& wife Alice to the Amazon, Machu Picchu<br />
& the Galapagos. WINNIE KNOX FILES<br />
keeps busy with family & grandkids, still<br />
enjoy curling, camping & travel. In May, we<br />
are hosting a river cruise on the Elbe River,<br />
Germany. GIL OSGOOD continues to work<br />
Robert Bonham, Alice Clague, Gail Harris and Philip McEldowney at the Taj, Nov 9, 2010<br />
Quadrangle - 59<br />
on the remodeling of the bldg to which his<br />
church will be moving. He has enjoyed learning<br />
to use various power tools that were not<br />
available when he took Industrial Arts class<br />
at WS! KIRAN MEHRA & Celeste live in<br />
Inyokern, located in the high desert region<br />
of CA on the Eastern side of the S Sierra<br />
Mtns for over 21 yrs & have grown to love<br />
the desert. He is still a practicing architect.<br />
The rest of the time is spent on farm projects<br />
& some writing that has been going on for<br />
yrs. Celeste stopped working as a registered<br />
nurse & now spends her time running our<br />
farm, breeding pure bred Lipizzaner horses<br />
for the last 5 yrs. Check out kcrlipizzaners.<br />
com Our youngest GITA ’08 is now going to<br />
UC Santa Cruz. DAVID MANTON is doing<br />
okay. He has to use a walker these days because<br />
of the disequilibrium from Parkinson’s.<br />
Unfortunately, he still falls & gets bruised up<br />
from time to time, but no major injuries. His<br />
vision isn’t great either, but he reads large<br />
print books & enjoys going out for the local<br />
jazz gigs & our Sat afternoon trips for brunch<br />
& the library. LI CHU is not sure where the<br />
past yr has gone. Last Apr found her in quite<br />
a cool & wet Mussoorie & the cool weather<br />
has also manifested itself in her vegetable<br />
garden. Tomatoes finally started ripening<br />
towards the end of Aug, but the discovery of<br />
another fertilizer has helped to balance the<br />
soil for much improved yields. The heavy<br />
Spring rains have resulted in large yields on<br />
the fruit trees – will be trying to dry persimmons<br />
this yr!—Li
60 - Quadrangle<br />
1960s<br />
Jottings<br />
Class of 1960<br />
KATHY WARNER ADAMS is better off<br />
health wise & keeps busy with church<br />
activities. Many in our class have lost their<br />
parents & this yr JOHN ALLEN BEACHY<br />
lost his father & BRUCE HOLDEREED<br />
his mother. HELEN DOBSON ARNOTT<br />
& the Canadian Rockies join in welcoming<br />
visitors! LANCE BROWN & Aloise continue<br />
to enjoy Tucson AZ retired living<br />
with travel to Italy in May, Lake Tahoe in<br />
Jul & trips planned for southern CA to<br />
visit grandson. Their home is open to any<br />
WSkite traveling through Tucson. MAR-<br />
TY ALTER CHEN keeps busy coordinating<br />
a global network in support of the<br />
working poor, especially women, called<br />
WIEGO www.wiego.org & teaching at<br />
Harvard Kennedy <strong>School</strong>. Marty & Lincoln<br />
have 2 children & 6 grandchildren:<br />
their daughter Alexis & family live nearby<br />
in Boston & son Greg & his family live in<br />
Bangladesh but spend 6 weeks each summer<br />
with Marty & Lincoln. Marty was<br />
awarded a top civilian award, a Padma<br />
Shri, by the Government of India on Apr<br />
1, for her work on issues of women, employment<br />
& poverty in India. Marty’s<br />
husband, children & mother (BARRY<br />
BEACH ALTER) attended the ceremony<br />
at Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi.<br />
LEON DILLINGHAM spent 6 mo in<br />
Landour during ’10 taping the school &<br />
the hillside trails. He is now editing them<br />
into a documentary of the school incl the<br />
residences, bldgs, classrooms, connecting<br />
trails etc. He hopes to have it completed<br />
for the Jul ’12 reunion in Seattle. ANN<br />
ALDRICH DOCKERY & Doc are doing<br />
fine & welcome visitors to their campground<br />
in Blairsville, GA. BARBARA<br />
BENHAM FRIED finds retirement busy<br />
& interesting. Apr ’10 she traveled with<br />
JANE CUMMINGS (S) on the wonderful<br />
Himalayan Odyssey Tour. She is enjoying<br />
her 5 grandchildren, 2 in Cheyenne WY.<br />
She bought a small cottage on an inland<br />
lake near son’s cottage in Jul ’10. The<br />
family has all been able to get there this<br />
summer & the grandchildren/cousins (1 to<br />
9) have had some good times there. She<br />
currently works for her husband in his law<br />
office, after retiring from teaching in Detroit<br />
in 2004 & also helps take care of her<br />
97 yr old mother. It was so great to get<br />
back to WS & see how well the school is<br />
progressing! CAROL RUGH GREEN has<br />
become more involved in efforts to stop a<br />
new nuclear weapons plant in Oak Ridge<br />
TN. She & Jim went to CAN when son<br />
Chris ’90 married Erin Orr. JUDY BROWN<br />
HEATH & Ron are both retired & enjoying<br />
it immensely: trips to FL & OR this Fall.<br />
They enjoy their growing grandchildren<br />
& great grandson. Life is good! REAM<br />
LAZARO REAM spent time in the US<br />
army, went to college on the GI Bill in CO<br />
while active in the anti-war & civil rights<br />
movements. He has for the last 35 yrs<br />
worked in public transit & is presently the<br />
contractor technical lead for the fed government<br />
on bus safety & security for the<br />
nation. Ream lives in Scottsdale AZ with<br />
wife Valerie. They have 5 children & 4<br />
grandchildren with 2 more on the way. His<br />
personal interests include writing poetry,<br />
listening to country music, bike riding &<br />
60s CLASS REPS<br />
Edith Theis-Nielsen 1960<br />
Moltkesvej 44 St. TV.<br />
Copenhagen F, DK-2000<br />
Denmark<br />
etheisn@hotmail.com<br />
+45 38 86 77 12<br />
Julie Bunce Elfving 1961<br />
11491 S Wilder St<br />
Olathe, KS 66061-7331<br />
USA<br />
prairie1flower@yahoo.com<br />
913-764-3424<br />
Sue Warner Birkinshaw 1962<br />
4899 Kiwana Dr<br />
Ogden, UT 84403-4213<br />
USA<br />
joinesbirkis@yahoo.com<br />
801-479-3601<br />
Suzanne Turner Hanifl 1963<br />
41 Sandalwood Ln<br />
Barrington, IL 60010-4026<br />
USA<br />
suzhani@aol.com<br />
847-381-6257<br />
William Riddle 1964<br />
4005 91st Ave SE<br />
Mercer Island, WA 98040-4103<br />
USA<br />
billriddle1@comcast.net<br />
206-232-5963<br />
Daniel Blosser 1965<br />
Box 1154<br />
Phnom Penh<br />
Cambodia<br />
danblosser@twr.org<br />
playing fantasy sports. Spiritually, Ream<br />
searches for guidance from & struggles to<br />
live up to the teachings of Jesus & Buddha.<br />
His memories of the WS experience: fun,<br />
life changing & wonderful! RODNEY<br />
JONES was busy this yr with a project on<br />
India-Pak-China security relations & US<br />
foreign policy, with trips to New Delhi &<br />
to 3 cities in PK. He was in Thailand for<br />
a conference on the same subject in the<br />
fall. VICKY BYG JOSHI & husband<br />
travel a lot, regularly to India & their<br />
condo in FL & this yr to Africa. They have<br />
2 daughters & 4 grandkids (1½ -25)!<br />
RUTH (LACY) LONG & Arnold spent<br />
time rafting, kayaking & hiking in the<br />
Yukon, Tetons, Yellowstone & Sedona. All<br />
31 Lacy descendants & spouses gathered<br />
to scatter the ashes of Hank & Elizabeth<br />
on the Chesapeake where they loved to<br />
Jessie Lacy 1965<br />
11116 Saffold Way<br />
Reston, VA 20190-3820<br />
USA<br />
jessielacy@gmail.com<br />
609 203-1860<br />
Catherine Whitcomb 1966<br />
618 Sheridan Square<br />
Evanston, IL 60202-4752<br />
USA<br />
indiacate@gmail.com<br />
847-869-6920<br />
Margo Warner Curl 1967<br />
1468 Rumbaugh Cir<br />
Wooster, OH 44691-3009<br />
USA<br />
renraw1468@yahoo.com<br />
330-321-4755<br />
Steve Wilkens 1968<br />
2870 Holiday Ct<br />
Morgan Hill, CA 95037-6323<br />
USA<br />
spwilkens@sbcglobal.net<br />
408-506-6421<br />
Mary Self Skarsten 1969<br />
7 Appian Drive<br />
Willowdale, ON M2J 2P7<br />
Canada<br />
maryselfskarsten@hotmail.com<br />
416-223-4787
oat. ANNE HINDERER LOPEZ MOR-<br />
RIS lives in Chico CA, near the OR border.<br />
She was at WS in 56-57 & will never<br />
forget it, loved it there. Now retired, 3<br />
kids, 3 grandkids (almost all grown up),<br />
works a little at the library, voluntees at a<br />
homeless shelter. JIM MCKELVEY continues<br />
to live in the wooded hills just N of<br />
Colorado Springs in an underground, passive<br />
solar home he built. Now retired from<br />
teaching, Jim spends his time in Bible<br />
study, running, biking, volunteering for<br />
driving groups and rebuilding in disaster<br />
areas, gardening. Singing to God’s glory<br />
is his passion, in church, see first-pres.org,<br />
and to shut-in groups. JULIA RITTER-<br />
SHAUSEN BEERS & Jim are enjoying<br />
Carpe Diem, where she still dyes fabrics,<br />
performs on her dad’s violin now, travels,<br />
attends concerts & plays, preserves her<br />
local hills in Whittier CA & finds fun in<br />
every day web.me.com/gojulia. ANIL<br />
RAIKHY enjoys retirement in Pacific<br />
Palisades CA, plays tennis 3-4 time per<br />
wk, eating healthy foods & traveling (latest<br />
cruise to Panama Canal) with Liz.<br />
Daughter, Nicole, is not married, so no<br />
grandkids, but a new Yorkshire Terrier<br />
puppy. JIM RUGH though retired, continues<br />
to provide training in evaluation to<br />
staff & partners of many int’l developm’t<br />
agencies. During the past yr he traveled to<br />
14 countries. Recognized as one of the<br />
leading experts of int’l program evaluation,<br />
he received a lifetime achievement<br />
award from the profession & is the American<br />
rep to the Int’l Org for Cooperation<br />
in Evaluation, where he serves as VP.<br />
ANGELA SANDERS enjoys retirement &<br />
works with others trying to get summer<br />
jobs for Nepalese students who attend<br />
college in the US. She enjoyed a WOSA<br />
group meeting in Naples Fl where she met<br />
with the FORSGRENS (S) & others. LES-<br />
LIE SAUER & Sharon celebrated the arrival<br />
of their 4th grandchild, Eli<br />
Christopher Foraker-Sauer, on Jun 17.<br />
PENNY SHUMAKE) PIETRE continues<br />
to be involved with her non-profit org,<br />
grandchildren, travel, friends & music.<br />
BONNIE MCGRAW ’59 visited her recently,<br />
and she looks forward to seeing<br />
DALE FINLAYSON ’59 soon & anyone<br />
who comes this way. SAGAR RANA &<br />
EDITH THEIS-NIELSEN had a chat by<br />
phone. SAGAR is fine with no major<br />
health issues & still lives in Lalitpur, Nepal<br />
with his wife. His daughter, now 40,<br />
has 2 children (14 & 15). ALAN ROBIN-<br />
SON & Yvonne continue to thrive on the<br />
hilltop at Kaeo, NZ. The latest idea is to<br />
start plantations of timber trees of various<br />
sorts, on a relatively large scale, to help<br />
combat global warming & to be able to<br />
earn by selling carbon credits, starting<br />
with about 12,000 pine trees & a few<br />
thousand redwoods. JAGDISH SAGAR<br />
worked 38 yrs as a civil servant with many<br />
interesting tasks. He took a law degree in<br />
’06 which was 2 yrs after retirement & is<br />
now a partner in India’s leading intellectual<br />
property law firm, Anand & Anand,<br />
practicing in New Delhi. Wife, Gita, is<br />
also a retired civil servant. They have a<br />
married daughter, but no grandkids & a<br />
son, who is not married. JAGDEV SINGH<br />
is still doing family practice in Alamogordo<br />
NM until he has enough money to retire,<br />
but he is seriously thinking of<br />
reducing his workload substantially. He &<br />
his wife, a retired lawyer, travel all they<br />
can to many interesting parts of the world:<br />
Europe, India, S America & the US. DA-<br />
VID STEIN & Achva have become involved<br />
in developing a Master Plan for the<br />
Greenbelt in Auroville, Tamil Nadu, where<br />
they visited twice this yr & have been<br />
tremendously recharged by the renewed<br />
contact with the problems & opportunities.<br />
It represents a microcosm of all the issues<br />
involved in creating a sustainable response<br />
to the impossibility of creating an American/European<br />
standard of living for the<br />
entire world. They also welcome visits<br />
from friends at their home in Jersey City<br />
- only 2 stops from Manhattan on the<br />
PATH train! BOB WALTNER & Barbara<br />
(S) continue settling into their retirement<br />
in Mulvane KS. They are engaged in gardening,<br />
book discussion groups & travel<br />
to see 4 grandchildren. Bob’s trip to Taiwan<br />
was delayed by several mos with<br />
unexpected double bypass heart surgery,<br />
but good recovery. BARRY WHETSTONE<br />
continues to enjoy retirement yrs & stays<br />
in touch with brothers David ’63 & Raymond<br />
’69. He enjoys visiting with grandsons<br />
in Birmingham, AL, but the highlight<br />
of the yr was the birth of a granddaugher<br />
in May. Grace Adair Whetstone was named<br />
for her great grandmother, great-great<br />
grandmother & great-great grandfather.—<br />
Edith<br />
Class of 1961<br />
JULIE BUNCE ELFVING continues to be<br />
active with the Extension Master Gardeners<br />
program, which provides enjoyable<br />
camaraderie & a sense of giving back to<br />
the community. She serves on the board<br />
& exec committee of The KS Rural Center,<br />
was involved in the search for a new<br />
Exec. Dir. Water aerobics, karate & tai<br />
chi round out the active side of her life.<br />
Quadrangle - 61<br />
She took a brief garden-focused trip to the<br />
Brandywine Valley area of eastern PA &<br />
Philly area. At the WOSA reunion in Jul<br />
she enjoyed conversations with Max, Walt,<br />
Woody & other WS alumni.: During the<br />
last yr WALT BELL managed to achieve<br />
3 bucket list items: a rim-to-rim hike of<br />
the Grand Canyon, climbing Mt. Sinai &<br />
a hole-in-one in golf (1st in 50 yrs). They<br />
travelled to the Middle East a yr ago. Syria<br />
was calm at the time & they had a wonderful<br />
trip, including a visit to Damascus.<br />
They were especially blessed to visit the<br />
site where Saul (enroute from Jerusalem<br />
to Damascus) supposedly stopped to<br />
water his horse & was blinded by the<br />
Lord. A grandmother with her daughters<br />
& granddaughter gave us some apples &<br />
coffee. One of the greatest experiences of<br />
his life! MIMI SORLEY HINTERKOPF<br />
had delightful visits with WILLI KRE-<br />
ITZ in TN in Jun & JANET SMITH in<br />
KY.WILLI WELLMAN KREITZ is still<br />
living in TN, made it thru this very hot<br />
summer because of AC! Looking forward<br />
to a long & pleasant autumn, if hopes &<br />
prayers are answered. The highlight for<br />
SUZANNE LA ROCQUE MCCLINTOCK<br />
has been the birth of the 1st grandchild,<br />
Gavin David McClintock, in May. She is<br />
still in Sheridan WY exercising, gardening<br />
& a few crafts. Travels have been to<br />
the NE states last fall for leaf peeping,<br />
Dallas & Branson & St. Louis MO for<br />
fun & mtgs. Husband is the AARP WY<br />
state Rep for the tax prep program. BAR-<br />
BARA MACDONALD does watercolors,<br />
has joined the Kitchener Waterloo Art<br />
Society, is thinking of doing landscapes of<br />
Mussoorie. Grandson continues to grow &<br />
dazzle. PAUL MCGRAW’s son Oliver (26)<br />
was married at their IN house overlooking<br />
the Ohio River, officiated by Paul’s sister<br />
BONNIE ’59. He & Marty have enjoyed<br />
visits from old friends, including Phyllis,<br />
the widow of JIM MCMEEKIN, who recently<br />
remarried. In their camping trailer,<br />
they visited HENRY PRESLER ’58 & others<br />
& Paul helped JOHN WILSON cut 100<br />
foot tall Aspen trees for firewood. JOHN<br />
PARK was at WS only in gr 9. Although<br />
at 1st he hated having to go to India, it<br />
was an amazing yr & he has many fond<br />
memories of escapades & experiences.<br />
He returned to CAN, got an engineering<br />
degree, worked for a couple of yrs, got<br />
a MBA, worked as a mngmt consultant,<br />
then started his own co & retired at the<br />
ripe old age of 54. Now he is a compulsive<br />
day trader in the stock market. This spring<br />
MAX STEINKE & Judy bought a RV, reportedly<br />
to simplify traveling. They found
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that while it is nice to have the flexibility<br />
to stop any time to eat or sleep, there is a<br />
lot of work involved. The unit is not big<br />
enough to live in comfortably, but is too<br />
big to drive around places they want to see.<br />
Maybe a Plan B. He greatly enjoyed the<br />
WOSA reunion, getting reacquainted with<br />
Walt, Woody & Julie, hope we can all get<br />
together soon. WOODY TURNER practices<br />
law in Leesburg VA, but takes time<br />
with Trudy for children, grandchildren,<br />
travel & hiking. Enjoyed visiting with<br />
classmates & other alumni at the WOSA<br />
reunion & looking forward to next yr in<br />
Seattle. JOHN WILSON is working on<br />
his adventure-thriller novel, draft three.<br />
In spite of Mr. Swain, he was 67 before<br />
beginning to understand the concept of<br />
sentences, so has room for yrs of learning.<br />
He attend Linda’s Continuing Movement<br />
class - all 3 of them for 30 Thursday evenings<br />
– a lot of movies went unwatched.<br />
After 20 yrs of movement work, he has the<br />
best standing & walking posture & easiest<br />
movement since 5 yrs old. That’s cool.<br />
May peace & health be with you & with<br />
us all in the world. Definitely avoid reading<br />
the front page or watching the news.<br />
Definitely treasure your friends..—Julie<br />
Class of 1962<br />
After a yr of mending from Buddy’s 4-way<br />
bypass, Kathleen’s new aortic valve &<br />
Carol’s health issues, CAROL ALDRICH<br />
SANDLIN & Buddy celebrated life with a<br />
trip to Venice plus a 12-day Mediterranean<br />
cruise that included Croatia, Turkey &<br />
Greece. Although only at WS for Gr 12,<br />
CLAIRE BRAIBANTI HAROLD feels it<br />
was a memorable experience. After a long<br />
silence she surprised us with some news<br />
about her life. Claire is semi-retired from<br />
her interior design business & is loving being<br />
a grandmother to 7 who all live in the<br />
Durham NC area, not far from her. JOAN<br />
BROWNE BROOKS & Stuart together<br />
founded the Madison Savoyards theatre,<br />
a non-profit corp. They put on plays &<br />
musicals at the request of charitable org<br />
who reap the benefits of the production,<br />
minus costs. Joan is living with & caring<br />
for her mother whose short-term memory<br />
is getting shorter. MARGARET CLOUGH<br />
SWETNAM along with several cousins,<br />
including Judy, wife of BRUCE SELLARS<br />
’59, traveled to India late last yr to attend<br />
the centenary celebrations of the college<br />
founded by their grandparents. The Allahabad<br />
Agricultural Inst, now known as<br />
the Sam Higgenbottam Inst of Agriculture,<br />
Tech & Sci, gave them a royal welcome.<br />
DAVID EAKIN initiated our latest emailings<br />
on surgeries, therapies, new & improved<br />
body parts since we are not getting<br />
any younger. The conversation was getting<br />
a bit competitive. Dave continues his business<br />
plus he & Tess spend time keeping up<br />
their property which includes the garden, a<br />
pond, a meadow & great expanses of lawn.<br />
Visits from grandchildren & their parents<br />
have been welcome diversions. GARY<br />
EMBLEN attributes WS for his great career<br />
as a swimming coach with 42 yrs in<br />
aquatics & 26 of those coaching at Lewis<br />
& Clark College in Portland OR. He says<br />
he has retired, has dried out & is becoming<br />
wrinkled. He has urged his retired prof<br />
friends to look into teaching at WS. Gary<br />
has appreciated all the school & class news<br />
over the yrs - all stirring up great memories<br />
that he doesn’t dare divulge to the public!<br />
DOUGLAS ENSMINGER imagined<br />
spending his declining youth in leisure<br />
but finds himself busy preaching several<br />
Sun a mo in smaller congregations that<br />
cannot afford well-trained clergy. Doug &<br />
Linda are headed for a cruise to AK with<br />
daughter Megan & family. CHARLES<br />
GIBB was horrified at the Apr tornado<br />
destruction of nearby AL cities & thankful<br />
that his home is nestled just right in the<br />
hills to avoid much of the wind. Chuck &<br />
Diane have numerous trips planned, all<br />
involving opportunities to fly fish: Yellowstone,<br />
Jackson Hole & even, next spring,<br />
Spain. MARILYN GOOD SINGH enjoys<br />
painting scenes from the OR coast, This<br />
was reflected in the paintings she did for<br />
her exhibit as guest artist at the Apr solo<br />
show of daughter Melissa at the Tinman<br />
Gallery in Spokane WA. A painting she did<br />
of an oak grove was donated to the Green<br />
Belt Land Trust art auction. JILL GOOD-<br />
FRIEND continues with her grief counseling<br />
business specializing in bereaved<br />
“pet parents”. She visited daughter Alexa,<br />
husband & their 2 sons in HI & while there<br />
carried out her mother’s & brother’s last<br />
wishes by placing their ashes into the<br />
Pacific in a Hawaiian surfing ceremony.<br />
Although retired, CHARLOTTE HEATH<br />
FRASER does some social work consulting<br />
as she is still passionate about making<br />
sure kids in the system have the best lives<br />
they possibly can. She & husband moved<br />
back to OR where they can be near all<br />
the grandkids & great grands & family.<br />
CHARLES HORTON writes he has been<br />
retired 4 yrs yet has continued working.<br />
But now he has lined up travels with his<br />
wife to numerous places including Singapore,<br />
Kuala Lumpur, Beijing & Ulaan<br />
Baatar. After that, maybe South Africa &<br />
Namibia & the class 50th Ann trip to India.<br />
MARY MAE GINN has moved from<br />
her home in Cleveland to an apt in a great<br />
walking neighborhood in Lakewood OH.<br />
SUSAN HOSTETLER GUIPE attended<br />
the WOSA reunion in along with her siblings.<br />
As with other WS families, this has<br />
become a great time for a family reunion.<br />
DANIEL JANTZEN has been researching<br />
what really happened to the Central Asian<br />
explorer William Moorcroft & whether he<br />
spent 12 yrs in Tibet in the early 1800s.<br />
A related activity has been to assemble a<br />
digital library of books, journal & maps<br />
on the exploration of the Himalaya, Tibet<br />
& Central Asia. Dan keeps a car parked<br />
in Haridwar & makes several trips a yr<br />
to India, Nepal & the Himalaya for a mix<br />
of consulting & exploring. GEORGE<br />
MCBANE & Gail made a surprise appearance<br />
at the WOSA reunion. They<br />
have retired from their work in PAK but<br />
are planning to go to South America for<br />
a stint & then hopefully back to PAK. In<br />
the meantime George is recovering from<br />
shoulder surgery. Having been at KS State<br />
U since ’76 ARUNA NAYYAR MICHIE<br />
& Barry have set actual dates for retiring.<br />
Enough is enough, she says. DAVID<br />
SALMON & Christine took the Inland<br />
Passage cruise up to AK marveling at the<br />
beauty of the lush fjords & glaciers. After<br />
that trip David took his mother & sister to<br />
the tri-annual family reunion. After selling<br />
his business in Apr & retiring, DAVID<br />
SCHOONMAKER is now active on FWS<br />
& WS Boards, which includes visiting<br />
India 4 times a yr. He is also trying to take<br />
up golf. David & Eva visit their house<br />
in South Africa to break up the northern<br />
hemisphere winters. Sons Sean & Allen<br />
are in Oakland & Hong Kong, so family<br />
reunions are a challenge. At this time of<br />
her life VICKI SCOVEL HARRIS is appreciative<br />
of living in Small Town Midwest<br />
USA after living in distant parts of<br />
the world & several USA areas. With this<br />
setting in mind know that she, as Community<br />
Rel Assist of little ol’ Cameron Hosp<br />
in Angola IN, ended up being in charge<br />
of organizing Cameron Hosp’s 3rd yr’s<br />
entry into the town’s parade - Cameron’s<br />
Bedpan & Kazoo Band. SUE WARNER<br />
BIRKINSHAW sent to all Warner cousins<br />
bound copies of research on her paternal<br />
grandmother’s ancestry & descendants.<br />
This endeavor was sweetened by meeting<br />
& sharing information with distant living<br />
relatives. DOUGLAS WILKENS & Fran<br />
are brand new grandparents to Kristian<br />
August Wilkens, son of Joel & Sara. The<br />
babe arrived on the auspicious day of<br />
Indian Independence! The young family
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plans on moving to live nearby. As to the<br />
Class of 62’s celebrations for Yr 50 - so<br />
far the plan is for gathering just ahead of<br />
the ’12 WOSA reunion in Seattle and/or<br />
a trip back to WS for those who wish to<br />
travel. Keep in touch!—Sue<br />
Class of 1963<br />
This past yr had BARBARA AUSTIN<br />
getting settled in a condo in Naples Fl.<br />
My partner & I live in the same bldg<br />
as LAUREL BURGESS, which makes<br />
retirement even better. Health is good,<br />
weather here perfect & life is good. TED<br />
CHITAMBAR has been in TX for 2 yrs,<br />
still acclimating. We have joined a church,<br />
becoming more active in the varied ministries<br />
that are offered. This summer, we<br />
rented a house on a lake in VT & had<br />
8 of 12 grandchildren. DORETTA EL-<br />
LIOTT CRAWFORD’s mother, Almeda<br />
Elliott, passed away last Feb. (Mother of<br />
MARGO ’58 & DeeJay ’63.) She & my<br />
Dad Leon Elliott who passed away in ’02<br />
ran Childers Lodge guesthouse in Landour<br />
from 50 to’62 & were active at WS functions.<br />
The big trip for LOUISA (RICE)<br />
GOEBEL was to China, where her parents<br />
had been married in 36. We went with a<br />
group of MBA students from Winthrop<br />
U In Rock Hill, SC, led by a cousin who<br />
teaches there. Our son Paul & grandson<br />
Reed (11) went along. Paul & I are doing<br />
well, he is very involved in a Peace Conf<br />
at Lake Junaluska, NC. We do other volunteer<br />
activities & try to see children &<br />
grands in Memphis, TN & Spokane, WA.<br />
For JOY RICE GRAY, the yr started with<br />
a great tour of N India & Nepal. I was<br />
amazed to find how familiar the landscape<br />
& flora & fauna felt. I loved stunning waiters<br />
with my Hindi; being there at wedding<br />
season was a plus. Paul has not retired so<br />
SUZANNE TURNER HANIFL is home<br />
most of the yr. We did spend more time in<br />
Naples FL last winter as he was recuperating<br />
from heart valve replacement. Both of<br />
us play golf & enjoy the 6 grandchildren<br />
visits. We spent 2 weeks in Italy with<br />
daughter Kerry & family in Aug. KAREN<br />
ANDERSON HOLDEN formally retired<br />
in ’09 from the U WI-Madison, but “still<br />
teach in the <strong>School</strong> of Pub Affairs & continue<br />
my research on retirement behavior<br />
& financial literacy. An article on very<br />
young children’s cognitive developm’t &<br />
understanding of financial concepts led to<br />
an invitation to advise Sesame Workshop<br />
as they developed the ideas & script for a<br />
now released DVD For Me, For You, For<br />
Later aimed at teaching pre-schoolers<br />
about savings. It was a thrill to see a day<br />
Jackie and Ted Chitambar '63 at home<br />
of filming! I continue playing<br />
& dancing to Cajun music: with<br />
the Cajun Strangers (see www.<br />
cajunstrangers.com) & an allwomen’s<br />
band, the Prairie Bayou<br />
Cajun Band. (www.prairiebayouband.com)”.<br />
HANK LACY<br />
loves semi-retired life on the<br />
water along the Patuxent River,<br />
just off the Chesapeake Bay. Son<br />
Henry lives nearby in Arlington<br />
VA & daughter Lillian in Manhattan<br />
with Michael & daughter<br />
Alice (17 mos). ELLEN (ELLIE)<br />
DOBSON LIVINGSTON attended the<br />
WOSA reunion with sister JANICE ’65<br />
& cousin MARCIA MCKELVEY OLSEN<br />
’66; we had a marvelous time reacquainting<br />
ourselves with many from our past!<br />
I’m still in Denton TX where 2 children<br />
& 4 grandchildren live, working part time<br />
as a caregiver for the elderly & also for<br />
a precious 20-mo old boy! I’m active in<br />
my local Denton Bible Church, as well<br />
as enjoying family & many friends. ED<br />
SEELY met Karen, got married, living in<br />
same area, selling her house, remodeling &<br />
adding to his old house & enjoying his new<br />
life. Has gained 3 children & 7 grandchildren!<br />
Still enjoying golf & travel. VIVIA<br />
DAY TATUM & Jim have continued to enjoy<br />
hosting vacationers on Lake Norman.<br />
They meet many people from all over the<br />
country & their lives are fuller because of<br />
it. Daughter Carolyn & family live nearby<br />
so they enjoy watching grandson Michael<br />
play soccer & baseball. Daughter Brenda<br />
& family live in NJ & visit back & forth.<br />
Vivia has enjoyed tutoring students preparing<br />
for the GED program at Mitchell<br />
College. She also has joined a kayak club<br />
that meets to paddle on the lake. After a<br />
memorable trip to India last yr DAVID<br />
WAGNER & Connie have stayed pretty<br />
close to home. He has done a fair amount<br />
of gardening, botanical work & a little<br />
teaching, Connie has done pottery & spent<br />
a lot of time doting on our new grandson.<br />
The big effort has been a top to bottom<br />
remodeling of our kitchen, from the floor<br />
literally through the roof. Three new skylights<br />
have brought new illumination. We<br />
are looking forward to a little regional<br />
travel. KAREN ESKILDSEN WILCOCK<br />
has finished a 2nd yr of retirement & life<br />
just keeps getting busier. Our granddaughter<br />
was 1 in Dec; my new puppy is keeping<br />
me on my toes. We have had quite a few<br />
short trips this yr - MN, MD, MA & GA,<br />
birding on Monhegan Island. David had<br />
consulting assignments in Haiti, Ghana,<br />
Mali & Burkina Faso. We also tried a session<br />
at the John Campbell Folk <strong>School</strong> in<br />
NC. I wove block designs in rag rugs &<br />
David discovered he should have been a<br />
painter all along. The garden is producing<br />
enough for a farm stand (which we do<br />
not have) & various volunteer activities<br />
(library, coastal recycling comm, the Ark<br />
Animal Shelter, Food Pantry, District Pub<br />
Health Coordinating Comm.) absorb the<br />
rest of our time. We are also active in the<br />
local UU church. I wake up every morning<br />
feeling happy to be in such a lovely<br />
coast of ME, grateful to be retired & also<br />
mindful of our good fortune compared to<br />
so many. BETSY WOODMAN is working<br />
on the 2nd of a series of 3 novels set<br />
in a fictional Himalayan town. The first,<br />
Jana Bibi’s Excellent Fortunes, is due out<br />
in May; from Henry Holt & Co, Inc. Jana<br />
Bibi is a Scottish woman who gets talked<br />
into becoming a fortune-teller. She has a<br />
multilingual talking parrot. Hi to all my<br />
beloved WS friends.—Suzanne<br />
Class of 1964<br />
Leroy Carpenter lives in Greenville SC<br />
& works as a software consultant for Infor,<br />
traveling all over the world. CHRIS<br />
DUEWEL attended a mini-reunion at<br />
JOANNE BUCKWALTER HIGH’s vacation<br />
home in Rehobeth Beach, DE with<br />
Pam Bradburn, Mary Holdereed Early,<br />
SITA KASHYAP LICHTENSTERN,<br />
Amy Forman March & Lani Good Jelen.<br />
The 7 of them spent 4 days of renewal of<br />
friendships, remembrances of WS days,<br />
sightseeing, beach bumming & shopping.<br />
Yoga teacher Lani even treated them to<br />
a yoga lesson. They were sorry that Rachel<br />
Finney had to cancel at the last min.<br />
Conversation began about a possible—<br />
gulp!—50th class reunion in ’14. CHRIS<br />
& husband Ed Zahniser also visited Chris’<br />
brother JOHN DUEWEL ’62 in Indonesia.<br />
NANCY LINDELL GARRISON lives in<br />
MN, enjoys puttering in the yard & gardens<br />
in their new home where they moved<br />
last Apr. She finished work for the United
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speaks fluent French) who live mainly on<br />
the nearby French Polynesian islands of<br />
Tahiti & New Caledonia, as well as from<br />
France. She also plays an active part in her<br />
local Anglican Church, including playing<br />
the organ on some Sundays. JUNE teaches<br />
part-time, enjoying gardening & settling<br />
into her new home. Her elder son Jono<br />
is a chartered accountant & younger son<br />
David is in his 5th yr studying Optometry;<br />
all going well, he has a job lined up<br />
next yr in Sydney AUS. BILL VIRGIN‘s<br />
granddaughter Kathryn Virgin is studying<br />
at WS this yr in gr 12. Bill’s position at<br />
S Asian Welcome Centre Inc. in Toronto<br />
is changing to half time basis. He was in<br />
Ludhiana at CMC in Sep & at WS for the<br />
<strong>Alumni</strong> celebration in Oct.—Bill<br />
Class of ’64 women at Rehobeth Beach DE. L to R: Mary Holdereed Early, Pam Bradburn, Sita<br />
Kashyap Lichtenstern, Joanne Buckwalter High, Chris Duewel, Lani Good Jelen, Amy Forman March<br />
Methodist mission board in Oct. SITA<br />
KASHYAP LICHTENSTERN continues<br />
to enjoy retirement & visiting daughters &<br />
grandchildren regularly. She & Dave travel<br />
as much as possible, going to Madeira in<br />
Feb & then to Wales with friends in May<br />
& Jun. In Apr she spent 3 wks in India,<br />
meeting BARBARA BYG MAHAJAN &<br />
ANNE ROBINSON, to make their annual<br />
pilgrimage to WS! She recommends it to<br />
anyone who hasn’t been back. It is always<br />
so amazing to be back in Landour, walking<br />
(not running anymore!) up & down the<br />
hillside & seeing familiar places & meeting<br />
friends. They had lunch with SAROJ<br />
KAPADIA (S) at Rokeby, now a hotel<br />
with gorgeous views & delicious food!<br />
They stayed in a guest room at the school<br />
& the sights & sounds brought back many<br />
happy memories. They were there during<br />
the Win Mumby Basketball Tournament &<br />
enjoyed cheering the WS Boys to victory<br />
in the Final! Following the mini-reunion<br />
in DE after returning home, it was good to<br />
meet with Pat Meehan Johnson in London,<br />
on a visit from Sydney. BARBARA BYG<br />
MAHAJAN writes that her son Brij ’91 &<br />
son Akim (4 & ¾) came to India for the<br />
WOSA gathering in mid-Oct, as well as<br />
her sister, SUNITA ’81 & VICKY’s ’60<br />
daughter, SHASHI JOSHI ’82! She has<br />
started doing yoga 3 times a wk at home,<br />
plus goes to a meditation group where she<br />
leads some Tai Chi exercises before they<br />
meditate. She is also VP for the ladies<br />
org, Global League of Women (GLOW).<br />
Barbara is in touch with the DAYAL family,<br />
they talk regularly & meet quite often.<br />
INDU ’68, HARISHWAR/DEEPAK ’66 &<br />
VIJAY ’70 are still very involved in the<br />
Arpana Community, RAJNI ’71 lives in<br />
Palam Vihar, out near the airport & ANJU<br />
’65 in Noida. Barbara always enjoys having<br />
& meeting visitors who are passing<br />
through Delhi! DON PARKER lives in<br />
Denver with wife Renee, plays golf with<br />
friends & occasionally travels to SE Asia<br />
as a consultant on water resources. BILL<br />
RIDDLE & Barbara spent 3 wks in India<br />
last Jan & Feb, touring northern India on a<br />
wonderful trip & seeing a tiger up VERY<br />
