magazine

WINTER 2016 

magazine 

Jackie Jenkins-Scott 

Wheelock College’s 13th President 

Wheelock College Career Services: 

In Director Kelly Graham’s Words 

Developing Leadership 

for a Changing World 

“An Unheard Voice—to a 

Voice for the Unheard”

magazine 

CONTENTS 

In the News ........................ 2 

The Riverway ...................... 5 

Features .............................. 7 

Faculty Spotlights .............. 16 

Alumni Spotlights .............. 20 

Student Spotlights ............. 24 

Annual Report of Giving .... 27 

Class Notes ......................... 48 

Editor 

Erin Heffernan 

Contributing Editor 

Christine Dall 

Production Editor 

Lori Ann Saslav 

Photography 

Erin Heffernan 

Tom Kates 

George Stearns 

Erin Wholley 

Design 

BCG Connect 

Front Cover: 


Wheelock College’s 13th President 

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Wheelock College Women’s Cross Country 

Team Takes NECC Championship 

“Our student-athletes serve as 

ambassadors for Wheelock 

College both in the classroom 

and in athletics. They represented 

our institution in glowing 

fashion when they won the 

2015 New England Collegiate 

Conference (NECC) Women’s 

Cross Country Championship. 

It was a historic moment for 

the entire Wheelock College 

community, as it marks the 

first championship in any 

sport at the College. As a coach, 

I couldn’t be more proud of 

what our team accomplished 

this year.” –Wole Oke 

Wheelock College congratulates the Wheelock College 

women’s cross country team! 

WINTER 2016 

The Wheelock College women’s cross 

country team won the 2015 New 

England Collegiate Conference (NECC) 

Championship on Oct. 31, 2015, the first 

championship in the program’s seven-year 

history. And, Wole Oke — head coach of 

the team — was named the 2015 NECC 

Women’s Cross Country Coach of the Year. 

Rookie Gina Powell of Granby, MA, placed 

first in the race with an impressive time of 

19:48.31. She was designated the 2015 NECC 

Women’s Cross Country Runner of the Year 

as well as the 2015 NECC Women’s Cross 

Country Rookie of the Year. Teammate 

Natasha Olanyk of Ashfield, MA, took 

fifth place in the race to claim 2015 NECC 

Women’s Cross Country First Team honors 

with a time of 20:51.12. And Kara Shipkin 

of South Easton, MA, added to the squad’s several awards and honors with her 

placement on the 2015 NECC Women’s Cross Country All-Sportsmanship Team.

Dear Alumni and Friends, 

One of my greatest privileges while serving as the President of Wheelock College has been becoming a member of and 

getting to know this unique and wonderful community. As I write my last opening letter for Wheelock Magazine, I feel 

tremendous gratitude to all of you who have worked alongside me for the past 12 years and who have honored me with 

your support and friendship. 

At Wheelock, our staff and faculty are also second to none. The hard work of our faculty is recounted to me in the 

anecdotes I hear from our students who tell me of professors who go above and beyond to support them. As you will 

read in this issue of Wheelock Magazine, Wheelock employs many very special people, two of whom, Dr. Hope Haslam 

Straughan and Mare Parker-O’Toole, are highlighted for co-parenting in separate homes. They co-parent, with a third 

couple, a set of brothers who otherwise would have been separated through the foster care system. You will read about 

Lynne Griffin, who has recently published a novel written while working as an adjunct professor at Wheelock. Girl Sent 

Away shows Lynne’s sensitivity to the lives and challenges of young people and her outstanding skills as a writer. 

As I have often said, our students inspire me every day. When I walk around campus, I am touched by the warmth 

and friendship they offer me as their President. I am honored to receive hugs and family updates, as well as hear their 

aspirations, concerns, and fears. In November, we hosted our Passion for Action Leadership Award Dinner where the 

Passion for Action Scholars were the highlight of the evening. We heard from Zach Kerr ’17, who, in addition to carrying 

his student workload, is a vocal leader for the young transgender community, speaking regularly at high schools 

and working with Born This Way Foundation. Zach is working to help transgender youth know that they are not alone, 

while at the same time educating their classmates and friends about the challenges transgender youth face. His work is 

having a positive effect on young people by breaking down stereotypes in our society and fueling courage and strength 

in transgender youth. 

This is just one of countless stories of our dedicated students who will become leaders in their communities. Many 

of them will become advocates, teachers, social workers, parents, business leaders, volunteers. There is not enough 

space to share the many stories of the incredible contributions that our students are making and will make. Our students 

chose well when they chose Wheelock because they are acquiring the education and skills they will need to fulfill 

the personal mission each undertakes in support of children and families. Their drive, compassion, and capacity for 

leadership are inspiring. 

It has also been a great joy for me to travel the country and indeed the world visiting our remarkable alumni. I have 

had the privilege of seeing so many alumni “in action” as they contribute to our Wheelock mission. The College’s 

alumni have been nothing but encouraging and supportive, and it is a great honor that I now count many alumni as 

lifelong friends. 

Wheelock’s founder, Lucy Wheelock, said: “Wherever you are, the bond which binds you to the Wheelock School 

and its teachers is one of the things that endures. Neither time nor distance can break it.” This community and these 

friendships will remain as some of the most wonderful aspects of my time at the College. I am deeply grateful to all of 

you for welcoming and supporting me and my family for the past 12 years. 

Sincerely, 

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President 

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In the News 

Dr. Hope Haslam Straughan Explores 

Transracial Adoption in New Book 

Forty percent of adopted children in America live in transracial 

families. Dr. Hope Haslam Straughan, Wheelock 

College associate dean of Social Work, Leadership, and 

Policy, has co-written Parenting in Transracial Adoption: Real 

Questions and Real Answers, a book that examines many of the 

complex issues that can occur in transracial adoptions. 

The result of a seven-year collaboration with co-authors 

Jane Hoyt-Oliver, professor of Social Work and chair of the Department 

of Social Work and Psychology at Malone University, 

and Jayne E. Schooler, an adoption worker and trainer as well as 

e-author or co-author of six books related to the topic, the book covers topics including 

parental understanding of childhood and race, parental understanding of the challenges 

that could arise surrounding transracial families within a community, and communication 

within the adoptive family. 

“It is critical that the needs and strengths of adopted children and teenagers are 

understood, especially for transracial families,” says Dr. Straughan. “It is my hope that 

this book will be a resource for adoptive parents and child welfare professionals to support 

transracial adoption in ways that empower children in their social, emotional, and 

identity development.” 

Anchored in a qualitative study of parents who have adopted children of a different 

race, Parenting in Transracial Adoption: Real Questions and Real Answers draws from 

real-life experiences to raise and respond to questions that arise before, during, and after 

transracial adoption. Its goal is to help adoptive parents (and child welfare professionals) 

understand the underlying racial challenges in a transracial adoption so they can 

help their children cope. It addresses questions from the obvious — for example, how to 

respond to invasive comments from family and community members — to the practical 

— how a Caucasian mother can learn to help her African-American daughter groom 

her hair. The book also shares advice from practitioners about preparing and supporting 

families in transracial adoption. A highlight is the inclusion of three chapters written by 

three adult adoptees who grew up within transracial families. 

Dr. Straughan’s research and scholarship interests include spirituality within social 

work assessment and intervention, justice-based social work, and foster care and adoption. 

She has presented nationally on the subject of adoption and on spirituality in social 

work practice. She serves as a volunteer foster care case reviewer for the Department of 

Children and Families in Massachusetts and is on the board of FAMILY, Inc. and KEY, 

Inc. She and her husband adopted their two biracial sons when they were preschoolers. 

Parenting in Transracial Adoption: Real Questions and Real Answers will be available for 

sale on Feb. 28, 2016. It is available for pre-order at http://tinyurl.com/TransracialAdoption. 

“It is critical that the 

needs and strengths 

of adopted children 

and teenagers are 

understood, especially 

for transracial families,” 

Book: 

Praeger Publishing 

says Dr. Hope Haslam 

Straughan. “It is my hope 

that this book will be a 

resource for adoptive 

parents and child welfare 

professionals to support 

transracial adoption 

in ways that empower 

children in their social, 

emotional, and identity 

development.” 

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In the News 

The Search for Wheelock’s 14th President 

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When the Wheelock College community 

learned that President Jackie Jenkins-Scott 

would be leaving the College — following a 

12-year tenure marked by significant growth of the institution 

— the Board of Trustees immediately appointed 

a Presidential Search Committee, which is charged with 

finding Wheelock’s 14th president. 

The first step in the presidential search process was 

to select a search consultant. Several executive search 

consulting firms were interviewed, and AGB Search 

was selected to facilitate a national search. AGB Search 

focuses exclusively on higher education leadership, conducting 

executive searches in partnership with colleges 

and universities across the country. 

In September, the Search Committee initiated a “Listening 

Tour” designed to gather input from faculty, students, 

staff, alumni, Trustees and Corporation members, 

Deans’ Council members, and members of the leadership 

team. Information gleaned from the tour was synthesized 

into the Leadership Profile — a multipage document 

that introduces potential candidates to Wheelock and 

also describes the opportunities and challenges ahead as 

well as characteristics desired in the next president. The 

Profile may be found on the Wheelock website at wheelock. 

edu/presidentialsearch, along with progress updates and 

Frequently Asked Questions. 

Next, AGB Search widely distributed the Profile and 

reached out to networks identified by various constituencies 

of the Wheelock community. By the time of the publication 

of this magazine, outreach for recruitment will be 

completed and the process of reviewing and interviewing 

candidates will have begun. In early winter, the Search 

Committee will review all applicants, selecting those who 

will be invited for interviews. These finalist interviews 

will be held in late February with the hope of naming a 

new president in early spring, allowing ample opportunity 

for the new leader to meet members of the Wheelock community 

prior to President Jenkins-Scott’s departure. The 

planned timetable will allow the new president to prepare 

to lead the College in a seamless transition at the start of 

the new academic year on July 1, 2016. 

The Search Committee is being led by Robert A. Lincoln, 

former Board chair, and Susan Simon ’73, who also 

helped lead the Search Committee that recruited President 

Jenkins-Scott. Other members of the committee 

are Ellen Faszewski, Ph.D., Co-chair, Mathematics and 

Science Department, Professor of Biology; Paul Hastings, 

Associate Dean of Student Success; John H. Jackson, 

Ed.D., J.D., Co-chair, Educational Policy Committee, 

Board of Trustees; Anne Marie Martorana, Vice President 

and Chief Financial Officer; Vicki Milstein ’72, Vice 

Chair of the Corporation, Corporation Member; Karen 

Sturges ’87MS, Co-chair, Governance Committee, Board 

of Trustees; Kate Taylor, Chair of the Board of Trustees; 

Eleonora Villegas-Reimers, Ed.D., Chair, Department 

of Elementary and Special Education, Associate Professor; 

Wendy Champagnie Williams ’93, Ph.D., Chair of 

the Master of Social Work Program, Assistant Professor, 

Social Work; and Leverett Wing, Board of Trustees. 

“The search for the new president 

of Wheelock College is a wonderful 

opportunity to take stock of where we 

are today. We have made great strides 

under the leadership of President 

Jackie, which positions us to move 

confidently forward into the future.” 

“The search for the new president of Wheelock College 

is a wonderful opportunity to take stock of where we are 

today. We have made great strides under the leadership 

of President Jackie, which positions us to move confidently 

forward into the future,” states Co-chair Susan 

Simon. “Through the search process we have heard from 

students, faculty, staff, alumni, Corporators, and Board 

members — it has been a community-building experience 

with a strong consensus around the importance of Wheelock’s 

mission and values and what’s needed to advance 

our beloved college.” 

WINTER 2016

The Riverway 

reports from around campus 

A letter from President Jackie Jenkins-Scott announcing Wheelock College’s full 10-year 

reaccreditation from the New England Association of Schools and Colleges (NEASC) 

September 28, 2015 

Dear Wheelock Community: 

I am thrilled to report that, as expected, Wheelock College has received its full 10-year reaccreditation from the New 

England Association of Schools and Colleges (NEASC), affirming our high-quality programs and academic standards. 

This brings to a close a very busy reaccreditation season as we also recently completed two highly successful 

reaccreditation visits for our Social Work and Education programs. Below please find more information about our 

current accreditations. 

• New England Association of Schools and Colleges (NEASC): After an intensive, yearlong self-study and 

comprehensive outside evaluation, Wheelock was reaccredited by NEASC in September 2015. The 10-year 

reaccreditation applies to the institution as a whole, including academics, policies, and practices. Wheelock College 

has been accredited by NEASC since 1950. 

• National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE): After 18 months of self-study and multiple 

external reviews, Wheelock was reaccredited in May 2015 by NCATE and underwent a simultaneous review by the 

Commonwealth of Massachusetts. This reaccreditation affirms Wheelock’s ability to offer undergraduate and 

graduate education degrees leading to state licensure for another 10 years. 

• Council on Social Work Education (CSWE): Wheelock’s Social Work programs were issued a 10-year 

reaccreditation in April 2015 by CSWE following a year of self-study. This reaccreditation affirms that all of 

Wheelock’s social work offerings and degree programs meet CSWE standards. 

Please feel free to visit our website for more detailed information on our accreditations here: http://www.wheelock. 

edu/about/accreditation-information. 

“The NEASC Commission noted the many strengths of the College, including its clear, focused mission that is 

embraced by the college community and serves as an effective guide for priority setting, and the institution’s highly 

qualified and dedicated faculty,” according to a joint statement issued this morning by President of the NEASC 

Commission Barbara Brittingham and me. 

Our community has much to celebrate! I want to thank our entire amazing faculty for its ongoing and tireless 

commitment to our high-caliber academics. It is because of your passion and dedication that you have set the highest 

standards for our students and for our institution. I also thank and congratulate our staff, students, and trustees for 

your support and participation during our yearlong self-study process and the visit of three accreditation teams. 

Congratulations to our entire College community on the completion of these three accreditations! These have been 

rigorous processes of self-reflection, formal reporting, and on-site visits to review and document our Education, Social 

Work, and overall academic programs. It is through this commitment to self-reflection and to continuous improvement 

that I am confident Wheelock will continue to live out its mission to improve the lives of children and families. 

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Best, 

President Jackie Jenkins-Scott

STEM in the 

City 2016: 

A Summer Camp 

In residence at the Department of Mathematics and Science on 

Wheelock College’s Boston campus, STEM in the City is a careerand 

college-awareness summer camp for young people entering the 

eighth and ninth grades. Innovative and fun, the annual camp features 

excursions to Boston-area companies, organizations, or field sites 

that highlight a variety of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, 

and Math) disciplines and engages students in a related classroom 

lab activity led by STEM professionals. During the camp, students 

explore a variety of STEM-related careers and the educational pathways 

needed to attain those careers. In addition, campers are introduced 

to college life and academics through campus tours featuring 

Wheelock’s classrooms, residence halls, library, theater, dining hall, 

multicultural center, and more. They also have the opportunity to 

participate in discussions with college students, faculty, and staff. 

The key goals of STEM in the City are: 

• To increase STEM content knowledge and skill development 

• To increase awareness of and to promote STEM careers 

• To expose middle school students to a college experience 

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STEM in the City 2016 

DATES: 

Monday–Friday 

July 18, 2016 – July 29, 2016 

(9 a.m. to 4 p.m. with informal STEM 

activities starting at 8 a.m.) 

• WEEK 1 (July 18–22, 2016) 

• WEEK 2 (July 25–29, 2016) 

• FULL CAMP (July 18–29, 2016) 

WHO: 

Students entering eighth or ninth 

grade in the fall of 2016 

WHERE: 

Wheelock College, Boston, MA 

COST: 

(includes lunch and a snack) 

$400 per Week 

$800 for Full Camp 

For more information on STEM in the City 

and to register, please visit 

www.wheelock.edu/stemcamp. 

Campers explore the variety of subjects in a relaxed and creative 

setting that allows them to develop and strengthen their interest in 

STEM fields while building bonds with their peers. Over the course 

of the program, students expand their viewpoints and knowledge of 

STEM, and apply their new skills in a real-world setting by participating 

in Citizen Science. For example, students can use the science educational 

tool WhaleNet 2.0. WhaleNet, created at Wheelock College 

in 1993, allows students to contribute to actual research programs of 

marine mammal research. Students can become involved in a variety 

of ways, including submission of photo-identification pictures for the 

catalog, traditional water testing, data analysis, mapping, and evaluation 

of established research protocols. STEM in the City was launched 

in 2015, and the majority of students who participated that first summer 

agreed that learning about STEM topics impacts how they view 

the world and provides the reasoning skills needed to understand 

that STEM concepts can be applied to everyday life. 

In the summer of 2016, STEM in the City will focus on four overarching 

themes: Marine, Space, Environment, and Health Sciences. 

Engineering, math, and technology will be woven into these broader 

themes throughout the camp, and students will visit sites such as 

7 Seas Whale Watch, the Christa McAuliffe Center, Blue Hills Observatory, 

and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. Overseeing the 

curriculum is camp director Dr. Ellen Faszewski, Wheelock College 

professor of Biology and co-chair of the Mathematics and Science 

Department. Team members also include Carolin Cardamone, assistant 

professor of Astronomy; Galina Dobrynina, associate professor 

of Mathematics; and Mare Parker-O’Toole, assistant director of the 

Earl Center for Learning and Innovation.

Reflections from President Jackie Jenkins-Scott 

as She Nears the Conclusion of Her Presidency

Developing Leadership for 

a Changing World 

“Be brave, for there is much to dare …” - Lucy Wheelock 

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“You are going 

out into the 

world at a 

critical time 

and at a very 

interesting 

time. So much 

to do! So many 

wrongs to 

right! So much 

ignorance and 

injustice and 

self-seeking!” 

- Lucy Wheelock 

This year, my 12th and last 

year as Wheelock College’s 

president, feels especially 

rewarding and inspiring 

as I reflect on the changes that have 

occurred during the years I have been 

part of this exceptional community 

— changes both at Wheelock and in 

this complex world that we aspire to 

transform with our mission to improve 

the lives of children and families. 

Our society and our world are shifting 

much faster than we might have 

predicted even a decade ago. The critical 

issues challenging us are huge, all of them affecting children and families 

everywhere. The impacts of climate change are beginning to be felt 

across the globe. The injustices of unconscionable poverty and inequality, 

racial and ethnic violence at home and abroad, and a new form of terrorism 

that knows no boundaries make for very troubling times. According to the 

U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, there are now 60 million refugees 

— half of them children — an all-time high as violence and persecution are 

on the rise around the world. 

Often I have looked to Lucy Wheelock and her mission — founded 

during equally turbulent times — as my guides while leading the College 

through significant changes. Like her, I am confident that Wheelock is 

preparing its students to actively apply their educations for the common 

good in unpredictable times, even in environments where they may have 

little or no experience. 

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DEVELOPING LEADERS 

My confidence comes from knowing that embedded in Wheelock’s brand 

of education, in its classrooms and within its programs, is a kind of 

teaching and learning that grows leaders. Much of this is based on types of 

leadership that Lucy Wheelock practiced and that have been an excellent model 

for me during my presidency. 

The Wheelock Way of Moral Leadership 

Leading an institution with a moral mission has great advantages. It attracts 

passionately caring, altruistic individuals, unifies them into a uniquely 

strong community, and focuses them on a common goal even if their individual 

paths toward it vary. It provides a standard against which, as President, I have 

always measured every aspect of institutional growth and development. 

Do we need more or different opportunities for student service and practice 

that teach moral leadership? Can a new graduate program in Nonprofit 

Leadership bring Wheelock’s brand of moral leadership into more nonprofits 

and nongovernmental organizations while also adding job opportunities for 

graduating students? How can a new Political Science and Global Studies major 

best help students understand how local policies have far-reaching effects on 

children and families and that different cultures have different ideas about 

equity and justice? Does the Wheelock student experience reflect what we teach 

about inclusion and equity? 

Teaching and modeling moral leadership and guiding students as they 

struggle with its complexities and contradictions are fundamental to fulfilling 

Wheelock’s mission. 

Collaborative Leadership 

Learning to work collaboratively with colleagues and with members of 

a community being served is one of the hardest and most important 

challenges every leader confronts. 

Collaborative leadership requires learning to set aside the more traditional 

notion of individual accomplishment and to trust that there is more to be gained 

by individuals working together as a group toward a shared goal. This is not easy. 

Collaborative leadership teaches humility along with many other lessons! But by 

bringing together — to the table, the project, or the classroom — the individual 

resources that everyone has, our own ideas will be improved, our paths will be 

made made shorter and straighter, and even our understanding of the goal may 

shift because of new perspectives on it. 

I have been fortunate to be President of a college that has an abundance of 

leadership resources within its administration, faculty, and staff; on its Board of 

Trustees; and among its accomplished alumni who are making great differences 

Wheelock alumni – standard-bearers of the mission 

“You will be the 

standard-bearers in 

your community.” 


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“To each of us 

comes the vision of 

a free world and a 

happier world. To 

each of us comes 

the sober conviction 

that the only path 

to such a goal is the 

path of self-activity, 

self-sacrifice … 

and of universal 

cooperation. This 

is the vision of our 

educational effort.” 


Practicing collaborative leadership during a service-learning trip to Ghana 

throughout our country and across the globe. Together, through the hard work of 

collaboration, we are making the College stronger and its impact far wider in scale. 

This is why the College regularly holds campus focus groups, bringing faculty 

and staff together to share ideas about issues concerning the College — a strategic 

plan taking shape, facility needs that must be addressed, admissions goals we have 

set. I am always so encouraged by the amount of energy individual members of the 

group pour into these opportunities for sharing in leadership. In the end, there is 

always new learning and — especially when significant change is taking place — the 

decisions that are made are always more informed and solid. 

Collaborative leadership is what we teach our Passion for Action student leaders. 

It is what students learn through Wheelock’s Civic Issues, Skills, and Engagement 

NOLA course and our international service-learning programs. Its power to create 

community and social change is dramatically demonstrated by the Mattahunt Community 

Center/Wheelock College Partnership that continues to grow as a service 

hub for Mattapan’s community of Haitian immigrants. 

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Leading by Learning 

One important lesson I have learned over and over again is that learning really 

is a lifelong, step-by-step process. And that’s a good thing. Not being afraid of 

asking questions and of learning from others and not letting the title of “leader” get 

in the way of learning have made my job endlessly interesting and have helped me 

do it better. 

When I came to the College in 2004, I did not come from a leadership background 

in higher education. But I sought out others who did and tried to learn about the 

institution, and the community that I wanted to move forward, from everyone I came 

into contact with. I saw learning from others as the most direct route to beginning to 

become the best leader I could be for this particular institution.

And learn I did, from every sector of our college community and, most especially, 

from the countless alumni spanning several generations whom I have talked with 

on campus and at Reunion and at gatherings and visits in their homes, or heard from 

through letters, emails, and phone calls. Wheelock alumni are an outstanding learning 

resource I have relied on from the start for sharing thoughtful observations and advice 

and for lending me institutional wisdom I did not possess early on. All of your alumni 

wisdom has come home to Wheelock and helped prepare our students for leadership. 

I have acquired an entirely new education from faculty who understand the mission 

of this college through and through, dedicated leaders who know how to give students 

the knowledge and specific skills they need to become leaders in their own chosen 

Learning from students on the Brookline campus 

fields. With faculty permission, I invite alumni to sit in on any Wheelock class during 

a visit to Boston. To see the connection that exists between faculty and students in 

our classrooms and the creativity and energy that faculty bring to their teaching is to 

experience “leadership in action” at its best. 

Learning from Leaders 

During my tenure, I have made it a practice to reach out to other college presidents 

and leaders of organizations serving children and families. Consulting with 

them, hearing about their experiences, and learning about their challenges and 

successes have broadened my knowledge and thinking. 

I have learned from experts about the transitioning needs of a new generation of 

students in college environments that are in some ways different from, but in many 

ways similar to, our own. I have learned directly from other leaders in education and 

social and health care services about how children and families are burdened by increasing 

stress from a multitude of sources across diverse environments. This has been 

invaluable for keeping me informed about the current landscape of social needs and inequities. 

And it has helped me better understand how Wheelock can prepare students 

to grapple with real-world obstacles, to develop resilience and accomplish their goals. 

“Ideas are 

broadened and 

enriched when 

one looks for 

the beginning 

as well as the 

end of things.” 


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“You will be 

better than 

those before 

you to protect 

childhood, to 

defend the 

oppressed, 

to further 

justice.” 


“You have 

learned that 

membership 

in any society 

means to do 

something 

there.” 


“Walking-Around Leadership” 

Many of the memories I will cherish from my time at Wheelock come from 

practicing what I call “walking-around leadership.” I have spent many hours 

outside my office, walking the campus, casually talking with students between 

classes, dropping in at sports practice, attending presentations and listening to 

student questions, visiting classrooms, and generally immersing myself in the 

Wheelock experience from the student perspective. 

This has given me new insights into what it is like to be a student at Wheelock and 

how that experience is different for different students. It has brought shortcomings 

and new opportunities to my 

attention and opened my mind 

to ways that the College must 

improve on its commitment to 

provide the best possible teaching, 

learning, and living environments. 

Young people committed 

to changing the world must receive 

the best preparation if they 

are to succeed, and they deserve to 

feel they are an equal and important 

part of the community. 

I am so impressed with the 

maturity of our students and their 

steady personal growth into leadership. 

They show this nowhere 

Students from the Singapore Program advance the more clearly than in their willingness 

to engage with faculty and 

College’s vision for international leadership. 

College leadership, to share their ideas and speak their concerns, and then to advocate 

for changes that can improve this unique and wonderful institution. At recent Town 

Hall Meetings and at campus forums, Wheelock students have joined other students 

across the country in breaking silence about racial profiling and police violence. This 

takes courage and moral leadership, as does their willingness to voice concerns about 

Wheelock’s own campus climate. Courage like this to start the discussion is what 

makes change possible. 

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Tough Enough Alumni Leaders 

It did not take long for me to learn that our College alumni were going to be a 

fabulous resource for my leadership — engaged in the world, thoughtful about its 

future, eager to share their experiences in it as Wheelock graduates. I have learned 

from you about how work environments are changing in schools and other serving 

organizations, what concerns you about current needs of children and families, what 

you think is important for today’s students to know, and what rising challenges may 

be waiting for them when they graduate. 

I have also learned that Wheelock alumni are — borrowing a word from our current 

marketing campaign — tough! You are tough enough to listen to what others 

WINTER 2016

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The Jackie Jenkins-Scott Endowed Fund for Service 

and Learning Journeys at Wheelock College 

To honor President Jackie Jenkins-Scott’s commitment to travel and service, 

the Board of Trustees has created The Jackie Jenkins-Scott Endowed Fund 

for Service and Learning Journeys at Wheelock College. This fund will allow 

current students to engage in service-learning trips, conferences, and other travel 

outside the Wheelock Community. Service and learning trips have proved to be lifechanging, 

transformative opportunities that contribute to students’ academic success 

and expand upon faculty expertise. Each year, Wheelock offers service-learning trips 

to communities in New Orleans and Puerto Rico, as well as to countries around the 

globe such as South Africa, Ireland, Belize, Germany, Guatemala, Sweden, Benin, 

and Turkey. Typically offered during Spring Break or at the end of the academic year, 

these trips allow students to become immersed in a culture without a full-semester 

or yearlong commitment. Students who have participated cite these trips as some 

of the most profound learning experiences of their Wheelock educations. President 

Jackie has always understood that the true benefits of a Wheelock education 

include the experiential learning opportunities available outside the classroom 

environment. Please help recognize Jackie’s legacy by supporting this fund in her honor. 

have to say, to be patient with collaborators, and to work the problem until there 

is resolution. Institutions and people can be slow to change. But I know from 

stories alumni tell me that you are strong enough to lead the fight for change and 

determined enough to stay the course. I know your passion is compassion, which 

makes you better leaders. 

The Rewards of Leadership 

Of the many rewards in serving as Wheelock’s 13th president, the first is 

knowing that this college is preparing exactly the kind of graduates our 

world sorely needs, right now. Another is knowing absolutely that the mission 

endures. When times seem uncertain or difficult, the moral compass of 

Wheelock’s mission is its greatest strength. With it as our guide, the College has 

come through many changes and complex challenges more resilient than ever, 

looking ahead and moving forward. 

I will leave this beloved college confident in its future, its culture of leadership, 

and its community of individuals working together for the good of humanity. I am 

certain that Wheelock will continue to grow and develop as new needs and challenges 

arise. And I wish you well and look forward to all that you will accomplish 

in serving children and families, who are the future of the world. 

“It is my hope 

and belief that the 

ideal for which I 

have worked will 

be perpetuated 

in the lives and 

accomplishments 

of our graduates.” 


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Feature 

WHEELOCK COLLEGE CAREER SERVICES: 

In Director Kelly Graham’s Words 

Students 

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Kelly Graham came to Wheelock College 

as the director of Career Services on 

Aug. 17, 2015, and, between then and the 

time of this interview (November), she 

has developed a positive outlook for the 

department, with these words to say: 

“[Career Counselor] Steve 

Savitsky and I are so excited 

to be here at Wheelock. The 

community is so warm and 

welcoming. This is a foundation 

year that will allow 

us to grow Career Services 

in the future and to provide 

even more unique programming. 

Much of this first year, 

we will build relationships 

on campus and off with 

students, faculty, staff, and 

alumni. We will discover new 

resources to help us flourish 

beyond basic services.” 

We provide free career services for students and alumni in all areas 

of career development. For students, we begin by helping them 

explore career options. If they have a major in mind, we explore 

with them how they can connect it to career options and make 

them aware of all of the opportunities available to them. We talk 

to students about how they can become involved both in the classroom 

and out of the classroom to build those skills needed to be 

competitive in the job market or on a graduate school application. 

The word is spreading across campus that Career Services is 

available. We offer resume-reviews, engage students in mock 

interviews, and help them create job and internship strategies. 

We’ve done resume-writing workshops and interview-skills 

workshops, presented 

in the classroom, and 

co-sponsored events 

on graduate school 

planning and interning 

in Washington, D.C. 

We plan to work with 

clubs and organizations 

across campus so that 

more students know 

about Career Services and all that we offer. We would like to find 

ways to be a resource to students by building programming that 

relates to what their club or organization does. 

We piloted a program last semester to help students articulate 

skills gained through the value of curricular and co-curricular experiences. 

The resources we create through this program will help 

students make connections between college experiences and the 

professional world while also helping the Wheelock community 

engage students in career conversations. 

Another piece of Career Services is helping students, faculty, 

staff, and alumni to use social media in a professional way. We 

are starting a campaign here at Wheelock for everyone to join 

LinkedIn. It’s a way for students, faculty, staff, and alumni to 

network with each other while allowing Wheelock to maintain 

connections with alumni. We will be providing workshops on how 

to build a LinkedIn profile and how to develop and engage with a 

network on the platform. 

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Feature 

Faculty 

We’re also here to be a resource for faculty. If a faculty 

member would like us to come into his/her classroom 

and speak on what career options are connected to a 

particular major, we will. We will come into a classroom 

and provide workshops on resume writing or 

interview skills; we will do anything that we can to 

support faculty and the career development of their 

students, such as giving talks on industry trends related 

to their fields. 

If faculty members are connecting with employers, it 

creates excellent opportunities for us to partner with 

them, as we would like to build employer relations. 

Career Services endeavors to educate employers on 

the value of a Wheelock education and the benefits of 

hiring a Wheelock student. And we’re open to employers 

in a variety of different fields. In the past, much of 

the focus on careers had been on paths leading to education, 

social work, or child life; but, we now have arts 

and sciences majors widening the breadth of career 

opportunities and the type of employers with whom 

we would like to work. This includes nonprofit organizations 

as well as industries in the private sector. 

“It’s important for Wheelock alumni 

to volunteer to support the career 

development of Wheelock students. 

Or, if they know of an organization 

that would like to recruit Wheelock 

students, it would be invaluable for 

them to connect us so that we can 

bring them to campus for a job fair 

or for on-campus recruitment.” 

“We’re hoping that our 

alumni will play a large 

role in the growth of Career 

Services and in preparing 

students for their futures.” 

Alumni 

We also have alumni who are using our 

services. Most of the services have been 

connected to creating a job search strategy 

and resume writing, but all the services that 

we provide for undergraduate students are 

available to alumni also. We’re the greatest 

help to alumni who are in the beginning 

stages of their careers. The hope is that, as 

we go along, we will work with the Alumni 

Relations Department to build an alumni-toalumni 

support and mentoring project for 

alumni who are further along in their careers 

and need professional development or 

career guidance. 

Our hope is also that more alumni will come 

in and volunteer their services to mentor current 

students in their career development. 

As we expand the role of Career Services on 

campus, we will need alumni to help support 

these efforts. 

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Faculty Spotlight 

Three 

Families 

in One: 

An Incidence of Serendipity 

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This is a story of a family, or a story 

of three adoptive families who 

came together to become one. The 

six adoptive parents within these three 

families communed for the sake of building 

and maintaining the relationships 

among four adopted brothers — Matt, 

Billy, Harry, and Jonathan. And two of the 

adoptive mothers are revered members 

of the Wheelock College community: Dr. 

Hope Haslam Straughan, associate dean 

of Social Work, Leadership, and Policy, 

and Mary Ann “Mare” Parker-O’Toole, 

assistant director of the Earl Center for 

Learning and Innovation. 

When Hope married her husband, Jay, 

they agreed that adoption would someday 

be a viable way to build a family. Being a 

social worker, Hope knew firsthand of 

the countless children in need of families. 

