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<strong>Fall</strong> <strong>2008</strong><br />
magazine<br />
2007–<strong>2008</strong><br />
ANNUAL REPORT<br />
OF GIVING<br />
The <strong>Wheelock</strong><br />
Connection<br />
Across<br />
Generations<br />
• The Class of 2012<br />
• Convocation with<br />
Marianne O’Grady<br />
’94MS<br />
• All Together at<br />
Reunion
Reunion <strong>2008</strong><br />
Record Numbers Back at <strong>Wheelock</strong><br />
Reunion Weekend, with over 250 alumni back on campus — a record attendance in recent<br />
history — raised the decibels of laughter and number of alums boasting “most events attended”<br />
to new highs this year. Class members returning home to <strong>Wheelock</strong> spanned more than 70<br />
years, from senior alumna Betty Quick Collin, who celebrated her 70th Reunion (representing<br />
the Class of 1938), to student helpers in the Class of 2011, who glimpsed the celebration<br />
awaiting them in the future when they return to campus as <strong>Wheelock</strong> graduates.<br />
Many alumni arrived early on Friday to meet up and catch up with classmates as well as to<br />
enjoy weekend kickoff events, including the Luncheon in the Alumni Room, the Boston Pops<br />
Concert, and the post-Pops Dessert Reception. Saturday brought a full day of Class Meetings,<br />
the always-colorful Annual Procession, a State of the <strong>College</strong><br />
presentation by President Jenkins-Scott, and the Awards<br />
Ceremony at which alumni and guests were entertained<br />
with a surprise Reunion slide show (with music!) combining photos<br />
of the current campus and students with those of classmates and events taken in earlier<br />
decades. Thanks to Director of Alumni Relations Brianne Kimble for creating this<br />
should-be-Oscar-nominee! The Annual Alumni Luncheon brought more time for catching<br />
up with friends, shoptalk, and photo sharing before heading off to a duck tour and a<br />
trip to the MFA — an event made extra interesting by tour leader Maddi Cormier ’66.<br />
More Reunion <strong>2008</strong> on page 40<br />
Whew!<br />
What a busy and wonderful<br />
Reunion! It was great seeing everyone<br />
together, sharing <strong>Wheelock</strong> memories<br />
and traditions, and hearing about<br />
the great variety of work being accomplished<br />
in different fields. Come back<br />
soon. Your next Reunion is in 2013,<br />
but why wait? You’re always<br />
welcome on campus.
<strong>Fall</strong><br />
<strong>2008</strong><br />
Editor<br />
Christine Dall<br />
Production Editor<br />
Lori Ann Saslav<br />
Design<br />
Leslie Hartwell<br />
Photography<br />
Christine Dall<br />
Lauren Wholley<br />
Brianne Kimble<br />
<strong>Wheelock</strong> Magazine<br />
<strong>Fall</strong> <strong>2008</strong><br />
Volume XXIX, Issue 1<br />
<strong>Wheelock</strong> Magazine invites manuscripts and photographs<br />
from our readers, although we do not guarantee<br />
their publication, and we reserve the right to<br />
edit them as needed.<br />
For Class Notes information, contact Lori Ann Saslav<br />
at (617) 879-2123 or lsaslav@wheelock.edu.<br />
Conference<br />
Connections<br />
Page 4<br />
Passion for Action<br />
Scholars<br />
Page 19<br />
2 A Message From the President<br />
3 On Campus<br />
3 Upward Bound for Teacher Bound Initiative<br />
3 International Students on Campus<br />
4 Conference Connections<br />
6 Welcome — New <strong>Wheelock</strong> VPs, Trustee & Corporation Leaders<br />
8 Students & Faculty<br />
8 Certificate Program in Community-Based Human Services<br />
10 So Sexy So Soon—Diane Levin ’69MS<br />
10 Improving Attitudes Toward Mathematics—<br />
Galina Dobrynina<br />
10 SENCER Leadership Fellow—Ellen Faszewski<br />
11 The Weight of Light—Gregory Gómez Exhibit<br />
12 Alumni<br />
13 FAO Schwarz Family Foundation Fellow—Julia MacMahon ’08<br />
15 Service Learning & Travel<br />
16 Lunch & Learn<br />
17 2007-<strong>2008</strong> Annual Report of Giving<br />
18 Annual Fund Giving Yields Big Student Returns<br />
19 Passion for Action Scholars on Campus<br />
20 Interview: Adrian Haugabrook, vice president for<br />
student success and diversity<br />
21 Donor Recognition<br />
37 Pre-Commencement Dinner—Kip Tiernan Remarks<br />
38 Convocation—Students, Faculty, & Marianne O’Grady ’94MS<br />
40 Reunion—Across the Generations, One Community<br />
41 Class Notes<br />
Annual Report<br />
of Giving<br />
Page 17<br />
Send letters to the editor to: <strong>Wheelock</strong> Magazine,<br />
Office for Institutional Advancement,<strong>Wheelock</strong><br />
<strong>College</strong>, 200 The Riverway, Boston, MA 02215-4176.<br />
You may also e-mail them to cdall@wheelock.edu.<br />
Cover:The alumni tradition of welcoming incoming<br />
students with a plant give-away was continued<br />
this fall by (L to R) Laurie Fraga ’02, Barbara Tarr<br />
Drauschke ’72, Bonnie Page ’76, Mila Moschella ’75,<br />
Brenda Noel ’93, Rachael Thames ’07, and Beverly<br />
Tarr Mattatall ’72.<br />
E Printed on recycled paper<br />
<strong>Wheelock</strong> Magazine 1
MESSAGE<br />
Dear Alumni and Friends,<br />
This fall, <strong>Wheelock</strong> welcomed 237<br />
first-year students to campus, the<br />
largest entering class in its history,<br />
and nearly 40 transfer students. This is a<br />
smart, talented, idealistic group of students,<br />
many from Massachusetts but others from<br />
California, Florida, Idaho, Michigan, Texas,<br />
and other states, who represent the country’s<br />
great regional diversity. As I watch these new<br />
students start out on an educational journey<br />
that will transform them as learners and<br />
shape the choices they make throughout<br />
their lives, I am reminded that they are at<br />
<strong>Wheelock</strong> during a time that is transformational<br />
for our institution as well.<br />
The spectacular new Campus Center<br />
and Student Residence (CCSR) is moving<br />
very quickly toward completion, changing<br />
the face of the <strong>College</strong> on the Riverway<br />
to one that reflects our modern, forwardlooking<br />
identity. This beautiful building is<br />
“[The Bringing Theory to Practice<br />
project] will support <strong>Wheelock</strong> in<br />
helping our students achieve all<br />
of the core outcomes of a strong<br />
liberal education and in defining<br />
conditions for sustaining the<br />
<strong>College</strong>’s institutional excellence.”<br />
an external representation of our community<br />
and of the many ways in which the <strong>College</strong><br />
is changing internally to enhance our students’<br />
educational experience. As we enter<br />
the third year of <strong>Wheelock</strong>’s strategic<br />
initiative to create a vibrant, exciting, and<br />
thriving learning community, we are participating<br />
in two new national programs that<br />
will move us significantly forward toward<br />
meeting this goal.<br />
The first is the Wabash National Study<br />
of Liberal Arts Education. <strong>Wheelock</strong> is<br />
among 15 national and 10 New England<br />
institutions selected to participate in this<br />
longitudinal study of student learning funded<br />
by the Davis Educational Foundation<br />
and the Teagle Foundation. The goals of the<br />
study are to help colleges gain information<br />
about what teaching practices, curriculum,<br />
and institutional structures best support student<br />
learning, and to develop methods of<br />
assessing a liberal arts education. The study<br />
focuses on seven outcomes associated with<br />
excellence in liberal arts education: effective<br />
reasoning and problem solving, inclination<br />
to inquire and lifelong learning, integration<br />
of learning, intercultural effectiveness, leadership,<br />
moral reasoning, and well-being.<br />
Congratulations to <strong>Wheelock</strong>’s vice president<br />
of academic affairs, Julie Wollman,<br />
who was instrumental in securing a place<br />
for <strong>Wheelock</strong> in the study. The learning<br />
outcomes identified in this process fit especially<br />
well with <strong>Wheelock</strong>’s mission, its academic<br />
guiding principles, and its general<br />
education goals. The study will offer significant<br />
and relevant data to guide us in designing<br />
a general education curriculum which<br />
best helps our students to develop critical<br />
thinking and communications skills.<br />
Participation in the study, which began<br />
with new student orientation in September,<br />
is led by a very committed group of faculty<br />
on the <strong>College</strong>’s General Education Task<br />
Force — Associate Professors Mary Battenfeld,<br />
who leads our effort; Marjorie Hall;<br />
William “Bill” Thompson; and Emily Cahan,<br />
along with Richard Williams, director of<br />
First Year Experiences.<br />
This fall, <strong>Wheelock</strong> has also been selected<br />
to participate in the Bringing Theory to Practice<br />
Project, which, in partnership with the<br />
Association of American <strong>College</strong>s and Universities,<br />
is bringing 45 diverse colleges and<br />
universities together to create a leadership<br />
coalition and commit their campuses to<br />
becoming national models for what a liberal<br />
education can and should be. With generous<br />
support from the S. Engelhard Center, the<br />
Charles Engelhard Foundation, the Christian<br />
A. Johnson Endeavor Foundation, and Lumina<br />
Foundation for Education, <strong>Wheelock</strong> and<br />
the other coalition institutions will receive<br />
grant support for work over the next two<br />
years that will demonstrate the benefits of<br />
making it a priority to create and sustain a<br />
campus culture of learning — how it elevates<br />
expectations, involves greater faculty and student<br />
interaction, broadens reward structures,<br />
and results in greater student attainment of<br />
academic achievement, well-being, and civic<br />
development.<br />
The initial activity of the coalition is a<br />
President’s Symposium scheduled for Nov.<br />
10-11, <strong>2008</strong>, in Washington, D.C. The event<br />
is a working session for presidents to learn<br />
from each other about transformative change<br />
at their institutions and to share ideas and<br />
experiences about current challenges facing<br />
higher education. I am very excited about<br />
participating in the symposium and in the<br />
project. It will support <strong>Wheelock</strong> in helping<br />
our students achieve all of the core outcomes<br />
of a strong liberal education and in defining<br />
conditions for sustaining the <strong>College</strong>’s institutional<br />
excellence.<br />
<strong>Wheelock</strong>’s participation in this project<br />
will advance its strategic agenda and its role as<br />
a thought leader in higher education. It is a<br />
very exciting opportunity to be engaged with<br />
other institutions that are, like <strong>Wheelock</strong>,<br />
actively pursuing institutional transformation.<br />
This issue of <strong>Wheelock</strong> Magazine contains<br />
news about the <strong>College</strong>’s accomplished faculty<br />
and new administrative leaders as well as<br />
reports on conferences that are contributing<br />
to <strong>Wheelock</strong>’s growth as a center for sharing<br />
information and ideas. A look at first-year<br />
students — the Class of 2012 — reveals a<br />
wonderful diversity of interests and accomplishments<br />
that is impressive to say the least.<br />
Welcoming such an outstanding group to<br />
our learning community of students, faculty,<br />
staff, and alumni who all share the same<br />
mission is exciting and encourages us to do<br />
our very best to provide them with what<br />
they need to achieve their goals.<br />
This issue also includes the <strong>College</strong>’s<br />
Annual Report of Giving. On behalf of the<br />
children, families, and students <strong>Wheelock</strong><br />
serves, I want to sincerely thank each and<br />
every individual and organization who<br />
chose to support the <strong>College</strong> in this most<br />
important year. Our accomplishments are<br />
many and are made possible because of<br />
your generosity.<br />
Sincerely,<br />
JACKIE JENKINS-SCOTT<br />
President<br />
2 <strong>Fall</strong> <strong>2008</strong>
Teacher Bound<br />
A Summer Success<br />
Last summer and into early fall, <strong>Wheelock</strong>’s<br />
Teacher Bound program laid the first stepping<br />
stones in a pathway to college it is building for<br />
students from the Boston area who are interested in<br />
becoming teachers. Teacher Bound received a four-year<br />
$1 million Classic Upward Bound TRIO grant — it was<br />
the only teacher development initiative in the country to<br />
receive Upward Bound funding — and lost no time in<br />
immersing a group of 50 high school students in the first<br />
phase of its program.<br />
For six weeks during the summer, we had ninth- and<br />
10th-grade students from nine Boston neighborhoods<br />
and 13 Boston schools on campus and in classes all day,<br />
Monday through Thursday. After completing Introduction<br />
to Teaching and summer courses in science, math,<br />
critical writing and reading, and digital storytelling,<br />
the students are back at <strong>Wheelock</strong> this fall for Saturday<br />
Academy, continuing the gains they made on the<br />
summer pathway to teaching.<br />
<strong>Fall</strong> Catch-Up<br />
ON CAMPUS<br />
Recycling for<br />
AIDS Education<br />
The good news is that <strong>Wheelock</strong> has new<br />
athletics uniforms. And the other good<br />
news is that the old uniforms are being<br />
put to excellent use by the TRIAD Trust. TRIAD<br />
is a consortium of exceptional athletes, artists,<br />
musicians, filmmakers, physicians, educators,<br />
policymakers, and health care advocates dedicated<br />
TRIAD kids wear WHEELOCK<br />
to increasing HIV/AIDS awareness and encouraging<br />
prevention. TRIAD trains local leaders to run<br />
sustainable sports, arts, and media programs for<br />
orphans and vulnerable children in areas affected<br />
by HIV/AIDS. Early intervention combined with<br />
stimulating activities kids naturally love is their<br />
route to raising healthier, happier children.<br />
Diana Cutaia, <strong>Wheelock</strong>’s director of Athletics,<br />
Recreation and Wellness, works with several youth<br />
development organizations in Boston, including<br />
Charlestown Lacrosse, whose director went to<br />
South Africa on behalf of TRIAD in July. When<br />
Diana got a call for material donations, she packed<br />
up <strong>Wheelock</strong>’s still-got-life-in-them uniforms and<br />
some water bottles and off they went!<br />
Go, TRIAD kids!<br />
Immersed in Learning<br />
Students from Singapore, the Bahamas, and Taiwan<br />
<strong>Wheelock</strong>’s commitment to global awareness and international learning continued to<br />
expand this summer when the <strong>College</strong>’s Center for International Education,<br />
Leadership, and Innovation welcomed students from Singapore, the Bahamas,<br />
and Taiwan to the first international Summer Immersion Program on the Boston campus.<br />
In June, 59 students from <strong>Wheelock</strong>’s Bachelor of Science in Early Childhood Educational<br />
Studies and Leadership program at Ngee Ann Polytechnic in Singapore arrived for five weeks<br />
of intensive study. The students, all in their second year of the program, took courses in<br />
Assessing Students with Special Needs and Parent-Teacher Communication, and absorbed<br />
practical experience visiting educational and child care centers that support children with<br />
learning challenges. <strong>Wheelock</strong> Family Theatre Educational Director John Bay ’94MS and<br />
Professors Felicity Crawford, Susan Kosoff ’65/’75MS, and Susan Harris-Sharples<br />
connected the students to many resources and individuals throughout their time in Boston.<br />
In July, the Center welcomed 20 students from <strong>Wheelock</strong>’s Master of Science Programme in<br />
Early Childhood and Elementary Teaching, offered in collaboration with The <strong>College</strong> of the<br />
Bahamas, for a four-week immersion session. During their stay on campus, the Bahamian students<br />
completed intensive courses taught by Dr. Linda Banks-Santilli ’85, Dr. Vicki Bartolini, and<br />
Dr. Kathleen Reed, prepared to conduct independent study research projects, visited the Perkins<br />
School for the Blind, toured a Bright Horizons child care center, and observed summer literacy<br />
programs in Brookline schools.<br />
Students from Taiwan began their study tour with a reception hosted by President Jenkins-<br />
Scott at which they were greeted by Dr. Shan-nan Chang, director of the Taipei Economic<br />
and Cultural Office in Boston, and a Taiwanese newspaper reporter. Professors Vicki Caplan<br />
Milstein ’72 and Min-Jen Wu ’00/’03MS co-taught the students in the course Introduction<br />
to Inclusive Early Childhood Education in a Multicultural/Multiracial/Multilingual Society.<br />
Throughout the course, students had the opportunity to observe inclusive early childhood<br />
classrooms in Brookline schools.<br />
Associate Director of Alumni Relations Brianne Kimble welcomed the students with a<br />
preview of coming attractions available to them when they join the ranks of <strong>Wheelock</strong> graduates.<br />
Each student received a <strong>Wheelock</strong> <strong>College</strong> license plate frame — the hit of the presentation.<br />
(See <strong>Wheelock</strong> WARES at www.wheelock.edu/alum to order your own frame.)<br />
The three visits gave staff and faculty a welcome opportunity to connect more closely<br />
with the <strong>College</strong>’s international students and learn more about relevant issues in their education<br />
systems. And the presence of the energetic students on campus definitely contributed<br />
to making this a very active and student-oriented summer.<br />
<strong>Wheelock</strong> Magazine 3
ON CAMPUS<br />
Summer Conferences<br />
& Institutes<br />
Is it possible that summer’s less pressured tempo influences creative thinking and synapse connectivity? Both were very much in evidence<br />
among those who attended conferences and institutes held on campus last summer. <strong>Wheelock</strong>’s summer programs offered another<br />
strong selection of educational opportunities for educators, child life professionals, and students alike. Conferences, graduate courses,<br />
and professional development classes blending theory and practice generated an abundant sharing of ideas that no doubt are being applied<br />
this fall in elementary school classrooms and on campuses in the U.S. and internationally.<br />
For Credit, PDPs, Continuing Education Points, or Audit<br />
Last summer, <strong>Wheelock</strong> faculty offered a great selection of institutes that could be taken for graduate credits, professional development<br />
points (PDPs), and continuing education points, or simply audited: Media Madness: The Impact of Sex, Violence, & Commercial Culture on<br />
Adults, Children, & Society; Supporting Children’s Emotional Development in Schools and Communities; Children’s Racial and Cultural Identities;<br />
Multicultural Children’s Literature; Boys: More at Risk Than We Think?; Fathers: Their Impact on the Lives of Children; and Language and<br />
Literacy: Teaching Literacy to English Language Learners.<br />
Keep <strong>Wheelock</strong>’s Summer Institutes and conferences in mind for next summer when planning on adding PDPs. In addition to the<br />
May 22 conference, Annual Community Dialogue on Early Education and Care: New Initiatives, New Realities, a noncredit summer<br />
conference on June 5 and 6, Environmental Education for Children: Going Beyond the Hype, also offered PDPs.<br />
Building Leadership and<br />
Management in the Social Sector<br />
<strong>Wheelock</strong> Hosts Invitational Seminar<br />
As the nonprofit sector continues to grow and develop, there<br />
is a continual need for senior leadership and management<br />
who have the skills needed to provide innovative direction<br />
for organizations so that they can better fulfill their missions. In June,<br />
<strong>Wheelock</strong> hosted an Invitational Focus Seminar designed for rising<br />
senior leadership and tailored to meet both their professional development<br />
needs and the needs of their organizations. The seminar goal was<br />
to help prepare the rising leaders to be entrepreneurs and founders of<br />
future nonprofits.<br />
The participants concentrated on gaining leadership insight and<br />
skills through case studies, interactive problem solving, and discussion,<br />
and they worked with current nonprofit presidents, CEOs, and<br />
COOs who had turned their ideas into major regional and national<br />
programs. These were Jeffrey L. Bradach, co-founder and managing<br />
partner of The Bridgespan Group; James Weinberg, founder and<br />
CEO of Commongood Careers; Alan Khazei, co-founder and former<br />
CEO of City Year Inc. and founder and CEO of Be the Change Inc.;<br />
David S. Ford, executive director of the Richard and Susan Smith<br />
Family Foundation; Gerald Chertavian, founder and CEO of Year<br />
Up; Kim Syman, managing partner and director of the Action Tank<br />
unit of New Profit Inc.; Rob Waldron, vice president of Berkshire<br />
Partners and president and COO of Waterworks; and President<br />
Jackie Jenkins-Scott.<br />
Environmental Education<br />
for Children<br />
Last June, a <strong>Wheelock</strong> conference on environmental science for<br />
children in early childhood and elementary classrooms emphasized<br />
how critical a foundation of science literacy is to the future generations<br />
who will care for our planet. Conference speakers and workshop leaders supported<br />
immediate conservation efforts such as recycling and protecting endangered<br />
species, but the real focus was on basic science concepts children can<br />
explore and experiences educators can provide to begin to build a foundation<br />
of understanding in children that they will need for future decision-making<br />
when they are adults.<br />
Former astronaut Jeff Hoffman, a five-flight veteran, who is now a professor<br />
at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, was a highlight of the conference,<br />
explaining how the U.S. and other nations study our home planet from great<br />
distances and showing some of the amazing discoveries made by viewing Earth<br />
from outer space.<br />
At the opposite end of the spectrum, an interactive panel of educators and<br />
environmentalists discussed down-to-earth learning opportunities (and challenges)<br />
available to students right in their own school neighborhoods. The panel<br />
consisted of Meg Watson, elementary professional development specialist and<br />
science program manager for the Boston Public Schools; Gloria Villegas-Cardoza,<br />
director of education at the Massachusetts Audubon Society; Ross Wilson,<br />
principal of the Dennis C. Haley Elementary School in Boston; and Kirk Meyer,<br />
founding executive director of the Boston Schoolyard Funders Collaborative.<br />
Thanks to the Applera Corporation for sponsoring the event, with additional<br />
support from the <strong>Wheelock</strong> <strong>College</strong> Math/Science Education Initiative,<br />
the <strong>College</strong>s of the Fenway Environmental Science Program, and the<br />
Massachusetts Audubon Society. And extra thanks to Cathy Clemens, <strong>Wheelock</strong>’s<br />
Math/Science Education Center manager, for organizing such an informative<br />
conference.<br />
4 <strong>Fall</strong> <strong>2008</strong>
ON CAMPUS<br />
International Froebel Society<br />
Chooses <strong>Wheelock</strong> for Its<br />
First Conference in the U.S.<br />
Friedrich Froebel changed the way we think about early childhood<br />
education by demonstrating the central role that play has<br />
in learning. In 1840, Froebel created the word kindergarten for<br />
the Play and Activity Institute he had founded three years earlier at<br />
Bad Blankenburg, Germany. There, he designed educational materials<br />
(now known around the world as Froebel Gifts or Gaben), which<br />
included wooden geometric building blocks, balls, tiles, sticks, and<br />
rings, and demonstrated that children learn by playing.<br />
“After many disappointments in spreading the idea of kindergartens in<br />
Germany, Froebel looked to the U.S., where there was both a growing<br />
demand for early childhood care and increasing numbers of social workers<br />
and teachers,” says Dr. Suzanne<br />
Pasch, director of <strong>Wheelock</strong>’s Center<br />
for Scholarship and Research.<br />
“When introduced to the public education<br />
system in Boston, the idea of<br />
kindergartens began to spread, and the<br />
U.S. became the base for the kindergarten<br />
movement worldwide.”<br />
Suzanne Pasch, director of <strong>Wheelock</strong>’s Center for<br />
Scholarship and Research, and Kevin J. Brehony, chair<br />
of the International Froebel Society Conference<br />
Organizing and Review Committees and professor at<br />
Froebel <strong>College</strong>, Roehampton University, London<br />
Lucy <strong>Wheelock</strong> was asked to train Boston’s first kindergarten teachers,<br />
and her classes were the early building blocks of what evolved into<br />
<strong>Wheelock</strong> <strong>College</strong>. The strong connections of Miss <strong>Wheelock</strong> to<br />
Froebel, the intersections of their work with young children and those<br />
who educate them, and the existence of a wealth of source materials<br />
(including a journal of Miss <strong>Wheelock</strong>’s “pilgrimage” to Germany in<br />
1908 and many Froebel Gifts) in the <strong>Wheelock</strong> Library archives are<br />
among the reasons why the <strong>College</strong> was chosen by the International<br />
Froebel Society for its first conference in the U.S.<br />
A mix of scholars, researchers, practitioners, and students from four<br />
continents, each of whom is engaged in work emanating from Froebel’s<br />
contributions to early childhood education, gathered at <strong>Wheelock</strong> to discuss<br />
contemporary international perspectives on play and learning. Dr.<br />
Pasch was an organizer of the conference and a presenter; <strong>Wheelock</strong> faculty<br />
members Dr. Emily Cahan and Dr. Eleonora Villegas-Reimers participated<br />
as presenters; and Dr. Diane Levin ’69MS was a keynote speaker.<br />
Honoring Dr. Ed Klugman, Faculty Emeritus<br />
On the final day of the conference, attendees honored Dr. Ed Klugman,<br />
faculty emeritus, for his contributions as a “gifted educator and timeless<br />
advocate for all children’s right to a world rich in play.” He was presented<br />
with a stone sculpture by the Shona in Zimbabwe which was inscribed,<br />
“You never stand so tall as when you bend down to help a child.”<br />
The next week, Ed sent a letter expressing his appreciation, which read<br />
in part: “With my thanks and deepest respect to all of you for continuing<br />
to carry on the Lucy <strong>Wheelock</strong> tradition with sensitivity, caring, and<br />
sharing that which is most important, the<br />
human and humane connection. I admire<br />
all of you for your courage and persistence<br />
in continuing to create a future unlike the<br />
past. Wishing all of you continued success<br />
in improving the quality of lives of<br />
children, families, and the future.”<br />
“You never stand so tall<br />
as when you bend down<br />
to help a child.”<br />
Third Annual Dialogue on<br />
Early Education and Care<br />
Coalition Building to Improve Services for<br />
Our Youngest and Most Vulnerable Children<br />
<strong>Wheelock</strong>’s annual dialogues on early education and care<br />
began in 2006 when the <strong>College</strong> hosted field professionals,<br />
community leaders, policymakers, and advocates to review<br />
the impact of the Early Education for All legislation passed in 2005.<br />
Building on the success of the first conference, <strong>Wheelock</strong> hosted the<br />
Second Annual Dialogue on Early Education and Care, which focused on<br />
the important issue of investing in a diverse workforce, in 2007.<br />
“The enactment of the Early Education for All legislation was an<br />
important first step toward improving the lives of children and families<br />
throughout the Commonwealth, and in three years much progress has<br />
“. . . shifting realities of leadership change,<br />
resource limitations, and policy implementation<br />
are posing new challenges.”<br />
— President Jenkins-Scott<br />
been made,” President Jenkins-Scott said in welcoming those attending<br />
the Third Annual Dialogue, held at <strong>Wheelock</strong> last May. “At the same<br />
time, shifting realities of leadership change, resource limitations, and<br />
policy implementation are posing new challenges.”<br />
This year’s Dialogue presentations, panel discussions, and facilitated<br />
sessions helped to frame current initiatives and realities in early education<br />
and to develop strategies for coalition building and moving forward as<br />
a unified field. Leaders at the event included <strong>Wheelock</strong> Professor of<br />
Education David Fernie; Dean of Education and Child Life Eleonora<br />
Villegas-Reimers, and Senior Director of Government Affairs and Civic<br />
Engagement Marta Rosa.<br />
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ON CAMPUS<br />
Dr. Adrian K.<br />
Haugabrook<br />
Vice President for Student Success and<br />
Institutional Diversity<br />
Executive Director of the Aspire Institute<br />
In July, <strong>Wheelock</strong> welcomed Dr. Adrian K.<br />
Haugabrook to the newly created post of<br />
vice president for student success and institutional<br />
diversity and as the executive director of<br />
the <strong>College</strong>’s new Aspire Institute. Dr. Haugabrook<br />
is well-known at <strong>Wheelock</strong> as he served<br />
on the Board of Trustees as chair of the Educational<br />
Policy Committee last year, contributing<br />
a wealth of experience and knowledge and<br />
demonstrating a great passion for <strong>Wheelock</strong>’s<br />
mission, which he sees as the core of the <strong>College</strong>’s<br />
vitality. “<strong>Wheelock</strong> is an extraordinary<br />
institution with an extraordinary mission,” he<br />
says. “I quickly arrived at the epiphany that<br />
people don’t come to <strong>Wheelock</strong> to just learn or<br />
work; they come to realize their mission.”<br />
Haugabrook has an extensive background<br />
in higher education as a practitioner, teacher,<br />
speaker, and writer on topics that include sociology,<br />
education policy, creating successful<br />
learning environments for students, and diversity.<br />
As vice president for student success, he is<br />
leading initiatives supporting student achievement<br />
throughout their undergraduate and<br />
graduate years at <strong>Wheelock</strong>, supervising areas of<br />
Academic Advising and Assistance, Disability<br />
<strong>Wheelock</strong><br />
Welcomes<br />
Services, Field Experience, First-Year Experience,<br />
Career Development, and School and<br />
Community Partnerships.<br />
Haugabrook also serves as <strong>Wheelock</strong>’s first<br />
chief diversity officer, a new position recommended<br />
by the <strong>College</strong>’s Community Diversity<br />
Initiative Committee. Prior to coming to<br />
<strong>Wheelock</strong>, he successfully introduced campuswide<br />
multicultural and diversity programs<br />
and services at Framingham State <strong>College</strong>,<br />
Southwestern State University, and the University<br />
of West Georgia.<br />
As executive director of <strong>Wheelock</strong>’s new<br />
Aspire Institute, Haugabrook is leading the<br />
initiative to build partnerships and apply<br />
<strong>Wheelock</strong>’s academic resources to “real-world”<br />
challenges facing schools and organizations<br />
serving children, families, and communities.<br />
Haugabrook came to <strong>Wheelock</strong> from The<br />
Education Resources Institute (TERI), where he<br />
was vice president for the Local <strong>College</strong> Access<br />
Program. TERI provides programs and services<br />
to young people and adults to help them plan<br />
and pay for college and other career-building<br />
programs. TERI achieves this through collaborations<br />
with neighborhood centers, middle- and<br />
high-school-based programs, and outreach<br />
efforts at community organizations. At TERI,<br />
Haugabrook worked closely with higher education<br />
institutions locally and nationally to address<br />
issues of postsecondary access and success. Previously,<br />
as executive director of public policy<br />
alliances and innovation at the nationally recognized<br />
Citizen Schools, a Boston-based afterschool<br />
apprenticeship education program, he led<br />
the organization’s national programs and its state<br />
and federal policy strategy, which resulted in<br />
state-funded legislation for Citizen Schools in<br />
Massachusetts.<br />
Dr. Julie Wollman<br />
Vice President of Academic Affairs<br />
Following an extensive search process,<br />
<strong>Wheelock</strong> <strong>College</strong> has appointed as<br />
vice president of academic affairs an<br />
experienced academic leader and a talented<br />
scholar, administrator, and community<br />
builder with over 16 years in urban higher<br />
education: Dr. Julie Wollman. Dr. Wollman<br />
spent 15 years at Rhode Island <strong>College</strong> in<br />
several different positions at the School of<br />
Education, including professor of elementary<br />
education, interim and then dean of the Feinstein<br />
School of Education and Human Development,<br />
co-director of the Rhode Island <strong>College</strong>/<br />
University of Rhode Island Joint Ph.D. in<br />
Education program, and assistant chair of<br />
Elementary Education.<br />
In these capacities, Wollman initiated a<br />
range of innovative projects and worked with<br />
faculty committees to develop a revised mission<br />
for the school that focused on excellence<br />
through equity, diversity, and social advocacy.<br />
Under her guidance, the school developed new<br />
graduate programs in Educational Leadership,<br />
Advanced Studies in Teaching and Learning,<br />
and Special Education. She was an advocate for<br />
faculty research and scholarship and assisted in<br />
bringing millions of dollars of research grants<br />
to the college.<br />
Since 2007, Wollman had served as vice<br />
president of academic affairs at Worcester State<br />
<strong>College</strong>, where she led the work of 20 department<br />
chairs, numerous academic centers and<br />
programs, several directors, two associate vice<br />
presidents, the assistant vice president, and the<br />
president. During her time at Worcester State<br />
<strong>College</strong>, she led the restructuring of the Assessment<br />
and Planning Office, redesigned the<br />
academic program review process, developed<br />
Dr. Julie Wollman, vice president of academic<br />
affairs, and Sandy Christison ’92MS, president<br />
of the Alumni Association Board, at August<br />
Commencement<br />
6 <strong>Fall</strong> <strong>2008</strong>
ON CAMPUS<br />
a plan for improving the academic library,<br />
expanded the study abroad program, and<br />
improved the culture of scholarship and external<br />
funding for research. She also led the college’s<br />
strategic planning effort.<br />
Wollman brings to <strong>Wheelock</strong> a passion<br />
for leadership and excellence. “Above all, I<br />
hope to empower others to succeed while<br />
moving <strong>Wheelock</strong> forward as a premier college<br />
in New England and the country,” she says.<br />
“<strong>Wheelock</strong> is perfectly positioned for growing<br />
success in educating undergraduate and<br />
graduate students in model programs and for<br />
impacting our community and society in<br />
ways that advance equity, access, and opportunity<br />
for all. In order to do that, we need<br />
to look beyond what is, and to envision<br />
what might be.<br />
“I’m very excited about the challenges<br />
and rewards of policy and program development<br />
that is collegial, that is inclusive of stakeholders’<br />
voices, and that will promote innovation and<br />
excellence in teaching and learning,” she continues.<br />
“To me, <strong>Wheelock</strong> seems the ideal place to<br />
do that. It is my very great pleasure and privilege<br />
to be working with President Jackie Jenkins-<br />
Scott and an outstanding institutional leadership<br />
team, faculty, and staff. I’ve been warmly and<br />
graciously welcomed, and now I’m getting down<br />
to the hard work ahead.<br />
New Board of Trustees<br />
and Corporation Leaders<br />
This fall, <strong>Wheelock</strong> welcomes three new individuals to positions of leadership at the<br />
<strong>College</strong>. <strong>Wheelock</strong>’s two new trustees and one new corporator will contribute much<br />
time and thought to <strong>Wheelock</strong>’s well-being, and we are grateful for their service.<br />
Patricia S. Cook ’69, Ph.D., is the chair and<br />
CEO of Cook & Company, an executive search consulting<br />
and advisory firm. She has more than 20 years of experience<br />
in management and marketing consulting, financial<br />
services, and executive search. In addition, as a licensed<br />
psychologist, Pat has conducted management evaluations of<br />
senior executives on behalf of acquiring organizations or<br />
newly hired CEOs. She received her Ph.D. from Boston<br />
University, where she was an NDEA Teaching Fellow. Pat is<br />
active in the International Women’s Forum, the Economic<br />
Club of New York, and the Bronxville School Foundation.<br />
She has two children: a daughter who works for Fidelity<br />
Investments in Boston and a son who is a sophomore at<br />
Lehigh University.<br />
Alan Morse has had four diverse careers. He was a commercial<br />
banker for 27 years, ending up as chair of the United<br />
States Trust Company (now Citizens Bank); a public servant<br />
for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts as commissioner of<br />
banks, then as undersecretary of administration and finance,<br />
and finally as supervisor of financial services; chair of Harvard<br />
Pilgrim Health Care; and a high school math teacher in the<br />
Boston Public School System. Alan is also a trustee of the A.C.<br />
Ratshesky Foundation, a director of The Writers’ Express and<br />
The Pioneer Institute, and an adviser to Civic Capital Group, a<br />
specialized hedge fund. He continues to tutor math in Boston<br />
schools and is an elected School Committee member in Brookline.<br />
He and his wife, Rebecca Steinfield, have two children<br />
and four grandchildren.<br />
Barry Wanger is president and founder of Wanger Associates,<br />
a public relations agency specializing in nonprofit organizations<br />
and higher education. Barry holds a master’s degree in<br />
Public Relations from Boston University. He was <strong>Wheelock</strong>’s first<br />
director of public affairs from 1975 to 1979 and went on to serve<br />
in similar positions at the National Endowment for the Humanities,<br />
the University of California at Santa Barbara, and Brandeis<br />
University before starting his own agency. Barry has been awarded<br />
a lifetime achievement award from the Public Relations Society<br />
of America (Boston chapter) and the Publicity Club of New<br />
England. He served on the board of the <strong>Wheelock</strong> Family Theatre<br />
for 10 years and currently serves on the board of directors<br />
of Adoptions with Love in Newton and as a new member of the<br />
Corporation at <strong>Wheelock</strong>. Barry and his wife, Wendy, have a<br />
daughter who is a student at Newton South High School.<br />
<strong>Wheelock</strong> Magazine 7
STUDENTS & FACULTY<br />
Certificate Program<br />
in Community-Based<br />
Human Services<br />
by Associate Professor Stefi Rubin<br />
This is the fifth year of the Certificate Program in<br />
Community-Based Human Services, a 16-credit program<br />
designed for juniors or seniors who want to explore<br />
new professional directions, either in terms of potential career plans<br />
or further graduate studies. Central to the program are supervised,<br />
150-hour, semester-long practica of students’ own choosing<br />
in which they discover both the complexities of working within<br />
human services and the personal rewards such work can offer.<br />
Over the years, practicum sites have included many nonprofits,<br />
ranging from the Starbright Foundation, the Samaritans,<br />
AIDS Action Committee, and the Child Witness to Violence<br />
Project, to the United South End Settlements, Germaine<br />
Lawrence School, Casa Myrna Vazquez, and St. Mary’s Women<br />
and Children Center.<br />
A number of the first 39 alumni of the program have gone on<br />
to graduate school in social work, counseling, prevention studies,<br />
human services administration, elementary and secondary<br />
education, special education, and higher education. Others have<br />
undertaken positions on the staffs of places such as Youth Build<br />
Boston, Bridge Over Troubled Waters, St. Ann’s Home, Project<br />
Joy, Action for Boston Community Development, Boston City<br />
Hall, South Shore Early Intervention, Danvers Building Blocks<br />
(serving preschoolers with autism), the Probation Office of<br />
Middlesex Superior Court, Schenectady, NY, Association for<br />
Retarded Citizens, Hartford Head Start, the Baltimore Public<br />
Schools, and AmeriCorps.<br />
This year, 11 students completed the program —<br />
congratulations to them on their accomplishments!<br />
Stefi Rubin, the program coordinator and supervisor (right), and Yvonne Achilles ‘90MS,<br />
practicum and seminar supervisor (middle), watch Kathleen Kirk Bishop, dean of the<br />
School of Social Work and Family Studies, hand out congratulations and good wishes to<br />
graduates (who included Laura McNulty ‘08 seen here) along with the all-important and<br />
well-earned certificates in Community-Based Human Services.<br />
Citizenship 101 :<br />
<strong>Wheelock</strong> Students Vote<br />
Many <strong>Wheelock</strong> students had the opportunity<br />
to cast their first votes during this year’s<br />
presidential election, and <strong>Wheelock</strong> took<br />
the initiative to encourage full involvement in the election<br />
process. A major voter registration drive at the <strong>College</strong><br />
and on other <strong>College</strong>s of the Fenway campuses was<br />
a huge success, signing up 91<strong>Wheelock</strong> students at one<br />
event alone. Scheduled gatherings in the Student Center<br />
to watch the presidential and vice presidential debates<br />
with discussion afterwards; a presidential Jeopardy game;<br />
and formal student debates on the economy, education,<br />
and early care and education engaged students in the<br />
issues of this election year and emphasized the responsibility<br />
to be informed and vote.<br />
8 <strong>Fall</strong> <strong>2008</strong>
