Woodstock School Alumni Magazine Vol CIV, 2011
Woodstock School Alumni Magazine Vol CIV, 2011
Woodstock School Alumni Magazine Vol CIV, 2011
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72 - Quadrangle<br />
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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