Adoption, she says, was a “heartfelt 

calling.” They found themselves ready 

in the fall of 2001, so they reached out to 

the Department of Social Services (DSS) 

— now the Department of Children and 

Families — in Boston and began the process 

for becoming adoptive parents, which 

includes taking classes and completing a 

home study. 

Hope and Jay hoped to adopt two 

siblings, and they were open to adopting 

older children as they were the most in 

need of families. In the spring of 2002, they 

received a telephone call from a DSS social 

worker who said there were three Italian 

siblings — one girl and two boys — available. 

Hope and Jay, however, had not been 

approved to adopt three children. Hope 

recalls the adoption process to be intense 

and emotional, feeling distressed about 

the three siblings they could not adopt. 

But, in August of 2002, the social 

worker called Hope and Jay to tell them 

about two biracial brothers, ages 3 and 4. 

Their birth mother was Caucasian and 

their birth father was black. Hope and Jay 

met with the social worker for a preliminary 

meeting to see pictures of the brothers 

and to learn more about them. They then 

talked with the boys’ foster mother to hear 

her perspective. Finally, Hope and Jay were 

permitted to observe them in a preschool 

setting to view how they interacted with 

teachers and their peers. At this point in 

the process, they were sure they wanted to 

move forward with the adoption. Matt and 

Billy would soon join their family. 

The transition from their foster family 

to their “forever family” was meant to be 

quick ( just 10 days) for Matt and Billy. But, 

when Hope and Jay found out that the little 

boys knew nothing of their birth parents 

or of their foster home being temporary, 

they requested a 10-week transition. They 

wanted their soon-to-be sons to have time 

to learn the circumstances of their situation 

in an age-appropriate manner. So the 

social worker, in conjunction with the boys’ 

preschool, helped them do just that. Meanwhile, 

Hope and Jay visited Matt and Billy 

at their foster home every Saturday and 

then began bringing them to their soon-tobe 

home for overnights. Dec. 6, 2002, was 

their official homecoming. 

Ironically, the social worker who 

originally called Hope and Jay about three 

Italian siblings in need of a family — one 

girl and two boys — was misinformed. 

The children were actually three biracial 

brothers who included Matt and Billy. The 

third child was their brother Harry, who, 

because he was an infant, was placed in 

specialized foster care. The social worker 

diligently brought them together monthly 

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From left to right: Harry (15), Jonathan (13), 

Billy (16), and Matt (17) 


to play. DSS was unable to place all three 

brothers in a home together, but they were 

hopeful that they could place them with 

two families willing to bring them together 

regularly so as not to lose their brotherly 

relationships. 

Hope and Jay, not having been approved 

to adopt three children, were 

unable to take all three brothers but 

were excited at the prospect of forming a 

relationship with Harry’s adoptive family. 

Hope is from New Mexico and Jay is from 

Georgia, so — with no local family — Hope 

calls the bond they have formed with 

Harry’s family a “gift.” When Hope and Jay 

were beginning the preliminary process of 

adoption, Harry had already been placed 

with his adoptive parents, Anne Barrett 

and Phill Robertson, as well as his adoptive 

sister, Martha Robertson. 

In the fall 0f 2002, before Matt and 

Billy had even transitioned into their home 

with Hope and Jay, Hope and Jay and Anne 

and Phill received the news that another 

brother had been born to the birth parents 

of Matt, Billy, and Harry. His name was 

Jonathan. Neither family was able to adopt 

him, but they remained persistent with 

Mary Ann “Mare” Parker-O’Toole (left) and 

Dr. Hope Haslam Straughan 

DSS about where he would be or had been 

placed so all four brothers could eventually 

be just that — brothers. They would not, 

however, find him quickly. And little did 

they know that, when they did, it would be 

by chance. 

During the time in which the 

Straughans and the Robertsons were 

hoping to find Jonathan, Mare, who had 

not yet begun working at Wheelock, and 

her wife, Kate, decided they would like to 

raise a child. Given they were not able to 

follow the traditional route, they contacted 

DSS in Boston in hopes of adopting 

a child. Soon they were taking the classes 

required of potential adoptive parents, and 

in January of 2004, they met 16-month-old 

Jonathan. For two months, Mare and Kate 

picked Jonathan up at his foster home 

every night after work and brought him to 

their home for dinner. Then, they were able 

to foster him for six months before they 

officially adopted him when he was 2 years 

old. (DSS required that adoptive parents 

foster children for at least six months prior 

to adoption. Hope and Jay had actually 

fostered Matt and Billy for 18 months prior 

to adoption.) Through the Family and 

Medical Leave Act, Kate took two months 

off from work to acclimate Jonathan to his 

new home, and then Mare took the following 

two months off to do the same. 

Mare and Kate knew that Jonathan had 

siblings and persisted in trying to get their 

social worker’s help finding them. At this 

time, the Straughans and the Robertsons 

were also constantly seeking out Jonathan. 

After two years, Mare and Kate attended 

an adoptive family lunch that was designed 

to be an opportunity for people who are 

interested in adoption to socialize with 

successful adoptive families. Mare and Kate 

saw a little boy there who bore a striking 

resemblance to Jonathan. It was Harry! 

And the three families came together 

as one from there. Mare, who came to work 

at Wheelock in 2013 after the opening of 

the Earl Center for Learning and Innovation, 

recalls that the four brothers were like 

“little puppies rolling over one another” 

when they were together. They are still together 

— even eight years later at ages 17, 16, 

15, and 13 — at least monthly. They celebrate 

birthdays and holidays together, and they 

even vacation together. The four brothers 

are what they were meant to be — brothers. 

And they are all very similar to one another, 

even those who haven’t lived together. Mare 

says the commonalities between them truly 

“call into question the discussion of nature 

versus nurture.” 

The Straughans, the Robertsons, and 

the Parker-O’Tooles also consider their 

family connection to include a solid coparenting 

model; they never feel alone in 

their endeavors as parents, even when the 

expected questions about identity arise. 

And, understandably, they all share a strong 

belief in “serendipity.” 

Please see “In the News” (Page 3) to 

read about the book Parenting in Transracial 

Adoption, co-written by Dr. Hope Haslam 

Straughan, to be released in February. 

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Adolescence and Family: 

Wheelock Professor Examines Both in New Novel 

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“My message also 

involves preventative 

mental health care as 

opposed to reactive 

mental health care.” 

Lynne Reeves Griffin, R.N., M.Ed., 

acclaimed novelist and nationally 

recognized expert on family, teaches 

family studies at the graduate level at Wheelock 

College. Her most recent novel, Girl Sent Away, is 

a gripping work of fiction that examines how one 

teenage girl, Ava, begins to grapple with a past 

childhood trauma using reckless behavior, while 

her father’s inclination is to define her conduct 

as typical adolescence. 

The father, Toby Sedgwick, is increasingly 

alarmed by Ava’s behavior and enrolls her in 

Mount Hope, a wilderness behavioral camp for 

troubled teenagers. Ava quickly realizes that 

the camp is like a prison with counselors lacking in qualifications. They abuse the 

campers and separate them from their families. Mount Hope preys on wealthy 

parents who are at a loss for how to care for their emotionally distraught teenagers 

who act out. After a disturbing weekend engaged in the parent portion of the 

treatment, Toby quickly acquires the same realization as Ava. 

While at Mount Hope, Ava faces once-suppressed memories of the tragedy that 

involved her family while vacationing in Thailand eight years earlier. As Toby fights 

to release his daughter from the camp, he fears that the truth of the tragedy might 

cause irrevocable damage between them. 

At the same time in which Griffin was writing Girl Sent Away, she was leading 

the social and emotional learning (SEL) task force at Kingsley Montessori 

School in Boston. The strategic work of the task force included reviewing all 

of the curricula in the school that enhanced social and emotional learning and 

determining whether or not it was robust enough to meet the needs of today’s 

children. While Griffin was engaged in the strategic work, she realized she could 

explore in a novel what she uncovered to enhance the development of teenagers 

and their relationships with their parents. 

Griffin wants there to be an open and ongoing conversation about the impact 

of early childhood trauma on mental health. Griffin says: “Here’s what we know: 

If you experience trauma at a young age, you must contend with it at some point 

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“Parents and teachers need to 

help children build skills such as 

emotion regulation, perspectivetaking, 

empathy, and resilience. 

They need to be taught language to 

express their feelings as a first step 

to recognizing and understanding 

anger, frustration, and more.” 

during your life. When you are 8, you might not have the 

developmental capability to do so. So, you have to sort 

through it when you are older.” 

The character in her novel, Ava, has an agreement with 

her father never to talk about the tragedy in Thailand. So 

when she began to act out, Toby did not consider the fact 

that she might be grappling with the past. Her rebellion was 

typical teenage behavior in his eyes. This is a common belief 

among parents, yet according to Griffin, if adolescents begin 

to isolate themselves; if they are frequently angry at you and 

have no need to spend time with you or talk to you; if they 

are withdrawn; or if their friends change along with their 

physical behavioral choices, they are sending signals that it 

is time to pull them closer rather than push them away. “And 

that’s what the whole story’s about,” she says. 

Griffin also says, “My message also involves preventative 

mental health care as opposed to reactive mental health 

care.” Parents and teachers need to help children build skills 

such as emotion regulation, perspective-taking, empathy, 

and resilience. They need to be taught language to express 

their feelings as a first step to recognizing and understanding 

anger, frustration, and more. If those skills are built at an 

early age, research says that we can not only prevent mental 

health issues, but we also help children who must contend 

with mental health issues cope. 

Griffin hopes that parents and teenagers read the novel 

together. Parents, she says, sometimes find it difficult to have 

conversations about their teenagers with their teenagers, 

and teenagers sometimes have difficulty talking about 

themselves with their parents. Reading the novel allows 

them to talk about issues involving literary characters 

— issues that may also pertain to themselves. But, given 

the topic is about literary characters, they might feel less 

vulnerable in the conversation. 

Along with Girl Sent Away, 

Griffin wrote a companion 

guide for parents and teachers 

called Let’s Talk About 

It — Adolescent Mental 

Health, which suggests ways 

parents and teachers can 

engage teens in conversations 

about mental health, 

perspective-taking, emotional 

resilience, and empathy. 

The guide is designed for use with students in 

grades 9 to 12. The curriculum material will complement 

literacy, media literacy, health, and socialemotional 

learning activities. The curriculum integration 

section offers ideas for teacher-facilitated 

activities for a wide range of learning styles, and 

includes both experiential and reflective elements. 

In the companion guide section, there are questions 

for discussion as well as activities to continue 

the conversation about adolescent mental health 

beyond the topics in Girl Sent Away. 

Griffin also has a private practice in which she consults 

with families and schools surrounding social-emotional 

learning, and she is the former family life parenting 

contributor for Fox 25 News. Her first nonfiction book 

was The Promise of Proactive Parenting, and her second 

was Negotiation Generation. She is also the author 

of the novels Sea Escape and Life Without Summer, 

and she has written short fiction, essays, and health, 

education, and parenting pieces for Salon, The Boston 

Globe, Brain, Child, Parenting magazine, Scholastic 

Parent & Child, The Writer magazine, Psychology 

Today, and more. 

To learn more about Lynne’s work with high schools 

on integrating fiction into literacy and health curricula, 

visit www.LynneGriffin.com. 

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Alumni Spotlight 

Rob Quinn ’86MS: 

From “An Unheard Voice—to 

a Voice for the Unheard” 

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On his resume, Robert “Rob” 

Quinn ’86MS writes that he 

is an openly gay and passionate 

activist and educator for 

the HIV/AIDS community. He writes that, 

during his more than 25 years as a certified 

child life specialist and his 21-year journey 

as a survivor not only living with HIV/AIDS 

but also thriving, he has “evolved from 

being an unheard voice to a voice for the 

unheard.” His resume continues: “Through 

local and statewide activism, education, 

outreach, and social media, I am increasing 

HIV/AIDS awareness and reducing HIVrelated 

stigma.” 

Crediting his many tools as a child life 

specialist and his desire to “inspire a world 

of good” to his education at Wheelock College, 

Rob began his child life career at New 

England Memorial Hospital in Stoneham, 

MA, while pursuing his master’s degree. 

Following graduation, Rob relocated to 

New York for a child life position in the Division 

of Adolescent Medicine at Schneider 

Children’s Hospital of Long Island Jewish 

Medical Center. Then, in 1992, he began 

to work at St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital 

Center in Manhattan, where he found it 

rewarding to work with children with HIV/ 

AIDS along with children with other chronic 

and life-threatening illnesses. He worked 

with children from birth to adolescence, 

and he worked with them in both inpatient 

and ambulatory care settings such as preadmission, 

surgical, pediatric intensive 

care, and emergency medicine. 

Though stressful, Rob’s career in child 

life put life into perspective. Children are 

resilient, he says. Even when they have 

countless tubes hooked to their bodies, 

they figure out how to play despite 

the equipment. They adapt. Rob says: 

“Throughout all of the years I worked in 

child life, I never thought of it as work. It 

was what my purpose on this planet was 

supposed to be.” 

Seeing a smile on an ailing child’s face 

was enough incentive for Rob to work 

every Christmas Eve and Day. When the 

children went to sleep on Christmas Eve, 

he — with help from the nurses — turned 

the hospital into a winter wonderland for 

the children to behold when they awoke. 

Rob still becomes emotional — pausing 

to run his hands over the goose bumps on 

his arms — when he talks about Christmas 

morning when Santa Claus walks alongside 

the “reindogs,” pet-assisted therapy dogs 

with reindeer antlers, pulling a red wagon 

filled with gifts for each child. 

In the early 1990s, neither children nor 

adults typically survived HIV/AIDS. And 

due to a lack of education, there was still 

a stigma attached to the virus and fear of 

transmission. Rob recounts when, at the 

hospital, food service workers left food 

trays outside the doors of children with 

HIV/AIDS and scurried away. This upset 

Rob, and, on Nov. 16, 1993, his upset and 

identification with the virus reached a 

higher level when he himself was diagnosed 

as HIV-positive and told he had six 

to seven years to live. 

Rob says: “I suddenly transitioned into 

the patients’ world. It was like I crossed 

over into a parallel universe, living as the 

children, youth, and adolescents with 

whom I worked did. I was suddenly faced 

with coping with and surviving my own 

health care challenges while continuing to 

provide child life care. On a personal level, 

I was not as much concerned with living 

with HIV, but more concerned with dying 

of AIDS. I actually developed effective coping 

skills through my patients and families 

that I still use.” 

With disclosure still having a stigma, 

Rob wrestled with the degree to which he 

should be open with his hospital community 

about his diagnosis. He soon realized, 

however, that as a person who is now HIVpositive, 

he understood his HIV/AIDS patients 

and their struggles with such greater 

intensity. He “got it.” So, he became open 

about his diagnosis but still maintained 

some control over the degree to which he 

would share his status. 

Once diagnosed, Rob immediately 

adopted what he calls OCD: Not obsessive 

compulsive disorder, but rather, Optimism, 

Confidence, and Determination. 

“I do not live with HIV,” Rob says. “HIV 

lives with me. HIV is a small part of who 

I am; it does not define me.” His ultimate 

goal even today is to simply have a sense of 

life purpose. “I learned at Wheelock that 

… as long as I have a life purpose … as long 

as I am making a difference … as long as I 

am improving the quality of at least one 

person’s life or the quality of my own life … 

my journey is worthwhile.” 

Rob continued his work as a child life 

coordinator at St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital 

Center until the fall of 1999, when, 

unfortunately, in year six of the six to seven 

years he was predicted to live, he was diagnosed 

with Kaposi’s sarcoma (KS), which 

is a strain of skin cancer common to AIDS 

patients. The most common cause of KS 

now is HIV infection. It is a sign of AIDS. 

Rob now had an AIDS diagnosis. Shortterm 

disability ensued, and then turned 

into long-term disability when he suffered 

a heart attack related to chemotherapy 

treatment for KS. 

Rob was not prepared for the darkness 

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that would follow. With his professional 

identity stripped away from him, he lost 

the sense of life purpose he so valued and 

fell prey to addiction. He went home to 

Springfield, MA — in his words — “to die.” 

But, he never missed a dose of his HIV/ 

AIDS medication, so, upon reflection, he 

believes there was always a flicker of light 

within willing him to live. Rob gained more 

than 70 pounds — mainly due to excessive 

alcohol consumption, a sedentary 

lifestyle, and his loss of will to live. In early 

2007, during one of his appointments 

with his nutritionist, he remembers her 

mentioning that he needed to become 

“accountable.” He knew at that exact moment 

that his nutritionist meant not only 

in terms of his nutrition, but accountability 

in his life! The word “accountability” 

resonated with Rob and he, after trudging 

down a long, bumpy road, became sober 

later in 2007. That was the beginning of his 

turning point: the beginning of his recovery, 

the discovery of his resilience, and a 

reinvention of himself. 

Rob was once again confident and beginning 

to think about a life purpose. Still 

on long-term disability due to a compromised 

immune system, he especially could 

not work in a pediatric hospital environment. 

So, he founded and co-facilitated 

“Living Positive,” the first-ever men’s HIV/ 

AIDS peer-led support group in Springfield. 

He knew too well from his experience 

as a child life specialist the value of 

support. Merging his two worlds — that of 

child life and his personal journey — Rob 

started to make a difference in the HIV/ 

AIDS community. He had always believed 

that the support given in child life should 

be available to adults in crisis as well, and 

now it was. Rob says: “The child life skills 

I learned at Wheelock are transferable to 

any arena. At this point in my journey, I am 

constantly discovering new ways to reuse 

or reinvent these skills with an adult population. 

Nobody will ever be able to take 

from me what I learned at Wheelock.” 

At a World AIDS Day 2010 event in 

Springfield, a television reporter asked 

Rob why he was there. Rob has this 

mantra: We talk, we share, we learn. So, 

without thinking, he answered, disclosing 

that he had been thriving with HIV for 18 

years. At first, a wave of shock hit him as 

he realized that he had just told the entire 

world that he is HIV-positive. He had 

been open with the information until this 

time, but he had always had control of how 

open. After a couple of sleepless nights, he 

decided to treat his worldwide disclosure 

like a teachable moment. 

Rob thought: We cannot put an end 

to the stigma of HIV/AIDS until we give it 

a face … hence the inception of his website 

OpenlyPOZ.com. Its mission is “to 

empower and support [his] peers living 

positive, as well as others affected by HIV/ 

AIDS, through sharing [his] personal stories 

and experiences of clearing HIV/AIDS 

and life’s hurdles R 4 Style — sometimes 

struggling, sometimes succeeding.” Rob’s 

“R 4 Style” entails four stages that often 

accompany his encountering, overcoming, 

and growing from HIV/AIDS and life’s 

hurdles: rock bottom, recovery, resilience, 

and reinvention. 

OpenlyPOZ.com helps people with HIV/ 

AIDS still living in isolation, as isolation 

often leads to depression. It can breed a 

despair that can be devastating and can 

possibly lead to suicide. Living in isolation 

makes finding a sense of meaning and 

purpose difficult. The Internet, and more 

specifically social media, is a powerful way 

to connect people. Because of Openly- 

POZ.com, Rob was recognized amongst 

2014’s TOP HIV Voices, which honors top 

online resources that do everything from 

providing patients with practical advice 

to connecting them with others who are 

traveling the same journey. 

After being an activist for the HIV/ 

AIDS community on a local level, Rob 

decided to do the same on a state level. 

In 2013, he applied for and was granted a 

three-year term on the Statewide Consumer 

Advisory Board of the Massachusetts 

Department of Public Health in the 

Office of HIV/AIDS. There, he is amongst 

a group of up to 30 people openly living 

with HIV/AIDS who advise the staff and 

senior management of the Massachusetts 

Department of Public Health’s Office of 

HIV/AIDS with reference to policies and 

programmatic issues affecting the lives of 

consumers and individuals at risk. 

In 2014 and 2015, Rob was also a key 

participant in the Massachusetts AIDS- 

Watch Delegation in Washington, D.C., 

where he spoke before Congress about the 

important issues at stake for people living 

with HIV/AIDS in the U.S. 

Most recently, Boston Mayor Marty 

Walsh appointed Rob to the Ryan White 

Part A–Boston EMA HIV Services Planning 

Council C Health, a decision-making 

body that assesses the needs of the HIV/ 

AIDS community. It was created in 

teenager Ryan White’s name to fill gaps in 

existing HIV/AIDS medical and supportive 

services. Ryan, who was diagnosed 

with AIDS at age 13, and his mother, 

Jeanne White Ginder, fought for his right 

to attend school, gaining international 

attention as a voice of reason about HIV/ 

AIDS. Ryan White died on April 8, 1990, at 

the age of 18, just months before Congress 

passed the AIDS bill that bears his name 

— the Ryan White CARE (Comprehensive 

AIDS Resources Emergency) Act. 

Rob is a long-term survivor, striving 

not only to survive but also to reach his 

full potential and thrive in a meaningful, 

productive, independent, and connected 

life. Long-term survivors face a myriad 

challenges rooted in HIV/AIDS. For Rob, 

his highest hurdle to clear now is a recent 

diagnosis of HIV-associated cardiomyopathy 

and coronary artery disease. His 

relocation back to Boston last fall was due 

in large part to his own need for the more 

intensive medical care and the support 

services available to people living with HIV, 

the latter being peer-led support groups. 

Grateful to be alive and aging fairly 

healthily with HIV/AIDS, Rob embraces 

whatever psychosocial, practical, and 

medical challenges come his way. He often 

refers to his graying hair as “wisdom highlights.” 

Drawing on that and on his days 

at Wheelock College, his child life career, 

other former patients and families, and inspirational 

peers living with HIV/AIDS, he 

is optimistic, confident, and determined 

that he will continue to improve the quality 

of life of those in the HIV community, 

including his own, by raising awareness 

and reducing HIV-related stigma. 

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Mimi Katano ’93MS: 

A Wheelock Family 

Theatre “Homecoming” 

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Mimi Katano ’93MS calls 

what will be her return to 

Wheelock Family Theatre 

(WFT) to direct A Year 

with Frog and Toad from April 15 to May 15 

a “homecoming.” Mimi, who is now the 

artistic director at Youth Theatre Northwest 

(YTN) in Seattle, planted roots with 

WFT 29 years ago during her freshman 

year at Emerson College in Boston, where 

she earned a degree in General Performing 

Arts. She played Eliza in The King and 

I, and two years later — as a junior — she 

played Josie Pye in Anne of Green Gables. 

And this was just the beginning. 

While a graduate student at Wheelock, 

where Mimi earned a master’s degree in 

Child Development, she continued to be 

a WFT actor and also took on the roles 

of dance teacher, choreographer, and 

education coordinator until she moved to 

Seattle in 1999. Her most notable of the 16 

roles she played as an actor were Tiger Lily 

in Peter Pan, Zaneeta Shinn in The Music 

Man, Genie of the Lamp in Aladdin, Margalo 

in Stuart Little, Gollum in The Hobbit, 

and Trinculo in The Tempest. 

When Mimi first arrived in Seattle, 

she was a freelance teacher artist for 

companies including the Seattle Children’s 

Theatre and the Seattle Repertory 

Theatre. At YTN, where the mission is 

to nurture “the intellectual, artistic, and 

personal development of children and 

youth through drama education, performing 

opportunities, and live theatre 

experiences,” Mimi works with children 

ages 3 to 18, producing 12 productions per 

year of all youth cast. (To be on stage, the 

child must be at least in first grade.) They 

have 12 productions per year, she says, to 

try to appeal to different-aged and -skilled 

actors as well as different audiences. 

Mimi, who hopes to have the opportunity 

to “give back” to WFT during her 

venture in Boston, will leave Seattle for 

just under four weeks to direct A Year with 

Frog and Toad. WFT gives this description 

of the production: “Waking from 

hibernation in the early spring, the perky 

Frog and the worrywart Toad celebrate … 

the differences that make them unique. 

… These two best-friends plant gardens, 

swim underwater, rake leaves, go sledding, 

bake cookies, and learn to appreciate each 

other’s distinct qualities. Part vaudeville, 

part make-believe, all charm, A Year with 

Frog and Toad tells the whimsical story of a 

friendship that blossoms … through all the 

seasons. A delightful story based on the 

picture books by Arnold Lobel, this musical 

adaptation is a treat for children and 

the child within.” 

Mimi is happy to report that three 

Mimi Katano ’93MS, resting her chin on the foot 

of an alligator costume 

of the people she helped cast in A Year 

with Frog and Toad were colleagues and 

friends during her time in Boston: Larry 

Cohen, who will play Toad; Merle Perkins, 

who will play Ladybird and Mother 

Frog; and Gary Ng, who will play the Snail 

and the Mole. 

Along with making various Equity 

theater appearances, Mimi was a member 

“I like to joke that I 

use both of my degrees 

every day in my job.” 

of the award-winning Beau Jest Moving 

Theatre in Boston, where she performed 

at a number of theater festivals including 

South Carolina’s Piccolo Spoleto Festival. 

Aside from her work for YTN, she was a 

member of Living Voices. A Japanese national, 

Mimi has done a variety of cultural 

work for organizations such as Seattle 

Children’s Museum and Book-It Repertory 

Theatre, and she co-wrote the play 

Justice at War about Japanese-American 

internment during World War II, which 

was published in the book And Justice for 

Some in 2005. 

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2015-2016 

SEASON 

MARY POPPINS 

Based on the popular books by P. L. Travers and 

the beloved 1964 Disney film, Mary Poppins 

teaches us that, with just a spoonful of magic, 

“Anything can happen if you let it.” 

January 29 – February 28, 2016 

A YEAR WITH 

FROG AND TOAD 

A Year With Frog and Toad tells the story of a 

friendship that weathers all seasons. A delightful 

story based on the picture books by Arnold Lobel, 

this musical adaptation is a treat for all ages. 

April 15 – May 15, 2016 

Professional, Affordable Theater for Every Generation!

Student Spotlight 

24 

Carmen Piedad ’16 — a Passion 

for Action Scholar from Jamaica 

Plain, MA, with an American 

Studies major and a Political Science minor 

— is a passionate traveler. Her father 

is from Mexico, and though she traveled 

there frequently as a young child to visit 

family, her fervor truly began when she 

was 12 years old and visited Australia and 

New Zealand with the Boston City Singers, 

a youth choir based in Boston with a 

mission “to provide the highest level of 

musical training and wide-ranging performance 

opportunities to young people 

ages 4 to 18, inspire personal development, 

celebrate diversity, and foster good 

will.” This was her first trip outside of the 

country without her parents. 

With the Boston City Singers, Carmen 

has also traveled to South Africa; Newfoundland, 

Canada; Toronto, Canada; and 

Costa Rica. Since graduating high school, 

she has worked for the organization on 

Saturdays as a youth developer. 

Carmen’s first excursion through 

Wheelock was a service-learning trip to 

New Orleans with Dr. Barbara “Bobbi” 

Rosenquest, associate professor of Early 

Childhood Education, when she was a 

sophomore. Paired with an AmeriCorps 

leader, she worked in a group to tile bathrooms, 

sand wood, paint, and put shelving 

in closets. The completion of tasks 

was rewarding, she says, as was becoming 

close with her group members. She had 

For Carmen Piedad ’16, 

Life Is a Journey 

never traveled before for the purpose of 

service, and she found serving people in 

her own country to be a poignant experience. 

Her most important lessons arose 

from conversations she had with people 

in the city who actually experienced Hurricane 

Katrina and from witnessing the 

destruction that, after 10 years, remained. 

Carmen says: “There are still houses 

and schools demolished. There are still 

families who are displaced from their 

homes. It was important to become 

aware of the still desperate situation and 

then come home and tell other people. 

We were only there for a week. We could 

help build houses but could not save 

people. … What we could do is see for 

ourselves the problems that remain and 

continue to create awareness.” 

After completing her sophomore year, 

she traveled to Scandinavia that May 16 

with Irwin Nesoff, associate professor 

and chair of Nonprofit Leadership and 

Policy. The class that took this two-week 

trip was Comparative Social and Government 

Policies. They visited Norway, Sweden, 

and Denmark. Rather than providing 

service during this trip, Carmen remarks 

that it was a learning opportunity. Scandinavia, 

she says, has robust social welfare 

policies from which the U.S. could learn. 

The government imposes very high taxes 

upon the citizens, but in return, they receive 

free child care, free health care, free 

education, and free higher education. The 

government also gives mothers a monthly 

check for $200 for every child she has until 

that child turns 18. Because the Scandinavian 

government is intent on building 

family values, it also gives mothers and 

fathers each a yearlong paid maternity 

leave. Carmen was also impressed by the 

lack of poverty and class disparity. 

Carmen toured a high-security women’s 

prison while in Scandinavia and was 

fascinated by the heavy focus on rehabilitation 

as opposed to punishment. In fact, 

the region has very few prisons because a 

very low percentage of prisoners actually 

reoffend after being rehabilitated. 

Scandinavia seemed like a Utopia to 

Carmen, to the point where she asked 

herself what she was missing. There must 

be a downside, she thought. In that vein, 

Carmen learned that xenophobia — intense 

or irrational dislike or fear of people 

from other countries — is prevalent. 

When the trip to Scandinavia concluded, 

Carmen’s mother came to Europe 

to join her in an excursion to Germany 

and France. 

During the second semester of Carmen’s 

junior year, she studied abroad 

through a program in Costa Rica. One reason 

why she chose Costa Rica as a venue 

to study is because it is a Spanish-speaking 

country. Carmen’s parents intended 

for her to be bilingual, so she spoke 

exclusively Spanish until she was 4 or 5 

years old. Her parents knew she would 

learn English when she started school. In 

the American school system, however, 

Carmen slowly lost a large portion of her 

Spanish-speaking skills. So, she went to 

Costa Rica in part as a journey to recover 

her fluency in the Spanish language. 

The study-abroad program in Costa 

Rica also interested Carmen because it 

offered a wide range of political science 

classes from which to choose. The classes 

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Carmen Piedad ’16 in Granada, Nicaragua, sitting on an ancient church foundation, which is all 

that is left of the church after being bombed in the civil war 

she took were Spanish, Immigration 

Issues in Costa Rica, Human Rights in 

Latin America, and Conflict Resolution 

in Healthcare. For the first month, the 

study-abroad program organized weekend 

trips. Carmen made several friends 

through her program and through 

others, so, after the first month, there 

were always people with whom to plan 

a weekend adventure on their own. Two 

places Carmen visited were Panama 

and Nicaragua. 

Classes in Costa Rica ended for Carmen 

on March 28, though she stayed 

in Central America until May 8. She 

spent an extra week in Costa Rica and 

then traveled to El Salvador. She went 

to El Salvador accompanied by her 

mother’s dear college friend Sara. This 

was a sojourn that was simultaneously 

special and difficult — special because 

Carmen in a traditional Nicaraguan dress in 

the streets of Granada 

it is where her parents met as young radical 

activists during the country’s civil war, and 

difficult because, though the civil war is 

over, the country is besieged by violent and 

murderous gangs. Sara had been with Carmen’s 

mother when she was in El Salvador. 

Carmen and her mother share a close 

relationship, and her mother’s time spent 

in El Salvador was one piece of her that she 

did not know well. She wanted to be in El 

Salvador where her mother had been. 

Carmen has funded all of her travel 

through Wheelock on her own. She has been 

known to work three jobs at one time. She 

says, “I do not earn money to buy things; I 

earn money to pay for experiences.” 

“I like to be outside of my comfort zone! When I 

travel, everything inside me is awake all of the 

time! The trees are different, the animals are 

different, the architecture is different—everything 

is different! I love talking with other people my age 

from other countries to hear what they do for fun!” 

Carmen sits with Amanda, the woman who 

hosted her in a small village in El Salvador. 

Amanda lost all of her children in the civil war. 

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The Student 

Becomes the Teacher 

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Olivia Thomes ’16 of 

Dorchester, MA, recently 

embarked on an unconventional 

endeavor and 

followed it through successfully. When 

choosing her course load for the first 

semester of her senior year, she perused 

descriptions of classes taught by Leland 

Clarke ’75, Wheelock College associate 

professor of Arts. Having taken his 

classes before, the Literature major — 

with minors in Communications with a 

focus in Media Literacy as well as Writing 

— found them to be enriching. The latest 

course taught by Clarke that interested 

Olivia was Rhythm and Resistance, but it 

was a First-Year Seminar. 

A First-Year Seminar provides freshmen 

with a support system of fellow 

first-year students so they can adjust to 

a new environment and a new phase of 

life together. It also helps them adjust to 

greater demands on their time, develop a 

better understanding of how they learn, 

and acquire essential academic skills that 

help them throughout their four years at 

Wheelock. Being a senior, Olivia was not 

eligible to take Rhythm and Resistance. 

So, she approached Clarke and asked him 

if she could co-teach the course with him. 

This would not be a typical arrangement 

due to the fact that independent studies 

had never been focused or related to 

already existing courses, as well as the 

fact that undergraduates had never been 

allowed to be teachers’ assistants. Much 

to Olivia’s delight, however, and that 

of Clarke and the students in the class, 

Clarke received approval. 

Not only was Olivia fortunate to 

have this unlikely experience; she also 

received four credits for an independent 

study. In order to have this experience, 

however, she had to add a new perspective 

to the class, as well as do her own 

research to engage the students. 

Rhythm and Resistance explores the 

arts and social protest from a humanistic, 

interdisciplinary perspective. And it 

gives students an understanding of historical 

and contemporary views of social 

protest by studying examples of music as 

it is used within global communities to 

incite social change. The students were 

not aware that they would have a teacher’s 

assistant for this class until it started. 

