Fall 2008 - Wheelock College

Fall 2008 

magazine 

2007–2008 

ANNUAL REPORT 

OF GIVING 

The Wheelock 

Connection 

Across 

Generations 

• The Class of 2012 

• Convocation with 

Marianne O’Grady 

’94MS 

• All Together at 

Reunion

Reunion 2008 

Record Numbers Back at Wheelock 

Reunion Weekend, with over 250 alumni back on campus — a record attendance in recent 

history — raised the decibels of laughter and number of alums boasting “most events attended” 

to new highs this year. Class members returning home to Wheelock spanned more than 70 

years, from senior alumna Betty Quick Collin, who celebrated her 70th Reunion (representing 

the Class of 1938), to student helpers in the Class of 2011, who glimpsed the celebration 

awaiting them in the future when they return to campus as Wheelock graduates. 

Many alumni arrived early on Friday to meet up and catch up with classmates as well as to 

enjoy weekend kickoff events, including the Luncheon in the Alumni Room, the Boston Pops 

Concert, and the post-Pops Dessert Reception. Saturday brought a full day of Class Meetings, 

the always-colorful Annual Procession, a State of the College 

presentation by President Jenkins-Scott, and the Awards 

Ceremony at which alumni and guests were entertained 

with a surprise Reunion slide show (with music!) combining photos 

of the current campus and students with those of classmates and events taken in earlier 

decades. Thanks to Director of Alumni Relations Brianne Kimble for creating this 

should-be-Oscar-nominee! The Annual Alumni Luncheon brought more time for catching 

up with friends, shoptalk, and photo sharing before heading off to a duck tour and a 

trip to the MFA — an event made extra interesting by tour leader Maddi Cormier ’66. 

More Reunion 2008 on page 40 

Whew! 

What a busy and wonderful 

Reunion! It was great seeing everyone 

together, sharing Wheelock memories 

and traditions, and hearing about 

the great variety of work being accomplished 

in different fields. Come back 

soon. Your next Reunion is in 2013, 

but why wait? You’re always 

welcome on campus.

Fall 

2008 

Editor 

Christine Dall 

Production Editor 

Lori Ann Saslav 

Design 

Leslie Hartwell 

Photography 

Christine Dall 

Lauren Wholley 

Brianne Kimble 

Wheelock Magazine 

Fall 2008 

Volume XXIX, Issue 1 

Wheelock Magazine invites manuscripts and photographs 

from our readers, although we do not guarantee 

their publication, and we reserve the right to 

edit them as needed. 

For Class Notes information, contact Lori Ann Saslav 

at (617) 879-2123 or lsaslav@wheelock.edu. 

Conference 

Connections 

Page 4 

Passion for Action 

Scholars 

Page 19 

2 A Message From the President 

3 On Campus 

3 Upward Bound for Teacher Bound Initiative 

3 International Students on Campus 

4 Conference Connections 

6 Welcome — New Wheelock VPs, Trustee & Corporation Leaders 

8 Students & Faculty 

8 Certificate Program in Community-Based Human Services 

10 So Sexy So Soon—Diane Levin ’69MS 

10 Improving Attitudes Toward Mathematics— 

Galina Dobrynina 

10 SENCER Leadership Fellow—Ellen Faszewski 

11 The Weight of Light—Gregory Gómez Exhibit 

12 Alumni 

13 FAO Schwarz Family Foundation Fellow—Julia MacMahon ’08 

15 Service Learning & Travel 

16 Lunch & Learn 

17 2007-2008 Annual Report of Giving 

18 Annual Fund Giving Yields Big Student Returns 

19 Passion for Action Scholars on Campus 

20 Interview: Adrian Haugabrook, vice president for 

student success and diversity 

21 Donor Recognition 

37 Pre-Commencement Dinner—Kip Tiernan Remarks 

38 Convocation—Students, Faculty, & Marianne O’Grady ’94MS 

40 Reunion—Across the Generations, One Community 

41 Class Notes 

Annual Report 

of Giving 

Page 17 

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Cover:The alumni tradition of welcoming incoming 

students with a plant give-away was continued 

this fall by (L to R) Laurie Fraga ’02, Barbara Tarr 

Drauschke ’72, Bonnie Page ’76, Mila Moschella ’75, 

Brenda Noel ’93, Rachael Thames ’07, and Beverly 

Tarr Mattatall ’72. 

E Printed on recycled paper 

Wheelock Magazine 1

MESSAGE 

Dear Alumni and Friends, 

This fall, Wheelock welcomed 237 

first-year students to campus, the 

largest entering class in its history, 

and nearly 40 transfer students. This is a 

smart, talented, idealistic group of students, 

many from Massachusetts but others from 

California, Florida, Idaho, Michigan, Texas, 

and other states, who represent the country’s 

great regional diversity. As I watch these new 

students start out on an educational journey 

that will transform them as learners and 

shape the choices they make throughout 

their lives, I am reminded that they are at 

Wheelock during a time that is transformational 

for our institution as well. 

The spectacular new Campus Center 

and Student Residence (CCSR) is moving 

very quickly toward completion, changing 

the face of the College on the Riverway 

to one that reflects our modern, forwardlooking 

identity. This beautiful building is 

“[The Bringing Theory to Practice 

project] will support Wheelock in 

helping our students achieve all 

of the core outcomes of a strong 

liberal education and in defining 

conditions for sustaining the 

College’s institutional excellence.” 

an external representation of our community 

and of the many ways in which the College 

is changing internally to enhance our students’ 

educational experience. As we enter 

the third year of Wheelock’s strategic 

initiative to create a vibrant, exciting, and 

thriving learning community, we are participating 

in two new national programs that 

will move us significantly forward toward 

meeting this goal. 

The first is the Wabash National Study 

of Liberal Arts Education. Wheelock is 

among 15 national and 10 New England 

institutions selected to participate in this 

longitudinal study of student learning funded 

by the Davis Educational Foundation 

and the Teagle Foundation. The goals of the 

study are to help colleges gain information 

about what teaching practices, curriculum, 

and institutional structures best support student 

learning, and to develop methods of 

assessing a liberal arts education. The study 

focuses on seven outcomes associated with 

excellence in liberal arts education: effective 

reasoning and problem solving, inclination 

to inquire and lifelong learning, integration 

of learning, intercultural effectiveness, leadership, 

moral reasoning, and well-being. 

Congratulations to Wheelock’s vice president 

of academic affairs, Julie Wollman, 

who was instrumental in securing a place 

for Wheelock in the study. The learning 

outcomes identified in this process fit especially 

well with Wheelock’s mission, its academic 

guiding principles, and its general 

education goals. The study will offer significant 

and relevant data to guide us in designing 

a general education curriculum which 

best helps our students to develop critical 

thinking and communications skills. 

Participation in the study, which began 

with new student orientation in September, 

is led by a very committed group of faculty 

on the College’s General Education Task 

Force — Associate Professors Mary Battenfeld, 

who leads our effort; Marjorie Hall; 

William “Bill” Thompson; and Emily Cahan, 

along with Richard Williams, director of 

First Year Experiences. 

This fall, Wheelock has also been selected 

to participate in the Bringing Theory to Practice 

Project, which, in partnership with the 

Association of American Colleges and Universities, 

is bringing 45 diverse colleges and 

universities together to create a leadership 

coalition and commit their campuses to 

becoming national models for what a liberal 

education can and should be. With generous 

support from the S. Engelhard Center, the 

Charles Engelhard Foundation, the Christian 

A. Johnson Endeavor Foundation, and Lumina 

Foundation for Education, Wheelock and 

the other coalition institutions will receive 

grant support for work over the next two 

years that will demonstrate the benefits of 

making it a priority to create and sustain a 

campus culture of learning — how it elevates 

expectations, involves greater faculty and student 

interaction, broadens reward structures, 

and results in greater student attainment of 

academic achievement, well-being, and civic 

development. 

The initial activity of the coalition is a 

President’s Symposium scheduled for Nov. 

10-11, 2008, in Washington, D.C. The event 

is a working session for presidents to learn 

from each other about transformative change 

at their institutions and to share ideas and 

experiences about current challenges facing 

higher education. I am very excited about 

participating in the symposium and in the 

project. It will support Wheelock in helping 

our students achieve all of the core outcomes 

of a strong liberal education and in defining 

conditions for sustaining the College’s institutional 

excellence. 

Wheelock’s participation in this project 

will advance its strategic agenda and its role as 

a thought leader in higher education. It is a 

very exciting opportunity to be engaged with 

other institutions that are, like Wheelock, 

actively pursuing institutional transformation. 

This issue of Wheelock Magazine contains 

news about the College’s accomplished faculty 

and new administrative leaders as well as 

reports on conferences that are contributing 

to Wheelock’s growth as a center for sharing 

information and ideas. A look at first-year 

students — the Class of 2012 — reveals a 

wonderful diversity of interests and accomplishments 

that is impressive to say the least. 

Welcoming such an outstanding group to 

our learning community of students, faculty, 

staff, and alumni who all share the same 

mission is exciting and encourages us to do 

our very best to provide them with what 

they need to achieve their goals. 

This issue also includes the College’s 

Annual Report of Giving. On behalf of the 

children, families, and students Wheelock 

serves, I want to sincerely thank each and 

every individual and organization who 

chose to support the College in this most 

important year. Our accomplishments are 

many and are made possible because of 

your generosity. 

Sincerely, 

JACKIE JENKINS-SCOTT 

President 

2 Fall 2008

Teacher Bound 

A Summer Success 

Last summer and into early fall, Wheelock’s 

Teacher Bound program laid the first stepping 

stones in a pathway to college it is building for 

students from the Boston area who are interested in 

becoming teachers. Teacher Bound received a four-year 

$1 million Classic Upward Bound TRIO grant — it was 

the only teacher development initiative in the country to 

receive Upward Bound funding — and lost no time in 

immersing a group of 50 high school students in the first 

phase of its program. 

For six weeks during the summer, we had ninth- and 

10th-grade students from nine Boston neighborhoods 

and 13 Boston schools on campus and in classes all day, 

Monday through Thursday. After completing Introduction 

to Teaching and summer courses in science, math, 

critical writing and reading, and digital storytelling, 

the students are back at Wheelock this fall for Saturday 

Academy, continuing the gains they made on the 

summer pathway to teaching. 

Fall Catch-Up 

ON CAMPUS 

Recycling for 

AIDS Education 

The good news is that Wheelock has new 

athletics uniforms. And the other good 

news is that the old uniforms are being 

put to excellent use by the TRIAD Trust. TRIAD 

is a consortium of exceptional athletes, artists, 

musicians, filmmakers, physicians, educators, 

policymakers, and health care advocates dedicated 

TRIAD kids wear WHEELOCK 

to increasing HIV/AIDS awareness and encouraging 

prevention. TRIAD trains local leaders to run 

sustainable sports, arts, and media programs for 

orphans and vulnerable children in areas affected 

by HIV/AIDS. Early intervention combined with 

stimulating activities kids naturally love is their 

route to raising healthier, happier children. 

Diana Cutaia, Wheelock’s director of Athletics, 

Recreation and Wellness, works with several youth 

development organizations in Boston, including 

Charlestown Lacrosse, whose director went to 

South Africa on behalf of TRIAD in July. When 

Diana got a call for material donations, she packed 

up Wheelock’s still-got-life-in-them uniforms and 

some water bottles and off they went! 

Go, TRIAD kids! 

Immersed in Learning 

Students from Singapore, the Bahamas, and Taiwan 

Wheelock’s commitment to global awareness and international learning continued to 

expand this summer when the College’s Center for International Education, 

Leadership, and Innovation welcomed students from Singapore, the Bahamas, 

and Taiwan to the first international Summer Immersion Program on the Boston campus. 

In June, 59 students from Wheelock’s Bachelor of Science in Early Childhood Educational 

Studies and Leadership program at Ngee Ann Polytechnic in Singapore arrived for five weeks 

of intensive study. The students, all in their second year of the program, took courses in 

Assessing Students with Special Needs and Parent-Teacher Communication, and absorbed 

practical experience visiting educational and child care centers that support children with 

learning challenges. Wheelock Family Theatre Educational Director John Bay ’94MS and 

Professors Felicity Crawford, Susan Kosoff ’65/’75MS, and Susan Harris-Sharples 

connected the students to many resources and individuals throughout their time in Boston. 

In July, the Center welcomed 20 students from Wheelock’s Master of Science Programme in 

Early Childhood and Elementary Teaching, offered in collaboration with The College of the 

Bahamas, for a four-week immersion session. During their stay on campus, the Bahamian students 

completed intensive courses taught by Dr. Linda Banks-Santilli ’85, Dr. Vicki Bartolini, and 

Dr. Kathleen Reed, prepared to conduct independent study research projects, visited the Perkins 

School for the Blind, toured a Bright Horizons child care center, and observed summer literacy 

programs in Brookline schools. 

Students from Taiwan began their study tour with a reception hosted by President Jenkins- 

Scott at which they were greeted by Dr. Shan-nan Chang, director of the Taipei Economic 

and Cultural Office in Boston, and a Taiwanese newspaper reporter. Professors Vicki Caplan 

Milstein ’72 and Min-Jen Wu ’00/’03MS co-taught the students in the course Introduction 

to Inclusive Early Childhood Education in a Multicultural/Multiracial/Multilingual Society. 

Throughout the course, students had the opportunity to observe inclusive early childhood 

classrooms in Brookline schools. 

Associate Director of Alumni Relations Brianne Kimble welcomed the students with a 

preview of coming attractions available to them when they join the ranks of Wheelock graduates. 

Each student received a Wheelock College license plate frame — the hit of the presentation. 

(See Wheelock WARES at www.wheelock.edu/alum to order your own frame.) 

The three visits gave staff and faculty a welcome opportunity to connect more closely 

with the College’s international students and learn more about relevant issues in their education 

systems. And the presence of the energetic students on campus definitely contributed 

to making this a very active and student-oriented summer. 


ON CAMPUS 

Summer Conferences 

& Institutes 

Is it possible that summer’s less pressured tempo influences creative thinking and synapse connectivity? Both were very much in evidence 

among those who attended conferences and institutes held on campus last summer. Wheelock’s summer programs offered another 

strong selection of educational opportunities for educators, child life professionals, and students alike. Conferences, graduate courses, 

and professional development classes blending theory and practice generated an abundant sharing of ideas that no doubt are being applied 

this fall in elementary school classrooms and on campuses in the U.S. and internationally. 

For Credit, PDPs, Continuing Education Points, or Audit 

Last summer, Wheelock faculty offered a great selection of institutes that could be taken for graduate credits, professional development 

points (PDPs), and continuing education points, or simply audited: Media Madness: The Impact of Sex, Violence, & Commercial Culture on 

Adults, Children, & Society; Supporting Children’s Emotional Development in Schools and Communities; Children’s Racial and Cultural Identities; 

Multicultural Children’s Literature; Boys: More at Risk Than We Think?; Fathers: Their Impact on the Lives of Children; and Language and 

Literacy: Teaching Literacy to English Language Learners. 

Keep Wheelock’s Summer Institutes and conferences in mind for next summer when planning on adding PDPs. In addition to the 

May 22 conference, Annual Community Dialogue on Early Education and Care: New Initiatives, New Realities, a noncredit summer 

conference on June 5 and 6, Environmental Education for Children: Going Beyond the Hype, also offered PDPs. 

Building Leadership and 

Management in the Social Sector 

Wheelock Hosts Invitational Seminar 

As the nonprofit sector continues to grow and develop, there 

is a continual need for senior leadership and management 

who have the skills needed to provide innovative direction 

for organizations so that they can better fulfill their missions. In June, 

Wheelock hosted an Invitational Focus Seminar designed for rising 

senior leadership and tailored to meet both their professional development 

needs and the needs of their organizations. The seminar goal was 

to help prepare the rising leaders to be entrepreneurs and founders of 

future nonprofits. 

The participants concentrated on gaining leadership insight and 

skills through case studies, interactive problem solving, and discussion, 

and they worked with current nonprofit presidents, CEOs, and 

COOs who had turned their ideas into major regional and national 

programs. These were Jeffrey L. Bradach, co-founder and managing 

partner of The Bridgespan Group; James Weinberg, founder and 

CEO of Commongood Careers; Alan Khazei, co-founder and former 

CEO of City Year Inc. and founder and CEO of Be the Change Inc.; 

David S. Ford, executive director of the Richard and Susan Smith 

Family Foundation; Gerald Chertavian, founder and CEO of Year 

Up; Kim Syman, managing partner and director of the Action Tank 

unit of New Profit Inc.; Rob Waldron, vice president of Berkshire 

Partners and president and COO of Waterworks; and President 

Jackie Jenkins-Scott. 

Environmental Education 

for Children 

Last June, a Wheelock conference on environmental science for 

children in early childhood and elementary classrooms emphasized 

how critical a foundation of science literacy is to the future generations 

who will care for our planet. Conference speakers and workshop leaders supported 

immediate conservation efforts such as recycling and protecting endangered 

species, but the real focus was on basic science concepts children can 

explore and experiences educators can provide to begin to build a foundation 

of understanding in children that they will need for future decision-making 

when they are adults. 

Former astronaut Jeff Hoffman, a five-flight veteran, who is now a professor 

at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, was a highlight of the conference, 

explaining how the U.S. and other nations study our home planet from great 

distances and showing some of the amazing discoveries made by viewing Earth 

from outer space. 

At the opposite end of the spectrum, an interactive panel of educators and 

environmentalists discussed down-to-earth learning opportunities (and challenges) 

available to students right in their own school neighborhoods. The panel 

consisted of Meg Watson, elementary professional development specialist and 

science program manager for the Boston Public Schools; Gloria Villegas-Cardoza, 

director of education at the Massachusetts Audubon Society; Ross Wilson, 

principal of the Dennis C. Haley Elementary School in Boston; and Kirk Meyer, 

founding executive director of the Boston Schoolyard Funders Collaborative. 

Thanks to the Applera Corporation for sponsoring the event, with additional 

support from the Wheelock College Math/Science Education Initiative, 

the Colleges of the Fenway Environmental Science Program, and the 

Massachusetts Audubon Society. And extra thanks to Cathy Clemens, Wheelock’s 

Math/Science Education Center manager, for organizing such an informative 

conference. 


ON CAMPUS 

International Froebel Society 

Chooses Wheelock for Its 

First Conference in the U.S. 

Friedrich Froebel changed the way we think about early childhood 

education by demonstrating the central role that play has 

in learning. In 1840, Froebel created the word kindergarten for 

the Play and Activity Institute he had founded three years earlier at 

Bad Blankenburg, Germany. There, he designed educational materials 

(now known around the world as Froebel Gifts or Gaben), which 

included wooden geometric building blocks, balls, tiles, sticks, and 

rings, and demonstrated that children learn by playing. 

“After many disappointments in spreading the idea of kindergartens in 

Germany, Froebel looked to the U.S., where there was both a growing 

demand for early childhood care and increasing numbers of social workers 

and teachers,” says Dr. Suzanne 

Pasch, director of Wheelock’s Center 

for Scholarship and Research. 

“When introduced to the public education 

system in Boston, the idea of 

kindergartens began to spread, and the 

U.S. became the base for the kindergarten 

movement worldwide.” 

Suzanne Pasch, director of Wheelock’s Center for 

Scholarship and Research, and Kevin J. Brehony, chair 

of the International Froebel Society Conference 

Organizing and Review Committees and professor at 

Froebel College, Roehampton University, London 

Lucy Wheelock was asked to train Boston’s first kindergarten teachers, 

and her classes were the early building blocks of what evolved into 

Wheelock College. The strong connections of Miss Wheelock to 

Froebel, the intersections of their work with young children and those 

who educate them, and the existence of a wealth of source materials 

(including a journal of Miss Wheelock’s “pilgrimage” to Germany in 

1908 and many Froebel Gifts) in the Wheelock Library archives are 

among the reasons why the College was chosen by the International 

Froebel Society for its first conference in the U.S. 

A mix of scholars, researchers, practitioners, and students from four 

continents, each of whom is engaged in work emanating from Froebel’s 

contributions to early childhood education, gathered at Wheelock to discuss 

contemporary international perspectives on play and learning. Dr. 

Pasch was an organizer of the conference and a presenter; Wheelock faculty 

members Dr. Emily Cahan and Dr. Eleonora Villegas-Reimers participated 

as presenters; and Dr. Diane Levin ’69MS was a keynote speaker. 

Honoring Dr. Ed Klugman, Faculty Emeritus 

On the final day of the conference, attendees honored Dr. Ed Klugman, 

faculty emeritus, for his contributions as a “gifted educator and timeless 

advocate for all children’s right to a world rich in play.” He was presented 

with a stone sculpture by the Shona in Zimbabwe which was inscribed, 

“You never stand so tall as when you bend down to help a child.” 

The next week, Ed sent a letter expressing his appreciation, which read 

in part: “With my thanks and deepest respect to all of you for continuing 

to carry on the Lucy Wheelock tradition with sensitivity, caring, and 

sharing that which is most important, the 

human and humane connection. I admire 

all of you for your courage and persistence 

in continuing to create a future unlike the 

past. Wishing all of you continued success 

in improving the quality of lives of 

children, families, and the future.” 

“You never stand so tall 

as when you bend down 

to help a child.” 

Third Annual Dialogue on 

Early Education and Care 

Coalition Building to Improve Services for 

Our Youngest and Most Vulnerable Children 

Wheelock’s annual dialogues on early education and care 

began in 2006 when the College hosted field professionals, 

community leaders, policymakers, and advocates to review 

the impact of the Early Education for All legislation passed in 2005. 

Building on the success of the first conference, Wheelock hosted the 

Second Annual Dialogue on Early Education and Care, which focused on 

the important issue of investing in a diverse workforce, in 2007. 

“The enactment of the Early Education for All legislation was an 

important first step toward improving the lives of children and families 

throughout the Commonwealth, and in three years much progress has 

“. . . shifting realities of leadership change, 

resource limitations, and policy implementation 

are posing new challenges.” 

— President Jenkins-Scott 

been made,” President Jenkins-Scott said in welcoming those attending 

the Third Annual Dialogue, held at Wheelock last May. “At the same 

time, shifting realities of leadership change, resource limitations, and 

policy implementation are posing new challenges.” 

This year’s Dialogue presentations, panel discussions, and facilitated 

sessions helped to frame current initiatives and realities in early education 

and to develop strategies for coalition building and moving forward as 

a unified field. Leaders at the event included Wheelock Professor of 

Education David Fernie; Dean of Education and Child Life Eleonora 

Villegas-Reimers, and Senior Director of Government Affairs and Civic 

Engagement Marta Rosa. 


ON CAMPUS 

Dr. Adrian K. 

Haugabrook 

Vice President for Student Success and 

Institutional Diversity 

Executive Director of the Aspire Institute 

In July, Wheelock welcomed Dr. Adrian K. 

Haugabrook to the newly created post of 

vice president for student success and institutional 

diversity and as the executive director of 

the College’s new Aspire Institute. Dr. Haugabrook 

is well-known at Wheelock as he served 

on the Board of Trustees as chair of the Educational 

Policy Committee last year, contributing 

a wealth of experience and knowledge and 

demonstrating a great passion for Wheelock’s 

mission, which he sees as the core of the College’s 

vitality. “Wheelock is an extraordinary 

institution with an extraordinary mission,” he 

says. “I quickly arrived at the epiphany that 

people don’t come to Wheelock to just learn or 

work; they come to realize their mission.” 

Haugabrook has an extensive background 

in higher education as a practitioner, teacher, 

speaker, and writer on topics that include sociology, 

education policy, creating successful 

learning environments for students, and diversity. 

As vice president for student success, he is 

leading initiatives supporting student achievement 

throughout their undergraduate and 

graduate years at Wheelock, supervising areas of 

Academic Advising and Assistance, Disability 

Wheelock 

Welcomes 

Services, Field Experience, First-Year Experience, 

Career Development, and School and 

Community Partnerships. 

Haugabrook also serves as Wheelock’s first 

chief diversity officer, a new position recommended 

by the College’s Community Diversity 

Initiative Committee. Prior to coming to 

Wheelock, he successfully introduced campuswide 

multicultural and diversity programs 

and services at Framingham State College, 

Southwestern State University, and the University 

of West Georgia. 

As executive director of Wheelock’s new 

Aspire Institute, Haugabrook is leading the 

initiative to build partnerships and apply 

Wheelock’s academic resources to “real-world” 

challenges facing schools and organizations 

serving children, families, and communities. 

Haugabrook came to Wheelock from The 

Education Resources Institute (TERI), where he 

was vice president for the Local College Access 

Program. TERI provides programs and services 

to young people and adults to help them plan 

and pay for college and other career-building 

programs. TERI achieves this through collaborations 

with neighborhood centers, middle- and 

high-school-based programs, and outreach 

efforts at community organizations. At TERI, 

Haugabrook worked closely with higher education 

institutions locally and nationally to address 

issues of postsecondary access and success. Previously, 

as executive director of public policy 

alliances and innovation at the nationally recognized 

Citizen Schools, a Boston-based afterschool 

apprenticeship education program, he led 

the organization’s national programs and its state 

and federal policy strategy, which resulted in 

state-funded legislation for Citizen Schools in 

Massachusetts. 

Dr. Julie Wollman 

Vice President of Academic Affairs 

Following an extensive search process, 

Wheelock College has appointed as 

vice president of academic affairs an 

experienced academic leader and a talented 

scholar, administrator, and community 

builder with over 16 years in urban higher 

education: Dr. Julie Wollman. Dr. Wollman 

spent 15 years at Rhode Island College in 

several different positions at the School of 

Education, including professor of elementary 

education, interim and then dean of the Feinstein 

School of Education and Human Development, 

co-director of the Rhode Island College/ 

University of Rhode Island Joint Ph.D. in 

Education program, and assistant chair of 

Elementary Education. 

In these capacities, Wollman initiated a 

range of innovative projects and worked with 

faculty committees to develop a revised mission 

for the school that focused on excellence 

through equity, diversity, and social advocacy. 

Under her guidance, the school developed new 

graduate programs in Educational Leadership, 

Advanced Studies in Teaching and Learning, 

and Special Education. She was an advocate for 

faculty research and scholarship and assisted in 

bringing millions of dollars of research grants 

to the college. 

Since 2007, Wollman had served as vice 

president of academic affairs at Worcester State 

College, where she led the work of 20 department 

chairs, numerous academic centers and 

programs, several directors, two associate vice 

presidents, the assistant vice president, and the 

president. During her time at Worcester State 

College, she led the restructuring of the Assessment 

and Planning Office, redesigned the 

academic program review process, developed 

Dr. Julie Wollman, vice president of academic 

affairs, and Sandy Christison ’92MS, president 

of the Alumni Association Board, at August 

Commencement 


ON CAMPUS 

a plan for improving the academic library, 

expanded the study abroad program, and 

improved the culture of scholarship and external 

funding for research. She also led the college’s 

strategic planning effort. 

Wollman brings to Wheelock a passion 

for leadership and excellence. “Above all, I 

hope to empower others to succeed while 

moving Wheelock forward as a premier college 

in New England and the country,” she says. 

“Wheelock is perfectly positioned for growing 

success in educating undergraduate and 

graduate students in model programs and for 

impacting our community and society in 

ways that advance equity, access, and opportunity 

for all. In order to do that, we need 

to look beyond what is, and to envision 

what might be. 

“I’m very excited about the challenges 

and rewards of policy and program development 

that is collegial, that is inclusive of stakeholders’ 

voices, and that will promote innovation and 

excellence in teaching and learning,” she continues. 

“To me, Wheelock seems the ideal place to 

do that. It is my very great pleasure and privilege 

to be working with President Jackie Jenkins- 

Scott and an outstanding institutional leadership 

team, faculty, and staff. I’ve been warmly and 

graciously welcomed, and now I’m getting down 

to the hard work ahead. 

New Board of Trustees 

and Corporation Leaders 

This fall, Wheelock welcomes three new individuals to positions of leadership at the 

College. Wheelock’s two new trustees and one new corporator will contribute much 

time and thought to Wheelock’s well-being, and we are grateful for their service. 

Patricia S. Cook ’69, Ph.D., is the chair and 

CEO of Cook & Company, an executive search consulting 

and advisory firm. She has more than 20 years of experience 

in management and marketing consulting, financial 

services, and executive search. In addition, as a licensed 

psychologist, Pat has conducted management evaluations of 

senior executives on behalf of acquiring organizations or 

newly hired CEOs. She received her Ph.D. from Boston 

University, where she was an NDEA Teaching Fellow. Pat is 

active in the International Women’s Forum, the Economic 

Club of New York, and the Bronxville School Foundation. 

She has two children: a daughter who works for Fidelity 

Investments in Boston and a son who is a sophomore at 

Lehigh University. 

Alan Morse has had four diverse careers. He was a commercial 

banker for 27 years, ending up as chair of the United 

States Trust Company (now Citizens Bank); a public servant 

for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts as commissioner of 

banks, then as undersecretary of administration and finance, 

and finally as supervisor of financial services; chair of Harvard 

Pilgrim Health Care; and a high school math teacher in the 

Boston Public School System. Alan is also a trustee of the A.C. 

Ratshesky Foundation, a director of The Writers’ Express and 

The Pioneer Institute, and an adviser to Civic Capital Group, a 

specialized hedge fund. He continues to tutor math in Boston 

schools and is an elected School Committee member in Brookline. 

He and his wife, Rebecca Steinfield, have two children 

and four grandchildren. 

Barry Wanger is president and founder of Wanger Associates, 

a public relations agency specializing in nonprofit organizations 

and higher education. Barry holds a master’s degree in 

Public Relations from Boston University. He was Wheelock’s first 

director of public affairs from 1975 to 1979 and went on to serve 

in similar positions at the National Endowment for the Humanities, 

the University of California at Santa Barbara, and Brandeis 

University before starting his own agency. Barry has been awarded 

a lifetime achievement award from the Public Relations Society 

of America (Boston chapter) and the Publicity Club of New 

England. He served on the board of the Wheelock Family Theatre 

for 10 years and currently serves on the board of directors 

of Adoptions with Love in Newton and as a new member of the 

Corporation at Wheelock. Barry and his wife, Wendy, have a 

daughter who is a student at Newton South High School. 


STUDENTS & FACULTY 

Certificate Program 

in Community-Based 

Human Services 

by Associate Professor Stefi Rubin 

This is the fifth year of the Certificate Program in 

Community-Based Human Services, a 16-credit program 

designed for juniors or seniors who want to explore 

new professional directions, either in terms of potential career plans 

or further graduate studies. Central to the program are supervised, 

150-hour, semester-long practica of students’ own choosing 

in which they discover both the complexities of working within 

human services and the personal rewards such work can offer. 

Over the years, practicum sites have included many nonprofits, 

ranging from the Starbright Foundation, the Samaritans, 

AIDS Action Committee, and the Child Witness to Violence 

Project, to the United South End Settlements, Germaine 

Lawrence School, Casa Myrna Vazquez, and St. Mary’s Women 

and Children Center. 

A number of the first 39 alumni of the program have gone on 

to graduate school in social work, counseling, prevention studies, 

human services administration, elementary and secondary 

education, special education, and higher education. Others have 

undertaken positions on the staffs of places such as Youth Build 

Boston, Bridge Over Troubled Waters, St. Ann’s Home, Project 

Joy, Action for Boston Community Development, Boston City 

Hall, South Shore Early Intervention, Danvers Building Blocks 

(serving preschoolers with autism), the Probation Office of 

Middlesex Superior Court, Schenectady, NY, Association for 

Retarded Citizens, Hartford Head Start, the Baltimore Public 

Schools, and AmeriCorps. 

This year, 11 students completed the program — 

congratulations to them on their accomplishments! 

Stefi Rubin, the program coordinator and supervisor (right), and Yvonne Achilles ‘90MS, 

practicum and seminar supervisor (middle), watch Kathleen Kirk Bishop, dean of the 

School of Social Work and Family Studies, hand out congratulations and good wishes to 

graduates (who included Laura McNulty ‘08 seen here) along with the all-important and 

well-earned certificates in Community-Based Human Services. 

Citizenship 101 : 

Wheelock Students Vote 

Many Wheelock students had the opportunity 

to cast their first votes during this year’s 

presidential election, and Wheelock took 

the initiative to encourage full involvement in the election 

process. A major voter registration drive at the College 

and on other Colleges of the Fenway campuses was 

a huge success, signing up 91Wheelock students at one 

event alone. Scheduled gatherings in the Student Center 

to watch the presidential and vice presidential debates 

with discussion afterwards; a presidential Jeopardy game; 

and formal student debates on the economy, education, 

and early care and education engaged students in the 

issues of this election year and emphasized the responsibility 

to be informed and vote. 


National Hispanic Heritage Month 

(Sept. 15 – Oct. 15) 

Wheelock students had a chance to enjoy and learn more about the diverse 

cultures, heritages, and contributions of Hispanic Americans during 

National Hispanic Heritage Month (Sept. 15 – Oct.15). Activities at the 

College and around the city included art gallery tours, the Boston Latino International 

Film Festival, Latin music and dance, restaurant reviews, links to information about 

famous Hispanic inventions, and more, giving students a good start on continued 

exploration beyond the officially designated monthlong celebration. 

National Hispanic Heritage Month was established by Congress in 1968 as a 

two-day commemoration of independence day in six Latin American countries: Sept. 15 

in Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua, and Sept. 16 in 

Mexico. In 1988, the celebration expanded to include Día de la Raza on Oct. 12, 

which recognizes the influences of the people who came after Christopher Columbus 

and the multicultural, multiethnic society that evolved as a result; Chile’s independence 

day on Sept. 18; and Belize’s independence day on Sept. 21. 

First Run for Wheelock’s 

Cross Country Team 

Karen Peterkin ’08 and 

Leslie Jordan ’08 

Field Scholars Program 

in the News 

Apress release from Roxbury-Weston Programs, 

whose mission is to bring families together in a 

learning community dedicated to the celebration 

of diversity and excellence in early care and education, 

has recognized the contribution that Wheelock’s Field 

Scholars Program is making to establishing high-quality 

after-school care. Congratulations to Leslie Jordan ’08 and 

Karen Peterkin ’07, two recent Field Scholars graduates 

who are featured in the release and who are now working 

with the Roxbury-Weston Programs. 

Nashua, NH—Wheelock’s cross country team competed 

for the first time in school history when members traveled 

in September to New Hampshire for the Daniel 

Webster College Invitational. The Wildcats placed fourth 

in the five-team competition with 76 points. 

Roxbury-Weston Programs Press Release 

May 19, 2008 — A significant step toward ensuring high-quality standards 

in after-school care was marked with the spring graduation of 

more candidates from the first cohort of Wheelock College’s Field Scholars 

Program.Leslie Jordan and Karen Peterkin, teachers from Roxbury-Weston 

Programs’ after-school program, CATCH [Children Achieving Through 

Community Hope], have earned their bachelor’s degrees from Wheelock 

with scholarship assistance from the Department of Early Education and 

Care and a grant to CATCH from the Linde Family Foundation. 

According to the Massachusetts After School Commission, teachers 

with bachelor’s degrees contribute to high-quality after-school care, 

which helps children, especially at-risk children, achieve more in school 

in all grades and can potentially aid in closing the achievement gap. 

Wheelock College, in response to the Early Education for All legislation in 

Massachusetts, created the Field Scholars Programs specifically for individuals 

who work in early childhood education to earn their bachelor’s 

degree while working in the field so that there are more highly qualified 

teachers in center-based programs and schools. 

Jordan and Peterkin were able to realize their goal and earn their 

degrees within three years, which otherwise would not have been possible 

for either of them. Peterkin will lead as site coordinator for CATCH, 

which is in Roxbury and serves kindergarten through third-grade children 

with after-school educational enrichment and support. Jordan will 

serve Boston Public Schools children in Brighton and as a member of 

Roxbury-Weston Programs’ Board of Trustees. 

Roxbury-Weston Programs, established in 1965 in response to the 

Civil Rights Movement, has made it their mission to provide equal access 

to high-quality early education.The Field Scholars Program is a perfect 

example of positive change toward providing high-quality early education 

for all children, which ultimately benefits all communities at large. 



Dr. Ellen Faszewski Named a 

SENCER Leadership Fellow 

Associate Professor Ellen Faszewski’s programs, which always 

emphasize relevant applications of science, are a hit with Wheelock 

students. Now her recent work has been recognized by the 

National Center for Science and Civic Engagement, a National Science 

Foundation research center, which has appointed Faszewski to be a SENCER 

Leadership Fellow. SENCER (Science Education for New Civic Engagements 

and Responsibilities) is a faculty 

development and science education reform 

initiative that engages students in science and 

mathematics by focusing coursework on 

science- and math-related problems in society 

and the natural world (aka “real-world” problems). 

This method is intended to extend the 

impact of student learning across the curriculum 

to the broader community and society. 

In appointing Faszewski, the SENCER 

fellowship board noted her innovative leadership 

in the collaborative COF (Colleges of 

the Fenway) Environmental Science program, 

eagerness to network with other science educators to advance reform in science 

education, dedication to developing courses and curricula to improve 

science education and to mentor colleagues and future teachers, and recent 

publications and presentations in this area. 

Dr. Julie E. Wollman, Wheelock’s new vice president of academic affairs, 

congratulated Faszewski, remarking that the appointment brings honor to 

Wheelock and that she is delighted to be working with such a fine example 

of the College’s outstanding faculty. 

On Sabbatical — 

Improving 

Attitudes 

Toward 

Mathematics 

Sharing research at conferences 

attended by faculty 

from other institutions is 

an important element in the continuing 

scholarly development of 

Wheelock faculty members. The 

experience always provides good 

contacts; presents new ideas, information, and research; and can valuably 

inform one’s own teaching and research. It also offers Wheelock faculty 

the chance to share their ongoing work and the work of the College more 

widely with others. 

As part of Associate Professor of Mathematics Galina Dobrynina’s 

sabbatical research last summer, she presented at the 11th International 

Congress on Mathematical Education (ICME) in Monterrey, Mexico. 

ICME is held every four years to provide a forum where mathematics 

education professionals from all over the world can exchange ideas, information, 

and viewpoints and develop productive dialogue with their peers. 

“The title of my poster presentation was Impact of a Three-semester 

Sequence of Mathematical Content Courses on Knowledge of Pre-service 

Teachers,” reported Dr. Dobrynina. “My poster demonstrates how mathematics 

content courses designed for pre-service elementary school teachers 

promote students’ specialized mathematical knowledge and improve their 

attitude toward mathematics and themselves as learners of mathematics.” 

So Sexy So Soon — 

An Important New Book from 

Professor Diane Levin ’69MS 

Professor Diane Levin ’69MS has 

been a lead voice among childhood 

experts concerned with the sexualization 

of young children’s culture for years, 

illuminating the ways kids’ healthy development 

is undermined by the commercial 

interests making enormous profits by selling 

“sexy” to kids too young to see the problem. 

