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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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
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