They were excited by her presence, and 

since this was not a common practice, 

they had the privilege of participating in 

the new adventure. 

Olivia is passionate about reading and 

writing fiction, short stories, and poetry. 

Having a separate syllabus from Clarke, 

she brought this passion to the classroom 

with the argument that music lyrics are 

their own genre of literature. This was 

one new perspective she added to the 

class. While Clarke taught the history 

of the music, Olivia helped the students 

analyze the lyrics to find metaphors and 

similes, along with other techniques used 

in creative writing, that help portray the 

message of the song, how the message 

promotes social change, and to what 

social issue it relates. The music ranged 

from Louis Armstrong’s version of “Black 

and Blue” to “A Change Is Gonna Come” 

by Sam Cooke to “If I Were a Boy” by 

Beyoncé. In the classroom, students 

listened to genres from old jazz and blues 

to rock ’n’ roll to contemporary music. 

Olivia also learned in the classroom. 

For example, Clarke presented a lecture 

on spirituals, which brought her new 

insight into the genre. Spirituals are religious 

(generally Christian) songs written 

by African slaves in the U.S. Originally, 

they imparted Christian values while 

also describing the hardships of slavery. 

Although spirituals were originally 

monophonic songs — they had a single, 

unaccompanied melodic line — they 

are best known today in harmonized 

choral arrangements. 

Also a member of the Wheelock College 

Student Advisor Program within 

the Office of Academic Advising, Olivia 

is a peer mentor who provides one-onone 

advice to first-year students. She is 

a role model who is available to students 

for informal guidance and support. She 

also helps them choose their courses for 

upcoming semesters. This year, Olivia 

is happy that she was the peer mentor to 

the students in Rhythm and Resistance. 

The students in this class were awestruck 

by the fact that she was a student who 

was co-teaching a course, was a student 

adviser, and was working two jobs. 

Olivia came to Wheelock because of 

its “wholesome environment.” She also 

came because its mission resonates with 

her. As a writer now and in the future, she 

believes the written word to be a powerful 

impetus to social change. “When I 

write, it comes from a place of authenticity,” 

she says, meaning that whether she is 

writing fiction or nonfiction, she does not 

over- or underdramatize a topic, especially 

when dealing with serious subjects. 

Olivia has been published in the 

Wheelock literary magazine every year 

she has been at Wheelock. 

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WHEELOCK COLLEGE 

ANNUAL REPORT 

OF GIVING 

2014-2015

GIVING 

at a Glance 

Wheelock alumni and friends 

continue to generously support the Annual 

Fund. Contributions to the Annual Fund — given 

in small amounts or large, by new or longtime 

donors — make it possible for Wheelock to offer 

more scholarships to more talented and driven 

students who want to attend the College. 

The Endowment 

The market value of Wheelock’s endowment 

was $53.4 million at June 30, 2015. Thanks to 

growth over the past several years, from gifts 

as well as investment performance, the level of 

annual support to the College has never been 

greater. Last year, the endowment provided 

in excess of $2.3 million, primarily for student 

financial aid. 

Value of Wheelock Endowment (in millions of dollars) 

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Annual Fund 

In FY 2015, Wheelock alumni, faculty, staff, and 

friends contributed more than $1.1 million to 

the Annual Fund. Wheelock is fortunate and 

very grateful to have such a wide community of 

supporters who have increased contributions 

of current-use unrestricted dollars and gifts for 

student scholarships. Generous giving to the 

Annual Fund affirms the value that donors place 

on the College’s mission and their confidence 

in the education Wheelock provides so that 

its graduates can make the extraordinary 

contributions to society that they do. 

Annual Fund Giving FY 2011-2015 

($200,000 increments on axis) 

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2014 –2015: An Inspiring Year of Growth in Programs and Mission 

Mattapan Integrative Care 

Partnership Funded 

The Mattapan Integrative Care Partnership 

received startup funds in the FY15 state budget to 

offer integrated behavioral health services to Mattapan 

residents with the partnership of the Mattapan 

Community Health Center, Wheelock College 

Social Work Department, Mattahunt Community 

Center, and Mattahunt Elementary School. 

Wheelock Family Theatre Received 

$100,000 Challenge Grant 

The Massachusetts Cultural Council selected 

Wheelock College as a recipient of a $100,000 

capital grant from the Massachusetts Cultural 

Facilities Fund. The matching grant will implement 

improvements to the Wheelock Family 

Theatre that will improve access and enhance the 

performance experience. 

New Funding Expanded Student 

Learning Opportunities 

Commitments from dedicated Wheelock alumni 

and trustees coupled with $195,000 in generous 

grant support from the Geneviève McMillan-Reba 

Stewart Foundation and Santander Universities 

significantly contributed to increased opportunities 

available to students to support service-learning 

and educational travel starting fall 2014. 

New Peace Corps Master’s 

International Partnership 

The Peace Corps announced the launch of a new 

Master’s International program in partnership 

with Wheelock College, enabling students to earn 

a Master of Science in Integrated Elementary and 

Special Education while also fulfilling their Peace 

Corps service. 

Aspire Announced Education 

Innovation Funding 

Wheelock College announced $640,000 in external 

education innovation funding for the Aspire 

Institute. The funding for professional training 

and coaching initiatives comes from a diverse 

range of sources, including the U.S. Department of 

Education, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 

the Department of Early Education and Care, and 

Solid Ground in Danbury, CT. 

Wheelock President Joined Climate 

Leadership Summit 

Wheelock College President Jackie Jenkins-Scott, 

along with faculty and staff representatives, supported 

the 2014 Presidential Summit on Climate 

Leadership in Boston on October 1-3, 2014. 

Wheelock Expanded 

Multicultural Resources 

The College expanded its diversity efforts by 

allocating space, resources, and services within 

two new community spaces and appointing Jamie 

Boussicot as director of Multicultural Affairs. 

Passion for Action 2014 Celebration 

Wheelock College celebrated 17 Passion for Action 

Scholars at the 2014 Passion for Action Leadership 

Award Reception. The event honored deserving 

Wheelock students who have demonstrated a 

strong commitment to community service and 

social justice. Col. Douglas Wheelock, NASA astronaut, 

delivered the keynote address. 

Wheelock Students Visited Purdue 

University Graduate School 

Wheelock undergraduate students Jacqueline 

Elias, Jessica Greene, Braelan Martin, Carmen 

Piedad, and Katrin Reeder were chosen to 

take part in the prestigious Purdue University 

Multicultural/Historically Black Institution (HBI) 

Visitation Program. 

Wheelock Named Top Institution for 

Higher Education Community Service 

Wheelock College was the recipient of the 2014 

Presidential Award in Education on the 2014 

President’s Higher Education Community Service 

Honor Roll, the highest federal recognition a 

college or university can receive for its commitment 

to volunteering, service-learning, and civic 

engagement. Additionally, Wheelock was selected 

as one of only five finalists in the General Community 

Service category. 

Wheelock Community Met to Address 

Ferguson, Staten Island Incidents 

President Jenkins-Scott along with faculty representatives, 

Student Life staff, and administrators 

engaged with students in a dialogue about what 

happened in Ferguson, MO, and our own community’s 

actions taken since Ferguson, Staten Island, 

and other incidents. 

Military Counseling Certificate Offered 

A new post-baccalaureate certificate program 

was created to help graduates establish relationships 

with veterans and their family members in 

a culturally sensitive manner. 

Summit to Further South Africa Partnership 

Wheelock hosted a two-day planning summit to 

plan the next phases of a transglobal partnership 

for the provision of high-quality early child 

development services in the Eastern Cape region 

of South Africa. South Africa Partners, based in 

Boston, initiated this promising partnership that 

includes community-based organizations in the 

Eastern Cape in addition to the University of Fort 

Hare and Wheelock. 

Student Financial Aid Day 2015 

Wheelock had a strong presence at the Association 

of Independent Colleges and Universities in 

Massachusetts Student Financial Aid Day at the 

Massachusetts Statehouse with seven students, 

one Trustee, one Corporator, three staff members, 

and two interns in attendance. 

Earl Innovation Day 2015 

Wheelock hosted the first Earl Innovation Day on 

March 5, 2015. This day was designed to let participants 

talk about new ways to think about higher 

education and all that is new and changing in the 

higher education landscape. 

New Graduate Degree Program: Teach and 

Learn in China 

Wheelock College announced an exciting master’s 

degree for Early Education and Care certified 

teachers in the burgeoning field of international 

teaching. The degree combines advanced course 

work with the opportunity to live in a global city 

— Shanghai or Chengdu, China — with a paid, 

teaching placement in a bilingual preschool. 

Wheelock Hosted Health Care Symposium 

Geraldine “Polly” Bednash, executive director of 

the American Association of Colleges of Nursing, 

delivered the keynote address at Wheelock 

College’s “Current Realities and Future Vision: 

Developing an Inter-Professional, Integrated 

Healthcare Workforce” Symposium in Boston on 

May 28, 2015. 

Celebrating Community Service at 

the Statehouse 

On April 7, elected as well as appointed public officials, 

community leaders, and partners convened 

to recognize Wheelock College’s designation as 

one of the nation’s top four higher education 

institutions for community service. 

Wheelock Launched STEM in the City 

Summer Camp 

Wheelock’s STEM in the City Summer Camp for 

rising eighth- and ninth-graders took place on the 

College’s Boston campus last summer to provide 

hands-on learning that links STEM curriculum to 

the real world. 

Student Research Conference 2015 

Wheelock’s inaugural Student Research Conference 

highlighted a broad array of student learning 

and scholarship. The event included presentations, 

student panels, faculty-student exchanges, 

live presentations from Wheelock’s Singapore 

campus, and discussions among learners from 

across the world. 

Commencement Honored Leading 

Social Justice Advocates 

On May 15, 2015, Wheelock awarded honorary degrees 

to three influential social justice advocates 

who exemplify the undergraduate and graduate 

Commencement theme “Advancing Social Justice 

and Education around the World”: Her Excellency 

Dr. Joyce Banda, Lawrence O’Donnell, and Dr. 

Tiziana Filippini. 

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WHEELOCK COLLEGE • ANNUAL REPORT OF GIVING 2014-2015 

Cornerstone Society 

The Cornerstone Society recognizes our most generous donors who make an annual gift of $1,250† or more to Wheelock 

College. These individuals, along with the students they support, are the cornerstones of Wheelock’s future. The College 

would like to thank the following individuals for their support: 

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Lucy Wheelock 

Benefactors 

($50,000 or more) 

Keena Dunn Clifford ’68 

Al and Hilary Creighton 

Sylvia Tailby Earl ’54 and James Earl 

President’s Council 

($25,000 to $49,999) 

Linda Gordon Kendall ’61 

Ted and Beedee Ladd 

Robert and Carol Lincoln 

Martha-Reed Ennis Murphy ’69 

Mary Beth Claus Tobin ’78MS 

Elizabeth Bassett Wolf ’54 

Wheelock Fellows 

($10,000 to $24,999) 

Judith Parks Anderson ’62 and 

Robert Anderson 

Barbara Mead Anthony ’60MS 

Stephanie Bennett-Smith and 

Orin R. Smith 

Alan Bilanin 

Elizabeth Townsend Dearstyne ’62 

and William Dearstyne 

Sally Reeves Edmonds ’55 

Barbara Tutschek Ells ’60 and 

Robert H. Ells 

Edith Hall Huck ’48 

Mr. and Mrs. Andrew F. Mackey 

Toby Congleton Milner ’70 

and Charles Milner 

Frances Nichols ’63 

Carol Drew Penfield ’52* 

Katharine duPont Sanger ’66 

Robert Sperber 

Kate and Ben Taylor 

Helen Small Weishaar ’45 

Froebel Associates 

($5,000 to $9,999) 

Anonymous (2) 

Karen and James Ansara 

Steven Aveson ’78 and 

Karen Musser Aveson ’78 

Linda Larrabee Blair Lockwood ’65* 

Julia Challinor ’75 

Victoria Ash Christian ’77 

Fred and Graceann Foulkes 

Deirdre Conrad Frank ’65 

Thordis Burdett Gulden ’66 

Elizabeth Grimm Hoskins ’56 

John and Judy Knutson 

Gloria Williams Ladd ’65 

Pamela Long 

Eliane Markoff 

Dr. and Mrs. Gordon Marshall 

Joanna Sharkey Oshman ’98 

Linda Bullock Owens ’69 

Ruth Bailey Papazian ’56 

Adelaide Duffy Queeney ’88MS 

Mark E. Roberts ’76MS and 

Jane Hertig Roberts ’73 

Irving H. Sachs* 

Barbara Grogins Sallick ’61 

Page Poinier Sanders ’65 

Lisa and Rex Thors 

Nancy Clay Webster ’66 

Carole Hayes Williams ’66 

Paul Wing 

White and Gold Circle 

($2,500 to $4,999) 

Joan Wolfers Belkin ’70MS 

Barbara Broomhead Bromley ’60 

Jean Heard Carmichael ’62 

Lorna Waterhouse Chafe ’63 

Barbara Pratt Dancy ’62 

Barbara Elliott Fargo ’52 

Susan Grearson Fillmore ’56 

Priscilla Alden Hayes ’62 and 

Robert Hayes 

Sally Schwabacher Hottle ’59 

Anne Wingle Howard ’57 

Kathy and Bob Jaunich 

Jackie Jenkins-Scott and Jim Scott 

Marion Turnbull Mangels ’59 

Anne Marie and Allan Martorana 

Shirley Hotra Neff ’58 

Christine Kamp Seidman ’67MS 

Karen S. Sturges ’87MS 

Daniel S. Terris 

J. Michael Williamson 

†The Cornerstone Society level increased from $1,250 to $1,500 at the start of Fiscal Year 2016 in July of 2015. 

*Deceased 

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1888 Circle 

($1,250 to $2,499) 

Judy McMurray Achre ’58 

Ruth Flink Ades ’53 

Betsy Hunter Ambach ’54 

Margaret Benisch Anderson ’53 

Jean Farley Bellows ’62 

Idie L. Benjamin ’83MS 

Lisa McCabe Biagetti ’80 

Phoebe Walther Biggs ’62 

Susan Moyer Breed ’52/’79MS 

Joan Sullivan Buchanan ’53 

Joyce Pettoruto Butler ’73 

Nancy Bonner Ceccarelli ’65 

Melanie Waszkiewicz Chadwick ’68 

Louise Close ’77 

Patricia S. Cook, Ph.D. ’69 

Madeleine Gatchell Corson ’59 

Tina Feldman Crosby ’67 

Paula Davison ’74 

Zelinda Makepeace Douhan 

’63/’75MS 

Maria Furman 

Ediss Gandelman 

Natalie Smith Garland ’53 and 

David Garland 

Kristine Sheathelm Gerson ’79 and 

William Gerson 

Mary Bloomer Gulick ’57 and 

Bob Gulick 

Janet Marshall Haring ’64 

Tina Morris Helm ’64/’98MS and 

Bill Helm 

Joelle Balosky Henriksson ’77 

Betsy Forssell Hestnes ’59 

Janet Ferry Jenney ’52 

Mary C. Kloppenberg ’83MS 

Catherine Ley Lawler ’82 

Barbara Longfellow 

Helene Stehlin Lortz ’60 

Anne Sullivan Lyons ’62 

Margaret Ryan MacIntyre ’38DP* 

Kathleen Wilson Mallet ’65 

Catherine Wells Milton ’69 

Mary Mitchell ’79MS 

Constance Bell Moser ’76 

Carol Reed Newsome ’60 

Mr. and Mrs. Andrew O’Shea 

Doris Geer Petusky ’59 

Nancy Fowle Purinton ’64 

Jennifer and George Rice 

Nancy Garnaus Rice ’50 

Marcia Carlson Rintoul ’66 

Marjorie W. Saleh ’65 

Betty Appel Schaffer ’60 

Edith Paffard Simmons ’68 

Susan Bruml Simon ’73 

Sally Clark Sloop ’68 

Ann Meigher Smith ’64 

Elizabeth Robinson Smith ’63 

and Channing Smith 

Eleanor Labosky Stanwood ’67 

Nancy Clarke Steinberger ’65 

Beatrice Clayton Stockwell ’55 

Suzanne Hamburger Thurston ’54 

Sylvia Buffington Tompkins ’55 

Ann Fisher Tuteur ’67 

Florence Milman Walker ’50 

Joan Anderson Watts ’65/’83MS 

Susan Hilsinger Weiner ’65 

Judith Schwarz Weinstock ’70MS 

Scott Wennerholm 

Elsa Weyer Williams ’54 

G 

loria Williams Ladd ’65 and her classmates 

celebrated their 50th Wheelock 

College Reunion last year, which offered them 

the opportunity to reflect upon their experiences 

as Wheelock students and as alumni. All agreed 

that they truly value their Wheelock educations. 

Through the years, Gloria and her husband, 

Lincoln, have generously supported Wheelock 

in multiple ways. Knowing the Annual Fund is dedicated to financial 

aid, they make a yearly contribution to serve students who might not 

otherwise have access to the same education Gloria values so much. 

In addition to the Annual Fund, Gloria and Lincoln have also regularly 

supported Wheelock’s Alumni Scholars Program. The Alumni Scholars 

Program allows their philanthropy to make a direct impact on a 

current Wheelock student with a yearly scholarship. 

Considering their philanthropy to be an investment in the future, 

Gloria, a former nursery school teacher and consultant, says, “Today’s 

students will be the teachers of tomorrow’s children; we can help them 

all by supporting scholarships at Wheelock.” To that end, they have 

created the Gloria Williams Ladd Endowed Scholarship Fund. Being 

from Maine, Gloria prefers that future recipients of the Scholarship 

also be from her home state and hopes they will continue to live Wheelock’s 

mission. A gift to endow a scholarship provides the College with 

a permanent pool of funds that can be used to provide financial aid to 

generations of Wheelock students to come. 

Given that many of today’s Wheelock students will become teachers 

and social workers without large salaries, Gloria and Lincoln want to 

help them graduate and enter their professions without being burdened 

by large amounts of student debt. 

Alumni Scholarships 

The Alumni Scholars Program brings together 

individuals at the heart of Wheelock College: 

students and alumni. Alumni Scholars donors 

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

undergraduate or graduate student during their 

time at Wheelock. These contributions help 

defray the cost of a Wheelock education, and 

through an exchange of letters and meetings 

at events, the donors are kept up-to-date about 

their students’ studies and activities. Reciprocally, 

students learn about their supporters and their 

Wheelock experience. The students join the 

College in thanking the following individuals: 

Anonymous (1) 

Judith Parks Anderson ’62 



Elizabeth Townsend Dearstyne 

’62 and William Dearstyne 

Thordis Burdett Gulden ’66 



Linda Bullock Owens ’69 





Elizabeth Bassett Wolf ’54 

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Named Funds 

Wheelock donors have the opportunity to establish a fund in 

honor or in memory of individuals or organizations. These named 

funds support a number of College efforts, including scholarships, 

campus improvement, and faculty support. Wheelock is grateful 

for these substantial gifts that will serve the College in perpetuity. 

Scholarship and 

Loan Funds 

Anonymous (2) 

Donald Bergen Abbott Memorial 

Scholarship Fund 

George I. Alden Scholarship Fund 

Judy Parks Anderson ’62 Endowed 


Anthony Family Scholarship Fund 

for Graduate Students 

The Karen and Steve Aveson 

Scholarship for Early Childhood 

Education 

Bronwyn Baird Endowed 


Marjorie Bakken Endowed 


Bank of Boston Endowed 

Student Loan Fund 

Ruth Kelliher Bartlett ’24 

Memorial Fund 

John L. Bates Scholarship Fund 

Bernard W. and Helen Sagoff 

Berkowitch ’28 Memorial 


Sharon Bilanin ’69MS Endowed 


Black Mountain Foundation 


The Catherine E. Bose ’75 

Scholarship in Mathematics 

and Science 

The Barbara Brahms ’36 


Gladys Brooks Endowed 


Gertrude Flanders Bullen ’52 

Memorial Scholarship Fund 

Centennial Scholarship Fund 

Daniel S. Cheever, Jr. 


The James Christmann Writing 

Award Scholarship 

Ruth Clapp ’34 Loan Fund 

Clover Converse Clark ’20 

Memorial Trust 

Class of 1954 Endowed 


Class of 1956 Endowed 



Student Scholar Award 

Carolyn Burrell Cochran 1919 


Katherine Wendell Creighton ’92 


Tina Feldman Crosby ’67 Endowed 


Nancy LeCount Currier ’50 

Memorial Scholarship Fund 

Eagle Academy Scholarship Fund 

Ennis-Murphy Scholarship Fund 

Elinor Frumkin Feldman ’52 

Revolving Student Loan Fund 

Marguerite Franklin 1917 Revolving 

Loan Fund 

The Frances Graves 1909 

Charitable Fund 

Cynthia M. Gregory ’26 Endowed 


Christine Gurske ’95/’98MS 

Endowed Scholarship Fund 

Ellen Gertrude Loomis Hall 


Margaret Hamilton ’23 Arts 


Irene Frail Hamm ’60 Endowed 

Urban Scholarship Fund 

Evelyn Hausslein Child Life 


William Randolph Hearst 


Molly Cooper Hershey ’23 Fund 

for Student Aid 

Aldus C. Higgins Foundation 

Endowed Loan Fund 

Myrl Rose Crocker Howe ’34 


Susan M. Mackey ’94 Scholarship Fund 

Sue Mackey was a dear friend and loved one to so many. 

Sue was a familiar name and face on the Wheelock 

College campus for more than two decades. Beloved by 

students, faculty, staff, and alumni, she served in many 

valuable roles and committed herself wholeheartedly to the 

Wheelock community. It is in no way an overstatement to 

say that she had a tremendous impact on all who came in 

contact with her. After her untimely passing in 2012, a scholarship 

fund was created in Sue’s name so that her legacy at 

Wheelock could continue. Gifts to the Susan M. Mackey ’94 

Scholarship Fund support financial aid for current students 

who are preparing to dedicate their lives, as Sue did, to improving 

the quality of life for children and families. 

Donors in Fiscal Year 2015: 

Anonymous (2) 

Caroline M. Brzozowy Alexis 

’05/’06MS 

The Alumni Association 

Martha C. Bakken ’99MS 

and Maggie Bakken 

Mary Battenfeld 

Deborah Lisansky Beck 

Amy Goldstein Brin ’94 

Heidi Butterworth-Fanion ’94 

Mr. and Mrs. Peter B. 

Campstrom 

Vivian Carr ’94 

Sandra Christison ’92MS 


Katherine Clunis D’Andrea 

’97/’98MS 

Stephen Dill 

Elizabeth Bigham Dilts ’93 

and Stephen T. Dilts 

Barbara Tarr Drauschke ’72 

Kelly McLoud Duda ’04 

Ellen Faszewski 

Christina Hadges 

Marian Clifton Hurlin ’22 


Barbara Jack ’30 Endowed 


Kathleen Magee Jaunich 

Scholarship 

Margery Hall Johnson Endowed 

Scholarship 

Virginia M. Howard 

Nancy Hutchins 

Kady Landscape, Inc. 

Mr. and Mrs. Warren Keller 

Carri LaCroix Pan ’94/’98MS 

Diane Levin ’69MS 

Mr. and Mrs. Andrew F. Mackey 

Lori Mancini ’94 

Lauren A. Marquis ’11MS 

Mary McCormack ’89 

Kyla McSweeney ’94/’97MS 

Lauren LaBelle Morin ’08 

Kendra Mrozek ’07 

Robin Chapman Noye ’94 

Renee Ruggiero 

Alishia Durning Salerno ’94 

Lisa A. Slavin 

Lorie Spencer 

Hope Haslam Straughan 

Valerie Gorlin Tarbell ’94 

Claire White ’79/’84MS 

Mr. and Mrs. Edward N. White 

Karen Worth 

Ruth Appleton Burge Johnson 

1910 Scholarship Fund 

Marcia Rudd Keil ’34 Endowed 


Linda Gordon Kendall ’61 


Lyn Peck Kenyon and Walter 

Kenyon Scholarship 

WINTER 2016


Carol Liu King ’66MS Endowed 


Susan Kosoff ’65/’75MS 

Legacy Fund 

Katherine Ehrler Kurth 


Gloria Williams Ladd Endowed 


Frances B. and Paige D. 

L’Hommedieu Scholarship Fund 

Elizabeth Ann Liddle ’47 Fund 

for International Students 

Agnes M. Lindsay Trust Scholarship 

Lowell Scholarship 

Susan M. Mackey ’94 


Kathryn Severance Makosky ’30 


Margaret H. and Robert W. Merry 


Gwen Morgan ’76MS 


Hollis P. Nichols Scholarship Fund 

Janice Porosky Olins ’33 


Phoebe O’Mara Endowed Fund 

Patricia Knowlton Paine- 

Dougherty ’50 Scholarship Fund 

Henry H. and Edith Nicholson 

Perry 1919 Scholarship Fund 

Theresa Perry Scholarship Fund 

Mildred Engler Peterson ’24 


The Harold Whitworth Pierce 

Charitable Trust Scholarship 

The Catherine Pursel Emergency 

Student Loan Fund 

Jennifer Stowers Quintal ’02 

Teacher Development 


The Roberts Family Endowed 


William E. and Bertha E. Schrafft 

Charitable Trust Endowed Fund 

Saul M. Silverstein Endowed 


The Ellen Haebler Skove ’49 

Endowed Scholarship Fund** 

Ching Yee Soong ’65 


Edith Winter Sperber ’52 


The Geneviève McMillan-Reba 

Stewart Foundation Fund 

The Ellen G. Sullivan Endowed 

Scholarship 

Susan Swap Community Service 


Mary A. Sweeney ’56 Scholarship 

Fund 

Catherine Hargrave Sykes ’50 


Suzanne L. Thurston ’54 Endowed 


Marion H. Towne Scholarship Fund 

Frances M. Tredick Endowed 


Frances M. Tredick 1902 


Wheelock Club of Portland 

Scholarship 

Wheelock College Alumni 

Association Scholarship 



Wheelock College Urban Teachers 


Lucy Wheelock Endowed 


Lucy Wheelock Student Loan Fund 

Betsy Reed Wilson ’55/Let’s Face It 

Visiting Health Scholar 

Marjorie Cohn Wolf ’51 and 

William H. Wolf Perpetuating 

Loan Fund 

Library Funds 

Alma Bent ’42/’43 and Janet 

Higginbotham Washburn 

’42/’43 Library Fund 

Linda Munroe Brady Memorial 

Book Fund 

Beatrice Garnaus Library Fund 

Nancy Corwin Gordon Memorial 

Book Fund 

Altina Mead Memorial Fund 

Jone Sloman Library Fund 

Other Funds 

CAR Endowed Faculty Fund 

Sylvia Earl ’54 Technology Fund 

Graduate School Special 

Programs Fund 

Hillel Fund 

Holistic Health and Wellness Club 

International Service 

Learning Fund 

Sandra Nesson Kivowitz ’56 

Memorial Fund 

Edward H. Ladd Award for 

Academic Excellence and Service 

Cynthia Longfellow Teaching 

Recognition Award 

Master of Social Work Restricted 

Scholarship 

Math and Science Endowed 

Prize Fund 

Mattahunt Copier Fund 

Political Science Department Chair 

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

Assistance Fund 

South Africa Service Learning 

Annual Fund 

South Africa Service Learning 

Endowment Fund 

Dr. Jeri Faith Traub Children’s 

Courtyard Fund 

Dr. Jeri Faith Traub Student Prize 

for Special Education 

Wheelock Faculty Fund 


Endowed Fund 


Seat Fund** 

** New fund in Fiscal Year 2015 

Honoring the Legacy of President Jackie Jenkins-Scott 

Judith “Judy” Hall ’69 lives in New York, but 

she tries to visit Wheelock as frequently as 

her busy schedule allows. She came to campus 

in 2014 for her 45th Reunion and looks forward 

to coming back this spring to join her cousin 

Betty Pearsall ’71 as she celebrates her 45th. 

Last fall, Judy attended an alumni reception 

in New York City to celebrate the tenure of President 

Jackie Jenkins-Scott, who will step down 

from the presidency in June. Event host Patricia “Pat” Cook ’69 

spoke about the Board of Trustees and their creation of The Jackie 

Jenkins-Scott Endowed Fund for Service and Learning Journeys at 

Wheelock College. Judy has watched closely over the last 12 years as 

President Jackie has led Wheelock to many great successes. Wanting 

to honor her legacy, Judy immediately made a donation to the Fund. 

The Fund will be used to defray the cost of travel, including servicelearning 

trips, for current Wheelock students. These trips, often 

proclaimed by students to be among the most profound learning 

experiences during their time at Wheelock, often cost hundreds or 

even thousands of dollars more than many can pay. By supporting the 

Fund, Judy and others are ensuring that this tremendous opportunity 

will be available to as many students as possible. 