National Hispanic Heritage Month<br />
(Sept. 15 – Oct. 15)<br />
<strong>Wheelock</strong> students had a chance to enjoy and learn more about the diverse<br />
cultures, heritages, and contributions of Hispanic Americans during<br />
National Hispanic Heritage Month (Sept. 15 – Oct.15). Activities at the<br />
<strong>College</strong> and around the city included art gallery tours, the Boston Latino International<br />
Film Festival, Latin music and dance, restaurant reviews, links to information about<br />
famous Hispanic inventions, and more, giving students a good start on continued<br />
exploration beyond the officially designated monthlong celebration.<br />
National Hispanic Heritage Month was established by Congress in 1968 as a<br />
two-day commemoration of independence day in six Latin American countries: Sept. 15<br />
in Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua, and Sept. 16 in<br />
Mexico. In 1988, the celebration expanded to include Día de la Raza on Oct. 12,<br />
which recognizes the influences of the people who came after Christopher Columbus<br />
and the multicultural, multiethnic society that evolved as a result; Chile’s independence<br />
day on Sept. 18; and Belize’s independence day on Sept. 21.<br />
First Run for <strong>Wheelock</strong>’s<br />
Cross Country Team<br />
Karen Peterkin ’08 and<br />
Leslie Jordan ’08<br />
Field Scholars Program<br />
in the News<br />
Apress release from Roxbury-Weston Programs,<br />
whose mission is to bring families together in a<br />
learning community dedicated to the celebration<br />
of diversity and excellence in early care and education,<br />
has recognized the contribution that <strong>Wheelock</strong>’s Field<br />
Scholars Program is making to establishing high-quality<br />
after-school care. Congratulations to Leslie Jordan ’08 and<br />
Karen Peterkin ’07, two recent Field Scholars graduates<br />
who are featured in the release and who are now working<br />
with the Roxbury-Weston Programs.<br />
Nashua, NH—<strong>Wheelock</strong>’s cross country team competed<br />
for the first time in school history when members traveled<br />
in September to New Hampshire for the Daniel<br />
Webster <strong>College</strong> Invitational. The Wildcats placed fourth<br />
in the five-team competition with 76 points.<br />
Roxbury-Weston Programs Press Release<br />
May 19, <strong>2008</strong> — A significant step toward ensuring high-quality standards<br />
in after-school care was marked with the spring graduation of<br />
more candidates from the first cohort of <strong>Wheelock</strong> <strong>College</strong>’s Field Scholars<br />
Program.Leslie Jordan and Karen Peterkin, teachers from Roxbury-Weston<br />
Programs’ after-school program, CATCH [Children Achieving Through<br />
Community Hope], have earned their bachelor’s degrees from <strong>Wheelock</strong><br />
with scholarship assistance from the Department of Early Education and<br />
Care and a grant to CATCH from the Linde Family Foundation.<br />
According to the Massachusetts After School Commission, teachers<br />
with bachelor’s degrees contribute to high-quality after-school care,<br />
which helps children, especially at-risk children, achieve more in school<br />
in all grades and can potentially aid in closing the achievement gap.<br />
<strong>Wheelock</strong> <strong>College</strong>, in response to the Early Education for All legislation in<br />
Massachusetts, created the Field Scholars Programs specifically for individuals<br />
who work in early childhood education to earn their bachelor’s<br />
degree while working in the field so that there are more highly qualified<br />
teachers in center-based programs and schools.<br />
Jordan and Peterkin were able to realize their goal and earn their<br />
degrees within three years, which otherwise would not have been possible<br />
for either of them. Peterkin will lead as site coordinator for CATCH,<br />
which is in Roxbury and serves kindergarten through third-grade children<br />
with after-school educational enrichment and support. Jordan will<br />
serve Boston Public Schools children in Brighton and as a member of<br />
Roxbury-Weston Programs’ Board of Trustees.<br />
Roxbury-Weston Programs, established in 1965 in response to the<br />
Civil Rights Movement, has made it their mission to provide equal access<br />
to high-quality early education.The Field Scholars Program is a perfect<br />
example of positive change toward providing high-quality early education<br />
for all children, which ultimately benefits all communities at large.<br />
<strong>Wheelock</strong> Magazine 9
STUDENTS & FACULTY<br />
Dr. Ellen Faszewski Named a<br />
SENCER Leadership Fellow<br />
Associate Professor Ellen Faszewski’s programs, which always<br />
emphasize relevant applications of science, are a hit with <strong>Wheelock</strong><br />
students. Now her recent work has been recognized by the<br />
National Center for Science and Civic Engagement, a National Science<br />
Foundation research center, which has appointed Faszewski to be a SENCER<br />
Leadership Fellow. SENCER (Science Education for New Civic Engagements<br />
and Responsibilities) is a faculty<br />
development and science education reform<br />
initiative that engages students in science and<br />
mathematics by focusing coursework on<br />
science- and math-related problems in society<br />
and the natural world (aka “real-world” problems).<br />
This method is intended to extend the<br />
impact of student learning across the curriculum<br />
to the broader community and society.<br />
In appointing Faszewski, the SENCER<br />
fellowship board noted her innovative leadership<br />
in the collaborative COF (<strong>College</strong>s of<br />
the Fenway) Environmental Science program,<br />
eagerness to network with other science educators to advance reform in science<br />
education, dedication to developing courses and curricula to improve<br />
science education and to mentor colleagues and future teachers, and recent<br />
publications and presentations in this area.<br />
Dr. Julie E. Wollman, <strong>Wheelock</strong>’s new vice president of academic affairs,<br />
congratulated Faszewski, remarking that the appointment brings honor to<br />
<strong>Wheelock</strong> and that she is delighted to be working with such a fine example<br />
of the <strong>College</strong>’s outstanding faculty.<br />
On Sabbatical —<br />
Improving<br />
Attitudes<br />
Toward<br />
Mathematics<br />
Sharing research at conferences<br />
attended by faculty<br />
from other institutions is<br />
an important element in the continuing<br />
scholarly development of<br />
<strong>Wheelock</strong> faculty members. The<br />
experience always provides good<br />
contacts; presents new ideas, information, and research; and can valuably<br />
inform one’s own teaching and research. It also offers <strong>Wheelock</strong> faculty<br />
the chance to share their ongoing work and the work of the <strong>College</strong> more<br />
widely with others.<br />
As part of Associate Professor of Mathematics Galina Dobrynina’s<br />
sabbatical research last summer, she presented at the 11th International<br />
Congress on Mathematical Education (ICME) in Monterrey, Mexico.<br />
ICME is held every four years to provide a forum where mathematics<br />
education professionals from all over the world can exchange ideas, information,<br />
and viewpoints and develop productive dialogue with their peers.<br />
“The title of my poster presentation was Impact of a Three-semester<br />
Sequence of Mathematical Content Courses on Knowledge of Pre-service<br />
Teachers,” reported Dr. Dobrynina. “My poster demonstrates how mathematics<br />
content courses designed for pre-service elementary school teachers<br />
promote students’ specialized mathematical knowledge and improve their<br />
attitude toward mathematics and themselves as learners of mathematics.”<br />
So Sexy So Soon —<br />
An Important New Book from<br />
Professor Diane Levin ’69MS<br />
Professor Diane Levin ’69MS has<br />
been a lead voice among childhood<br />
experts concerned with the sexualization<br />
of young children’s culture for years,<br />
illuminating the ways kids’ healthy development<br />
is undermined by the commercial<br />
interests making enormous profits by selling<br />
“sexy” to kids too young to see the problem.<br />
Now Levin’s book So Sexy So Soon: The<br />
New Sexualized Childhood and What Parents<br />
Can Do to Protect Their Kids (written in<br />
collaboration with Dr. Jean Kilbourne and<br />
published by Ballantine Books) is out, an<br />
invaluable and practical guide for parents<br />
who do see the problem but know that just<br />
saying “no” won’t work. Launched nationally<br />
in August with a featured spot on NBC’s<br />
Today show and Fox News’s Weekend Live<br />
program, among other national venues,<br />
So Sexy So Soon is winning uniformly high<br />
praise from leading experts and authors in<br />
the field — Mary Pipher and David Elkind<br />
to name just two.<br />
Pipher, author of<br />
Reviving Ophelia,<br />
says, “This book —<br />
by two of America’s<br />
leading experts on<br />
the effects of media<br />
on children — is<br />
powerful and<br />
profoundly useful.<br />
It is packed with<br />
great stories and poignant examples of the<br />
stress children face in our sex-soaked culture.<br />
Best of all, the authors offer sane and practical<br />
solutions for all of us who want to make<br />
things better for children, parents, schools,<br />
and the culture at large.” Elkind, author<br />
of The Hurried Child, agrees: “So Sexy So<br />
Soon is a most timely and important book.<br />
For parents who are troubled and worried<br />
about what their children are seeing and<br />
hearing, it offers helpful guidance and support;<br />
it not only documents the trends but<br />
provides parents with many useful strategies<br />
to combat them.”<br />
Levin’s book was the Boston <strong>Wheelock</strong><br />
Alumni Book Club’s choice for its October<br />
discussion group. For more information about<br />
So Sexy So Soon, go to its website at<br />
www.sosexysosoon.com.<br />
10 <strong>Fall</strong> <strong>2008</strong>
STUDENTS & FACULTY<br />
The Weight of Light<br />
Gregory Gómez Exhibit<br />
at OH+T Gallery<br />
The Frames,<br />
bronze sculpture<br />
Associate Professor Gregory Miguel Gómez had his third one-person exhibition<br />
at Boston’s OH+T Gallery in June. The Weight of Light, an exhibition of bronze<br />
wall sculptures, depicted early maps, footprints of Old World fortifications, airport<br />
plans, and vacant picture frames — what Carole Anne Meehan, curator at the Institute<br />
of Contemporary Art, described as “curious, invented relics.”<br />
In his artist’s statement, Gómez noted that the exhibition brought together relief works from<br />
several themes that he has been interested in for the last several years: “Graphic images of Early<br />
World Maps, the footprints of old world Fortifications, and plan views of Airports, have each<br />
been translated to heavily textured cast bronze with a dark patina. What these images share is<br />
the genesis and evolution of their designs as determined and influenced by multiple factors,<br />
including: their function; human design and imagination; and the shape of the landscape in<br />
which they reside. Along with ‘The Frames,’ these works find themselves fitting into the familiar<br />
language of Modernism, while they also seem to respond to its broken promises.”<br />
Faculty Summer Short Takes<br />
■ DEBRA K. BORKOVITZ, associate professor of mathematics,<br />
already has an individual website (http://faculty.wheelock.edu/dborkovitz)<br />
that is essential for <strong>Wheelock</strong> students taking her courses and helpful to<br />
teachers of higher-level mathematics. It’s filled with math materials organized<br />
by content, by tool/type, and by process and includes assessment<br />
materials as well. This summer, she made a series of 15 videos on Excel<br />
for Math Classes, which are available on YouTube at http://www.youtube.<br />
com/dborkovitz. The series offers a variety of skill levels for both math and<br />
Excel users, but most are accessible to people who are new to Excel and<br />
many address elementary mathematics.<br />
■ DIANE LEVIN ’69MS, professor of education, gave two invited<br />
talks at the NAEYC <strong>2008</strong> National Institute for Early Childhood Professional<br />
Development, which was held in New Orleans in June. Both<br />
talks focused on technology in early childhood education. In a featured<br />
session, Levin spoke on “Remote Control Childhood: How Violence,<br />
Sex and Marketing in Media Harm Children’s Development, Behavior<br />
and Play, and What We Can Do about It.” At the closing plenary<br />
session, she co-presented with Makeda Mays, of the Sesame Workshop,<br />
“Opportunities and Challenges of the Technological Age on Children’s<br />
Development and Learning.”<br />
■ SARA LEVINE, instructor in science, has been teaching environmental<br />
education programs for children aged 2 through 12 at Bauer<br />
Park in Madison, CT, for the past five summers. This year, two<br />
<strong>Wheelock</strong> students who had been in Levine’s classes Introduction to<br />
Plants and Animals, and Animal Behavior, Marty Busch and Amy<br />
Goods, had the benefit of working with her and assisting with children<br />
at her Nature Camp. Marty assisted with the 5- and 6-year-old<br />
group, and Amy worked with groups of children ranging in age from<br />
5 through 10.<br />
■ TERRY MEIER, associate professor in language and literacy, was<br />
involved in three summer activities. In July, she taught in the Summer<br />
Dialect Teacher Project, which is sponsored by the Center for the Study<br />
of African American Language at UMass Amherst and draws faculty<br />
and participants from colleges and schools all over the country. In<br />
August at the Simmons <strong>College</strong> institute for Boston Public Schools<br />
(BPS) teachers, Meier presented Literacy is Liberation: Examining<br />
the Transformative Power of Literacy in the African American Tradition.<br />
Also in August, she co-taught with a BPS teacher, Kim Parker, a<br />
four-day literacy institute for BPS teachers titled A Strengths-Based<br />
Approach to Literacy Instruction.<br />
■ IVY VALERIE SCHRAM, instructor in mathematics, holds a law<br />
degree in addition to master’s degrees in math and in geology and is an<br />
environmental lawyer. Last summer she lectured on International Environmental<br />
Law at Suffolk Law School’s summer program in Lund, Sweden.<br />
■ JULIA WHITCAVITCH-DEVOY, instructor of human development,<br />
published an article (with David Blustein) in the June issue of<br />
Career Development Quarterly, “The psychology of Working: a New<br />
Framework for Counseling Practice and Public Policy.”<br />
■ MICHAEL WILLIAMSON, associate professor of science, was in<br />
Perth, Western Australia, for three weeks to teach students at St. Mary’s<br />
Anglican Girls’ School marine biology, research methods, and data analysis,<br />
and to conduct a weeklong program in the field at St. Mary’s Metricup<br />
campsite near the Margaret River. In addition to his teaching, Williamson<br />
conducted TV and radio interviews, assisted in developing Western Australia’s<br />
first online database for whale and manta ray research projects, and<br />
met with fisheries representatives and the Curriculum Council of Western<br />
Australia about the possibility of generating a professional development<br />
program for their marine sciences high school teachers.<br />
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ALUMNI<br />
Congratulations to the 10 undergraduate<br />
and 48 graduate students who received<br />
<strong>Wheelock</strong> degrees last August, and welcome<br />
to our alumni community!<br />
Joining the Procession<br />
One of the rewards of being a member of <strong>Wheelock</strong>’s Board of<br />
Trustees or Corporation is participating in Commencement<br />
and seeing students fulfill their goal of becoming <strong>Wheelock</strong><br />
<strong>College</strong> graduates. For trustees and corporators who are also alumni,<br />
the day can be even more meaningful. Among those attending Commencement<br />
<strong>2008</strong> were (l to r): Lois Barnett Mirsky ’54, corporator; Lynne<br />
Wyluda Beasley ’66, corporator; Madeleine “Maddi” Tufts Cormier<br />
’66, trustee; Ellen Tague Dwinell ’61, trustee; Susan “Sue” Moyer<br />
Breed ’52/’79MS, corporator; and Judy Parks Anderson ’62, trustee<br />
and chair of <strong>Wheelock</strong> <strong>College</strong> Corporation.<br />
Policy Connection<br />
<strong>Wheelock</strong>’s New Online Resource<br />
<strong>Wheelock</strong>’s new Policy Connection<br />
website launched by the Office of<br />
Government Affairs (http://www.<br />
wheelock.edu/policyconnection/) connects alumni<br />
to the current local, state, and national policies<br />
intersecting with the <strong>College</strong>’s mission to improve<br />
the lives of children and families. It’s a resource for<br />
alumni who want to be informed about and get<br />
involved in policy and advocacy issues affecting<br />
children and families, and share their own professional<br />
and personal concerns.<br />
The site is an excellent resource for learning<br />
about and tracking pending federal legislation, pinpointing<br />
key advocacy organizations, investigating<br />
relevant research, reviewing local budget processes,<br />
exploring effective lobbying tips, and finding representatives<br />
on Beacon Hill and in Washington, D.C.<br />
The <strong>Wheelock</strong> in Action section keeps alumni<br />
updated on the <strong>College</strong>’s engagement with policy and<br />
programs such as the Winter Policy Talks and Annual<br />
Community Dialogue on Early Education and Care.<br />
There is information about <strong>Wheelock</strong>’s Student Policy<br />
Fellows and the <strong>College</strong>’s Political Caucus, and you<br />
can find updates on President Jenkins-Scott’s work<br />
with Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick’s Readiness<br />
Project and Boston Mayor Thomas Menino’s School<br />
Readiness Action Planning Team there too.<br />
In Extraordinary Times —<br />
<strong>Wheelock</strong> Advocacy<br />
and Policy Alerts<br />
During these extraordinary times,<br />
when it is hard to keep up with the<br />
latest news, never mind details of<br />
government policies that are in play, it is all the<br />
more important to be aware of how children,<br />
families, and education are being affected.<br />
<strong>Wheelock</strong> has initiated a way to make<br />
sure alumni can be up-to-date on very important<br />
policy issues and be informed advocates<br />
for positive change. Sign up for policy e-mails<br />
and action alerts from <strong>Wheelock</strong> by e-mailing<br />
alumnirelations@wheelock.edu. You will receive<br />
current information as we gather it from<br />
our Office of Government Affairs and other<br />
reliable resources.<br />
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Congratulations to Julia MacMahon ’08<br />
<strong>Wheelock</strong>’s First FAO Schwarz<br />
Family Foundation Fellow<br />
<strong>Wheelock</strong>’s Juvenile Justice and Youth Advocacy Program and<br />
the School of Social Work and Family Studies welcomed<br />
Julia MacMahon ’08, the <strong>College</strong>’s first FAO Schwarz<br />
Family Foundation Fellow, who began her two-year fellowship position<br />
in September. The fellowship is funded through a generous grant from<br />
the FAO Schwarz Family Foundation.<br />
During the first year, Julia is devoting half of her time to developing<br />
best practices for conflict resolution with a focus on youth in urban<br />
settings. She will explore a variety of strategies — peacemaking circles,<br />
group conferencing, peer/gang mediation, community peace-building —<br />
by researching, networking, and conducting interviews about these strategies.<br />
The other half of her time will be spent in direct service: teaching,<br />
training, implementing, and institutionalizing the best practices. Julia’s<br />
direct-service work will take place with the children, youth, families,<br />
and communities served by the after-school and summer programs at<br />
St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church in the South End. The fellowship will evolve<br />
in year two to include a broader range of scholarship and direct service.<br />
As an undergraduate, Julia transferred to <strong>Wheelock</strong> from American<br />
University in Washington, D.C., where she was awarded the Deans’<br />
Scholarship for Academic Achievement. While at <strong>Wheelock</strong>, Julia typically<br />
worked full time, and she has held a number of youth-related positions,<br />
including youth worker and program supervisor at the Department of<br />
Youth Services Somerville Transition Shelter; intern and legal researcher<br />
at the Children’s Law Center of Massachusetts in Lynn; teen staff director<br />
at the B-SAFE summer day camp; PULSE service learning coordinator<br />
at St. Stephen’s After School Program; and teen program director at<br />
St. Stephen’s After School Program.<br />
Career Congratulations<br />
to Kyla and Bri<br />
The dynamic duo of Brianne “Bri” Kimble and Kyla McSweeney<br />
’94/’97MS, co-directors of the Alumni Relations Office, has been<br />
a great collaboration that has helped our alumni programs<br />
grow and flourish. Now they are starting new and, we are certain, fabulous<br />
chapters in their careers.<br />
Kyla Moves On<br />
Kyla left <strong>Wheelock</strong> in August to take a new position as director of the<br />
Children’s Corner at Newton-Wellesley Hospital in Wellesley, MA. The<br />
Children’s Corner is a nonprofit, nationally accredited (NAEYC) child<br />
care center located on the campus of Newton-Wellesley Hospital. The<br />
center serves approximately 50 children between the ages of 1 and 5.<br />
From 2006 to <strong>2008</strong>, Kyla helped to develop our Policy Talks and led<br />
our very successful reunion programs. She also coordinated our participation<br />
in NAEYC and helped develop our alumni international travel opportunities.<br />
Kyla served on several college committees, and we all appreciated her<br />
great sense of humor, her ability to remember many camp songs, and above<br />
all, her love for and commitment to <strong>Wheelock</strong>. We miss Kyla but have been<br />
happy to have her still involved in some of our fall alumni programs, and<br />
next spring we will see her when she attends her 15th Reunion!<br />
Bri Steps Up<br />
Bri, who began her career at <strong>Wheelock</strong> in 2002 as the administrative assistant<br />
for the Institute for Leadership and Career Initiatives and has served<br />
in the Alumni Relations program since 2004, is taking the next step in her<br />
career development at <strong>Wheelock</strong>. She is now the director of Alumni<br />
Relations and has overall responsibility for the Alumni Relations Office,<br />
including supporting the Alumni Association Board and its committees,<br />
planning and overseeing professional and social networking events, and<br />
cultivating relationships with alumni locally, nationally, and internationally.<br />
Bri will also oversee Reunion Weekend 2009, and she is looking forward<br />
to working closely with alumni, faculty, and staff to design events<br />
and programs that will engage our alumni in the life of the <strong>College</strong>. Bri’s<br />
enthusiastic spirit, great sense of humor, and high energy in service to<br />
alumni contribute so much to our alumni programs, and we are thrilled<br />
to have her leading the Alumni Relations Office.<br />
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Stonewall Communities<br />
Lifelong Learning Institute<br />
The Stonewall Communities Lifelong Learning Institute at <strong>Wheelock</strong> <strong>College</strong> presents many public<br />
events and brown-bag lunch discussions funded in part by a grant from the Massachusetts Foundation<br />
for the Humanities. You can find a schedule of events as well as community resources at their<br />
website: www.stonewallcommunities.com.<br />
At an event held last June titled Liberty and Justice for LGBT Students: What the Safe Schools Movement<br />
Teaches Us About Organizing, we learned that 300 Massachusetts high schools and middle schools now have<br />
gay-straight alliances. From the start, students have organized the Safe Schools movement with the support<br />
and counsel of adults. The Departments of Education and Public Health; the Governor’s Council on Gay &<br />
Lesbian Youth; the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network; Parents, Families & Friends of Lesbians<br />
and Gays; the Boston Alliance of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual & Transgender Youth, and local churches have all<br />
been involved in crafting a unique collaboration for social change and safe schools.<br />
Web and Print Resources<br />
The event recommended several print resources that can be downloaded from Stonewall’s website. Locate<br />
them under the Lifelong Learning Institute Calendar of Events, Past Events.<br />
• “How to Mobilize Students to Ally for Safe Schools,” an article from the March <strong>2008</strong> issue of Peacework<br />
magazine, the peace and social justice magazine of American Friends Service Committee<br />
• “Just the Facts,” a fact sheet that summarizes important statistics about the impact of homophobia on gay<br />
and lesbian youth<br />
• Outright, Your Right to Be, a brochure that outlines the rights of gay, lesbian, and bisexual students in<br />
Massachusetts public schools<br />
<strong>Wheelock</strong>’s<br />
Center for Career<br />
Development<br />
Is Here for You<br />
<strong>Wheelock</strong>’s Center for Career<br />
Development (CCD),<br />
directed by Mary Sullivan,<br />
offers many career services and resources<br />
for alumni to help you in thinking about<br />
or actually taking that next career step.<br />
Career counseling appointments, résumé<br />
critiques, job search techniques, workshops<br />
and programs, and access to<br />
<strong>Wheelock</strong> Works! job postings have been<br />
developed just for you. In addition, if you<br />
or your workplace has openings, we can<br />
help you hire a <strong>Wheelock</strong> student or<br />
another graduate. Take advantage of this<br />
free resource designed to provide outstanding<br />
service to <strong>Wheelock</strong> students<br />
and alumni, as well as to potential<br />
employers.<br />
Child Life in San Diego<br />
<strong>Wheelock</strong> alumni were<br />
among the record-breaking<br />
1,050 who attended the<br />
<strong>2008</strong> Annual Child Life Council Conference<br />
in San Diego for three days of<br />
networking and educational sessions.<br />
Back row (l to r): Kerry Cahill ’05MS,<br />
Karen Swartz ’97/’98MS, Assistant<br />
Professor Paul Thayer, Samantha<br />
Doyle ’07MS, Elizabeth Shaughnessy<br />
’06MS, and Kathryn Weagle ’06MS.<br />
Front row (l to r): Chrissy Rupp,<br />
Chelsea Kingsbury ’07, Mallory<br />
Kowal ’05, and Beth Lebowitz ’05MS<br />
Next year, the Child Life Council<br />
will be heading to <strong>Wheelock</strong> territory<br />
for the 27th Annual Conference on<br />
Professional Issues. The conference will<br />
take place May 21-24, 2009, at The<br />
Westin Boston Waterfront hotel.<br />
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ALUMNI<br />
Reunion 2009<br />
Would you believe? Alumni are already planning<br />
Reunion 2009!<br />
That’s right. Alumni in classes ending in 4 and 9<br />
are celebrating their Reunion next May, and some<br />
early birds attended the Reunion 2009 Kickoff Event<br />
held at <strong>Wheelock</strong> last September to begin<br />
planning a great time for everyone.<br />
Don’t miss out . . .<br />
Save the dates May 29-31, 2009<br />
Alumni E-mail<br />
From: Carol Rubin Fishman ’83<br />
Congratulations to the members of last year’s field<br />
hockey team on winning the 2007 NFHCA Division III<br />
National Academic Team Award and on 10 of its members<br />
being named to the 2007 NFHCA Division III National Academic<br />
Squad (as seen in the Spring <strong>2008</strong> <strong>Wheelock</strong> Magazine). That’s<br />
quite an accomplishment! I was the charter team’s captain<br />
(1980 [first year of team], ’81, and ’82), and we didn’t have<br />
such opportunities to be recognized. I don’t remember even<br />
being in a division! Our big accomplishment in those first three<br />
years was improving our score against Pine Manor <strong>College</strong>:<br />
1980 = <strong>Wheelock</strong> 0, Pine Manor 1<br />
1981 = <strong>Wheelock</strong> 1, Pine Manor 1<br />
1982 = <strong>Wheelock</strong> 1, Pine Manor 0!<br />
We played other teams such as Tufts JV (they beat us<br />
miserably!) and some other small schools (bigger than<br />
<strong>Wheelock</strong>!) that I can’t remember. We had just enough players<br />
to field a team plus a sub or two. We shared a coach (Coach<br />
Cora) with Simmons and shared our kilts as well! (We’d have<br />
to wash our kilts and get them to the Simmons Student<br />
Affairs Office before their next game and vice versa!) We’d<br />
also use their players (shhh!) when we didn’t have enough!<br />
It gives me such pleasure to see that the team lives on!<br />
Best of luck this fall! Keep the grades up!<br />
You’re Invited —<br />
Service Learning Trips<br />
for Alumni<br />
<strong>Wheelock</strong> designs its international and national service<br />
learning programs to promote cross-cultural<br />
understanding and literacy among our students, and<br />
we welcome participation by alumni and staff at the <strong>College</strong><br />
who enjoy lifelong learning through direct experience.<br />
Past trips to Reggio Emilia, Italy; Belfast, Northern Ireland;<br />
Guatemala; Singapore; Ghana/Benin; and New Orleans, LA,<br />
have been phenomenal. Students and alumni returned from<br />
the trips inspired and excited about the integration of learning<br />
and service and the chance to share the experience together.<br />
Three great service learning opportunities for alumni are<br />
coming up in 2009. Contact the Alumni Relations Office for<br />
more information at (617) 879-2261.<br />
■ New Orleans, LA: Jan. 3-10, 2009<br />
■ Belfast, Northern Ireland: Feb. 13-22, 2009<br />
■ Puerto Rico: March 8-14, 2009<br />
Belfast ■ Northern Ireland<br />
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The Broad Residency in Urban Education is a two-year leadership<br />
development program that places participants into full-time high-level<br />
managerial positions in school districts and Charter Management Organizations,<br />
where they can have an immediate impact on the education of<br />
America’s students. The residency is designed for<br />
individuals with an advanced degree (master’s or<br />
higher), at least four years of work experience,<br />
and a successful track record of leadership<br />
and/or management.<br />
Residents earn starting annual salaries of<br />
$85,000 to $95,000 and participate in a<br />
series of professional development sessions<br />
over the course of two years. Residents<br />
are often tasked with leading major<br />
projects like opening new schools, leading<br />
budgeting processes, increasing operational efficiencies, or<br />
improving human resources. At the conclusion of the two-year program,<br />
the Broad Residency expects that school districts and CMOs will hire<br />
Resources<br />
Post-Grad Opportunities — <strong>Fall</strong> Deadlines Coming Up<br />
residents permanently in their current positions or promote them into more<br />
senior leadership posts.<br />
The Early Cycle Deadline is Dec. 1, <strong>2008</strong>; the Regular Cycle Deadline<br />
is Feb. 2, 2009. See the Broad Residency website program information:<br />
http://www.broadresidency.org/.<br />
The Kip Tiernan Social Justice Fellowship is<br />
offered by Rosie’s Place. This 12-month fellowship<br />
provides a $40,000 stipend and health benefits<br />
and is awarded annually to a woman who will use<br />
the funds to develop and carry out an innovative<br />
project in New England that will benefit poor and<br />
homeless women. Informational sessions will be<br />
offered in the fall. Concept papers are due Dec.<br />
1, <strong>2008</strong>. The Fellowship will be awarded the<br />
following spring, and the Fellow will begin the<br />
following September. For additional information and application<br />
materials, visit www.rosiesplace.org or contact smarsh@rosiesplace.org.<br />
Lunch & Learn<br />
Human Development Brown Bag Lunch Series<br />
If you’re in the Boston area, here’s a great opportunity to go back<br />
to class for an hour and catch up with the latest best thinking<br />
on an array of subjects and programs of interest to <strong>Wheelock</strong><br />
alumni. Catch one or all of the monthly presentations in a brown<br />
bag series sponsored by the Center for Scholarship and Research and<br />
the Department of Human Development.<br />
Nov. 19<br />
Youth Philanthropy for Urban Community Change<br />
Presenter: Felicity Crawford<br />
ACE 224, 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.<br />
Jan. 21<br />
Using Online Discussions to Nurture Reflective Judgment<br />
Presenter: Debbie Samuels-Peretz<br />
Location TBA, 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.<br />
Feb. 18<br />
Bridging Communities through Service Learning Research<br />
Presenter: Detris Adelabu<br />
Location TBA, 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.<br />
March 18<br />
Supporting Children’s Emotional Development: From Theory and<br />
Research to Practice and Curriculum Frameworks<br />
Presenter: Petra Hesse<br />
Location TBA, 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.<br />
Math Puzzler<br />
The Mathemagician claims to have 4,827,659<br />
hairs on his head.<br />
The physicist Enrico Fermi used to like to give estimation questions<br />
that seemed impossible at first glance but with some<br />
thought could yield a very good estimate. Debra Borkovitz,<br />
associate professor of mathematics, does too. She also likes big numbers.<br />
And she likes Fermi questions because they challenge students to ask more<br />
questions, not just provide “an answer.”<br />
Try This Fermi Question<br />
The Mathemagician (a character in The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton<br />
Juster) claims to have 4,827,659 hairs on his head. Is it plausible for a<br />
person to have this number of hairs on their head? Or is the number too<br />
low or too high? Can you figure out a strategy for estimating the number<br />
of hairs on your head?<br />
Hint, hint, hint . . . There is a website that looks at mathematical<br />
patterns in African-American hairstyles (http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/<br />
special/gilmer-gloria_HAIRSTYLES.html). A braided hairstyle can help with<br />
the estimation.<br />
Teachers . . . Ask your students to try this and then send a sample<br />
or two of the approaches they take to Christine Dall, Editor, <strong>Wheelock</strong><br />
Magazine, <strong>Wheelock</strong> <strong>College</strong>, 200 The Riverway, Boston, MA 02215<br />
or e-mail cdall@wheelock.edu. Selected solutions will appear in the winter<br />
issue of the magazine.<br />
You can find this Fermi question and others at Borkovitz’s website (http://<br />
faculty.wheelock.edu/dborkovitz), or invent your own. How many minutes —<br />
or seconds—has it been since you graduated from <strong>Wheelock</strong>?<br />
16 <strong>Fall</strong> <strong>2008</strong>
2007–<strong>2008</strong> A NNUAL R EPORT OF G IVING<br />
“’Ask and it shall be given’ was written by someone a while ago. . . . <strong>Wheelock</strong> did,<br />
so I did . . . with great pleasure for the work it is doing and for what it did for me<br />
when I was a student. It helped transform the dream to support human dignity —<br />
from our littlest to our oldest — into reality on the global front. <strong>Wheelock</strong> accepted<br />
us where we were, appreciated our limited or expansive talents, and let us grow,<br />
keeping curiosity and creativity as our lifelong pursuits. . . . Now that’s a real gift!”<br />
—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 • <strong>2008</strong><br />
CALLAHAN MOORE,<br />
NANTUCKET<br />
Worked four jobs in high school<br />
...a master list maker and<br />
organizer . . . <strong>Wheelock</strong> basketball<br />
team . . . work/study in the<br />
Towne Art Gallery . . . planning<br />
a human development major<br />
with a focus in psychology and<br />
concentration in Juvenile Justice<br />
and Youth Advocacy ...likes<br />
that <strong>Wheelock</strong> is in a city but it<br />
is small and people are friendly<br />
LI YU, CALIFORNIA<br />
Loves writing and singing . . .<br />
won first place for choral soloist<br />
in U.S. and Canadian high schools<br />
choral competition . . . plans a<br />
humanities major with a focus in<br />
social relations . . . loves Boston’s<br />
diversity . . . thinks <strong>Wheelock</strong> faculty<br />
are incredibly responsive . . .<br />
favorite classes are social science<br />
and global encounters . . . agrees<br />
with Florida and Texas firstyears<br />
— it’s brrrrrr in Boston!<br />
KARINA VERGARA,<br />
TEXAS<br />
Top activities in high school were<br />
Habitat for Humanity in Mexico,<br />
reading program for children in<br />
women’s shelter, and softball<br />
team . . . active in ALANA and<br />
GSA at <strong>Wheelock</strong> . . . favorite class<br />
is Human Growth & Development<br />
(instructor Julia Whicavitch-DeVoy<br />
is “awesome”) . . . has always,<br />
always wanted to be a teacher<br />
AMAL SHARIFF,<br />
NEW YORK<br />
Vice president of senior class in<br />
high school with 8,000 students<br />
. . . headed up Red Cross blood<br />
drive . . . soccer player . . .<br />
co-founder and president of her<br />
church youth group . . . very happy<br />
with <strong>Wheelock</strong>’s small size and<br />
ease of getting to know people . . .<br />
favorite class is Media, Race, and<br />
Society . . . interested in psychology<br />
and teaching<br />
ELLIOT HERNANDEZ,<br />
FLORIDA<br />
Basketball team captain for<br />
three years in high school . . .<br />
interested in psychology . . .<br />
is bilingual . . . loves his<br />
<strong>Wheelock</strong> English class 110<br />
and teacher, Shana Deets . . .<br />
likes the variety of students<br />
and making new friends —<br />
biggest adjustment: Boston’s<br />
freezing [60 degrees] cold<br />
weather!<br />
Annual Fund Giving Yields<br />
Big Student Returns<br />
Annual Fund giving plays a pivotal role in growing student enrollment,<br />
making it possible for more students to afford <strong>Wheelock</strong> as their firstchoice<br />
college. In a year that has proved extremely challenging financially<br />
for families of students who want to pursue private higher education, 237<br />
first-year students enrolled at <strong>Wheelock</strong> this September — the largest number<br />
in the <strong>College</strong>’s history. Thirty-eight students transferred from other colleges<br />
and universities.<br />
The vast majority of incoming students are successful in achieving their goal<br />
of attending <strong>Wheelock</strong> because of our Annual Fund donors. Thanks to Annual<br />
Fund giving, 95 percent of first-year students received essential financial<br />
assistance. Fifty-one of these qualified for Merit Scholarships.<br />
Annual Fund donors can be sure their contributions are changing lives and<br />
that they are deeply appreciated.<br />
We Are the Class of 2012<br />
Math wiz • President of Latinos in Action organization • Two debate team members • Two<br />
on varsity lacrosse • Two started clothing drives for children and their families • Over 200<br />
hours of community service • Two took all AP courses in high school • Two environmental<br />
club advocates • Two had perfect attendance throughout high school • Varsity field hockey<br />
• Highest GPA in senior class • Four senior class presidents • Vietnamese teacher at<br />
church • Eleven basketball athletes • Two Boston Ballet Company dancers • Six full-time<br />
employees while in high school • Six drama club leaders • Works for T.i.P. Teens in Print •<br />
Two City Year participants • Nine National Honor Society members • Volunteered to teach<br />
in Haiti • Passion for mathematics • Knows four languages • Two members of Big<br />
Brother Big Sister Association • Four dance instructors • Zookeeper • Four coaches for kids<br />
sports • Three teacher assistants • SADD president • Mentor for autistic children • Can play<br />
every instrument in the orchestra • Yankees fan! • Two preschool TAs • Community service<br />
in Dominican Republic • Two vice presidents of Student Council • Two peer ministers •<br />
Varsity volleyball • Special needs volunteer • Three Best Buddies volunteers • Animae artist<br />
• Two magicians • Ran Boston Marathon • Musical theater performer • Future Business<br />
Leaders of America •Toys for Tots leader •Aspiring astronomer • Future Teachers of America<br />
• Four Special Olympics volunteers • Animal shelter volunteer • Women’s shelter volunteer •<br />
Sunday School teacher • Newspaper<br />
writer • ESL teacher • Award-winning<br />
horseback rider • Early Childhood<br />
Education group president • Swimming<br />
coach • Started own jewelry<br />
company • Three Model U.N. members<br />
• Advocate for children with special<br />
needs • Member of Project Hope •<br />
Soccer team captain • Special Olympics<br />
participant • Two varsity swimmers •<br />
Works with autistic children • Mexican<br />
folklore dancing group member •<br />
Sailing instructor • History Honor<br />
Society • Fourteen took AP Courses •<br />
Irish step dancer • Habitat for Humanity<br />
P.S.: We have enough musicians to<br />
start a <strong>Wheelock</strong> orchestra!<br />
Ashley Lee, (far left)<br />
Class of 2012, arriving<br />
from Hartford with mom,<br />
dad, and best friend<br />
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Passion for Action Scholars Are on Campus<br />
<strong>Wheelock</strong>’s November 2007 Passion for Action Leadership<br />
Awards Dinner brought together 400 community leaders,<br />
corporate executives, and philanthropists at the John F.<br />
Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum to honor Christopher<br />
“Chris” Gabrieli with the <strong>College</strong>’s first Passion for Action Leadership<br />
Award and to recognize five Jenzabar Emerging Leaders,<br />
student leaders from Greater Boston high schools who exemplified<br />
<strong>Wheelock</strong>’s mission of service. Contributors to the event raised<br />
$200,000 for scholarships<br />
for deserving<br />
<strong>Wheelock</strong> students<br />
from the Boston area.<br />
With the funds,<br />
<strong>Wheelock</strong> created<br />
a new Passion for<br />
Action Scholarship<br />
Program for outstanding first-year students who have demonstrated a<br />
commitment to community service and involvement and are prepared<br />