Now Levin’s book So Sexy So Soon: The 

New Sexualized Childhood and What Parents 

Can Do to Protect Their Kids (written in 

collaboration with Dr. Jean Kilbourne and 

published by Ballantine Books) is out, an 

invaluable and practical guide for parents 

who do see the problem but know that just 

saying “no” won’t work. Launched nationally 

in August with a featured spot on NBC’s 

Today show and Fox News’s Weekend Live 

program, among other national venues, 

So Sexy So Soon is winning uniformly high 

praise from leading experts and authors in 

the field — Mary Pipher and David Elkind 

to name just two. 

Pipher, author of 

Reviving Ophelia, 

says, “This book — 

by two of America’s 

leading experts on 

the effects of media 

on children — is 

powerful and 

profoundly useful. 

It is packed with 

great stories and poignant examples of the 

stress children face in our sex-soaked culture. 

Best of all, the authors offer sane and practical 

solutions for all of us who want to make 

things better for children, parents, schools, 

and the culture at large.” Elkind, author 

of The Hurried Child, agrees: “So Sexy So 

Soon is a most timely and important book. 

For parents who are troubled and worried 

about what their children are seeing and 

hearing, it offers helpful guidance and support; 

it not only documents the trends but 

provides parents with many useful strategies 

to combat them.” 

Levin’s book was the Boston Wheelock 

Alumni Book Club’s choice for its October 

discussion group. For more information about 

So Sexy So Soon, go to its website at 

www.sosexysosoon.com. 



The Weight of Light 

Gregory Gómez Exhibit 

at OH+T Gallery 

The Frames, 

bronze sculpture 

Associate Professor Gregory Miguel Gómez had his third one-person exhibition 

at Boston’s OH+T Gallery in June. The Weight of Light, an exhibition of bronze 

wall sculptures, depicted early maps, footprints of Old World fortifications, airport 

plans, and vacant picture frames — what Carole Anne Meehan, curator at the Institute 

of Contemporary Art, described as “curious, invented relics.” 

In his artist’s statement, Gómez noted that the exhibition brought together relief works from 

several themes that he has been interested in for the last several years: “Graphic images of Early 

World Maps, the footprints of old world Fortifications, and plan views of Airports, have each 

been translated to heavily textured cast bronze with a dark patina. What these images share is 

the genesis and evolution of their designs as determined and influenced by multiple factors, 

including: their function; human design and imagination; and the shape of the landscape in 

which they reside. Along with ‘The Frames,’ these works find themselves fitting into the familiar 

language of Modernism, while they also seem to respond to its broken promises.” 

Faculty Summer Short Takes 

■ DEBRA K. BORKOVITZ, associate professor of mathematics, 

already has an individual website (http://faculty.wheelock.edu/dborkovitz) 

that is essential for Wheelock students taking her courses and helpful to 

teachers of higher-level mathematics. It’s filled with math materials organized 

by content, by tool/type, and by process and includes assessment 

materials as well. This summer, she made a series of 15 videos on Excel 

for Math Classes, which are available on YouTube at http://www.youtube. 

com/dborkovitz. The series offers a variety of skill levels for both math and 

Excel users, but most are accessible to people who are new to Excel and 

many address elementary mathematics. 

■ DIANE LEVIN ’69MS, professor of education, gave two invited 

talks at the NAEYC 2008 National Institute for Early Childhood Professional 

Development, which was held in New Orleans in June. Both 

talks focused on technology in early childhood education. In a featured 

session, Levin spoke on “Remote Control Childhood: How Violence, 

Sex and Marketing in Media Harm Children’s Development, Behavior 

and Play, and What We Can Do about It.” At the closing plenary 

session, she co-presented with Makeda Mays, of the Sesame Workshop, 

“Opportunities and Challenges of the Technological Age on Children’s 

Development and Learning.” 

■ SARA LEVINE, instructor in science, has been teaching environmental 

education programs for children aged 2 through 12 at Bauer 

Park in Madison, CT, for the past five summers. This year, two 

Wheelock students who had been in Levine’s classes Introduction to 

Plants and Animals, and Animal Behavior, Marty Busch and Amy 

Goods, had the benefit of working with her and assisting with children 

at her Nature Camp. Marty assisted with the 5- and 6-year-old 

group, and Amy worked with groups of children ranging in age from 

5 through 10. 

■ TERRY MEIER, associate professor in language and literacy, was 

involved in three summer activities. In July, she taught in the Summer 

Dialect Teacher Project, which is sponsored by the Center for the Study 

of African American Language at UMass Amherst and draws faculty 

and participants from colleges and schools all over the country. In 

August at the Simmons College institute for Boston Public Schools 

(BPS) teachers, Meier presented Literacy is Liberation: Examining 

the Transformative Power of Literacy in the African American Tradition. 

Also in August, she co-taught with a BPS teacher, Kim Parker, a 

four-day literacy institute for BPS teachers titled A Strengths-Based 

Approach to Literacy Instruction. 

■ IVY VALERIE SCHRAM, instructor in mathematics, holds a law 

degree in addition to master’s degrees in math and in geology and is an 

environmental lawyer. Last summer she lectured on International Environmental 

Law at Suffolk Law School’s summer program in Lund, Sweden. 

■ JULIA WHITCAVITCH-DEVOY, instructor of human development, 

published an article (with David Blustein) in the June issue of 

Career Development Quarterly, “The psychology of Working: a New 

Framework for Counseling Practice and Public Policy.” 

■ MICHAEL WILLIAMSON, associate professor of science, was in 

Perth, Western Australia, for three weeks to teach students at St. Mary’s 

Anglican Girls’ School marine biology, research methods, and data analysis, 

and to conduct a weeklong program in the field at St. Mary’s Metricup 

campsite near the Margaret River. In addition to his teaching, Williamson 

conducted TV and radio interviews, assisted in developing Western Australia’s 

first online database for whale and manta ray research projects, and 

met with fisheries representatives and the Curriculum Council of Western 

Australia about the possibility of generating a professional development 

program for their marine sciences high school teachers. 


ALUMNI 

Congratulations to the 10 undergraduate 

and 48 graduate students who received 

Wheelock degrees last August, and welcome 

to our alumni community! 

Joining the Procession 

One of the rewards of being a member of Wheelock’s Board of 

Trustees or Corporation is participating in Commencement 

and seeing students fulfill their goal of becoming Wheelock 

College graduates. For trustees and corporators who are also alumni, 

the day can be even more meaningful. Among those attending Commencement 

2008 were (l to r): Lois Barnett Mirsky ’54, corporator; Lynne 

Wyluda Beasley ’66, corporator; Madeleine “Maddi” Tufts Cormier 

’66, trustee; Ellen Tague Dwinell ’61, trustee; Susan “Sue” Moyer 

Breed ’52/’79MS, corporator; and Judy Parks Anderson ’62, trustee 

and chair of Wheelock College Corporation. 

Policy Connection 

Wheelock’s New Online Resource 

Wheelock’s new Policy Connection 

website launched by the Office of 

Government Affairs (http://www. 

wheelock.edu/policyconnection/) connects alumni 

to the current local, state, and national policies 

intersecting with the College’s mission to improve 

the lives of children and families. It’s a resource for 

alumni who want to be informed about and get 

involved in policy and advocacy issues affecting 

children and families, and share their own professional 

and personal concerns. 

The site is an excellent resource for learning 

about and tracking pending federal legislation, pinpointing 

key advocacy organizations, investigating 

relevant research, reviewing local budget processes, 

exploring effective lobbying tips, and finding representatives 

on Beacon Hill and in Washington, D.C. 

The Wheelock in Action section keeps alumni 

updated on the College’s engagement with policy and 

programs such as the Winter Policy Talks and Annual 

Community Dialogue on Early Education and Care. 

There is information about Wheelock’s Student Policy 

Fellows and the College’s Political Caucus, and you 

can find updates on President Jenkins-Scott’s work 

with Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick’s Readiness 

Project and Boston Mayor Thomas Menino’s School 

Readiness Action Planning Team there too. 

In Extraordinary Times — 

Wheelock Advocacy 

and Policy Alerts 

During these extraordinary times, 

when it is hard to keep up with the 

latest news, never mind details of 

government policies that are in play, it is all the 

more important to be aware of how children, 

families, and education are being affected. 

Wheelock has initiated a way to make 

sure alumni can be up-to-date on very important 

policy issues and be informed advocates 

for positive change. Sign up for policy e-mails 

and action alerts from Wheelock by e-mailing 

alumnirelations@wheelock.edu. You will receive 

current information as we gather it from 

our Office of Government Affairs and other 

reliable resources. 


ALUMNI 

Congratulations to Julia MacMahon ’08 

Wheelock’s First FAO Schwarz 

Family Foundation Fellow 

Wheelock’s Juvenile Justice and Youth Advocacy Program and 

the School of Social Work and Family Studies welcomed 

Julia MacMahon ’08, the College’s first FAO Schwarz 

Family Foundation Fellow, who began her two-year fellowship position 

in September. The fellowship is funded through a generous grant from 

the FAO Schwarz Family Foundation. 

During the first year, Julia is devoting half of her time to developing 

best practices for conflict resolution with a focus on youth in urban 

settings. She will explore a variety of strategies — peacemaking circles, 

group conferencing, peer/gang mediation, community peace-building — 

by researching, networking, and conducting interviews about these strategies. 

The other half of her time will be spent in direct service: teaching, 

training, implementing, and institutionalizing the best practices. Julia’s 

direct-service work will take place with the children, youth, families, 

and communities served by the after-school and summer programs at 

St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church in the South End. The fellowship will evolve 

in year two to include a broader range of scholarship and direct service. 

As an undergraduate, Julia transferred to Wheelock from American 

University in Washington, D.C., where she was awarded the Deans’ 

Scholarship for Academic Achievement. While at Wheelock, Julia typically 

worked full time, and she has held a number of youth-related positions, 

including youth worker and program supervisor at the Department of 

Youth Services Somerville Transition Shelter; intern and legal researcher 

at the Children’s Law Center of Massachusetts in Lynn; teen staff director 

at the B-SAFE summer day camp; PULSE service learning coordinator 

at St. Stephen’s After School Program; and teen program director at 

St. Stephen’s After School Program. 

Career Congratulations 

to Kyla and Bri 

The dynamic duo of Brianne “Bri” Kimble and Kyla McSweeney 

’94/’97MS, co-directors of the Alumni Relations Office, has been 

a great collaboration that has helped our alumni programs 

grow and flourish. Now they are starting new and, we are certain, fabulous 

chapters in their careers. 

Kyla Moves On 

Kyla left Wheelock in August to take a new position as director of the 

Children’s Corner at Newton-Wellesley Hospital in Wellesley, MA. The 

Children’s Corner is a nonprofit, nationally accredited (NAEYC) child 

care center located on the campus of Newton-Wellesley Hospital. The 

center serves approximately 50 children between the ages of 1 and 5. 

From 2006 to 2008, Kyla helped to develop our Policy Talks and led 

our very successful reunion programs. She also coordinated our participation 

in NAEYC and helped develop our alumni international travel opportunities. 

Kyla served on several college committees, and we all appreciated her 

great sense of humor, her ability to remember many camp songs, and above 

all, her love for and commitment to Wheelock. We miss Kyla but have been 

happy to have her still involved in some of our fall alumni programs, and 

next spring we will see her when she attends her 15th Reunion! 

Bri Steps Up 

Bri, who began her career at Wheelock in 2002 as the administrative assistant 

for the Institute for Leadership and Career Initiatives and has served 

in the Alumni Relations program since 2004, is taking the next step in her 

career development at Wheelock. She is now the director of Alumni 

Relations and has overall responsibility for the Alumni Relations Office, 

including supporting the Alumni Association Board and its committees, 

planning and overseeing professional and social networking events, and 

cultivating relationships with alumni locally, nationally, and internationally. 

Bri will also oversee Reunion Weekend 2009, and she is looking forward 

to working closely with alumni, faculty, and staff to design events 

and programs that will engage our alumni in the life of the College. Bri’s 

enthusiastic spirit, great sense of humor, and high energy in service to 

alumni contribute so much to our alumni programs, and we are thrilled 

to have her leading the Alumni Relations Office. 


ALUMNI 

Stonewall Communities 

Lifelong Learning Institute 

The Stonewall Communities Lifelong Learning Institute at Wheelock College presents many public 

events and brown-bag lunch discussions funded in part by a grant from the Massachusetts Foundation 

for the Humanities. You can find a schedule of events as well as community resources at their 

website: www.stonewallcommunities.com. 

At an event held last June titled Liberty and Justice for LGBT Students: What the Safe Schools Movement 

Teaches Us About Organizing, we learned that 300 Massachusetts high schools and middle schools now have 

gay-straight alliances. From the start, students have organized the Safe Schools movement with the support 

and counsel of adults. The Departments of Education and Public Health; the Governor’s Council on Gay & 

Lesbian Youth; the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network; Parents, Families & Friends of Lesbians 

and Gays; the Boston Alliance of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual & Transgender Youth, and local churches have all 

been involved in crafting a unique collaboration for social change and safe schools. 

Web and Print Resources 

The event recommended several print resources that can be downloaded from Stonewall’s website. Locate 

them under the Lifelong Learning Institute Calendar of Events, Past Events. 

• “How to Mobilize Students to Ally for Safe Schools,” an article from the March 2008 issue of Peacework 

magazine, the peace and social justice magazine of American Friends Service Committee 

• “Just the Facts,” a fact sheet that summarizes important statistics about the impact of homophobia on gay 

and lesbian youth 

• Outright, Your Right to Be, a brochure that outlines the rights of gay, lesbian, and bisexual students in 

Massachusetts public schools 

Wheelock’s 

Center for Career 

Development 

Is Here for You 

Wheelock’s Center for Career 

Development (CCD), 

directed by Mary Sullivan, 

offers many career services and resources 

for alumni to help you in thinking about 

or actually taking that next career step. 

Career counseling appointments, résumé 

critiques, job search techniques, workshops 

and programs, and access to 

Wheelock Works! job postings have been 

developed just for you. In addition, if you 

or your workplace has openings, we can 

help you hire a Wheelock student or 

another graduate. Take advantage of this 

free resource designed to provide outstanding 

service to Wheelock students 

and alumni, as well as to potential 

employers. 

Child Life in San Diego 

Wheelock alumni were 

among the record-breaking 

1,050 who attended the 

2008 Annual Child Life Council Conference 

in San Diego for three days of 

networking and educational sessions. 

Back row (l to r): Kerry Cahill ’05MS, 

Karen Swartz ’97/’98MS, Assistant 

Professor Paul Thayer, Samantha 

Doyle ’07MS, Elizabeth Shaughnessy 

’06MS, and Kathryn Weagle ’06MS. 

Front row (l to r): Chrissy Rupp, 

Chelsea Kingsbury ’07, Mallory 

Kowal ’05, and Beth Lebowitz ’05MS 

Next year, the Child Life Council 

will be heading to Wheelock territory 

for the 27th Annual Conference on 

Professional Issues. The conference will 

take place May 21-24, 2009, at The 

Westin Boston Waterfront hotel. 


ALUMNI 

Reunion 2009 

Would you believe? Alumni are already planning 

Reunion 2009! 

That’s right. Alumni in classes ending in 4 and 9 

are celebrating their Reunion next May, and some 

early birds attended the Reunion 2009 Kickoff Event 

held at Wheelock last September to begin 

planning a great time for everyone. 

Don’t miss out . . . 

Save the dates May 29-31, 2009 

Alumni E-mail 

From: Carol Rubin Fishman ’83 

Congratulations to the members of last year’s field 

hockey team on winning the 2007 NFHCA Division III 

National Academic Team Award and on 10 of its members 

being named to the 2007 NFHCA Division III National Academic 

Squad (as seen in the Spring 2008 Wheelock Magazine). That’s 

quite an accomplishment! I was the charter team’s captain 

(1980 [first year of team], ’81, and ’82), and we didn’t have 

such opportunities to be recognized. I don’t remember even 

being in a division! Our big accomplishment in those first three 

years was improving our score against Pine Manor College: 

1980 = Wheelock 0, Pine Manor 1 

1981 = Wheelock 1, Pine Manor 1 

1982 = Wheelock 1, Pine Manor 0! 

We played other teams such as Tufts JV (they beat us 

miserably!) and some other small schools (bigger than 

Wheelock!) that I can’t remember. We had just enough players 

to field a team plus a sub or two. We shared a coach (Coach 

Cora) with Simmons and shared our kilts as well! (We’d have 

to wash our kilts and get them to the Simmons Student 

Affairs Office before their next game and vice versa!) We’d 

also use their players (shhh!) when we didn’t have enough! 

It gives me such pleasure to see that the team lives on! 

Best of luck this fall! Keep the grades up! 

You’re Invited — 

Service Learning Trips 

for Alumni 

Wheelock designs its international and national service 

learning programs to promote cross-cultural 

understanding and literacy among our students, and 

we welcome participation by alumni and staff at the College 

who enjoy lifelong learning through direct experience. 

Past trips to Reggio Emilia, Italy; Belfast, Northern Ireland; 

Guatemala; Singapore; Ghana/Benin; and New Orleans, LA, 

have been phenomenal. Students and alumni returned from 

the trips inspired and excited about the integration of learning 

and service and the chance to share the experience together. 

Three great service learning opportunities for alumni are 

coming up in 2009. Contact the Alumni Relations Office for 

more information at (617) 879-2261. 

■ New Orleans, LA: Jan. 3-10, 2009 

■ Belfast, Northern Ireland: Feb. 13-22, 2009 

■ Puerto Rico: March 8-14, 2009 

Belfast ■ Northern Ireland 


ALUMNI 

The Broad Residency in Urban Education is a two-year leadership 

development program that places participants into full-time high-level 

managerial positions in school districts and Charter Management Organizations, 

where they can have an immediate impact on the education of 

America’s students. The residency is designed for 

individuals with an advanced degree (master’s or 

higher), at least four years of work experience, 

and a successful track record of leadership 

and/or management. 

Residents earn starting annual salaries of 

$85,000 to $95,000 and participate in a 

series of professional development sessions 

over the course of two years. Residents 

are often tasked with leading major 

projects like opening new schools, leading 

budgeting processes, increasing operational efficiencies, or 

improving human resources. At the conclusion of the two-year program, 

the Broad Residency expects that school districts and CMOs will hire 

Resources 

Post-Grad Opportunities — Fall Deadlines Coming Up 

residents permanently in their current positions or promote them into more 

senior leadership posts. 

The Early Cycle Deadline is Dec. 1, 2008; the Regular Cycle Deadline 

is Feb. 2, 2009. See the Broad Residency website program information: 

http://www.broadresidency.org/. 

The Kip Tiernan Social Justice Fellowship is 

offered by Rosie’s Place. This 12-month fellowship 

provides a $40,000 stipend and health benefits 

and is awarded annually to a woman who will use 

the funds to develop and carry out an innovative 

project in New England that will benefit poor and 

homeless women. Informational sessions will be 

offered in the fall. Concept papers are due Dec. 

1, 2008. The Fellowship will be awarded the 

following spring, and the Fellow will begin the 

following September. For additional information and application 

materials, visit www.rosiesplace.org or contact smarsh@rosiesplace.org. 

Lunch & Learn 

Human Development Brown Bag Lunch Series 

If you’re in the Boston area, here’s a great opportunity to go back 

to class for an hour and catch up with the latest best thinking 

on an array of subjects and programs of interest to Wheelock 

alumni. Catch one or all of the monthly presentations in a brown 

bag series sponsored by the Center for Scholarship and Research and 

the Department of Human Development. 

Nov. 19 

Youth Philanthropy for Urban Community Change 

Presenter: Felicity Crawford 

ACE 224, 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. 

Jan. 21 

Using Online Discussions to Nurture Reflective Judgment 

Presenter: Debbie Samuels-Peretz 

Location TBA, 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. 

Feb. 18 

Bridging Communities through Service Learning Research 

Presenter: Detris Adelabu 


March 18 

Supporting Children’s Emotional Development: From Theory and 

Research to Practice and Curriculum Frameworks 

Presenter: Petra Hesse 


Math Puzzler 

The Mathemagician claims to have 4,827,659 

hairs on his head. 

The physicist Enrico Fermi used to like to give estimation questions 

that seemed impossible at first glance but with some 

thought could yield a very good estimate. Debra Borkovitz, 

associate professor of mathematics, does too. She also likes big numbers. 

And she likes Fermi questions because they challenge students to ask more 

questions, not just provide “an answer.” 

Try This Fermi Question 

The Mathemagician (a character in The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton 

Juster) claims to have 4,827,659 hairs on his head. Is it plausible for a 

person to have this number of hairs on their head? Or is the number too 

low or too high? Can you figure out a strategy for estimating the number 

of hairs on your head? 

Hint, hint, hint . . . There is a website that looks at mathematical 

patterns in African-American hairstyles (http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/ 

special/gilmer-gloria_HAIRSTYLES.html). A braided hairstyle can help with 

the estimation. 

Teachers . . . Ask your students to try this and then send a sample 

or two of the approaches they take to Christine Dall, Editor, Wheelock 

Magazine, Wheelock College, 200 The Riverway, Boston, MA 02215 

or e-mail cdall@wheelock.edu. Selected solutions will appear in the winter 

issue of the magazine. 

You can find this Fermi question and others at Borkovitz’s website (http:// 

faculty.wheelock.edu/dborkovitz), or invent your own. How many minutes — 

or seconds—has it been since you graduated from Wheelock? 


2007–2008 A NNUAL R EPORT OF G IVING 

“’Ask and it shall be given’ was written by someone a while ago. . . . Wheelock did, 

so I did . . . with great pleasure for the work it is doing and for what it did for me 

when I was a student. It helped transform the dream to support human dignity — 

from our littlest to our oldest — into reality on the global front. Wheelock accepted 

us where we were, appreciated our limited or expansive talents, and let us grow, 

keeping curiosity and creativity as our lifelong pursuits. . . . Now that’s a real gift!” 

—R UTH A NGIER S ALINGER ’53

W H E E L O C K C O L L E G E A N N U A L R E P O R T O F G I V I N G • 2008 

CALLAHAN MOORE, 

NANTUCKET 

Worked four jobs in high school 

...a master list maker and 

organizer . . . Wheelock basketball 

team . . . work/study in the 

Towne Art Gallery . . . planning 

a human development major 

with a focus in psychology and 

concentration in Juvenile Justice 

and Youth Advocacy ...likes 

that Wheelock is in a city but it 

is small and people are friendly 

LI YU, CALIFORNIA 

Loves writing and singing . . . 

won first place for choral soloist 

in U.S. and Canadian high schools 

choral competition . . . plans a 

humanities major with a focus in 

social relations . . . loves Boston’s 

diversity . . . thinks Wheelock faculty 

are incredibly responsive . . . 

favorite classes are social science 

and global encounters . . . agrees 

with Florida and Texas firstyears 

— it’s brrrrrr in Boston! 

KARINA VERGARA, 

TEXAS 

Top activities in high school were 

Habitat for Humanity in Mexico, 

reading program for children in 

women’s shelter, and softball 

team . . . active in ALANA and 

GSA at Wheelock . . . favorite class 

is Human Growth & Development 

(instructor Julia Whicavitch-DeVoy 

is “awesome”) . . . has always, 

always wanted to be a teacher 

AMAL SHARIFF, 

NEW YORK 

Vice president of senior class in 

high school with 8,000 students 

. . . headed up Red Cross blood 

drive . . . soccer player . . . 

co-founder and president of her 

church youth group . . . very happy 

with Wheelock’s small size and 

ease of getting to know people . . . 

favorite class is Media, Race, and 

Society . . . interested in psychology 

and teaching 

ELLIOT HERNANDEZ, 

FLORIDA 

Basketball team captain for 

three years in high school . . . 

interested in psychology . . . 

is bilingual . . . loves his 

Wheelock English class 110 

and teacher, Shana Deets . . . 

likes the variety of students 

and making new friends — 

biggest adjustment: Boston’s 

freezing [60 degrees] cold 

weather! 

Annual Fund Giving Yields 

Big Student Returns 

Annual Fund giving plays a pivotal role in growing student enrollment, 

making it possible for more students to afford Wheelock as their firstchoice 

college. In a year that has proved extremely challenging financially 

for families of students who want to pursue private higher education, 237 

first-year students enrolled at Wheelock this September — the largest number 

in the College’s history. Thirty-eight students transferred from other colleges 

and universities. 

The vast majority of incoming students are successful in achieving their goal 

of attending Wheelock because of our Annual Fund donors. Thanks to Annual 

Fund giving, 95 percent of first-year students received essential financial 

assistance. Fifty-one of these qualified for Merit Scholarships. 

Annual Fund donors can be sure their contributions are changing lives and 

that they are deeply appreciated. 

We Are the Class of 2012 

Math wiz • President of Latinos in Action organization • Two debate team members • Two 

on varsity lacrosse • Two started clothing drives for children and their families • Over 200 

hours of community service • Two took all AP courses in high school • Two environmental 

club advocates • Two had perfect attendance throughout high school • Varsity field hockey 

• Highest GPA in senior class • Four senior class presidents • Vietnamese teacher at 

church • Eleven basketball athletes • Two Boston Ballet Company dancers • Six full-time 

employees while in high school • Six drama club leaders • Works for T.i.P. Teens in Print • 

Two City Year participants • Nine National Honor Society members • Volunteered to teach 

in Haiti • Passion for mathematics • Knows four languages • Two members of Big 

Brother Big Sister Association • Four dance instructors • Zookeeper • Four coaches for kids 

sports • Three teacher assistants • SADD president • Mentor for autistic children • Can play 

every instrument in the orchestra • Yankees fan! • Two preschool TAs • Community service 

in Dominican Republic • Two vice presidents of Student Council • Two peer ministers • 

Varsity volleyball • Special needs volunteer • Three Best Buddies volunteers • Animae artist 

• Two magicians • Ran Boston Marathon • Musical theater performer • Future Business 

Leaders of America •Toys for Tots leader •Aspiring astronomer • Future Teachers of America 

• Four Special Olympics volunteers • Animal shelter volunteer • Women’s shelter volunteer • 

Sunday School teacher • Newspaper 

writer • ESL teacher • Award-winning 

horseback rider • Early Childhood 

Education group president • Swimming 

coach • Started own jewelry 

company • Three Model U.N. members 

• Advocate for children with special 

needs • Member of Project Hope • 

Soccer team captain • Special Olympics 

participant • Two varsity swimmers • 

Works with autistic children • Mexican 

folklore dancing group member • 

Sailing instructor • History Honor 

Society • Fourteen took AP Courses • 

Irish step dancer • Habitat for Humanity 

P.S.: We have enough musicians to 

start a Wheelock orchestra! 

Ashley Lee, (far left) 

Class of 2012, arriving 

from Hartford with mom, 

dad, and best friend 



Passion for Action Scholars Are on Campus 

Wheelock’s November 2007 Passion for Action Leadership 

Awards Dinner brought together 400 community leaders, 

corporate executives, and philanthropists at the John F. 

Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum to honor Christopher 

“Chris” Gabrieli with the College’s first Passion for Action Leadership 

Award and to recognize five Jenzabar Emerging Leaders, 

student leaders from Greater Boston high schools who exemplified 

Wheelock’s mission of service. Contributors to the event raised 

$200,000 for scholarships 

for deserving 

Wheelock students 

from the Boston area. 

With the funds, 

Wheelock created 

a new Passion for 

Action Scholarship 

Program for outstanding first-year students who have demonstrated a 

commitment to community service and involvement and are prepared 

to participate in a unique academic program designed to develop 

their leadership and community service skills through individual 

service projects, meetings with community and business leaders, 

seminars in service and leadership, an international or national service 

learning project, and a “passionate idea” capstone project. 

This fall, less than one year after the awards dinner, five Passion 

for Action scholars are on campus pursuing their college educations. 

Each student received a $20,000 Passion for Action scholarship for 

the 2008-09 academic year, a scholarship they will receive again each 

year while working on their undergraduate degrees at Wheelock. 

Wheelock could not have created this scholarship program 

to prepare young leaders for continuing community leadership 

without the generous donors who stepped up and took action to 

improve the lives of Boston’s children and families through education. 

The College is grateful to each and every contributor who 

has made a very significant difference in the lives of these outstanding 

students, who themselves will go on to have a lasting 

impact on the lives of those they serve. Special appreciation and 

recognition go to the seven leading contributors: The Jenzabar 

Foundation, Shawmut Design and Construction, Larry and 

Atsuko Fish, Ted and Beedee Ladd, Robert A. Lincoln, and 

two donors who wish to remain anonymous. 

MONIQUE BRUNNER 

“She exhibits courage beyond 

her years and the ability to 

stand her ground with her 

peers, remaining firm in her 

commitment to do what is right. 

I’ve seen her evolve from someone 

who didn’t think college 

was in her future to someone 

who is excited and eager to face 

new challenges.” 

— Jean Dorcus, Monique’s supervisor, 

Boston Nature Center 

National Honor Society member 

and vice president of Student 

Council at English High School — 

worked with Teen Empowerment 

Program to organize a Youth 

Peace Summit for Boston teens — 

member of a mediation team 

sponsored by a law firm that 

hosts problem-solving sessions 

for Boston youth. 

LAYLIN CHONG 

EMILY DADDIO 

“Emily is a model student and a 

multi-talented member of our 

high school community. The 

level of her maturity and her 

earnest efforts are exemplary. 

She is a positive role model.” 

— Joseph Vilaine, guidance counselor, 

Somerville High School 

National Honor Society member 

who ranked 13th in a class of 323 

at Somerville High School — threeyear 

participant in Best Buddies 

program, providing assistance to 

special needs students through 

activities and events — worked in 

high school early education program 

— editor of high school yearbook 

— co-captain of varsity 

cheerleading team — active school 

and community volunteer 

AVA JENNINGS 

“A young woman who already 

possesses the desire to do the 

right thing.” 

— Lisa Patrick, TEACHBoston 

Summer Program director 

John D. O’Bryant School of 

Mathematics & Science graduate — 

participant in TEACHBoston program 

of the Boston Public Schools, 

which prepares high school students 

to pursue careers in education 

— member of Teen Voices, an 

intensive journalism mentoring 

and leadership program — trained 

in public speaking at the Moakley 

Public Speaking Institute at the 

John F. Kennedy Presidential 

Library and Museum 

LISA KRISZUN 

“Lisa is a delightful young 

woman with a personality 

shaped by self-motivation, 

independence, and hard work.” 

— Melissa Hammel, Lisa’s teacher 

Lisa and her family are from 

Germany, but her goal is to 

become a teacher in the U.S. — 

at high school in Berlin, developed 

a 10-week curriculum for teaching 

computer skills to elderly citizens, 

tutored young children, participated 

in multicultural alliance — nominated 

by her school to the Berlin 

United Nations — participated in 

an international peace program 

for student leaders in Washington, 

D.C. — worked in on-site preschool 

classroom through her Early 

Childhood Education class at 

Newton North High School 

“Laylin is a young woman characterized 

by her leadership, 

community service, commitment 

to excellence, and motivation, 

and she has worked 

hard to break barriers faced 

by immigrants.” 

— John Travers, senior class adviser, 

Brighton High School 

Came to the U.S. from Ecuador 

when she was 8 years old and 

lives with her father and brother — 

vice president of the National 

Honor Society (4.2 GPA) and a 

peer mediator at Brighton High 

School — volunteer for UNICEF, 

Red Cross, and Project Bread — 

active participant in the Asian 

Club, Gay Straight Alliance, and 

the Key Club – worked 30 hours 

weekly while in high school 



INTERVIEW 

ADRIAN HAUGABROOK 

vice president for student success and institutional diversity 

WM: College affordability has been an issue for quite a while. 

What impact is today’s economy having? 

AH: The economy is placing greater demands on almost all families, 

leaving them with fewer resources to put toward higher education. This 

means students need more financial assistance and more and higher 

amounts of loans. At the same time, obtaining college loans is more difficult 

now, so it’s a real challenge for everyone, not just a few. 

WM: If it were easier to get loans, would that solve the problem? 

AH: It costs $38,030 to attend Wheelock this year. Solving the loan 

problem might make it easier on the front end to afford to get to college, 

but then on the back end the loan debt waiting for our graduating students 

today is between $17,000 and $63,000, and it will go higher. That’s 

a lot for any graduate, but for students who want to come here to become 

teachers, social workers, and child life professionals, who will earn very 

modest salaries, it’s huge. Right now, Wheelock is looking at how we can 

increase federal assistance, reduce or subsidize the cost of attendance, and 

raise more scholarship funds in such a stressed economy. 

Getting to 

“GO” 

in Going to Wheelock 

Dr. Adrian Haugabrook, Wheelock’s new vice president 

for student success and institutional diversity, spends much 

of his workday grappling with issues of affordability and 

accessibility, twin challenges that are affecting more and more 

students attempting to go to college in current economic times. 

WM: What brought you to Wheelock? 

AH: I’m at Wheelock because the College recognizes the need to provide 

resources and a structure to address affordability and other issues of 

accessibility. If we don’t address these issues now, not only do they become 

worse while we lose time, but we also lose another generation of students 

who have great talents to contribute to society but who can’t afford the 

education needed to fulfill their potential. 

WM: Do you see the financial realities of today keeping students 

from entering the field? 

AH: It’s too soon to tell, but it does add to our challenge. Schools and 

communities desperately need good teachers and social workers. And part 

of the job of my office is to open the doors for qualified students and 

make access to the field easier for them. We can’t have high school students 

from moderate- and low-income families giving up on going to college or 

on becoming teachers and social workers. And we don’t want colleges 

going back to the days when they were the domain of the privileged few. 

Of course, access involves more than just affordability. 

WM: Such as? 

AH: Students and families need access to information and understanding 

about what leads to college success. They need to know there is a path that 

leads to college and how to get on it. Are they in a program that helps them be 

ready for college? This is especially difficult for first-generation college students 

and their families who may not know the college-going process, who need 

financial assistance but don’t know what kinds of assistance are available or 

how to fill out the forms. A while ago, I led a college planning session where a 

parent said, “No one ever told me helping my son apply to college is a fulltime 

job.” For many families, the reality of that situation is a barrier in itself. 

WM: So what is Wheelock doing? 

AH: Part of Wheelock’s higher education mission is to reach out and 

create partnerships and collaborations with schools and community organizations. 

It’s a way to build the path to college back into middle school and 

high school — bringing students on campus during the academic year and 

into summer programs and bridge programs so that they understand what 

college involves and can prepare for it. 

We’re also focusing on improving college preparation and success rates for 

under-represented populations, including low-income and first-generation 

students, as well as students of color and students with disabilities. Wheelock’s 

new Upward Bound program, which focuses on preparing high school 

students for college and the teaching profession, is a great example. 



Cornerstone Society 

The Cornerstone Society was recently created as a way of 

recognizing our most generous donors who make an annual 

gift of $1,250 or more to Wheelock College. These individuals, 

along with the students they support, are the cornerstones of 

Wheelock’s future. The College would like to thank the following 

individuals for their leadership support: 

Lucy Wheelock 

Benefactors 

$50,000 or more 

Anonymous (2) 

Catherine Bose ‘75* 

Keena Dunn Clifford ‘68 

Sylvia Tailby Earl ‘54 and James Earl 

Irene Frail Hamm ‘60 and Charles Hamm 

Nancy Kelly Hershey ‘69 

Alice Keith ‘39* 

Ted and Beedee Ladd 

Robert A. Lincoln 

President’s Council 

$25,000 to $49,999 

Anonymous (1) 

Charles Ames 

Stephanie Bennett-Smith and 

Orin R. Smith 

Mr. and Mrs. Albert Creighton 

Shirley Hotra Neff ‘58 

Catherine Hargrave Sykes ‘50 

Wheelock Fellows 

$10,000 to $24,999 

Judith Parks Anderson ‘62 

Barbara Mead Anthony ‘60MS and 

Stephen H. Anthony 

Zelinda Makepeace Douhan ‘63/’75MS 

Sally Reeves Edmonds ‘55 

Larry and Atsuko Fish 

Elizabeth Grimm Hoskins ‘56 

Edith Hall Huck ‘48 

Betty Jane Jalley* 

Kathy and Bob Jaunich 

Polly McAllister 

Jack Meyer 

Frances Nichols ‘63 

Janice Porosky Olins ‘33* 

Gertrude Van Iderstine Phillips ‘43-’44 

Elizabeth Bassett Wolf ‘54 

Froebel Associates 

$5,000 to $9,999 

Anonymous (2) 

Sandra Dunham Bowers ‘58 and 

Ted Bowers 

Susan Moyer Breed ‘52/’79MS 

Rick and Nonnie Burnes 

Ellen Cluett Burnham ‘60 

Maureen Murphy Coakley ‘58* 

and Ed Coakley 

Jeff and Catherine Coburn 

Madeleine Gatchell Corson ‘59 

Tina Feldman Crosby ‘67 

Barbara Elliott Fargo ‘52 

Mary McBride Felton ‘58 

Deirdre Conrad Frank ‘65 

Joan Freeman* 

Paul S. Grogan 

Thordis Burdett Gulden ‘66 

Cynthia Hallowell ‘58 

Charlotte Pomeroy Hatfield ‘58 

Priscilla Alden Hayes ‘62 and Robert Hayes 

* Deceased 

Tina Morris Helm ‘64/’98MS and Bill Helm 

Elizabeth Berry Horner ‘47 

Jackie Jenkins-Scott and Jim Scott 

Reta Schoonmaker King ‘60 

John F. Knutson 

Mary Pescatello Lewis ‘69 

Elizabeth Wheeler L’Hommedieu ‘54 

Pamela Long 

Persis Luke Loveys ‘54 

Dr. and Mrs. Gordon Marshall 

Mary Meeker ‘58 

Carolyn Bail Miller ‘71 

Martha-Reed Ennis Murphy ‘69 

Suzanne Newton 

Linda Bullock Owens ‘69 

Abby Squires Perelman ‘73 

Adelaide Duffy Queeney ‘88MS 

Barbara Grogins Sallick ‘61 

Page Poinier Sanders ‘65 

Katharine duPont Sanger ‘66 

Barbara Silverstein ‘56 

Elizabeth Robinson Smith ‘63 

Geneva S. Thorndike and 

William Thorndike Jr. 

Joan I. Thorndike 

Diana Chang VanHoutum ‘68 

Amaryllis Morris Volk ‘55 

Suzanne Weinstein 

David C. Weinstein 

Helen Small Weishaar ‘45 

Katharine Lewars Weymouth ‘42-’43* 

Carole Hayes Williams ‘66 

White and Gold Circle 

$2,500 to $4,999 

Anonymous (1) 

Judy McMurray Achre ‘58 

Betsy Hunter Ambach ‘54 

Steven Aveson ‘78 

Lisa McCabe Biagetti ‘80 

Henriette Pennypacker Binswanger ‘56 

Joyce Pettoruto Butler ‘73 

Elizabeth Townsend Dearstyne ‘62 and 

William Dearstyne 

Cynthia Doherty ‘02MSW 

Ellen Tague Dwinell ‘61 

Susan Grearson Fillmore ‘56 

Betty and Larry Fuchs 

Maria Furman 

Roberta Weiss Goorno ‘62 

Barbara and Steve Grossman 

William R. Hall 

Mr. and Mrs. George Hall 

Priscilla Chase Heindel ‘47 

Sally Schwabacher Hottle ‘59 

Michael J. Jolliffe 

Phyllis Forbes Kerr ‘64 

Jane Ann Hartzell Knebel ‘51* 

Catherine Ley Lawler ‘82 

William A. Lowell, Esq. 

