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<strong>Fall</strong> <strong>2012</strong><br />
Global Teacher<br />
Spotlight—<br />
Alicia Carroll ’96MS<br />
Anniversary &<br />
Campaign<br />
Highlights<br />
2011-<strong>2012</strong><br />
Annual Report<br />
of Giving
<strong>Fall</strong> <strong>2012</strong><br />
T.O.C.<br />
1 A Message from the President<br />
2 125th Celebration<br />
4 On Campus<br />
6 Alumni<br />
10 Campaign Update<br />
17 Annual Report of Giving<br />
35 Class Notes<br />
Editor<br />
Christine Dall<br />
Production Editor<br />
Lori Ann Saslav<br />
Assistant Editor<br />
Erin Heffernan<br />
Design<br />
Leslie Hartwell<br />
Photography<br />
Christine Dall<br />
Erin Heffernan<br />
Don West<br />
<strong>Wheelock</strong> Magazine<br />
<strong>Fall</strong> <strong>2012</strong><br />
Volume XXXIII, Issue 1<br />
Cover: Alicia Carroll ‘96MS uses a giraffe<br />
named Malindi for global teaching and learning.<br />
Photo by Erin Heffernan<br />
For Class Notes information, contact<br />
Lori Ann Saslav at (617) 879-2123 or<br />
lsaslav@wheelock.edu.<br />
Send letters to the editor to: <strong>Wheelock</strong><br />
Magazine, Office for Institutional Advancement,<br />
<strong>Wheelock</strong> <strong>College</strong>, 200 The Riverway,<br />
Boston, MA 02215-4176, or email them<br />
to cdall@wheelock.edu.<br />
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Lifelong Learners at <strong>Fall</strong> Alumni Symposium<br />
n <strong>Fall</strong> Alumni Symposium <strong>2012</strong> brought together alumni<br />
lifelong learners for a day that invigorated spirits and offered<br />
professional development workshops in the areas of elder<br />
care, parenting, healthy eating for children and families,<br />
teaching body confidence, transformational leadership, and<br />
strategic job searching. And, for interested alumni, the symposium<br />
offered the chance to earn continuing education units.<br />
n During lunch, alumni had the chance to catch up with each other and continue discussions<br />
begun during morning sessions. Matthew Power-Koch ’11MS, a new member of<br />
the Alumni Association Board, introduced the Elizabeth Palmer Peabody Award, named for<br />
the 19th-century teacher, educational reformer, mother of the American kindergarten, and<br />
mentor to Lucy <strong>Wheelock</strong>. <strong>Wheelock</strong> <strong>College</strong> President Jackie Jenkins-Scott presented<br />
the award to Audrey Peck ’90MS in recognition of her extensive and outstanding work<br />
improving the lives of children and families in Lawrence, MA (Page 8).<br />
n Karen Marshall, program manager for Educator Mentor<br />
Corps for <strong>Wheelock</strong> <strong>College</strong>’s Aspire Institute, wowed alumni<br />
as a group with a keynote address that championed a positive<br />
attitude and collaborating for change—despite the fact that<br />
collaboration, in its infancy, can be “messy.” Be vulnerable,<br />
Karen stressed: “Failure is always possible, but it is never final.”<br />
i want to speak the change that calls us to a new humanity.<br />
move mountains with my voice —<br />
the timid voice of the mustard seed.<br />
i want to speak.<br />
i want to be the lingering scent after morning rain.<br />
the steady fall of water carving vulnerability into stubborn rock.<br />
not shout from the rooftop. no.<br />
i want to ride the night wind.<br />
seep through the slight crack in your foundation<br />
to become the sweet echo in your dreams<br />
reminding you that you’re so much better than you know.<br />
i want to speak.<br />
—From a poem spoken by Karen Marshall
Dear Alumni and Friends,<br />
On my educational blog on the<br />
Huffington Post website, I recently<br />
discussed how important it is for students<br />
to become media literate. Media literacy<br />
is a sometimes confusing but increasingly important<br />
concern of today’s digital-age teachers<br />
and families, and so I share the blog—<br />
and some of the ways in which <strong>Wheelock</strong> is<br />
teaching critical thinking —with you here.<br />
Media Literacy in the Digital Age<br />
The first presidential debate moved me to<br />
reflect upon how we evaluate our leaders based<br />
upon whom and what we see, which sometimes<br />
can be vastly different from what they<br />
say. Beyond politicians, instances of what we<br />
see mismatching who we are or what we do are<br />
widespread in media images, and they shape<br />
our experience of reality.<br />
In today’s image-based culture, reading<br />
images is critical to being able to understand<br />
and participate in civic engagement. Yet, image<br />
“illiteracy” is pervasive. How do we enable our<br />
students to discern reliable information in the<br />
mass media influx they receive each day and<br />
learn how to critically “read” images?<br />
Teaching media literacy is a compelling<br />
way to move students from passive consumers<br />
of images to active citizens who can think<br />
critically about how they want to shape their<br />
own lives. This process of empowering students<br />
is something we encourage at <strong>Wheelock</strong><br />
<strong>College</strong> through our American Studies and<br />
our Communications majors, in which the<br />
core courses explore the role of the media in<br />
shaping and framing the way people think<br />
about the world and their place in it.<br />
Professors at <strong>Wheelock</strong> are using a variety<br />
of methods to cultivate media literacy skills<br />
in students in order to provide a critical understanding<br />
of the images and messages that<br />
form the backbone of our collective culture<br />
and to ignite a passion for intellectual engagement<br />
with the world of ideas. What follows<br />
are recommended tools and tips that have<br />
worked successfully with our students.<br />
Use all the tools in the academic toolbox.<br />
• Start early. Teach media literacy and critical<br />
thinking to young children, and continue<br />
teaching it throughout students’ entire<br />
academic careers.<br />
• Many students want to engage in improving<br />
the world but too often lack the skills,<br />
knowledge, and information they need<br />
to be effective. Helping them see how becoming<br />
a well-educated person will serve<br />
them in their quest for change is a central<br />
part of our mission.<br />
• Embrace social media as a teaching tool,<br />
and tap into social networks to generate<br />
connections among students.<br />
• Blogs and vlogs (“v” for video) can be a<br />
compelling way to share experiences when<br />
studying internationally.<br />
• Using pop culture, which students enjoy,<br />
as a tool for deconstruction is one way to<br />
start developing media literacy skills.<br />
• At <strong>Wheelock</strong>, we hold evening events<br />
constructed around the theme of what is<br />
culturally or historically inaccurate<br />
in popular movies and TV shows—<br />
for example, Desperate Housewives.<br />
Students report that this reframing of the<br />
TV show inspires them to become more<br />
critical viewers.<br />
Embrace civic engagement.<br />
• Break through the cynicism and chatter<br />
that mark our 24-hour news world by<br />
discussing current events in depth and<br />
providing the political, economic, and<br />
historical context needed for understanding<br />
the news.<br />
• Use anchor issues that students are<br />
interested in to develop interest in being<br />
well-versed.<br />
• Turn education into action in order to make<br />
learning a powerful hands-on experience—<br />
fueled by a solid grounding in scholarly<br />
analysis—and to turn students into agents<br />
of change.<br />
Connect the dots between a robust<br />
student life and academics.<br />
• Raise expectations about what it means to<br />
be prepared for class and for graduation,<br />
including a solid grasp of current events<br />
and civic dialogue.<br />
• Make the news required reading when appropriate<br />
for class, and aim to shift reading<br />
habits to include a variety of news sources.<br />
• Help students learn to locate reliable<br />
sources of information and to think<br />
critically about what they find. The key to<br />
this is showing them how to distinguish<br />
scholarly arguments from opinion.<br />
• Model critical thinking. Class discussions,<br />
campus activities, and teachable moments<br />
are all opportunities to show the importance<br />
of being informed enough to participate<br />
in dialogues across campus.<br />
• Be sure that higher education curricula<br />
give students an understanding of connections,<br />
patterns, and history so that students<br />
have a context for understanding the news<br />
they do consume.<br />
Share successes and ideas with others.<br />
• Word of mouth is one of the most powerful<br />
communication tools we have for working<br />
with today’s students—use it. Once<br />
students begin to engage in civic dialogue,<br />
encourage them to make it viral with their<br />
peers through social media. Do not lose the<br />
social aspect. Help students to engage each<br />
other by championing issues they care about<br />
and sharing what they learn with peers.<br />
I hope you found this blog helpful in<br />
thinking about digital media and its role in<br />
the lives of your own children and grandchildren<br />
who are using technology in their<br />
learning environments. My best wishes for a<br />
wonderful holiday season!<br />
Sincerely,<br />
Jackie Jenkins-scott<br />
President<br />
Note: President Jenkins-Scott’s monthly<br />
blogs can be found at www.huffingtonpost.<br />
com/jackie-jenkinsscott or www.wheelock.<br />
edu/news-and-events/media-coverage.<br />
<strong>Wheelock</strong> Magazine 1
Celebrating Our<br />
Quasquicentennial!<br />
The 125th Anniversary of <strong>Wheelock</strong> <strong>College</strong><br />
Evening at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum<br />
2 <strong>Fall</strong> <strong>2012</strong>
More than 200 people enjoyed the festivities<br />
together at the Isabella Stewart<br />
Gardner Museum on Oct. 10, when<br />
<strong>Wheelock</strong> held a knockout evening<br />
event in honor of its quasquicentennial<br />
(loosely: quasqui = 25, centennial = 100 years) anniversary!<br />
The program included two video screenings—one a moving<br />
tribute to Lucy <strong>Wheelock</strong>’s vision and mission, which have moved<br />
generations of alumni to improve the lives of children and families<br />
around the world with quality education, and a second reminding<br />
guests that <strong>Wheelock</strong> and its alumni are outstanding agents of<br />
innovation and change.<br />
Speakers looked ahead to a flourishing future for the <strong>College</strong>,<br />
especially because of the tremendous support that the Campaign<br />
for <strong>Wheelock</strong> is generating. “During this anniversary year, <strong>Wheelock</strong><br />
will celebrate its heritage, its many achievements, and its bright<br />
future at a variety of events,” said President Jenkins-Scott. “I invite<br />
you to attend . . . because our institution is more than bricks and<br />
mortar; it’s a community . . . YOU are <strong>Wheelock</strong>.”<br />
A toast to the <strong>College</strong>’s 125 years of inspiring a world of good<br />
closed the evening with high expectations for the years ahead.<br />
Thank you to all alumni who daily<br />
help to fulfill Miss <strong>Wheelock</strong>’s<br />
vision of improved lives for<br />
children and families. Here’s to<br />
the next 125 years!<br />
“ I invite you to attend . . .<br />
because our institution is<br />
more than bricks and<br />
mortar; it’s a community . . .<br />
YOU are <strong>Wheelock</strong>.”<br />
—President Jenkins-Scott<br />
<strong>Wheelock</strong> Magazine 3
4 <strong>Fall</strong> <strong>2012</strong><br />
On Campus<br />
NEW LEADERSHIP . . .<br />
. . . at <strong>Wheelock</strong> Family Theatre<br />
Not one but two new leaders are raising the curtain on <strong>Wheelock</strong> Family Theatre<br />
(WFT) productions this year. Dr. Wendy Lement joins WFT as producer, and<br />
Mr. Shelley Bolman is assistant producer and managing director of the awardwinning<br />
Theatre Espresso, an exciting traveling theater company now taking up residence at<br />
WFT. In 1992, Lement co-founded Theatre Espresso with the goal of bringing history<br />
to life for students through interactive dramatic productions. The company annually serves<br />
15,000 students and performs 150 shows in schools, museums, libraries, and courthouses<br />
throughout New England.<br />
Bolman is an administrator, actor, director, and educator, and is not new to <strong>Wheelock</strong>.<br />
He has performed in many WFT productions and teaches in its summer vacation children’s<br />
theater programs. He is leading the integration of Theatre Espresso into WFT and will<br />
expand its programming throughout New England. Lement and Bolman join the talented<br />
and devoted staff of WFT in continuing its mission of producing innovative and awardwinning<br />
productions for intergenerational and multicultural audiences. On with the show!<br />
. . . in Academic Affairs<br />
<strong>Wheelock</strong> welcomes Dr. Joan Gallos to her leadership<br />
role as vice president of academic affairs, to<br />
which she brings an extraordinary record as teacher,<br />
scholar, and academic leader.<br />
For the past 18 years, Dr. Gallos was affiliated with the<br />
University of Missouri-Kansas City as Professor of Leadership at<br />
the Henry W. Bloch School of Management, as Distinguished<br />
Teaching Professor, and as professor at the Bloch School’s nationally<br />
ranked Department of Public Affairs. Additionally, Gallos<br />
was part of the Core Teaching Faculty of the Harvard Graduate<br />
School of Education and has served in editorial positions for the<br />
Journal of Management Education for nearly 25 years and on the editorial review<br />
boards of several management journals. She received a Bachelor of Arts cum laude<br />
from Princeton University and her Master and Doctor of Education degrees from<br />
the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Look for an interview with her in the<br />
next issue of <strong>Wheelock</strong> Magazine!<br />
. . . and at <strong>Wheelock</strong><br />
<strong>College</strong>-Singapore<br />
<strong>Wheelock</strong> <strong>College</strong>-Singapore has<br />
a new executive director whose<br />
vast international experience<br />
and administrative expertise allow her to<br />
combine a talent for institutional growth<br />
and development with a focus on meeting<br />
the needs of diverse <strong>Wheelock</strong> students<br />
and partners. Dr. Patricia “Trisha” Craig<br />
has spent the past 15 years at Harvard<br />
University, where she served for seven years as<br />
executive director of the Minda de Gunzburg<br />
Center for European Studies. A highly<br />
accomplished administrator and scholar,<br />
Dr. Craig was responsible for the strategic<br />
and academic leadership of this renowned<br />
research center.<br />
Craig was also a research and policy<br />
associate at the Harvard Institute for International<br />
Development, where her policy<br />
advocacy and scholarly research in international<br />
development included work in the<br />
fields of education and health care reform,<br />
poverty reduction, infrastructure, quality<br />
of life, and governance. This work took<br />
her across the globe, from the El Salvador<br />
Ministry of Education to the Ministry of<br />
Finance in China. Her multicountry fieldwork<br />
studying rural Asian environments<br />
culminated in a book, The Quality of Life<br />
in Rural Asia.<br />
She has published extensively, writing<br />
or co-writing 11 books and numerous<br />
reports, journal articles, and book reviews.<br />
She is a sought-after speaker, lecturing<br />
in the United States, Europe, and Asia,<br />
and she is currently writing a book on the<br />
growth of higher education globally.