close at Ranthambore NP. They enjoyed<br />
seeing BARBARA BYG MAHAJAN &<br />
niece REED BYG ’11 in Delhi. STEVE<br />
SAWATZKY is in Denver, works full<br />
time fixing transmissions. He has had<br />
surgeries on his back & shoulder, both of<br />
which went well, but is looking forward<br />
to retirement & something a little less<br />
strenuous. ANDREA RICHARDS SUR-<br />
PLIS writes that she enjoys getting emails<br />
from classmates. She & JUNE CHRISTIE<br />
SHARROCK send Kiwi greetings from<br />
Auckland NZ! They would welcome any<br />
classmates visiting Auckland & would<br />
love to show them the sights of their beautiful<br />
city. Andrea has recently cut down<br />
her hrs at the bank where she has been<br />
working for the last 13 yrs & is enjoying<br />
not having to get up so earl & having 2<br />
days a week off! She enjoys looking after<br />
all the French speaking customers (she<br />
Class of 1965<br />
JOEL BJERKESTRAND & Sue have been<br />
in AZ for 37 yrs, they live in Scottsdale.<br />
He retired 7 yrs ago from parish ministry,<br />
4 parishes in 32 yrs (2 in Ventura CA &<br />
30 in AZ). Sue is an ES teacher & retires<br />
at the end of this school yr. They have 2<br />
children & 5 grands - all in the Phoenix<br />
area. The last 7 yrs Joel has taught on the<br />
univ level as an adjunct prof, officiated<br />
weddings & funerals, taught Sun morning<br />
adult ed classes & volunteered with AZ<br />
Leaderforce. DAN BLOSSER & Rose Ellen<br />
will be in Cambodia 1 more yr, returning<br />
to US in Jul ’12. So if you want to visit<br />
(with B&B) please come before that date.<br />
We will be relocating to the small town of<br />
Blythe GA, 20 mi S of Augusta, retiring<br />
from overseas service but will continue to<br />
serve with Trans World Radio for any short<br />
term assignments or projects that can be<br />
handled over the internet. We have enjoyed<br />
our time in Cambodia, but look forward<br />
to being home with family & friends &<br />
take part in more reunions. I thoroughly<br />
enjoyed the class reunion in Mussoorie.<br />
JIM BROWNE is in Hilliard OH, just W<br />
of Columbus, pastor of Hilliard Presbyterian<br />
Church, with children scattered from<br />
PA, TN to right here in town. Ginny is at<br />
OCLC as an archivist & a res librarian.<br />
We enjoy life & are beginning to keep<br />
our eyes open for some mission place that<br />
needs a pastor & a librarian for when we<br />
retire! GABRIEL CAMPBELL & Lynn are<br />
dividing their time between Kathmandu &<br />
the UP of MI. He works part time on trying<br />
to improve the livelihoods of the poor &<br />
community mngmt of forests & natural<br />
resources, but easing into retirement. Lynn<br />
is completing a book on multiculturalism<br />
& social inclusion in Nepal. They were<br />
pleased to get together with mother AL-
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Class of ’65 at WOSA-NA Reunion l to r: Janice (Dobson) Blankenship,<br />
Beth (Hawkes) Decker, Mary Kay (Burkhalter) Larson, Jonathan<br />
Larson, Allan Keislar, Dale Brown.<br />
FIE, who is doing wonderfully & son<br />
Chris, who is finishing up uni in London<br />
while working full time. Alfie’s limerick<br />
composition on Chris was put to music by<br />
bro JEFF ’68 & nephew Cameron & other<br />
family members gathered in CA. <strong>Alumni</strong><br />
coming through Kathmandu are asked to<br />
look Gabriel up. ANJU DAYAL MATHUR<br />
enjoyed spending time with 16 classmates<br />
with some spouses, after 48 yr, in Noida,<br />
Delhi & at WS. A tour of the new WS revived<br />
a lot of memories. Memorial service<br />
for DAN TERRY brought grief to all & we<br />
prayed for his peace. This visit was also<br />
momentous for our class as Gabriel Campbell<br />
received the Distinguished <strong>Alumni</strong><br />
Award. Upendra & I visited son Sanjeev<br />
and family in Hong Kong, a planned visit<br />
of 45 days extended to 3½ mo. JANICE<br />
DOBSON BLANKENSHIP retired from<br />
teaching & admin in the Broken Arrow<br />
Pub <strong>School</strong>s in OK after 36 yrs in educ.<br />
She will continue to work part time in<br />
various positions in the field in the Tulsa<br />
area. Husband Duane is also semi-retired<br />
so plenty of time to exercise & work on<br />
projects together. Janice & sister ELLEN<br />
DOBSON LIVINGSTON ’63 drove to the<br />
home of cousin MARCIA MCKELVEY<br />
OLSEN ’66 in Colorado Springs. Then<br />
the 3 of them drove N to the WOSA reunion.<br />
It was fun to reconnect with WS<br />
friends again! CATHY FORMAN is in<br />
New Haven, with 3 grandsons in Brooklyn<br />
& in the process of moving mother Ruth,<br />
from DC to a retirement home near her,<br />
so lots of commuting to see the boys &<br />
pack up mom. I am also back to teaching<br />
Op Mngmt at the local state uni, online &<br />
ground. The trip to WS & Kathmandu was<br />
so important for me, a time warp, having<br />
been gone so long. But the magical nature<br />
of Landour itself<br />
remained the same; I<br />
had forgotten that, lost<br />
in the midst of adolescent<br />
turmoil. ALLAN<br />
KEISLAR (Anand<br />
Kishore das Babaji)<br />
is writing, practicing<br />
multi-religious bhajan<br />
& delving ever<br />
deeper into the lifegiving<br />
mysteries of<br />
transcendental tantra<br />
with goddess-guru Savitri<br />
Devi. Allan’s latest<br />
book, God’s Work<br />
Among Us, presents<br />
stories from various<br />
faith traditions as integral<br />
parts of humanity’s<br />
common faith journey. In Aug JESSIE<br />
LACY gathered with the extended Lacy<br />
family to celebrate the lives of parents<br />
Hank & ELIZABETH PICKETT ’35<br />
LACY & to scatter their ashes. It was a day<br />
of memories & gratitude for their lives &<br />
the life & love they gave to us. Last fall,<br />
it was a joy to share the experience of our<br />
class reunion with daughters Elizabeth &<br />
Miranda Doxology sung before breakfast,<br />
the walk through the bazaar, hot cups of<br />
chai, jalebies hot off the fire, chatting with<br />
Mrs. Kapadia, langurs racing across the<br />
roof, the snows, the crisp night air, rain<br />
on the tin roof, exploring Doshisha, the<br />
familiar & the exotic, old friends & new,<br />
but most of all, the camaraderie of our<br />
group. Although Lee & KAY MARING<br />
ROSSELLE still run our Mirror Place<br />
business, we have cut back hrs so consider<br />
themselves semi-retired. Fortunately, we<br />
have very competent employees. We fly<br />
small airplanes & were able to take oldest<br />
grandson Alex with us to AirVenture<br />
in Oshkosh WI, where we camped next<br />
to the wing of the plane. I am going to<br />
Portland, OR for the Karachi Am <strong>School</strong><br />
reunion. KAREN MCCRAY MODDER-<br />
BORDER asks: has anyone else noticed<br />
how incrementally faster time passes the<br />
more birthdays we celebrate? Thoughts of<br />
our reunion give me joy over & over again!<br />
I remain very busy as night shift nursing<br />
supervisor, serving in the church choir,<br />
on the week-end services team, directing<br />
dramas & many other opportunities. David<br />
& I will be traveling to Greece, Israel<br />
& Egypt, missions trip to Thailand - 2nd<br />
time. Son Ben has also been living with<br />
us, actively looking for employment, Nate<br />
remains in Milwaukee taking classes on a<br />
ministerial track, Sam & Liz, with Uriah<br />
& Willa live nearby, Josh & wife Kristin<br />
will welcome Hank in Dec to join Jack<br />
(5) & Finn (2). We were all together the<br />
last wkend of Aug & spent much time in<br />
our pool - such fun! MARVIN MODDER<br />
is just lovin’ our little acre an hr N of<br />
Chicago along Lake MI. Great vegetable<br />
garden this yr with bountiful yields. Glad<br />
that sons are nearby, all now college grads.<br />
The oldest, Josh, the urologist soon to have<br />
a 3rd boy to keep him busy. I still edit my<br />
union newsletter, the GLUE & teach an<br />
occasional adjunct course at Concordia;<br />
& Mary continues the good fight as pres<br />
of the Kenosha Ed Assoc. The lives of<br />
EMRYS REES & Usha changed forever<br />
when they added HIV/AIDS work to their<br />
free hospital in S India in ’02. Over 5,000<br />
positive cases benefited from treatment.<br />
We have been able to keep children from<br />
becoming HIV positive through our Prevention<br />
of Mother to Child Transmission,<br />
a project which now covers 4 million.<br />
Our toughest task is getting funding to<br />
help about 100 HIV positive kids, many<br />
of whom were once in the AIDS categories,<br />
improving their immune system with<br />
govt. help, but also improving their lives.<br />
We are in the final stages of setting up a<br />
home for 8 HIV orphans, trying to find the<br />
funding to finish the construction. PATTY<br />
RIDDLE won 2 gold medals (in the 500<br />
m & match sprint) at the Masters Bicycle<br />
Track Nat’ls in PA, also helping her coach<br />
write a book about coaching bicycling &<br />
being a volunteer volleyball coach at a<br />
local HS.—Jessie<br />
Class of 1966<br />
This is the 45th yr since we graduated.<br />
CLAIRE BLICKENSTAFF BEERY continues<br />
to teach Child Developm’t at Santa<br />
Rosa JC & is Dir of Parents Place at Jewish<br />
Family & Children’s Services. Oldest<br />
daughter Willow was married in a beautiful<br />
outdoor wedding in Berkeley CA,<br />
Mama Claire’s jazz band provided some<br />
of the music. Daughter Mira was awarded<br />
the 2-yr Stegner Fellowship in poetry at<br />
Stanford U, has published her 1st book of<br />
poetry, is completing her PhD & moving<br />
with husband Greg & Tillie (2) to Berkeley.<br />
Youngest Zoe is a sr at SF State U<br />
studying Broadcast Engineering & Communication<br />
Arts. EVELYN BRYANT<br />
PITTS reports that Dan is starting a new<br />
pet food business specializing in whole<br />
ingredient/less processed therapeutic diets<br />
available by veterinary prescription. She<br />
teaches math at Washburn U in Topeka.<br />
Son Kevin married Jessica. Daughter Michelle<br />
works at Grosvenor Cap Mngmt in
66 - Quadrangle<br />
Chicago as an accountant. DON CAMP<br />
retired from the US Foreign Service. He<br />
will be in NYC as the SE Asia advisor at<br />
the US Mission to the UN. Daughter Catherine<br />
is at the Columbus College of Art &<br />
Design. He is helping to plan festivities<br />
surrounding the 50th anniversary of the<br />
Peace Corps. JANET EDLEFSEN & Frank<br />
both work a 4-day wk, enjoy spending as<br />
much time as possible out on their boat<br />
kept in Anacortes, N of Seattle, where they<br />
can quickly cruise in the San Juan & Gulf<br />
Island & this yr travelled farther N to<br />
Desolation Sound. Last Apr RICHARD &<br />
SUZANNE MCCULLOCH FRIEDER-<br />
ICKS visited Portland OR during Spring<br />
Break to see their youngest grand, Adelle<br />
Marie Nelson. They helped move ETTA<br />
MCCULLOCH (S, 96), into a retirement<br />
center. They also helped move Carl (90)<br />
& Betty Anne (88) Friedericks to another<br />
apt in the center where they live. They are<br />
back in Hong Kong for another 2 yr contract;<br />
Suzy teaches KG & Richard journalism,<br />
film, web design & meditation at the<br />
HS. LINDA GAMBLE MCKENDRY is<br />
primary care-giver for her parents with the<br />
help of 11 other people over each mo,<br />
including siblings who rotate one weekend<br />
a mo, to come & stay where they are living.<br />
Jim bought a farm 4 hrs drive away<br />
& lives there in a 5th wheel trailer each<br />
summer. They rent the land. Their daughter,<br />
Shelley Anne lives there with her<br />
mother. She still does design work with a<br />
few clients. MIRIAM HAQQ PRABHA-<br />
KAR’s eldest son, Joshua & wife Josie<br />
were blessed with Isaiah Aleem. It was a<br />
joy to be in the US for the birth, making<br />
her a proud grandmother for the 1st time!<br />
She returned to Andhra Pradesh mid Aug<br />
& is happy to be back & working again.<br />
REBECCA HILL enjoys the group of WS<br />
alumni STEVE VAN ROOY ’68 has organized<br />
in the Dallas area as she lives 65 mi<br />
E. She was a social worker, then an Officer,<br />
retired from the Army, then became a<br />
school teacher & volunteer for Nat’l<br />
Council for Int’l Visitors. For 7 yrs she<br />
helped parents before their death. FRAN-<br />
CES HILLIARD DAWSON’s 2nd grand,<br />
Kate, arrived in early Aug. Love at first<br />
sight! Michael, posted in Colorado Springs<br />
with NORAD, came to Calgary to meet<br />
her. They drove back to Col Springs seeing<br />
so much of interest & beauty on the way.<br />
CARLTON HOKE has designed & built<br />
sets for Hershey HS, the Hershey Area<br />
Playhouse, the vacation Bible <strong>School</strong><br />
props & an adobe house for the summer<br />
Sunday <strong>School</strong> program at his church.<br />
They took a Caribbean cruise. He is preparing<br />
photographs for his dad’s (98) 5th<br />
book, A Rich Mosaic. MARCIA MCK-<br />
ELVEY OLSEN’s engineer daughter has<br />
finished school & after 2 yrs, is now ready<br />
to clean teeth & give shots as a dental<br />
hygienist; She enjoyed having cousins<br />
JANICE ’65 & ELLEN ’63 DOBSON for<br />
several days. She travelled with daughter<br />
to NY to see son & grands, Ulysses (4) &<br />
Miranda (1) & was expecting a visit by<br />
oldest brother, BILL ’56. BILL MCVICK-<br />
ER has re-appeared after many yrs. Following<br />
a career in electronics, in the navy<br />
& in San Diego, he did electrical contracting,<br />
home schooled their kids, took in<br />
foster children & adopted 11 of them.<br />
They now live on 5 acres a few min from<br />
Nevada City, CA. He now has a Master’s<br />
in psych to be licensed to practice marriage<br />
& family therapy. He has completed<br />
the state requirements to qualify for the<br />
state exams & is waiting to take the final<br />
exam. Bill & Kathleen started a nonprofit<br />
counseling agency that is slowly<br />
growing, www.touchedbyachild.org. Only<br />
7 children still at home, they have 6 grands<br />
with one on the way. MARY MERCHANT<br />
ANDERSON has 3 children & 7 grands,<br />
all within 3 mi! They enjoy taking them<br />
camping up in N MN. She works fulltime<br />
as a school nurse at a large, diverse inner<br />
city ES. They are involved in ministry at<br />
their church, especially missions/trips/<br />
girls club & srs. RUTH MORRIS PAIGE<br />
retired from Wright State U & they celebrated<br />
by visiting with RAJAN at PHILIP<br />
DEVOL. She & Harvey began their retirement<br />
with a birding trip to the Highlands<br />
of Ecuador, saw 22 species of hummingbirds<br />
at one sanctuary. They visited 9 islands<br />
in the Galapagos & ended with a 4<br />
day, 35 mile trek in the Andes of Peru to<br />
explore the Little Sister of Macchu Pichu.<br />
The trek was arduous (at a little over 1 mi/<br />
hr) but rewarded by exploring the ruins<br />
with just their guide & 3 other trekkers.<br />
Son Eugene was married in Sep. DAVID<br />
RUGH is enjoying retirement after 34 yrs<br />
of doing research on AK’s whales, currently<br />
working on a 55ft woodshed & a<br />
3-story addition to their home on the<br />
Olympic Peninsula. There have been excursions<br />
onto the sea ice north of Barrow<br />
AK, to count bowhead whales; to the<br />
NOAA in Silver Spring, MD, to receive a<br />
Distinguished Career Award; to Lancaster,<br />
PA, for a nephew’s wedding & to little<br />
Gabriola Island BC, for another nephew’s<br />
wedding (CHRIS GREEN ’90 with mother<br />
CAROL RUGH GREEN ’60 & aunt<br />
KIM RUGH BERGIER ’69 attending).<br />
JUDY SCHEUERMAN BENDER’s husband<br />
Larry is in remission from colorectal<br />
cancer & doing well. They are enjoying<br />
retirement on Hat Island (Gedney Island)<br />
where they have been for 10 yrs. PHIL<br />
SCHOONMAKER’s little book (only 126<br />
pages) of 16 short stories & vignettes from<br />
his India yrs, Mish-Kid Mosaic, is available<br />
on amazon.com. He works with<br />
Steinway retail in Boston, teaches piano<br />
& does tech work on the side. SHERRY<br />
SERGEANT COX’s daughter Stephanie<br />
was married (after receiving her BSN-RN,<br />
passing her nursing boards & working full<br />
time) & Sarah finished her BS & works<br />
for a PT clinic. Sherry’s mother JUNE<br />
SERGEANT (S), continues to decline with<br />
Alzheimers but still at home in NE. Despite<br />
a broken wrist for KAREN SMYRES<br />
WOLNER & a torn right hamstring for<br />
John, the yr has been good. They welcomed<br />
1st grandchild, a beautiful little<br />
boy, to son Jason & Lisbel. Daughter Kim<br />
& Caleb are established at their jobs in<br />
DC. However, Karen’s mother, Mary.has<br />
advanced Alzheimer, only seems to recognize<br />
husband Bob. PAUL SPOTTSWOOD<br />
works as an anesthesiologist, has been on<br />
mission trips to Rivas, Nicaragua &<br />
Guiamaca, Honduras. Lydia is a moderator<br />
on an online forum for parents with children<br />
with eating disorders & leads the<br />
Bldgs & Grounds Comm at church Son<br />
Mark is an Asst. Prof of Law at FL State<br />
U; Erin working on PhD at Cornell U &<br />
Jayne is finishing MA at DePaul U &<br />
works full-time as a social media dir for<br />
Kemper Insurance. BETSY TAYLOR<br />
spent much of the summer writing a memoir<br />
of parents Mary & CARL TAYLOR<br />
’32. HELKE WOLFF FERRIE recovered<br />
from a sickness caused by EMF radiation<br />
from a Smart Meter attached to her house<br />
without her knowledge; the removal of<br />
that device, other remedial action & successful<br />
treatment has now restored health<br />
& eyesight – see www.kospublishing.com.<br />
Helke & Robert hosted wedding of oldest<br />
granddaughter MIRANDA BRAR ’08 who<br />
married a Pakistani businessman (born in<br />
Canada); 2nd grand YSOLT BRAR ’11 has<br />
started pre-meds at U of Toronto. Daughter<br />
BRONWYN ’89 works in Mussoorie<br />
for MGVS. RUTH YODER DYAL & son<br />
Jon had an incredible, nostalgic journey<br />
back to WS summer of 10. Meeting with<br />
Cate & Jack in Delhi & together finding<br />
Dolma in her Tibetan Antique shop was a<br />
highlight. The most overwhelming moment<br />
was learning of the tragic death of<br />
DAN TERRY ’65 while they were visiting<br />
the school - old memories flooding back.<br />
Jon is now in 3rd yr med school at Johns
Quadrangle - 67<br />
David Rugh while counting bowhead whales during their migration<br />
past Point Barrow, the northernmost tip of Alaska. He was standing<br />
on a perch of sea ice piled about 30 feet above sea level, and<br />
it was cold (-20 deg F much of April), so the ice in his beard is real.<br />
Behind David is a canvas windbreak and radio antenna.<br />
Betsy Taylor waiting to get arrested in front of the White House in Sept 2010 as part<br />
of "Appalachia Rising" - an environmental justice coalition of people concerned about<br />
climate change & devastating strip-mining in Appalachia (called "mountaintop removal").<br />
She is the one holding a white cross in the back row. In the front row are James<br />
Hansen (preeminent climate scientist in US) & grassroots Appalachian activists with<br />
whom she's worked for years. It was pouring down rain...but spirits undimmed.<br />
John & Barbara Chaffee, Rajan Kose, Phil De<strong>Vol</strong> (all 1966) Carlton Hoke ’66 family summer <strong>2011</strong><br />
Steve Cox, daughter Stephanie, Sherry Sergeant Cox ‘66, and daughter Sarah at Stephanie’s<br />
graduation with a Bachelor’s in Nursing, May <strong>2011</strong><br />
Frances Hilliard Dawson ’66 with daughter Kathleen's<br />
babies, Rebecca and Kate
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Ginny Blickenstaff Crane, Claire Beery's mom<br />
Claire Blickenstaff Beery at daughter Willow's wedding<br />
Claire's daughter Zoe and friend<br />
Claire's daugher Mira and daughter Tillie<br />
Claire Beery's daughter Willow married Lew with Claire playing vibes<br />
Herbert Reaid, spouse of Betsy Taylor ’66 Cate Whitcomb ’66, Ahmad Omair ’93, Harishwar Dayal ’66 Anne Robinson ’64
Quadrangle - 69<br />
Phil Schoonmaker, Marcia McKelvey Olsen,<br />
Cate Whitcomb (all 1966) at WOSA reunion in<br />
Ft. Collins<br />
WOSA people attending funeral service for Rachel Green, daughter of Patricia Whitcomb Green<br />
’72, Mark Baur ’72 Cate Whitcomb ’66, Bill Whitcomb ’42, Patricia Whitcomb Green ’72, Joy<br />
Morris ’72, in back, Dorothy Vaugh Whitcomb ’42’, John Davis ’72<br />
Warren Reese with grandson David waiting<br />
for lunch.<br />
Mary Merchant Anderson’s family when granddaughter Emily Garren was Miss Robinnsdale. Front Row, L-R Svea, Annika, Megan and Austin.<br />
Middle row: Betsy, Mara, Heidi, Queen Emily, Mary Merchant Anderson and Preston. Back row: Aaron, Keith and Chris. Heidi is the oldest and is<br />
married to Chris, a fireman: children are Emily, Mara, Annika and Svea. Betsy, the middle daughter, is married to Aaron, Delta pilot: children are<br />
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<br />
serious girlfriend. Mary is a nurse and husband Keith is a pastor.
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Suzy McCulloch Friedericks, Harishwar Dayal,<br />
Richard Friedericks (all '66), in Delhi, Oct.<br />
<strong>2011</strong><br />
Evelyn Bryant Pitts ’66 (second on the right) at son Kevin's wedding. Husband Jim on left and<br />
daughter Melissa on right.<br />
Donald Camp ’66 with wife Betsy leaving<br />
daughter Catherine at college<br />
John Wolner, Jason (son), Karen Smyres Wolner ’66, Lisbel Martinez (D-i-L), Kim (daughter),<br />
Caleb Judy (S-i-L)<br />
Left: Rajan Kose ’66, Cate Whitcomb ’66<br />
with husband Jack Hinz (S)<br />
Mirian Haqq Prabhakar ’66, Miriam's son Joshua<br />
and wife Josie with Grandson Isaiah Aleem<br />
taken June <strong>2011</strong>
Hopkins, considering specializing in Epidemiology/Public<br />
Health. Jamie (Jon’s<br />
twin) is finishing a Masters in Bio-Ethics<br />
at U Penn & applying to med schools.<br />
Husband Jim had a hip replacement, but<br />
has recovered completely. Ruth went with<br />
a delegation of Ob/Gyns to China &<br />
Shangri-La (an autonomous region of<br />
Tibet). She is still doing both Ob & Gyn<br />
& assoc clinical teaching for students from<br />
FSU med school. They just hired a new<br />
partner, who was one of the 1st students<br />
they helped train. Other gathered news<br />
includes a get-together at JOHN<br />
CHAFFEE’s newly renovated barn (luxurious!)<br />
outside of Binghamton NY with<br />
RAJAN KOSE & PHIL DEVOL. A minireunion<br />
took place in Delhi in Oct with<br />
HARISHWAR DAYAL & SUZY & RICH-<br />
ARD FREIDERICKS. BILL MARBLE &<br />
Lynette celebrated their 36th wedding<br />
anniv. He is retired but provides transportation<br />
for people in the Family Promise of<br />
Greater Modesto. CATE WHITCOMB is<br />
back in Evanston with JACK HINZ (S)<br />
after 2.5 yrs in Delhi. She is retired from<br />
full-time employment but filling her days<br />
with volunteer work for the League of<br />
Women Voters archive at the 1st United<br />
Methodist Church & as a member on the<br />
U Christian Ministries Board at Northwestern.<br />
She & Jack will be leading a<br />
group of Northwestern students to India<br />
for spring break. Most classmates have<br />
indicated that a 50th reunion in ’16 will<br />
be our next class gathering.—Cate<br />
Class of 1967<br />
SUSIE BARR DUMONT is grateful for<br />
the wonderful spouses her children have<br />
chosen. HEATHER BEAN MCALLISTER<br />
is now a grandmother with little Chloe<br />
born in Apr. GEORGE ’68 & BETH<br />
ANN BURKHALTER TAYLOR have<br />
been staying in Boulder CO, hoping to<br />
make it a permanent move soon. TOM<br />
CARTER’s wife Georgia survived her<br />
first yr of retirement in style. Son Matt is<br />
in grad school at U WI Madison this all<br />
in inorganic chemistry; daughter Thea &<br />
husband celebrated their 1st anniversary<br />
in Aug; Stephanie continues to edit film &<br />
video projects from her home in Toronto.<br />
He expects to work a few more yrs, but curiosity<br />
about his folks’ experience in India<br />
is pointing to a possible full-time writing<br />
project. MARG GROFF provides educ<br />
programs through the Kohler Arts Center<br />
in Sheboygan WI, but hopes to be able to<br />
return to WA. TIM LARSON has changed<br />
schools where he teaches math & now his<br />
youngest son Luke is his dept head. TIM<br />
took a motorcycle trip to the Snake River<br />
canyon in ID with brother-in-law GORDIE<br />
DEAN (S), husband of BETTE ’69. MAX<br />
MARBLE enjoys serving on the US Board<br />
for the Ludhiana Christian Medical College<br />
& Hospital with regular trips to India<br />
to attend meetings. Daughter Laura & son<br />
Andrew have both purchased homes in<br />
Tucson AZ this yr. He is looking forward<br />
to coordinating our 45th reunion at WS in<br />
’12. YVONNE PARKER is retired & still<br />
mourning the passing of her father last fall.<br />
MARY ELLEN REDDING KUBO’s son<br />
Micah, an army nurse stationed at Madigan<br />
Gen’l Hospital in Tacoma, was married in<br />
Aug. Her mother MILLIE REDDING published<br />
a memoir Wherever He Leads about<br />
their work in China & India. GLENYS<br />
ROBINSON MATHER feels fortunate to<br />
have all 3 kids in Auckland as she & David<br />
now have 5 grandchildren. RON (S) &<br />
SUE SCOTT SWANSON left WS in Jun<br />
after 8 yrs on staff & are settling into life<br />
in MN. She says she is learning to be an<br />
American & Minnesotan once again. They<br />
live a half mile from her mother & closer<br />
to siblings & friends. Daughter Becky was<br />
married this summer & lives in MA; son<br />
Paul lives in IN. KEN WALDOCK has<br />
been on a short assignment in Malta & is<br />
heading off to an assignment in Shillong,<br />
NE India later this yr. STUART WALKER<br />
wrote on a trip to Russia visiting Moscow,<br />
Saint Petersburg, Novosibirsk & the<br />
Vladimir area. He is still teaching. LUCY<br />
WILSON DORENFELD still is busy<br />
with her practice of elder law; husband<br />
Jim Litchfield is raising a therapy puppy.<br />
LUCY, MARG & I (MARGO WARNER<br />
CURL) had a girls’ weekend in WI in early<br />
Jun. MAX, BETH ANN, YVONNE & I<br />
all made it to the WOSA reunion in Fort<br />
Collins in Jul. As of Oct 10 my husband<br />
TOM STRICKLER ’40 has been living in<br />
a care center. I retired in May & am still<br />
finding my way as a retiree. Please watch<br />
for information regarding class trip to WS<br />
in Oct/Nov 12!—Margo<br />
Class of 1968<br />
CYNTHIA BRUSH & husband Bill Grey are<br />
pleased their Santa Rosa CA home is now<br />
solar. Their graphics/web design business is<br />
as interesting as ever. They especially enjoy<br />
teaching clients about on-line marketing.<br />
Cynthe constantly dabbles in creative activities:<br />
makes prize-winning gourmet preserves<br />
(6 ribbons – 11 Marin County Fair / Bestof-Show<br />
for Honey Rose Petal Jam in 10).<br />
An active photographer member of CA State<br />
Parks Fdn, she’s honored her photographs<br />
are getting public recognition: a northern<br />
Quadrangle - 71<br />
Steve Van Rooy ’68 & first grandson Isaiah<br />
CA Lost Coast image has been published by<br />
CSPF-09 Parklands Newsletter & 11 Annual<br />
Report; Sierra Club-10 Yodeler newsletter;<br />
plus it’s part of a current 11 show promoting<br />
State Parks at our CA State Senator’s Sacramento<br />
office. Dannon Yogurt has selected 2<br />
other CA Parks images for their 11 Live Your<br />
Active Culture campaign. Most recently,<br />
Travel+Leisure <strong>Magazine</strong> TravelandLeisure.<br />
com of American Express has requested use<br />
of a Sonoma coastal image for their web promo<br />
of beautiful US coastal hikes. LARRY<br />
KING was just getting back from some time<br />
in Cabo - no tv, no phone, no newspapers,<br />
no computers! Still retired & loving the life.<br />
Barb & Larry have 2 grandboys who live 15<br />
min from them. MARBETH JOHNS retired<br />
from Disability Law Center of AK a few yrs<br />
ago. She continues to operate & work at her<br />
own small business fixing dental handpieces.<br />
Other than that she spends time at her cabin<br />
in Homer, gardens, bikes, sksi, visits family<br />
in WA & AZ, or goes to her condo in Lake<br />
Havasu City AZ. GRAHAM HICKS retired<br />
in Dec 10 after 32 yrs of newspapering in<br />
Edmonton AB, CAN, 20 of them as a daily<br />
columnist with the Edmonton Sun. Now<br />
he’s busy as a communications consultant<br />
& freelance journalist. Maria’s & his 3 girls<br />
are all studying, 2 at the U of AB, the oldest<br />
in radio/TV at Ryerson U in Toronto. The<br />
WS connection continues with the alwaysentertaining<br />
ELDON & Ruth GAMBLE<br />
often visiting from near-by Calgary &<br />
vice-versa. Come visit the Gambles & Hicks<br />
in AB! TEMPEE SHELLY HOWELL is<br />
thrilled to have 11 grandchildren. In this<br />
past yr all 4 children had a baby, she considers<br />
it an incredible joy. Howard & she are<br />
still working with the church in Millington<br />
TN. He is the Family Life Minister & Song<br />
Leader, teaches children, teen & adult Bible
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Tom and Kath Robinson Loane ’69 and family<br />
classes & is Dir of their Prison ministry.<br />
Tempee still works with the teen girls,<br />
teaches a ladies Bible class, parenting class<br />
& works as secretary in the Prison Ministry.<br />
She recently quit her ‘paying’ job to help<br />
with grandchildren. She states, ‘My cup runs<br />
over!’ STEVE WILKENS continues to do<br />
electrical contracting in the Silicon Valley<br />
in CA. Nadene retired in Jun after having<br />
worked for the Santa Clara County of Educ<br />
for more than 30 yrs as administrator &<br />
director for the Head Start program. They<br />
celebrated her retirement by taking in a vacation<br />
traveling through the Canadian Rockies<br />
where she had spent many summers while<br />
growing up. While in Calgary, they were<br />
able to have breakfast & a brief visit with<br />
ELDON & wife. They are looking forward<br />
to having their first grandkid in Feb. STEVE<br />
VAN ROOY continues to run a property<br />
mgmt company in Dallas TX. This spring<br />
he & wife spent 2 weeks in Nepal visiting<br />
missionary friends. Their 3 girls are now<br />
launched; the oldest is married & teaches<br />
Paul Hamilton ’69, Kath Getter Lindquist ’69, and Dan Nave ’69<br />
school, the 2nd is married & a physician.<br />
The youngest is a labor & delivery nurse.<br />
For having two grandkids, he celebrates<br />
with, “Yea!” MIKE NICHOLS moved this<br />
yr to Paris, doing some traveling & learning<br />
French. FRED BARNS continues to<br />
live in Thailand doing rice exporting. KEN<br />
BLICKENSTAFF has had a momentous yr.<br />
His younger son, Brian, got married in WI<br />
(which turned into a mini family reunion<br />
with brother & sister-in-law REID & JUNE<br />
BLICKENSTAFF ’70 in from China & sister<br />
ROSEMARY FLORA ’58 attending from<br />
AUS. Ken’s older son, Michael, received<br />
his BA with honors after many yrs of school,<br />
then work, travel & more school. Ken retired<br />
from his work as a quality mgr for a mfg<br />
co after 11 yrs to pursue other interests. He<br />
continues to teach Constitutional Law to<br />
graduate students at Claremont Graduate U<br />
& also on the faculty at the UC Riverside<br />
teaching in 2 law-related programs. Life is<br />
good but busy!—Steve<br />
Class of 1969<br />
Since 50 &’51 are<br />
the birth yrs of our<br />
class, half of us have<br />
turned 60. Birthdays<br />
were marked in various<br />
ways. JANET AL-<br />
LEN MACHULA took<br />
her granddaughter to<br />
a parade only to have<br />
her announce that her<br />
Naani was 16! Made<br />
Janet, grandma of 7<br />
feel young! JAMIE<br />
CLAYTON LED-<br />
FORD spent it in FL with her favorite<br />
person, grandson Matthew. JOY FINNEY<br />
spent each night of her birthday week-end<br />
being feted by family & friends & a curry<br />
dinner with classmates TARIQ KIDWAI,<br />
ELLEN MCINTOSH TODD, DOUG<br />
NAVE & MARY SELF SKARSTEN. PHIL<br />
GROSS climbed Mt Kinabalu in N Borneo<br />
with MIKE FLUECKIGER (S), husband of<br />
JOYCE BURKHALTER FLUECKIGER<br />
’70. ADA HAAGEN BRUCE thought she<br />
turned 60 last yr when the family celebrated<br />
husband Michael’s 60th by going to a<br />
Caribbean resort. PAUL HAMILTON &<br />
Lynn went parasailing, in FL having driven<br />
Paul’s parents there for a vacation. (This<br />
was a nice respite for Paul who travels all<br />
over NA giving workshops on the use of<br />
digital learning tools to meet unique learning<br />
needs of students.) DOUG KEISLAR<br />
has an age-defying plan to have birthdays<br />
in 10yr increments, making him 69 this<br />
birthday in honour of our class yr, then<br />
79, 89 etc hoping to collect big on talk<br />
shows, social security etc. Wife Jane had a<br />
gathering of longtime friends to celebrate.<br />
DAVID JENNINGS says 60 is middle-age<br />
if going for 120. Among other things he<br />
is a bilingual announcer for special events<br />
around Halifax NS. KATHY ROBINSON<br />
& TOM LOANE not only turned 60 in May<br />
but also celebrated their 40th wedding<br />
anniv at their NS oceanside cottage with<br />
kids & grandkids. TERRY MIDKIFF had<br />
to work but enjoyed greetings from far &<br />
wide. MARG PATTON BOSTER & Greg<br />
spent it with kids & grandkids. KERRY<br />
POOR LEIGH had an ancient croning<br />
party with friends ushering her into her<br />
wisdom yrs. While preparing his classes<br />
for N VA Community College, DIPAK<br />
ROY experienced a 5.9 earthquake in<br />
central VA a wk before his 60th. MARY<br />
SELF SKARSTEN’s kids put on a Chai<br />
Teaparty for her Canada Day 60th in<br />
Toronto attended by siblings STEPHEN<br />
SELF ’73, SHARON SELF RANSON<br />
’76 & RUTH SELF FERGUSON ’78 &<br />
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<br />
at Mary Self Skarsten’s on October 15th, <strong>2011</strong>. L to R:Tariq<br />
Kidwai, Doug Nave, Joy Finney, Mary Self Skarsten, Ellen Macintosh<br />
Todd<br />
classmates JOY FINNEY, ELLEN MCIN-<br />
TOSH TODD & KIM RUGH BERGIER.<br />
CAROLYN TURNER & Arnold fulfilled<br />
a dream & drove to Boston for a long<br />
wk-end. More grandchildren blessed the<br />
families of JANET ALLEN MACHULA<br />
& Paul, ANGIE COWART CHEEK (Amelia<br />
born to son Steven Oct in ’10), ADA<br />
HAAGEN BRUCE & Michael (grandson<br />
Jaden to daughter Courtney in Feb),<br />
JOANN PHILLIPS GIBSON (Jackson to<br />
daughter Lindsey in May). DOUG NAVE<br />
is proud Grandpa to Ada (13mo) born to<br />
daughter Carmen living in Waterloo ON<br />
& John Robert (6mo) born to daughter<br />
Lenore living in Toronto). Many agree<br />
being a grandparent is the best club ever &<br />
JOHN WHITCOMB asks how to nudge the<br />
process forward in a politically, socially,<br />
ethically, morally, gently, successful<br />
fashion as his 2 kids are busy pursuing<br />
professional lives. On the other hand, our<br />
parents are advancing in yrs & also into<br />
eternity. CHERYL BEACHY PAULO-<br />
VICH went from home in AZ to see her<br />