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Associate 

Degree Donors 

1973 

Deborah Maher 

Priscilla Paquette 

1974 

Barbara Carter Brathwaite 

1977 

Donna Blaikie Coleman 

1984 

Marlene Ross 

1990 

Jewel Russell 

1995 

Marcia A. Perry 

Undergraduate 

Degree Donors 

1934 

Elizabeth Drowne Nash 

1938 

Margaret Ryan MacIntyre* 

1940 

Louise Martin Klemmer 

1941 

Barbara Munson Carpenter 

Arlene Drake Dickinson 

1942-’43 

Patricia Stewart Curtis* 

Jean Mealey Slavin 

Helen Roberts Thomas 

1943-’44 

Nancy Wilson Ainslie 

Sally Keating Walsh 

1945 

Juliana Forsythe Bussiere 

Maryanne Weber Lockyer 

Helen Small Weishaar 

1946 

Cordelia Abendroth 

Flanagan 

Louise Vialle 

1947 

Daphne Tait Cooper 

Ruth Hirons Irving 

1948 

Phyllis Fishman Grossbaum 

Edith Hall Huck 

Janet Gall Leonard 

Catherine Creble McCarraher 

Carolyn Blount Street 

Barbara Sturgis 

1949 

Laura Anne McPhee Burton* 

Jean Dickson Chiquoine 

Margaret Ames Davis 

Anne Tremper Hall 

Doris Jackson Marshall 

Jane Felton Parker 

Barbara Ferguson Pieper 

Suzanne Small Shanahan 

Maryellen Nelson Smiley 

Mariah MacGilvra Temby 

1950 

Nancy Spencer Adams 

Marjorie Johnson Cilley 

Jane Lockwood Ferguson 

Barbara Moog Finlay 

Mary Hathaway Hayter 

Emily Wright Holt 

Mary Gall Horsley 

Nancy Blue Lane 

Helga Lieberg Lustig 

Beverly Maurath Newell 

Nancy Garnaus Rice 

Sydney Weaver Schultheis 

Barbara Thompson Trainor 

Florence Milman Walker 

Edith Nowers White 

Edith Runk Wright 

1951 

Beverly Boardman 

Brekke-Bailey 

Joan Spargo Bullard 

Louise Butts 

Georgianna Hale Dana 

Shirley Stevens French 

Judith Handley Garvey 

Patricia Gindele Guild 

Elizabeth Cahill Haskell 

Nancy Williams Mohn 

Laura Richardson Payson 

Helen Taft Staser 

Jean Turner Strodel 

Dorothy Etherington 

Thurnherr 

Carol Pounds Wales 

Grace Viard Ward 

Mary Rothwell Wattles 

Joan Wiggin* 

1952 

Margaret Kind Childs 

Selby Brown Ehrlich 

Catherine Gaffey Everett 

Barbara Elliott Fargo 

Patricia Conzelman Greeley 

Ann Foote Grey 

Anne DeLamater Hansen 

Nancy Dodd Horst 

Cornelia Krull Hutt 

Janet Ferry Jenney 

Cecily Chandler Kalin 

Virginia Bell Libhart 

Carol Drew Penfield* 

Mary Major Rubel 

Joan Smith Walter 

Marjorie George Widegren 

Rosemary Fettinger Worth 

1953 

Anonymous (1) 

Ruth Flink Ades 

Ellen McMillan Aman 

Patricia Russell Amendola 

Margaret Benisch Anderson 

Joan Sullivan Buchanan 

Joan Halloran Corning 

Ann Carter Craft 

Natalie Smith Garland 

Jennifer Thorne Hayden 

Josepha Loskill Jenks 

Gail Maurath Lyon 

Carol Hulbert Maxwell 

Nancy Oppy Merrifield 

Joyce Allen Rich 

Jane Palmer Schaefer 

Dorothy Steinberg Shaker 

Sally Williams Tallamy 

Sally Karr Torrey 

Winifred Magee Williams 

1954 

Betsy Hunter Ambach 

Barbara Hirshberg Atlas 

Sylvia Tailby Earl 

Nancy Rosenwald Foilb 

Meta Curtze Gebhardt 

Nancy Shapiro Hurwitz 

Elizabeth Wheeler 

L’Hommedieu 

Eileen O’Connell McCabe 

Caroline Howard McCarty 

Harriet Knapp McCauley 

Lois Barnett Mirsky 

Penny Power Odiorne 

Lydia Bartlett Phalen 

Frances Vail Russell 

Nancy Loeb Silbert 

Nancy Pennypacker Temple 

Suzanne Hamburger 

Thurston 

Elsa Weyer Williams 

Virginia Thomas Williams 

Elizabeth Bassett Wolf 

1955 

Nancy Merry Bergere 

Sally Reeves Edmonds 

Joan Brassel Gerace 

Bonnie Simon Grossman 

Dorothy Wayman Grudzinski 

Joleen Glidden Ham 

Hildegard Fleck Hix 

Josephine Smith Howard 

Nancy Cerruti Humphreys 

Joan Nelson Leighton 

Charlotte Cooper Lopoten 

Louise Baldridge Lytle 

Sheila M. Mahoney 

Betsey DeWitt Matteson 

Lesley Fleming Meinel 

Penelope Kickham Reilly 

Kathleen Rooney 

Judith Haskell Rosenberg 

Patricia Brennan Smith 

Beatrice Clayton Stockwell 

Janet Bradley Taylor 

Judith Barrett Theroux 

Amaryllis Morris Volk 

Catherine Wakefield 

Ann Butler Yos 

1956 

Henriette Pennypacker 

Binswanger 

Ann Melrose Blauvelt 

Wilma Rayment Brady 

Peggy McCreery Broadbent 

Denise O’Brien Cariani 

Margaret McLean Caywood 

Paula Boehm Clifford 

Barbara Bihari Cohen 

Mary Bates Duplisea-Palmer 

Evelyn Jenney Eaton 

Susan Grearson Fillmore 

Catherine Maniatakis 

Frantzis 

Dorothy Dorfman Goldstick 

Elizabeth Grimm Hoskins 

Barbara Ice Lake 

Patricia Markle Levy 

Wilma Kinsman Marr 

Mary-Louise Stickles Perkins 

Adeline Bradlee Polese 

Nancy Griggs Razee 

Beverly Haley Richter 

Susan Waters Shaeffer 

Barbara Silverstein 

Constance Foote Smithwood 

Nancy Crocker Stewart 

Judith Rosenthal Tobin 

Jane Burnham Treman 

Julie Bigg Veazey 

1957 

Gertrude Bryan 

Virginia Plumer Crook 

Theone Zacharakis Curtiss 

Katrina Hoadley DeLude 

Dawna Wight Fowler 

Janice Wright Freelove 

Mary Bloomer Gulick 

Margot Block Haselkorn 

Anne Wingle Howard 

Dardana Berry Hoyt 

Deborah Carlson Jacklin 

H. Barbara Knowles Jacobsen 

Barbara Stagis Kelliher 

Maureen Rolfe Kelly 

Sandra Gladstein Morrison 

Mary Lou Cudhea Reed 

Nancy Weltman Schattner 

Mardrivon Cowles Scott 

Sarah Curran Smith 

Janet Spaulding 

Mary Hartwell Truesdell 

Carolyn Woodhead 

1958 

Judy McMurray Achre 

Nancy Alexander Anderson 

Carole Leclerc Barry 

Nancy Hallock Cooper 

Marcia Potter Crocker 

Regina Frankenberger Dubin 

Mary McBride Felton 

June Hayward Foster 

Jean Tulloch Griffith 

Cynthia Hallowell 

Marion Cook Houston 

Sandra MacDonald 

Ingmanson 

Laura Lehrman 

Arlene Keizer Lovenvirth 

Shirley Hotra Neff 

Sara Beckwith Novak 

Margaret Weinheimer 

Sherwin 

Carol Yudis Stein 

Elizabeth Sturtz Stern 

Elizabeth Bundy Taft 

Patricia Dodd Ulmer 

Sara Dunbar Waters 

Carol Stuart Wenmark 

Jean Cutler Whitham 

1959 

Annette Rogers Barber 

Alice Thompson Brew 

Barbara Sahagian Carlson 

Madeleine Gatchell Corson 

Yvonne Emmons Duvall 

Patricia Haas 

Sandra Hall Haffler 

Betsy Forssell Hestnes 

Sally Schwabacher Hottle 

Lynne Grove Ives 

Barbara Hampson Ivey 

Joan Pannier Langley 

Helen Doughty Lester 

Marion Turnbull Mangels 

Sue Abbot McCord 

Virginia Ludwig McLaughlin 

Brenda Sherman Merchant 

Elaine Fogel Parks 

*Deceased


Diantha Sheldon Patterson 

Doris Geer Petusky 

Alicia Atlin Stokes 

Judith Scott Stolp 

Patricia Wise Strauss 

Helen LaMontagne 

Warmuth 

1960 

Katharine Cummings 

Bannon 

Barbara Broomhead Bromley 

Ellen Cluett Burnham 

Sandra Hopkins Clausen 

Beverly Weitzel Damen 

Barbara Tutschek Ells 

Peggy Oliver Hedeman 

Jane Coulter Langmaid 

Rebecca Schechtman Maisel 

Deanne Williams Morse 

Nancy Brooks Nelson 

Anne Mullervy Newbrook 

Carol Reed Newsome 

Sara Thompson Orton 

Betty Appel Schaffer 

Janice Halsted Sussebach 

1961 

Susan Quick Anderson 

Joan Nolet Bennert 

Helen Clark 

Miriam Curtin Cushing 

Dorothy Sideris Davis 

Norma Brawley Dugger 

Ellen Tague Dwinell 

Mary Jo Severson Fenyn 

Martha Young Hansen 

Susan Beale Hufford 

Elizabeth Horton Ingraham 

Linda Gordon Kendall 

Marjorie Wilson Kingston 

Jeannette Kwok 

Judith Johnston Laurens 

Linda Shemwick Lindquist 

Eleanor Snyder Markowitz 

Nancy Miller 

Juliet Miller Moynihan 

Margaret Knowles Rodgers 

Barbara Grogins Sallick 

Gail Spivack Sandler 

Virginia Colquitt Schroder 

Betsy Mark Weiner 

1962 

Daphne Angelis Abodeely 

Joann Seidenfeld Adler 

Judith Parks Anderson 

Jean Farley Bellows 

Phoebe Walther Biggs 

Carol Tarr Bolter 

Luette Close Bourne 

Jean Heard Carmichael 

Ruth Weeks Clark 

Barbara Pratt Dancy 

Elizabeth Townsend 

Dearstyne 

Penelope Petrell English 

Roberta Weiss Goorno 

Linda Marvin Hastie 

Priscilla Alden Hayes 

Elizabeth Gregg Horn 

Sabra Brown Johnston 

Roberta Goodale Kulas 

Mary Koenigsberg Lang 

Judith Rominger Lutkus 

Anne Sullivan Lyons 

Lorna Ramsden McCollum 

Diane Stephens 

Montgomery 

Mary Joanna Neish 

Judy Sherman Nevins 

Betsy Miller Radler 

Laura Sibley Rhodes 

Mary Richardson Rivers 

Jean Barclay Rook 

Jane Saltzman Rosenberg 

Emily VanderStucken 

Spencer 

Mary Schubert Stearns 

Judith Gollub Trieff 

Georgia Bradley Zaborowski 

1963 

Linda Dale Anderson 

Susan Memery Bruce 

Lorna Waterhouse Chafe 

Heather Hughes Dahlberg 


Yvonne LaBrecque Enders 

Cynthia Jepsen Farquhar 

Carolyn Collins Farrell 

Margaret Fenner 

Helen Mosher Geci 

Barbara Hamilton Gibson 

Jessie Hennion Gwisdala 

Jane Kuehn Kittredge 

Jacquelyn Taft Lowe 

Susan Cross MacElhiny 

Elizabeth Craft Meuer 

Susan Wise Miller 

Elizabeth Kellogg Morse 

Paula Corning Newell 

Frances Nichols 

Lynn Sanchez Paquin 

Sally A. Pease 

Christine Price Penglase 

Marjorie Sanek Platzker 

Anne Little Reiley 

Carolyn Allen Seaton 

Judith Thompson Seeley 

Carol Steele Shively 

Elizabeth Robinson Smith 

Eleanor Starkweather 

Snelgrove 

Loraine Nettleton Watson 

Alice Parke Watson 

Susan Steele Weems 

Gail Rosinoff Weiner 

Nancy Preston Wisneskey* 

1964 

Susan Greenleaf Anderson 

Judith Reutter Blanton 

Sarah Dewey Blouch 

Linda Bostrom Caplice 

Perrine Colmore 

Mary Jane Blackburn Cook 

Elizabeth Wilson Crowther 

Sarah Beebe Davis 

Nancy Ashton Dewey 

Elizabeth McIntyre Doepken 

Jeanette Polhemus 

Glesmann 

Deborah Niebling Grubbs 

Janet Marshall Haring 

Tina Morris Helm 

Carol Jeffers Hollenberg 

Barbara Hodge Holmes 

Mary Wolf Hurtig 

Kathleen Magee Jaunich 

Phyllis Forbes Kerr 

Eleanor Noble Linton 

Priscilla Nelson Linville 

Jessi MacLeod 

Carolyn Humphrey Miller 

Suzanne Mullens Morgan 

Sudie Nostrand 

Ann Brown Omohundro 

Barbara Wilson Parks 

Nancy Fowle Purinton 

Hilda Wright Rhodes 

Rachel Ripley Roach 

Loretta Buechling Schaefer 

Carol Eidam Schmottlach 

Ann Meigher Smith 

Mary Ellen Freeman Smith 

Marjorie Blum Walker 

Ann Burgess Wolpers 

1965 

Anne Goepper Aftuck 

Elizabeth Marchant 

Armstrong 

Barbara Curtis Baker 

Joan Griffith Ballog 

Nancy Rosenberg Bazilian 

Susan Bright Belanger 

Linda Larrabee Blair 

Lockwood* 

Cynthia Cooper Buschmann 

Carol Twiner Cameron 

Anne Bonner Ceccarelli 

Carol Naftali Charkow 

Carolyn Nichols Cobb 

Mary Dominick Connors 

Barbara Stevenson Cox 

Joanne Malynoski Dall 

Elsa Chaffee Distelhorst 

Ann Connor Doak 

Karen Ellsworth 

Sandra Tilton Elmer 

Cordelia Glass Fenton 

Deirdre Conrad Frank 

Elizabeth Smith Gavriel 

Donna Johnson Grinnell 

Kate Young Hewitt 

Dana Seeley Hirth 

Martha Harriman Ives 

Sarah Spaulding Jonick 

Darcy Black Keough 

Gloria Williams Ladd 

May Koh Lam 

Julia Clymer Lloyd 

Ann L. MacVicar 

Kathleen Wilson Mallet 

Edwina Burke Marcus 

Carol F. McPherson 

Christina Moustakis 

Hinda Rose Niemeyer 

Mary Barnard O’Connell 

Barbara Buckley O’Leary 

Karen Fykse Olsen 

Marjorie W. Saleh 

Page Poinier Sanders 

Linda Sarkozy Scanlan 

Karen Gold Sokol 

Phyllis Cokin Sonnenschein 

Nancy Clarke Steinberger 

Elizabeth Earle Stevenson 

Heidi Snow Stowe 

Nancy Symmes Sweeney 

Ruth M. Tilghman 

Penelope W. Traver 

Joan Tulis Trisko 

Susan Wells Vogel 

Joan Anderson Watts 

Susan Hilsinger Weiner 

Gwen Lloyd Wirtalla 

1966 

Anonymous (1) 

Patricia Roh Aldrich 

Patricia Miller Callard 

Laurie Knowles Carter 

Sarah Carter 

Barbara Walker Collamore 

Sharon Jenks Collinson 

Madeleine Tufts Cormier 

Nancy Wicke Demarest 

Barbara Baker Dowd 

Hope Binner Esparolini 

Patricia Phillips Fraser 

Mary Moor French 

Linda Crocker Genest 

Thordis Burdett Gulden 

Pamela Carey Haggett 

Martha Somers Henderson 

Susan Clark Howard 

Susan McKee Kessler 

Karen Kitfield Koeppl 

Marka Truesdale Larrabee 

Ruth McLean Lizotte 

Patricia Lewars Lucy 

Jane Martin McMackin 

Andrea Price Morse 

Anne Hallowell Newton 

Nedra Michel Nobleman 

Phoebe O’Mara 

Susan Lodge Peck 

Isota Epes Potter 

Jane Wolcott Ready 

Heather Robinson Reimann 

Marcia Carlson Rintoul 

Elizabeth Zwirner Ruggiero 

Katharine duPont Sanger 

Sylvia Thorndike Sheriff 

Natalie Palmer Stafford 

Ann Linden Stewart 

Susan Magennis Underwood 

Wendy Stuek Voit 

Elizabeth Marks Voss 

Nancy Clay Webster 

Patricia Wild 

Carole Hayes Williams 

Joan Austin Yocum 

1967 

Anonymous (2) 

Tracey Ober Anderson 

Elizabeth Edwards Bell 

Virginia Stout Burau 

Ingrid Hasskarl Chalufour 

Tina Feldman Crosby 

Donna Pulk Elliott 

Susan Wells Ferrante 

Judith Lambert Foster 

Lucy Schade Jackson 

Linda Moritz Katz 

Sally Desmond Kensel 

Susan Kircheis Long 

Kathryn Weinland Lordan 

Linda Hoe Palmer 

Betsy Simmonds Pollock 

Jeannette Stone Reynolds 

Beverly Boden Rogers 

Doryl Lloyd Rourke 

Eleanor Labosky Stanwood 

Katharine Lancaster 

Thompson 

Laura Shapero Thomson 

Margery Peirce Thurber 

Nancy Sullivan Tryzelaar 

Ann Fisher Tuteur 

Carolyn Wright Unger 

Elizabeth Griswold Vershay 

Sara Wolf 

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Susan Todd Wolfe 

Joan Blackman Youngman 

1968 

Susanne Hall Alford 

Susan Stein Backer 

Jane Carpentier Batchelder 

Sandra Gustavsen Batten 

Melanie Waszkiewicz 

Chadwick 

Keena Dunn Clifford 

Phyllis Cross Croce 

Monica Freese Eppinger 

Penelope Ferenbach 

Franchot 

Francine Gitnick Franke 

Leslie Smith Gill 

Robin Barnes Grallo 

Susan Terragni Howe 

Margery Linn Kirsch 

Carol Tonseth Konz 

Cynthia Blum Kramer 

Gail Larcom Lamy 

Margaret Merrill Loutrel 

Katherine Sayford Lucibello 

Susan Ordway Lyons 

Ann Knowles MacKay 

Kathryn de Sano Mahoney 

Lynn Grearson McWilliams 

Lynne Brown Moores 

Lou Ann Colonnese Mulcahy 

Herrika Williams Poor 

Marlene Shama 

Cynthia Carpenter Sheehan 

Marjorie Moss Shekarchi 

Edith Paffard Simmons 

Janice McLean Simpson 

Sally Clark Sloop 

Noel Gignoux Spevacek 

Rosemary Douglass Vena 

Carlotta Dyer Zilliax 

Susan Ackerman Zwick 

1969 

Linda Minker Abramson 

Sara Burns Adams 

Janice L. Bevan 

Cheri Breeman 

Susan Kilbourn Burkhard 

Margaret Graham Caswell 

Deborah Melia Clark 

Patricia S. Cook, Ph.D. 

Molly Day 

Hope Dean 

Aliisa Leino DiMartinis 

Daphne Hunsaker Hall 

Roberta Schwartz Klopfer 

Susan Hadden Lawrence 

Priscilla Phelan Lentowski 

Sara Fish Longenecker 

Joan Birkenstock May 

Elizabeth Paine McClendon 

Catherine Wells Milton 

Margrete Miner 

Martha-Reed Ennis Murphy 

Linda Bullock Owens 

Dell Redington 

Bryn Kopelan Shain 

Charlotte Lowell Stynes 

Virginia B. Ward 

Linda Gordon Wurzel 

1970 

Anonymous (2) 

Lucy Amory Bradley 

Susan Costello Bryant 

Jacqueline Hanifl Carnevali 

Grace Coffey Clark 

Ellen Kirby Cummings 

Daphne Voyatzis Damplo 

Suzanne Moon Dykhuizen 

Terry Davidow Epstein 

Renee Fox Gould 

Suzanne Salter Krautmann 

Jane Kromm 

Lauren Loeb Lerner 

Denise Chateauneuf Macey 

Toby Congleton Milner 

Deborah Weinberg Mizrahi 

Candace Kuhn Niznik 

Janet Frost Russell 

Marion Scott 

Kluane Baier Snyder 

Jermain Mueller Steiner 

Susan Ormsby Stoehr 

Barbara Peterson Sweeney 

Susanne Bowen Toothaker 

Pamela M. L. Wong 

Priscilla Hussey Worrall 

1971 

Ann Bachini Aghababian 

Phoebe Hemenway 

Armstrong 

Karen Srulowitz Berman 

Christine Chase 

Nancy Liberman Cohen 

Jane Boyle Cohn 

Margery Feinburg Cooper 

Phyllis Jew Danko 

Julia-Ellen Davis 

Gwynneth DeLong 

Cynthia Knowles Denault 

Beverly Janson Hammond 

Elizabeth Hirsch 

Priscilla Jeffery 

Sheryl Berman Lovit* 

Ruth Hughes McGee 

Yvonne Petitmaire 

Geraldine Robinson 

Nancy Millican Rogers 

Elizabeth Sands 

Donna Van Stone Schmidt 

Renae Ross Starker 

Shirley Meier Vautin 

Patricia O’Shea Vonnegut 

Ruth Steinhausen 

Wachterman 

Sylvia Birnbaum Yasner 

1972 

Lynn Geronemus Bigelman 

Margaret Taylor DeAgazio 

Barbara Tarr Drauschke 

Alice Liberman Eberhardt 

Susan Whiting Finan 

Diane Tomaino Fisher 

Alexena Thun Frazee 

Cynthia Johnson GaNun 

Linda Jeter Harris 

Mary Barbour Hatvany 

Louisa Miller Hoar 

Helena Marshall Keiser 

Linda Carlson Kiley 

Jill Rosing Landel 

Elizabeth Hile Lindsay 

Amelia Carlson Maddock 

Barbara Zimmermann 

Murphy 

Karen Lundquist Peterson 

Mary Dickerson Pierson 

Carol Myers Pressman 

Sarah Lundrigan Ross 

Harriet Serrell Sherman 

Diane Palmer Soderland 

Kathryn Stafford 

Nancy Martell Stevenson 

Marjorie Taft 

Sally Van Zandt Turk 

Gayle Ziegler Vonasek 

Nancy McClement Waage 

Betsey Greenwald 

Zimmering 

1973 

Christine Appert 

Sandra Birdsall Atteberry 

Lynn Beebe 

Lynn Emerson Brownell 

Joyce Pettoruto Butler 

Jeannette Byers 

Rhonda Frisch Cooper 

Susan Eblen 

Lynne Siegal Fox 

Marilyn Levick Fyfe 

Pamela Pappas Goode 

Dana Brewer Hahn 

Laurel Bravman Kaplan 

Regina Frisch Lobree 

Deborah Maher 

Ernestine Manns 

Amanda Griggs Miles 

Priscilla Paquette 

Abby Squires Perelman 

Carol Bigelow Riggs 

Jane Hertig Roberts 

Sally Bechert Robinson 

Rosemary Sheehan Rotelli 

Susan Mahoney Segar 

Mildred Shelton 

Susan Bruml Simon 

Cynthia Coggeshall Trask 

Marion Brigham Williams 

1974 

Karyn Brotman 

Nancy Bailin Careskey 

Paula Davison 

Rita Abrams Draper 

Kay Eng 

Susan Blaine Gilbert 

Rebecca Kaminsky 

Debra Crossman Kwiatek 

Mary Ellen Piantedosi 

Margosian 

Julie Moffatt 

Betsy Kinney Morgan 

Dana Nelson 

Jessie Norton-Lazenby 

Jill Schunick Putnam 

Diane Rothauser 

Jacqueline M. Schulte 

Linda Mayo-Perez Williams 

1975 

Carol Bryce Bibeau 

Harriet Blanchard 

Julia Challinor 

Beth Nusbaum Curtiss 

Dorothea De Gutis 

Caren French 

Marcy Raymond Goodwin 

Joanna Miles Griffith 

Patricia Gardiner Hill 

Amanda Carey Hogan 

Carol White Jones 

Rachel Henowitz Levine 

Helen Hymerling Liberatore 

Audrey Liberman Matson 

Susan Crispen Miller 

Mila Moschella 

Joseph Richards 

Patricia Gontrum Sare 

Elizabeth Solbert-Sheldon 

Kathy Witt Sturges 

Harriet Romeiser Thomas 

Nancy Drummond Tindal 

Sara Wragge 

1976 

Louisa Lothrop Affleck 

Regina Bachini 

Barbara Carter Brathwaite 

Terry Goldberg Bromfield 

Cheryl Zalk Chandler 

Marilyn Croteau 

Lisa Milanese Evans 

Carolee Fucigna 

Gayle Griswold Goldberg 

Marianne Beckman 

Henderson 

Melinda Kaiser 

Amy Kitzen 

Ann Laliberte 

Laura Rohde Lindsay 

Patricia McGowan McManus 

Susan Moulton Michaels 

Constance Bell Moser 

Cynthia Doherty Murphy 

Ruth Murphy 

Daria Lyons O’Connor 

Bonnie Page 

Dale Zabriskie Pomerantz 

Sherri Perk Reider 

Nora Ray Richards 

Kathy Richter-Sand 

Laurie Snow Russell 

Patricia Grief Sammataro 

Nina Shapiro 

Geraldine Small 

Sally Snipes-Wells 

Wafa Bissar Sturdivant 

Dolores Testa 

Mary Lou Carney Upton 

Laurie Merrick Winegar 

Angela Barresi Yakovleff 

1977 

Anonymous (1) 

Hollis Brooks 

Susan Trementozzi 

Charbonneau 

Victoria Ash Christian 

Louise Close 

Joelle Balosky Henriksson 

Kathryn Morton Ivory 

Margaret Smith Lee 

Susan Colicchio Littleton 

Margaret McCarthy 

Dale Sillan Morris 

Pamela Bowen Thomas 

Cynthia Lauriat Vaughan 

Susan Cook Vaughn 

Susan C. West 

Audrey Zabin 

1978 

Jane Anderson 

Rosemary Anderson 

Karen Musser Aveson 

Steven Aveson 

Susan Boyce-Cormier 

Joan Bingham Chandler 

Jane Sleamaker Costello 

Lora Anderson Goldman 

Susan Flaherty King 

*Deceased


Maureen Cleary Parsons 

Brooke Stark 

Arlene Botelho Williams 

1979 

Anonymous (1) 

Brenda Stone Clover 

Maura Houlihan German 

Kristine Sheathelm Gerson 

Laura Elliott Jernigan 

Christine Bassick La Forest 

Donna LaRoche 

Rebecca Sakshaug Pagano 

Rosemary Rehm-Schantz 

Cornelia Conyngham 

Romanowski 

Claudia Barnett Scott 

Sallie Sanders Upshaw 

Claire White 

1980 

Maryanne Bernier 

Lisa McCabe Biagetti 

Sigrid Carvelli Bott 

Michaela Penny Cole 

Holly McAlpine Dulac 

Lisa Carlson Gaddes 

Cynthia Garvin-Parks 

Kathleen Formica Harris 

Laureen Dillon Hart 

Bobbie Van Suetendael 

Helbig 

Jane Henshaw Kinkead 

Margaret Meath 

Sheryl Stein Mervis 

Karin Patton 

Edward Schantz 

Patricia Barone Sokoly 

Elizabeth Heger Wright 

1981 

Cynthia Brookings Bachman 

Bernadine Herbert Gittens 

Marion Ferguson Heller 

Ava Lowe-Boampong 

Alexis Foster Reed 

Jean Ricciardelli 

Ramona Sullivan Trevino 

Dawn Lawlor Wholean 

Sarah French Wilkins 

1982 

Donna Moriarty Allen 

Laura Asseng Bachinski 

Victoria Lloyd Boreyko 

Kathleen McGrail Campbell 

Susan O’Halloran Constable 

Renate Wagner Flannelly 

Kathleen Mello Friedrichsen 

Linda Abbey Gent 

Catherine Ley Lawler 

ElizaBeth Ritchie McCay 

Karen Mutch-Jones 

Barbara Madison Ripps 

Mari Dalton Walkowicz 

Lisa Nord Zack 

1983 

Anonymous (1) 

Zoraida Correia Bohn 

Karen Mello Diamond 

Evelina Ecker 

Carol Rubin Fishman 

Sara Grande Gavens 

Nadine Snyder Heaps 

Mary McKeon Lee 

Susan Marr 

Lora Lopes Nielsen 

Deborah Wurgler 

1984 

Lee Block 

Martha McNulty 

Elizabeth Stobart 

Jody Mount Vorenberg 

1985 

Linda Banks-Santilli 

Julie Link Ferro 

Catherine Dinan Jackson 

Elizabeth Thomas 

Marianne McGillicuddy 

Wright 

Stephanie Poly Zapatka 

1986 

Lori MacKinnon Churchill 

Susan Dunn 

Claudia Czaja Foster 

Mary Midura Joncas 

Margaret Sturges 

McDermott 

Donna Mallozzi Perkins 

Marlene Ross 

Pamela Senese 

Julie Simon 

1987 

Laura DeNucci Crosby 

Kathleen Hurley DeVarennes 

Luanne Peters Wilson 

1988 

Rebecca Johnson Alexander 

Suzanne Morrow Ciccarelli 

Kim Haight Kleindienst 

Arlene Cromwell Mendock 

1989 

Krista Aslanian 

Darcy Sterrett Conlin 

Karen Harman 

Paula Ricard Mason 

Mary McCormack 

Athena Pappaconstantine 

Kathryn Earle Seguin 

Nanci King Shepardson 

1990 

Michelle O’Hearn Chalmers 

Lori Ann Langlais Hickey 

Michelle Pine Lemme 

Megan McGrath 

Alyson Shifres Miller 

Eleanor Cannon Smith 

Lisa Wojtowicz Wood 

1991 

Tamara Klugman 

Robin Zamore Macy 

Michelle Celona O’Neill 

Sarah Rice Patt 

1992 

Kelly Willis Dumas 

Cammie Mitchell Jones 

Karen Delaney O’Neil 

Sarah Siepierski 

Heather Bogli Zilora 

1993 

Elizabeth Bigham Dilts 

Golden Bryant 

Lauren Perlmutter Candib 

Deborah Cooper Crane 

Sara Hosmer 

Nina Mortensen LaPlante 

Brenda Noel 

Rochelle Perry-Craft 

Renee Minotti Rhoads 

Tara Daniels Wider 

1994 

Amy Goldstein Brin 

Heidi Butterworth-Fanion 

Vivian Carr 

Gina DiGennaro 

Sonja Swanson Holbrook 

Carri LaCroix Pan 

Lori Mancini 

Kyla McSweeney 

Robin Chapman Noye 

Teresa Ricker 

Alishia Durning Salerno 

Lisa Ann Strolin-Smith 

Valerie Gorlin Tarbell 

1995 

Christine Rodger Gurske 

Robin Melesko Toomey 

1996 

Barbara Raymond Bell 

Joel Ludington 

1997 


Jenny Fogel Miller 

1998 

Sally Kokernak Millwood 

Joanna Sharkey Oshman 

Stephanie Werner 

1999 

Catherine Marciello 

Katherine McKibbens 

Laurel Schnitman 

2003 

Lindsay Gallagher 

Meghan Minehan 

2004 

Colleen Pierce Brown 

Kelly McLoud Duda 

2005 

Anonymous (1) 

Caroline Brzozowy Alexis 

Debra Price Dobbs 

Christina Cox Howard 

Alice Connelly Manfrida 

Jennifer Provoost 

Shannon Windus 

2006 

Kristina J. Howell 

2007 

Karen Shively Cumings 

Sarah Guarino 

Kendra Mrozek 

2008 

Luisa Bilotta 

Alison Vallese Masinda 

Lauren LaBelle Morin 

Shannon Pittman 

2009 

Rebecca Gould 

Amy McKenna 

2010 

Melissa Kalenderian 

Katharine Needham 

2011 

Gabrieal B. Babin 

Sarah Coyne 

Kiera Pritchard Lantz 

Katherine Laude 

Carrie L. LeGeyt 

Evelyn O’Connor 

Lindsay Sullivan 

2012 

Alexandra Chiesa 

Kevin Kareckas 

Emily Layok 

2013 

Amy Giovannucci 

William Hall 

Graduate Degree 

Donors 

1955 

Louise Butts 

1956 

Velma McEvoy Lindberg 

1958 

Patricia Seltzer Moehring 

1960 

Barbara Mead Anthony 

1962 

Virginia Gleason Crocker 

Deborah Carlson Jacklin 

Marjorie Kemp Roxbrough 

Barbara Sturgis 

1963 

Sally Nichols McGucken 

Katherine Lanning Winters 

1964 

Helen Martin 

Ellen Smith 

1965 

Susan Vetter Shoff 

Georgia Bradley Zaborowski 

1966 

Karen Niecke Jones 

Carolyn Woodhead 

1967 

Elizabeth Horton Ingraham 

Ann Faude Newbury 

Paula Corning Newell 

Christine Kamp Seidman 

Carol Stuart Wenmark 

1968 

Lorian Brown 

Alice Turner Elliott 

Nancy Wilde Hahn 

Nancy Blum Levin 

Helga Lieberg Lustig 

Marcia Mitchell Soden 

Linda Fuller Wolk 

1969 

Anonymous (2) 

Joann Bush 

Elizabeth Coates 

Diane Levin 

1970 

Anonymous (1) 

Joan Wolfers Belkin 

Barbara Walker Collamore 

Signe Burk Ferguson 

37 



38 

Reme Gold 

Ruth Harlow 

Barbara Kelley 

Deborah Brown Tifft 

Judith Schwarz Weinstock 

1971 

Susan Eisenhart Alexander 

Sarah Leach Jackal 

Susan London Killip 

James Wood 

1972 

Virginia Clark 

Marlene Shama 

Joyce Wells 

1973 

Louisa Lehmann Birch 

Kathryn Smith Conrad 

Renee Fox Gould 

Margaret Neville Holmes 

Joanna Phinney 

1974 

Linda Lanting Gerra 

Harriet Foss Koch 

Sally Pease 

Steven Silvestri 

1975 

Beth Reiter Blanchard 

Aliisa Leino DiMartinis 


Carol Dunkel Freidinger 

Nancy Fuller 

Dody Phinny Gates 

Nicholas Haddad 

Susan Clark Howard 

Robert McCorkle 

Barbara Zimmermann 

Murphy 

Marjorie Moss Shekarchi 

Hildred Dodge Simons 


Deborah Imri Tully 

Wendy Warnecke 

Cynthia Mahler White 

Joan Blackman Youngman 

1976 

Marilyn Grimes Fraktman 

Ai-Ling Louie 

Mark Roberts 

Virginia Beth Sauer 

Judith Scott Stolp 

1977 

Maureen Riley Acorn 

Maureen Rooney Brentrup 

Elizabeth Paine McClendon 

Penny Greenberg Murphy 

Lorraine Damaduk Parmelee 

Alfreda Piecuch 

1978 

Anonymous (1) 

Linda Minker Abramson 

Rebecca Frost Cuevas 

Dell Redington 

Geraldine Robinson 

Claudia Rodgers 

Margaret Morgan Sutphin 

Mary Beth Claus Tobin 

Gayle Ziegler Vonasek 

1979 

Susan Moyer Breed 

Lisa Diamant 

Kathryn Parsons Liebowitz 

Dorothy Lifka 

Mary Mitchell 

Mildred Paden 

Kathleen Mooney Parrish 

Holly Seplocha 

Kathy Simons 

1980 

Betty Beach 

Nancy Bigelow 

Elizabeth Culick Bowman 

Ellen Foley 

Elizabeth Neavitt Frank 

Carol Tonseth Konz 

Ann Laliberte 

Michael McCormick 

Jolene Christoff Pearson 

Phyllis Haffenreffer Stetson 

Nancy Pennypacker Temple 

Doreen McCluskey Worthley 

1981 

Mary Warren Brague 

Ellen Good 

Sandra Heidemann 

Marion Ferguson Heller 

Christine Condee McKinney 

Anne-Marie Rodrigues 

Diane Rothauser 

1982 

Anne Lawless Croak 

Jean McIntyre Hodgkins 

Patricia Hertel Kemp 

Donna Martin 

Joyce Adachi Morimoto 

Maria-Matilde Pieters-Gray 

Susan Selya Rosen 

Christina Larson Sabella 

Kathleen Carbonell Sullivan 

Louise Anderson Tarver 

1983 

Idie Benjamin 

Susan Wells Ferrante 

Darlene Howland 

Cynthia Gillies Jurie 

Mary Cairns Kloppenberg 

Louis Torelli 

Nancy Sullivan Tryzelaar 


1984 

Elinor Worley Beatty 

Pamela Carey Haggett 

Alan LaRue 

Sally Mazur 

Satu Mehta 

Jill Schunick Putnam 

Claire White 

1985 

Jane Anderson 

Sandra Hopkins Clausen 

Mary Oliver 

Jean Nigro Ricci 

1986 

Carol Ridgley Campbell 

Cynthia Nelson Donahue 

Patricia McGowan McManus 

Susan Montrone-Cobleigh 

Robert Quinn 

1987 

Giovonne Calenda 

Cynthia Cole Lawrence 

Amy Rugel 

Karen S. Sturges 

Cheryl Whipple 

1988 

Dina Mardell 

Adelaide Duffy Queeney 

Sally Van Zandt Turk 

Susan Wolff 

1989 

Jill Kelber Leibowitz 

Marlene Ross 

Margaret Franck Sparks 

Barbara Peterson Sweeney 

1990 

Barbara Corey 


Patricia O’Shea Vonnegut 

1991 

Eleanor Almond 

Jocylyn Bailin 

Susan Dunn 

Michelle Pine Lemme 

Donna Petterssen 

Nora Ray Richards 

Ruthann Sneider 


Cecile Tousignant 

Phyllis Wendorff 

1992 

Cheryl Zalk Chandler 

Sandra Christison 

Catherine Gaffey Everett 

Carol Derby Kuo 

Laura Long 

Jessi MacLeod 

Bonnie Page 

Leslie Short 

Christine Smith 

Judith Omansky Weinberg 

1993 

Anonymous (1) 