Who are these people, and<br />
what are they doing?<br />
They’re students in Associate Professor of Arts Gregory Gomez’s 3-D class<br />
testing the structural design of a column made from a single sheet of paper<br />
and the amount of weight it can bear.<br />
Assignment:<br />
Working in groups and using two sheets of 14" x 17" drawing paper,<br />
create a 14" paper tower that can support as much weight as possible. Use<br />
your imagination to design configurations to support a columnar load of<br />
what will be an applied force. Begin by doing several sketches of possible<br />
cross-sections. Measure and calculate proportions before cutting and folding.<br />
Care should be taken to avoid creases or wrinkles, which may provide<br />
potential points of failure under a load. Glue should be used sparingly for<br />
bonding, not reinforcement. Your design should evolve toward the strongest<br />
form that makes best use of the materials. All towers will be tested to<br />
see just how much weight they will withstand.<br />
Outcome:<br />
The record weight borne by a single paper column was 80 pounds.<br />
Try to beat the record—<br />
learn by doing!<br />
Fenway Alliance <strong>Fall</strong> Fun<br />
On Campus<br />
This year, <strong>Wheelock</strong> celebrated its autumn holiday<br />
on Oct. 8 by participating in the Fenway Alliance’s<br />
Opening Our Doors Day, a neighborhood-wide<br />
event with free activities throughout the cultural and academic<br />
institutions of the Fenway and Riverway areas.<br />
<strong>Wheelock</strong> Family<br />
Theatre (WFT) hosted an<br />
Education Open House<br />
featuring a meet and greet<br />
with WFT teaching artists<br />
and a sampler of class offerings.<br />
WFT’s teen touring<br />
group, Story Troupers, performed “The Troupers Have<br />
Had Enough!,” a collection of poems, songs, and sketches<br />
culled from children’s stories about the difficulty of growing<br />
up, making decisions, and remaining true to oneself. The<br />
group spent the summer on tour to libraries, community<br />
centers, and preschools but brought their delightfully silly<br />
and poignant performance back home under the direction of<br />
teaching artist Grace Napier for the fall holiday event.<br />
The Towne Art Gallery also opened its doors to an exhibit<br />
of paintings by John Burkett and photographs by Joe Wallace,<br />
which are curated by Erica Licea-Kane. Learn more about the<br />
artists and their recent work at www.johnadamsburkett.com<br />
and www.joewallace.com.<br />
ONCAMPUS Boston Partners<br />
with <strong>Wheelock</strong> for “the ideal<br />
U.S. college experience”<br />
<strong>Wheelock</strong> is continuing to foster multiculturalism and build<br />
its international reputation through a new partnership<br />
with Cambridge Education Group, based in the U.K. The<br />
organization has a new program, ONCAMPUS Boston, which prepares<br />
international students for degree study in the U.S., and has chosen<br />
<strong>Wheelock</strong> for its home base.<br />
The program’s first students enrolled in September <strong>2012</strong> to spend<br />
one year studying at <strong>Wheelock</strong>, which the Group believes offers international<br />
students “the ideal U.S. college experience.” After one school<br />
year on campus, during which they also participate in a University<br />
Transfer Program, ONCAMPUS Boston students may choose to enter<br />
into a second year of degree courses at <strong>Wheelock</strong> or at any of the<br />
other ONCAMPUS Boston partner institutions.<br />
The ONCAMPUS Boston program fits perfectly with <strong>Wheelock</strong>’s<br />
mission to improve the lives of children and families around the world.<br />
And it is in line with the <strong>College</strong>’s goal to grow its international student<br />
body and expand conversations around world issues.<br />
<strong>Wheelock</strong> Magazine 5
6 <strong>Fall</strong> <strong>2012</strong><br />
alumni<br />
In 2001, just a year before receiving<br />
the Boston Superintendent’s Award for<br />
Outstanding Teaching, Alicia Carroll<br />
embarked on a tour for teachers of the<br />
Silk Route cities of China, sponsored by<br />
Primary Source, a Boston-based nonprofit<br />
that supports history and the humanities<br />
by connecting educators with people and<br />
cultures throughout the world. The experience<br />
kindled in Alicia and her colleague<br />
Lucy Montgomery excitement about<br />
the ancient connections among Africa,<br />
China, and Islam, as well as Africa’s role<br />
in the Silk Route trade—and the idea<br />
for a children’s book that has developed<br />
into a much-lauded,<br />
multidisciplinary, and<br />
global school curriculum.<br />
The book and curriculum,<br />
Malindi’s Journey:<br />
A Giraffe’s Journey from<br />
Africa to China, is based<br />
on the true story of a<br />
giraffe that traveled from Africa<br />
to China with the treasure ships<br />
of the 15th-century Chinese<br />
Muslim explorer Zheng He as a<br />
gift to China’s emperor. Alicia<br />
and Lucy named the giraffe<br />
Alicia Carroll (right) with<br />
Malindi’s Journey coauthor<br />
Lucy Montgomery<br />
Alumni Spotlight<br />
Alicia Carroll ’96MS and Malindi’s Journey<br />
How a 15th-Century Giraffe Inspired a Global Curriculum<br />
by Erin Heffernan<br />
Malindi after the town and district in<br />
modern-day Kenya from which the animal<br />
started her trip to China with African ambassadors<br />
on the historic vessels. China’s supreme<br />
ruler, known to students of history<br />
as the Yongle emperor, declared the exotic<br />
animal to be a Qilin, a mythical creature<br />
whose appearance heralded his own great<br />
power and prosperity.<br />
Alicia chose the giraffe as a symbol to<br />
represent the connection between Africa,<br />
China, and Islam because it is a familiar<br />
figure to children, yet the vision of one<br />
traveling from Africa to China on a ship<br />
centuries ago is surprising and immediately<br />
engaging. In the book, Malindi narrates<br />
the story from an African point of view,<br />
broadening students’ perspectives on the<br />
world. And she is an especially useful<br />
symbol, leading children to interdisciplinary<br />
learning as they become involved in the<br />
geographical and cultural study of China,<br />
East Africa, and Islam, and the sciences of<br />
architecture and boat-building, while also<br />
developing literacy and mathematical skills.<br />
The children in Boston public schools<br />
where Alicia is a mentor for teachers are<br />
of African, Spanish, Chinese, and Islamic<br />
descent. One goal of Malindi’s Journey is<br />
to share information that resonates with<br />
students about their own ancestors traveling<br />
the world, seeking knowledge, sharing<br />
ideas, and connecting with other cultures.<br />
“If students are to see themselves as active<br />
participants in society, they must be able<br />
to see themselves as active participants in<br />
history,” Alicia says.<br />
Global Education, Specialized<br />
Knowledge Worthy of Competency<br />
When they began work on the book and<br />
curriculum, Alicia and Lucy realized they<br />
must remain mindful of the standardized<br />
Curriculum Frameworks established by<br />
the Commonwealth’s education department<br />
so that they would qualify as<br />
curriculum-eligible for Boston’s public<br />
school system. Alicia says, “We knew we<br />
must demonstrate how the learning of<br />
African, Chinese, and Muslim connections<br />
speaks to the kind of learning laid<br />
out in the state-mandated Frameworks,<br />
so that it is not simply seen as a multicultural<br />
‘extra’ that is so easily marginalized.”<br />
Instead, Alicia was intent on recognizing<br />
global education as a specialized<br />
body of knowledge and practice aimed at<br />
fostering a competency that is increasingly<br />
important in an interconnected world.<br />
Alicia—the recipient of the 2004<br />
Fulbright-Hays Fellowship for research in<br />
Kenya—and her colleague, who received<br />
a Fund for Teachers grant, returned to<br />
Africa in 2004 for vigorous research that<br />
included searches for original accounts<br />
of navigators, explorers, and traders from<br />
Africa; immersion in Swahili culture, history,<br />
and trade practices, and in African<br />
and Islamic connections to China; and<br />
interviews with historians, storytellers,<br />
boat-builders, and artisans from Malindi.<br />
The team first presented their research<br />
in a presentation, Malindi’s Journey: A<br />
Giraffe’s Journey from Africa to China, at<br />
the First International Conference on<br />
Zheng He, in Melaka, Malaysia, in 2010.<br />
Alicia presented a more fully developed<br />
version with additional curriculum projects<br />
in <strong>2012</strong> at the Harvard Graduate School<br />
of Education Think Tank on Global<br />
Education, a gathering to discuss how<br />
educators can create opportunities for students<br />
to develop intercultural awareness,<br />
knowledge, perspective on global issues,<br />
and multilingualism.
The Forbidden City Project<br />
Malindi’s Journey also became a springboard<br />
for other learning models, including The<br />
Forbidden City Project, an interdisciplinary,<br />
global curriculum that focuses on Beijing’s<br />
Forbidden City during the Ming Dynasty<br />
and is used as a vehicle for standards-based<br />
learning in a range of academic disciplines. At<br />
Boston’s Mission Hill K-8 School, of which<br />
Alicia is a founder, students in kindergarten<br />
through grade 5 participate in the project.<br />
In a classroom with a colorful assortment<br />
of books, maps, and objects that share<br />
15th-century African and Chinese themes,<br />
the students boldly tackle what some might<br />
call a daunting project: building a large-scale<br />
model of the Forbidden City with wooden<br />
blocks. Learning the history and culture of<br />
the Forbidden City and its inhabitants—<br />
along with constructing its replica—also<br />
supports learning about science, technology,<br />
engineering, mathematics, history, art, writing,<br />
and literacy, as well as the mind/body<br />
“ I learned how to take big ideas and<br />
translate them; I learned how to<br />
map out a curriculum and assess<br />
young children —How do I know<br />
what they know? How do I take<br />
that data and use it for instruction?<br />
<strong>Wheelock</strong> prepared me well.”<br />
Alicia traces Malindi’s<br />
journey on a wall-size map<br />
with a replica of the Mtepe<br />
mounted in front of it.<br />
Malindi’s Journey: The Forbidden City Project<br />
is built with wooden blocks and Legos as<br />
an interdisciplinary, global curriculum that<br />
focuses on Beijing’s Forbidden City during<br />
the Ming Dynasty, and is used as a vehicle<br />
for standards-based learning in a range of<br />
academic disciplines.<br />
connection through health and wellness.<br />
Kindergartners develop a deeper understanding<br />
of two- and three-dimensional objects,<br />
creating a natural fit with the math curriculum<br />
unit Making Shapes and Building<br />
Blocks (Exploring Geometry).<br />
The Mtepe Project<br />
The Mtepe, a Swahili vessel that sailed East<br />
African waters until early in the 20th century,<br />
had no iron nails in its construction.<br />
Instead, its planks were sewn with fiber and<br />
fastened to the boat’s ribs by wooden pegs.<br />
Malindi the giraffe traveled on this boat, too,<br />
in addition to the treasure ships of Zheng<br />
He. Participating in The Mtepe Project, students<br />
build a replica of the historic craft and<br />
learn other interdisciplinary, global content<br />
born of Malindi’s Journey that integrates<br />
the school’s required curriculum on water,<br />
a crucial piece of the national curriculum<br />
standards for science.<br />
alumni<br />
Reading a book titled The Boat Alphabet<br />
Book as part of the curriculum supports<br />
literacy while providing a foundation for<br />
children of different ages to work together in<br />
cooperative groups as they build a replica of<br />
the Mtepe with wood, clay, drinking straws,<br />
and other recyclable materials. Alicia also incorporates<br />
into the curriculum an Alphabet<br />
Word Wall that includes African, Muslim,<br />
and Chinese words pertaining to Malindi’s<br />
Journey. A large map on the wall allows children<br />
to trace Malindi’s ocean journeys.<br />
Lifelong Scholarship<br />
“As teachers, we must remember we are<br />
never finished being students,” says Alicia.<br />
“To develop more meaningful, intellectually<br />
rigorous, and engaging curricula, we must<br />
research information and think deeply about<br />
the content.” Her approach to teaching is<br />
to continue educating herself and sharing<br />
the findings of her research to benefit other<br />
teachers and to provide children with the<br />
skills they need to become lifelong learners<br />
themselves. In addition to Malindi’s Journey,<br />
Alicia has developed and published the<br />
thematic curricula Young Children Learning<br />
About Ancient China Through Archeology,<br />
Ancient Nubia and Egypt and Learning to<br />
Read Nature’s Book, an interdisciplinary study<br />
of the environment and social justice.<br />
A member of the K-8 Social Studies Curriculum<br />
Design Committee and the steering<br />
committee for the Antioch New England<br />
Institute-sponsored Community-based<br />
School Environmental Education project<br />
(CO-SEED) at the Young Achievers School<br />
in Boston, Alicia also serves on the Educational<br />
Advisory Board at <strong>Wheelock</strong> <strong>College</strong>.<br />
Not only a lifelong scholar but also a lifelong<br />
multidisciplinary educator, she is making an<br />
impact with big ideas at important institutions<br />
for teaching and learning.<br />
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alumni<br />
Service Learning Journey to<br />
Safe Passage/Camino Seguro in Guatemala<br />
<strong>Wheelock</strong> alumni and their family<br />
members are welcome to join<br />
<strong>Wheelock</strong> students who will travel<br />
again to Safe Passage in Guatemala for a week<br />
of service and experiential learning beginning<br />
April 14, 2013. Many alumni know that<br />
Hanley Denning ’96MS founded Safe Passage<br />
to transform the lives of children and families<br />
living in extreme poverty by the Guatemala<br />
City garbage dump several years before her<br />
<strong>2012</strong> Elizabeth Palmer Peabody Award Recipient<br />
Audrey Crossman Peck ’90MS<br />
During a teaching career spanning 31 years, newly retired<br />
Audrey Peck also served as a volunteer in the Lawrence<br />
Public Schools and as a mentor teacher, assisting new<br />
teachers as they integrated into the school district and school<br />
systems. She received the Horace Mann Grant for Multicultural<br />
Education in 1990, and in 2010 she was nominated for Teacher<br />
of the Year by her colleagues at Lawrence’s John K. Tarbox School.<br />
She was nominated for the Elizabeth Palmer Peabody Award<br />
because, in the words of her colleague and nominator Mary<br />
Murphy, she “is the embodiment of a continued commitment<br />
to parents and children” in the spirit of Elizabeth Peabody. The<br />
award is given annually to an alumna/us of a graduate program<br />
at the <strong>College</strong> who reflects Peabody’s commitment to diversity in<br />
all its forms, education, and the values of <strong>Wheelock</strong> <strong>College</strong>.<br />
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accidental death in 2007. Thanks to dedicated<br />
staff, fundraisers, and volunteers who are continuing<br />
Hanley’s work, Safe Passage is indeed<br />
transforming lives.<br />
In addition to meeting project leaders,<br />
families, and children, participants in the<br />
Guatemala trip will learn about Safe Passage’s<br />
programs in early childhood education, adult<br />
literacy, and educational reinforcement, as<br />
well as the organization’s new initiatives in<br />
social entrepreneurship.<br />
No experience or skills are required;<br />
many diverse volunteer groups travel to serve<br />
Safe Passage, and there are many ways to<br />
help while learning. A cost of $595 includes<br />
lodging, meals, and local transportation.<br />
Airfare and a suggested $200 donation are<br />
not included. For more information, email<br />
teams@safepassage.org. See more general<br />
information about Safe Passage at their website,<br />
www.safepassage.org/.<br />
Thank You, <strong>Wheelock</strong>! from Safe Passage’s Esperanza<br />
Each year, Safe Passage raises funds for its many programs serving children and families<br />
living in the neighborhood at Guatemala City’s dump. This year, Amy Caspersen ’06<br />
sent a thank-you to President Jenkins-Scott for her support and included photos of<br />
<strong>Wheelock</strong> alumni who participated in the fundraiser. As advertised, it was a fun event and<br />
provided a chance to show <strong>Wheelock</strong>’s mission in action while supporting Safe Passage’s.<br />
Jackie,<br />
Thank you again for your generous donation to the Esperanza 5K. As always, I am proud to be<br />
an alum of <strong>Wheelock</strong> and honored to have had <strong>Wheelock</strong> as a proud sponsor. As a thank-you, I<br />
am emailing you this picture of your <strong>Wheelock</strong> alums who came out in the rain to support the<br />
Safe Passage Esperanza 5K this weekend (from left to right: Laurenashley Butler ’08, Sarah<br />
Guarino ’07, Heather Viger Trainor ’07, Amy Caspersen ’06, and the little ones CJ and<br />
Sophia Trainor). We will continue to promote <strong>Wheelock</strong>’s [mission] and help to improve the lives<br />
of children and families and make you proud as well.<br />
—Amy Caspersen ’06<br />
L to R: Virginia Gleason Crocker ’62MS, President Jackie Jenkins-Scott, Associate<br />
Director of Major Gifts Marla Gold, award winner Audrey Crossman Peck ’90MS, award<br />
nominator Mary Murphy, and Alumni Association Board member Matthew Power-Koch<br />
’11MS gather in the 43 Hawes St. rotunda following the award presentation.