to participate in a unique academic program designed to develop<br />
their leadership and community service skills through individual<br />
service projects, meetings with community and business leaders,<br />
seminars in service and leadership, an international or national service<br />
learning project, and a “passionate idea” capstone project.<br />
This fall, less than one year after the awards dinner, five Passion<br />
for Action scholars are on campus pursuing their college educations.<br />
Each student received a $20,000 Passion for Action scholarship for<br />
the <strong>2008</strong>-09 academic year, a scholarship they will receive again each<br />
year while working on their undergraduate degrees at <strong>Wheelock</strong>.<br />
<strong>Wheelock</strong> could not have created this scholarship program<br />
to prepare young leaders for continuing community leadership<br />
without the generous donors who stepped up and took action to<br />
improve the lives of Boston’s children and families through education.<br />
The <strong>College</strong> is grateful to each and every contributor who<br />
has made a very significant difference in the lives of these outstanding<br />
students, who themselves will go on to have a lasting<br />
impact on the lives of those they serve. Special appreciation and<br />
recognition go to the seven leading contributors: The Jenzabar<br />
Foundation, Shawmut Design and Construction, Larry and<br />
Atsuko Fish, Ted and Beedee Ladd, Robert A. Lincoln, and<br />
two donors who wish to remain anonymous.<br />
MONIQUE BRUNNER<br />
“She exhibits courage beyond<br />
her years and the ability to<br />
stand her ground with her<br />
peers, remaining firm in her<br />
commitment to do what is right.<br />
I’ve seen her evolve from someone<br />
who didn’t think college<br />
was in her future to someone<br />
who is excited and eager to face<br />
new challenges.”<br />
— Jean Dorcus, Monique’s supervisor,<br />
Boston Nature Center<br />
National Honor Society member<br />
and vice president of Student<br />
Council at English High School —<br />
worked with Teen Empowerment<br />
Program to organize a Youth<br />
Peace Summit for Boston teens —<br />
member of a mediation team<br />
sponsored by a law firm that<br />
hosts problem-solving sessions<br />
for Boston youth.<br />
LAYLIN CHONG<br />
EMILY DADDIO<br />
“Emily is a model student and a<br />
multi-talented member of our<br />
high school community. The<br />
level of her maturity and her<br />
earnest efforts are exemplary.<br />
She is a positive role model.”<br />
— Joseph Vilaine, guidance counselor,<br />
Somerville High School<br />
National Honor Society member<br />
who ranked 13th in a class of 323<br />
at Somerville High School — threeyear<br />
participant in Best Buddies<br />
program, providing assistance to<br />
special needs students through<br />
activities and events — worked in<br />
high school early education program<br />
— editor of high school yearbook<br />
— co-captain of varsity<br />
cheerleading team — active school<br />
and community volunteer<br />
AVA JENNINGS<br />
“A young woman who already<br />
possesses the desire to do the<br />
right thing.”<br />
— Lisa Patrick, TEACHBoston<br />
Summer Program director<br />
John D. O’Bryant School of<br />
Mathematics & Science graduate —<br />
participant in TEACHBoston program<br />
of the Boston Public Schools,<br />
which prepares high school students<br />
to pursue careers in education<br />
— member of Teen Voices, an<br />
intensive journalism mentoring<br />
and leadership program — trained<br />
in public speaking at the Moakley<br />
Public Speaking Institute at the<br />
John F. Kennedy Presidential<br />
Library and Museum<br />
LISA KRISZUN<br />
“Lisa is a delightful young<br />
woman with a personality<br />
shaped by self-motivation,<br />
independence, and hard work.”<br />
— Melissa Hammel, Lisa’s teacher<br />
Lisa and her family are from<br />
Germany, but her goal is to<br />
become a teacher in the U.S. —<br />
at high school in Berlin, developed<br />
a 10-week curriculum for teaching<br />
computer skills to elderly citizens,<br />
tutored young children, participated<br />
in multicultural alliance — nominated<br />
by her school to the Berlin<br />
United Nations — participated in<br />
an international peace program<br />
for student leaders in Washington,<br />
D.C. — worked in on-site preschool<br />
classroom through her Early<br />
Childhood Education class at<br />
Newton North High School<br />
“Laylin is a young woman characterized<br />
by her leadership,<br />
community service, commitment<br />
to excellence, and motivation,<br />
and she has worked<br />
hard to break barriers faced<br />
by immigrants.”<br />
— John Travers, senior class adviser,<br />
Brighton High School<br />
Came to the U.S. from Ecuador<br />
when she was 8 years old and<br />
lives with her father and brother —<br />
vice president of the National<br />
Honor Society (4.2 GPA) and a<br />
peer mediator at Brighton High<br />
School — volunteer for UNICEF,<br />
Red Cross, and Project Bread —<br />
active participant in the Asian<br />
Club, Gay Straight Alliance, and<br />
the Key Club – worked 30 hours<br />
weekly while in high school<br />
<strong>Wheelock</strong> Magazine 19
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 • <strong>2008</strong><br />
INTERVIEW<br />
ADRIAN HAUGABROOK<br />
vice president for student success and institutional diversity<br />
WM: <strong>College</strong> affordability has been an issue for quite a while.<br />
What impact is today’s economy having?<br />
AH: The economy is placing greater demands on almost all families,<br />
leaving them with fewer resources to put toward higher education. This<br />
means students need more financial assistance and more and higher<br />
amounts of loans. At the same time, obtaining college loans is more difficult<br />
now, so it’s a real challenge for everyone, not just a few.<br />
WM: If it were easier to get loans, would that solve the problem?<br />
AH: It costs $38,030 to attend <strong>Wheelock</strong> this year. Solving the loan<br />
problem might make it easier on the front end to afford to get to college,<br />
but then on the back end the loan debt waiting for our graduating students<br />
today is between $17,000 and $63,000, and it will go higher. That’s<br />
a lot for any graduate, but for students who want to come here to become<br />
teachers, social workers, and child life professionals, who will earn very<br />
modest salaries, it’s huge. Right now, <strong>Wheelock</strong> is looking at how we can<br />
increase federal assistance, reduce or subsidize the cost of attendance, and<br />
raise more scholarship funds in such a stressed economy.<br />
Getting to<br />
“GO”<br />
in Going to <strong>Wheelock</strong><br />
Dr. Adrian Haugabrook, <strong>Wheelock</strong>’s new vice president<br />
for student success and institutional diversity, spends much<br />
of his workday grappling with issues of affordability and<br />
accessibility, twin challenges that are affecting more and more<br />
students attempting to go to college in current economic times.<br />
WM: What brought you to <strong>Wheelock</strong>?<br />
AH: I’m at <strong>Wheelock</strong> because the <strong>College</strong> recognizes the need to provide<br />
resources and a structure to address affordability and other issues of<br />
accessibility. If we don’t address these issues now, not only do they become<br />
worse while we lose time, but we also lose another generation of students<br />
who have great talents to contribute to society but who can’t afford the<br />
education needed to fulfill their potential.<br />
WM: Do you see the financial realities of today keeping students<br />
from entering the field?<br />
AH: It’s too soon to tell, but it does add to our challenge. Schools and<br />
communities desperately need good teachers and social workers. And part<br />
of the job of my office is to open the doors for qualified students and<br />
make access to the field easier for them. We can’t have high school students<br />
from moderate- and low-income families giving up on going to college or<br />
on becoming teachers and social workers. And we don’t want colleges<br />
going back to the days when they were the domain of the privileged few.<br />
Of course, access involves more than just affordability.<br />
WM: Such as?<br />
AH: Students and families need access to information and understanding<br />
about what leads to college success. They need to know there is a path that<br />
leads to college and how to get on it. Are they in a program that helps them be<br />
ready for college? This is especially difficult for first-generation college students<br />
and their families who may not know the college-going process, who need<br />
financial assistance but don’t know what kinds of assistance are available or<br />
how to fill out the forms. A while ago, I led a college planning session where a<br />
parent said, “No one ever told me helping my son apply to college is a fulltime<br />
job.” For many families, the reality of that situation is a barrier in itself.<br />
WM: So what is <strong>Wheelock</strong> doing?<br />
AH: Part of <strong>Wheelock</strong>’s higher education mission is to reach out and<br />
create partnerships and collaborations with schools and community organizations.<br />
It’s a way to build the path to college back into middle school and<br />
high school — bringing students on campus during the academic year and<br />
into summer programs and bridge programs so that they understand what<br />
college involves and can prepare for it.<br />
We’re also focusing on improving college preparation and success rates for<br />
under-represented populations, including low-income and first-generation<br />
students, as well as students of color and students with disabilities. <strong>Wheelock</strong>’s<br />
new Upward Bound program, which focuses on preparing high school<br />
students for college and the teaching profession, is a great example.<br />
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Cornerstone Society<br />
The Cornerstone Society was recently created as a way of<br />
recognizing our most generous donors who make an annual<br />
gift of $1,250 or more to <strong>Wheelock</strong> <strong>College</strong>. These individuals,<br />
along with the students they support, are the cornerstones of<br />
<strong>Wheelock</strong>’s future. The <strong>College</strong> would like to thank the following<br />
individuals for their leadership support:<br />
Lucy <strong>Wheelock</strong><br />
Benefactors<br />
$50,000 or more<br />
Anonymous (2)<br />
Catherine Bose ‘75*<br />
Keena Dunn Clifford ‘68<br />
Sylvia Tailby Earl ‘54 and James Earl<br />
Irene Frail Hamm ‘60 and Charles Hamm<br />
Nancy Kelly Hershey ‘69<br />
Alice Keith ‘39*<br />
Ted and Beedee Ladd<br />
Robert A. Lincoln<br />
President’s Council<br />
$25,000 to $49,999<br />
Anonymous (1)<br />
Charles Ames<br />
Stephanie Bennett-Smith and<br />
Orin R. Smith<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Albert Creighton<br />
Shirley Hotra Neff ‘58<br />
Catherine Hargrave Sykes ‘50<br />
<strong>Wheelock</strong> Fellows<br />
$10,000 to $24,999<br />
Judith Parks Anderson ‘62<br />
Barbara Mead Anthony ‘60MS and<br />
Stephen H. Anthony<br />
Zelinda Makepeace Douhan ‘63/’75MS<br />
Sally Reeves Edmonds ‘55<br />
Larry and Atsuko Fish<br />
Elizabeth Grimm Hoskins ‘56<br />
Edith Hall Huck ‘48<br />
Betty Jane Jalley*<br />
Kathy and Bob Jaunich<br />
Polly McAllister<br />
Jack Meyer<br />
Frances Nichols ‘63<br />
Janice Porosky Olins ‘33*<br />
Gertrude Van Iderstine Phillips ‘43-’44<br />
Elizabeth Bassett Wolf ‘54<br />
Froebel Associates<br />
$5,000 to $9,999<br />
Anonymous (2)<br />
Sandra Dunham Bowers ‘58 and<br />
Ted Bowers<br />
Susan Moyer Breed ‘52/’79MS<br />
Rick and Nonnie Burnes<br />
Ellen Cluett Burnham ‘60<br />
Maureen Murphy Coakley ‘58*<br />
and Ed Coakley<br />
Jeff and Catherine Coburn<br />
Madeleine Gatchell Corson ‘59<br />
Tina Feldman Crosby ‘67<br />
Barbara Elliott Fargo ‘52<br />
Mary McBride Felton ‘58<br />
Deirdre Conrad Frank ‘65<br />
Joan Freeman*<br />
Paul S. Grogan<br />
Thordis Burdett Gulden ‘66<br />
Cynthia Hallowell ‘58<br />
Charlotte Pomeroy Hatfield ‘58<br />
Priscilla Alden Hayes ‘62 and Robert Hayes<br />
* Deceased<br />
Tina Morris Helm ‘64/’98MS and Bill Helm<br />
Elizabeth Berry Horner ‘47<br />
Jackie Jenkins-Scott and Jim Scott<br />
Reta Schoonmaker King ‘60<br />
John F. Knutson<br />
Mary Pescatello Lewis ‘69<br />
Elizabeth Wheeler L’Hommedieu ‘54<br />
Pamela Long<br />
Persis Luke Loveys ‘54<br />
Dr. and Mrs. Gordon Marshall<br />
Mary Meeker ‘58<br />
Carolyn Bail Miller ‘71<br />
Martha-Reed Ennis Murphy ‘69<br />
Suzanne Newton<br />
Linda Bullock Owens ‘69<br />
Abby Squires Perelman ‘73<br />
Adelaide Duffy Queeney ‘88MS<br />
Barbara Grogins Sallick ‘61<br />
Page Poinier Sanders ‘65<br />
Katharine duPont Sanger ‘66<br />
Barbara Silverstein ‘56<br />
Elizabeth Robinson Smith ‘63<br />
Geneva S. Thorndike and<br />
William Thorndike Jr.<br />
Joan I. Thorndike<br />
Diana Chang VanHoutum ‘68<br />
Amaryllis Morris Volk ‘55<br />
Suzanne Weinstein<br />
David C. Weinstein<br />
Helen Small Weishaar ‘45<br />
Katharine Lewars Weymouth ‘42-’43*<br />
Carole Hayes Williams ‘66<br />
White and Gold Circle<br />
$2,500 to $4,999<br />
Anonymous (1)<br />
Judy McMurray Achre ‘58<br />
Betsy Hunter Ambach ‘54<br />
Steven Aveson ‘78<br />
Lisa McCabe Biagetti ‘80<br />
Henriette Pennypacker Binswanger ‘56<br />
Joyce Pettoruto Butler ‘73<br />
Elizabeth Townsend Dearstyne ‘62 and<br />
William Dearstyne<br />
Cynthia Doherty ‘02MSW<br />
Ellen Tague Dwinell ‘61<br />
Susan Grearson Fillmore ‘56<br />
Betty and Larry Fuchs<br />
Maria Furman<br />
Roberta Weiss Goorno ‘62<br />
Barbara and Steve Grossman<br />
William R. Hall<br />
Mr. and Mrs. George Hall<br />
Priscilla Chase Heindel ‘47<br />
Sally Schwabacher Hottle ‘59<br />
Michael J. Jolliffe<br />
Phyllis Forbes Kerr ‘64<br />
Jane Ann Hartzell Knebel ‘51*<br />
Catherine Ley Lawler ‘82<br />
William A. Lowell, Esq.<br />
Toby Congleton Milner ‘70<br />
Emily Cook Moore ‘47<br />
Robin Mount<br />
Nancy Stewart Nadig ‘69<br />
Ruth Bailey Papazian ‘56<br />
Nancy Fowle Purinton ‘64<br />
Nancy Garnaus Rice ‘50<br />
Stanley and Marcia Rumbaugh<br />
Nancy Gebting Secker ‘61<br />
Thekla Reese Shackelford ‘56<br />
Kate and Ben Taylor<br />
Lisa and Rex Thors<br />
Suzanne Hamburger Thurston ‘54<br />
Elsa Weyer Williams ‘54<br />
1888 Circle<br />
$1,250 to $2,499<br />
Anonymous (1)<br />
Ruth Flink Ades ‘53<br />
Margaret Benisch Anderson ‘53<br />
Beth Atwood ‘57*<br />
Lynne Wyluda Beasley ‘66<br />
Kathleen Kirk Bishop<br />
Linda Larrabee Blair-Lockwood ‘65<br />
Jean Heard Carmichael ‘62<br />
Melanie Waszkiewicz Chadwick ‘68<br />
Geraldine Walsh Clauss ‘51<br />
Kathryn Smith Conrad ‘73MS<br />
Patricia Cook ‘69<br />
Madeleine Tufts Cormier ‘66<br />
Ann Carter Craft ‘53<br />
Barbara Pratt Dancy ‘62<br />
Barbara Tutschek Ells ‘60<br />
Lucia Santini Field<br />
Diane Abitbol Fogg ‘64<br />
Kristine Sheathelm Gerson ‘79<br />
Joan Blanchard Gray ‘50<br />
Patricia Conzelman Greeley ‘52/’90MS<br />
Mary Bloomer Gulick ‘57 and Bob Gulick<br />
Patricia Haas ‘59<br />
Janet Marshall Haring ‘64<br />
Christine Theander Harper ‘63<br />
Jeanne Wilson Hatch ‘59<br />
Anne Mulholland Heger ‘49<br />
Jane Luke Hill ‘69<br />
Carol Jeffers Hollenberg ‘64<br />
Mathilde Clark Holmes ‘49*<br />
Jane Hanna Houck ‘57 and<br />
Emerson Houck<br />
Alumni Scholarships<br />
Anonymous (1)<br />
Judith Parks Anderson ‘62<br />
Barbara Mead Anthony ‘60MS and<br />
Stephen H. Anthony<br />
Susan Moyer Breed ‘52/’79MS<br />
Keena Dunn Clifford ‘68<br />
Madeleine Gatchell Corson ‘59<br />
Tina Feldman Crosby ‘67<br />
Elizabeth Townsend Dearstyne ‘62 and<br />
William Dearstyne<br />
Deirdre Conrad Frank ‘65<br />
Tina Morris Helm ‘64/’98MS and Bill Helm<br />
Anne Wingle Howard ‘57<br />
Susan Towle Huckman ‘55<br />
Sytske Humphrey ‘89MS<br />
Janet Ferry Jenney ‘52<br />
Tom and Roberta Kelly<br />
Jone LaBombard ‘80MS<br />
Ann Longfellow<br />
Helene Stehlin Lortz ‘60<br />
Anne Sullivan Lyons ‘62<br />
Rose Kurkjian Margosian ‘68<br />
Mary Baker McConnell ‘74 and<br />
Mike McConnell<br />
Olivia Hutchins Meek ‘52<br />
Suzanne Mullens Morgan ‘64<br />
Nancy Ware Morrow ‘63<br />
Deanne Williams Morse ‘60<br />
Anne Hallowell Newton ‘66<br />
Phoebe O’Mara ‘66<br />
Maralen Moody O’Neil ‘58<br />
Edith Rizer Paffard ‘38*<br />
Wanda Yeomans Patterson ‘93<br />
Mary Stone Phipps ‘57<br />
Ruth Angier Salinger ‘53<br />
Betty Appel Schaffer ‘60<br />
Susan Bruml Simon ‘73<br />
Sally Clark Sloop ‘68<br />
Patricia Cotter Smart ‘56<br />
Ann Emerson Spaulding ‘53<br />
Nancy Clarke Steinberger ‘65<br />
Mary Anne Dresser Stringham ‘49<br />
Daniel S. Terris<br />
Sylvia Buffinton Tompkins ‘55<br />
Ann Fisher Tuteur ‘67<br />
Diana Spence Uehlein ‘76/’94MS<br />
Lucy Hannan Vaill ‘67<br />
Mary Ann Baker Wagner ‘62<br />
Alice Parke Watson ‘63<br />
Joan Anderson Watts ‘65/’83MS<br />
Nancy Clay Webster ‘66<br />
Joann Bridgman Webster ‘48<br />
Judith Schwarz Weinstock ‘70MS<br />
Jean Cutler Whitham ‘58<br />
T<br />
he Alumni Scholars Program brings together individuals at the<br />
heart of <strong>Wheelock</strong> <strong>College</strong>: students and alumni. Alumni Scholars<br />
donors make an annual gift of $5,000 to support one undergraduate<br />
or graduate student during their time at <strong>Wheelock</strong>. These contributions<br />
help defray the cost of a <strong>Wheelock</strong> education, and through an<br />
exchange of letters and meetings at events, the donors are kept<br />
up-to-date about their students’ studies and activities. Reciprocally,<br />
students learn about their supporters and their <strong>Wheelock</strong> experience.<br />
The students join the <strong>College</strong> in thanking the following individuals:<br />
Edith Hall Huck ‘48<br />
Jackie Jenkins-Scott and Jim Scott<br />
Mary Pescatello Lewis ‘69<br />
Carolyn Bail Miller ‘71<br />
Martha-Reed Ennis Murphy ‘69<br />
Linda Bullock Owens ‘69<br />
Gertrude Van Iderstine Phillips ’43-’44<br />
Page Poinier Sanders ‘65<br />
Katharine duPont Sanger ‘66<br />
Helen Small Weishaar ‘45<br />
Carole Hayes Williams ‘66<br />
Elizabeth Bassett Wolf ‘54<br />
Sincerest thanks from<br />
the entire <strong>Wheelock</strong><br />
community go out<br />
to all our donors.<br />
<strong>Wheelock</strong> Magazine 21
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 • <strong>2008</strong><br />
GIVING<br />
AT A<br />
GLANCE<br />
The 12 months ending June 30, <strong>2008</strong>, were a difficult period for investments. U.S. markets, as evidenced by<br />
the S&P 500 Index, were down 13.1 percent for that period. <strong>Wheelock</strong>’s endowment, however, lost only<br />
2.6 percent for those 12 months, attributable to the degree of diversification in the <strong>College</strong>’s portfolio. At the<br />
same time, the endowment provided more than $2 million of operating support to the <strong>College</strong> during the year.<br />
Contributions to the Annual Fund continued their upward trend, increasing to more than $1.3 million in<br />
FY08. In an economy that affected so many donors and their giving priorities, increased participation in<br />
annual giving is an excellent sign of confidence in the <strong>College</strong>’s future and its strategic plan for getting there.<br />
Most important, Annual Fund giving supports the institutional priority of financial assistance for students,<br />
which is needed to sustain <strong>Wheelock</strong>’s growing enrollment, as well as the faculty projects, programs, and conferences<br />
that help to grow the <strong>College</strong>’s academic reputation.<br />
Annual Giving<br />
FY08<br />
Operating<br />
Expenses<br />
Sources of<br />
Operating Revenue<br />
Endowment<br />
69%<br />
Annual Fund<br />
15%<br />
Campus Center and<br />
Student Residence Building<br />
16%<br />
Instruction 35%<br />
Institutional<br />
Support 17%<br />
Financial Aid 22%<br />
Student Services 10%<br />
Dorm & Dining 6%<br />
Facilities 6%<br />
Debt Services 4%<br />
Endowment<br />
6%<br />
Tuition/<br />
Room & Board<br />
87%<br />
Annual Fund/Interest<br />
6%<br />
Other<br />
1%<br />
1,500,000<br />
1,300,000<br />
1,100,000<br />
900,000<br />
700,000<br />
500,000<br />
300,000<br />
100,000<br />
Annual Fund Giving FY 2004-<strong>2008</strong><br />
FY04 FY05 FY06 FY07 FY08<br />
(Actual)<br />
$60.0<br />
Value of <strong>Wheelock</strong> Endowment<br />
(in millions of dollars)<br />
$50.0<br />
50.9<br />
$40.0<br />
$30.0<br />
37.6<br />
43.1<br />
39.3<br />
34.0<br />
34.6<br />
39.2<br />
41.9<br />
44.6<br />
47.1<br />
$20.0<br />
$10.0<br />
0.0<br />
1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 <strong>2008</strong><br />
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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 • <strong>2008</strong><br />
2007-<strong>2008</strong><br />
HIGH MARKS FOR<br />
WHEELOCK<br />
• Annual Fund reached a major,<br />
record-making milestone with<br />
gifts totaling $1.3 million.<br />
• Met our Campus Center and<br />
Student Residence fundraising<br />
target — including a prestigious<br />
$800,000 Kresge Challenge grant —<br />
started construction, and ended<br />
the fiscal year with the project<br />
on budget and on schedule<br />
• Won a $1 million Classic Upward<br />
Bound TRIO grant to help fund a<br />
new teacher development program<br />
for high school students<br />
• Hosted Passion for Action, our<br />
first major fundraising dinner,<br />
raising over $350,000 for student<br />
financial aid<br />
• Opened a new math/science<br />
resource center with state-of-the-art<br />
technology and equipment<br />
• Opened two academic centers,<br />
Aspire Institute and the Center<br />
for Scholarship and Research<br />
• Introduced new technology and<br />
equipment on campus, including<br />
increased wireless network coverage<br />
and upgraded technology in two<br />
science classrooms<br />
• Enrolled another record-breaking<br />
number of incoming undergraduate<br />
students and increased graduate<br />
inquiries by 58 percent<br />
• Successfully established a summer<br />
bridging program, an honors program,<br />
and an outreach support<br />
program for students<br />
• Expanded our student life program<br />
and introduced men’s athletics at<br />
the <strong>College</strong> with an important<br />
focus on academic success<br />
• Completed three service learning<br />
trips to New Orleans, Northern<br />
Ireland, and Ghana<br />
• Hosted a Youth Symposium and<br />
Special Convocation honoring<br />
Archbishop Emeritus Desmond<br />
Tutu that drew 1,600 people to<br />
<strong>Wheelock</strong>’s campus<br />
• Continued our role as a policy<br />
leader and facilitator, hosting three<br />
Winter Policy Talks, the third<br />
annual Conference on Early Education,<br />
and a successful series on the<br />
Education of Black Male Youth<br />
<strong>2008</strong>-2009<br />
ACTION STEPS<br />
• Meet or exceed FY09 fundraising<br />
goal of $1.3 million in unrestricted/<br />
financial aid<br />
• Complete the Kresge Challenge<br />
with $1.2 million in gifts or<br />
pledges for the CCSR<br />
• Increase funding for the Math/<br />
Science Education Initiative and<br />
the Upward Bound program<br />
• Complete comprehensive capital<br />
campaign plan<br />
• Grand opening of the new Campus<br />
Center and Student Residence<br />
• Plan and begin renovation of<br />
Riverway House<br />
• Make new investments in technology<br />
and equipment with a<br />
special focus on supporting faculty<br />
teaching and student learning<br />
• Integrate the President’s Climate<br />
Commitment with the Environmental<br />
Plan across the <strong>College</strong><br />
• Complete and implement a<br />
Graduate Program Plan including<br />
enrollment and retention goals<br />
• Develop a plan to address issues<br />
of student access and affordability<br />
• Meet or exceed enrollment goal<br />
of 325 new students<br />
• Expand international residential<br />
programs on campus through the<br />
Center for International Education,<br />
Leadership, and Innovation<br />
• Address and implement key<br />
Community Diversity Initiative<br />
recommendations<br />
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Heritage Society<br />
The Heritage Society was initiated in 1981 by then President Gordon Marshall and<br />
celebrates those who have included <strong>Wheelock</strong> <strong>College</strong> in their estate or trust plans.<br />
Alumni and friends who make a provision for <strong>Wheelock</strong> in their will or through a Pooled<br />
Income Fund, Charitable Gift Annuity, Perpetual Trust, Bequest Intention, or other form of<br />
planned gift provide for the future of the <strong>College</strong>. The <strong>College</strong> gratefully acknowledges<br />
the following individuals for leaving a special legacy that will perpetuate our mission to<br />
improve the lives of children and families:<br />
Current Members<br />
Anonymous (7)<br />
Anonymous Lead Trust (1)**<br />
Lois Abbott<br />
Judy McMurray Achre ‘58<br />
Ruth Flink Ades ‘53^<br />
Virginia Pratt Agar ‘64<br />
Nancy Wilson Ainslie ‘44<br />
Judith Parks Anderson ‘62<br />
Margaret Benisch Anderson ‘53<br />
Stephen and Barbara Mead<br />
Anthony ‘60MS<br />
Margaret Boethelt Barratt ‘52<br />
V. Bonnie Blick Benedict ‘69<br />
Joan Chiappetta Benson ‘69<br />
Elizabeth Palmer Bradley ‘64<br />
Lorian Brown ‘68MS<br />
Mary Turnbull Burnight ‘66<br />
Evelyn Burr Caldwell ‘24<br />
Sarah Carter ‘66<br />
Edith Macnaughtan Cather ‘40<br />
Mary Lou Center ‘56<br />
Daniel S. Cheever Jr.<br />
Clover Clark Memorial Trust*<br />
Louise Close ‘77<br />
Olin J. Cochran Trust*<br />
Mary H. Corcoran<br />
Ruth Corney Trust<br />
Rebecca Berry Cramer ‘36<br />
Harriet Spring Critchlow ‘44<br />
Lora Erhard Crouss ‘37<br />
Elizabeth Brayton Dawson ‘51<br />
Elizabeth Townsend Dearstyne ‘62 and<br />
William Dearstyne^<br />
Nancy Wicke Demarest ‘66<br />
Jean Rogers Duval ‘50<br />
Evelyn Jenney Eaton ‘56<br />
Barbara Tutschek Ells ‘60<br />
Barbara Elliott Fargo ‘52<br />
Betty C. Fuchs<br />
Lois Anne Gilbert Galbraith ‘49<br />
Katrina Buckelmueller Gale ‘57<br />
Heritage Society Giving —<br />
The Catherine E. Bose Scholarship in<br />
Mathematics or Science<br />
Natalie Smith Garland ‘53<br />
Edwin and Elizabeth Dewey Giles ‘53<br />
Frances Graves Perpetual Trust<br />
Patricia Conzelman Greeley ‘52/’90MS<br />
Beverly Simon Green ‘50<br />
George A. Hall<br />
Cynthia Hallowell ‘58<br />
Jeanne Wilson Hatch ‘59<br />
Priscilla Chase Heindel ‘47<br />
Emily Hewitt<br />
Elizabeth Berry Horner ‘47<br />
Holly Horton ‘76MS<br />
Elizabeth Grimm Hoskins ‘56<br />
Jane Hanna Houck ‘57<br />
Anne Wingle Howard ‘57<br />
Robert C. Howe<br />
Edith Hall Huck ‘48 and Rodney Huck<br />
Jeanette McIntosh Ingersoll ‘67<br />
Josepha Loskill Jenks ‘53<br />
Maria Lind Johnson ‘68<br />
Stella Barnes Johnson ‘55<br />
“Growth is a never-ending goal of education, to stretch<br />
the boundaries of the mind even further in search of<br />
new knowledge and truth.”<br />
The dedication in Catherine “Cathy” Bose’s<br />
1975 yearbook perfectly captures the expansive<br />
power of education to which she devoted her<br />
professional life and the purpose of the fund established<br />
in Cathy’s name through her membership in<br />
the Heritage Society. The Catherine E. Bose Scholarship<br />
in Mathematics or Science will provide a scholarship<br />
each year for a high-achieving student who intends to become a teacher<br />
of mathematics or science, Cathy’s particular field of expertise as an educator.<br />
Cathy was an exceptional teacher; she loved teaching children, and she understood<br />
the essential place of mathematics in their education. Her bequest will make<br />
it possible for <strong>Wheelock</strong> to prepare more outstanding teachers who will “stretch the<br />
boundaries” of children’s minds as they learn about math and science.<br />
For many years after she graduated, Cathy was enthusiastically involved in alumni<br />
activities and interested in <strong>Wheelock</strong> students and programs. Her leadership as a<br />
donor was deeply appreciated, as were her gifts of friendship and commitment to<br />
children and families. <strong>Wheelock</strong> is honored by her desire to contribute to the future<br />
of the <strong>College</strong> and of math and science education through Heritage Society giving.<br />
Lyn Peck Kenyon ‘45/’69BS<br />
Edward H. Ladd<br />
Gloria Williams Ladd ‘65<br />
Frances Tedesco Lathrop ‘54<br />
Susan Cahn Levine ‘67<br />
Elizabeth Wheeler L’Hommedieu ‘54<br />
Sonia Loizeaux ‘57<br />
Pamela Long<br />
Persis Luke Loveys ‘54<br />
Ann S. Lowell ‘69MS<br />
Lucy Smith Lundin ‘46<br />
Margaret Ryan MacIntyre ‘38<br />
Meredith Huxtable MacNeill ‘91MS<br />
Ann MacVicar ‘65<br />
Dr. and Mrs. Gordon Marshall<br />
Olivia Hutchins Meek ‘52<br />
Carolyn Humphrey Miller ‘64<br />
Carol Moore ‘48<br />
Deanne Williams Morse ‘60<br />
Katharine Crosby Nasser ‘48<br />
Anne Hallowell Newton ‘66 and<br />
John Newton<br />
Frances Nichols ‘63^<br />
Mary Nisula ‘70<br />
Mary Runyon Obaidy ‘59<br />
Penny Power Odiorne ‘54^<br />
Phoebe O’Mara ‘66<br />
Maryann Mylott O’Rourke ‘60<br />
Jean Osmond ‘34<br />
Patricia Knowlton Paine-Dougherty ‘50<br />
Elizabeth Buckstaff Paterson ‘56<br />
Carol Drew Penfield ‘52<br />
Jean Ingalls Perkins ‘52<br />
Sandra Gewinner Perry ‘64<br />
Elizabeth Gerow Peterson ‘53<br />
Priscilla Harper Porter ‘64<br />
Marylin Quint-Rose ‘48<br />
Jeanne Girard Quinzani ‘48^<br />
Judith Haskell Rosenberg ‘55<br />
Stanley and Marcia Rumbaugh<br />
Valessia Samaras ‘83<br />
Page Poinier Sanders ‘65<br />
Katharine duPont Sanger ‘66<br />
Carlile Lowery Schneider ‘78/’79MS<br />
Dorothy Hutchens Seelow ‘50<br />
Susan Waters Shaeffer ‘56<br />
Diana Holland Shafroth ‘50<br />
Margaret Weinheimer Sherwin ‘58<br />
Barbara Silverstein ‘56<br />
Sally Clark Sloop ‘68^<br />
Inez Gianfranchi Snowdon ‘40<br />
Ann Emerson Spaulding ‘53 and<br />
Charles Spaulding<br />
Renae Ross Starker ‘71<br />
Martha Stearns ‘72MS<br />
Catherine Hargrave Sykes ‘50<br />
Grace Viard Ward ‘51<br />
Joan Bradish Waters ‘48<br />
Edith Nowers White ‘50<br />
Joan Wiggin ‘51<br />
Marjorie Ferris Wilcock ‘37<br />
Daphne Hastings Wilcox ‘65<br />
Winifred Little Williams ‘41<br />
Annette Stevens Wilton ‘56<br />
Faith Butterfield Wyer ‘40 and<br />
Harold Wyer<br />
Past Members<br />
Anonymous (2)<br />
Elizabeth Abbott<br />
Frank C. Abbott<br />
Margaret Wilson Alexander ‘14<br />
Bronwyn Baird ‘64<br />
Marion Baker<br />
Francis F. Bartlett<br />
Laura Smith Bemis ‘28<br />
Catherine Bose ‘75<br />
Maureen Murphy Coakley ‘58<br />
Katharine Hosmer Connor ‘33<br />
Janet Woodbury Cooper ‘31<br />
Wilhelmina Scheuer Cottone ‘36<br />
Eleanor Day Cottrell ‘34<br />
D. Clifford Crummey<br />
Lois Hardy Daloz ‘32<br />
Anne Walker Davis ‘43<br />
Helen McMullin Dimock ‘33<br />
Frances Dogherty ‘24<br />
Nancy Parkman England ‘40<br />
Ellen Brewer Flood ‘34<br />
Edith Steere Floyd ‘30<br />
Joan Crane Freeman ‘54<br />
Dorothy Mercer Gilbert ‘24<br />
Elizabeth Bartlett Gilbert ‘37<br />
Nancy Corwin Gordon ‘67<br />
Dorothy Greene ‘27<br />
Helen Coots Hall ‘32<br />
Eva Neumann Hartman ‘67<br />
Helen Ruslander Haskell ‘28<br />
Edna Charlton Hays ‘27<br />
Colby Hewitt Jr.<br />
Muriel Hirt<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Myron Hoffman<br />
Myrl Crocker Howe ‘34<br />
Marian Clifton Hurlin ‘22<br />
Barbara Jack ‘30<br />
Louise Steele Jackson ‘28<br />
Betty Jane Jalley ‘50<br />
David S. Johnson<br />
Margery Hall Johnson ‘38 Trust<br />
Dorothy Kano ‘71<br />
Alice Keith ‘39<br />
Jeannette Vannah Kemp ‘38<br />
Mary Neal Kendall ‘33<br />
Wilma Dodge Marshall ‘23<br />
Rhoda LeFavour Martin ‘31<br />
Nancy Merryman Mattox ‘46<br />
John F. McAllister Jr.<br />
Margaret Merry<br />
Ann Porter Mullen ‘49<br />
Adeline Little Murray ‘38 Trust<br />
Janice Porosky Olins ‘33<br />
Janet La Foy Otto ‘26<br />
Edith Rizer Paffard ‘38<br />
Suzanne Pierce ‘41<br />
Elizabeth Pursel<br />
Robert N. Pursel Trust per the<br />
will of Catherine Pursel ‘25<br />
Mary Quirk ‘18<br />
Mary Barnhardt Ridenhour ‘40<br />
Elizabeth Cox Robbins ‘33<br />
Elizabeth Sylvester Robinson ‘40<br />
Jessie Hahn Shaffer ‘38<br />
Wilma Roberts Sowerby ‘34<br />
Ellen G. Sullivan ‘58MS<br />
Patricia Blackmer Thibodeau ‘49<br />
Ruth Baker Ursul ‘60<br />
Margaret Cahill Vogel ‘33<br />
Katharine Pulis Waldron ‘28<br />
Judith Clark Weaver ’47 Trust<br />
Katharine Lewars Weymouth ‘42-‘43<br />
Charles Wintermeyer and Nancy Jane<br />
Carroll Wintermeyer ‘45<br />
24 <strong>Fall</strong> <strong>2008</strong> * Restricted to Scholarships ** Restricted to the Library ^ New Member
Named Funds<br />
Donors often establish named funds in honor or in memory of<br />
a friend or family member. These funds are very important to<br />
the <strong>College</strong> and provide support for student scholarships, faculty<br />
assistance, campus improvement, and resource development. The<br />
students, faculty, and staff of <strong>Wheelock</strong> <strong>College</strong> are so appreciative<br />
of these generous contributions.<br />
Scholarship and<br />
Loan Funds<br />
Anonymous (2)<br />
Donald Bergen Abbott Memorial<br />
Scholarship Fund<br />
George I. Alden Scholarship Fund<br />
Judy Parks Anderson ‘62 Endowed<br />
Scholarship Fund<br />
Anthony Family Scholarship Fund for<br />
Graduate Students<br />
Bronwyn Baird Endowed Scholarship Fund<br />
Marjorie Bakken Endowed Scholarship Fund<br />
Bank of Boston Endowed Student<br />
Loan Fund<br />
Ruth Kelliher Bartlett ’24 Memorial Fund<br />
John L. Bates Scholarship Fund<br />
Bernard W. and Helen Sagoff Berkowitch<br />
‘28 Memorial Scholarship Fund<br />
Black Mountain Foundation<br />
Scholarship Fund<br />
Gladys Brooks Endowed Scholarship Fund<br />
Gertrude Flanders Bullen ‘52 Memorial<br />
Scholarship Fund<br />
Centennial Scholarship Fund<br />
Daniel S. Cheever, Jr. Scholarship Fund<br />
The James Christmann<br />
Writing Award Scholarship<br />
Ruth Clapp ‘34 Loan Fund<br />
Clover Converse Clark ‘20 Memorial Trust<br />
Class of 1954 Endowed Scholarship Fund<br />
Class of 1956 Endowed Scholarship Fund<br />
Carolyn Burrell Cochran ‘19<br />
Scholarship Fund<br />
Katherine Wendell Creighton ‘92<br />
Scholarship Fund<br />
Nancy LeCount Currier ‘50 Memorial<br />
Scholarship Fund<br />
Ennis-Murphy Scholarship Fund<br />
Elinor Frumkin Feldman ‘52 Revolving<br />
Student Loan Fund<br />
Marguerite Franklin ‘17 Revolving<br />
Loan Fund<br />
The Frances Graves 1909 Charitable Fund<br />
Cynthia M. Gregory ‘26 Endowed<br />
Scholarship Fund<br />
Ellen Gertrude Loomis Hall Endowed<br />
Scholarship Fund<br />
Margaret Hamilton ‘23 Arts<br />
Scholarship Fund<br />
Irene Frail Hamm ’60 Endowed Urban<br />
Scholarship Fund<br />
Evelyn Hausslein Child Life<br />
Scholarship Fund<br />
William Randolph Hearst Endowed<br />
Scholarship Fund<br />
Molly Cooper Hershey ‘23 Fund<br />
for Student Aid<br />
Aldus C. Higgins Foundation Endowed<br />
Loan Fund<br />
Myrl Rose Crocker Howe ’34<br />
Scholarship Fund<br />
Marian Clifton Hurlin ‘22 Scholarship Fund<br />
Barbara Jack ’30 Endowed<br />
Scholarship Fund<br />
Kathleen Magee Jaunich Scholarship<br />
Margery Hall Johnson Endowed Scholarship<br />
Ruth Appleton Burge Johnson<br />
1910 Scholarship Fund<br />
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Lyn Peck Kenyon and Walter Kenyon<br />
Scholarship<br />
Katherine Ehrler Kurth Scholarship Fund<br />
Gloria Williams Ladd Endowed<br />
Scholarship Fund<br />
Frances B. and Paige D. L’Hommedieu<br />
Scholarship Fund<br />
Elizabeth Ann Liddle ‘47 Fund for<br />
International Students<br />
Agnes M. Lindsay Trust Scholarship<br />
Lowell Scholarship<br />
Kathryn Severance Makosky ‘30 Endowed<br />
Scholarship Fund<br />
Margaret H. and Robert W. Merry<br />
Scholarship Fund<br />
Gwen Morgan ‘76MS Scholarship Fund<br />
Janice Porosky Olins ‘33 Scholarship Fund<br />
Patricia Knowlton Paine-Dougherty ‘50<br />
Scholarship Fund<br />
Henry H. and Edith Nicholson Perry ‘19<br />
Scholarship Fund<br />
Theresa Perry Scholarship Fund<br />
Mildred Engler Peterson ‘24<br />
Scholarship Fund<br />
The Harold Whitworth Pierce Charitable<br />
Trust Scholarship<br />
The Catherine Pursel Emergency Student<br />
Loan Fund<br />
William E. and Bertha E. Schrafft Charitable<br />
Trust Endowed Fund<br />
Saul M. Silverstein Endowed<br />
Scholarship Fund<br />
Ching Yee Soong ‘65 Scholarship Fund<br />
The Ellen G. Sullivan Endowed Scholarship<br />
Susan Swap Community Service<br />
Scholarship Fund<br />
Mary A. Sweeney ’56 Scholarship Fund<br />
Marion H. Towne Scholarship Fund<br />
Frances M. Tredick Endowed<br />
Scholarship Fund<br />
Frances M. Tredick 1902 Scholarship Fund<br />
<strong>Wheelock</strong> Club of Portland Scholarship<br />
<strong>Wheelock</strong> <strong>College</strong> Alumni<br />
Association Scholarship<br />
<strong>Wheelock</strong> <strong>College</strong> Alumni Endowed<br />
Scholarship Fund<br />
Lucy <strong>Wheelock</strong> Endowed Scholarship Fund<br />
Lucy <strong>Wheelock</strong> Student Loan Fund<br />
Betsy Wilson Endowed Visiting Health<br />
Lecturer and Student Scholarship Fund<br />
Marjorie Cohn Wolf ‘51 and William H.<br />
Wolf Perpetuating Loan Fund<br />
Library Funds<br />
Alma Bent ‘42/’43 and Janet Higginbotham<br />
Washburn ‘42/’43 Library Fund<br />
Linda Munroe Brady Memorial Book Fund<br />
Beatrice Garnaus Library Fund<br />
Nancy Corwin Gordon Memorial<br />
Book Fund<br />
Altina Mead Memorial Fund<br />
Jone Sloman Library Fund<br />
Other Funds<br />
CAR Endowed Faculty Fund<br />
Sandra Nesson Kivowitz ‘56 Memorial Fund<br />
Edward H. Ladd Award for Academic<br />
Excellence and Service<br />
Dr. Peter Foukal’s Endowed Math and Science Prize —<br />
Helping to Close the Math/Science Literacy Gap<br />
“As a trustee and as a scientist, I believe it is important for <strong>Wheelock</strong> to produce its share of<br />
young teachers who have the ability and enthusiasm to teach science and math.”<br />
Each spring, <strong>Wheelock</strong> celebrates two high-achieving students at the Math & Science<br />
Student Recognition Awards and grants them cash prizes made possible by<br />
the generosity of Dr. Peter Foukal. Foukal is a noted physicist and <strong>Wheelock</strong> trustee<br />
who, last year, endowed the prizes as a permanent way for <strong>Wheelock</strong> to reward<br />
strong students and advance math and science learning at the <strong>College</strong>.<br />
“The prizes are intended to address two issues,”<br />
Foukal says. “I want to reward students who put in<br />
the extra work required for a science or math degree.<br />
The lab courses and generally higher difficulty of<br />
math and science courses can deter many students,<br />
yet these areas of study are more important today<br />
than ever before. Second, I have felt for a long time<br />
that rewarding straight academic excellence, based<br />
mainly on GPA, is helpful in raising and sustaining<br />
high academic standards. I believe that’s especially<br />
important at Massachusetts teacher preparation colleges.<br />
Last April, Foukal invited Heather Knudson, a graduate student in the astronomy<br />
department at Harvard, to be a guest speaker at the Math & Science Student<br />
Recognition Awards. “It was good for <strong>Wheelock</strong> students to hear how inspiring her<br />
math and science teachers had been and how important they were to her pursuing<br />
her interest in astronomy,” he says.<br />
“As a trustee and as a scientist, I believe it is important for <strong>Wheelock</strong> to produce its<br />
share of young teachers who have the ability and enthusiasm to teach science and<br />
math. These are the two areas where the greatest teacher shortages continue to occur.<br />
Everyone acknowledges technology drives our culture, and we know teachers are the<br />
ones who are needed to make our children technically and scientifically literate.”<br />
Cynthia Longfellow Teaching<br />
Recognition Award<br />
Master of Social Work<br />
Restricted Scholarship<br />
Math and Science Endowed Prize Fund<br />
Singapore Education Fund**<br />
The Dr. Sau-Fong Siu B.S.W Student<br />
Assistance Fund<br />
<strong>Wheelock</strong> Faculty Fund<br />
<strong>Wheelock</strong> Family Theatre Endowed Fund<br />
Board of<br />
Trustees and<br />
Corporation<br />
Donors<br />
Vanessa Alleyne ‘78<br />
Charles Ames<br />
Judith Parks Anderson ‘62<br />
Barbara Mead Anthony ‘60MS<br />
Stephen H. Anthony<br />
Steven Aveson ‘78<br />
Lynne Wyluda Beasley ‘66<br />
Stephanie Bennett-Smith<br />
Lisa McCabe Biagetti ‘80<br />
Grace Macomber Bird<br />
Margaret G. Blakelock<br />
Susan Moyer Breed ‘52/’79MS<br />
Ellen Cluett Burnham ‘60<br />
Joyce Pettoruto Butler ‘73<br />
Julia Challinor ‘75<br />
Sandra Christison ‘92MS<br />
Keena Dunn Clifford ‘68<br />
Louise Close ‘77<br />
Maureen Murphy Coakley ‘58*<br />
Jeff Coburn<br />
Kathryn Smith Conrad ‘73MS<br />
Susan O’Halloran Constable ‘82<br />
James M. Conway<br />
Madeleine Tufts Cormier ‘66<br />
Carolyn Drucker ‘88MS<br />
Ellen Tague Dwinell ‘61<br />
Sally Reeves Edmonds ‘55<br />
Barbara Elliott Fargo ‘52<br />
Peter Foukal<br />
Betty Fuchs<br />
Maria Furman<br />
George Hall<br />
William R. Hall<br />
Adrian K. Haugabrook<br />
Tina Morris Helm ‘64/’98MS<br />
Elizabeth Grimm Hoskins ‘56<br />
Kathleen Magee Jaunich ‘64<br />
Michael J. Jolliffe<br />
Thomas Kelly<br />
Lyn Peck Kenyon ‘45/’69BS<br />
Ranch C. Kimball<br />
John F. Knutson<br />
Edward H. Ladd<br />
Elizabeth Wheeler L’Hommedieu ‘54<br />
Robert A. Lincoln<br />
William A. Lowell, Esq.<br />
Vicki Caplan Milstein ‘72<br />
Lois Barnett Mirsky ‘54<br />
Juan Carlos Morales<br />
Mila Moschella ‘75<br />
Robin Mount<br />
Martha-Reed Ennis Murphy ‘69<br />
Diane Cassella Ohanesian ‘78MS<br />
Maryann Mylott O’Rourke ‘60/’98MS<br />
Bonnie Page ‘76/’92MS<br />
Heather Peach ‘96MS<br />
Betty Bain Pearsall ‘71<br />
Abby Squires Perelman ‘73<br />
Joseph W. Perkins<br />
Marianna C. Pierce<br />
Nancy Fowle Purinton ‘64<br />
Paul Reville<br />
Barbara Grogins Sallick ‘61<br />
Susan Bruml Simon ‘73<br />
Ellen Haebler Skove ‘49<br />
Gloria Aisenberg Sonnabend ‘51<br />
Kate Taylor<br />
Daniel S. Terris<br />
Geneva S. Thorndike<br />
Joan I. Thorndike<br />
Lisa Thors<br />
Martha Walsh ‘67/’80MS<br />
Valora Washington<br />
Katharine Lewars Weymouth ‘42-’43*<br />
Kahris D. White-McLaughlin<br />
Elizabeth Bassett Wolf ‘54<br />
Barry S. Zuckerman<br />
* Deceased **New fund in fiscal year <strong>2008</strong><br />
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Associate<br />
Degree Donors<br />
1973<br />
Deborah Maher<br />
Elaine Douglass Munn<br />
Priscilla Cote Paquette<br />
1974<br />
Barbara Carter Brathwaite<br />
Annie Barbee Gumbs<br />
1977<br />
Donna Blaikie Coleman<br />
1978<br />
Frances Hargrett Simkins<br />
1979<br />
Virginia Breedy<br />
1984<br />
Marlene Ross<br />
1988<br />
Karen Flowers Cagan<br />
Christine DeLorenzo Davey<br />
1990<br />
Jewel Russell<br />
1992<br />
Deanna Germain<br />
1993<br />
Naomi Hargrove Robertson<br />