Susan Bohn 

Deborah Gilmore Hartline 

Patricia Hnatiuk 

Betsy Nordell 

Vivian Swoboda 

1994 

Jean Bouton 

Suzanne Morrow Ciccarelli 

Susan DeLuca 

Jill Hatch 

Jennifer Wieland Knowles 

Juliet Nagle 

Marianne O’Grady 

Rochelle Perry-Craft 

Andrea Weaver 

1995 

Mary Casey 

Linda Burns Jones 

Suzanne Taylor King 

1996 

Carol Berlin 

Kristen Langdon Cohen 

Margaret Taylor DeAgazio 

Kathryn Jones 

Ann O’Hara 

Heather Peach 

Sylvia Micka Smith 

Rebecca Merrill Thompson 

1997 

Callie Greenfield 

Helen McGah 

Kyla McSweeney 

Catherine Pettingell 

Pamela Senese 

Debra Smith 

Julienne Bakerlis Ugalde 

1998 


Donald Gianniny 

Dawn Gonthier 

Christine Rodger Gurske 

Christina Morris Helm 

Carri LaCroix Pan 

Joshua Lewis 

Amatul Mahmud 

Elizabeth Edwards 

Tufankjian 

Amanda Gauthier Vanderlan 

1999 

Barbara Arnold 

Arlynne Bail 

Martha Bakken 

Sharon Febo 

2000 

Julia Van Trees Coelho 

Kathleen Kerr 

Susan Crispen Miller 

2001 

Kimberly Delaney 

2002 

Esme DeVault 

Yue-Li Lim 


2004 

Lindsay Gallagher 

Catherine Marciello 

2005 

Colleen Pierce Brown 

Kimberly Wright Morgan 

2006 

Caroline Brzozowy Alexis 

Debra Price Dobbs 

Jazarae Kirchdorfer 

McCormick 

Jennifer Provoost 

Shannon Windus 

2007 

Ana-Maria Spencer 

2008 

Kristina Howell 

2011 

Melissa Kalenderian 

Lauren Wholley Marquis 


Matthew Power-Koch 

2012 

Carrie LeGeyt 

2014 

Emily Layok 

WINTER 2016


Senior Class Gift 

Ashley A. Abraham ’15 

Ismael W. Algarin ’15 

Jessica Allen ’15 

Darkia Anderson ’15 

Leya N. Barden ’15 

Erika Belmore ’15 

Cailin Boisvert ’15 

Gabrielle O. Boivin ’15 

Diana R. Camara ’15 

Thomas and Joanne Camara 

Miles T. Carey-Snow ’15 

Mariana Castro ’15 

Nancy J. Crowell ’15 

Louis Curto ’15 

Jacquelyn R. Davis ’15 

Barry and Linda Donohoe 

Karen Donohoe ’15 

Tatiana Duarte ’15 

Gabrielle C. Edouard ’15 

Jacqueline Elias ’15 

Lauren A. Fowler ’15 

Kassandra N. Howard ’15 

Rebeckah C. Hoyt ’15 

Mallory C. Johnson ’15 

Megan R. Lachance ’15 

Andrea Lerude ’15 

Jennifer Lubold ’15 

Louis and Ann Lubold 

Jessica M. MacKenzie ’15 

Talia M. Mango ’15 

Abigail L. Martin ’15 

Amanda M. McBride ’15 

Emma McLaughlin ’15 

Meghan K. McWeeney ’15 

Kayla E. Mills ’15 

Caelin Mooney ’15 

Erin M. Nangle ’15 

Brianne C. O’Shea ’15 

Maura E. Pepek ’15 

Alyson J. Provencher ’15 

Katrin D. Reeder ’15 

Jean Ricciardelli ’81 

Eva C. Roberts ’15 

Renee M. Saleh ’15 

Madeleine C. Sicard ’15 

Robert A. Sicard and Nancy 

Young-Sicard 

Margaret Sparan 

Marianne Sparan ’15 

Emily A. St. Laurent ’15 

Hunter C. Ulbin ’15 

Christina Venturelli ’15 

Anya G. Weidner ’15 

Kelcy L. West ’15 

Dulcinea S. Wetherell ’15 

Emily J. Woznick ’15 

Richard and Leigh Woznick 

Board of Trustees 

and Members of 

the Corporation 

Karen Keating Ansara 

Steven Aveson ’78 

Stephanie Bennett-Smith 


Grace Macomber Bird 


Alberto B. Calvo 


Linda Chin 


Susan O’Halloran Constable 

’82 






Ellen Tague Dwinell ’61 


Fred K. Foulkes 

Maria Furman 

Tina Morris Helm ’64/’98MS 

Christina Cox Howard ’05 

Thomas Kelly 

Matthew J. Kiefer 

Ranch C. Kimball 

John F. Knutson 

Alden Landry 


L’Hommedieu ’54 

Robert A. Lincoln 

Eliane Markoff 

Kyla McSweeney ’94/’97MS 


Lois Barnett Mirsky ’54 

Mila Moschella ’75 

Robin Mount 

Karen Mutch-Jones ’82 


Heather E. Peach ’96MS 

Paul Reville 


Mark E. Roberts ’76MS 

Doryl Lloyd Rourke ’67 


Elizabeth R. Segers 


Kathy L. Simons ’79MS 



’69/’91MS 

Kate Taylor 


Lisa Thors 

Mary Beth Claus Tobin ’78MS 

Scott Wennerholm 

Faculty/Staff 

Anonymous (2) 

Nina Aronoff 

Linda Banks-Santilli ’85 

Mary Battenfeld 

Deborah Lisansky Beck 

Debra Borkovitz 

Judith A. Ceven 

Linda Davis 

Stephen Dill 

Ellen Faszewski 

David and Susan Fedo 

Marcia McClintock Folsom 


Christina Hadges 

Marjorie Hall 

Patricia Hnatiuk ’93MS 

Nancy Hutchins 

Jackie Jenkins-Scott and 

Jim Scott 

Diane Levin ’69MS 


Anne Marie Martorana 


Donna and Tom McKibbens 

Satu Mehta ’84MS 

Stephen H. Muzrall 

Brenda Noel ’93 

Alex Powell 

Jennifer and George Rice 

Stefi Rubin 

Renee Ruggiero 

Mitchell S. Sakofs 


Roy Schifilliti 

Susan Shainker 


Lorie Spencer 


Valerie Thornhill-Hudson 

Eleonora Villegas-Reimers 

Phillip M. Weiss 

Claire White ’79/’84MS 

Jeff Winokur 

Karen Worth 

Parents 

Susan Alnes 

Karen and James Ansara 

Mr. and Mrs. George L. 

Bernazani 

Mr. and Mrs. Stephen 

Buccheri 

Thomas and Joanne Camara 

Doris L. Caplan 

Joan Challinor 

Mr. and Mrs. Merritt C. Clark 


Barry and Linda Donohoe 

Mr. and Mrs. Paul M. Greeley 

Mr. and Mrs. John Kilcoyne 

Louis and Ann Lubold 

Mr. and Mrs. Andrew F. 

Mackey 

Donna and Tom McKibbens 

Gary and Robin Melton 

Mr. and Mrs. Andrew O’Shea 

Robert A. Sicard and Nancy 

Young-Sicard 

Margaret Sparan 

Family of Jennifer Stowers 

’02 & JSQ Foundation 

Richard and Leigh Woznick 

Friends 

Anonymous (3) 

Martina Albright 

Mr. and Mrs. Henry Alpers 

Mr. and Mrs. Edward A. Arees 

Virginia P. Berten 

Susan Bigger and Kevin 

Belanger 

Alan Bilanin 

M. Gregory Bohnsack 

Peter Buhl 

Mr. and Mrs. Peter B. 

Campstrom 

Ann E. Christmann 

Mr. and Mrs. William H. 

Christmann 

Robert H. Clifton 

Patricia Comeau 

Mary N. Curtis 

Stacey Dogan 

Adele Edwards 

Walter Einstein 

Elizabeth Erdman 

Carol Faulb 

Arnold W. Galbraith 

Dr. Sadie Burton-Goss and 

Mr. Donalexander Goss 

Eloise Greenfield 

Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey L. Hirsch 

Virginia M. Howard 

Chobee Hoy 

Michael J. Jolliffe 

Cyrus Kano 

Mr. and Mrs. Warren Keller 

Ruth and Ray Kelley 

Norva H. Kennard 

Susan Kenyon 

Amy A. Kershaw and 

Adrien C. Finzi 


Lucinda Lagasse 

Cynthia and Jack LaMothe 

Pamela Long 

Ann Longfellow 

Barbara Longfellow 

William A. Lowell, Esq. 

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas H. 

Luster 

Hugh F. MacColl 

Herbert MacKinnon 


Susan A. Morison 

Nancy Olins 

Lawrence P. Pangaro 

Julie A. Payne and Von L. 

Payne 

Mr. and Mrs. William E. Peed 

William Rawn 

Norman E. Rice 

Irving H. Sachs* 

Sau-Fong Siu and Yum-Tong 

Siu 


Robert Sperber 

Jon E. Steffensen and 

Elizabeth K. Frantz 

Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey S. Stern 

Walter Swap 

Jean and Murray Swindell 

Robert F. Sykes 

Mr. and Mrs. Larry Thorndike 

Joan I. Thorndike 

Seth H. Washburn 

Valora Washington 

Mr. and Mrs. Edward N. White 


Robert H. Willoughby 

Paul Wing 

Marjorie H. Wystrach 

Alumni 

Organizations 



Class of 1955 

Class of 1965 

39 

*Deceased 


Leadership Award Dinner 

Wheelock College’s 

2015 Passion for Action 

Leadership Award Dinner 

“Creating a Braver World with Opportunity for All” 

40 

Passion for Action Scholar Karen Morales ’17 

engages the audience with her thoughts on 

the Passion for Action Program. 

Event Chair Judy Parks Anderson ’62 takes 

part in the presentation of the Passion 

for Action Leadership Award to President 

Jackie Jenkins-Scott. 

On Nov. 18, Wheelock College 

hosted its Passion for Action Leadership 

Award Dinner at the John F. 

Kennedy Library to support the Passion for 

Action Scholarship Program and celebrate the 

accomplishments of organizations that are 

“inspiring a world of good.” 

The Passion for Action Scholarship Program 

provides financial aid to students who 

— prior to college — have already proved 

themselves as change agents in their communities, 

their nation, and the world. Once a 

student is accepted into the Passion for Action 

Scholarship Program, he or she not only 

receives a four-year, $20,000 scholarship, 

but also enters a comprehensive leadership 

development program with diverse learning 

components, including local, national, and 

international service learning; exposure to the 

development of policy at the Massachusetts 

Statehouse; and collaboration with fellow 

Scholars. This cohesive team of students 

works to foster positive social change that 

will continue long after they have graduated. 

Since its inception, and thanks to the support 

of a large group of sponsors and donors, 39 

students have benefited from the Scholarship. 

Kate Taylor, chair of the Wheelock College 

Board of Trustees, opened the evening with 

an expression of gratitude to all of the donors 

who make the Passion for Action Scholarship 

Program possible, including lead corporate 

donors such as the Hamilton Company 

Charitable Foundation, the Jenzabar Foundation, 

Tufts Health Plan, Sodexo, and Hirsch 

Roberts Weinstein. 

Kate then introduced Passion for Action 

Scholar Meghan Rubadou ’19 to recognize 

two Emerging Leaders, promising high school 

students with a strong commitment to service. 

Each student received a $1,000 college 

scholarship to the institution of her choice. 

President Jackie Jenkins-Scott spoke 

next about the launch of the Passion for Action 

Scholarship Program in 2007. “Early in my 

presidency,” she said, “I was so impressed 

with the fervor of our students that I knew we 

had to do something to honor them, reward 

them, and make their stories known.” With 

reference to her connection with the students, 

she continued: “I have seen each and 

every one of the Passion for Action Scholars 

walk through our doors as first-year students. 

I’ve watched them grow, and I have seen 

them ready to leave Wheelock and take on 

the world as wise, caring, and well-prepared 

young adults.” 

Passion for Action Scholar Karen Morales 

’17 spoke next about her experiences in the 

Program. “To me, the best thing about the 

Program is that it is not just a scholarship; it is 

a pathway to learning and personal growth.” 

Karen has traveled to both New Orleans and 

West Africa as a Passion for Action Scholar, 

opening her eyes to the world and to ways to 

make a difference. 

Following dinner, Passion for Action 

Scholar Carmen Piedad ’16 and Jackie 

Jenkins-Scott introduced the 2015 Passion for 

Action Leadership Award Recipients. The first 

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(L–R) Passion for Action Scholar Zachary Kerr ’17 accepts the Passion for Action Leadership Award on behalf of Born This Way Foundation. Passion for Action 

Leadership Award honorees Jessica Posner and Kennedy Odede sign copies of their new book, Find Me Unafraid: Love, Loss, and Hope in an African Slum. Kennedy 

Odede and Jessica Posner accept the Passion for Action Leadership Award on behalf of their organization, Shining Hope for Communities. 

honoree was Born This Way Foundation, 

started by Lady Gaga and her mother, Cynthia 

Germanotta. Born This Way Foundation 

is committed to supporting the wellness of 

young people and empowering them to create 

a kinder and braver world. The Foundation 

offers many resources to youth, such 

as the Bravest Map Ever, created to provide 

young people with a safe and accessible tool 

to identify local mental health services and 

other resources. The Map has more than 

2,500 submissions from youth and organizations. 

The Born Brave Bus Tour, a mobile 

“tailgate” experience, connects youth to the 

resources and opportunities they need to 

help themselves and others. 

Passion for Action Scholar Zachary Kerr 

’17, a member of Born This Way Foundation’s 

Youth Advisory Board, accepted the 

award on behalf of the Foundation. Cynthia 

Germanotta sent a video message in which 

she thanked both Wheelock College for the 

award and Zach for his commitment to the 

organization. Zach discovered Born This 

Way when, as a young transgender person, he 

sought venues to support other transgender 

youth. Actively engaged with the Foundation 

as a Youth Advisory Board member, he remarked 

that the Foundation is committed to 

creating safer schools and communities for 

all young people. Zach also said, “Born This 

Way is committed to learning from, educating, 

and empowering all young people, thus 

getting at the root cause of so many issues 

that plague youth today.” 

The second honoree was Shining Hope 

for Communities (SHOFCO), founded and 

led by Kennedy Odede (who was named 

for John F. Kennedy) and his wife, Jessica 

Posner. Kennedy was living in Kibera, one of 

the largest slums in Kenya, when he started 

SHOFCO to empower and give hope to his 

community. SHOFCO began with one soccer 

ball and grew to include a school for girls, 

micro-lending programs, health care, clean 

water, sanitation programs, and other educational/recreational 

programs. 

Kennedy and Jessica have published a 

book about their experiences called Find Me 

Unafraid: Love, Loss, and Hope in an African 

Slum. Each guest was invited to take a copy of 

the book at the end of the evening. 

Judith Parks Anderson ’62, the chair 

of the event, concluded the evening with a 

surprise presentation of a special Passion 

for Action Leadership Award to President 

Jenkins-Scott, as she will be stepping down 

as President in June. Three Passion for Action 

alumni spoke about the impact that Jackie, 

who launched the Passion for Action program, 

had on them. It was a very moving way to end 

the evening and spoke to the legacy Jackie 

Jenkins-Scott will leave at Wheelock College. 

President Jackie Jenkins-Scott celebrates her surprise Passion for Action Leadership Award with faculty 

member Dr. William “Bill” Thompson and Passion for Action Scholars and Alumni. 

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Passion for Action 

Below are all donors who supported the Passion 

for Action Scholarship Program from July 1, 2014, 

through June 30, 2015. 

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Anonymous (1) 

Accounting Management 

Solutions 

Albert Risk Management 

Consultants 

Martina Albright 


and Robert Anderson 

Ansara Family Fund at the 

Boston Foundation 

Karen Musser Aveson ’78 

and Steven Aveson ’78 

Regina Bachini ’76 


and Peter Biagetti 

Grace Macomber Bird 

Blaisdell Insurance 

Boston Color Graphics 

The Boston Foundation 

Bright Horizons Family 

Solutions 


Alberto B. Calvo 

Canon Business Process 

Services 

Barbara Sahagian Carlson ’59 

CBIZ Tofias 



and Christopher Clifford 

Robert H. Clifton 

Community Development 

Corporation of Boston 

Susan O’Halloran 

Constable ’82 


Tina Feldman Crosby ’67 and 

Harvey Crosby 

CSL Consulting, LLC 

Curvey Family Foundation 

Linda Davis 


Stacey Dogan 



Sally Reeves Edmonds ’55 

Enoch C. Shaw Co., Inc. 

Elizabeth Erdman 


Fidelity Investments 

Charitable Gift Fund 

Graceann and Fred Foulkes 


Goldman Sachs Philanthropy 

Fund 

Eloise Greenfield 

The Hamilton Company 

Charitable Foundation 


and William Helm 

Deborah and Jeffrey Hirsch 

Hirsch Roberts Weinstein LLP 

Chobee Hoy 

Jackie Jenkins-Scott and 

Jim Scott 

The Jenzabar Foundation 

Cyrus Kano 

Ruth and Ray Kelley 

Tom and Roberta Kelly 

Norva H. Kennard 

Amy A. Kershaw and Adrien 

C. Finzi 

Matthew J. Kiefer 

Judy and John Knutson 

Beedee and Ted Ladd 

Lucinda Lagasse 

Cynthia and Jack LaMothe 

Alden Landry 

Lee Kennedy Co., Inc. 


L’Hommedieu ’54 and 

Paige L’Hommedieu 

Carol and Bob Lincoln 

Amy and Thomas Luster 

The M&T Charitable 

Foundation 

Kathryn de Sano 

Mahoney ’68 


Anne Marie and Allan 

Martorana 



and Christopher Milton 

Lois Barnett Mirsky ’54 

Mila Moschella ’75 

Robin Mount and Mark 

Szpak 

Karen Mutch-Jones ’82 

and Daniel Jones 

Julia and Mark Casady 

and the One Step Forward 

Education Foundation 


Heather E. Peach ’96MS 

Philip W. Johnston Associates 

The Plymouth Rock 

Foundation 

Paul Reville 


and Mark Roberts ’76MS 

Doryl Lloyd Rourke ’67 


Santander Universities 


Schwab Charitable Fund 

Elizabeth R. Segers 


and Peter Simon 

Kathy L. Simons ’79MS 

Sau-Fong Siu and Yum- 

Tong Siu 

Renae Ross Starker ’71 


Family of Jennifer Stowers 

’02 & JSQ Foundation 



’69/’91MS 

Jean and Murray Swindell 


Kate and Ben Taylor 


TG Gallagher 

Anne and Larry Thorndike 

Valerie Thornhill-Hudson 

Lisa and Rex Thors 

Mary Beth Tobin ’78MS 

Tufts Health Plan 

University Health Plans 

USI Insurance Services, LLC 

Amaryllis Morris Volk ’55 


Barbara and Scott 

Wennerholm 


Association 

Wilkins Investment 

Counsel, Inc. 

William Rawn Associates 

Architects, Inc. 


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Wheelock Family Theatre Donors 

Institutional 

Supporters 

Actors’ Equity Foundation 

John W. Alden Trust 

Bank of America Charitable 

Foundation 

Boston Center for Blind 

Children 

Boston Cultural Council 

Boston Parents Paper 

Cabot Family Charitable 

Foundation 

CSL Consulting 

EdVestors 

Fuller Foundation 

The Japan Foundation, 

New York 

Liberty Mutual Foundation 

Massachusetts Cultural Council 

The Parthenon Group 

Peabody Foundation 

Peninsula Charities 

Foundation II 

Clinton H. and Wilma T. 

Shattuck Charitable Trust 


Yawkey Foundation 

Individual Donors 

to the Annual Fund 

Sella and Varujan Abalian 

Eva Adler 

Amy Almeida 

Beth Alpern and Walter Kuhn 

Fran Anthes and Charlie 

Washburn 

Atlantic Philanthropies 

Director/Employee 

Designated Gift Fund 

Liz and Jim Ayer 

June Baboian 

Janet Bailey 

Susanna Baird 

Brian Balduzzi 

Charles G. Baldwin 

Sherill Baldwin and 

Kimball Cartwright, Jr. 

Ann Barlow 

Joanne Bartlett 

Mary Battenfeld and Bill 

Perkins 

John Bay 

Una Belau 

Eileen Benham 

Mindy Berman and Dan 

Solomon 

Teresa Betit and Haley Medea 

Neeti Bhalla 

Coryn Bina 

Iullia Binder 

Michelle and George Blaisdell 

Nancy and Jacob Bloom 

Shelley Bolman 

Danny Bolton 

Dr. Liliana Bordeianou and 

Eric B. Hermanson 

Debra Borkovitz 

Jessica Boyle 

The Brakeman Family 

Amy Branger and Andrew 

Klein 

Alice C. Bray 

Susan M. Breed 

Sarah Buermann 

Carola Cadley 

Kate Caffrey 

Leann Canty 

Nikkola Carmichael 

Deborah Carroll 

Gregory Caunt 

Barbara Cevallos 

Carole Charnow 

Lucy Chie 

Eleanor Chin 

Linda Chin 

Marla Choslovsky and Paul 

Greenberg 

Susan Chrystal 

Jeff Coburn 

Courtney Cole 


Sue Costello and Jeff Keffer 

Cheryl and David Cotney 

Jillian Couillard 

Zu and Chris Cowperthwaite 

Deborah Cooper Crane 

Raquel Crespo 

Tina and Harvey Crosby 

Andrea Crowe 

Heidi Gentleman Cullen 

Susan Curtin 

Mark D’Andrea 

Mindy d’Arbeloff 

Daughters Fund, a Donor 

Advised Fund of Combined 

Jewish Philanthropies, at the 

recommendation of Sharon L. 

Rich and Nancy E. Reed 

John Davin 

Sarah and Richard deLima 

Mr. and Mrs. John DeMarco, in 

honor of Audree Hedequist 

Dean K. Denniston, Jr. 

Stephen Dill 

Sandra and William Discepolo 

Andrea E. Doane 

Lauren and George Doherty 

Edward Dube 

Masha Dubov 

Dr. Bunny S. Duhl 

Nycholle Eckert 

Natalie Eldridge and Libba 

Ingram 

Kay Arden Elliott 

Bess Emanuel and John 

Vyhnanek 

Raymond Fahrner 

Priscilla Fales 

Barbara Elliott Fargo 

Isabel Fernandes 

Elizabeth Ferry 

Mike Fesko 

Deirdre Conrad Frank ’65 

Ellie Friedland 

Eileen and John Gallagher 

Diana Gamet 

Janet Gannon 

Lindsay Garofalo 

Andrea Genser 

Christie Lee Gibson 

Betsy and Ed Giles 

Susan Gochenour and 

Steven Rosen 

Arezou and Ali Goli 

Benjamin Goodman 

Deborah Goodman 

Leslie E. and Charles B. Gordon 

Rochelle Gordon 

Harriet Gould 

Scott Greb 

Drs. Shelly Greenfield and 

Allan Brandt 

Donna Griffith 

Elisabeth Grills 

Nora Grodzins 

Carlos I. Gutierrez 

Rebecca Haag 

Howard Hall 

Marjorie Hall 

The Hanenberger Family 

Robin Hanley 

Taylor Hansen 

Maegan Harden 

Linda Marvin Hastie ’62 

Paul Hastings 

Evelyn Bullitt Hausslein 

Marcia Head 

The Hedequist Family, in 

honor of Audree 

Susan Hehir 

Tina Helm 

Robert Henson 

Tammy Bishop Heredia 

and Francisco Heredia 

Sheryl Hirsch 

Emily Wright Holt 

Ann-Penn Holton 

Dr. and Mrs. Cyrus Hopkins 

Elizabeth Hoskins ’56 

Anne and Jim Howard 

Bill Hutchinson 

Hannah Intille 

Savanna Jabro 

Denise Jacobson and Scott 

Greenbaum 

William Joyner 

Ruth Celia Kahn 

Karen Kames 

Louis Kampf and Jean Jackson 

Kathryn Karlsson 

Helen Kass 

Debby Keefe 

Shawnna Kelly 

Steven M. Key, Esq. 

Kerry Anne Kilkelly 

Susan Kosoff 

Stephen Kraffmiller 


Alexander Laferriere 

Stephen LaMonica 

Mary Landrigan 

Jonathan LaPierre 

Len and Alice Lazure 

Matthew T. Lazure 

Stacey and David Lee 

Janet Lehman 

Wendy Lement 

Diane Levin 

Sara and Dorothy Levine 

Olga Litvak 

Linda Long-Bellil 

Sally and Christopher Lutz 

Marietta Lynch 

Sandra and David Lyons 

Blair MacInnes 

June and Andrew Mackey 

Ali Maglieri 

Meaghan Mahoney 

Melissa Mahoney 

Valerie Maio 

Ulla C. Malkus 

Cathie Marqusee* 


Kortney Adams Martin 

Carla Martinez 

Linda Maslin and Daniel 

Moshief 

Dale McCarthy 

Kimberly McCaslin 

Mary McCormack 

Angelo McDonough 

Mary Jane and Donald McInnis 

Cheryl McMahon 

Carol and David Mersky 

Whitney Meyer 

Richard S. Milstein, Esq. 

Patrick Mitchell 

Ilyse Robbins Mohr and 

Glen Mohr 

Mary Morgan 

Laura Morrison and Richard Pels 

Mila J. Moschella ’75 

Robin Mount 

Siobhan Murphy 

Grace Napier and William 

Monnen 

Greg Nash 

Antonia and Joseph Nedder 

Adrianna Neefus 

Anne H. and John W. Newton 

Tara Odonnell 

Mina Okochi 

Diane Oktay 

Lisa and John Paolino 

Laura Parkin 

Elaine and Joe Paster 

Mary ElizaBeth Peters 

Gamalia Pharms 

Alfreda Piecuch 

Dustin Pina and John 

Zimmerman 

Phyllis Procter 

John M. Reilly 

Paul Rivenberg 

Liz and Fred Robbins 

Marta and Tito Rosa 

Beran Rose 

Patricia Rosenblatt 

Judi Rosensweig 

Marcia and Greg Rutledge 

Pauline and Terry Ryan 

Susan Ryan 

Jenna Sage 

David Salant 


Ron Sanders 

Brooke and Neal Sandford 


Ginger and Bob Sauer 

Lisa and Roy Schifilliti 

Ana Schultz 

Betty and Herman Scott 

The Sewell Family 

Robert, Charlotte, and 

Martha Sewell 

Alane K. Shanks 

Alli Sheehan 

Desiree Weems Sheppard 

Lisa Slavin 

Dianne Sleek 

Julia Smith 

Ruthann Sneider 

Darla Soukas 

Stephanie Spector 

Linda Lopez Spencer 

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*Deceased 



Devorah S. Sperling 

Mr. and Mrs. George R. Sprague 

Jane Staab 

Bonnie St. Germain 

Jean Stewart 

Jessica Walling Stokes 

Martha E. Stone 


Alan Strauss 

Janet and Morty Tarr 

Susan and William Thompson 

Joan I. Thorndike 

Mary Beth Tobin 

The Tomasulo Family 

Thu-Hang Tran and Mark S. Day 

Karen Turley 

Judy Ulman 

Donna S. Viola 

Dana Volman 

Laura R. Walter 

Lee Warren 

Joan Watts 

Gillian Webster 

Susan B. Weir 

Susan Werbe 

Jerry Wheelock and Elizabeth 

Wood 

Claire White 

Lee and Steve Whitfield 

Cynthia Winston 

Drs. Katharine and 

Marshall Wolf 

James Wood 

Karen Worth 

Richard Wright 

Charlotte Yarbrough 

Sarah Yezzi 

Kellie Young 

The Youngen Family 

The Zaff Family 

In Honor of 

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Brooke N. Anderson ’15MSW 



Joan Challinor 



Hope S. and Philip Dean 

Hope Dean ’69 

Alyssa Greeley ’91 


Stephany Melton Hardison ’03 

Gary and Robin Melton 


Susan A. Morison 


Virginia P. Berten 


Dorothy Dorfman Goldstick ’56 

Betsy Forssell Hestnes ’59 

Ruthann Sneider ’91MS 

Adya M. Lindo ’15MSW 

Mary Moor French ’66 

Audrey Liberman Matson ’75 

Helen Hymerling Liberatore ’75 

Robert Meredith 

Joan Halloran Corning ’53 

Vicki Caplan Milstein ’72 

Doris L. Caplan 

Gertrude Van Iderstine Phillips ’43-’44 

Patricia Phillips Fraser ’66 

Dr. Stefi Rubin 

Jazarae Kirchdorfer McCormick ’06MS 


Jon E. Steffensen and Elizabeth 

K. Frantz 



Rosemary James Wolpe ’81 

Cynthia Brookings Bachman ’81 

Edith “Anne” Runk Wright ’50 


WINTER 2016


In Memory of 

Richard Abrams 

Susan Kenyon 

Ginger Mercer Bates ’54 

Suzanne Moon Dykhuizen ’70 

Julia A. Payne and Von L. Payne 

Joan Bergstrom 

Ellen C. Foley ’80 

Kathleen Carbonell Sullivan ’82MS 

Jennifer Wystrach Bohnsack ’73 

M. Gregory Bohnsack 

Marjorie H. Wystrach 

Adolph E. Brotman 

Karyn Brotman ’74 

Diane Schmelter Buhl ’63 

Peter Buhl 

Maureen Denney Carlson ’55/’58MS 

Catherine Wakefield ’55 

James Christmann 

Mr. and Mrs. Edward A. Arees 

Ann E. Christmann 

Mr. and Mrs. William H. Christmann 

Gertrude and Harold J. Clark 

Virginia Clark ’72MS 

Maureen Murphy Coakley ’58 

Janet Gall Leonard ’48 

Nancy Collins ’68 

Marjorie Moss Shekarchi ’68/’75MS 

Marie T. Cotter 

Judith A. Ceven 

Katherine Wendell Creighton ’92 


Creighton Narada Foundation 

Patricia Stewart Curtis ’42 

Mary N. Curtis 

Shirley Meier Vautin ’71 

Joeritta de Almeida 

Luisa Bilotta ’08 

Kevin J. Kareckas ’12 

Emma de Sano 

Kathryn de Sano Mahoney ’68 

Carolyn Livingston Epes ’50 

Mary Gall Horsley ’50 

Edith Runk Wright ’50 

Anne Wallstrom Freitas ’65 

Edwina Burke Marcus ’65 

Nancy Floyd Gaden ’55 

Hildegard Fleck Hix ’55 

Lois Anne Gilbert Galbraith ’49 


Virginia Gordon Hagan ’59 

Sandra Hall Haffler ’59 

Thelma Hanifl 

Jacqueline Hanifl Carnevali ’70 

John Hansen 

Anne DeLamater Hansen ’52 

Sarah Ferguson Hock 

Alexis Foster Reed ’81 

Cynthia Lockett Hooks ’69 

Margaret Merrill Loutrel ’68 

Madeline Wise Levin 

Susan Wise Miller ’63 

Susan Van Aken Lippoth ’59 

Helen Doughty Lester ’59 

Frances Litman 

Linda Burns Jones ’95MS 

Persis Luke Loveys ’54 

Elsa Weyer Williams ’54 

Winifred Huber Low ’55 

Joleen Glidden Ham ’55 

Barbara Burrows MacKinnon ’52 

Herbert MacKinnon 

Nancy Williams Mohn ’51 

Peter Mangels 


Sally Larsen McAlpine ’53 

Winifred Magee Williams ’53 

Richard Moodie 

Lindsay Gallagher ’03/’04MS 

Walter A. Moor 

Mary Moor French ’66 

Eliza Oliver ’92 

Jane Wolcott Ready ’66 

Beverly Robbins Page ’63 

Carolyn Allen Seaton ’63 

Edith Goddard Pangaro ’47 

Lawrence P. Pangaro 

Sandra Gewinner Perry ’64 

Rachel Ripley Roach ’64 

Jane Munroe Rice ’50 

Norman E. Rice 

Hale Sturges II 


Jeri Traub 

Walter Einstein 

Roberta Loveland Vest ’62 

Lorna Ramsden McCollum ’62 

Janet Higginbotham Washburn ’42-’43 

Seth H. Washburn 

Frances O. Williamson 


Elaine Macmann Willoughby ’49 


Priscilla Plant Wing ’62 

Judy Sherman Nevins ’62 

Paul Wing 

Corporations 

Anonymous (1) 

31 Lincoln Street Realty Trust 

Aetna Foundation, Inc. 

Albert Risk Management Consultants 

Boston Color Graphics 

Bright Horizons Family Solutions 

Canon Business Process Services, Inc. 