Lucy <strong>Wheelock</strong><br />
Family Album<br />
“<br />
My mother [Lucy <strong>Wheelock</strong> Hulburd<br />
Richardson] remembered<br />
her great-aunt Lucy <strong>Wheelock</strong><br />
with photographic clarity and carried her torch<br />
(as a valued ancestor) throughout her whole<br />
life,” Jamie Richardson wrote in a note to<br />
<strong>Wheelock</strong> Magazine. Lucy <strong>Wheelock</strong>’s namesake,<br />
who passed in 2010, had more than a<br />
name in common with the founder of the<br />
<strong>College</strong>: Like her ancestor, she was an accomplished<br />
woman ahead of her time.<br />
In 1945, she was among the first women<br />
to graduate from the Harvard Graduate<br />
<strong>Wheelock</strong> M.S.W. Program<br />
Launched in Worcester<br />
There is good news for residents of central Massachusetts who<br />
are thinking about moving on to securing a master’s degree.<br />
<strong>Wheelock</strong> has launched its first off-campus Master of Social Work<br />
program in Worcester, MA, with 18 students enrolled in September.<br />
The program is designed for individuals who work for a social service<br />
agency, an advocacy program, or a community health or educational<br />
organization, or who are career-changers committed to effecting change<br />
in the social conditions and well-being of diverse groups of individuals,<br />
children, and families. This is a 60-credit, three-year, part-time course of<br />
study in five core areas: human behavior and the social environment, social<br />
work practice, social policy, social research, and field practicum experiences.<br />
Benefits That Work for You<br />
• Discounted tuition of $685 per credit, with financial aid available<br />
• Classes taught by Boston-based and adjunct <strong>Wheelock</strong> faculty members<br />
with extensive experience and expertise working with urban populations<br />
• Classes conveniently held in Worcester on nights and weekends<br />
• Fully accredited by the Council on Social Work Education<br />
To find out more or to schedule an informational interview with<br />
a faculty member or admissions counselor, email the<br />
Office of Graduate Admissions at graduate@wheelock.edu.<br />
School of Design, where she earned a master’s<br />
degree in architecture after studying under<br />
Bauhaus founder Walter Gropius and other<br />
professors who were members of the then<br />
modern movement in architecture. In 1946,<br />
she obtained trans-Atlantic passage to London<br />
on the first vessel to carry civilians following<br />
World War II. There she worked for three<br />
years at the London County Council to help<br />
implement the “Greater London Plan” for<br />
developing housing and rebuilding after the<br />
destruction of the Blitz.<br />
At home in Massachusetts, Richardson<br />
was an ardent advocate of open space<br />
conservation and historical preservation,<br />
working with The Trustees of Reservations,<br />
a Massachusetts land trust, to place her farm<br />
property into permanent conservation to<br />
help preserve the unspoiled coastal saltmarsh<br />
landscape for future generations of<br />
farmers and naturalists.<br />
Thanks to Jamie for sending information<br />
about his mother, a part of Lucy <strong>Wheelock</strong>’s<br />
family legacy, along with a handwritten<br />
<strong>Wheelock</strong> maxim entered into an 1880 autograph<br />
book: “Youth is not rich in time, it may<br />
be poor. Part with it as with money sparing.”<br />
Save the Date—<br />
It’s going to be great!<br />
<strong>Wheelock</strong> <strong>College</strong> • Reunion Weekend<br />
Friday, May 31 – Sunday, June 2, 2013<br />
alumni<br />
Hear the piper calling! He’s<br />
already pumping up for your<br />
Reunion Weekend in 2013—which<br />
has the good fortune of falling<br />
during <strong>Wheelock</strong> <strong>College</strong>’s 125th<br />
anniversary year.<br />
There are fun-filled and informative<br />
activities being planned,<br />
and something more—a special<br />
125th Anniversary Luncheon (open<br />
to all alumni classes), held on the last day of Reunion<br />
after the official Farewell Breakfast and some free<br />
time for more visiting with classmates.<br />
Make your plans now to stay for this last of the official<br />
anniversary year celebrations. It’s bound to be a<br />
memorable event in a very special Reunion Weekend<br />
in a milestone year for <strong>Wheelock</strong> and all alumni!<br />
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ROBERT A. LINCOLN AND<br />
A. KEENA DUNN CLIFFORD ’68<br />
Campaign Co-Chairs<br />
<strong>Wheelock</strong> <strong>College</strong>’s 125th anniversary year<br />
begins with the fabulous news that the Campaign<br />
for <strong>Wheelock</strong> has raised more than $61<br />
million toward its historic goal of $80 million.<br />
Such enthusiastic support for <strong>Wheelock</strong>’s mission<br />
from so many is a tremendous affirmation of how committed<br />
we are as a community to a 21st-century vision of the <strong>College</strong> and<br />
its role as a leader in higher education and service to society.<br />
Already, contributions to the Annual Fund, 90 percent of<br />
which go to scholarship support, are having an immediate impact<br />
on <strong>Wheelock</strong> students who are preparing for futures filled with<br />
purpose and positive change in the lives of children and families<br />
everywhere. These gifts, both small and large, advance <strong>Wheelock</strong>’s<br />
educational mission in the most direct way possible, and your<br />
generosity is deeply appreciated—and inspiring!<br />
Two-thirds of the Campaign goal—$55 million—is dedicated<br />
to establishing five first-of-their-kind funds for <strong>Wheelock</strong>: four<br />
endowments for Student Scholarships, Professorships, Innovation,<br />
and Technology Enhancement and Innovation, and a fund for<br />
Facilities and a Sustainable Campus Environment. Here, too, the<br />
Campaign is making excellent progress.<br />
Contributions to the <strong>College</strong>’s $30 million fund for Facilities<br />
and a Sustainable Campus Environment have allowed <strong>Wheelock</strong><br />
to continue with its plan for campus revitalization and begin construction<br />
on a modern Center for Learning and Innovation. This<br />
new building will provide much-needed space for faculty offices,<br />
research and development of innovative programs, alumni activi-<br />
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Campaign Update<br />
ties, and collaborative projects with community partners. It was<br />
designed by William Rawn Associates, the same award-winning<br />
group responsible for the <strong>College</strong>’s magnificent Campus Center; it<br />
will be dedicated in May 2013 just prior to Commencement, and<br />
it will be open in June for alumni to visit and use during Reunion.<br />
Full funding of a major Campaign endowment goal is a terrific<br />
accomplishment and something to celebrate. The generosity of Jim<br />
and Sylvia Tailby Earl ’54, whose gift of $5 million fully funded the<br />
endowment for technology enhancement and innovation—now<br />
named the Sylvia Earl ’54 Technology Fund—is already leading the<br />
<strong>College</strong> in exciting new directions. Part of their gift established the<br />
Sylvia Earl Innovation Award to stimulate innovative thinking and<br />
the creation of new projects having a measurable impact on campus<br />
teaching and learning. Three new projects that will do just this have<br />
been funded and are now in development. Another part of their gift<br />
is supporting building of the Center for Learning and Innovation.<br />
The impact of this gift certainly embodies the “Leading Innovation<br />
and Inspiring Change” theme of the Campaign, and, because it is an<br />
endowment, it will serve the <strong>College</strong> far into the future.<br />
Establishing endowment funds is a special focus of the current<br />
capital campaign because they are so important to ensuring financial<br />
security and future success at higher education institutions but,<br />
in the past, have remained underfunded at <strong>Wheelock</strong>. During the<br />
next year, we will be encouraging individuals to consider how they<br />
might make gifts to endowments that will carry our community<br />
further toward the goal of fully endowed funds for Scholarships,<br />
Professorships, and Innovation. In particular, we have seen donors<br />
who have made a cash contribution to the Campaign couple this<br />
with a very significant planned gift or a bequest intention to the<br />
endowment. These future gifts count toward our Campaign and<br />
are critical to <strong>Wheelock</strong>’s future.<br />
Each of us is contributing to the Campaign for <strong>Wheelock</strong> in<br />
endowment areas that are of special interest to us individually and<br />
that are in need of our support. The <strong>College</strong> is more than ready to<br />
move forward to the next level of growth and achievement, and<br />
there are excellent opportunities offered by this Campaign to make<br />
sure that happens. Investing in <strong>Wheelock</strong> now will build institutional<br />
capacity for the <strong>College</strong> to change and grow as the future<br />
unfolds, sustaining <strong>Wheelock</strong>’s leadership in higher education and<br />
ensuring the continuing viability of its mission.<br />
We look forward to this anniversary’s being memorable for<br />
you and for the many other alumni who celebrate <strong>Wheelock</strong>’s<br />
125th year by contributing to the <strong>College</strong>’s future success. Let’s<br />
make it a banner year!<br />
keena clifford ’68 robert lincoln
Jim and Sylvia Tailby Earl ’54 made a very creative as well as generous<br />
gift to the Campaign when they fully funded its $5 million<br />
goal for technology enhancement and innovation. The category of<br />
endowment giving they chose perfectly matched their interests in<br />
technology and, particularly, in developing new approaches to using it for<br />
teaching and learning. Part of their gift established the Sylvia Earl Innovation<br />
Award to stimulate innovative thinking and the creation of new projects<br />
having a measurable impact on <strong>Wheelock</strong>’s teaching and learning.<br />
After their gift was announced, a <strong>College</strong>-wide call went out in the<br />
summer of 2011 for new technology-based ideas supporting education<br />
in any and all areas of the <strong>College</strong>. It drew 19 applications from<br />
students, faculty, and staff members who had a variety of interesting<br />
projects in mind. Among them were ideas for creating new academic<br />
supports for students, developing new teaching tools, and taking technology<br />
a step beyond the classroom to infuse it creatively into the<br />
entire <strong>Wheelock</strong> student experience.<br />
The Earls wanted to invest in new and readily doable ideas—<br />
business-as-usual or impractical projects would not achieve their goal.<br />
After careful review, three proposals out of many good ones were<br />
funded. The projects chosen for funding awards were just what the<br />
Earls had in mind, and the purposeful thinking that went into them<br />
spotlighted current issues in education requiring a fresh approach.<br />
the Stem Web appliCation for parent-<br />
StUdent engagement initiative<br />
Submitted by Barbara Joseph, STEM Teacher Enhancement Project<br />
manager, and Jake Murray, senior director of <strong>Wheelock</strong>’s Aspire Institute,<br />
this project developed out of the need to provide solid, accessible<br />
c a m p a i g n U p d a t e<br />
Sylvia earl fUnd for teChnology<br />
Bright Ideas Wanted & Delivered<br />
“We want our gift to take advantage of technology’s potential and spark dynamic new developments<br />
at the <strong>College</strong>,” the Earls said when they established the Sylvia Earl Innovation Award as part of their<br />
Campaign gift to <strong>Wheelock</strong>. And that is just what it is already doing, several times over.<br />
p The inaugural presentation of the Sylvia Earl Innovation Awards—<br />
which showed off the creative thinking that abounds at <strong>Wheelock</strong> —<br />
wowed everyone in attendance. Left to right: Jonathan LaPierre, director<br />
of information technology; President Jackie Jenkins-Scott; Chuck Fidler,<br />
assistant professor of physical science; Barbara Joseph, STEP project manager,<br />
Aspire Institute; Jake Murray, senior director, Aspire Institute; Zorica Pantic,<br />
president of Wentworth <strong>College</strong>; Susan Owusu, director of <strong>Wheelock</strong>’s Communications<br />
and Media Literacy Program; Kristen Harrington, senior director<br />
of undergraduate admissions; and Roy Schifilliti, vice president for campus<br />
life and information services<br />
information on STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math)<br />
topics and education for parents, students, and teachers.<br />
Largely missing from the national focus on STEM education<br />
is an appreciation for how families promote learning. Research<br />
overwhelmingly demonstrates that parent involvement in children’s<br />
learning is positively related to their academic success. This holds<br />
true across all school communities, grades, ages of students, and<br />
content areas, according to the project developers.<br />
“A key to successful family engagement in support of learning is the<br />
comfort level of parents and caregivers in the areas that their children<br />
are studying,” says Joseph. “However, many parents and caregivers are<br />