Dad (92) in Goshen before he died, just<br />
before Easter, leaving his wife of nearly 70<br />
yrs. ANGIE COWART CHEEK’s parents<br />
in their 90s live near her. WIM FRAN-<br />
Cheryl Beachy Paulovich ’69, Marg Patton Boster ’69, Doug<br />
Nave ’69, Janet Allen Machula ’69<br />
KEN travelled from<br />
his home in Rwanda<br />
to Holland to visit his<br />
2 grandkids & father<br />
(91). KATHY GET-<br />
TER LINDQUIST<br />
returns to India each<br />
Feb to visit her father<br />
(86) who is still active<br />
in mission work.<br />
HARALD GRUBER<br />
was pleased to travel<br />
from IA to Germany to<br />
have time with his father<br />
for his 89th birthday<br />
in Jun, just before<br />
he died. CAROL JOHNSON COCHRAN’s<br />
Dad (93) & living near Carol in OR, died<br />
last Jan after a yr of multiple health problems.<br />
TOM MCCULLOCH & Lesley live<br />
in WA near Tom’s Mom who just published<br />
her memoirs. TARIQ KIDWAI, Tania &<br />
2 daughters flew to India in Dec 10 upon<br />
hearing that his mother (94) had a stroke.<br />
She died in Jun. Other sad losses include<br />
LOIS FEIERABEND ROSKO’s husband<br />
Bill who died suddenly of a heart attack<br />
just before Christmas 10. Fortunately,<br />
Lois’ daughter & granddaughter live with<br />
her & her parents & sister MARY FEI-<br />
ERABEND GIRARD ’76 live next door in<br />
Madison WI. BETTE LARSON DEAN’s<br />
sister MARTHA LARSON THOMSEN<br />
’72 died of cancer Feb 24 in Mpls, MN.<br />
& KATHY ROBINSON LOANE’s sister<br />
Terry Robinson died on Jul 10 of complications<br />
from cancer surgery also in Mpls.<br />
On a positive note CHERYL BEACHY<br />
PAULOVICH (Chaplain of a Srs Centre<br />
in Phoenix) was ordained in the Mennonite<br />
Church by STANLEY FREISEN<br />
’58 on Nov 10. TITUS PRESLER & Jane<br />
are in Peshawar PAK where he is Dean<br />
at Edwardes College, but were in VT in<br />
Aug for Jane’s successful back surgery.<br />
JUDY SMITH CRIDER<br />
& Dana attended youngest<br />
son Jonathan’s wedding<br />
where KATHARINE<br />
LEHMAN WALKER (S)<br />
sister of ANNE LIND (S)<br />
officiated. Finally what<br />
would Jottings be without<br />
mini-reunions of which<br />
we had our share. In late<br />
Fall 10 PAUL HAMIL-<br />
TON did an ed seminar<br />
in Mpls & had dinner<br />
with KATH GETTER<br />
LINDQUIST & DAN<br />
NAVE. BETTE LAR-<br />
SON DEAN & Gordie<br />
David Jennings ’69<br />
took Spring Break in northern MN & saw<br />
NANCY BARR PATTEN & Mark in Apr.<br />
MARC MUMBY had a business trip to<br />
DC & was given a bicycle tour of the city<br />
by JOHN BURKHALTER in Jun. BETTE<br />
& Gordie traveled to Scandinavia in Jul<br />
to see relatives in Sweden & stayed with<br />
MARY SELF SKARSTEN’s relatives in<br />
Bergen, Norway. During a trip to Phoenix<br />
in Sep, to visit sister MARY NAVE DAVIS<br />
’72, DOUG NAVE & Jane also met with<br />
JANET ALLEN MACHULA, CHERYL<br />
BEACHY PAULOVICH & MARG PAT-<br />
TON BOSTER. After her sister Terry’s<br />
memorial service in Mpls, KATH ROBIN-<br />
SON LOANE met with KATH GETTER<br />
LINDQUIST, BETTE LARSON DEAN &<br />
DAN NAVE.—Mary<br />
Marc Mumby ’69 and John Burkhalter ’69 in DC
74 - Quadrangle<br />
1970s<br />
Jottings<br />
Class of 1970<br />
SUSAN KIM HILLS is working as a<br />
nurse in SF, recently widowed, sons<br />
doing well, starting to travel again.<br />
Big 60th bday back in Mussoorie 5/12!<br />
CAROL ARLOFF RUSSELL has enjoyed<br />
a busy yr of retirement from the<br />
Baltimore City Public <strong>School</strong>s where<br />
she was an Instrumental Music Instructor,<br />
teaching & directing an after-school<br />
citywide Suzuki String Program. She<br />
now enjoys teaching private cello lessons<br />
2 days a wk at 2 local Music &<br />
Arts stores. The majority of her students<br />
come from public county schools in the<br />
Baltimore MD area. Recently, she moved<br />
her mother (87) into assisted living, then<br />
into nursing care in Lancaster PA, where<br />
she receives full time supervision for her<br />
dementia; for several yrs she had been<br />
taking care of her long distance. CAROL<br />
& Walt, are actively involved in the Baltimore<br />
Bicycling Club, leading rides and<br />
volunteering with special events. They<br />
just completed a 2 wk loaded bicycle<br />
tour from Spokane WA into ID and BC,<br />
around the scenic Int’l Selkirk Loop. She<br />
stays in touch with other WS graduates<br />
through the local Baltimore Area Curry<br />
Club. JIM MOTAVALLI has a book<br />
coming out in Nov, High <strong>Vol</strong>tage: The<br />
Fast Track to Plug in the Auto Industry<br />
(Rodale). I write about greening the car<br />
industry for the NY Times, NPR’s Car<br />
Talk, Mother Nature Network & PlugIn-<br />
Cars.com & live in CT with wife Mary<br />
Ann & daughters Delia (14) & Maya<br />
(17). The book is on Amazon. RUTH<br />
TERRY is enjoying playing with her 1st<br />
grandson while working hard to become<br />
a Certified Occupational Therapy Asst<br />
as a career for the 2nd half of her life.<br />
REID & JUNE ROADARMEL BLICK-<br />
ENSTAFF continue to work for the<br />
Shanghai American <strong>School</strong>. He is the HS<br />
orchestra & choir teacher & JUNE is in<br />
the Admission Office. REID traveled to<br />
Beijing for the AMIS (Assn for Music<br />
in Int’l <strong>School</strong>s) Orchestra Festival at<br />
the Int’l <strong>School</strong> Beijing, where he met<br />
JOHN EVANS & Lynne. They were in<br />
the US at the end of Aug for the wedding<br />
of JUNE’s oldest daughter, Anjali<br />
Prasertong & Rob Kerkovich. Anjali’s<br />
2 sisters, SONYA ’06 & JOANNA (S)<br />
were also there. They have a guest<br />
room in their apt & welcome visitors.<br />
ELDON CLAASSEN & Jan<br />
work in Fort Wayne IN with<br />
refugees, primarily from Somalia<br />
& Burma. We thank<br />
God for the opportunity to<br />
relate with int’ls. Daughter<br />
Anna graduated from HS in<br />
Jun & Sarah is in gr 10. EL-<br />
DON’s Dad, Curt Claassen,<br />
lives nearby in Berne IN. At<br />
93, he recently recorded a<br />
CD of piano hymns. ELDON<br />
& Jan met DORA WARREN,<br />
JOHN EDWARDS & Alison<br />
70s CLAss REPs<br />
Nancy Johns Erickson 1970<br />
2517 Copperwood Dr<br />
Lebanon, MO 65536-5975<br />
USA<br />
nancy416@fidmail.com<br />
417-532-4724<br />
Judy King Sims 1971<br />
1010 Lakeway Ave<br />
Kalamazoo, MI 49001-4965<br />
USA<br />
Jbirdblue@gmail.com<br />
616-388-5220<br />
Mary Nave Davis 1972<br />
3331 E Merlot St<br />
Gilbert, AZ 85298-9083<br />
USA<br />
Maryndavis@mac.com<br />
480 585-3353<br />
Mary Ina Flisher Hooley 1973<br />
330 S Jackson St<br />
Bluffton, OH 45817-1012<br />
USA<br />
hooleymi@bluffton.edu<br />
419-369-4040<br />
Lyle Powell 1974<br />
7508 N G St<br />
Spokane, WA 99205-7351<br />
USA<br />
ljampowell@yahoo.com<br />
770-683-4770<br />
John and Velma Thiessen Grose<br />
1975<br />
81 N Green Tree Trl<br />
Chapel Hill, NC 27516-0308<br />
USA<br />
johnhgrose@gmail.com<br />
919-933-5549<br />
Class of ’70: John Edwards, Dora Warren & Eldon Claassen<br />
Joy Garrison Simpson 1976<br />
16 James St, W #105<br />
Guelph, ON N1G 1E2<br />
Canada<br />
nyagali@yahoo.com<br />
Susan Strickler Polstra 1977<br />
Marnixkade 67-2<br />
Amsterdam, NL1015 XX<br />
Netherlands<br />
susan.polstra@xs4all.nl<br />
+31 (0)2 06 22 41 58<br />
Carol Remington Ivance 1978<br />
6559 Craig Ave<br />
Inver Grove Heights, MN 55076-<br />
1701<br />
USA<br />
carotsuep@gmail.com<br />
James Hackney 1979<br />
42 Madie Hill Dr<br />
Leicester, NC 28748-9310<br />
USA<br />
omjhack1@yahoo.com<br />
828-683-4062
Quadrangle - 75<br />
at DORA’s father’s 90th birthday. JOHN<br />
is a medical doctor in MN. VINTA<br />
SHUMWAY OVIATT enjoyed a talk by<br />
the Dalai Lama this past May at nearby<br />
UC Irvine. One of the highlights of my<br />
life is meeting him in person when I was<br />
12, along with Miss WESSELS, a former<br />
teacher who became a missionary to the<br />
Tibetan exiles & ran a girls’ school that I<br />
stayed at several times. We had tea with<br />
the Dalai Lama in a small room on the<br />
other side of Landour in the Tibetan area.<br />
I remember that he was very friendly,<br />
had a great laugh - which he still does -<br />
& asked about my school. He appeared<br />
much older when I saw him this May<br />
but not changed that much in his spirit<br />
& I thoroughly enjoyed his informal but<br />
thoughtful discussion about the social<br />
& political issues in US, China, Tibet<br />
& the world. DAVE PREWITT & Carol<br />
are in their 7th yr at the American Int’l<br />
<strong>School</strong>/Dhaka, Bangladesh (Dave’s 41st<br />
yr in Asia.) He has earned his professional<br />
counseling license & plans of<br />
retiring to their CT home in the not too<br />
far distant future. TERRY WEIDMAN<br />
RUSSELL retired from her nursing job at<br />
Providence Medical Center in Portland<br />
OR in time to prepare for the wedding<br />
of daughter Christina in Aug. Brothers<br />
TIM ’80 & DAVID ’75 & their families<br />
also attended. TERRY still volunteers at<br />
her free, church sponsored clinic which<br />
serves the unemployed & working poor.<br />
RUTH HARPER AXELROD teaches<br />
mngment part-time in MD; both she &<br />
husband, David Canfield, are deeply<br />
involved in local volunteer work—she<br />
to help clean up the Chesapeake Bay &<br />
he to raise money for local nonprofits.<br />
Their mo-long pilgrimage-of-the-heart<br />
to India starts at the WOSA Centenniel<br />
Celebration. POLLY PETERSON &<br />
JAMES GEDDES (S) are in San Diego<br />
enjoying being near kids & grandkids.<br />
Due to the state of the job market, work<br />
is sporadic but we have taken on several<br />
volunteer opportunities. POLLY has<br />
spent most of the last 6 mos helping to<br />
develop a Community Center for the<br />
Arts for neighborhood kids. We also like<br />
to visit with WSites whenever we can.<br />
PAUL SMYRES lives in Millerton, NY<br />
with wife of 10 yrs, Priscilla. She’s a<br />
Jungian psychoanalyst & artist. He’s still<br />
doing aerial photography & taking flight<br />
lessons, as well as working on his many<br />
websites/blogs with internet advertising.<br />
He does social media marketing for<br />
brother PHILIP’s ’87 UK online book<br />
co, Fatbrain.co.uk. Older son Robert<br />
& wife & daughter Sarah &<br />
husband live nearby. Younger<br />
son Evan lives in Thailand,<br />
works for Philip. I have 2<br />
granddaughters & one on the<br />
way in Thailand. My parents<br />
are still alive in N FL, but<br />
mom (88) is fading now. Fond<br />
memories of India & WS are<br />
still with me. I enjoy hearing<br />
from WSites. JOHN EVANS<br />
& Lynne are starting their 3rd<br />
yr at the Int’l <strong>School</strong> of Beijing.<br />
John also serves as Pres<br />
of the 1,200 member Overseas<br />
Assn for College Admission Counseling.<br />
In Jul in Calgary, CAN, he chaired the<br />
annual OACAC summer conference of<br />
over 700 attendees from all around the<br />
globe. Lynne & JOHN enjoy being close<br />
to their 2 kids & 4 grandchildren who<br />
live in Hong Kong & Chengdu. MARK<br />
KENOYER, was elected to the Am Ac<br />
of Arts & Sciences, a very big nat’l<br />
honor. He continues to teach at the U of<br />
WI, Madison in the Dept of Anthro. He<br />
goes to PAK each yr to work at the site<br />
of Harappa & also visits India to meet<br />
with archaeologists & collaborate on<br />
various archaeology projects in Gujarat.<br />
He was able to visit Dhaka to give<br />
lectures; spent a mo in China at the site<br />
of Anyang & gave lectures at the Inst<br />
of Archae in Beijing & took a short trip<br />
to Mongolia & South Korea where he<br />
participated in mtgs, gave lectures &<br />
visited many archaeological sites. For<br />
summaries of his work & photos, see<br />
www.harappa.com BRUCE BROWNE<br />
has taken a job in Doha, Qatar, teaching<br />
at the Community College of Qatar<br />
(CCQ), Theatre & Public Speaking. Life<br />
in Qatar is interesting - a very modern<br />
city with some interesting quirks & very<br />
warm: it has been about 104 most days<br />
since I’ve been here. A little like living<br />
in the plains of India, except we have<br />
the advantage of air conditioning! Our<br />
house in Sheboygan is on the market &<br />
Nan will join me once that encumbrance<br />
is taken care of, which could be a while.<br />
Our plan is for her to come here in Jan, as<br />
by then I will have a Qatari ID, which allows<br />
family to live here without a tourist<br />
permit. NANCY JOHNS ERICKSON &<br />
Don live in Lebanon MO. I am involved<br />
in volunteering through Crosslines & my<br />
church. My parents live in Sedona AZ<br />
near sister ANITA ’71 & brothers MAR-<br />
TIN ’75 & GEORGE ’76. I just visited<br />
them & took my mother to the Indian<br />
dinner for ANITA’s class reunion which<br />
Reid Blickenstaff '70, Lynne & John Evans '70 in Beijing<br />
she & I enjoyed thoroughly.—Nancy<br />
Class of 1971<br />
Last Mar MARTI PATEL was fortunate<br />
to catch up with VICTOR SCHOON-<br />
MAKER & friends on a beautiful remote<br />
island off tropical southern Thailand. In<br />
Oct, she caught up with her former HS<br />
roommate REBECCA JENNINGS, as<br />
well as RAHUL AMIN, sister NANDITA<br />
AMIN ’73 & BHARAT PATEL ’71 at<br />
the WOSA 100 in Mussoorie. After the<br />
celebrations, she & Rebecca will be travelling<br />
to Rajasthan to visit YASHWANT<br />
SINGH ’71 & brother RAJENDRA ’72.<br />
In between life & work, her passion for<br />
photography & blogging – see sanuksanuk.wordpress.com<br />
- keeps her busy!<br />
This has been another yr of movement<br />
for REBECCA JENNINGS, winding up<br />
her work as a trainer throughout Aboriginal<br />
communities in remote AUS & visiting<br />
classmates in LA, family in CAN,<br />
winding up with Oct WOSA reunion.<br />
I’ll be settling soon! BOB CONRAD<br />
recently won the Distinguished <strong>Alumni</strong><br />
Award for the <strong>School</strong> of Info Sci at the U<br />
TN in Knoxville. He has been the library<br />
director at Oak Ridge Nat’l Lab since<br />
05. KITTY PURGASON is still training<br />
ESL/EFL teachers at Biola U in the Los<br />
Angeles area, had a sabbatical semester<br />
which included travel to Kuwait, Oman,<br />
Tajikistan, China & Vietnam. She held<br />
a small reunion in her room with some<br />
of those who couldn’t make Flagstaff.<br />
ANNE MARRIOTT works full time as<br />
a radiologist at a large community hospital<br />
in Mississauga CAN & keeps busy<br />
gardening, doing volunteer work for her<br />
church & holidaying at their cottage N<br />
of Toronto. She & David Wunker, along<br />
with daughter Claire will be visiting<br />
ADAM (S) & Darcy in Dec – Adam is<br />
currently on the teaching staff at WS.<br />
They will also be travelling around Rajasthan<br />
& doing the Golden Triangle.
76 - Quadrangle<br />
Bob Conrad ’71: always looking for a new trail to hike<br />
After a stint in Washington DC, where<br />
he served as Deputy Med Director of the<br />
State Dept, BROOKS TAYLOR & Betsy<br />
have moved to Johannesburg, South<br />
Africa where he is now the State Dept’s<br />
Regional Medical Mgr for Sub-Saharan<br />
Africa. This means that he supervises the<br />
care provided by 35 State Dept physicians,<br />
nurse practitioners & physician<br />
assistants in 26 different countries. He<br />
will be on the road a lot. Betsy will be<br />
painting & both are thrilled to be back<br />
in Africa, though they’ll miss being near<br />
children, Andrew & Sarah, who are both<br />
still in Boston. They’ll be there 3 yrs.<br />
Come visit! BETH ROADARMEL has<br />
been working for the last 4 yrs establishing<br />
an assisted living & sr care facility in<br />
Chiang Mai, Thailand. She visited sister<br />
JUNE BLICKENSTAFF ’70 & REID in<br />
Shanghai, China last Apr.<br />
Class of 1972<br />
We mourn the loss of MARTHA LAR-<br />
SON THOMSEN who passed away at<br />
home with her family present on Feb 24.<br />
She & Jeff served with the Mennonite<br />
Class of ’71: Greta Mason, Smruti Bhagat, Anita Johns, Becca Jennings<br />
& Kitty Barnhouse at Kitty's in Pasadena, banner by Iris Hunter<br />
Central Committee in Africa. Martha we<br />
carry you in our hearts! OREEN LONG<br />
EDDYis a nurse at St Joseph’s Hospital<br />
in Phoenix AZ currently with the family<br />
med residents, Jerry is retired. Son<br />
Andrew (25) is with the forest service,<br />
Jonathan (27) looking for work with<br />
the Fire Dept. They took a wonder vacation<br />
to Moab UT & saw all the sites,<br />
met Jerry’s HS friends, then visited his<br />
parents in CO. SHALINI PRAKASH<br />
AGARWAL is transitioning from the<br />
security of a corp job to starting a small<br />
business. Her favorite way to unwind<br />
is to be out in the mtns & has beautiful<br />
trails close by. Her son has settled in<br />
Seattle, daughter SHEENA ’02 is in DC<br />
working in develop’nt. Shalini reconnected<br />
with WOODMAN TAYLOR, dir<br />
of the SE Asia Center, whose preferred<br />
mode of transport is the bike, even in the<br />
middle of winter in Chicago! REBECCA<br />
KOSE NOAH & Mike are in Eugene OR,<br />
where he enjoys work with Holt in the<br />
Philippines & Haiti. Bec resigned from<br />
Holt 2 yrs ago. Currently she works part<br />
time as an educ asst with pre-school<br />
children with autism. They garden, hike<br />
& Bec absolutely loves time with 3<br />
grandsons. PEGGY SMYRES RAMSEY<br />
has a full house with daughter, son in<br />
law & 3 children living with her, along<br />
with 3 cats & a dog! The time spent<br />
with all of them is precious & she is so<br />
very grateful. PATRICIA WHITCOMB<br />
GREEN-SOTOS faced the very difficult<br />
death of youngest daughter, Rachel, in<br />
Feb. Each family member is grieving in<br />
their own way. She has cut down her hrs<br />
as a nurse in the Newborn ICU to 60%.<br />
She & husband Peter treasure their time<br />
together & with their families. Patty<br />
attended MARK BAUR’s wedding to<br />
Sadaf, whom he met skydiving. Mark<br />
was radiant with joy<br />
& we wish them both<br />
all of the happiness<br />
in the world! MARY<br />
CONRAD LO & Matthew<br />
thoroughly enjoy<br />
their new home in<br />
MD. Mary loves being<br />
in a place where<br />
so many classmates<br />
live or visit. Last<br />
summer she had curry<br />
dinner with JANINE<br />
CLAYTON, joined<br />
by KENYON ER-<br />
ICKSON & ZAHRA<br />
COX RICHARDS.<br />
She has connected<br />
with classmates JENNY MULL REILLY,<br />
RAY KAWATA & Jen, LOIS KNISS<br />
JONES & DALE(S) at a local monthly<br />
curry club. In Aug she reconnected with<br />
TOM WYON & Karen, after being out<br />
of touch for 40 yrs! BARBARA PHIL-<br />
LEO MILLER works for a USDA agency<br />
& finds working for the Fed govt these<br />
days is a little trying, will retire in 3 yrs.<br />
Ken is mostly retired, helping a local<br />
dairy with haying & taking care of the<br />
homestead. They visited Zion, the Grand<br />
Canyon & Bryce with their sons who<br />
came from CO & San Diego, as well as<br />
camping in ME with them. During a trip<br />
to WI they stayed with PAT WHITCOMB<br />
GREEN-SOTOS & Pete; GIL HALSTED<br />
& Stefania came over for a great dinner.<br />
JANINE CLAYTON & Rick are working<br />
for the US Forest Service in the Pacific<br />
NW, but are starting to think about retirement.<br />
They have taken a couple of<br />
trips to Europe; one of the highlights<br />
was Tosca at La Scala in Milan, on their<br />
must do list. Janine’s mother is keeping<br />
busy at home in AZ full of energy & good<br />
attitude! In her own words, MARGARET<br />
RHODES BURNETT’s news still centers<br />
around cancer, living with the sense of<br />
death in the background, which can be<br />
frightening, but also living as though<br />
forever. A complicated mixture. I draw<br />
with soft pastels & I’ve started writing<br />
again, just when I feel like it. I tend<br />
to do things when I feel like it now;<br />
cancer gives you permission to do that.<br />
JANE LOANE GORMAN finds her job<br />
as a speech-language pathologist for<br />
the school bd in Toronto, stimulating &<br />
enjoyable. Tom looks forward to retiring<br />
from his HS teaching. They re-energize<br />
at their peaceful cottage in Nova Scotia.<br />
Both kids live at home; Dan (22) works<br />
long hrs for an organic food distributor,<br />
interested in heavy equipm’t, Emma<br />
(20) enjoying work at a local restaurant.<br />
DIANE MCLAIN-SKILLICORN<br />
& BRUCE SKILLICORN in Drakes<br />
Branch VA & can now interact with the<br />
world after having exchanged dial-up<br />
connection for hi-speed internet! Bruce<br />
has been accepted into a well-known<br />
juried artists org & is taking part in some<br />
excellent exhibitions. Diane became a<br />
grandmother & feels blessed to care for<br />
little Mia 3 days/wk, although with a 3<br />
hr commute. Bruce’s 3 grandkids live<br />
in AUS. Bruce’s father came from AUS<br />
to visit over Thanksgiving. And youngest<br />
daughter Christina came for the<br />
mo. They all took a wonderful jaunt to<br />
NYC to see the musical Witches. Bruce
Quadrangle - 77<br />
was thrilled to share a white Christmas<br />
with his daughter—unheard of in AUS.<br />
MARY RUTH POWELL works 68 hrs<br />
a wk between her job as custodian at<br />
an ES & running the welding lab at<br />
W WY CC, her 18th yr. She estimates<br />
that she walks an average of 8 mi/day<br />
between her 2 jobs & takes advantage<br />
of season tickets provided by the CC to<br />
see Broadway shows in Salt Lake City.<br />
Mary represented our class along with<br />
PAT & SHALINI at the WOSA reunion.<br />
Although I am far from any classmate, I<br />
continue to share, in spirit, your joys &<br />
sorrows. MARY NAVE DAVIS works as<br />
a home care PT in the Phoenix area. She<br />
trekked the Grand Canyon in Mar, something<br />
she has wanted to do for a long<br />
time! JOIE MORRIS DEWOLF works<br />
as an outpatient nurse at a county mental<br />
health clinic & Dave is with Post in<br />
Battle Creek. They travel a lot to see kids<br />
& just got back from Bliss Fest in Upper<br />
MI where they camped with the Class of<br />
79 & saw DAVID BUNCE. They took a<br />
trip to Trinidad & Tobago to celebrate<br />
youngest son’s graduation from Duke.<br />
The Indian cricket team happened to be<br />
there at the same hotel, so they had great<br />
fun watching all the ‘tamasha’! Rachel<br />
just finished up her Masters in sustainable<br />
systems & is pursuing a career in<br />
yoga. Sarah & Jake are in Pittsburgh,<br />
busily building onto the homestead for<br />
arrival of their 3rd child. GIL HALSTED<br />
works as a reporter at WI Public Radio.<br />
Stefania continues as a nurse in the recovery<br />
room at the Univ Hosp, very active<br />
in her union & in working with state<br />
Peace & Justice Network. They took<br />
their annual trip to Italy to see Stefania’s<br />
family. Son, Ien spent 6 wks in Tuscany<br />
which included a solo bike camping trip<br />
around the Island of Elba. Gil got a stent<br />
in his coronary artery this May & says<br />
now he really has to quit smoking & eat<br />
better! LOIS KNISS JONES still does<br />
mediation. She has been training in the<br />
Dialogue Educ method of adult ed & will<br />
be offering Parent Ed classes in the fall.<br />
DALE (S) continues teaching & doing<br />
his own art—currently pastel landscapes.<br />
They recently visited their daughter in<br />
San Francisco & while there had lunch<br />
with JOHN LOWE. REBECCA RABE<br />
& KEVIN KOSE ’70 had a wonderful<br />
trip to India visiting 3 places they had<br />
never been to before: Ranthambore, Goa<br />
& Karwar. Kevin hadn’t been back to the<br />
Motherland for 22 yrs & found he is as<br />
attached to the place as he always was!<br />
He returned again in Feb to work with<br />
Becky Rabe Kose ’72 and Kevin Kose ’70 (middle) with their two sons and families.<br />
Op Smile in Assam, where their medical<br />
team performed 500 corrective facial<br />
surgeries in 1 mo! On the home front,<br />
kids & grandkids are well & Rebecca’s<br />
mother (90) recently celebrated her<br />
birthday with most of the family present.<br />
RUTH ANDERSON BRADING enjoys<br />
living in the N Beaches area of Sydney,<br />
working in a local hospital 3 days/wk.<br />
She remains passionate about building<br />
local churches & still loves running!<br />
Youngest son (23) lives with them &<br />
attends uni. She became a grandma &<br />
although her gorgeous granddaughter<br />
lives in England, Ruth has been over to<br />
see her 3 times since she was born! Another<br />
highlight was a snorkeling holiday<br />
in Fiji, celebrating 31 good yrs of marriage!<br />
DAVID MARRIOTT has retired as<br />
a lawyer from the Appeals branch of the<br />
Public Prosecutor’s Office in Edmonton<br />
AB. He and wife Janice Storeshaw live<br />
in Leduc AB.—Mary<br />
Class of 1973<br />
MARK HACKNEY is currently working<br />
at Publix grocery store in Crystal River<br />
FL in the customer service department.<br />
He has written his memoirs of growing<br />
up in India called There & Back Again,<br />
Almost Paradise - Twenty Yrs in India<br />
& hopes to publish it. He also hopes to<br />
start a canned chicken curry business.<br />
KIMMY THIESSEN WARREN works at<br />
a naturopathic clinic very close to their<br />
new home in Federal WA. They welcome<br />
guests in their home as they come<br />
to the US World Vision office, where<br />
JONNY works, for workshops/meetings.<br />
They also do impromptu gatherings for<br />
BBQs or just to let folks come & enjoy<br />
the beautiful sunsets over the Olympic<br />
Mtns & Puget Sound. KIMMY spends<br />
Mondays at the Seattle Cancer Treatment<br />
& Wellness Center with sister KAREN<br />
THIESSEN MINER who has a Caring<br />
Bridge Site where she loves to get words<br />
of encouragement. Son Dan & Alison<br />
live in Portland, daughter Rachel & son<br />
Ben & Sarah in Seattle. Jun 21 the Warren<br />
family celebrated their Dad, Charles’<br />
90th birthday at the Ebenezer Mennonite<br />
Church in Bluffton OH. This included<br />
BETH ANN BAKER ’64, RUTH WAR-<br />
REN ’67 & DALE ’64 SEEFELDT,<br />
DORA WARREN ’70, JONNY & KIM-<br />
MY, BARBIE WARREN ’78 & PAUL<br />
’77 WINDSOR & families. What an<br />
Gil Halsted ’72 calls in a story to NPR in Madison,<br />
WI
78 - Quadrangle<br />
At Charles Warren’s 90th birthday celebration: L to R: Ruth Bauman<br />
Swygart, Mary Ina Hooley, Jonny & Kimmy Thiessen Warren, Paula Unrau<br />
honoring celebration! The class of ’73<br />
was represented by JONNY, KIMMY,<br />
MARY INA HOOLEY, PAULA UNRAU<br />
& RUTH BAUMAN SWYGART. Other<br />
WSkers present were ELDON CLAAS-<br />
SEN ’70 & his dad CURT, Linda Sommer<br />
(S), Mary Bauman (P) & Ruth Unrau (P).<br />
CARLA PETIEVICH continues to work<br />
with the Hoshyar Fdn & was in Pakistan<br />
last Mar. She works with the Fdn’s partners<br />
on grant writing, serves as a liaison<br />
between them & large donors who work<br />
in an Anglophone environment. The Fdn<br />
supports 3 neighborhood literacy centers<br />
in urban & suburban slums of Lahore,<br />
3 girls’ secondary schools in Mansehra<br />
Dist., Khyber Pakhtunkhwa & partners<br />
with the new al-Hamd Educ’l Girls’ HS<br />
in Baagarian Village, outside Lahore.<br />
SUSAN GROSE LOCKETT went to part<br />
time, working 3 days a wk. In Aug 10<br />
Andrew (S) took retirement & has now<br />
set up his own consultancy for all things<br />
involved in Early Childhood educ. He<br />
has also become involved in helping out<br />
at a centre for asylum seekers & refugees<br />
in UK. He is nearly fully recovered<br />
from his back operation in Feb. Daughter<br />
Anjali has qualified as a teacher in<br />
London, beginning in Feb. BONNIE<br />
SMITH LUTZ spent 2 mos in the US at<br />
the beginning of the yr visiting family<br />
& friends. A grandson, Blaze Aslan,<br />
was born 12/31/10 to oldest daughter,<br />
BRONWYN ’00; he has a 16 mo old<br />
sister, Mirea. Bonnie’s youngest, JOEL-<br />
LAH ’06, graduated from Wheaton May<br />
10 & is staying with Bronwyn & Trent<br />
in Boston. Middle daughter, BONNIE<br />
RACHEL ’03, moved to England in Oct.<br />
10 where she is working at a YWAM base<br />
in Holmstead. JULIE KEARS-NOEL is<br />
managing & doing hair in the same salon<br />
where she has worked for 19 yrs & continues<br />
to love her work. MARY INA &<br />
DON (S) HOOLEY are planning a 3-mo<br />
sabbatical in India<br />
Sep-Dec. Don will<br />
be doing research on<br />
Mental Math, visiting<br />
ES in the Mussoorie<br />
area. They hope to<br />
enjoy some hiking<br />
to spots such as Kedarnath,<br />
Badrinath,<br />
Valley of the Flowers,<br />
Yamnotri & Dodi<br />
Tal.—Mary Ina<br />
Class of 1974<br />
BINAYAK BANER-<br />
JEE is currently<br />
working as an Enterprise Architect for<br />
Whirlpool Corp (yes, I can get you a<br />
deal on appliances) about 3 hrs from<br />
home. Enika teaches Japanese at the<br />
local CC. Maintaining 2 establishments<br />
is expensiv & I miss my family tremendously.<br />
Eldest son is a HS soph, into<br />
robotics, a 12 yr old who just finished<br />
gr 6 & a 10 yr old who finished gr 4,<br />
so you can see that I have Betsy beat<br />
on the youngest child category. DAVID<br />
BUCKNER is in Vietnam, slowly making<br />
connections. I’m not sure how long<br />
we’ll be here, but probably a few more<br />
yrs. We’re maintaining Linnaea Farm<br />
as home base/permanent address/mailing<br />
address. SCOTT BUNCE & Elise<br />
continue to enjoy watching & assisting<br />
son Rowan & partners as their eco-agri<br />
farm grows & becomes more viable.<br />
They have added a commercially certified<br />
kitchen & food processing area<br />
which allows them to sell into stores &<br />
restaurants. Elise continues to grow her<br />
greenhouse business while working full<br />
time as a psych nurse. Acacia is finishing<br />
credits for her Psych major while<br />
beginning classes in nursing at N MI U.<br />
I am busy building a new woodworking<br />
shop & plan to remodel kitchen & front<br />
entry area once the shop is functional.<br />
AMY BURKHALTER & Chris have had<br />
a yr of loss - 4 deaths: his mother, my<br />
mother, a brother-in-law on Chris’ side<br />
sister-in-law & friend MARTHA LAR-<br />
SON THOMSEN ’72 from the Larson<br />
clan at WS. I’ve named & branded my<br />
10-yr-old mngmt consulting business,<br />
Vital Focus, LLC & will get out on the<br />
internet. Chris is wrapping up a career<br />
as a tool-maker with Ford Motor Co &<br />
starting a new career as a realtor. He discovered<br />
his love of houses while buying<br />
& reviving a couple of distressed ones.<br />
We got to visit with CINDY PETERS in<br />
Durham, NC to explore the area for possible<br />
relocation. DEBORAH CONRAD<br />
BROOKS’ family is involved with Tribal<br />
Trading teas from Tribal Brazil. We are<br />
represented several places all over the<br />
globe. They have 5 grandchildren - see<br />
twelvetribes.com. JUDY FLISHER GIN-<br />
GER working in Labor & Delivery area<br />
of the hosp & keeps busy. We went to a<br />
resort in Briggs ID, close to the Tetons<br />
& Yellowstone, had a relaxing time &<br />
enjoyed the beauty of the mtns. We built<br />
a roof over our patio, a challenge & fun.<br />
Daughter is a nurse, working in an OB/<br />
Gyn office & working towards her Bachelor’s;<br />
son was in the army & is looking<br />
to go back to school. STEVE HARPER<br />
joined a consulting firm & manages<br />
software developm’t projects for a med<br />
device co. Elizabeth is composing music<br />
& running her publishing business<br />
SeafarerPress.com. Simon is a soph at<br />
U MI in Ann Arbo, in a program called<br />
Performance Arts Tech where he gets<br />
to study his 2 passions – music & tech.<br />
Oliver started at the U Mi Nl, interested<br />
in psych & econ. RACHEL LINDELL<br />
NELSON enjoys a busy schedule of<br />
helping Nepali refugee families fit into<br />
life locally. I have appreciated how their<br />
smiles, hospitality, language, clothes etc<br />
have taken me back in time & stirred up<br />
good memories. Have also found some<br />
American friends, without any overseas<br />
experiences, who enjoy the ministry<br />
just as much as I do which is refreshing.<br />
ANITRA MANSSON just started her<br />
3rd & last yr at WS Health Centre. Son<br />
Nigel will be graduating & they will be<br />
returning to the States. Time for college<br />
& job applications! Last winter they<br />
traveled around India with the school<br />
Winter Tour which was great fun. This<br />
summer was college visits in the Pacific<br />
NW where they spent some time with<br />
LYLE POWELL & PEGGY NAUMANN.<br />
KEVIN MCCONEGHEY & Terez are<br />
happy & active grandparents looking at<br />
career changes. I have been involved in<br />
training in Motivational Interviewing. I<br />
had dinner with MARGIE ROBINSON<br />
’73, who visited Madison with husband<br />
Scott. PEGGY NAUMANN gave ANI-<br />
TRA & NIGEL ’12 MANSSON a quick<br />
tour of Portland & then relaxed over<br />
Thai food. CINDY PETERS lost her<br />
dad, Tom Peters, in Nov 10 so we join<br />
with Amy, Betsy & others who have lost<br />
parents recently in celebrating their lives<br />
of service. On the upside, my nephew<br />
& wife welcomed their 2nd daughter!<br />
My brother Jeff ’78 & wife are doting<br />
grandparents & my mom loves to say
Quadrangle - 79<br />
she is a great-grandmother! I continue to<br />
work at Duke U in the Nicholas <strong>School</strong><br />
of the Env & still enjoy my house. LYLE<br />
POWELL is looking forward to a 3rd yr<br />
teaching JROTC at local HS. Madison<br />
just started her 1st yr at WSU, joining<br />
Aubrey now a sr. Jo & I are enjoying<br />
reconnecting with old friends. Really<br />
enjoyed get together with Anitra & son<br />
Nigel. With parents back East, we still<br />
do a long summer road trip. We were<br />
lucky to spend a couple hrs with KAREN<br />
ANDERSON ATTERBERRY near Peoria<br />
& JOHN HACKNEY in FL. Better<br />
pre-planning on my part would have<br />
allowed a few more. ANDREW PRIOR<br />
took an opportunity of voluntary leaving<br />
banking after nearly 32 yrs with the<br />
same bank & now happy in an admin<br />
role with a local recycling co. Son David<br />
just announced his engagement, daughter<br />
Sarah recently bought her own place so<br />
I am looking forward to being an empty<br />
nester. I have caught the jogging bug &<br />
have completed a half marathon, planning<br />
an annual half marathon & a couple<br />
of 10 kilometer runs each yr. KEITH<br />
RIGGIN’s son, Aron married fellow<br />
Army specialist Ashley Robertson in<br />
Apr 10 - both joined the Army in 08 &<br />
met at the Defense Language Institute<br />
in Monterey CA where they were put<br />
through Arabic & Middle East training.<br />
Daughter Jadeite’s wedding to Jonathon<br />
Zimmerman was here in VA in Jun. Lan<br />
& I will be grandparents in Jan. Both<br />
kids ended up marrying missionary kids.<br />
Maybe all that talk about WS over the<br />
yrs rubbed off on them, their subconscious<br />
kicked in when selecting great<br />