Toby Congleton Milner ‘70 

Emily Cook Moore ‘47 

Robin Mount 

Nancy Stewart Nadig ‘69 

Ruth Bailey Papazian ‘56 

Nancy Fowle Purinton ‘64 

Nancy Garnaus Rice ‘50 

Stanley and Marcia Rumbaugh 

Nancy Gebting Secker ‘61 

Thekla Reese Shackelford ‘56 

Kate and Ben Taylor 

Lisa and Rex Thors 

Suzanne Hamburger Thurston ‘54 

Elsa Weyer Williams ‘54 

1888 Circle 

$1,250 to $2,499 

Anonymous (1) 

Ruth Flink Ades ‘53 

Margaret Benisch Anderson ‘53 

Beth Atwood ‘57* 

Lynne Wyluda Beasley ‘66 

Kathleen Kirk Bishop 

Linda Larrabee Blair-Lockwood ‘65 

Jean Heard Carmichael ‘62 

Melanie Waszkiewicz Chadwick ‘68 

Geraldine Walsh Clauss ‘51 

Kathryn Smith Conrad ‘73MS 

Patricia Cook ‘69 

Madeleine Tufts Cormier ‘66 

Ann Carter Craft ‘53 

Barbara Pratt Dancy ‘62 

Barbara Tutschek Ells ‘60 

Lucia Santini Field 

Diane Abitbol Fogg ‘64 

Kristine Sheathelm Gerson ‘79 

Joan Blanchard Gray ‘50 

Patricia Conzelman Greeley ‘52/’90MS 

Mary Bloomer Gulick ‘57 and Bob Gulick 

Patricia Haas ‘59 

Janet Marshall Haring ‘64 

Christine Theander Harper ‘63 

Jeanne Wilson Hatch ‘59 

Anne Mulholland Heger ‘49 

Jane Luke Hill ‘69 

Carol Jeffers Hollenberg ‘64 

Mathilde Clark Holmes ‘49* 

Jane Hanna Houck ‘57 and 

Emerson Houck 

Alumni Scholarships 

Anonymous (1) 


Barbara Mead Anthony ‘60MS and 




Madeleine Gatchell Corson ‘59 

Tina Feldman Crosby ‘67 


William Dearstyne 

Deirdre Conrad Frank ‘65 

Tina Morris Helm ‘64/’98MS and Bill Helm 

Anne Wingle Howard ‘57 

Susan Towle Huckman ‘55 

Sytske Humphrey ‘89MS 

Janet Ferry Jenney ‘52 

Tom and Roberta Kelly 

Jone LaBombard ‘80MS 

Ann Longfellow 

Helene Stehlin Lortz ‘60 

Anne Sullivan Lyons ‘62 

Rose Kurkjian Margosian ‘68 

Mary Baker McConnell ‘74 and 

Mike McConnell 

Olivia Hutchins Meek ‘52 

Suzanne Mullens Morgan ‘64 

Nancy Ware Morrow ‘63 

Deanne Williams Morse ‘60 

Anne Hallowell Newton ‘66 

Phoebe O’Mara ‘66 

Maralen Moody O’Neil ‘58 

Edith Rizer Paffard ‘38* 

Wanda Yeomans Patterson ‘93 

Mary Stone Phipps ‘57 

Ruth Angier Salinger ‘53 

Betty Appel Schaffer ‘60 

Susan Bruml Simon ‘73 

Sally Clark Sloop ‘68 

Patricia Cotter Smart ‘56 

Ann Emerson Spaulding ‘53 

Nancy Clarke Steinberger ‘65 

Mary Anne Dresser Stringham ‘49 

Daniel S. Terris 

Sylvia Buffinton Tompkins ‘55 

Ann Fisher Tuteur ‘67 

Diana Spence Uehlein ‘76/’94MS 

Lucy Hannan Vaill ‘67 

Mary Ann Baker Wagner ‘62 

Alice Parke Watson ‘63 

Joan Anderson Watts ‘65/’83MS 

Nancy Clay Webster ‘66 

Joann Bridgman Webster ‘48 

Judith Schwarz Weinstock ‘70MS 

Jean Cutler Whitham ‘58 

T 

he Alumni Scholars Program brings together individuals at the 

heart of Wheelock College: students and alumni. Alumni Scholars 

donors make an annual gift of $5,000 to support one undergraduate 

or graduate student during their time at Wheelock. These contributions 

help defray the cost of a Wheelock education, and through an 

exchange of letters and meetings at events, the donors are kept 

up-to-date about their students’ studies and activities. Reciprocally, 

students learn about their supporters and their Wheelock experience. 

The students join the College in thanking the following individuals: 

Edith Hall Huck ‘48 


Mary Pescatello Lewis ‘69 

Carolyn Bail Miller ‘71 


Linda Bullock Owens ‘69 

Gertrude Van Iderstine Phillips ’43-’44 



Helen Small Weishaar ‘45 

Carole Hayes Williams ‘66 


Sincerest thanks from 

the entire Wheelock 

community go out 

to all our donors. 



GIVING 

AT A 

GLANCE 

The 12 months ending June 30, 2008, were a difficult period for investments. U.S. markets, as evidenced by 

the S&P 500 Index, were down 13.1 percent for that period. Wheelock’s endowment, however, lost only 

2.6 percent for those 12 months, attributable to the degree of diversification in the College’s portfolio. At the 

same time, the endowment provided more than $2 million of operating support to the College during the year. 

Contributions to the Annual Fund continued their upward trend, increasing to more than $1.3 million in 

FY08. In an economy that affected so many donors and their giving priorities, increased participation in 

annual giving is an excellent sign of confidence in the College’s future and its strategic plan for getting there. 

Most important, Annual Fund giving supports the institutional priority of financial assistance for students, 

which is needed to sustain Wheelock’s growing enrollment, as well as the faculty projects, programs, and conferences 

that help to grow the College’s academic reputation. 

Annual Giving 

FY08 

Operating 

Expenses 

Sources of 

Operating Revenue 

Endowment 

69% 

Annual Fund 

15% 

Campus Center and 

Student Residence Building 

16% 

Instruction 35% 

Institutional 

Support 17% 

Financial Aid 22% 

Student Services 10% 

Dorm & Dining 6% 

Facilities 6% 

Debt Services 4% 

Endowment 

6% 

Tuition/ 

Room & Board 

87% 

Annual Fund/Interest 

6% 

Other 

1% 

1,500,000 

1,300,000 

1,100,000 

900,000 

700,000 

500,000 

300,000 

100,000 

Annual Fund Giving FY 2004-2008 

FY04 FY05 FY06 FY07 FY08 

(Actual) 

$60.0 

Value of Wheelock Endowment 

(in millions of dollars) 

$50.0 

50.9 

$40.0 

$30.0 

37.6 

43.1 

39.3 

34.0 

34.6 

39.2 

41.9 

44.6 

47.1 

$20.0 

$10.0 

0.0 

1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 



2007-2008 

HIGH MARKS FOR 

WHEELOCK 

• Annual Fund reached a major, 

record-making milestone with 

gifts totaling $1.3 million. 

• Met our Campus Center and 

Student Residence fundraising 

target — including a prestigious 

$800,000 Kresge Challenge grant — 

started construction, and ended 

the fiscal year with the project 

on budget and on schedule 

• Won a $1 million Classic Upward 

Bound TRIO grant to help fund a 

new teacher development program 

for high school students 

• Hosted Passion for Action, our 

first major fundraising dinner, 

raising over $350,000 for student 

financial aid 

• Opened a new math/science 

resource center with state-of-the-art 

technology and equipment 

• Opened two academic centers, 

Aspire Institute and the Center 

for Scholarship and Research 

• Introduced new technology and 

equipment on campus, including 

increased wireless network coverage 

and upgraded technology in two 

science classrooms 

• Enrolled another record-breaking 

number of incoming undergraduate 

students and increased graduate 

inquiries by 58 percent 

• Successfully established a summer 

bridging program, an honors program, 

and an outreach support 

program for students 

• Expanded our student life program 

and introduced men’s athletics at 

the College with an important 

focus on academic success 

• Completed three service learning 

trips to New Orleans, Northern 

Ireland, and Ghana 

• Hosted a Youth Symposium and 

Special Convocation honoring 

Archbishop Emeritus Desmond 

Tutu that drew 1,600 people to 

Wheelock’s campus 

• Continued our role as a policy 

leader and facilitator, hosting three 

Winter Policy Talks, the third 

annual Conference on Early Education, 

and a successful series on the 

Education of Black Male Youth 

2008-2009 

ACTION STEPS 

• Meet or exceed FY09 fundraising 

goal of $1.3 million in unrestricted/ 

financial aid 

• Complete the Kresge Challenge 

with $1.2 million in gifts or 

pledges for the CCSR 

• Increase funding for the Math/ 

Science Education Initiative and 

the Upward Bound program 

• Complete comprehensive capital 

campaign plan 

• Grand opening of the new Campus 

Center and Student Residence 

• Plan and begin renovation of 

Riverway House 

• Make new investments in technology 

and equipment with a 

special focus on supporting faculty 

teaching and student learning 

• Integrate the President’s Climate 

Commitment with the Environmental 

Plan across the College 

• Complete and implement a 

Graduate Program Plan including 

enrollment and retention goals 

• Develop a plan to address issues 

of student access and affordability 

• Meet or exceed enrollment goal 

of 325 new students 

• Expand international residential 

programs on campus through the 

Center for International Education, 

Leadership, and Innovation 

• Address and implement key 

Community Diversity Initiative 

recommendations 



Heritage Society 

The Heritage Society was initiated in 1981 by then President Gordon Marshall and 

celebrates those who have included Wheelock College in their estate or trust plans. 

Alumni and friends who make a provision for Wheelock in their will or through a Pooled 

Income Fund, Charitable Gift Annuity, Perpetual Trust, Bequest Intention, or other form of 

planned gift provide for the future of the College. The College gratefully acknowledges 

the following individuals for leaving a special legacy that will perpetuate our mission to 

improve the lives of children and families: 

Current Members 

Anonymous (7) 

Anonymous Lead Trust (1)** 

Lois Abbott 

Judy McMurray Achre ‘58 

Ruth Flink Ades ‘53^ 

Virginia Pratt Agar ‘64 

Nancy Wilson Ainslie ‘44 


Margaret Benisch Anderson ‘53 

Stephen and Barbara Mead 

Anthony ‘60MS 

Margaret Boethelt Barratt ‘52 

V. Bonnie Blick Benedict ‘69 

Joan Chiappetta Benson ‘69 

Elizabeth Palmer Bradley ‘64 

Lorian Brown ‘68MS 

Mary Turnbull Burnight ‘66 

Evelyn Burr Caldwell ‘24 

Sarah Carter ‘66 

Edith Macnaughtan Cather ‘40 

Mary Lou Center ‘56 

Daniel S. Cheever Jr. 

Clover Clark Memorial Trust* 

Louise Close ‘77 

Olin J. Cochran Trust* 

Mary H. Corcoran 

Ruth Corney Trust 

Rebecca Berry Cramer ‘36 

Harriet Spring Critchlow ‘44 

Lora Erhard Crouss ‘37 

Elizabeth Brayton Dawson ‘51 


William Dearstyne^ 

Nancy Wicke Demarest ‘66 

Jean Rogers Duval ‘50 

Evelyn Jenney Eaton ‘56 

Barbara Tutschek Ells ‘60 


Betty C. Fuchs 

Lois Anne Gilbert Galbraith ‘49 

Katrina Buckelmueller Gale ‘57 

Heritage Society Giving — 

The Catherine E. Bose Scholarship in 

Mathematics or Science 

Natalie Smith Garland ‘53 

Edwin and Elizabeth Dewey Giles ‘53 

Frances Graves Perpetual Trust 

Patricia Conzelman Greeley ‘52/’90MS 

Beverly Simon Green ‘50 

George A. Hall 

Cynthia Hallowell ‘58 

Jeanne Wilson Hatch ‘59 

Priscilla Chase Heindel ‘47 

Emily Hewitt 

Elizabeth Berry Horner ‘47 

Holly Horton ‘76MS 


Jane Hanna Houck ‘57 

Anne Wingle Howard ‘57 

Robert C. Howe 

Edith Hall Huck ‘48 and Rodney Huck 

Jeanette McIntosh Ingersoll ‘67 

Josepha Loskill Jenks ‘53 

Maria Lind Johnson ‘68 

Stella Barnes Johnson ‘55 

“Growth is a never-ending goal of education, to stretch 

the boundaries of the mind even further in search of 

new knowledge and truth.” 

The dedication in Catherine “Cathy” Bose’s 

1975 yearbook perfectly captures the expansive 

power of education to which she devoted her 

professional life and the purpose of the fund established 

in Cathy’s name through her membership in 

the Heritage Society. The Catherine E. Bose Scholarship 

in Mathematics or Science will provide a scholarship 

each year for a high-achieving student who intends to become a teacher 

of mathematics or science, Cathy’s particular field of expertise as an educator. 

Cathy was an exceptional teacher; she loved teaching children, and she understood 

the essential place of mathematics in their education. Her bequest will make 

it possible for Wheelock to prepare more outstanding teachers who will “stretch the 

boundaries” of children’s minds as they learn about math and science. 

For many years after she graduated, Cathy was enthusiastically involved in alumni 

activities and interested in Wheelock students and programs. Her leadership as a 

donor was deeply appreciated, as were her gifts of friendship and commitment to 

children and families. Wheelock is honored by her desire to contribute to the future 

of the College and of math and science education through Heritage Society giving. 

Lyn Peck Kenyon ‘45/’69BS 

Edward H. Ladd 

Gloria Williams Ladd ‘65 

Frances Tedesco Lathrop ‘54 

Susan Cahn Levine ‘67 


Sonia Loizeaux ‘57 

Pamela Long 

Persis Luke Loveys ‘54 

Ann S. Lowell ‘69MS 

Lucy Smith Lundin ‘46 

Margaret Ryan MacIntyre ‘38 

Meredith Huxtable MacNeill ‘91MS 

Ann MacVicar ‘65 


Olivia Hutchins Meek ‘52 

Carolyn Humphrey Miller ‘64 

Carol Moore ‘48 


Katharine Crosby Nasser ‘48 

Anne Hallowell Newton ‘66 and 

John Newton 

Frances Nichols ‘63^ 

Mary Nisula ‘70 

Mary Runyon Obaidy ‘59 

Penny Power Odiorne ‘54^ 

Phoebe O’Mara ‘66 

Maryann Mylott O’Rourke ‘60 

Jean Osmond ‘34 

Patricia Knowlton Paine-Dougherty ‘50 

Elizabeth Buckstaff Paterson ‘56 

Carol Drew Penfield ‘52 

Jean Ingalls Perkins ‘52 

Sandra Gewinner Perry ‘64 

Elizabeth Gerow Peterson ‘53 

Priscilla Harper Porter ‘64 

Marylin Quint-Rose ‘48 

Jeanne Girard Quinzani ‘48^ 

Judith Haskell Rosenberg ‘55 


Valessia Samaras ‘83 



Carlile Lowery Schneider ‘78/’79MS 

Dorothy Hutchens Seelow ‘50 

Susan Waters Shaeffer ‘56 

Diana Holland Shafroth ‘50 

Margaret Weinheimer Sherwin ‘58 

Barbara Silverstein ‘56 

Sally Clark Sloop ‘68^ 

Inez Gianfranchi Snowdon ‘40 

Ann Emerson Spaulding ‘53 and 

Charles Spaulding 

Renae Ross Starker ‘71 

Martha Stearns ‘72MS 

Catherine Hargrave Sykes ‘50 

Grace Viard Ward ‘51 

Joan Bradish Waters ‘48 

Edith Nowers White ‘50 

Joan Wiggin ‘51 

Marjorie Ferris Wilcock ‘37 

Daphne Hastings Wilcox ‘65 

Winifred Little Williams ‘41 

Annette Stevens Wilton ‘56 

Faith Butterfield Wyer ‘40 and 

Harold Wyer 

Past Members 

Anonymous (2) 

Elizabeth Abbott 

Frank C. Abbott 

Margaret Wilson Alexander ‘14 

Bronwyn Baird ‘64 

Marion Baker 

Francis F. Bartlett 

Laura Smith Bemis ‘28 

Catherine Bose ‘75 

Maureen Murphy Coakley ‘58 

Katharine Hosmer Connor ‘33 

Janet Woodbury Cooper ‘31 

Wilhelmina Scheuer Cottone ‘36 

Eleanor Day Cottrell ‘34 

D. Clifford Crummey 

Lois Hardy Daloz ‘32 

Anne Walker Davis ‘43 

Helen McMullin Dimock ‘33 

Frances Dogherty ‘24 

Nancy Parkman England ‘40 

Ellen Brewer Flood ‘34 

Edith Steere Floyd ‘30 

Joan Crane Freeman ‘54 

Dorothy Mercer Gilbert ‘24 

Elizabeth Bartlett Gilbert ‘37 

Nancy Corwin Gordon ‘67 

Dorothy Greene ‘27 

Helen Coots Hall ‘32 

Eva Neumann Hartman ‘67 

Helen Ruslander Haskell ‘28 

Edna Charlton Hays ‘27 

Colby Hewitt Jr. 

Muriel Hirt 

Mr. and Mrs. Myron Hoffman 

Myrl Crocker Howe ‘34 

Marian Clifton Hurlin ‘22 

Barbara Jack ‘30 

Louise Steele Jackson ‘28 

Betty Jane Jalley ‘50 

David S. Johnson 

Margery Hall Johnson ‘38 Trust 

Dorothy Kano ‘71 

Alice Keith ‘39 

Jeannette Vannah Kemp ‘38 

Mary Neal Kendall ‘33 

Wilma Dodge Marshall ‘23 

Rhoda LeFavour Martin ‘31 

Nancy Merryman Mattox ‘46 

John F. McAllister Jr. 

Margaret Merry 

Ann Porter Mullen ‘49 

Adeline Little Murray ‘38 Trust 

Janice Porosky Olins ‘33 

Janet La Foy Otto ‘26 

Edith Rizer Paffard ‘38 

Suzanne Pierce ‘41 

Elizabeth Pursel 

Robert N. Pursel Trust per the 

will of Catherine Pursel ‘25 

Mary Quirk ‘18 

Mary Barnhardt Ridenhour ‘40 

Elizabeth Cox Robbins ‘33 

Elizabeth Sylvester Robinson ‘40 

Jessie Hahn Shaffer ‘38 

Wilma Roberts Sowerby ‘34 

Ellen G. Sullivan ‘58MS 

Patricia Blackmer Thibodeau ‘49 

Ruth Baker Ursul ‘60 

Margaret Cahill Vogel ‘33 

Katharine Pulis Waldron ‘28 

Judith Clark Weaver ’47 Trust 

Katharine Lewars Weymouth ‘42-‘43 

Charles Wintermeyer and Nancy Jane 

Carroll Wintermeyer ‘45 

24 Fall 2008 * Restricted to Scholarships ** Restricted to the Library ^ New Member

Named Funds 

Donors often establish named funds in honor or in memory of 

a friend or family member. These funds are very important to 

the College and provide support for student scholarships, faculty 

assistance, campus improvement, and resource development. The 

students, faculty, and staff of Wheelock College are so appreciative 

of these generous contributions. 

Scholarship and 

Loan Funds 

Anonymous (2) 

Donald Bergen Abbott Memorial 

Scholarship Fund 

George I. Alden Scholarship Fund 

Judy Parks Anderson ‘62 Endowed 


Anthony Family Scholarship Fund for 

Graduate Students 

Bronwyn Baird Endowed Scholarship Fund 

Marjorie Bakken Endowed Scholarship Fund 

Bank of Boston Endowed Student 

Loan Fund 

Ruth Kelliher Bartlett ’24 Memorial Fund 

John L. Bates Scholarship Fund 

Bernard W. and Helen Sagoff Berkowitch 

‘28 Memorial Scholarship Fund 

Black Mountain Foundation 


Gladys Brooks Endowed Scholarship Fund 

Gertrude Flanders Bullen ‘52 Memorial 


Centennial Scholarship Fund 

Daniel S. Cheever, Jr. Scholarship Fund 

The James Christmann 

Writing Award Scholarship 

Ruth Clapp ‘34 Loan Fund 

Clover Converse Clark ‘20 Memorial Trust 

Class of 1954 Endowed Scholarship Fund 

Class of 1956 Endowed Scholarship Fund 

Carolyn Burrell Cochran ‘19 


Katherine Wendell Creighton ‘92 


Nancy LeCount Currier ‘50 Memorial 


Ennis-Murphy Scholarship Fund 

Elinor Frumkin Feldman ‘52 Revolving 

Student Loan Fund 

Marguerite Franklin ‘17 Revolving 

Loan Fund 

The Frances Graves 1909 Charitable Fund 

Cynthia M. Gregory ‘26 Endowed 


Ellen Gertrude Loomis Hall Endowed 


Margaret Hamilton ‘23 Arts 


Irene Frail Hamm ’60 Endowed Urban 


Evelyn Hausslein Child Life 


William Randolph Hearst Endowed 


Molly Cooper Hershey ‘23 Fund 

for Student Aid 

Aldus C. Higgins Foundation Endowed 

Loan Fund 

Myrl Rose Crocker Howe ’34 


Marian Clifton Hurlin ‘22 Scholarship Fund 

Barbara Jack ’30 Endowed 


Kathleen Magee Jaunich Scholarship 

Margery Hall Johnson Endowed Scholarship 

Ruth Appleton Burge Johnson 

1910 Scholarship Fund 


Lyn Peck Kenyon and Walter Kenyon 

Scholarship 

Katherine Ehrler Kurth Scholarship Fund 

Gloria Williams Ladd Endowed 


Frances B. and Paige D. L’Hommedieu 


Elizabeth Ann Liddle ‘47 Fund for 

International Students 

Agnes M. Lindsay Trust Scholarship 

Lowell Scholarship 

Kathryn Severance Makosky ‘30 Endowed 


Margaret H. and Robert W. Merry 


Gwen Morgan ‘76MS Scholarship Fund 

Janice Porosky Olins ‘33 Scholarship Fund 

Patricia Knowlton Paine-Dougherty ‘50 


Henry H. and Edith Nicholson Perry ‘19 


Theresa Perry Scholarship Fund 

Mildred Engler Peterson ‘24 


The Harold Whitworth Pierce Charitable 

Trust Scholarship 

The Catherine Pursel Emergency Student 

Loan Fund 

William E. and Bertha E. Schrafft Charitable 

Trust Endowed Fund 

Saul M. Silverstein Endowed 


Ching Yee Soong ‘65 Scholarship Fund 

The Ellen G. Sullivan Endowed Scholarship 

Susan Swap Community Service 


Mary A. Sweeney ’56 Scholarship Fund 

Marion H. Towne Scholarship Fund 

Frances M. Tredick Endowed 


Frances M. Tredick 1902 Scholarship Fund 

Wheelock Club of Portland Scholarship 

Wheelock College Alumni 

Association Scholarship 

Wheelock College Alumni Endowed 


Lucy Wheelock Endowed Scholarship Fund 

Lucy Wheelock Student Loan Fund 

Betsy Wilson Endowed Visiting Health 

Lecturer and Student Scholarship Fund 

Marjorie Cohn Wolf ‘51 and William H. 

Wolf Perpetuating Loan Fund 

Library Funds 

Alma Bent ‘42/’43 and Janet Higginbotham 

Washburn ‘42/’43 Library Fund 

Linda Munroe Brady Memorial Book Fund 

Beatrice Garnaus Library Fund 

Nancy Corwin Gordon Memorial 

Book Fund 

Altina Mead Memorial Fund 

Jone Sloman Library Fund 

Other Funds 

CAR Endowed Faculty Fund 

Sandra Nesson Kivowitz ‘56 Memorial Fund 

Edward H. Ladd Award for Academic 

Excellence and Service 

Dr. Peter Foukal’s Endowed Math and Science Prize — 

Helping to Close the Math/Science Literacy Gap 

“As a trustee and as a scientist, I believe it is important for Wheelock to produce its share of 

young teachers who have the ability and enthusiasm to teach science and math.” 

Each spring, Wheelock celebrates two high-achieving students at the Math & Science 

Student Recognition Awards and grants them cash prizes made possible by 

the generosity of Dr. Peter Foukal. Foukal is a noted physicist and Wheelock trustee 

who, last year, endowed the prizes as a permanent way for Wheelock to reward 

strong students and advance math and science learning at the College. 

“The prizes are intended to address two issues,” 

Foukal says. “I want to reward students who put in 

the extra work required for a science or math degree. 

The lab courses and generally higher difficulty of 

math and science courses can deter many students, 

yet these areas of study are more important today 

than ever before. Second, I have felt for a long time 

that rewarding straight academic excellence, based 

mainly on GPA, is helpful in raising and sustaining 

high academic standards. I believe that’s especially 

important at Massachusetts teacher preparation colleges. 

Last April, Foukal invited Heather Knudson, a graduate student in the astronomy 

department at Harvard, to be a guest speaker at the Math & Science Student 

Recognition Awards. “It was good for Wheelock students to hear how inspiring her 

math and science teachers had been and how important they were to her pursuing 

her interest in astronomy,” he says. 

“As a trustee and as a scientist, I believe it is important for Wheelock to produce its 

share of young teachers who have the ability and enthusiasm to teach science and 

math. These are the two areas where the greatest teacher shortages continue to occur. 

Everyone acknowledges technology drives our culture, and we know teachers are the 

ones who are needed to make our children technically and scientifically literate.” 

Cynthia Longfellow Teaching 

Recognition Award 

Master of Social Work 

Restricted Scholarship 

Math and Science Endowed Prize Fund 

Singapore Education Fund** 

The Dr. Sau-Fong Siu B.S.W Student 

Assistance Fund 

Wheelock Faculty Fund 

Wheelock Family Theatre Endowed Fund 

Board of 

Trustees and 

Corporation 

Donors 

Vanessa Alleyne ‘78 

Charles Ames 


Barbara Mead Anthony ‘60MS 


Steven Aveson ‘78 

Lynne Wyluda Beasley ‘66 

Stephanie Bennett-Smith 

Lisa McCabe Biagetti ‘80 

Grace Macomber Bird 

Margaret G. Blakelock 


Ellen Cluett Burnham ‘60 

Joyce Pettoruto Butler ‘73 

Julia Challinor ‘75 

Sandra Christison ‘92MS 


Louise Close ‘77 

Maureen Murphy Coakley ‘58* 

Jeff Coburn 

Kathryn Smith Conrad ‘73MS 

Susan O’Halloran Constable ‘82 

James M. Conway 

Madeleine Tufts Cormier ‘66 

Carolyn Drucker ‘88MS 

Ellen Tague Dwinell ‘61 

Sally Reeves Edmonds ‘55 


Peter Foukal 

Betty Fuchs 

Maria Furman 

George Hall 

William R. Hall 

Adrian K. Haugabrook 

Tina Morris Helm ‘64/’98MS 


Kathleen Magee Jaunich ‘64 


Thomas Kelly 

Lyn Peck Kenyon ‘45/’69BS 

Ranch C. Kimball 


Edward H. Ladd 




Vicki Caplan Milstein ‘72 

Lois Barnett Mirsky ‘54 

Juan Carlos Morales 

Mila Moschella ‘75 

Robin Mount 


Diane Cassella Ohanesian ‘78MS 

Maryann Mylott O’Rourke ‘60/’98MS 

Bonnie Page ‘76/’92MS 

Heather Peach ‘96MS 

Betty Bain Pearsall ‘71 

Abby Squires Perelman ‘73 

Joseph W. Perkins 

Marianna C. Pierce 

Nancy Fowle Purinton ‘64 

Paul Reville 

Barbara Grogins Sallick ‘61 

Susan Bruml Simon ‘73 

Ellen Haebler Skove ‘49 

Gloria Aisenberg Sonnabend ‘51 

Kate Taylor 


Geneva S. Thorndike 


Lisa Thors 

Martha Walsh ‘67/’80MS 

Valora Washington 

Katharine Lewars Weymouth ‘42-’43* 

Kahris D. White-McLaughlin 


Barry S. Zuckerman 

* Deceased **New fund in fiscal year 2008 



Associate 

Degree Donors 

1973 

Deborah Maher 

Elaine Douglass Munn 

Priscilla Cote Paquette 

1974 

Barbara Carter Brathwaite 

Annie Barbee Gumbs 

1977 

Donna Blaikie Coleman 

1978 

Frances Hargrett Simkins 

1979 

Virginia Breedy 

1984 

Marlene Ross 

1988 

Karen Flowers Cagan 

Christine DeLorenzo Davey 

1990 

Jewel Russell 

1992 

Deanna Germain 

1993 

Naomi Hargrove Robertson 

Undergraduate 

Degree Donors 

1928 

Mary Phillips Horton 

1929 

Wilma Small Halliday 

Constance Putnam 

1932 

Bernice Hayes Hunt 

1933 

Olive Russell Frost 

Janice Porosky Olins* 

Elizabeth Cox Robbins* 

1934 

Jeanette Woodruff Fischer 

Ruth Swanson Hallowell 

Elizabeth Drowne Nash 

1935 

Mary Hammer Heron 

1936 

Vivian Oaksford Fisher 

Harriet Hyde Sands 

1937 

Lora Erhard Crouss 

Eleanor Blossom Fisher 

Ellen Moak Lloyd 

Carolyn Schmidt 

Katherine Douglas Smith 

1938 

Betty Quick Collin 

Rosemary O’Reilly Hoben 

Anita Drucker Leibowitz 

Margaret Ryan MacIntyre 

Edith Rizer Paffard* 

Nancy Brown Stevenson 

1939 

Estelle Levy Dine 

Jean Warner Eaton 

Alice Keith* 

June Jellison MacGinnis 

1940 

Mary Brewer Allen 

Annette Brown Boland 

Lois Burns 

Rita Jaffe Govenar 

Louise Martin Klemmer 

Katherine Mara Madigan 

Jean Davidson Rand 

Inez Gianfranchi Snowdon 

Faith Butterfield Wyer 

1941 

Joanne Lilly Abbott 

Barbara Munson Carpenter 

Ruth Andelman Danburg 

Grace Fitzpatrick Frawley 

Anne Wigton Hall 

Barbara Finkel Jacobs 

Bettina Beebe McCleary 

H. Louise Jones Miller 

Dorothea Ramsay Rutter 

Katherine Rhodes Truswell 

Ruth Kemball Tupper 

Winifred Little Williams 

1942-‘43 

Gertrude Gerenbeck Coady 

Gladys Davey Dunbar 

Mary Anne Henderson King 

Janice Gifford Rogers 

Jean Mealey Slavin 

Helen Roberts Thomas 

Katharine Lewars Weymouth* 

1943-‘44 

Martha Prouty DeNormandie 

Marjory Perry Johnson 

Laura Kelly Peters 

Gertrude Van Iderstine Phillips 

Jean Sullivan Riley 

Judith Elder Scott 

Nancy Powell White 

Jane Cooper Wyman 

1945 

Patricia Slater Carey 

Sally Dvlinsky Glickman 

Natalie Alger Gorczyca 

Lois Hahn 

Sophy Church Hansen 

Nancy Peirce Kyle 

Maryanne Weber Lockyer 

Shirley Kellerman McBain 

Elizabeth Matthews Piper* 

Rosalie Russo 

Maryanne Marsh Smith 

Jane Spaulding 

Helen Small Weishaar 

Mary Davies Wolff 

1946 

Jane Clapp Donaldson 

Cordelia Abendroth Flanagan 

Margaret Lewis Glover 

Rosamond Holt Haley 

Louise Allen Hammond 

Barbara Robjent Moore* 

Louise Vialle 

Mary Ruth Sanger Wotherspoon 

1947 

Sara Latham Coonley 

Daphne Tait Cooper 

Barbara Bolinger Crabtree 

Mary Segoine Davis 

Carol Sisson Freeman 

Mary Hemphill Haring 

Priscilla Chase Heindel 

Elizabeth Berry Horner 

Beverly Hayes Kallgren 

Judith Klubock Medalia 

Emily Cook Moore 

1948 

Jocelyn Van Allen Anderson 

Priscilla Leahy Blue 

Jane Russell Bolton 

Ann Bieberbach Brown 

Elizabeth Higgins Button 

Miriam Seipp Christensen 

Prudence Clemishere Ciaccio 

Agnes Fitzgerald Davis 

Ysabel Brown Dulken 

Mary Horr Foster 

Harriet Hoffman Frost 

Phyllis Fishman Grossbaum 

Charlotte Leary Guest 

Edith Hall Huck 

Cynthia Knight Lawson 

Janet Gall Leonard 

Gwendolyn Price Lukens 

Catherine Creble McCarraher 

Elizabeth McHenry 

Eleanor Eckerson McIntyre 

Carol Moore 

Katharine Crosby Nasser 

Faith Webster Peak 

Marylin Quint-Rose 

Jeanne Girard Quinzani 

Edith Huntley Ridley 

Lila Abrash Rosenthal 

Sally Hunter St. John 

Carolyn Blount Street 

Barbara Sturgis 

Jane Terry Thomas 

Julia Walsh Van Veen 

Dorothy Bone Warren 

Dorothy St. Clair Webb 

Joann Bridgman Webster 

Ruth Chickering Wheeler-McKay 

1949 

Laura Anne McPhee Burton 

Jean Dickson Chiquoine 

Caroline Stafford Crossland 

Margaret Edwards Francis 

Lois Anne Gilbert Galbraith 

Sally Stout Garner 

Alice Roberts Gow 

Anne Tremper Hall 

Anne Mulholland Heger 

Enid Stockbridge Holly 

Mathilde Clark Holmes* 

Emily Naramore LaBudde 

Helen Casten Lewis 

Doris Jackson Marshall 

Jane Bartlett Mason 

Caroline Rowlett O’Handley 

Jane Felton Parker 

Frances Cummings Partridge 

Barbara Ferguson Pieper 

Carol Root Roth 

Judy Rosen Rubenfeld 

Suzanne Small Shanahan 

Ellen Haebler Skove 

Mary Anne Dresser Stringham 

Mariah MacGilvra Temby 

Elaine Macmann Willoughby 

1950 

Nancy Spencer Adams 

Jean Rogers Duval 

Barbara Moog Finlay 

Joan Blanchard Gray 

Beverly Simon Green 

Barbara Shafran Greenglass 

Mary Hathaway Hayter 

Emily Wright Holt 

Mary Gall Horlsey 

Betty Jane Jalley* 

Beverly Maurath Newell 

Nancy Garnaus Rice 

Jane Munroe Rice 

Dorothy Hutchens Seelow 

Catherine Hargrave Sykes 

Barbara Thompson Trainor 

Florence Milman Walker 

Edith Nowers White 

Edith Runk Wright 

1951 

Beverly Boardman Brekke-Bailey 

Louise Butts 

Geraldine Walsh Clauss 

Nancy Noelte Cloutier 

Betsy Baker Connell 

Georgianna Hale Dana 

Nancy Horton Evans 

Elizabeth Lawson Forrester 

Shirley Stevens French 

Judith Handley Garvey 

Prudence Smith Giffin 

Leigh Clayfield Glenn 

Patricia Gindele Guild 

Elizabeth Cahill Haskell 

Harriet Howenstein Hull 

Jane Ann Hartzell Knebel* 

Nancy Flint Lindner 

Charlotte Sears MacVane 

Janet Boynton Means-Underhill 

Jane Steele Milchen 

Jane Williams Miller 

Nancy Williams Mohn 

Laura Richardson Payson 

Mary Anderson Riley 

Marilyn Ames Sawyer 

Barbara Nutting Sheldon 

Gloria Aisenberg Sonnabend 

Helen Taft Staser 

Dorothy Etherington Thurnherr 

Carol Pounds Wales 

Grace Viard Ward 

Elsie Williams Waterbury 

Mary Rothwell Wattles 

Joan Wiggin 

Elizabeth Valentine Wood 

1952 

Anonymous (1) 

Carolyn Cederholm Allison 

Margaret Boethelt Barratt 

Patricia Wolcott Berger 

Susan Moyer Breed 

Margaret Kind Childs 

Ann Sibley Conway 

Nancy Walker Driscoll 

Barbara Elliott Fargo 

Mary Grace Ward Fleitz 

Ann O’Brien Fleitzer 

Patricia Conzelman Greeley 

Ann Foote Grey 

Anne DeLamater Hansen 

Nancy Dodd Horst 

Tatsue Hozumi 

Janet Ferry Jenney 

Cecily Chandler Kalin 

Margot Herring Kuniholm 

Virginia Bell Libhart 

Martha Brown McGandy 

Olivia Hutchins Meek 

Ann Harvie Ormond 

Jean Ingalls Perkins 

Mary Major Rubel 

Jean Monson Smith 

Nancy Morris Souville 

Marie Dargie Sperry 

Marion Taft Taylor 

Betty Koenig Thomas 

Joanna Smith Virden 

Elisabeth Luckey Whittelsey 

Elizabeth Wood 

Rosemary Fettinger Worth 

1953 

Ruth Flink Ades 

Ellen McMillan Aman 

Patricia Russell Amendola 

Dorothy deVausney Ames 

Margaret Benisch Anderson 

Barbara Johnston Baggesen 

Priscilla Buckingham Banghart 

Joan Sullivan Buchanan 

Joan Halloran Corning 

Ann Carter Craft 

Ruth Shedden Crane 

Katherine Reardon Currier 

Suzanne Terry Curry 

Justine Cavanaugh Donnelly 

Cynthia Cranton Dygert 

Alicia Eager 

Mary Campbell Erdmann 

Natalie Smith Garland 

Elizabeth Dewey Giles 

Patricia Kelly Greichen 

Priscilla Marks Griffith 

Shirley Hamilton 

Jennifer Thorne Hayden 

Margaret Talbot Howe 

Josepha Loskill Jenks 

Ann Bevins Jewett 

Janet Knightly Jones 

Ruth French Kiemle 

Gail Maurath Lyon 

Mary Roberts Mahoney 

Carol Hulbert Maxwell 

Nancy Brown Meagher 

Nancy Oppy Merrifield 

Antoinette Johnson Ogden 

Elizabeth Gerow Peterson 

Mary Holden Pratt 

Thekla Polley Putnam 

26 Fall 2008 

* Deceased


Thank You, 2008 Reunion Classes! 

President of the Alumni Association Board, 

Sandy Christison ’92MS, presenting the 

2008 Reunion Gift check to President Jenkins- 

Scott at the Alumni Association Awards Presentation. 

A HUGE thank-you to all Reunion classes for the 

total Annual Fund Gift of $504,859.24! 