CBIZ Tofias 

Charles Schwab Foundation 

Chevron Matching Employee Funds 

Community Development Corporation 

of Boston 

CSL Consulting, LLC 

Delta Dental 

Denise Macey Design, LLC 

Enoch C. Shaw Co., Inc. 

Goldman Sachs Philanthropy Fund 

The Hamilton Company Charitable 

Foundation 

Hirsch Roberts Weinstein LLP 

IBM Corporation 

The Jenzabar Foundation 

Kady Landscape, Inc. 

Lee Kennedy Co., Inc. 

The Pfizer Foundation Matching 

Gifts Program 

The Plymouth Rock Foundation 

The Procter & Gamble Fund 

Purple Ink Insurance Agency, Inc. 

Santander Universities 

Schwab Charitable Fund 

Subaru of America Foundation, Inc. 

Susquehanna International Group, LLP 

TG Gallagher 

Trauma Recovery Associates 

Tufts Health Plan 

University Health Plans 

USI Insurance Services, LLC 

Wilkins Investment Counsel, Inc. 

William Rawn Associates Architects, Inc. 

Foundations 

Thomas & Joann Adler Family 

Foundation 

The James E. & Constance L. Bell 

Foundation 

Bilanin Family Foundation 

The Boston Foundation 

Bromley Family Fund of the Princeton 

Area Community Foundation 

Cabot Family Charitable Trust 

The Clifford Family Foundation 

Clover Clark Memorial Trust Fund 

Olin J. Cochran Trust 

Creighton Narada Foundation 

Curvey Family Foundation 

Fidelity Investments Charitable 

Gift Fund 

Foundation for Jewish Philanthropies 

Perpetual Trust Graves Charitable Fund 

The Helena Foundation 

The Hottle Family Foundation 

Janower Family Private Foundation 

Organization 

Kenwood Foundation 

B.B. Lederer Sons Foundation 

Agnes M. Lindsay Trust 

Lutheran Community Foundation: 

The Hope Esparolini Fund 

The M&T Charitable Foundation 

Meek Foundation 

The Nichols Trust 

One Step Forward Education 

Foundation 

William E. Schrafft and Bertha E. 

Schrafft Charitable Trust 

Silicon Valley Community Foundation 

Sondik Foundation 

The Geneviève McMillan-Reba Stewart 

Foundation 

Ben and Kate Taylor Foundation 

Vanguard Charitable Endowment 

Program 

Webster Family Foundation 

The Frances and Michael Williamson 

Family Charitable Fund 

The Winston-Salem Foundation 

The Hans & Elizabeth Wolf Foundation 

Zurs Foundation 

Organizations 

Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. 

JustGive 

TRUiST 

United Way of Rhode Island 

Gifts in Kind 

Barbara Curtis Baker ’65 

Juliana Forsythe Bussiere ’45 

Sandra Hopkins Clausen ’60/’85MS 

Chris and Keena Dunn Clifford ’68 


Ann Gray 


Robert and Carol Lincoln 

Terry Lipinski 

Beverly Tarr Mattatall ’72 

Mark E. Roberts ’76MS and Jane Hertig 

Roberts ’73 

Ruth Angier Salinger ’53 

Margaret Weinheimer Sherwin ’58 

Linda Willey 

Betsy Reed Wilson ’55/’82MS 

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Heritage Society 

The Heritage Society recognizes individuals who have included Wheelock College in their estate or trust plans. The College 

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

lives of children and families. 

46 

Current Members 

Anonymous (8) 

Anonymous Lead Trust (1) 

Lois Abbott 

Judy McMurray Achre ’58 

Ruth Flink Ades ’53 

Virginia Pratt Agar ’64 

Nancy Wilson Ainslie ’44 




Christine Hollands Ashton ’33 

Margaret Boethelt Barratt ’52 

Deborah Devaney Barton ’70 

Joan Chiappetta Benson ’69 

Lorian Brown ’68MS 

Susan Kilbourn Burkhard ’69 

Mary Turnbull Burnight ’66 

Louise Butts ’51/’55MS 

Carol Sinnamon Carpenter ’70 

Sarah Carter ’66 

Mary Lou Center ’56 

Melanie Waszkiewicz 

Chadwick ’68 

Daniel S. Cheever Jr. 

Louise Close ’77 

Mary H. Corcoran 

Harriet Spring Critchlow ’44 

Lora Erhard Crouss ’37 

Sarah Beebe Davis ’64 

Elizabeth Townsend Dearstyne 

’62 and William Dearstyne 

Nancy Wicke Demarest ’66 

Jeannette Milligan Doane ’42 

Robert L. Duven 

Sylvia Tailby Earl ’54 and 

James Earl 

Evelyn Jenney Eaton ’56 

Barbara Tutschek Ells ’60 

and Robert H. Ells 

Hope Binner Esparolini ’66 


Marianne Mandato Foley ’78MS 


Katrina Buckelmueller Gale ’57 

Natalie Smith Garland ’53 

Elizabeth Dewey Giles ’53 

and Edwin Giles 

Alyssa Greeley ’91 


’52/’90MS and 

Sidney Greeley Jr. 


Mary Bloomer Gulick ’57 and 

Bob Gulick 

Jessie Hennion Gwisdala ’63 

Cynthia Hallowell ’58 

Janet Marshall Haring ’64 

Mary Barbour Hatvany ’72 

Anne Mulholland Heger ’49 

Priscilla Chase Heindel ’47 


and Bill Helm 

Emily R. Hewitt 

Kate Young Hewitt ’65 and 

John Hewitt 

Elizabeth Berry Horner ’47 


and William Hoskins 

Jane Hanna Houck ’57 

Anne Wingle Howard ’57 

Christina Cox Howard ’05 

Robert C. Howe 


Jeanette McIntosh Ingersoll 

’67MS 

Priscilla Jeffery ’71 

Josepha Loskill Jenks ’53 

Maria Lind Johnson ’68 

Carol White Jones ’75 

Cyrus Kano 

Lyn Peck Kenyon ’45/’69BS 

Mildred Griffith Kohler ’36 

Robin A. Kren ’83MS 



Laura Lehrman ’58 

Lauren Loeb Lerner ’70 

Susan Cahn Levine ’67 


L’Hommedieu ’54 

Robert A. Lincoln 

Donald M. Lippoth 

Sonia Loizeaux ’57 

Pamela Long 

Elizabeth Henderson Lufkin ’69 

Louise Baldridge Lytle ’55 

Meredith Huxtable MacNeill 

’91MS 

Ann MacVicar ’65 

Kathryn de Sano Mahoney ’68 


Trisha Henderson Margeson ’65 

and Kenneth Margeson 


Carolyn Humphrey Miller ’64 

Deanne Williams Morse ’60 

Katharine Crosby Nasser ’48 

Anne Hallowell Newton ’66 

and John Newton 

Frances Nichols ’63 

Mary Nisula ’70 

Mary Runyon Obaidy ’59 

Lynn Odell ’66 

Penny Power Odiorne ’54 

Phoebe O’Mara ’66 

Maryann Mylott O’Rourke 

’60/’98MS 

Patricia Knowlton Paine- 

Dougherty ’50 

Ruth Bailey Papazian ’56 

Elizabeth Buckstaff 

Paterson ’56 

Pamela Paul ’75MS 

Jean Ingalls Perkins ’52 

Ruth Perry ’66 

Elizabeth Gerow Peterson ’53 

Priscilla Harper Porter ’64 

Thekla Polley Putnam ’53 

Adelaide Duffy Queeney 

’88MS 

Marylin Quint-Rose ’48 

Jeanne Girard Quinzani ’48 

Nancy Garnaus Rice ’50 

Mark E. Roberts ’76MS and 


Judith Haskell Rosenberg ’55 

Stanley Rumbaugh 

Sarah Lippincott Sakols ’55 

Ruth Angier Salinger ’53 


Valessia Samaras ’83 



Carlile Lowery Schneider 

’78/’79MS 

Susan Waters Shaeffer ’56 

Margaret Weinheimer 

Sherwin ’58 

Barbara Silverstein ’56 

Sally Clark Sloop ’68 

Ruthann Sneider ’91MS 


’65/’75MS 

Ann Emerson Spaulding ’53 

Renae Ross Starker ’71 

Martha Stearns ’72MS 


Sylvia Buffinton Tompkins ’55 

Grace Viard Ward ’51 and 

Lawrence Ward 


’65/’83MS 

Joann Bridgman Webster ’48 

Edith Nowers White ’50 

Daphne Hastings Wilcox ’65 


Winifred Magee Williams ’53 

Annette Stevens Wilton ’56 

Paul Wing 

Deceased Members 

Anonymous (2) 

Elizabeth Coleman Abbott ’24 

Frank C. Abbott 

Stephen H. Anthony 

Beth Atwood ’57 

Ann Bacall 

Francis F. Bartlett 

Ginger Mercer Bates ’54 

Joanne Bobrink Bennett ’49 

Charlotte Braverman 

Blonder ’63MS 

Lois Burns 

Evelyn Burr Caldwell ’24 

Maureen Murphy Coakley ’58 

Katharine Hosmer Connor ’33 

Wilhelmina Scheuer 

Cottone ’36 

Rebecca Berry Cramer ’36 

Lois Hardy Daloz ’32 

Elizabeth Brayton Dawson ’51 

Jean Rogers Duval ’50 

Betty C. Fuchs 

Lois Anne Gilbert Galbraith ’49 

David Garland 

Dorothy Mercer Gilbert ’24 

Beverly Simon Green ’50 

George A. Hall 

Helen Coots Hall ’32 

Carole Harris 

Eva Neumann Hartman ’67 

Jeanne Wilson Hatch ’59 

Colby Hewitt Jr. 

Muriel T. Hirt 

Holly Horton ’76MS 

Rodney Huck 

David S. Johnson 

Stella Barnes Johnson ’55 

Christine Jones ’71 

Frances Tedesco Lathrop ’54 

Virginia Lincoln 

Persis Luke Loveys ’54 

Margaret Ryan MacIntyre ’38 

Olivia Hutchins Meek ’52 

Nancy Merryman Mattox ’46 

Margaret Merry 

Carol Moore ’48 

Jean A. Osmond ’34 

Carol Drew Penfield ’52 

Sandra Gewinner Perry ’64 

Elizabeth Pursel 

Constance Putnam 

Mary Barnhardt Ridenhour ’40 

Marcia Rumbaugh 

Marion Hoffman Sachs ’45 

and Irving H. Sachs 

Dorothy Hutchens Seelow ’50 

Diana Holland Shafroth ’50 

Priscilla Janeway Sherwood 

’51/’89MS 

Inez Gianfranchi Snowdon ’40 

Catherine Hargrave Sykes ’50 

Marguerite Vaughan ’32 

Joan Bradish Waters ’48 

Dorothy Weiss ’56 

Joan Wiggin ’51 

Marjorie Ferris Wilcock ’37 

Winifred Little Williams ’41 

Priscilla Plant Wing ’62 

Charles Wintermeyer and 

Nancy Jane Carroll 

Wintermeyer ’45 

Faith Butterfield Wyer ’40 

and Harold Wyer 

WINTER 2016

ARE 

YOU 

TOUGH 

ENOUGH 

TO 

INSPIRE 

A WORLD 

OF GOOD? 

In a world of injustice, nothing ever changes – until someone is tough enough to 

challenge the existing order. Most people find it’s easier to look the other way. But 

there are always a few bold souls who simply can’t. They’re the ones who stand up, 

speak out, sit in, and generally refuse to shut up. Are you one of them?

1934 

Jane Martin McMackin ’66 writes of a visit 

she had last summer with her aunt Corinne 

Martin Bryan, age 102, at Corinne’s lovely 

Waterbury Center, VT, home – “with beautiful 

views of the valley and mountains all 

around.” Jane brought along her daughter 

Michelle and her three children (ages 12, 10, 

and 8) and says the children were fascinated 

to meet their great-great-aunt. 

Jane Martin McMackin ’66 and her aunt 

Corinne Martin Bryan ’34, age 102, during a 

four-generation visit at Corinne’s home in 

Vermont last summer 

1941 

Lucy Parton Miller 

REUNION 2016 

JUNE 3-5, 2016 

1942-’43 

“Everything in my life is OLD,” writes Jean 

Mealey Slavin, “but I am happy to be able 

to report that I am doing OK (with lots of 

help), living in my own house, and enjoying 

life every day!” Jean says she has a lot to be 

thankful for – especially three happy, successful 

granddaughters who give her plenty 

to brag about! The oldest, on the faculty of 

Emory University, is working on a Ph.D. in 

literature and is planning her wedding for 

October 2016 in Atlanta. Another has a master’s 

in special education, has taught English 

to Arabic junior high students, and will teach 

in Jordan for a year on a Fulbright award. 

The third and youngest earned a degree in 

engineering at Georgia Tech and loves her position 

at John Deere & Co. in “the Quad cities” 

(northwest Illinois and southeastern Iowa) 

– only one hour from Jean, which makes her 

“delirious.” Jean adds, “I give credit to Wheelock 

for helping me help their parents to raise 

such wonderful girls!” 

Congratulations to Helen “Stevie” Roberts 

Thomas, who recently traveled to Dover, DE, 

to be honored by legislators there and see 

her name on the Delaware Women’s Hall of 

Fame plaque. She sends “Greetings to all our 

classmates!” and says life after finishing her 

book has been calm but full and good. She 

has been at her small and friendly assistedliving 

facility in Wilmington for so long that 

it feels like home to her. Still practicing tai 

chi to “keep bod and joints moving,” Stevie 

loves being in the city and taking advantage 

of the many events offered there. She doesn’t 

travel far anymore but does take day trips. 

Her three children (in Delaware, Missouri, and 

New Mexico) visit her when they can. 

1943-’44 

Jean Sullivan Riley 

Claire Mead Hyde ’47’s son Dana contacted 

the Alumni Relations Office last summer to 

let us know about the passing of Nancy Powell 

White of Gloversville, NY, last July at age 

93. Dana said that Nancy had been the oldest 

living member of their church. 

1946 

REUNION 2016 

JUNE 3-5, 2016 

Martha Allen Farwell and husband Bob 

have been living at a retirement home in 

Hudson, OH, for about six years and enjoy 

life there. Daughter Sally lives nearby, so they 

see her frequently; daughter Nancy visits 

from Seattle several times a year. “My health 

has restricted my lifestyle, like some in our 

over-90 group!” writes Martha. “I wish all my 

friends the very best.” 

1947 

The College was happy to get an update about 

Claire Mead Hyde of Gloversville, NY, from her 

son Dana last summer. Claire was about to 

turn 90 and was doing reasonably well. 

1951 

Louise Butts 

REUNION 2016 

JUNE 3-5, 2016 

Yes, friends, as you are reading this, it is 

2016 – the year we are celebrating our 

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65th Reunion in June! There will be more 

information forthcoming regarding plans, 

reservations, etc. In the meantime, here are 

the notes I (Louise) received following my 

request for such last summer. 

Beverly Boardman Brekke-Bailey celebrated 

her 86th July birthday with family: 

three daughters, 11 grandchildren, and three 

great-grandchildren. In August she went on 

a nature adventure trip to Newfoundland, 

Canada. Her priority on wellness includes 

healthy choices and water exercises a least 

five times a week. Bev continues to learn and 

create in silversmithing classes and sells her 

jewelry in galleries and at art fairs. She finds 

life fulfilling. Her website is www.prairie 

fusedglassjewelry.com. Georgianna Hale 

Dana is also a great-grandmother. One-yearold 

Ryan, who is a “pistol,” is daughter Amy’s 

grandson, and she’s completely smitten. Her 

twin, Sue, is chasing her 6-year-old twins 

around the block every time Georgie hears 

from her. Her relatives span a great number 

of years, starting with her oldest son, Benson, 

who was 60 last July. Amy’s other son was 

married in August, having just completed 

submarine training with the Navy in Saratoga, 

NY. Georgie said she is still “plugging, 

or rather slugging” her way around the golf 

course due to her addiction to this game! She 

doesn’t get a whole lot better but sure does 

have fun trying! 

Mary Fran “Robbie” Rothwell Wattles had 

a wonderful time at last summer’s Wheelock 

Cape Cod picnic: “It was so interesting hearing 

from everyone how Wheelock has influenced 

our lives. It was also a treat to have our president 

of Wheelock attend and to hear about 

the changes since Sue [Post Day] and I were 

there. My love for art started at Wheelock.” 

Robbie now enjoys lots of theater, music, and 

art. Since living on Cape Cod, she has exhibited 

her artwork (watercolors and oils). 

I (Louise) was happy to hear that Judy 

Handley Garvey is looking forward to our 

65th in the spring. She certainly hopes to 

attend. She reports to be in good health and 

stays busy. 

Thanks to the old-fashioned telephone, I 

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talked to Nancy Williams Mohn, Pat Gindele 

Guild, and Connie Brennan Ryan several 

months ago. As with each of us, we keep 

going, meeting the daily challenges of the 

aging process; we keep busy with volunteer 

activities; some of us travel; and we enjoy 

multiple-generational gatherings! Pat sang 

the praises of our Alumni Office staff who 

answered her questions about current Wheelock 

curricula in a most helpful, professional 

way. Both Judy and Georgie expressed the 

fact that our ranks are slipping, our numbers 

are dropping. That’s all the more reason to try 

to attend the Reunion and stay connected. I 

certainly plan to be at Wheelock in June and 

am anxious to catch up with one and all as 

we share the many aspects of our life’s journeys 

– especially during Wheelock days! 

1952 

Martha Brown McGandy 

Last July, Joan Fortescue Covici wrote: “I’m 84 

this month but still surviving as secretary of 

TX-CURE (Citizens United for Rehabilitation 

of Errants), a prison reform nonprofit. Pascal 

Covici Jr. and I married and moved to Texas 

in 1957 to raise our two children. Pascal was 

professor of English at SMU, and I eventually 

taught in Dallas public schools. After P.C. 

Jr. died in 1997, I got heavy into ACLU prison 

reform work, and I eventually married a ‘lifer’ 

in 2005. He paroled in 2010 and is my spirited, 

brave, bold, courageous, and constant 

companion. We travel a lot, and lobby the 

Legislature for better conditions and an end 

to the death penalty. We serve 156,000 men 

and women in the Texas state prison system. 

What I learned at Wheelock has served 

me well as I work with 10- to 12-year-olds in 

grown-up bodies. It is never-ending work, but 

useful and never dull.” 

Congratulations to Bobbi Elliott Fargo, 

who was given a very special honor by 

Massachusetts Audubon last year. A new 

education center at the organization’s Broad 

Meadow Brook Wildlife Sanctuary in Worcester, 

MA, is to be named for Bobbi, a “steadfast 

champion of the preserve for nearly a quarter-century,” 

according to a July 2015 Telegram 

& Gazette story. A former longtime member 

of Mass Audubon’s state board, Bobbi helped 

establish Broad Meadow Brook and has 

remained a very faithful friend and benefactor. 

She is also a former faculty member at 

the Bancroft School in Worcester who has 

been active in promoting nature education 

in schools in nearby Grafton, and she says 

she feels these days it’s more important than 

ever to “get kids outside in nature, learning 

and exploring.” The planned 5,000-squarefoot 

education center will house summer 

nature camp and preschool programs. 

Last summer, Pat Conzelman Greeley 

’52/’90MS wrote: “I have been very occupied 

with my Tony’s (Sid’s) health issues, which 

came to a head this past April, landing him in 

the hospital and then a month in transitional 

care. At 89, it’s slow going, but he’s a trooper. 

Needless to say, we’ve stayed close to home 

with VNA care and doctor appointments. 

An occasional night or two at the Mattapoisett 

cottage, with teenage and young adult 

grandkids, replenishes our spirits. As I turn 85 

at the end of the month, I cherish my Wheelock 

friendships and marvel at Wheelock’s 

outreach and diversity.” 

“At 85, I may live a bit longer,” writes Mary 

Major Rubel, who is grateful that she enjoys 

good health and that she and her “husband of 

61 years of happy marriage” live in an apartment 

in a retirement place in Lincoln, MA, not 

far from their daughter. She cross-country 

skied a lot during the very snowy winter of 

2014-2015, still sings (second soprano) in two 

very good groups, has two book clubs, plays 

bocce in tournaments, hikes on the wonderful 

trails of Lincoln, and has season tickets for 

Friday afternoon Boston Symphony. 

1956 

Persis Goodnow Hamilton 

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JUNE 3-5, 2016 

I was so pleased to hear from so many of you. 

Ann Melrose Blauvelt had a busy summer 

last year with family and guests – 15 for the 

Fourth of July, with her sons helping with 

cooking! She and Pete did a Road Scholar 

program in New York, studying the Arts and 

Crafts era of homes, pottery, and stained 

glass. Their excellent coordinator was Ellen 

Luckenbach Moomaw ’73. Ann is hoping to 

come to Reunion. Peggy McCreery Broadbent 

wrote that she and Frank had their 60th wedding 

anniversary and are still doing things together 

despite various illnesses. Peggy wrote 

a book, upon retirement, about programs 

she created while teaching first and second 

grades. Put her name into Amazon, click, and 

find reviews! (Congratulations, Peggy.) Susan 

Grearson Fillmore went on a trip to Costa Rica 

last July. It included a visit to a local school 

which brought back Wheelock memories. 

Bill and Bette Grimm Hoskins have moved 

to a retirement village in Lincoln, MA, close to 

Boston and thus close to Wheelock and their 

other activities in Boston. Bette’s first teaching 

was in Lincoln, so she feels at home. They 

still have their home on Martha’s Vineyard, 

where they get together with their family – 

children, grands, and now great-grands – in 

the summer and then have Christmas in 

Colorado. She is looking forward to Reunion to 

catch up with classmates and see the changes 

at Wheelock. Ruth Bailey Papazian writes 

from Washington Crossing, PA, about many 

trips. They went to Southern California to visit 

granddaughters, took a trip to Toronto, went 

to Italy in the fall of 2014, and were planning 

to travel to England, Wales, and Scotland. They 

are involved in church activities and at the 

gym, where Ruth does yoga and George does 

strength training. “Can’t believe that 60 years 

are coming up!” she writes. 

Julie Bigg Veazey continues to direct 

her Hudson (MA) Children’s Center after 38 

years. She is the bookkeeper and adviser 

and attributes her success to Wheelock and 

all she learned there. She and Bill are active 

and well and have six children between 

them – and 12 grands and four greats! Julie’s 

fourth book, Moon Over Cabarete, is about 

their experiences in the Dominican Republic 

and is available on Amazon or Kindle under 

her name. (Congrats to you, too, Julie.) The 

Veazeys have a condo in Portsmouth, NH, and 

winter in Florida. They lost their lake house in 

New Hampshire to fire in October 2014 but 

are rebuilding. 

I (Persis) continue to enjoy my retirement 

community, which has much to keep me 

busy. Last summer I visited my daughter and 

her family on Cape Cod and took my granddaughters 

to the Harwich Junior Theatre to 

see a play directed by Jane Staab, the retired 

general manager of the Wheelock Family 

Theatre. I saw a photo in the entrance, and 

when I approached, a person said, “That is a 

photo of our founder.” It was our Betty Bobp, 

of course. I told the person that I was one 

of her 80-year-old students. I have been to 

Nahant, MA, to visit with Gretchen Sterenberg. 

She still has homes in San Francisco and 

Nahant and travels as well. Last year she had 

a grand visit in Peru. I chat with Carolyn Paul 

Connell on the phone. She celebrated her 

80th birthday at Wrightsville Beach in North 

Carolina with her four children and spouses 

and grands, making a total of 15 from many 

parts of the U.S. In an email from Norway, 

Grete Holter-Sorensen Prytz says she has not 

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much news to tell: “Except I am getting older, 

which I see clearly when I watch my nine 

(well-behaved) grandchildren growing up. 

The oldest is a doctor of 31; the youngest is 11 

years old. And I am thankful for good health.” 

I look forward to seeing you all next 

spring at our 60th Reunion! 

1957 

Barbara Stagis Kelliher 

As I (Barb) write this [early September], it is 

78 degrees and sunny outside. As you read 

this, I think the view outside is going to be 

quite different. Anyway, here’s the news: 

Trina Buckelmueller Gale moved from Roswell, 

GA, to Seabrook, TX, when Charles, her 

husband of 56 years, died last May. “Charles 

valued Wheelock greatly and helped me 

attend Reunions after I had a stroke 33 years 

ago,” she writes. She is near her sister and 

would enjoy a visit from anyone visiting 

the NASA area. Shelley Reiss Safirstein now 

lunches with Judy McMurray Achre ’58 

often, ever since they ran into each other at a 

Shelley Reiss Safirstein ’57 (left) and Judy 

McMurray Achre ’58 proudly displaying 

Wheelock wares at a recent lunch 

Wheelock Sarasota luncheon. “We have been 

meeting monthly, each driving an hour to 

meet in a restaurant between cities for lunch 

and a long, long visit,” Shelley writes. They are 

both still married to their Wheelock beaux! 

Harriet Weil Hodgson sent news that she 

and John are enjoying their new wheelchairfriendly 

townhome. John practices walking 

with his walker each day and is making a lot 

of progress. Harriet had two books come out 

in the fall, The Family Caregiver’s Guide and 

Affirmations for Family Caregivers. While we 

are all enjoying the snow, she is working on 

two more books: Journal for Family Caregivers 

and Family Caregiver’s Feelings, due out 

in the fall of 2016. They live in Rochester, MN. 

The other class overachiever is Jan Wright 

Freelove, who writes: “I am still subbing [K-5] 

two or more days a week. I do it because I 

enjoy working with the kids and fellow teachers. 

Maybe I can be the oldest sub at 80-plus 

and break somebody’s record.” (Well, Jan, you 

have certainly broken mine!) 

Anita Stulgis Chouinard, Sue Waters 

Shaeffer ’56 and I (Barb) are still enjoying our 

busy lives in a senior complex here in Nashua. 

How lucky we are to live in such a busy and 

stimulating city. 

Joan Patterson Brown’s caring companion, 

Mac, sent Ruth Bailey Papazian ’56 an 

update on Joan late last summer: “She is well 

and happy and enjoys hearing from friends 

and family. The letters, cards, and emails 

lift her spirits. May was particularly nice for 

her not only because it was her birthday, 

but also because she was able to connect 

with her brother. There were also visits from 

friends both local and out of state. The daily 

routine of ours continues, leaving Windsor 

Reflections in the morning and going to 

our place in Palm Aire for most of the day. 

The combination of naps, relaxing to music, 

walks before it gets too hot in the day, and 

conversations about everything fill our time. 

As always, her friends and family play a big 

role in her daily life.” 

This, from Francine McNamee Shea, is a 

perfect end to our news: “Thank you for the 

reminder of our wonderful years at Wheelock. 

Time has passed so quickly that I can remember 

wonderful experiences in the classrooms. 

Teachers like Mr. Herrick, Miss Abbihl, 

and Mr. Wurtz; Abby downstairs in the snack 

bar; the telephone switchboard, where I 

learned the operation of the board; the Commuter 

Room, a favorite for three years; and 

Longwood. Great Days of my Life. Now I am 

living in Lake Nona, part of Orlando, FL. Any 

graduates nearby: It would be such a treat to 

visit with you. One of my twins lives nearby 

with his family. Ahhhh, the memories!” 

1958 

Margaret “Maggie” Weinheimer Sherwin 

Laura Lehrman sends best regards to all and 

reports that, after a two-year adjustment 

period, she is finally feeling a bit at home in 

her “building for the well elderly on a nice 

quiet street and ‘hood’ near Central Park with 

very friendly folk and some ‘amenities.’” She 

says that means “on-site social work students 

from Hunter College, a podiatrist, a hair fixer 

person, and four BBQs in the ‘garden’ behind 

the building.” Laura is thinking about spending 

a few weeks in Puerto Rico – “[her] island 

in the sun” – this winter instead of going to 

Sarasota. She adds: “The big news from the 

BIG Apple is that Kelly, a granddaughter of 

Carol Yudis Stein, will be teaching young’uns 

at Brearley, one of NYC’s finest (and therefore 

most costly) private schools. I am looking 

forward to organizing the welcoming parade 

(joke!), but we are all so thrilled that Kelly got 

a job teaching, and we all know that to teach 

young’uns is a very high calling as we, in 

the mind, body, spirit community, say.” Carol 

Yudis Stein’s volunteer work since moving to 

Florida has included leading a reading group 

in a third-grade class at a local public school, 

being an entrance registration worker at a 

local hospital, and registering and escorting 

women to their medical exams at a women’s 

health center. She has also been on the board 

of the local chapter of Pap Corps, Champions 

for Cancer Research, and is currently helping 

them run a Caribbean cruise on a Celebrity 

ship as a fundraiser. In September, Carol 

also wrote about her granddaughter: “I am 

definitely in an education mode as one of 

(L-R) 1958 classmates Judy Littlefield Bateman, 

Sandy MacDonald Ingmanson, and Liz Sturtz 

Stern after a “catch-up lunch” in Littleton, MA, 

last June 

my granddaughters graduated from Marist 

this past May and is beginning her first year 

of teaching at the Brearley private school in 

NYC. Love hearing how things are changing 

from her.” 

Liz Sturtz Stern writes of a visit she had 

with Sandy MacDonald Ingmanson and Judy 

Littlefield Bateman late last spring, when she 

was in Massachusetts to visit her brother’s 

family. She took part in a line dancing class 

Sandy was teaching, and then the three of 

them got caught up over lunch. 

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1961 

Ginnie Colquitt Schroder 

REUNION 2016 

JUNE 3-5, 2016 

Thanks to those of you who have taken the 

time to send me (Ginnie) your news! It’s 

wonderful to hear from you, to know that 

you are well and that you haven’t forgotten 

your Wheelock connection. 

Gail Spivack Sandler reports that they 

had a good year – full of travel, as usual. She 

wrote following a trip to Texas for a family 

wedding and was soon to be off again for 

winter in Key West and Miami Beach, where 

one son and several grandchildren live. Their 

big trip will be a cruise to the Falkland Islands 

to see “even more” penguins. Having been to 

Antarctica, she says this is next on the bucket 

list! Gail tells me that she enjoys a round-robin 

contact with five classmates that has been 

going strong since graduation. Well done! 

I am sad to report that Norma Brawley 

Dugger sent word that her husband died 

in October 2014, only three weeks after the 

installation of a bronze plaque with his image 

on it, plus commendation, from the head 

of the National Park Service and the Capital 

Crescent Trail leadership, for being a “visionary.” 

John had worked on the Capital Crescent 

Trail for 20 years. It had been an abandoned 

rail bed but today is the most widely used 

hiker/biker trail in the Greater Washington 

area. What a beautiful and incredible legacy! 

Norma is still working as a travel consultant 

and doesn’t stay put for more than a minute, 

it seems. She returned to Australia in August 

2014 for a few weeks; went on to Machu Picchu 

in October to attend her godson’s wedding 

in Peru; and finally was off to Morocco 

in November. Meanwhile, Norma stays in 

touch with Barbara Grogins Sallick and has 

reconnected with Avery Thompson Funkhouser’s 

husband, John. Daughter Julie works 

for Fannie Mae and travels constantly, while 

daughter Patsy and her spouse live near 

Berkeley, CA, with their 3-year-old daughter, 

who shares a birthday with Norma. 

Fulfilling a lifelong dream, Susan Schaefer 

Goodnough has moved to New Hampshire. 

She writes of the beautiful springtime green 

and light rose colors of the mountains, due, 

she says, to the new growth and budding on 

the branches of trees. Sue stays in contact 

with Martha Walter LeRoy, who lives in Center 

Harbor, NH, and has been a great help to her. 

If you wish to get in touch with Susan, you’ll 

have to rely on snail mail as she has happily 

abandoned technology! Her address is 23 

Gould Avenue, Apt. 40, Meredith, NH 03253. 

Still hard at work in the company (Waterworks) 

she and her husband started 37 years 

ago, Barbara Grogins Sallick seems not to 

have slowed down a bit! In addition to continuing 

as a trustee of Wheelock College, she 

is working on a book that will be published 

by Rizzoli in the fall of 2016. Barbara and her 

husband travel frequently, most recently to 

Cuba. She also visits with their five grandchildren 

as often as possible. 

Judy O’Connell Perkins was able to have 

lunch with Linda Gordon Kendall while in 

California. Linda has a condo in Napa and 

was there for the summer, along with her 

daughter Amy. They are usually in San Francisco 

for part of the winter, though Linda 

spends most of the winter in Key Largo, FL. 

Judy sadly reports that Emily McLeod Welch 

died in March 2015. Emily and Judy attended 

the same school before Wheelock, and the 

news about Emily’s death was posted in the 

school magazine. 

Susan Beale Hufford was recognized last 

April for her more than 50 years of volunteer 

service at Charleston (WV) Area Medical Center. 

Throughout the decades, she has worked 

in a gift shop, pushed a snack cart, given 

directions, and delivered flowers to patients’ 

rooms. These days, on Tuesday afternoons, 

she can be found greeting visitors with a 

smile and kind word at the information desk 

at Women and Children’s. She is happy to 

be able to brighten people’s days, she says: 

“It’s a feeling of satisfaction to give people a 

little reassurance. Coming here every week 

is enough of a reward for me.” Susan and 

husband Fred have two children and five 

grandchildren. She is also active at Kanawha 

United Presbyterian Church and enjoys reading, 

especially historical books. 

I (Ginnie) had the good fortune to spend 

a few days with Judy Johnston Laurens in 

June. We met in New York, as planned, and 

stayed with a friend of mine in Manhasset 

on Long Island, where I taught for 20 years. 