life partners. BETSY SCOTT MURPHY<br />
is part of a geriatric consult service at<br />
the local hospital. I enjoy it, but it can<br />
be emotionally draining. My favorite<br />
population is the over 90s. John runs<br />
the Bullington Center, a horticultural<br />
learning center in Henderson Count,<br />
NC, though we are holding our breaths<br />
with recent state budget cuts. Oldest son<br />
Gordie has graduated, looking for a job<br />
in the area of visual communications/<br />
journalism, 2nd son, Joey (20), is in NZ<br />
for a semester & very much into running<br />
marathons; youngest is in gr 8 who takes<br />
after his grandfather Ken Scott, showing<br />
promise as a pianist. My dad (95) though<br />
very frail, can still play from memory<br />
every piano piece he ever learned though<br />
some of them take too much energy for<br />
him to play now. DESIREE SPONNER<br />
TRATTLES & Chris are safely back in<br />
Europe, after some harrowing experiences<br />
sailing through the<br />
waters with pirates in the<br />
Indian Ocean. For additional<br />
details you will need to talk to<br />
them. AMANDA WAMPLER<br />
SMITH in TN lives off-grid,<br />
driving a hybrid, growing<br />
fruits, vegetables & chickens,<br />
watching wild turkeys<br />
& white-tailed deer, learning<br />
a little of the Cherokee language<br />
& also Spanish, teaches<br />
ESL in gr K-5. She sometimes<br />
can talk to a new student<br />
in Hindi or Gujarati. For<br />
BECKY WILSON TORRES, the tornado<br />
missed them but the red lightning was<br />
impressive. My son was in Brazil for his<br />
best friend’s wedding. JOHN WYSHAM<br />
& Solange, with a friend to Chincoteague<br />
Island. While Solange lazed on the beach<br />
with snacks & a beach umbrella, I took<br />
off in my kayak, saw dolphins. Landing<br />
with the surf, sitting in a kayak is a<br />
LOT harder than going out because you<br />
lose all steering control when the waves<br />
outrun the craft. —Lyle<br />
Class of 1975<br />
For the past several yrs MARK BAU-<br />
MAN & Janice have enjoyed hosting<br />
int’l students for periods of 3-9 mo. He<br />
works at WISCAP, the statewide assn.<br />
for community action agencies serving<br />
low-income households in WI. ELISE<br />
DEWSBERRY is the Artistic Director of<br />
the Ac for New Musical Theatre in LA &<br />
gets to do a lot of singing - what a great<br />
life! Happily married to ’cellist Stephen<br />
Green for nearly 30 yrs & mother to community<br />
organizer Rebecca (24). DON &<br />
MILLY SACKMAN HANNA are still<br />
in Charleston SC, for 29 yrs now. Don<br />
is busy with medical practice & church<br />
ministry. Milly retired from nursing in<br />
Feb, adjusting to empty nest syndrome;<br />
yrly travels to India to see parents &<br />
help in the work there. MARTHA<br />
MANCHESTER KAUTZ & husband<br />
celebrated their 30th wedding<br />
anniversary with a trip to the CA<br />
coast. We also enjoyed a time in<br />
ME with family & had some time<br />
with our children; Peter is stationed<br />
in NC, Sarah, in graduate school<br />
in Ireland. DAVID WEIDMAN &<br />
Tom are almost finished building a<br />
timber frame home that they have<br />
been working on for 12 yrs! It will<br />
be good to have a Sun afternoon off<br />
to go for a hike or just read a book.<br />
Tom has taken a position as the<br />
Stephen, Elise Dewsberry '75, and Rebecca Green<br />
Dean of Students at the Putney <strong>School</strong>,<br />
one hr south. Did an Alaskan cruise for a<br />
much-need vacation. JANE PETERSEN<br />
BRANDES continues to enjoy life in the<br />
Pacific NW, close to daughters & family.<br />
She has been consulting in Home Care<br />
& Hospice for the past yr & enjoys the<br />
flexibility & challenge. NYC for 7 mo<br />
was a highlight. An eventful yr for NATE<br />
RABE, which saw him get promoted &<br />
then made redundant! Since Mar he has<br />
been consulting to Australian & Int’l<br />
NGOs. Still living in Melbourne, AUS<br />
with Yvonne, Mose (8) & Esther (4).<br />
Always welcome for a visit! MARK<br />
RODDA visited WS for the first time in<br />
30 yrs with wife Linda. Their youngest<br />
son Michael is a SAGE student & has<br />
loved it. They plan to be back for the<br />
Class of 12 graduation next spring.—<br />
Contributed online<br />
Class of 1976<br />
SAM NORASAK’s oldest son Kirk has<br />
an internship at NASA in VA & Ron attended<br />
the volunteer Develop program<br />
for Earth & Science also at NASA during<br />
the summer break. JOHN WHITE teaches<br />
HS special ed & works with students<br />
who have autism. Beverly teaches KG.<br />
Oldest son Jacob teaches HS history,<br />
third son Nicholas is preparing to be a<br />
Michael Rodda '12 with mom Linda in the Quad
80 - Quadrangle<br />
Sarah Hunter '78 in her art studio<br />
band director & his wife-to-be will teach<br />
ES. Within a yr 3 of our sons will have<br />
moved out of our home, leaving Nathan,<br />
who is finishing gr 10. LAUREL BUNCE<br />
POLAREK, still living on our houseboat,<br />
still Wildschooling gr 8, still hiking,<br />
kayaking & serenading our neighbor<br />
harbor seals with Bollywood filmigeet!<br />
Life as usual. MARCY NIEHAUS<br />
LLOYD’s family took a trip to WI to see<br />
her brother TED & LINDA HOWARD.<br />
STANLEY SCISM had 6 books published,<br />
5 are Scripture studies, (one was<br />
written by his mother when she was a<br />
college teacher in India). He had 4 books<br />
published in 10, including a Christmas<br />
drama set in the Himalayas, called, logically<br />
enough, A Himalayan Christmas.<br />
You can write to Stanley stanleyscism.<br />
com & ask for an order form. JEFF &<br />
SUE ’77 (SWAIN) ROLLINS: We’re<br />
enjoying the beginning of another yr at<br />
WS. Jeff is the head of the IT dept this yr<br />
& Sue is teaching gr 4. It has been loads<br />
of fun working with the kids at school<br />
while living on the hillside. We are<br />
feeling a bit sad about our empty nest,<br />
but are beginning to find other things<br />
to occupy our time & enjoy hearing our<br />
kids’ stories about the many things they<br />
are doing. DANIEL ’11 is working on<br />
getting settled in college, Chris & wife<br />
Katie are working in NM & Asha &<br />
husband Ty & our grandson Andrew are<br />
working & living in Colorado Springs.<br />
Our daughter PRIYA is also working at<br />
WS & greatly enjoys her job as the Admin<br />
Assistant to the person in charge of<br />
all dorm activities. LYNETTE(BEACHY<br />
BAUMAN & Leon with daughters<br />
Anjuli & Bethany & husband Gabe<br />
went to India, 1st time back since<br />
they left in 89. We spent most of<br />
our time in Mussoorie with only<br />
a short visit to Agra, Jaipur &<br />
Fatehpur Sikri. ANDREW WEDE-<br />
MAN spent a lot of time commuting<br />
back & forth between Lincoln<br />
NE & China over the past few yrs,<br />
2 yrs teaching for Johns Hopkins<br />
at their Nanjing graduate center,<br />
back at the U NE for 2.5 yrs. I was<br />
on sabbatical last Spring & spent<br />
a semester at Peking U. Andrew<br />
is Assoc Prof, Dept of Poli Sci &<br />
Dir of the Asian Studies Program.<br />
MARY FEIERABEND GERARD<br />
moved back to WI this past yr.<br />
She is working at the Dane County<br />
Time Bank, org & helping people in<br />
the community. Mary is also mentoring<br />
young ladies & helping her<br />
parents at home. Joel, her oldest, moved<br />
back to FL & Renee is in colleg in MI.<br />
MARGARET MARRIOTT GUENTHER<br />
lives N of Edmonton & works as an accountant<br />
for the AB Treasury Branch.<br />
NORM REINHARDT has now spent<br />
10 yrs in China, married there last yr.<br />
He has 6 grandchildren now! SUSAN<br />
KRAMPITZ & Larry WEIL are still in<br />
Mozambique at CAM. They were able<br />
to get 5 acres out in the country for the<br />
school this past yr. Susan is teaching<br />
& Larry in administration. TULIKA<br />
PRAKASH PABRAI announced that her<br />
oldest son Kunal was engaged! He has<br />
a very successful business (with family<br />
all involved) called Fresh & Naturelle<br />
Ice Creams. As for our losses this yr,<br />
LYNETTE & HEATHER (WINDSOR)<br />
DODSON both lost their fathers, AMY<br />
LOWE lost her mother this Aug & JUDI<br />
FLICKNER’s mom passed away last<br />
Aug. We still have our class yahoo group<br />
for email contact & a class group (with<br />
a few friends) on Facebook. Classmates,<br />
if you are not on one of these groups,<br />
email JOY GARRISON SIMPSON.—Joy<br />
Class of 1977<br />
ABU RIZVI continues to work at the<br />
U VT and lives in Burlington. Looking<br />
forward to seeing WS alums in the US,<br />
India or wherever. PAUL HACKNEY<br />
moved to Kabul, Afghanistan where he<br />
works with the UN, flying VIPs around<br />
the country. He was also able to visit<br />
Cairo during a UN flight and enjoyed<br />
seeing their wonderful historic treasures<br />
first hand. Delhi is a 2-hr flight from<br />
Kabul so has visited friends and family<br />
in India regularly. One of the downsides<br />
to living in Kabul is not being able to<br />
do much personal flying so my hang<br />
glider is stored in the States collecting<br />
dust. Daughter Heidi graduated uni<br />
with double degrees in theater arts and<br />
counseling, moving to NYC soon; son<br />
Jason is completing degrees in theater<br />
arts and outdoor ed and is a candidate for<br />
the US bobsled team for the next Winter<br />
Olympics.—Contributed online<br />
Class of 1978<br />
This yr saw the home-going of 3 of our<br />
more well known dads. Dr RAJ AROLE,<br />
who co-founded Comprehensive Rural<br />
Health Project, Jamkhed, along with<br />
wife, Dr Mabelle, left us in May. CRHP<br />
is an internationally renowned org &<br />
considered to be a global model in<br />
community-based health & developm’t,<br />
has been featured in Nat’l Geographic.<br />
Dr SHOBHA AROLE & brother RAVI<br />
’85, are now overseeing the work. Jun<br />
brought the passing of Rev BOB ALTER<br />
’43, who is well known in the WS community,<br />
so I won’t make an attempt to list<br />
his accomplishments here! He was the<br />
principal for our gr 3-12 yrs & always<br />
took a personal interest in each of us. In<br />
Aug Dr. Raymond Windsor was released<br />
from his long battle with Parkinson’s. He<br />
was a cardiac surgeon & concert pianist<br />
& wore many other hats as well. He & Dr<br />
Arole worked together in several org including<br />
the Emmanuel Hosp Assn, which<br />
continues to serve many who would<br />
otherwise be without medical care today.<br />
NEIL HANKS writes he hasn’t been in<br />
touch with very many people. The last<br />
classmate visited was Mits in Portland<br />
2 summers ago. He works at the local<br />
airport as a mechanic & wife Cheryl for<br />
Food for the Hungry CAN. WILL FOS-<br />
TER says he is enjoying teaching at AZ<br />
State U, doing res in Chinese Sci, Tech<br />
& Society. ANDREW ALTER moved to<br />
Sydney in Jul 10 to take up a new position<br />
at Macquarie U. Wife FRANCES<br />
EADY ALTER (S) continues to work<br />
at the U of New England but travels to<br />
Sydney regularly. MARK WINDSOR<br />
& Annie had a yr of traveling. After 3<br />
mo teaching back at WS, they traveled<br />
S as far as Ooty. Loved being back at<br />
WS & in India. We’ve just visited 30<br />
friends in Europe then back to NZ early<br />
for Dad’s funeral. He was a great guy!<br />
SARAH HUNTER had a great yr & all<br />
is well. Her daughter has just entered<br />
gr 12 (hard to believe). She just had a
Quadrangle - 81<br />
big art show in Toronto with 25 new<br />
works & is enjoying her day job as an<br />
arts administrator. JAMES HACKNEY<br />
’79 visited, which was wonderful: we<br />
are in touch fairly often; also in touch<br />
with SUSAN TOWNSEND FENDROCK<br />
regularly. She wishes all classmates &<br />
other friends at WS a wonderful yr. This<br />
summer BABS EADIE RUTTLE & Neil<br />
drove across the upper peninsula of MI<br />
to Duluth MN to see SUZIE ROLLINS<br />
NORDSTROM, traveled through WI,<br />
IL, IN, MI and back home. It was lovely<br />
to see Suzie 29 yrs since the last time.<br />
Jennifer is back home to go to Uni. It<br />
was a treat to hear from JIM WATTS,<br />
long time MIA. He actually found Boz<br />
on Google Earth! He’s been in NY with<br />
wife Maurine & daughter Lyn (16) teaching<br />
biblical studies at Syracuse U for the<br />
past 12 yrs. His conference travel takes<br />
them far & wide including to India a few<br />
yrs back. LINDA HOWARD NIEHAUS’<br />
homeschooling days are over, now that<br />
Bethany is a freshman at OR U in the<br />
honors program. TED NIEHAUS is still<br />
working at Fairbanks Morse Engine in<br />
Beloit WI as well as on many projects<br />
on their organic farm. He also leads<br />
the Sun service at their local nursing<br />
home. The farm keeps Linda busy too,<br />
but she is enjoying having time now<br />
for other interests. Their oldest, Rachel<br />
(25) graduated from Taylor U in 10 &<br />
just started a writing internship in Ft<br />
Wayne IN. Michael (21) is living with<br />
Ted’s parents as a caregiver as Ted’s<br />
dad has Parkinson’s & mom dementia.<br />
As a result of this experience, his plans<br />
have changed & he has started a nursing<br />
program at South TX College. I<br />
(CAROL REMINGTON IVANCE) spent<br />
a fun evening with BONITA JANZEN<br />
’79, RUTH SANWALIA NAVE (S) &<br />
KATHY GETTER LINDQUIST ’69 in<br />
May. I also enjoyed the co of several<br />
’76ers during their Indian meal night<br />
at their reunion in Jul. I currently have<br />
an empty nest as my baby, Jessa (18) is<br />
in Tanzania for 5 mo with YWAM. My<br />
other children Heather (24) & Austin<br />
(21) live in Mpls - not too far. Find me<br />
on FB or the WOSA alumni site at www.<br />
facebook.com/wsalumni .—Carol<br />
Class of 1979<br />
After many yrs we heard from MARY<br />
ANNA KAMPARS, who enjoys life in<br />
Fresno CA with her 3 cats. Here we enjoy<br />
locally grown fresh fruit & vegetables<br />
yr round. It’s good eating! My<br />
current project is writing a children’s<br />
book, to be self-published<br />
sometime next yr.<br />
I also keep busy at<br />
church & with friends &<br />
family. For STEVE ME-<br />
CARTNEY, Samantha<br />
Louise Chu Mecartney<br />
arrived Dec ’10, all<br />
10.34 lb of her. Hiede &<br />
Samantha were in Apia<br />
with me this summer &<br />
really enjoyed it. I have<br />
been here for over 2 yrs<br />
& hope to move to Manila.<br />
FAITH KENOYER<br />
works at Cairo Covenant<br />
<strong>School</strong> where it has been<br />
a very eventful yr, a special experience.<br />
As a massage therapist at a major hotel<br />
CLARE GERTCH meets people sometimes<br />
on unusual career paths. When the<br />
rodeo was in town, she massaged a<br />
roper ranked 5th in the world. As it’s<br />
been their ritual for the last 8 yrs, she &<br />
John went to Holland & England in Nov.<br />
YASMEEN MERCHANT has given up<br />
the corp world & trying her hand at furniture<br />
restoration with a friend. Even if<br />
it does not pan out, I’ve enjoyed it so<br />
far. Still trying to fight the good fight<br />
part time, heard that ONGC thinks they<br />
are going to set up a gas refinery &<br />
power plant in ecologically fragile Dahanu,<br />
we will have to give them a fight<br />
for their money. Go Yas! SHOBHANA<br />
CHELLIAH joined in for our collective<br />
50th celebration, so great to finally meet<br />
classmates, soul mates, shared history.<br />
It’s been quiet for Shobhana & family.<br />
Son Timothy moved to the dorms at the<br />
U N TX, having a grand time. She is<br />
filling spare time with travel, proposal<br />
writing, students, kettle bells & music.<br />
SHARON SETO is back-to-school,<br />
teaching a section of IB geography &<br />
1/8 of the way through an MBA. Still<br />
enjoying her job at UWC-USA. Robin is<br />
studying dance at the NM <strong>School</strong> for the<br />
Arts in Santa Fe & in gr 11, loving life.<br />
DORIEN ’06 works with migrants in<br />
detention with the legal assistance org<br />
Florence Project in Phoenix. She is enjoying<br />
the luxury of living alone for the<br />
1st time. Steve is the IT director at<br />
UWC, sings in choir & organized a TED<br />
X conference in Nov. DEANNE LEHM-<br />
AN works at the European Parliament in<br />
the AV unit. She has not left journalism<br />
far behind as she is the webmaster/coordinator<br />
of a multimedia website for<br />
media professionals, providing journalists<br />
with photos, video footage, audio &<br />
Bonita Janzen ’79, Carol Remington Ivance, ’78, Ruth Sanwalia<br />
Nave S, Kathy Getter Lindquist ’69<br />
media packages on all activities the EP<br />
is involved in. Benno continues to write<br />
for newspapers, magazines & publishes<br />
books. With Deanne’s heavier workload<br />
he is now soccer dad, cook, chauffeur,<br />
butler, maid, etc. Christopher (13) is in<br />
gr 9, in a French school that also has an<br />
English mother tongue section. His big<br />
loves are soccer (he plays in the Belgian<br />
nat’l competition) & animals. Anna<br />
Vandana goes mostly by Anna now because<br />
most people cannot pronounce her<br />
beautiful Indian name properly! She<br />
turned 13 & is in gr 7. She also plays<br />
soccer & loves music, taking piano lessons<br />
& singing in the church choir.<br />
KIRBY STARR has‘worked for the PA<br />
DOT for 16 yrs after retiring in ’95 from<br />
the Navy, now a construction mgr responsible<br />
for highway & bridge construction,<br />
presently overseeing 2 bridge<br />
& 2 other projects. I got married with<br />
Melanie, now have 2 wonderful step<br />
children in addition to my 2. Only one,<br />
my stepdaughter, in HS lives with us.<br />
My daughter will have a 2nd son. My<br />
son is a jr in college in IN & lives with<br />
his mother. He is a HS football & track<br />
coach. My stepson is in his 1st yr of<br />
college at St. Vincent College in Latrobe<br />
PA, on their football team. My parents<br />
BILL & JANET STARR (S) are doing<br />
well. We attended brother CHRIS’ ’81<br />
wedding to GARGI BAROOAH (S)<br />
around Easter in Lynchburg VA. ANITA<br />
LUTHRA has switched jobs again, working<br />
for IBM, travelling a lot, enjoying<br />
her kids. Her son & daughter are in college<br />
& her other daughter just got back<br />
after a yr & a half in Thailand & is adjusting<br />
to being back in the States. She<br />
lives in NC & goes to as many WS events<br />
as she can. ANITA SUNDARAM was<br />
very pleased to recover from a torn meniscus<br />
without surgery & celebrated with
82 - Quadrangle<br />
trips in Jul to MI & Toronto! Wonderful<br />
to see friends & family & escape the heat<br />
& humidity of FL summers. I’m planning<br />
long-overdue trip to India. NATHAN<br />
TAYLOR celebrated his 50th in style<br />
with a surprise Indian theme party. Maya<br />
even managed to bring in a professional<br />
Indian singer who sang him Sheila ki<br />
jiwani among other songs! They have<br />
now finished the house in Lebanon &<br />
stayed there for the 1st time this summer.<br />
N & M also managed a 1 wk cruise of<br />
the Norwegian Fjords, absolutely breathtaking!<br />
BB RANA is in Jakarta, now for<br />
7 yrs working with WHO. I’ve not met<br />
anyone from WS, wonder if anyone is<br />
here in Jakarta? My daughter has finished<br />
HS & will be going to AUS for<br />
college. After that we will be free to<br />
travel & maybe meet some of the classmates<br />
or attend reunions. While waiting<br />
for visas for the UK HUGH KEMP &<br />
Karen were in Christchurch NZ in the<br />
earthquakes of Feb. They now live in<br />
Gloucester UK where he is Head of Missions<br />
at Redcliffe College. Culture shock<br />
plus: Hugh says that it was the British<br />
who taught India about red tape! HUGH<br />
STODDARD at the U NE College of<br />
Medicine is the Asst. Dean for Medical<br />
Educ. He spends most of his time contemplating<br />
how he will be able to afford<br />
college tuition next yr & looking longingly<br />
at planes flying overhead that are<br />
taking other people to wonderful &<br />
fascinating places. The day after his<br />
note, as if on cue to make his life exciting,<br />
Warren Buffett was outside his office<br />
window handing out Dilly bars!<br />
JANE NICHOLLS FOOTE enjoyed the<br />
pictures from our collective 50th birthday.<br />
She works for the NZ Ministry of<br />
Agricul & Forestry as Border Training<br />
& Quality Mgr & when not at work does<br />
yoga & zumba & dreams about working<br />
in Italy. Robin contracts as a sr business<br />
analyst & has just done up 2 vintage<br />
motor bikes & remembers in his dreams<br />
the Tiger Moth flight he went on for his<br />
birthday. Kids x2 both grown, Rebekah<br />
in Toronto coming home at Christmas,<br />
Nicholas going to London. KHOOROSH<br />
KHOSRAVI has been busy with kids<br />
going back to school & getting ready for<br />
winter in VT, thinking to visit WS<br />
maybe in Mar depending on how things<br />
go. He splits his time between VT &<br />
CAN. CAROL DODGSON KLOOSTER<br />
is a hospice social worker serving the<br />
rural counties SW of St. Louis. Alison<br />
(21) is in her final yr at the U Chicago<br />
& Anya (19) in her 2nd yr at the U MO-<br />
Columbia. Now that there are no more<br />
sporting events to attend both she & Dale<br />
use their free time running. Carol ran in<br />
her 1st half marathon in Apr & again in<br />
Nov. Perhaps a marathon is next! BO-<br />
NITA JANZEN works with an agency<br />
that provides residential services for<br />
developmentally disabled adults who<br />
live in community homes; encouraging<br />
staff to understand how to support vulnerable<br />
people make the best choices in<br />
their daily lives. I still live in the heart<br />
of Winnipeg & have enjoyed the co of<br />
son Anand (23), for several mo this yr.<br />
He continues to focus on developing<br />
artistic skills. Anisha (16) entered gr11.<br />
She spends a lot of time with 2 new<br />
miniature horses, one that will foal next<br />
yr. I enjoyed driving to MI with Anisha<br />
to see some of you for our collective<br />
50th birthday celebration. Extended<br />
family here in Winnipeg & Steinbach is<br />
also a regular draw as our clan gathers<br />
for birthdays, graduations & to see off<br />
the older cousins as they launch into<br />
their young adult lives. MERTI DJLAN-<br />
TIK RITTGERS has been busy. Son<br />
Tobie is now in Iraq, I took some classes,<br />
renewed my OT career, went to Belgium<br />
& Holland for a mo as my<br />
Honorary Dad passed away from skin<br />
cancer. But I also got a chance to visit<br />
with DEANNE LEHMAN for a weekend<br />
in Brussels! KIRAN CUNNINGHAM’s<br />
son Kyle is a sr at Wooster & Brian a sr<br />
in HS; she was the one who hosted our<br />
birthday celebration at their cottage the<br />
Pebble, on the shores of Lake MI. We<br />
enjoyed the beach & sun, bonfires, stories,<br />
sailing, paddling, good khanna,<br />
some deadly jungle-rules croquet, not<br />
being connected to any grid excepting<br />
electric, sunsets to die for & stars not<br />
seen since Mussoorie! A good crowd<br />
stayed on to attend Blissfest music festival<br />
nearby complete with Irish-listing<br />
bhangra! JOIE MORRIS DEWOLF ’72<br />
& Dave also joined us at Bliss where we<br />
also met up with DAVID BUNCE ’67.<br />
We had a good crowd at the Pebble,<br />
Kiran, Russ & family, Carol, Dale, Allison<br />
& Anya, Sharon, Steve, Dorien &<br />
Robin. KEVIN SCOTT, Martha & GA-<br />
RETH ’12 sandwiched us between 2<br />
music festivals & a visit to nearby<br />
friends, Anita S, Shobhana. MONUJ<br />
BOSE made time for us after a recent<br />
trip to India, Bonita & Anisha came<br />
down from Winnipeg & JAMES HACK-<br />
NEY was there to make sure everyone<br />
was overfed! I have had a busy WS-addled<br />
yr with a concert visit from STAN<br />
LEHMAN (S) & Kevin, a visit from a<br />
few Canadian friends, an impromptu trip<br />
to Toronto where I connected with ARIF<br />
MAHMUD & family, CARLA REIMER,<br />
HEATHER HILLIARD, SARAH HUNT-<br />
ER ’78, Jane’s daughter Rebekah,<br />
BRIGID WARWICK VAN DER BORGH<br />
’80, NICOLE GARGA O’HARA ’80,<br />
HEIDI FURCHA ’81 & my new brother<br />
CHRIS HALE ’85. The Toronto trip was<br />
followed by a visit from Joie & Dave &<br />
then Chris brought his band Aradhna<br />
down for a concert in the Asheville area;<br />
a short visit from DAPHNE WYSHAM<br />
(ask her about her life-threatening river<br />
rescue & arrest in front of the White<br />
House). A family reunion in Jun followed<br />
by the 50th gathering in Jul.<br />
Throw in some camping & biking & life<br />
is good. Come visit & stay in touch!—<br />
James
1980s<br />
Jottings<br />
Class of 1980<br />
After many yrs it’s great to have news of<br />
JAWAD SHERDIL, who, thanks to Facebook<br />
has reconnected with the class; living in Mission<br />
Viejo CA. JULIA NIEHAUS SOPER<br />
writes that she & Bob haven’t done much<br />
traveling since their trip to India last summer<br />
but they’ve been busy making improvements<br />
to their home in S TX. Julia has moved to<br />
half-time work as a student nurse & reports<br />
that this summer she acted in a movie! DAR<br />
SEAMAN SILLIMAN writes that life as<br />
always is busy & full for her & Tom. We are<br />
milking 6 cows at our little micro-dairy & still<br />
making a living by selling raw, organic milk,<br />
pasture-raised eggs & meat. I just applied<br />
for a food processor’s license (commercial<br />
kitchen) which will allow us to make some<br />
value added products to sell in our store. We<br />
will start out with jam & jelly & things like<br />
zucchini & pumpkin bread & berry muffins.<br />
Our basic rule will be that a main ingredient<br />
has to be from the farm. If that goes well,<br />
we will branch out into other things. I think<br />
cheese is on hold indefinitely as we keep selling<br />
out of milk. Savannah is in MS, loving it<br />
& keeping busy in her spare time riding Olive<br />
& helping out on the farm. She did very well<br />
in her 1st yr in 4-H Club & won an award for<br />
the best Novice rider of the yr for King Co<br />
WA. VINAY MEHRA has opened 2 restaurants<br />
in Delhi, a Subway & a new one named<br />
Kebab Fresh in Jun. He says that, he is now<br />
a restaurateur more than a jeweler. Daughter<br />
JIVIKA ’11 graduated from WS & is now<br />
Fardis Nejad ’80 - Mediterranean diet<br />
80s CLASS REPS<br />
Beth Norford 1980<br />
306 Oak St Apt B<br />
Charlottesville VA 22903-5546<br />
USA<br />
434-973-8627<br />
bnorford@mac.com<br />
Deirdre Straughan 1981<br />
1 Saint Francis Place Apt 2911<br />
San Francisco CA 94107-1350<br />
USA<br />
720-371-4107<br />
deirdre@straughan.com<br />
Karen Fiol-McKerihan 1982<br />
2869 Doncaster Drive<br />
Charleston SC 29414<br />
USA<br />
843-766-7786<br />
ublak@aol.com<br />
Anshuman <strong>Magazine</strong> 1983<br />
CBRE India, PTI Building GF,<br />
Parliament St<br />
New Delhi 110001<br />
India<br />
+91-11-2332-2769<br />
anshuman.magazine@cbre.com<br />
Sisi Crotty Lance 1984<br />
Tudor Lodge 2A Ashley Rise<br />
Walton-on-Thames KT12 1ND<br />
UK<br />
taina.lance@verizon.net<br />
Robina David Sommers 1985<br />
64354 Limberlost Lane<br />
Goshen IN 46526<br />
USA<br />
574-534-6452<br />
4sommers@frontier.net<br />
Faisal Khan 1986<br />
1425 2nd Avenue<br />
San Mateo, CA 94401-2105<br />
USA<br />
faisalkhan@gmail.com<br />
Avalon Pinto 1987<br />
1/FO-3 Model’s Harmony<br />
Caranzalem - Taleigao<br />
Goa 403 002<br />
India<br />
+ 91 832-2461635<br />
avalon.pinto@gmail.com<br />
Mohana Rao 1988<br />
PO Box 24929 Sharjah<br />
UAE<br />
mrao_online@yahoo.com<br />
Ena Singh Murphy 1989<br />
9219 Briary Lane<br />
Fairfax VA 22031<br />
USA<br />
703-426-5753<br />
EnaMurphy@aol.com<br />
Quadrangle - 83<br />
studying in Switzerland<br />
at the LeRoche <strong>School</strong><br />
of Hotel Mngmt, one of<br />
the top 3 such schools<br />
in the world! Son Armaan<br />
completed gr 8 at<br />
WS with a 4.00 GPA,<br />
continuing to add to the<br />
distinction of the Mehra<br />
name. In addition to his<br />
academic achievements,<br />
Armaan has launched<br />
an India club at WS &<br />
spends Sunday afternoons<br />
running math &<br />
L to R: Jonathan, Caleb, niece Noelle, Abby, Michael, Amy and David<br />
Dye at Noelle's graduation in Iowa<br />
English classes for employee<br />
children. From<br />
AMY MCCAULEY DYE: our family is doing<br />
well in spite of financial difficulties due to spend some time with FARDIS NEJAD<br />
this yr! BETH NORFORD was fortunate<br />
to the economic recession. David is looking this summer at his home in gorgeous <strong>Vol</strong>os,<br />
for employment, which might move us away Greece. He is doing well parenting his 3 boys<br />
from our home in San Antonio. I continue to & running a successful real estate business in<br />
homeschool 4, with my oldest to graduate the area. Oldest son SHAYAN ’11 graduated
84 - Quadrangle<br />
Class of 80s second generation – Shayan Nejad and<br />
Jivika Mehra at graduation, <strong>2011</strong><br />
with Vinay’s daughter Jivika. He’s now back<br />
in Greece after a brief stint in Mumbai where<br />
he appeared in a TV commercial doing stunts.<br />
Fardis is planning to host the class for a collective<br />
50th birthday celebration next summer.<br />
If you think you might enjoy swimming in the<br />
Aegean, hanging out in mtn villages on beautiful<br />
Mt Pelios & enjoying multiple glasses of<br />
ouzo, accompanied by delicious Greek food,<br />
then you should keep a close eye on your<br />
email as Fardis finalizes dates for this gathering.<br />
From Greece Beth traveled to S Asia &<br />
writes from Lucknow, India: I spent the past<br />
yr organizing a non-profit corp in the US to<br />
work on improving schools, with a focus on<br />
teacher training. I’ve just finished 5 wks in<br />
Kathmandu at the Rato Bangala <strong>School</strong>, with<br />
which I’ve been associated with for over 20<br />
yrs. I’m going to be editing a book about<br />
their story, so was busy with that as well as<br />
with teacher training. In India I’m seeking<br />
out potential future projects & will also be in<br />
Mussoorie or about a wk attending celebrations<br />
for the 100th anniversary of WOSA. I<br />
phoned DARAB NAGARWALLA & learned<br />
that he, Naz & Vanalika are planning to attend<br />
a family wedding in Kashmir next summer.<br />
SUDHA KAUL’s son Arjun is another ’11 HS<br />
graduate & has started his 1st yr at UC Berkeley,<br />
where we’re sure he’ll do well. Hoping<br />
to meet some of you in Greece next summer<br />
to catch up in person. See you there!—Beth<br />
Class of ’80: Beth Norford and Fardis Nejad<br />
Class of 1981<br />
Life is busy with our children aged 6, 8,<br />
10, and 12. As TINA FIOL SIMPSON<br />
nears 50 yrs, she understands why most<br />
women have their children much earlier<br />
than she did! SheI still works from<br />
home as a recruiter for Mission to the<br />
World (PCA) where she has been for<br />
22 yrs, counting 2 yrs teaching English<br />
in Japan. Her husband Bo still works<br />
as a commercial real estate appraiser,<br />
where he’s been for 2 decades as well!<br />
We hope that shows stability rather<br />
than that we’re dull! My Dad, BRUCE<br />
FIOL ’56, accepted a new position with<br />
MTW (my employer, as well as his former<br />
employer) as US Director for the<br />
India, Sri Lanka Partnership. He loves being<br />
more involved with India again! It’s been a<br />
busy yr for SARA AHMED. She developed<br />
applied res projects on food and nutritional<br />
security in S Asia, launched a res initiative<br />
on the Indus Basin, visited China and NG and<br />
was at the Stockholm World Water Wk as a<br />
Lead Rapporteur. The Class had a reunion at<br />
<strong>Woodstock</strong> during the WOSA 100 celebrations.—Contributed<br />
online<br />
Class of 1982<br />
KATHRYN BUCKNER SWANSON’s<br />
family is back Stateside after 3 yrs at WS.<br />
DANIEL (S) pastors a Lutheran church in<br />
New Castle County DE, and she is at a Lutheran<br />
service agency providing emergency<br />
assistance to families. Their 4 kids are close<br />
by. MARSHALL JOHNSON is enjoying<br />
life with 3 kids & recently had a wonderful<br />
beach vacation for a wk, 1st in yrs. Rebecca<br />
is enjoying home schooling the kids through<br />
the Veritas program here in Alpharetta GA,<br />
near Atlanta. Marshall continues in his role<br />
for ADVA.—Contributed online<br />
Class of 1983<br />
KAIRAS MISTRY is back with Marriott Int’l<br />
as a curriculum designer. I left the restaurant/<br />
airline catering business after 4 yrs with a<br />
wealth of knowledge & experience that is<br />
serving me well in my<br />
new position. Still living<br />
in Summit NJ & enjoying<br />
life in general. It has<br />
been a busy yr for AMY<br />
WILSON. My daughter<br />
(8) & son (9) spent the<br />
winter skiing & learning<br />
to skate on their hockey<br />
skates. They think I am<br />
moving up on the cool<br />
scale as I am taking skating<br />
lessons as well, in<br />
hopes of joining an ice<br />
Lunch in Mussoorie:. Imon Ghosh ’82, and Saroj<br />
Kapadia (S)<br />
hockey league. Work as the HR, Ops & Fin<br />
Mgr for my brother KRISHNAN’s ’95 co continues<br />
to keep me going. GURINDER RANA<br />
has retired from both the US.Army & Federal<br />
Civil Service. I have returned to India, living<br />
in Gurgaon, currently professionally engaged<br />
with a US enterprise doing business in India &<br />
the ME, in the delightful post of Program Dir<br />
& Principal Consultant. Behind my success is<br />
my wonderful better half Sonia who works as<br />
a sr consultant at TCS. LISA VERGHESE has<br />
settled in Chennai & life has continued pretty<br />
much in the same vein. If you would like to<br />
know more about my work, see elizabethverghese2.wordpress.com;<br />
always welcome<br />
contributors to the blog. SERENA LAROIA<br />
NGUYEN has been in St Louis MO for 5 yrs.<br />
I decided to stay at home & after a rocky start<br />
am loving every moment. If anyone is coming<br />
my way, please make sure to contact me.<br />
MADHU MALHAN is in the Greatest City<br />
in the World, NYC, working at an ad agency,<br />
Publicis USA & adjusting to an empty nest<br />
with her son a soph at St. Lawrence U. She<br />
was in Delhi last summer, where she was<br />
delighted to reconnect with several alumni<br />
at a lovely lunch hosted by ANSHUMAN<br />
MAGAZINE. STEPHANIE TURCO WIL-<br />
LIAMS, living in Bahrain since 09 & serving<br />
at the US Embassy. Tom & I have 2 wonderful<br />
1st time together at beach for Gerrick, Greydon & Sela Johnson
Class of 82 in Bangkok- Parit Phandcharuneedhi, Philip<br />
Simrose and Yao<br />
& active children Alec (11) & Erin (9). We are<br />
lucky to have a small group of WS grads in<br />
the vicinity from across the generations, including<br />
VINITA SUNDARAM HENRY ’81,<br />
NATHAN TAYLOR ’79, RAHUL KUMAR<br />
ALI ’90, NAUSHER ALI ’90, DANA SMITH<br />
’92 & MAYUKH CHATTERJEE ’89. All are<br />
welcome to visit! VIGYAN RANA has been<br />
8 yrs in Dubai, Mgr Dir of Viacom dxb www.<br />