not familiar with STEM topics—some are even STEM-phobic. At the<br />
same time, they are extremely busy, with limited time to engage children<br />
in enriching and fun ways that excite them and promote learning.<br />
Parents and caregivers are then at a disadvantage when it comes to supporting<br />
their children in STEM topics at home, especially in cultivating<br />
a passion that can sustain children’s interest in these critical STEM areas<br />
and careers as they progress through school.”<br />
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Recognizing this STEM knowledge gap and the time constraints<br />
faced by many families, Murray says the goal of this project is to<br />
help develop a Web application that provides accessible information<br />
through mobile phones about STEM concepts and greatly enhances<br />
parent-child engagement in elementary-age STEM topics. “Through<br />
fun facts that encourage thoughtful discussions and engaging experiments<br />
developed by a wide community of local teachers, students,<br />
and other STEM professionals, this Web application will offer STEM<br />
information that can be easily weaved into everyday activities—such<br />
as dinner conversations, car rides, and family nights,” he says.<br />
Parent-child STEM activities might include finding the largest<br />
three-digit number possible on license plates (e.g., if the license plate is<br />
517-8331, the largest number would be 875) or thinking about how<br />
water evaporates in different settings—in an air-conditioned room<br />
versus outdoors in the shade on a summer day.<br />
Joseph and Murray know that there are numerous websites available<br />
that provide fun math and science facts and games for elementary-age<br />
students. But they also recognize the reality that parents have limited<br />
time to search the Web for this kind of data to engage their children.<br />
More importantly, data on the Web does not structure parent-child<br />
engagement. Providing a Web application that will automatically send<br />
snippets of fun data to parents through their mobile phone allows them<br />
to engage with their child in STEM areas in a fun and interactive way.<br />
Not only will the facts and data be engaging, but the information is<br />
connected to the real-life experience of families.<br />
the Wheevid video projeCt for<br />
Shared reSearCh and learning<br />
Susan Owusu, director of <strong>Wheelock</strong>’s Communications and Media<br />
Literacy Program, proposed a video project that combines three<br />
elements—technology, training, and technical support—to achieve<br />
two goals: allowing students to pursue digital media as part of their<br />
academic experience while also allowing everyone at <strong>Wheelock</strong> to<br />
create and share video content easily and effectively.<br />
Owusu’s proposal described how much video has changed during<br />
the 60 years since the first video recorders were created. Used mainly<br />
in taping television shows, the original devices sold for more than<br />
$75,000. Today, the tools needed to both view and create digital video<br />
are relatively inexpensive and ubiquitous. Nearly 86 percent of all<br />
Americans will own a smartphone with video capability by the end of<br />
this year. One-third of all higher-ed classrooms will use video content<br />
as a part of the learning experience. While many classrooms show video<br />
content, an increasing number of teachers and students are also creating<br />
video content as part of the learning experience.<br />
Owusu explains that the use of video in higher education goes<br />
beyond the traditional classroom learning environment, with nearly<br />
140 colleges and universities managing their own YouTube channels,<br />
hosting content ranging from learning and lectures to on-campus activities<br />
and events. “The explosion of video on college campuses both<br />
in and out of the classroom is only expected to continue as more and<br />
more online classes and distance learning programs are developed,”<br />
she says. “It’s safe to say that video is an indispensable tool on the<br />
21st-century campus. What if it were as easy to produce content on<br />
campus as it is to watch it? What if student learning could be enhanced,<br />
making classroom learning and assessment more engaging?<br />
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c a m p a i g n U p d a t e<br />
What if the important work of the <strong>Wheelock</strong> community could be<br />
documented and then shared across campus and the world?”<br />
Simple in its construction, Owusu’s Wheevid program is more<br />
than access to cameras. It is an integrated system that seeks to redefine<br />
the way faculty and staff conceive of video as an educational tool<br />
in the classroom and across campus. The program will allow faculty<br />
to tape classroom discussions so students can see what and how they<br />
are learning, connect faculty members or classrooms with students<br />
hundreds or thousands of miles away, share faculty scholarship, and<br />
capture the lectures of visiting scholars. In addition, student scholars<br />
can create documentaries as part of their learning portfolio or create<br />
service learning trip video blogs that will allow others on campus to<br />
virtually travel along to New Orleans or West Africa.<br />
Owusu expects that meeting these and other project goals will<br />
have a huge impact on those who participate directly in video production<br />
projects and research. “But what makes the Wheevid program so<br />
exciting is its potential to have a far wider impact as well,” she says.<br />
“Wheevid projects can be shared around campus and around the<br />
world. The viral nature of video will enable Wheevid participants to<br />
share learning, research, and activities throughout the campus and<br />
with others now beyond the <strong>College</strong>’s reach.”<br />
USing vernier’S labQUeSt to<br />
enhanCe SCienCe learning<br />
Chuck Fidler, assistant professor of physical science, applied for funds<br />
to transform current science courses into modern science labs by using<br />
the innovative technology in handheld wireless devices for physical and<br />
life science and mathematical studies.<br />
“<strong>Wheelock</strong>’s science program is strong,” says Fidler. “However, it<br />
will be even stronger with the inclusion of a classroom set of Vernier’s<br />
LabQuest 2, a powerful, cutting-edge tool that is digital, wireless,<br />
portable, and more efficient than our current equipment. This addition<br />
will continue to transform our science courses into modern science labs<br />
that allow for better science research and innovative curricula reform.”<br />
The devices Fidler is talking about are ultraportable and can<br />
be used in both physical and life sciences, facilitating for students<br />
much more hands-on, data-driven laboratory experiences that closely<br />
mimic real-world science. At <strong>Wheelock</strong>, where science courses often<br />
take students beyond the walls of the lab to conduct experiments,<br />
the devices are perfect for on-the-go observation and data analysis.<br />
A good example is the Physics of Sports course, in which students<br />
analyze basic kinematic motion all over campus. Another is Science<br />
Inquiry and the Earth, which has students spending countless hours<br />
collecting data in the Muddy River.<br />
“These devices come with built-in temperature, light, and GPS<br />
sensors; a microphone; Wi-Fi; and an accelerometer,” says Fidler. “The<br />
sampling rate reaches a stunning 100,000 per second. The range of possibilities<br />
offered by these sensors is impressive, and they are compatible<br />
with many devices we already have.” Impressed as he is with the tools’<br />
technology, Fidler is most enthusiastic about what they can offer students<br />
by exposing them to state-of-the-art, real-world science technology.<br />
He calls it a beacon of innovation that will address the changing expectations<br />
and needs of today’s students, boost student interest in science and<br />
better prepare those who will be science educators, and broaden faculty<br />
outreach as they use the tools for professional development workshops.
c a m p a i g n U p d a t e<br />
SCholarShip giving<br />
Creating Opportunity & Investing in the Future<br />
The majority of <strong>Wheelock</strong> students are passionately<br />
committed to careers that have an immediate<br />
impact on children and families and a long-term<br />
positive effect on society but that also yield earnings that<br />
make college loan debts especially burdensome. Scholarship<br />
giving is a Campaign priority. It can make a world<br />
of difference to current students and to attracting top<br />
applicants in the future.<br />
President Jenkins-Scott and<br />
Kathryn Jones ‘96MS, Alumni<br />
Association president, express huge<br />
gratitude for your generosity.<br />
Ellen Stowers (right) and<br />
Associate Dean of Education<br />
Donna McKibbens<br />
<strong>Wheelock</strong> student<br />
practicum at the Gardner<br />
School, Boston<br />
Endowment<br />
and currentuse<br />
scholarship<br />
funds make<br />
pictures like<br />
this possible.<br />
<strong>2012</strong> reUnion giftS to the annUal fUnd<br />
Support the Current Need for Scholarships<br />
Reunion Weekend <strong>2012</strong> was a great success, with more than<br />
225 alumni and their guests returning to campus to reunite with<br />
classmates, celebrate their alma mater, and participate in special<br />
events and Reunion giving that added more than $600,000 to the<br />
Campaign through the Annual Fund, 90 percent of which supports<br />
student scholarships. Thank you, <strong>Wheelock</strong> alumni!<br />
named SCholarShip fUndS never Stop giving<br />
The Jennifer Stowers Endowment Fund<br />
The family of the late <strong>Wheelock</strong> alumna Jennifer Stowers ’02<br />
chose to endow a named scholarship fund to honor Jennifer and<br />
her passion for the <strong>College</strong>’s mission.<br />
“ Jennifer was an extraordinarily intuitive teacher, but she had to<br />
learn how to fulfill her mission of saving the world, one child at<br />
a time. <strong>Wheelock</strong> was the place where her vision, mission, and<br />
philosophy all crystallized for her. Had she not died so young, thousands<br />
of children could have benefited from her talents and passion.<br />
A scholarship endowment at <strong>Wheelock</strong> made perfect sense because it<br />
will help to support other like-minded professionals who are ready,<br />
willing, and able to serve children and their families and communities,<br />
and Jennifer’s legacy will remain well into the future.”<br />
—Ellen Stowers<br />
alUmni SCholarS & CUrrent-USe fUndS<br />
In addition to establishing the endowed Ennis-Murphy Scholarship<br />
Fund as a gift to the Campaign, Martha-Reed Ennis Murphy ’69<br />
and her husband, John, contribute to the Alumni Scholars Fund,<br />
which supports individual students over the course of their studies<br />
at <strong>Wheelock</strong>. Barbara Grogins Sallick ’61 is also contributing<br />
generously to fund current scholarship needs.<br />
Thank you to these and other alumni<br />
and friends who are advancing <strong>Wheelock</strong>’s mission<br />
through scholarship giving!<br />
<strong>Wheelock</strong> Magazine 13
W hen we talk about <strong>Wheelock</strong>’s<br />
transformational abilities, we<br />
are usually speaking about encouraging the<br />
intellectual, social, and emotional growth<br />
of students. But the <strong>College</strong> is transforming<br />
itself, too, in both form and spirit—and<br />
will continue to do so with support from<br />
the Campaign’s $30 million fund for<br />
Facilities and a Sustainable Campus Environment.<br />
As buildings and grounds projects<br />
bring a modern, new vitality to the campus<br />
environment, student life flourishes<br />
and <strong>Wheelock</strong> becomes a standout Boston<br />
landmark. Next up is the Center for<br />
Learning and Innovation.<br />
14 <strong>Fall</strong> <strong>2012</strong><br />
c a m p a i g n U p d a t e<br />
the Center for learning and innovation<br />
A Campaign Gift for the <strong>College</strong>’s 125th<br />
p Striking Architecture<br />
The glass-and-steel addition will transform<br />
both the Activities East building<br />
and the area around it. Its bright,<br />
modern, highly transparent façade on<br />
Pilgrim Road will bring light and activity<br />
to the area. In addition, the project<br />
is designed to be energy-efficient in<br />
accordance with <strong>Wheelock</strong>’s sustainability<br />
goals.<br />
View from Pilgrim Road<br />
q Contemporary Upgrades<br />
and Expansion<br />
The 9,260-square-foot project will significantly<br />
upgrade the existing patio area that<br />
adjoins the current Larsen Alumni Room<br />
and <strong>Wheelock</strong> Family Theatre. The upgrade<br />
includes the 6,545-square-foot addition<br />
built on top of the building’s raised patio<br />
and underground parking garage, plus renovation<br />
of a portion of the main building.
Construction on the Center for Learning and Innovation has<br />
begun, and the building is rising quickly to take its place<br />
among the fabulous campus projects that have transformed<br />
<strong>Wheelock</strong> during the past several years. The stunning new<br />
Campus Center, with its additional green space for community gatherings,<br />
and renovations to Riverway House, the Classroom Building, and the<br />
Library—all of these have contributed to revitalizing campus life, greatly<br />