Undergraduate<br />
Degree Donors<br />
1928<br />
Mary Phillips Horton<br />
1929<br />
Wilma Small Halliday<br />
Constance Putnam<br />
1932<br />
Bernice Hayes Hunt<br />
1933<br />
Olive Russell Frost<br />
Janice Porosky Olins*<br />
Elizabeth Cox Robbins*<br />
1934<br />
Jeanette Woodruff Fischer<br />
Ruth Swanson Hallowell<br />
Elizabeth Drowne Nash<br />
1935<br />
Mary Hammer Heron<br />
1936<br />
Vivian Oaksford Fisher<br />
Harriet Hyde Sands<br />
1937<br />
Lora Erhard Crouss<br />
Eleanor Blossom Fisher<br />
Ellen Moak Lloyd<br />
Carolyn Schmidt<br />
Katherine Douglas Smith<br />
1938<br />
Betty Quick Collin<br />
Rosemary O’Reilly Hoben<br />
Anita Drucker Leibowitz<br />
Margaret Ryan MacIntyre<br />
Edith Rizer Paffard*<br />
Nancy Brown Stevenson<br />
1939<br />
Estelle Levy Dine<br />
Jean Warner Eaton<br />
Alice Keith*<br />
June Jellison MacGinnis<br />
1940<br />
Mary Brewer Allen<br />
Annette Brown Boland<br />
Lois Burns<br />
Rita Jaffe Govenar<br />
Louise Martin Klemmer<br />
Katherine Mara Madigan<br />
Jean Davidson Rand<br />
Inez Gianfranchi Snowdon<br />
Faith Butterfield Wyer<br />
1941<br />
Joanne Lilly Abbott<br />
Barbara Munson Carpenter<br />
Ruth Andelman Danburg<br />
Grace Fitzpatrick Frawley<br />
Anne Wigton Hall<br />
Barbara Finkel Jacobs<br />
Bettina Beebe McCleary<br />
H. Louise Jones Miller<br />
Dorothea Ramsay Rutter<br />
Katherine Rhodes Truswell<br />
Ruth Kemball Tupper<br />
Winifred Little Williams<br />
1942-‘43<br />
Gertrude Gerenbeck Coady<br />
Gladys Davey Dunbar<br />
Mary Anne Henderson King<br />
Janice Gifford Rogers<br />
Jean Mealey Slavin<br />
Helen Roberts Thomas<br />
Katharine Lewars Weymouth*<br />
1943-‘44<br />
Martha Prouty DeNormandie<br />
Marjory Perry Johnson<br />
Laura Kelly Peters<br />
Gertrude Van Iderstine Phillips<br />
Jean Sullivan Riley<br />
Judith Elder Scott<br />
Nancy Powell White<br />
Jane Cooper Wyman<br />
1945<br />
Patricia Slater Carey<br />
Sally Dvlinsky Glickman<br />
Natalie Alger Gorczyca<br />
Lois Hahn<br />
Sophy Church Hansen<br />
Nancy Peirce Kyle<br />
Maryanne Weber Lockyer<br />
Shirley Kellerman McBain<br />
Elizabeth Matthews Piper*<br />
Rosalie Russo<br />
Maryanne Marsh Smith<br />
Jane Spaulding<br />
Helen Small Weishaar<br />
Mary Davies Wolff<br />
1946<br />
Jane Clapp Donaldson<br />
Cordelia Abendroth Flanagan<br />
Margaret Lewis Glover<br />
Rosamond Holt Haley<br />
Louise Allen Hammond<br />
Barbara Robjent Moore*<br />
Louise Vialle<br />
Mary Ruth Sanger Wotherspoon<br />
1947<br />
Sara Latham Coonley<br />
Daphne Tait Cooper<br />
Barbara Bolinger Crabtree<br />
Mary Segoine Davis<br />
Carol Sisson Freeman<br />
Mary Hemphill Haring<br />
Priscilla Chase Heindel<br />
Elizabeth Berry Horner<br />
Beverly Hayes Kallgren<br />
Judith Klubock Medalia<br />
Emily Cook Moore<br />
1948<br />
Jocelyn Van Allen Anderson<br />
Priscilla Leahy Blue<br />
Jane Russell Bolton<br />
Ann Bieberbach Brown<br />
Elizabeth Higgins Button<br />
Miriam Seipp Christensen<br />
Prudence Clemishere Ciaccio<br />
Agnes Fitzgerald Davis<br />
Ysabel Brown Dulken<br />
Mary Horr Foster<br />
Harriet Hoffman Frost<br />
Phyllis Fishman Grossbaum<br />
Charlotte Leary Guest<br />
Edith Hall Huck<br />
Cynthia Knight Lawson<br />
Janet Gall Leonard<br />
Gwendolyn Price Lukens<br />
Catherine Creble McCarraher<br />
Elizabeth McHenry<br />
Eleanor Eckerson McIntyre<br />
Carol Moore<br />
Katharine Crosby Nasser<br />
Faith Webster Peak<br />
Marylin Quint-Rose<br />
Jeanne Girard Quinzani<br />
Edith Huntley Ridley<br />
Lila Abrash Rosenthal<br />
Sally Hunter St. John<br />
Carolyn Blount Street<br />
Barbara Sturgis<br />
Jane Terry Thomas<br />
Julia Walsh Van Veen<br />
Dorothy Bone Warren<br />
Dorothy St. Clair Webb<br />
Joann Bridgman Webster<br />
Ruth Chickering Wheeler-McKay<br />
1949<br />
Laura Anne McPhee Burton<br />
Jean Dickson Chiquoine<br />
Caroline Stafford Crossland<br />
Margaret Edwards Francis<br />
Lois Anne Gilbert Galbraith<br />
Sally Stout Garner<br />
Alice Roberts Gow<br />
Anne Tremper Hall<br />
Anne Mulholland Heger<br />
Enid Stockbridge Holly<br />
Mathilde Clark Holmes*<br />
Emily Naramore LaBudde<br />
Helen Casten Lewis<br />
Doris Jackson Marshall<br />
Jane Bartlett Mason<br />
Caroline Rowlett O’Handley<br />
Jane Felton Parker<br />
Frances Cummings Partridge<br />
Barbara Ferguson Pieper<br />
Carol Root Roth<br />
Judy Rosen Rubenfeld<br />
Suzanne Small Shanahan<br />
Ellen Haebler Skove<br />
Mary Anne Dresser Stringham<br />
Mariah MacGilvra Temby<br />
Elaine Macmann Willoughby<br />
1950<br />
Nancy Spencer Adams<br />
Jean Rogers Duval<br />
Barbara Moog Finlay<br />
Joan Blanchard Gray<br />
Beverly Simon Green<br />
Barbara Shafran Greenglass<br />
Mary Hathaway Hayter<br />
Emily Wright Holt<br />
Mary Gall Horlsey<br />
Betty Jane Jalley*<br />
Beverly Maurath Newell<br />
Nancy Garnaus Rice<br />
Jane Munroe Rice<br />
Dorothy Hutchens Seelow<br />
Catherine Hargrave Sykes<br />
Barbara Thompson Trainor<br />
Florence Milman Walker<br />
Edith Nowers White<br />
Edith Runk Wright<br />
1951<br />
Beverly Boardman Brekke-Bailey<br />
Louise Butts<br />
Geraldine Walsh Clauss<br />
Nancy Noelte Cloutier<br />
Betsy Baker Connell<br />
Georgianna Hale Dana<br />
Nancy Horton Evans<br />
Elizabeth Lawson Forrester<br />
Shirley Stevens French<br />
Judith Handley Garvey<br />
Prudence Smith Giffin<br />
Leigh Clayfield Glenn<br />
Patricia Gindele Guild<br />
Elizabeth Cahill Haskell<br />
Harriet Howenstein Hull<br />
Jane Ann Hartzell Knebel*<br />
Nancy Flint Lindner<br />
Charlotte Sears MacVane<br />
Janet Boynton Means-Underhill<br />
Jane Steele Milchen<br />
Jane Williams Miller<br />
Nancy Williams Mohn<br />
Laura Richardson Payson<br />
Mary Anderson Riley<br />
Marilyn Ames Sawyer<br />
Barbara Nutting Sheldon<br />
Gloria Aisenberg Sonnabend<br />
Helen Taft Staser<br />
Dorothy Etherington Thurnherr<br />
Carol Pounds Wales<br />
Grace Viard Ward<br />
Elsie Williams Waterbury<br />
Mary Rothwell Wattles<br />
Joan Wiggin<br />
Elizabeth Valentine Wood<br />
1952<br />
Anonymous (1)<br />
Carolyn Cederholm Allison<br />
Margaret Boethelt Barratt<br />
Patricia Wolcott Berger<br />
Susan Moyer Breed<br />
Margaret Kind Childs<br />
Ann Sibley Conway<br />
Nancy Walker Driscoll<br />
Barbara Elliott Fargo<br />
Mary Grace Ward Fleitz<br />
Ann O’Brien Fleitzer<br />
Patricia Conzelman Greeley<br />
Ann Foote Grey<br />
Anne DeLamater Hansen<br />
Nancy Dodd Horst<br />
Tatsue Hozumi<br />
Janet Ferry Jenney<br />
Cecily Chandler Kalin<br />
Margot Herring Kuniholm<br />
Virginia Bell Libhart<br />
Martha Brown McGandy<br />
Olivia Hutchins Meek<br />
Ann Harvie Ormond<br />
Jean Ingalls Perkins<br />
Mary Major Rubel<br />
Jean Monson Smith<br />
Nancy Morris Souville<br />
Marie Dargie Sperry<br />
Marion Taft Taylor<br />
Betty Koenig Thomas<br />
Joanna Smith Virden<br />
Elisabeth Luckey Whittelsey<br />
Elizabeth Wood<br />
Rosemary Fettinger Worth<br />
1953<br />
Ruth Flink Ades<br />
Ellen McMillan Aman<br />
Patricia Russell Amendola<br />
Dorothy deVausney Ames<br />
Margaret Benisch Anderson<br />
Barbara Johnston Baggesen<br />
Priscilla Buckingham Banghart<br />
Joan Sullivan Buchanan<br />
Joan Halloran Corning<br />
Ann Carter Craft<br />
Ruth Shedden Crane<br />
Katherine Reardon Currier<br />
Suzanne Terry Curry<br />
Justine Cavanaugh Donnelly<br />
Cynthia Cranton Dygert<br />
Alicia Eager<br />
Mary Campbell Erdmann<br />
Natalie Smith Garland<br />
Elizabeth Dewey Giles<br />
Patricia Kelly Greichen<br />
Priscilla Marks Griffith<br />
Shirley Hamilton<br />
Jennifer Thorne Hayden<br />
Margaret Talbot Howe<br />
Josepha Loskill Jenks<br />
Ann Bevins Jewett<br />
Janet Knightly Jones<br />
Ruth French Kiemle<br />
Gail Maurath Lyon<br />
Mary Roberts Mahoney<br />
Carol Hulbert Maxwell<br />
Nancy Brown Meagher<br />
Nancy Oppy Merrifield<br />
Antoinette Johnson Ogden<br />
Elizabeth Gerow Peterson<br />
Mary Holden Pratt<br />
Thekla Polley Putnam<br />
26 <strong>Fall</strong> <strong>2008</strong><br />
* Deceased
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 • <strong>2008</strong><br />
Thank You, <strong>2008</strong> Reunion Classes!<br />
President of the Alumni Association Board,<br />
Sandy Christison ’92MS, presenting the<br />
<strong>2008</strong> Reunion Gift check to President Jenkins-<br />
Scott at the Alumni Association Awards Presentation.<br />
A HUGE thank-you to all Reunion classes for the<br />
total Annual Fund Gift of $504,859.24!<br />
Joyce Allen Rich<br />
Ruth Angier Salinger<br />
Jane Palmer Schaefer<br />
Dorothy Steinberg Shaker<br />
Ann Emerson Spaulding<br />
Marjorie Linn Strong<br />
Sally Williams Tallamy<br />
Ann Sibley Thomsen<br />
Sally Karr Torrey<br />
Joanne Hersey Walker<br />
Winifred Magee Williams<br />
Patricia Lea Woodward<br />
1954<br />
Betsy Hunter Ambach<br />
Ginger Mercer Bates<br />
Beverly Bell Cibbarelli<br />
Sylvia Tailby Earl<br />
Nancy Rosenwald Foilb<br />
Joan Crane Freeman*<br />
Ruth McKinley Herridge<br />
Nancy Shapiro Hurwitz<br />
Frances Tedesco Lathrop<br />
Elizabeth Wheeler L’Hommedieu<br />
Margaret DeLuca Loughead<br />
Persis Luke Loveys<br />
Eileen O’Connell McCabe<br />
Caroline Howard McCarty<br />
Lois Barnett Mirsky<br />
Johanna West Norton<br />
Penny Power Odiorne<br />
Sumie Hamada Onzuka<br />
Doris Halprin Reiman<br />
Patricia Andrews Richmond<br />
Frances Levine Rogovin<br />
Frances Vail Russell<br />
Suzanne Hamburger Thurston<br />
Elsa Weyer Williams<br />
Virginia Thomas Williams<br />
Elizabeth Bassett Wolf<br />
1955<br />
Diane Codling Bartlett<br />
Nancy Merry Bergere<br />
Marilyn Dow Byrne<br />
Sally Reeves Edmonds<br />
Bonnie Simon Grossman<br />
Dorothy Wayman Grudzinski<br />
Joleen Glidden Ham<br />
Anne Close Haskell<br />
Josephine Smith Howard<br />
Martha McGowan Howard<br />
Susan Towle Huckman<br />
Nancy Cerruti Humphreys<br />
Stella Barnes Johnson<br />
Joan Butler Kimel<br />
Joan Nelson Leighton<br />
Charlotte Cooper Lopoten<br />
Louise Baldridge Lytle<br />
Betsey DeWitt Matteson<br />
Cynthia Weekes Montesi<br />
Carolyn Giroud Nygren<br />
Norma Geremia Paliotti<br />
Joan Walthers Parks<br />
Stephany Lindquist Rogers<br />
Kathleen Rooney<br />
Judith Haskell Rosenberg<br />
Sarah Lippincott Sakols<br />
Mary Jane McAuliffe Songer<br />
Beatrice Clayton Stockwell<br />
Jayne Haynes Tillotson<br />
Sylvia Buffinton Tompkins<br />
Amaryllis Morris Volk<br />
Katherine Law Walker<br />
Ann Butler Yos<br />
1956<br />
Henriette Pennypacker Binswanger<br />
Ann Melrose Blauvelt<br />
Margaret McLean Caywood<br />
Mary Lou Center<br />
Paula Boehn Clifford<br />
Lucy Faulkner Davison<br />
Mary Bates Duplisea-Palmer<br />
Evelyn Jenney Eaton<br />
Susan Grearson Fillmore<br />
Dorothy Dorfman Goldstick<br />
Madeleine Browne Hagar-Tierney<br />
Persis Goodnow Hamilton<br />
Elizabeth Grimm Hoskins<br />
Patricia Markle Levy<br />
Wilma Kinsman Marr<br />
Elizabeth Specht Mihalaros*<br />
Ingeborg Buechling Nichols<br />
Ruth Bailey Papazian<br />
Mary-Louise Stickles Perkins<br />
Adeline Bradlee Polese<br />
Sally Simpson Redston<br />
Beverly Haley Richter<br />
Dorinda Hicks Sayre<br />
Thekla Reese Shackelford<br />
Susan Waters Shaeffer<br />
Barbara Silverstein<br />
Patricia Cotter Smart<br />
Constance Foote Smithwood<br />
Judith Rosenthal Tobin<br />
Frances Streit Tripp<br />
Julie Bigg Veazey<br />
Dorothy Weiss<br />
Mary Suggs Whiteman<br />
Annette Stevens Wilton<br />
Sachiko Yamada Yamamoto<br />
1957<br />
Beth Atwood*<br />
Georgia Harwood Blackmore<br />
Joan Patterson Brown<br />
Gail Angleman Brusch<br />
Margaret Meeks Chapman<br />
Judith Hall Chase<br />
Anita Stulgis Chouinard<br />
Virginia Plumer Crook<br />
Katrina Hoadley DeLude<br />
Mary Gifford Everett<br />
Judith Stock Farmer<br />
Ann Hewes Foden<br />
Dawna Wight Fowler<br />
Janice Wright Freelove<br />
Katrina Buckelmueller Gale<br />
Mary Bloomer Gulick<br />
Priscilla Ann Hill Harrison<br />
Margot Block Haselkorn<br />
Harriet Weil Hodgson<br />
Jane Hanna Houck<br />
Anne Wingle Howard<br />
Dardana Berry Hoyt<br />
Deborah Carlson Jacklin<br />
H. Barbara Knowles Jacobsen<br />
Maureen Rolfe Kelly<br />
Sara Sibley Lenhart<br />
Sonia Loizeaux<br />
Phoebe Parker McMillan<br />
Cecily Beal Mills<br />
Jean Kishida Nishiyama<br />
Ellen O’Donnell Page<br />
Mary Stone Phipps<br />
Susan Hunt Raasch<br />
Mary Lou Cudhea Reed<br />
Nancy Weltman Schattner<br />
Shirley Collins Schwarz-Gutherz<br />
Francine McNamee Shea<br />
Janet Spaulding<br />
Dorothy Donahue Sullivan<br />
Mary Hartwell Truesdell<br />
1958<br />
Judy McMurray Achre<br />
Nancy Alexander Anderson<br />
Carole Leclerc Barry<br />
Judith Littlefield Bateman<br />
Dorothy Williams Batson<br />
Sandra Dunham Bowers<br />
Doris Hood Cameron<br />
Sandra Meyers Chaiken<br />
Maureen Murphy Coakley*<br />
Sally Bennett Cook<br />
Nancy Hallock Cooper<br />
Marcia Potter Crocker<br />
Susan Howland Devey<br />
Diana McElroy Dieterich<br />
Eleanor Emerson Dini<br />
Regina Frankenberger Dubin<br />
Mary McBride Felton<br />
Diane Huddish Fink<br />
Elly Gorsey Forman<br />
June Hayward Foster<br />
Patricia Burke Freisen<br />
Charlotte Gay Frost<br />
Yumiko Hattori Furuhata<br />
Patricia Morrissey Goglia<br />
Carol Moore Graham<br />
Jean Tulloch Griffith<br />
Cynthia Hallowell<br />
Charlotte Pomeroy Hatfield<br />
Marion Cook Houston<br />
Sandra MacDonald Ingmanson<br />
Judith Fain Kanter<br />
Jena Goldstein Kevelson<br />
Laura Lehrman<br />
Arlene Keizer Lovenvirth<br />
Gretchen Franz Mackey<br />
Marilyn Contas Magoulias<br />
Laura Burhoe Maier<br />
Mary Meeker<br />
Frances Broomhead Meredith<br />
Barbara Stumpf Moses*<br />
Audrey Shulman Nachbar<br />
Shirley Hotra Neff<br />
Carolyn Lucas Norris<br />
Sara Beckwith Novak<br />
Maralen Moody O’Neil<br />
Ann Manfuso Paras<br />
Jane Bowler Pickering<br />
Julie Russell<br />
Cynthia King Schueler<br />
Margaret Weinheimer Sherwin<br />
Susan Smith<br />
Carol Yudis Stein<br />
Elizabeth Sturtz Stern<br />
Elizabeth Bundy Taft<br />
Janice Seybolt Theron<br />
Patricia Dodd Ulmer<br />
Sara Dunbar Waters<br />
Carol Stuart Wenmark<br />
Gail Wheeler<br />
Jean Cutler Whitham<br />
Sybil Magid Woodhouse<br />
1959<br />
Annette Rogers Barber<br />
Suzanne Baker Bethke<br />
Alice Thompson Brew<br />
Rosalie Bradstreet Bromfield<br />
Jane Menge Cooke<br />
Madeleine Gatchell Corson<br />
Patricia Haas<br />
Sandra Hall Haffler<br />
Virginia Gordon Hagan<br />
Jeanne Wilson Hatch<br />
Iris Hofmann<br />
Sally Schwabacher Hottle<br />
Lynne Grove Ives<br />
Barbara Hampson Ivey<br />
Joan Pannier Langley<br />
Elizabeth Woodward Mack<br />
Marilyn Proctor MacMahan<br />
Marion Turnbull Mangels<br />
Sue Abbot McCord<br />
Virginia Ludwig McLaughlin<br />
Mary Runyon Obaidy<br />
Delleyne Eldridge Osborne<br />
Patricia vom Lehn Overman<br />
Elaine Fogel Parks<br />
Doris Geer Petusky<br />
Judith Scott Stolp<br />
Patricia Wise Strauss<br />
Gail Grew Thomson<br />
Helen LaMontagne Warmuth<br />
1960<br />
Joan Adams<br />
Joan Gardner Buchanan<br />
Ellen Cluett Burnham<br />
Barbara Tutschek Ells<br />
Gail Gulbranson Frost<br />
Elizabeth Brown Hall<br />
Irene Frail Hamm<br />
Peggy Oliver Hedeman<br />
Helene Brunelle Hickey<br />
Susan Rideout Jewett<br />
Reta Schoonmaker King<br />
Jane Coulter Langmaid<br />
Helene Stehlin Lortz<br />
Linda McSwiney Lynch<br />
Edith Lermond Menkart<br />
Margaret Washburne Miller<br />
Meredith Moody<br />
Deanne Williams Morse<br />
Nancy Mullervy Newbrook<br />
Carol Reed Newsome<br />
Sara Thompson Orton<br />
Jean Randlett<br />
Elizabeth Appel Schaffer<br />
Virginia Franks Seegel<br />
Janice Halsted Sussebach<br />
Ruth Baker Ursul*<br />
Anne Pelletreau Woodbury<br />
1961<br />
Susan Quick Anderson<br />
Helen Clark<br />
Eleanor Kushner Dinitz<br />
Ellen Tague Dwinell<br />
Mary Jo Severson Fenyn<br />
Barbara Lukoff Johnson<br />
Marjorie Wilson Kingston<br />
Jeannette Kwok<br />
Judith Johnston Laurens<br />
Linda Shemwick Lindquist<br />
Eleanor Snyder Markowitz<br />
Juliet Miller Moynihan<br />
Marian Kopp Muir<br />
Mary Rees Nann<br />
Catherine Greenacre Robinson<br />
Barbara Grogins Sallick<br />
Gail Spivack Sandler<br />
Sally Cessna Schanck<br />
Ellen Nickerson Schmidt<br />
Nancy Gebting Secker<br />
Carolyn Kingsbury Sherbin<br />
Jan Smart Stansbury<br />
Helen Parker Tucker<br />
Betsy Mark Weiner<br />
1962<br />
Daphne Angelis Abodeely<br />
Joann Seidenfeld Adler<br />
Judith Parks Anderson<br />
<strong>Wheelock</strong> Magazine 27
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 • <strong>2008</strong><br />
Thanks for Answering the<br />
Phonathon Call<br />
Lindsay had been at <strong>Wheelock</strong> only a few<br />
weeks when she volunteered for Phonathon<br />
— a great chance for her and other students<br />
to meet alumni “over the wire.” Thanks for<br />
answering the call and making your donation.<br />
You make it possible for students like Lindsay<br />
to be at <strong>Wheelock</strong>.<br />
Betsy Berry<br />
Phoebe Walther Biggs<br />
Carol Tarr Bolter<br />
Luette Close Bourne<br />
Jean Heard Carmichael<br />
Ruth Weeks Clark<br />
Jenny Tincher Cleaves<br />
Barbara Pratt Dancy<br />
Elizabeth Townsend Dearstyne<br />
Penelope Petrell English<br />
Susan Ehrlich Gaynor<br />
Roberta Weiss Goorno<br />
Linda Marvin Hastie<br />
Priscilla Alden Hayes<br />
Roberta Goodale Kulas<br />
Patricia Pierce Loring<br />
Judith Rominger Lutkus<br />
Anne Sullivan Lyons<br />
Susan Haley Markee<br />
Janet Easton Martin<br />
Alice Greene McCauley<br />
Diane Stephens Montgomery<br />
Mary Joanna Ginty Neish<br />
Judith Sherman Nevins<br />
Helen Beck Noble<br />
Marilyn Henkel Pollock<br />
Betsy Miller Radler<br />
Sara Kiley Reid<br />
Laura Sibley Rhodes<br />
Mary Richardson Rivers<br />
Jean Barclay Rook<br />
Mari Porter Seder<br />
Emily VanderStucken Spencer<br />
Mary Schubert Stearns<br />
Judith Gollub Trieff<br />
Hilly Gillespie van Loon<br />
Marion MacKay Verdick<br />
Brenda Richmond Verduin-Dean<br />
Roberta Loveland Vest<br />
Mary Ann Baker Wagner<br />
Priscilla Plant Wing<br />
Georgia Bradley Zaborowski<br />
1963<br />
Linda Dale Anderson<br />
Judith Hughes Arreola<br />
Martha Bucknam Brogan<br />
Susan Memery Bruce<br />
Lorna Waterhouse Chafe<br />
Gloria Maravell Clark<br />
Beth Howenstein Crane<br />
Veronica Connolly Cronin<br />
Heather Hughes Dahlberg<br />
Zelinda Makepeace Douhan<br />
Yvonne LaBrecque Enders<br />
Cynthia Jepsen Farquhar<br />
Carolyn Collins Farrell<br />
Margaret Fenner<br />
Charlotte Giovanella Fullam<br />
Bette Mosher Geci<br />
Barbara Hamilton Gibson<br />
Jessie Hennion Gwisdala<br />
Christine Theander Harper<br />
Cynthia Banister Hosmer<br />
Joan Packer Isenberg<br />
Jane Kuehn Kittredge<br />
Jan Vary Kutten<br />
Jacquelyn Taft Lowe<br />
Susan Cross MacElhiny<br />
Elizabeth Craft Meuer<br />
Susan Wise Miller<br />
Nancy Ware Morrow<br />
Elizabeth Kellogg Morse<br />
Paula Corning Newell<br />
Frances Nichols<br />
Sally Weatherbee O’Neill<br />
Beverly Robbins Page<br />
Lynn Sanchez Paquin<br />
Sally Pease<br />
Carolyn Stanton Peirce<br />
Christine Price Penglase<br />
Marjorie Sanek Platzker<br />
Marthanne Uhlinger Pressey<br />
Anne Little Reiley<br />
Dorothy Allen Rhodes<br />
Maria Ryerson<br />
Lani Tomita Sakoda<br />
Ellen Sandler<br />
Carolyn Allen Seaton<br />
Judith Thompson Seeley<br />
Elizabeth Robinson Smith<br />
Lynne Foster Warren<br />
Alice Parke Watson<br />
Loraine Nettleton Watson<br />
Susan Steele Weems<br />
Gail Rosinoff Weiner<br />
Laurel Holmes Whitaker<br />
Helen Mesnick Wilker<br />
Nancy Preston Wisneskey<br />
Anne Safirstein Yarvis<br />
Delores Watt Yeats<br />
1964<br />
Virginia Pratt Agar<br />
Susan Greenleaf Anderson<br />
Anne <strong>Fall</strong>on Aubourg<br />
Judith Reutter Blanton<br />
Sarah Dewey Blouch<br />
Kathleen O’Keeffe Capo<br />
Perrine Colmore<br />
Jean White Comstock<br />
Mary Jane Blackburn Cook<br />
Nancy Ashton Dewey<br />
Elizabeth McIntyre Doepken<br />
Diane Abitbol Fogg<br />
Jeanette Polhemus Glesmann<br />
Noel Stoodley Gray<br />
Deborah Niebling Grubbs<br />
Janet Marshall Haring<br />
Carole Cooper Harris<br />
Christina Morris Helm<br />
Carol Jeffers Hollenberg<br />
Barbara Hodge Holmes<br />
Lynn Sanderson Holmes<br />
Mary Wolf Hurtig<br />
Kathleen Magee Jaunich<br />
Phyllis Forbes Kerr<br />
Eleanor Noble Linton<br />
Priscilla Nelson Linville<br />
Jessi MacLeod<br />
Judy Holmes Marco<br />
Roberta Gilbert Marianella<br />
Laura Brown Marshall<br />
Gladys Tilley Miner<br />
Suzanne Mullens Morgan<br />
Sudie Nostrand<br />
Ann Brown Omohundro<br />
Barbara Wilson Parks<br />
Nancy Fowle Purinton<br />
Rhoda Henkels Pykonen<br />
Hilda Wright Rhodes<br />
Carol Eidam Schmottlach<br />
Ann Meigher Smith<br />
Mary Ellen Freeman Smith<br />
Marjorie Blum Walker<br />
Ann Burgess Wolpers<br />
1965<br />
Anne Goepper Aftuck<br />
Elizabeth Marchant Armstrong<br />
Barbara Curtis Baker<br />
Nancy Rosenberg Bazilian<br />
Judith White Beaver<br />
Linda Larrabee Blair-Lockwood<br />
Cynthia Cooper Buschmann<br />
Anne Bonner Ceccarelli<br />
Barbara Stevenson Cox<br />
Joanne Malynoski Dall<br />
Elsa Chaffee Distelhorst<br />
Paula Aufsesser Elkind<br />
Karen Ellsworth<br />
Sandra Tilton Elmer<br />
Deirdre Conrad Frank<br />
Carol Owen Funk<br />
Elizabeth Smith Gavriel<br />
Donna Johnson Grinnell<br />
Kate Young Hewitt<br />
Dana Seeley Hirth<br />
Jane Kingman Hudgins<br />
Sarah Spaulding Jonick<br />
Darcy Black Keough<br />
Ellen Towers Knopf<br />
Susan Kosoff<br />
May Koh Lam<br />
Julia Clymer Lloyd<br />
Abby Howd Macdonald<br />
Kathleen Wilson Mallet<br />
Adele Abate Manfredi<br />
Edwina Burke Marcus<br />
Trisha Henderson Margeson<br />
Janne Pontius Mathes<br />
Hinda Rose Niemeyer<br />
Mary Barnard O’Connell<br />
Madelaine Cohen O’Shea<br />
Page Poinier Sanders<br />
Libby Walker Schroeder*<br />
Helen Birdsall Shepherd<br />
Karen Gold Sokol<br />
Nancy Tolman Stass<br />
Nancy Clarke Steinberger<br />
Elizabeth Earle Stevenson<br />
Heidi Snow Stowe<br />
Ruth Tilghman<br />
Penelope Traver<br />
Marsha M-Geough Vaughan<br />
Joan Anderson Watts<br />
Gwen Lloyd Wirtalla<br />
1966<br />
Lynne Wyluda Beasley<br />
Joan Edwards Bottkol<br />
Laurie Knowles Carter<br />
Sarah Carter<br />
Barbara Walker Collamore<br />
Sharon Jenks Collinson<br />
Madeleine Tufts Cormier<br />
Nancy Wicke Demarest<br />
Pamela Chesley Dennett<br />
Barbara Baker Dowd<br />
Christina Kovacs Durkin<br />
Genevieve Ebbert<br />
Lucy Olsen Fischer<br />
Mary Byrnes Frueauf<br />
Susan Leeb Fuhrer<br />
Joanne Moskey Grady<br />
Thordis Burdett Gulden<br />
Pamela Carey Haggett<br />
Martha Somers Henderson<br />
Nancy Maida Hoffman<br />
Susan Clark Howard<br />
Susan McKee Kessler<br />
Karen Kitfield Koeppl<br />
Marka Truesdale Larrabee<br />
Patricia Lewars Lucy<br />
Margery Conley Mars<br />
Jane Martin McMackin<br />
Andrea Price Morse<br />
Anne Hallowell Newton<br />
Phoebe O’Mara<br />
Susan Lodge Peck<br />
Isota Epes Potter<br />
Jane Wolcott Ready<br />
Heather Robinson Reimann<br />
Marcia Carlson Rintoul<br />
Ruth Ann Welsh Rooney<br />
Elizabeth Zwirner Ruggiero<br />
Katharine duPont Sanger<br />
Donna Kazanjian Scribner<br />
Sylvia Thorndike Sheriff<br />
Marian Harden Simino<br />
Natalie Palmer Stafford<br />
Ann Linden Stewart<br />
Susan Magennis Underwood<br />
Wendy Stuek Voit<br />
Elizabeth Marks Voss<br />
Nancy Clay Webster<br />
Patricia Wild<br />
Carole Hayes Williams<br />
1967<br />
Elizabeth Edwards Bell<br />
Ruth Rupkey Bell<br />
Virginia Stout Burau<br />
Jane McIntyre Carlisle<br />
Ingrid Hasskarl Chalufour<br />
Susan Mitchell Cronk<br />
Tina Feldman Crosby<br />
Carol Armstrong Dillon<br />
Charlotte Gignoux Dwyer<br />
Donna Pulk Elliott<br />
Susan Wells Ferrante<br />
Judith Lambert Foster<br />
Julia Devereux Glynn<br />
Barbara Hicks Harting<br />
Susan Burtch Hyde<br />
Shyla Leary Irving<br />
Lucy Schade Jackson<br />
Donna Johnson<br />
Linda Moritz Katz<br />
Sally Desmond Kensel<br />
Donna Klemka<br />
Anita Klempner<br />
Barbara Jenkins Milos<br />
Heather Kateley Pettengill<br />
Betsy Simmonds Pollock<br />
Barbara Taylor Posner<br />
Jeannette Stone Reynolds<br />
Beverly Boden Rogers<br />
Judy Davis Scanlon<br />
Katharine Lancaster Thompson<br />
Laura Shapero Thomson<br />
Margery Peirce Thurber<br />
Nancy Sullivan Tryzelaar<br />
Ann Fisher Tuteur<br />
Carolyn Wright Unger<br />
Alison Hannan Vaill<br />
Elizabeth Griswold Vershay<br />
Martha Walsh<br />
Sara Wolf<br />
1968<br />
Susanne Hall Alford<br />
Susan Stein Backer<br />
Louise Phelan Barber<br />
Jane Carpentier Batchelder<br />
Sandra Gustavsen Batten<br />
Bonnie Poole Boulton<br />
Rosalind Schonberger Brezenoff<br />
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Melanie Waszkiewicz Chadwick<br />
Keena Dunn Clifford<br />
Nancy Perry Cornwell<br />
Phyllis Cross Croce<br />
Monica Freese Eppinger<br />
Catherine Scheid Evans<br />
Sherri Ades Falchuk<br />
Penelope Ferenbach Franchot<br />
Francine Gitnick Franke<br />
Janice Gannon Gamber<br />
Leslie Smith Gill<br />
Sally Cissel Greenwood<br />
Vaughan Cate Grubbs<br />
Laura Chotkowski Hardy<br />
Cheryl Hauser<br />
Susan Terragni Howe<br />
Bonnie Stinson Hutchinson<br />
Sarah Jarvis<br />
Gretchen Burleigh Johnson<br />
Ellen Hilcoff Kerstein<br />
Margery Linn Kirsch<br />
Cynthia Blum Kramer<br />
Tobie Goldman Levine<br />
Margaret Merrill Loutrel<br />
Katherine Sayford Lucibello<br />
Susan Ordway Lyons<br />
Ann Knowles MacKay<br />
Anne Stewart Macpherson<br />
Kathryn de Sano Mahoney<br />
Rose Kurkjian Margosian<br />
The Kresge Challenge Grant<br />
to Expand Our Community<br />
and Make Us Stronger<br />
In April, <strong>Wheelock</strong> received the wonderful news<br />
that it was awarded an $800,000 challenge grant<br />
from the distinguished Kresge Foundation to assist<br />
in raising the remaining funds necessary to complete<br />
construction of its striking new Campus Center and<br />
Student Residence (CCSR). While the CCSR will be a<br />
fabulous new addition to <strong>Wheelock</strong>’s campus, to student<br />
life, and to our on-campus community, the<br />
Kresge challenge presents a great opportunity for<br />
<strong>Wheelock</strong> to engage many more individuals and<br />
organizations in supporting its mission to improve<br />
the lives of children and families.<br />
Deborah Harpending McConnell<br />
Susan Merritt McIlvaine<br />
Lynn Grearson McWilliams<br />
Lynne Brown Moores<br />
Lou Ann Colonnese Mulcahy<br />
Lani Kung Paone<br />
Anne Perkins<br />
Faith Schultz Perkins<br />
Herrika Williams Poor<br />
Kathleen Curcio Riolo<br />
Susan Castleton Ryan<br />
Marlene Shama<br />
Cynthia Carpenter Sheehan<br />
Marjorie Moss Shekarchi<br />
Janice McLean Simpson<br />
Sally Clark Sloop<br />
Noel Gignoux Spevacek<br />
Jacquelyn Pearsall Stack<br />
Susan Webb Tregay<br />
Diana Chang Van Houtum<br />
Judith Velho-Baker<br />
Rosemary Douglass Vena<br />
Candace Erickson Weiler<br />
Candace Aiken Wilson<br />
Jane Desisto Worthley<br />
Carlotta Dyer Zilliax<br />
Susan Ackerman Zwick<br />
1969<br />
Linda Minker Abramson<br />
Patricia Coughlin Adams<br />
Sara Burns Adams<br />
Mary Haffey Anderson<br />
V. Bonnie Blick Benedict<br />
Janice Bevan<br />
Cheri Breeman<br />
Susan Kilbourn Burkhard<br />
Deborah Melia Clark<br />
Patricia Cook<br />
Molly Day<br />
Hope Dean<br />
Constance Marsden Fratar<br />
Nancy Grant<br />
Daphne Hunsaker Hall<br />
Judith Hall<br />
Marjorie Reid Hampson<br />
Suzanne Hayden<br />
Nancy Kelly Hershey<br />
Jane Luke Hill<br />
Gay White Hitchcock<br />
Cynthia Lockett Hooks<br />
Roberta Schwartz Klopfer<br />
Robin Kuhn<br />
Priscilla Phelan Lentowski<br />
Mary Pescatello Lewis<br />
Kathryn Scanlon McEldowney<br />
Catherine Wells Milton<br />
Margrete Miner<br />
Constance Goehring Mitchell<br />
Martha-Reed Ennis Murphy<br />
Nancy Stewart Nadig<br />
Linda Bullock Owens<br />
Dell Redington<br />
Elizabeth Webster Saba<br />
Elaine Isserlis Sheftel<br />
Margaret Snyder<br />
Rita Sladen Sosa<br />
Merrill Press Witty<br />
Linda Gordon Wurzel<br />
1970<br />
Leslie Walters Bohannon<br />
Susan Costello Bryant<br />
Susan Barrett Butler<br />
Jill Hastings Cane<br />
Mary Ann Allen Cowherd<br />
Daphne Voyatzis Damplo<br />
Suzanne Moon Dykhuizen<br />
Terry Davidow Epstein<br />
Maureen Heisler Garber<br />
Barrie Miller Gollinger<br />
Renee Fox Gould<br />
Alison Carr Harris<br />
Jane Kellogg<br />
Julie Sinclair Kingsley<br />
Suzanne Salter Krautmann<br />
Susan Kelley Markowski<br />
Toby Congleton Milner<br />
Deborah Weinberg Mizrahi<br />
Jan Frost Russell<br />
Mary Curtis Skelton<br />
Kluane Baier Snyder<br />
Elizabeth Steele<br />
Jermain Mueller Steiner<br />
Susan Ormsby Stoehr<br />
Mary Barber Stone<br />
Martha Steele Strachan<br />
Dona Fusselmann Vaccaro<br />
Deborah Glickman Waldman<br />
Eloise Dale Welz<br />
Priscilla Hussey Worrall<br />
1971<br />
Phoebe Hemenway Armstrong<br />
Belinda Ramizi Bendak<br />
Karen Srulowitz Berman<br />
Laura Bewick Brines<br />
Morgan Shannon Butler<br />
Christine Chase<br />
Nancy Liberman Cohen<br />
Kathleen Kiniry Cookson<br />
Margery Feinburg Cooper<br />
Phyllis Jew Danko<br />
Cynthia Knowles Denault<br />
Carolyn Morrill Follmer<br />
Felice Shapiro Friedman<br />
Pamela Wright Grossman<br />
Beverly Janson Hammond<br />
Elizabeth Hirsch<br />
Priscilla Jeffery<br />
Betsey Josselyn<br />
Sheryl Berman Lovit<br />
Ruth Hughes McGee<br />
Carolyn Bail Miller<br />
Betty Bain Pearsall<br />
Patricia Swiriduk Perry<br />
Geraldine Robinson<br />
Nancy Millican Rogers<br />
Donna Van Stone Schmidt<br />
Renae Ross Starker<br />
Patricia O’Shea Vonnegut<br />
Ruth Steinhausen Wachterman<br />
Vicki Coorssen Whalen<br />
Sylvia Birnbaum Yasner<br />
1972<br />
Lynn Geronemus Bigelman<br />
Priscilla Resevic Cosgrove<br />
Margaret Taylor DeAgazio<br />
Deborah Foster DeMarco<br />
Barbara Tarr Drauschke<br />
Alice Liberman Eberhardt<br />
Priscilla Hedge Evilsizer<br />
Susan Whiting Finan<br />
Alexena Thun Frazee<br />
Cynthia Johnson GaNun<br />
Mary Barbour Hatvany<br />
Janice Pearson Hildreth<br />
Louisa Miller Hoar<br />
Ann Jackson<br />
Helena Marshall Keiser<br />
Linda Carlson Kiley<br />
Ronni Zuckerman Kirsch<br />
Susan Knight<br />
Jill Rosing Landel<br />
Elizabeth Hile Lindsay<br />
Priscilla Wold Longfield<br />
Beverly Tarr Mattatall<br />
Marilyn Meub<br />
Vicki Caplan Milstein<br />
Susan Rowe Morison<br />
Barbara Zimmermann Murphy<br />
Barbara Pinto Napoleone<br />
Kathryn Worrell Newton<br />
Anne Bagley Nielsen<br />
Wendy Dubins Perlmutter<br />
Karen Lundquist Peterson<br />
Mary Dickerson Pierson<br />
Pamela Goering Pierson<br />
Carol Myers Pressman<br />
Kimberly Cross Reichert<br />
Sharon Flavell Rickard<br />
Sarah Lundrigan Ross<br />
Diane Palmer Soderland<br />
Marjorie Taft<br />
Shirley Meier Vautin<br />
Gayle Ziegler Vonasek<br />
Nancy McClement Waage<br />
1973<br />
Christine Appert<br />
Sandra Birdsall Atteberry<br />
Andrea Newmark Baker<br />
Lynn Emerson Brownell<br />
Laurie Paul Brustlin<br />
Joyce Pettoruto Butler<br />
Jeannette Byers<br />
Ginny Holmes Carroll<br />
Susan Weinstock Cobin<br />
Nancy Cottrill<br />
Deborah D’Amico<br />
Karen Drazen<br />
Susan Eblen<br />
Faith Hesselgrave Ferguson<br />
Janet Field<br />
Lynne Siegal Fox<br />
Marilyn Levick Fyfe<br />
Jean Burrill Gailun<br />
Pamela Pappas Goode<br />
Dana Brewer Hahn<br />
Diane Ellicott Kwiatek<br />
Jill Lithwick Lieberman<br />
Ann Bradford Ligums<br />
Regina Frisch Lobree<br />
Elizabeth Clarke Magruder<br />
Wendy Millett Manninen<br />
Amanda Griggs Miles<br />
Ellen Luckenbach Moomaw<br />
Diane Yeterian Moore<br />
Diana Stiehl Palmer<br />
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Priscilla Cote Paquette<br />
Abby Squires Perelman<br />
Carol Bigelow Riggs<br />
Jane Hertig Roberts<br />
Sally Bechert Robinson<br />
Susan Mahoney Segar<br />
Mildred Shelton<br />
Susan Bruml Simon<br />
Joyce Snowden<br />
Cathy Bill Steer<br />
Cynthia Coggeshall Trask<br />
Marion Brigham Williams<br />
1974<br />
Margot Zabin Abrams<br />
Karyn Brotman<br />
Deborah Epstein Bunker<br />
Melanie Carney<br />
Paula Davison<br />
Rebecca Smith Denevan<br />
Kay Eng<br />
Nancy Lamb Handler<br />
Martha Balch Hubbell<br />
Laurel Lassen Jonas<br />
Kathleen Hughes Joyce<br />
Rebecca Kaminsky<br />
Debra Crossman Kwiatek<br />
Linda Look<br />
Alice Stasio Macfarland<br />
Mary Ellen Piantedosi Margosian<br />
Wanda Arrington Meekins<br />
Julie Moffatt<br />
Betsy Kinney Morgan<br />
Dana Nelson<br />
Janet Leonard O’Loughlin<br />
Susan Brown Pendlebury<br />
Jill Schunick Putnam<br />
Linda Zaniewski Rosado<br />
Diane Rothauser<br />
Sandra Smith<br />
Laurel Beach Tyrrell<br />
Dayl Walker<br />
Karen Banfield Waybright<br />
1975<br />
Donna Hansen Bailey<br />
Carol Bryce Bibeau<br />
Harriet Blanchard<br />
Carol Boisen<br />
Catherine Bose<br />
Tootie Neale Brodlieb<br />
Cathie Brown<br />
Kathryn Spano Buley<br />
Julia Challinor<br />
Dorothy Cresswell<br />
Joanna Miles Griffith<br />
Allena Tabb Harper<br />
Kathleen McCooey Hering<br />
Patricia Gardiner Hill<br />
Ray Eisenstadt Immerman<br />
Carol White Jones<br />
Rachel Henowitz Levine<br />
Helen Hymerling Liberatore<br />
Suzanne Smith MacEwan<br />
Audrey Liberman Matson<br />
Susan Curry Michaud<br />
Sue Crispen Miller<br />
Helen Burke Montague<br />
Mila Moschella<br />
Cheryl Adami Phillips<br />
Joseph Richards<br />
Judith Rosenbaum<br />
Barbara Stevens Rowe<br />
Patricia Gontrum Sare<br />
Kathy Witt Sturges<br />
Amy Svirsky<br />
Nancy Drummond Tindal<br />
Mary Ainslie Tracy<br />
Barbara Carnright Tyng<br />
Patricia Ward<br />
Sara Wragge<br />
1976<br />
Louisa Lothrop Affleck<br />
Joan Lowd Ames<br />
Terry Goldberg Bromfield<br />
Cheryl Zalk Chandler<br />
Brenda Rose Chaney<br />
Marilyn Croteau<br />
Jane Single DeLeo<br />
Lisa Milanese Evans<br />
Carolee Fucigna<br />
Gayle Griswold Goldberg<br />
Nadine Heim<br />
Marianne Beckman Henderson<br />
Tracy Robertson Howard<br />
Brita Josephson<br />
Melinda Kaiser<br />
Amy Kitzen<br />
Madeline Berry Lasley<br />
Lucy Rand MacDonald<br />
Mary Jo Keany Mason<br />
Susan Conger McCarthy<br />
Patricia McGowan McManus<br />
Marian Miller<br />
Sarah Davisson Moore<br />
Constance Bell Moser<br />
Daria Lyons O’Connor<br />
Dale Zabriskie Pomerantz<br />
Sherri Perk Reider<br />
Nora Ray Richards<br />
Kathy Richter-Sand<br />
Patricia Grief Sammataro<br />
Patricia Zimmy Schneider<br />
Geraldine Small<br />
Marghretta Gilbane Smithers<br />
Wafa Bissar Sturdivant<br />
Dolores Testa<br />
Diane Gould Thompson<br />
Diana Spence Uehlein<br />
Sharon Welch<br />
1977<br />
Mary Grant Altshuler<br />
Randy Altshuler<br />
Joann Royal Balboni<br />
Ellen Broderick<br />
Judith Birofka Brown<br />
Susan Trementozzi Charbonneau<br />
Victoria Ash Christian<br />
Louise Close<br />
Nancy Oberlin Dzomba<br />
Sarah Mann Hanscom<br />
Andree Howard<br />
Timothy Howland<br />
Jill Schoenfeld Ikens<br />
Kathryn Morton Ivory<br />
Elena James<br />
Deborah Danenberg Krol<br />
Jacqueline Lampert*<br />
Susan Colicchio Littleton<br />
Susan Grause LoPresto<br />
Margaret McCarthy<br />
Janet Wood Menser<br />
Paula McAdams Moloney<br />
Dale Sillan Morris<br />
Peter Rawitsch<br />
Cherry Whitaker Reiniger<br />
Marcia Callahan Slatkin<br />
Sheila Stewart<br />
Wendy Carter Taylor<br />
Cynthia Lauriat Vaughan<br />
Susan Cook Vaughn<br />
Tracy Weinberg<br />
Susan West<br />
Audrey Zabin<br />
1978<br />
Steven Aveson<br />
Susan Boyce-Cormier<br />
Susan Rosen Faden<br />
Lora Anderson Goldman<br />
Mary Deegan Hare<br />
Susan Flaherty King<br />
Karen Nuzzo<br />
Pamela Hopkins Peckinpaugh<br />
Donna Craveiro Sawyer<br />
Carlile Lowery Schneider<br />
Carol Sullivan-Hanley<br />
Nancy Martinelli Waiculonis<br />
Janet Welz-Kavanagh<br />
Karen Musser Whitla<br />
Arlene Botelho Williams<br />
1979<br />
Sherrill Holland Batson<br />
Brenda Stone Clover<br />
Maura Houlihan German<br />
Kristine Sheathelm Gerson<br />
Laura Elliott Jernigan<br />
Donna LaRoche<br />
Rebecca Sakshaug Pagano<br />
Rosemary Rehm-Schantz<br />
Anna Saladino Ricardo<br />
Cornelia Conyngham Romanowski<br />
Claudia Barnett Scott<br />
Terri Weisberg Smith<br />
Elizabeth Plourde Steinkamp<br />
Leslie Finlay Sullivan<br />
Molly Thompson<br />
Elizabeth Hanson Walters<br />
Claire White<br />
1980<br />
Lisa McCabe Biagetti<br />
Holly McAlpine Dulac<br />
Jane Aldrich Furr<br />
Robin Gardner<br />
Heather Rodts Garland<br />
Cynthia Garvin<br />
Jeanne Clark Giles<br />
Kathleen Formica Harris<br />
Laureen Dillon Hart<br />
Bobbie Van Suetendael Helbig<br />
Jane Henshaw Kinkead<br />
Theresa Flaherty McCarthy<br />
Mary Oliver McKechnie<br />
Margaret Meath<br />
Karin Patton<br />
Edward Schantz<br />
Patricia Barone Sokoly<br />
Jane Tuttle Stimson<br />
Emilie Richardson Temeles<br />
Elizabeth Heger Wright<br />
Conference Support —<br />
Third Annual Community Dialogue<br />
on Early Education and Care<br />
Those who support <strong>Wheelock</strong> conferences help<br />
the <strong>College</strong> bring some of the best scholars and<br />
practitioners together to work on the most pressing<br />
issues facing children and families today. <strong>Wheelock</strong>’s<br />
co-sponsors for its Third Annual Community Dialogue<br />
on Early Education and Care: New Initiatives, New<br />
Realities were the Massachusetts Association for<br />
Early Childhood Teacher Educators, the Nellie<br />
Mae Foundation, the Bessie Tartt Wilson<br />
Foundation, the Schott Foundation for Public<br />
Education, and the United Way of Massachusetts<br />
Bay and Merrimack Valley. We thank them<br />
for their commitment to the families and children of<br />
Massachusetts and to our dedicated early childhood<br />
educators and advocates.<br />
1981<br />
Linda Lievi Abdu<br />
Carolyn Phelps Dent<br />
Tracy Foilb<br />
Bernadine Herbert Gittens<br />
Diana Hamilton-Rousseau<br />
Janine Hart-Hueber<br />
Nora Lerdau Howley<br />
Sarah Bowman Merry<br />
Marion Ferguson Newton<br />
Alexis Foster Reed<br />
Cynthia Dill Rosenthal<br />
Colleen Miller Rumsey<br />
Catherine Barry Smith<br />
Sara Dugan Springmeyer<br />
Anne Marie Bergeron Tavares<br />
1982<br />
Susan O’Halloran Constable<br />
Kathleen Mello Friedrichsen<br />
Linda Abbey Gent<br />
Catherine Ley Lawler<br />
Sally Burnett Marr<br />
Karen Mutch-Jones<br />
Erika Fischer Oranges<br />
Barbara Madison Ripps<br />
Mari Dalton Walkowicz<br />
Lisa Nord Zack<br />
1983<br />
Karen Corcoran Birner<br />
Zoraida Correia Bohn<br />
Maria Sugalski Carpenter<br />
Lisa Jurman Cedergren<br />
Evelina Ecker<br />
Jennifer Estabrook<br />
Lauren Wartenberg Finkle<br />
Carol Rubin Fishman<br />
Gail Rothstein Forstater<br />
Sara Grande Gavens<br />
Jane Donovan Huzar<br />
Pamela Lee Kania<br />
Laurel Massey Leibowitz<br />
Mary Sienkiewicz Minalga<br />
Lora Lopes Nielsen<br />
Carrie Sobel Rubin<br />
Marcia Gibbons Turner<br />
Nancy Cutler Ward<br />
Claudia Tillis Weger<br />
Andrea Ades Woolner<br />
Deborah Wurgler<br />
1984<br />
Monica Trussell Belkin<br />
Katherine Bliss<br />
Lee Block<br />
Joan Cycenas<br />
Lynn Pennacchini Dion<br />
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Nancy Kurcias Lowenkron<br />
Melanie Levesque Madden<br />
Jackie Johnson Markley<br />
Martha McNulty<br />
Patricia Dowell Merrill<br />
Doreen McKiernan Miller<br />
Cynthia Gibb O’Leary<br />
Cecilia Tatem Small<br />
Elizabeth Stobart<br />
Susan Potter Sweeney<br />
Pamela Reid Towers<br />
Jacqueline Trudel<br />
Jody Mount Vorenberg<br />
Kathryn Welsh Wilcox<br />
1985<br />
Linda Edwards Beal<br />
Elizabeth Fixx Gumina<br />
Nora Broughton Jestus<br />
JoAnn Chambers Meehan<br />
Patricia Norton<br />
Kimberly Rice Thompson<br />
Stephanie Poly Zapatka<br />
1986<br />
Anne Russell Cabral<br />
Margaret Sturges McDermott<br />
Karen McGuinness-St. Martin<br />
Marlene Ross<br />
Julie Simon<br />
1987<br />
Lisa Blake Carstoiu<br />
Laura DeNucci Crosby<br />
Kathleen Hurley DeVarennes<br />
Wendy MacPhetres Hermance<br />
Katherine Grabner McDonough<br />
Jamie Jaskiewicz Pociask<br />
Holly Hastings Socolosky<br />
Elisabeth Hubbard VanDerMaelen<br />
Brenda Richards White<br />
Luanne Peters Wilson<br />
1988<br />
Rebecca Johnson Alexander<br />
Helene Dunkerley Bettencourt<br />
Lori Adamo Brothers<br />
Lynne Harris Brownfield<br />
Claudette DeGagne Dennis<br />
Virginia Ernst<br />
Christine Briggs Genannt<br />
Christine Schuman Kenny<br />
Elizabeth Malkin<br />
Jennie Nelson Marshall<br />
Jill Postma Martin<br />
Deborah Nevins-Geswell<br />
Carol-Ann McCusker Petruccelli<br />
Anne Gomez Upson<br />
Arlene Cromwell Vincent<br />
1989<br />
Laura Kramer MacMillan<br />
Karen Matheny<br />
Rebecca Lloyd Narvaez<br />
Maureen Griffin Reen<br />
Brian Scheff<br />
Nadine Snyder<br />
1990<br />
Karen Flowers Cagan<br />
Megan Ward Eriksen<br />
Michelle Pine Lemme<br />
Kimberly Oliver<br />
Eleanor Cannon Smith<br />
Maria Puente Walker<br />
Lisa Wojtowicz Wood<br />
1991<br />
Rebekah Engel Elmore<br />
Maria Maffeo<br />
Meredith McArdle<br />
1992<br />
Rebecca Milke Barnett<br />
Patricia Hyde<br />
Laura Mahon Garand<br />
Karen Delaney O’Neil<br />
Leslie Hacker Overbye<br />
Amy Rheault-Heafield<br />
Heather Bogli Zilora<br />
1993<br />
Golden Bryant<br />
Patricia Bys Carando<br />
Deborah Cooper Crane<br />
Elizabeth Bigham Dilts<br />
Sara Hosmer<br />
Nina Mortensen LaPlante<br />
Cara Meade-Martin<br />
Brenda Noel<br />
Wanda Yeomans Patterson<br />
Rochelle Perry-Craft<br />
Bonnie Hannibal Reed<br />
Renee Minotti Rhoads<br />
Elizabeth Goldentyer Roberts<br />
Leandra Poliquin Sargent<br />
Gayle Critikos Saxonis<br />
Kristen Quinn Shorey<br />
Amy Hambleton Signore<br />
Cheri Vercellone Smith<br />
Hilary Hoffman Sowers<br />
Karin Blumberg Taylor<br />
Mary Vardaro<br />
Tara Daniels Wider<br />
Mary Kirrane Worster<br />
1994<br />
Lynne Harmon Aloisi<br />
Alex Campbell<br />
Vivian Carr<br />
Kristin Wagner Matzonkai<br />
Kyla McSweeney<br />
Jennifer Schriver<br />
1995<br />
Robin Melesko Toomey<br />
1996<br />
Joel Ludington<br />
1997<br />
Melissa Carnabuci<br />
Lesley Coughlin<br />
Julie Hess Croshere<br />
Jenny Fogel Miller<br />
Micaela Hall<br />
Elizabeth Rackliffe<br />
1998<br />
Danielle Abel<br />
Anita Anderson<br />
Christine Barry Beaulieu<br />
Jessica Berry<br />
Nicolette de Boer<br />
Teresa Doughty<br />
Christina Stiber Dwire<br />
Mary Falcone-Farrell<br />
Margaret McCorkle<br />
Sally Kokernak Millwood<br />
Tammy Myers<br />
Tonya Clawson Urquizo<br />
Stacy Hogan Watts<br />
1999<br />
Catherine Marciello<br />
Katherine McKibbens<br />
2001<br />
Holly Evans<br />
Sara Levy<br />
2002<br />
Melissa Bachetti<br />
Lisa Goldman Henriques<br />
2003<br />
Stephany Melton<br />
2004<br />
Colleen Pierce Brown<br />
Jessica Craw<br />
Kiley Noonan<br />
Kristen Johnson Parsons<br />
Graduate<br />
Degree Donors<br />
1955<br />
Louise Butts<br />
Elizabeth McHenry<br />
1956<br />
Velma McEvoy Lindberg<br />
1957<br />
Sachiko Yamada Yamamoto<br />
1960<br />
Barbara Mead Anthony<br />
Susan Hunt Raasch<br />
1962<br />
Virginia Gleason Crocker<br />
Barbara Eberman Fisher<br />
Deborah Carlson Jacklin<br />
Dorothy Ulf Mayer<br />
Barbara Sturgis<br />
1963<br />
Natalie Bigelow Barlow<br />
Sally Nichols McGucken<br />
Katherine Lanning Winters<br />
1964<br />
Ellen Smith<br />
1965<br />