viacomdxb.com providing wireless solutions.<br />
Eldest son started in U MA Boston. Twins<br />
boy & girl will be off to uni in 2 yrs. Looking<br />
forward to reunion if one is planned. Wendy<br />
& DUSHYANT MANCHANDA & 4 kids are<br />
in sunny Las Vegas as he is busy in consulting<br />
& tech support in the SF Bay Area. MEEN-<br />
AKSHI VARANDANI lives in New York<br />
& recently visited India. She plans to bring<br />
students from Pratt U to India later this yr for<br />
development & sustainability projects. Kylie<br />
& ROB STONE have a busy (& noisy) life<br />
with 5 kids at home from 9 to19, and a business<br />
that doesn’t stop, thanks to the demand<br />
for Australian resources. If you’re heading to<br />
the western side of ‘down-under’, look us up<br />
and say hello! KAREN HUNTER JONES<br />
is an ordained priest & motivational speaker<br />
in England. SHAHRAM SEPAHI lives in<br />
Heidelberg West, AUS. CHAND MEHRA’s<br />
daughter SACHIKA ’11 is in college in LA<br />
this yr, while son continues at WS. VALMIK<br />
MUNDKUR lives in Gurgaon while his 2 sons<br />
continue their tennis training program in Italy.<br />
For myself, I continue to live in New Delhi<br />
with my wife & daughter as my son recently<br />
joined WS in gr 11.—Anshuman<br />
Class of 1984<br />
SAM EBRAHIM works in UK in high tech,<br />
designing/deploying tech to enable agile<br />
workforce. Wife Sarah works as receptionist<br />
at a physio. Adam is 7 & Noah 9. They<br />
just moved into their renovated home closer<br />
to London. PHIL FIOL & Amina are still<br />
in Dehradun with daughters<br />
Ashlyn (6) & Anna (4), where<br />
Phil leads an int’l church/Bible<br />
school. He hopes to meet with<br />
Fenocians during WOSA 100<br />
in Oct. JOE GILLESPIE has<br />
sold a painting after attending an<br />
annual art show for 4 yrs, proving<br />
that perseverance pays off!<br />
PAOLO GUIDOTTI transferred<br />
to Bangkok from HK as Regional<br />
Country Manager Indochina &<br />
Indonesia for VF Corp (apparel).<br />
TONY (SURIND) GULRAJANI<br />
launched a new solar energy<br />
vertical market initiative which<br />
is going well, albeit with lots of<br />
travel. He is looking forward to<br />
Nov holidays in Bombay with Rashmi & son<br />
Avi (3). SUE STONE HAKE deserves the Superwoman<br />
Award: she has raised/is raising 10<br />
children (toddler to 26 yrs), has 3 businesses<br />
(online toy store selling worldwide www.jellybeantoys.co.uk,<br />
a pet caring business with a<br />
daughter & child minding) & still volunteers<br />
as school governor & PTA Chairperson.<br />
Whew! Two daughters got married over the<br />
summer. SAJNI BAMMI KHANNA enjoyed<br />
meeting with many other Delhi-ites like<br />
Anshuman ’83 & KOHLI. KOHLI & Seema<br />
proudly watched son Harit graduate from WS<br />
in May. He was hoping for an invite to the grad<br />
party but it got rained out. Harit is off to uni<br />
while daughter Upsana is in final uni yr, with<br />
Seema keeping home/business fires burning.<br />
SISI LANCE is loving life in England & has<br />
overcommitted herself to volunteer positions<br />
at school & ex-pat women’s club. She &<br />
Nicolas are excited to introduce their 3 kids<br />
to India/WS for WOSA 100 in Oct. ALEX<br />
MANTON is busy juggling his int’l photography<br />
business, raising 2 boys post-divorce &<br />
adding film-making to his resume. In Apr he<br />
& his family had a small memorial service in<br />
Mussoorie for his father, who recently passed<br />
away. Alex has enjoyed visits at his Singapore<br />
home with NILMINI,<br />
MONISHA, ARJUN &<br />
MONICA ROBERTS (S)<br />
& welcomes more visitors.<br />
SHABNAM MERCHANT<br />
& Daniel starred in the<br />
documentary Battle for<br />
Brooklyn - www.battleforbrooklyn.com,<br />
about their<br />
7 yr (ultimately unsuccessful)<br />
battle to prevent their<br />
home from being destroyed<br />
to make way for a sports<br />
arena. CHRIS MEYER<br />
has a new position as hospitalis<br />
(hospital MD) in<br />
Quadrangle - 85<br />
hometown Brattleboro VT. They survived<br />
Hurricane Irene but the town was in nat’l<br />
news for flooding damage. Eldest daughter<br />
just became a teen. JENNY WRAY OLSON<br />
is in the middle of tenure review so has been<br />
putting in long hrs as professor. Son Calvin<br />
is learning to drive. She took daughter Livia<br />
to NYC for her 13th bday & enjoyed meeting<br />
with NARESH, JIGME & MADHU ’83.<br />
ARJUN SARUP took son Ambar for his 1st<br />
trip to London, where they enjoyed museums<br />
& attended a huge airshow. They also<br />
met with MARY, JIGME & Sisi. ANDREW<br />
SHAMRAO & Mahi are doing well & enjoying<br />
parenthood w/ Zareena (4) & Zimraan<br />
(2). NARESH TECKWANI & family had<br />
a fab time visiting Sisi’s family in Surrey<br />
over Easter break. They partook in the Royal<br />
Wedding festivities & enjoyed seeing SAM<br />
EBRAHIM & PUCHKA ’85. Highlight was<br />
attending a football match where son Nikesh<br />
witnessed his beloved Gunners take down his<br />
daddy’s Red Devils.—Sisi<br />
Class of 1985<br />
MANA KHANDVALA is currently working<br />
as an architect in Philadelphia; husband John<br />
keeps his architectural practice in NYC and<br />
travels between the 2 cities. Our son Anav<br />
(2) is a constant source of wonder and joy to<br />
us. If anyone is travelling through the area<br />
please contact me! Heather & AJAY PIL-<br />
LAI have been happily married for 16 yrs &<br />
have been blessed with Joel, Joshua, Josiah<br />
& Jonathan. FARAH KHAN SIDDIQUI and<br />
family celebrated son Ali’s graduation from<br />
high school. CATHY MANN EVANS also<br />
celebrated son Sean’s high school graduation.<br />
PHILIP THURMAN has a HS graduate who<br />
will be a freshman in College. Man, Froggies,<br />
we are getting old. I have been having the time<br />
of my life doing what I love to do and 21 yrs of<br />
marriage to my best friend. Life is awesome!<br />
SUNG HAN KIM and family were stationed<br />
in India last year by a Korean Trading co to<br />
promote and do market res for their products.<br />
Cathy Evans '85 and family celebrating Sean's graduation
86 - Quadrangle<br />
Farah Khan '85 and family at son Ali's high school graduation<br />
He has decided to stay in India with his family!<br />
Congratulations to NIGEL SEQUEIRA<br />
on his ordination as a priest on Jun 29. We<br />
all rejoice with you, Nigel! MIN KI YU and<br />
JAY ROADARMEL live near each other in<br />
Pleasanton CA. Give them a shout if you are<br />
coming to San Francisco. Our family took a<br />
trip to Disney World in May, right after school.<br />
We had a great time! Stay tuned for a 30th<br />
class reunion in Delhi/WS in ’15.—Robina<br />
Class of 1986<br />
PRAVIN AGARWAL is managing the family<br />
bus in Aligarh, India. He is married & has<br />
2 children. JUNAID ALIM has been in Austin<br />
TX for the last 5 yrs. He has 2 girls (12,<br />
7). He was lucky to attend the 25th reunion<br />
in NJ. Also went to WS after a long time &<br />
met with fav teacher, Ms. CHANDER, still<br />
misses WS 25 yrs later. STEPHAN ANDER-<br />
SON is in Stratford ONT, about an hr & a<br />
half from Toronto, married for 8 yrs now.<br />
They have a adopted Sarah (2) & hope to<br />
adopt another child in the near future. Wife<br />
Robina Sommers ’85 and family enjoying Disneyland<br />
Tori works for a MD &<br />
Stephan is an Inventory<br />
Controller at a local family<br />
business. His dad is doing<br />
well-still working & sister<br />
DEB ’89 is married, has<br />
twin boys & owns a few<br />
franchises of Subway Restaurants,<br />
so hit us up for a<br />
sandwich if you are ever in<br />
this neck of the woods!<br />
KATHY BAKER PRO-<br />
KOPCHUK is married &<br />
living in CAN, with husband<br />
& 4 children! RANA<br />
BANERJEE lives & works<br />
as an analyst in London, wife Mita is a<br />
schoolteacher. They have an infant son &<br />
toddler daughter. Rana often gets together<br />
with Jamie & Faisal joins them every time he<br />
can make it across. ANGELA BERNDT<br />
TURCK is married & living in Germany. Her<br />
older son is now a student in gr 11 at WS.<br />
MANOJ BHASIN lives in Long Island NY<br />
& welcomes contact with anyone from WS.<br />
From NZ, PHILIP CAUGHLEY & family<br />
visited Nepal & India this winter, to show our<br />
children some of the places that played important<br />
roles in our family history. Unfortunately,<br />
due to job & school constraints, we<br />
can only go in winter, so our visit to Mussoorie<br />
will be brief & won’t see WS in operation,<br />
but it should still be a real adventure<br />
& learning experience for us all. SAM<br />
CHAMBERLAIN lives in London, working<br />
for Christian Aid. HYUNG MEE CHOI, a<br />
CPA, has a son Calvin. She is married to Joon<br />
Choi & lives in Los Gatos CA. SABIRA<br />
CHOUDHURY BALLAND spent some time<br />
in India last yr & met with SUMANA, ’85.<br />
She is now in the Washington DC<br />
area. ANDREW COVE has a daughter<br />
Michelle (25!), lives in Sydney<br />
AUS with wife & works in IT. He<br />
spends his spare time in his boat,<br />
fishing. ANILA LAL DAMODHAR<br />
is an ophthalmic surgeon & has returned<br />
to Bangalore with husband &<br />
2 young children. MANOJ DHARI-<br />
WAL is a doctor in Minneapolis,<br />
MN. He remembers his WS days<br />
fondly. JAMIE DICKINSON is a<br />
schoolteacher in England, has a son<br />
Max (7) who passed his martial arts<br />
exam recently. LISA FIOL POW-<br />
ERS has been working as a Health<br />
Program Mgr at Peace Corps Mongolia<br />
in Ulan Bataar, Mongolia since<br />
07.. JEREMY FROST is in Los<br />
Angeles, working hard as an immigration<br />
attorney, with their own<br />
law firm, keeping him insanely<br />
busy! SHENA GAMAT was recently in the<br />
Bollywood movie Band, Baja, aur Baraat &<br />
has received wide critical acclaim for her<br />
work in that movie; daughter Aditi is 13.<br />
ANSHU GOEL AGGARWAL has moved to<br />
Dubai from Cyprus, busy raising 2 boys.<br />
CRAIG GINGERICH recently relocated to<br />
Shanghai. He is still keeping up his running<br />
on the Shanghai streets. FRED GOLDSMITH<br />
is a surgeon in Ireland & has a position that<br />
allows him to commute back & forth to Bermuda.<br />
He often posts pictures of beachside<br />
picnics, making all his classmates very jealous.<br />
His son & daughter are enjoying the time<br />
in the Caribbean as much as he & his wife<br />
are. VIJAY GOYAL lives & works in CT &<br />
brought his family to the reunion in Jul.<br />
GURPREET GREWAL is now based in<br />
Zurich. He looks after the commercial insurance<br />
portfolio for a large insurance co.<br />
CHRIS HALE is busy traveling the world<br />
with wife Sara & Aradhna bandmates. Recently,<br />
they released a new album & many<br />
classmates were able to enjoy the videos<br />
shared via facebook. JENNY HANKINS is<br />
a doctor in CAN. She is married, has 2 children.<br />
RAUL HARRI & Marjaana have 3 great<br />
children Riki (18), Esa (16) & Amy (10). Son<br />
Riki graduates from HS this Jun. Time flies…<br />
it seems like only yesterday that we were<br />
graduating! Raul serves as a MS principal at<br />
Int’l <strong>School</strong> of Qingdao www.isqchina.com.<br />
UBAH HUSSEIN lives in NYC & works in<br />
retail. SHALINI JANDIAL GEORGE is an<br />
attorney & teaches constitutional law at Suffolk<br />
U in Boston. She is married, has 2 children,<br />
both of whom want to be lawyers.<br />
ABBAS JARRAHIAN is an Assist Prof<br />
Pharma at OH Northern Uni. When he is not<br />
busy publishing research papers, Abbas enjoys<br />
working out & eating Indian food. He &<br />
Kathy have 3 children. DAVID JENSEN lives<br />
in San Francisco. He is married & works in<br />
the Office of the City Attorney of San Francisco,<br />
in the area of family law. Dave enjoys<br />
exploring the outdoors & keeping his language<br />
skills honed: he currently speaks 6<br />
languages fluently. WOLFGANG<br />
KALTHOFF lives with wife & 2 children in<br />
Germany, enjoys meeting with WS folks. He<br />
recently finished his MBA and, with the backing<br />
of his former employer SAP launched his<br />
own co - Treasury Intelligence Solutions,<br />
GmbH - which helps manage treasury accounts<br />
efficiently. SONIA KEWALRAMANI<br />
is a doctor in Houston TX & also working<br />
in real estate. She often visits her brother<br />
HEMANT ’89 in CA & enjoys participating<br />
in Gujarati community events in the Houston<br />
area. Besides working, travelin & enjoying<br />
a nephew born in May, FAISAL KHAN flies<br />
his tiny plane & wants to get an amphibious
pilot’s rating to explore the world.<br />
He is a krav maga instructor, does<br />
lots of sports, dabbles in photography<br />
& film & volunteers. Faisal<br />
hopes to visit WS in the near future<br />
with his Japanese girlfriend Keiko.<br />
FAIZA ALI KHAN is managing a<br />
hotel in Long Island & would love<br />
to hear from anyone in the area. She<br />
is married with 2 children. FRAN-<br />
CIS KIWANUKA lives in London<br />
& works in finance. He enjoys meeting<br />
up with other WSers in London,<br />
as well as those passing through.<br />
CHIKA KUMASHIRO WILMS<br />
recently received an award for her<br />
work as a Faculty Advisor at the Int’l<br />
<strong>School</strong> of Kuala Lampur, Malaysia.<br />
After yrs of living in Dubai, SHALI-<br />
NI KURIEN JOHN relocated to<br />
Bangalore, India, with husband & 2<br />
sons. She is enjoying being back in<br />
India, close to her brother & parents.<br />
JEFF LEHMAN is the ICT Coordinator<br />
at Samworth Enterprise Acad<br />
& lives in Desborough, England. He & wife<br />
ALISON ’87 have their hands full raising<br />
Daniel, Micah & Aradhana. CINDY<br />
LIENERT SMITHIES is a teacher, living in<br />
Christchurch NZ. CHRISTINE MACKEY<br />
now teaches at William Dunbar Public<br />
<strong>School</strong>, Toronto & coaches the girl’s volleyball<br />
team. She lives in nearby Pickering<br />
with son Keenan. BINDIYA MADAN<br />
KALRA, husband & twin daughters have<br />
moved to Perth AUS, are settling in, enjoying<br />
new digs & intend to explore AUS extensively.<br />
KENNETH MBOIJANA is in Zurich,<br />
Switzerland, with his 3 daughters. His girlfriend<br />
hails from Puerto Rico & US & they<br />
often travel to visit her family in NYC. He<br />
recently took a position with Kraft Foods as<br />
a product mgr in commodity trade - interesting,<br />
has him traveling to Africa a lot. He keeps<br />
visiting Uganda because eventually he wants<br />
to retire back home, so he is looking at different<br />
opportunities there. Kenneth’s mum<br />
passed on in 00. CONCHIE MCCAULEY<br />
HENDERSON lives in La Mirada CA &<br />
enjoys her 3 children, taking them to outdoor<br />
activities made possible by the CA climate.<br />
ROBERT MEYER with wife & 2 boys (10,<br />
8), has just bought a quirky little house situated<br />
in a small apple orchard with a tree for<br />
a staircase. With New England fall at hand,<br />
there is plenty of cider to be made. MUR-<br />
CHANA MOHAPATRA SATPATHY is a HR<br />
consultant & lives in Monroe Township NJ,<br />
with Prasanna & 2 daughters, Latitia & Ankita.<br />
MATUNA MOSTAFA KHANDKER<br />
recently went to the US to help her son settle<br />
into U VT; daughter Paryssa still has a couple<br />
of yrs before going to college. Matuna works<br />
to improve the lot of the indigenous people<br />
of AUS through FAHCSIA, a government<br />
agency. She is in Canberra. SHAHID<br />
MUHITH is married, living in Dhaka. After<br />
a stint working as an architect he moved back<br />
to Bangladesh to become a politician. SAR-<br />
FARAZ NOUSHI got married in’01 & relocated<br />
to PA with her husband. After living in<br />
AUS for a while, they have once again moved<br />
back to the US & are currently in the New<br />
York tri-state area. They have a son. RAM<br />
PADMANABHAN lives in CAN. He is married,<br />
has 2 children & works as an IT consultant.<br />
MAMATA PANDAY is an auditor for<br />
the State of CA, living in Orange County with<br />
her husband, an architect. They have twin<br />
sons. GAYATRI PATNAIK is an exec editor<br />
at Beacon Press in Boston & lives in Arlington<br />
MA with partner Chris. ANUJ PURI is a<br />
professor at U CA Berkeley. His wife is a<br />
psychologist & life coach. SHAWNEE<br />
ROSIN lives in Santiago, Chile, working with<br />
the indigenous people on a variety of social<br />
projects. MATTHEW RUDOLPH lives in N<br />
CA & is a visiting prof at Georgetown U. His<br />
girlfriend Vasundhara is from India & studies<br />
Poli Sci at U CA, Berkeley. ANJALI TAN-<br />
DON RUSSANO & Pete, recently relocated<br />
to Naples FL. They are looking forward to<br />
the completion of their home, which they<br />
designed with their 3 daughters in mind!<br />
Anjali works as a Physician Asst, while Pete<br />
is a biotech executive. During the reunion,<br />
Anjali’s reminiscences of her WS days were<br />
hilarious, especially when Pete added his own<br />
take to the stories he had been hearing over<br />
Quadrangle - 87<br />
Class of 86 in NJ - LtoR - Josh Sherer, Bobby Singh, Vijay Goyal, Junaid Alim, Anshu Aggarwal, Chris<br />
Hale, Anjali Russano, Faisal Khan, Murchana Satpathy, Mandhir Sawhney, Sim Kellner, Manoj Bhasin<br />
the yrs—it was as if Pete had attended WS as<br />
well! SUNIL SAINI is a doctor in Uplands<br />
CA. His wife is also a doctor. MANDHIR<br />
SAWHNEY manages a hotel in London,<br />
which recently won an award for being very<br />
green. He is married & has a son & daughter.<br />
JOSH SHERER lives in Greenwich Village<br />
NYC, working as a prod mgr for various<br />
shows, has daughter Serena (12). Josh was<br />
responsible for the set design of the Vagina<br />
Monologues as well as various other offbroadway<br />
shows & numerous music concerts,<br />
including some big-name performances in<br />
Central Park. BOBBY SINGH is married, has<br />
2 children & lives in Toronto. He works in<br />
finance. SHARON NORRISH TIMOTHY is<br />
married, has 2 children & is a nurse. DEVA-<br />
NAND VASWANI works as an architect in<br />
Dubai, UAE. AMBAREEN WALI<br />
BENISCHE is married, living in Falls Church<br />
VA, with husband & 2 daughters. She works<br />
for the US government as a security contractor.<br />
SIM KIM KELLNER is married & living<br />
in Minneapolis MN. She works as a business<br />
consultant & enjoys spending free time traveling<br />
& being active in the Twin Cities arts<br />
scene. Sim reminded everyone of numerous<br />
escapades from our times at WS at our Jul<br />
reunion. HUI KYONG YU-KIM’s daughters<br />
are 15 & 12. Her husband is still a pastor in<br />
Los Angeles & they live in Pasadena CA.<br />
SANJANA SAWHNEY BEDI writes: I live<br />
in Dusseldorf Germany since 1992. Got 2<br />
kids, my daughter is 15 and son is 11. They<br />
both go to German school. I am not working<br />
and my husband is in real estate. I visit India<br />
every summer.—Faisal
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Jason Steadwell's '87 wedding in Mexico<br />
Class of 1987<br />
LORRIE DOMAN-SHEYDAYI & family<br />
are doing well. I had a great time at the<br />
WOSA/NA reunion in Ft Collins! Next<br />
yr in Seattle, Jul 20-22, we’ll host one of<br />
CHAOS’s 25th reunions. Can’t wait to<br />
see everybody! Mark your calendars &<br />
buy your tickets!! MERRYN GLOVER<br />
APPLEBY & the family are taking a 7<br />
mo sabbatical travelling around the world,<br />
to return home in Apr; she participated<br />
at the Writers’ Conference held at WS in<br />
Sep & conducted several workshops with<br />
Anna, Susanna '87 and Matthew Hurley<br />
students. SUSANNA TAYLOR HURLEY<br />
was thrilled to be able to take her 2 college<br />
age kids to India for 2 wks last summer!<br />
It was great to see everything after 14 yrs,<br />
also good to still see some familiar faces at<br />
WS! Since Feb AVALON PINTO has been<br />
transferred back to Oman working in the<br />
interiors. Linette & Savannah continue to<br />
live in Goa, where Savannah attends gr 2. I<br />
go home every alternate mo to be with them.<br />
MARCUS SHAW moved back to WS in Jul<br />
to work with the <strong>Alumni</strong> & Developm’t Office.<br />
It has been an incredible experience for<br />
our whole family! Please come<br />
visit! BONZI CROTTY moved<br />
to Chapel Hill NC summer 10<br />
& LOVES it! Jill working for<br />
GSK & I am CEO of our home.<br />
Declan started KG & loves it.<br />
We can walk/ride/scoot, or drive<br />
to school. The twins are still<br />
happy balls of fire, in school 3x<br />
a week. Love my life. TARUN<br />
CACHRA is still living in NJ &<br />
working in NYC. My elder son<br />
has just started HS (yep we are<br />
getting old), had an opportunity<br />
to attend the class of ’86 reunion<br />
in Jul which turned into a class<br />
of the ’80’s reunion. Got to see<br />
a lot of familiar faces from the<br />
past, although MANOJ AG-<br />
GARWAL, VIJAY KANCH &<br />
I were the only ones from the<br />
Class of 87. Sheba & ANDI<br />
EICHER are completing 10 yrs<br />
of HIV/AIDS care work in the<br />
Mumbai/Thane area. Asha (10)<br />
& Enoch (8) are blossoming -<br />
Asha loves the violin & Enoch<br />
sings & plays the keyboard. Come & visit us<br />
in Thane! We blog at: andi-sheba.blogspot.<br />
com. ANAND SINHA, Ratna & their 30<br />
mo old daughter have decided to unsettle<br />
and move from Gurgaon to Patna. He has<br />
recently accepted a position with the Gates<br />
Fdn to lead their health systems project in<br />
Bihar.—Contributed online<br />
Class of 1988<br />
ANDY MALHAN is in Delhi, running a<br />
graphic design & visual communication studio.<br />
Last yr I did a photography course with<br />
the legendary OP Sharma & it has breathed<br />
fresh life into my work - I’m doing much<br />
more photography than before. I just got<br />
back from a shoot on the outskirts of Karnal<br />
where I spent the day wading through rice<br />
paddies & kneeling in muddy water to get<br />
the right shot, all the while worried that I’d<br />
slip & wreck my camera! I’m thoroughly<br />
enjoying this - it’s reconnecting me with the<br />
2 things I am most passionate about: people<br />
& nature. RAJESH PANDAY, wife Yuko<br />
& cocker spaniel Coco are trying to live a<br />
tranquil life away from the hustle & bustle of<br />
the world’s fashion capital, in a small town<br />
called Abbiategrasso, 20 km from Milan.<br />
We moved into a wonderful apt in a recently<br />
restored 14th century convent (now apartments<br />
only) with frescoes on the outer walls<br />
& an ancient Italian portico. I run a small<br />
communications consultancy that tries to put<br />
responsibility & accountability back into the<br />
sordid business of marketing & PR. ERIC<br />
NORD & wife Andrea continue working at<br />
Penn State U as researchers in plant ecology.<br />
Son Joel (11) is into making music & fencing<br />
& daughter Emma (8) enjoys dancing &<br />
cooking. They are looking for college biology<br />
teaching jobs. MOHANA RAO is in the<br />
UAE, running Ideal Management Essential,<br />
a Business & Marketing consultancy since<br />
06. Started a bespoke & prêt-à-porter jewelry<br />
line in 07; launched the new collection<br />
from MOHANA - La Primavera online now.<br />
SONAM CHODEN DORJI writes, paints &<br />
travels,. Has 3 kids.Tenzin Wangchuk (18)<br />
& daughters Drayang (10) & Tsherim (4).<br />
We live in Thimphu, Bhutan, working with<br />
husband, businessman Wangdi Jamyang; we<br />
are in the process of inaugurating Bhutan’s<br />
first pharmaceutical co & have established<br />
a bio-research wing where many new & interesting<br />
insect/plant fungi are being studied<br />
for further development - cure for cancer?<br />
MANISH ACHARYA lives in McKinney TX<br />
with wife Pragya & 2 kids (Ahan & Zoya) &<br />
Chase (9 mo yellow lab) & works for Essilor<br />
of America in business developm’t. ROHINI<br />
DATTA has been in Mumbai since graduation.<br />
Finished my BA & MA in English Lit
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Declan 5 Henry & Elliot 3. Emerald Isle <strong>2011</strong><br />
from here & went on to join the Media industry.<br />
I was last with Channel V India for 4 yrs<br />
handing production & have been with The<br />
Walt Disney Co India Pvt. Ltd. since 04, 7 yrs<br />
now. REENA DATTA SABLOK is married<br />
& settled in Delhi with 3 daughters (18) (13)<br />
& (3). In her spare time she still manages to<br />
play her sitar! PHILIP BRETSKY is a happy<br />
husband & dad with 3 wonderful kids, Kira<br />
(6) Nicholas (4) & Sabine (1). We settled in<br />
Santa Monica CA where I have an Internal<br />
Medicine practice. While living in Los Angeles<br />
has its challenges (earthquakes, traffic<br />
& celebrity trials) the beaches & wonderful<br />
weather more than make up for it. BARB(ie)<br />
BURGER just finished Command General<br />
Staff College (professional mid-level military<br />
edu) and has started a Fellowship with<br />
the Dept of Homeland Security in Washington<br />
DC. Next Sep she will be reunited with<br />
her currently deployed husband. KETAKI<br />
BHATTACHARYYA’s sons, Zach & Noah<br />
are 15 & 10. Happily, husband Josh has<br />
passed the one yr mark free from any sign<br />
of melanoma. I recently became a certified<br />
hypnotherapist & am teaching hypnobirthing<br />
classes. YASMIN, now YASMIN PATEL<br />
HARRISON, was married on Jun 12 in<br />
Toronto & celebrated with many of her WS<br />
friends. YUKA MAKINO has been posted by<br />
the World Bank to Dhaka, Bangladesh since<br />
Dec 10 for a period of 3 yrs. It is great to already<br />
have friends here, SO YOUNG PARK,<br />
INA CHAUDHURY ISLAM, NAVEEDA<br />
AHMAND KHAN & ZAFAR SOBHAN!<br />
Emily Saunders has 2 kids who have started<br />
school, Henry off to KG & Julia preschool.<br />
So far so good - touch wood! I’m using the<br />
free mornings to do some part time language<br />
teaching. I work with a non-profit co in PA<br />
(we’re in WA) that offers online language instruction<br />
to PA public school<br />
kids. So 3 days/wk I get up<br />
at 4:50am, throw on some<br />
clothes & wander down the<br />
40 ft of hallway to my office<br />
(Shortest. Commute. Ever.)<br />
where I don headsets & mic<br />
& class begins (time difference<br />
means their 1st period<br />
class is 5:10am for me). I<br />
teach 2 classes before 7am &<br />
then kids go off to school &<br />
I return home to teach a 3rd<br />
section of Russian 1A. I’m<br />
looooving it! I get to work<br />
in a field that I love & be a<br />
stay-at-home mom! I recently<br />
got an email about the 12<br />
WOSA reunion, to be held in<br />
Seattle- yay! It’d be very cool<br />
if anyone wants to make that<br />
one. I can provide free digs in our humble<br />
guest room (albeit we’re about an hr away<br />
in Olympia, but still...) Anyway, something<br />
to look forward to!—Mohanna<br />
Class of 1989<br />
ENA SINGH MURPHY lives in Fairfax VA<br />
right outside of Washington DC. She works<br />
as a Corporate Paralegal for a government<br />
contractor. I have 2 kids: Eian (6) in 1st gr<br />
and Vikram (1). KAZI ZEESHAN HASAN<br />
is very busy living with wife and 2 kids (3<br />
and 5) in Dhaka. Recently he started a small<br />
software co focusing on open-source Enterprise<br />
Resource Planning (ERP software).<br />
KAZI ZAHIN HASAN’s animation studio<br />
Toon Bangla completed its 1st short film<br />
Cybele McKague '89 in Sydney<br />
Murgi Keno Mutant (Attack of the Killer<br />
Mutant Chickens) that will be shown at the<br />
Atlanta Underground Film Festival and the<br />
Philadelphia Film & Animation Festival!<br />
BALGOVIND PANDE lives in Montreal.<br />
He has 2 kids, enjoys work and family life.<br />
CYBELE MCKAGUE has been travelling<br />
about and so far has been to London, Dusseldorf,<br />
Honolulu, Seattle, Orlando (to go to<br />
Harry Potter world) and Sydney AUS for a 2<br />
day visit! Off to Europe in a mo and off to see<br />
RAE-LYNN! RAE-LYNN STEADWELL<br />
lives in Mississauga ON. We had a relatively<br />
quiet year, began the year at my brother JA-<br />
SON’s ’87 wedding in Mexico with my niece<br />
and nephew attending, and a wonderful vacation<br />
for our family and friends celebrating the<br />
occasion. ANITA DE PREE currently lives in<br />
Dubai with husband, Alan, 3 daughters, and<br />
2 dogs!—Contributed online<br />
<strong>Woodstock</strong> at Yasmin’s wedding: Gurbeen Bhasin ’88, Aditi Mayadas ’90, Chris Mackey ’86,<br />
Promila McMullen-Ghuman ’88, Yasmin Patel Harrison ’88, Jitanjli Datt ’91.
90 - Quadrangle<br />
1990s<br />
Jottings<br />
Class of 1990<br />
MONICA FLORES DE SCHMIDT & Kurt live<br />
in N Mexico with their kids Klaus (12) Nina (10)<br />
& Zara (5). Klaus is planning to attend WS for<br />
his jr yr which is not that far away. SIMRAN<br />
SINGH MALHOTRA & family recently moved<br />
from New York to London & everyone seems<br />
to like the change. She is enjoying motherhood<br />
with Armaan (5) & Amaya (3). Simran continues<br />
to work as an independent graphic designer &<br />
looks forward to any WS reunions in the area.<br />
GAURAV SURI & family, including kids Sophia<br />
(14) Emma (9) & Dominic (7) have moved<br />
to Pondicherry. He is the GM for The Promenade<br />
hotels. SUSAN COPP ANDERBERG still has<br />
the same address until the beginning of the yr<br />
when their house will finally be ready! Congrats<br />
for holding class record on baby no 4 in Dec.<br />
Very busy with the 3 they have, Olivia (4) Elvira<br />
(3) & Klara (1)! Enjoying life as a busy mom<br />
& with healthy & happy family. EVA KOZAK<br />
SCHAWOHL returned to Switzerland in Feb<br />
due to change in Indian visa rules that cut short<br />
her visit to Ahmedabad with partner Dave. She<br />
is concentrating on setting up a tourist info site<br />
for Interlaken & looking for work. Son Oliver<br />
(19) finished his apprenticeship with flying<br />
colours, started a new job in Aug before going<br />
to the army & daughter Magdalena (17) is very<br />
active in scouts & leads kids between the ages of<br />
9 & 11. She left school & found an apprenticeship<br />
as a landscape gardener: in 3 yrs she’ll be<br />
qualified. KERRIE DODGE VAN WOERDEN<br />
& family have had a very shaky yr since Sep<br />
10 in Christchurch. They have had over 7000<br />
aftershocks since the big earthquake of 7.2<br />
magnitude. Life has been rather disruptive for<br />
the children’s schooling & they have lived with<br />
a constant fear of when the next big one will be.<br />
It has tested faith to trust in the Lord but he has<br />
been faithful. While they all feel emotionally<br />
exhausted, they can see the light at the end of<br />
the tunnel. David works in his confectionery pkg<br />
business; she continues to work with Leadership<br />
network & has completed hosting a 3 day pastors’<br />
conference. They caught up with JEFF &<br />
RUTH AUTY (S) on one of their home visits.<br />
After 11 yrs in NYC, CHRIS GREEN continues<br />
his creative work with the design collective<br />
Chris Green Kinetics. More importantly, he<br />
married Erin in Aug in BC. Best wishes from<br />
us. From Delhi, ASHOK MITTAL is working<br />
hard to turn his dental clinic venture into a<br />
multi chain network. SANTOSH DEVADAS<br />
(goalchi) is enjoying a busy life working in IT<br />
in Bangalore. RAHUL KUMAR ALI married<br />
Zareena in a grand & stylish wedding amidst<br />
the wild Bandhavgarh Tiger Reserve in Madhya<br />
Pradesh; it was amazing to see the number of<br />
friends who took the time to travel & be part of<br />
the celebrations, put together with great support<br />
by brother SALIL KUMAR ALI ’83. They had<br />
booked 2 resorts & we had a fantastic time. Attending<br />
were VIKAS, ASHOK, RONOJOY &<br />
JAI. VIKAS GOYAL is working hard to develop<br />
his new business venture of garden, landscape<br />
& outdoor living products in India, with great<br />
support form wife Shilpi & kids Purvi (14) &<br />
Samarth(12)—Vikas & Simran<br />
Class of 1991<br />
WERAPUN LIMSETTOE lives in Thailand.<br />
Our son Jun (6) has entered gr 1 in a good day<br />
school in Bangkok, daughter June (2) is a little<br />
rebel, just like me. Otherwise, life is great. NEE-<br />
At Rahul Kumar Ali’s wedding- Jai Xavier, Vikas Goyal, Rahul, Zareena, Ronojoy Chatterji, Sajili, Salil Kumar<br />
Ali ’83, Shilpi, Ashok Mittal<br />
Simran Malhotra '90 and children Armaan and<br />
Amaya<br />
TA PATEL CRAWFORD lived in CO for almost<br />
3 yrs, the best part was living close to NESA.<br />
However, after the birth of our son, Dylan, we<br />
decided to move back closer to family. So in Mar<br />
we returned to our old home. I was fortunate to<br />
keep my job with McKesson, now work out<br />
of my home. I run the marketing communications<br />
for a div, but also took on a product role.<br />
So between having a baby, the move & work,<br />
life is busy & good! Also keeping running, did<br />
a few races & trained for a half in Oct & Jan.<br />
CHIHO MAKINO was discharged from the<br />
hospital after a stay for 2 wks for meningitis.<br />
The Makino-Geier family moved to Singapore<br />
early Sep, she is working for Citibank.<br />
MONI BANERJEE BRISSON &<br />
Jean-Marc were delighted to welcome<br />
a Neil Banerjee Brisson, on Sep 29 10.<br />
The darling baby is perfect (except for<br />
the fact that he doesn’t sleep at night!)<br />
& mommy & papa are totally in love<br />
with him. Moni is enjoying staying at<br />
home, watching Neil reach his milestones.<br />
For the time being, they are<br />
living in the Washington DC region.<br />
They would have loved to attend the<br />
reunion, but logistically it will end up<br />
being too difficult with a baby. The<br />
update from KATE WOOD RICHER<br />
in Ottawa CAN is that I had my 3rd<br />
baby in the fall & for that reason can’t<br />
join you all at the reunion. My girls (3)<br />
& (5) are getting so big! I’ll be taking<br />
another yr or 2 off & then will be back<br />
to work as a lawyer with CAN’s Dept<br />
of Justice. NANDITA GUPTA is in the
Quadrangle - 91<br />
on staff. Monica’s daughter ARADHANA ’10<br />
showed Ajay & me around the school. She was<br />
a great source of information & really friendly.<br />
Thought it was hilarious that the kids who are<br />
graduating now hadn’t even been born when<br />
we graduated! ALKA WALTER-KUPPACHI<br />
has lived in Charleston SC for the 3 yrs & has<br />
now moved to Iowa City IA. Husband Sarat will<br />
join the faculty of transplant nephrology & I will<br />
attempt to get back into residency. Aaarrrgh. It<br />
is an uphill task having to start all over again<br />
& when I get in, I WILL be the grandma of the<br />
class! Unfortunately, there is no choice! My<br />
Indian degrees or work experience are of no<br />
worth here. Tanvi is a gr 1 with attitude, Anika<br />
(2) a happy personality who tries to keep up<br />
with her older sister. Don’t know if any of you<br />
will be in Iowa or close to it. I know Sumi ’91<br />
& Devi ’91 went to college there so will check<br />
with them. As the year winds to a close we have<br />
had the opportunity to speak with, meet with &<br />
remember times that have gone by. The Class<br />