The focus of our visit to the New York area 

was to explore the Frida Kahlo exhibit at 

the New York Botanical Garden and to see a 

show in Manhattan. (We saw The Audience 

starring Helen Mirren – a real treat!) But it 

was also wonderful to have an opportunity, 

however brief, to catch up with each other … 

face to face! 

All is well here for me on St. Simons 

Island. Having long been fascinated with the 

history hereabouts, I joined the Coastal Georgia 

Historical Society and am currently enjoying 

a series of lectures on the history of our 

famous lighthouse. Between tennis, bridge, a 

book group, the church choir, being president 

of my local P.E.O. chapter, and travels here and 

there, there is never a dull moment! Indeed, 

life is good! 

My very best wishes to all of you. I hope 

that as many of us as possible will get together 

in Boston for our 55th Reunion in June! 

1962 

Dorothy Loofbourow Nichols 

Sabra Brown Johnston 

Dear Class of ’62: I (Dottie) want to thank the 

following classmates for responding to Sabra’s 

request for news! Here it is for us to enjoy. 

Brenda Richmond Verduin-Dean and her 

husband are enjoying their retirement years, 

which have included cruises to the Barcelona 

area, Halifax, Quebec, and Montreal. This year 

they hope to do a river cruise on the Danube. 

Sounds wonderful, Brenda! Brenda wishes all 

her classmates a special Happy 75th Birthday 

– a banner year. Abby Parsons Wilson continues 

to enjoy volunteering in a variety of facilities 

with her two registered therapy dogs, 

Duke and Duchess. She writes, “We also visit 

schools with special needs children as well as 

a Reading Education Assistant Dogs program 

(children read to the therapy dog), University 

of Texas-Arlington Paws for Finals, and Tail 

Waggin’ Wednesday.” Abby is active with her 

growing families, her church, and her local 

P.E.O. chapter (an international Philanthropic, 

Educational Organization which owns Cottey 

College in Nevada, MO). I know because I’m in 

Chapter F, Bellingham, WA. 

Lee Bishop Howard and husband John 

enjoy life in California, where they are able to 

spend time with five of their seven children 

and five of their eight grandchildren. They 

keep busy working with their local Lions Club 

and their local Neighborhood Association. 

For eight years they have been developing a 

neighborhood Disaster Response Program, 

and their 75-person team is strong and ready 

for that earthquake. Two town councils have 

asked them to establish their program in every 

neighborhood. Why does this not surprise 

me? Roberta Weiss Goorno celebrated her 

banner birthday year by cruising the Danube 

with friends, visiting Vienna, Salzburg, Innsbruck, 

and Munich. She says they took in all 

the interesting tourist attractions and managed 

to keep the pounds off. Roberta hopes 

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to continue to see the world while she is able. 

She enjoys researching and creating her own 

tours so she can travel at her “Grandma Pace,” 

spending several nights in each city. Doesn’t 

that sound delightful? 

Judy Parks Anderson and husband Bob 

have sold their Concord, MA, home of 43 years 

and decided after the long winter of 2014- 

2015 to move to The Commons in Lincoln, a 

senior living community. This will allow them 

to visit their sons’ families (Chris in Colorado 

and Ben in San Francisco) more often. Judy 

and Bob had lunch with Bonnie Beck Noble 

last January in California. Bonnie traveled 

around the country in her motor home last 

summer. Marty Holder Straton writes: “I am 

head of Gala for Opportunity, Early Childhood 

Center; I help feed the homeless; and 

I am retiring from my job at The English- 

Speaking Union, where we teach English to 

immigrants, send teachers abroad to study in 

the summer, and run Shakespeare and essay 

contests in Palm Beach County [FL].” 

And lastly, from me … Dave and I (Dottie) 

spent another winter skiing in Colorado, and 

after a quick March yard cleanup, we drove 

our RV to California, where two of my siblings 

live. On the way home we rowed with the 

Ashland (OR) Rowing Club and enjoyed some 

amazing Ashland Shakespeare theater. We 

spent June in London with Dave’s Amherst 

College roommate and in Germany with my 

1957 AFS host family sisters. In the summer 

and fall we stayed home enjoying our family, 

our church, and our sculling shells, which we 

row from our dock on Lake Whatcom. Fortunately, 

we had only one day of smoke from 

the devastating wildfires to the east of us. 

I have vivid and lovely dinner and dorm 

stay memories from our 2012 Wheelock 

(50th) Reunion and very much hope to see 

you all there in the years to come. In the 

meantime, stay healthy and keep sharing 

your news. 

1965 

Daphne “Taffy” Hastings Wilcox 

For those of you who didn’t see Carol Owen 

Beveridge’s note on the message board at 

Reunion last year, just prior to Reunion, she 

had written: “I have such fond memories of 

my freshman year at Wheelock, 1961-’62! I 

remember many names but can’t recognize 

many faces from the last [2010] Reunion 

photo! I was married 42 years to Joe Funk. He 

passed away seven years ago. I remarried a 

wonderful man and have been married one 

year! It is such fun to find someone who is a 

great best friend at our stage in life.” 

1966 

Margery Conley Mars 

REUNION 2016 

JUNE 3-5, 2016 

From now until June you will be receiving a 

lot of reminders that this is the year of our 

50th Reunion. We hope you will be among 

those of us returning to The Riverway to help 

mark this milestone in life’s journey. Our goal 

is “50 for the 50th” and we do believe that we 

can achieve it! Mark your calendar for June 

3-5 and join us in Boston for a very nostalgic 

and fun weekend! 

I have been busy updating our class list, 

and in doing so I have discovered we are a 

class on the move! There have been many 

changes just since our 45th Reunion, many 

because of retirements and downsizing/relocations 

– perhaps to warmer climates. 

I think being Class Scribe is also being 

Class Sleuth! I spend a great deal of time on 

the Internet trying to locate classmates, and 

I have had a good degree of success. Recently 

I was able to find someone who has been 

on our “missing list” for many years – Eleanore 

Nix Klingelhofer. Her life story is very 

fascinating, and I will share it with anyone 

interested at Reunion. I also was successful in 

locating Ella Jane Bruen, who was last known 

as a teaching sister at the Sacred Heart 

School in Kingston, MA; I can let classmates 

know about her as well. 

News held over from last spring (I guess 

I took a summer sabbatical) comes from 

Carole Hayes Williams that she, Reid Algeo 

Schenck, and Hope Binner Esparolini had a 

wonderful reunion during the winter of 2014- 

2015. Carole gave Reid credit as an expert 

planner. “We went to Disney Hall, where we 

heard Dudamel conduct ‘Mahler 6,’ and went 

to the Pasadena Festival of Women Authors 

and the Huntington Museum and Gardens. 

And, of course, all of our meals together were 

great fun. Each thing was a top-drawer/topshelf 

experience!” This, by the way, was the 

first time the three gals had been together in 

several years. Let’s hope June will bring them 

together again – in Boston! 

Mary Hallock Fields continues traveling 

for her sport of curling – this time to Sapporo, 

Japan, and Halifax, this year’s sites for the 

World Championships. It is a little over a year 

ago that Mary lived on the sofa for six weeks 

when she became grandmother to twins 

(to son Carter and his wife) and was needed 

to help manage Nicholas (then 2) and his 

brother and sister. (Did I get that right, Mary?) 

She reported that life is very, very busy and 

life is not dull! Pam Miller Callard is also a 

grandmother to twins. Phoebe and River arrived 

in May, and “we are enjoying being near 

our daughter Katharine in Boston and helping 

with the twins. Nothing is better than 

being a grandparent!” Presently Pam and Tim 

are living in their summer home in Nahant, 

MA, until April, during the construction phase 

of their attached townhouse in “Village Hill” 

in Northampton, MA. Pam was planning to 

do workshops in mindfulness back in D.C. in 

October and also was working with professional 

development at her school. “Best of all 

worlds,” she writes. She also added that Linda 

Masters Young hopes to be with us in June! 

Two classmates were headed to Greece 

and Turkey – not together and not at the 

same time. Phoebe O’Mara was to be away 

for three weeks, and about the time she 

was to return, Joy Post Beardsley and her 

family were to be taking off for their air, sea, 

and land trip which was to follow in the 

footsteps of Paul. No doubt both enjoyed 

quite a fantastic journey! Heather Robinson 

Reimann was recovering from back surgery 

last summer and fall but has a Viking River 

Boat cruise in May and is very much looking 

forward to that! 

Carole Hayes Williams and husband Richard 

have moved to a senior living community 

called Varenna of Oakmont in Santa Rosa, CA. 

She wrote shortly before she and Reid Algeo 

Schenck were to take a trip to Morocco. “I’m 

looking forward to hearing about your lives 

in June!” she wrote. “Best to all classmates!” 

Beth Zwirner Ruggiero celebrated her 49th 

wedding anniversary in December. She has six 

grandchildren and one great-grandchild. She 

moved from Hingham to Hull, MA, last year, 

so “we now have ocean views galore. We have 

always been avid travelers, and I completed 

the continents last year with a trip to Antarctica. 

I am looking forward to the Reunion!” 

Connie Muther is so excited about coming 

to Reunion 2016 that I think she must already 

be packing her suitcase! I’ve had emails 

about what to bring, what the College does/ 

does not supply, etc. The enthusiasm is great 

– and not just from Connie! Many responses 

to my recent newsletter seem to indicate 

we’ll be having a fabulous time in June 

with lots of classmates returning from far 

and near! Diana Palmisciano Brown retired 

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in 2014 following a long career in banking. 

Congratulations, Diana! 

Last summer Jane Martin McMackin enjoyed 

a wonderful visit in Vermont with her 

aunt, who also is a Wheelock alumna, Corinne 

Martin Bryan ’34, age 102. Jane brought along 

her daughter Michelle and her three children 

(ages 12, 10, and 8) and says the children were 

fascinated to meet their great-great-aunt. 

(See the photo near the 1934 news column.) 

I (Margery) enjoyed a wonderful reunion 

here in early July with Sylvia Thorndike 

Sheriff and husband Mike, who arrived after 

a wonderful family vacation on Cape Cod 

and then a Fourth of July weekend visit 

with Thordis “Toodie” Burdett Gulden and 

husband Tim in Waldoboro, ME. Pete and I 

got to play tourists here in our own state of 

Maine, which was oodles of fun. We enjoyed 

a lovely dinner reunion, too, with Joe and Joy 

Post Beardsley and Bob and Andrea “Andy” 

Price Morse before the Sheriffs flew back to 

California. Truly friendship is a gift for the soul! 

1967 

“Maintaining an old Victorian house seems 

to be getting more expensive as the years go 

on,” writes Carolyn Wright Unger. “John and 

I are in the same house in Hamilton, VA, and 

are trying to dig out our 40 years’ worth of 

stuff these days.“ Now retired from Loudoun 

County (VA) Public Schools for five years, 

Carolyn volunteers and is involved with two 

reading groups and a quilting class. She and 

John still do lot of walking and walked the 

“Coast to Coast” in England two years ago. 

Their kids are doing fine but are scattered 

across the country (California, Vermont), with 

Derek and his family moving back to the U.S. 

from Malaysia. 

1968 

Cynthia Carpenter Sheehan 

Phyllis Cross Croce writes about a weeklong 

art camp she participated in alongside two 

“gifted, much younger teachers” late last 

summer. Her fall plans included spending 

two weeks in Michigan near Traverse City in 

September and taking a spinning class (“fiber 

spinning, not pumping one’s brains out on 

the stationary bike kind”) at the John C. Campbell 

Folk School in Brasstown, NC, in November. 

She adds, “They offer all kinds of classes in 

traditional crafts – in the style of Mr. Kendra, 

who taught art while I was at Wheelock.” 

Maria “Plum” Lind Johnson’s memoir, 

They Left Us Everything, published by Penguin 

Canada, won the 2015 RBC Taylor Prize for 

nonfiction. It will be published in the USA 

by G.P. Putnam’s this year. We remember 

Plum from her acting days with director Tom 

Neumiller in Wheelock theater productions, 

including the year Kitty Carlisle and drama 

critic Elliot Norton presented Wheelock 

with the 1966 Moss Hart Memorial Award 

for their production of Jacobowsky and the 

Colonel. “If anyone participates in a book club 

and would like me to join in a discussion 

via Skype,” Maria writes, “I’d love to receive 

a contact through my website: http://plumjohnson.com/events/book-clubs/.” 

She adds: 

“Does anyone remember our 1967 production 

of Ring Round The Moon? Cleaning out 

my basement recently, I found a set design 

sketch by Michael Te Reh, so it’s gone under 

glass on my coffee table!” 

Susan Ordway Lyons volunteers weekly 

throughout the year at the Shaker Heritage 

Museum in Albany. I (Cynthia) see Susan as I 

participate in their Craft Festival and Christmas 

Shop. Susan was visiting Susan Castleton 

Ryan ’68/’73MS in August for the annual 

Scituate Heritage Days, “a weekend of great 

fun, friendship, old bands and crafts.” Lou 

Ann Colonnese Mulcahy recently welcomed 

her second grandchild and says, “It is fun to 

observe all the stages we learned about in 

Human Growth and Development class.” At 

the end of last summer Lou Ann was headed 

to New Jersey to help Kitty Sayford Lucibello 

celebrate the marriage of her oldest son. 

“Hard to believe it was over 50 years ago we 

met in the lobby of Peabody,” Lou Ann writes. 

Susan Webb Tregay’s adventure for the 

summer of ’15 was to have her painting put 

on the cover of the local tourism magazine 

for the whole year and to finish her 100th 

painting in her “Contemporary Art for Adult 

Children” series. 

1970 

Grace Coffey Clark lives in Durham, NC, and is 

the early literacy coordinator for the Orange 

County School District. She is wondering 

how many other classmates are still working 

and who will get the “Last to Retire” prize. 

Husband Bobby is retired, and the three 

Clark children and two grandchildren live in 

Washington, D.C. “We get to D.C. at least once 

a month,” Grace writes. “The pull of grandchildren 

is very strong.” 

Kluane Baier Snyder was sorry she 

couldn’t attend the 45th Reunion. Around 

that time, she wrote: “My husband and I were 

in Boston two years ago and had a personal 

tour of the campus and update on the 

programs offered. So many changes, but all 

positive ones, I thought.” Kluane retired two 

years ago from the Ithaca (NY) City School 

District, where she had been an elementary 

teacher or librarian for 13 years and, prior to 

that, a nursery school teacher for 10 years. 

In 2012, her husband retired as rector of St. 

John’s Episcopal Church after 43 years of active 

parish ministry. They moved to their new 

home in Lititz, PA (“outside Lancaster – think 

PA Dutch country”) the day after Kluane’s last 

day of school, and they are enjoying the area 

and the great variety of activities it offers. 

Their daughter and twin sons and their families 

all live in the D.C. area. “We have three 

grandsons [ages 1 to 3],” Kluane writes, “so I’m 

continuing to put my Wheelock and library 

school training to good use.” She sends her 

best to all classmates. 

1971 

Gwynne DeLong 

REUNION 2016 

JUNE 3-5, 2016 

Sylvia Birnbaum Yasner has retired from 

her 19-year career as a school library media 

specialist. Her husband also is now semiretired. 

She enjoys volunteering as a tutor for 

immigrant women who are learning to read 

and speak English. Sylvia finds it quite a 

change from young children and very rewarding. 

She is involved in book clubs, golf, other 

volunteer activities, and traveling. Sylvia and 

her husband recently traveled to Spain and 

are planning a trip to China. She is looking 

forward to Reunion. 

Candy Steinhausen Wachterman writes 

that 2015 was quite a year! Husband Rich 

retired last July, and they have been fortunate 

to do some traveling. In addition to a trip to 

Rochester, NY, to visit with her mother (who 

celebrated her 99th birthday), they traveled 

several times to Boston. They got to see firsthand 

two of the first snowstorms and were 

amazed at the amount of snow and how it 

was handled. March found Rich and Candy 

in West Virginia for a three-day ski trip. They 

spent the month of May in New York City, 

which was a dream of Rich’s and the celebration 

of his retirement – a wonderful time 

with many good meals, some great shows, 

and lots of sightseeing. They made their 

annual trip to Ocean City, MD, in June and in 

July took a two-week trip to the Northwest 

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and British Columbia. The rest of the summer 

Candy and Rich were either at home – 

Candy says she does appreciate being home 

sometimes! – or up at their cabin in the 

Adirondacks, and they had plans to cruise up 

the East Coast to Nova Scotia in October. She 

would welcome visitors in Baltimore. 

Tina Leydon can’t believe it’s been 17 years 

since she moved to Arizona from the Boston 

area! She wrote of the visit she had with me 

(Gwynne) when I was traveling in Arizona. 

In early summer Tina went on a marvelous 

two-week trip to Ireland with a local group. 

She commented on the wonderful green 

countryside and loads of history. 

Phoebe Hemenway Armstrong was so 

pleased to meet with her long-ago Wheelock 

friend (and now new friend), Ginger Neaher 

Pape, for lunch in McLean, VA. Ginger lives 

in D.C., and Phoebe lives close by in Vienna, 

VA. They met in 2014 for the first time since 

attending Wheelock and are hoping to go to 

our 45th Reunion in June. Phoebe retired in 

2014 from Fairfax County, VA, Public Schools 

as an elementary special education and 

fifth-grade teacher. She is also the captain of 

her 65-and-over USTA doubles tennis team, 

which keeps her going. What a great group of 

ladies and friends she has on the team! Robert, 

her husband, retired in June 2014 also 

and loves every minute. Phoebe’s son Sam is 

going to the Chicago Portfolio School and living 

in the city. Son Matthew lives in Newton, 

MA, and works as an account manager for 

an insurance company in Ayer. When Phoebe 

wrote, she had just returned from visiting her 

father, who is 91 and living in what used to be 

their summer house in Strafford, VT. He’s in 

great shape and an inspiration. Phoebe hopes 

to see many of you June 3-5 at Wheelock. 

Julia-Ellen Craft Davis resides in her 

recently renovated childhood home, where 

she continues the family passion for history 

and preservation, in Charleston, SC. She is 

serving for the eighth year as a member 

of the board of trustees and as chair of 

the Program and Grants Committee for 

the South Carolina First Steps to School 

Readiness, the state’s comprehensive early 

childhood education initiative. Julia-Ellen is a 

board member of the Preservation Society of 

Charleston and chair of the Society’s Thomas 

Mayhem Pinckney Alliance, which advocates 

for, identifies, and preserves African-American 

material and cultural heritage. As the greatgreat-granddaughter 

of Ellen and William 

Craft, she speaks and blogs on the enslaved 

couple’s daring 1848 escape, which was 

Gwynne DeLong ’71 and husband Dave 

“somewhere in the Caribbean” during the 

winter of 2014-2015 

described in William Craft’s 1860 book, Running 

a Thousand Miles for Freedom (available 

online). In 2014, Julia-Ellen narrated their 

story of courage and persistence for a Travel 

Channel Mysteries at the Hotel show. 

Beverly Granger retired in April 2015 after 

35 years of practicing dentistry and enjoyed 

spending last summer at their house in Sag 

Harbor on Long Island’s east end and working 

in her pottery studio. “I am also drawing on 

my Wheelock experience and serving as the 

clay teacher at a camp at one of the local 

child care centers,” she wrote last summer, 

“and for the upcoming school year I will be 

taking over the art program in the afterschool 

program there. It has been fun and 

rewarding working with children again. I will 

be setting up an Etsy shop and working on 

other sales opportunities for my work as the 

year goes on.” Beverly visited Savannah, GA, 

not too long ago and had the opportunity to 

visit and catch up with her freshman-year 

roommate, Becky Albro. She still sees Betty 

Bain Pearsall regularly and is looking forward 

to Betty’s retirement in the winter “so [they] 

can find some mischief to get into!” Beverly 

hopes all are well and enjoying life. 

I (Gwynne) am currently the board president 

and executive director of the Working 

Group on Girls of Schenectady, Inc. We are 

serving over 250 middle and high school 

girls each year, and this year we plan to add 

a parental support piece to our program. 

Dave and I are still traveling when we can, 

and we continue to help in the raising of our 

grandchildren, which brings us much joy. In 

this era of social media, I am enjoying being 

in touch with so many Wheelock classmates 

and have heard from several already (as of 

early September) that our next Reunion is in 

their plans. I am looking forward to seeing 

many of you in June. 

1972 

Bonnie Paulsen Michael 

If you’re reading this, you’ve stayed in contact 

with Wheelock and the alumni magazine is 

delivered to your home. It also means that 

you care enough to peruse the magazine, 

check out the articles, and find your class 

to see the news. So, this tells me that you’re 

interested in finding out what your classmates 

are doing. If you’re interested in them, 

it’s only logical, then, that your classmates 

are interested in you and what you’re up to! 

Let’s hear from you next time we send out for 

news! Here’s the latest! 

Sue Whiting Finan and husband Jerry 

took the Viking “Tulips and Windmills” river 

cruise through Holland last April. While on 

board, they became friends with another 

couple, only to find out that both women 

were kindergarten teachers, and both went 

to Wheelock. Here’s to Sue and Nancy Preston 

Hepburn ’61 and to Wheelock! 

Joanie Farley Gillispie and husband Mark 

have been downsizing and fixing up houses 

for years. Now, in their retirement, Joanie 

finds herself still teaching multimedia and 

psychology courses while she dreams of the 

outdoor soaking tub she and Mark will soon 

build. She’s inviting Wheelock friends in the 

Menlo Park, CA, area to join her under the 

lemon tree! Wendy Flink Levey continues 

to live and thrive in New York City. She has 

celebrated the 40th year of Epiphany Community 

Nursery School, which she started in 

1975. Today, her daughter, Mariel, teaches at 

her school; her son, Evan, runs the business 

side of the operation; and her granddaughter, 

Blake Ella (born Feb. 22, 2015), is taking gym 

and music classes. Wendy says, “I guess the 

family that works in education together, 

stays together!” 

Wendy Flink Levey ’72 with granddaughter 

Blake, a student at Wendy’s 74th Street 

Activity Center 

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“We never know where life will lead us, 

do we?” writes Mary Lee Prescott-Griffin, who 

published her 10th, 11th, and 12th fiction titles 

in the fall of 2015. She continues to teach at 

Wheaton College (MA) with a special interest 

in her research on the impact of mindfulness 

on readers and writers. This all happens in her 

“spare time” because she also has the joy of 

four grandchildren in her life. If you’re looking 

her up on Amazon, look for M. Lee Prescott. 

After spending the summer in New 

Hampshire, Cat Austin Franks returned to 

St. Croix and her busy life engaged with 

children at a Waldorf preschool and kindergarten, 

directing a local children’s choir, 

and storytelling. Cat spent time with Kandy 

Dwyer, laughing, remembering, and appreciating 

the lifelong friends she made at 

Wheelock. Mary Dickerson Pierson writes 

that she and Peter continue to enjoy living in 

the mountains in Grafton, NY, and gathering 

their family together. Chase lives in Los Angeles, 

and his daughter, Isa, is 15. Josh and his 

family – including Lena (6) and Cole (2) – live 

at the Fay School in Southborough, MA. They 

have also taken in a sweet foster baby for a 

few months. Mary continues to teach early 

childhood music part time at Pine Cobble 

School in Williamstown, MA, and runs the 

Character Education Program for the school. 

She also enjoyed taking some Healing Prayer 

classes recently and is involved in Healing 

Services nearby. 

Janet McEvoy Price and her husband have 

been living in Madrid the past two years. This 

will be Rick’s last overseas posting, and they 

will be headed back to their home in Falls 

Church, VA, in another year. Madrid is a wonderful 

city and they have loved living there 

but have felt far from their two daughters 

– one in Idaho and the other in Colorado. Before 

their move, Janet was an ESOL teacher 

with the Falls Church City Schools, working 

with preschool, kindergarten, and first-grade 

children. She loved it. 

Karen Metanias Riordan will retire in the 

coming year and will be moving to Cape Cod. 

She and Ed are feeling the need to be closer 

to her mom and their girls and grandchildren. 

They had six as of early last fall; their oldest 

is in second grade, and two others are in 

kindergarten. Anne Bridge was planning to 

retire Dec. 31, after 22 years in nonprofit fundraising 

for Stoneleigh-Burnham School. She 

is looking forward to some quality time with 

her weaving, hand spinning, sewing, and 

other fiber-related projects. Anne has two 

grandchildren who live nearby. Her grandson 

Leighton’s fifth-grade teacher signed her up 

to help in her classroom this year; his sister 

Annie is in middle school. Anne was planning 

to take her fourth trip to Melbourne, Australia, 

last November to visit son Eliot; his wife, 

Leigh; and baby granddaughter Grace. 

Liz Hile Lindsay and husband Durwood 

are also figuring out life after retirement. 

They plan to split their time between a house 

on a lake in Maine and a condo in Florida. 

She’s busy with grandchildren, church, moving, 

and renovating. We got to see them for 

an overnight, and they both look terrific! 

I (Bonnie) have also retired. And now 

I find out what people meant when they 

said they couldn’t figure out how they ever 

had time for a job! I’m loving being with my 

husband, Terry; our four kids; their partners; 

and our eight grandchildren. Our oldest 

grandchild turned 5 last summer, so getting 

together with our family requires stamina, 

creativity, resourcefulness, and lots of love. 

We just bought a house with one of our 

daughters, her partner, and their two kids, 

ages 5 and 2. Life is wonderful! 

Everyone who wrote to me talked 

about the last Reunion and how much fun 

it was. Our next one will be in June of 2017! 

See you there! 

1976 

Angela Barresi Yakovleff 

REUNION 2016 

JUNE 3-5, 2016 

As we approach our 40th – yes, 40th! – 

Reunion, we’ve heard from a few of the 1976 

classmates. “Change” seems to be the word 

of the year for many! 

Gayle Griswold Goldberg had to leave her 

job with Londonderry School in Harrisburg, 

PA, after 21 years. Husband Joe got a new job 

in Old Town, Alexandria, VA. Now settled in 

Old Town where they can walk everywhere, 

they couldn’t be happier. And to make the 

move even more wonderful, they are closer to 

daughter Madelaine and 1-year-old granddaughter 

Lucy! Gayle’s son, Evan, is engaged. 

Gayle is looking forward to Reunion. She says, 

“What can be better than getting together in 

Boston and seeing good friends?” 

Bonnie Page ’76/’92MS has an exciting 

new job. For the next two years, she will be 

the full-time president of her local union, the 

Malden Education Association. This means 

that she is not teaching anymore! She tells 

us, “It’s a real shock to my system not setting 

up my room and planning the curriculum.” 

But she is very excited about this new venture. 

Bonnie is enjoying travel with husband 

Troy. They’ve managed to visit Hilton Head, 

Kauai, Oahu, and San Francisco this past 

year. Bonnie can’t wait to see everyone in 

the spring. Plan on coming to Reunion! Nora 

Ray Richards ’76/’91MS and husband Joe are 

in their 25th year of the Sandpiper Nursery 

School in Falmouth, MA. They are a continuously 

accredited, Reggio-inspired preschool 

for 3-, 4-, and 5-year-old children. Nora says: 

“We feel so lucky to be able to live our professional 

dreams! We hope to see you all in June 

at Wheelock!” 

I (Angela) left the classroom in January 

2015 after 39 years of teaching. My husband, 

Matthew, and I managed a trip to Boca 

Raton in the midst of a six-week stretch of 

single-digit weather. What a great reprieve. 

I visited San Francisco with my son and was 

able to visit with a close high school friend 

whom I hadn’t seen since our freshman year 

in college. In the spring I visited Karen Berg 

Ezzi and her husband, Dave, in Asheville, NC. 

Much of the summer I spent at our cottage 

in northern Vermont on Lake Champlain. My 

husband and I went to Montreal often. We 

love the international fireworks displays that 

are held there every July. In June I officially 

retired. Like Bonnie, I have found it a huge 

transition no longer being in the classroom. 

While many friends were setting up their 

classrooms in August, I was enjoying time 

at our cottage. I have spent lots of time with 

family and friends while I look toward the 

next phase of life. I’m truly looking forward 

to Reunion in June. Let’s have a great attendance 

from the Class of 1976. It’s always 

a wonderful weekend reconnecting with 

classmates. Be looking for more information 

from Wheelock and do come. 

1977 

Margaret Smith Lee 

Lisa Brookover Moore 

Louise Close reports that life is good and 

there have been some big changes in her 

life. They have bought a house in Fort Myers 

Beach, FL, and are also buying a home in 

Osterville, MA (on the Cape). (They are now 

Florida residents but will be in New England 

for the summers and early fall.) Louise also 

has resigned from the Wheelock Board of 

Trustees and is focusing her efforts in the 

realm of mental health issues and awareness, 

specifically bipolar disorder, which affects one 

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This happy, young-looking group had a wonderful time celebrating their 60th birthdays together on 

Martha’s Vineyard late last summer. L-R standing: Andree Howard ’77, Louise Close ’77, Sue LaRese 

Vivian ’77, Lynn Freedman Byrnes ’77, Alice Strachan Barr ’78, Jill Schoenfeld Ikens ’77, Lita Kochakian 

Zuchero ’77, Sarah Zartman ’78, Lynda Gaines Hathaway ’77, Terri Weisberg Smith ’79, Elsa Whitmore 

Morse ’77. L-R seated: Margaret Smith Lee ’77, Lisa Brookover Moore ’77, Francesca Wright ’77, Ellen 

Broderick ’77, and Judy Birofka Brown ’77 

of her daughters. “I want to work toward ending 

the stigma of not talking about mental 

health disorders,” she writes, “and hopefully 

improve our fragmented system of care. 

Please ask your own congressmen to support 

these initiatives!” 

I (Margaret) cannot seem to stay away 

from water! Last summer my classroom at 

the Taube Museum of Art was flooded due 

to road construction and rain. Thankfully, we 

were able to save most of the art supplies. 

We had to move all of our summer classes 

to the main floor of the Museum and then 

proceeded to do renovations. 

1978 

Pat Mucci Tayco 

Andi Gassman Anderson brings us up-todate: 

“I left the big Bean for Vermont right 

after graduation and enjoyed directing a day 

care center until 1985. I left teaching for an 

affordable job with the Postal Service. (We pay 

more to sort mail than to set those building 

blocks straight in the formative years!) I 

have had the great opportunity to watch my 

day care babies from 1978 to 1985 grow into 

adults! I have seen unresolved issues become 

life-rendering problems. I have seen great 

successes where I saw supports behind them. 

I am looking forward to retiring soon from my 

31-year career at the post office and returning 

to teaching or some sort of research. Have to 

tackle those three massive college bills first. 

I have a son, 26, working in Boston with the 

Treasury Department. Son #2, 23, just about 

finished an outdoor education degree. And 

my daughter, 21, graduated from UVM with 

a B.S. in nursing and landed a great job at 

the local tiny hospital she was born in. In all 

my observing of all these children I’ve been 

blessed to watch grow and flourish, there is 

one common denominator I feel I must go 

back into education and work on: self-esteem! 

Without it, how can any child learn? I really 

want to go back into education and make 

a difference! I have been working on The 

Virtues Project as well. I can really see this in 

every school in our country. It’s a nonreligious 

course of 52 virtues where everyone, even the 

bus drivers or lunch folks, are on the same 

page each week, teaching the basic virtues: 

assertiveness, commitment, friendliness, 

generosity, courtesy, just to name a few.” Andi 

also mentioned that she “went to [the 2014] 

Wheelock symposium and got inspired again.” 

Gail Ann Rosewater writes: “I retired from 

the County of Bergen (NJ) after 25 years in 

2013. I moved to Asbury Park, NJ, within a 

month and live two blocks from the beach. I 

love it. I am on the board of directors of the 

local Child Care Resource and Referral Agency 

and the chair of their advocacy committee. 

I also volunteer in the local hospital and am 

on a local commission for the lake I live on. 

Since I graduated from Wheelock, I became 

a director of a child care center, got my 

master’s degree from Bank Street College of 

Education in New York, became the director 

of the Bergen County Department of Human 

Services Office for Children, and was then 

the Department’s operations officer. It was a 

good career. Hope everyone is doing well!” 

1981 

Sarah Bowman Merry 

REUNION 2016 

JUNE 3-5, 2016 

Best wishes to Nora Lerdau Howley, who 

decided (after her youngest graduated from 

college in 2014) that she’d been out of school 

long enough and is now working on an 

Ed.D. through the low-residency program at 

the University of Glasgow (Scotland). She is 

about halfway through the three years of 

coursework and will then have a dissertation 

to write. Meanwhile, she continues to provide 

consulting services to a variety of nonprofits. 

Nora and her husband are still in the D.C. area 

with their children and their partners in New 

York and Montana. In her spare time, she 

knits, reads, and takes lots of walks. 

1982 

“The school year 2014-2015 was a year of 

great accomplishments,” Kathleen McGrail 

Campbell writes. “My son graduated from 

the University of New England, and I moved 

out of the classroom (again) and into a new 

role as a Reading Recovery/RTI interventionist, 

while going back to school to become 

certified as a Reading Recovery teacher. It 

was an intense year, but so valuable! Thank 

God for a wonderful husband who held 

everything together, and gave up a lot, while 

we hit the books! I am so proud and grateful 

for my family, and for the solid educational 

foundation that I received with all of my 

friends at Wheelock.” 