adding to its quality and sense of energy. Now the in-progress Center for<br />
Learning and Innovation, made possible by Campaign contributions, is<br />
expanding the modernization of the <strong>College</strong> with a beautiful three-story<br />
addition next to the <strong>Wheelock</strong> Family Theatre building.<br />
The new Center is an important focus of both the <strong>College</strong>’s 125th<br />
anniversary and its current capital campaign, which heightens anticipation<br />
for its completion and opening next spring. The building will be dedicated<br />
as an inspiring birthday gift to the <strong>College</strong> and to its future as an innovative<br />
teaching and learning institution on May 15, 2013, just before<br />
Commencement and in time for a very celebratory Reunion 2013.<br />
inCorporating open deSign for<br />
learning and for the reSoUrCe Center<br />
Its first floor will house the centerpiece and namesake of the building,<br />
a state-of-the-art Center for Learning and Innovation where faculty and students<br />
will work together creatively, researching and developing new learning<br />
resources, practicing innovative approaches to teaching and learning, and<br />
applying new technologies to classroom and out-of-classroom learning.<br />
It will be an open, airy space that will include all the services, collections,<br />
and functionality of the current Resource Center located in the basement<br />
of <strong>Wheelock</strong>’s Classroom Building, but it will be enhanced with new tech-<br />
c a m p a i g n U p d a t e<br />
the faCilitieS and a SUStainable CampUS environment fUnd<br />
Modernizing <strong>Wheelock</strong>’s Campus and . . .<br />
nologies for learning—such as iPads and survey clicker sets that students<br />
can take with them to their field experience sites.<br />
The design for the Center calls for a large, open space that allows<br />
one section to be closed off as a private classroom or workshop area, and<br />
features a flexible layout with moveable furnishings that can be adapted to<br />
users’ needs. <strong>Wheelock</strong> will use this space to host educational events for<br />
students and faculty as well as professional development opportunities for<br />
both <strong>Wheelock</strong> alumni and teachers from Boston Public Schools. The current<br />
Resource Center has long been a cherished work space for <strong>Wheelock</strong><br />
students, and the new design will preserve its welcoming atmosphere.<br />
However, the prominent new location and upgraded technology will raise<br />
the facility’s profile and help the <strong>College</strong> make the Center’s vast lending<br />
resources more readily available to the Greater Boston community.<br />
Completing faCUlty offiCe tranSitionS<br />
The second floor will provide contemporary and well-equipped work<br />
space for one-third of <strong>Wheelock</strong> faculty members. This will complete the<br />
<strong>College</strong>’s long-term schedule of transitioning faculty members into modern<br />
office and meeting spaces, and it will encourage stronger faculty-student<br />
engagement, as previously modernized spaces on campus have done.<br />
Creating a neW alUmni Center<br />
and making it green<br />
The top floor of the building is reserved for a <strong>Wheelock</strong> Alumni Center<br />
that is functional, celebratory, and educational, not only for alumni but<br />
also for visitors to the <strong>College</strong>. It will provide space for Alumni Board<br />
meetings, Reunion gatherings, special events, resources, and, potentially,<br />
the Office of Alumni Relations. There will be rotating exhibits of memorabilia<br />
that recall decades of undergraduate experiences at the <strong>College</strong> and<br />
celebrate the long history of outstanding individual <strong>Wheelock</strong> alumni and<br />
classes that have received recognition for service to the <strong>College</strong> and for<br />
leadership in serving our mission in the world.<br />
William Rawn Associates, the firm that designed the landmark Campus<br />
Center, has designed the new building, again using their signature<br />
glass-and-steel construction. In keeping with <strong>Wheelock</strong>’s commitment<br />
to green building and with the firm’s expertise in this area, the building<br />
is planned for utmost sustainability and energy efficiency. The green<br />
Cornerstone Society Garden on the roof will be a special outdoor retreat<br />
in addition to a means of reducing the heating and cooling load on the<br />
building and protecting the environment.<br />
Investing in improving the <strong>Wheelock</strong> <strong>College</strong> campus and facilities<br />
to meet the needs of faculty and students is important for <strong>Wheelock</strong><br />
today and crucial to its future. A modern campus environment attracts<br />
high-caliber students and sustains their enrollment; supports faculty<br />
teaching with up-to-date classrooms, laboratories, studios, and offices;<br />
and encourages the sense of community that has always been a treasured<br />
aspect of the <strong>Wheelock</strong> experience. Most important, it encourages better<br />
engagement in learning.<br />
tTopping Out!<br />
On Oct. 30, <strong>Wheelock</strong> “topped out” construction of the new Center. In<br />
constructing a building, topping out (sometimes incorrectly referred to<br />
as topping off) is a ceremony held to commemorate placing the last beam<br />
at the building’s top. The practice can be traced to Norway’s ancient practice<br />
of placing a tree on the top of a new building to appease the tree-dwelling<br />
spirits of the ancestors that had been displaced.<br />
<strong>Wheelock</strong> Magazine 15
Riverway House<br />
Renovations to Riverway House maintained the beauty of the historic<br />
façade, while new interiors make it the favorite residence among<br />
students. In the words of one alumna, “The building has undergone an<br />
amazing transformation—it’s simply gorgeous.”<br />
16 <strong>Fall</strong> <strong>2012</strong><br />
. . . Transforming Student and Faculty Life<br />
Riverway House’s rear<br />
walkway and entrance<br />
have been beautifully<br />
upgraded.<br />
c a m p a i g n U p d a t e<br />
Campus Center<br />
What was once a sketched rendering<br />
is now a luminous Campus Center, the<br />
gathering place for students and site<br />
of community-wide events, day and<br />
night, year in and year out.<br />
Exterior sculptures by the artist<br />
David Bakalar and the Jeri Faith<br />
Traub Children’s Courtyard add<br />
vitality to the campus environment<br />
and community life.<br />
The “new” Library—<br />
light, bright, airy,<br />
and wired
<strong>Wheelock</strong><br />
college<br />
annUal report<br />
of giving<br />
2011-<strong>2012</strong><br />
<strong>Wheelock</strong> Magazine 17
Giving at a Glance<br />
W h e e l o c k c o l l e g e • A n n u A l R e p o R t o f g i v i n g 2 0 1 1 - 2 0 1 2<br />
In the “new normal” of uncertain times, <strong>Wheelock</strong> alumni and friends continue to generously support the<br />
Annual Fund, while the endowment provides for necessary operating costs. Again this year, contributions to<br />
the Annual Fund—given in small or large amounts, by new or longtime donors—exceeded the set goal<br />
and made it possible for more talented students to attend <strong>Wheelock</strong>.<br />
Endowment<br />
The total market value of the endowment was<br />
$42.8 million at June 30, <strong>2012</strong>, compared with<br />
$43.7 million a year ago. Although our investments<br />
experienced the impact of the global recession,<br />
we are pleased that the endowment nevertheless<br />
provided nearly $2 million in operating support<br />
once again in FY <strong>2012</strong>. The income from the<br />
endowment provides resources for scholarships,<br />
faculty development, and other important programs.<br />
Annual Fund<br />
In FY <strong>2012</strong>, <strong>Wheelock</strong> alumni, faculty, staff, and<br />
friends contributed more than $1.4 million to the<br />
Annual Fund against a goal of $1.3 million. This<br />
is $100,000 more than the established FY 2011<br />
goal and $200,000 more than was raised that year.<br />
<strong>Wheelock</strong> is fortunate and very grateful to have<br />
such a wide community of supporters who, despite<br />
the continuing challenges of the economy, have<br />
increased contributions of current-use unrestricted<br />
dollars and gifts for student scholarships.<br />
Generous giving to the Annual Fund affirms the<br />
value that donors place on the <strong>College</strong>’s mission and<br />
their confidence in the education <strong>Wheelock</strong> provides<br />
so that its graduates can make the extraordinary<br />
contributions to society that they do.<br />
18 <strong>Fall</strong> <strong>2012</strong><br />
$60.0<br />
$50.0<br />
$40.0<br />
$30.0<br />
$20.0<br />
$10.0<br />
$0.0<br />
$1,600,000<br />
$1,400,000<br />
$1,200,000<br />
$1,000,000<br />
$800,000<br />
$600,000<br />
$400,000<br />
$200,000<br />
34.0<br />
34.6<br />
39.2<br />
Value of <strong>Wheelock</strong> Endowment<br />
(in millions of dollars)<br />
41.9<br />
44.6<br />
50.9<br />
2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 <strong>2012</strong><br />
Annual Fund Giving<br />
FY 2008-<strong>2012</strong><br />
$0<br />
FY08 FY09 FY10 FY11 FY12<br />
47.1<br />
35.6<br />
38.5<br />
43.7<br />
42.8
Largest Capital Campaign in <strong>Wheelock</strong>’s<br />
History Launched<br />
By June <strong>2012</strong>, <strong>Wheelock</strong> had raised $60 million toward<br />
its $80 million Campaign for <strong>Wheelock</strong>, the largest capital<br />
campaign in its history.<br />
Annual Fund Goal Exceeded<br />
Annual Fund contributions in FY <strong>2012</strong> exceeded the $1.3 million<br />
goal, making it possible for more students to attend the college<br />
of their choice and for <strong>Wheelock</strong> to compete for the best<br />
applicants.<br />
New Strategic Plan Created<br />
Trustees and leadership teams created a new Strategic Plan for<br />
the institution’s next five years and began developing a structure<br />
for moving the plan forward.<br />
Center for Assessment and Screening Established<br />
With a $953,000 grant from the Massachusetts Department<br />
of Early Education and Care, <strong>Wheelock</strong> established a Center<br />
for Assessment and Screening Excellence to provide training<br />
and assistance in developing quality early childhood programs<br />
in the state.<br />
Educator Mentor Program Funded<br />
A $140,000 grant received from AmeriCorps is expanding the<br />
<strong>College</strong>’s Greater Boston–based mentoring program, which is<br />
designed to increase retention of new teachers and currently<br />
has 25 volunteers working with 40 teachers in Boston.<br />
Partnership to Recruit International<br />
Students Forged<br />
<strong>Wheelock</strong> forged a new partnership with Cambridge Education<br />
Group that brought nine new international students to campus<br />
this fall through the ONCAMPUS Boston program.<br />
Leadership Searches Successfully Fulfilled<br />
Outstanding new institutional leaders have joined <strong>Wheelock</strong><br />
in the positions of vice president for academic affairs,<br />
producer for <strong>Wheelock</strong> Family Theatre, and executive director<br />
of <strong>Wheelock</strong> <strong>College</strong>-Singapore, Center for International<br />
Programs and Partnerships.<br />
New M.S.W./M.S. Degree Developed<br />
A unique dual master’s degree in social work and organizational<br />
leadership developed during the year will now allow students to<br />
earn the two degrees in three years.<br />
W h e e l o c k c o l l e g e • A n n u A l R e p o R t o f g i v i n g 2 0 1 1 - 2 0 1 2<br />
2011-<strong>2012</strong>—An Inspiring Year of<br />
Growth in Programs and Mission<br />
New Political Science Major Introduced<br />
An innovative new curriculum offers traditional political science<br />
courses while also focusing on equity issues, such as race, gender,<br />
and marginalization.<br />
New Online Programs Offered<br />
Two new online education programs now offer <strong>Wheelock</strong><br />
graduate degrees—a Master of Science in Educational<br />
Studies: Advancing Excellence in Teaching Math and Science<br />
and a Master of Science in Organizational Leadership.<br />
New Minor Designed for Health Professionals<br />
Working with MGH Institute of Health Professions, <strong>Wheelock</strong><br />
designed a minor to prepare students for careers as speechlanguage<br />
pathologists.<br />
Connected Beginnings Training<br />
Institute Welcomed<br />
The Institute relocated to <strong>Wheelock</strong>’s campus and merged its<br />
professional development and research resources with the<br />
<strong>College</strong>’s academic programs to further support early childhood<br />
professionals in gaining new knowledge and skills.<br />
Race to the Top Retreat Organized<br />
With Massachusetts funding, <strong>Wheelock</strong> held a strategic planning<br />
retreat to support agency recipients of Race to the Top Early<br />
Learning Challenge Grants in meeting their established goals in<br />
working with children from birth to age 5.<br />
STEM Conference Hosted<br />
The <strong>College</strong> continued to raise awareness about the importance<br />
of early and out-of-school-time learning to later STEM learning<br />
through its second statewide Early Education and Out-of-School<br />
Time STEM Conference.<br />
Healthy Connections Partnership Formed<br />
The <strong>College</strong>’s Aspire Institute developed a partnership with the<br />