Joyce Allen Rich 

Ruth Angier Salinger 

Jane Palmer Schaefer 

Dorothy Steinberg Shaker 

Ann Emerson Spaulding 

Marjorie Linn Strong 

Sally Williams Tallamy 

Ann Sibley Thomsen 

Sally Karr Torrey 

Joanne Hersey Walker 

Winifred Magee Williams 

Patricia Lea Woodward 

1954 

Betsy Hunter Ambach 

Ginger Mercer Bates 

Beverly Bell Cibbarelli 

Sylvia Tailby Earl 

Nancy Rosenwald Foilb 

Joan Crane Freeman* 

Ruth McKinley Herridge 

Nancy Shapiro Hurwitz 

Frances Tedesco Lathrop 

Elizabeth Wheeler L’Hommedieu 

Margaret DeLuca Loughead 

Persis Luke Loveys 

Eileen O’Connell McCabe 

Caroline Howard McCarty 

Lois Barnett Mirsky 

Johanna West Norton 

Penny Power Odiorne 

Sumie Hamada Onzuka 

Doris Halprin Reiman 

Patricia Andrews Richmond 

Frances Levine Rogovin 

Frances Vail Russell 

Suzanne Hamburger Thurston 

Elsa Weyer Williams 

Virginia Thomas Williams 

Elizabeth Bassett Wolf 

1955 

Diane Codling Bartlett 

Nancy Merry Bergere 

Marilyn Dow Byrne 

Sally Reeves Edmonds 

Bonnie Simon Grossman 

Dorothy Wayman Grudzinski 

Joleen Glidden Ham 

Anne Close Haskell 

Josephine Smith Howard 

Martha McGowan Howard 

Susan Towle Huckman 

Nancy Cerruti Humphreys 

Stella Barnes Johnson 

Joan Butler Kimel 

Joan Nelson Leighton 

Charlotte Cooper Lopoten 

Louise Baldridge Lytle 

Betsey DeWitt Matteson 

Cynthia Weekes Montesi 

Carolyn Giroud Nygren 

Norma Geremia Paliotti 

Joan Walthers Parks 

Stephany Lindquist Rogers 

Kathleen Rooney 

Judith Haskell Rosenberg 

Sarah Lippincott Sakols 

Mary Jane McAuliffe Songer 

Beatrice Clayton Stockwell 

Jayne Haynes Tillotson 

Sylvia Buffinton Tompkins 

Amaryllis Morris Volk 

Katherine Law Walker 

Ann Butler Yos 

1956 

Henriette Pennypacker Binswanger 

Ann Melrose Blauvelt 

Margaret McLean Caywood 

Mary Lou Center 

Paula Boehn Clifford 

Lucy Faulkner Davison 

Mary Bates Duplisea-Palmer 

Evelyn Jenney Eaton 

Susan Grearson Fillmore 

Dorothy Dorfman Goldstick 

Madeleine Browne Hagar-Tierney 

Persis Goodnow Hamilton 

Elizabeth Grimm Hoskins 

Patricia Markle Levy 

Wilma Kinsman Marr 

Elizabeth Specht Mihalaros* 

Ingeborg Buechling Nichols 

Ruth Bailey Papazian 

Mary-Louise Stickles Perkins 

Adeline Bradlee Polese 

Sally Simpson Redston 

Beverly Haley Richter 

Dorinda Hicks Sayre 

Thekla Reese Shackelford 

Susan Waters Shaeffer 

Barbara Silverstein 

Patricia Cotter Smart 

Constance Foote Smithwood 

Judith Rosenthal Tobin 

Frances Streit Tripp 

Julie Bigg Veazey 

Dorothy Weiss 

Mary Suggs Whiteman 

Annette Stevens Wilton 

Sachiko Yamada Yamamoto 

1957 

Beth Atwood* 

Georgia Harwood Blackmore 

Joan Patterson Brown 

Gail Angleman Brusch 

Margaret Meeks Chapman 

Judith Hall Chase 

Anita Stulgis Chouinard 

Virginia Plumer Crook 

Katrina Hoadley DeLude 

Mary Gifford Everett 

Judith Stock Farmer 

Ann Hewes Foden 

Dawna Wight Fowler 

Janice Wright Freelove 

Katrina Buckelmueller Gale 

Mary Bloomer Gulick 

Priscilla Ann Hill Harrison 

Margot Block Haselkorn 

Harriet Weil Hodgson 

Jane Hanna Houck 

Anne Wingle Howard 

Dardana Berry Hoyt 

Deborah Carlson Jacklin 

H. Barbara Knowles Jacobsen 

Maureen Rolfe Kelly 

Sara Sibley Lenhart 

Sonia Loizeaux 

Phoebe Parker McMillan 

Cecily Beal Mills 

Jean Kishida Nishiyama 

Ellen O’Donnell Page 

Mary Stone Phipps 

Susan Hunt Raasch 

Mary Lou Cudhea Reed 

Nancy Weltman Schattner 

Shirley Collins Schwarz-Gutherz 

Francine McNamee Shea 

Janet Spaulding 

Dorothy Donahue Sullivan 

Mary Hartwell Truesdell 

1958 

Judy McMurray Achre 

Nancy Alexander Anderson 

Carole Leclerc Barry 

Judith Littlefield Bateman 

Dorothy Williams Batson 

Sandra Dunham Bowers 

Doris Hood Cameron 

Sandra Meyers Chaiken 

Maureen Murphy Coakley* 

Sally Bennett Cook 

Nancy Hallock Cooper 

Marcia Potter Crocker 

Susan Howland Devey 

Diana McElroy Dieterich 

Eleanor Emerson Dini 

Regina Frankenberger Dubin 

Mary McBride Felton 

Diane Huddish Fink 

Elly Gorsey Forman 

June Hayward Foster 

Patricia Burke Freisen 

Charlotte Gay Frost 

Yumiko Hattori Furuhata 

Patricia Morrissey Goglia 

Carol Moore Graham 

Jean Tulloch Griffith 

Cynthia Hallowell 

Charlotte Pomeroy Hatfield 

Marion Cook Houston 

Sandra MacDonald Ingmanson 

Judith Fain Kanter 

Jena Goldstein Kevelson 

Laura Lehrman 

Arlene Keizer Lovenvirth 

Gretchen Franz Mackey 

Marilyn Contas Magoulias 

Laura Burhoe Maier 

Mary Meeker 

Frances Broomhead Meredith 

Barbara Stumpf Moses* 

Audrey Shulman Nachbar 

Shirley Hotra Neff 

Carolyn Lucas Norris 

Sara Beckwith Novak 

Maralen Moody O’Neil 

Ann Manfuso Paras 

Jane Bowler Pickering 

Julie Russell 

Cynthia King Schueler 

Margaret Weinheimer Sherwin 

Susan Smith 

Carol Yudis Stein 

Elizabeth Sturtz Stern 

Elizabeth Bundy Taft 

Janice Seybolt Theron 

Patricia Dodd Ulmer 

Sara Dunbar Waters 

Carol Stuart Wenmark 

Gail Wheeler 

Jean Cutler Whitham 

Sybil Magid Woodhouse 

1959 

Annette Rogers Barber 

Suzanne Baker Bethke 

Alice Thompson Brew 

Rosalie Bradstreet Bromfield 

Jane Menge Cooke 

Madeleine Gatchell Corson 

Patricia Haas 

Sandra Hall Haffler 

Virginia Gordon Hagan 

Jeanne Wilson Hatch 

Iris Hofmann 

Sally Schwabacher Hottle 

Lynne Grove Ives 

Barbara Hampson Ivey 

Joan Pannier Langley 

Elizabeth Woodward Mack 

Marilyn Proctor MacMahan 

Marion Turnbull Mangels 

Sue Abbot McCord 

Virginia Ludwig McLaughlin 

Mary Runyon Obaidy 

Delleyne Eldridge Osborne 

Patricia vom Lehn Overman 

Elaine Fogel Parks 

Doris Geer Petusky 

Judith Scott Stolp 

Patricia Wise Strauss 

Gail Grew Thomson 

Helen LaMontagne Warmuth 

1960 

Joan Adams 

Joan Gardner Buchanan 

Ellen Cluett Burnham 

Barbara Tutschek Ells 

Gail Gulbranson Frost 

Elizabeth Brown Hall 

Irene Frail Hamm 

Peggy Oliver Hedeman 

Helene Brunelle Hickey 

Susan Rideout Jewett 

Reta Schoonmaker King 

Jane Coulter Langmaid 

Helene Stehlin Lortz 

Linda McSwiney Lynch 

Edith Lermond Menkart 

Margaret Washburne Miller 

Meredith Moody 

Deanne Williams Morse 

Nancy Mullervy Newbrook 

Carol Reed Newsome 

Sara Thompson Orton 

Jean Randlett 

Elizabeth Appel Schaffer 

Virginia Franks Seegel 

Janice Halsted Sussebach 

Ruth Baker Ursul* 

Anne Pelletreau Woodbury 

1961 

Susan Quick Anderson 

Helen Clark 

Eleanor Kushner Dinitz 

Ellen Tague Dwinell 

Mary Jo Severson Fenyn 

Barbara Lukoff Johnson 

Marjorie Wilson Kingston 

Jeannette Kwok 

Judith Johnston Laurens 

Linda Shemwick Lindquist 

Eleanor Snyder Markowitz 

Juliet Miller Moynihan 

Marian Kopp Muir 

Mary Rees Nann 

Catherine Greenacre Robinson 

Barbara Grogins Sallick 

Gail Spivack Sandler 

Sally Cessna Schanck 

Ellen Nickerson Schmidt 

Nancy Gebting Secker 

Carolyn Kingsbury Sherbin 

Jan Smart Stansbury 

Helen Parker Tucker 

Betsy Mark Weiner 

1962 

Daphne Angelis Abodeely 

Joann Seidenfeld Adler 

Judith Parks Anderson 



Thanks for Answering the 

Phonathon Call 

Lindsay had been at Wheelock only a few 

weeks when she volunteered for Phonathon 

— a great chance for her and other students 

to meet alumni “over the wire.” Thanks for 

answering the call and making your donation. 

You make it possible for students like Lindsay 

to be at Wheelock. 

Betsy Berry 

Phoebe Walther Biggs 

Carol Tarr Bolter 

Luette Close Bourne 

Jean Heard Carmichael 

Ruth Weeks Clark 

Jenny Tincher Cleaves 

Barbara Pratt Dancy 

Elizabeth Townsend Dearstyne 

Penelope Petrell English 

Susan Ehrlich Gaynor 

Roberta Weiss Goorno 

Linda Marvin Hastie 

Priscilla Alden Hayes 

Roberta Goodale Kulas 

Patricia Pierce Loring 

Judith Rominger Lutkus 

Anne Sullivan Lyons 

Susan Haley Markee 

Janet Easton Martin 

Alice Greene McCauley 

Diane Stephens Montgomery 

Mary Joanna Ginty Neish 

Judith Sherman Nevins 

Helen Beck Noble 

Marilyn Henkel Pollock 

Betsy Miller Radler 

Sara Kiley Reid 

Laura Sibley Rhodes 

Mary Richardson Rivers 

Jean Barclay Rook 

Mari Porter Seder 

Emily VanderStucken Spencer 

Mary Schubert Stearns 

Judith Gollub Trieff 

Hilly Gillespie van Loon 

Marion MacKay Verdick 

Brenda Richmond Verduin-Dean 

Roberta Loveland Vest 

Mary Ann Baker Wagner 

Priscilla Plant Wing 

Georgia Bradley Zaborowski 

1963 

Linda Dale Anderson 

Judith Hughes Arreola 

Martha Bucknam Brogan 

Susan Memery Bruce 

Lorna Waterhouse Chafe 

Gloria Maravell Clark 

Beth Howenstein Crane 

Veronica Connolly Cronin 

Heather Hughes Dahlberg 

Zelinda Makepeace Douhan 

Yvonne LaBrecque Enders 

Cynthia Jepsen Farquhar 

Carolyn Collins Farrell 

Margaret Fenner 

Charlotte Giovanella Fullam 

Bette Mosher Geci 

Barbara Hamilton Gibson 

Jessie Hennion Gwisdala 

Christine Theander Harper 

Cynthia Banister Hosmer 

Joan Packer Isenberg 

Jane Kuehn Kittredge 

Jan Vary Kutten 

Jacquelyn Taft Lowe 

Susan Cross MacElhiny 

Elizabeth Craft Meuer 

Susan Wise Miller 

Nancy Ware Morrow 

Elizabeth Kellogg Morse 

Paula Corning Newell 

Frances Nichols 

Sally Weatherbee O’Neill 

Beverly Robbins Page 

Lynn Sanchez Paquin 

Sally Pease 

Carolyn Stanton Peirce 

Christine Price Penglase 

Marjorie Sanek Platzker 

Marthanne Uhlinger Pressey 

Anne Little Reiley 

Dorothy Allen Rhodes 

Maria Ryerson 

Lani Tomita Sakoda 

Ellen Sandler 

Carolyn Allen Seaton 

Judith Thompson Seeley 

Elizabeth Robinson Smith 

Lynne Foster Warren 

Alice Parke Watson 

Loraine Nettleton Watson 

Susan Steele Weems 

Gail Rosinoff Weiner 

Laurel Holmes Whitaker 

Helen Mesnick Wilker 

Nancy Preston Wisneskey 

Anne Safirstein Yarvis 

Delores Watt Yeats 

1964 

Virginia Pratt Agar 

Susan Greenleaf Anderson 

Anne Fallon Aubourg 

Judith Reutter Blanton 

Sarah Dewey Blouch 

Kathleen O’Keeffe Capo 

Perrine Colmore 

Jean White Comstock 

Mary Jane Blackburn Cook 

Nancy Ashton Dewey 

Elizabeth McIntyre Doepken 

Diane Abitbol Fogg 

Jeanette Polhemus Glesmann 

Noel Stoodley Gray 

Deborah Niebling Grubbs 

Janet Marshall Haring 

Carole Cooper Harris 

Christina Morris Helm 

Carol Jeffers Hollenberg 

Barbara Hodge Holmes 

Lynn Sanderson Holmes 

Mary Wolf Hurtig 

Kathleen Magee Jaunich 

Phyllis Forbes Kerr 

Eleanor Noble Linton 

Priscilla Nelson Linville 

Jessi MacLeod 

Judy Holmes Marco 

Roberta Gilbert Marianella 

Laura Brown Marshall 

Gladys Tilley Miner 

Suzanne Mullens Morgan 

Sudie Nostrand 

Ann Brown Omohundro 

Barbara Wilson Parks 

Nancy Fowle Purinton 

Rhoda Henkels Pykonen 

Hilda Wright Rhodes 

Carol Eidam Schmottlach 

Ann Meigher Smith 

Mary Ellen Freeman Smith 

Marjorie Blum Walker 

Ann Burgess Wolpers 

1965 

Anne Goepper Aftuck 

Elizabeth Marchant Armstrong 

Barbara Curtis Baker 

Nancy Rosenberg Bazilian 

Judith White Beaver 

Linda Larrabee Blair-Lockwood 

Cynthia Cooper Buschmann 

Anne Bonner Ceccarelli 

Barbara Stevenson Cox 

Joanne Malynoski Dall 

Elsa Chaffee Distelhorst 

Paula Aufsesser Elkind 

Karen Ellsworth 

Sandra Tilton Elmer 

Deirdre Conrad Frank 

Carol Owen Funk 

Elizabeth Smith Gavriel 

Donna Johnson Grinnell 

Kate Young Hewitt 

Dana Seeley Hirth 

Jane Kingman Hudgins 

Sarah Spaulding Jonick 

Darcy Black Keough 

Ellen Towers Knopf 

Susan Kosoff 

May Koh Lam 

Julia Clymer Lloyd 

Abby Howd Macdonald 

Kathleen Wilson Mallet 

Adele Abate Manfredi 

Edwina Burke Marcus 

Trisha Henderson Margeson 

Janne Pontius Mathes 

Hinda Rose Niemeyer 

Mary Barnard O’Connell 

Madelaine Cohen O’Shea 

Page Poinier Sanders 

Libby Walker Schroeder* 

Helen Birdsall Shepherd 

Karen Gold Sokol 

Nancy Tolman Stass 

Nancy Clarke Steinberger 

Elizabeth Earle Stevenson 

Heidi Snow Stowe 

Ruth Tilghman 

Penelope Traver 

Marsha M-Geough Vaughan 

Joan Anderson Watts 

Gwen Lloyd Wirtalla 

1966 

Lynne Wyluda Beasley 

Joan Edwards Bottkol 

Laurie Knowles Carter 

Sarah Carter 

Barbara Walker Collamore 

Sharon Jenks Collinson 

Madeleine Tufts Cormier 

Nancy Wicke Demarest 

Pamela Chesley Dennett 

Barbara Baker Dowd 

Christina Kovacs Durkin 

Genevieve Ebbert 

Lucy Olsen Fischer 

Mary Byrnes Frueauf 

Susan Leeb Fuhrer 

Joanne Moskey Grady 

Thordis Burdett Gulden 

Pamela Carey Haggett 

Martha Somers Henderson 

Nancy Maida Hoffman 

Susan Clark Howard 

Susan McKee Kessler 

Karen Kitfield Koeppl 

Marka Truesdale Larrabee 

Patricia Lewars Lucy 

Margery Conley Mars 

Jane Martin McMackin 

Andrea Price Morse 

Anne Hallowell Newton 

Phoebe O’Mara 

Susan Lodge Peck 

Isota Epes Potter 

Jane Wolcott Ready 

Heather Robinson Reimann 

Marcia Carlson Rintoul 

Ruth Ann Welsh Rooney 

Elizabeth Zwirner Ruggiero 

Katharine duPont Sanger 

Donna Kazanjian Scribner 

Sylvia Thorndike Sheriff 

Marian Harden Simino 

Natalie Palmer Stafford 

Ann Linden Stewart 

Susan Magennis Underwood 

Wendy Stuek Voit 

Elizabeth Marks Voss 

Nancy Clay Webster 

Patricia Wild 

Carole Hayes Williams 

1967 

Elizabeth Edwards Bell 

Ruth Rupkey Bell 

Virginia Stout Burau 

Jane McIntyre Carlisle 

Ingrid Hasskarl Chalufour 

Susan Mitchell Cronk 

Tina Feldman Crosby 

Carol Armstrong Dillon 

Charlotte Gignoux Dwyer 

Donna Pulk Elliott 

Susan Wells Ferrante 

Judith Lambert Foster 

Julia Devereux Glynn 

Barbara Hicks Harting 

Susan Burtch Hyde 

Shyla Leary Irving 

Lucy Schade Jackson 

Donna Johnson 

Linda Moritz Katz 

Sally Desmond Kensel 

Donna Klemka 

Anita Klempner 

Barbara Jenkins Milos 

Heather Kateley Pettengill 

Betsy Simmonds Pollock 

Barbara Taylor Posner 

Jeannette Stone Reynolds 

Beverly Boden Rogers 

Judy Davis Scanlon 

Katharine Lancaster Thompson 

Laura Shapero Thomson 

Margery Peirce Thurber 

Nancy Sullivan Tryzelaar 

Ann Fisher Tuteur 

Carolyn Wright Unger 

Alison Hannan Vaill 

Elizabeth Griswold Vershay 

Martha Walsh 

Sara Wolf 

1968 

Susanne Hall Alford 

Susan Stein Backer 

Louise Phelan Barber 

Jane Carpentier Batchelder 

Sandra Gustavsen Batten 

Bonnie Poole Boulton 

Rosalind Schonberger Brezenoff 


* Deceased


Melanie Waszkiewicz Chadwick 

Keena Dunn Clifford 

Nancy Perry Cornwell 

Phyllis Cross Croce 

Monica Freese Eppinger 

Catherine Scheid Evans 

Sherri Ades Falchuk 

Penelope Ferenbach Franchot 

Francine Gitnick Franke 

Janice Gannon Gamber 

Leslie Smith Gill 

Sally Cissel Greenwood 

Vaughan Cate Grubbs 

Laura Chotkowski Hardy 

Cheryl Hauser 

Susan Terragni Howe 

Bonnie Stinson Hutchinson 

Sarah Jarvis 

Gretchen Burleigh Johnson 

Ellen Hilcoff Kerstein 

Margery Linn Kirsch 

Cynthia Blum Kramer 

Tobie Goldman Levine 

Margaret Merrill Loutrel 

Katherine Sayford Lucibello 

Susan Ordway Lyons 

Ann Knowles MacKay 

Anne Stewart Macpherson 

Kathryn de Sano Mahoney 

Rose Kurkjian Margosian 

The Kresge Challenge Grant 

to Expand Our Community 

and Make Us Stronger 

In April, Wheelock received the wonderful news 

that it was awarded an $800,000 challenge grant 

from the distinguished Kresge Foundation to assist 

in raising the remaining funds necessary to complete 

construction of its striking new Campus Center and 

Student Residence (CCSR). While the CCSR will be a 

fabulous new addition to Wheelock’s campus, to student 

life, and to our on-campus community, the 

Kresge challenge presents a great opportunity for 

Wheelock to engage many more individuals and 

organizations in supporting its mission to improve 

the lives of children and families. 

Deborah Harpending McConnell 

Susan Merritt McIlvaine 

Lynn Grearson McWilliams 

Lynne Brown Moores 

Lou Ann Colonnese Mulcahy 

Lani Kung Paone 

Anne Perkins 

Faith Schultz Perkins 

Herrika Williams Poor 

Kathleen Curcio Riolo 

Susan Castleton Ryan 

Marlene Shama 

Cynthia Carpenter Sheehan 

Marjorie Moss Shekarchi 

Janice McLean Simpson 

Sally Clark Sloop 

Noel Gignoux Spevacek 

Jacquelyn Pearsall Stack 

Susan Webb Tregay 

Diana Chang Van Houtum 

Judith Velho-Baker 

Rosemary Douglass Vena 

Candace Erickson Weiler 

Candace Aiken Wilson 

Jane Desisto Worthley 

Carlotta Dyer Zilliax 

Susan Ackerman Zwick 

1969 

Linda Minker Abramson 

Patricia Coughlin Adams 

Sara Burns Adams 

Mary Haffey Anderson 

V. Bonnie Blick Benedict 

Janice Bevan 

Cheri Breeman 

Susan Kilbourn Burkhard 

Deborah Melia Clark 

Patricia Cook 

Molly Day 

Hope Dean 

Constance Marsden Fratar 

Nancy Grant 

Daphne Hunsaker Hall 

Judith Hall 

Marjorie Reid Hampson 

Suzanne Hayden 

Nancy Kelly Hershey 

Jane Luke Hill 

Gay White Hitchcock 

Cynthia Lockett Hooks 

Roberta Schwartz Klopfer 

Robin Kuhn 

Priscilla Phelan Lentowski 

Mary Pescatello Lewis 

Kathryn Scanlon McEldowney 

Catherine Wells Milton 

Margrete Miner 

Constance Goehring Mitchell 

Martha-Reed Ennis Murphy 

Nancy Stewart Nadig 

Linda Bullock Owens 

Dell Redington 

Elizabeth Webster Saba 

Elaine Isserlis Sheftel 

Margaret Snyder 

Rita Sladen Sosa 

Merrill Press Witty 

Linda Gordon Wurzel 

1970 

Leslie Walters Bohannon 

Susan Costello Bryant 

Susan Barrett Butler 

Jill Hastings Cane 

Mary Ann Allen Cowherd 

Daphne Voyatzis Damplo 

Suzanne Moon Dykhuizen 

Terry Davidow Epstein 

Maureen Heisler Garber 

Barrie Miller Gollinger 

Renee Fox Gould 

Alison Carr Harris 

Jane Kellogg 

Julie Sinclair Kingsley 

Suzanne Salter Krautmann 

Susan Kelley Markowski 

Toby Congleton Milner 

Deborah Weinberg Mizrahi 

Jan Frost Russell 

Mary Curtis Skelton 

Kluane Baier Snyder 

Elizabeth Steele 

Jermain Mueller Steiner 

Susan Ormsby Stoehr 

Mary Barber Stone 

Martha Steele Strachan 

Dona Fusselmann Vaccaro 

Deborah Glickman Waldman 

Eloise Dale Welz 

Priscilla Hussey Worrall 

1971 

Phoebe Hemenway Armstrong 

Belinda Ramizi Bendak 

Karen Srulowitz Berman 

Laura Bewick Brines 

Morgan Shannon Butler 

Christine Chase 

Nancy Liberman Cohen 

Kathleen Kiniry Cookson 

Margery Feinburg Cooper 

Phyllis Jew Danko 

Cynthia Knowles Denault 

Carolyn Morrill Follmer 

Felice Shapiro Friedman 

Pamela Wright Grossman 

Beverly Janson Hammond 

Elizabeth Hirsch 

Priscilla Jeffery 

Betsey Josselyn 

Sheryl Berman Lovit 

Ruth Hughes McGee 

Carolyn Bail Miller 

Betty Bain Pearsall 

Patricia Swiriduk Perry 

Geraldine Robinson 

Nancy Millican Rogers 

Donna Van Stone Schmidt 

Renae Ross Starker 

Patricia O’Shea Vonnegut 

Ruth Steinhausen Wachterman 

Vicki Coorssen Whalen 

Sylvia Birnbaum Yasner 

1972 

Lynn Geronemus Bigelman 

Priscilla Resevic Cosgrove 

Margaret Taylor DeAgazio 

Deborah Foster DeMarco 

Barbara Tarr Drauschke 

Alice Liberman Eberhardt 

Priscilla Hedge Evilsizer 

Susan Whiting Finan 

Alexena Thun Frazee 

Cynthia Johnson GaNun 

Mary Barbour Hatvany 

Janice Pearson Hildreth 

Louisa Miller Hoar 

Ann Jackson 

Helena Marshall Keiser 

Linda Carlson Kiley 

Ronni Zuckerman Kirsch 

Susan Knight 

Jill Rosing Landel 

Elizabeth Hile Lindsay 

Priscilla Wold Longfield 

Beverly Tarr Mattatall 

Marilyn Meub 

Vicki Caplan Milstein 

Susan Rowe Morison 

Barbara Zimmermann Murphy 

Barbara Pinto Napoleone 

Kathryn Worrell Newton 

Anne Bagley Nielsen 

Wendy Dubins Perlmutter 

Karen Lundquist Peterson 

Mary Dickerson Pierson 

Pamela Goering Pierson 

Carol Myers Pressman 

Kimberly Cross Reichert 

Sharon Flavell Rickard 

Sarah Lundrigan Ross 

Diane Palmer Soderland 

Marjorie Taft 

Shirley Meier Vautin 

Gayle Ziegler Vonasek 

Nancy McClement Waage 

1973 

Christine Appert 

Sandra Birdsall Atteberry 

Andrea Newmark Baker 

Lynn Emerson Brownell 

Laurie Paul Brustlin 

Joyce Pettoruto Butler 

Jeannette Byers 

Ginny Holmes Carroll 

Susan Weinstock Cobin 

Nancy Cottrill 

Deborah D’Amico 

Karen Drazen 

Susan Eblen 

Faith Hesselgrave Ferguson 

Janet Field 

Lynne Siegal Fox 

Marilyn Levick Fyfe 

Jean Burrill Gailun 

Pamela Pappas Goode 

Dana Brewer Hahn 

Diane Ellicott Kwiatek 

Jill Lithwick Lieberman 

Ann Bradford Ligums 

Regina Frisch Lobree 

Elizabeth Clarke Magruder 

Wendy Millett Manninen 

Amanda Griggs Miles 

Ellen Luckenbach Moomaw 

Diane Yeterian Moore 

Diana Stiehl Palmer 



Priscilla Cote Paquette 

Abby Squires Perelman 

Carol Bigelow Riggs 

Jane Hertig Roberts 

Sally Bechert Robinson 

Susan Mahoney Segar 

Mildred Shelton 

Susan Bruml Simon 

Joyce Snowden 

Cathy Bill Steer 

Cynthia Coggeshall Trask 

Marion Brigham Williams 

1974 

Margot Zabin Abrams 

Karyn Brotman 

Deborah Epstein Bunker 

Melanie Carney 

Paula Davison 

Rebecca Smith Denevan 

Kay Eng 

Nancy Lamb Handler 

Martha Balch Hubbell 

Laurel Lassen Jonas 

Kathleen Hughes Joyce 

Rebecca Kaminsky 

Debra Crossman Kwiatek 

Linda Look 

Alice Stasio Macfarland 

Mary Ellen Piantedosi Margosian 

Wanda Arrington Meekins 

Julie Moffatt 

Betsy Kinney Morgan 

Dana Nelson 

Janet Leonard O’Loughlin 

Susan Brown Pendlebury 

Jill Schunick Putnam 

Linda Zaniewski Rosado 

Diane Rothauser 

Sandra Smith 

Laurel Beach Tyrrell 

Dayl Walker 

Karen Banfield Waybright 

1975 

Donna Hansen Bailey 

Carol Bryce Bibeau 

Harriet Blanchard 

Carol Boisen 

Catherine Bose 

Tootie Neale Brodlieb 

Cathie Brown 

Kathryn Spano Buley 

Julia Challinor 

Dorothy Cresswell 

Joanna Miles Griffith 

Allena Tabb Harper 

Kathleen McCooey Hering 

Patricia Gardiner Hill 

Ray Eisenstadt Immerman 

Carol White Jones 

Rachel Henowitz Levine 

Helen Hymerling Liberatore 

Suzanne Smith MacEwan 

Audrey Liberman Matson 

Susan Curry Michaud 

Sue Crispen Miller 

Helen Burke Montague 

Mila Moschella 

Cheryl Adami Phillips 

Joseph Richards 

Judith Rosenbaum 

Barbara Stevens Rowe 

Patricia Gontrum Sare 

Kathy Witt Sturges 

Amy Svirsky 

Nancy Drummond Tindal 

Mary Ainslie Tracy 

Barbara Carnright Tyng 

Patricia Ward 

Sara Wragge 

1976 

Louisa Lothrop Affleck 

Joan Lowd Ames 

Terry Goldberg Bromfield 

Cheryl Zalk Chandler 

Brenda Rose Chaney 

Marilyn Croteau 

Jane Single DeLeo 

Lisa Milanese Evans 

Carolee Fucigna 

Gayle Griswold Goldberg 

Nadine Heim 

Marianne Beckman Henderson 

Tracy Robertson Howard 

Brita Josephson 

Melinda Kaiser 

Amy Kitzen 

Madeline Berry Lasley 

Lucy Rand MacDonald 

Mary Jo Keany Mason 

Susan Conger McCarthy 

Patricia McGowan McManus 

Marian Miller 

Sarah Davisson Moore 

Constance Bell Moser 

Daria Lyons O’Connor 

Dale Zabriskie Pomerantz 

Sherri Perk Reider 

Nora Ray Richards 

Kathy Richter-Sand 

Patricia Grief Sammataro 

Patricia Zimmy Schneider 

Geraldine Small 

Marghretta Gilbane Smithers 

Wafa Bissar Sturdivant 

Dolores Testa 

Diane Gould Thompson 

Diana Spence Uehlein 

Sharon Welch 

1977 

Mary Grant Altshuler 

Randy Altshuler 

Joann Royal Balboni 

Ellen Broderick 

Judith Birofka Brown 

Susan Trementozzi Charbonneau 

Victoria Ash Christian 

Louise Close 

Nancy Oberlin Dzomba 

Sarah Mann Hanscom 

Andree Howard 

Timothy Howland 

Jill Schoenfeld Ikens 

Kathryn Morton Ivory 

Elena James 

Deborah Danenberg Krol 

Jacqueline Lampert* 

Susan Colicchio Littleton 

Susan Grause LoPresto 

Margaret McCarthy 

Janet Wood Menser 

Paula McAdams Moloney 

Dale Sillan Morris 

Peter Rawitsch 

Cherry Whitaker Reiniger 

Marcia Callahan Slatkin 

Sheila Stewart 

Wendy Carter Taylor 

Cynthia Lauriat Vaughan 

Susan Cook Vaughn 

Tracy Weinberg 

Susan West 

Audrey Zabin 

1978 

Steven Aveson 

Susan Boyce-Cormier 

Susan Rosen Faden 

Lora Anderson Goldman 

Mary Deegan Hare 

Susan Flaherty King 

Karen Nuzzo 

Pamela Hopkins Peckinpaugh 

Donna Craveiro Sawyer 

Carlile Lowery Schneider 

Carol Sullivan-Hanley 

Nancy Martinelli Waiculonis 

Janet Welz-Kavanagh 

Karen Musser Whitla 

Arlene Botelho Williams 

1979 

Sherrill Holland Batson 

Brenda Stone Clover 

Maura Houlihan German 

Kristine Sheathelm Gerson 

Laura Elliott Jernigan 

Donna LaRoche 

Rebecca Sakshaug Pagano 

Rosemary Rehm-Schantz 

Anna Saladino Ricardo 

Cornelia Conyngham Romanowski 

Claudia Barnett Scott 

Terri Weisberg Smith 

Elizabeth Plourde Steinkamp 

Leslie Finlay Sullivan 

Molly Thompson 

Elizabeth Hanson Walters 

Claire White 

1980 

Lisa McCabe Biagetti 

Holly McAlpine Dulac 

Jane Aldrich Furr 

Robin Gardner 

Heather Rodts Garland 

Cynthia Garvin 

Jeanne Clark Giles 

Kathleen Formica Harris 

Laureen Dillon Hart 

Bobbie Van Suetendael Helbig 

Jane Henshaw Kinkead 

Theresa Flaherty McCarthy 

Mary Oliver McKechnie 

Margaret Meath 

Karin Patton 

Edward Schantz 

Patricia Barone Sokoly 

Jane Tuttle Stimson 

Emilie Richardson Temeles 

Elizabeth Heger Wright 

Conference Support — 

Third Annual Community Dialogue 

on Early Education and Care 

Those who support Wheelock conferences help 

the College bring some of the best scholars and 

practitioners together to work on the most pressing 

issues facing children and families today. Wheelock’s 

co-sponsors for its Third Annual Community Dialogue 

on Early Education and Care: New Initiatives, New 

Realities were the Massachusetts Association for 

Early Childhood Teacher Educators, the Nellie 

Mae Foundation, the Bessie Tartt Wilson 

Foundation, the Schott Foundation for Public 

Education, and the United Way of Massachusetts 

Bay and Merrimack Valley. We thank them 

for their commitment to the families and children of 

Massachusetts and to our dedicated early childhood 

educators and advocates. 