Jo-Anne DeGiacomo-Petrie still keeps in 

touch with Karen Mutch-Jones and Randi 

Panken Goodman ’83: “We reminisce about 

our Wheelock years and the fun we had.” Last 

year Jo-Anne and Karen went to visit Randi 

for a girls weekend in Los Angeles and had 

a blast. Jo-Anne is currently the manager 

of operations at BrightStars in Warwick, RI, 

which she is loving: “I am able to keep my 

hand in the field of education mixing it up 

with a business twist.” She and husband 

Adrian enjoy traveling and being “footloose 

and fancy-free” and are looking to downsize 

as their “blended brood” are: Mallory, 25 

(Wheelock graduate), a patient advocate at 

Children’s Hospital in Boston; Ryan, 21, who is 

in his senior year at URI; and stepson Frank, 

who is a junior at UMass Dartmouth. Anyone 

in the Rhode Island area should contact Jo- 

Anne to catch up! 

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58 

Amy Gilzinger Fulton was in touch last 

summer, when she was finishing her second 

year at the Winston Prouty Center for Child 

Development in Brattleboro, VT, and her second 

year of retirement from public school 

teaching. She had been working full time 

with preschoolers but this year is working in 

the young toddler class. “I am enjoying my 

return to preschool immensely and having 

fun fence painting, splashing in water, and 

going for nature walks!” she writes. Amy’s 

daughters are all grown and out of college; 

her older daughter will be getting married 

this fall, and the younger one has a bachelor’s 

from Emerson and has been looking 

into law schools. 

Cindy Hawkins Turner and Wendy Wunsch 

Borosavage ’81 recently met up with Kate 

Grady Hazen at the Flying Bridge Restaurant 

in Falmouth, MA, during Kate’s summer visit 

to Cape Cod! Cindy used to teach kindergarten 

and second grade, then was a stay-athome 

mom, and now is helping her dad in her 

family business (grocery store), but she hopes 

to get back into teaching ... and, therefore, 

was planning to substitute last fall. Wendy is 

director of admission/enrollment at The 

Chestnut Hill School. Kate continues teaching 

second grade at Alice Byrne School in 

Yuma, AZ; serves as team captain of a Relay 

For Life team, walking and raising money 

for the American Cancer Society; and loves 

the desert Southwest! They would love to 

plan a mini-reunion this summer with other 

close Wheelock friends and hope to hear from 

(L-R) Kate Grady Hazen ’82, Cindy Hawkins 

Turner ’82, and Wendy Wunsch Borosavage ’81 

met up at the Flying Bridge Restaurant 

in Falmouth, MA, during Kate’s summer ’15 visit 

to Cape Cod. 

Kathie Mello Friedrichsen, Beth Bacon Cebula, 

Catherine Ley Lawler, Kathy Thomas, Liz 

Stein Stehm, Tracy Goodman Fanelli, Vicki 

Hessert Graboski, Ellen Levy Greenberg, Sarah 

Walstad, and Dawn Cassella DiNoto! Contact 

Kate at khazen@yuma.org. 

(L-R) 1985 classmates JoAnn Chambers Meehan, 

Stephanie Poly Zapatka, and Michele Yefsky 

Charm enjoy an afternoon of laughing and 

catching up. 

“Since I am not ready to retire and love 

teaching, a couple more years are ‘in the 

cards,’” wrote Barbara Madison Ripps last 

summer, after completing her 31st year of 

teaching in the South Colonie School District 

in New York, where she has been teaching 

third grade in recent years. She and her husband 

continue to enjoy family time whenever 

possible, though it’s hard now with their 

children living in other states. Son Zach, who 

married a fellow Bentley University graduate 

last August, works for Heinz in Pittsburgh. 

Daughter Karina (also Bentley) works in the 

marketing department at Curata, a content 

marketing company in Boston – and loves living 

in Boston just as much as Barbara did! In 

addition to recent trips to Florida, Las Vegas, 

and Aruba, Barbara and her husband went 

to Europe to celebrate their 30th wedding 

anniversary. She adds: “After more than 11 

years, I continue to enjoy helping people in 

my Arbonne business (http://barbararipps. 

arbonne.com) showing them what ‘healthy’ 

looks like and feels like. When you give someone 

their life back, it’s very gratifying. I’d love 

to help you!” 

1986 

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Last summer, Eleni Geroulanou wrote: “I was 

so devastated to hear about Mary Iatridis’ 

death. May she rest in peace. We will always 

remember Mary for her energy, humor, and 

kindness. She was quite an amazing teacher 

and friend!” 

Jeri Hammond ’86/’92MS is in her first 

year as principal of the Walton School in the 

Wakefield, MA, Public Schools. In introducing 

her to the Walton community last spring, 

the town’s superintendent of schools talked 

about her “deep-seated passion for teaching 

and learning” and called her “a fierce 

advocate for enriching and challenging 

learning experiences for all learners.” During 

the summer, Jeri told a reporter from Wicked 

Local Stoneham about the great feeling she 

had about Walton “from the moment [she] 

walked in the door” and later wrote to the 

Alumni Relations Office about the incredibly 

exciting time she was having learning 

the ropes there. Jeri was previously a grade 

2 lead teacher at Driscoll Elementary School 

in Brookline, MA, where she helped develop 

educational curricula and an innovative 

mentoring program for new teachers, 

coached many teachers, and facilitated 

professional learning experiences. In addition 

to her Wheelock degrees, Jeri has an M.A. in 

Educational Leadership through the EDCO 

Leadership Institute. 

NancyDee Tenney MacFarland ’86 got nostalgic 

as she sat in her “old ‘backyard’” (Winsor 

School field) and cheered on son Jameson 

(goalie) during his Eastern Nazarene College 

soccer game against Wheelock last September. 

Back in September, NancyDee Tenney 

MacFarland wrote: “Tuesday night, Sept. 8, 

was a perfect summer night, warm but with 

low humidity and a light breeze. I returned to 

Wheelock for the first time in many years to 

see my son play in goal for his college soccer 

team (Eastern Nazarene College) on the Winsor 

field [against Wheelock]. I never imagined 

when I was attending Wheelock in the ’80s 

that one day my son would be playing in my 

old ‘backyard.’ My husband and I remembered 

fondly watching the Wheelock women play 

a few games on the old field. The new facilities 

are beautiful! The lush grass and trees 

surrounding the field and the small rabbit 

my daughter found were testaments to 

the careful environmental planning behind 

the state-of-the-art buildings now in place. 

Many students came to cheer on the men’s 

soccer team. It was fun to chat with them 

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“The amazing girls from Riverway” together in March 2015. Back, L-R: Julie McLaughlin ’88, Wendy 

Horibin Monaghan ’88, Allison Moses Nistico ’87, Chrissi Losea ’88, Kathy Correia DeRoehn ’87. 

Seated, L-R: Tammy Giroux Card ’87, Christine Gardiner Mace ’87, Marianne Hardart ’87, Paula 

Tartaglia Hardman ’88, Liz DiBiase ’88 

and hear of their Wheelock experiences. I 

have the fondest of memories of my years at 

Wheelock, and I am excited for the men and 

women of Wheelock today.” 

1987 

Libby Hubbard VanDerMaelen 

Jean Norman Clancy was so excited that she 

had news to share! She says that after being 

a soccer mom, dance mom, field hockey 

mom, and theater mom, she can finally 

say that she feels like a professional again 

(while still being super mom)! She is now 

the curriculum developer for a startup program 

called STEM Beginnings (Shrewsbury, 

MA). She teaches STEM enrichment classes 

to children from preschool through second 

grade. In addition, she developed the STEM 

Goes STEAM summer camps (Arts are integrated), 

where she is working to incorporate 

curriculum for third- and fourth-graders. She 

says that the company is fantastic and has 

given her many opportunities. It has exhibited 

at WPI’s TouchTomorrow event, and their 

proposal to participate in the Massachusetts 

STEM Summit last fall was accepted. Jeannie 

is excited to be a part of this fast-growing 

company that offers so many inspiring experiences 

to children! Beth Kaminow Lawrence 

continues to teach yoga several times a week 

in Washington, D.C. Her twin daughters are 

starting high school at Banneker AHS, a magnet 

school in the city, and her son continues 

middle school at E.L. Haynes PCS. They are 

all enjoying their time together along with 

three cats and a dog. 

“I love working with 3- and 4-year-olds, 

but I could do without all the paperwork,” 

writes Allison Moses Nistico of her work as 

an IEP coordinator at a therapeutic preschool 

in East Setauket, NY, for the past 14 

years. She says “the girls from Riverway” still 

get together twice a year: “These women are 

amazing, and I am blessed that we are still 

friends after so long. I am also thankful that 

Wheelock brought us together.” 

1988 

Carol Ann McCusker Petruccelli 

Chris Schuman Kenny writes about her 

busy summer of 2015, when they spent over 

three weeks traveling in England, Wales, and 

Ireland and visiting husband Peter’s family: 

“It was an amazing trip and a great experience 

for the kids.” She is still teaching at 

church, co-directed last year’s Vacation Bible 

School, and was looking forward to starting 

her second year of substitute teaching in 

the fall (which she really enjoys though she 

once “swore [she’d] never sub”). Julia Pounds 

is still enjoying her work. She is well and her 

children are growing up. Her oldest went off 

to college last fall. Suzy Morrow Ciccarelli 

’88/’94MS has a busy life with eight children. 

She can be found at the gym with her husband, 

driving, or at a field. 

As for me (Carol Ann), I am in my 27th 

year in Boston Public Schools. When not at 

work, I can be found on the soccer or lacrosse 

fields with my two boys. I still live right in the 

city of Boston. 

1991 

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Rebekah Engel Elmore recently launched her 

new business, Peak College Consulting, and 

writes: “As an independent educational consultant, 

I educate and facilitate my students 

and families on all aspects of the college 

admissions process and develop an individual 

admissions strategy. After being in the business 

world for so many years, I am thrilled 

to get back to my Wheelock roots and work 

with families during this very stressful yet 

exciting time.” Rebekah still lives in Newburyport, 

MA, with her husband of 24 years and 

her four “uniquely different teenagers.” 

“It’s been quite an education!” Alyssa 

Greeley writes of her hard work as a member 

of the board of directors for her condo association. 

Amy Lindstedt-Kelly wrote last 

summer of her son and daughter’s participation 

during 2014-2015 in the volunteerled 

problem-solving program Destination 

Imagination. “Team members work together 

to develop a solution to an open-ended 

challenge and present their solutions at 

tournaments,” she wrote, “and my son Evan’s 

third-grade team advanced from the first 

regional challenge to go on to the Mass. 

state tournament, where they took third 

place!” Amy enjoys helping to maintain her 

UCC church’s Facebook page and to grow its 

evening alternative service. Her family has 

recently had fun trips to Bar Harbor, ME, and 

Acadia National Park and to North Carolina. 

She says she hopes old friends she’s not Facebook 

friends with yet will look her up. 

Maria Maffeo-Baffo ’91/’95MS wrote last 

spring about a unique opportunity she was 

given at Wheelock on Oct. 17, 2014, during her 

niece, Talia Mango’s senior year: “I was invited 

by one of Talia’s professors, Felicity Crawford, 

to share with her class my role as a classroom 

teacher and how I include strategies 

along with modifications while considering 

diverse learning styles in order to increase 

opportunities for all students to achieve. I felt 

really important, especially when Professor 

Crawford had a parking cone put next to a reserved 

spot in the Wheelock College lot with 

a sign that had my name on it. Wow! I still 

have the sign to this day!” Maria continued: 

“I was very honored and nervous at the same 

time since I had never presented to college 

students before. I had to ask my principal 

for a professional day, and she was receptive 

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when I shared the reason for it. When it came 

time to present, I stood before the students, 

I took a deep breath before I presented, and I 

felt comfortable due to the warm welcome. 

After all, Wheelock is my alma mater and I 

was sitting in the same seat when I was a 

student. I was very pleased when Talia smiled 

at me during my presentation, while I eagerly 

answered a lot of interesting questions from 

the students and received positive feedback. 

Because of Savannah author, Sarah Rice Patt ’91 

In fact, I was invited to come again sometime! 

How exciting! I was extremely proud of 

Talia for her academic and social growth during 

her time at Wheelock and for receiving a 

4.0 her senior year! The [May 2015] graduation 

ceremony was beautiful. I knew from 

my first visit at Wheelock College that it is a 

special place, and I am happy and proud that 

another family member was able to receive 

the same positive learning experience and 

academic preparation to work with children 

and families.” 

“Other than aspiring to be a devoted wife, 

nurturing mother, and caring teacher,” writes 

Sarah Rice Patt, “I also had ‘become an author’ 

on my mind since childhood.” So Wheelock is 

happy now to be able to congratulate Sarah 

on completing and publishing the novel 

Because of Savannah last year after “four 

wonderful, long, yet fast at the same time, 

years” of hard work. She adds: “Wheelock 

absolutely gave me my teaching foundation, 

and the late Professor Phil Craig (my minor 

was English under his tutelage) gave me 

positive feedback on my writing and endless 

encouragement for me to pursue this 

author goal of mine.” Sarah says she finds 

promoting her book much more difficult 

than writing it was, but she came up with a 

terrific book club marketing plan: “I will make 

an appearance at any local book club with a 

bottle of wine for the hostess and cupcakes 

for the readers and a pen in hand for me to 

sign their books when they are through with 

Because of Savannah!” 

1992 

Lisa Beladino Burgess and her family recently 

relocated to Cumming, GA, where they 

opened a new business last May – Christian 

Brothers Automotive. “We absolutely love the 

area and are excited about our new business,” 

she writes. 

1994 

Last September, Michele Schorr Taylor (who 

now follows her name with “RN, MSN, 

BS, EMT”!) excitedly reported: “I finished a 

master’s in nursing in April with honors, and 

I’ve been inducted into Sigma Theta Tau. I am 

also a mentor for future nursing students 

completing their master’s degrees. Currently 

I work for hospice with the Visiting Nurse 

Association on Cape Cod, and I will eventually 

work in the Education Department, combining 

both sides, my degrees from Wheelock 

and University of Phoenix.” 

Sarah Zimman Dulong ’96/’97MS, husband 

Dennis, and son Dylan welcomed Vivienne 

Zimman Dulong last June 2. 

1996 

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Sarah Zimman Dulong ’96/’97MS had a 

baby girl, Vivienne Zimman Dulong, last June 

2. Sarah, husband Dennis, and big brother 

Dylan are “enjoying her immensely!” 

“I LOVE everything about teaching!” 

writes Heatha Galotti Normandin, who is in 

her 20th year at the Ellis School in Fremont, 

NH. She has enjoyed teaching special education 

grades 1 to 4, and fourth- and secondgrade 

full inclusion classrooms. Heatha 

and her family still live in Danville, NH. Her 

husband is head of Quality Flame Cutting 

in Fremont. Daughter Willow, a freshman at 

the high school Heatha went to, is “insanely 

social,” makes the honor roll, and dances 

10 hours a week. Heatha and her husband 

also enjoy time on their jet skis, which is 

their newest hobby. “Wow!” she wrote last 

summer. “Next year in 2016 it will be my 20th 

year at my job, 20-year college graduation anniversary, 

and 20-year wedding anniversary!” 

Kelly McGrath Szalewicz and her family 

had for six years been living in and restoring 

a 5,400-square-foot house built in 1767 in 

the Berkshires, but last summer they found 

themselves “sprinting to finish” so they could 

move to Marblehead, MA, before the start of 

the school year so husband Ben could start a 

new job at Salem State University. Kelly was 

really looking forward to being a short drive 

from Boston again. She is at home with their 

four children: Emma, 15; Clara, 12; Jacob, 8; and 

Evan, 3. She writes, “We are closing the chapter 

in our lives of being foster parents for DCF 

after our last adoption [Evan, last February].” 

Sonya-Lee Costantino Zezza writes of the 

trip she took to China last May to run the half 

marathon on the Great Wall: “What a thrilling 

adventure. I started running in 2007 and 

have accomplished several marathons and a 

whole lot of half marathons and have done 

other international races.” Sonya-Lee, who 

graduated with a master’s degree in social 

work/early intervention from Virginia Commonwealth 

University in 2005, spent most 

of her career in the medical field but then 

in 2012 changed to low-income subsidized 

housing. Son Zachary is 15, and she plans to 

stay in Virginia until he graduates from high 

school (2018) – and then take off for “other 

adventures.” Sonya-Lee is looking forward to 

Reunion and, until then, invites classmates to 

find her on Facebook. 

1996 classmates Sonya-Lee Costantino 

Zezza (left) and Colleen Doyle Tessier met up 

at the British Beer Company in Danvers, MA, 

last August. 

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Robin Fradkin Matthews ’96 (standing) and friends brought kids along to make their August 2015 

get-together even more fun. L-R: Barbara Raymond Bell ’96 (holding Libby’s daughter, Anna); Libby 

Rackliffe Gustafson ’97 (seated, holding her son John); Robin with her son, Asher; Libby’s son Will; 

Kathy Clunis D’Andrea ’97/’98MS (holding her son, Alessandro) 

1997 

Kathy Clunis D’Andrea ’97/’98MS drew on 

her experience as a K-1 teacher at Mission Hill 

School (in the Boston Public Schools) in her 

work as co-editor of the 2015 book Teaching in 

Themes: An Approach to Schoolwide Learning, 

Creating Community, and Differentiating 

Instruction. She also contributed the chapter 

“What’s Baking? Learning Together About 

Bread and Bakeries.” The book’s publisher, 

Teachers College Press, says it answers questions 

like “How do teachers and schools create 

meaningful learning experiences for students 

with diverse skills, abilities, and cultures?” 

and “will help schools incorporate a wholeschool, 

theme-based curriculum that engages 

students across grade levels K-8.” 

Lisa Marie Klem ’97/’98MS proudly announces 

the arrival of her daughter, Grace 

Margaret Klem, last April 15. “She is a longawaited 

dream come true,” Lisa writes. 

1998 

Jennifer Duchesneau Beaulac has a new job 

as evaluation team supervisor for the Lexington, 

MA, Public Schools. She works at the 

Estabrook School. 

Anita Anderson Castillo let Wheelock 

know, and the College confirmed through a 

Telegraph (U.K.) story, that Sana bin Laden 

died in a plane crash in Hampshire, England, 

last summer. According to the story, she was a 

philanthropist who supported orphanages in 

Saudi Arabia and sponsored children’s education. 

A friend of Sana’s who was interviewed 

for the story said: “[She] was ‘loved dearly’ 

by those at the orphanage, who called her 

‘Mama Soso.’ She had recently organized a 

breakfast club for orphans and was said to 

have been a favorite of the children in her 

care.” Anita wrote to Wheelock: “Many of my 

classmates may remember her as the girl who 

arrived to school each day in a limo, but she 

lived a humble life. I always loved that about 

Wheelock – knowing that each soul who was 

enrolled had the same desire to give, love, and 

make a difference.” 

1999 

This academic year, Lisa Yates has been the 

new principal of the Wells Village School in 

Wells, VT. She was previously the principal 

of Carlos Pacheco Elementary School in 

New Bedford, MA. 

2001 

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Claire Kinkade Dunn welcomed her third 

child last April: Maeve Georgia Dunn joined 

big brothers Oliver (4) and Liam (2). Rachael 

Spicer-Ness wrote last summer to let classmates 

know of the birth of her second son, 

Lennon Josiah Arnold Ness, on July 15. 

2006 

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Caitlyn Anamateros Olsen and husband Ryan 

welcomed a baby boy, Logan Joseph, last June 

23. He weighed 10 pounds, 4 ounces. 

2007 

Cheryl Hovey ’07/’07MS has become the Early 

Childhood Program director/assistant professor 

at Fisher College, based in Boston. 

2008 

Lauren LaBelle Morin and her husband moved 

back to Washington state (where Lauren 

is from) last April, and she is working as a 

hospital social worker. They had their second 

son, Benjamin, on May 31. He and big brother 

Oliver are doing well. 

“After a backpacking trip to Southeast 

Asia [in the summer of 2014], I continue to 

concoct traveling plans around the world,” 

writes Christine Romero. She recently made 

a successful career transition from social 

work to teaching and now works at Roots & 

Branches School, a progressive Baltimore City 

charter school. Alison Vallese and Rob Masinda 

were married on March 28, 2015, and live 

in Warwick, RI. Alison continues to work as a 

fifth-grade inclusion teacher in Attleboro, MA. 

2010 

Laura Stanley ’10/’11MS started a new job as 

child life specialist at University of Virginia 

Children’s Hospital in Charlottesville last 

June. She worked as an activity assistant at 

Pendleton Health and Rehabilitation Center 

in Mystic, CT, before moving to Charlottesville. 

She now works with Amanda Simas 

’11MS, lead child life specialist at the Children’s 

Hospital. 

2011 

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Sage Carbone writes: “After graduating from 

Wheelock, I worked for two years in higher 

education before going back to school to get 

my master’s degree from Simmons College 

in Communications Management. While 

attending, I worked as a substitute teacher 

for the Somerville Public Schools. Recently I 

accepted an offer to work in the Community 

Schools division for the City of Cambridge 

– planning events for children and families 

around the city and ensuring that they have 

the best resources available to them.” Kiera 

Pritchard Lantz and husband David had Avery 

Liliana Lantz in Kingston, PA, last March 27. 

Marci Leno, a Wheelock Math/Science 

Award winner in 2010, emailed the College 

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last spring and talked about her experience 

as a math/science major at Wheelock and 

some of the good things it led to: “My degree 

allowed me to complete and graduate from 

an accelerated EMT-Basic course. I have 

enjoyed volunteering at the local hospital 

here [Bozeman, MT] and have also been an 

assistant teacher for the same EMT course 

I graduated from. Being a top math and science 

student at Wheelock College enabled 

me to be accepted as an American Cancer Society 

Alvan T. & Viola D. Fuller Junior Research 

Fellow. This fellowship gave me the opportunity 

of shadowing a thoracic oncologist at 

Mass General. I spent the summer assisting 

with research being done on thoracic cancers 

(lung cancer, throat cancer, etc.). This fellowship 

was the greatest learning experience 

of my entire life.” Marci, who has recently 

worked in guest services for Marriott, also 

wrote, “Wheelock certainly not only educated 

me, but has given me some of the best 

memories of my life.” 

Michaela Ross Rice ’11 and Eric Rice ’12 with 

son Avery James (rockin’ the bowtie!) 

Michaela Ross has been working at the 

Joyce Middle School in Woburn, MA, as a special 

education teacher since she graduated 

from Wheelock. She married Eric Rice ’12, who 

currently sells real estate, in April 2014, and 

they had their first child, a son, Avery James, 

last January. 

Rachel Schumacher writes about getting 

married last June 27: “We met during 

my [2013] term of service with AmeriCorps 

NCCC in the North Central region based out 

of Iowa, where we served on the same team. 

That was my second year of AmeriCorps – 

my first was with the Community Health 

Center in Middletown, CT, in 2011-2012. Since 

completing my term with NCCC, we moved 

back to my hometown of Norwich, CT, where 

I am currently working as the lead teacher of 

the toddler classroom at Mayflower Montessori 

School. I stay in contact with my best 

Wheelock girls from the 301 CCSR suite of 

2011: Samantha Suarez, Catherine Piccininni 

’13, and Natasha Al-Rafie ’12, all of whom 

were the bridesmaids in my wedding.” Rachel 

shared that last August Samantha was 

headed to Colombia for a one- to two-year 

adventure teaching English in schools there, 

Catherine is completing her graduate degree 

at Wheelock, and Natasha is also doing 

graduate studies. 

2012 

Kayla Drescher, now living in Los Angeles, 

is performing magic all over the country, 

including a performance at Wheelock’s April 

2015 Make-A-Wish talent show. Last summer, 

she was a counselor and teacher at Tannen’s 

Magic Camp in Bryn Mawr, PA, where over 

150 young magicians gathered to learn the 

ins and outs of performing magic. The rest 

of Kayla’s summer was filled with traveling, 

outdoor fun, and even performing as 

an opening act for a show on the Las Vegas 

strip! To find out more, visit www.magicinheels.com. 

Last year, Ava Jennings ’12/’15MS 

wrote: “This summer I’m a participant in the 

Teacher Launch Project. The project is actually 

part of a research study being conducted 

by Harvard University. During the four-week 

summer program we practice behavior management 

skills, classroom culture practice, 

and importance of routines and systems, and 

we receive 20 weeks of mentoring during the 

school year! The program has been amazing 

thus far. I am glad I joined!” 

2014 

Last spring, Megan Mawe, a math/science 

major when she was at Wheelock, wrote: “I 

have continued to pursue math/science! I 

am currently enrolled in an accelerated B.S. 

and M.S. of Nursing at Regis College. I will be 

receiving my nursing license next January 

and will then continue on to complete my 

master’s degree in nursing to ultimately be a 

nurse practitioner in acute/surgical care. My 

degree in math/science was a great starting 

point for this, as the science prerequisites for 

this program were very extensive, and a bachelor’s 

degree was required for acceptance. I 

also minored in education, which has proven 

to be incredibly helpful for all the patient 

teaching required in nursing. I also work as a 

home health aide for a private-duty nursing 

company, and this has been immensely helpful 

for my nursing education!” 

Master’s Degrees 

Congratulations to Kim Paddison Dockery 

’78MS (Ed.D., University of Virginia), who 

retired last August after 20 years in the 

Fairfax County (VA) Public Schools. She had 

most recently served as chief academic officer, 

overseeing the daily academic life of the 

school system’s more than 185,000 students 

and leading divisionwide instruction and 

testing services. After joining the school 

system in 1995 as a special education teacher 

at Mantua Elementary, she served as an 

assistant principal at Haycock Elementary, as 

principal of Westlawn Elementary, and as the 

assistant superintendent for special services, 

leading special education, health services, 

and intervention and prevention programs 

for students. “She was an integral part of the 

school system’s efforts to reform the district’s 

disciplinary procedures, particularly for teens 

in high schools,” according to a July 2015 

Washington Post story. Kim herself writes 

that she has also done a lot of work in early 

childhood with Ellen Galinsky (president and 

co-founder of Families and Work Institute) and 

in the fall participated in the National Governors 

Association roundtable on “social emotional 

learning in early childhood (and the pre- 

K-12 alignment required to support SEL).” She 

adds, “Wheelock and Susan Kosoff [’65/’75MS] 

were so foundational for my career!” 

Dr. Laurel Waiksnoris Bongiorno ’85MS is 

dean of the Division of Education and Human 

Studies at Champlain College in Burlington, 

VT. Susan Brown Bramble ’94MS was in 

touch last spring, when she was excited to be 

starting her new position as learning specialist 

at Stone Ridge School in Bethesda, MD, 

where she works primarily with students and 

teachers in grades 5 and 6. 

Last fall, Dr. Kimberly Wright Morgan 

’05MSW wrote: “Recently, I completed a 

doctorate in Pastoral Care and Counseling. 

My husband and I are returning from our 

summer trip to England, Wales, and Ireland, 

visiting our family. I will begin my new appointment 

with the Civil Air Patrol Chaplain 

Corps, as a character development instructor. 

Thank you, Wheelock Graduate School of Social 

Work, for shaping who I am today.” Nyree 

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Simmons ’07MS was selected as 2015-2016 

Teacher of the Year for the Jasper County 

School District in South Carolina, where she 

works at Ridgeland Elementary. An online 

story about this recognition talked about 

how Nyree has a positive impact on not only 

her students but also her colleagues, inspires 

her students to have the same love of learning 

she has, and connects with her students 

in special ways to help them really learn the 

material she’s teaching. 

Since shortly after graduating from 

Wheelock, Beth Kreyling ’10MS has held the 

position of pediatric hospice child life specialist 

in the Gilchrist Kids program at Gilchrist 

Hospice Care in Baltimore, MD. In support 

of her hospice role with children and their 

families, she has also received certification in 

thanatology. Erin Butts ’15MS has been working 

in the field of early education for 14 years 

and is now teacher/director of the Haggerty 

Preschool in Cambridge, MA, a 10-month 

program for children ages 2.9 to 5 years old. 

The thing she loves most about teaching is 

that she never stops learning, she says, and 

she feels that all of the amazing children and 

families she has worked with over the years 

have helped her learn and grow as both a 

teacher and a person. She says she values 

the opportunities to make a difference in 

the lives of children and families and to work 

with families to help them learn more about 

their children and the ways they can support 

their learning at home. 

Arrivals 

96/97 Sarah Zimman Dulong, 

a daughter, Vivienne Zimman Dulong 

97/98 Lisa Marie Klem, 

a daughter, Grace Margaret Klem 

01 Claire Kinkade Dunn, 

a daughter, Maeve Georgia Dunn 

01 Racheal Spicer-Ness, 

a son, Lennon Josiah Arnold Ness 

06 Caitlyn Anamateros Olsen, 

a son, Logan Joseph 

08 Lauren LaBelle Morin, 

a son, Benjamin 

11 Kiera Pritchard Lantz, 

a daughter, Avery Liliana 

11 Michaela Ross (and Eric Rice ’12), 

a son, Avery James 

Unions 

11 Michaela Ross to Eric Rice ’12 

11 Rachel Schumacher to Nick King 

In Memoriam 

33 Rozilla Morton Roberts 

37 Katherine O’Hearn Page 

38 Jean Gardner Anderson 

39 Harriet Rice Wood 

40 Rita Jaffe Govenar 

41 Barbara Jameson Lawson 

41 Jean Tilton Melby 

41 Joanne Jamieson Owens 

41 Jean Stout Wilson 

42 Cynthia Schofield Cleary 

42 Elizabeth Hague Erlandson 

42/43 Eleanore Moginot Fisher 

42/43 Ann “Bucky” Starbuck Gelser 

43/44 Elizabeth Thompson DeGuzman 

43/44 Lois Crocker Gill 

44 Judith Elder Scott 

43/44 Nancy Powell White 

46 Dorothy Spencer Chaudoin 

46 Sarah Ryan Donnelly 

46 Medora Wilson Douden 

46 Frances Robertson Gill 

47 Patricia Portley Bucher 

48 Yolanda Restivo Miller 

49 Laura Anne “Lolly” McPhee Burton 

49 Cynthia “Teddy” Duff Lyons 

49 Frances Cummings Partridge 

50 Beverly Simon Green 

51 Ann Ryan Gilpatrick 

51 Ann Parry McKee 

51 Bernice Race Senchik 

51 Priscilla Janeway Sherwood 

53 Virginia Taylor Rowley 

54 Joan Kemp Seeber 

57 Katherine Kavinoky Goldman 

61 Emily McLeod Welch 

62 Susan Powers Knapp 

62 Marie “Kim” Kimball Thomas 

65 Linda Larrabee Blair Lockwood 

69 Carol Morrison Currie 

72MS Mildred Johnson Bean 

73 Mary Lozoraitis Mickey 

74AS Nan Jones Brown 

74 Patricia Kellaway Hess 

76MS Gwen Morgan 

95 Megan Marquis Yip 

98 Sana bin Laden 

99 Cynthia Pease 

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Riverway to start her fall classes

In Honor of 

Gwen Morgan ’76MS 

Message from 

President Jackie 

Jenkins-Scott: 

It is with great sadness that I announce the passing 

of our beloved [Gwen Morgan ’76MS], a longtime 

respected member of the Wheelock community and 

a national leader in early education and child care. Gwen passed away [Friday, 

Sept. 4, 2015] at her home in Lincoln, MA, at age 90. 

An inspirational visionary who just never gave up her fight for quality early 

education, Gwen advocated for every child having high-quality and affordable 

early education and care. She supported the cause for every practitioner to 

receive excellent professional development and be compensated adequately. 

In 1972, Gwen joined Wheelock College as a faculty member, and her great 

impact has been felt ever since. This same year, she pioneered the coordination 

of and improvements to services for children in the Commonwealth 

as the first Director of the Massachusetts Office for Children. From 1991 

to 2004, Gwen was the Director of the Center for Career Development in 

Early Care and Education at Wheelock. The Center helped numerous states 

develop professional development systems. Additionally, she ran the highly 

respected summer program for child care center directors based on research 

and business management training. 

Gwen was an amazing and inspirational leader and friend to many at 

Wheelock and throughout the early childhood community. She leaves a 

legacy of quality early education and care for all children that will continue to 

impact future generations. I was honored to meet Gwen shortly after arriving 

at Wheelock. She was a trusted advisor who was always available to everyone 

in our community. Many faculty and staff found their way to the Brookline 

Campus to seek Gwen’s advice and support. We are 

grateful that she served the College for nearly five 

decades. She will truly be missed. I was fortunate to 

have known her. 

Gwen is the epitome of a life lived in support of 

Wheelock’s mission to improve the lives of children 

and families during her many decades of impacting 

policy and practice. I hope that the many who knew 

her from the Wheelock community, and those who 

were inspired by her, will continue to support her legacy by advancing the 

work she spent her entire professional career pursuing. 

A Remembrance with 

Love and Gratitude 

On Oct. 23, 2015, the Wheelock 

community gathered 

for a memorial service for Gwen in 

the living room at 43 Hawes Street, 

where President Jackie Jenkins- 

Scott offered opening and closing 

remarks. Cheryl Render Brown, 

Wheelock College associate professor 

of Early Childhood Education; 

Joyce Butler ’73, member 

of the Wheelock College Board 

of Trustees; and Amy O’Leary 

of Early Education for All, and a 

Wheelock adjunct faculty member, 

offered moving tributes. And 

finally, Leland Clarke ’75, associate 

professor of Arts, played “It Is 

Well with My Soul” on the piano. 


200 Riverway 

Boston, MA 02215-4176 

(617) 879-2123 

#wheelockgivingday 

03.30.16 

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