Boston Public Schools in a Healthy Connections program to<br />
combat childhood obesity supported by $4.6 million in funding<br />
from the U.S. Department of Education and Centers for Disease<br />
Control and Prevention.<br />
Student-Teaching Program Cited as Model<br />
<strong>Wheelock</strong> was one of only 10 higher education institutions<br />
selected for its model student-teaching program following a<br />
two-year study by the National Council on Teacher Quality.<br />
International Service Learning Programs Completed<br />
During 2011-<strong>2012</strong>, nine faculty members and 45 students<br />
studied and traveled to six countries to complete service<br />
learning initiatives.<br />
Singapore Program Successes Continued<br />
The <strong>College</strong> signed a new, 10-year contract with Singapore<br />
Institute of Technology, and, in June, 224 students graduated from<br />
<strong>Wheelock</strong> international programs in Singapore.<br />
Diverse International Visitors Hosted<br />
<strong>Wheelock</strong> hosted more than 110 international students and<br />
scholars from 16 countries, Singapore, Study of the United<br />
States Institutes, and the Presidential International Visiting<br />
Scholars program.<br />
<strong>College</strong> of Distinction Recommendation Received<br />
<strong>Wheelock</strong> <strong>College</strong> was recommended in the 2011-<strong>2012</strong> <strong>edition</strong><br />
of <strong>College</strong>s of Distinction for “engaged students, great teaching,<br />
vibrant community, and successful outcomes.”<br />
Community Service Recognition Received<br />
<strong>Wheelock</strong> was named for the second year to the <strong>2012</strong> President’s<br />
Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll.<br />
The Policy Connection Expanded<br />
<strong>Wheelock</strong> expanded activities to keep alumni informed about<br />
important current policy issues that impact children and families<br />
and encourage civic engagement—a founding value of the<br />
<strong>College</strong> originating with Lucy <strong>Wheelock</strong>.<br />
Campus Diversity Expanded<br />
<strong>Wheelock</strong> closed the retention gap between students of color and<br />
all students while also growing and maintaining student diversity<br />
at nearly one-third of the overall undergraduate population.<br />
Mattahunt Community Center Reopened<br />
<strong>Wheelock</strong> completed transformation of the formerly city-run<br />
facility into a vital new resource managed by the <strong>College</strong> and,<br />
with funding from United Way and the Boston Foundation, has<br />
begun community programming that includes reading and math<br />
tutoring, nutritional education, sports programs, seminars, and<br />
English classes for non-native speakers.<br />
TeachBoston Program Validated<br />
All students who graduated last spring from <strong>Wheelock</strong>’s<br />
TeachBoston program, which prepares early childhood teachers<br />
for the Boston Public Schools, are employed this fall.<br />
<strong>Wheelock</strong> Magazine 19
Cornerstone society<br />
Lucy <strong>Wheelock</strong> Benefactors<br />
($50,000 or more)<br />
Anonymous (1)<br />
Keena Dunn Clifford ’68<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Albert Creighton<br />
Sylvia Tailby Earl ’54 and James Earl<br />
Olivia Hutchins Meek ’52<br />
Constance Putnam ’29*<br />
Family of Jennifer Stowers ’02 &<br />
JSQ Foundation<br />
Suzanne Hamburger Thurston ’54<br />
President’s Council<br />
($25,000 to $49,999)<br />
Judith Parks Anderson ’62 and<br />
Robert Anderson<br />
Barbara Mead Anthony ’60MS<br />
Susan Sharp Dorrance ’67<br />
Ted and Beedee Ladd<br />
Elizabeth Wheeler L’Hommedieu ’54<br />
Robert and Carol Lincoln<br />
Sonia Loizeaux ’57<br />
Ellen Haebler Skove ’49<br />
<strong>Wheelock</strong> Fellows<br />
($10,000 to $24,999)<br />
Anonymous (2)<br />
Stephanie Bennett-Smith and<br />
Orin R. Smith<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Ed Brakeman<br />
Julia Challinor ’75<br />
Patricia Cook ’69<br />
Rebecca Berry Cramer ’36*<br />
Elizabeth Townsend Dearstyne ’62 and<br />
William Dearstyne<br />
Sally Reeves Edmonds ’55<br />
Barbara Tutschek Ells ’60 and<br />
Robert H. Ells<br />
Martha Allen Farwell ’46<br />
Edith Hall Huck ’48<br />
Dr. and Mrs. Gordon Marshall<br />
Toby Congleton Milner ’70<br />
W h e e l o c k c o l l e g e • A n n u A l R e p o R t o f g i v i n g 2 0 1 1 - 2 0 1 2<br />
The Cornerstone Society recognizes our most generous donors who make an<br />
annual gift of $1,250 or more to <strong>Wheelock</strong> <strong>College</strong>. These individuals, along with the<br />
students they support, are the cornerstones of <strong>Wheelock</strong>’s future. The <strong>College</strong> would<br />
like to thank the following individuals for their leadership support:<br />
20 <strong>Fall</strong> <strong>2012</strong><br />
Frances Nichols ’63<br />
Barbara Grogins Sallick ’61<br />
Kate and Ben Taylor<br />
Elizabeth Bassett Wolf ’54<br />
Froebel Associates<br />
($5,000 to $9,999)<br />
Anonymous (1)<br />
Karen and James Ansara<br />
Gary Bergstrom<br />
Madeleine Gatchell Corson ’59<br />
Tina Feldman Crosby ’67<br />
Zelinda Makepeace Douhan ’63/’75MS<br />
Walter Einstein<br />
Fred and Graceann Foulkes<br />
Thordis Burdett Gulden ’66<br />
Mary Bloomer Gulick ’57 and Bob Gulick<br />
Mitchell Harris<br />
Charlotte Pomeroy Hatfield ’58<br />
Priscilla Alden Hayes ’62 and<br />
Robert Hayes<br />
Tina Morris Helm ’64/’98MS and<br />
Bill Helm<br />
Nancy Kelly Hershey ’69<br />
Elizabeth Berry Horner ’47<br />
Anne Wingle Howard ’57<br />
Jackie Jenkins-Scott and Jim Scott<br />
Lyn Peck Kenyon ’45/’69BS<br />
John and Judy Knutson<br />
Pamela Long<br />
Persis Luke Loveys ’54<br />
Anne Sullivan Lyons ’62<br />
Alan and Cecily Morse<br />
Martha-Reed Ennis Murphy ’69<br />
Suzanne Newton<br />
Linda Bullock Owens ’69<br />
Gertrude Van Iderstine Phillips ’43-’44<br />
and Thomas L. Phillips<br />
Nancy Fowle Purinton ’64<br />
Mark E. Roberts ’76MS and<br />
Jane Hertig Roberts ’73<br />
Page Poinier Sanders ’65<br />
Katharine duPont Sanger ’66<br />
Helen Small Weishaar ’45<br />
Carole Hayes Williams ’66<br />
White and Gold Circle<br />
($2,500 to $4,999)<br />
Margaret Benisch Anderson ’53<br />
Steven Aveson ’78<br />
Joan Wolfers Belkin ’70MS<br />
Lisa McCabe Biagetti ’80<br />
Barbara Pratt Dancy ’62<br />
Barbara Elliott Fargo ’52<br />
Lucia Santini Field<br />
Susan Grearson Fillmore ’56<br />
Maria Furman<br />
Kristine Sheathelm Gerson ’79<br />
and William Gerson<br />
Priscilla Chase Heindel ’47<br />
Tom and Roberta Kelly<br />
Phyllis Forbes Kerr ’64<br />
William A. Lowell, Esq.<br />
Eliane Markoff<br />
Shirley Hotra Neff ’58<br />
Ruth Bailey Papazian ’56<br />
Lisa and Rex Thors<br />
Mary Ann Baker Wagner ’62<br />
Elsa Weyer Williams ’54<br />
1888 Circle<br />
($1,250 to $2,499)<br />
Judy McMurray Achre ’58<br />
Ruth Flink Ades ’53<br />
Betsy Hunter Ambach ’54<br />
Ginger Mercer Bates ’54<br />
Jean Farley Bellows ’62<br />
Phoebe Walther Biggs ’62<br />
Henriette Pennypacker Binswanger ’56<br />
Linda Larrabee Blair-Lockwood ’65<br />
Barbara Broomhead Bromley ’60<br />
Joan Sullivan Buchanan ’53<br />
Agnes Bundy Scanlan<br />
Ellen Cluett Burnham ’60<br />
Joyce Pettoruto Butler ’73<br />
Patricia Slater Carey ’45<br />
Jean Heard Carmichael ’62<br />
Melanie Waszkiewicz Chadwick ’68<br />
Judith Green Chaloff ’62<br />
Victoria Ash Christian ’77<br />
Mr. and Mrs. William H. Christmann<br />
May Chu<br />
Geraldine Walsh Clauss ’51<br />
Kathryn Smith Conrad ’73MS<br />
Harriet Spring Critchlow ’44<br />
Norma Brawley Dugger ’61<br />
Ellen Tague Dwinell ’61<br />
David and Susan Fedo<br />
Roberta Weiss Goorno ’62<br />
Joan Blanchard Gray ’50<br />
Patricia Conzelman Greeley ’52/’90MS<br />
Cynthia Hallowell ’58<br />
Irene Frail Hamm ’60 and<br />
Charles Hamm<br />
Janet Marshall Haring ’64<br />
Anne Mulholland Heger ’49<br />
Annette Hill Green<br />
Ann-Penn Stearns Holton ’47<br />
Sally Schwabacher Hottle ’59<br />
Harriet Howenstein Hull ’51<br />
Kathy and Bob Jaunich<br />
Janet Ferry Jenney ’52<br />
Ranch C. Kimball<br />
Jane Kuehn Kittredge ’63<br />
Mary C. Kloppenberg ’83MS<br />
Donna LaRoche ’79<br />
Catherine Ley Lawler ’82<br />
Mary Pescatello Lewis ’69<br />
Virginia Bell Libhart ’52<br />
Helene Stehlin Lortz ’60<br />
Margaret DeLuca Loughead ’54<br />
John Lowell*<br />
Denise Chateauneuf Macey ’70<br />
Kathleen Wilson Mallet ’65<br />
Anne Marie Martorana<br />
alumni scholarships<br />
Mary Meeker ’58<br />
Mary Mitchell ’79MS<br />
Deanne Williams Morse ’60<br />
Constance Bell Moser ’76<br />
Robin Mount<br />
Anne Hallowell Newton ’66<br />
Francis Ng Kok Liang ’04MS<br />
Maryann Mylott O’Rourke ’60/’98MS<br />
Abby Squires Perelman ’73<br />
Linda Port<br />
Michelle Porter ’85<br />
Adelaide Duffy Queeney ’88MS<br />
Laura Sibley Rhodes ’62<br />
Nancy Garnaus Rice ’50<br />
Patricia Andrews Richmond ’54<br />
Betty Appel Schaffer ’60<br />
Thekla Reese Shackelford ’56<br />
Susan Bruml Simon ’73<br />
Patricia Cotter Smart ’56<br />
Joseph C. Smith<br />
Eleanor Labosky Stanwood ’67<br />
Nancy Clarke Steinberger ’65<br />
Beatrice Clayton Stockwell ’55<br />
Karen S. Sturges ’87MS<br />
Dorothy Donahue Sullivan ’57<br />
Kerriann Kreitner Tavzel ’93<br />
Geneva S. Thorndike and<br />
William Thorndike Jr.<br />
Joan I. Thorndike<br />
Sylvia Buffinton Tompkins ’55<br />
Ann Fisher Tuteur ’67<br />
Amaryllis Morris Volk ’55<br />
Florence Milman Walker ’50<br />
Loraine Nettleton Watson ’63<br />
Joan Anderson Watts ’65/’83MS<br />
Joann Bridgman Webster ’48<br />
Nancy Clay Webster ’66<br />
Judith Schwarz Weinstock ’70MS<br />
David W. Weiss<br />
Linda A. Welter<br />
The Alumni Scholars Program brings together individuals<br />
at the heart of <strong>Wheelock</strong> <strong>College</strong>: students and alumni.<br />
Alumni Scholars donors make an annual gift of $5,000<br />
to support one undergraduate or graduate student<br />
during their time at <strong>Wheelock</strong>. These contributions help<br />
defray the cost of a <strong>Wheelock</strong> education, and through<br />
an exchange of letters and meetings at events, the<br />
donors are kept up-to-date about their students’ studies<br />
and activities. Reciprocally, students learn about their<br />
supporters and their <strong>Wheelock</strong> experience. The students<br />
join the <strong>College</strong> in thanking the following individuals:<br />
Anonymous (1)<br />
Judith Parks Anderson ’62<br />
Barbara Mead Anthony ’60MS<br />
Keena Dunn Clifford ’68<br />
Madeleine Gatchell Corson ’59<br />
Tina Feldman Crosby ’67<br />
Elizabeth Townsend Dearstyne ’62<br />
and William Dearstyne<br />
Thordis Burdett Gulden ’66<br />
Anne Wingle Howard ’57<br />
Edith Hall Huck ’48<br />
Martha-Reed Ennis Murphy ’69<br />
Linda Bullock Owens ’69<br />
Page Poinier Sanders ’65<br />
Katharine duPont Sanger ’66<br />
Helen Small Weishaar ’45<br />
Carole Hayes Williams ’66<br />
Elizabeth Bassett Wolf ’54<br />
* Deceased
named Funds<br />
Scholarship and<br />
Loan Funds<br />
Anonymous (2)<br />
Donald Bergen Abbott Memorial<br />
Scholarship Fund<br />
George I. Alden Scholarship Fund<br />
Judy Parks Anderson ’62 Endowed<br />
Scholarship Fund<br />
Anthony Family Scholarship Fund for<br />
Graduate Students<br />
** New fund in fiscal year <strong>2012</strong><br />
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<strong>Wheelock</strong> donors have the opportunity to establish a fund in honor or in memory of<br />
individuals or organizations. These named funds support a number of <strong>College</strong> efforts,<br />
including scholarships, campus improvement, and faculty support. <strong>Wheelock</strong> is grateful<br />
for these substantial gifts that will serve the <strong>College</strong> in perpetuity.<br />
Bronwyn Baird Endowed<br />
Scholarship Fund<br />
Marjorie Bakken Endowed<br />
Scholarship Fund<br />
Bank of Boston Endowed Student<br />
Loan Fund<br />
Ruth Kelliher Bartlett ’24<br />
Memorial Fund<br />
John L. Bates Scholarship Fund<br />
Foukal Awards for Achievement in<br />
Math and Science<br />
Each year, student recognition for study in<br />
mathematics and science grows, largely<br />
due to Peter and Elisabeth Foukal’s<br />
endowment of the Foukal Awards for Achievement<br />
in Math and Science, which are presented<br />
in April to two outstanding students. Peter<br />
Foukal is the founder and past president of<br />
Cambridge Research and Instrumentation Inc.<br />
and a scientist who holds a Ph.D. in astrophysics.<br />
He has taught at Caltech and Harvard and<br />
has served as a NATO senior fellow at Nice<br />
Observatory, France, and on numerous panels<br />
of the National Science Foundation, NASA,<br />
and the National Academy of Sciences.<br />
One of this year’s award recipients, Megan<br />
Mawe ’14, is pursuing a double major in<br />
elementary education and math and science<br />
and is on the Science for Teachers Pathway<br />
Bernard W. and Helen Sagoff<br />
Berkowitch ’28 Memorial<br />
Scholarship Fund<br />
Black Mountain Foundation<br />
Scholarship Fund<br />
The Catherine E. Bose ’75 Scholarship<br />
in Mathematics and Science<br />
The Barbara Brahms ’36<br />
Scholarship Fund<br />
Gladys Brooks Endowed<br />
Scholarship Fund<br />
Math & Science Student Recognition Awards<br />
at <strong>Wheelock</strong>. The second award recipient,<br />
Sarah McCaffrey ’13, is working toward a<br />
Bachelor of Science degree in math and science<br />
and is a member of the Alpha Lambda Delta<br />
national honor society.<br />
Walter Burke Awards<br />