1981 

Linda Lievi Abdu 

Carolyn Phelps Dent 

Tracy Foilb 

Bernadine Herbert Gittens 

Diana Hamilton-Rousseau 

Janine Hart-Hueber 

Nora Lerdau Howley 

Sarah Bowman Merry 

Marion Ferguson Newton 

Alexis Foster Reed 

Cynthia Dill Rosenthal 

Colleen Miller Rumsey 

Catherine Barry Smith 

Sara Dugan Springmeyer 

Anne Marie Bergeron Tavares 

1982 

Susan O’Halloran Constable 

Kathleen Mello Friedrichsen 

Linda Abbey Gent 

Catherine Ley Lawler 

Sally Burnett Marr 

Karen Mutch-Jones 

Erika Fischer Oranges 

Barbara Madison Ripps 

Mari Dalton Walkowicz 

Lisa Nord Zack 

1983 

Karen Corcoran Birner 

Zoraida Correia Bohn 

Maria Sugalski Carpenter 

Lisa Jurman Cedergren 

Evelina Ecker 

Jennifer Estabrook 

Lauren Wartenberg Finkle 

Carol Rubin Fishman 

Gail Rothstein Forstater 

Sara Grande Gavens 

Jane Donovan Huzar 

Pamela Lee Kania 

Laurel Massey Leibowitz 

Mary Sienkiewicz Minalga 

Lora Lopes Nielsen 

Carrie Sobel Rubin 

Marcia Gibbons Turner 

Nancy Cutler Ward 

Claudia Tillis Weger 

Andrea Ades Woolner 

Deborah Wurgler 

1984 

Monica Trussell Belkin 

Katherine Bliss 

Lee Block 

Joan Cycenas 

Lynn Pennacchini Dion 


* Deceased


Nancy Kurcias Lowenkron 

Melanie Levesque Madden 

Jackie Johnson Markley 

Martha McNulty 

Patricia Dowell Merrill 

Doreen McKiernan Miller 

Cynthia Gibb O’Leary 

Cecilia Tatem Small 

Elizabeth Stobart 

Susan Potter Sweeney 

Pamela Reid Towers 

Jacqueline Trudel 

Jody Mount Vorenberg 

Kathryn Welsh Wilcox 

1985 

Linda Edwards Beal 

Elizabeth Fixx Gumina 

Nora Broughton Jestus 

JoAnn Chambers Meehan 

Patricia Norton 

Kimberly Rice Thompson 

Stephanie Poly Zapatka 

1986 

Anne Russell Cabral 

Margaret Sturges McDermott 

Karen McGuinness-St. Martin 

Marlene Ross 

Julie Simon 

1987 

Lisa Blake Carstoiu 

Laura DeNucci Crosby 

Kathleen Hurley DeVarennes 

Wendy MacPhetres Hermance 

Katherine Grabner McDonough 

Jamie Jaskiewicz Pociask 

Holly Hastings Socolosky 

Elisabeth Hubbard VanDerMaelen 

Brenda Richards White 

Luanne Peters Wilson 

1988 

Rebecca Johnson Alexander 

Helene Dunkerley Bettencourt 

Lori Adamo Brothers 

Lynne Harris Brownfield 

Claudette DeGagne Dennis 

Virginia Ernst 

Christine Briggs Genannt 

Christine Schuman Kenny 

Elizabeth Malkin 

Jennie Nelson Marshall 

Jill Postma Martin 

Deborah Nevins-Geswell 

Carol-Ann McCusker Petruccelli 

Anne Gomez Upson 

Arlene Cromwell Vincent 

1989 

Laura Kramer MacMillan 

Karen Matheny 

Rebecca Lloyd Narvaez 

Maureen Griffin Reen 

Brian Scheff 

Nadine Snyder 

1990 

Karen Flowers Cagan 

Megan Ward Eriksen 

Michelle Pine Lemme 

Kimberly Oliver 

Eleanor Cannon Smith 

Maria Puente Walker 

Lisa Wojtowicz Wood 

1991 

Rebekah Engel Elmore 

Maria Maffeo 

Meredith McArdle 

1992 

Rebecca Milke Barnett 

Patricia Hyde 

Laura Mahon Garand 

Karen Delaney O’Neil 

Leslie Hacker Overbye 

Amy Rheault-Heafield 

Heather Bogli Zilora 

1993 

Golden Bryant 

Patricia Bys Carando 

Deborah Cooper Crane 

Elizabeth Bigham Dilts 

Sara Hosmer 

Nina Mortensen LaPlante 

Cara Meade-Martin 

Brenda Noel 

Wanda Yeomans Patterson 

Rochelle Perry-Craft 

Bonnie Hannibal Reed 

Renee Minotti Rhoads 

Elizabeth Goldentyer Roberts 

Leandra Poliquin Sargent 

Gayle Critikos Saxonis 

Kristen Quinn Shorey 

Amy Hambleton Signore 

Cheri Vercellone Smith 

Hilary Hoffman Sowers 

Karin Blumberg Taylor 

Mary Vardaro 

Tara Daniels Wider 

Mary Kirrane Worster 

1994 

Lynne Harmon Aloisi 

Alex Campbell 

Vivian Carr 

Kristin Wagner Matzonkai 

Kyla McSweeney 

Jennifer Schriver 

1995 

Robin Melesko Toomey 

1996 

Joel Ludington 

1997 

Melissa Carnabuci 

Lesley Coughlin 

Julie Hess Croshere 

Jenny Fogel Miller 

Micaela Hall 

Elizabeth Rackliffe 

1998 

Danielle Abel 

Anita Anderson 

Christine Barry Beaulieu 

Jessica Berry 

Nicolette de Boer 

Teresa Doughty 

Christina Stiber Dwire 

Mary Falcone-Farrell 

Margaret McCorkle 

Sally Kokernak Millwood 

Tammy Myers 

Tonya Clawson Urquizo 

Stacy Hogan Watts 

1999 

Catherine Marciello 

Katherine McKibbens 

2001 

Holly Evans 

Sara Levy 

2002 

Melissa Bachetti 

Lisa Goldman Henriques 

2003 

Stephany Melton 

2004 

Colleen Pierce Brown 

Jessica Craw 

Kiley Noonan 

Kristen Johnson Parsons 

Graduate 

Degree Donors 

1955 

Louise Butts 

Elizabeth McHenry 

1956 

Velma McEvoy Lindberg 

1957 

Sachiko Yamada Yamamoto 

1960 

Barbara Mead Anthony 

Susan Hunt Raasch 

1962 

Virginia Gleason Crocker 

Barbara Eberman Fisher 

Deborah Carlson Jacklin 

Dorothy Ulf Mayer 

Barbara Sturgis 

1963 

Natalie Bigelow Barlow 

Sally Nichols McGucken 

Katherine Lanning Winters 

1964 

Ellen Smith 

1965 

Lucy Faulkner Davison 

Susan Vetter Shoff 

Georgia Bradley Zaborowski 

1966 

Carol Liu King 

1967 

Judith Klubock Medalia 

Paula Corning Newell 

Carol Stuart Wenmark 

1968 

Peter Abuisi 

Lorian Brown 

Alice Turner Elliott 

Barbara Shafran Greenglass 

Joan Packer Isenberg 

Louise Brown Johnson 

Kathryn Gilliam Morgenthau 

Madelyn Krest Nash 

Linda Fuller Wolk 

1969 

Anonymous (1) 

Sharon Sabo Bilanin* 

Joann Bush 

Shirley Yett Chodin 

Elizabeth Coates 

Diane Blumsack Korelitz 

Marian Wylie Krummel 

Diane Levin 

Jane Steele Milchen 

Karen Tilbor 

1970 

Karen Belleau 

Barbara Walker Collamore 

Katherine Reardon Currier 

Signe Burk Ferguson 

Julia Devereux Glynn 

Ruth Harlow 

Martin Lerman 


Judith Jones Orlandi 

Anne Witte Stribling 

Deborah Brown Tifft 

Judith Schwarz Weinstock 

1971 

Susan Eisenhart Alexander 

Katherine Condit Barone 

Jeanne Steinberger Breinlinger 

Janet Osborn Davis 

Sarah Leach Jackal 

Susan London Killip 

Sharry Hofer Langdale 

Judith Harrell Prymak 

Betsye Petersen Sargent 

James Wood 

1972 

Sandra Tavares Augustinho 

Susan Fife Davis 

Paula Curci Marcello 

Constance Stampler Rabinovitz 

Marlene Shama 

Marjorie Spielman 

Martha Stearns 

1973 

Louisa Lehmann Birch 

Alice Wang Chen 

Kathryn Smith Conrad 

Judith Fleischman 

Renee Fox Gould 

Jean Healey 

Margaret Neville Holmes 

Judith Hawkins Johnson 

Sara Avery Kelley 

Joanna Phinney 

Susan Castleton Ryan 

Susan Sanborn Twombly 

1974 

Constance Gresser 

Harris Hochberg 

Harriet Foss Koch 

Mary Baker McConnell 

Sally Pease 

Steven Silvestri 

Judith Poley Walker 

1975 

Beth Reiter Blanchard 

Zelinda Makepeace Douhan 

Carol Dunkel Freidinger 

Nancy Fuller 

Dody Phinny Gates 

Dorothy Gorenflo 

Nicholas Haddad 

Marilyn Idyll Hamly 

Virginia Caldbeck Hogan 

Susan Clark Howard 

Susan Kosoff 

Robert McCorkle 

Marjorie Parker Mitchell 

Barbara Zimmermann Murphy 

Marjorie Moss Shekarchi 

Hildred Dodge Simons 

Deborah Imri Tully 

Wendy Warnecke 

Cynthia Mahler White 

1976 

Diane Taran Baker 

Michelle Dames Denniston 

Bess Emanuel 

Marilyn Grimes Fraktman 

Joanne Moskey Grady 

Judith Flynn Haskell 

Holly Horton 

Ai-Ling Louie 

John Magnani 

Sally Simpson Redston 

Virginia Beth Sauer 

Judith Scott Stolp 

Lois Strother 

Ann Wanetik 

1977 

Maureen Riley Acorn 

Maureen Rooney Brentrup 

Joyce Calogero 

Lorraine Damaduk Parmelee 

Ramona Patterson 

Alfreda Piecuch 

Judith Potter 

Susan Raymo 

Linda Stoller 

1978 

Linda Minker Abramson 

Sharon Jackson Clark 

Kim Paddison Dockery 

Annie Hale 

Ann Jackson 

Marie Langdon 

Wendy McLeish 

Diane Cassella Ohanesian 

Dell Redington 

Geraldine Robinson 

Margaret Morgan Sutphin 

Mary Beth Claus Tobin 

Gayle Ziegler Vonasek 

1979 

Susan Blandy 

Janet Hermsmeier Bossange 


Jean Gardner Cole 



$1 Million Classic Upward Bound TRIO Grant 

for Teacher Bound 

Afour-year $1 million Classic Upward Bound TRIO grant to Wheelock is 

contributing to the College’s urban education initiative and its goal to 

recruit Boston Public School students to become teachers in urban schools. 

Teacher Bound at Wheelock is the only Upward Bound program in the country 

that is funded to serve as a teacher development program. It will provide early 

outreach, encouragement, and support to 50 students from Boston high schools, 

opening doors to higher education as well as to the teaching profession. 

Deborah D’Amico 

Lisa Diamant 

Andrea Doane 

Paula Shapiro Gopin 

Kathryn Parsons Liebowitz 

Dorothy Lifka 

Martha Ludwick Litle 

Mary Mitchell 

Mildred Paden 

Janne Ritzenberg Piper 

Gale Westcott Rome 

Carlile Lowery Schneider 

Virginia Franks Seegel 

Kathy Simons 

Joanne Frank Suna 

David Thomas-Train 

1980 

Betty Beach 

Liane Beier 

Nancy Bigelow 

Elizabeth Culick Bowman 

Ellen Foley 

Elizabeth Neavitt Frank 

Jone LaBombard 

Michael McCormick 

Jolene Christoff Pearson 

Cheryl Adami Phillips 

Anne Stair Rosenbloom 

Barbara Silverstein 

Phyllis Haffenreffer Stetson 

Martha Walsh 

1981 

Louise Allen Hammond 

Sandra Heidemann 

Anne-Marie Rodrigues 

Diane Rothauser 

Nancy Wild 

1982 

Barbara Ryan Devens 

Beth Cederberg Guertin 

Ellen Henri 

Jean McIntyre Hodgkins 

Patricia Hertel Kemp 

Laura Knight 

Sandra Barreiro Ledvina 

Donna Martin 

Maria-Matilde Pieters-Gray 

Diane Pucci 

Susan Selya Rosen 

Christina Larson Sabella 

1983 

Christine Hudson Abrams 

Roberta Cox Cornish 

Susan Wells Ferrante 

Darlene Howland 

Mary Kloppenberg 

Patricia McCoy 

Nancy Pettitt 

Nancy Sullivan Tryzelaar 

Joan Anderson Watts 

1984 

Elinor Worley Beatty 

Pamela Carey Haggett 

Christine Hammond 

Peggy Kociubes 

Sally Mazur 

Susan Conger McCarthy 

Ann Pallies-Card 

Jill Schunick Putnam 

Phyllis Springer 

Joanne Fejt Trumbull 

Claire White 

1985 

Donna Hansen Bailey 

Laurel Waiksnoris Bongiorno 

Mary D’Addario 

Jennifer Estabrook 

Mary Garvey Gronski 

Lucy Rand MacDonald 

Benjamin Mardell 

Elizabeth Merrill 

1986 

Cynthia Nelson Donahue 

Brina Einstein 

Patricia McGowan McManus 

Susan Montrone-Cobleigh 

Carol Staedeli Murphy 

1987 

Giovonne Calenda 

Lucy Matson Hudson 

Cynthia Cole Lawrence 

Michael Pearl 

Linda Russell 

Karen Sturges 

Silvana Vollero 

1988 

Rosaly Aiello 

Maureen Donovan-Kelly 

Carolyn Drucker 

Suzanne Harkness-Wood 

Marie Peirent 

Adelaide Duffy Queeney 

Lori Kayser Selby 

Barbara Wilson 

Susan Wolff 

1989 

Katherine Bliss 

Meg Campbell 

Cheryl Fertig 

Christine Giddings 

Emily Adcock Hayne 

Sytske Humphrey 

Jill Kelber Leibowitz 

Donna Lomp-Bigony 

Russell McNiven-Grossman 

Marlene Ross 

Margaret Franck Sparks 

Candace Erickson Weiler 

1990 

Jean Bayless-Albrecht 

Patricia Conzelman Greeley 

Marie Morrison 

Susan Tussing 

Patricia O’Shea Vonnegut 

1991 

Eleanor Almond 

Sally Butler 

Margaret Donahue 

Nancy Fredericks 

Kaori Hattori De Panepinto 

Sharon Howard 

Michelle Pine Lemme 

Meredith Huxtable MacNeill 

Christine Kyriakakos Martin 

Mary Jo Keany Mason 

Barbara Peros 

Nora Ray Richards 

Ruthann Sneider 

Phyllis Wendorff 

1992 

Patricia Abel 

Cheryl Zalk Chandler 

Maura Embler 

Robin Hewitt Jones 

Carol Derby Kuo 

Laura Long 

Jessi MacLeod 

Ted Scheu 

Thu-Hang Tran 

1993 

Karen Borchert 

Elizabeth de Forest 

Diane DiMaina 

Jane Aldrich Furr 

Joanne Gannon 

Deborah Greenwood 

Deborah Gilmore Hartline 

Andrea Hippert 

Patricia Hnatiuk 

Susan Ludden 

Robyn Geogan Noble 

Betsy Nordell 

Nancy Stillson 

Vivian Swoboda 

1994 

John Bay 

Patricia Beggy 

Joanne Belanger 

Lisa Davis 

Susan DeLuca 

Mary Faraci 

Sarah Hammerness 

Jennifer Wieland Knowles 

Pamela Miles 

Juliet Nagle 

Rochelle Perry-Craft 

Diana Spence Uehlein 

Andrea Weaver 

1995 

Denise Burke 

Carolyn Cohen Corliss 

Susan DeAngelis 

Christine Briggs Genannt 

Lynn Policano Howard 

Linda Burns Jones 

Ellen Hilcoff Kerstein 

Suzanne Taylor King 

Maria Maffeo 

Jennifer Matteson 

Evemarie Brosnihan McNeil 

Sylvia Mency 

Carolyn Tobey 

Alison Hannan Vaill 

1996 

Kristen Langdon Cohen 

Laurie Conrad 

Claudia Davidoff 

Margaret Taylor DeAgazio 

Kathryn Jones 

Ann O’Hara 

Eloise Orsini 

Heather Peach 

Carol Potier 

Sylvia Micka Smith 

Rebecca Merrill Thompson 


* Deceased


1997 

Lynne Harmon Aloisi 

Meryl Marcus Alpert 

Alex Campbell 

Suzanne Gould Corbett 

Tracy Foilb 

Jessie Hale 

Kyla McSweeney 

Amy Lieberman Melisi 

Tammar Merav 

Debra Smith 

Jennifer Leary Stratton 

Suzanne Wildman 

1998 

Donna Bent 

Lisa Blake Carstoiu 

Susan Hegarty 

Christina Morris Helm 

Lorgia Henriquez-Melendez 

Margaret Mullen Hurder 

1999 

Alison Subin Belcher 

Suzanne Marchand Cooney 

Sharon Febo 

Beverly Feeney 

Paul Hokama 

Maureen Jutras 

Rachel Scheff 

2000 

Kellie Donahue 

Lissa Fernandez 

Elisabeth Gray 

2001 


Nancy Connolly 

Kimberly Delaney 

Nora Galvin 

2002 

Esme DeVault 

Cynthia Doherty 

Jill Harrison 

Yue-Li Lim 

Katherine McKibbens 

Michael Nappo 

2003 

Anna Watkins Schlieman 

2004 

Teresa Doughty 

Yael Lenkinski 

Catherine Marciello 

Bette Renoni 

2005 

Colleen Pierce Brown 


Maria Sugalski Carpenter 

Parents 

Margaret Andrews 

Mr. and Mrs. George Bernazani 

Mr. and Mrs. Albert Creighton 

Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Donovan 

Mr. and Mrs. John D. Link 

Gary Melton 

Mr. and Mrs. Allan L. Schwartz 

Faculty/Staff 

Mike Akillian 

Nina Aronoff 

Lenette Azzi-Lessing 

Linda A. Banks-Santilli ‘85 

John Bay ‘94MS 

Diana B. Beaudoin 

Joan Bergstrom 


Stephanie Cox Suarez 

Catherine Donahue 

Jose C. Ferreira 

Marcia M. Folsom 

Ellie Friedland 

Gregory Gomez 

Marjorie Hall 

Maya Honda 

Jackie Jenkins-Scott 

Albie Johnson 

Joeritta Jones de Almeida 

Susan Kosoff ‘65/’75MS 

Diane Levin ‘69MS 

Anne Marie Martorana 

Donna McKibbens 

Kyla McSweeney ‘94/’97MS 


Tracey Mullane 

Barbara Rosenquest 

Stefi Rubin 


Roy Schifilliti 

Joyce Hope Scott 

Hope Haslam Straughan 

Valerie Thornhill-Hudson 

Claire White ‘79/’84MS 

Lee Whitfield 

Patricia Willott 

Jeff Winokur 

Karen Worth 

Friends 

Anonymous (2) 

Donna J. Amato 

Karen Anderson 

Marjorie Bakken 

Robert P. Bigelow 

Marjorie Boudreau and Family 

Peter Buhl 

Alison L. Chan 

Kai Yuen Chan 

Anita L. Chow 

Ann E. Christmann 

Mr. and Mrs. William H. Christmann 

Huan-Hua Chye 

Marilyn Cole 

James P. Comer 

Nancy H. Crosby 

Elizabeth Cugini 

Dorothy Derick 

Barbara Eskridge 

Elizabeth Ferrara 

Barbara J. Feyler 

Janet Feyler 

Suzanne Fiske 

Carol Forgette 

Fred and Edwen Goldstein 

Paul S. Grogan 

Arthur Hennessey 

Patricia J. Igoe 

Frances C. Ingram 

Stephen Laffey 

John Lam 

Kai Biu Lam 

C. C. Lee 

Freda Lehrer 

Pamela Long 


Barbara S. Longfellow 

Herbert C. MacKinnon 



Lois McInerney 

Jack Meyer 

Ann Moritz 

Karen Nassauer 

Charlotte W. Neinas 

Suzanne Newton 

Nancy Olins 

Elizabeth Parrillo 

Nancy Pelletier 

Carol J. Poliziani 

Peter Tin-Yau Poon 

Norman B. Robbins 

Jean C. Robey 

Margaret Roque 


Beverly Sealey 

Suzanne Silva 

Sau-Fong Siu and Yum-Tong Siu 

Barbara J. Smith 

Yan Kok So 

Walter Swap 

Donald Van Cleef 

Seth H. Washburn 

David C. Weinstein 

Julia Whiteside de Vos 

Richard Williams 

The Honorable Mark L. Wolf 

C.S. Wong 

Lai King Wong 

Sharon Wulforst 

Government Grants 2007-2008 

Wheelock’s Math/Science Initiative is a fundraising priority of the College 

that is building on a major NASA grant of $500,000 made in 2006. 

Last year, Wheelock received three gifts from the U.S. Department of Education 

Science Program ($200,436), the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative 

($150,000), and the Boston University STEM Partnership ($60,000), totaling 

over $400,000. 

A Department of Education Upward Bound grant of $1.2 million, a Massachusetts 

Board of Higher Education Teacher Quality grant of $275,000, and a 

Massachusetts Development grant of $150,000 added more than $1.6 million in 

government grants to resources supporting Wheelock’s education initiatives. 



Wheelock Family Theatre Donors 

The Wheelock Family Theatre (WFT) would like to thank all 

those who made contributions in fiscal year 2008. It is 

through the generous support of friends that the WFT can continue 

to create critically acclaimed productions for families and educational 

programs for children. 

Wheelock Family Theatre 

Professional, affordable theater for all generations! 

his past year I had the privilege of participating in professional theater 

“T on Broadway. I originated the role of Jane Banks in the new musical 

Mary Poppins. While I was away, I found that there was no difference 

between Broadway and Wheelock. Just like any Broadway show, Wheelock 

Family Theatre has professional costumes, lighting, set design, a great 

production staff that amazes me every time, and the most talented cast 

that treats each other with kindness and respect. I know how lucky I am to 

be able to return home and still have the opportunity to participate in professional 

theater with people I love and in my own backyard.” 

— Katherine Leigh Doherty as Lilly 

in Lilly’s Purple Plastic Purse 

Tor Aarestad 

Carol and Mike Akillian 

Mr. and Mrs. Robert G. Anderson 

Julie Anderson 

Christina Andersson 

Barbara and Stephen Anthony 

Nina Aronoff 

Jen Atwood 

Steve Aveson 

Janet Axelrod 

Richard Baker 

Marjorie, Martha, and Maggie Bakken 

Bank of America Charitable Foundation 

Linda Banks-Santilli 

Arthur Barlas 

Joan Barton 

John Bay 

Diana Brigham Beaudoin 

Liora Beer and David Weingarten 

Robert Benson 

Steven Berger 

Bergstrom Foundation 


Linda Cabot Black Fund, a Donor Advised 

Fund at the Boston Foundation 

Ian Blasco 

Pamela Blau 

Nancy and Jacob Bloom 

Pamela and C. Hunter Boll 

Shelley Bolman 

Danny Bolton 

Kimberly F. Boucher 

Luette Bourne 

Amy and Ed Brakeman 

Linda Braun 

Mrs. F. Elwood Bray 


Kathleen Brown 

Signs & Smiles 

Debra and Jaycee Bullock 

Butler’s Hole Fund, The Boston Foundation 

Grace Bybell 

Chilton S. Cabot 

Eileen Caffrey, Alex Levine, and 

Lilly Caffrey-Levine 

Abigail Callahan 

Ellen and Richard Calmas 

Barbara Carton 

Maria Paz Casado and Peter Cohen 

Sheila Cavanaugh 

Carole Charnow 

Eleanor H. Chasdi 

Valerie C.M. Ching 

Veronica Chitwood 

Marla Choslovsky and Paul Greenberg 

Keena Clifford 

Diane Cline 

Ed and Maureen* Coakley 

Catherine and Jeff Coburn 

Sue and Ron Cohen 

Community Development Corp of Boston 

Judith Contrucci 

Felipe Costa 

Helen and Clare Cotton 

Jeanine Cox 

Stephanie Cox Suarez 

Robert Crabtree 

Tina Crosby 

Mary Cutler 

Maureen Danahy 

Stephanie and David D’Angelo 

John Davin 

Susan DeColaines and Bill Swanson 

Dean K. Denniston, Jr. 

Andrea Devine 

The DiMaggio Family 

Andrea E. Doane 

Robert W. Doane 

Lauren and George Doherty 

Catherine Donahue 

Ann Donner 

Zelinda M. Douhan 

Elizabeth Dowd 

Marcia Dworkind and Charles Merzbacher 

Sally Reeves Edmonds 

Larry and Joyce Eldridge 

Bess Emanuel and John Vyhnanek 

Priscilla Fales 

Barbara E. Fargo 

Judy F. Fask 

Ann Ferguson 

Marta and Jose Carlos Ferreira 

Imogene Fish 

Andrew Flanagan 

Judith L. Fleischman 

Janis Flint-Ferguson 

Marcia McClintock Folsom 

Roberta Fox 

Robert B. Fraser 

Janese Free 

Ellie Friedland 

Betty and Larry Fuchs 

Hilary Gabrieli 

Meryl Galaid 

Amanda and Leanne Gallagher 

Sharon Gallagher 

Ellen Winner and Howard Gardner 

Andi Genser and Sue Landers 

Anne Giersch 

Elizabeth D. Giles 

Margaret and Fred Gilligan 

Joseph W. Glannon 

Lorenz Glazer 

The Glick Family 

Melissa Goldstein 

Gregory Gómez 

Carlo-Gonzalez Family 

34 Fall 2008 * Deceased


Alicia Gordon 

Dot Gorenflo 

Karen Gregg 

David Gruber 

Sherri L. Guiness 

Helen Haley 

Tucker Halpern, 

in honor of Andrea Ross 

Persis G. Hamilton 

Danya Handelsman 

Meredith Hannigan 

Elizabeth Hanson 

Hope Haslam Straughan 

Jeanne Wilson Hatch 

Barbara G. Hatfield 

Julie Hayes 

Purple Ink Insurance 

Mary Hebert 

Tina Helm 

Maria Herrey 

Lisa and Sean McGrath 

Andrea C. Hoffman 

Tim Hoffman 

Emily Wright Holt 

Maya Honda 

Anne and Jim Howard 

Kathryn G. Howell 

Mary C. Huntington 

Nancy and Michael Hurwitz 

Jeri McElroy and Bill Hutchinson 

Eldridge-Ingram Family 

Shauna Jehle 

Pat Jehlen 

Albie Johnson 

Joeritta Jones de Almeida 

Susan Joseph 

Kirk Joslin 

Rachel Judelson 

Arnold S. Judson 

Ruth and Paul Kahn 

Helen Kass 

Dr. and Mrs. Jay Kaufman 

Deborah Keefe 

Jeanne Kelley 

Elizabeth Kelly 

Tracy Kelly 

Andrea Kelly-Russell 

Erin Gilligan and Hoil Kim 

Sally Kindleberger 

Nancy and George Kivel 

Seth A. and Beth S. Klarman 

Edgar Klugman 

Judy and John Knutson 

KOR Group 

Barbara, John, and Andrew Kotzen 

Nina LaPlante 

Sasha Lauterbach and Peter Sturges 

Kenneth Leeco 

Anita Lang Leibowitz 

Joan Lenington 

Denise Leonard 

Diane Levin 

Nicky and Paige L’Hommedieu 

Robert Lincoln 

Jodi Long Godes 

LOOKS 

Melissa Ludtke 

Sean Lynn-Jones 

Ulla C. Malkus 

Marian Mandell 

Allan Mann 

Carol and Gordon Marshall 

Anne Marie Martorana 

McCarter and English, LLP 

Ethel McConaghy 

Daniel W. McElaney 

Abelardo Morell and Lisa McElaney 

Martha McNamara and Jim Bordewick 

Phyllis Menken 

Carol and David Mersky 

Nancye Mims and Chris Reeve 

Lois and Irwin Mirsky 

Wynona Mobley 

Richard Monast 

Mary Ann and Richard Morrill 

Jennifer Morrison and Dick Marks 

Robin Mount and Mark Szpak 

Martha Mulcahy 

Amy Nadel 

Greg Nash 

Antonia and Joseph Nedder 


Shelly and Ofer Nemirovsky 

Anne H. Newton 

Suzanne R. Newton 

Tricia Norton and Jim Sheehan 

Ingrid Nevar Nosko 

Martha and Mark O’Connor 

Lindsay O’Donovan 

Locke Ogens 

Suzanne Olbricht 

Julie O’Meara 

Elizabeth O’Neill 

Patterson’s Back Bay Dancewear 

Charlotte and Ed Peed 

Pat Pellows 

Gamalia Pharms 

Sarah Plows 

Frances G. Pratt 

Professional Staffing Group 

Nancy Fowle Purinton 

Adelaide M. Queeney 

Marchelle Raynor 

Sarah Reed 

Donna M. Reulbach 

Liz and Fred Robbins 

Ilyse Robbins Mohr and Glen Mohr 

Sheila Roberts 

Linda and Michael Robrish 

Bonnie Rosenberg 

Judith H. Rosenberg 

Bobbi Rosenquest 

Amy Rosenthal 

Susan and Richard Rosin 

Paula and Bill Ross 

Julie Rowe 

Stefi Rubin and Fred Marchant 

Gloria Rudisch and Marvin Minsky 

Rosemary Sanborn 


Ginger and Bob Sauer 

James Scharback 

Julie Schecter 

Susanna Schweizer 

Kelly Schwenkmeyer 

Herman Scott 


Joyce Hope Scott 

Linda and David Seeley 

Charles Siepold 

Michelle Seligson 

Robert Sewell 

Debbie Shalom 

Harry Sherr and Cynthia Strauss 

Cynthia and Bill Sibold 

Joan and Lawrence Siff 

Spring Sirkin 

Peninsula Charities Foundation II 

Gonca Sonmez-Poole 

Janine Spagnuolo 

Linda Spengler 

Lee and George Sprague 

William duPont Staab, Jr. 

Enid L. Starr & Alan D. Gordon Fund, 

a Donor Advised Fund of Combined 

Jewish Philanthropies 

Martha Stearns 

Bobbie and Bob Steinbach 

Thomas Stemberg 

Claire and Jeffrey Stern 

Martha E. Stone 

Dorothy Stoneman 

Deirdre Sullivan 

Marcia Sullivan 

Julie Sutherland 

Heather Tarter 

Craig Thomas 

Becky Thompson 


Valerie Thornhill-Hudson 

Thu-Hang Tran and Mark S. Day 

Krista Vanourny 

Jennifer Varney 

Vermillion, Inc. 

Donna and James Viola 

The Walton/Waterfall Family 

Barry, Wendy, and Sarah Wanger 

Karen and Stuart Watson 

Suzanne Weinstein 

Inez C. Wheeler 

Claire White 

Jenna Napolitano 

Lee and Stephen Whitfield 

Susan Wilkinson 

Katie Willard 

William Rawn Associates 

Patricia Willott 

Laura C. Wilmarding 

Martha and Jeff Winokur 

Jo-Ann and David Winston 

Kathryn Winters 

Pam Wolf 

Jodi Wolk 

Robina Worcester 

Karen Worth 

Charles and Claudia Wu 

Hannah Yaffe 

Susan and Lance Yamakawa 

Charlotte Yarbrough 

Tina and Sam Yoon 

Stephen S. Young 

Foundations 

Wheelock College gratefully 

acknowledges the 

following foundations for their 

support in fiscal year 2008. 

Anonymous (1) 

Thomas & Joann Adler Family Foundation 

The Boston Foundation 

Clover Clark Memorial Trust Fund 

The Clifford Family Foundation 

Olin J. Cochran Trust 

The Columbus Foundation 

Combined Jewish Philanthropies 

The Community Foundation for the 

Capital Region 

Community Foundation of 

Sarasota County 

Community Foundation for 

Southeastern Michigan 

Community Foundation of Western 

North Carolina, Inc. 

Crosby Family Foundation, Inc. 

Farmhouse Foundation 

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund 

Fiduciary Charitable Foundation 

Fife Family Foundation, Inc. 

Fish Family Foundation 

Goldberg Family Foundation 

Perpetual Trust Graves Charitable Fund 

Mary W. Harriman Foundation 

The Hart Foundation 

The Helena Foundation 

The Hottle Family Foundation 

Jaunich Family Foundation 

Kenwood Foundation 

Seth A. & Beth S. Klarman Foundation 

John S. and James L. Knight Foundation 

Agnes M. Lindsay Trust 

Meek Foundation 

Network for Good 

The Nichols Trust 

Rochester Area Community Foundation 

The Saint Paul Foundation 

The William E. and Bertha F. Schrafft 

Charitable Trust 

Elizabeth W. Schroeder Fund 

Sondik Foundation 

Spero Foundation 

Ben & Kate Taylor Foundation 

Alan D. and Judith Tobin Foundation 

Webster Family Foundation 

The Winston-Salem Foundation 

The Hans & Elizabeth Wolf Foundation 

Zurs Foundation 

Corporations 

Wheelock College would 

like to thank the following 

corporations for their 

support in fiscal year 2008. 

Anonymous (2) 

Abt Associates 

Acadian Asset Management, Inc. 

Admissions Advantage 

Aetna Foundation, Inc. 

Alexander, Aronson, Finning & Co., P.C. 

Analog Devices Inc. 

Applera Corporation 

Bank of America Matching Gifts Program 

Bank of New York Mellon 

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts 

Bristol-Myers Squibb Company 

Century Bank 

Charles Schwab Foundation 

Children’s Hospital Boston 

Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP 

CIGNA Foundation 

Citizens Financial Group, Inc. 

Continuum Dynamics Inc. 

Cooper-Lewis Incorporated 

Eduventures Inc. 

EMC Corporation 

Foley Hoag LLP 

GenCorp Foundation Inc. 

General Electric Foundation 

Goldman Sachs Philanthropy Fund 

Goodwin Procter LLP 

Goulston & Storrs 

Grant Thornton LLP 

Hartford Insurance Group 

IBM Corporation 

International Data Group 

Jean Mark Coiffures 

Jenzabar Foundation 

John Hancock Financial Services 

Kirkwood Printing 

Lehman Brothers 

Maguire Associates, Inc. 

Mazonson, LLC 

Mobil Foundation, Inc. 

Morgan-Worcester Inc. 

O’Neill and Associates LLC 

Partners Healthcare System 

Piccerelli, Gilstein & Co. LLP 

The Procter & Gamble Fund 

Red Sox Foundation 

Schwab Charitable Fund 

Shawmut Design and Construction 

Susquehanna International Group, LLP 

TERI 

Textron, Inc. 

Towers Perrin 

Tufts Health Plan 

United Technologies Corporation 

UPS 

The Wayland Group, Inc. 

Wellington Management Company, LLP 

Wells Fargo Foundation 

William Rawn Associates Architects, Inc. 

The Williams Companies Inc. 

Yum! Brands Foundation, Inc. 



Gifts in Kind 

Steven Aveson ’78 

Marcia Holford Bedford ’82MS 

Susan Bright Belanger ’65 

Ellen Cluett Burnham ’60 

Betty Quick Collin ’38 

Susan O’Halloran Constable ’82 

Erin Corbett ’02 

Paula Davison ’74 

Barbara Tarr Drauschke ’72 

Sandra “Lee” Drescher ’86MS 

Matthew Eidukinas ’98 

Bonnie Simon Grossman ’55 

Gwynne Wiatrowski Guzzeau ’93MS 

Dana Brewer Hahn ’73 

Priscilla Chase Heindel ’47 

Elizabeth Gregg Horn ’62 

Betty Jane Jalley ’50* 


Maureen Kelly ’88MS 

Lyn Peck Kenyon ’45/’69BS 

Elizabeth Wheeler L’Hommedieu ’54 and 

Paige L’Hommedieu 

Susan Marr ’83 

Beverly Tarr Mattatall ’72 

Lois Barnett Mirsky ’54 

Nancy Ware Morrow ’63 

Mila Moschella ’75 

Maryann Mylott O’Rourke ’60/’98MS 

Susanna Barbour Schenk ’92 

Joyce Day Sebian ’78MS 

Christine Kamp Seidman ’67MS 

Louis Torelli ’83MS 

In Honor of 

Priscilla Alden Hayes ‘62 

Mary Schubert Stearns ‘62 

Patricia Hogan 

Donna J. Amato 

Vivian Carr ‘94 

Yael Lenkinski ‘04MSW 

Beverly Sealey 

President Jackie Jenkins-Scott 

The Honorable Mark L. Wolf 

Susan Kosoff ‘65/’75MS 



Fred and Edwen Goldstein 

Kyla McSweeney ‘94/’97MS 

Lois Barnett Mirsky ‘54 

Dr. Sau-Fong Siu 

Alison L. Chan 

Kai Yuen Chan 

Anita L. Chow 

Huan-Hua Chye 

John Lam 

Kai Biu Lam 

C. C. Lee 

Peter Tin-Yau Poon 

Yan Kok So 

C. S. Wong 

Lai King Wong 


Julia Whiteside de Vos 

In Memory of 

Helen Richards Atwood ‘26 

Beth Atwood ‘57* 

Mary S. Bakes 

Jan Vary Kutten ‘63 

Janet Robbins Balch ‘40 

Norman B. Robbins 

Diane Schmelter Buhl ‘63 

Peter Buhl 

Hortense Burleigh 

Jessi R. MacLeod ‘64/’92MS 


James Christmann 

Ann E. Christmann 

Mr. and Mrs. William H. Christmann 

Katharine Hosmer Connor ‘33 

Harvard Medical School 

Sylvia Dickey ‘58 

Arlene Keizer Lovenvirth ‘58 

Mary Marshall Feyler ‘34 

Karen Anderson 


Marilyn Cole 

Elizabeth Cugini 

Dorothy Derick 

Barbara Eskridge 

Elizabeth Ferrara 

Barbara J. Feyler 

Janet Feyler 

Suzanne Fiske 

Carol Forgette 

Patricia J. Igoe 

Frances C. Ingram 

Stephen Laffey 

Freda Lehrer 

Lois McInerney 

Elizabeth Parrillo 

Nancy Pelletier 

Carol J. Poliziani 

Jean C. Robey 

Margaret Roque 

Suzanne Silva 

Barbara J. Smith 

Snug Harbor – East Matunuck Civic 

Association 

Hillary Blair Stanton Foulkes 

Donna LaRoche ‘79 

Cornelia Conyngham Romanowski ‘79 

Terri Weisberg Smith ‘79 

Jane Stuart Righter Froelicher ‘53 

Joanne Lilly Abbott ‘41 

Robert P. Bigelow 

Samantha Keller Gordon ‘94 

Elizabeth Goldentyer Roberts ‘93 

Harriet Faris Long ‘33 

Pamela Long 

Cynthia Longfellow 


Barbara S. Longfellow 

Barbara Burrows MacKinnon ‘52 

Herbert C. MacKinnon 

Phyllis Taylor Moore ‘58 

Laura Lehrman ‘58 

Barbara Stumpf Moses ‘58 

Marjorie Boudreau and Family 

Marcia Potter Crocker ‘58 

Karen Nassauer 

Elizabeth Sturtz Stern ‘58 

Donald Van Cleef 

Sharon Wulforst 

Janice Porosky Olins ‘33 


Nancy Olins 

Susan Swap 


Walter Swap 

Ruth Baker Ursul ‘60 

Janice Halsted Sussebach ‘60 

Janet Higginbotham Washburn ’42-‘43 

Seth H. Washburn 

Christine Hillers Williams ‘38 

Nancy H. Crosby 

Richard Williams 

Hans A. Wolf 


Alumni 

Organizations 

The Alumni Association 

Wheelock Club of Greater Portland 

Organizations 

Citi Global Impact Funding Trust, Inc. 

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute 

Harvard Medical School 

Iron Workers District Council of 

New England 

National Association of Industrial and 

Office Properties 

One Family 

Orange County’s United Way 

The Roxbury Latin School 

Snug Harbor - East Matunuck Civic 

Association 

United Way of Rhode Island 

Passion for 

Action 

Anonymous (5) 

Abt Associates 

Admissions Advantage 

Alexander, Aronson, Finning & Co., P.C. 

Charles Ames 

Judith and Robert Anderson 

Barbara and Steve Anthony 

David B. Arnold 

Bank of New York Mellon 

Jeb Barnes 

Joan and Gary Bergstrom 

Lisa Biagetti 


Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts 

The Boston Foundation 

Sandy and Ted Bowers 

Susan Breed 

Rick and Nonnie Burnes 

Ellen and Peter Burnham 

Kathryn E. Cade 

Century Bank 

Gerald Chertavian 

Children’s Hospital Boston 

Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP 

Citizens Financial Group, Inc. 

Keena and Chris Clifford 

Maureen* and Ed Coakley 

Jeff and Catherine Coburn 

Consolidated Health Plans 

Tina and Harvey Crosby 

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute 

Ellen T. Dwinell 

Eduventures Inc. 

EMC Corporation 

John Kenneth Felter, Esq. 

Tim Ferguson 

Lucia Santini Field 

Harvey Fineberg 

Larry and Atsuko Fish 

Cordelia Flanagan 

Foley Hoag LLP 

Goldberg Family Foundation 

Goodwin Procter LLP 

Philip and Sandra Gordon 

Goulston & Storrs 

Grant Thornton LLP 

Beverly Green 

Eloise Greenfield 

Barbara and Steve Grossman 

Tina and Bill Helm 

Elizabeth Horner 

Iron Workers District Council of 

New England 



Jenzabar Foundation 

John Hancock Financial Services 

Holly and Bruce Johnstone 


Steven Karol 

Cameron Kerry 

Kirkwood Printing 


Ted and Beedee Ladd 

Mary M. Lassen 

Lehman Brothers 

Mary K. Leonard 

Elizabeth and Paige L’Hommedieu 

Mary Lightfoot 


Shari Loessberg and Christopher Smart 


Maguire Associates, Inc. 

Marion F. Mandell-Jacobson 

Mazonson, LLC 

Lois and Irwin Mirsky 

J. Keith Motley 

Robin Mount 

National Association of Industrial 

and Office Properties 

New England Patriots 

Charitable Foundation 

Oldaker, Biden & Belair, LLP 

One Family 

O’Neill and Associates LLC 

Peter E. Opara 

Anthony Pangaro 

Thomas W. Payzant 

Kay Petersen 

Marianna C. Pierce 

Michael E. Porter 

Tom Powers 

Nancy Purinton 

Red Sox Foundation 

Paul Reville 

Adrianne Rogers 

The Roxbury Latin School 

Barbara and Robert Sallick 

Penelope Savitz 

Roy Schifilliti 

Susan Shaeffer 

Shawmut Design and Construction 

Albert Sherman 

Susan Simon 

Sau-Fong Siu and Yum-Tong Siu 

Sovereign Bank 

Helen B. Spaulding 

Anne Stetson and Mark Dibble 

TERI 


Genie and Will Thorndike 

Lisa and Rex Thors 

Tufts Health Plan 

University Health Plans 

UPS 

Lucy and Tim Vaill 

The Wayland Group, Inc. 

William Rawn Associates, Architects, Inc. 