Lucy Faulkner Davison<br />
Susan Vetter Shoff<br />
Georgia Bradley Zaborowski<br />
1966<br />
Carol Liu King<br />
1967<br />
Judith Klubock Medalia<br />
Paula Corning Newell<br />
Carol Stuart Wenmark<br />
1968<br />
Peter Abuisi<br />
Lorian Brown<br />
Alice Turner Elliott<br />
Barbara Shafran Greenglass<br />
Joan Packer Isenberg<br />
Louise Brown Johnson<br />
Kathryn Gilliam Morgenthau<br />
Madelyn Krest Nash<br />
Linda Fuller Wolk<br />
1969<br />
Anonymous (1)<br />
Sharon Sabo Bilanin*<br />
Joann Bush<br />
Shirley Yett Chodin<br />
Elizabeth Coates<br />
Diane Blumsack Korelitz<br />
Marian Wylie Krummel<br />
Diane Levin<br />
Jane Steele Milchen<br />
Karen Tilbor<br />
1970<br />
Karen Belleau<br />
Barbara Walker Collamore<br />
Katherine Reardon Currier<br />
Signe Burk Ferguson<br />
Julia Devereux Glynn<br />
Ruth Harlow<br />
Martin Lerman<br />
Martha Brown McGandy<br />
Judith Jones Orlandi<br />
Anne Witte Stribling<br />
Deborah Brown Tifft<br />
Judith Schwarz Weinstock<br />
1971<br />
Susan Eisenhart Alexander<br />
Katherine Condit Barone<br />
Jeanne Steinberger Breinlinger<br />
Janet Osborn Davis<br />
Sarah Leach Jackal<br />
Susan London Killip<br />
Sharry Hofer Langdale<br />
Judith Harrell Prymak<br />
Betsye Petersen Sargent<br />
James Wood<br />
1972<br />
Sandra Tavares Augustinho<br />
Susan Fife Davis<br />
Paula Curci Marcello<br />
Constance Stampler Rabinovitz<br />
Marlene Shama<br />
Marjorie Spielman<br />
Martha Stearns<br />
1973<br />
Louisa Lehmann Birch<br />
Alice Wang Chen<br />
Kathryn Smith Conrad<br />
Judith Fleischman<br />
Renee Fox Gould<br />
Jean Healey<br />
Margaret Neville Holmes<br />
Judith Hawkins Johnson<br />
Sara Avery Kelley<br />
Joanna Phinney<br />
Susan Castleton Ryan<br />
Susan Sanborn Twombly<br />
1974<br />
Constance Gresser<br />
Harris Hochberg<br />
Harriet Foss Koch<br />
Mary Baker McConnell<br />
Sally Pease<br />
Steven Silvestri<br />
Judith Poley Walker<br />
1975<br />
Beth Reiter Blanchard<br />
Zelinda Makepeace Douhan<br />
Carol Dunkel Freidinger<br />
Nancy Fuller<br />
Dody Phinny Gates<br />
Dorothy Gorenflo<br />
Nicholas Haddad<br />
Marilyn Idyll Hamly<br />
Virginia Caldbeck Hogan<br />
Susan Clark Howard<br />
Susan Kosoff<br />
Robert McCorkle<br />
Marjorie Parker Mitchell<br />
Barbara Zimmermann Murphy<br />
Marjorie Moss Shekarchi<br />
Hildred Dodge Simons<br />
Deborah Imri Tully<br />
Wendy Warnecke<br />
Cynthia Mahler White<br />
1976<br />
Diane Taran Baker<br />
Michelle Dames Denniston<br />
Bess Emanuel<br />
Marilyn Grimes Fraktman<br />
Joanne Moskey Grady<br />
Judith Flynn Haskell<br />
Holly Horton<br />
Ai-Ling Louie<br />
John Magnani<br />
Sally Simpson Redston<br />
Virginia Beth Sauer<br />
Judith Scott Stolp<br />
Lois Strother<br />
Ann Wanetik<br />
1977<br />
Maureen Riley Acorn<br />
Maureen Rooney Brentrup<br />
Joyce Calogero<br />
Lorraine Damaduk Parmelee<br />
Ramona Patterson<br />
Alfreda Piecuch<br />
Judith Potter<br />
Susan Raymo<br />
Linda Stoller<br />
1978<br />
Linda Minker Abramson<br />
Sharon Jackson Clark<br />
Kim Paddison Dockery<br />
Annie Hale<br />
Ann Jackson<br />
Marie Langdon<br />
Wendy McLeish<br />
Diane Cassella Ohanesian<br />
Dell Redington<br />
Geraldine Robinson<br />
Margaret Morgan Sutphin<br />
Mary Beth Claus Tobin<br />
Gayle Ziegler Vonasek<br />
1979<br />
Susan Blandy<br />
Janet Hermsmeier Bossange<br />
Susan Moyer Breed<br />
Jean Gardner Cole<br />
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$1 Million Classic Upward Bound TRIO Grant<br />
for Teacher Bound<br />
Afour-year $1 million Classic Upward Bound TRIO grant to <strong>Wheelock</strong> is<br />
contributing to the <strong>College</strong>’s urban education initiative and its goal to<br />
recruit Boston Public School students to become teachers in urban schools.<br />
Teacher Bound at <strong>Wheelock</strong> is the only Upward Bound program in the country<br />
that is funded to serve as a teacher development program. It will provide early<br />
outreach, encouragement, and support to 50 students from Boston high schools,<br />
opening doors to higher education as well as to the teaching profession.<br />
Deborah D’Amico<br />
Lisa Diamant<br />
Andrea Doane<br />
Paula Shapiro Gopin<br />
Kathryn Parsons Liebowitz<br />
Dorothy Lifka<br />
Martha Ludwick Litle<br />
Mary Mitchell<br />
Mildred Paden<br />
Janne Ritzenberg Piper<br />
Gale Westcott Rome<br />
Carlile Lowery Schneider<br />
Virginia Franks Seegel<br />
Kathy Simons<br />
Joanne Frank Suna<br />
David Thomas-Train<br />
1980<br />
Betty Beach<br />
Liane Beier<br />
Nancy Bigelow<br />
Elizabeth Culick Bowman<br />
Ellen Foley<br />
Elizabeth Neavitt Frank<br />
Jone LaBombard<br />
Michael McCormick<br />
Jolene Christoff Pearson<br />
Cheryl Adami Phillips<br />
Anne Stair Rosenbloom<br />
Barbara Silverstein<br />
Phyllis Haffenreffer Stetson<br />
Martha Walsh<br />
1981<br />
Louise Allen Hammond<br />
Sandra Heidemann<br />
Anne-Marie Rodrigues<br />
Diane Rothauser<br />
Nancy Wild<br />
1982<br />
Barbara Ryan Devens<br />
Beth Cederberg Guertin<br />
Ellen Henri<br />
Jean McIntyre Hodgkins<br />
Patricia Hertel Kemp<br />
Laura Knight<br />
Sandra Barreiro Ledvina<br />
Donna Martin<br />
Maria-Matilde Pieters-Gray<br />
Diane Pucci<br />
Susan Selya Rosen<br />
Christina Larson Sabella<br />
1983<br />
Christine Hudson Abrams<br />
Roberta Cox Cornish<br />
Susan Wells Ferrante<br />
Darlene Howland<br />
Mary Kloppenberg<br />
Patricia McCoy<br />
Nancy Pettitt<br />
Nancy Sullivan Tryzelaar<br />
Joan Anderson Watts<br />
1984<br />
Elinor Worley Beatty<br />
Pamela Carey Haggett<br />
Christine Hammond<br />
Peggy Kociubes<br />
Sally Mazur<br />
Susan Conger McCarthy<br />
Ann Pallies-Card<br />
Jill Schunick Putnam<br />
Phyllis Springer<br />
Joanne Fejt Trumbull<br />
Claire White<br />
1985<br />
Donna Hansen Bailey<br />
Laurel Waiksnoris Bongiorno<br />
Mary D’Addario<br />
Jennifer Estabrook<br />
Mary Garvey Gronski<br />
Lucy Rand MacDonald<br />
Benjamin Mardell<br />
Elizabeth Merrill<br />
1986<br />
Cynthia Nelson Donahue<br />
Brina Einstein<br />
Patricia McGowan McManus<br />
Susan Montrone-Cobleigh<br />
Carol Staedeli Murphy<br />
1987<br />
Giovonne Calenda<br />
Lucy Matson Hudson<br />
Cynthia Cole Lawrence<br />
Michael Pearl<br />
Linda Russell<br />
Karen Sturges<br />
Silvana Vollero<br />
1988<br />
Rosaly Aiello<br />
Maureen Donovan-Kelly<br />
Carolyn Drucker<br />
Suzanne Harkness-Wood<br />
Marie Peirent<br />
Adelaide Duffy Queeney<br />
Lori Kayser Selby<br />
Barbara Wilson<br />
Susan Wolff<br />
1989<br />
Katherine Bliss<br />
Meg Campbell<br />
Cheryl Fertig<br />
Christine Giddings<br />
Emily Adcock Hayne<br />
Sytske Humphrey<br />
Jill Kelber Leibowitz<br />
Donna Lomp-Bigony<br />
Russell McNiven-Grossman<br />
Marlene Ross<br />
Margaret Franck Sparks<br />
Candace Erickson Weiler<br />
1990<br />
Jean Bayless-Albrecht<br />
Patricia Conzelman Greeley<br />
Marie Morrison<br />
Susan Tussing<br />
Patricia O’Shea Vonnegut<br />
1991<br />
Eleanor Almond<br />
Sally Butler<br />
Margaret Donahue<br />
Nancy Fredericks<br />
Kaori Hattori De Panepinto<br />
Sharon Howard<br />
Michelle Pine Lemme<br />
Meredith Huxtable MacNeill<br />
Christine Kyriakakos Martin<br />
Mary Jo Keany Mason<br />
Barbara Peros<br />
Nora Ray Richards<br />
Ruthann Sneider<br />
Phyllis Wendorff<br />
1992<br />
Patricia Abel<br />
Cheryl Zalk Chandler<br />
Maura Embler<br />
Robin Hewitt Jones<br />
Carol Derby Kuo<br />
Laura Long<br />
Jessi MacLeod<br />
Ted Scheu<br />
Thu-Hang Tran<br />
1993<br />
Karen Borchert<br />
Elizabeth de Forest<br />
Diane DiMaina<br />
Jane Aldrich Furr<br />
Joanne Gannon<br />
Deborah Greenwood<br />
Deborah Gilmore Hartline<br />
Andrea Hippert<br />
Patricia Hnatiuk<br />
Susan Ludden<br />
Robyn Geogan Noble<br />
Betsy Nordell<br />
Nancy Stillson<br />
Vivian Swoboda<br />
1994<br />
John Bay<br />
Patricia Beggy<br />
Joanne Belanger<br />
Lisa Davis<br />
Susan DeLuca<br />
Mary Faraci<br />
Sarah Hammerness<br />
Jennifer Wieland Knowles<br />
Pamela Miles<br />
Juliet Nagle<br />
Rochelle Perry-Craft<br />
Diana Spence Uehlein<br />
Andrea Weaver<br />
1995<br />
Denise Burke<br />
Carolyn Cohen Corliss<br />
Susan DeAngelis<br />
Christine Briggs Genannt<br />
Lynn Policano Howard<br />
Linda Burns Jones<br />
Ellen Hilcoff Kerstein<br />
Suzanne Taylor King<br />
Maria Maffeo<br />
Jennifer Matteson<br />
Evemarie Brosnihan McNeil<br />
Sylvia Mency<br />
Carolyn Tobey<br />
Alison Hannan Vaill<br />
1996<br />
Kristen Langdon Cohen<br />
Laurie Conrad<br />
Claudia Davidoff<br />
Margaret Taylor DeAgazio<br />
Kathryn Jones<br />
Ann O’Hara<br />
Eloise Orsini<br />
Heather Peach<br />
Carol Potier<br />
Sylvia Micka Smith<br />
Rebecca Merrill Thompson<br />
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1997<br />
Lynne Harmon Aloisi<br />
Meryl Marcus Alpert<br />
Alex Campbell<br />
Suzanne Gould Corbett<br />
Tracy Foilb<br />
Jessie Hale<br />
Kyla McSweeney<br />
Amy Lieberman Melisi<br />
Tammar Merav<br />
Debra Smith<br />
Jennifer Leary Stratton<br />
Suzanne Wildman<br />
1998<br />
Donna Bent<br />
Lisa Blake Carstoiu<br />
Susan Hegarty<br />
Christina Morris Helm<br />
Lorgia Henriquez-Melendez<br />
Margaret Mullen Hurder<br />
1999<br />
Alison Subin Belcher<br />
Suzanne Marchand Cooney<br />
Sharon Febo<br />
Beverly Feeney<br />
Paul Hokama<br />
Maureen Jutras<br />
Rachel Scheff<br />
2000<br />
Kellie Donahue<br />
Lissa Fernandez<br />
Elisabeth Gray<br />
2001<br />
Christine Barry Beaulieu<br />
Nancy Connolly<br />
Kimberly Delaney<br />
Nora Galvin<br />
2002<br />
Esme DeVault<br />
Cynthia Doherty<br />
Jill Harrison<br />
Yue-Li Lim<br />
Katherine McKibbens<br />
Michael Nappo<br />
2003<br />
Anna Watkins Schlieman<br />
2004<br />
Teresa Doughty<br />
Yael Lenkinski<br />
Catherine Marciello<br />
Bette Renoni<br />
2005<br />
Colleen Pierce Brown<br />
<strong>2008</strong><br />
Maria Sugalski Carpenter<br />
Parents<br />
Margaret Andrews<br />
Mr. and Mrs. George Bernazani<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Albert Creighton<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Donovan<br />
Mr. and Mrs. John D. Link<br />
Gary Melton<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Allan L. Schwartz<br />
Faculty/Staff<br />
Mike Akillian<br />
Nina Aronoff<br />
Lenette Azzi-Lessing<br />
Linda A. Banks-Santilli ‘85<br />
John Bay ‘94MS<br />
Diana B. Beaudoin<br />
Joan Bergstrom<br />
Kathleen Kirk Bishop<br />
Stephanie Cox Suarez<br />
Catherine Donahue<br />
Jose C. Ferreira<br />
Marcia M. Folsom<br />
Ellie Friedland<br />
Gregory Gomez<br />
Marjorie Hall<br />
Maya Honda<br />
Jackie Jenkins-Scott<br />
Albie Johnson<br />
Joeritta Jones de Almeida<br />
Susan Kosoff ‘65/’75MS<br />
Diane Levin ‘69MS<br />
Anne Marie Martorana<br />
Donna McKibbens<br />
Kyla McSweeney ‘94/’97MS<br />
Deanne Williams Morse ‘60<br />
Tracey Mullane<br />
Barbara Rosenquest<br />
Stefi Rubin<br />
Lori Ann Saslav<br />
Roy Schifilliti<br />
Joyce Hope Scott<br />
Hope Haslam Straughan<br />
Valerie Thornhill-Hudson<br />
Claire White ‘79/’84MS<br />
Lee Whitfield<br />
Patricia Willott<br />
Jeff Winokur<br />
Karen Worth<br />
Friends<br />
Anonymous (2)<br />
Donna J. Amato<br />
Karen Anderson<br />
Marjorie Bakken<br />
Robert P. Bigelow<br />
Marjorie Boudreau and Family<br />
Peter Buhl<br />
Alison L. Chan<br />
Kai Yuen Chan<br />
Anita L. Chow<br />
Ann E. Christmann<br />
Mr. and Mrs. William H. Christmann<br />
Huan-Hua Chye<br />
Marilyn Cole<br />
James P. Comer<br />
Nancy H. Crosby<br />
Elizabeth Cugini<br />
Dorothy Derick<br />
Barbara Eskridge<br />
Elizabeth Ferrara<br />
Barbara J. Feyler<br />
Janet Feyler<br />
Suzanne Fiske<br />
Carol Forgette<br />
Fred and Edwen Goldstein<br />
Paul S. Grogan<br />
Arthur Hennessey<br />
Patricia J. Igoe<br />
Frances C. Ingram<br />
Stephen Laffey<br />
John Lam<br />
Kai Biu Lam<br />
C. C. Lee<br />
Freda Lehrer<br />
Pamela Long<br />
Ann Longfellow<br />
Barbara S. Longfellow<br />
Herbert C. MacKinnon<br />
Dr. and Mrs. Gordon Marshall<br />
Polly McAllister<br />
Lois McInerney<br />
Jack Meyer<br />
Ann Moritz<br />
Karen Nassauer<br />
Charlotte W. Neinas<br />
Suzanne Newton<br />
Nancy Olins<br />
Elizabeth Parrillo<br />
Nancy Pelletier<br />
Carol J. Poliziani<br />
Peter Tin-Yau Poon<br />
Norman B. Robbins<br />
Jean C. Robey<br />
Margaret Roque<br />
Stanley and Marcia Rumbaugh<br />
Beverly Sealey<br />
Suzanne Silva<br />
Sau-Fong Siu and Yum-Tong Siu<br />
Barbara J. Smith<br />
Yan Kok So<br />
Walter Swap<br />
Donald Van Cleef<br />
Seth H. Washburn<br />
David C. Weinstein<br />
Julia Whiteside de Vos<br />
Richard Williams<br />
The Honorable Mark L. Wolf<br />
C.S. Wong<br />
Lai King Wong<br />
Sharon Wulforst<br />
Government Grants 2007-<strong>2008</strong><br />
<strong>Wheelock</strong>’s Math/Science Initiative is a fundraising priority of the <strong>College</strong><br />
that is building on a major NASA grant of $500,000 made in 2006.<br />
Last year, <strong>Wheelock</strong> received three gifts from the U.S. Department of Education<br />
Science Program ($200,436), the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative<br />
($150,000), and the Boston University STEM Partnership ($60,000), totaling<br />
over $400,000.<br />
A Department of Education Upward Bound grant of $1.2 million, a Massachusetts<br />
Board of Higher Education Teacher Quality grant of $275,000, and a<br />
Massachusetts Development grant of $150,000 added more than $1.6 million in<br />
government grants to resources supporting <strong>Wheelock</strong>’s education initiatives.<br />
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<strong>Wheelock</strong> Family Theatre Donors<br />
The <strong>Wheelock</strong> Family Theatre (WFT) would like to thank all<br />
those who made contributions in fiscal year <strong>2008</strong>. It is<br />
through the generous support of friends that the WFT can continue<br />
to create critically acclaimed productions for families and educational<br />
programs for children.<br />
<strong>Wheelock</strong> Family Theatre<br />
Professional, affordable theater for all generations!<br />
his past year I had the privilege of participating in professional theater<br />
“T on Broadway. I originated the role of Jane Banks in the new musical<br />
Mary Poppins. While I was away, I found that there was no difference<br />
between Broadway and <strong>Wheelock</strong>. Just like any Broadway show, <strong>Wheelock</strong><br />
Family Theatre has professional costumes, lighting, set design, a great<br />
production staff that amazes me every time, and the most talented cast<br />
that treats each other with kindness and respect. I know how lucky I am to<br />
be able to return home and still have the opportunity to participate in professional<br />
theater with people I love and in my own backyard.”<br />
— Katherine Leigh Doherty as Lilly<br />
in Lilly’s Purple Plastic Purse<br />
Tor Aarestad<br />
Carol and Mike Akillian<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Robert G. Anderson<br />
Julie Anderson<br />
Christina Andersson<br />
Barbara and Stephen Anthony<br />
Nina Aronoff<br />
Jen Atwood<br />
Steve Aveson<br />
Janet Axelrod<br />
Richard Baker<br />
Marjorie, Martha, and Maggie Bakken<br />
Bank of America Charitable Foundation<br />
Linda Banks-Santilli<br />
Arthur Barlas<br />
Joan Barton<br />
John Bay<br />
Diana Brigham Beaudoin<br />
Liora Beer and David Weingarten<br />
Robert Benson<br />
Steven Berger<br />
Bergstrom Foundation<br />
Kathleen Kirk Bishop<br />
Linda Cabot Black Fund, a Donor Advised<br />
Fund at the Boston Foundation<br />
Ian Blasco<br />
Pamela Blau<br />
Nancy and Jacob Bloom<br />
Pamela and C. Hunter Boll<br />
Shelley Bolman<br />
Danny Bolton<br />
Kimberly F. Boucher<br />
Luette Bourne<br />
Amy and Ed Brakeman<br />
Linda Braun<br />
Mrs. F. Elwood Bray<br />
Susan Moyer Breed<br />
Kathleen Brown<br />
Signs & Smiles<br />
Debra and Jaycee Bullock<br />
Butler’s Hole Fund, The Boston Foundation<br />
Grace Bybell<br />
Chilton S. Cabot<br />
Eileen Caffrey, Alex Levine, and<br />
Lilly Caffrey-Levine<br />
Abigail Callahan<br />
Ellen and Richard Calmas<br />
Barbara Carton<br />
Maria Paz Casado and Peter Cohen<br />
Sheila Cavanaugh<br />
Carole Charnow<br />
Eleanor H. Chasdi<br />
Valerie C.M. Ching<br />
Veronica Chitwood<br />
Marla Choslovsky and Paul Greenberg<br />
Keena Clifford<br />
Diane Cline<br />
Ed and Maureen* Coakley<br />
Catherine and Jeff Coburn<br />
Sue and Ron Cohen<br />
Community Development Corp of Boston<br />
Judith Contrucci<br />
Felipe Costa<br />
Helen and Clare Cotton<br />
Jeanine Cox<br />
Stephanie Cox Suarez<br />
Robert Crabtree<br />
Tina Crosby<br />
Mary Cutler<br />
Maureen Danahy<br />
Stephanie and David D’Angelo<br />
John Davin<br />
Susan DeColaines and Bill Swanson<br />
Dean K. Denniston, Jr.<br />
Andrea Devine<br />
The DiMaggio Family<br />
Andrea E. Doane<br />
Robert W. Doane<br />
Lauren and George Doherty<br />
Catherine Donahue<br />
Ann Donner<br />
Zelinda M. Douhan<br />
Elizabeth Dowd<br />
Marcia Dworkind and Charles Merzbacher<br />
Sally Reeves Edmonds<br />
Larry and Joyce Eldridge<br />
Bess Emanuel and John Vyhnanek<br />
Priscilla Fales<br />
Barbara E. Fargo<br />
Judy F. Fask<br />
Ann Ferguson<br />
Marta and Jose Carlos Ferreira<br />
Imogene Fish<br />
Andrew Flanagan<br />
Judith L. Fleischman<br />
Janis Flint-Ferguson<br />
Marcia McClintock Folsom<br />
Roberta Fox<br />
Robert B. Fraser<br />
Janese Free<br />
Ellie Friedland<br />
Betty and Larry Fuchs<br />
Hilary Gabrieli<br />
Meryl Galaid<br />
Amanda and Leanne Gallagher<br />
Sharon Gallagher<br />
Ellen Winner and Howard Gardner<br />
Andi Genser and Sue Landers<br />
Anne Giersch<br />
Elizabeth D. Giles<br />
Margaret and Fred Gilligan<br />
Joseph W. Glannon<br />
Lorenz Glazer<br />
The Glick Family<br />
Melissa Goldstein<br />
Gregory Gómez<br />
Carlo-Gonzalez Family<br />
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Alicia Gordon<br />
Dot Gorenflo<br />
Karen Gregg<br />
David Gruber<br />
Sherri L. Guiness<br />
Helen Haley<br />
Tucker Halpern,<br />
in honor of Andrea Ross<br />
Persis G. Hamilton<br />
Danya Handelsman<br />
Meredith Hannigan<br />
Elizabeth Hanson<br />
Hope Haslam Straughan<br />
Jeanne Wilson Hatch<br />
Barbara G. Hatfield<br />
Julie Hayes<br />
Purple Ink Insurance<br />
Mary Hebert<br />
Tina Helm<br />
Maria Herrey<br />
Lisa and Sean McGrath<br />
Andrea C. Hoffman<br />
Tim Hoffman<br />
Emily Wright Holt<br />
Maya Honda<br />
Anne and Jim Howard<br />
Kathryn G. Howell<br />
Mary C. Huntington<br />
Nancy and Michael Hurwitz<br />
Jeri McElroy and Bill Hutchinson<br />
Eldridge-Ingram Family<br />
Shauna Jehle<br />
Pat Jehlen<br />
Albie Johnson<br />
Joeritta Jones de Almeida<br />
Susan Joseph<br />
Kirk Joslin<br />
Rachel Judelson<br />
Arnold S. Judson<br />
Ruth and Paul Kahn<br />
Helen Kass<br />
Dr. and Mrs. Jay Kaufman<br />
Deborah Keefe<br />
Jeanne Kelley<br />
Elizabeth Kelly<br />
Tracy Kelly<br />
Andrea Kelly-Russell<br />
Erin Gilligan and Hoil Kim<br />
Sally Kindleberger<br />
Nancy and George Kivel<br />
Seth A. and Beth S. Klarman<br />
Edgar Klugman<br />
Judy and John Knutson<br />
KOR Group<br />
Barbara, John, and Andrew Kotzen<br />
Nina LaPlante<br />
Sasha Lauterbach and Peter Sturges<br />
Kenneth Leeco<br />
Anita Lang Leibowitz<br />
Joan Lenington<br />
Denise Leonard<br />
Diane Levin<br />
Nicky and Paige L’Hommedieu<br />
Robert Lincoln<br />
Jodi Long Godes<br />
LOOKS<br />
Melissa Ludtke<br />
Sean Lynn-Jones<br />
Ulla C. Malkus<br />
Marian Mandell<br />
Allan Mann<br />
Carol and Gordon Marshall<br />
Anne Marie Martorana<br />
McCarter and English, LLP<br />
Ethel McConaghy<br />
Daniel W. McElaney<br />
Abelardo Morell and Lisa McElaney<br />
Martha McNamara and Jim Bordewick<br />
Phyllis Menken<br />
Carol and David Mersky<br />
Nancye Mims and Chris Reeve<br />
Lois and Irwin Mirsky<br />
Wynona Mobley<br />
Richard Monast<br />
Mary Ann and Richard Morrill<br />
Jennifer Morrison and Dick Marks<br />
Robin Mount and Mark Szpak<br />
Martha Mulcahy<br />
Amy Nadel<br />
Greg Nash<br />
Antonia and Joseph Nedder<br />
Charlotte W. Neinas<br />
Shelly and Ofer Nemirovsky<br />
Anne H. Newton<br />
Suzanne R. Newton<br />
Tricia Norton and Jim Sheehan<br />
Ingrid Nevar Nosko<br />
Martha and Mark O’Connor<br />
Lindsay O’Donovan<br />
Locke Ogens<br />
Suzanne Olbricht<br />
Julie O’Meara<br />
Elizabeth O’Neill<br />
Patterson’s Back Bay Dancewear<br />
Charlotte and Ed Peed<br />
Pat Pellows<br />
Gamalia Pharms<br />
Sarah Plows<br />
Frances G. Pratt<br />
Professional Staffing Group<br />
Nancy Fowle Purinton<br />
Adelaide M. Queeney<br />
Marchelle Raynor<br />
Sarah Reed<br />
Donna M. Reulbach<br />
Liz and Fred Robbins<br />
Ilyse Robbins Mohr and Glen Mohr<br />
Sheila Roberts<br />
Linda and Michael Robrish<br />
Bonnie Rosenberg<br />
Judith H. Rosenberg<br />
Bobbi Rosenquest<br />
Amy Rosenthal<br />
Susan and Richard Rosin<br />
Paula and Bill Ross<br />
Julie Rowe<br />
Stefi Rubin and Fred Marchant<br />
Gloria Rudisch and Marvin Minsky<br />
Rosemary Sanborn<br />
Lori Ann Saslav<br />
Ginger and Bob Sauer<br />
James Scharback<br />
Julie Schecter<br />
Susanna Schweizer<br />
Kelly Schwenkmeyer<br />
Herman Scott<br />
Jackie Jenkins-Scott and Jim Scott<br />
Joyce Hope Scott<br />
Linda and David Seeley<br />
Charles Siepold<br />
Michelle Seligson<br />
Robert Sewell<br />
Debbie Shalom<br />
Harry Sherr and Cynthia Strauss<br />
Cynthia and Bill Sibold<br />
Joan and Lawrence Siff<br />
Spring Sirkin<br />
Peninsula Charities Foundation II<br />
Gonca Sonmez-Poole<br />
Janine Spagnuolo<br />
Linda Spengler<br />
Lee and George Sprague<br />
William duPont Staab, Jr.<br />
Enid L. Starr & Alan D. Gordon Fund,<br />
a Donor Advised Fund of Combined<br />
Jewish Philanthropies<br />
Martha Stearns<br />
Bobbie and Bob Steinbach<br />
Thomas Stemberg<br />
Claire and Jeffrey Stern<br />
Martha E. Stone<br />
Dorothy Stoneman<br />
Deirdre Sullivan<br />
Marcia Sullivan<br />
Julie Sutherland<br />
Heather Tarter<br />
Craig Thomas<br />
Becky Thompson<br />
Joan I. Thorndike<br />
Valerie Thornhill-Hudson<br />
Thu-Hang Tran and Mark S. Day<br />
Krista Vanourny<br />
Jennifer Varney<br />
Vermillion, Inc.<br />
Donna and James Viola<br />
The Walton/Waterfall Family<br />
Barry, Wendy, and Sarah Wanger<br />
Karen and Stuart Watson<br />
Suzanne Weinstein<br />
Inez C. Wheeler<br />
Claire White<br />
Jenna Napolitano<br />
Lee and Stephen Whitfield<br />
Susan Wilkinson<br />
Katie Willard<br />
William Rawn Associates<br />
Patricia Willott<br />
Laura C. Wilmarding<br />
Martha and Jeff Winokur<br />
Jo-Ann and David Winston<br />
Kathryn Winters<br />
Pam Wolf<br />
Jodi Wolk<br />
Robina Worcester<br />
Karen Worth<br />
Charles and Claudia Wu<br />
Hannah Yaffe<br />
Susan and Lance Yamakawa<br />
Charlotte Yarbrough<br />
Tina and Sam Yoon<br />
Stephen S. Young<br />
Foundations<br />
<strong>Wheelock</strong> <strong>College</strong> gratefully<br />
acknowledges the<br />
following foundations for their<br />
support in fiscal year <strong>2008</strong>.<br />
Anonymous (1)<br />
Thomas & Joann Adler Family Foundation<br />
The Boston Foundation<br />
Clover Clark Memorial Trust Fund<br />
The Clifford Family Foundation<br />
Olin J. Cochran Trust<br />
The Columbus Foundation<br />
Combined Jewish Philanthropies<br />
The Community Foundation for the<br />
Capital Region<br />
Community Foundation of<br />
Sarasota County<br />
Community Foundation for<br />
Southeastern Michigan<br />
Community Foundation of Western<br />
North Carolina, Inc.<br />
Crosby Family Foundation, Inc.<br />
Farmhouse Foundation<br />
Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund<br />
Fiduciary Charitable Foundation<br />
Fife Family Foundation, Inc.<br />
Fish Family Foundation<br />
Goldberg Family Foundation<br />
Perpetual Trust Graves Charitable Fund<br />
Mary W. Harriman Foundation<br />
The Hart Foundation<br />
The Helena Foundation<br />
The Hottle Family Foundation<br />
Jaunich Family Foundation<br />
Kenwood Foundation<br />
Seth A. & Beth S. Klarman Foundation<br />
John S. and James L. Knight Foundation<br />
Agnes M. Lindsay Trust<br />
Meek Foundation<br />
Network for Good<br />
The Nichols Trust<br />
Rochester Area Community Foundation<br />
The Saint Paul Foundation<br />
The William E. and Bertha F. Schrafft<br />
Charitable Trust<br />
Elizabeth W. Schroeder Fund<br />
Sondik Foundation<br />
Spero Foundation<br />
Ben & Kate Taylor Foundation<br />
Alan D. and Judith Tobin Foundation<br />
Webster Family Foundation<br />
The Winston-Salem Foundation<br />
The Hans & Elizabeth Wolf Foundation<br />
Zurs Foundation<br />
Corporations<br />
<strong>Wheelock</strong> <strong>College</strong> would<br />
like to thank the following<br />
corporations for their<br />
support in fiscal year <strong>2008</strong>.<br />
Anonymous (2)<br />
Abt Associates<br />
Acadian Asset Management, Inc.<br />
Admissions Advantage<br />
Aetna Foundation, Inc.<br />
Alexander, Aronson, Finning & Co., P.C.<br />
Analog Devices Inc.<br />
Applera Corporation<br />
Bank of America Matching Gifts Program<br />
Bank of New York Mellon<br />
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts<br />
Bristol-Myers Squibb Company<br />
Century Bank<br />
Charles Schwab Foundation<br />
Children’s Hospital Boston<br />
Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP<br />
CIGNA Foundation<br />
Citizens Financial Group, Inc.<br />
Continuum Dynamics Inc.<br />
Cooper-Lewis Incorporated<br />
Eduventures Inc.<br />
EMC Corporation<br />
Foley Hoag LLP<br />
GenCorp Foundation Inc.<br />
General Electric Foundation<br />
Goldman Sachs Philanthropy Fund<br />
Goodwin Procter LLP<br />
Goulston & Storrs<br />
Grant Thornton LLP<br />
Hartford Insurance Group<br />
IBM Corporation<br />
International Data Group<br />
Jean Mark Coiffures<br />
Jenzabar Foundation<br />
John Hancock Financial Services<br />
Kirkwood Printing<br />
Lehman Brothers<br />
Maguire Associates, Inc.<br />
Mazonson, LLC<br />
Mobil Foundation, Inc.<br />
Morgan-Worcester Inc.<br />
O’Neill and Associates LLC<br />
Partners Healthcare System<br />
Piccerelli, Gilstein & Co. LLP<br />
The Procter & Gamble Fund<br />
Red Sox Foundation<br />
Schwab Charitable Fund<br />
Shawmut Design and Construction<br />
Susquehanna International Group, LLP<br />
TERI<br />
Textron, Inc.<br />
Towers Perrin<br />
Tufts Health Plan<br />
United Technologies Corporation<br />
UPS<br />
The Wayland Group, Inc.<br />
Wellington Management Company, LLP<br />
Wells Fargo Foundation<br />
William Rawn Associates Architects, Inc.<br />
The Williams Companies Inc.<br />
Yum! Brands Foundation, Inc.<br />
<strong>Wheelock</strong> Magazine 35
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 • <strong>2008</strong><br />
Gifts in Kind<br />
Steven Aveson ’78<br />
Marcia Holford Bedford ’82MS<br />
Susan Bright Belanger ’65<br />
Ellen Cluett Burnham ’60<br />
Betty Quick Collin ’38<br />
Susan O’Halloran Constable ’82<br />
Erin Corbett ’02<br />
Paula Davison ’74<br />
Barbara Tarr Drauschke ’72<br />
Sandra “Lee” Drescher ’86MS<br />
Matthew Eidukinas ’98<br />
Bonnie Simon Grossman ’55<br />
Gwynne Wiatrowski Guzzeau ’93MS<br />
Dana Brewer Hahn ’73<br />
Priscilla Chase Heindel ’47<br />
Elizabeth Gregg Horn ’62<br />
Betty Jane Jalley ’50*<br />
Kathy and Bob Jaunich<br />
Maureen Kelly ’88MS<br />
Lyn Peck Kenyon ’45/’69BS<br />
Elizabeth Wheeler L’Hommedieu ’54 and<br />
Paige L’Hommedieu<br />
Susan Marr ’83<br />
Beverly Tarr Mattatall ’72<br />
Lois Barnett Mirsky ’54<br />
Nancy Ware Morrow ’63<br />
Mila Moschella ’75<br />
Maryann Mylott O’Rourke ’60/’98MS<br />
Susanna Barbour Schenk ’92<br />
Joyce Day Sebian ’78MS<br />
Christine Kamp Seidman ’67MS<br />
Louis Torelli ’83MS<br />
In Honor of<br />
Priscilla Alden Hayes ‘62<br />
Mary Schubert Stearns ‘62<br />
Patricia Hogan<br />
Donna J. Amato<br />
Vivian Carr ‘94<br />
Yael Lenkinski ‘04MSW<br />
Beverly Sealey<br />
President Jackie Jenkins-Scott<br />
The Honorable Mark L. Wolf<br />
Susan Kosoff ‘65/’75MS<br />
Mary Schubert Stearns ‘62<br />
Elizabeth Wheeler L’Hommedieu ‘54<br />
Fred and Edwen Goldstein<br />
Kyla McSweeney ‘94/’97MS<br />
Lois Barnett Mirsky ‘54<br />
Dr. Sau-Fong Siu<br />
Alison L. Chan<br />
Kai Yuen Chan<br />
Anita L. Chow<br />
Huan-Hua Chye<br />
John Lam<br />
Kai Biu Lam<br />
C. C. Lee<br />
Peter Tin-Yau Poon<br />
Yan Kok So<br />
C. S. Wong<br />
Lai King Wong<br />
Elizabeth Bassett Wolf ‘54<br />
Julia Whiteside de Vos<br />
In Memory of<br />
Helen Richards Atwood ‘26<br />
Beth Atwood ‘57*<br />
Mary S. Bakes<br />
Jan Vary Kutten ‘63<br />
Janet Robbins Balch ‘40<br />
Norman B. Robbins<br />
Diane Schmelter Buhl ‘63<br />
Peter Buhl<br />
Hortense Burleigh<br />
Jessi R. MacLeod ‘64/’92MS<br />
Mary Schubert Stearns ‘62<br />
James Christmann<br />
Ann E. Christmann<br />
Mr. and Mrs. William H. Christmann<br />
Katharine Hosmer Connor ‘33<br />
Harvard Medical School<br />
Sylvia Dickey ‘58<br />
Arlene Keizer Lovenvirth ‘58<br />
Mary Marshall Feyler ‘34<br />
Karen Anderson<br />
Marjorie Bakken<br />
Marilyn Cole<br />
Elizabeth Cugini<br />
Dorothy Derick<br />
Barbara Eskridge<br />
Elizabeth Ferrara<br />
Barbara J. Feyler<br />
Janet Feyler<br />
Suzanne Fiske<br />
Carol Forgette<br />
Patricia J. Igoe<br />
Frances C. Ingram<br />
Stephen Laffey<br />
Freda Lehrer<br />
Lois McInerney<br />
Elizabeth Parrillo<br />
Nancy Pelletier<br />
Carol J. Poliziani<br />
Jean C. Robey<br />
Margaret Roque<br />
Suzanne Silva<br />
Barbara J. Smith<br />
Snug Harbor – East Matunuck Civic<br />
Association<br />
Hillary Blair Stanton Foulkes<br />
Donna LaRoche ‘79<br />
Cornelia Conyngham Romanowski ‘79<br />
Terri Weisberg Smith ‘79<br />
Jane Stuart Righter Froelicher ‘53<br />
Joanne Lilly Abbott ‘41<br />
Robert P. Bigelow<br />
Samantha Keller Gordon ‘94<br />
Elizabeth Goldentyer Roberts ‘93<br />
Harriet Faris Long ‘33<br />
Pamela Long<br />
Cynthia Longfellow<br />
Ann Longfellow<br />
Barbara S. Longfellow<br />
Barbara Burrows MacKinnon ‘52<br />
Herbert C. MacKinnon<br />
Phyllis Taylor Moore ‘58<br />
Laura Lehrman ‘58<br />
Barbara Stumpf Moses ‘58<br />
Marjorie Boudreau and Family<br />
Marcia Potter Crocker ‘58<br />
Karen Nassauer<br />
Elizabeth Sturtz Stern ‘58<br />
Donald Van Cleef<br />
Sharon Wulforst<br />
Janice Porosky Olins ‘33<br />
Marjorie Bakken<br />
Nancy Olins<br />
Susan Swap<br />
Polly McAllister<br />
Walter Swap<br />
Ruth Baker Ursul ‘60<br />
Janice Halsted Sussebach ‘60<br />
Janet Higginbotham Washburn ’42-‘43<br />
Seth H. Washburn<br />
Christine Hillers Williams ‘38<br />
Nancy H. Crosby<br />
Richard Williams<br />
Hans A. Wolf<br />
Charlotte W. Neinas<br />
Alumni<br />
Organizations<br />
The Alumni Association<br />
<strong>Wheelock</strong> Club of Greater Portland<br />
Organizations<br />
Citi Global Impact Funding Trust, Inc.<br />
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute<br />
Harvard Medical School<br />
Iron Workers District Council of<br />
New England<br />
National Association of Industrial and<br />
Office Properties<br />
One Family<br />
Orange County’s United Way<br />
The Roxbury Latin School<br />
Snug Harbor - East Matunuck Civic<br />
Association<br />
United Way of Rhode Island<br />
Passion for<br />
Action<br />
Anonymous (5)<br />
Abt Associates<br />
Admissions Advantage<br />
Alexander, Aronson, Finning & Co., P.C.<br />
Charles Ames<br />
Judith and Robert Anderson<br />
Barbara and Steve Anthony<br />
David B. Arnold<br />
Bank of New York Mellon<br />
Jeb Barnes<br />
Joan and Gary Bergstrom<br />
Lisa Biagetti<br />
Kathleen Kirk Bishop<br />
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts<br />
The Boston Foundation<br />
Sandy and Ted Bowers<br />
Susan Breed<br />
Rick and Nonnie Burnes<br />
Ellen and Peter Burnham<br />
Kathryn E. Cade<br />
Century Bank<br />
Gerald Chertavian<br />
Children’s Hospital Boston<br />
Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP<br />
Citizens Financial Group, Inc.<br />
Keena and Chris Clifford<br />
Maureen* and Ed Coakley<br />
Jeff and Catherine Coburn<br />
Consolidated Health Plans<br />
Tina and Harvey Crosby<br />
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute<br />
Ellen T. Dwinell<br />
Eduventures Inc.<br />
EMC Corporation<br />
John Kenneth Felter, Esq.<br />
Tim Ferguson<br />
Lucia Santini Field<br />
Harvey Fineberg<br />
Larry and Atsuko Fish<br />
Cordelia Flanagan<br />
Foley Hoag LLP<br />
Goldberg Family Foundation<br />
Goodwin Procter LLP<br />
Philip and Sandra Gordon<br />
Goulston & Storrs<br />
Grant Thornton LLP<br />
Beverly Green<br />
Eloise Greenfield<br />
Barbara and Steve Grossman<br />
Tina and Bill Helm<br />
Elizabeth Horner<br />
Iron Workers District Council of<br />
New England<br />
Kathy and Bob Jaunich<br />
Jackie Jenkins-Scott and Jim Scott<br />
Jenzabar Foundation<br />
John Hancock Financial Services<br />
Holly and Bruce Johnstone<br />
Michael J. Jolliffe<br />
Steven Karol<br />
Cameron Kerry<br />
Kirkwood Printing<br />
John F. Knutson<br />
Ted and Beedee Ladd<br />
Mary M. Lassen<br />
Lehman Brothers<br />
Mary K. Leonard<br />
Elizabeth and Paige L’Hommedieu<br />
Mary Lightfoot<br />
Robert A. Lincoln<br />
Shari Loessberg and Christopher Smart<br />
William A. Lowell, Esq.<br />
Maguire Associates, Inc.<br />
Marion F. Mandell-Jacobson<br />
Mazonson, LLC<br />
Lois and Irwin Mirsky<br />
J. Keith Motley<br />
Robin Mount<br />
National Association of Industrial<br />
and Office Properties<br />
New England Patriots<br />
Charitable Foundation<br />
Oldaker, Biden & Belair, LLP<br />
One Family<br />
O’Neill and Associates LLC<br />
Peter E. Opara<br />
Anthony Pangaro<br />
Thomas W. Payzant<br />
Kay Petersen<br />
Marianna C. Pierce<br />
Michael E. Porter<br />
Tom Powers<br />
Nancy Purinton<br />
Red Sox Foundation<br />
Paul Reville<br />
Adrianne Rogers<br />
The Roxbury Latin School<br />
Barbara and Robert Sallick<br />
Penelope Savitz<br />
Roy Schifilliti<br />
Susan Shaeffer<br />
Shawmut Design and Construction<br />
Albert Sherman<br />
Susan Simon<br />
Sau-Fong Siu and Yum-Tong Siu<br />
Sovereign Bank<br />
Helen B. Spaulding<br />
Anne Stetson and Mark Dibble<br />
TERI<br />
Daniel S. Terris<br />
Genie and Will Thorndike<br />
Lisa and Rex Thors<br />
Tufts Health Plan<br />
University Health Plans<br />
UPS<br />
Lucy and Tim Vaill<br />
The Wayland Group, Inc.<br />
William Rawn Associates, Architects, Inc.<br />
36 <strong>Fall</strong> <strong>2008</strong><br />
* Deceased
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 • <strong>2008</strong><br />
All Come Together<br />
At Pre-Commencement Dinner —<br />
Leading Friends and Supporters<br />
Those who become members of <strong>Wheelock</strong>’s<br />
Cornerstone Society or Heritage Society choose<br />
to improve the lives of children and families<br />
by making the <strong>College</strong> a philanthropic priority. We are<br />
very grateful for their commitment to <strong>Wheelock</strong>’s mission,<br />
and each year we all gather together to celebrate it at<br />
the <strong>College</strong>’s Pre-Commencement Dinner.<br />
We also invite those who will receive honorary degrees<br />
at Commencement the next day and present awards<br />
recognizing their compassionate contributions to society.<br />
At this year’s celebration, <strong>Wheelock</strong> recognized United<br />
States Senator John Kerry; The Honorable Yu-Foo Shoon,<br />
a lifelong advocate for the well-being of women and<br />
children in Singapore; and Kip Tiernan, the founder<br />
of Rosie’s Place and well-known advocate for social<br />
change, who spoke about her pride in becoming a<br />
member of the <strong>Wheelock</strong> family, “walking tall into the<br />
future and demanding that everyone get a fair shake.”<br />
“The journey to justice can only be<br />
made in the company of others.”<br />
— Kip Tiernan<br />
S ISTERS AND B ROTHERS,<br />
Thank you so very much<br />
for allowing me to be a part of your celebration! The students and graduates<br />
here will go on to help make people whole again, and you will indeed<br />
fulfill the legacy of Lucy <strong>Wheelock</strong>. . . . We will go on, you and I, to help<br />
people become whole again in an effort to find justice for everyone — not<br />
just the top 20 or 30 percent who have it all. Forty years ago, I jumped<br />
from advertising, marketing, and public relations, to human and humane<br />
needs. Forty years ago, I found a product I<br />
could believe in — the human spirit, and which<br />
I found is still dancing in the streets of this tragic<br />
theater of the dismissed.<br />
At Rosie’s Place, the first drop-in emergency<br />
shelter for women in the country and now 34<br />
years old, we do it one day at a time, one<br />
woman at a time, one dream at a time. And all<br />
the other places we started, we do it the same<br />
way. We have become nonprofit junkies, and we<br />
have served and helped thousands of the citizens<br />
of this area. And yet they would call us dogooders.<br />
We are not do-gooders, my friends, we are good-doers, as the<br />
students of <strong>Wheelock</strong> are and will become, because we are willing to<br />
devote our lives to the cause of justice for all of us, and that ain’t being<br />
do-gooders by a long shot.<br />
I am so very proud to become a member of the <strong>Wheelock</strong> family. You<br />
and I will walk tall and proudly into the future, demanding that everyone<br />
get a fair shake and what it means to be an American citizen. We are prisoners<br />
of hope, and remember this: The journey to justice can only be<br />
made in the company of others.<br />
When I think of <strong>Wheelock</strong> <strong>College</strong>, I think of two great quotes by one<br />
of my favorite authors, Albert Camus: “Justice — we must make it imaginable<br />
again!” And this one, “Do not walk before me—I may not<br />
follow. Do not walk behind me — I may not lead. Just walk beside me,<br />
and be my friend.” Thank you again for this fabulous day in my life!<br />
Honorary degree recipient The Honorable Mrs.Yu-Foo Yee Shoon<br />
(left) with Professor and Director of the Center for International<br />
Education, Leadership, and Innovation Joan Bergstrom<br />
L to R: Chair of the Board of Trustees Robert A. Lincoln, honorary<br />
degree recipient Kip Tiernan, President Jackie Jenkins-Scott, and<br />
Chair of the <strong>Wheelock</strong> Corporation Judy Parks Anderson ’62
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 • <strong>2008</strong><br />
All Come Together<br />
At Convocation <strong>2008</strong> —<br />
Students, Faculty, & Alumna, Marianne O’Grady ’94MS<br />
“To all the first-years:<br />
I welcome you to the family.”<br />
— Senior Shannon Ahern,<br />
Student Government president and<br />
four-time service volunteer to New Orleans<br />
Belief in the power of education<br />
and a cause greater than<br />
the individual self is what binds<br />
and motivates the <strong>Wheelock</strong><br />
community. Each fall, the spirit<br />
of new beginnings presides over<br />
Convocation, when students,<br />
faculty, and alumni gather to<br />
renew and share again the sense<br />
of purpose that has brought<br />
them to <strong>Wheelock</strong> out of all the<br />
possible institutions of higher<br />
education where they could<br />
work and study. The focus of<br />
Convocation is always the<br />
students — from first-years,<br />
who are officially transitioning<br />
into adult academic life to<br />
seniors, who will soon take all<br />
they have learned at <strong>Wheelock</strong><br />
and apply it in a world that<br />
sorely needs their talents and<br />
their service.<br />
Teach a Teacher and You Reach<br />
Thousands of Children —<br />
Marianne O’Grady ’94MS in<br />
Afghanistan<br />
Flying halfway around the world from<br />
Afghanistan to <strong>Wheelock</strong> via San Francisco<br />
to be this year’s Convocation keynote<br />
speaker, Marianne O’Grady ’94MS<br />
demonstrates the special passion that inspires<br />
<strong>Wheelock</strong> students and alumni to do great things.<br />
Her talk about her career as a Friends School educator<br />
and her volunteer work helping teachers in<br />
Afghanistan rebuild their broken education system<br />
left no doubt that she is a remarkable individual<br />
and yet, as she insisted several times over,<br />
not exceptional, not so special — if you believe as<br />
she does that many do, and everyone can do, their<br />
best to make the world a better place.<br />
For the past four summers, Marianne has<br />
volunteered to bring new inquiry-based science<br />
and hands-on teaching and learning to remote<br />
and often dangerous areas of Afghanistan. “Since<br />
the fall of the Taliban, 6 million children have<br />
come back to school, and half are girls, but it is<br />
one step forward and eight back,” she told students,<br />
faculty, and staff who filled the Lucy <strong>Wheelock</strong><br />
Auditorium at Convocation.<br />
A shortage of teachers is one major barrier to<br />
providing good education programs for Afghan children.<br />
“There are not enough teachers because during<br />
the Taliban years no one was in school and there was<br />
no need for them,” Marianne explained. “Now,<br />
there are 100 or sometimes 150 students for every<br />
teacher, the classrooms are outdated, sometimes they<br />
are only tents, and there are no teaching tools. Some<br />
teachers have come back out of their love for teaching,<br />
while others are good students who have moved<br />
up — the top student in the 10th grade graduates<br />
and becomes the next year’s 10th-grade teacher.”<br />
When Marianne makes the 36-hour journey<br />
from San Francisco to Kabul, she brings math and<br />
science teaching materials with her, 16 containers of<br />
microscopes, hand lenses, anatomy charts, textbooks,<br />
rulers, protractors, test tubes, and other basic<br />
classroom supplies. Her students are teachers themselves<br />
who work three-hour morning shifts in their<br />
own classrooms and then walk 20 kilometers to<br />
learn the science methodology and hands-on education<br />
practices Marianne has come to teach them.<br />
She brings out her container materials and shows<br />
how to teach science with tools as simple as string,<br />
water, rocks, and nails. “You can teach about inertia<br />
and pendulums with these things,” she said. “The<br />
teachers leave my class and walk back to their own<br />
classrooms, and they are crying because now they<br />
have tools and a way to teach basic physics.”<br />
Marianne has worked in several areas of<br />
Afghanistan and spent last summer in an eastern<br />
Afghanistan war zone where she received death<br />
threats because of her presence. “But the Afghan<br />
people are the most wonderful people in the<br />
38 <strong>Fall</strong> <strong>2008</strong>
MARIANNE O’GRADY ’94MS<br />
“I just do a little bit but so do others, like a drop in a bucket, and the bucket<br />
gets fuller. I believe everyone should put their drops in the bucket.”<br />
AQuaker and Friends educator, Marianne has spent 18 years as an East Coast/West<br />
Coast second-grade teacher, first at Cambridge Friends School and then at Marin<br />
Country Day School and San Francisco Friends School. As a lifelong learner cum<br />