Professor Burke was a beloved <strong>Wheelock</strong><br />
faculty member who is remembered and<br />
appreciated annually for his dedication<br />
to his students and their success. This year Tam<br />
Emerson ’13 and Kevin Kareckas ’12 received<br />
Walter Burke Awards for demonstrating their<br />
enthusiasm for science, mathematics, and community.<br />
Tam is pursuing a professional major<br />
in elementary education as well as a Bachelor of<br />
Science degree in math and science, and she has<br />
been an active researcher and intern in the Center<br />
for International Programs and Partnerships<br />
(formerly known as the Center for International<br />
Education, Leadership, and Innovation). Kevin<br />
Gertrude Flanders Bullen ’52<br />
Memorial Scholarship Fund<br />
Centennial Scholarship Fund<br />
Daniel S. Cheever, Jr. Scholarship Fund<br />
The James Christmann Writing<br />
Award Scholarship<br />
Ruth Clapp ’34 Loan Fund<br />
Clover Converse Clark ’20<br />
Memorial Trust<br />
Class of 1954 Endowed<br />
Scholarship Fund<br />
Class of 1956 Endowed<br />
Scholarship Fund<br />
Carolyn Burrell Cochran ’19<br />
Scholarship Fund<br />
Katherine Wendell Creighton ’92<br />
Scholarship Fund<br />
Nancy LeCount Currier ’50<br />
Memorial Scholarship Fund<br />
Eagle Academy Scholarship Fund**<br />
Ennis-Murphy Scholarship Fund<br />
Elinor Frumkin Feldman ’52 Revolving<br />
Student Loan Fund<br />
Marguerite Franklin ’17 Revolving<br />
Loan Fund<br />
The Frances Graves 1909<br />
Charitable Fund<br />
Cynthia M. Gregory ’26 Endowed<br />
Scholarship Fund<br />
Ellen Gertrude Loomis Hall Endowed<br />
Scholarship Fund<br />
Margaret Hamilton ’23 Arts<br />
Scholarship Fund<br />
Irene Frail Hamm ’60 Endowed Urban<br />
Scholarship Fund<br />
p Professor Walter Burke (shown here with awardwinner<br />
Kristina McHugh ’07) presided over the Math<br />
& Science award ceremonies for many years.<br />
t Among the award presenters, speakers, and awardees,<br />
left to right: Kevin Kareckas, Tam Emerson, Megan<br />
Mawe, guest speaker Margaret J. Kenney, Chair of<br />
Math and Science Ellen Faszewski, Peter Foukal<br />
graduated in May with a Bachelor of Science<br />
degree and plans a career focused on “inspiring<br />
children to learn and love science” and on his<br />
own continuing science education as “a lifetime<br />
learner in the field.”<br />
Math Leaders<br />
In addition to these outstanding student<br />
scholars, <strong>Wheelock</strong> also recognizes Math<br />
Leaders who lead weekly study groups<br />
for other students and attend biweekly<br />
seminars to promote excellence in learning<br />
and teaching mathematics<br />
at <strong>Wheelock</strong>. This year 40<br />
Student Leaders received a<br />
Certificate of Professional<br />
Development and a book<br />
award, The Fine Art of<br />
Mathematical Magic, by<br />
David W. Thronson, for<br />
their work.<br />
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Evelyn Hausslein Child Life<br />
Scholarship Fund<br />
William Randolph Hearst Endowed<br />
Scholarship Fund<br />
Molly Cooper Hershey ’23 Fund for<br />
Student Aid<br />
Aldus C. Higgins Foundation Endowed<br />
Loan Fund<br />
Myrl Rose Crocker Howe ’34<br />
Scholarship Fund<br />
Marian Clifton Hurlin ’22<br />
Scholarship Fund<br />
Barbara Jack ’30 Endowed<br />
Scholarship Fund<br />
Kathleen Magee Jaunich Scholarship<br />
Margery Hall Johnson Endowed<br />
Scholarship<br />
Ruth Appleton Burge Johnson<br />
1910 Scholarship Fund<br />
Marcia Rudd Keil ’34 Endowed<br />
Scholarship Fund<br />
Lyn Peck Kenyon and Walter Kenyon<br />
Scholarship<br />
Carol Liu King ’66MS Endowed<br />
Scholarship Fund**<br />
Katherine Ehrler Kurth<br />
Scholarship Fund<br />
Gloria Williams Ladd Endowed<br />
Scholarship Fund<br />
Frances B. and Paige D. L’Hommedieu<br />
Scholarship Fund<br />
Elizabeth Ann Liddle ’47 Fund for<br />
International Students<br />
Agnes M. Lindsay Trust Scholarship<br />
Lowell Scholarship<br />
Susan M. Mackey ’94<br />
Scholarship Fund**<br />
Kathryn Severance Makosky ’30<br />
Endowed Scholarship Fund<br />
Margaret H. and Robert W. Merry<br />
Scholarship Fund<br />
Gwen Morgan ’76MS<br />
Scholarship Fund<br />
Janice Porosky Olins ’33<br />
Scholarship Fund<br />
Phoebe O’Mara Endowed Fund<br />
Patricia Knowlton Paine-Dougherty ’50<br />
Scholarship Fund<br />
Henry H. and Edith Nicholson Perry ’19<br />
Scholarship Fund<br />
Theresa Perry Scholarship Fund<br />
Mildred Engler Peterson ’24<br />
Scholarship Fund<br />
The Harold Whitworth Pierce Charitable<br />
Trust Scholarship<br />
The Catherine Pursel Emergency<br />
Student Loan Fund<br />
Jennifer Stowers Quintal ’02<br />
Teacher Development Endowed<br />
Scholarship Fund**<br />
William E. and Bertha E. Schrafft<br />
Charitable Trust Endowed Fund<br />
Saul M. Silverstein Endowed<br />
Scholarship Fund<br />
Ching Yee Soong ’65<br />
Scholarship Fund<br />
The Ellen G. Sullivan Endowed<br />
Scholarship<br />
Susan Swap Community Service<br />
Scholarship Fund<br />
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Mary A. Sweeney ’56<br />
Scholarship Fund<br />
Suzanne L. Thurston ’54 Endowed<br />
Scholarship Fund<br />
Marion H. Towne Scholarship Fund<br />
Frances M. Tredick Endowed<br />
Scholarship Fund<br />
Frances M. Tredick 1902<br />
Scholarship Fund<br />
<strong>Wheelock</strong> Club of Portland Scholarship<br />
<strong>Wheelock</strong> <strong>College</strong> Alumni Association<br />
Scholarship<br />
<strong>Wheelock</strong> <strong>College</strong> Alumni Endowed<br />
Scholarship Fund<br />
<strong>Wheelock</strong> <strong>College</strong> Urban Teachers<br />
Scholarship Fund<br />
Lucy <strong>Wheelock</strong> Endowed<br />
Scholarship Fund<br />
Lucy <strong>Wheelock</strong> Student Loan Fund<br />
Betsy Reed Wilson ’55/Let’s Face It<br />
Visiting Health Scholar<br />
Marjorie Cohn Wolf ’51 and William H.<br />
Wolf Perpetuating Loan Fund<br />
Library Funds<br />
Alma Bent ’42/’43 and Janet<br />
Higginbotham Washburn ’42/’43<br />
Library Fund<br />
Linda Munroe Brady Memorial<br />
Book Fund<br />
Beatrice Garnaus Library Fund<br />
Nancy Corwin Gordon Memorial<br />
Book Fund<br />
Altina Mead Memorial Fund<br />
Jone Sloman Library Fund<br />
Other Funds<br />
CAR Endowed Faculty Fund<br />
Sylvia Earl ’54 Technology Fund**<br />
Sandra Nesson Kivowitz ’56<br />
Memorial Fund<br />
Edward H. Ladd Award for Academic<br />
Excellence and Service<br />
Cynthia Longfellow Teaching<br />
Recognition Award<br />
Master of Social Work Restricted<br />
Scholarship<br />
Math and Science Endowed<br />
Prize Fund<br />
Mattahunt Copier Fund**<br />
The Dr. Sau-Fong Siu B.S.W. Student<br />
Assistance Fund<br />
South Africa Service Learning<br />
Annual Fund**<br />
South Africa Service Learning<br />
Endowment Fund**<br />
Dr. Jeri Faith Traub Children’s<br />
Courtyard Fund**<br />
Dr. Jeri Faith Traub Student Prize for<br />
Special Education<br />
<strong>Wheelock</strong> Faculty Fund<br />
<strong>Wheelock</strong> Family Theatre<br />
Endowed Fund<br />
** New fund in fiscal year <strong>2012</strong><br />
associate<br />
Degree Donors<br />
1973<br />
Deborah Maher<br />
Elaine Douglass Munn<br />
Priscilla tte<br />
1977<br />
Donna Blaikie Coleman<br />
1979<br />
Diana Margalis Pearce<br />
1984<br />
Marlene Ross<br />
1990<br />
Jewel Russell<br />
1993<br />
Sousan Vakili<br />
1995<br />
Marcia A. Perry<br />
undergraduate<br />
Degree Donors<br />
1929<br />
Constance Putnam*<br />
1933<br />
Ruth Baldwin Maletta<br />
Rozilla Morton Roberts<br />
1934<br />
Elizabeth Drowne Nash<br />
1936<br />
Rebecca Berry Cramer*<br />
Mildred Griffith Kohler<br />
1938<br />
Anita Drucker Leibowitz<br />
Nancy Brown Stevenson<br />
1939<br />
Estelle Levy Dine<br />
June Jellison MacGinnis<br />
Pearl Corliss Putnam<br />
1940<br />
Inez Gianfranchi Snowdon<br />
1941<br />
Barbara Munson Carpenter<br />
Arlene Drake Dickinson<br />
Barbara Finkel Jacobs<br />
Bettina Beebe McCleary<br />
Lucy Parton Miller<br />
Dorothea Ramsay Rutter<br />
Ruth Kemball Tupper<br />
Winifred Little Williams<br />
1942-’43<br />
Carolyn Fisher Cadman<br />
Gladys Davey Dunbar<br />
Dorothy Dondero Shorey<br />
Helen Roberts Thomas<br />
Marilyn Dushame Passanisi<br />
1943-’44<br />
Harriet Spring Critchlow<br />
Gertrude Van Iderstine Phillips<br />
Jean Sullivan Riley<br />
Judith Elder Scott<br />
Sally Keating Walsh<br />
1945<br />
Patricia Slater Carey<br />
Mildred Rich Gilbert<br />
Sophy Church Hansen<br />
Lyn Peck Kenyon<br />
Nancy Peirce Kyle<br />
Janet Champney Poss<br />
Helen Small Weishaar<br />
1946<br />
Jane Clapp Donaldson<br />
Martha Allen Farwell<br />
Cordelia Abendroth Flanagan<br />
Margaret Lewis Glover<br />
Louise Vialle<br />
1947<br />
Anonymous (1)<br />
Daphne Tait Cooper<br />
Barbara Bolinger Crabtree<br />
Mary Hemphill Haring<br />
Priscilla Chase Heindel<br />
Ann-Penn Stearns Holton<br />
Elizabeth Berry Horner<br />
Claire Mead Hyde<br />
Ruth Hirons Irving<br />
Edith Goddard Pangaro<br />
Ann Gilbert Putnam<br />
Betty Payne Schlieder<br />
Rosalie Van Zandt Simson<br />
1948<br />
Jocelyn Van Allen Anderson<br />
Agnes Fitzgerald Davis<br />
Ysabel Brown Dulken<br />
Phyllis Fishman Grossbaum<br />
Edith Hall Huck<br />
Janet Gall Leonard<br />
Catherine Creble McCarraher<br />
Elizabeth McHenry<br />
Marian Mac Kenzie Peacock<br />
Marylin Quint-Rose<br />
Edith Huntley Ridley<br />
Lila Abrash Rosenthal<br />
Sally Hunter St. John<br />
Carolyn Blount Street<br />
Barbara Sturgis<br />
Dorothy St. Clair Webb<br />
Joann Bridgman Webster<br />
1949<br />
Laura Anne McPhee Burton<br />
Jean Dickson Chiquoine<br />
Caroline Stafford Crossland<br />
Elizabeth Gibson Damon<br />
Margaret Ames Davis<br />
Margaret Edwards Francis<br />
Lois Anne Gilbert Galbraith*<br />
Anne Tremper Hall<br />
Anne Mulholland Heger<br />
Emily Naramore LaBudde<br />
Marjorie Rappold Lawrence<br />
Doris Jackson Marshall<br />
Jane Bartlett Mason<br />
Jane Felton Parker<br />
Frances Cummings Partridge<br />
Barbara Ferguson Pieper<br />
Janice McGuire Rothery<br />
Judy Rosen Rubenfeld<br />
Suzanne Small Shanahan<br />
Ellen Haebler Skove<br />
Maryellen Nelson Smiley<br />
Marjorie Pritchard Stevens<br />
Ann Haldeman Tatem<br />
Mariah MacGilvra Temby<br />
1950<br />
Nancy Spencer Adams<br />
Polly Page Cobb<br />
Jane Lockwood Ferguson<br />
Barbara Moog Finlay<br />
Joan Blanchard Gray<br />
Barbara Shafran Greenglass<br />
Mary Hathaway Hayter<br />
Ruth Falvey Hill<br />
Emily Wright Holt<br />
Nancy Blue Lane<br />
Helga Lieberg Lustig<br />
Beverly Maurath Newell<br />
Patricia Knowlton Paine-<br />
Dougherty<br />
Nancy Garnaus Rice<br />
Dorothy Hutchens Seelow<br />
Barbara Thompson Trainor<br />
Florence Milman Walker<br />
Edith Nowers White<br />
Edith Runk Wright<br />
1951<br />
Beverly Boardman Brekke-<br />
Bailey<br />
Louise Butts<br />
Geraldine Walsh Clauss<br />
Georgianna Hale Dana<br />
Elizabeth Lawson Forrester<br />
Sydney Snell Fulford<br />
Judith Handley Garvey<br />
Prudence Smith Giffin<br />
Patricia Gindele Guild<br />
Elizabeth Cahill Haskell<br />
Harriet Howenstein Hull<br />
Nancy Flint Lindner<br />
Janet Boynton Means-<br />
Underhill<br />
Nancy Williams Mohn<br />
Laura Richardson Payson<br />
Sarah McKey Pieksen<br />
Priscilla Janeway Sherwood<br />
Gloria Aisenberg Sonnabend<br />
Helen Taft Staser<br />
Sally Phelps Waite<br />
Carol Pounds Wales<br />
Grace Viard Ward<br />
Elsie Williams Waterbury<br />
Joan Wiggin<br />
1952<br />
Carolyn Cederholm Allison<br />
Katharine Hodgdon Brown<br />
Margaret Kind Childs<br />
Ann Sibley Conway<br />
Elaine Barnes Downing<br />
Nancy Walker Driscoll<br />
Selby Brown Ehrlich<br />
Catherine Gaffey Everett<br />
Barbara Elliott Fargo<br />
Patricia Conzelman Greeley<br />
Anne DeLamater Hansen<br />
Nancy Dodd Horst<br />
Cornelia Krull Hutt<br />
Janet Ferry Jenney<br />
Cecily Chandler Kalin<br />
Margot Herring Kuniholm<br />
Virginia Bell Libhart<br />
Olivia Hutchins Meek<br />
Ann Harvie Ormond<br />
Mary Gonis Pegg<br />
Jean Ingalls Perkins<br />
Mary Major Rubel<br />
Nancy Morris Souville<br />
Edith Winter Sperber<br />
Betty Koenig Thomas<br />
Patricia Cook Urich<br />
Joanna Smith Virden<br />
Joan Smith Walter
Marjorie George Widegren<br />
Elizabeth Wood<br />
Rosemary Fettinger Worth<br />
1953<br />
Ruth Flink Ades<br />
Ellen McMillan Aman<br />
Patricia Russell Amendola<br />
Margaret Benisch Anderson<br />
Priscilla Buckingham Banghart<br />
Joan Sullivan Buchanan<br />
Ann Carter Craft<br />
Ruth Shedden Crane<br />
Katherine Reardon Currier<br />
Suzanne Terry Curry<br />
Alicia Eager Davis<br />
Cynthia Cranton Dygert<br />
Natalie Smith Garland<br />
Elizabeth Dewey Giles<br />
Patricia Kelly Greichen<br />
Jennifer Thorne Hayden<br />
Josepha Loskill Jenks<br />
Janet Knightly Jones<br />
Ruth French Kiemle<br />
Gail Maurath Lyon<br />
Mary Roberts Mahoney<br />
Carol Hulbert Maxwell<br />
Nancy Brown Meagher<br />
Nancy Oppy Merrifield<br />
Geraldine Natiella Pender<br />
Elizabeth Gerow Peterson<br />
Thekla Polley Putnam<br />
Joyce Allen Rich<br />
Patricia Day Rowland<br />
Ruth Angier Salinger<br />
Jane Palmer Schaefer<br />
Dorothy Steinberg Shaker<br />
Marjorie Linn Strong<br />
Sally Karr Torrey<br />
Joanne Hersey Walker<br />
Anita Green Waters<br />
Winifred Magee Williams<br />
Patricia Lea Woodward<br />
1954<br />
Betsy Hunter Ambach<br />
Barbara Hirshberg Atlas<br />
Ginger Mercer Bates<br />
Sylvia Tailby Earl<br />
Nancy Rosenwald Foilb<br />
Nancy Shapiro Hurwitz<br />
Elizabeth Wheeler<br />
L’Hommedieu<br />
Margaret DeLuca Loughead<br />
Persis Luke Loveys<br />
Eileen O’Connell McCabe<br />
Suzanne Raymond McCall<br />
