Class 1943

Louis Lepontois Breese ’53Class of 1953I have retired from counseling with pay. Somehow I end up doing a lot of visiting help as a volunteer.Even in college with the Red Cross this was true.My favorite Ohio Wesleyan memory is how I always felt a part of something good be sports orlearning.Barbara Benedict Bunker ’53117 Highland Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14222715-881-2166bbunker@buffalo.eduI retired from being a professor in the Psychology Departmentat the University at Buffalo (SUNY) in 2002. This has givenme time to continue my organizational consulting and writing.I did The Handbook of Large Group Methods (with BillieAlban) in 2006 and a field study of a 10 year intervention tohelp faculty at Purdue University change the culture ofengineering, math and science which was published by PurduePress in 2009. This spring I just finished updating chaptersabout working in organizations participatively for the Handbook of Conflict Resolution (3rd Ed)and the NTL Handbook of Organization Development (OD).I have also continued as an independent OD consultant working with various clients like Novartis,Bristol Myers-Squibb, the Woodrow Wilson Fellowship Foundation and The Walt Disney Company. Ihave been training OD consultants in a course offered by Columbia University for a number of years.Since my identity is partly defined by being a social/organizational psychologist, I am delighted to beable in “retirement” to do what I love doing and let go of some of the hassle of organizational life as afull time employee. People keep asking me “When are you going to retire?” My answer is “I amretired. This is it!” I think we all do it in different ways and this is me at age 81.The other part of my life and my great pleasure is our natural beef farm which is my husband’sretirement project after leaving university teaching. Spring is finally coming. Calves are being born