laude, she has trained at The Writing Project at Columbia University; Project Zero at<br />
Harvard University; the Schools Attuned program, which focuses on differing learning<br />
styles; NASA’s elementary educators program in aeronautics, engineering, and technology;<br />
and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution marine biology workshop. Her particular<br />
passion for teaching math and science has been recognized with a Presidential Award for<br />
Excellence in Math and Science Teaching, a Christa McAuliffe Teaching Grant, and a<br />
Fulbright Memorial Fund Grant to study and travel in Japan. During the academic year,<br />
Marianne trains teachers to teach math and science at the University of San Francisco<br />
Graduate School of Education and at the Bay Area Teacher Training Institute.<br />
world,” she said. “They want their children to go<br />
to school and to have books. They want their lives<br />
to be healthy and happy, and they want to have a<br />
good family life. They are very respectful and<br />
grateful for what I can bring them; they took good<br />
care of me and kept me safe.”<br />
And they are eager, open learners. One reason<br />
some Afghan girls are not educated, Marianne<br />
explained, is because of an ingrained belief about<br />
women: Because women are physically smaller<br />
than men, their brains are only half the size of<br />
men’s; thus they cannot learn well and there is no<br />
“Using donations,<br />
we bought, brought,<br />
and taught. A $2<br />
magnifying glass can<br />
change a science<br />
teacher and a<br />
budding science<br />
student’s life.”<br />
“Training and supporting teachers<br />
means better education for that<br />
many more children.”<br />
point in schooling them. When Marianne explains<br />
the science of the brain and anatomy, the evidence<br />
of research on the subject, and the indisputable fact<br />
that many women geniuses exist, it is a wellreceived<br />
revelation.<br />
Marianne said that people ask her why she does<br />
this kind of volunteer work, and she explained her<br />
family background of social service and her drop-inthe-bucket<br />
philosophy. “It takes the world to make<br />
the world a better place,” she said. “I just do a little<br />
bit but so do others, like a drop in a bucket, and the<br />
bucket gets fuller. I believe everyone should put their<br />
drops in the bucket.”<br />
When Marianne talks about her work as a second-grade<br />
teacher, as a teacher of teachers, and as a<br />
volunteer bringing science to the most remote parts<br />
of the world, there is no missing her energy and anything-is-possible<br />
attitude. Four years ago, she made<br />
her first visit to Afghanistan, and now she is working<br />
with the Afghan minister of education to try to<br />
develop a national kindergarten program.<br />
“We all need to find our passion and put our<br />
drop in the bucket,” Marianne told the students at<br />
Convocation. “Making the world a better place, caring<br />
about children and families — you have the<br />
opportunity to do this too. I was hired for a job in<br />
California because they knew I came from this college<br />
and they knew <strong>Wheelock</strong>’s mission.<br />
“Listen to your heart. If you feel you can help<br />
one person or 100 or 5,000 — do it. That’s your<br />
job. That’s what you are supposed to do.”<br />
<strong>Wheelock</strong> Magazine 39
★ Congratulations to the Class of 1968 on winning<br />
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 • <strong>2008</strong><br />
All Come Together<br />
At Reunion <strong>2008</strong> —<br />
Across the Generations, One Community<br />
<strong>Wheelock</strong> alumni spend their educations well. Achievement,<br />
service, and creativity characterize the individual stories<br />
shared when alumni come back to campus for Reunion, no<br />
matter what year they graduated. They phone classmates,<br />
make flight plans, calculate gas mileage (ouch!), and head to <strong>Wheelock</strong> for fun,<br />
to see what’s new, and to reconnect with the spirit of the place that helped them<br />
grow into who they have become, so far.<br />
Throughout the weekend, woven through the fun everyone is having,<br />
there is the understanding that what is shared is more than memories and<br />
more than place. Everyone knows that two graduates from classes decades apart can meet<br />
anywhere and start up the <strong>Wheelock</strong> mission conversation without hesitation. <strong>Wheelock</strong><br />
alumni speak the same language, are on the same page, understand why children and<br />
families should come first and not last in society’s view of what is important.<br />
The winners of the <strong>2008</strong> Reunion “Making a Difference” Service Award are good<br />
examples. Forty years separate the graduation years of Peggy Ann Benisch Anderson ’53<br />
and Alicia Esparo ’93, but they both personify the <strong>Wheelock</strong> mission. Peggy has imprinted<br />
her “<strong>Wheelock</strong> way” for decades on her community and family business as much as on the<br />
elementary classrooms where she has taught. Alicia, who teaches in an integrated preschool<br />
classroom, is a strong advocate who has helped build the Norfolk, VA, integrated preschool<br />
program to exceptionally high standards.<br />
Congratulations, Peggy and Alicia, and to all <strong>Wheelock</strong> alumni who are also out there<br />
making the world not just different but better.<br />
“<strong>Wheelock</strong> gave me what I needed as I made my way as a parent<br />
and in my career. And so I go back to my roots and I give back.”<br />
— Sally Clark Sloop ’68<br />
Alumni Give Back in Many Ways<br />
★ Diep Nguyen ’98/’02MS and Matthew<br />
Eidukinas ’98, two young alumni who received the<br />
Lucy <strong>Wheelock</strong> Award this year based on their<br />
individual service to the <strong>College</strong> and to the Alumni<br />
Association, demonstrate that <strong>Wheelock</strong> alumni give<br />
back generously in many different ways.<br />
the Dr. Frances Graves Prize for raising $320,770,<br />
the largest class gift this year.<br />
★ Ditto Class of 1958 on receiving the Gertrude<br />
Abbihl Prize with 39 percent class attendance<br />
at the Reunion luncheon AND the Beulah Angell<br />
Wetherbee Prize with 81 percent of the class<br />
donating to the Annual Fund this year.<br />
60 th Reunion<br />
★ A HUGE thank-you to all Reunion classes for<br />
your total Annual Fund Gift of more than a<br />
half million dollars — $504,859 to be precise!<br />
40 <strong>Fall</strong> <strong>2008</strong>
This <strong>Wheelock</strong> Magazine includes<br />
Class Notes news that was received<br />
before June 30, <strong>2008</strong>.<br />
1930<br />
Congratulations to<br />
Jeanette Gardner Langlois<br />
on celebrating your<br />
100th birthday on July 10!<br />
AT REUNION (L to R): Sisters-in-law Sherri<br />
Ades Falchuck ’68 and Ruth Fink Ades ’53,<br />
and President Jackie Jenkins-Scott<br />
CLASS NOTES<br />
1934<br />
Reunion 2009<br />
May 29-31<br />
1936<br />
Barbara Robinson Brahms<br />
Rebecca Berry Cramer sent greetings from her<br />
retirement facility in San Diego, where she has<br />
lived for 20 years. A couple of years ago she<br />
moved into its assisted-living section. “Age-related<br />
problems such as limited vision, needing a sturdy<br />
cane when walking, and such are here; otherwise,<br />
all is OK,” she wrote. “Glad to still have my name<br />
on our class list — one of the survivors!” Mildred<br />
Griffith Kohler enjoys being waited on and<br />
going to activities at her Palm Beach Gardens, FL,<br />
retirement community. She is still driving and<br />
plays bridge. Elinor Livingston Sirinek’s assisted-living<br />
facility is in West Chester, PA, and she<br />
invites anyone in the area to call her. She has four<br />
sons, two stepsons, seven grandchildren, and two<br />
great-grandchildren.<br />
1939<br />
1941<br />
Lucy Parton Miller<br />
Reunion 2009<br />
May 29-31<br />
Hello, dear Classmates of ’41. We’re at or nearing<br />
our 90th birthdays. Congratulations to all!<br />
I (Lucy) had a good phone call with Joanne<br />
Lilly Abbott, my special friend who was maid of<br />
honor in our wedding. She is still enjoying life in<br />
Parkplace, a Denver retirement home. She drives<br />
but avoids the highways, and she often takes short<br />
trips in the area arranged by Parkplace. She has<br />
special times with her busy families living around<br />
Denver, and she still plays bridge and takes walks.<br />
“A physical trainer helps keep me going,” she says.<br />
Jean Tilton Melby shared warm memories of<br />
classroom visits from Miss <strong>Wheelock</strong>. She would<br />
drop by to say “hello,” Jean wrote, and would say<br />
how proud she was of her school and its students.<br />
What a long way <strong>Wheelock</strong> has come in furthering<br />
its founder’s dreams of opening opportunities<br />
of learning for young children! Jean is happily<br />
active with her family and close friends in Port St.<br />
Lucie, FL. As with all of us, she says, “The engine<br />
is slowing down a bit.”<br />
H. Louise Jones Miller wrote that she is still<br />
busy with a simpler but interesting life in a lovely<br />
retirement home and church in Cheshire, CT.<br />
She was looking forward to going to a grandson’s<br />
graduation in Montana. Her daughter and family<br />
love living in that beautiful part of the country.<br />
Louise and her <strong>Wheelock</strong> roommate, Barbara<br />
George Bean, still keep in touch. She gratefully<br />
wrote, “<strong>Wheelock</strong> started me on my path to a<br />
career which I loved.”<br />
We were pleased to hear from Dorothea<br />
Ramsay Rutter, who has moved to an independent<br />
apartment complex with family nearby. She<br />
“had a few glitches this past year,” but in the spring<br />
was back, gratefully, to part-time work. Dottie is<br />
happy to keep in touch with Jean Allison Taylor<br />
and Betty Beebe McCleary. She adds at the end,<br />
“Grandmothering has to be the best.”<br />
Laymon and I (Lucy) recently celebrated our<br />
65th anniversary. Our three children were present,<br />
along with our first great-grandson and his mom,<br />
plus several special friends.<br />
In early December, we were invited to New<br />
Orleans, accompanied by our daughter, to attend<br />
a gold medal award presentation to Laymon for<br />
his outstanding work in acoustics. It was a<br />
thrilling affair from beginning to end.<br />
Laymon and I have five great-grandchildren<br />
ranging in age from 2 years to 2 days (at the time<br />
of this writing). We plan to see four of them this<br />
summer; the fifth is in Minnesota. I am still<br />
involved with three volunteer jobs at the nursing<br />
home on campus; I enjoy my contacts with<br />
patients and staff.<br />
We send our best wishes to all of our class<br />
who may be seeing this.<br />
1943-’44<br />
Jean Sullivan Riley<br />
The Alumni Office received a message from<br />
Ann Dolan. She lives at Mt. Vernon House in<br />
Winchester, MA. She wears braces on her legs,<br />
but we are sure that they don’t hinder her good<br />
spirit. She said she “loved every minute of<br />
<strong>Wheelock</strong>.” Eva Hoel Lion wrote: “I wish I<br />
could be there for the 65th Reunion — but I am<br />
also very happy that Felix and I will be enjoying<br />
the celebration of our 65th wedding anniversary<br />
up here in beautiful B.C. Canada. Soon after that<br />
we are pleased to have the company of our only<br />
grandson and his partner. He requested the visit<br />
so he can show her the house that he wrote about<br />
at age 9 (The Best House and Garden for Kids in<br />
the World!). A great compliment.” Sally Keating<br />
Walsh sent us her news from Buffalo: “God willing,<br />
Jack and I will be celebrating 65 years of<br />
married life together on July 3, <strong>2008</strong>. Our blessings<br />
are too numerous to count. Good health,<br />
four happily married children, 10 grandchildren,<br />
and two great-grands keep us recycled and give us<br />
<strong>Wheelock</strong> Magazine 41
CLASS NOTES<br />
An Active <strong>Wheelock</strong> Leader Throughout Her Life<br />
Katharine Lewars (duPont) Weymouth ’42<br />
<strong>Wheelock</strong>’s wonderful alumna and dedicated contributor<br />
to many <strong>College</strong> initiatives as a trustee and corporator<br />
Katharine Lewars (duPont) Weymouth passed away peacefully<br />
on Aug. 22, at her summer home in Fishers Island, NY. She was<br />
87 years old.<br />
Kathie graduated from <strong>Wheelock</strong> in 1942 and continued her<br />
active connection to the <strong>College</strong> throughout her lifetime. She was<br />
a committed member of the board of trustees for 30 years and,<br />
later, an honorary trustee, in addition to being a member of the<br />
Corporation and participant on the Development, Educational<br />
Policy, and Physical Facilities committees. She received an honorary<br />
degree from <strong>Wheelock</strong> in 1988, was a vigorous fundraiser<br />
for <strong>Wheelock</strong>, and, as a member of the Heritage Society, generously<br />
provided for the future of the <strong>College</strong>.<br />
Everyone who met Kathie enjoyed her wonderful sense of<br />
humor, and she possessed an open-hearted spirit that won her<br />
the respect and love of people not only at <strong>Wheelock</strong>, but also in other spheres of her life — as a president of<br />
Planned Parenthood of Delaware; a member of the board of directors of Christiana Care Inc.; and a leader and<br />
mentor at cultural, medical, historical, and educational organizations where she lived in Greenville, DE; Boca<br />
Grande, FL; and Fishers Island.<br />
Kathie began a family tradition of <strong>Wheelock</strong> attendance that extended to her daughter Katharine “Kandi”<br />
duPont Sanger ’66; her granddaughter, Kyley Lyon ’05; and her niece, Patricia “Patty” Lewars Lucy ’66. The widow<br />
of State Sen. Reynolds duPont of Greenville, DE, and Fishers Island, FL, and also the widow of George T. Weymouth<br />
of Greenville, DE, and Boca Grande, FL, Kathie was part of a wonderfully large family including two daughters and<br />
three sons and their families, her sister and brother and their families, and many grandchildren, great-grandchildren,<br />
nieces, nephews, and godchildren.<br />
love and support far beyond what we deserve. Two<br />
wars in which Jack served, and far too many since,<br />
make me realize more every day of my life how<br />
useless, devastating, and utterly ridiculous war is.<br />
Our world must find a way to negotiate peace<br />
without killing each other’s children.”<br />
Jane Cooper Wyman is “fine and [keeps]<br />
truckin.’” Once a month she plays the piano for<br />
a sing-along with the residents of the Leland<br />
House in Waltham, MA. “We do all the old gay<br />
’90s songs,” she wrote. “One lady gave me this<br />
second verse for ‘Bicycle Built for Two’: ‘Michael,<br />
Michael, this is my answer dear. I can’t cycle — it<br />
makes me feel so queer. If you can’t afford a carriage,<br />
there won’t be any marriage. ’Cause I’ll be<br />
damned if I’ll be jammed on a bicycle built for<br />
two!’ A recent interesting experience was an invitation<br />
to read a poem I wrote on NEW TV (they<br />
produce programs for senior citizens). A special<br />
‘Hello’ to my classmates of long ago. I hope you,<br />
too, are able to ignore the creakiness that invades<br />
our bones. Hang in there!”<br />
Alma and I (Jean) have been your scribes<br />
for many years. Sadly, I report to you that she<br />
passed away peacefully in May with her family<br />
at her bedside. I shall miss her cheerful cards<br />
and friendly input as we gathered together your<br />
Class Notes news.<br />
I am doing well. My bridge game is a little better,<br />
and I am having fun with my quilting friends.<br />
We are making donation quilts for “Quilts for<br />
Kids.” My family gathered in Philadelphia for a<br />
weekend to celebrate my 85th. We had great<br />
times — ages 3 to 85. Keep happy.<br />
1946<br />
Cordelia Abendroth Flanagan<br />
Dorothy Spencer Chaudoin keeps busy at home<br />
and being with friends. Her daughter and grandson<br />
live nearby and visit often. Medora Wilson<br />
Douden visited Russia with a daughter and granddaughter.<br />
Her oldest daughter is a Rhodes scholar at<br />
Oxford. She enjoys bridge in the winter and golf in<br />
the summer. Rosamond Holt Haley is trying to<br />
grow old gracefully (aren’t we all?). She has happy<br />
memories of <strong>Wheelock</strong> and misses her class friends.<br />
Edie Maltz Miller has been president of her<br />
condo board 10 times. Her friend, our classmate<br />
Alma Nathanson Solar, lives at the same condo.<br />
Louise Vialle lives in Maine and works on church<br />
committees. She spoke with Ginny Martin<br />
Barton’s husband briefly after Ginny’s death. She<br />
hears from Shirley Mann Creesy.<br />
I (Cordelia/“Crow”) am living in a nice retirement<br />
community near Albany and near a daughter<br />
and son-in-law and a granddaughter and grandsonin-law.<br />
I speak with Jacey Clapp Donaldson, who<br />
lives in West Columbia, SC, and Naples. I also talk to<br />
Martha Allen Farwell, who lives in Edgartown and<br />
Needham, MA, and sometimes in Florida. Louise<br />
Allen Hammond calls once or twice a year. Please,<br />
any of you, send any news to the <strong>College</strong> or me.<br />
1948<br />
Carol Moore<br />
Janet Gall Leonard wrote to share about a book<br />
her daughter, Anne Nolen ’95MS, has co-written<br />
that she thinks would be of interest to recent grads<br />
who are new mothers. Mothers Need Time-Outs,<br />
Too, published by McGraw-Hill, is available on<br />
Amazon.com and at Barnes & Noble and Wellesley<br />
(MA) Booksmith.<br />
1949<br />
Anne Mulholland Heger<br />
1951<br />
Reunion 2009<br />
May 29-31<br />
Louise Butts<br />
Greetings to the Class of ’51. I (Louise) am sure<br />
there are many of you out there, and hopefully you<br />
are all so busy you did not have time to respond to<br />
the March request for news. There were only two<br />
bits of news sent to Lori Ann Saslav. We were glad<br />
to hear from Jane Steele Milchen ’51/’69MS,<br />
who lives in Nashua, NH. Jane is busy with grandchildren<br />
in or graduating from college, enjoying<br />
great-grandchildren, plus caring for loved ones. Jane<br />
keeps active playing tennis and sees Sally McKey<br />
Pieksen there also. Sad news from Beverly<br />
Boardman Brekke-Bailey, whose granddaughter<br />
has been diagnosed with Hodgkin’s disease. She is<br />
the daughter of Beverly’s son, Kris, who was lost to<br />
cancer in 2006.<br />
We are all reaching that age when the loss of<br />
loved ones, colleagues, and friends requires us to<br />
face new challenges, to adjust and adapt to new<br />
schedules and events. But our years at <strong>Wheelock</strong><br />
prepared us well. Just stop and think about the<br />
impact on education we all have had since 1951 . . .<br />
that’s 57 years . . . so carry on . . . stay in touch . . .<br />
and look forward to our 60th Reunion in 2011.<br />
Last year’s Class Notes reported that Jane Ann<br />
“Ginger” Hartzell Knebel and husband George<br />
had moved to Columbia, SC, so that they could be<br />
42 <strong>Fall</strong> <strong>2008</strong>
CLASS NOTES<br />
Front row (seated) L-R - Betty Quick Collin ’38, Jim Scott, Carol Moore ’48; back row (standing) President Jenkins-Scott (second from right) with<br />
’48ers L-R Faith Webster Peak,Kay Crosby Nasser,Ruth Chickering Wheeler-McKay,Edith Hall Huck,Marylin Quint-Rose ...celebrating Reunion<br />
<strong>2008</strong> with a Saturday dinner at the Garden Café on the Brookline Campus<br />
closer to family. News has been received that Ginger<br />
passed away in May. For all who lived at Carlton<br />
House, as well as all her colleagues, we send special<br />
thoughts to George and their family.<br />
1952<br />
Martha Brown McGandy<br />
When I (Martha) took on the job as class scribe, I’d<br />
no idea what fun it would be hearing from all of<br />
you! What a fantastic response. Thank you all so<br />
very much for all your news. What a vibrant group<br />
we are! I feel lucky to have my five children, their<br />
spouses, and six grandchildren (all boys) in New<br />
England. We see each other often. I am still teaching<br />
once in a while at MassBay Community <strong>College</strong><br />
and also volunteer (4-year-olds) at the Page School<br />
at Wellesley <strong>College</strong> (now called the Wellesley Child<br />
Study Center). I stay busy with church work and<br />
sing in the choir and take care of the youngest of<br />
the grandchildren. I see Kitty Brown and try to<br />
stay in touch with Jean Ingalls Perkins, who is in<br />
Pittsburgh in a retirement home. Jean spends summers<br />
in Chatham, MA. She’s written some great stories<br />
which I wish she would publish! Her youngest<br />
child, Tristram, recently got married. Two of her<br />
children live nearby, and she has eight grandchildren.<br />
Kitty Hodgdon Brown is still enjoying<br />
Maine, though last winter was a challenge! Traveling<br />
to visit her sons in Vermont, Minnesota, Wyoming,<br />
and Maine is a part of life. She attends “Senior<br />
<strong>College</strong>” classes, belongs to a book club, and volunteers<br />
at a local hospital. Kitty also enjoys her garden,<br />
friends, and especially baby-sitting her “quite grownup”<br />
grandchildren.<br />
“Spring weather is beautiful in Florida!”<br />
Nancy Walker Driscoll wrote. “I have lived<br />
here 20 years and never regretted the choice for<br />
retirement. My husband, Tim, died of a heart<br />
attack on March 12. We were married 54 years.<br />
I feel blessed to have so many happy years with<br />
Tim and our four children and five grandchildren.”<br />
Nancy attended her grandson’s high<br />
school graduation in Dallas and was planning to<br />
visit Maine and New Hampshire over the summer.<br />
Alan and Patty Davis Ferguson’s daughter<br />
Laura adopted Ara, now 3, from China last<br />
March, and they are enjoying her and were hoping<br />
to see a lot of them this summer. Pat<br />
Conzelman Greeley ’52/’90MS and husband<br />
Tony had a delightful lunch with Patty Wolcott<br />
Berger at the Sudbury (MA) Wayside Inn in<br />
March. Patty was recovering well from cataract<br />
surgery. In April, Pat wrote: “Tony and I have<br />
had our challenges this winter — two surgeries<br />
for me and a seizure causing Tony to total his<br />
Ford Taurus, which resulted in only minor<br />
injuries. We feel VERY fortunate that he’s OK.”<br />
Anne DeLamater Hansen and husband John<br />
continue with their regular activities and interests.<br />
Anne went to help celebrate Marianne’s<br />
50th in September 2007 and enjoyed seeing<br />
Bryn Mawr, where Marianne works. Daughter<br />
Sue’s husband took his first trip to Boston (from<br />
North Carolina) in the spring, and Anne was<br />
glad to hear from him that Durgin Park is still<br />
thriving. She is still in touch with many<br />
<strong>Wheelock</strong> — especially Riverway — friends and<br />
misses her roommate, Laura. “I was thinking of<br />
our trip to the circus the other day, Martha,”<br />
Anne wrote. “That was a good Easter vacation.”<br />
“Surprise of surprises — my local high school<br />
class of ’48 elected me chairperson of its 60th<br />
reunion,” Connie Krull Hutt wrote. “Such fun!”<br />
Connie’s days are filled with music: She continues to<br />
sing with three groups. In October, she completed<br />
24 years as coordinator of the Prayer Line at her and<br />
husband Earl’s church. They are thankful to the<br />
Lord for continued good health and were hoping to<br />
take a two-week tour of Italy in late summer.<br />
Connie also shared: “After 77 years of a blessed relationship<br />
with a very special mom, I grieved her passing<br />
while at the same time celebrated her life [in<br />
October 2007]. She was 102.” Libby Hutchins<br />
Meek sent the good news that granddaughter Katie<br />
journeyed from Idaho to Boston a few months back<br />
to join the first-year class at <strong>Wheelock</strong>! Ann Harvie<br />
Ormond wrote, “My daughter and 7-year-old son<br />
live with me — fun but quite challenging. Same<br />
house, same school, and just as much activity!”<br />
In the spring, Mary Major Rubel and her husband<br />
were looking forward to a visit from Karin<br />
Stuth Armbrecht’s family. Karin died five years<br />
ago. “It will be fun to show them about Boston,”<br />
Mary wrote. Barbara Seif wrote that her college<br />
roommate, Mary MacKay Marcus, died in 2007<br />
of Alzheimer’s and pancreatic cancer. Barbara has<br />
retired from her job as a librarian in a Madison,<br />
WI, public school.<br />
Both Edith Winter Sperber and husband Bob<br />
are Brookline, MA, Town Meeting members and<br />
serve on a variety of committees. Edith is still a<br />
Brookline library trustee and has enjoyed that role.<br />
She also serves on the Temple Israel early education<br />
preschool, which she helped to establish. “For<br />
<strong>Wheelock</strong>, I chair the Marge Wolf Endowment<br />
Fund Grant Committee,” she wrote. “We have had<br />
some excellent proposals.” In addition, Edith and<br />
Bob are very involved with their seven grandchildren.<br />
Joan Smith Walter went on a fascinating<br />
land and water tour in Russia between St. Petersburg<br />
and Moscow in the fall of 2007. Betsy Luckey<br />
Whittelsey stays very busy with Garden Club,<br />
Habitat, and the Zoning Appeals Board of Mt.<br />
Lake Park, MD, along with a 2-year-old rescued<br />
poodle. “We go to doggie school to learn how to be<br />
well-mannered!” she wrote. She was looking forward<br />
to having her children and grandchildren help<br />
her celebrate her 80th birthday.<br />
1953<br />
Ruth Flink Ades<br />
It was a fun time for 10 of us who participated in<br />
our 55th <strong>Wheelock</strong> Reunion this past spring! It was<br />
sooo good to see everyone.<br />
We had our short class meeting where<br />
Winnie Magee Williams gave each of us a<br />
beautiful and colorful hand-painted silk scarf<br />
which we all put on immediately. We decided<br />
that our class would act as a “team” in making<br />
decisions, and the first and only decision we<br />
made at this time was to have a small class dues<br />
of $50 which each of us gave to our “leader,”<br />
Winnie, for her to use whenever necessary for the<br />
good of our class. Two young people from the<br />
Class of 1978 joined us while waiting for others<br />
to join them. They had hoped to “gain some wisdom”<br />
from us. We began to share 55-year-old<br />
memories, which were hysterical. I (Ruth) am<br />
not sure they learned much wisdom from us, but<br />
it was lots of fun.<br />
How wonderful it was for me to enjoy this day<br />
with my sister-in-law, Sherri Ades Falchuk ’68,<br />
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and my daughter, Andrea Ades Woolner ’83.<br />
We had our pictures taken with President Jenkins-<br />
Scott before the Processional. I believe we were the<br />
only family present with three classes represented.<br />
Carrying class banners, we were accompanied by a<br />
bagpiper as we walked around the school campus<br />
to the Lucy <strong>Wheelock</strong> Auditorium. We assembled<br />
in the auditorium by class and enjoyed a program<br />
including awards and a great <strong>Wheelock</strong> video of<br />
modern life at our <strong>College</strong>. President Jackie spoke<br />
to us eloquently with great love and passion for<br />
the <strong>College</strong> and the great work we are doing<br />
throughout the world in helping families to have a<br />
better life through <strong>Wheelock</strong>’s caring and able students<br />
and graduates. Jackie referred to former<br />
Archbishop Desmond Tutu, who visited <strong>Wheelock</strong><br />
last year and spoke to the <strong>College</strong> with his philosophy<br />
of ubuntu. She quoted him by saying, “I<br />
need you to be all that you can be, so that I can be<br />
all that I can be.” She continued to say, “We want<br />
each of you to reach your full potential, so that I<br />
can reach mine.” A great applause followed.<br />
As for our class, we all were very proud when<br />
Peggy Ann Benisch Anderson received one of<br />
the “Making a Difference” Service Awards, for her<br />
untiring effort to reach our class members along<br />
with all the work she does for our <strong>College</strong>.<br />
Congratulations once again, Peggy Ann!<br />
The afternoon for us was completed with a<br />
Reunion luncheon held in the foyer of the Activities<br />
Building since a new building is being constructed<br />
outside of our Classroom Building. Some of our<br />
classmates and husbands had attended Pops on<br />
Friday evening and the class dinner on Saturday<br />
evening in <strong>Wheelock</strong>’s Larsen Alumni Room.<br />
<strong>Wheelock</strong> is a very exciting place to visit if ever<br />
any of you are in the Boston area. Do make a visit.<br />
It will make you feel very proud to see our <strong>College</strong><br />
developing physically, as well as intellectually, in the<br />
year <strong>2008</strong> — 55 years after we graduated!<br />
We passed on the news of the death of Peggy<br />
Ann Benisch Anderson’s husband, Carl, in our<br />
last issue. Later in the spring, Peggy Ann wrote, “He<br />
was planning to attend my 55th Reunion with me<br />
but was there in spirit. He thought a great deal of<br />
our school.” At the time, she was still “climbing out<br />
of paperwork with lawyers and accountants” but also<br />
wrote of enjoying her usual church work and some<br />
work related to having been recently elected to the<br />
Commission for the Aging in Weston, MA.<br />
Priscilla Buckingham Banghart had already<br />
spent three months away from home when Reunion<br />
time came up, so she couldn’t get away again, but<br />
she thought and reminisced about classmates that<br />
weekend. “My memories of our 50th Reunion<br />
motivated my desire to repeat the experience,” she<br />
wrote. “It was such an extraordinary experience to<br />
remeet these beautiful women, my former classmates,<br />
most of whom have touched the lives of children<br />
in some extraordinarily personal way. Thank<br />
you, <strong>Wheelock</strong>!” Priscilla continues to find joy<br />
working with children, in her case in a school system<br />
“struggling to shed its far-below-average academic<br />
status.” These days, instead of taking travel tours and<br />
European river cruises, she and husband Bruce go<br />
on mission trips to benefit Habitat for Humanity,<br />
and they have now gone on “builds” in Louisiana,<br />
Florida, South Carolina, and Mexico.<br />
“We are still laughing over past and present<br />
exploits,” Joan Halloran Corning wrote of her<br />
and former roommate Rita Martin McKenna’s<br />
desire to attend Reunion <strong>2008</strong> but inability to do<br />
so (calendar conflicts for both of them). Joan is<br />
enjoying two book groups and local “Meet the<br />
Author” monthly meetings. Ann Bevins Jewett<br />
thoughtfully checked in with the Alumni Relations<br />
Office shortly before Reunion. She is sorry that her<br />
terrible arthritis prevents her from coming to<br />
Reunions or writing to old <strong>Wheelock</strong> friends anymore,<br />
but she thinks of the <strong>College</strong> and her classmates<br />
often, she said, and keeps in touch with a<br />
few by phone. She enjoys life on the water in<br />
Westport, CT, attending meetings, doing things in<br />
the community, and seeing family. She welcomes<br />
visitors. Regina Daly Lundstrom and husband<br />
Bob are happy to be “finally settled” in Madison,<br />
WI, where they find the area lovely and have been<br />
made very welcome. They are enjoying being closer<br />
to their children and grandchildren in the Chicago<br />
area, but they admit that they miss Cape Cod and<br />
people there and hope to go back to visit soon.<br />
“I still have all my hair and teeth and most of my<br />
mind,” Polly Roberts Mahoney wrote. She spends<br />
most of the year living in Hamilton, NY — on the<br />
third hole of the Colgate University Seven Oaks Golf<br />
Club, so she plays lots of golf — but then as winter<br />
approaches takes off for Venice, FL. She has three<br />
grandchildren. Antoinette Johnson Ogden wrote:<br />
“The last couple of years have seen quite a few<br />
changes. Len has been diagnosed with cancer of the<br />
esophagus, and my eyesight and walking problems<br />
have not improved. Now the brighter side: Son Tom,<br />
who lost his wife to cancer four years ago, remarried<br />
a lovely girl last year; our Karen was married two<br />
years ago; and Tom’s daughter was married two<br />
weeks ago. We now have a 14-month-old baby with<br />
our 13th grandchild on the way. Daughter Sue continues<br />
to fight cancer after 17 years.”<br />
Libby Gerow Peterson will be the new 1953<br />
scribe. Thank you, Libby!<br />
1954<br />
Reunion 2009<br />
May 29-31<br />
Lois Barnett Mirsky<br />
Elizabeth Bassett Wolf<br />
Eileen O’Connell McCabe from Caldwell, NJ,<br />
had a cochlear implant procedure in July. It needed<br />
to be rescheduled because of emergency hip surgery<br />
in winter ’08. I (Chippy) had a brief phone<br />
conversation with Beverly Bell Cibbarelli from<br />
Keswick, VA, in the spring. It was wonderful to<br />
hear how she bravely manages her lung cancer,<br />
which now involves her hip, causing pain in her<br />
leg. A new chemo pill seems to be helping. We<br />
especially keep in our loving thoughts those class<br />
members who find that living day by day is their<br />
focus. Paige and Nicky Wheeler L’Hommedieu<br />
of Convent Station, NJ, celebrated their 50th<br />
anniversary on June 21.<br />
See you at our 55th Reunion!<br />
1956<br />
Wilma Kinsman Marr<br />
Annette Stevens Wilton<br />
Hi there, ’56ers! We may be approaching the 3/4-<br />
century mark, but we still are busy and involved.<br />
Julie Bigg Veazey just finished her second novel<br />
and is looking for a publisher, living part time in<br />
New Hampshire and now Florida, and enjoying life<br />
with her children and 12(!) grandchildren. Barbara<br />
Silverstein is still working seven days a week with<br />
her designs and personal appearances all across the<br />
country. Way to go! Ruth Bailey Papazian and<br />
husband George are still traveling — to Spain and<br />
Morocco this year, and Ruth went alone to Egypt<br />
last year. Adeline Bradlee Polese spent two<br />
months in Sanibel, FL, and will travel to the<br />
Galapagos in October. Inge Buechling Nichols<br />
was to meet with Gretchen Sterenberg and<br />
Frankie Streit Tripp in Ashland, OR, in<br />
September. She and sister Lori Buechling<br />
Schaefer ’64 visited Ghana, West Africa, and<br />
learned how to make beads!<br />
Barbara Ice Lake fell in love with Prescott,<br />
AZ, and bought a house there after selling her<br />
home in Washington state. She loves the sunshine<br />
after the rainy winters there. Barbara celebrated the<br />
summer solstice in Fairbanks, AK — another traveler!<br />
Penny Pennypacker Binswanger enjoys life<br />
on the Maine coast with family and friends — and<br />
visited with Ruth McKinley Herridge ’54 last<br />
year. Some relatives were to have a reunion with a<br />
93-year-old aunt in Switzerland in the summer.<br />
Other than usual aches and pains, she and Robert<br />
are well — BUT she sent a quote we should all<br />
learn: Oliver Wendell Holmes said, “We don’t forget<br />
how to play because we grow old — we grow<br />
old because we forget how to play.” Susan<br />
Grearson Fillmore had a mini reunion in Solana<br />
Beach, CA, with Pat Cotter Smart and Wilma<br />
Kinsman Marr in March, when she and husband<br />
Del took a trip to Southern California to visit<br />
friends and to see wildflowers in Anza-Borrego<br />
Desert State Park. Nancy Tilden Brown and husband<br />
David celebrated their 50th anniversary in<br />
August 2007. Like many others, they have their<br />
health problems — Nancy has Parkinson’s disease<br />
44 <strong>Fall</strong> <strong>2008</strong>
CLASS NOTES<br />
<strong>Wheelock</strong> Loses a Dedicated Champion<br />
Maureen Sheila Murphy Coakley ’58<br />
Those of us in the <strong>Wheelock</strong> community who knew Maureen<br />
Coakley during her many years of service to the <strong>College</strong> were<br />
saddened by her passing last August after a lengthy and courageous<br />
battle with cancer.<br />
Maureen’s service to the <strong>College</strong> included her leadership as a<br />
member of the <strong>Wheelock</strong> Corporation from 2004 to <strong>2008</strong> and on<br />
the board of trustees from 1996 to 2004, as well as through her<br />
role as an alumni trustee from 1991 to 1994. She was chair of<br />
the Annual Fund Major Gifts Committee, co-chair of the Major<br />
Donor Committee for the Promise of Growth Capital Campaign,<br />
an active fundraiser for Passion for Action urban scholarships,<br />
an Alumni Scholar donor, and a dedicated volunteer for many<br />
<strong>College</strong> programs and activities, including as a member of the<br />
Alumni Association Board and the <strong>Wheelock</strong> Wellesley Club. Her<br />
<strong>Wheelock</strong> leadership was widely recognized. In 1989, Maureen<br />
received a <strong>Wheelock</strong> Centennial Alumni Award, and in 1998,<br />
the <strong>College</strong>’s Distinguished Service Award. In 2003, she received<br />
the President’s Leadership Award and an honorary Doctor of Education degree.<br />
A dedicated volunteer in the child life program at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), Maureen enjoyed<br />
working with the <strong>Wheelock</strong> graduates who staffed the program. She was a tireless fundraiser for the <strong>College</strong> and<br />
worked especially hard with her class on every Reunion since graduation. She helped her 50th Reunion Committee<br />
set a fundraising record and was very disappointed that her illness kept her from attending.<br />
Maureen’s generous spirit was well-known and recognized at other Boston-area institutions to which she<br />
contributed. When she retired after 19 years of teaching service at the Tenacre Country Day School in Wellesley, a<br />
kindergarten classroom was named in her honor, and after more than 1,500 hours of service supporting children<br />
and families at MGH, she received their Distinguished Volunteer Award.<br />
Maureen was devoted to her husband, Ed; her four sons; her daughters-in-law; and her grandchildren. She was<br />
so pleased that one of her daughters-in-law, Pamela Senese ’86/’97MS, was a <strong>Wheelock</strong> graduate. She was a true<br />
friend who never lost track of friends from all areas of her life over many years.<br />
and rheumatoid arthritis — but still have a busy<br />
life. They enjoy their five children and 11 grandchildren,<br />
and they have had some wonderful trips<br />
in their motor home. A favorite spot is the Outer<br />
Banks of North Carolina.<br />
1959<br />
Sally Schwabacher Hottle<br />
1961<br />
Ginnie Colquitt Schroder<br />
Reunion 2009<br />
May 29-31<br />
I (Ginnie) think being class scribe is terrific! I’ve so<br />
enjoyed reading the news some of you have sent for<br />
this column. If you feel the same way, I do hope<br />
you’ll be a contributor for the spring edition.<br />
It seems that many of us are finding a variety of<br />
ways to get the most out of our retirements . . . or<br />
near retirements. Carolyn Kingsbury Sherbin<br />
and husband Arthur are living in an active adult<br />
community in Princeton Junction, NJ. All three of<br />
their children found their way into educational<br />
fields. Carolyn wonders if any of us live near her.<br />
She would love to hear from fellow classmates.<br />
Sara Jane Goldstein Drescher and husband Ira<br />
have just moved to a new home . . . three miles<br />
away from their old house! (“Don’t ask!” she says.)<br />
Their new address is 13473 Shell Beach Court,<br />
Delray Beach, FL 33446. Sara Jane’s big news,<br />
however, is that she and Ira have been selected as<br />
Volunteers of the Year at Women in Distress of Ft.<br />
Lauderdale, FL. The Dreschers established a fund<br />
in memory of Sara Jane’s daughter, who was murdered<br />
13 years ago. The fund helps women who<br />
have completed a period of counseling and have<br />
lived three months at a safe house begin to establish<br />
themselves independently.<br />
Writing from Upper Saddle River, NJ, Susan<br />
Schaefer Goodnough says she is busy with home<br />
duties and is taking a needed break from volunteer<br />
work and teaching. Sue is enjoying reading . . .<br />
when she finds the time. Ellen “Nickie”<br />
Nickerson Schmidt spends her time in photography,<br />
experimenting with double exposure and<br />
macro images. Retired husband Wolfgang is showing<br />
his photographs, along with Ellen, in galleries<br />
and art shows. Wolfgang has traveled to remote<br />
spots to find subjects among indigenous tribes for<br />
his theme “Sacred Faces.” Ellen has facilitated<br />
“Artist Way” groups and enjoys modern art and<br />
painting as well. She still dabbles in writing — especially<br />
short poems for handmade cards. Ellen also<br />
sent news of Gege Wilson Kingston. Gege continues<br />
creative pursuits . . . creating felt hats and<br />
crafting jewelry from recycled materials. She shows<br />
and sells her work at the website Etsy. You can<br />
Google Gege at sparklplenty. Both Gege and husband<br />
John enjoy singing in the local church chorus.<br />
After a long period of waiting, Judy Johnston<br />
Laurens has finally sold her condo and is in a new<br />
home at the Edgecliff . . . still in Cincinnati. In the<br />
spring she was unpacked and settling in at last. I<br />
can relate wholeheartedly to Judy’s delight in being<br />
able to move on, since my condo on Long Island<br />
has been on the market for two full years. Timing<br />
is everything! Avery Thompson Funkhouser<br />
sent two pieces of news. She had a second knee<br />
replacement in May and a new grandson, Jonas<br />
Funkhouser Stumpf, in August 2007. I think the<br />
latter item sounds like more fun! Hope your knee<br />
is healing well, Avery.<br />
For some of us, retirement from a paying job<br />
has meant a greater involvement in volunteerism.<br />
Mary Jo Severson Fenyn runs the local food<br />
bank where she lives in upstate New York, managing<br />
70 volunteers as well as handling scheduling,<br />
food collections, and grant writing. She does reserve<br />
some time in Florida during the winter months,<br />
however. Jaye Kwok is “somewhat” retired. She<br />
worked part time from October 2007 to January as<br />
a substitute administrator and then resumed her<br />
former position as coordinator for a year-round<br />
school program, except working fewer hours. In<br />
March, Jaye traveled to North Vietnam, Hainan<br />
Island, and the southernmost part of China and<br />
Singapore with her sister. Later in the spring, she<br />
attended the 30th conference of the National<br />