* Deceased


All Come Together 

At Pre-Commencement Dinner — 

Leading Friends and Supporters 

Those who become members of Wheelock’s 

Cornerstone Society or Heritage Society choose 

to improve the lives of children and families 

by making the College a philanthropic priority. We are 

very grateful for their commitment to Wheelock’s mission, 

and each year we all gather together to celebrate it at 

the College’s Pre-Commencement Dinner. 

We also invite those who will receive honorary degrees 

at Commencement the next day and present awards 

recognizing their compassionate contributions to society. 

At this year’s celebration, Wheelock recognized United 

States Senator John Kerry; The Honorable Yu-Foo Shoon, 

a lifelong advocate for the well-being of women and 

children in Singapore; and Kip Tiernan, the founder 

of Rosie’s Place and well-known advocate for social 

change, who spoke about her pride in becoming a 

member of the Wheelock family, “walking tall into the 

future and demanding that everyone get a fair shake.” 

“The journey to justice can only be 

made in the company of others.” 

— Kip Tiernan 

S ISTERS AND B ROTHERS, 

Thank you so very much 

for allowing me to be a part of your celebration! The students and graduates 

here will go on to help make people whole again, and you will indeed 

fulfill the legacy of Lucy Wheelock. . . . We will go on, you and I, to help 

people become whole again in an effort to find justice for everyone — not 

just the top 20 or 30 percent who have it all. Forty years ago, I jumped 

from advertising, marketing, and public relations, to human and humane 

needs. Forty years ago, I found a product I 

could believe in — the human spirit, and which 

I found is still dancing in the streets of this tragic 

theater of the dismissed. 

At Rosie’s Place, the first drop-in emergency 

shelter for women in the country and now 34 

years old, we do it one day at a time, one 

woman at a time, one dream at a time. And all 

the other places we started, we do it the same 

way. We have become nonprofit junkies, and we 

have served and helped thousands of the citizens 

of this area. And yet they would call us dogooders. 

We are not do-gooders, my friends, we are good-doers, as the 

students of Wheelock are and will become, because we are willing to 

devote our lives to the cause of justice for all of us, and that ain’t being 

do-gooders by a long shot. 

I am so very proud to become a member of the Wheelock family. You 

and I will walk tall and proudly into the future, demanding that everyone 

get a fair shake and what it means to be an American citizen. We are prisoners 

of hope, and remember this: The journey to justice can only be 

made in the company of others. 

When I think of Wheelock College, I think of two great quotes by one 

of my favorite authors, Albert Camus: “Justice — we must make it imaginable 

again!” And this one, “Do not walk before me—I may not 

follow. Do not walk behind me — I may not lead. Just walk beside me, 

and be my friend.” Thank you again for this fabulous day in my life! 

Honorary degree recipient The Honorable Mrs.Yu-Foo Yee Shoon 

(left) with Professor and Director of the Center for International 

Education, Leadership, and Innovation Joan Bergstrom 

L to R: Chair of the Board of Trustees Robert A. Lincoln, honorary 

degree recipient Kip Tiernan, President Jackie Jenkins-Scott, and 

Chair of the Wheelock Corporation Judy Parks Anderson ’62



At Convocation 2008 — 

Students, Faculty, & Alumna, Marianne O’Grady ’94MS 

“To all the first-years: 

I welcome you to the family.” 

— Senior Shannon Ahern, 

Student Government president and 

four-time service volunteer to New Orleans 

Belief in the power of education 

and a cause greater than 

the individual self is what binds 

and motivates the Wheelock 

community. Each fall, the spirit 

of new beginnings presides over 

Convocation, when students, 

faculty, and alumni gather to 

renew and share again the sense 

of purpose that has brought 

them to Wheelock out of all the 

possible institutions of higher 

education where they could 

work and study. The focus of 

Convocation is always the 

students — from first-years, 

who are officially transitioning 

into adult academic life to 

seniors, who will soon take all 

they have learned at Wheelock 

and apply it in a world that 

sorely needs their talents and 

their service. 

Teach a Teacher and You Reach 

Thousands of Children — 

Marianne O’Grady ’94MS in 

Afghanistan 

Flying halfway around the world from 

Afghanistan to Wheelock via San Francisco 

to be this year’s Convocation keynote 

speaker, Marianne O’Grady ’94MS 

demonstrates the special passion that inspires 

Wheelock students and alumni to do great things. 

Her talk about her career as a Friends School educator 

and her volunteer work helping teachers in 

Afghanistan rebuild their broken education system 

left no doubt that she is a remarkable individual 

and yet, as she insisted several times over, 

not exceptional, not so special — if you believe as 

she does that many do, and everyone can do, their 

best to make the world a better place. 

For the past four summers, Marianne has 

volunteered to bring new inquiry-based science 

and hands-on teaching and learning to remote 

and often dangerous areas of Afghanistan. “Since 

the fall of the Taliban, 6 million children have 

come back to school, and half are girls, but it is 

one step forward and eight back,” she told students, 

faculty, and staff who filled the Lucy Wheelock 

Auditorium at Convocation. 

A shortage of teachers is one major barrier to 

providing good education programs for Afghan children. 

“There are not enough teachers because during 

the Taliban years no one was in school and there was 

no need for them,” Marianne explained. “Now, 

there are 100 or sometimes 150 students for every 

teacher, the classrooms are outdated, sometimes they 

are only tents, and there are no teaching tools. Some 

teachers have come back out of their love for teaching, 

while others are good students who have moved 

up — the top student in the 10th grade graduates 

and becomes the next year’s 10th-grade teacher.” 

When Marianne makes the 36-hour journey 

from San Francisco to Kabul, she brings math and 

science teaching materials with her, 16 containers of 

microscopes, hand lenses, anatomy charts, textbooks, 

rulers, protractors, test tubes, and other basic 

classroom supplies. Her students are teachers themselves 

who work three-hour morning shifts in their 

own classrooms and then walk 20 kilometers to 

learn the science methodology and hands-on education 

practices Marianne has come to teach them. 

She brings out her container materials and shows 

how to teach science with tools as simple as string, 

water, rocks, and nails. “You can teach about inertia 

and pendulums with these things,” she said. “The 

teachers leave my class and walk back to their own 

classrooms, and they are crying because now they 

have tools and a way to teach basic physics.” 

Marianne has worked in several areas of 

Afghanistan and spent last summer in an eastern 

Afghanistan war zone where she received death 

threats because of her presence. “But the Afghan 

people are the most wonderful people in the 


MARIANNE O’GRADY ’94MS 

“I just do a little bit but so do others, like a drop in a bucket, and the bucket 

gets fuller. I believe everyone should put their drops in the bucket.” 

AQuaker and Friends educator, Marianne has spent 18 years as an East Coast/West 

Coast second-grade teacher, first at Cambridge Friends School and then at Marin 

Country Day School and San Francisco Friends School. As a lifelong learner cum 

laude, she has trained at The Writing Project at Columbia University; Project Zero at 

Harvard University; the Schools Attuned program, which focuses on differing learning 

styles; NASA’s elementary educators program in aeronautics, engineering, and technology; 

and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution marine biology workshop. Her particular 

passion for teaching math and science has been recognized with a Presidential Award for 

Excellence in Math and Science Teaching, a Christa McAuliffe Teaching Grant, and a 

Fulbright Memorial Fund Grant to study and travel in Japan. During the academic year, 

Marianne trains teachers to teach math and science at the University of San Francisco 

Graduate School of Education and at the Bay Area Teacher Training Institute. 

world,” she said. “They want their children to go 

to school and to have books. They want their lives 

to be healthy and happy, and they want to have a 

good family life. They are very respectful and 

grateful for what I can bring them; they took good 

care of me and kept me safe.” 

And they are eager, open learners. One reason 

some Afghan girls are not educated, Marianne 

explained, is because of an ingrained belief about 

women: Because women are physically smaller 

than men, their brains are only half the size of 

men’s; thus they cannot learn well and there is no 

“Using donations, 

we bought, brought, 

and taught. A $2 

magnifying glass can 

change a science 

teacher and a 

budding science 

student’s life.” 

“Training and supporting teachers 

means better education for that 

many more children.” 

point in schooling them. When Marianne explains 

the science of the brain and anatomy, the evidence 

of research on the subject, and the indisputable fact 

that many women geniuses exist, it is a wellreceived 

revelation. 

Marianne said that people ask her why she does 

this kind of volunteer work, and she explained her 

family background of social service and her drop-inthe-bucket 

philosophy. “It takes the world to make 

the world a better place,” she said. “I just do a little 

bit but so do others, like a drop in a bucket, and the 

bucket gets fuller. I believe everyone should put their 

drops in the bucket.” 

When Marianne talks about her work as a second-grade 

teacher, as a teacher of teachers, and as a 

volunteer bringing science to the most remote parts 

of the world, there is no missing her energy and anything-is-possible 

attitude. Four years ago, she made 

her first visit to Afghanistan, and now she is working 

with the Afghan minister of education to try to 

develop a national kindergarten program. 

“We all need to find our passion and put our 

drop in the bucket,” Marianne told the students at 

Convocation. “Making the world a better place, caring 

about children and families — you have the 

opportunity to do this too. I was hired for a job in 

California because they knew I came from this college 

and they knew Wheelock’s mission. 

“Listen to your heart. If you feel you can help 

one person or 100 or 5,000 — do it. That’s your 

job. That’s what you are supposed to do.” 


★ Congratulations to the Class of 1968 on winning 



At Reunion 2008 — 

Across the Generations, One Community 

Wheelock alumni spend their educations well. Achievement, 

service, and creativity characterize the individual stories 

shared when alumni come back to campus for Reunion, no 

matter what year they graduated. They phone classmates, 

make flight plans, calculate gas mileage (ouch!), and head to Wheelock for fun, 

to see what’s new, and to reconnect with the spirit of the place that helped them 

grow into who they have become, so far. 

Throughout the weekend, woven through the fun everyone is having, 

there is the understanding that what is shared is more than memories and 

more than place. Everyone knows that two graduates from classes decades apart can meet 

anywhere and start up the Wheelock mission conversation without hesitation. Wheelock 

alumni speak the same language, are on the same page, understand why children and 

families should come first and not last in society’s view of what is important. 

The winners of the 2008 Reunion “Making a Difference” Service Award are good 

examples. Forty years separate the graduation years of Peggy Ann Benisch Anderson ’53 

and Alicia Esparo ’93, but they both personify the Wheelock mission. Peggy has imprinted 

her “Wheelock way” for decades on her community and family business as much as on the 

elementary classrooms where she has taught. Alicia, who teaches in an integrated preschool 

classroom, is a strong advocate who has helped build the Norfolk, VA, integrated preschool 

program to exceptionally high standards. 

Congratulations, Peggy and Alicia, and to all Wheelock alumni who are also out there 

making the world not just different but better. 

“Wheelock gave me what I needed as I made my way as a parent 

and in my career. And so I go back to my roots and I give back.” 

— Sally Clark Sloop ’68 

Alumni Give Back in Many Ways 

★ Diep Nguyen ’98/’02MS and Matthew 

Eidukinas ’98, two young alumni who received the 

Lucy Wheelock Award this year based on their 

individual service to the College and to the Alumni 

Association, demonstrate that Wheelock alumni give 

back generously in many different ways. 

the Dr. Frances Graves Prize for raising $320,770, 

the largest class gift this year. 

★ Ditto Class of 1958 on receiving the Gertrude 

Abbihl Prize with 39 percent class attendance 

at the Reunion luncheon AND the Beulah Angell 

Wetherbee Prize with 81 percent of the class 

donating to the Annual Fund this year. 

60 th Reunion 

★ A HUGE thank-you to all Reunion classes for 

your total Annual Fund Gift of more than a 

half million dollars — $504,859 to be precise! 


This Wheelock Magazine includes 

Class Notes news that was received 

before June 30, 2008. 

1930 

Congratulations to 

Jeanette Gardner Langlois 

on celebrating your 

100th birthday on July 10! 

AT REUNION (L to R): Sisters-in-law Sherri 

Ades Falchuck ’68 and Ruth Fink Ades ’53, 

and President Jackie Jenkins-Scott 

CLASS NOTES 

1934 

Reunion 2009 

May 29-31 

1936 

Barbara Robinson Brahms 

Rebecca Berry Cramer sent greetings from her 

retirement facility in San Diego, where she has 

lived for 20 years. A couple of years ago she 

moved into its assisted-living section. “Age-related 

problems such as limited vision, needing a sturdy 

cane when walking, and such are here; otherwise, 

all is OK,” she wrote. “Glad to still have my name 

on our class list — one of the survivors!” Mildred 

Griffith Kohler enjoys being waited on and 

going to activities at her Palm Beach Gardens, FL, 

retirement community. She is still driving and 

plays bridge. Elinor Livingston Sirinek’s assisted-living 

facility is in West Chester, PA, and she 

invites anyone in the area to call her. She has four 

sons, two stepsons, seven grandchildren, and two 

great-grandchildren. 

1939 

1941 

Lucy Parton Miller 

Reunion 2009 

May 29-31 

Hello, dear Classmates of ’41. We’re at or nearing 

our 90th birthdays. Congratulations to all! 

I (Lucy) had a good phone call with Joanne 

Lilly Abbott, my special friend who was maid of 

honor in our wedding. She is still enjoying life in 

Parkplace, a Denver retirement home. She drives 

but avoids the highways, and she often takes short 

trips in the area arranged by Parkplace. She has 

special times with her busy families living around 

Denver, and she still plays bridge and takes walks. 

“A physical trainer helps keep me going,” she says. 

Jean Tilton Melby shared warm memories of 

classroom visits from Miss Wheelock. She would 

drop by to say “hello,” Jean wrote, and would say 

how proud she was of her school and its students. 

What a long way Wheelock has come in furthering 

its founder’s dreams of opening opportunities 

of learning for young children! Jean is happily 

active with her family and close friends in Port St. 

Lucie, FL. As with all of us, she says, “The engine 

is slowing down a bit.” 

H. Louise Jones Miller wrote that she is still 

busy with a simpler but interesting life in a lovely 

retirement home and church in Cheshire, CT. 

She was looking forward to going to a grandson’s 

graduation in Montana. Her daughter and family 

love living in that beautiful part of the country. 

Louise and her Wheelock roommate, Barbara 

George Bean, still keep in touch. She gratefully 

wrote, “Wheelock started me on my path to a 

career which I loved.” 

We were pleased to hear from Dorothea 

Ramsay Rutter, who has moved to an independent 

apartment complex with family nearby. She 

“had a few glitches this past year,” but in the spring 

was back, gratefully, to part-time work. Dottie is 

happy to keep in touch with Jean Allison Taylor 

and Betty Beebe McCleary. She adds at the end, 

“Grandmothering has to be the best.” 

Laymon and I (Lucy) recently celebrated our 

65th anniversary. Our three children were present, 

along with our first great-grandson and his mom, 

plus several special friends. 

In early December, we were invited to New 

Orleans, accompanied by our daughter, to attend 

a gold medal award presentation to Laymon for 

his outstanding work in acoustics. It was a 

thrilling affair from beginning to end. 

Laymon and I have five great-grandchildren 

ranging in age from 2 years to 2 days (at the time 

of this writing). We plan to see four of them this 

summer; the fifth is in Minnesota. I am still 

involved with three volunteer jobs at the nursing 

home on campus; I enjoy my contacts with 

patients and staff. 

We send our best wishes to all of our class 

who may be seeing this. 

1943-’44 

Jean Sullivan Riley 

The Alumni Office received a message from 

Ann Dolan. She lives at Mt. Vernon House in 

Winchester, MA. She wears braces on her legs, 

but we are sure that they don’t hinder her good 

spirit. She said she “loved every minute of 

Wheelock.” Eva Hoel Lion wrote: “I wish I 

could be there for the 65th Reunion — but I am 

also very happy that Felix and I will be enjoying 

the celebration of our 65th wedding anniversary 

up here in beautiful B.C. Canada. Soon after that 

we are pleased to have the company of our only 

grandson and his partner. He requested the visit 

so he can show her the house that he wrote about 

at age 9 (The Best House and Garden for Kids in 

the World!). A great compliment.” Sally Keating 

Walsh sent us her news from Buffalo: “God willing, 

Jack and I will be celebrating 65 years of 

married life together on July 3, 2008. Our blessings 

are too numerous to count. Good health, 

four happily married children, 10 grandchildren, 

and two great-grands keep us recycled and give us 


CLASS NOTES 

An Active Wheelock Leader Throughout Her Life 

Katharine Lewars (duPont) Weymouth ’42 

Wheelock’s wonderful alumna and dedicated contributor 

to many College initiatives as a trustee and corporator 

Katharine Lewars (duPont) Weymouth passed away peacefully 

on Aug. 22, at her summer home in Fishers Island, NY. She was 

87 years old. 

Kathie graduated from Wheelock in 1942 and continued her 

active connection to the College throughout her lifetime. She was 

a committed member of the board of trustees for 30 years and, 

later, an honorary trustee, in addition to being a member of the 

Corporation and participant on the Development, Educational 

Policy, and Physical Facilities committees. She received an honorary 

degree from Wheelock in 1988, was a vigorous fundraiser 

for Wheelock, and, as a member of the Heritage Society, generously 

provided for the future of the College. 

Everyone who met Kathie enjoyed her wonderful sense of 

humor, and she possessed an open-hearted spirit that won her 

the respect and love of people not only at Wheelock, but also in other spheres of her life — as a president of 

Planned Parenthood of Delaware; a member of the board of directors of Christiana Care Inc.; and a leader and 

mentor at cultural, medical, historical, and educational organizations where she lived in Greenville, DE; Boca 

Grande, FL; and Fishers Island. 

Kathie began a family tradition of Wheelock attendance that extended to her daughter Katharine “Kandi” 

duPont Sanger ’66; her granddaughter, Kyley Lyon ’05; and her niece, Patricia “Patty” Lewars Lucy ’66. The widow 

of State Sen. Reynolds duPont of Greenville, DE, and Fishers Island, FL, and also the widow of George T. Weymouth 

of Greenville, DE, and Boca Grande, FL, Kathie was part of a wonderfully large family including two daughters and 

three sons and their families, her sister and brother and their families, and many grandchildren, great-grandchildren, 

nieces, nephews, and godchildren. 

love and support far beyond what we deserve. Two 

wars in which Jack served, and far too many since, 

make me realize more every day of my life how 

useless, devastating, and utterly ridiculous war is. 

Our world must find a way to negotiate peace 

without killing each other’s children.” 

Jane Cooper Wyman is “fine and [keeps] 

truckin.’” Once a month she plays the piano for 

a sing-along with the residents of the Leland 

House in Waltham, MA. “We do all the old gay 

’90s songs,” she wrote. “One lady gave me this 

second verse for ‘Bicycle Built for Two’: ‘Michael, 

Michael, this is my answer dear. I can’t cycle — it 

makes me feel so queer. If you can’t afford a carriage, 

there won’t be any marriage. ’Cause I’ll be 

damned if I’ll be jammed on a bicycle built for 

two!’ A recent interesting experience was an invitation 

to read a poem I wrote on NEW TV (they 

produce programs for senior citizens). A special 

‘Hello’ to my classmates of long ago. I hope you, 

too, are able to ignore the creakiness that invades 

our bones. Hang in there!” 

Alma and I (Jean) have been your scribes 

for many years. Sadly, I report to you that she 

passed away peacefully in May with her family 

at her bedside. I shall miss her cheerful cards 

and friendly input as we gathered together your 

Class Notes news. 

I am doing well. My bridge game is a little better, 

and I am having fun with my quilting friends. 

We are making donation quilts for “Quilts for 

Kids.” My family gathered in Philadelphia for a 

weekend to celebrate my 85th. We had great 

times — ages 3 to 85. Keep happy. 

1946 

Cordelia Abendroth Flanagan 

Dorothy Spencer Chaudoin keeps busy at home 

and being with friends. Her daughter and grandson 

live nearby and visit often. Medora Wilson 

Douden visited Russia with a daughter and granddaughter. 

Her oldest daughter is a Rhodes scholar at 

Oxford. She enjoys bridge in the winter and golf in 

the summer. Rosamond Holt Haley is trying to 

grow old gracefully (aren’t we all?). She has happy 

memories of Wheelock and misses her class friends. 

Edie Maltz Miller has been president of her 

condo board 10 times. Her friend, our classmate 

Alma Nathanson Solar, lives at the same condo. 

Louise Vialle lives in Maine and works on church 

committees. She spoke with Ginny Martin 

Barton’s husband briefly after Ginny’s death. She 

hears from Shirley Mann Creesy. 

I (Cordelia/“Crow”) am living in a nice retirement 

community near Albany and near a daughter 

and son-in-law and a granddaughter and grandsonin-law. 

I speak with Jacey Clapp Donaldson, who 

lives in West Columbia, SC, and Naples. I also talk to 

Martha Allen Farwell, who lives in Edgartown and 

Needham, MA, and sometimes in Florida. Louise 

Allen Hammond calls once or twice a year. Please, 

any of you, send any news to the College or me. 

1948 

Carol Moore 

Janet Gall Leonard wrote to share about a book 

her daughter, Anne Nolen ’95MS, has co-written 

that she thinks would be of interest to recent grads 

who are new mothers. Mothers Need Time-Outs, 

Too, published by McGraw-Hill, is available on 

Amazon.com and at Barnes & Noble and Wellesley 

(MA) Booksmith. 

1949 

Anne Mulholland Heger 

1951 

Reunion 2009 

May 29-31 

Louise Butts 

Greetings to the Class of ’51. I (Louise) am sure 

there are many of you out there, and hopefully you 

are all so busy you did not have time to respond to 

the March request for news. There were only two 

bits of news sent to Lori Ann Saslav. We were glad 

to hear from Jane Steele Milchen ’51/’69MS, 

who lives in Nashua, NH. Jane is busy with grandchildren 

in or graduating from college, enjoying 

great-grandchildren, plus caring for loved ones. Jane 

keeps active playing tennis and sees Sally McKey 

Pieksen there also. Sad news from Beverly 

Boardman Brekke-Bailey, whose granddaughter 

has been diagnosed with Hodgkin’s disease. She is 

the daughter of Beverly’s son, Kris, who was lost to 

cancer in 2006. 

We are all reaching that age when the loss of 

loved ones, colleagues, and friends requires us to 

face new challenges, to adjust and adapt to new 

schedules and events. But our years at Wheelock 

prepared us well. Just stop and think about the 

impact on education we all have had since 1951 . . . 

that’s 57 years . . . so carry on . . . stay in touch . . . 

and look forward to our 60th Reunion in 2011. 

Last year’s Class Notes reported that Jane Ann 

“Ginger” Hartzell Knebel and husband George 

had moved to Columbia, SC, so that they could be 


CLASS NOTES 

Front row (seated) L-R - Betty Quick Collin ’38, Jim Scott, Carol Moore ’48; back row (standing) President Jenkins-Scott (second from right) with 

’48ers L-R Faith Webster Peak,Kay Crosby Nasser,Ruth Chickering Wheeler-McKay,Edith Hall Huck,Marylin Quint-Rose ...celebrating Reunion 

2008 with a Saturday dinner at the Garden Café on the Brookline Campus 

closer to family. News has been received that Ginger 

passed away in May. For all who lived at Carlton 

House, as well as all her colleagues, we send special 

thoughts to George and their family. 

1952 


When I (Martha) took on the job as class scribe, I’d 

no idea what fun it would be hearing from all of 

you! What a fantastic response. Thank you all so 

very much for all your news. What a vibrant group 

we are! I feel lucky to have my five children, their 

spouses, and six grandchildren (all boys) in New 

England. We see each other often. I am still teaching 

once in a while at MassBay Community College 

and also volunteer (4-year-olds) at the Page School 

at Wellesley College (now called the Wellesley Child 

Study Center). I stay busy with church work and 

sing in the choir and take care of the youngest of 

the grandchildren. I see Kitty Brown and try to 

stay in touch with Jean Ingalls Perkins, who is in 

Pittsburgh in a retirement home. Jean spends summers 

in Chatham, MA. She’s written some great stories 

which I wish she would publish! Her youngest 

child, Tristram, recently got married. Two of her 

children live nearby, and she has eight grandchildren. 

Kitty Hodgdon Brown is still enjoying 

Maine, though last winter was a challenge! Traveling 

to visit her sons in Vermont, Minnesota, Wyoming, 

and Maine is a part of life. She attends “Senior 

College” classes, belongs to a book club, and volunteers 

at a local hospital. Kitty also enjoys her garden, 

friends, and especially baby-sitting her “quite grownup” 

grandchildren. 

“Spring weather is beautiful in Florida!” 

Nancy Walker Driscoll wrote. “I have lived 

here 20 years and never regretted the choice for 

retirement. My husband, Tim, died of a heart 

attack on March 12. We were married 54 years. 

I feel blessed to have so many happy years with 

Tim and our four children and five grandchildren.” 

Nancy attended her grandson’s high 

school graduation in Dallas and was planning to 

visit Maine and New Hampshire over the summer. 

Alan and Patty Davis Ferguson’s daughter 

Laura adopted Ara, now 3, from China last 

March, and they are enjoying her and were hoping 

to see a lot of them this summer. Pat 

Conzelman Greeley ’52/’90MS and husband 

Tony had a delightful lunch with Patty Wolcott 

Berger at the Sudbury (MA) Wayside Inn in 

March. Patty was recovering well from cataract 

surgery. In April, Pat wrote: “Tony and I have 

had our challenges this winter — two surgeries 

for me and a seizure causing Tony to total his 

Ford Taurus, which resulted in only minor 

injuries. We feel VERY fortunate that he’s OK.” 

Anne DeLamater Hansen and husband John 

continue with their regular activities and interests. 

Anne went to help celebrate Marianne’s 

50th in September 2007 and enjoyed seeing 

Bryn Mawr, where Marianne works. Daughter 

Sue’s husband took his first trip to Boston (from 

North Carolina) in the spring, and Anne was 

glad to hear from him that Durgin Park is still 

thriving. She is still in touch with many 

Wheelock — especially Riverway — friends and 

misses her roommate, Laura. “I was thinking of 

our trip to the circus the other day, Martha,” 

Anne wrote. “That was a good Easter vacation.” 

“Surprise of surprises — my local high school 

class of ’48 elected me chairperson of its 60th 

reunion,” Connie Krull Hutt wrote. “Such fun!” 

Connie’s days are filled with music: She continues to 

sing with three groups. In October, she completed 

24 years as coordinator of the Prayer Line at her and 

husband Earl’s church. They are thankful to the 

Lord for continued good health and were hoping to 

take a two-week tour of Italy in late summer. 

Connie also shared: “After 77 years of a blessed relationship 

with a very special mom, I grieved her passing 

while at the same time celebrated her life [in 

October 2007]. She was 102.” Libby Hutchins 

Meek sent the good news that granddaughter Katie 

journeyed from Idaho to Boston a few months back 

to join the first-year class at Wheelock! Ann Harvie 

Ormond wrote, “My daughter and 7-year-old son 

live with me — fun but quite challenging. Same 

house, same school, and just as much activity!” 

In the spring, Mary Major Rubel and her husband 

were looking forward to a visit from Karin 

Stuth Armbrecht’s family. Karin died five years 

ago. “It will be fun to show them about Boston,” 

Mary wrote. Barbara Seif wrote that her college 

roommate, Mary MacKay Marcus, died in 2007 

of Alzheimer’s and pancreatic cancer. Barbara has 

retired from her job as a librarian in a Madison, 

WI, public school. 

Both Edith Winter Sperber and husband Bob 

are Brookline, MA, Town Meeting members and 

serve on a variety of committees. Edith is still a 

Brookline library trustee and has enjoyed that role. 

She also serves on the Temple Israel early education 

preschool, which she helped to establish. “For 

Wheelock, I chair the Marge Wolf Endowment 

Fund Grant Committee,” she wrote. “We have had 

some excellent proposals.” In addition, Edith and 

Bob are very involved with their seven grandchildren. 

Joan Smith Walter went on a fascinating 

land and water tour in Russia between St. Petersburg 

and Moscow in the fall of 2007. Betsy Luckey 

Whittelsey stays very busy with Garden Club, 

Habitat, and the Zoning Appeals Board of Mt. 

Lake Park, MD, along with a 2-year-old rescued 

poodle. “We go to doggie school to learn how to be 

well-mannered!” she wrote. She was looking forward 

to having her children and grandchildren help 

her celebrate her 80th birthday. 

1953 

Ruth Flink Ades 

It was a fun time for 10 of us who participated in 

our 55th Wheelock Reunion this past spring! It was 

sooo good to see everyone. 

We had our short class meeting where 

Winnie Magee Williams gave each of us a 

beautiful and colorful hand-painted silk scarf 

which we all put on immediately. We decided 

that our class would act as a “team” in making 

decisions, and the first and only decision we 

made at this time was to have a small class dues 

of $50 which each of us gave to our “leader,” 

Winnie, for her to use whenever necessary for the 

good of our class. Two young people from the 

Class of 1978 joined us while waiting for others 

to join them. They had hoped to “gain some wisdom” 

from us. We began to share 55-year-old 

memories, which were hysterical. I (Ruth) am 

not sure they learned much wisdom from us, but 

it was lots of fun. 

How wonderful it was for me to enjoy this day 

with my sister-in-law, Sherri Ades Falchuk ’68, 


CLASS NOTES 

and my daughter, Andrea Ades Woolner ’83. 

We had our pictures taken with President Jenkins- 

Scott before the Processional. I believe we were the 

only family present with three classes represented. 

Carrying class banners, we were accompanied by a 

bagpiper as we walked around the school campus 

to the Lucy Wheelock Auditorium. We assembled 

in the auditorium by class and enjoyed a program 

including awards and a great Wheelock video of 

modern life at our College. President Jackie spoke 

to us eloquently with great love and passion for 

the College and the great work we are doing 

throughout the world in helping families to have a 

better life through Wheelock’s caring and able students 

and graduates. Jackie referred to former 

Archbishop Desmond Tutu, who visited Wheelock 

last year and spoke to the College with his philosophy 

of ubuntu. She quoted him by saying, “I 

need you to be all that you can be, so that I can be 

all that I can be.” She continued to say, “We want 

each of you to reach your full potential, so that I 

can reach mine.” A great applause followed. 

As for our class, we all were very proud when 

Peggy Ann Benisch Anderson received one of 

the “Making a Difference” Service Awards, for her 

untiring effort to reach our class members along 

with all the work she does for our College. 

Congratulations once again, Peggy Ann! 

The afternoon for us was completed with a 

Reunion luncheon held in the foyer of the Activities 

Building since a new building is being constructed 

outside of our Classroom Building. Some of our 

classmates and husbands had attended Pops on 

Friday evening and the class dinner on Saturday 

evening in Wheelock’s Larsen Alumni Room. 

Wheelock is a very exciting place to visit if ever 

any of you are in the Boston area. Do make a visit. 

It will make you feel very proud to see our College 

developing physically, as well as intellectually, in the 

year 2008 — 55 years after we graduated! 

We passed on the news of the death of Peggy 

Ann Benisch Anderson’s husband, Carl, in our 

last issue. Later in the spring, Peggy Ann wrote, “He 

was planning to attend my 55th Reunion with me 

but was there in spirit. He thought a great deal of 

our school.” At the time, she was still “climbing out 

of paperwork with lawyers and accountants” but also 

wrote of enjoying her usual church work and some 

work related to having been recently elected to the 

Commission for the Aging in Weston, MA. 

Priscilla Buckingham Banghart had already 

spent three months away from home when Reunion 

time came up, so she couldn’t get away again, but 

she thought and reminisced about classmates that 

weekend. “My memories of our 50th Reunion 

motivated my desire to repeat the experience,” she 

wrote. “It was such an extraordinary experience to 

remeet these beautiful women, my former classmates, 

most of whom have touched the lives of children 

in some extraordinarily personal way. Thank 

you, Wheelock!” Priscilla continues to find joy 

working with children, in her case in a school system 

“struggling to shed its far-below-average academic 

status.” These days, instead of taking travel tours and 

European river cruises, she and husband Bruce go 

on mission trips to benefit Habitat for Humanity, 

and they have now gone on “builds” in Louisiana, 

Florida, South Carolina, and Mexico. 

“We are still laughing over past and present 

exploits,” Joan Halloran Corning wrote of her 

and former roommate Rita Martin McKenna’s 

desire to attend Reunion 2008 but inability to do 

so (calendar conflicts for both of them). Joan is 

enjoying two book groups and local “Meet the 

Author” monthly meetings. Ann Bevins Jewett 

thoughtfully checked in with the Alumni Relations 

Office shortly before Reunion. She is sorry that her 

terrible arthritis prevents her from coming to 

Reunions or writing to old Wheelock friends anymore, 

but she thinks of the College and her classmates 

often, she said, and keeps in touch with a 

few by phone. She enjoys life on the water in 

Westport, CT, attending meetings, doing things in 

the community, and seeing family. She welcomes 

visitors. Regina Daly Lundstrom and husband 

Bob are happy to be “finally settled” in Madison, 

WI, where they find the area lovely and have been 

made very welcome. They are enjoying being closer 

to their children and grandchildren in the Chicago 

area, but they admit that they miss Cape Cod and 

people there and hope to go back to visit soon. 

“I still have all my hair and teeth and most of my 

mind,” Polly Roberts Mahoney wrote. She spends 

most of the year living in Hamilton, NY — on the 

third hole of the Colgate University Seven Oaks Golf 

Club, so she plays lots of golf — but then as winter 

approaches takes off for Venice, FL. She has three 

grandchildren. Antoinette Johnson Ogden wrote: 

“The last couple of years have seen quite a few 

changes. Len has been diagnosed with cancer of the 

esophagus, and my eyesight and walking problems 

have not improved. Now the brighter side: Son Tom, 

who lost his wife to cancer four years ago, remarried 

a lovely girl last year; our Karen was married two 

years ago; and Tom’s daughter was married two 

weeks ago. We now have a 14-month-old baby with 

our 13th grandchild on the way. Daughter Sue continues 

to fight cancer after 17 years.” 

Libby Gerow Peterson will be the new 1953 

scribe. Thank you, Libby! 

1954 

Reunion 2009 

May 29-31 

Lois Barnett Mirsky 

Elizabeth Bassett Wolf 

Eileen O’Connell McCabe from Caldwell, NJ, 

had a cochlear implant procedure in July. It needed 

to be rescheduled because of emergency hip surgery 

in winter ’08. I (Chippy) had a brief phone 

conversation with Beverly Bell Cibbarelli from 

Keswick, VA, in the spring. It was wonderful to 

hear how she bravely manages her lung cancer, 

which now involves her hip, causing pain in her 

leg. A new chemo pill seems to be helping. We 

especially keep in our loving thoughts those class 

members who find that living day by day is their 

focus. Paige and Nicky Wheeler L’Hommedieu 

of Convent Station, NJ, celebrated their 50th 

anniversary on June 21. 

See you at our 55th Reunion! 

1956 

Wilma Kinsman Marr 

Annette Stevens Wilton 

Hi there, ’56ers! We may be approaching the 3/4- 

century mark, but we still are busy and involved. 

Julie Bigg Veazey just finished her second novel 

and is looking for a publisher, living part time in 

New Hampshire and now Florida, and enjoying life 

with her children and 12(!) grandchildren. Barbara 

Silverstein is still working seven days a week with 

her designs and personal appearances all across the 

country. Way to go! Ruth Bailey Papazian and 

husband George are still traveling — to Spain and 

Morocco this year, and Ruth went alone to Egypt 

last year. Adeline Bradlee Polese spent two 

months in Sanibel, FL, and will travel to the 

Galapagos in October. Inge Buechling Nichols 

was to meet with Gretchen Sterenberg and 

Frankie Streit Tripp in Ashland, OR, in 

September. She and sister Lori Buechling 

Schaefer ’64 visited Ghana, West Africa, and 

learned how to make beads! 

Barbara Ice Lake fell in love with Prescott, 

AZ, and bought a house there after selling her 

home in Washington state. She loves the sunshine 

after the rainy winters there. Barbara celebrated the 

summer solstice in Fairbanks, AK — another traveler! 

Penny Pennypacker Binswanger enjoys life 

on the Maine coast with family and friends — and 

visited with Ruth McKinley Herridge ’54 last 

year. Some relatives were to have a reunion with a 

93-year-old aunt in Switzerland in the summer. 

Other than usual aches and pains, she and Robert 

are well — BUT she sent a quote we should all 

learn: Oliver Wendell Holmes said, “We don’t forget 

how to play because we grow old — we grow 

old because we forget how to play.” Susan 

Grearson Fillmore had a mini reunion in Solana 

Beach, CA, with Pat Cotter Smart and Wilma 

Kinsman Marr in March, when she and husband 

Del took a trip to Southern California to visit 

friends and to see wildflowers in Anza-Borrego 

Desert State Park. Nancy Tilden Brown and husband 

David celebrated their 50th anniversary in 

August 2007. Like many others, they have their 

health problems — Nancy has Parkinson’s disease 


CLASS NOTES 

Wheelock Loses a Dedicated Champion 

Maureen Sheila Murphy Coakley ’58 

Those of us in the Wheelock community who knew Maureen 

Coakley during her many years of service to the College were 

saddened by her passing last August after a lengthy and courageous 

battle with cancer. 

Maureen’s service to the College included her leadership as a 

member of the Wheelock Corporation from 2004 to 2008 and on 

the board of trustees from 1996 to 2004, as well as through her 

role as an alumni trustee from 1991 to 1994. She was chair of 

the Annual Fund Major Gifts Committee, co-chair of the Major 

Donor Committee for the Promise of Growth Capital Campaign, 

an active fundraiser for Passion for Action urban scholarships, 

an Alumni Scholar donor, and a dedicated volunteer for many 

College programs and activities, including as a member of the 

Alumni Association Board and the Wheelock Wellesley Club. Her 

Wheelock leadership was widely recognized. In 1989, Maureen 

received a Wheelock Centennial Alumni Award, and in 1998, 

the College’s Distinguished Service Award. In 2003, she received 

the President’s Leadership Award and an honorary Doctor of Education degree. 

A dedicated volunteer in the child life program at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), Maureen enjoyed 

working with the Wheelock graduates who staffed the program. She was a tireless fundraiser for the College and 

worked especially hard with her class on every Reunion since graduation. She helped her 50th Reunion Committee 

set a fundraising record and was very disappointed that her illness kept her from attending. 

Maureen’s generous spirit was well-known and recognized at other Boston-area institutions to which she 

contributed. When she retired after 19 years of teaching service at the Tenacre Country Day School in Wellesley, a 

kindergarten classroom was named in her honor, and after more than 1,500 hours of service supporting children 

and families at MGH, she received their Distinguished Volunteer Award. 

Maureen was devoted to her husband, Ed; her four sons; her daughters-in-law; and her grandchildren. She was 

so pleased that one of her daughters-in-law, Pamela Senese ’86/’97MS, was a Wheelock graduate. She was a true 

friend who never lost track of friends from all areas of her life over many years. 

and rheumatoid arthritis — but still have a busy 

life. They enjoy their five children and 11 grandchildren, 

and they have had some wonderful trips 

in their motor home. A favorite spot is the Outer 

Banks of North Carolina. 