of 91 organized their 20-yr reunion during the<br />
Oct celebrations of WOSA’s 100 yrs. To all of us<br />
that were there thank you for making the effort<br />
& to those that were not I hope that the pictures<br />
speak at least some of the thousand words they<br />
represent.—Palden<br />
Alka Walter '91, with Tanvi and Anika<br />
US for a study course. The interesting news is<br />
that SMITA JHA has moved to Delhi & I have<br />
met her a couple of times & RAJEE ARYAL<br />
was also in Delhi, regarding medical care of her<br />
mother who underwent a knee operation recently<br />
& the three of us got together. Rajee & I last met<br />
on graduation day in WS, way back then & I<br />
suspect it had been equally long for Smita & her.<br />
It was wonderful catching up after so long; we<br />
did speak about a mini -reunion in USA for all<br />
those who are there & in touch. We will keep you<br />
posted! NANDITA ’91, RAJEE ’91 & SMITA<br />
JHA spent a few hours together in Delhi before<br />
Nandita flew out to the States & Rajee left too.<br />
I hadn’t seen Rajee in 20 yrs. And maybe I need<br />
glasses, but everyone looked the same! I went<br />
up to Mussoorie in May & had a great time. Met<br />
ABHRA B ’92 & MONICA ROBERTS, both<br />
Moni Banerjee '91with Neil<br />
90s CLASS REPS<br />
Vikas Goyal 1990<br />
Moti Vilas<br />
D - 121 , Sector - 36<br />
Noida UP 281 303<br />
India<br />
vikas@kamleshoverseas.com<br />
Simran Singh Malhotra 1990<br />
13 Eton Ave, Flat 4<br />
Belsize Park<br />
London, NW3 3EL<br />
United Kingdom<br />
simransingh11@hotmail.com<br />
718-275-9612<br />
Palden Tshering 1991<br />
Chhundu Enterprises<br />
PO Box 131<br />
Phuentsholing<br />
Bhutan<br />
palden_t@yahoo.com<br />
Sonia Virik 1992<br />
391 Ashoka Colony<br />
Randhir Lane<br />
Karnal HR 132 001<br />
India<br />
soniavirik@hotmail.com<br />
+91-184 2253392<br />
Anil McMullen 1993<br />
14 Wellwood St<br />
Richmond Hill ON L4S 0C4<br />
Canada<br />
anilmcmullen@hotmail.com<br />
Sarah Doebler 1994<br />
24 Forestdale Rd<br />
Minneapolis MN 55410-2546<br />
USA<br />
sarahdoebler@yahoo.com<br />
612-929-0272<br />
Saumitra Jha 1995<br />
144 Valley St<br />
San Francisco CA 94131-2419<br />
USA<br />
jha_saumitra@gsb.stanford.edu<br />
Elton Rohrer 1996<br />
1504 Welldow Ln<br />
Fullerton CA 92831-2221<br />
USA<br />
forzaviola96@hotmail.com<br />
Anindita Ghosh John 1997<br />
E4 1:3, Nerul Sea View CHS,<br />
Sector 6, Nerul, Navi Mumbai<br />
Mumbai MH 400 706<br />
India<br />
anindita.john@gmail.com<br />
+91 22 26403179<br />
Sangeeta Kumar Ghugloth 1998<br />
sangeetaangelakumar@gmail.com<br />
Sakshi Singh 1999<br />
6501 Liberty Ave Apt F1<br />
North Bergen NJ 07047-3392<br />
USA<br />
singhsakshi@hotmail.com
92 - Quadrangle<br />
Class of 1992<br />
The class has been busy planning our 20th yr<br />
reunion these past few mos. Discussions have<br />
been ongoing, largely on Facebook, so those<br />
of you not on, please join. This yr has seen a<br />
number of additions to our ’92 family, with the<br />
wonderful welcome of a few lovely babies. We<br />
have also had a few weddings & some scheduled<br />
to take place this yr. LALI, MAYA R & SID also<br />
visited India. ABHRA BHATTACHARJEE &<br />
MAYA DUTT are working at WS. Abhra’s boys<br />
are in school, Farhan in gr 3 has started piano<br />
lessons & Armaan thinks his gr 1 teacher is cool!<br />
But news for the jottings has been scarce & slow<br />
since this time I could not bully the class into<br />
giving me news, so I regret to say this yr our jottings<br />
will be short. The news that surprised us all<br />
is that ASHISH SETHI got married this Christmas!<br />
He’s still in Sydney, but the wedding took<br />
place in Delhi. So here’s what came in as news.<br />
VINEETA WADHWA is back in Bombay, loves<br />
being here, the chaos is strangely addictive. I’m<br />
working on a TV Show & a website for custom<br />
made clothes, so that’s been keeping me busy.<br />
I was able to see KAPIL, ASHIMA NARAIN,<br />
RUCHI ’91, Ashima’s sister & APOORVA<br />
SHRIVASTAVA ’91. Fun mini-reunion! The<br />
class reunion sounds like sooooo much fun!!<br />
I hope I’ll still be in India next summer, don’t<br />
know just yet. MOA YADEN can’t make it for<br />
the WOSA 100. I have a big concert coming up,<br />
playing for an int’l American blues/jazz artist<br />
in Dimapur, have been slogging it out practicing.:<br />
In Jul, PRIYA SATOW & Richard had a<br />
baby girl, Kiran Emmanuelle Crothers. We are<br />
enjoying being new parents & adjusting to life<br />
in Bujumbura, Burundi, after spending some<br />
time in the US for the birth. Rich continues to<br />
work as head of IRC Burundi & Rwanda, while<br />
I am a full-time mum for a while. Also, en route<br />
to the US for the delivery, we met with LALI<br />
SWART at Schiphol Airport, which was great<br />
fun! EMILY KAIGA: got married last yr & now<br />
a new mum. Her daughter was born Jul. 13, still<br />
living in Nairobi, Kenya. BINOD GURUNG<br />
met FRANCIS THIAK ’93 briefly on the street<br />
a few mos back. We were going to go out for a<br />
drink before he left but we never got round to<br />
it. He was here in Hong Kong for a bit. SID-<br />
DHARTHA TULADHAR was just in Delhi,<br />
met for lunch with RAHUL, ISHAN, DEVIKA<br />
& APOORVA. MAYA RAO NAKHDJAVANI<br />
was in Delhi! I have been very busy, studying<br />
in a global MBA program. It’s a long shot but<br />
JAMES DUCE could be in Sri Lanka next summer<br />
probably Aug some time. I guess I want<br />
an excuse to come up to Mussoorie, it’s been a<br />
very long time & I would love to come back.<br />
I am married to my lovely wife Victoria & we<br />
have 2 amazing girls, India & Xanthe. We still<br />
live in Scotland. HELEN GODON TREMEN-<br />
HEERE still works the same as before, Jessica<br />
now 9 & Joshua 7. Chris has a new job with<br />
VW. SANGEETA KARLE -GITE & family,<br />
husband Abhijeet, Maya (6) & Varun (4) still live<br />
in Houston TX. I keep busy with kids, school<br />
& indoor activities in the Houston summer heat<br />
& outdoor fun in our milder winters. All is well<br />
and, I am very happy. I am working in Oil & Gas<br />
in our family business. I like the work as well the<br />
flexibility. MALINI ANAND NIJAGAL is still<br />
living in San Francisco CA with husband & 2<br />
children. I still work in Marin but now for Marin<br />
Community Clinics providing OB/GYN care to<br />
the County’s uninsured women. I am hoping to<br />
attend the class’s 20th yr reunion in 12! KAPIL<br />
GUPTA got transferred to Bombay earlier this<br />
yr & we (wife & 2 sons) have settled in nicely.<br />
I am planning to attend the WOSA 100 along<br />
with my elder son Karan & looking forward to<br />
our 20th reunion next yr! As for me, not much<br />
has changed. Hubby has left his job & is chilling<br />
at home with Harshan (8) & me. We will be<br />
attending WOSA 100 & am looking forward to<br />
meeting Kapil, Abhra & Maya D. We will take<br />
that opportunity to throw around some ideas<br />
for our class reunion. We hope to fix the dates<br />
soon. Please inform me of any change of contact<br />
information & try your level best to come for<br />
the reunion.—Sonia<br />
Class of 1993<br />
Another yr has flown by & before we know it,<br />
the Class of 93 will be planning its 20th reunion!<br />
Hope there will be many classmates who will<br />
have good suggestions &/or ideas for it! JOASH<br />
& BECCA are happily exhausted with 3 children.<br />
Benjamin (started KG this fall), Olivia<br />
(4) & Zachary (2). Becca enjoys bird watching,<br />
while Joash practices on his electrical guitar!<br />
Becca continues to work at the Helen DeVos<br />
Children’s Hosp and Joash is keeping busy with<br />
a full pediatric practice. ANDY & Sonya are in<br />
Baku running their language business which is in<br />
its 3rd yr. Charis is in gr 6, Micah gr 4 & Joel gr<br />
1. The others, Eden, Gabriel & Gideon, are still<br />
at home. They now have 6 kids after adopting<br />
2 nephews from Sonya’s side of the family. His<br />
parents are still at WS & will come to visit the<br />
family during the winter. JON & family enjoyed<br />
being back in the States for most of 09, spending<br />
time with family & friends, before returning to<br />
Chiang Mai, Thailand. Their kids are all doing<br />
well. Sean (7) is really enjoying gr 2 at Grace<br />
Int’l <strong>School</strong>, Anna (5) could not be happier in<br />
Montessori & Ellie (2) is at home being as cute<br />
as ever! Jon is also learning the Thai language &<br />
like Joash is getting back into playing the guitar.<br />
GAURAV works as an emergency physician<br />
in Indianapolis. He is also in graduate school<br />
working on an MBA. The family had a great<br />
trip to Yellowstone, Grand Teton & Glacier Nat’l<br />
Parks. Daughters Anya, Ava & Asha are now 5,<br />
7 & 8 .DIA & family have had a busy yr with<br />
husband Mike starting as a pilot for Southwest<br />
Airlines & Dia taking over the local MOMS<br />
Club. Son Krishan has started KG & daughter<br />
Rohini preschool, quite the handful, but always<br />
the life of the party! Dia had a chance to get together<br />
with JOY, SUJOY & KARUNA in Delhi<br />
last Jan, where Joy made a phenomenal meal for<br />
them all. Dia’s kids loved Joy’s cooking & overall<br />
it was a great mini reunion! TATT or TODD,<br />
is living in Hong Kong with Anu & son, Ashwin<br />
(3). The family relocated from London in Nov<br />
10 & is settling into a new way of life in Asia.<br />
Tatt works for Wells Fargo, Anu is a homemaker<br />
& Ashwin is taking Chinese language as well as<br />
soccer classes for toddlers! During Jun - Jul, Tatt<br />
met NAVEEN & SEKHAR in NYC as well as<br />
YOSHIA in Tokyo. SASHI & Asavri has been<br />
living in NYC since Aug 10 where they both<br />
work at Mt Sinai Medical Center. Sashi has<br />
been promoted as an Instructor & continues to<br />
do cancer drug discovery research. They live in<br />
Queens & have found a wonderful South Asian<br />
(Indian & Pakistani) congregation to worship<br />
with. They are planning a mo long vacation to<br />
England, Ireland (where they will be with the<br />
Bartons) & India. AMOL & wife Rupal moved<br />
to Dallas TX in Oct ’10, followed by the birth<br />
of son Avi in Dec Congratulations! It was great<br />
to hear from SHARIKA after many yrs! She<br />
lives in Mumbai with husband & kids Ronin<br />
(3) & Ryan (2). Her husband has just signed a<br />
movie with director Anurag Kashyap & Sharika<br />
is writing a book, almost halfway through! We<br />
may have our 2nd class author, after Omair!<br />
OMAIR is continuing to work with the Friedrich<br />
Naumann Fdn out of their Delhi offices,<br />
handling their conflict resolution/human rights<br />
programmes for S Asia (Tibet & Kashmir). His<br />
new novel, Jimmy the Terrorist, was published<br />
last yr by Hamish Hamilton/Penguin India &<br />
was the joint winner of the Vodafone Crossword<br />
Award this yr, probably India’s best lit award!<br />
It was also long-listed for the DSC Lit Prize for<br />
South Asian Lit. Congratulations to Omair also<br />
for his marriage to Sabah Hamid. SEKHAR &<br />
Fatima are doing well. Their son Sebastian Jai<br />
keeps them quite busy & highly entertained!<br />
Sekhar works as a Dir in a boutique mngmt<br />
consulting firm based in NYC. SRIKAR & Aditi<br />
got married in May & had a great honeymoon<br />
in Greece! The few months since the wedding<br />
have been quite busy with family get-togethers<br />
& house hunting. They are planning another<br />
trip to India & hoping to catch up with a few<br />
classmates! PHIL writes that he is married to<br />
Cecilia with a 9 mo old baby boy, Hugo, who<br />
loves his food & sleep! Having spent last yr in<br />
Cambridge UK, where Cecilia did her Masters<br />
& Phil practised law, they have just bought a<br />
house in the northern part of Melbourne, which<br />
backs on to a pleasant little stream. Phil continues<br />
playing music with bands & would be happy
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to hear from WSkers in Melbourne! ABRA lives<br />
in Seattle with husband Chris & son Adam (2).<br />
She works at PATH, a global health nonprofit,<br />
in the area of maternal/neonatal health tech. She<br />
looked forward to traveling to Nepal for work<br />
last Sep. MARIE & family moved to Sri Lanka<br />
at the end of the yr & her boys Noah (9) & Kamille<br />
(6) have adjusted very well to their new<br />
school & life & have already made close friends.<br />
She & husband Thomas are continuing their<br />
projects in the Maldives & move back & forth<br />
when required. They recently acquired an island<br />
from the governm’t to carry out aquaculture<br />
activities & train youth in this field. The coral<br />
frame project they are working on is doing great<br />
& you can view it on www.reefscapers.com. Marie<br />
is still involved in the mngmt of sharks in the<br />
Maldives. She has managed to work alongside<br />
other conservationists to implement the largest<br />
shark sanctuary in the world. She travelled to the<br />
US for a shark meeting in Jun & was very happy<br />
to meet AVINASH after 18 yrs! VARSHA &<br />
family live in BC, CAN. Husband Sanjeet works<br />
in Richmond at the Hilton. Daughter Mehr is 2<br />
& son Veer 6. Varsha works with the Ministry<br />
of Children & Family Developm’t. She is planning<br />
a trip to India. INNI had a busy yr at work,<br />
attended a couple of interesting conferences,<br />
Pacific Environmental Security Conf held in<br />
Honolulu in Mar & the 2nd S Asian Maritime<br />
Security Conference held in Colombo, Sri Lanka<br />
in Jul. Her kids are keeping them busy! Zayan<br />
is in gr 4 & Zaba in gr 1. ANNA works for a<br />
financial co, State Street Corp in Fitchburg, MA.<br />
supporting an online cash mngmt system. She<br />
& her husband have daughter Nassra (8) & her<br />
husband’s nephew Ikuji (5) also lives with them;<br />
they are the constant joy of their lives! PORUS<br />
& family are keeping well & he keeps busy in<br />
growing their hospitality business in Mumbai.<br />
Over the summer, they had a nice family holiday<br />
in France, including Euro Disney. They also<br />
had a brief stay in Mussoorie; he visited WS &<br />
met AMY, MISS CHANDER & MR MARK.<br />
MACHUT writes that the Shishaks arrived<br />
safely in Rangoon, Burma on Jul 29, together<br />
with their 11-mo Rhodesian Ridgeback pupp &<br />
are slowly settling in. He is the Economic/Commercial<br />
Officer at the US Embass & Liina is<br />
consulting with the social marketing healthcare<br />
NGO Population Services Int’l. They expect to<br />
be there for 3 yrs. JOHANNES started in Jun<br />
as a support engineer with the German software<br />
giant SAP in Galway, Ireland. They service the<br />
new Cloud Tech of SAP in his dept. ANJALLEE<br />
married Harinder Hallan on Jul 23. What was<br />
to be planning for an engagement, turned out to<br />
be an exciting & busy wedding! She works at<br />
the CIBC Bank. JOY & family live in Gurgaon.<br />
Son Nathan is in gr 2 & Rachel started school<br />
this yr, so Joy is enjoying some time to herself!<br />
She also enjoyed the mini-reunion with DIA,<br />
KARUNA & SUJOY. Her<br />
Nathan & Dia’s Krishan<br />
played very well together!<br />
Life is good at my end: just<br />
celebrated 9 yrs of marriage<br />
with Kajal. Son Akash (7)<br />
started gr 2 & keeps us busy<br />
with school, swimming,<br />
karate, soccer, ice-skating<br />
& more. We had a nice trip<br />
to various cities & towns in<br />
Quebec during the summer.<br />
Well that about wraps it up<br />
from my end! Hope to hear<br />
from many more of you next<br />
yr!—Anil<br />
Class of 1994<br />
The Class of 94 has been<br />
busy expanding its family<br />
with offspring this past yr,<br />
working hard at home & on<br />
careers with too many wonderful<br />
projects too count.<br />
You can tell which stage of<br />
life we are in. EKATERINA<br />
WITJES-SAOUNINA & Endrik are in Belgium,<br />
close to Antwerp, 2 adorable sons, Illian-Nikita<br />
(5) & Victor-Alexei (2). KATE is still running<br />
her children’s goods wholesale bus, but plans on<br />
taking a break from work for a couple of yrs to<br />
spend more time with the kids, travel & organize<br />
their wedding party. Vimala Aldis CRISPIN<br />
lives in Bangkok with journalist husband Shawn<br />
& sons Dylan (7) & Shay (3) who love superheroes.<br />
She is with Child Frontiers, working<br />
to improve the care & protection of children.<br />
RAHUL GANDOTRA’s film is nearing the<br />
end of its festival life & has gotten into the 1st<br />
round of the Oscars, maybe making it to the final<br />
ten. He is also preparing his 1st feature, which<br />
is an expansion of the short, aiming to shoot<br />
around Oct 12. RINGAE NUEK & husband<br />
are in London & have spent the past few mos<br />
working on some iPhone & iPad apps. With son<br />
Odysseus (2.5) & new baby girl in Sep, Ringae<br />
will be taking the next few mos off to look after<br />
both of them.SUNAYANA JHALANI DYER in<br />
Boston MA had some visitors: Erik Geissal &<br />
wife Katie, then Sacha Bouter & Martin & will<br />
meet up with KIM PAES soon. SUNAYANA<br />
works at Wellesley College going on 4 yrs,<br />
managing & planning events. Her children<br />
Annika (6) is in gr 1 & Kai (2) is in preschool/<br />
daycare at Mass General Hosp where husband<br />
Teague works. Celebrating their 8 yr anniversary<br />
this mo. JIGME TSERING made a switch after<br />
10+ yrs in the govt, to the corp world. Wife Tashi<br />
has finished her MA in AUS & son Tsheyang is<br />
happy have the family together again. PENNY<br />
MULDOON PORTER in Melbourne is still a<br />
private speech pathologist with 2 kids! Isobel,<br />
Kurt '94 and Amy Asher and family<br />
the older started school this yr, exciting at 1st but<br />
very old hat now! ERIK GEISSAL & Katie are<br />
expecting a baby in late Feb. Erik enjoys being<br />
a primary care doctor & loves Portland, with<br />
their small home farm & brewing beer as well.<br />
SACHA BOUTER & Martin are in Washington<br />
DC, but leaving in the Fall & heading to Islamabad,<br />
PAK. She met with MACHUT SHISHAK<br />
’93 & VAMSEE KANCHI ’93 & families in<br />
DC. FARAHANAZ POLLARD WASSON has<br />
moved to Mumbai for the next 3 yrs with Jay’s<br />
work. Zavin & Zaira love their new school &<br />
they are looking forward to a trip to Mussoorie.<br />
MANAV KOHLI just hit a milestone of 10 yrs of<br />
marriage! Daughter Anaiya (5) started going to<br />
school & son Ayaan (3) is in play school. KURT<br />
ASHER has been happily married to Amy since<br />
00. We have 5 beautiful children; Hannah,<br />
Abigail, Isaac, Joanna and Lydia. We currently<br />
live in Newton KS. I have been working as the<br />
Office Manager of our family business since 05.<br />
ARJUN BHALLA is living in London, working<br />
as Web Developm’t Team Leader for asos.com.<br />
He will be celebrating 5 yrs of married life with<br />
Joti in Feb! Since his promotion & move to the<br />
Legal Aid head office, JAY CADIRAMEN has<br />
also moved now lives in Brisbane, loving inner<br />
city living. He’s now a registered Family Dispute<br />
Resolution Practitioner too, assisting separating<br />
families with disputes. SALLY AHN MOON<br />
lives in Washington DC metro area with a very<br />
active a girl (3), a boy (1) and a husband of 10<br />
yrs! The kids are keeping us really busy. I work<br />
as an IT consultant mainly working for federal<br />
gov. SARAH DOEBLER, Tim, Selma (5) &<br />
Ian (3) are still in Minneapolis MN. Kids are
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Wedding photo! Adi Anand and Natasha Anand Class of 95<br />
starting KG & preschool & all are well. Come<br />
visit & stay in touch! 20 yr reunion coming up<br />
in Fall 14 in Mussoorie! —Sarah<br />
Class of 1995<br />
This has been a slow news yr for the Class of<br />
95 with a few important exceptions. PRITICA<br />
SHAH got married in India in Dec. Since then<br />
she’s been commuting between LA & Shanghai,<br />
where she is helping set up a new China office<br />
for her co. She’s enjoying learning Chinese &<br />
the joys of living behind the Great Firewall<br />
of China. HARBIR SINGH also was married<br />
this past yr, in Mar. MARK BRADBY & wife<br />
Vanessa welcomed daughter Vivienne Marie<br />
to the world on Aug 23. Vivienne’s precocious<br />
nature was immediately evident: she was born<br />
on their living room floor. Mark continues to<br />
work as a mech engineer in Minneapolis &<br />
keeps busy taking his son Henry (1.5) on adventures.<br />
GOURI UPPAL GUPTA also was a<br />
recipient of a bundle of joy, in the form of son<br />
Milo, born May 26. Nepal’s answer to Gordon<br />
Ramsay, JONNY MENDIES is expanding his<br />
Red Dingo restaurant into a boutique B&B, in<br />
addition to taking over as Food & Beverage mgr<br />
At Harbir's wedding, L to R: Alpana Singh '97, Jonathan Mendies<br />
'95, Harbir '95, Isaac Hishey '95. Anil Singh '96<br />
at the Hotel Himalaya. He enjoys the challenge<br />
of running a successful business despite the difficulties<br />
caused by the recent political instability.<br />
A few mtns away, KESANG DORJEE is once<br />
more hitting the road, this time running leader<br />
workshops for Bhutanese girls & showing a<br />
documentary on the recent Bhutanese elections.<br />
Meanwhile, down in the plains, MANEESHA<br />
SARIN CHAWLA continues to do important<br />
work running Gharkamai, a portal to help women<br />
work & gain income at home. As usual, TX<br />
continues to provide the most faithful correspondents.<br />
ADITYA ANAND completed 12 yrs at<br />
Hoover’s this past May & is working part time<br />
on the side at a local booking/promotions agency<br />
called Transmission Entertainment. He reports<br />
that wife Natasha is beautiful & awesome & 4<br />
cats & 1 dog keep us busy as well. The only fly<br />
in his ointment is the failure of India’s much<br />
vaunted batting line-up. SAMEER GUPTA &<br />
wife, Mitali, also live in Austin, which serves as<br />
a respite from their jetsetting lifestyle, which this<br />
yr included Lusaka, Hong Kong & Bangkok.<br />
Sameer continues to battle the lions & sharks<br />
of corporate America in his role as the Global<br />
Powertrain Product Mgr of Freescale Semiconductor,<br />
a spinoff from Motorola. Among the<br />
strategic decisions he has<br />
to consider are China’s<br />
rise in the automobile<br />
market & the correspondingly<br />
reduced importance<br />
of US markets. Sameer’s<br />
latest corporate acquisitions<br />
include a little 12lb<br />
stud Maltese called Benji.<br />
Sameer sees MAHJA-<br />
BEEN HASAN often &<br />
new arrival to TX, ABI-<br />
RAL MALLA, as well.<br />
Mahjabeen is in Dallas,<br />
where she has completed<br />
10 yrs as a teacher & is looking forward<br />
to seeing her sister, FARHIN<br />
’06, a recent graduate of TCU, join<br />
her. To escape the TXan heat, she<br />
travelled to Bangkok & Bangladesh.<br />
The word on the grapevine is that New<br />
Yorker, PEMA NORBU, is engaged.<br />
Others in the NY area include West<br />
Coast transplant HIROKO McVEY,<br />
PATRICIA CUMMINGS, perennial<br />
student JONATHAN CLEVELAND<br />
& KIMULI KASARA. Kimuli is<br />
considering branching out from her<br />
job as a Columbia U prof to a sideline<br />
running a bar in Fort Portal, Uganda. I<br />
expect to hold a named chair at that bar.<br />
Fellow academic, PAVEL KAPINOS<br />
continues to plod along the tenure<br />
track at Carleton, while keeping track<br />
of kids, Alina & Ivan & the fortunes<br />
of Arsenal FC. I, SAUMITRA JHA, am back<br />
at Stanford Business <strong>School</strong> after a yr off from<br />
teaching, spent mainly writing & perambulating<br />
around the World Bank in Washington, DC,<br />
where wife, Jessica, is an economist working on<br />
human developm’t in South Asia. I was happy<br />
to run into KEYA BANERJEE (who continues<br />
to do amazing media design work in Bombay)<br />
last Dec. MIRA LUTGENDORF DEBS &<br />
husband, Alex, are spending the yr at Berkeley/<br />
Stanford on leave from Yale, so it is nice to see<br />
them regularly as well.—Saumitra<br />
Class of 1996<br />
First let me personally thank ZARINE for all<br />
the hard work that she has put in over the last 15<br />
yrs as sect’y. I certainly hope to emulate her as I<br />
take the reins. ZARINE moved to Edinburgh &<br />
loves it there. She particularly enjoys the mo of<br />
Aug when the festival is on! Work is demanding<br />
but the wkends are filled with beautiful Scottish<br />
walks along the coastline. She’s looking<br />
forward to Christmas, snow & using her new<br />
wood burning fire stove. ARCHANA & Tim<br />
took a yr off from running their own tourism<br />
bus in Tasmania & with son Tariku toured<br />
India & Ethiopia via EUR & Kenya. They will<br />
be celebrating 10 yrs of marriage in Feb 12. In<br />
their travels they met RADHIKA in Mumbai as<br />
well as PRANEETA, GAURAV & wife Mudita.<br />
They also met MANAV, JESSICA & AJAY, as<br />
well as DEEPA, ANIL & MATT ABRAHAM<br />
in Mussoorie. KIRSTEN is back at WS, working<br />
as Head of Admissions & got engaged over<br />
the summer to Ed. She visited Bhutan in Nov<br />
& enjoyed meeting some WS alumni there,<br />
including GAMA whom she hadn’t seen in<br />
19 yrs. If anyone’s planning a visit to WS, let<br />
her know! GAMA left her job at the Bhutan<br />
Youth Dev Fund back in 09 & she’s opened a<br />
clothing shop for women & children as well as<br />
taking over her mom’s travel agency. If any WS
Wedding party of Pritica Shah '95 Dec16, 2010 in Kumarakom<br />
alumni want to travel to Bhutan contact her!<br />
LISA is doing well. Her 2nd daughter was born<br />
on Jul 29, her older daughter 4 already. LIMA<br />
& Anisha had their 1st child, Aidan on Mar 10.<br />
The baby keeps them entertained with his new<br />
found ability to roll over. LIMA states that he is<br />
still the same, with a few more lbs around the<br />
sides. JESSICA got married on Feb 5 10 to Ravi<br />
Goundar at a small, but beautiful ceremony in<br />
City Hall in SF. She works at Sensis Agency, a<br />
digital marketing agency. JON WEIER is living<br />
in Toronto with Jennifer, whom he married 3 yrs<br />
ago. He is currently in his 3rd yr at the U of W<br />
ONT completing a PhD in History. They have<br />
just adopted a dog named Ritz. RACHANA<br />
was in India (Delhi & Mussoorie) for the first<br />
time in 15 yrs. She met up with the Kapoor<br />
gang, ANIL, MARGARET & her son. She<br />
also met KIRSTEN & Mrs CHOPHEL (S) &<br />
JUDY CRIDER ’69. DEEPA is working as a<br />
Personnel Admin for a US-based co, all from the<br />
comfort of her home! Her son Jason is now 4 &<br />
is as naughty as can be. RADHIKA did a short<br />
stint with Anytime Fitness India as their Head<br />
of Nutrition Svcs & has started her own private<br />
nutrition consulting. She is still in Mumbai,<br />
though she spent a large part of summer in the<br />
US taking advanced nutrition courses. Power<br />
Vinyasa Flow classes are her latest addiction &<br />
Bikram Hot Yoga! She met GAURAV & wife<br />
Mudita in Delhi & Mumbai. They in turn are<br />
living & working in Noida, where they run an<br />
independent bus. They visited their Landour<br />
home this summer on top of the hill & met MRS.<br />
ROBERTS & MRS. CRIDER at Rokeby briefly.<br />
HUBERT has daughters Neela & Juno, both<br />
born in NZ. They all survived the massive quake<br />
last yr & experienced over 7,000 aftershocks. He<br />
& family have decided to go back to Vienna after<br />
5 yrs in NZ due to the ongoing shakes. MEILIN<br />
started a new job as head designer at Gatsby &<br />
she will be spending New Year’s in LA with<br />
ELTON, wife Marla & the parents. Marla &<br />
I are still in CA & our big news is that we are<br />
expecting our 1st child in May! We meet on a<br />
regular basis with AMIT & wife Chris. Contact<br />
me if you wish to join group page on facebook<br />
for our class. —Elton<br />
Class of 1997<br />
JOHANNES SOARES has been living in<br />
London, enjoying the London life & enjoying<br />
his work, which is oil & gas exploration of<br />
the UK sector. He finally managed to sell his<br />
apt & has moved. RYAN<br />
BLOCHER works with<br />
Beike Biotech developing<br />
a documentary film about<br />
int’l adult stem cell patients<br />
seeking treatments in China.<br />
I’m glad to have mom with<br />
us in China teaching. BETH<br />
HUDSON KVERNEN &<br />
husband Josh are living in<br />
Washington, DC. They welcomed<br />
Nathaniel (Than) to<br />
their family in Feb & Beth<br />
just started a small graphic<br />
design firm called Silk<br />
Road Studio. DEVIN AR-<br />
RINGTON started nonprofit<br />
musicianswithamission.org<br />
which encourages talented<br />
musicians to use their gifts<br />
to uplift the spirits of patients<br />
& caregivers by being part<br />
of an org that connects them<br />
to local healthcare facilities.<br />
DAVID MENDIES & Jessica<br />
have 4 children, 3 boys<br />
& a baby girl. We’re living in<br />
Kathmandu, Nepal. DAVID<br />
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RASKINO & PRIYA LEHMAN ’92<br />
have completed 1 yr in Seattle since<br />
moving from Atlanta & we’re getting<br />
used to the wet :-). He is still working<br />
at Microsoft Research. Priya’s nephew<br />
ANDREW LEHMAN just started<br />
at WS this summer too! BRIAN<br />
OOMMEN is living in Philadelphia<br />
PA where he is doing his residency in<br />
neurology. Having left the USA for<br />
good in Sep 09, LOVILY VITO CHI-<br />
SHI & family are serving at Christ For<br />
The Nations Bible College, Kohima<br />
NG, since Jan ’10. She heads the<br />
<strong>Alumni</strong> Assn & Children’s Ministry<br />
& Khetoshe is the Principal. They are<br />
blessed with 3 & a half kids.—Contributed<br />
online<br />
Class of 1998<br />
JOSHUA JOHN enjoys watching his<br />
delightful daughter Abigail Diya grow cuter by<br />
the day! I am really glad to be living & loving<br />
in Delhi with wife Asha! Other than that I still<br />
have the joy & privilege of leading Capital City<br />
Church in ND, which is filled with people from<br />
over 21 nations & 19 Indian states; there must<br />
be over a dozen WSkers too. I held my 8th<br />
group show in Mar & my 2nd solo art exhibition<br />
Before the Womb - Beyond the Tomb in Apr.<br />
Currently I am working on updating my site<br />
headrushART.com & painting for an upcoming<br />
show. I still enjoy taking hundreds of bikers on<br />
short breakfast runs out of Delhi. LANTHARI-<br />
L to R: Amit '96 & Chris Roy, Elton Rohrer '96 & Marla Pendley On<br />
the Road to Palomar Mountain
96 - Quadrangle<br />
Lizzy Seefeldt Grezda's Daniel and Abigail at the top<br />
of a 'mountain' climbed in a village in Albania<br />
MA SAENKHAMWANG is working for IT co<br />
in Bangkok. ANNA CORPRON AUYEUNG<br />
continues to run theworkingproof.com, a website<br />
that pairs limited edition art prints with a<br />
charitable contribution. But, our most exciting<br />
news is that in Feb we welcomed daughter Vera<br />
to the world. JULIA DEUTSCHMANN lives<br />
in Melbourne AUS, currently working in a HR<br />
role for an IT consulting co. I am engaged to<br />
Alex Gavric, to be married in 2012. EMILY<br />
VIRGIN HILLIER has been married to Keith<br />
for 10 yrs & proud Mom to Joshua (6) &<br />
Samuel (4). KRISTY HOLLAND, in Boulder<br />
CO, looked forward to her 1st-ever Curry Club<br />
gathering in Denver & works as the editor of the<br />
skills & survival sections of Backpacker magazine.<br />
After teaching at Delhi U for 5 yrs, SON-<br />
ALI PATTNAIK is teaching both undergrad &<br />
The Little family- Jim, Nathaniel, Eliana, Aaron, Kathryn Hunerwadel<br />
'99 and Caleb born April <strong>2011</strong><br />
grad lit students in Mumbai, an exciting<br />
change. I have been publishing in the<br />
areas of cultural studies, literature &<br />
poetry. AMY MALL and Sherwin Ovid<br />
welcomed Zaid Tashi Emmanuel Ovid<br />
in Feb. The family is enjoying their new<br />
member immensely, living in Chicago<br />
where they continue their involvement in<br />
the arts and food justice initiatives. This<br />
yr,they participated in an exhib with the<br />
U WI about watershed issues, and their<br />
video work with Family Farm Defenders<br />
was featured. They were also able to<br />
visit Sherwin’s family for a reunion in his<br />
home country of Trinidad and Tobago.<br />
LIZZY SEEFELDT GREZDA is still<br />
in Tirana, Albania, where she serves in<br />
church and teaches. We had a fantastic<br />
family break at a village in the mountains<br />
of Albania this summer. Our kids, Daniel<br />
(4) and Abigail (2) relished all the new<br />
experiences of farm life. LAURA JEF-<br />
FERY’s first book has been published,<br />
Chagos islanders in Mauritius and the<br />
UK: Forced displacement and onward<br />
migration – see amazon.com. She had her 1st<br />
experience of fieldwork with a family, now<br />
expecting their 2nd child.—Contributed online<br />
Class of 1999<br />
SHAHRIAR SHAFIULLAH works as a Unix<br />
System Admin for Loyalty Mngmt Group in the<br />
UK. Since graduation in 99, he has been a bit<br />
of a gypsy, moving between Houston, Miami<br />
& Bangladesh. Finally settled in London about<br />
3 yrs back & really enjoying living in this great<br />
city. Dubbed Professional Mama by husband of<br />
9 yrs, KATHRYN HUNERWADEL LITTLE<br />
juggles the demands of 4 little children. Add<br />
homeschooling to the mix & she feels like a<br />
hamster on a wheel. Motherhood is her greatest<br />
accomplishment, biggest challenge & such a<br />
blessing! SHARON JOHN ABRAHAM works<br />
with husband JONATHAN<br />
ABRAHAM ’01 in an org<br />
called Developmt Assoc<br />
Initiatives in New Delhi.<br />
A good yr for JAMIE AL-<br />
TER, 3 mos in Mussoorie,<br />
writing, playing cricket &<br />
riding motorbikes. met up<br />
with AKASH CHELVAM<br />
& ATUL ROY & RONJOY<br />
RAO ’00. Professionally,<br />
he wrote 2 cricket books &<br />
acted in a Hindi film & has<br />
moved to Delhi. VICTO-<br />
RIA ALDERTON lives in<br />
Brighton UK with son Luke<br />
(10) & working in the family<br />
estate agent bus, which<br />
is going from strength to<br />
Jamie Alter '99 and Ronjoy Rao '00 in Mussoorie<br />
strength. I’m also the VP of the Brighton &<br />
Hove Estate Agents Assoc. Looking forward to<br />
brother PETER’s ’01 wedding in May. ANNA<br />
KIDDER TEMPLETON got married in 10 &<br />
moved to Scotland where they are enjoying<br />
the North Sea beaches, beautiful highlands &<br />
lovely pace of life. The rest of the time, she<br />
is a hard working research fellow with the<br />
Scottish Dental Practice Based Res Network!<br />
HATAIKAN KAMOLSIRISAKUL works<br />
with Thomson Reuters & transferred to Dallas<br />
TX early this yr, should be in Dallas for a yr or<br />
2; expecting a new family member early 12 :)<br />
If anyone is in the area, please give a shout!—<br />
Contributed online<br />
Rochita Rao ’98 and Andrzej Plonka (S) were<br />
married at St. Paul’s Church, Mussoorie on<br />
October 1st, <strong>2011</strong>.