Association for Asian and Pacific American<br />
Education in Santa Monica, CA.<br />
Retirement is still to come for Elizabeth Han<br />
Fung, Ph.D., psychotherapist and social worker.<br />
She is teaching in Chicago and works at Children’s<br />
Memorial Hospital helping youngsters with hemophilia.<br />
Her job requires travel to Istanbul and other<br />
places. Husband Chris, a pathologist, has retired<br />
and is seeking a partner in crime! Elizabeth would<br />
love to hear suggestions from those of us who have<br />
retired and are successfully dealing with this life<br />
change. I hope this article has helped, Elizabeth!<br />
Thanks to each of you who took the time to<br />
write. I’m already looking forward to our next issue.<br />
<strong>Wheelock</strong> Magazine 45
CLASS NOTES<br />
And remember, our 50th Reunion is only three<br />
short years away (June 3-5, 2011)! Are you making<br />
plans to be there?<br />
1962<br />
Roberta Weiss Goorno<br />
Susan Bromfield Barber says her new area in San<br />
Francisco, North Beach, is closer to the water and<br />
has a “zillion good restaurants” and better weather.<br />
She and Kent have four grandchildren in the Bay<br />
Area and four in Colorado. They were on a committee<br />
to build a “columbarium” (in ancient Rome, a<br />
sepulchre with niches for cinerary urns) in the back<br />
garden of their church. The beautiful structure, a<br />
three-year project, was completed and dedicated last<br />
fall. Sabra Brown Johnson was leaving for a threeweek<br />
trip to China as she wrote, “Visiting Beijing,<br />
Xian, Wuhan, a four-day Yangtze River cruise,<br />
Guilin and Hong Kong.” Her other travels include<br />
“Peru (Machu Picchu) and Ecuador (Galapagos<br />
Islands — I learned to snorkel there)” and a<br />
Caribbean cruise to eight ports. In May, Sabra went<br />
to Minnesota to see her twin step-granddaughters<br />
graduate from St. Cloud State <strong>College</strong> and visited<br />
her son and his wife in Wisconsin. At home in<br />
California, she volunteers with the Assistance League<br />
of Diablo Valley, is an elder in her church for<br />
Children and Family Ministries, and tutors a<br />
Japanese girl in English. This August was Sabra’s<br />
“50th (gulp) high school reunion,” and she returned<br />
to her hometown in New York to attend it.<br />
Susan Powers Knapp was sorry to miss<br />
Reunion, but she and Ron were traveling in<br />
Scandinavia at the time. She loves living in<br />
Westport, MA, where the Westport rivers and<br />
Buzzards Bay make it “a very special place to live.”<br />
They see their children and grandchildren quite<br />
often. Susan is involved with UMass Dartmouth’s<br />
Second Half learning program — many interesting<br />
courses are offered and facilitated by area volunteers<br />
— and wrote of another great program offered<br />
by the Westport River Watershed Alliance to teach<br />
schoolchildren about the river and beach environment.<br />
She works with grades K-6. Her garden club<br />
is also involved with the school in planting seeds and<br />
bird programs. Susan thinks it wonderful that<br />
“<strong>Wheelock</strong> is growing and continuing to provide<br />
great opportunities in education.” Dorothy<br />
Loofbourow Nichols and Dave are “fortunate to be<br />
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in good health and to live in a lovely corner of the<br />
world” — Bellingham, WA. “Our favorite trip was<br />
to the Tuscany area of Italy,” she wrote, “and the second,<br />
to the north corner of Costa Rica. Our favorite<br />
ski areas are Whistler, B.C., and Sundance in Utah,<br />
but we love being home best of all.” Dottie keeps<br />
busy with grandchildren, bridge, walking, and<br />
church Sunday school work. Helen “Bonnie” Beck<br />
Noble and husband Wayne are now living in their<br />
diesel pusher motor home in Morgan Hill, CA (near<br />
San Jose), and managing an RV resort (www.coyotevalleyresort.com).<br />
“We love this lifestyle and have<br />
committed to this job for three years,” she wrote.<br />
“We also have our own business in RV park consulting.”<br />
Now wine connoisseurs, they have a wine cooler<br />
in their motor home and love going wine tasting.<br />
They visit their daughter in Scottsdale, AZ, as often<br />
as they can. Bonnie welcomes visitors.<br />
Two new activities gave Jane Saltzman<br />
Rosenberg great pleasure last winter while at Pelican<br />
Sound in Estero, FL. One was a watercolor painting<br />
class, which she planned to continue when she<br />
returned home to Gloucester, MA. She also became<br />
certified as an ESL tutor and worked with a student<br />
from Mexico, a fulfilling experience for both of<br />
them. She and her husband had a wonderful visit<br />
with their newest grandchild, Elena Sophia, and her<br />
parents. She met Judy Green Chaloff at the<br />
<strong>Wheelock</strong> alumni luncheon in Naples last winter.<br />
Brenda Richmond Verduin-Dean was widowed in<br />
1999 and remarried in 2004. She and Herb traveled<br />
a lot between their three homes — his on Cape Cod,<br />
her apartment in NYC, and one together in<br />
Worcester, MA — before deciding recently to give<br />
up the Cape one. Back with family and reunited<br />
with old (high school!) friends in Worcester, she says<br />
her “life has come full circle!”<br />
I (Roberta) have a fifth grandchild, Ariel<br />
Edward, named for both granddads (Edward for my<br />
late husband). This year I became a Florida resident,<br />
though I will still spend half the year in New Jersey,<br />
nearer to family. My eldest grandson had his bar<br />
mitzvah in April. We are celebrating with a trip to<br />
Rapid City, SD: gold mines, a buffalo safari, underground<br />
caverns, the lore of cowboys, pioneers and<br />
Indians, Mt. Rushmore, fossils, Crazy Horse sculpture,<br />
and a Minuteman silo into which you can<br />
descend! (I hope I survive all this fun!)<br />
Great to see some new names in our Class Notes<br />
section! Keep sharing, all of you!<br />
1963<br />
Jane Kuehn Kittredge<br />
What a wonderful time the Class of 1963 had at our<br />
45th Reunion! It was so much fun reconnecting and<br />
reminiscing with our classmates. I (Jane) will try to<br />
give a capsule update from those in attendance with<br />
news not specific to the Reunion to be reported at<br />
another time.<br />
The construction of the new Campus Center<br />
and Student Residence is ahead of schedule and a<br />
real asset to <strong>Wheelock</strong>. The facility will be multifunctional<br />
and certainly will be made use of by our<br />
50th Reunion. Our class processed to the luncheon<br />
carrying yellow umbrellas which we felt might even<br />
be needed, but the weather held for us. At the class<br />
meeting, Nan Ware Morrow and Zelinda<br />
Makepeace Douhan agreed to co-chair our 50th<br />
with others willing to assist as before. Ellie<br />
Starkweather Snelgrove will be anxious to have any<br />
<strong>Wheelock</strong> photos sent to her as she plans to assemble<br />
a scrapbook. We missed Ellie, who was on a trip<br />
to Mexico. She also took a cruise on the Danube in<br />
November 2007, and she keeps active subbing and<br />
working with the seniors. We also missed our class<br />
agent, Lynn Sanchez Paquin, who was unable to fly<br />
due to a vertigo condition which she has suffered<br />
with since her wonderful cruise to the South Pacific.<br />
She was planning to operate Crescent Cottage in<br />
Block Island this summer as usual and was looking<br />
forward to improved days. Also responding and<br />
wishing classmates well were Suzi Dimmitt, who<br />
had two sons married this summer, and Susan<br />
Memery Bruce, who was attending her nephew’s<br />
wedding in Florida.<br />
Regrets came from Marjorie Sanek Platzker,<br />
who had work obligations in California, where she<br />
continues as associate director of Skidmore, Owings<br />
and Merrill LLP, a commercial interior design firm.<br />
She wrote, “I direct a wide variety of commercial<br />
interior design projects in the areas of media, law,<br />
financial services, and hospitality. Arnold continues<br />
his pediatric pulmonology position at USC Keck<br />
School of Medicine and Children’s Hospital Los<br />
Angeles. Our children both live in the New York<br />
area. David and wife Susan are in the art world.<br />
Kate Platzker is 8 and enjoys life in Soho. Liz, a<br />
fashion designer, is married to Steve Kawut, a lung<br />
transplant pulmonologist and pulmonary hypertension<br />
expert. Liz and Steve will be relocating to<br />
Philadelphia this fall.” Jackie Taft Lowe is traveling<br />
internationally with her husband, who is on sabbatical<br />
and teaching in Australia and Scotland, while<br />
Judy Thompson Seeley and Larry still make their<br />
home in Louisiana and were unable to come to<br />
Boston in May. Nancy Clark Migneault and Al are<br />
enjoying a busy retirement with three delightful<br />
grandchildren. Nancy works with hospice and seems<br />
“traveled out” after a month in Africa. She entertains<br />
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CLASS NOTES<br />
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<br />
Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia, in the fall of 2007.<br />
many groups with a PowerPoint of her exciting travels.<br />
We encourage all to join us in 2013 and do try<br />
to locate former classmates, so we can really celebrate<br />
in grand fashion!<br />
The highlight of the weekend was the<br />
Saturday evening dinner graciously hosted by<br />
Nan Ware Morrow and husband Bob at their<br />
lovely home in Wellesley. The social hour was<br />
enjoyed in a beautifully landscaped outside setting<br />
and a delightful catered meal was served<br />
from tables festively decorated by our hostess.<br />
We were later joined by President Jackie Jenkins-<br />
Scott and her husband, both of whom are so<br />
amicable and interesting. The evening ended<br />
with many hugs, and fond memories will remain<br />
of our time shared together.<br />
These folks participated in some or all of the<br />
Reunion activities:<br />
Gloria Maravell Clark loves her new career as<br />
an occupational therapist in home health care. She<br />
has a 1-year-old grandson. Veronica “Roni”<br />
Connolly Cronin retired after 37 years of teaching<br />
and subs for an adult English as a Second<br />
Language program. She is on the board of directors<br />
and chair of the education and program committees<br />
of the Framingham (MA) Historical<br />
Society and Museum. Heather Hughes Dahlberg<br />
and Richard enjoy their six grandchildren and<br />
weekend condo at Round Hill, close to Rhode<br />
Island. Zelinda “Zee” Makepeace Douhan<br />
’63/’75MS and John love retirement in South<br />
Dartmouth, MA. Both worked on and completed<br />
a 350-page family genealogy. Zee is on the board<br />
of directors for her family cranberry/land development<br />
company and is involved with Grace<br />
Episcopal Church. Peggy Fenner is forever smiling<br />
and talented with writing and handcrafted<br />
jewelry. She displayed some at Reunion. (Some of<br />
us own her unique pieces!)<br />
Susan Yaffe Freedman and Larry find condo living<br />
in Needham, MA, just great and are always busy<br />
with family and various activities. Barbara<br />
Hamilton Gibson retired to Cape Cod, where she<br />
is active in Rotary, the local <strong>Wheelock</strong> alumni club,<br />
Eldredge Public Library, and St. Christopher’s<br />
Church. She is taking watercolor classes and has had<br />
work displayed.<br />
As for Jane Kuehn Kittredge, I am still your<br />
scribe and am now working on my 50th high school<br />
reunion committee. Dave and I had a trip to St.<br />
Thomas and St. John in May. Nan Ware Morrow<br />
and Bob had a much-deserved trip to Italy in May.<br />
In addition to being on her 50th high school<br />
reunion committee, she is always busy with civic<br />
work and helping friends and entertaining. Elsie<br />
Kellogg Morse had some amazing hikes in<br />
Patagonia with Doug this year. She takes a trip a<br />
year but continues and loves tutoring. Fran Nichols<br />
and Bill travel between Massachusetts and<br />
Washington state. Still a photographer, Fran is<br />
involved in numerous exciting projects.<br />
Another classmate who pursues her artwork<br />
and displayed her talent at Reunion is Carolyn<br />
Stanton Peirce, who lives in Maryland (close to<br />
D.C.). She teaches art part time at St. Patrick’s<br />
Episcopal Day School and is on the board of<br />
directors of Samaritan Ministry, which serves the<br />
homeless and needy. She summers in Maine with<br />
children and grandchildren. Marthanne<br />
“Marty” Uhlinger Pressey and Tim have fun<br />
with their children and grandchildren and enjoy<br />
summers in Maine. Anne Little Reiley and<br />
Hank have been married for almost 45 years, and<br />
Anne has been working in real estate since 1978.<br />
They have two children nearby along with three<br />
grandchildren. Alice “Pixie” Parke Watson has<br />
three children and six “grands.” She substitute<br />
teaches and does some retail work. Alice is the<br />
class Annual Fund liaison (contribute GENER-<br />
OUSLY, especially for our 50th).<br />
Even after 31 years of work in an internal medicine<br />
office, Laurie Nettleton Watson has no retirement<br />
plans but travels a lot — Florida, Mexico, and<br />
cruises. She often “grandparents” some of the four<br />
girls and two boys. Barbara “Cookie” Cohen<br />
Weiner lives in Sarasota, FL, and attends <strong>Wheelock</strong><br />
alumni meetings there. She visited with her daughter<br />
in New Hampshire after Reunion.<br />
A newspaper clipping came to the Alumni<br />
Relations Office about Judy Hughes Arreola. She<br />
has worked in the Sarasota, FL, real estate market<br />
for 24 years and has now formed a new partnership<br />
with another realtor and is associated with Hunt<br />
Real Estate ERA.<br />
I (Jane) am not a seasoned roving reporter, so<br />
forgive me if some of the information is not 100<br />
percent accurate. (Is it ever in the media?) Thanks so<br />
much for keeping in touch.<br />
1964<br />
Phyllis Forbes Kerr<br />
Roberta Gilbert Marianella<br />
1965<br />
Mary Barnard O’Connell<br />
Marsha M-Geough Vaughan<br />
Jane Dexter Greenspan, a psychologist practicing<br />
in Jamaica Plain, MA, writes: “I realized when I was<br />
at <strong>Wheelock</strong> that I was more interested in psychopathology<br />
than I was in education. Still I treasure<br />
a lot of what I learned. Mrs. Keough taught me to<br />
write and to love the process. Mr. Collins<br />
announced that the best BSO seats were on either<br />
ends of the first balcony, so my husband and I have<br />
sat there for over 30 seasons! To have had so much<br />
hands-on experience with children in such a wide<br />
variety of settings satisfied my passion to see and do,<br />
and those experiences stood me in good stead in<br />
graduate school.” In the summertime, Jane lives in<br />
Wellfleet, MA, where she reads, gardens, writes, and<br />
swims to her heart’s content. In the wintertime, she<br />
is active in a small Episcopal church that prepares<br />
men and women for the priesthood.<br />
1966<br />
Reunion 2009<br />
May 29-31<br />
Margery Conley Mars<br />
Pam Miller Callard is teaching at Beauvoir School<br />
on the National Cathedral campus in Washington,<br />
D.C. In the summer of 2007, Pam had a travel grant<br />
to spend time in Tanzania teaching children as a volunteer<br />
with Cross Cultural Solutions: “I lived with<br />
26 other volunteers in a small fishing village on the<br />
Indian Ocean. . . . We also went to the border of<br />
Kenya and Uganda to visit a family we knew. . . . I<br />
have always wanted to go to East Africa ever since<br />
<strong>Wheelock</strong> days when, with Dr. Chasdi, we studied<br />
the Kikuyu people of Kenya. So I was inspired many<br />
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CLASS NOTES<br />
Alumni whose classes end in 4 and 9 —<br />
Your 2009 Reunion is coming up!<br />
C<br />
ome see what’s new on campus (you’ll be amazed). Hear what<br />
great things your alma mater is accomplishing (you’ll be<br />
proud). Talk with other alumni about the good old days (you’ll laugh). Have a<br />
fabulous time (you’ll feel great). Gather your friends and start planning for the<br />
weekend of May 29-31, 2009.<br />
years ago!” Laurie Knowles Carter’s biggest and<br />
most exciting news is the birth of her first grandchild<br />
in January <strong>2008</strong>, Madeline Grace Carter, who lives<br />
in Vermont. Needless to say, there will be many<br />
cross-country trips in the near future. Daughter<br />
Sarah has returned to San Francisco after 10 years in<br />
England and is at San Francisco State in the MFA<br />
program in creative writing. Laurie wrote, “We are<br />
celebrating the California Supreme Court decision<br />
allowing gay and lesbian couples to marry. I am president<br />
of our local PFLAG chapter and serve on the<br />
speaker’s bureau. Recently I started substituting in<br />
our town and in the district where I worked as a<br />
librarian. I find I am much more relaxed and patient<br />
than I was in my younger years.” She and Bob have<br />
been spending time at their Ashland, OR, vacation<br />
home. Nancy Wicke Demarest and husband Bob<br />
celebrated the 40th anniversary of their wedding in<br />
June. “We have retired yet again, this time from the<br />
B&B business we have run for the last 25 years at<br />
our cabin on our acreage in the foothills of the<br />
Virginia Mountains,” she wrote. “We spend as much<br />
time as possible at our cottage near the Chesapeake<br />
Bay and love traveling in our 21-foot motor home.”<br />
Hope Binner Esparolini sends greetings from<br />
Minnesota! She has been retired from U.S. Bank for<br />
over a year and is now enjoying some volunteer<br />
commitments as well as some travel. She serves on<br />
the board of St. Mary’s University (where she got her<br />
master’s in 1997) and uses much of her<br />
business/organizational development background as<br />
an adviser to the director of the Human<br />
Development Program. She is also still very involved<br />
with her church in downtown Minneapolis. Now<br />
that her husband’s health issues are under control,<br />
they will be traveling more, including a trip this fall<br />
to their favorite town in Tuscany. Lucy Olsen<br />
Fischer went on a trip up the northern California<br />
coast, Point Reyes National Seashore and Bodega<br />
Bay, and through the wine country, and then headed<br />
inland for a visit with Wendy Stuek Voit and husband<br />
Dave. Wendy is still tutoring students of various<br />
ages. The Voits are building a beautiful log<br />
home in the mountains, and of course, the conversation<br />
included talk of their three grandchildren. Lucy<br />
shares visits with her mom often and continues her<br />
studies in Spanish. She wrote: “I remember the terror<br />
in Betty Bobp’s class freshman year when we had<br />
to get up and do presentations. Well, hard to<br />
believe, but my volunteer work for my Audubon<br />
chapter involves ME giving slide show presentations<br />
to garden clubs. She would be sooooo proud of me.<br />
Heck — I’M proud of me!”<br />
Susan Leeb Fuhrer and husband Jack, with<br />
much anticipation, will be dividing their year<br />
between Scottsdale, AZ, and Kalamazoo, MI.<br />
Their lovely new home in the Midwest is designed<br />
with Sue’s limitations in mind and was featured in<br />
the Kalamazoo Parade of Homes in June, just prior<br />
to their move-in. Best of all, it is just a short drive<br />
to visit daughter Carolyn and granddaughters<br />
Emily and Kira! Kay “Wink” Winkler Page has<br />
been in India and Jamaica this past year. In India<br />
she participated in a center that brings children off<br />
the streets and begins an education in reading and<br />
math. In Jamaica she trained teachers on better<br />
methods of teaching effective reading as well as the<br />
link between fourth-grade reading levels and people<br />
landing in prison. Leave it to her to find a way<br />
to escape from the long old-fashioned Maine winter<br />
with huge accumulations of snow that we had<br />
this past year!<br />
“With mixed emotions,” Heather Robinson<br />
Reimann retired this past June after 26 years of<br />
teaching. “My husband, Joe, and I bought a 40-<br />
foot RV and dubbed it ‘Boldly Going Nowhere.’<br />
We are renting our two houses and off we go.”<br />
Son Tucker and son-in-law Justan are in Kuwait<br />
for a year, having left their wives and Heather’s<br />
three grandsons. They are based in Newport<br />
News, VA. Donna Kazanjian Scribner and her<br />
husband went to Turkey visiting places of antiquities.<br />
While there, they had a reunion with a<br />
lady who had rented their Boston apartment<br />
years ago while her son was being treated for a<br />
hip abnormality at Mass. General. Shortly after<br />
getting back, they left for China with a tour<br />
group. Natalie Palmer Stafford wrote that she<br />
continues to do oil and watercolor paintings, and<br />
she has a new studio in back of her home and a<br />
website — www.echohillcards.com. “If anyone is<br />
near the art fairs I do (listed on my website),<br />
please stop by and say hi,” she wrote. Patricia<br />
“Pepper” Wild had her book “Way Opens: A<br />
Spiritual Journey” released on May 1. By June,<br />
she was already working on the next one!<br />
I (Margery) am still enjoying my watercolor<br />
painting. I have just changed my website from<br />
showcase to e-commerce. I invite you to check<br />
out my online store at www.countryginghamdesigns.com.<br />
I am honored to design the tea menus<br />
for Maine’s First Lady that benefit the renovations<br />
and restorations of the Blaine House, the<br />
governor’s mansion. At one of the teas, I met<br />
Gloria Williams Ladd ’65, and we had a pleasant<br />
and unexpected reunion. We had both<br />
worked in the Admissions Office while at<br />
<strong>Wheelock</strong> and had not seen one another since<br />
those earlier days! My family and I continue to<br />
enjoy traveling — this past year to the Pacific<br />
Northwest and Southwest as well as a cruise to<br />
southern Caribbean islands.<br />
1968<br />
Cynthia Carpenter Sheehan<br />
Martha Mulcahy recently married Raymond<br />
Farrell, and they live in Sandwich, MA. Martha is<br />
a school psychologist in the Martha’s Vineyard<br />
Public Schools.<br />
1969<br />
Jewelry-maker and potter Cheri Breeman had a<br />
chance to talk about her art, as well as her teaching,<br />
traveling, and other hobbies, to a Summit<br />
Daily News (Frisco, CO) reporter who did a<br />
story on her back in March. Feeling that “learning<br />
through the process is more important than<br />
the outcome,” Cheri loves that art fulfills her<br />
need to be creative and gives her a sense of<br />
accomplishment. Right now she’s especially interested<br />
in incorporating the two mediums of pottery<br />
and beadwork, and she does so by working<br />
holes into her ceramics in order to put things like<br />
handspun yarn through them. An early childhood<br />
special education preschool teacher in the<br />
Summit School District until last June, Cheri did<br />
a lot of open-ended art with the children and<br />
says she would love to teach art. She currently<br />
has a garage studio and dreams of setting up her<br />
own full studio someday.<br />
1971<br />
Reunion 2009<br />
May 29-31<br />
Gwynne DeLong<br />
Karen Srulowitz Berman is still teaching computer<br />
classes and now also teaches eighth-grade U.S.<br />
history. She is a walking coach for Team in Training<br />
and does three half marathons a year. Her next one<br />
is the Mayor’s Midnight Run in Alaska. Jane Boyle<br />
Cohn and Cathi Calitri Terry keep up via e-mail<br />
and recently got together in Manhattan. Jane and<br />
her husband split their time between Richmond,<br />
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CLASS NOTES<br />
VA, and Naples, FL. Last winter Jane attended a<br />
lovely <strong>Wheelock</strong> lunch at the Port Royal Club in<br />
Naples and enjoyed hearing all the news from<br />
President Jenkins-Scott. So many exciting changes to<br />
the <strong>Wheelock</strong> campus!<br />
It’s been a great year in Arizona for Elizabeth<br />
Leydon. This spring she and I (Gwynne) (and<br />
two of my family members) got together for a<br />
visit in scenic Sedona. Beautiful red rocks, good<br />
food and shopping.<br />
I enjoy spending time with friends and family,<br />
especially new granddaughter Samantha. Dave and I<br />
continue to cruise — last winter enjoying time in<br />
Key West with friends from Canada and then cruising<br />
the Caribbean. I am an active member of my<br />
local League of Women Voters’ Working Group on<br />
Girls, modeled after the U.N. group; this year we<br />
are working toward a solution to the problem of<br />
bullying among girls in our community. We<br />
developed a great resource list, so if anyone wants<br />
information on books for adults and/or children,<br />
websites, or programs that work, I’m happy to share<br />
(Gdelong528@aol.com).<br />
1972<br />
Bonnie Paulsen Michael<br />
Mary Dickerson Pierson and Peter love their<br />
home in the mountains (Grafton, NY) and<br />
enjoy teaching together at Pine Cobble School<br />
in Williamstown, MA. Son Chase continues to<br />
live in Woodstock, NY, and granddaughter Isa is<br />
9! They love being so close and having her come<br />
for visits. Josh and Kei live in Southborough,<br />
MA, and the family gathers together regularly.<br />
Lynn Geronemus Bigelman wrote that she still<br />
loves being an elementary school principal after<br />
eight years. She is also the president of the<br />
Michigan Reading Association. All of this, and<br />
she is engaged to a wonderful guy named Karl.<br />
Son Joey was married two years ago to Sharone,<br />
and they now have a little boy and live only 15<br />
minutes away. (Lucky grandma!) Lynn wrote,<br />
“I was so happy that Vicki Caplan Milstein<br />
attended my son’s wedding. I was thrilled that<br />
Wendy Dubins Perlmutter was at both my<br />
children’s weddings. Wendy and I attended<br />
Vicki’s daughter’s wedding last March in Boston,<br />
where we also got to visit with Priscilla Resevic<br />
Cosgrove. Congratulations to my roommate,<br />
Vicki Milstein, for being named Brookline’s<br />
Woman of the Year!”<br />
As for me (Bonnie), I still loving teaching and<br />
am finishing my second year teaching fourth<br />
grade at Westtown School near Philadelphia.<br />
Westtown is a Quaker school and it is just the<br />
perfect place for me. It’s great to be back in the<br />
East where we’re a little closer to our children and<br />
my parents. This June the entire family gathered<br />
together as our daughter Ali and her partner,<br />
Mike, celebrated their commitment to each other.<br />
The party lasted for four rollicking fun days!<br />
I have seen Karen Metanias Riordan several<br />
times since moving east. In the past few years, she<br />
and Ed have celebrated the marriages of two of their<br />
daughters and the birth of a new granddaughter!<br />
Oh, and they won a new car, too! Cat Austin<br />
Franks wrote at Christmas that she, husband Will,<br />
and their sons are all very happy living in St. Croix.<br />
The boys are beginning to hit college age, and the<br />
first has come to the Northeast for school.<br />
If you’ve enjoyed reading about a few of your<br />
classmates, send news and photos so we can share<br />
in your lives!<br />
1973<br />
Jaci Fowle Holmes<br />
Regina Frisch Lobree<br />
Marilyn Levick Fyfe is still teaching third-,<br />
fourth-, and fifth-graders in Kittery, ME, through<br />
Title I. She will have five grandchildren by the time<br />
you are reading this. Wendy Millett (Holden)<br />
Manninen wrote: “After nine years of teaching in<br />
Stoneham, MA, and as a result of my efforts in<br />
increasing literacy skills in music and motion,<br />
I was recognized by the Massachusetts Reading<br />
Association as a Literacy Champion through an<br />
awards program sponsored by the Massachusetts<br />
Literacy Foundation and Verizon Foundation.”<br />
“After 15 years as director of congregational care<br />
in our church,” Cathy “Cece” Cuetara Nichols<br />
wrote, “I was looking for a transition that would be<br />
challenging yet draw on the skills I had developed<br />
as a teacher and serving people in crisis. I recently<br />
became the first funeral celebrant coordinator in the<br />
USA. Lessons learned at <strong>Wheelock</strong> serve me well as<br />
I meet with families, gather info, grasp the legacy<br />
they want to convey, design a creative memorial<br />
service, and function as the officiant at the service.<br />
If interested in a second-half career, contact<br />
cnichols@buschfuneral.com.” Carol Bigelow Riggs<br />
is still teaching morning kindergarten but took a<br />
new position as an elementary master teacher in the<br />
afternoon. She works at a K-12 charter school and<br />
is the elementary administrator. Carol had dinner<br />
with Ann Kopp ’73/’80MS and her new husband<br />
and son in January. Sally Bechert Robinson finished<br />
her 33rd year in Mansfield, MA, and returned<br />
to first grade in September after eight years in a<br />
looping 1-2 program.<br />
As I (Regina) sit here at my computer sharing<br />
these comments with you from our classmates, I<br />
am a week away from leaving for Boston, seeing<br />
friends, seeing the new campus, and walking<br />
around the familiar fun spots of Boston. I am<br />
most looking forward to seeing my roommates<br />
Leezie and Mary again. I am completing my<br />
34th year of teaching and my 12th year at my<br />
school in Winston-Salem. I am still teaching my<br />
2-3 loop.<br />
1974<br />
Laura Keyes Jaynes<br />
Nancy Bailin Careskey had a joy-filled reunion<br />
with Amy Friedman Doran ’75 at Amy’s beautiful<br />
Florida home. Nancy works as a children’s developmental<br />
therapist and attorney advocate in the<br />
area of special education law. Daughter Holly graduated<br />
from Brown University and is a medical student<br />
at Tufts in the MD/MPH program. Husband<br />
Josh is a Tufts Medical alum, so it’s “all in the<br />
family.” Nancy was looking forward to visiting<br />
<strong>Wheelock</strong> in September after attending Holly’s<br />
“white coat” ceremony at Tufts.<br />
1975<br />
Reunion 2009<br />
May 29-31<br />
Leslie Hayter Maxfield<br />
I (Leslie) have been the county director for<br />
Oregon Child Development Coalition in<br />
Klamath County (OR) for two years. Prior to<br />
that, I was the education manager since June<br />
2002. OCDC is the grantee for Migrant Head<br />
Start in Oregon. I love my work and have<br />
learned so much about the strength of migrant<br />
families. I was a co-presenter on Quality<br />
Preschool Literacy Environments at the National<br />
Migrant Seasonal Head Start Conference in<br />
Washington, D.C., in February. I was also a<br />
member of a Bruce Perry Training of Trainers<br />
Learning the Strengths of<br />
Migrant Families<br />
Ilove my work and have learned so<br />
much about the strength of migrant<br />
families. I was a co-presenter on Quality<br />
Preschool Literacy Environments at the<br />
National Migrant Seasonal Head Start<br />
Conference in Washington, D.C., in February.<br />
I was also a member of a Bruce<br />
Perry Training of Trainers program in<br />
our county. I am so proud that our Early<br />
Childhood Community dedicated funds<br />
and priority to having Dr. Perry work<br />
with us for a year. We are making<br />
inroads in the public schools and juvenile<br />
justice system.”<br />
— Leslie Hayter Maxfield ’75<br />
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CLASS NOTES<br />
program in our county. I am so proud that our<br />
Early Childhood Community dedicated funds<br />
and priority to having Dr. Perry work with us for<br />
a year. We are making inroads in the public<br />
schools and juvenile justice system. I became a<br />
grandmother in November 2006 and now have<br />
two grandchildren. My daughter is a wonderful<br />
mother. I am sure my <strong>Wheelock</strong> education had<br />
played a part in strengthening her desire to<br />
become a teacher and support the next generation.<br />
Not to mention that her grandpa is her primary<br />
child care provider! For the past few<br />
months I have been in contact with Lanie Link<br />
Beck. We discovered each other on the Internet<br />
and started off where we ended 30 years ago! It<br />
has been so much fun!<br />
1976<br />
Angela Barresi Yakovleff<br />
I always welcome the time I have to get out<br />
some news of classmates to all. This year we’ve<br />
heard from only a few, but it’s great news<br />
nonetheless. Be checking your e-mail in the<br />
upcoming years so you can get news to us electronically.<br />
Carolee Fucigna is in her seventh<br />
year teaching pre-K at the Nueva School in<br />
Hillsborough, CA. Her teacher research is centered<br />
on dramatic play. Maryanne Galvin was<br />
one of four Boston-area filmmakers who<br />
screened their short films at an event held at<br />
<strong>Wheelock</strong> back in March in honor of SWAN<br />
(Support Women Artists Now) Day, an international<br />
celebration of women artists. Her What’s<br />
Going On Up There? was shown, and she later<br />
participated in an audience Q&A. Patty Grief<br />
Sammataro had exciting news. She and Tony<br />
have a beautiful new granddaughter, Alexandria.<br />
Patty continues to teach at Beth El Nursery<br />
School in New London, CT — her 16th year!<br />
I (Angela) am teaching fourth grade this year<br />
(2007-08). I’ll loop to fifth grade next year and keep<br />
my class. I’ve been teaching at Whitingham School in<br />
Jacksonville, VT, for 30 years! Matthew and I celebrated<br />
our 25th anniversary in July 2007. We put off<br />
celebrating until February, when we visited Mexico. I<br />
had pleasant memory flashes of my <strong>Wheelock</strong> winter<br />
term traveling there with Bob Meredith and five<br />
other students. Our son, Alexander, is now in<br />
Brooklyn teaching preschoolers to play soccer and<br />
picking up an occasional acting part. Amie, our<br />
daughter, is happily studying nursing at University of<br />
Southern Maine. I keep in regular touch with Karen<br />
Berg Ezzi, Dale Zabriskie Pomerantz, and Melinda<br />
Kaiser. Karen now lives in Arizona. Her youngest<br />
daughter, Allison, graduated from Michigan State in<br />
May. Son Matthew is self-employed. Sarah will be<br />
married on the Cape in September 2009. Now Karen<br />
and Dave are truly empty nesters. Dale has been<br />
spending time at book signings of her newly published<br />
book, Secrets of Great Parents. I hope next year<br />
I’ll hear from many more of you. Reunion is only<br />
another three years away!<br />
1979<br />
Linda Henderson Standley<br />
Jody Norskey Lary is still teaching eighth-grade<br />
language arts at Camden (ME) Middle School.<br />
1981<br />
Reunion 2009<br />
May 29-31<br />
Colleen Miller Rumsey<br />
Kathy Walsh Berube started a new career in April<br />
as director of volunteer services at Maine Medical<br />
Center in Portland. She recently moved within<br />
South Portland. Laura Shustak Bradford has<br />
been working in the preschool field since graduation<br />
and is currently the teacher/director of Clinton<br />
Path Preschool in Brookline, MA.<br />
Now “experiencing the empty nest” in<br />
Norwich, CT, Dawn Lawlor Brown wrote of<br />
enjoying her work as an early intervention and<br />
toddler teacher at Connecticut <strong>College</strong> Children’s<br />
Program, an early childhood laboratory school for<br />
the college. Dawn enjoyed going to our 25th<br />
Reunion and keeps in touch with Nancy Lyle<br />
Burlingame. Roger Cacchiotti wrote: “I turned<br />
50 this year and celebrated the event with my partner<br />
and family at the Eliot Hotel in Boston, my<br />
past professor, Dora Ullian’s family hotel. It was<br />
wonderful to see her again since <strong>Wheelock</strong> <strong>College</strong><br />
in 1981. My career is in professional theater, real<br />
estate, and teaching. Currently, I am teaching at<br />
Tony Bennett’s high school for the performing<br />
arts in NYC, and as an adjunct professor for La<br />
Guardia Community <strong>College</strong>. I use my experience<br />
in theater and my skills from <strong>Wheelock</strong> <strong>College</strong> in<br />
special education to meet the demands at the high<br />
school serving as a drama and resource room<br />
teacher. I teach English at the college level. I live<br />
between New York City; Wellfleet, Cape Cod; and<br />
Tyler Hill, PA — I need all three environments to<br />
survive. I would love to hear from others who still<br />
remember me.”<br />
The Alumni Relations Office apologizes to<br />
Marian McAfee Facciani, whose news was lost<br />
and who couldn’t be reached during the summer to<br />
get replacement news into this issue. Jacqui<br />
Borstein Gorlick wrote in the spring, when she<br />
was finishing up her third year as principal of<br />
Nunaka Valley, a pre-K through grade 6 school in<br />
Anchorage, AK. “Nunaka allows me to use all I<br />
learned at <strong>Wheelock</strong> about ECE as I have three<br />
classes of preschool students with disabilities,” she<br />
wrote. Jacqui and her “best friend and husband,”<br />
Terry, have a cabin on 10 acres on a river on the<br />
Thank you,<br />
<strong>Wheelock</strong> professors!<br />
My <strong>Wheelock</strong> education prepared<br />
me for training staff in the everchanging<br />
environment of health care.<br />
Many of the lessons taught by <strong>Wheelock</strong><br />
teachers can be adapted to the<br />
adult population. Patience, compassion,<br />
an eagerness to learn new things<br />
and teach others were lessons learned<br />
at <strong>Wheelock</strong> that I take with me every<br />
day of my life, whether in my job, my<br />
home, or as a parent of college- and<br />
elementary-age children! Thank you,<br />
<strong>Wheelock</strong> professors!”<br />
— Robin Michel Motyka ’81<br />
Kenai Peninsula where they go to relax and fish in<br />
the summer.<br />
“I have unfortunately never fulfilled my dream<br />
to teach at the elementary level,” wrote Robin<br />
Michel Motyka, “but having a young son later in<br />
life has given me the opportunity to be a classroom<br />
parent volunteer for many years. I have had a very<br />
rewarding career managing a large Boston orthopedic<br />
surgical practice where my teaching background<br />
provided the foundation for assisting patients during<br />
a difficult time in their lives. In addition, my<br />
<strong>Wheelock</strong> education prepared me for training staff<br />
in the ever-changing environment of health care.<br />
Many of the lessons taught by <strong>Wheelock</strong> teachers<br />
can be adapted to the adult population. Patience,<br />
compassion, an eagerness to learn new things and<br />
teach others were lessons learned at <strong>Wheelock</strong> that I<br />
take with me every day of my life, whether in my<br />
job, my home, or as a parent of college- and elementary-age<br />
children! Thank you, <strong>Wheelock</strong> professors!”<br />
In addition to 7-year-old Brandon, Robin<br />
has Scott, 20, and Mikaela, 18.<br />
1982<br />
A+ for Barbara Madison Ripps! She took Lori Ann<br />
Saslav’s idea about sharing memories of college days<br />
(from the March appeal for Class Notes news) and<br />
ran with it! Here are her reminiscences: “Having a<br />
triple and using the closet as a bedroom, opening our<br />
windows to hear the Yankees and Red Sox play at<br />
Fenway Park, going to Phi Gamma Pi (Northeastern<br />
fraternity) for their parties and the Northeastern<br />
football games, going down to Government Center<br />
every weekend to shop/look around/eat, being asked<br />
to come to see TV pilots and rate them at a local TV<br />
studio, going on the Booze Cruise, learning how to<br />
50 <strong>Fall</strong> <strong>2008</strong>
CLASS NOTES<br />
fall asleep when others were watching TV in your<br />
room, dealing with people who had boyfriends come<br />
from other schools, drowning out the sound of ‘the<br />
pit’ in Peabody Hall when you were trying to sleep<br />
and/or work, going down to the dining hall in your<br />
robe and not caring what other people think, making<br />
that LONNNNNG walk in the snow to student<br />
teach, teaching famous people’s children and treating<br />
them as you would any other child, making your<br />
own games/activities for your student teaching placement,<br />
waiting at the bus stop for a very long time in<br />
the cold weather until someone you knew came<br />
along and asked you if you wanted a ride, going to<br />
Swampscott to the beach when it was 55 degrees, sitting<br />
out on the lawn (now Winsor parking lot) when<br />
it was nice with your backrest to get a tan (only to<br />
find out the next day that you were really sunburned),<br />
having wine and cheese every weekend with<br />
your friends, visiting the houses of your friends while<br />
being away from home, learning what it was like to<br />
walk around with a nickel in your purse, being<br />
responsible for your own checking account, introducing<br />
friends to your boyfriend’s brother (only to<br />
find out in the years to come that they were to be<br />
married), learning how to live in a big city, making<br />
Jewish meals for my friends and connecting with<br />
other Jewish people on and off campus, taking risks<br />
that I would not normally have taken, learning to be<br />
independent and think for myself, socializing with<br />
the MCP boys in Peabody, going to Cape Cod for<br />
the weekend with friends, seeing how much you<br />
could shove into your parents’ car when coming in<br />
August and leaving in May, cooking for a 90-yearold<br />
judge several times a week and feeling honored to<br />
do that, asking to be escorted home by one of the<br />
men on campus (through ‘Pervert Park’), shopping at<br />
the Coop, walking home from a BU party at ‘The<br />
Zoo,’ going to an MIT party not realizing that the T<br />
stopped at a certain time during the night and asking<br />
a policeman to drive you as close to <strong>Wheelock</strong> as<br />
possible, making great friendships, learning from<br />
great professors, and having a lifetime of experiences<br />
to share with others.”<br />
1983<br />
Carol Rubin Fishman<br />
Greetings, ’83ers! I (Carol) just returned from<br />
Reunion, and I’m ready to go back immediately! A<br />
small but dedicated group of 12 was there, plus<br />
four husbands who became “one of us” within minutes!<br />
We all TRULY wish all of you had come! It<br />
was wonderful talking with everyone, whether special<br />
friend, classmate, or spouse, to hear about the<br />
similarities and differences our lives hold! PLEASE<br />
join us in five years!<br />
Sandy Hansen Hill was “glad to see all the<br />
<strong>Wheelock</strong> gals at Reunion <strong>2008</strong>!” she wrote. She is<br />
still teaching first grade in Littleton, MA, and has<br />