1959 

Sally Schwabacher Hottle 

1961 

Ginnie Colquitt Schroder 

Reunion 2009 

May 29-31 

I (Ginnie) think being class scribe is terrific! I’ve so 

enjoyed reading the news some of you have sent for 

this column. If you feel the same way, I do hope 

you’ll be a contributor for the spring edition. 

It seems that many of us are finding a variety of 

ways to get the most out of our retirements . . . or 

near retirements. Carolyn Kingsbury Sherbin 

and husband Arthur are living in an active adult 

community in Princeton Junction, NJ. All three of 

their children found their way into educational 

fields. Carolyn wonders if any of us live near her. 

She would love to hear from fellow classmates. 

Sara Jane Goldstein Drescher and husband Ira 

have just moved to a new home . . . three miles 

away from their old house! (“Don’t ask!” she says.) 

Their new address is 13473 Shell Beach Court, 

Delray Beach, FL 33446. Sara Jane’s big news, 

however, is that she and Ira have been selected as 

Volunteers of the Year at Women in Distress of Ft. 

Lauderdale, FL. The Dreschers established a fund 

in memory of Sara Jane’s daughter, who was murdered 

13 years ago. The fund helps women who 

have completed a period of counseling and have 

lived three months at a safe house begin to establish 

themselves independently. 

Writing from Upper Saddle River, NJ, Susan 

Schaefer Goodnough says she is busy with home 

duties and is taking a needed break from volunteer 

work and teaching. Sue is enjoying reading . . . 

when she finds the time. Ellen “Nickie” 

Nickerson Schmidt spends her time in photography, 

experimenting with double exposure and 

macro images. Retired husband Wolfgang is showing 

his photographs, along with Ellen, in galleries 

and art shows. Wolfgang has traveled to remote 

spots to find subjects among indigenous tribes for 

his theme “Sacred Faces.” Ellen has facilitated 

“Artist Way” groups and enjoys modern art and 

painting as well. She still dabbles in writing — especially 

short poems for handmade cards. Ellen also 

sent news of Gege Wilson Kingston. Gege continues 

creative pursuits . . . creating felt hats and 

crafting jewelry from recycled materials. She shows 

and sells her work at the website Etsy. You can 

Google Gege at sparklplenty. Both Gege and husband 

John enjoy singing in the local church chorus. 

After a long period of waiting, Judy Johnston 

Laurens has finally sold her condo and is in a new 

home at the Edgecliff . . . still in Cincinnati. In the 

spring she was unpacked and settling in at last. I 

can relate wholeheartedly to Judy’s delight in being 

able to move on, since my condo on Long Island 

has been on the market for two full years. Timing 

is everything! Avery Thompson Funkhouser 

sent two pieces of news. She had a second knee 

replacement in May and a new grandson, Jonas 

Funkhouser Stumpf, in August 2007. I think the 

latter item sounds like more fun! Hope your knee 

is healing well, Avery. 

For some of us, retirement from a paying job 

has meant a greater involvement in volunteerism. 

Mary Jo Severson Fenyn runs the local food 

bank where she lives in upstate New York, managing 

70 volunteers as well as handling scheduling, 

food collections, and grant writing. She does reserve 

some time in Florida during the winter months, 

however. Jaye Kwok is “somewhat” retired. She 

worked part time from October 2007 to January as 

a substitute administrator and then resumed her 

former position as coordinator for a year-round 

school program, except working fewer hours. In 

March, Jaye traveled to North Vietnam, Hainan 

Island, and the southernmost part of China and 

Singapore with her sister. Later in the spring, she 

attended the 30th conference of the National 

Association for Asian and Pacific American 

Education in Santa Monica, CA. 

Retirement is still to come for Elizabeth Han 

Fung, Ph.D., psychotherapist and social worker. 

She is teaching in Chicago and works at Children’s 

Memorial Hospital helping youngsters with hemophilia. 

Her job requires travel to Istanbul and other 

places. Husband Chris, a pathologist, has retired 

and is seeking a partner in crime! Elizabeth would 

love to hear suggestions from those of us who have 

retired and are successfully dealing with this life 

change. I hope this article has helped, Elizabeth! 

Thanks to each of you who took the time to 

write. I’m already looking forward to our next issue. 


CLASS NOTES 

And remember, our 50th Reunion is only three 

short years away (June 3-5, 2011)! Are you making 

plans to be there? 

1962 

Roberta Weiss Goorno 

Susan Bromfield Barber says her new area in San 

Francisco, North Beach, is closer to the water and 

has a “zillion good restaurants” and better weather. 

She and Kent have four grandchildren in the Bay 

Area and four in Colorado. They were on a committee 

to build a “columbarium” (in ancient Rome, a 

sepulchre with niches for cinerary urns) in the back 

garden of their church. The beautiful structure, a 

three-year project, was completed and dedicated last 

fall. Sabra Brown Johnson was leaving for a threeweek 

trip to China as she wrote, “Visiting Beijing, 

Xian, Wuhan, a four-day Yangtze River cruise, 

Guilin and Hong Kong.” Her other travels include 

“Peru (Machu Picchu) and Ecuador (Galapagos 

Islands — I learned to snorkel there)” and a 

Caribbean cruise to eight ports. In May, Sabra went 

to Minnesota to see her twin step-granddaughters 

graduate from St. Cloud State College and visited 

her son and his wife in Wisconsin. At home in 

California, she volunteers with the Assistance League 

of Diablo Valley, is an elder in her church for 

Children and Family Ministries, and tutors a 

Japanese girl in English. This August was Sabra’s 

“50th (gulp) high school reunion,” and she returned 

to her hometown in New York to attend it. 

Susan Powers Knapp was sorry to miss 

Reunion, but she and Ron were traveling in 

Scandinavia at the time. She loves living in 

Westport, MA, where the Westport rivers and 

Buzzards Bay make it “a very special place to live.” 

They see their children and grandchildren quite 

often. Susan is involved with UMass Dartmouth’s 

Second Half learning program — many interesting 

courses are offered and facilitated by area volunteers 

— and wrote of another great program offered 

by the Westport River Watershed Alliance to teach 

schoolchildren about the river and beach environment. 

She works with grades K-6. Her garden club 

is also involved with the school in planting seeds and 

bird programs. Susan thinks it wonderful that 

“Wheelock is growing and continuing to provide 

great opportunities in education.” Dorothy 

Loofbourow Nichols and Dave are “fortunate to be 

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in good health and to live in a lovely corner of the 

world” — Bellingham, WA. “Our favorite trip was 

to the Tuscany area of Italy,” she wrote, “and the second, 

to the north corner of Costa Rica. Our favorite 

ski areas are Whistler, B.C., and Sundance in Utah, 

but we love being home best of all.” Dottie keeps 

busy with grandchildren, bridge, walking, and 

church Sunday school work. Helen “Bonnie” Beck 

Noble and husband Wayne are now living in their 

diesel pusher motor home in Morgan Hill, CA (near 

San Jose), and managing an RV resort (www.coyotevalleyresort.com). 

“We love this lifestyle and have 

committed to this job for three years,” she wrote. 

“We also have our own business in RV park consulting.” 

Now wine connoisseurs, they have a wine cooler 

in their motor home and love going wine tasting. 

They visit their daughter in Scottsdale, AZ, as often 

as they can. Bonnie welcomes visitors. 

Two new activities gave Jane Saltzman 

Rosenberg great pleasure last winter while at Pelican 

Sound in Estero, FL. One was a watercolor painting 

class, which she planned to continue when she 

returned home to Gloucester, MA. She also became 

certified as an ESL tutor and worked with a student 

from Mexico, a fulfilling experience for both of 

them. She and her husband had a wonderful visit 

with their newest grandchild, Elena Sophia, and her 

parents. She met Judy Green Chaloff at the 

Wheelock alumni luncheon in Naples last winter. 

Brenda Richmond Verduin-Dean was widowed in 

1999 and remarried in 2004. She and Herb traveled 

a lot between their three homes — his on Cape Cod, 

her apartment in NYC, and one together in 

Worcester, MA — before deciding recently to give 

up the Cape one. Back with family and reunited 

with old (high school!) friends in Worcester, she says 

her “life has come full circle!” 

I (Roberta) have a fifth grandchild, Ariel 

Edward, named for both granddads (Edward for my 

late husband). This year I became a Florida resident, 

though I will still spend half the year in New Jersey, 

nearer to family. My eldest grandson had his bar 

mitzvah in April. We are celebrating with a trip to 

Rapid City, SD: gold mines, a buffalo safari, underground 

caverns, the lore of cowboys, pioneers and 

Indians, Mt. Rushmore, fossils, Crazy Horse sculpture, 

and a Minuteman silo into which you can 

descend! (I hope I survive all this fun!) 

Great to see some new names in our Class Notes 

section! Keep sharing, all of you! 

1963 

Jane Kuehn Kittredge 

What a wonderful time the Class of 1963 had at our 

45th Reunion! It was so much fun reconnecting and 

reminiscing with our classmates. I (Jane) will try to 

give a capsule update from those in attendance with 

news not specific to the Reunion to be reported at 

another time. 

The construction of the new Campus Center 

and Student Residence is ahead of schedule and a 

real asset to Wheelock. The facility will be multifunctional 

and certainly will be made use of by our 

50th Reunion. Our class processed to the luncheon 

carrying yellow umbrellas which we felt might even 

be needed, but the weather held for us. At the class 

meeting, Nan Ware Morrow and Zelinda 

Makepeace Douhan agreed to co-chair our 50th 

with others willing to assist as before. Ellie 

Starkweather Snelgrove will be anxious to have any 

Wheelock photos sent to her as she plans to assemble 

a scrapbook. We missed Ellie, who was on a trip 

to Mexico. She also took a cruise on the Danube in 

November 2007, and she keeps active subbing and 

working with the seniors. We also missed our class 

agent, Lynn Sanchez Paquin, who was unable to fly 

due to a vertigo condition which she has suffered 

with since her wonderful cruise to the South Pacific. 

She was planning to operate Crescent Cottage in 

Block Island this summer as usual and was looking 

forward to improved days. Also responding and 

wishing classmates well were Suzi Dimmitt, who 

had two sons married this summer, and Susan 

Memery Bruce, who was attending her nephew’s 

wedding in Florida. 

Regrets came from Marjorie Sanek Platzker, 

who had work obligations in California, where she 

continues as associate director of Skidmore, Owings 

and Merrill LLP, a commercial interior design firm. 

She wrote, “I direct a wide variety of commercial 

interior design projects in the areas of media, law, 

financial services, and hospitality. Arnold continues 

his pediatric pulmonology position at USC Keck 

School of Medicine and Children’s Hospital Los 

Angeles. Our children both live in the New York 

area. David and wife Susan are in the art world. 

Kate Platzker is 8 and enjoys life in Soho. Liz, a 

fashion designer, is married to Steve Kawut, a lung 

transplant pulmonologist and pulmonary hypertension 

expert. Liz and Steve will be relocating to 

Philadelphia this fall.” Jackie Taft Lowe is traveling 

internationally with her husband, who is on sabbatical 

and teaching in Australia and Scotland, while 

Judy Thompson Seeley and Larry still make their 

home in Louisiana and were unable to come to 

Boston in May. Nancy Clark Migneault and Al are 

enjoying a busy retirement with three delightful 

grandchildren. Nancy works with hospice and seems 

“traveled out” after a month in Africa. She entertains 


CLASS NOTES 

Noel Stoodley Gray ’64 and husband Don (right) welcomed Tina Morris Helm ’64/’98MS and husband Bill for a visit at their lakeside cottage in 

Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia, in the fall of 2007. 

many groups with a PowerPoint of her exciting travels. 

We encourage all to join us in 2013 and do try 

to locate former classmates, so we can really celebrate 

in grand fashion! 

The highlight of the weekend was the 

Saturday evening dinner graciously hosted by 

Nan Ware Morrow and husband Bob at their 

lovely home in Wellesley. The social hour was 

enjoyed in a beautifully landscaped outside setting 

and a delightful catered meal was served 

from tables festively decorated by our hostess. 

We were later joined by President Jackie Jenkins- 

Scott and her husband, both of whom are so 

amicable and interesting. The evening ended 

with many hugs, and fond memories will remain 

of our time shared together. 

These folks participated in some or all of the 

Reunion activities: 

Gloria Maravell Clark loves her new career as 

an occupational therapist in home health care. She 

has a 1-year-old grandson. Veronica “Roni” 

Connolly Cronin retired after 37 years of teaching 

and subs for an adult English as a Second 

Language program. She is on the board of directors 

and chair of the education and program committees 

of the Framingham (MA) Historical 

Society and Museum. Heather Hughes Dahlberg 

and Richard enjoy their six grandchildren and 

weekend condo at Round Hill, close to Rhode 

Island. Zelinda “Zee” Makepeace Douhan 

’63/’75MS and John love retirement in South 

Dartmouth, MA. Both worked on and completed 

a 350-page family genealogy. Zee is on the board 

of directors for her family cranberry/land development 

company and is involved with Grace 

Episcopal Church. Peggy Fenner is forever smiling 

and talented with writing and handcrafted 

jewelry. She displayed some at Reunion. (Some of 

us own her unique pieces!) 

Susan Yaffe Freedman and Larry find condo living 

in Needham, MA, just great and are always busy 

with family and various activities. Barbara 

Hamilton Gibson retired to Cape Cod, where she 

is active in Rotary, the local Wheelock alumni club, 

Eldredge Public Library, and St. Christopher’s 

Church. She is taking watercolor classes and has had 

work displayed. 

As for Jane Kuehn Kittredge, I am still your 

scribe and am now working on my 50th high school 

reunion committee. Dave and I had a trip to St. 

Thomas and St. John in May. Nan Ware Morrow 

and Bob had a much-deserved trip to Italy in May. 

In addition to being on her 50th high school 

reunion committee, she is always busy with civic 

work and helping friends and entertaining. Elsie 

Kellogg Morse had some amazing hikes in 

Patagonia with Doug this year. She takes a trip a 

year but continues and loves tutoring. Fran Nichols 

and Bill travel between Massachusetts and 

Washington state. Still a photographer, Fran is 

involved in numerous exciting projects. 

Another classmate who pursues her artwork 

and displayed her talent at Reunion is Carolyn 

Stanton Peirce, who lives in Maryland (close to 

D.C.). She teaches art part time at St. Patrick’s 

Episcopal Day School and is on the board of 

directors of Samaritan Ministry, which serves the 

homeless and needy. She summers in Maine with 

children and grandchildren. Marthanne 

“Marty” Uhlinger Pressey and Tim have fun 

with their children and grandchildren and enjoy 

summers in Maine. Anne Little Reiley and 

Hank have been married for almost 45 years, and 

Anne has been working in real estate since 1978. 

They have two children nearby along with three 

grandchildren. Alice “Pixie” Parke Watson has 

three children and six “grands.” She substitute 

teaches and does some retail work. Alice is the 

class Annual Fund liaison (contribute GENER- 

OUSLY, especially for our 50th). 

Even after 31 years of work in an internal medicine 

office, Laurie Nettleton Watson has no retirement 

plans but travels a lot — Florida, Mexico, and 

cruises. She often “grandparents” some of the four 

girls and two boys. Barbara “Cookie” Cohen 

Weiner lives in Sarasota, FL, and attends Wheelock 

alumni meetings there. She visited with her daughter 

in New Hampshire after Reunion. 

A newspaper clipping came to the Alumni 

Relations Office about Judy Hughes Arreola. She 

has worked in the Sarasota, FL, real estate market 

for 24 years and has now formed a new partnership 

with another realtor and is associated with Hunt 

Real Estate ERA. 

I (Jane) am not a seasoned roving reporter, so 

forgive me if some of the information is not 100 

percent accurate. (Is it ever in the media?) Thanks so 

much for keeping in touch. 

1964 

Phyllis Forbes Kerr 

Roberta Gilbert Marianella 

1965 

Mary Barnard O’Connell 

Marsha M-Geough Vaughan 

Jane Dexter Greenspan, a psychologist practicing 

in Jamaica Plain, MA, writes: “I realized when I was 

at Wheelock that I was more interested in psychopathology 

than I was in education. Still I treasure 

a lot of what I learned. Mrs. Keough taught me to 

write and to love the process. Mr. Collins 

announced that the best BSO seats were on either 

ends of the first balcony, so my husband and I have 

sat there for over 30 seasons! To have had so much 

hands-on experience with children in such a wide 

variety of settings satisfied my passion to see and do, 

and those experiences stood me in good stead in 

graduate school.” In the summertime, Jane lives in 

Wellfleet, MA, where she reads, gardens, writes, and 

swims to her heart’s content. In the wintertime, she 

is active in a small Episcopal church that prepares 

men and women for the priesthood. 

1966 

Reunion 2009 

May 29-31 

Margery Conley Mars 

Pam Miller Callard is teaching at Beauvoir School 

on the National Cathedral campus in Washington, 

D.C. In the summer of 2007, Pam had a travel grant 

to spend time in Tanzania teaching children as a volunteer 

with Cross Cultural Solutions: “I lived with 

26 other volunteers in a small fishing village on the 

Indian Ocean. . . . We also went to the border of 

Kenya and Uganda to visit a family we knew. . . . I 

have always wanted to go to East Africa ever since 

Wheelock days when, with Dr. Chasdi, we studied 

the Kikuyu people of Kenya. So I was inspired many 


CLASS NOTES 

Alumni whose classes end in 4 and 9 — 

Your 2009 Reunion is coming up! 

C 

ome see what’s new on campus (you’ll be amazed). Hear what 

great things your alma mater is accomplishing (you’ll be 

proud). Talk with other alumni about the good old days (you’ll laugh). Have a 

fabulous time (you’ll feel great). Gather your friends and start planning for the 

weekend of May 29-31, 2009. 

years ago!” Laurie Knowles Carter’s biggest and 

most exciting news is the birth of her first grandchild 

in January 2008, Madeline Grace Carter, who lives 

in Vermont. Needless to say, there will be many 

cross-country trips in the near future. Daughter 

Sarah has returned to San Francisco after 10 years in 

England and is at San Francisco State in the MFA 

program in creative writing. Laurie wrote, “We are 

celebrating the California Supreme Court decision 

allowing gay and lesbian couples to marry. I am president 

of our local PFLAG chapter and serve on the 

speaker’s bureau. Recently I started substituting in 

our town and in the district where I worked as a 

librarian. I find I am much more relaxed and patient 

than I was in my younger years.” She and Bob have 

been spending time at their Ashland, OR, vacation 

home. Nancy Wicke Demarest and husband Bob 

celebrated the 40th anniversary of their wedding in 

June. “We have retired yet again, this time from the 

B&B business we have run for the last 25 years at 

our cabin on our acreage in the foothills of the 

Virginia Mountains,” she wrote. “We spend as much 

time as possible at our cottage near the Chesapeake 

Bay and love traveling in our 21-foot motor home.” 

Hope Binner Esparolini sends greetings from 

Minnesota! She has been retired from U.S. Bank for 

over a year and is now enjoying some volunteer 

commitments as well as some travel. She serves on 

the board of St. Mary’s University (where she got her 

master’s in 1997) and uses much of her 

business/organizational development background as 

an adviser to the director of the Human 

Development Program. She is also still very involved 

with her church in downtown Minneapolis. Now 

that her husband’s health issues are under control, 

they will be traveling more, including a trip this fall 

to their favorite town in Tuscany. Lucy Olsen 

Fischer went on a trip up the northern California 

coast, Point Reyes National Seashore and Bodega 

Bay, and through the wine country, and then headed 

inland for a visit with Wendy Stuek Voit and husband 

Dave. Wendy is still tutoring students of various 

ages. The Voits are building a beautiful log 

home in the mountains, and of course, the conversation 

included talk of their three grandchildren. Lucy 

shares visits with her mom often and continues her 

studies in Spanish. She wrote: “I remember the terror 

in Betty Bobp’s class freshman year when we had 

to get up and do presentations. Well, hard to 

believe, but my volunteer work for my Audubon 

chapter involves ME giving slide show presentations 

to garden clubs. She would be sooooo proud of me. 

Heck — I’M proud of me!” 

Susan Leeb Fuhrer and husband Jack, with 

much anticipation, will be dividing their year 

between Scottsdale, AZ, and Kalamazoo, MI. 

Their lovely new home in the Midwest is designed 

with Sue’s limitations in mind and was featured in 

the Kalamazoo Parade of Homes in June, just prior 

to their move-in. Best of all, it is just a short drive 

to visit daughter Carolyn and granddaughters 

Emily and Kira! Kay “Wink” Winkler Page has 

been in India and Jamaica this past year. In India 

she participated in a center that brings children off 

the streets and begins an education in reading and 

math. In Jamaica she trained teachers on better 

methods of teaching effective reading as well as the 

link between fourth-grade reading levels and people 

landing in prison. Leave it to her to find a way 

to escape from the long old-fashioned Maine winter 

with huge accumulations of snow that we had 

this past year! 

“With mixed emotions,” Heather Robinson 

Reimann retired this past June after 26 years of 

teaching. “My husband, Joe, and I bought a 40- 

foot RV and dubbed it ‘Boldly Going Nowhere.’ 

We are renting our two houses and off we go.” 

Son Tucker and son-in-law Justan are in Kuwait 

for a year, having left their wives and Heather’s 

three grandsons. They are based in Newport 

News, VA. Donna Kazanjian Scribner and her 

husband went to Turkey visiting places of antiquities. 

While there, they had a reunion with a 

lady who had rented their Boston apartment 

years ago while her son was being treated for a 

hip abnormality at Mass. General. Shortly after 

getting back, they left for China with a tour 

group. Natalie Palmer Stafford wrote that she 

continues to do oil and watercolor paintings, and 

she has a new studio in back of her home and a 

website — www.echohillcards.com. “If anyone is 

near the art fairs I do (listed on my website), 

please stop by and say hi,” she wrote. Patricia 

“Pepper” Wild had her book “Way Opens: A 

Spiritual Journey” released on May 1. By June, 

she was already working on the next one! 

I (Margery) am still enjoying my watercolor 

painting. I have just changed my website from 

showcase to e-commerce. I invite you to check 

out my online store at www.countryginghamdesigns.com. 

I am honored to design the tea menus 

for Maine’s First Lady that benefit the renovations 

and restorations of the Blaine House, the 

governor’s mansion. At one of the teas, I met 

Gloria Williams Ladd ’65, and we had a pleasant 

and unexpected reunion. We had both 

worked in the Admissions Office while at 

Wheelock and had not seen one another since 

those earlier days! My family and I continue to 

enjoy traveling — this past year to the Pacific 

Northwest and Southwest as well as a cruise to 

southern Caribbean islands. 

1968 

Cynthia Carpenter Sheehan 

Martha Mulcahy recently married Raymond 

Farrell, and they live in Sandwich, MA. Martha is 

a school psychologist in the Martha’s Vineyard 

Public Schools. 

1969 

Jewelry-maker and potter Cheri Breeman had a 

chance to talk about her art, as well as her teaching, 

traveling, and other hobbies, to a Summit 

Daily News (Frisco, CO) reporter who did a 

story on her back in March. Feeling that “learning 

through the process is more important than 

the outcome,” Cheri loves that art fulfills her 

need to be creative and gives her a sense of 

accomplishment. Right now she’s especially interested 

in incorporating the two mediums of pottery 

and beadwork, and she does so by working 

holes into her ceramics in order to put things like 

handspun yarn through them. An early childhood 

special education preschool teacher in the 

Summit School District until last June, Cheri did 

a lot of open-ended art with the children and 

says she would love to teach art. She currently 

has a garage studio and dreams of setting up her 

own full studio someday. 

1971 

Reunion 2009 

May 29-31 

Gwynne DeLong 

Karen Srulowitz Berman is still teaching computer 

classes and now also teaches eighth-grade U.S. 

history. She is a walking coach for Team in Training 

and does three half marathons a year. Her next one 

is the Mayor’s Midnight Run in Alaska. Jane Boyle 

Cohn and Cathi Calitri Terry keep up via e-mail 

and recently got together in Manhattan. Jane and 

her husband split their time between Richmond, 


CLASS NOTES 

VA, and Naples, FL. Last winter Jane attended a 

lovely Wheelock lunch at the Port Royal Club in 

Naples and enjoyed hearing all the news from 

President Jenkins-Scott. So many exciting changes to 

the Wheelock campus! 

It’s been a great year in Arizona for Elizabeth 

Leydon. This spring she and I (Gwynne) (and 

two of my family members) got together for a 

visit in scenic Sedona. Beautiful red rocks, good 

food and shopping. 

I enjoy spending time with friends and family, 

especially new granddaughter Samantha. Dave and I 

continue to cruise — last winter enjoying time in 

Key West with friends from Canada and then cruising 

the Caribbean. I am an active member of my 

local League of Women Voters’ Working Group on 

Girls, modeled after the U.N. group; this year we 

are working toward a solution to the problem of 

bullying among girls in our community. We 

developed a great resource list, so if anyone wants 

information on books for adults and/or children, 

websites, or programs that work, I’m happy to share 

(Gdelong528@aol.com). 

1972 

Bonnie Paulsen Michael 

Mary Dickerson Pierson and Peter love their 

home in the mountains (Grafton, NY) and 

enjoy teaching together at Pine Cobble School 

in Williamstown, MA. Son Chase continues to 

live in Woodstock, NY, and granddaughter Isa is 

9! They love being so close and having her come 

for visits. Josh and Kei live in Southborough, 

MA, and the family gathers together regularly. 

Lynn Geronemus Bigelman wrote that she still 

loves being an elementary school principal after 

eight years. She is also the president of the 

Michigan Reading Association. All of this, and 

she is engaged to a wonderful guy named Karl. 

Son Joey was married two years ago to Sharone, 

and they now have a little boy and live only 15 

minutes away. (Lucky grandma!) Lynn wrote, 

“I was so happy that Vicki Caplan Milstein 

attended my son’s wedding. I was thrilled that 

Wendy Dubins Perlmutter was at both my 

children’s weddings. Wendy and I attended 

Vicki’s daughter’s wedding last March in Boston, 

where we also got to visit with Priscilla Resevic 

Cosgrove. Congratulations to my roommate, 

Vicki Milstein, for being named Brookline’s 

Woman of the Year!” 

As for me (Bonnie), I still loving teaching and 

am finishing my second year teaching fourth 

grade at Westtown School near Philadelphia. 

Westtown is a Quaker school and it is just the 

perfect place for me. It’s great to be back in the 

East where we’re a little closer to our children and 

my parents. This June the entire family gathered 

together as our daughter Ali and her partner, 

Mike, celebrated their commitment to each other. 

The party lasted for four rollicking fun days! 

I have seen Karen Metanias Riordan several 

times since moving east. In the past few years, she 

and Ed have celebrated the marriages of two of their 

daughters and the birth of a new granddaughter! 

Oh, and they won a new car, too! Cat Austin 

Franks wrote at Christmas that she, husband Will, 

and their sons are all very happy living in St. Croix. 

The boys are beginning to hit college age, and the 

first has come to the Northeast for school. 

If you’ve enjoyed reading about a few of your 

classmates, send news and photos so we can share 

in your lives! 

1973 

Jaci Fowle Holmes 

Regina Frisch Lobree 

Marilyn Levick Fyfe is still teaching third-, 

fourth-, and fifth-graders in Kittery, ME, through 

Title I. She will have five grandchildren by the time 

you are reading this. Wendy Millett (Holden) 

Manninen wrote: “After nine years of teaching in 

Stoneham, MA, and as a result of my efforts in 

increasing literacy skills in music and motion, 

I was recognized by the Massachusetts Reading 

Association as a Literacy Champion through an 

awards program sponsored by the Massachusetts 

Literacy Foundation and Verizon Foundation.” 

“After 15 years as director of congregational care 

in our church,” Cathy “Cece” Cuetara Nichols 

wrote, “I was looking for a transition that would be 

challenging yet draw on the skills I had developed 

as a teacher and serving people in crisis. I recently 

became the first funeral celebrant coordinator in the 

USA. Lessons learned at Wheelock serve me well as 

I meet with families, gather info, grasp the legacy 

they want to convey, design a creative memorial 

service, and function as the officiant at the service. 

If interested in a second-half career, contact 

cnichols@buschfuneral.com.” Carol Bigelow Riggs 

is still teaching morning kindergarten but took a 

new position as an elementary master teacher in the 

afternoon. She works at a K-12 charter school and 

is the elementary administrator. Carol had dinner 

with Ann Kopp ’73/’80MS and her new husband 

and son in January. Sally Bechert Robinson finished 

her 33rd year in Mansfield, MA, and returned 

to first grade in September after eight years in a 

looping 1-2 program. 

As I (Regina) sit here at my computer sharing 

these comments with you from our classmates, I 

am a week away from leaving for Boston, seeing 

friends, seeing the new campus, and walking 

around the familiar fun spots of Boston. I am 

most looking forward to seeing my roommates 

Leezie and Mary again. I am completing my 

34th year of teaching and my 12th year at my 

school in Winston-Salem. I am still teaching my 

2-3 loop. 

1974 

Laura Keyes Jaynes 

Nancy Bailin Careskey had a joy-filled reunion 

with Amy Friedman Doran ’75 at Amy’s beautiful 

Florida home. Nancy works as a children’s developmental 

therapist and attorney advocate in the 

area of special education law. Daughter Holly graduated 

from Brown University and is a medical student 

at Tufts in the MD/MPH program. Husband 

Josh is a Tufts Medical alum, so it’s “all in the 

family.” Nancy was looking forward to visiting 

Wheelock in September after attending Holly’s 

“white coat” ceremony at Tufts. 

1975 

Reunion 2009 

May 29-31 

Leslie Hayter Maxfield 

I (Leslie) have been the county director for 

Oregon Child Development Coalition in 

Klamath County (OR) for two years. Prior to 

that, I was the education manager since June 

2002. OCDC is the grantee for Migrant Head 

Start in Oregon. I love my work and have 

learned so much about the strength of migrant 

families. I was a co-presenter on Quality 

Preschool Literacy Environments at the National 

Migrant Seasonal Head Start Conference in 

Washington, D.C., in February. I was also a 

member of a Bruce Perry Training of Trainers 

Learning the Strengths of 

Migrant Families 

Ilove my work and have learned so 

much about the strength of migrant 

families. I was a co-presenter on Quality 

Preschool Literacy Environments at the 

National Migrant Seasonal Head Start 

Conference in Washington, D.C., in February. 

I was also a member of a Bruce 

Perry Training of Trainers program in 

our county. I am so proud that our Early 

Childhood Community dedicated funds 

and priority to having Dr. Perry work 

with us for a year. We are making 

inroads in the public schools and juvenile 

justice system.” 

— Leslie Hayter Maxfield ’75 


CLASS NOTES 

program in our county. I am so proud that our 

Early Childhood Community dedicated funds 

and priority to having Dr. Perry work with us for 

a year. We are making inroads in the public 

schools and juvenile justice system. I became a 

grandmother in November 2006 and now have 

two grandchildren. My daughter is a wonderful 

mother. I am sure my Wheelock education had 

played a part in strengthening her desire to 

become a teacher and support the next generation. 

Not to mention that her grandpa is her primary 

child care provider! For the past few 

months I have been in contact with Lanie Link 

Beck. We discovered each other on the Internet 

and started off where we ended 30 years ago! It 

has been so much fun! 

1976 

Angela Barresi Yakovleff 

I always welcome the time I have to get out 

some news of classmates to all. This year we’ve 

heard from only a few, but it’s great news 

nonetheless. Be checking your e-mail in the 

upcoming years so you can get news to us electronically. 

Carolee Fucigna is in her seventh 

year teaching pre-K at the Nueva School in 

Hillsborough, CA. Her teacher research is centered 

on dramatic play. Maryanne Galvin was 

one of four Boston-area filmmakers who 

screened their short films at an event held at 

Wheelock back in March in honor of SWAN 

(Support Women Artists Now) Day, an international 

celebration of women artists. Her What’s 

Going On Up There? was shown, and she later 

participated in an audience Q&A. Patty Grief 

Sammataro had exciting news. She and Tony 

have a beautiful new granddaughter, Alexandria. 

Patty continues to teach at Beth El Nursery 

School in New London, CT — her 16th year! 

I (Angela) am teaching fourth grade this year 

(2007-08). I’ll loop to fifth grade next year and keep 

my class. I’ve been teaching at Whitingham School in 

Jacksonville, VT, for 30 years! Matthew and I celebrated 

our 25th anniversary in July 2007. We put off 

celebrating until February, when we visited Mexico. I 

had pleasant memory flashes of my Wheelock winter 

term traveling there with Bob Meredith and five 

other students. Our son, Alexander, is now in 

Brooklyn teaching preschoolers to play soccer and 

picking up an occasional acting part. Amie, our 

daughter, is happily studying nursing at University of 

Southern Maine. I keep in regular touch with Karen 

Berg Ezzi, Dale Zabriskie Pomerantz, and Melinda 

Kaiser. Karen now lives in Arizona. Her youngest 

daughter, Allison, graduated from Michigan State in 

May. Son Matthew is self-employed. Sarah will be 

married on the Cape in September 2009. Now Karen 

and Dave are truly empty nesters. Dale has been 

spending time at book signings of her newly published 

book, Secrets of Great Parents. I hope next year 

I’ll hear from many more of you. Reunion is only 

another three years away! 

1979 

Linda Henderson Standley 

Jody Norskey Lary is still teaching eighth-grade 

language arts at Camden (ME) Middle School. 

1981 

Reunion 2009 

May 29-31 

Colleen Miller Rumsey 

Kathy Walsh Berube started a new career in April 

as director of volunteer services at Maine Medical 

Center in Portland. She recently moved within 

South Portland. Laura Shustak Bradford has 

been working in the preschool field since graduation 

and is currently the teacher/director of Clinton 

Path Preschool in Brookline, MA. 

Now “experiencing the empty nest” in 

Norwich, CT, Dawn Lawlor Brown wrote of 

enjoying her work as an early intervention and 

toddler teacher at Connecticut College Children’s 

Program, an early childhood laboratory school for 

the college. Dawn enjoyed going to our 25th 

Reunion and keeps in touch with Nancy Lyle 

Burlingame. Roger Cacchiotti wrote: “I turned 

50 this year and celebrated the event with my partner 

and family at the Eliot Hotel in Boston, my 

past professor, Dora Ullian’s family hotel. It was 

wonderful to see her again since Wheelock College 

in 1981. My career is in professional theater, real 

estate, and teaching. Currently, I am teaching at 

Tony Bennett’s high school for the performing 

arts in NYC, and as an adjunct professor for La 

Guardia Community College. I use my experience 

in theater and my skills from Wheelock College in 

special education to meet the demands at the high 

school serving as a drama and resource room 

teacher. I teach English at the college level. I live 

between New York City; Wellfleet, Cape Cod; and 

Tyler Hill, PA — I need all three environments to 

survive. I would love to hear from others who still 

remember me.” 

The Alumni Relations Office apologizes to 

Marian McAfee Facciani, whose news was lost 

and who couldn’t be reached during the summer to 

get replacement news into this issue. Jacqui 

Borstein Gorlick wrote in the spring, when she 

was finishing up her third year as principal of 

Nunaka Valley, a pre-K through grade 6 school in 

Anchorage, AK. “Nunaka allows me to use all I 

learned at Wheelock about ECE as I have three 

classes of preschool students with disabilities,” she 

wrote. Jacqui and her “best friend and husband,” 

Terry, have a cabin on 10 acres on a river on the 

Thank you, 

Wheelock professors! 

My Wheelock education prepared 

me for training staff in the everchanging 

environment of health care. 

Many of the lessons taught by Wheelock 

teachers can be adapted to the 

adult population. Patience, compassion, 

an eagerness to learn new things 

and teach others were lessons learned 

at Wheelock that I take with me every 

day of my life, whether in my job, my 

home, or as a parent of college- and 

elementary-age children! Thank you, 

Wheelock professors!” 

— Robin Michel Motyka ’81 

Kenai Peninsula where they go to relax and fish in 

the summer. 

“I have unfortunately never fulfilled my dream 

to teach at the elementary level,” wrote Robin 

Michel Motyka, “but having a young son later in 

life has given me the opportunity to be a classroom 

parent volunteer for many years. I have had a very 

rewarding career managing a large Boston orthopedic 

surgical practice where my teaching background 

provided the foundation for assisting patients during 

a difficult time in their lives. In addition, my 

Wheelock education prepared me for training staff 

in the ever-changing environment of health care. 

Many of the lessons taught by Wheelock teachers 

can be adapted to the adult population. Patience, 

compassion, an eagerness to learn new things and 

teach others were lessons learned at Wheelock that I 

take with me every day of my life, whether in my 

job, my home, or as a parent of college- and elementary-age 

children! Thank you, Wheelock professors!” 

In addition to 7-year-old Brandon, Robin 

has Scott, 20, and Mikaela, 18. 

1982 

A+ for Barbara Madison Ripps! She took Lori Ann 

Saslav’s idea about sharing memories of college days 

(from the March appeal for Class Notes news) and 

ran with it! Here are her reminiscences: “Having a 

triple and using the closet as a bedroom, opening our 

windows to hear the Yankees and Red Sox play at 

Fenway Park, going to Phi Gamma Pi (Northeastern 

fraternity) for their parties and the Northeastern 

football games, going down to Government Center 

every weekend to shop/look around/eat, being asked 

to come to see TV pilots and rate them at a local TV 

studio, going on the Booze Cruise, learning how to 


CLASS NOTES 

fall asleep when others were watching TV in your 

room, dealing with people who had boyfriends come 

from other schools, drowning out the sound of ‘the 

pit’ in Peabody Hall when you were trying to sleep 

and/or work, going down to the dining hall in your 

robe and not caring what other people think, making 

that LONNNNNG walk in the snow to student 

teach, teaching famous people’s children and treating 

them as you would any other child, making your 

own games/activities for your student teaching placement, 

waiting at the bus stop for a very long time in 

the cold weather until someone you knew came 

along and asked you if you wanted a ride, going to 

Swampscott to the beach when it was 55 degrees, sitting 

out on the lawn (now Winsor parking lot) when 

it was nice with your backrest to get a tan (only to 

find out the next day that you were really sunburned), 

having wine and cheese every weekend with 

your friends, visiting the houses of your friends while 

being away from home, learning what it was like to 

walk around with a nickel in your purse, being 

responsible for your own checking account, introducing 

friends to your boyfriend’s brother (only to 

find out in the years to come that they were to be 

married), learning how to live in a big city, making 

Jewish meals for my friends and connecting with 

other Jewish people on and off campus, taking risks 

that I would not normally have taken, learning to be 

independent and think for myself, socializing with 

the MCP boys in Peabody, going to Cape Cod for 

the weekend with friends, seeing how much you 

could shove into your parents’ car when coming in 

August and leaving in May, cooking for a 90-yearold 

judge several times a week and feeling honored to 

do that, asking to be escorted home by one of the 

men on campus (through ‘Pervert Park’), shopping at 

the Coop, walking home from a BU party at ‘The 

Zoo,’ going to an MIT party not realizing that the T 

stopped at a certain time during the night and asking 

a policeman to drive you as close to Wheelock as 

possible, making great friendships, learning from 

great professors, and having a lifetime of experiences 

to share with others.” 