2000s<br />
Jottings<br />
Class of 2000<br />
VIDUR KAPUR, with a little help from<br />
wife, Lotte, had a little girl named Zara.<br />
He received the Acorn Award for his work<br />
with the Guoman Hotel chain. JESSICA<br />
BRAID PANGAS just moved from an<br />
island at one end of the country to an<br />
island at the other, from temperate Tassie<br />
to tropical Galiwin’ku, a remote Indigenous<br />
community in N/E Arnhem Land<br />
AUS. She & her husband are working for<br />
an org called Why Warriors that work in<br />
cross cultural communication, educ &<br />
enterprise facilitation. They’re having<br />
another baby in Jan. & currently living<br />
in a tent. SARA FLAMING GROUT &<br />
husband Mar, live in the country in KS<br />
& both work at a local school, Peabody<br />
Burns Junior Senior High <strong>School</strong>. She is<br />
the school social worker & he a teacher.<br />
Their son Nolan turns 2 in Jan. MEGHA<br />
CHADHA just finished her training in<br />
Psych (finally!) & started a job as an<br />
attending Psychiatrist in downtown Chicago.<br />
Very big mental transition because<br />
it feels like the end of an era but she is<br />
really liking her new position & loves<br />
the fact that she has more time than ever<br />
before! Her parents have retired from<br />
Africa & moved back to India. LIESEL<br />
WILKINS MADDOCK has moved back<br />
to Melbourne with Sam & has taken a<br />
position with a non-profit org called the<br />
Global Poverty Project, which focuses<br />
on advocacy & education. I am the Media<br />
& Comms Mgr & right now we’re<br />
working on a campaign called The End<br />
of Polio, which is calling on world leaders<br />
to fully fund global polio eradication<br />
initiatives. I am expecting my 1st child<br />
in Mar, which Sam & I are very excited<br />
about. We’ve already bought our season<br />
pass to the local ski resort for next yr &<br />
now all we have to figure out is who’ll<br />
watch the bub while we go snowboarding!<br />
GLORIA PUDAITE NORTHRUP is still<br />
in Denver CO. She & her husband took a<br />
tour of Scotland & England in Aug. They<br />
met with Prodigy classmates in London.<br />
Gloria is a college prof at Metropolitan<br />
State Coll of Denver. They are expanding<br />
their family & welcoming their 1st child<br />
on April 4. EUN SHIN LEE continues<br />
working for the org committee preparing<br />
for World EXPO in Yeosu, Korea from<br />
May to Aug 12. She became the Dir for<br />
the Foreign Languages Div & will be<br />
00s CLASS REPS<br />
Daniel Allen Smith 2000<br />
4037 Mission St<br />
San Francisco CA 94112-1016<br />
USA<br />
totoisfree@yahoo.com<br />
502-905-0307<br />
Daniel Russell 2001<br />
12 Bedford Road<br />
St Albans AL1 3BQ<br />
United Kingdom<br />
daniel@russellweb.net<br />
.+44 1727 752652<br />
Rohini Uppal 2001<br />
8916 Arley Dr<br />
Springfield VA 22153-1505, USA<br />
urohni@gmail.com<br />
703-8663081<br />
Sheena Agarwal 2002<br />
1818 Calvert St NW<br />
Washington DC 20009-1906, USA<br />
sheena320@gmail.com<br />
Kilangla Yanger 2002<br />
kilangyanger@gmail.com<br />
Daniela Bhutia 2003<br />
Vallstedter Weg 7<br />
Lengede D-38268, Germany<br />
danielabhutia@hotmail.com<br />
Eunae Grace Hur 2004<br />
12313 Valley View Av, Apt 14<br />
Whittier CA 90604-2741, USA<br />
grace_eunaehur@yahoo.com<br />
701-330-2518<br />
Helen Russell 2005<br />
Flat1 173a, Cavendish Rd<br />
London SW12 0BW<br />
United Kingdom<br />
helenjanerussell@gmail.com<br />
Lokesh Todi 2005<br />
225 Northern Ave Unit 501<br />
Boston MA 02210-2060, USA<br />
lokeshtodi@hotmail.com<br />
Suheil Tandon 2006<br />
F-86 Sarita Vihar<br />
New Delhi DL 110 044<br />
India<br />
suheiltandon_2006@yahoo.com<br />
+91 11 26947516<br />
Neeti Uniyal 2006<br />
85 Bain Terrace<br />
9 Garfield St<br />
Launceston TAS 7249<br />
Australia<br />
neetiu@gmail.com<br />
Nicole Lemire 2007<br />
6714 Wetmore Ave<br />
Everett WA 98203-5216, USA<br />
kuna23@gmail.com<br />
425-438-8712<br />
Jamyang Choedon 2008<br />
75 3rd Ave TN 706<br />
New York NY 10003-5527, USA<br />
jamyangc@gmail.com<br />
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Ananya Kejriwal 2008<br />
Mailbox 210, Olin College of<br />
Engineering<br />
1 Olin Way<br />
Needham MA 02492-1233<br />
USA<br />
ananya.kejriwal@students.olin.edu<br />
Arish Rajkarnikar 2008<br />
15 Dudhope Gardens<br />
Dundee DD3 6TX<br />
United Kingdom<br />
arishrajkarnikar@gmail.com<br />
Atirav Gupta 2009<br />
18 Route De Cojonnex<br />
Ecole Hoteliere De Lausanne<br />
Lausanne 25 CH-1025<br />
Switzerland<br />
atirav.gupta@ehl.ch<br />
Lisa Shrestha 2009<br />
c/o Mrs Sangeeta Shrestha<br />
DFID PO Box 106<br />
Kathmandu, Nepal<br />
shrestha.lisa@gmail.com<br />
+97-714-3522 Ext 40<br />
Aditya Todi 2010<br />
531 Lasuen Mall, Mail Box 17415<br />
Stanford CA 94305-3003, USA<br />
atodi@stanford.edu<br />
Jennifer Wu 2010<br />
Sikkim Manipal Institute of Medical<br />
Sci<br />
Old Girl’s Hostel, 5th Mile, Tadong<br />
Gangtok SK 737102<br />
India<br />
jw54us@yahoo.com<br />
Sanghamitra Ghosh <strong>2011</strong><br />
207 A Rajpur Road<br />
Dehradun UK 248 009, India<br />
sanghamitraghosh30@gmail.com<br />
Amit Lalvani <strong>2011</strong><br />
2091 Stadium Dr<br />
TCU Box 293166<br />
Fort Worth TX 76129, USA<br />
amitlalvani15@gmail.com
98 - Quadrangle<br />
Andrew ’01, Monica and Louise Kemp (S)<br />
happy to assist if anyone wants to visit.<br />
TONIKALI YEPTHOMI WEHI is living<br />
in Auckland NZ with hubby Maxim.<br />
Enjoying the rugby world cup as NZ is<br />
hosting it this yr. Go the All Blacks! Our<br />
1st baby is due on Dec 20 & looking<br />
forward to parenthood. SHRUTI GAN-<br />
GULY is still in NYC, have started my<br />
last yr of my MBA/MFA program at NYU<br />
& am doing various things as part & also<br />
independent of school. I’m producing a<br />
feature film with James Franco & his production<br />
co & James will be in the movie<br />
too. Then I’m writing my thesis which is<br />
a short animated film set between New<br />
Delhi & Mussoorie. SENTILA PONGEN<br />
is on maternity leave right now as I had<br />
my second son in Jun. Yes, we feel really<br />
blessed! I’m also supposed to be studying<br />
for my CS exams which is next Jun & do<br />
a million other things but...I’m just planning<br />
on enjoying my kids at my own pace,<br />
space n time...till I’m satisfied. JOHN<br />
HUDSON & wife Chelsea now living in<br />
Silver Spring MD with our 3 daughters<br />
Adelaide (5) Sydney (3) & Nadia (1). I am<br />
currently a Project Engineer for a commercial<br />
construction firm (Hensel Phelps<br />
Construction Co.) & am working on the<br />
construction of a Marriott Marquis Hotel<br />
Mark Thornsen '01<br />
in downtown DC. It is a<br />
3 yr project & we hope<br />
to stay in the area for a<br />
while. Chels is starting<br />
back up her photography<br />
bus & I still spend a lot<br />
of time hunting & fishing<br />
when not at work or<br />
spending time with the<br />
family. VIJAY ROY &<br />
wife Emma celebrate<br />
their son Elijah (1), life<br />
has totally changed with<br />
him around. We are living<br />
in exciting times &<br />
I’m finally learning how to swim, yippee,<br />
will be in AUS for Christmas. ARJUN<br />
SIKAND is importing into Asia & Asia<br />
Pacific all American foods from the US,<br />
also doing professional photography.<br />
SUNG YEON CHOI MORROW is still<br />
in Chicago- going on 10 yrs! Happily<br />
married & working as a Nat’l Organizer<br />
for Interfaith Worker Justice which has<br />
him traveling quite a bit domestically<br />
so gives me a good chance to catch up<br />
with old friends, like Arish & Melanie<br />
in NYC! TENZING TEKAN lives in San<br />
Francisco where is currently working<br />
for Bain & Co. He’s working on brushing<br />
up on his Tibetan. DANIEL SMITH<br />
also lives in SF. He is one yr away from<br />
an MFT degree with a Drama Therapy<br />
twist. —Daniel<br />
Class of 2001<br />
It is 10 yrs since the Class of 01 graduated<br />
from WS & scattered around the<br />
globe. Most people have now settled<br />
into the patterns of working life. Some,<br />
whether out of nostalgia for student days<br />
or other motivations, are contemplating<br />
retraining, while others are discovering<br />
for themselves the ups & downs of being<br />
young parents. For tips on healthy babies<br />
one may wish to consult SABINA THY-<br />
LE who is in her 2nd yr of her pediatric<br />
residency at UCLA. Also in the healing<br />
profession, ROHINI UPPAL is working<br />
as an ICU nurse in VA & beginning to<br />
explore other career options. Let’s see<br />
what the future holds! BENITA SAMUEL<br />
BECKER & Chris have moved to Boston.<br />
While he pursues his M Arch degree,<br />
Benita works in different healthcare<br />
settings as a RN. She travels frequently<br />
to Calvin College MI to serve on their<br />
<strong>Alumni</strong> Bd, also part of their Presidential<br />
Search Comm. SAHAJO HAERTEL<br />
continues to educate children in NY &<br />
MARIO WYON is similarly employed.<br />
He works in Arcata CA as a gr 5/6 Spanish<br />
teacher in a bilingual charter school.<br />
HUGH EVANS continues work with the<br />
Global Poverty Project & has moved to<br />
NYC. In the same city, ZOMAWII KHI-<br />
ANGTE & Filippe celebrated the birth of<br />
Eva. SAIRA MALIK moved to Washington<br />
DC in Oct to start a consulting job in<br />
federal public safety & criminal justice.<br />
Also in DC is NITIN JAIN, working on<br />
water & sanitation projects at the World<br />
Bank. He is in the middle of applying<br />
to MBA programs, hopes to be moving<br />
in that direction. Also on the MBA<br />
path, SHASHWAT MODY has moved to<br />
Philadelphia to pursue an MBA at The<br />
Wharton <strong>School</strong>, U PA. Look him up if<br />
you are in the area. RAHUL CHERIAN<br />
is also in the area & has recently met<br />
up with others like ROHINI UPPAL &<br />
TSERING WANGDI. JAE IL SHIM is<br />
living in Lynchburg VA & planning to go<br />
to graduate school. ASHISH THOMAS,<br />
Kristin Isabella & Zander have returned<br />
to Nashville TN for a season. Ashish<br />
works as a Business Process Consultant<br />
& a Keynote speaker. ANDREW KEMP &<br />
Monica celebrated the birth of daughter,<br />
Cambria, in Dec 10. They currently live<br />
in El Paso TX. BRIE MILGROM was<br />
recently hired at a gluten-free bakery in<br />
Portlan, OR. She loves it & is training to<br />
be the assistant mgr. She also practices<br />
yoga, dancing & generally enjoys life.<br />
She is sad to miss the reunion but sends<br />
warm regards. SEEMA SHARAN has<br />
recently married & is looking forward<br />
to coming back to WS for the reunion.<br />
She took a 2 yr break from working to<br />
travel the world & no doubt has plenty<br />
of exciting travel stories to share! HAN-<br />
NAH FONG KENNEDY is living with<br />
husband in Ithaca, upstate NY, where<br />
she is a PhD student at Cornell U. Her<br />
res focuses on TB immunology. ROHIN<br />
LAL is working & living in Philly with<br />
wife Therese. They are enjoying their<br />
time there. SAMUEL CHOI & his wife<br />
are living in Thailand but we don’t know<br />
if he has managed to travel as far south as<br />
Singapore where JUNGSENARO LONG-<br />
KUMER is currently living. TSERING<br />
YANGZOM SADUTSHANG is enjoying<br />
life in Sydney AUS where she has moved<br />
with her work at Royal Bank of CAN.<br />
Also nearby is RAMEEZA AHSAN who<br />
has begun a Master’s prog in Adelaide.<br />
CASSANDRA BREDT KING has persevered<br />
all yr to organise classmates to<br />
meet up in Mussoorie in Oct. She lives<br />
in Melbourne with Robert & children,<br />
Maia (4) & Joshua (2). Cassy opened a<br />
childcare centre in May & is working
Tanushree '01 and Rajat Agarwal<br />
there full time as Dir & Room Leader.<br />
She is enjoying it thoroughly. Taking<br />
to the skies, JOON HUR has been hired<br />
to be a pilot for Korean Air. Many congratulations<br />
Joon on fulfilling your 17-yr<br />
dream. He will start flying int’l after his<br />
training so look out for Joon arriving at<br />
an airport near you! ANNA DAVYDOVA<br />
is still with Fidelity Int’l now based in<br />
FL. She & Donald are enjoying the Miami<br />
sunshine. Her colleague SIMONI TODI<br />
MITTAL works in the Fixed Income Div<br />
with a focus on metals, mining & energy<br />
sector from her London base where she<br />
& Hritik are based. Simoni has met up<br />
with a few WS friends in London during<br />
the summer including SHIVANGI<br />
CHATURVEDI MAJITHIA. TSHERING<br />
WANGMO has been developing a hotel in<br />
Bhutan & is currently negotiating a mgmt<br />
deal with one of the int’l hotel chains.<br />
Maybe Bhutan should be the next reunion<br />
venue considering that PALDEN THIN-<br />
LEY, KINLEY KLEIN, SONAM CHUKI<br />
ZIMBA & YANGCHEN WANGCHUK<br />
are all based there. HARUKO UEDA<br />
is still working for Ernst & Young as<br />
senior auditor but has left the Big Apple<br />
for the comforts of Phoenix AZ. JAYA<br />
KAPUR also working for Enst & Young,<br />
lives in Delhi. On a stint in London<br />
Cassandra King '01 children Joshua and Maia<br />
earlier this yr she caught up<br />
with many WSkers including<br />
Miniushka, Dalia, Daniel<br />
& Simoni. MINAL MEHTA<br />
continues to design fabulous<br />
clothing for Indian & int’l clientele..<br />
ANGELO DAIMARI<br />
& TIATEMJEN JAMIR are<br />
continuing to make music in<br />
Delhi. LIANMAWII HAUH-<br />
NAR is also in Delhi & is hoping<br />
to make it to the reunion.<br />
JONATHAN ABRAHAM<br />
married SHARON JOHN ’99<br />
on Jan 2. They have moved to<br />
Delhi where they are heavily involved in<br />
the local community. Also Delhi based.<br />
AYESHA GAREWAL-KARLA has left<br />
Barclays & is a freelance trainer. Ayesha<br />
& husband are coming up to their 1st<br />
wedding anniversary. With the 10-yr<br />
WS reunion as well, it has been a yr of<br />
changes & milestones & Ayesha is looking<br />
forward to more! BHAVESH JAIN<br />
lives in Bombay with his wife & RAY<br />
KALLIMEL is also in the same city. Ray<br />
is working with Cushman & Wakefield<br />
Valuations & Investment Advisory. In<br />
the NE, LALRINTLUANGA JAHAU is a<br />
busy father to 3 girls & leads a hectic Life<br />
in Aizawl. He is planning to meet with<br />
others at WS. TANUSHREE HAZARIKA<br />
AGARWAL is a busy publisher & is continuing<br />
to run the 2 publications, focused<br />
on NE India - Eclectic Times & Vibes.<br />
In 10, she launched another unit, the 1st<br />
ever Integrated Marketing Solutions co<br />
in the NE. Any free time Tanu fills with<br />
attending a lot of friends’ weddings!<br />
MARK THORSON finished a Master’s<br />
in Library and Info Sci this year and is<br />
in the process of finding a job. SONAM<br />
PENJOR has been acting in Bhutanese<br />
movies. MARIA CHACKO is finishing<br />
an internship at Ambedkar Dental College<br />
in Bangalore and works part time at<br />
a dental clinic. MONIKA SINGH<br />
SANFORD is practicing banking<br />
law and trying to travel as<br />
much as possible! MINIUSHKA<br />
MUJTABA got married in Jun to<br />
her longstanding Welshman &<br />
has left the UK for a glamorous<br />
life in LA where her husband is<br />
working as visiting professor at<br />
Pepperdine Uni, while Mini is<br />
working on her surfing skills.<br />
PETER ALDERTON got engaged<br />
the day before Valentines to his<br />
lovely girlfriend Louise & will be<br />
married in May. SOLVEIG TAY-<br />
LOR had a baby boy in Sep. She<br />
Quadrangle - 99<br />
Anjalika Kapur ’02 (1983–2010)<br />
& Paul are moving back to Uzbekistan<br />
after a short visit with family in the UK.<br />
TIATEMJEN JAMIR is in Delhi, en route<br />
to completing the Civil Services exam, if<br />
all goes well, discovering photography &<br />
music along the way. DANIEL RUSSELL<br />
& DALIA MAJUMDER RUSSELL have<br />
moved to St Albans & are enjoying their<br />
much shorter journeys into London for<br />
work. They looked forward to catching<br />
up with various WSkers in Oct. —Dalia<br />
& Rohini<br />
Class of 2002<br />
PETER A has gone incognito...yet again!<br />
SHEENA A lives in DC working with the<br />
int’l developmt co DAI; met ALISHKA &<br />
SUNAINA this summer in NYC. SHRUTI<br />
A was recently married & lives in Delhi,<br />
congrats! ALISHKA A is still working<br />
away in the advertising field at Lifebuoy<br />
in Bombay, though she managed to make<br />
a trip to NYC & Philadelphia (albeit for<br />
work) & catch up with fellow Euphorians.<br />
JEREMY B moved to Columbus, GA to<br />
start his Master’s in guitar performance at<br />
the Schwob <strong>School</strong> of Music. REBECCA<br />
B is in Mumbai, freelancing as a special<br />
educator & also getting involved in event<br />
mngmt related to interior decorating. JA-<br />
COB B is in Cincinnati working at Xavier<br />
U & has been freelancing for magazines<br />
such as Reader’s Digest, including his<br />
fascinating story on a falsely convicted<br />
man in their Aug edition (available in the<br />
Indian edition too). RAJAT B is in the<br />
process of moving westward to San Jose<br />
to work for eBay. BEN B is finishing up<br />
school for videography & sneaked off to<br />
Cuba during the summer. AYESHA C is<br />
happily married in Duluth MN, finishing<br />
her MBA with a concentration in Bus<br />
Leadership, while working full time at
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L to R: Lara Kanga ’03, Jenti, Helen Litvinenko ’03, Sheena Uppal ’03<br />
and Kavita Mandaliya ’03<br />
United Health Care. SHINY LC is still<br />
living in CA & loving life with husband<br />
& beautiful daughter. JONATHAN C is<br />
working towards his PhD at Purdue &<br />
more excitingly, got married this summer!<br />
NAWANG E is enjoying life as a<br />
new mommy & somehow still has time<br />
for a 2nd job, working for the Tributary<br />
Fund, an environmental NGO that works<br />
with conservation. MONIKA G is putting<br />
her MBA to use as a Marketing Mgr at financial<br />
tech firm, RTS Realtime Systems.<br />
NATALJA J is loving married life & still<br />
settled in Riga. SATOKO K met up with<br />
LALREM L & KILANG Y while visiting<br />
Philadelphia to interview for her residencies<br />
& eventually joined the amazing internal<br />
med & peds departments at Baylor<br />
U. SUPRIYA KJ is busy moving forward<br />
with her perfumery bus & working on<br />
launching mass market products. VANI<br />
TK is living the married life in Delhi &<br />
working in the clothing & fashion industry.<br />
YOWA K currently taking a short<br />
break from work to learn French in Montpellier,<br />
France. Très bien! YUVRAJ K is<br />
busy expanding his successful restaurant<br />
chain, Moti Mahal Delux, into Chennai<br />
& Kathmandu, with plans to go global<br />
soon! He is now also on the class list for<br />
happily married - congrats! LALREM L<br />
has completed her MBA & is enjoying the<br />
city of brotherly love, PA. NAI L is busy,<br />
busy, busy being a new mommy & still<br />
living in Atlanta. Congrats! ROMONG<br />
L has finished working in CA & is now<br />
back in India, jamming on the guitar with<br />
old WS folks while looking for jobs.<br />
SREYASA M just finished her MA in<br />
Conflict, Peace & Developm’t Studies<br />
& is now working in the Edu Section of<br />
Asian Developm’t Bank in Kathmandu.<br />
NUPUR M is currently in Delhi, working<br />
towards becoming a community/public<br />
artist & will be attending the Rhode<br />
Island <strong>School</strong> of Design after a yr- congrats!<br />
DANIEL M is living in Kathmandu<br />
& helping<br />
with his family’s<br />
NGO. NADIA M<br />
was most recently<br />
enjoying the sun in<br />
CA visiting her sister,<br />
MINIUSHKA<br />
’01. HAI DANG N<br />
is finishing his PhD<br />
from the U of MN<br />
& looking forward<br />
to embarking on<br />
his post-doc work,<br />
congrats! ELINOR<br />
P or known to her<br />
kindergarteners & parents as Principal<br />
Pain is now super busy being the head<br />
of the int’l KG school in Shanghai, but<br />
managed to catch up with JAKRIN B in<br />
Bangkok & SHEENA D when she was<br />
in town. SOLOMON P graduated with<br />
his Master’s from UCCS & made time<br />
to visit ASHWIN P in Chicago. DEKI P<br />
has been in Bhutan for the last 2.5 yrs<br />
enjoying home & working at Druk Holding<br />
& Investments. PERNIA Q recently<br />
got married in a beautiful wedding in<br />
Delhi that was attended by ALISHKA,<br />
VIR, MOLONA, KEZIA, SUPRIYA,<br />
KILANG, VANI, SANJANA, YUVRAJ<br />
& countless others who flew from far &<br />
near to celebrate this occasion, congrats!<br />
SONAM R made a detour in Delhi & met<br />
with KEZIA, MOLONA & RUMONG,<br />
but is currently in Bangkok working for<br />
the Int’l Union for Conservation of Nature<br />
as a Programme Officer. AMAN R<br />
is taking a break from his IT job & doing<br />
his MBA in Manila. JUNG HYUN R is<br />
in graduate school in Tokyo but makes<br />
frequent trips to Seoul where she last<br />
spent a few mo working as a freelance researcher<br />
at the Korean Int’l Coop Agency.<br />
Fortunately, her Tokyo family was not<br />
affected by the earthquake. SUNAINA S<br />
is in full swing of the NYC fashion scene,<br />
currently interning at Michael Kors after<br />
working for Tom Ford over the summer &<br />
will be graduating this Fall from Parson<br />
with her Master’s degree in fashion marketing.<br />
SARATH S got married recently<br />
& is en route to adding yet another superb<br />
feather to his hat after completing<br />
his PhD in Econ from UC Berkeley to<br />
have a JD from Yale, where he starts this<br />
fall, congrats! SANJANA S managed to<br />
take some time off lawyer biz & had a<br />
beautiful engagement party in Gurgaon,<br />
congrats! DEENA T is still gallivanting<br />
between Chennai (for work) & MI (for<br />
her doctorate) & loves long bike rides<br />
(although that was not supposed to be a<br />
corollary). MOLONA W is working hard<br />
at W+K ad agency in Delhi but always<br />
making time to nosh the latest Delhi culinary<br />
enticements. JESSICA W is once<br />
again hitting the books as a full-time student<br />
finishing up her prereqs for nursing<br />
to join a program by next yr, good luck!<br />
KILANG Y has dived deep into the community<br />
at Penn working hard on her PhD<br />
in molecular biology while taking part in<br />
(and grateful for) the graduate student<br />
government & other such activities not<br />
involving test tubes & pipettes. KEZIA<br />
Y is living in New Delhi, completing a<br />
Master’s in Environment & Developm’t<br />
from Ambedkar Univ, <strong>School</strong> of Human<br />
Ecology & can’t wait to be an aunt come<br />
winter! —Kilang & Sheena<br />
Class of 2003<br />
RAHUL AGARWAL is an engineer at<br />
Polar Mobile in Toronto. SANEN AIER<br />
just spent some time in Singapore, but<br />
will be back in India, where he hopes to<br />
meet classmates. MANASI BHATE is<br />
finishing off her grad school degree in<br />
chem at Columbia U. JOHN BRAID is a<br />
mtn bike & trekking guide in Tasmania.<br />
He works hard during the summer, then<br />
takes the rest of the yr off to go travelling.<br />
He just spent 3 mos in China & Laos.<br />
KSHITIJ CHAWLA got married last<br />
summer. He specializes in Phys Med &<br />
Rehab & works as a Resident Physician<br />
at the hospitals in Winnipeg CAN. He<br />
often travels to Toronto & meets Rahul &<br />
Sherry Masih. ELINA (JONG SIL) CHO<br />
moved to Hong Kong a couple yrs ago<br />
where she works at Bloomberg but travels<br />
often to India. TSHERING CHODEN just<br />
graduated from the Leiden Institute of<br />
Adv Comp Sci & works at the Nat’l Stats<br />
Bureau. CHAN YOUNG CHOI lives in<br />
Seoul & is in the Rep of Korea Defense<br />
Intelligence Command. He recently met<br />
with NANAKO YAMAMURO. NAM-<br />
DOL CHOPHEL completed her degree<br />
in law. She was involved in human<br />
rights related res, but now looks forward<br />
to begin practicing in Delhi. SONAM<br />
CHUNGYALPA works at the Manjusri<br />
City <strong>School</strong> in Gangtok, Sikkim where<br />
the 6.9 magnitude earthquake struck on<br />
Sep 18. JASON COLEMAN lives near<br />
Cincinnati OH with his wife & his 2yr old<br />
son. He’s a Programs Mgr at Five Seasons<br />
Family Sports Club doing billing & payroll.<br />
ARUN DANIEL is back in CAN after<br />
having spent a couple mo in FL, where his<br />
wife, Tina, was doing a course. They’ll<br />
both be attending KAVITA’s wedding in<br />
Nov in India. NIMMI ERASMUS SINGH
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had a monsoon wedding in Mussoorie in<br />
Jul & now lives in England. She is taking<br />
a break from the world of cooking,<br />
just enjoying being a housewife. SUMIR<br />
GANGULY is working as an account<br />
mgr at Saatchi & Saatchi (advertising) in<br />
Dubai. He says he recently got some new<br />
Tibetan tattoos. REUBEN GERGAN, you<br />
may think you can hide out in Leh, but<br />
we all know you’re there & that you’ve<br />
got access to the internet. BIBEK GU-<br />
RUNG is in the US army based in Joint<br />
Base Lewis-McChord in Tacoma WA.<br />
MERENLA IMKONG’s back in NG.<br />
IRINA ISSAEVA HAYES married Brendan<br />
Hayes on Mar 29 in Aruba. She’ll be<br />
moving to Toronto CAN soon. OSWIN<br />
JOSEPH’s still working as sr analyst at<br />
Citi in NYC. FLORENCE JOUTE’s still<br />
working & living in Delhi. NATASHA<br />
KAPUR EARLY lives in Bahrain with<br />
daughter Kyla (1) & husband. She’s been<br />
busy setting up her own bus & opening<br />
up a baby shop. ISHITA KAUL works in<br />
Delhi, she often meets SAKSHI MEHRA,<br />
SHEENA UPPAL, KARAN MADHOK &<br />
others that pass through Delhi. REETI<br />
KHARE finished her PhD in virology<br />
& gene therapy. She is working as a research<br />
fellow in a virus lab at the Mayo<br />
Clinic. She met KARAN M, SHEFALI<br />
S & SURABHI P at her sister’s wedding<br />
last yr. WOON YEE KOH after having<br />
visited India, just moved to Singapore<br />
for her work. HELEN PROVOTOROVA<br />
LITVINENKO has celebrated her 5 yr<br />
anniversary. She started a new job in Jan,<br />
project mgr for Oojo.com now working in<br />
the travel industry. MOA LONGKUMAR<br />
lives & works in Bangalore & met WOON<br />
YEE K during her visit. KARAN MAD-<br />
HOK works with the Basketball Federation<br />
of India (BFI), as a writer & Head of<br />
Media Relations. He’s got a blog about<br />
basketball in India hoopistani.blogspot.<br />
com. He lives in Delhi but says he’s not a<br />
fan, so travels a lot. DHONDUP RODER<br />
stayed with him a few mo while in India<br />
for work & he regularly meets SHEFALI<br />
S & SURABHI P when they’re in town.<br />
KAVITA MANDALIYA was in Nairobi<br />
for the past yr, taking a yr off to spend<br />
time with family & travel. She’s getting<br />
married in Nov in India after which she’ll<br />
be moving to Vancouver & focusing on<br />
a career in culinary arts & restaurant<br />
mngmt. SHERRY MASIH is in NYC;<br />
he opened a branch of his Indian export<br />
bus in NYC last yr, Raise India LLC,<br />
promoting Indian handicrafts. He also<br />
works for an NGO. He meets SAURABH<br />
NIRAULA, OSWIN JOSEPH, SHIVI-<br />
KA SINHA, RAHUL<br />
AGARWAL & ARUN<br />
DANIEL regularly.<br />
BETH MCALEER<br />
NG finished her degree<br />
in Speech Language<br />
Path & moved<br />
back to CAN, got<br />
married. She is working<br />
with Saskatoon<br />
Public <strong>School</strong>s as a<br />
consultant & is thinking<br />
about opening up<br />
a private practice.<br />
KARINA MEMON lives in Denton TX<br />
with her fiancé & daughter Myra. She<br />
works at 1st Am Mortgage Services.<br />
AKIKO MORIMOTO SADZIAK is still<br />
in Tokyo, working as a system engineer.<br />
She got married last Apr. WANGCHUK<br />
D NAMGYAL has moved back home to<br />
Bhutan. He started his own bus which has<br />
kept him very busy. SAURABH NIRAU-<br />
LA finished his econ (grad) degree at<br />
the U Cincinnati & lives in Washington,<br />
DC. AYLA PARIYAR lives in Edinburgh<br />
where she works as a freelance journalist.<br />
PAURAVI PATEL is working toward<br />
a specialization in pediatric pharmacy<br />
at Stanford Med <strong>School</strong> & working as a<br />
clinical pharmacist at Lucile Packard’s<br />
Children Hosp. LE DUC PHAM works in<br />
Osaka for a local consulting co but will<br />
be moving back to Vietnam to get married<br />
at the end of the yr. He’s also in the process<br />
of applying for an MBA at INSEAD<br />
(France) for next Fall. DONNA PINTO<br />
works in Arlington TX. SURABHI PU-<br />
DASAINI has lived in Kathmandu for the<br />
last 3yrs, working for Himal Southasian.<br />
She recently quit her job & went on a 2<br />
mo roadtrip in US where she met DONNA<br />
P & REETI K. She often meets KARAN<br />
M, SHEFALI S & ASHWINI T. She’s now<br />
back in Kathmandu working as a freelance<br />
writer. PEM ZAM RABGYE lives<br />
& works in Thimpu, Bhutan. TALINA<br />
RUSH is in Qatar, working as a primary<br />
school teacher. She’s planning on getting<br />
married next yr. YUN KYOUNG RYU<br />
got her PhD in Biology/Neurosci from<br />
Johns Hopkins U & lives in Baltimore<br />
MD. SHEFALI SALDANHA works in<br />
Bombay for a Micro Housing Finance<br />
start-up; she hopes to start grad school<br />
soon & regularly meets Karan & Surabhi.<br />
MICHAEL SCHICK lives in Heidelberg,<br />
doing a Masters in Sports Mngmt. JAE<br />
HEE SHIM graduated from Case Western<br />
Reserve Uni in DMD Dentistry & lives in<br />
Clevland, Ohio. KONG JOO SHIN lives<br />
in NYC but went back to S. Korea for a<br />
Class of ‘04 Tenzi, Grace, Afshaan & Esther in Boston in June<br />
visit in Aug. SONJOY SINGHI works<br />
at DreamWorks Animation & hopes to<br />
become a Dir soon. SHIVIKA SINHA<br />
works at Epsilon Interactive as a Sr<br />
Strategic Consultant in NYC. She & her<br />
sister recently wrote an interesting review<br />
of the Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975.<br />
CHONI TENZIN went back to visit family<br />
in Bhutan during the summer. She<br />
lives in Calgary CAN & works in child<br />
services. ERNEST TANDON finished<br />
college in NY & works for Nintendo<br />
CAN (the video game co). He regularly<br />
meets TENZING GAPHEL & JIGME<br />
SADUTSANG who also live in Toronto.<br />
He plans to do a Masters or law next yr.<br />
ASHWINI TODI is in Nepal working in<br />
his business. He says there are lots of<br />
WSkers in town so they meet whenever<br />
they can. JIGME TSHERING quit his<br />
job in the Govt in Bhutan to get into<br />
private bus. He currently does managing,<br />
2 wheelers, tourism & hotel. SHEENA<br />
UPPAL is working in Delhi & met up<br />
with Kavita, Lara, Helen & myself in<br />
London, then flew to Ibiza for Kavita’s<br />
bachelorette party. CHARLES WAITARA<br />
is a lawyer in his own practice in Dar es<br />
Salaam. NANAKO YAMAMURO is in<br />
her 4th yr as an IT engineer in Tokyo.<br />
Over weekends she enjoys playing violin<br />
with friends. SONAM YANGKI visited<br />
Singapore , but otherwise works in<br />
Thimpu. LARA KANGA & I still live in<br />
London. She works in a co that does PR<br />
for classical music.. —Daniela<br />
Class of 2004<br />
ESTHER LEE is working at Boston U<br />
but will be heading back to Korea to<br />
spend some time with family & lovely<br />
WS friends in Korea! AFSHAAN ALTER<br />
is living in & enjoying Boston MA, now<br />
working at a local uni. In Apr she visited<br />
Grace Hur in CA & she returned the favour<br />
in Jun. In May, I was honored to be<br />
part of Katie Henderson’s beautiful TN<br />
wedding! SANGHMITRA GAUTAM is
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Ahmed Shadman ’05 marries Mehnaz.<br />
working on a PhD in Econ at UCL, London.<br />
Part of my res has involved working<br />
with the UN on a Millennium Develop’t<br />
Goal (MDG) program in India. I expect<br />
to spend time next yr there implementing<br />
policy interventions. JEMIMA HOF-<br />
MANN is about to finish her 3 yr Bachelor<br />
of Health Sci in Midwifery after which<br />
I am planning to work in Auckland for a<br />
while in order to hone my newly acquired<br />
skills. Following that, who knows what<br />
will happen? TENZING YUTHOK is<br />
Serena Mark ’05 and husband<br />
studying at Whistling Woods<br />
Int’l Mumbai, a film institute.<br />
I am specializing in Direction<br />
& at the end of my 2nd term<br />
& planning to go for further<br />
studies. JEREMY CHACKO<br />
is living in Victoria BC where<br />
his wife goes to school. RU-<br />
BINA SHIOTANI graduated<br />
with MPH in Global Health<br />
from Emory U in May & now<br />
working with a global healthcare<br />
consultancy firm. SHEVA<br />
MCRAE works with at-risk<br />
teenagers with Mental Health<br />
issues or those in trouble with<br />
the law. I teach art 3 times a week, dance<br />
with a swing dance troop (teach classes/<br />
do hired gigs/perform/compete), play<br />
the drums in a band & study. AVINASH<br />
THOMAS is living the New York life.<br />
HAIDER TANGOO finally started building<br />
a house in Kashmir... any one coming<br />
to Srinagar next yr, look me up.—Contributed<br />
online<br />
Class of 2005<br />
It has been a yr full of milestones for<br />
Eminence, filled with marriages, engagements<br />
& the first babies! We would like<br />
to congratulate PRATEEK AGARWAL,<br />
PRIYANKA AGARWAL & PRIYAN-<br />
KA AGRAWAL (NOW CHOKHANI),<br />
ADAM KEMP, AHMED SHADMAN,<br />
MILLE KOJIMA, SERENA MARK &<br />
SONIA DHINGRA who all got married.<br />
ABDULLAH SAMADI & wife Tahmina<br />
had a baby girl called Abreen & are living<br />
in AUS. MILLIE KOJIMA MUROI’s<br />
son, Kanta was born in Mar. SHARONE<br />
DANIEL spent part of the yr in India<br />
learning to farm, visiting family. She got<br />
engaged to her Brazilian boyfriend & will<br />
be moving to Brazil as soon her paper<br />
work comes through. YEERAE KIM announced<br />
her engagement. MUDITA TODI<br />
is doing her MBA at ISB in Hyderabad.<br />
RAHUL AGRAWAL is no longer in<br />
NC, has moved to CA & is working for<br />
Square 1 Bank. SHIRAAZ LALL has<br />
been promoted to Systems Administrator<br />
in an IT firm. BENNETT SAMUEL<br />
is working in cardiac intensive care & is<br />
working on a Master’s in Health Admin.<br />
JEREMIAH RAO is in Mumbai working<br />
as a photo editor at Lonely Planet Mag.<br />
PRIYANKA AGRAWAL CHOKHANI<br />
has moved to AUS with her husband & is<br />
now a journalist. SHREYASI MUKERJI<br />
is pursuing a PhD in nano-scale mech<br />
eng at IIT-Kanpur. HAYDN WILKINS<br />
is working as dorm parent at Ridgewood.<br />
Millie Kojima '05 with her new family<br />
ASAKI TAKATSU works for Toyota Motors.<br />
DENIS KANT MANDAL works in<br />
Moscow, but still leads a uni student’s<br />
life. YENA KIM graduated from FIT.<br />
She is working in a fashion designer in<br />
NYC. JAN TYMPEL is planning to get a<br />
PhD soon. ROHAN PODDAR has been<br />
working in NYC for a while & plans to do<br />
his MBA soon. His house is in the same<br />
neighborhood as SHREEYA SINHA’s,<br />
who has been working as a journalist with<br />
the Asia Society. HUY NGUYEN got his<br />
Master’s from VA Tech. He is working for<br />
Freescale Semiconductor designing chips<br />
for automotives. TAHSIN CHOUDHURY<br />
is pursuing a MS in Chem & Petr Engg<br />
at U Calgary. SHAILESH KUMAR has<br />
finished his MS in Aerospace Engg & is<br />
about to finish his MBA. He is working<br />
as a Sr. Financial Analyst with United<br />
Airlines. He met with KANISHK JOSHI<br />
in MT. ABDULLAH SAMADI works is<br />
an HR Assoc for Cargowise. APURVA<br />
THANJU is beginning his 2nd yr as a<br />
MD candidate. He met ANH TUAN &<br />
AMIR SHAKYA in Singapore & crashed<br />
with SHUBHA ARYAL in Kathmandu.<br />
JUN YOUNG CHUNG recently finished<br />
his military service. He is back in the<br />
USA finishing his last semester. He is<br />
still actively involved in jazz. AHMED<br />
SHADMAN got married, he has been<br />
working HSBC for 2 yrs. He bumped into<br />
PISITSAK CHATCHOTIKAWONG in<br />
Bangkok airport during his honeymoon.<br />
RITIKA ROY finished her Bachelor’s<br />
in edu & is currently doing a teaching<br />
internship at WS.Junior <strong>School</strong>. TARA<br />
KAPUR has been living in Mumbai for<br />
the last 3 yrs. She is working with Econ<br />
Times reporting on marketing & advertising.<br />
NAOMI WATANABE is the head<br />
teacher for a humanistic school in LA.<br />
She is working towards adopting a niece<br />
& nephew who she is raising with her<br />
mom & partner. She met PRIYA OYDEZ
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& sees NICK WILEY on a regular basis.<br />
MICHAEL LONGKUMAR is working at<br />
a marketing agency for AT&T. He plans<br />
to start his own marketing firm soon. JEE<br />
HYE LEE is starting her last semester of<br />
Master’s degree at the Grad <strong>School</strong> of<br />
Int’l Studies at Seoul Nat’l U. BENJA-<br />
MIN GODBERSEN is still working as a<br />
product mgr at small web co. HIMAYU<br />
SHIOTANI is working with UN on disarmament<br />
issues. He is also finishing his<br />
Master’s in CA. ANDREW POORTA,<br />
back in the Netherlands, is working with<br />
an NGO in The Hague. MENUO AO is<br />
still studying in Edinburgh. She is going<br />
to complete her Master,s in Lit in Nov.<br />
LOKESH TODI works as an analyst at<br />
the Analysis Group. He has been very<br />
busy applying to MBA schools. He met<br />
with HELEN RUSSELL when he visited<br />
his sister in England & saw TENZIN<br />
NORZIN in New York. HELEN RUS-<br />
SELL is currently living in London with<br />
her boyfriend & working at Pratham UK.<br />
She met with TARA KAPUR & JER-<br />
EMIAH RAO when she was in Mumbai<br />
for work & also with TENZIN NORZIN<br />
& AKSHAY BIRLA when she visited<br />
NYC.—Lokesh & Helen<br />
Class of 2006<br />
It’s been 5 years since the class of Intrepid<br />
graduated. Hopefully we are all<br />
living up to our class name & either making<br />
some sort of difference to the world<br />
or working towards it! I would like to<br />
start off with congratulating PRATIKSHA<br />
PATHAK on her wedding. We wish you<br />
all the happiness in the world Pratiksha!<br />
SHREYA AGGARWAL has been back &<br />
forth between India & AUS. KANNAGI<br />
BHATT visited India and had a reunion<br />
with Tim, Aftab, Prithvi, Sunny, Kanishk,<br />
Kabir & Kanika. She is now back in AUS<br />
getting serious about her photography.<br />
KEREN BHUJEL is at SOAS, London,<br />
finished her Master’s degree and is back<br />
in Nepal. AFTAB DERE was busy working<br />
on documentaries all around India this<br />
year. He’s just taking a bit of time off<br />
now. YANGCHEN DOLKAR is on OPT<br />
status now! She graduated with honors<br />
in Apr, interned at Int’l Rescue Comm<br />
for 5 mos during her final semester &<br />
then got a job as an associate buyer for a<br />
catalog/marketing co. She’s intending on<br />
doing her Master’s soon but will remain<br />
in NY for a while. RISHI GARG is still<br />
working as a Marketing Co-ord and enjoying<br />
it, met with Shreya A, Kannagi &<br />
myself which was exciting. ANSHU GIRI<br />
is at grad school for his MBA. ISAAC<br />
GERGAN is back in Vancouver for some<br />
more studies. He is doing well but would<br />
love to catch up with everyone soon!<br />
NGAWANG GONSAR (Udonla) started<br />
grad school this yr! This past summer<br />
she caught up with Keren in London, and<br />