Judy Jacobs Albertine ’83 (standing, left) and husband Jeff (seated,<br />
right) with son Scott and daughter Jessie around Christmas 2007<br />
two beautiful children, ages 8 and 17. They enjoy<br />
traveling and attending sporting events. Sandy had<br />
made plans to meet up with Nancy Cutler Ward<br />
at Reunion. They’ve been in touch all these years.<br />
Nancy’s husband, Walter, is a fisherman/lobsterman!<br />
“I get fresh seafood constantly, a definite benefit to<br />
living near the water,” she wrote. Their blended<br />
family is doing great, and Nancy seems so happy!<br />
Before Reunion she wrote, “I am working as a case<br />
manager for early intervention services. After living<br />
and teaching in Georgia for 19 years, it’s hard to<br />
believe I’ve been in Maine for seven years. I did<br />
miss the fall in New England.”<br />
“Made it to Reunion!” wrote Mary Sienkiewicz<br />
Minalga. “It was awesome! It was great to reconnect<br />
with our class. Please know you were sorely missed!<br />
We hope to see more old friends at our 30th! Bob<br />
and I will celebrate our 21st anniversary in August<br />
<strong>2008</strong>.” Mary joined Laurel Massey Leibowitz and<br />
me (Carol) at a bed and breakfast owned by Lynne<br />
Wyluda Beasley ’66. We had a delightful time<br />
catching up and looking at pictures into the wee<br />
hours! I am substitute teaching (and LOVING IT!)<br />
while Rae (15) and Josh (11) are in school, so that I<br />
can be available to them. Laurie Wartenberg Finkle<br />
and I try to get together at least once a year and e-<br />
mail frequently. She missed Reunion due to a Finkle<br />
family wedding (don’t they know better?). Laurie is<br />
also substituting at her local elementary school. We<br />
also tried to get Carrie Sobel Rubin and Deborah<br />
Wurgler to join us, but obstacles (pet sitting and illness)<br />
prevented it. Andrea Ades Woolner made it<br />
for the parade of classes, along with her mother and<br />
aunt, also in reunion classes, and her nearly 2-yearold<br />
son, JT. “After 17 years of teaching first grade, I<br />
am loving every minute of being a stay-at-home<br />
mom!” Andrea wrote.<br />
Susie Marr continues to teach preschool in the<br />
San Francisco area. Recently she hosted a <strong>Wheelock</strong><br />
alumni event at her preschool. She coaxed Debbie<br />
Sickels Robinson to join us at Reunion. It was a<br />
pleasure to catch up with Debbie!<br />
Karen Corcoran Birner and Jane Donovan<br />
Huzar organized our class dinner (a delicious<br />
clambake!). Karen has five children, from 20 years<br />
on down, and holds a full-time teaching position.<br />
Jane, who has four children, says Karen did all the<br />
work, but I don’t believe her! These two brought<br />
their husbands, Tim and Doug, respectively, both<br />
Mass. <strong>College</strong> of Pharmacy students who were<br />
housed at <strong>Wheelock</strong> and are, therefore, part of our<br />
class. Sarah Lindsay Holden brought husband<br />
Regis, who became resident photographer! Sarah’s<br />
been teaching for a very long time in the same<br />
school that she attended in the Pittsburgh area. She<br />
teaches special education middle school students.<br />
Claudia Tillis Weger and Mike were there,<br />
leading us in bell-ringing along the parade route!<br />
Claudia’s daughter Emily, a current <strong>Wheelock</strong><br />
student, worked much of the weekend. It was a<br />
pleasure to get to know her. She’s delightful and<br />
always smiling! Claudia’s e-mail to me reads: “I<br />
had such a blast at our 25th Reunion. I think<br />
we all looked great! The dinner was fun, and the<br />
PowerPoint was touching. Let’s not wait five<br />
years! Love to all my Riverway girls.” Tina Huber<br />
Banos was expected but couldn’t make it. Her<br />
son was in a college-level baseball game that was<br />
expected to be on ESPN that night. Some of the<br />
group tried to watch it at the Cask!<br />
Just after Reunion, Laurel Massey Leibowitz<br />
wrote: “I am back to being a professional volunteer<br />
running events for families in town [Tolland, CT]<br />
with special needs through a wonderful organization,<br />
SEPTA (Special Education Parent Teacher<br />
Association). I coordinate and run special events<br />
and programs for the families to enjoy. This is my<br />
17th year as a Girl Scout leader and church school<br />
volunteer. And I continue to be my children’s and<br />
husband’s #1 fan! It was awesome to reconnect at<br />
the Reunion and see the progress at <strong>Wheelock</strong>. It<br />
continues to be an amazing community that makes<br />
me proud to be a graduate!”<br />
A technology trainer for the Board of<br />
Cooperative Education Services in New York,<br />
Sara Grande Gavens wrote: “I deliver technology<br />
training to teachers who purchase educational<br />
technology services through our agency. It is a<br />
very interesting job because I work primarily<br />
with the administrative staff of the school districts<br />
that contract through us. I am teaching<br />
courses on Blackboard (online education) and do<br />
face-to-face [technology]. I also deliver training<br />
at various school districts when requested. At<br />
times I do miss the little guys, but it is nice being<br />
in an adult environment! The downside is that<br />
this is a 12-month position, so I’ve lost my summer<br />
vacations.” Sara lives right behind Barbara<br />
Madison Ripps ’82, and their kids go to the<br />
same schools. She also sees Laurie Wartenberg<br />
Finkle (in the next town) quite a bit and has seen<br />
me (Carol) a lot over the last 15 years.<br />
<strong>Wheelock</strong> Magazine 51
<strong>Wheelock</strong> To Do List<br />
■✔<br />
Classes ending in 4 and 9, plan for Reunion 2009.<br />
■✔<br />
Go to a <strong>Wheelock</strong> alumni event.<br />
■✔<br />
Attend an on-campus event.<br />
■✔<br />
Use the Center for Career Development resources.<br />
■✔<br />
Check the alumni website (updated monthly) for news:<br />
http://www.wheelock.edu/alum/index.asp.<br />
■✔<br />
Send a change of address to:<br />
http://www.wheelock.edu/alum/alumupdates.asp.<br />
Children’s Hospital in Providence weekly for her<br />
daughter’s leukemia. One day Hannah told me<br />
about ‘Lisa.’ Her mom, Debbe, came on the phone<br />
and finished telling me that Lisa was someone who<br />
helped them with things at the hospital and ran a<br />
camp and answered questions. We went back and<br />
forth, and I figured out who ‘Lisa’ was. I knew<br />
Lisa Cantore was working at Hasbro but never<br />
thought my best friend would have weekly contact<br />
with someone I have known for so many years. It<br />
turned out that Lisa was working closely with<br />
Debbe and Hannah for the past three years on a<br />
weekly basis and over the summers when Lisa ran a<br />
great summer program. Hats off to Lisa Cantore!”<br />
I received two other letters by mail and e-mail.<br />
Judy Jacobs Albertine is a reading specialist at<br />
Atlanta Speech School. She and husband Jeff live in<br />
Marietta, GA. Nancy Jones Stice wrote: “I<br />
returned to China (again) and opened a child development<br />
center that is based on the idea of our children’s<br />
museums. I now live in Phoenix, AZ, and am<br />
director of exhibits of the new Children’s Museum<br />
of Phoenix.” Nancy was director of the Resource<br />
Center at <strong>Wheelock</strong> in the 1980s through 1994.<br />
Start planning for Reunion 2013 (May 31 to<br />
June 2)! Put a note at the end of your current calendar<br />
and move it forward as the years progress! See<br />
you at <strong>Wheelock</strong>!<br />
1984<br />
Kathy Welsh Wilcox<br />
1986<br />
Reunion 2009<br />
May 29-31<br />
Julie Simon<br />
Hi, all, and greetings from the sadly diminished<br />
Class of ’86! Kellie Glennon wrote to say she<br />
completed her second year as a paraprofessional<br />
working closely with two sixth-grade boys in the<br />
Weymouth, MA, Public Schools. She is learning<br />
about Asperger’s syndrome and loves what she’s<br />
doing as well as the people with whom she works.<br />
Kellie lives in Quincy with 10-year-old son Jared<br />
and is very involved in school activities and Jared’s<br />
Boy Scout troop. Kathi Zack Hajjar is living in<br />
Springfield, PA, with her three children. She<br />
describes herself as a typical soccer mom: Her<br />
evenings are filled with baseball, soccer, and cheerleading.<br />
By day, she teaches 3- to 5-year-olds in a<br />
pre-K program at Friends School in Lansdowne,<br />
PA. Karen Fitch Voellmann has spent the last 18<br />
years raising her children and volunteering for various<br />
organizations. Her son has gone off to college,<br />
and her daughter is in her junior year in high<br />
school. In the spring, she wrote, “It’s hard to believe<br />
I have a son going to college. Wasn’t it just yesterday<br />
when we were all there?!” Karen is pursuing a<br />
new passion: She is completing training at the<br />
Cambridge School of Culinary Arts. She will be<br />
trading in some of her parent caps for a chef’s hat<br />
and making delicious pastries! I’m sure you all join<br />
me in wishing Karen health and joy in her new<br />
career. I just have one question. . . . When can we<br />
all come over for coffee and sweets?<br />
As for me (Julie), I continue to live in Dracut,<br />
MA, with my daughter, Lauren, who is a secondgrader<br />
with many interests and gifts. She is a joy in<br />
so many ways and has helped me to grow and learn<br />
as I continue on this journey. Professionally, I have<br />
had a year of mostly energizing change. After teaching<br />
in an integrated preschool setting for the past<br />
10 years, I took on the role of teaching music and<br />
movement to all the preschoolers and kindergartners<br />
in my school. I was fortunate to spend an<br />
amazing week at Kripalu in Western Massachusetts<br />
to participate in Creative Kids Yoga training. I try<br />
to infuse some basic yoga principles into my classes,<br />
while honoring each child’s individual style and<br />
contributions as much as possible. Sometimes, this<br />
can be a difficult task in a public school setting.<br />
With the increasing demands to fit an ever-expanding<br />
curriculum into our youngest children’s school<br />
day, I find it refreshing to be able to provide the<br />
opportunity for movement, music, and play. Of<br />
course, there are many challenges . . . and with<br />
them come many more rewards! Now, it’s your<br />
turn: Please let us know how you are and what is<br />
bringing you inspiration.<br />
1989<br />
Reunion 2009<br />
May 29-31<br />
Susan Kelly Myers<br />
Lisa Grossman Headley married her “longtime<br />
live-in guy,” Don, in Providence, RI, on April 6,<br />
and they took a cruise for their honeymoon. They<br />
continue to live in Virginia. Lisa tells a great story:<br />
“My best friend has been going to Hasbro<br />
1991<br />
Alyssa Greeley<br />
Rebekah Engel Elmore lives in Newburyport,<br />
MA, with her husband and four children. She has<br />
started her own organizing consulting business<br />
called Everyday Solutions, which helps residential<br />
and corporate clients. Gina Wayshak Hames has<br />
been working at the DSS Hotline for almost 17<br />
years and lives in Malden, MA, with her husband<br />
and two sons. Sara Regan Levine stays busy as a<br />
PTO president and booster for the many sports<br />
teams that her sons have joined. Kristen Munger,<br />
who lives in Tomball, TX, works at a resort near<br />
Houston. In the spring, she wrote of her recent<br />
involvement in two organizations. One, called Little<br />
People of America, is for people who are under 4<br />
feet 10 inches in height. “It is nice when we get<br />
together because I am finally around people my<br />
own size,” she wrote. She has also joined the Spina<br />
Bifida Association of America and in June was<br />
headed to her first SBA conference, in Tucson, AZ.<br />
Sara Rice Patt, who has been a happy housewife<br />
and mom to three children in Wenham, MA,<br />
for 11 years, is ready to return to teaching. Since<br />
graduating from <strong>Wheelock</strong>, Jocelyn Sosnicki<br />
Pensa has received her master’s degree in Deaf<br />
Education Specializing in Parent/Infant Education<br />
from Gallaudet University in Washington, D.C. She<br />
went on to teach at Cleary School for the Deaf in<br />
Nesconset, NY, and she and husband David have<br />
two children. While on maternity leave, Jocelyn<br />
facilitated an American Sign Language program for<br />
hearing infants/toddlers and their parents, taught an<br />
adult education ASL class at Walt Whitman High<br />
School, and interpreted for the deaf at St. Patrick’s<br />
Church in Huntington, NY. She recently returned<br />
to work teaching ASL at Nassau Community<br />
<strong>College</strong>. Deborah Beaman Wood wants to let<br />
everyone know that son Taylor, whom many of you<br />
helped care for, headed off to Quinnipiac University<br />
this fall. She is considering returning to work since<br />
her other children — Hayden, Emily, and Carson —<br />
will be in school.<br />
52 <strong>Fall</strong> <strong>2008</strong>
CLASS NOTES<br />
Sarah Rice Patt ’91 celebrating her 38th birthday with her children, Zach, Ben, and Olivia, and dog, Boca<br />
As for me (Alyssa), I recently moved into an<br />
incredible loft apartment in a converted textile mill<br />
in Slatersville, RI.<br />
1992<br />
Christine Smith Imani<br />
The Alumni Relations Office apologizes to Laura<br />
Higgins Beverly, whose news was lost and who<br />
couldn’t be reached during the summer to get<br />
replacement news into this issue.<br />
In June, Jen Croce wrote of her exciting plans<br />
to open an organic home day care (in her home in<br />
Billerica, MA) called GreenBaby Home Daycare<br />
in September. She has put her psychotherapy<br />
career on hold so she can be home with her two<br />
girls. “I offer organic and all-natural child care<br />
(i.e., serve organic/all-natural food and use nontoxic<br />
products in my home),” she wrote. “I am the<br />
first day care in the state to be certified as an Eco-<br />
Healthy Childcare by the Oregon Environmental<br />
Council. Eco-Healthy Childcare is an award-winning<br />
program that helps improve the environmental<br />
health of child care facilities.” Robyne<br />
Newman Hockett lives just outside of West Palm<br />
Beach, FL, with her husband of seven years, their<br />
6-year-old daughter, and Robyne’s two stepchildren.<br />
She works with the developmentally disabled<br />
through the Medicaid Waiver program in<br />
Florida and is a part-time romance enhancement<br />
specialist (www.slumberpartiesbyrobyne.com). Jeanie<br />
Morse Pettengill wrote about her “crazy” life:<br />
“Lyndsey, our 3-year-old, was diagnosed with<br />
acute lymphoblastic leukemia in March, and we<br />
have been on an emotional roller coaster. She is in<br />
remission, but we have two long years for treatment<br />
at Dana Farber. Please keep her in your<br />
thoughts and prayers. Lauren, our 8-year-old, is<br />
taking it in stride! She is a great big sister and<br />
wants life like it was. I hope everyone else is well,<br />
and I often think about <strong>Wheelock</strong>.” Jennifer<br />
Werb and husband Tony celebrated their second<br />
wedding anniversary during the summer. She has<br />
been in her position teaching middle school special<br />
education students at Salem School in Salem,<br />
CT, for 10 years and still loves it. “Amanda<br />
Siebert, a Salem School graduate and current<br />
<strong>Wheelock</strong> student, spent an afternoon visiting my<br />
classroom,” Jennifer wrote in the spring. “We had<br />
fun comparing <strong>Wheelock</strong> and Peabody of ‘now’<br />
and ‘then.’”<br />
1993<br />
Nina Mortensen LaPlante<br />
Jennifer Batts Brown loves her new job — staying<br />
home with 1-year-old Madison. Daughter Alexis is<br />
2. Maria Mazzarella is a December ’93 grad who<br />
is a primary transition class teacher at the Patrick J.<br />
Kennedy Elementary School in East Boston.<br />
Maria’s principal is Marice Edouard Diakite, and<br />
she was very glad to find out that her boss was a<br />
fellow alum. Marice was someone Maria had<br />
remembered from school even though Maria is<br />
older and was a commuter who had a different<br />
experience at <strong>Wheelock</strong>. It’s a small world. Norma<br />
Cañas McBride (norma.mcbride@yahoo.com)<br />
wished she could be at Reunion, but flying across<br />
the country when you have two little ones can be<br />
tricky. She is delighted to announce that her family<br />
has grown. Jesse Ray was born in May 2007, and<br />
they adopted him from birth. She feels that her<br />
family is now complete. She continues to stay<br />
home full time. Norma often thinks back to our<br />
<strong>Wheelock</strong> days and has fond memories — she can’t<br />
believe it has been 15 years! Wanda Yeomans<br />
Patterson, husband George, and big brother<br />
Nicholas welcomed baby Katharine Grace on<br />
March 18, <strong>2008</strong>. They are all thrilled!<br />
Kimberly Roney Hatfield moved back to her<br />
home state of Maine four years ago and is loving<br />
every minute of being near her family. She is the<br />
proud mom of two beautiful girls and is working as<br />
head toddler teacher at USM Child and Family<br />
Centers. Kimberly was unable to attend Reunion<br />
because she got married on May 31! She would love<br />
to hear from any alum at kimrh<strong>2008</strong>@yahoo.com.<br />
Hilary Hoffman Sowers was married to husband<br />
Mark in June of 2007. Afterward, they spent three<br />
glorious weeks traveling through Italy. They live in<br />
beautiful Sonoma County, CA, and Hilary is still<br />
teaching fourth grade. She is also working on a<br />
doctorate degree in education at UC Davis. In<br />
addition, a big congratulations to Hilary for being<br />
chosen Teacher of the Year!<br />
I (Nina) also hope everyone had a wonderful<br />
time at Reunion this year. It is always great to<br />
be able to get together with old friends to reminisce,<br />
have a good time, and create new memories<br />
as well.<br />
1994<br />
Heidi Butterworth-Fanion<br />
Lisa Ann Strolin-Smith, husband Derek, and son<br />
Justin are proud to announce the birth of Lindsay<br />
Ann on April 21.<br />
1995<br />
Reunion 2009<br />
May 29-31<br />
Katelyn Guiney Wojnarowicz<br />
Rachelle Basich Doring has been living in<br />
Patterson, NY, since 1999 and has been working for<br />
Bright Horizons in Bethel, CT, as a toddler teacher<br />
for a little over a year. “I am really enjoying it and<br />
enjoy the close-knit family that is at my center,” she<br />
wrote. Alexander, 4, gets to go to work with her<br />
each day and attends the pre-K program. Anthony, a<br />
third-grader, makes Rachelle and husband Bill very<br />
proud with his excellent work at school. These days<br />
Amy Armstrong McCay is staying home (Beverly,<br />
MA) with her three boys. Callan Michael was born<br />
in the fall of 2007. “I recently brought Griffin [4]<br />
Rachelle Basich Doring ’95 and husband Bill with (L-R) Alexander and<br />
Anthony on the occasion of Anthony’s First Communion in May<br />
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CLASS NOTES<br />
Robin Fradkin Matthews ’96 (left) and wife Marcia at their wedding in<br />
Massachusetts on May 5, 2007<br />
back to <strong>Wheelock</strong> to see the Peter Pan show at<br />
WFT with Nicole Tangney Radulski ’95/’98MS<br />
and Cheri Piscetello Burke and their boys,” Amy<br />
wrote. “It was fun to be on campus again!”<br />
1996<br />
Kerrie Ryan Gerety<br />
Heather Clagett Andersen ’96/’01MS moved to<br />
a new home in Wilmington, MA, in 2007. She is<br />
still enjoying being a stay-at-home mom of four.<br />
In March, Christina Comenos Batchelder<br />
wrote: “My husband, Chris, and I were blessed<br />
with a second daughter, Sophia, on Dec. 27,<br />
2006. We knew that she would be born with a<br />
degenerative neurological disorder. What we didn’t<br />
know was how long she would be with us and<br />
how much she would profoundly change our lives<br />
and the lives of everyone that knew her story. I<br />
took time off from my social work career to care<br />
for Sophia (at home, surrounded by the love of<br />
her 5-year-old sister, Alethia, family, and friends).<br />
As exhausting as the round-the-clock care was for<br />
our precious angel, we don’t regret a single second<br />
of our time with Sophia. We just wish it had been<br />
longer. Sophia was lovingly returned to heaven on<br />
Jan. 22, <strong>2008</strong>. Who knew that my experience as a<br />
child life specialist and in both pediatric/adult<br />
hospice would play such a direct role in my life?<br />
What I thought had been a strong and healthy<br />
Ines Soto Palmarin ’96 with husband Jorge and son Jorge Yerden on<br />
the day in April 2007 that his adoption became official<br />
appreciation for life and the blessings I had been<br />
given, has grown beyond what I could have ever<br />
imagined. We are all trying to regroup as a family.<br />
I am enjoying every opportunity I have to be with<br />
Alethia. I am exploring different work opportunities<br />
and am open to the next journey this universe<br />
will bring me on. I am also grateful for Sophia<br />
bringing me back together with my dear friend<br />
Robin Richard Springfield. I would like to say<br />
hello to all my former <strong>Wheelock</strong> friends and hope<br />
they are all happy.”<br />
Maria Vanessa Jaramillo ’96/’98MS (vanessa_hellokitty@yahoo.com)<br />
of Watertown, MA, has<br />
been teaching first grade in Boston for five years.<br />
In the spring she had a long visit with her dad in<br />
Colombia. Karen Moy Joe-Yen ’96/’99MS and<br />
her husband, Anton Joe-Yen ’99/’04MS, are the<br />
proud parents of adorable little Sean Peter, born<br />
June 13. “We are so lucky that school is over so we<br />
can spend the whole summer getting to know<br />
Sean,” Karen wrote in late June. Robin Fradkin<br />
Matthews and wife Marcia are still living in<br />
Media, PA, and Robin is teaching writing at<br />
Drexel University. Carolyn Assad Norris wrote<br />
to announce the birth of daughter Zara Dilan on<br />
Feb. 2. She and husband Matt live in Tampa, FL,<br />
and she is an emergency room nurse at Tampa<br />
General Hospital. Shannan O’Brien got an<br />
M.S.W. (with a concentration in Older Adult/End<br />
of Life) at Salem State <strong>College</strong> in 2007 and now<br />
enjoys being the director of social services in a<br />
nursing home. She lives in Grafton, MA.<br />
“Our hearts are overjoyed with parenthood,”<br />
wrote Ines Soto Palmarin. She and husband Jorge<br />
were so proud to officially adopt Jorge Yerden<br />
Palmarin in April 2007. He was born Oct. 7, 2006,<br />
and came into their home about 10 days later.<br />
We are sorry to now have to report that Ines’ husband,<br />
Jorge, died of cancer on May 3. “Our son<br />
keeps me strong,” Ines wrote in July. Earlier this<br />
year, Michelle Smith Perry (shelmy@aol.com)<br />
drove across the country to move from Boys Town<br />
MTFC Foster Care Program in Washington, D.C.,<br />
to Orange County, CA, to take over an adolescent<br />
boys home within Boys Town Treatment Family<br />
Services Residential Program with husband Malik.<br />
“I am also still helping others achieve life changes<br />
through www.successfuldiligence.com,” she wrote.<br />
Kelly McGrath Szalewicz<br />
(kellynben@hotmail.com) wrote in the spring of her<br />
and her husband’s having become licensed foster<br />
parents with the Massachusetts Department of<br />
Social Services and having welcomed a 3-monthold<br />
boy into their home in July 2007. “We don’t<br />
know how long he will be with us, but we hope he<br />
becomes a permanent member of our family,” she<br />
wrote. “He is very loved by his foster sisters.” Kelly<br />
is enjoying being able to stay at home with the kids.<br />
“I have become a grandmother,” Arden<br />
Teplow wrote. “Not many 1996 graduates can say<br />
that.” Jordan, her 2-year-old granddaughter, lives<br />
nearby and is both a joy and a source of exhaustion,<br />
Arden says. She has left her position at Cedars-Sinai<br />
Outpatient Cancer Center, where she did psychotherapy,<br />
and is “taking time off to pursue some<br />
volunteer adventures and decide what to do with<br />
the rest of [her] life.”<br />
1997<br />
Heather Gelmini<br />
Nicole Beaudin DeBlois married husband Joseph<br />
in 2002, and they have a 2-year-old daughter,<br />
Samantha.<br />
1998<br />
Christine Barry Beaulieu<br />
Jillian Kaufman<br />
Megan King Abbott wrote to share about the<br />
birth of her daughter, Brooke Catherine, on June<br />
11, 2007. Angela Taddeo Holt lives in Milford,<br />
MA, and teaches third grade in the Woonsocket,<br />
RI, Public School System.<br />
1999<br />
Reunion 2009<br />
May 29-31<br />
Aimee Farrell Dos Santos<br />
Stacy Zimov Belliveau is home with her 1- and<br />
4-year-old daughters. As if they don’t keep her busy<br />
enough, during the spring she wrote that they were<br />
also putting an addition on their home. “Never a<br />
dull moment!” Stacy wrote.<br />
Heidi Benton Fleury ’01 and Scott at the Log Cabin in Holyoke, MA, on<br />
their wedding day in April 2007<br />
54 <strong>Fall</strong> <strong>2008</strong>
CLASS NOTES<br />
2000<br />
Sara McGarry<br />
Stacy Dorfer, a lead science teacher in Newark,<br />
NJ, is engaged to marry David Carson in January.<br />
She had a baby girl, Emily Grace Carson, in<br />
December 2006.<br />
2001<br />
Carrie Watson<br />
Heidi Benton and Scott Fleury were married in<br />
April 2007 and live in West Springfield, MA. She<br />
has a master’s degree in Physical Therapy and loves<br />
the job she’s had for three years at a rehab facility<br />
in Windsor, CT. Cesarina Hiciano Gonzalez,<br />
husband Royson, and their two girls had a wonderful<br />
family vacation to the Dominican Republic<br />
early this past summer. She works at Community<br />
Teamwork in Lowell, MA, as director of the Child<br />
and Family Services division.<br />
The Alumni Relations Office apologizes to<br />
Julie Dyer James, whose news was lost and who<br />
couldn’t be reached during the summer to get<br />
replacement news into this issue. Corey Lubin<br />
lives in Quincy, MA, and is a kindergarten teacher<br />
in the Boston Public Schools.<br />
Congratulations to Kristy Volk Marriott on<br />
the birth of son Adam Matthew on March 6.<br />
Kristy is home with Adam and daughter Avery,<br />
2, but also does “charity work for children and<br />
families in need.” Polly VanDeusen Benjamin<br />
and husband Brad, married on Dec. 23, 2006,<br />
“are lavishing [their] love and attention on [their]<br />
crazy dog, Sparks.” Polly is teaching second grade<br />
at Duanesburg Elementary School. They are both<br />
still very involved in competitive waterskiing and<br />
enjoy putting on waterskiing shows with The U.S.<br />
Water Ski Show Team in Scotia, NY. “My grandmother,<br />
Bunny Warner Zenowich ’47, passed<br />
away last year,” Polly wrote. “She always thought<br />
very highly of the school.”<br />
“[I]n love with the Southwest” since working<br />
at an outdoor education summer camp in the<br />
Four Corners region, Beth Williams has been living<br />
in Albuquerque, NM, since 2002. She taught<br />
fifth grade at a public charter school and earned a<br />
master’s in Language, Literacy, and Sociocultural<br />
Studies at the University of New Mexico in 2004.<br />
She met husband Josh while teaching, and they<br />
got married in July 2006. Now taking “a break<br />
from it all,” Beth is working on a Ph.D. in<br />
Family Studies and working in a pottery studio.<br />
She misses Boston, and she and Josh plan to<br />
move back to New England someday.<br />
I (Carrie) am living in Seymour, CT. I am<br />
the Christian education director for United<br />
Congregational Church in Bridgeport. I have<br />
been taking classes at Hartford Seminary School<br />
Debbie Martin ’02 (left) and Kiva Leibowitz ’11 skate together for the<br />
Hayden Synchronized Skating teams and did the walk for multiple<br />
sclerosis this year.<br />
to broaden my knowledge of Christian education.<br />
I have been working with children and<br />
families in many different venues and offering<br />
my talents to many. I hope all my fellow classmates<br />
are doing well and are flourishing in their<br />
current paths.<br />
2002<br />
Jenna Ebert-Pina ’02/’07MS and husband Joe<br />
were married on a beach on Cape Cod on Oct. 6,<br />
2007. She loves every minute of her job teaching<br />
sixth grade in Randolph, MA. In April, Lauren<br />
Kasimer wrote: “I’m going to be marrying Lance<br />
Chavin on Aug. 17, <strong>2008</strong>, in Arlington, VA. I am<br />
now living in Springfield, MA, with him and am<br />
still teaching toddlers at the Springfield Jewish<br />
Community Center nearby.” Nadia DeMasi<br />
Keller wrote to announce that she, husband Joe,<br />
and daughter Isabella welcomed daughter Gabriella<br />
Alexa to the family last Dec. 30.<br />
Debbie Martin and Kiva Leibowitz ’11<br />
skate together for the Hayden Synchronized<br />
Skating teams. “Kiva was on the Junior Lexettes<br />
Team in 2007-<strong>2008</strong>,” Debbie wrote in April.<br />
“They came out second at Nationals this year,<br />
making Team USA! She will be a Haydenette<br />
next season. They are the National Champions<br />
for the Senior division (most prestigious!). I was<br />
on the Adult and Masters Teams: Esprit de Corps<br />
in 2007-<strong>2008</strong> and will be on Esprit de Corps<br />
Adult next season. We are second place nationally<br />
in Adult. Kiva and I got together this week<br />
with our teams and did the walk for MS. One of<br />
my teammates was diagnosed last season, and she<br />
became the team manager for the Lexettes this<br />
season. Donations can be made to the National<br />
MS Society in the name of our teams: Hayden<br />
Synchronized Skating Teams.”<br />
Melissa Mignardi married Robert D’Angelo<br />
on Oct. 18. She is in a new job as an assistant<br />
teacher in a 3-6 classroom at a Montessori<br />
school. Whitney Pacelli ALSO now has the<br />
last name D’Angelo! She married Michael<br />
D’Angelo at the Westmount Country Club in<br />
West Patterson, NJ, on Aug. 31, 2007.<br />
Whitney lives in New York City and is an<br />
account executive for a European children’s<br />
clothing showroom representing more than 20<br />
European designers. Beth Simon received a<br />
master’s in Literacy Birth to Grade 6 from The<br />
<strong>College</strong> of Saint Rose in Albany, NY, and now<br />
lives in Parkland, FL, with Michael Harwood,<br />
whom she married May 31. Melissa Arnold<br />
Martin ’01 was one of the bridesmaids in<br />
Beth’s wedding, and Mary McEachern attended.<br />
Beth teaches kindergarten at the Donna<br />
Klein Jewish Academy in Boca Raton.<br />
Kate O’Leary Swinburne and husband<br />
Shane welcomed son Griffin on March 11. They<br />
are enjoying parenthood very much! Debbie<br />
Will married TJ Pruell in Scituate, MA, in June,<br />
and they honeymooned in Mexico. “Some girls<br />
from Pilgrim might remember his frequent visits,”<br />
she wrote.<br />
2004<br />
2005<br />
Congratulations to Tim Putnam! In April, he<br />
wrote: “I have been selected as a participant in the<br />
October cycle of the Japan Fulbright Memorial<br />
Fund Program. The grant allows me to travel for<br />
three weeks with 200 other educators from around<br />
the United States to Japan for cultural enrichment<br />
and professional development.”<br />
2007<br />
Karen Peterkin is site coordinator for CATCH<br />
(Children Achieving Through Community<br />
Hope, a Roxbury-Weston Programs’ after-school<br />
program), which serves kindergarten through<br />
third-grade children with after-school educational<br />
enrichment and support.<br />
<strong>2008</strong><br />
Reunion 2009<br />
May 29-31<br />
Leslie Jordan is working with children at the<br />
Winship Elementary School (Boston Public<br />
Schools) in Brighton, MA, and is a member of the<br />
Roxbury-Weston Programs’ board of trustees. In<br />
June, she wrote, “I have been accepted to UMass<br />
Boston Graduate <strong>College</strong> of Education/Teacher<br />
Education Program for the fall of <strong>2008</strong>.”<br />
<strong>Wheelock</strong> Magazine 55
CLASS NOTES<br />
Master’s Degrees<br />
Jane Steele Milchen ’51/’69MS (See Class of ’51.)<br />
Zelinda “Zee” Makepeace Douhan ’63/’75MS<br />
(See Class of ’63.) Carole Tagg ’76MS is proud to<br />
announce the completion of two successful years<br />
operating her own management consulting business,<br />
Resources for Human Services in Waltham,<br />
MA. “My business specializes in providing a variety<br />
of corporate, public relations, development, and<br />
human resource services to private nonprofit<br />
human service and educational organizations,” she<br />
wrote in March. “I also provide direct services to<br />
individuals and families in the area of development<br />
and cognitive disabilities. For more information,<br />
contact me at caroletagg@comcast.net.” Lucy<br />
Matson Hudson ’87MS, director of the Court<br />
Teams for Maltreated Infants and Toddlers Project<br />
at Zero to Three in Washington, D.C., wrote in<br />
March about her important work: “At each of the<br />
project’s demonstration sites, judges, attorneys,<br />
social workers, mental health clinicians, and a wide<br />
range of other community agency representatives<br />
convene on a monthly basis to address the systemic<br />
barriers to improving outcomes for very young<br />
children in foster care. In the summer of <strong>2008</strong>, the<br />
four original teams will be joined by four more.<br />
To learn more, you can visit http://zerotothree.org/<br />
courtteams.” Pat Conzelman Greeley ’52/’90MS<br />
(See Class of ’52.)<br />
Lisa Sachs Goodman ’91MS wrote: “It’s so<br />
nice to read about the wonderful things happening<br />
at <strong>Wheelock</strong>. I use the knowledge I learned professionally<br />
as a school psychologist in a K-2 school<br />
though I am using it now as a mom to 2-monthold<br />
Kate! It is amazing to watch the daily developmental<br />
changes in your own baby.” Anne Nolen<br />
’95MS has co-written Mothers Need Time-Outs, Too<br />
(McGraw-Hill). It is available on Amazon.com and<br />
at Barnes & Noble and Wellesley (MA) Booksmith.<br />
Alicia Carroll ’96MS, a teacher/mentor in the<br />
Boston Public Schools, recently co-wrote an article<br />
with Dr. Barbara Brown at Boston University for<br />
the National Council of Social Studies. In “Beyond<br />
Wildlife: Teaching about Africa and Stereotypes,”<br />
printed in Social Studies and the Young Learner 20<br />
(4), Alicia helps give educators recommendations<br />
and lesson plans for teaching about Africa and<br />
Africans. Maria Vanessa Jaramillo ’96/’98MS<br />
(See Class of ’96.) Karen Moy Joe-Yen ’96/’99MS<br />
(See Class of ’96.) Heather Clagett Andersen<br />
’96/’01MS (See Class of ’96.)<br />
Kimberly Wright Brooks ’05MS and new<br />
husband Harvey had a beautiful wedding in<br />
Riverside, CA, on March 15, and their reception<br />
was held at a nearby American Legion post. Her<br />
cousin performed the ceremony, and her brother<br />
presented her to her husband at the altar.<br />
“Hawaiian dancers performed the ‘Waterfall<br />
Congratulations,<br />
Craig Simpson ’89MS!<br />
Craig, who is the infant/toddler team leader at<br />
the Yawkey Center for Early Education and Care<br />
in Dorchester, modestly wrote to Brianne Kimble,<br />
director of alumni relations, with some wonderful<br />
news back in April.<br />
“I usually don’t make public these events in my<br />
life, but I thought <strong>Wheelock</strong> might be interested in<br />
knowing that I just received the Abigail Eliot Award<br />
from the Boston Association for the Education of<br />
Young Children (BAEYC) at the Early Childhood Gala<br />
in Randolph, April 18. This is an important award<br />
given to pioneers in early childhood education, as<br />
Abigail Eliot was. Other <strong>Wheelock</strong> people who have<br />
received the award are [<strong>Wheelock</strong> faculty members]<br />
Diane Levin [’69MS], Ed Klugman, and Gwen<br />
Morgan [’76MS]. I believe I am the first teacher<br />
and the third male to receive the award.<br />
“Also, in May I will be attending the World Forum<br />
of Men in Early Education in Hawaii. There will be<br />
men teaching young children from Africa, Asia,<br />
Ireland, and Europe. I will be one of the only attendees<br />
from New England.”<br />
Dance’; Riverside Poly High School Army ROTC<br />
performed the Arch of Sabers Ceremony; and the<br />
President and Mrs. Bush sent us their well wishes<br />
from the White House,” Kimberly wrote. Jenna<br />
Ebert-Pina ’02/’07MS (See Class of ’02.)<br />
Arrivals<br />
91MS Lisa Sachs Goodman, a daughter, Kate<br />
93 Norma Cañas McBride, a son, Jesse Ray<br />
93 Wanda Yeomans Patterson, a daughter,<br />
Katharine Grace<br />
94 Lisa Ann Strolin-Smith, a daughter,<br />
Lindsay Ann<br />
95 Amy Armstrong McCay, a son,<br />
Callan Michael<br />
96/99 Karen (Moy) and Anton (’99/’04MS)<br />
Joe-Yen, a son, Sean Peter<br />
96 Carolyn Assad Norris, a daughter,<br />
Zara Dilan<br />
98 Megan King Abbott, a daughter,<br />
Brooke Catherine<br />
00 Stacy Dorfer, a daughter, Emily Grace<br />
01 Kristy Volk Marriott, a son,<br />
Adam Matthew<br />
02 Nadia DeMasi Keller, a daughter,<br />
Gabriella Alexa<br />
02 Kate O’Leary Swinburne, a son, Griffin<br />
Unions<br />
93 Hilary Hoffman to Mark Sowers<br />
93 Kimberly Roney to John Hatfield<br />
02/07 Jenna Ebert to Joe Pina<br />
02 Lauren Kasimer to Lance Chavin<br />
02 Melissa Mignardi to Robert D’Angelo<br />
02 Whitney Pacelli to Michael D’Angelo<br />
02 Beth Simon to Michael Harwood<br />
02 Debbie Will to TJ Pruell<br />
Deaths<br />
30 Agnes Bainton Thompson<br />
32 Jeannette Ross Thomson<br />
34 Helen Canning Sims<br />
38 Barbara Kerr Calder<br />
38 Adele Aronson Mason<br />
38 Florence “Polly” Naylor Mohlere<br />
39 Marjorie MacEachern Goehring<br />
40 Marjorie Glendon Denaro<br />
40 Martha Werneken Devlin<br />
42 Ellen Stanton Farrell<br />
42 Virginia Reynolds Huggins<br />
42 Katharine Lewars Weymouth<br />
45 Elizabeth Matthews Piper<br />
46 Phyllis Schuyler Lindsay<br />
46 Barbara Robjent Moore<br />
49 Mathilde “Teally” Clark Holmes<br />
50 Betty Jane Jalley<br />
51 Jane Ann Hartzell Knebel<br />
52 Mary MacKay Marcus<br />
58 Maureen Murphy Coakley<br />
77 Elizabeth Van Horn Ratchford<br />
56 <strong>Fall</strong> <strong>2008</strong>
Giving Back<br />
to<br />
the<br />
Sally Clark Sloop ’68<br />
Future<br />
Sally Clark Sloop depended on student loans to attend <strong>Wheelock</strong> and<br />
considers it the best educational investment of her life. “My <strong>Wheelock</strong><br />
education has been foundational in every aspect of my professional work<br />
for the last 40 years and in the development of our family as well,” she says.<br />
“I think that as<br />
alumni, we need<br />
to continue to be<br />
responsible and<br />
responsive to the<br />
new generation of<br />
teachers who are<br />
coming up.”<br />
Sally was a classroom teacher for 25 years and for the last<br />
15 years has worked in the disability and family support field,<br />
a career shift influenced by her own experience as the parent<br />
of a child with special needs. “If it had not been for my<br />
<strong>Wheelock</strong> education, I would not have been able to understand<br />
what was possible and best for our son, Peter, so that he<br />
could be successful,” she remembers. “Before we had any<br />
special needs laws or programs in the schools, <strong>Wheelock</strong> was<br />
already grounded in the philosophical belief that all children<br />
have strengths and all children can learn. I am so impressed<br />
now when I see that <strong>Wheelock</strong> students are still being taught<br />
to focus on the individual child from the start, but within a<br />
comprehensive scope that includes the family, community,<br />
special needs, health care, and so much more.”<br />
As a Cornerstone Society member, Sally feels she is giving<br />
back — something she has always wanted to do. “I think<br />
that as alumni, we need to continue to be responsible and<br />
responsive to the new generation of teachers who are coming<br />
up,” she says. “I remain inspired by my Class of ’68 and its<br />
recent significant financial gifts to the <strong>College</strong> at our 40th<br />
Reunion in June. To prepare young teachers to give the same quality of care to<br />
children living in very different times than we did is so important.”<br />
Sally joined the Heritage Society this year too. She sees it as another way of<br />
giving back, and to the future. “I am forever grateful for my education, and I<br />
don’t know of a better cause than <strong>Wheelock</strong>,” she says. “It is my allegiance to<br />
the mission of the <strong>College</strong> and to children and families of the future that makes<br />
me want to contribute.”<br />
For information about the Cornerstone Society and the Heritage<br />
Society, call (617) 879-2328 or visit www.wheelock.edu/giving.
Calendar<br />
of Events<br />
<strong>Wheelock</strong><br />
Family Theatre<br />
November 19 • 5:30-8:30 p.m.<br />
Alumni Association Board Meeting<br />
43 Hawes Street, Brookline Campus<br />
December 4 • 5:30 p.m.<br />
Alumni Book Group<br />
Alumni Relations Office<br />
43 Hawes Street, Brookline Campus<br />
December 11 • 6:00-10:00 p.m.<br />
Alumni Night at the Holiday Pops!<br />
Reception at 43 Hawes Street, Brookline Campus<br />
& transportation to Symphony Hall for concert<br />
Contact (617) 879-2302<br />
January 3-10, 2009<br />
Alumni Community Service Trip to New Orleans<br />
Contact Brianne Kimble at (617) 879-2261<br />
or bkimble@wheelock.edu<br />
February 15-21, 2009<br />
Alumni Travel Program to Northern Ireland<br />
Contact Lauren Thorman at<br />
Lthorman@wheelock.edu<br />
March 8-14, 2009<br />
Student and Alumni Study Tour to Puerto Rico<br />
Contact Brianne Kimble at (617) 879-2261<br />
or bkimble@wheelock.edu<br />
For more information and event updates,<br />
watch your monthly E-Newsletter, check<br />
the <strong>College</strong> website at www.wheelock.edu,<br />
or e-mail alumnirelations@wheelock.edu.<br />
llustration by Joni Liberman<br />
<strong>2008</strong> – 2009<br />
Season<br />
WFT Drama:<br />
Saint Joan<br />
October 31–November 30<br />
George Bernard Shaw’s provocative<br />
drama about the life and<br />
trial of Joan of Arc<br />
WFT Musical:<br />
Seussical<br />
January 30–March 1<br />
A musical adaptation of the<br />
whimsical wordplay and colorful<br />
characters of Dr. Seuss<br />
by Lynn Ahrens & Stephen Flaherty<br />
WFT Children’s Show:<br />
Charlotte’s Web<br />
April 10–May 10<br />
E.B.White’s classic children’s tale<br />
of a friendship that<br />
transcends differences —<br />
truly a story for all ages<br />
To improve the lives of children and families<br />
200 The Riverway<br />
Boston, MA<br />
02215-4176<br />
(617) 879-2123<br />
Non-Profit Org.<br />
U.S. Postage<br />
PAID<br />
N. ATTLEBORO, MA<br />
PERMIT NO. 216