1983 

Carol Rubin Fishman 

Greetings, ’83ers! I (Carol) just returned from 

Reunion, and I’m ready to go back immediately! A 

small but dedicated group of 12 was there, plus 

four husbands who became “one of us” within minutes! 

We all TRULY wish all of you had come! It 

was wonderful talking with everyone, whether special 

friend, classmate, or spouse, to hear about the 

similarities and differences our lives hold! PLEASE 

join us in five years! 

Sandy Hansen Hill was “glad to see all the 

Wheelock gals at Reunion 2008!” she wrote. She is 

still teaching first grade in Littleton, MA, and has 

Judy Jacobs Albertine ’83 (standing, left) and husband Jeff (seated, 

right) with son Scott and daughter Jessie around Christmas 2007 

two beautiful children, ages 8 and 17. They enjoy 

traveling and attending sporting events. Sandy had 

made plans to meet up with Nancy Cutler Ward 

at Reunion. They’ve been in touch all these years. 

Nancy’s husband, Walter, is a fisherman/lobsterman! 

“I get fresh seafood constantly, a definite benefit to 

living near the water,” she wrote. Their blended 

family is doing great, and Nancy seems so happy! 

Before Reunion she wrote, “I am working as a case 

manager for early intervention services. After living 

and teaching in Georgia for 19 years, it’s hard to 

believe I’ve been in Maine for seven years. I did 

miss the fall in New England.” 

“Made it to Reunion!” wrote Mary Sienkiewicz 

Minalga. “It was awesome! It was great to reconnect 

with our class. Please know you were sorely missed! 

We hope to see more old friends at our 30th! Bob 

and I will celebrate our 21st anniversary in August 

2008.” Mary joined Laurel Massey Leibowitz and 

me (Carol) at a bed and breakfast owned by Lynne 

Wyluda Beasley ’66. We had a delightful time 

catching up and looking at pictures into the wee 

hours! I am substitute teaching (and LOVING IT!) 

while Rae (15) and Josh (11) are in school, so that I 

can be available to them. Laurie Wartenberg Finkle 

and I try to get together at least once a year and e- 

mail frequently. She missed Reunion due to a Finkle 

family wedding (don’t they know better?). Laurie is 

also substituting at her local elementary school. We 

also tried to get Carrie Sobel Rubin and Deborah 

Wurgler to join us, but obstacles (pet sitting and illness) 

prevented it. Andrea Ades Woolner made it 

for the parade of classes, along with her mother and 

aunt, also in reunion classes, and her nearly 2-yearold 

son, JT. “After 17 years of teaching first grade, I 

am loving every minute of being a stay-at-home 

mom!” Andrea wrote. 

Susie Marr continues to teach preschool in the 

San Francisco area. Recently she hosted a Wheelock 

alumni event at her preschool. She coaxed Debbie 

Sickels Robinson to join us at Reunion. It was a 

pleasure to catch up with Debbie! 

Karen Corcoran Birner and Jane Donovan 

Huzar organized our class dinner (a delicious 

clambake!). Karen has five children, from 20 years 

on down, and holds a full-time teaching position. 

Jane, who has four children, says Karen did all the 

work, but I don’t believe her! These two brought 

their husbands, Tim and Doug, respectively, both 

Mass. College of Pharmacy students who were 

housed at Wheelock and are, therefore, part of our 

class. Sarah Lindsay Holden brought husband 

Regis, who became resident photographer! Sarah’s 

been teaching for a very long time in the same 

school that she attended in the Pittsburgh area. She 

teaches special education middle school students. 

Claudia Tillis Weger and Mike were there, 

leading us in bell-ringing along the parade route! 

Claudia’s daughter Emily, a current Wheelock 

student, worked much of the weekend. It was a 

pleasure to get to know her. She’s delightful and 

always smiling! Claudia’s e-mail to me reads: “I 

had such a blast at our 25th Reunion. I think 

we all looked great! The dinner was fun, and the 

PowerPoint was touching. Let’s not wait five 

years! Love to all my Riverway girls.” Tina Huber 

Banos was expected but couldn’t make it. Her 

son was in a college-level baseball game that was 

expected to be on ESPN that night. Some of the 

group tried to watch it at the Cask! 

Just after Reunion, Laurel Massey Leibowitz 

wrote: “I am back to being a professional volunteer 

running events for families in town [Tolland, CT] 

with special needs through a wonderful organization, 

SEPTA (Special Education Parent Teacher 

Association). I coordinate and run special events 

and programs for the families to enjoy. This is my 

17th year as a Girl Scout leader and church school 

volunteer. And I continue to be my children’s and 

husband’s #1 fan! It was awesome to reconnect at 

the Reunion and see the progress at Wheelock. It 

continues to be an amazing community that makes 

me proud to be a graduate!” 

A technology trainer for the Board of 

Cooperative Education Services in New York, 

Sara Grande Gavens wrote: “I deliver technology 

training to teachers who purchase educational 

technology services through our agency. It is a 

very interesting job because I work primarily 

with the administrative staff of the school districts 

that contract through us. I am teaching 

courses on Blackboard (online education) and do 

face-to-face [technology]. I also deliver training 

at various school districts when requested. At 

times I do miss the little guys, but it is nice being 

in an adult environment! The downside is that 

this is a 12-month position, so I’ve lost my summer 

vacations.” Sara lives right behind Barbara 

Madison Ripps ’82, and their kids go to the 

same schools. She also sees Laurie Wartenberg 

Finkle (in the next town) quite a bit and has seen 

me (Carol) a lot over the last 15 years. 


Wheelock To Do List 

■✔ 

Classes ending in 4 and 9, plan for Reunion 2009. 

■✔ 

Go to a Wheelock alumni event. 

■✔ 

Attend an on-campus event. 

■✔ 

Use the Center for Career Development resources. 

■✔ 

Check the alumni website (updated monthly) for news: 

http://www.wheelock.edu/alum/index.asp. 

■✔ 

Send a change of address to: 

http://www.wheelock.edu/alum/alumupdates.asp. 

Children’s Hospital in Providence weekly for her 

daughter’s leukemia. One day Hannah told me 

about ‘Lisa.’ Her mom, Debbe, came on the phone 

and finished telling me that Lisa was someone who 

helped them with things at the hospital and ran a 

camp and answered questions. We went back and 

forth, and I figured out who ‘Lisa’ was. I knew 

Lisa Cantore was working at Hasbro but never 

thought my best friend would have weekly contact 

with someone I have known for so many years. It 

turned out that Lisa was working closely with 

Debbe and Hannah for the past three years on a 

weekly basis and over the summers when Lisa ran a 

great summer program. Hats off to Lisa Cantore!” 

I received two other letters by mail and e-mail. 

Judy Jacobs Albertine is a reading specialist at 

Atlanta Speech School. She and husband Jeff live in 

Marietta, GA. Nancy Jones Stice wrote: “I 

returned to China (again) and opened a child development 

center that is based on the idea of our children’s 

museums. I now live in Phoenix, AZ, and am 

director of exhibits of the new Children’s Museum 

of Phoenix.” Nancy was director of the Resource 

Center at Wheelock in the 1980s through 1994. 

Start planning for Reunion 2013 (May 31 to 

June 2)! Put a note at the end of your current calendar 

and move it forward as the years progress! See 

you at Wheelock! 

1984 

Kathy Welsh Wilcox 

1986 

Reunion 2009 

May 29-31 

Julie Simon 

Hi, all, and greetings from the sadly diminished 

Class of ’86! Kellie Glennon wrote to say she 

completed her second year as a paraprofessional 

working closely with two sixth-grade boys in the 

Weymouth, MA, Public Schools. She is learning 

about Asperger’s syndrome and loves what she’s 

doing as well as the people with whom she works. 

Kellie lives in Quincy with 10-year-old son Jared 

and is very involved in school activities and Jared’s 

Boy Scout troop. Kathi Zack Hajjar is living in 

Springfield, PA, with her three children. She 

describes herself as a typical soccer mom: Her 

evenings are filled with baseball, soccer, and cheerleading. 

By day, she teaches 3- to 5-year-olds in a 

pre-K program at Friends School in Lansdowne, 

PA. Karen Fitch Voellmann has spent the last 18 

years raising her children and volunteering for various 

organizations. Her son has gone off to college, 

and her daughter is in her junior year in high 

school. In the spring, she wrote, “It’s hard to believe 

I have a son going to college. Wasn’t it just yesterday 

when we were all there?!” Karen is pursuing a 

new passion: She is completing training at the 

Cambridge School of Culinary Arts. She will be 

trading in some of her parent caps for a chef’s hat 

and making delicious pastries! I’m sure you all join 

me in wishing Karen health and joy in her new 

career. I just have one question. . . . When can we 

all come over for coffee and sweets? 

As for me (Julie), I continue to live in Dracut, 

MA, with my daughter, Lauren, who is a secondgrader 

with many interests and gifts. She is a joy in 

so many ways and has helped me to grow and learn 

as I continue on this journey. Professionally, I have 

had a year of mostly energizing change. After teaching 

in an integrated preschool setting for the past 

10 years, I took on the role of teaching music and 

movement to all the preschoolers and kindergartners 

in my school. I was fortunate to spend an 

amazing week at Kripalu in Western Massachusetts 

to participate in Creative Kids Yoga training. I try 

to infuse some basic yoga principles into my classes, 

while honoring each child’s individual style and 

contributions as much as possible. Sometimes, this 

can be a difficult task in a public school setting. 

With the increasing demands to fit an ever-expanding 

curriculum into our youngest children’s school 

day, I find it refreshing to be able to provide the 

opportunity for movement, music, and play. Of 

course, there are many challenges . . . and with 

them come many more rewards! Now, it’s your 

turn: Please let us know how you are and what is 

bringing you inspiration. 

1989 

Reunion 2009 

May 29-31 

Susan Kelly Myers 

Lisa Grossman Headley married her “longtime 

live-in guy,” Don, in Providence, RI, on April 6, 

and they took a cruise for their honeymoon. They 

continue to live in Virginia. Lisa tells a great story: 

“My best friend has been going to Hasbro 

1991 

Alyssa Greeley 

Rebekah Engel Elmore lives in Newburyport, 

MA, with her husband and four children. She has 

started her own organizing consulting business 

called Everyday Solutions, which helps residential 

and corporate clients. Gina Wayshak Hames has 

been working at the DSS Hotline for almost 17 

years and lives in Malden, MA, with her husband 

and two sons. Sara Regan Levine stays busy as a 

PTO president and booster for the many sports 

teams that her sons have joined. Kristen Munger, 

who lives in Tomball, TX, works at a resort near 

Houston. In the spring, she wrote of her recent 

involvement in two organizations. One, called Little 

People of America, is for people who are under 4 

feet 10 inches in height. “It is nice when we get 

together because I am finally around people my 

own size,” she wrote. She has also joined the Spina 

Bifida Association of America and in June was 

headed to her first SBA conference, in Tucson, AZ. 

Sara Rice Patt, who has been a happy housewife 

and mom to three children in Wenham, MA, 

for 11 years, is ready to return to teaching. Since 

graduating from Wheelock, Jocelyn Sosnicki 

Pensa has received her master’s degree in Deaf 

Education Specializing in Parent/Infant Education 

from Gallaudet University in Washington, D.C. She 

went on to teach at Cleary School for the Deaf in 

Nesconset, NY, and she and husband David have 

two children. While on maternity leave, Jocelyn 

facilitated an American Sign Language program for 

hearing infants/toddlers and their parents, taught an 

adult education ASL class at Walt Whitman High 

School, and interpreted for the deaf at St. Patrick’s 

Church in Huntington, NY. She recently returned 

to work teaching ASL at Nassau Community 

College. Deborah Beaman Wood wants to let 

everyone know that son Taylor, whom many of you 

helped care for, headed off to Quinnipiac University 

this fall. She is considering returning to work since 

her other children — Hayden, Emily, and Carson — 

will be in school. 


CLASS NOTES 

Sarah Rice Patt ’91 celebrating her 38th birthday with her children, Zach, Ben, and Olivia, and dog, Boca 

As for me (Alyssa), I recently moved into an 

incredible loft apartment in a converted textile mill 

in Slatersville, RI. 

1992 

Christine Smith Imani 

The Alumni Relations Office apologizes to Laura 

Higgins Beverly, whose news was lost and who 

couldn’t be reached during the summer to get 

replacement news into this issue. 

In June, Jen Croce wrote of her exciting plans 

to open an organic home day care (in her home in 

Billerica, MA) called GreenBaby Home Daycare 

in September. She has put her psychotherapy 

career on hold so she can be home with her two 

girls. “I offer organic and all-natural child care 

(i.e., serve organic/all-natural food and use nontoxic 

products in my home),” she wrote. “I am the 

first day care in the state to be certified as an Eco- 

Healthy Childcare by the Oregon Environmental 

Council. Eco-Healthy Childcare is an award-winning 

program that helps improve the environmental 

health of child care facilities.” Robyne 

Newman Hockett lives just outside of West Palm 

Beach, FL, with her husband of seven years, their 

6-year-old daughter, and Robyne’s two stepchildren. 

She works with the developmentally disabled 

through the Medicaid Waiver program in 

Florida and is a part-time romance enhancement 

specialist (www.slumberpartiesbyrobyne.com). Jeanie 

Morse Pettengill wrote about her “crazy” life: 

“Lyndsey, our 3-year-old, was diagnosed with 

acute lymphoblastic leukemia in March, and we 

have been on an emotional roller coaster. She is in 

remission, but we have two long years for treatment 

at Dana Farber. Please keep her in your 

thoughts and prayers. Lauren, our 8-year-old, is 

taking it in stride! She is a great big sister and 

wants life like it was. I hope everyone else is well, 

and I often think about Wheelock.” Jennifer 

Werb and husband Tony celebrated their second 

wedding anniversary during the summer. She has 

been in her position teaching middle school special 

education students at Salem School in Salem, 

CT, for 10 years and still loves it. “Amanda 

Siebert, a Salem School graduate and current 

Wheelock student, spent an afternoon visiting my 

classroom,” Jennifer wrote in the spring. “We had 

fun comparing Wheelock and Peabody of ‘now’ 

and ‘then.’” 

1993 

Nina Mortensen LaPlante 

Jennifer Batts Brown loves her new job — staying 

home with 1-year-old Madison. Daughter Alexis is 

2. Maria Mazzarella is a December ’93 grad who 

is a primary transition class teacher at the Patrick J. 

Kennedy Elementary School in East Boston. 

Maria’s principal is Marice Edouard Diakite, and 

she was very glad to find out that her boss was a 

fellow alum. Marice was someone Maria had 

remembered from school even though Maria is 

older and was a commuter who had a different 

experience at Wheelock. It’s a small world. Norma 

Cañas McBride (norma.mcbride@yahoo.com) 

wished she could be at Reunion, but flying across 

the country when you have two little ones can be 

tricky. She is delighted to announce that her family 

has grown. Jesse Ray was born in May 2007, and 

they adopted him from birth. She feels that her 

family is now complete. She continues to stay 

home full time. Norma often thinks back to our 

Wheelock days and has fond memories — she can’t 

believe it has been 15 years! Wanda Yeomans 

Patterson, husband George, and big brother 

Nicholas welcomed baby Katharine Grace on 

March 18, 2008. They are all thrilled! 

Kimberly Roney Hatfield moved back to her 

home state of Maine four years ago and is loving 

every minute of being near her family. She is the 

proud mom of two beautiful girls and is working as 

head toddler teacher at USM Child and Family 

Centers. Kimberly was unable to attend Reunion 

because she got married on May 31! She would love 

to hear from any alum at kimrh2008@yahoo.com. 

Hilary Hoffman Sowers was married to husband 

Mark in June of 2007. Afterward, they spent three 

glorious weeks traveling through Italy. They live in 

beautiful Sonoma County, CA, and Hilary is still 

teaching fourth grade. She is also working on a 

doctorate degree in education at UC Davis. In 

addition, a big congratulations to Hilary for being 

chosen Teacher of the Year! 

I (Nina) also hope everyone had a wonderful 

time at Reunion this year. It is always great to 

be able to get together with old friends to reminisce, 

have a good time, and create new memories 

as well. 

1994 

Heidi Butterworth-Fanion 

Lisa Ann Strolin-Smith, husband Derek, and son 

Justin are proud to announce the birth of Lindsay 

Ann on April 21. 

1995 

Reunion 2009 

May 29-31 

Katelyn Guiney Wojnarowicz 

Rachelle Basich Doring has been living in 

Patterson, NY, since 1999 and has been working for 

Bright Horizons in Bethel, CT, as a toddler teacher 

for a little over a year. “I am really enjoying it and 

enjoy the close-knit family that is at my center,” she 

wrote. Alexander, 4, gets to go to work with her 

each day and attends the pre-K program. Anthony, a 

third-grader, makes Rachelle and husband Bill very 

proud with his excellent work at school. These days 

Amy Armstrong McCay is staying home (Beverly, 

MA) with her three boys. Callan Michael was born 

in the fall of 2007. “I recently brought Griffin [4] 

Rachelle Basich Doring ’95 and husband Bill with (L-R) Alexander and 

Anthony on the occasion of Anthony’s First Communion in May 


CLASS NOTES 

Robin Fradkin Matthews ’96 (left) and wife Marcia at their wedding in 

Massachusetts on May 5, 2007 

back to Wheelock to see the Peter Pan show at 

WFT with Nicole Tangney Radulski ’95/’98MS 

and Cheri Piscetello Burke and their boys,” Amy 

wrote. “It was fun to be on campus again!” 

1996 

Kerrie Ryan Gerety 

Heather Clagett Andersen ’96/’01MS moved to 

a new home in Wilmington, MA, in 2007. She is 

still enjoying being a stay-at-home mom of four. 

In March, Christina Comenos Batchelder 

wrote: “My husband, Chris, and I were blessed 

with a second daughter, Sophia, on Dec. 27, 

2006. We knew that she would be born with a 

degenerative neurological disorder. What we didn’t 

know was how long she would be with us and 

how much she would profoundly change our lives 

and the lives of everyone that knew her story. I 

took time off from my social work career to care 

for Sophia (at home, surrounded by the love of 

her 5-year-old sister, Alethia, family, and friends). 

As exhausting as the round-the-clock care was for 

our precious angel, we don’t regret a single second 

of our time with Sophia. We just wish it had been 

longer. Sophia was lovingly returned to heaven on 

Jan. 22, 2008. Who knew that my experience as a 

child life specialist and in both pediatric/adult 

hospice would play such a direct role in my life? 

What I thought had been a strong and healthy 

Ines Soto Palmarin ’96 with husband Jorge and son Jorge Yerden on 

the day in April 2007 that his adoption became official 

appreciation for life and the blessings I had been 

given, has grown beyond what I could have ever 

imagined. We are all trying to regroup as a family. 

I am enjoying every opportunity I have to be with 

Alethia. I am exploring different work opportunities 

and am open to the next journey this universe 

will bring me on. I am also grateful for Sophia 

bringing me back together with my dear friend 

Robin Richard Springfield. I would like to say 

hello to all my former Wheelock friends and hope 

they are all happy.” 

Maria Vanessa Jaramillo ’96/’98MS (vanessa_hellokitty@yahoo.com) 

of Watertown, MA, has 

been teaching first grade in Boston for five years. 

In the spring she had a long visit with her dad in 

Colombia. Karen Moy Joe-Yen ’96/’99MS and 

her husband, Anton Joe-Yen ’99/’04MS, are the 

proud parents of adorable little Sean Peter, born 

June 13. “We are so lucky that school is over so we 

can spend the whole summer getting to know 

Sean,” Karen wrote in late June. Robin Fradkin 

Matthews and wife Marcia are still living in 

Media, PA, and Robin is teaching writing at 

Drexel University. Carolyn Assad Norris wrote 

to announce the birth of daughter Zara Dilan on 

Feb. 2. She and husband Matt live in Tampa, FL, 

and she is an emergency room nurse at Tampa 

General Hospital. Shannan O’Brien got an 

M.S.W. (with a concentration in Older Adult/End 

of Life) at Salem State College in 2007 and now 

enjoys being the director of social services in a 

nursing home. She lives in Grafton, MA. 

“Our hearts are overjoyed with parenthood,” 

wrote Ines Soto Palmarin. She and husband Jorge 

were so proud to officially adopt Jorge Yerden 

Palmarin in April 2007. He was born Oct. 7, 2006, 

and came into their home about 10 days later. 

We are sorry to now have to report that Ines’ husband, 

Jorge, died of cancer on May 3. “Our son 

keeps me strong,” Ines wrote in July. Earlier this 

year, Michelle Smith Perry (shelmy@aol.com) 

drove across the country to move from Boys Town 

MTFC Foster Care Program in Washington, D.C., 

to Orange County, CA, to take over an adolescent 

boys home within Boys Town Treatment Family 

Services Residential Program with husband Malik. 

“I am also still helping others achieve life changes 

through www.successfuldiligence.com,” she wrote. 

Kelly McGrath Szalewicz 

(kellynben@hotmail.com) wrote in the spring of her 

and her husband’s having become licensed foster 

parents with the Massachusetts Department of 

Social Services and having welcomed a 3-monthold 

boy into their home in July 2007. “We don’t 

know how long he will be with us, but we hope he 

becomes a permanent member of our family,” she 

wrote. “He is very loved by his foster sisters.” Kelly 

is enjoying being able to stay at home with the kids. 

“I have become a grandmother,” Arden 

Teplow wrote. “Not many 1996 graduates can say 

that.” Jordan, her 2-year-old granddaughter, lives 

nearby and is both a joy and a source of exhaustion, 

Arden says. She has left her position at Cedars-Sinai 

Outpatient Cancer Center, where she did psychotherapy, 

and is “taking time off to pursue some 

volunteer adventures and decide what to do with 

the rest of [her] life.” 

1997 

Heather Gelmini 

Nicole Beaudin DeBlois married husband Joseph 

in 2002, and they have a 2-year-old daughter, 

Samantha. 

1998 


Jillian Kaufman 

Megan King Abbott wrote to share about the 

birth of her daughter, Brooke Catherine, on June 

11, 2007. Angela Taddeo Holt lives in Milford, 

MA, and teaches third grade in the Woonsocket, 

RI, Public School System. 

1999 

Reunion 2009 

May 29-31 

Aimee Farrell Dos Santos 

Stacy Zimov Belliveau is home with her 1- and 

4-year-old daughters. As if they don’t keep her busy 

enough, during the spring she wrote that they were 

also putting an addition on their home. “Never a 

dull moment!” Stacy wrote. 

Heidi Benton Fleury ’01 and Scott at the Log Cabin in Holyoke, MA, on 

their wedding day in April 2007 


CLASS NOTES 

2000 

Sara McGarry 

Stacy Dorfer, a lead science teacher in Newark, 

NJ, is engaged to marry David Carson in January. 

She had a baby girl, Emily Grace Carson, in 

December 2006. 

2001 

Carrie Watson 

Heidi Benton and Scott Fleury were married in 

April 2007 and live in West Springfield, MA. She 

has a master’s degree in Physical Therapy and loves 

the job she’s had for three years at a rehab facility 

in Windsor, CT. Cesarina Hiciano Gonzalez, 

husband Royson, and their two girls had a wonderful 

family vacation to the Dominican Republic 

early this past summer. She works at Community 

Teamwork in Lowell, MA, as director of the Child 

and Family Services division. 

The Alumni Relations Office apologizes to 

Julie Dyer James, whose news was lost and who 

couldn’t be reached during the summer to get 

replacement news into this issue. Corey Lubin 

lives in Quincy, MA, and is a kindergarten teacher 

in the Boston Public Schools. 

Congratulations to Kristy Volk Marriott on 

the birth of son Adam Matthew on March 6. 

Kristy is home with Adam and daughter Avery, 

2, but also does “charity work for children and 

families in need.” Polly VanDeusen Benjamin 

and husband Brad, married on Dec. 23, 2006, 

“are lavishing [their] love and attention on [their] 

crazy dog, Sparks.” Polly is teaching second grade 

at Duanesburg Elementary School. They are both 

still very involved in competitive waterskiing and 

enjoy putting on waterskiing shows with The U.S. 

Water Ski Show Team in Scotia, NY. “My grandmother, 

Bunny Warner Zenowich ’47, passed 

away last year,” Polly wrote. “She always thought 

very highly of the school.” 

“[I]n love with the Southwest” since working 

at an outdoor education summer camp in the 

Four Corners region, Beth Williams has been living 

in Albuquerque, NM, since 2002. She taught 

fifth grade at a public charter school and earned a 

master’s in Language, Literacy, and Sociocultural 

Studies at the University of New Mexico in 2004. 

She met husband Josh while teaching, and they 

got married in July 2006. Now taking “a break 

from it all,” Beth is working on a Ph.D. in 

Family Studies and working in a pottery studio. 

She misses Boston, and she and Josh plan to 

move back to New England someday. 

I (Carrie) am living in Seymour, CT. I am 

the Christian education director for United 

Congregational Church in Bridgeport. I have 

been taking classes at Hartford Seminary School 

Debbie Martin ’02 (left) and Kiva Leibowitz ’11 skate together for the 

Hayden Synchronized Skating teams and did the walk for multiple 

sclerosis this year. 

to broaden my knowledge of Christian education. 

I have been working with children and 

families in many different venues and offering 

my talents to many. I hope all my fellow classmates 

are doing well and are flourishing in their 

current paths. 

2002 

Jenna Ebert-Pina ’02/’07MS and husband Joe 

were married on a beach on Cape Cod on Oct. 6, 

2007. She loves every minute of her job teaching 

sixth grade in Randolph, MA. In April, Lauren 

Kasimer wrote: “I’m going to be marrying Lance 

Chavin on Aug. 17, 2008, in Arlington, VA. I am 

now living in Springfield, MA, with him and am 

still teaching toddlers at the Springfield Jewish 

Community Center nearby.” Nadia DeMasi 

Keller wrote to announce that she, husband Joe, 

and daughter Isabella welcomed daughter Gabriella 

Alexa to the family last Dec. 30. 

Debbie Martin and Kiva Leibowitz ’11 

skate together for the Hayden Synchronized 

Skating teams. “Kiva was on the Junior Lexettes 

Team in 2007-2008,” Debbie wrote in April. 

“They came out second at Nationals this year, 

making Team USA! She will be a Haydenette 

next season. They are the National Champions 

for the Senior division (most prestigious!). I was 

on the Adult and Masters Teams: Esprit de Corps 

in 2007-2008 and will be on Esprit de Corps 

Adult next season. We are second place nationally 

in Adult. Kiva and I got together this week 

with our teams and did the walk for MS. One of 

my teammates was diagnosed last season, and she 

became the team manager for the Lexettes this 

season. Donations can be made to the National 

MS Society in the name of our teams: Hayden 

Synchronized Skating Teams.” 

Melissa Mignardi married Robert D’Angelo 

on Oct. 18. She is in a new job as an assistant 

teacher in a 3-6 classroom at a Montessori 

school. Whitney Pacelli ALSO now has the 

last name D’Angelo! She married Michael 

D’Angelo at the Westmount Country Club in 

West Patterson, NJ, on Aug. 31, 2007. 

Whitney lives in New York City and is an 

account executive for a European children’s 

clothing showroom representing more than 20 

European designers. Beth Simon received a 

master’s in Literacy Birth to Grade 6 from The 

College of Saint Rose in Albany, NY, and now 

lives in Parkland, FL, with Michael Harwood, 

whom she married May 31. Melissa Arnold 

Martin ’01 was one of the bridesmaids in 

Beth’s wedding, and Mary McEachern attended. 

Beth teaches kindergarten at the Donna 

Klein Jewish Academy in Boca Raton. 

Kate O’Leary Swinburne and husband 

Shane welcomed son Griffin on March 11. They 

are enjoying parenthood very much! Debbie 

Will married TJ Pruell in Scituate, MA, in June, 

and they honeymooned in Mexico. “Some girls 

from Pilgrim might remember his frequent visits,” 

she wrote. 

2004 

2005 

Congratulations to Tim Putnam! In April, he 

wrote: “I have been selected as a participant in the 

October cycle of the Japan Fulbright Memorial 

Fund Program. The grant allows me to travel for 

three weeks with 200 other educators from around 

the United States to Japan for cultural enrichment 

and professional development.” 

2007 

Karen Peterkin is site coordinator for CATCH 

(Children Achieving Through Community 

Hope, a Roxbury-Weston Programs’ after-school 

program), which serves kindergarten through 

third-grade children with after-school educational 

enrichment and support. 


Reunion 2009 

May 29-31 

Leslie Jordan is working with children at the 

Winship Elementary School (Boston Public 

Schools) in Brighton, MA, and is a member of the 

Roxbury-Weston Programs’ board of trustees. In 

June, she wrote, “I have been accepted to UMass 

Boston Graduate College of Education/Teacher 

Education Program for the fall of 2008.” 


CLASS NOTES 

Master’s Degrees 

Jane Steele Milchen ’51/’69MS (See Class of ’51.) 

Zelinda “Zee” Makepeace Douhan ’63/’75MS 

(See Class of ’63.) Carole Tagg ’76MS is proud to 

announce the completion of two successful years 

operating her own management consulting business, 

Resources for Human Services in Waltham, 

MA. “My business specializes in providing a variety 

of corporate, public relations, development, and 

human resource services to private nonprofit 

human service and educational organizations,” she 

wrote in March. “I also provide direct services to 

individuals and families in the area of development 

and cognitive disabilities. For more information, 

contact me at caroletagg@comcast.net.” Lucy 

Matson Hudson ’87MS, director of the Court 

Teams for Maltreated Infants and Toddlers Project 

at Zero to Three in Washington, D.C., wrote in 

March about her important work: “At each of the 

project’s demonstration sites, judges, attorneys, 

social workers, mental health clinicians, and a wide 

range of other community agency representatives 

convene on a monthly basis to address the systemic 

barriers to improving outcomes for very young 

children in foster care. In the summer of 2008, the 

four original teams will be joined by four more. 

To learn more, you can visit http://zerotothree.org/ 

courtteams.” Pat Conzelman Greeley ’52/’90MS 

(See Class of ’52.) 

Lisa Sachs Goodman ’91MS wrote: “It’s so 

nice to read about the wonderful things happening 

at Wheelock. I use the knowledge I learned professionally 

as a school psychologist in a K-2 school 

though I am using it now as a mom to 2-monthold 

Kate! It is amazing to watch the daily developmental 

changes in your own baby.” Anne Nolen 

’95MS has co-written Mothers Need Time-Outs, Too 

(McGraw-Hill). It is available on Amazon.com and 

at Barnes & Noble and Wellesley (MA) Booksmith. 

Alicia Carroll ’96MS, a teacher/mentor in the 

Boston Public Schools, recently co-wrote an article 

with Dr. Barbara Brown at Boston University for 

the National Council of Social Studies. In “Beyond 

Wildlife: Teaching about Africa and Stereotypes,” 

printed in Social Studies and the Young Learner 20 

(4), Alicia helps give educators recommendations 

and lesson plans for teaching about Africa and 

Africans. Maria Vanessa Jaramillo ’96/’98MS 

(See Class of ’96.) Karen Moy Joe-Yen ’96/’99MS 

(See Class of ’96.) Heather Clagett Andersen 

’96/’01MS (See Class of ’96.) 

Kimberly Wright Brooks ’05MS and new 

husband Harvey had a beautiful wedding in 

Riverside, CA, on March 15, and their reception 

was held at a nearby American Legion post. Her 

cousin performed the ceremony, and her brother 

presented her to her husband at the altar. 

“Hawaiian dancers performed the ‘Waterfall 

Congratulations, 

Craig Simpson ’89MS! 

Craig, who is the infant/toddler team leader at 

the Yawkey Center for Early Education and Care 

in Dorchester, modestly wrote to Brianne Kimble, 

director of alumni relations, with some wonderful 

news back in April. 

“I usually don’t make public these events in my 

life, but I thought Wheelock might be interested in 

knowing that I just received the Abigail Eliot Award 

from the Boston Association for the Education of 

Young Children (BAEYC) at the Early Childhood Gala 

in Randolph, April 18. This is an important award 

given to pioneers in early childhood education, as 

Abigail Eliot was. Other Wheelock people who have 

received the award are [Wheelock faculty members] 

Diane Levin [’69MS], Ed Klugman, and Gwen 

Morgan [’76MS]. I believe I am the first teacher 

and the third male to receive the award. 

“Also, in May I will be attending the World Forum 

of Men in Early Education in Hawaii. There will be 

men teaching young children from Africa, Asia, 

Ireland, and Europe. I will be one of the only attendees 

from New England.” 

Dance’; Riverside Poly High School Army ROTC 

performed the Arch of Sabers Ceremony; and the 

President and Mrs. Bush sent us their well wishes 

from the White House,” Kimberly wrote. Jenna 

Ebert-Pina ’02/’07MS (See Class of ’02.) 

Arrivals 

91MS Lisa Sachs Goodman, a daughter, Kate 

93 Norma Cañas McBride, a son, Jesse Ray 

93 Wanda Yeomans Patterson, a daughter, 

Katharine Grace 

94 Lisa Ann Strolin-Smith, a daughter, 

Lindsay Ann 

95 Amy Armstrong McCay, a son, 

Callan Michael 

96/99 Karen (Moy) and Anton (’99/’04MS) 

Joe-Yen, a son, Sean Peter 

96 Carolyn Assad Norris, a daughter, 

Zara Dilan 

98 Megan King Abbott, a daughter, 

Brooke Catherine 

00 Stacy Dorfer, a daughter, Emily Grace 

01 Kristy Volk Marriott, a son, 

Adam Matthew 

02 Nadia DeMasi Keller, a daughter, 

Gabriella Alexa 

02 Kate O’Leary Swinburne, a son, Griffin 

Unions 

93 Hilary Hoffman to Mark Sowers 

93 Kimberly Roney to John Hatfield 

02/07 Jenna Ebert to Joe Pina 

02 Lauren Kasimer to Lance Chavin 

02 Melissa Mignardi to Robert D’Angelo 

02 Whitney Pacelli to Michael D’Angelo 

02 Beth Simon to Michael Harwood 

02 Debbie Will to TJ Pruell 

Deaths 

30 Agnes Bainton Thompson 

32 Jeannette Ross Thomson 

34 Helen Canning Sims 

38 Barbara Kerr Calder 

38 Adele Aronson Mason 

38 Florence “Polly” Naylor Mohlere 

39 Marjorie MacEachern Goehring 

40 Marjorie Glendon Denaro 

40 Martha Werneken Devlin 

42 Ellen Stanton Farrell 

42 Virginia Reynolds Huggins 

42 Katharine Lewars Weymouth 

45 Elizabeth Matthews Piper 

46 Phyllis Schuyler Lindsay 

46 Barbara Robjent Moore 

49 Mathilde “Teally” Clark Holmes 

50 Betty Jane Jalley 

51 Jane Ann Hartzell Knebel 

52 Mary MacKay Marcus 

58 Maureen Murphy Coakley 

77 Elizabeth Van Horn Ratchford 


Giving Back 

to 

the 

Sally Clark Sloop ’68 

Future 

Sally Clark Sloop depended on student loans to attend Wheelock and 

considers it the best educational investment of her life. “My Wheelock 

education has been foundational in every aspect of my professional work 

for the last 40 years and in the development of our family as well,” she says. 

“I think that as 

alumni, we need 

to continue to be 

responsible and 

responsive to the 

new generation of 

teachers who are 

coming up.” 

Sally was a classroom teacher for 25 years and for the last 

15 years has worked in the disability and family support field, 

a career shift influenced by her own experience as the parent 

of a child with special needs. “If it had not been for my 

Wheelock education, I would not have been able to understand 

what was possible and best for our son, Peter, so that he 

could be successful,” she remembers. “Before we had any 

special needs laws or programs in the schools, Wheelock was 

already grounded in the philosophical belief that all children 

have strengths and all children can learn. I am so impressed 

now when I see that Wheelock students are still being taught 

to focus on the individual child from the start, but within a 

comprehensive scope that includes the family, community, 

special needs, health care, and so much more.” 

As a Cornerstone Society member, Sally feels she is giving 

back — something she has always wanted to do. “I think 

that as alumni, we need to continue to be responsible and 

responsive to the new generation of teachers who are coming 

up,” she says. “I remain inspired by my Class of ’68 and its 

recent significant financial gifts to the College at our 40th 

Reunion in June. To prepare young teachers to give the same quality of care to 

children living in very different times than we did is so important.” 

Sally joined the Heritage Society this year too. She sees it as another way of 

giving back, and to the future. “I am forever grateful for my education, and I 

don’t know of a better cause than Wheelock,” she says. “It is my allegiance to 

the mission of the College and to children and families of the future that makes 

me want to contribute.” 

For information about the Cornerstone Society and the Heritage 

Society, call (617) 879-2328 or visit www.wheelock.edu/giving.

Calendar 

of Events 

Wheelock 

Family Theatre 

November 19 • 5:30-8:30 p.m. 

Alumni Association Board Meeting 

43 Hawes Street, Brookline Campus 

December 4 • 5:30 p.m. 

Alumni Book Group 

Alumni Relations Office 

43 Hawes Street, Brookline Campus 

December 11 • 6:00-10:00 p.m. 

Alumni Night at the Holiday Pops! 

Reception at 43 Hawes Street, Brookline Campus 

& transportation to Symphony Hall for concert 

Contact (617) 879-2302 

January 3-10, 2009 

Alumni Community Service Trip to New Orleans 

Contact Brianne Kimble at (617) 879-2261 

or bkimble@wheelock.edu 

February 15-21, 2009 

Alumni Travel Program to Northern Ireland 

Contact Lauren Thorman at 

Lthorman@wheelock.edu 

March 8-14, 2009 

Student and Alumni Study Tour to Puerto Rico 

Contact Brianne Kimble at (617) 879-2261 

or bkimble@wheelock.edu 

For more information and event updates, 

watch your monthly E-Newsletter, check 

the College website at www.wheelock.edu, 

or e-mail alumnirelations@wheelock.edu. 

llustration by Joni Liberman 

2008 – 2009 

Season 

WFT Drama: 

Saint Joan 

October 31–November 30 

George Bernard Shaw’s provocative 

drama about the life and 

trial of Joan of Arc 

WFT Musical: 

Seussical 

January 30–March 1 

A musical adaptation of the 

whimsical wordplay and colorful 

characters of Dr. Seuss 

by Lynn Ahrens & Stephen Flaherty 

WFT Children’s Show: 

Charlotte’s Web 

April 10–May 10 

E.B.White’s classic children’s tale 

of a friendship that 

transcends differences — 

truly a story for all ages 

To improve the lives of children and families 

200 The Riverway 

Boston, MA 

02215-4176 

(617) 879-2123 

Non-Profit Org. 

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