then met Sirawon & Pema in India for a<br />
short reunion. They squeezed in a short<br />
but nostalgic trip up to Mussoorie. She<br />
also for some odd reason keeps running<br />
into Mangboi ’07 back in the States! JE-<br />
SHURUN HOFMANN has been gracing<br />
the lands of Europe for some time now,<br />
whilst studying community developm’t<br />
online from several universities in AUS.<br />
It is a blessing since he can be engaged<br />
in different humanitarian projects at the<br />
same time, which stands in line with his<br />
passions. He hopes to soon dive into<br />
Humanitarian Aid. THOMAS JEFFERY<br />
is starting his 2nd year of a MA in Social<br />
& Political Thought at Sussex U & freelancing<br />
as a policy researcher & journal<br />
editor. He is planning to escape this dismal<br />
island after he graduates & hopes to<br />
catch up with Intrepid people whom he<br />
misses a lot. CHEON HA JEON Finished<br />
his Master’s Program at Yale & is currently<br />
getting a PhD in Optics at CREOL.<br />
HAE WON JUNG finished working as an<br />
intern at KAIST & volunteering in Indonesia.<br />
He’s back in Rochester to pursue<br />
his study in Optics. PIA KAPOOR is juggling<br />
modeling & working as an asst dir<br />
on a Bollywood film. She hopes to do her<br />
Master’s & PhD soon in criminology or<br />
behavioral neurosci in the US. SIRAWON<br />
KHATHING graduated last Jan & is now<br />
working as a vis comm designer in a studio<br />
called DRAWATER. EUN HAE KIM<br />
(GRACE) lives in New York & works<br />
as a Program Officer at a community<br />
fdn, hopes to be in business school for<br />
the next update! HARSHITA MANN is<br />
currently in Delhi working in the admin<br />
dept at Lancers Int’l <strong>School</strong>. SONYA<br />
PRASERTONG traveled to<br />
Shanghai to visit her mom<br />
& stepdad, JUNE & REID<br />
BLICKENSTAFF ’70 for a<br />
few mos, got to see Kumiko<br />
and Isaac during that trip,<br />
which was amazing! Moved<br />
to Lexington KY in Aug to<br />
begin a Master’s program in<br />
Geography at the U KY. KIN-<br />
LEY RINZING is in Thimpu<br />
doing well and working at<br />
Fusion grill-restaurant. TEN-<br />
ZIN NORZOM SHRESTHA<br />
moved to LA & is in nursing<br />
school. PRARTHANA SINGH<br />
Adam Kemp ’05 and wife.<br />
works as a Bus Res Analyst, in the past<br />
few mos she’s caught up with Sirawon,<br />
Pema M, Samira ’05 Sunny, Aftab, Tim<br />
S, Kanika & Kabir. She regularly visits<br />
WS because she can’t get enough of it!<br />
TIMOTHY SMITH has found a job at a<br />
start-up co doing micro-machining. Life<br />
is good and people should visit! SUHEIL<br />
TANDON recently completed a Master’s<br />
in Sport Mngmt from Loughborough<br />
U in the UK. He plans to head back to<br />
India in search of work within the sports<br />
field. VARUN TODI is a Sr Associate at<br />
Pricewaterhouse Coopers LLP, has been<br />
working there for the past 2 years as an<br />
auditor. He was looking forward to being<br />
a qualified Chartered Accountant by the<br />
end of 11. TSHERING YANGDEN is just<br />
doing odd part time jobs at the moment,<br />
odd as in dog sitting, being a driver, personal<br />
assistance etc. She has 5 mos left in<br />
Gathering of 2005 in New York- Tenzin Norzin, Helen Russell<br />
& Akshay Birla
104 - Quadrangle<br />
In Canada, L-R:Avalok Kaul, Charisma Kundan, Shoichiro<br />
Kanahara, Duc Duong Tran<br />
CA so she is trying to make the most of<br />
her time there & have fun! SAMRIDHI<br />
savoured the last few mos of being in Uni<br />
before graduating in Dec with a Master’s<br />
degree from U Melbourne. Exhilarating!<br />
As for me, I have been working in retail<br />
mngm’t for the past year & am now about<br />
to build my second house so it’s a busy<br />
summer for me! I hope to see at least<br />
some of you. Till next time –arrivederci!<br />
—Neeti<br />
Class of 2007<br />
NAYANTARA KHANNA is in the last<br />
yr at Savannah College of Art & Design,<br />
doing architecture. Just got her 1st car<br />
with boyfriend Lee. Got the last season of<br />
Dexter! Woohoo! Debating if she wants<br />
to go to the W Coast or to flight school<br />
on the E Coast. ANNALISA GRAHAM<br />
is living in Los Angeles, working in the<br />
film industry for a production co. She<br />
produces TV shows/programs & hopes<br />
to work on a feature film - or a music<br />
video would be really fun; also works as<br />
a freelance photographer’s assistant on<br />
the side. SRUTI ARTHUR is working as<br />
a music teacher for the primary school<br />
in Candor In’l <strong>School</strong>, Bangalore, really<br />
enjoying myself! CLARA SWANSON<br />
In Mumbai, L-R:Shubhaish Bhutiani ’09, Rachit Kumar ’09, Aditya<br />
Todi ’10, Shahid Judge ’09<br />
graduated from St Olaf College<br />
& is refining her adaptive<br />
arts by moving again. She<br />
spent the summer working at<br />
a wine-specialty restaurant in<br />
rural WI & just moved with<br />
her parents to a new city in<br />
DE, which she plans to take<br />
by storm. PURNIMA MA-<br />
LIK graduates with a BFA in<br />
Photography next May, with<br />
some Graphic Design Tools<br />
on the side. She has a job as a<br />
Digital Fine Arts Studio Lab<br />
Monitor at CA College of the Arts right<br />
now. She will be moving up to Vancouver<br />
BC. RANVEER NAGAICH just finished<br />
with Uni, doing an internship in Mumbai<br />
right now. ARPITA HERBERT is in her<br />
final yr of Master’s at the U Delhi. —<br />
Contributed online<br />
Class of 2008<br />
ANANYA is finishing her sr yr at Olin.<br />
She misses everybody & invites you to<br />
visit her in Boston. TRISHNA attends<br />
U N TX as a full time student, majoring<br />
in biology, minor in chemistry. She<br />
misses & thinks about her best friends<br />
from WS every day. AIDAN is a senior<br />
at Occidental College. He just finished<br />
a 10-wk college res program with the<br />
Religious Studies Dept. He sees the<br />
EBY-MCKENZIES (S) occasionally, as<br />
well as DAVE & ALLISON WEBER (S)<br />
& ran into ANNALISA GRAHAM ’07<br />
at a café. SHEMA is a sr at Lake Forest,<br />
double majoring in History & Sociology/<br />
Anthropology. KRISHA graduated from<br />
the U Cambridge, Anglia Ruskin with<br />
a 1st class degree in optometry. She is<br />
currently pursuing a higher degree from<br />
the same school. NEETHA has graduated<br />
from her yr in Bangalore. SHALVI Is in<br />
Sweden studying Int’l<br />
Tourism & doing a term<br />
in Spain. NIMA is in<br />
Brock U in CAN, majoring<br />
in business admin.<br />
DAWA is in OCAD, in<br />
Toronto CAN studying<br />
Industrial Design. KRIS-<br />
HANT is in his sr yr at<br />
U Bridgeport majoring<br />
in Industrial Design.<br />
PRASAN is in Purdue U,<br />
IN. He misses Nepalese<br />
parties. BENJAMIN is<br />
in his sr yr, majoring<br />
in Environmental Sci &<br />
plays on the tennis team.<br />
SIDHANT Is in his sr<br />
yr at Babson College. MASANA is still<br />
at Azusa Pacific U in Los Angeles. She<br />
worked for a term helping less fortunate<br />
communities in LA. ROSS is back in<br />
TX working for Apple, Inc. as a Developer<br />
Support Agent. She works at nights<br />
because she is in a European team that<br />
supports Italy, among other countries.<br />
She misses India terribly! ARISH is currently<br />
in his 3rd yr of Business Studies<br />
at the U Abertay, Dundee, UK; he had an<br />
eventful summer with fellow classmates<br />
& also with AMIR ’05 & Amit ’07 in<br />
Kathmandu. HELENA is in her final yr<br />
at Mary Baldwin College. She’ll graduate<br />
with a BA in Theater & a teaching license<br />
at the end of 12. KATE just graduated<br />
from Cambridge U in History. She is<br />
currently doing an internship in Parliament,<br />
which will ideally lead to a job<br />
in British politics. CHAGAN spent the<br />
summer in Washington DC, interning at<br />
Center on Budget & Policy Priorities, will<br />
be a sr at Goshen College, still majoring<br />
in Business & Communication. This semester<br />
some more recent WS grads will<br />
be joining her at Goshen. MAYANKA is<br />
currently studying Pol Sci & Asian Studies<br />
at Saint Joseph’s U, Philadelphia. She<br />
recently met Krisha, Mikhail in London<br />
& also meets other <strong>Woodstock</strong>er’s in<br />
NE USA often. MIKHAIL is in London<br />
studying film; he is looking forward to<br />
finally going to Old Trafford to watch<br />
Man Utd this yr. GAUTAM is going<br />
to U Nottingham for MSc Marketing.<br />
RAVINA graduated this yr from NMIMS<br />
& is currently doing a journalism course<br />
in Chennai, at Asian College of Journalism.<br />
She met classmates NIHARIKA,<br />
ANGELA & VARKHA this summer in<br />
Delhi. JAMYANG is enjoying studying<br />
in the Big Apple; she has taken NYU by<br />
storm (no pun intended). SHABAB is a<br />
sr at Earlham College, IN. He is trying<br />
his best to stay out of trouble. AVASH &<br />
SHAEL are doing well at RIT. JOSHUA is<br />
in his sr yr at Illinois Wesleyan. ANGELA<br />
graduated this yr, she misses everyone.<br />
VARKHA had a quality vacation in Nepal<br />
over the summer. She is back in Australia<br />
studying hard.—Arish<br />
Class of 2009<br />
The Class of 09, Tenacious, has had<br />
another successful yr. All of us have<br />
been busy doing a lot, but there always<br />
seem to be enough time in the day to<br />
relax, think & get in touch with each<br />
other. Memories of WS never seem to<br />
fade away. SANGEUN (SARAH) CHO<br />
bumped into JUN YOUNG CHUNG ’05
Quadrangle - 105<br />
Class of ’09 L-R:Sonam Yangchen, Abhishek Sinha, Montazer<br />
Mehdi, Michelle Ralte in Australia<br />
at a mutual friend’s concert at Syracuse<br />
U. SHAHID JUDGE is in his sr yr doing<br />
a BA course with History major at St.<br />
Xavier’s College, Mumbai. He travelled<br />
with the WS cricket team to Patiala.<br />
VAHINI MALLIPUDI is a magazine<br />
photographer, so people in need of a FB<br />
profile pic know where to look! FATEMA<br />
SITABKHAN has transferred to Media<br />
Arts, experiencing something new every<br />
day! MITALI GUPTA interned at UN,<br />
NYC, for the summer & is now studying<br />
abroad in London. SHOICHIRO<br />
KANAHARA visited the ’09 gang in<br />
Toronto, spent his summer in Shanghai<br />
learning Chinese. He is going to be in<br />
Japan for the following yr. RAAG SETHI<br />
is studying at Chapman U, CA & part<br />
of design for change, IN’s largest design<br />
contest. NEHA ABRAHAM is studying<br />
history in Delhi. SAMITA THAPA met<br />
JEFF LEHMAN (’86, S) & DAN KOOP-<br />
LEICHTY (S), while studying at Goshen<br />
College. PRABARNA GANGULY is<br />
majoring in biochem. KRON AUNGVI-<br />
TULSATIT enjoys the British accent<br />
while study at U of the Arts, London.<br />
SULAGANA CHAUDHARI is enjoying<br />
her penultimate yr at law school in<br />
UK while having many ’09 reunions in<br />
London & Cardiff. MENDA TENZING<br />
changed her major to int’l bus & is enjoys<br />
the little WS community at Mercyhurst<br />
College. HILARY SMITH is studying<br />
abroad in MEX. JAMES YOO is having<br />
a blast in college & has made his personal<br />
resolution to meet more ’09 people living<br />
around NYC this yr. TARIKA LALL<br />
is spending her Fall studying at King’s<br />
College, London. ABHISHEK KUMAR<br />
does not get sick of the Melbourne life;<br />
if only there were Char Dukan, it would<br />
be perfect. AVANINDRA SAKLANI is<br />
studying Econ at U Bristol, UK & spent<br />
his summer catching up with friends from<br />
’09. JONATHAN PALJOR is starting 3rd<br />
yr of college in Singapore.<br />
RICHA EKKA is in AUS<br />
studying abroad at James<br />
Cook U, doing a geology<br />
major, is interested in coral<br />
reefs & animal conservation<br />
projects in Kenya. SONAM<br />
YANGDEN met JEANNE<br />
YU (S) while she was visiting<br />
Bhutan. MONTAZERUL<br />
MEHDI is enjoying his time in<br />
AUS & meets regularly with<br />
the Aussie ’09 gang. SANAM<br />
KHANNA has converted to a<br />
Parisienne for this semester,<br />
enjoying baguettes on the<br />
Champs-Elysees. PRITHA RAJOURIA<br />
has been travelling in Cambodia & Thailand,<br />
teaching English to Buddhist monks<br />
& is now transferring to Manhattanville<br />
College NY. RUDRA BAJPAI is studying<br />
at UBC, Vancouver, playing football &<br />
involved in ex-curricular activities such<br />
as MUN. PUJA SEN had an externship<br />
in Buddakan NYC; you might recognize<br />
the restaurant from the engagement scene<br />
in the movie Sex & the City! JAGRATO<br />
ROY is doing int’l bus mngmt at U<br />
Liverpool, UK, visits ATIRAV GUPTA<br />
in Lausanne often. ERI TAKEUCHI<br />
participates in Student Government &<br />
is actively involved in Pre-Dental activities,<br />
including shadowing a dentist<br />
after classes. These days, she lives with<br />
cute squirrels instead of scary monkeys!<br />
can’t wait till a reunion! miss you guys<br />
so MUCH!—Atirav & Lisa<br />
Class of 2010<br />
Last summer, ARADHANA ROBERTS<br />
went back home to India: it was such a<br />
blessing seeing my parents, family & WS.<br />
Miss you all! Soph yr has begun and I am<br />
looking forward to another challenging<br />
yet exciting yr. DAVID ABUD met mad<br />
WSkers while in India this summer, having<br />
mad good times at college, changed<br />
my major to econ. ADITYA TODI got to<br />
meet ANANT, ANGAD, SAHIL, MARK,<br />
RISHABH, SHAHID ’09, SHUBHASH-<br />
ISH ’09, RACHIT ’09;.having a wicked<br />
good time at college! DEVIKA JAJOO<br />
reports that Delhi U can be tough at<br />
times because the environment is a little<br />
aggressive; nevertheless it’s been a good<br />
learning experience. ANIRUDH VOHRA<br />
is back from the US, doing law in India,<br />
very polar, but worth it. AUNG MYA<br />
KYAW is doing economics at McGill.<br />
TOKUJI TANAKA has decided to major<br />
in linguistics. Life at Brock U is great<br />
for ESTHER KHIANGTE who spent the<br />
summer in Toronto & met with many people<br />
from the same background. She could<br />
not make it to a Curry Club get together<br />
in Toronto, but will try her best to make<br />
it the next time. KIRSTEN HOWARD is<br />
in 1st yr, studying Arts at the U British<br />
Columbia. For SWATI GOEL, visiting<br />
WS this summer as an alumna was an<br />
experience almost difficult to accept. She<br />
wishes she could go back & relive her<br />
time as a student. NIKLAS KAMBER is<br />
currently taking a gap-year from college,<br />
spending it in Asia. After finishing his<br />
1st yr of college in OH, HOYUN RYU<br />
is back in Korea to join the air force in<br />
Nov. He was in India to visit classmates,<br />
which was great.—Aditya & Lisa<br />
Class of <strong>2011</strong><br />
IMAAN DHALIWAL is attending Pratt<br />
in NYC & is studying Interior Designing.<br />
MAYNICA SACHDEV is studying in Chulalongkorn<br />
U in Bangkok & is doing a BA in<br />
Language & Art. ROBYNNE HOWARD is<br />
studying Biol & Int’l Developm’t at McGill<br />
U. ADITYA DAS is at Purdue U studying<br />
mech engineering. SHIRLY SAMUEL is at<br />
Hope College MI majoring in Biol & doing<br />
a minor in French. ARMAAN BINDRA is<br />
at St. Olaf in MN. NEHA BALI is in the<br />
U Las Vegas, studying towards a BSBA.<br />
ANAMIKA BHATT is at Mount Allison U<br />
in NB CAN, planning to major in Psych.<br />
JEREMY ARTHUR is at MS Ramaiya College<br />
of Hotel Mngmt in Bangalore, doing<br />
a Bachelor’s in hotel mngmt. GAURAB<br />
ADHIKARI is at the College of St. Scholastica,<br />
studying accounting. SONAM JATTU<br />
is studying Engineering Sci in Trinity U<br />
in San Antonio TX. ADNAN VALDES<br />
BHATTACHARJEA is studying Philo &<br />
History at the U BC. ABIGAIL WOOD<br />
is doing a double major in Poli Sci & the<br />
French Horn at the Truman State U in MO.<br />
SHREEN VAID is studying Political & Int’l<br />
Rel at the U Manchester. MAARI WATA-<br />
NABE is doing a BA in Fashion Mngmt<br />
at the London <strong>School</strong> of Fashion. YSOLT<br />
BRAR is studying Life Sci at Toronto U.<br />
RAJIV MORE is doing a BA Bus Admin at<br />
Flame <strong>School</strong> of Liberal Edu in Pune. GI-<br />
TANJAYA DHAKAL, ASHIKA THANJU<br />
& BENJAMIN THAPA are at Goshen<br />
College, IN. DANIEL ROLLINS is at the<br />
U of New Haven, CT. JAZA SAMUEL is<br />
studying at the CA College of the Arts in<br />
Oakland, CA. JEONG YEONLIM is at<br />
SUNY Binghamton. AMIT LALVANI is attending<br />
TX Christian U. SANGHAMITRA<br />
GHOSH is in Wilson College, Mumbai,<br />
studying for a Bachelor’s of Mass Media.<br />
—Amit & Sanghamitra
106 - Quadrangle<br />
Staff<br />
Jottings<br />
ELLEN ALTER was able to visit Landour<br />
with BOB in Apr before his peaceful passing<br />
on Jun 19. COL ARUN BANSAL is<br />
retired in Meerut, where he golfs, travels<br />
& has full-time husband duties. JAMES<br />
& WILLI BARTON are in Ireland, promoting<br />
marriage & marriage preparation<br />
course. They spent Jan in Hong Kong<br />
where they met with JEFF & RUTH<br />
AUTY & several former students. PAUL<br />
& KIRSTEN BAYNHAM are working in<br />
Shan State, Burma, with Partners Relief &<br />
Developm’t. JANELLE BLOCHER, having<br />
lost husband STEPHEN in Oct 10, has<br />
spent the past yr teaching at an int’l school<br />
in Qingdao, China, where sons Eric &<br />
Ryan are also working. CHRIS & KAREN<br />
COOKE are in Wuxi, China, where they<br />
are teaching at Eton House Int’l <strong>School</strong>.<br />
They spent the past yr in Oudtshoorn, SA.<br />
JEYAKUMAR & JOYCE DANIEL are in<br />
Chennai, where Jeyakumar is exec dir of<br />
SEESHA & Joyce continues with the Leprosy<br />
Mission. PRIYANATHAN & CHRIS-<br />
TY DINAKARAN moved to Stavanger,<br />
NOR, last yr. Priyanathan works at the Int’l<br />
<strong>School</strong> of Stavanger & Christy at the British<br />
<strong>School</strong>. PHILIP & KAY AOKI JACOB<br />
have relocated to Gurgaon from the Am<br />
Int’l <strong>School</strong> in Egypt. Philip is focusing on<br />
the Gateway Trust for autism & Kaye is an<br />
edu consultant. KATHLEEN FORANCE<br />
JOHNSON has published a series of articles<br />
about SE Asian Textiles in Textiles<br />
Asia Journal & the Journal of the Textile<br />
Society of America. DAVID & NAOMI<br />
FORBES live N of Inverness, Scotland,<br />
where she teaches in a school for special<br />
needs & he has a consultancy co with his<br />
brother. ELLEN GOODELL enjoys retirement<br />
& travels whenever possible. She<br />
enjoys meeting with former students. SU-<br />
ZANNE SELBY GRENAGER has finished<br />
her 1st book, Bare Naked at the Reality<br />
Dance. JARED & EMILY HATCH spent<br />
last yr teaching in Syria & are currently<br />
teaching in Daegu, Korea. They enjoyed<br />
meeting the BOVENS, BURCHELLS &<br />
VANOPSTALS over the summer in the<br />
Chicago area. DAVID LAURENSON is<br />
project dir at CUNY for a new program<br />
designed to attract science graduates into<br />
the teaching profession. PHILIP LUT-<br />
GENDORF teaches at U of IA & working<br />
on a book Chai: Why, presented at the<br />
WOSA-NA reunion conference. JENNY<br />
MCINTOSH is in Wellington, NZ, where<br />
she works for Skylight, a social enterprise<br />
providing support & resources for anyone<br />
experiencing grief, loss, trauma & transition<br />
of any kind. MEG MUCKLESTONE<br />
is retired in AUS, volunteering part-time<br />
with SIM. SHEENA MCKEAN MULHOL-<br />
LAND enjoyed a reunion with STEPHA-<br />
NIE SOKHI PICKETT (S) & family at the<br />
BARTONS in Jun. Sheena teaches French<br />
in after-school clubs & Rod is engaged in<br />
parish ministry. JASWANT PAUL SHER-<br />
RING - lived to see his 70th birthday in<br />
October <strong>2011</strong>. He will be held in loving<br />
memory by wife Vimla and children ZU-<br />
BIN ’87, YASMIN ’88 and BENJAMIN<br />
’95. He started his life in Mussoorie on<br />
staff with <strong>Woodstock</strong> and continued to<br />
bring his dedication and hardwork to his<br />
new career in Evanston, Il. We will miss<br />
him. GERTRUDE “TRUDY” NELSON is<br />
in assisted living in Edmonton, AB, following<br />
a good recovery from a lumpectomy.<br />
MARK & DOROTHY PLATER are in<br />
Nottingham, UK, Dorothy doing stained<br />
glass & Mark teaching at a univ in Lincoln.<br />
PETER SETO & NATALIE BATES are<br />
on Anderson Island, WA, where Peter is<br />
running their car on waste veg oil, using<br />
waste foam panels from a door factory to<br />
insulate the house & regularly visiting the<br />
local dump to reclaim useful things before<br />
they hit the landfill. Natalie works at improving<br />
the efficiency of super computers.<br />
MALCOLM & JUNE SHEPHERD are at<br />
Grace Academy in Dehra Dun. TED & EL-<br />
EANOR VONK are in Grand Rapids, MI<br />
& are active in promoting Christian educ<br />
in Niger. GEOFF & PAULINE WILLIAMS<br />
take ministry trips to India & Nepal twice<br />
a yr. DEBBIE WITTIG teaches at Wesley<br />
Int’l <strong>School</strong> in Malang, East Java, ID. She<br />
has added white water rafting to her list of<br />
adventures! ADDIE AMSTUTZ YODER<br />
is adjusting to a life without Dave, who<br />
passed away last yr. —Anne<br />
sTAFF REP<br />
Anne Lind<br />
1311 Winsted Drive<br />
Goshen IN 46526-4688<br />
USA<br />
annelind@me.com<br />
574-538-2334<br />
Interested in working at<br />
<strong>Woodstock</strong>?<br />
For full information visit<br />
www.woodstock.ac.in
Staff arrivals and departures<br />
Quadrangle - 107<br />
Departing staff<br />
• Atula Ahuja, Residence Staff<br />
• Sujata Archer, Health / General Teacher<br />
• Annamarie Craig, Social Studies Teacher<br />
• Aman Dang, College Counselor<br />
• William Garcia, English Teacher<br />
• Merideth Garcia, ESL Teacher<br />
• Paul Gerberding, Head of Department - Art<br />
• Jennifer Gross, Associate Librarian<br />
• Megan Hagberg, Music Teacher<br />
• Anil Jain, ICT Manager<br />
• Sangeeta Lall, Social Studies Teacher<br />
• David Laurenson, Principal<br />
• Mijung Park, Residence Staff<br />
• James Rice, Chemistry Teacher<br />
• Siddhartha Roy, Sr. Accountant<br />
• Dag Schöier, Software developer<br />
• Ronald Swanson, Registrar<br />
• Susan Swanson, Head Librarian<br />
• Lauren Terry, Physical Education Teacher<br />
• David Wood, Teacher - Grade 5<br />
• Gail Wood, English / Drama Teacher<br />
January arrivals<br />
• Maya Dutt, Residence Staff<br />
• Themneivah Singh, Nurse<br />
• Gayathri Parthasarthy, Music Teacher<br />
• Rajneesh Daniel, Junior <strong>School</strong><br />
Technology Teacher<br />
• Meredith Dyson, English/Social Studies<br />
Teacher<br />
July arrivals<br />
• Andrew Cooper, Jr. <strong>School</strong> Teacher<br />
• Brian Hazlett, Residence Staff<br />
• Christina Marye, Residence Staff<br />
• David Webb, Social Studies Teacher<br />
• Eleanor Nicholson, Interim Principal<br />
• Haydn Wilkins, Residence Staff<br />
• Heather Webb, General Music Teacher<br />
• Holey Berg, Social studies<br />
• Ingrid Bakke, Music<br />
• J C Sharma, Chemistry Teacher<br />
• Jay DeCoux, RE Teacher<br />
• Katelyn Erickson, Art Teacher<br />
• Lindsay Boyd , Band Teacher<br />
• Marcus Shaw, <strong>Alumni</strong> Engagement &<br />
Gifts Officer<br />
• Marney Lewis, Social Media Specialist<br />
• Matthew Brodie , English Teacher<br />
• Nilesh Talaulicar, Admin Assistant, Senior<br />
<strong>School</strong><br />
• Pam Wiggins, Junior <strong>School</strong> Teacher<br />
• Rebecca Layton, Art Teacher<br />
• Sarah Colwell, Jr. <strong>School</strong> Librarian<br />
• Shannon Schultz, PE Teacher<br />
• Sonal Sharma, Health Teacher (Half-time)<br />
• Suman Mitra, Residence Staff<br />
Departed staff who served over five years<br />
Sue Swanson (8yrs)<br />
Susan Swanson has contributed to <strong>Woodstock</strong> in many ways, and the students<br />
and school have benefited because of her dedication and love. She was hired<br />
in 2003 as the <strong>School</strong> Librarian and Head of the Learning Resources Center. In<br />
her time at <strong>Woodstock</strong>, she ruled over the stacks, shushing seniors and pushing<br />
all students and staff towards academic excellence. She demanded silence in<br />
the library but spoke loudly in meetings and assemblies—truly a force to be<br />
reckoned with. She dealt in three areas as Librarian—administration, collection<br />
management, and instruction/outreach.<br />
Sue contributed to the school in many more ways: she was the staff and advisor<br />
and a chaperone for the Model United Nations programs between 2004 and 2006<br />
and again between 2009 and <strong>2011</strong> (she coordinated the program from 2006 to<br />
2009). Plus, she was the homeroom teacher of the class of 2010. Susan will be<br />
missed, not just for<br />
her work in the library<br />
but also for<br />
her love for <strong>Woodstock</strong><br />
<strong>School</strong>.<br />
Ron Swanson<br />
(8yrs)<br />
Few people have<br />
contributed as<br />
much to <strong>Woodstock</strong><br />
over the past eight<br />
years as Ronald<br />
Swanson has. He<br />
arrived in 2003 as<br />
an accompanying<br />
spouse, here with<br />
his wife Susan, who was hired as <strong>School</strong> Librarian. According to her, “We<br />
came because I had a job, and we stayed because he had one.” In fact, he had<br />
two primary roles: for three years, he was an Administrative Assistant in ICT,<br />
and for the past five years, he has been the Registrar. His ICT accomplishments<br />
include keeping departmental data and records and training himself in HTML<br />
so that he could be the webmaster for WS Wire. Many of the services available<br />
on the wire – such as the announcements system and study hall signups – are<br />
there because Ronald debugged and implemented them. In 2006, Ronald moved<br />
to the Registrar’s office and his work has included: Adding the transcript back<br />
page for student activities and external exam results; implementing the demerit<br />
system for Saturday Morning Detention; consolidating and organizing old student<br />
files, beginning the systematic computerized cataloging of old student files;<br />
assuming the duties of Cambridge Examination Officer; organizing and summarizing<br />
external examination results for PSAT, SAT, IGCSE, and AP exams;<br />
helping to implement and maintain the Naviance software system for managing<br />
American college applications; and assuming the role of scheduler for Senior<br />
<strong>School</strong> courses.<br />
Finally, he helped new administrators in countless ways, providing detailed<br />
advice, usually with a touch of humor and always with humility and kindness.<br />
His dedication to <strong>Woodstock</strong> is unsurpassed, and any teacher who has turned<br />
in late grades or comments at the end of a marking period knows that Ronald<br />
was always willing to work many hours into the night and on weekends to make<br />
sure the job was done.
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Gargi Barooah (9 years)<br />
Mrs. Gargi Barooah joined the <strong>Woodstock</strong> music department in July 2002 as a<br />
piano teacher. Since then she has taught elementary school general music, beginning<br />
strings, violin and music theory courses. She has taught advanced piano<br />
students, of whom many have performed excellently at recitals, both formal<br />
& informal besides being featured as soloists in concertos performed with the<br />
advanced orchestra. Her piano students have obtained excellent results in the<br />
Associated Board of the Royal <strong>School</strong>s of Music examinations. Many of them<br />
have passed advanced grade level examinations with merit and distinction. Mrs.<br />
Barooah has the credit of being the first music teacher to have a student succeed<br />
in a diploma level performance examination. Her theory students have also had<br />
a high level of success in the external examinations.<br />
Mrs. Barooah has been meticulous in her teaching approaches. She has always<br />
been a willing accompanist for students at recitals and for external examinations;<br />
as such she always ensured that students had adequate rehearsals with her before a<br />
performance. She has been a great team player in the music department. Her contribution<br />
during<br />
her eight and<br />
a half years in<br />
our community<br />
has been<br />
enormous and<br />
will be greatly<br />
missed by all.<br />
Chris Starr<br />
(8 years)<br />
Five years ago,<br />
a young(ish)<br />
man joined<br />
the Development<br />
Team at<br />
<strong>Woodstock</strong><br />
<strong>School</strong>. Not<br />
new to the<br />
school (after<br />
all he was here as a “chut”), Chris Starr ’81 brought with him well-honed skills<br />
and experience in educational media and website design and usability. In addition<br />
he had an already well-developed love and understanding of what <strong>Woodstock</strong><br />
was all about.<br />
Over these past few years, Chris, has been a beloved, valued and highly contributing<br />
member of the Development Team. He has introduced and supported<br />
many new initiatives and programmes such as the wsalumni website, the STAR<br />
programme, World Wide <strong>Woodstock</strong> Day, and the Raise Your Hand Campaign.<br />
A filmmaker of considerable talent, he produced the video, “A Day In The Life<br />
of <strong>Woodstock</strong>” and was co-producer of the student documentary film project,<br />
“Palayan: A Story of Exodus”. Chris has represented <strong>Woodstock</strong> to alumni in<br />
countries around the world from the USA to Australia, New Zealand, England<br />
and Singapore.<br />
His co-workers on the Development Team will remember Chris for his unique<br />
sense of humour, his ability to inject joviality into our coffee hours and team<br />
gatherings, and the hilarity which emanated from the alumni office he shared<br />
with Monica. Chris leaves <strong>Woodstock</strong> with more than just his love for <strong>Woodstock</strong><br />
intact: he has found another deeper love with Gargi Barooah. As Chris<br />
and Gargi leave <strong>Woodstock</strong> and plan for their marriage and new careers in the<br />
US, we send them with our love, affection, respect and prayers for God’s blessings<br />
on their future.<br />
In memoriam<br />
Detailed in memoriams are online at<br />
www.wsalumni.com<br />
• ALTER, ROBERT ’43 died on Jun 19, <strong>2011</strong>.<br />
He is survived by wife ELLEN, and sons<br />
STEVE ’74 and AMEETA ’73, JOSEPH ’77,<br />
ANDREW ’78, granddaughter SHIBANI<br />
’02 and many nephews and nieces.<br />
• ANDERSON, THELMA ALLEY ’45<br />
passed away on Dec 11, 2010, survived by<br />
her husband Robert.<br />
• AROLE, RAJ, father of SHOBHA ’78 and<br />
RAVI ’85 passed away in May <strong>2011</strong>.<br />
• BADHWAR, MRS, mother of PRAMILLA<br />
’58 passed away on May 5, <strong>2011</strong>.<br />
• BARROWS, VIRGINIA passed away on<br />
Jun 17, <strong>2011</strong>, survived by her husband<br />
ALDEN ’51.<br />
• BEACHY, JOHN passed away on Apr<br />
19, <strong>2011</strong>, survived by wife Miriam, and<br />
children CHERYL PAULOVICH ’69,<br />
JOHN ALLEN ’60, LYNETTE ’76 and<br />
LEON BAUMAN (S), and KENYON ’78.<br />
• BITTENBENDER, ED, father of AMY<br />
SHOFNER ’73, PHILIP ’75 and LIPIKA<br />
MAZUMDAR ’79, PETER ’77 and<br />
KAREN KLEIN (S).<br />
• BLOCHER, STEVE (S) died on Oct 13,<br />
2010, survived by wife JANELLE (S), and<br />
children RYAN ’97 and KIRSTEN ’98.<br />
• BRINES, WILLIAM, husband of<br />
MARJORIE DAVIS BRINES ’50, passed<br />
away on Jul 5, 2010.<br />
• CRESSMAN, LEONA (S) died on Dec<br />
2, 2010.<br />
• DAVIES, RUTH COLVIN, sister of<br />
ELLEN PARKER ’35, LUCILE KRAVITZ<br />
’38, JOYCE KRAUSE ’41, and DORIS<br />
BELL ’44 passed away on Mar 21, <strong>2011</strong>.<br />
• EADIE, DAVE died on Mar 4 <strong>2011</strong>,<br />
survived by his wife Jean and daughters<br />
MARILYN CAILLIER ’70 and<br />
BARBARA RUTTLE ’78.<br />
• ELLIOTT, ALMEDA passed away on Feb<br />
3, <strong>2011</strong>, survived by husband Leon and<br />
daughters MARGARET COOK ’58 and<br />
DJ CRAWFORD ’63.
• FISHER, GLEN, husband of LORITA<br />
SHULL FISHER ’39, passed away on<br />
Apr 9, <strong>2011</strong>.<br />
• FOSTER, BRUCE ’42 died on Sep 21,<br />
<strong>2011</strong>, survived by sisters DOROTHY<br />
HARROLD ’48, ROBERTA CROWELL<br />
’54, LIZ ’59 and JANET ANDERSON ’57.<br />
• FRANCIS, JASON husband of LINDA<br />
WEISENBECK FRANCIS (S), died on<br />
Jan 11, 2010.<br />
• GREEN , RACHEL, daughter of PATTY<br />
GREEN-SOTOS ’72, granddaughter of<br />
BILL ’42 and DOROTHY VAUGHN<br />
’42 WHITCOMB, niece of CATE<br />
WHITCOMB ’66 and JACK HINZ (S),<br />
JOHN ’69 and BOB WHITCOMB ’77,<br />
and cousin of KATE WHITCOMB ’02,<br />
passed away on Feb 17, <strong>2011</strong>.<br />
• GRANT, SHIREEN GUZDER ’27 died<br />
on May 17, 2008..<br />
• GRUEBER, HANS, father of URSULA<br />
WIESE ’68, HARALD ’69, WOLF ’72<br />
and HANNA BOEKER ’79, passed away<br />
on Jun 17, <strong>2011</strong>.<br />
• HARVEY, BERNEITA (S), wife of<br />
EARLE HARVEY (S), died on Sep 28,<br />
<strong>2011</strong>.<br />
• HOLDERREED LOUISE, mother of<br />
BRUCE ’60, MARY EARLY ’64 and<br />
MARGARET ULLOM ’66, passed away<br />
on Mar 14, <strong>2011</strong>.<br />
• HOLMES, DOROTHY, mother of CATHY<br />
HOLMES (S) passed away on Aug 26,<br />
<strong>2011</strong>.<br />
• HOLMES, PAULA (S) died on Mar 18,<br />
<strong>2011</strong>.<br />
• HOWES, HAROLD (S), husband of Alice<br />
(S), passed away on Nov 11, <strong>2011</strong>.<br />
• JOHNSON, DOROTHY, died Dec 18,<br />
2010, and GEORGE JOHNSON on Jan<br />
10, <strong>2011</strong>. They were the parents of PHILIP<br />
’60, CAROLYN COCHRAN ’69, and<br />
DAVID ’72.<br />
• KAPADIA, THEMINA GUZDER, ’29<br />
died on Jul 29, <strong>2011</strong>.<br />
• KAPUR, ANJALIKA ’02, sister of<br />
TARIKA LALL ’09, passed away on<br />
Dec 25, 2010.<br />
• KHANNA, MADHAV, elder son of<br />
Kamal and MALTI NANDA KHANNA<br />
’55, and nephew of SHIV NANDA ’58,<br />
died on Dec 28, 2010.<br />
• KIDWAI, PROFESSOR, mother of<br />
TARIQ KIDWAI ’69 died Jun 16, <strong>2011</strong>.<br />
• LOWE, THELMA, mother of JOHN<br />
’72, TIM ’74, AMY ’76 and SARAH ’79<br />
passed away on Aug 18, <strong>2011</strong>.<br />
• MALHAN, Ramesh Chandra, father of<br />
MADHU ’83 and ANDY ’88, passed<br />
away peacefully on Nov 4, <strong>2011</strong>.<br />
• MANTON, THOMAS ’56 died on Jan<br />
19, <strong>2011</strong>, survived by sons ALEX ’84<br />
and ERIC ’89, sister KARIS TAYLOR<br />
’56 and brothers DAVID ’59 and WILL<br />
’63.<br />
• MARRIOTT, DOUGLAS, father of<br />
ANNE ’71, DAVID ’72 and MARGARET<br />
GUENTHER ’76, died on Aug 7, <strong>2011</strong><br />
• MENCE, DON, husband of NANCY<br />
RYBURN MENCE ’52, passed away<br />
on Nov 25, 2010.<br />
• MINER, KAREN THIESSEN ’73 died<br />
on Sep 21, <strong>2011</strong>, survived by husband<br />
Robert, parents ARTHUR ’40 and<br />
JEANNETTE THIESSEN, and sisters<br />
KIM ’73 and JON ’73 WARREN and<br />
VELMA ’75 and JOHN ’75 GROSE.<br />
• PEARCE, CHRISTINE FULLILOVE<br />
’47 passed away on Jan 17, <strong>2011</strong>.<br />
• PETERS, THOMAS, passed away on<br />
Nov 11, 2010, survived by wife Jean and<br />
children CYNTHIA ’74, MARIAN ’75<br />
and JEFF ’78.<br />
• PHILLIPS, DOROTHY LINDEN ’42<br />
passed away on Dec 19, 2010, survived<br />
by husband Aubrey.<br />
• ROSKO, BILL, husband of LOIS<br />
FEIERABEND ROSKO ’69, passed<br />
away on Dec 16, 2010.<br />
• SKALAK, ANNA ALLISON ’41 passed<br />
away on Apr 24, <strong>2011</strong>.<br />
• SHERRING, JASWANT (S) passed<br />
away on Oct 20, <strong>2011</strong>. He is survived<br />
by wife Vimla, son BENJAMIN ’95<br />
and daughters ZUBIN ’87 and YASMIN<br />
CHUNG ’88.<br />
Quadrangle - 109<br />
• STACKLEY, MURIEL THIESSEN<br />
’54 died on Jan 29, <strong>2011</strong>, survived by<br />
siblings ARTHUR THIESSEN ’40 and<br />
DOROTHY THIESSEN ANDERSON<br />
’59.<br />
• STRAUGHAN, AL died on Aug 16,<br />
<strong>2011</strong> survived by wife Ruth, daughter<br />
DEIRDRE ’81 and granddaughter<br />
ROSSELLA LAENG ’08<br />
• THOMSEN, MARTHA LARSON<br />
’72 died on Feb 24, <strong>2011</strong>, survived by<br />
siblings JONATHAN ’65 and MARY<br />
KAY BURKHALTER ’65 LARSON,<br />
TIM LARSON ’67, BETTE LARSON<br />
DEAN ’69 and SARA LARSON<br />
WIEGNER ’75.<br />
• WAIT, HAZEL (S) passed away on Dec<br />
9, 2010.<br />
• WHITFIELD, FREDERICK ’37 passed<br />
away on Oct 27, 2010.<br />
• WIEBE, COOKIE, Staff and Parent, died<br />
on Oct 31, <strong>2011</strong>, survived by husband<br />
DAVID (S) and daughter ABRA STAFFIN<br />
WIEBE ’97<br />
• WILLIAMS, LESTER (P) passed away in<br />
<strong>2011</strong>, survived by wife Edith.<br />
• WINDSOR, RAYMOND passed away<br />
on Aug 10, <strong>2011</strong>. He is survived<br />
by wife Gwen and children DIANE<br />
RUSSELL ’72, JOHN ’74, HEATHER<br />
DODSON ’76, PAUL ’77 and<br />
BARBARA WINDSOR ’78 and MARK<br />
’78 and ANNE MCGREGOR (S), and<br />
grandson BEN (S) and EMERALD (S)<br />
WINDSOR.<br />
• WOODMAN, RUTH, mother of BETSY<br />
WOODMAN ’63.died on Jan 12, <strong>2011</strong>.<br />
• YODER, DAVID (S), husband of ADDIE<br />
YODER (S), died on Apr 10, <strong>2011</strong>.<br />
• YOUNG, BILL ’50, passed away on Apr<br />
1, <strong>2011</strong>, survived by brothers GORDON<br />
’45 and sister HELEN SUTER ’46<br />
• ZANTINY, NANCY BADLEY ’32<br />
passed away on Dec 10, 2010, survived<br />
by husband William.
Leave a legacy<br />
for future<br />
generations<br />
www.woodstockschool.in/lts<br />
The Lyre Tree Society includes alumni,<br />
current and former staff, parents,<br />
and friends who have remembered<br />
<strong>Woodstock</strong> <strong>School</strong> in their will or estate<br />
plan.<br />
Members of The Lyre Tree Society<br />
share a love for <strong>Woodstock</strong>, the belief<br />
that its future is important to our world,<br />
and the desire to leave a financial legacy<br />
that will help ensure that future. Their<br />
legacies are the source of permanent<br />
endowments that will support future<br />
generations of <strong>Woodstock</strong> students and<br />
teachers.<br />
Most members of The Lyre Tree<br />
Society are people of modest means<br />
who have planned for <strong>Woodstock</strong> along<br />
with the needs of their children and<br />
grandchildren.<br />
Bequests that benefit <strong>Woodstock</strong>,<br />
both modest and major, often<br />
memorialize beloved parents or family<br />
members, or a revered <strong>Woodstock</strong><br />
teacher or friend.<br />
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or estate plan can benefit <strong>Woodstock</strong>?<br />
Please let us know so that we may<br />
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member of The Lyre Tree Society. Your<br />
membership will inspire and serve as an<br />
example to others.<br />
Please note that in order to qualify<br />
for charitable tax benefits in the United<br />
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<strong>Woodstock</strong> <strong>School</strong> should be made to<br />
Friends of <strong>Woodstock</strong> <strong>School</strong>, a taxexempt,<br />
501(c)(3) corporation whose<br />
mission is to support and encourage<br />
<strong>Woodstock</strong> <strong>School</strong>.<br />
For further information contact:<br />
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Email: jcummings@fwsfoundation.org<br />
Phone: (303) 963-5427<br />
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