Caroline Howard McCarty<br />
Harriet Knapp McCauley<br />
Meta Curtze Meacham<br />
Lois Barnett Mirsky<br />
Johanna West Norton<br />
Lydia Bartlett Phalen<br />
Patricia Andrews Richmond<br />
Frances Vail Russell<br />
Joan Kemp Seeber<br />
Nancy Loeb Silbert<br />
Nancy Pennypacker Temple<br />
Suzanne Hamburger Thurston<br />
Elsa Weyer Williams<br />
Virginia Thomas Williams<br />
Elizabeth Bassett Wolf<br />
* Deceased<br />
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1955<br />
Diane Codling Bartlett<br />
Nancy Merry Bergere<br />
Marilyn Dow Byrne<br />
Sally Reeves Edmonds<br />
Margaret Labourdette<br />
Garesche<br />
Anne Vermillion Gleason<br />
Bonnie Simon Grossman<br />
Dorothy Wayman Grudzinski<br />
Joleen Glidden Ham<br />
Olive Kenney Harris<br />
Anne Close Haskell<br />
Josephine Smith Howard<br />
Joan Butler Kimel<br />
Joan Nelson Leighton<br />
Charlotte Cooper Lopoten<br />
Louise Baldridge Lytle<br />
Sheila Mahoney<br />
Betsey DeWitt Matteson<br />
Cynthia Weekes Montesi<br />
Carolyn Giroud Nygren<br />
Joan Walthers Parks<br />
Stephany Lindquist Rogers<br />
Kathleen Rooney<br />
Judith Haskell Rosenberg<br />
Martha Clancy Sheehan<br />
Sally Orcutt Short<br />
Patricia Brennan Smith<br />
Beatrice Clayton Stockwell<br />
Janet Bradley Taylor<br />
Jayne Haynes Tillotson<br />
Sylvia Buffinton Tompkins<br />
Amaryllis Morris Volk<br />
Betsy Reed Wilson<br />
Ann Butler Yos<br />
1956<br />
Henriette Pennypacker<br />
Binswanger<br />
Ann Melrose Blauvelt<br />
Wilma Rayment Brady<br />
Peggy McCreery Broadbent<br />
Nancy Tilden Brown<br />
Denise O’Brien Cariani<br />
Margaret McLean Caywood<br />
Paula Boehn Clifford<br />
Lucy Faulkner Davison<br />
Mary Bates Duplisea-Palmer<br />
Evelyn Jenney Eaton<br />
Susan Grearson Fillmore<br />
Dorothy Dorfman Goldstick<br />
Persis Goodnow Hamilton<br />
Barbara Ice Lake<br />
Patricia Markle Levy<br />
Wilma Kinsman Marr<br />
Ruth Bailey Papazian<br />
Mary Louise Stickles Perkins<br />
Adeline Bradlee Polese<br />
Nancy Griggs Razee<br />
Thekla Reese Shackelford<br />
Susan Waters Shaeffer<br />
Barbara Silverstein<br />
Patricia Cotter Smart<br />
Constance Foote Smithwood<br />
Judith Rosenthal Tobin<br />
Jane Burnham Treman<br />
Frances Streit Tripp<br />
Julie Bigg Veazey<br />
Sally Stearns Wagner<br />
1957<br />
Sallie Farrel Brown<br />
Gertrude Bryan<br />
Anita Stulgis Chouinard<br />
Theone Zacharakis Curtiss<br />
Katrina Hoadley DeLude<br />
Judith Stock Farmer<br />
Janice Wright Freelove<br />
Mary Bloomer Gulick<br />
Margot Block Haselkorn<br />
Harriet Weil Hodgson<br />
Anne Wingle Howard<br />
Dardana Berry Hoyt<br />
Deborah Carlson Jacklin<br />
H. Barbara Knowles Jacobsen<br />
Cynthia Klein Kelleran<br />
Barbara Stagis Kelliher<br />
Maureen Rolfe Kelly<br />
Sara Sibley Lenhart<br />
Sonia Loizeaux<br />
Phoebe Parker McMillan<br />
Cecily Beal Mills<br />
Ellen O’Donnell Page<br />
Mary Stone Phipps<br />
Susan Hunt Raasch<br />
Mary Lou Cudhea Reed<br />
Nancy Weltman Schattner<br />
Shirley Collins Schwarz-<br />
Gutherz<br />
Mardrivon Cowles Scott<br />
Sarah Curran Smith<br />
Janet Spaulding<br />
Dorothy Donahue Sullivan<br />
Nancy Oldfield Swan<br />
Mary Hartwell Truesdell<br />
Carolyn Woodhead<br />
1958<br />
Judy McMurray Achre<br />
Carole Leclerc Barry<br />
Sandra Dunham Bowers<br />
Nancy Hallock Cooper<br />
Marcia Potter Crocker<br />
Susan Howland Devey<br />
Diana McElroy Dieterich<br />
Regina Frankenberger Dubin<br />
Mary McBride Felton<br />
Patricia Morrissey Goglia<br />
Jean Tulloch Griffith<br />
Cynthia Hallowell<br />
Charlotte Pomeroy Hatfield<br />
Marion Cook Houston<br />
Sandra MacDonald Ingmanson<br />
Laura Lehrman<br />
Arlene Keizer Lovenvirth<br />
Laura Burhoe Maier<br />
Mary Meeker<br />
Audrey Shulman Nachbar<br />
Shirley Hotra Neff<br />
Carolyn Lucas Norris<br />
Sara Beckwith Novak<br />
Maralen Moody O’Neil<br />
Jane Bowler Pickering<br />
Martha Newton Roberts<br />
Julie Russell<br />
Margaret Weinheimer Sherwin<br />
Susan Smith<br />
Carol Yudis Stein<br />
Elizabeth Sturtz Stern<br />
Janice Seybolt Theron<br />
Patricia Dodd Ulmer<br />
Sara Dunbar Waters<br />
This grant provides a wonderful opportunity for<br />
<strong>Wheelock</strong>, with its focus on determining the needs of the<br />
individual child, to serve as a resource for Massachusetts<br />
educators, care providers, and children. It is just one<br />
example of funding that is increasing the visibility of the<br />
<strong>College</strong> and its mission, making more innovative programs<br />
possible, and broadening <strong>Wheelock</strong>’s impact on society.<br />
Massachusetts Department of Early<br />
Education and Care (MDEEC) Grant of<br />
$953,000 Million for Assessment Resource<br />
<strong>Wheelock</strong> is taking action to improve the quality of early<br />
education and care and out-of-school-time programs<br />
across the Commonwealth, thanks to a $953,000 grant<br />
awarded to the <strong>College</strong>’s Aspire Institute by the MDEEC. With the<br />
grant, Aspire launched the Center for Assessment and Screening<br />
Excellence (CASE), which will assist programs in gathering essential<br />
information about children by assessing, screening, and measuring<br />
their developmental progress and by customizing curricula and<br />
instruction to ensure that children receive the maximum benefit from<br />
their learning experiences.<br />
Aspire will also work with the Department to provide training,<br />
consultation, materials, and support that programs need to make<br />
progress in child assessment and screening and in measuring program<br />
quality. Training will be available on the introductory, intermediate,<br />
and advanced levels, and will be adapted to address the needs of<br />
English Language Learners (both educators and children) as well as<br />
children with special needs.<br />
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Thank you, Reunion alumni!<br />
Reunion Gifts Totaled More<br />
Than $600,000<br />
Reunion Weekend <strong>2012</strong> was terrific<br />
fun for more than 225 alumni<br />
and guests returning to campus<br />
to celebrate their alma mater, reunite with<br />
classmates, and join in on the special activities,<br />
on and off campus. Together, they also<br />
were hugely successful in raising $600,000<br />
for <strong>Wheelock</strong>’s Annual Fund, which supports<br />
student scholarships. Applause goes to<br />
these thoughtful and generous alumni who<br />
know the value of a <strong>Wheelock</strong> education<br />
and want to share it with current students.<br />
Carol Stuart Wenmark<br />
Jean Cutler Whitham<br />
Sybil Magid Woodhouse<br />
1959<br />
Annette Rogers Barber<br />
Alice Thompson Brew<br />
Rosalie Bradstreet Bromfield<br />
Barbara Sahagian Carlson<br />
Sally Brewer Cervarich<br />
Bonnie Steele Clark<br />
Madeleine Gatchell Corson<br />
Emmy Groeneveld Crosby<br />
Yvonne Emmons Duvall<br />
Margot Moore Greener<br />
Patricia Haas<br />
Sandra Hall Haffler<br />
Jeanne Wilson Hatch<br />
Betsy Forssell Hestnes<br />
Sally Schwabacher Hottle<br />
Lynne Grove Ives<br />
Barbara Hampson Ivey<br />
Joan Pannier Langley<br />
Helen Doughty Lester<br />
Judith Whitman Long<br />
Marion Turnbull Mangels<br />
Sue Abbot McCord<br />
Virginia Ludwig McLaughlin<br />
Brenda Sherman Merchant<br />
Delleyne Eldridge Osborne<br />
Patricia vom Lehn Overman<br />
Elaine Fogel Parks<br />
Diantha Sheldon Patterson<br />
Doris Geer Petusky<br />
Jane Kent Rockwell<br />
Alicia Atlin Stokes<br />
Judith Scott Stolp<br />
24 <strong>Fall</strong> <strong>2012</strong><br />
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Patricia Wise Strauss<br />
Gail Grew Thomson<br />
1960<br />
Suzanne Myers Birdsall<br />
Barbara Broomhead Bromley<br />
Joan Gardner Buchanan<br />
Ellen Cluett Burnham<br />
Barbara Tutschek Ells<br />
Elizabeth Brown Hall<br />
Irene Frail Hamm<br />
Peggy Oliver Hedeman<br />
Helene Brunelle Hickey<br />
Carolyn Riotte Hyler<br />
Jane Coulter Langmaid<br />
Helene Stehlin Lortz<br />
Margaret Washburne Miller<br />
Deanne Williams Morse<br />
Nancy Mullervy Newbrook<br />
Carol Reed Newsome<br />
Maryann Mylott O’Rourke<br />
Sara Thompson Orton<br />
Marcia Tuthill Palmer<br />
Phyllis Pisano<br />
Constance Schumacher Pratt<br />
Jean Randlett<br />
Elizabeth Appel Schaffer<br />
Virginia Franks Seegel<br />
Janet Burt Slaton<br />
Barbara Underwood Walker<br />
Anne Pelletreau Woodbury<br />
1961<br />
Joan Nolet Bennert<br />
Helen Clark<br />
Miriam Curtin Cushing<br />
Dorothy Sideris Davis<br />
Eleanor Kushner Dinitz<br />
Norma Brawley Dugger<br />
Ellen Tague Dwinell<br />
Mary Jo Severson Fenyn<br />
Avery Thompson Funkhouser<br />
Susan Beale Hufford<br />
Elizabeth Horton Ingraham<br />
Barbara Lukoff Johnson<br />
Marjorie Wilson Kingston<br />
Jeannette Kwok<br />
Judith Johnston Laurens<br />
Linda Shemwick Lindquist<br />
Nancy Miller<br />
Juliet Miller Moynihan<br />
Catherine Greenacre Robinson<br />
Margaret Knowles Rodgers<br />
Barbara Grogins Sallick<br />
Gail Spivack Sandler<br />
Ellen Nickerson Schmidt<br />
Virginia Colquitt Schroder<br />
Betsy Mark Weiner<br />
1962<br />
Anonymous (1)<br />
Frances Levin Abel<br />
Daphne Angelis Abodeely<br />
Joann Seidenfeld Adler<br />
Judith Parks Anderson<br />
Susan Bromfield Barber<br />
Jean Farley Bellows<br />
Phoebe Walther Biggs<br />
Carol Tarr Bolter<br />
Jean Heard Carmichael<br />
Judith Green Chaloff<br />
Ruth Weeks Clark<br />
Jenny Tincher Cleaves<br />
Barbara J. Pratt Dancy<br />
Cynthia Mandros Davis<br />
Elizabeth Townsend Dearstyne<br />
Penelope Petrell English<br />
Sally Bradley Foshay<br />
Roberta Weiss Goorno<br />
Linda Marvin Hastie<br />
Priscilla Alden Hayes<br />
Elizabeth Gregg Horn<br />
Arline Bishop Howard<br />
Sabra Brown Johnston<br />
Derreth Montgomery Kavanagh<br />
Roberta Goodale Kulas<br />
Harriett Bradshaw Lafer<br />
Mary Koenigsberg Lang<br />
Patricia Pierce Loring<br />
Judith Rominger Lutkus<br />
Anne Sullivan Lyons<br />
Susan Haley Markee<br />
Lorna Ramsden McCollum<br />
Mary Joanna Ginty Neish<br />
Judith Sherman Nevins<br />
Dorothy Loofbourow Nichols<br />
Helen Beck Noble<br />
Anne Cleary Parkinson<br />
Betsy Miller Radler<br />
Sara Kiley Reid<br />
Laura Sibley Rhodes<br />
Cynthia Pender Robbins<br />
Jean Barclay Rook<br />
Jane Saltzman Rosenberg<br />
Anne Wheeler Rowthorn<br />
Mari Porter Seder<br />
Emily VanderStucken Spencer<br />
Mary Schubert Stearns<br />
Marion Holder Straton<br />
Barbara Chrakian Tellalian<br />
Marion MacKay Verdick<br />
Brenda Richmond Verduin-Dean<br />
Mary Ann Baker Wagner<br />
Priscilla Plant Wing<br />
Marcia Titus Young<br />
Georgia Bradley Zaborowski<br />
1963<br />
Martha Bucknam Brogan<br />
Susan Memery Bruce<br />
Edythe Scott Chamberlin<br />
Beth Howenstein Crane<br />
Heather Hughes Dahlberg<br />
Zelinda Makepeace Douhan<br />
Yvonne LaBrecque Enders<br />
Cynthia Jepsen Farquhar<br />
Carolyn Collins Farrell<br />
Charlotte Giovanella Fullam<br />
Bette Mosher Geci<br />
Barbara Hamilton Gibson<br />
Jessie Hennion Gwisdala<br />
Christine Theander Harper<br />
Joan Packer Isenberg<br />
Jane Kuehn Kittredge<br />
Jan Vary Kutten<br />
Jacquelyn Taft Lowe<br />
Susan Wise Miller<br />
Elizabeth Kellogg Morse<br />
Frances Nichols<br />
Sally Pease<br />
Anne Little Reiley<br />
Ellen Sandler<br />
Carolyn Allen Seaton<br />
Judith Thompson Seeley<br />
Elizabeth Robinson Smith<br />
Eleanor Starkweather Snelgrove<br />
Loraine Nettleton Watson<br />
Alice Parke Watson<br />
Barbara Cohen Weiner<br />
Laurel Holmes Whitaker<br />
Helen Mesnick Wilker<br />
1964<br />
Anonymous (1)<br />
Susan Greenleaf Anderson<br />
Anne <strong>Fall</strong>on Aubourg<br />
Elizabeth Decker Beloff<br />
Sarah Dewey Blouch<br />
Linda Bostrom Caplice<br />
Kathleen O’Keeffe Capo<br />
Perrine Colmore<br />
Mary Jane Blackburn Cook<br />
Elizabeth Wilson Crowther<br />
Sarah Beebe Davis<br />
Elizabeth McIntyre Doepken<br />
Diane Abitbol Fogg<br />
Jeanette Polhemus Glesmann<br />
Deborah Niebling Grubbs<br />
Janet Marshall Haring<br />
Carole Cooper Harris<br />
Christina Morris Helm<br />
Carol Jeffers Hollenberg<br />
Barbara Hodge Holmes<br />
Mary Wolf Hurtig<br />
Kathleen Magee Jaunich<br />
Phyllis Forbes Kerr<br />
Joan Steele Light<br />
Eleanor Noble Linton<br />
Priscilla Nelson Linville<br />
Jessi MacLeod<br />
Judy Holmes Marco<br />
Roberta Gilbert Marianella*<br />
Laura Brown Marshall<br />
Lenore Biskup McCarthy<br />
Carolyn Humphrey Miller<br />
Gladys Tilley Miner<br />
Suzanne Mullens Morgan<br />
Sudie Nostrand<br />
Barbara Wilson Parks<br />
Priscilla Harper Porter<br />
Nancy Fowle Purinton<br />
Hilda Wright Rhodes<br />
Rachel Ripley Roach<br />
Carol Eidam Schmottlach<br />
Ann Meigher Smith<br />
Mary Ellen Freeman Smith<br />
Marjorie Blum Walker<br />
Ann Burgess Wolpers<br />
1965<br />
Anne Goepper Aftuck<br />
Barbara Curtis Baker<br />
Joan Griffith Ballog<br />
Nancy Rosenberg Bazilian<br />
Susan Bright Belanger<br />
Linda Larrabee Blair Lockwood<br />
Cynthia Cooper Buschmann<br />
Anne Bonner Ceccarelli<br />
Mary Dominick Connors<br />
Barbara Stevenson Cox<br />
Joanne Malynoski Dall<br />
Elsa Chaffee Distelhorst<br />
Ann Connor Doak<br />
Sandra Tilton Elmer<br />
Cordelia Glass Fenton<br />
Karen Murkett Franchot<br />
Deirdre Conrad Frank<br />
Kate Young Hewitt<br />
Dana Seeley Hirth<br />
Jane Kingman Hudgins<br />
Susan Madtson Johnson<br />
Sarah Spaulding Jonick<br />
Darcy Black Keough<br />
Susan Kosoff<br />
Gloria Williams Ladd<br />
Julia Clymer Lloyd<br />
Kathleen Wilson Mallet<br />
Edwina Burke Marcus<br />
Trisha Henderson Margeson<br />
Janne Pontius Mathes<br />
Sara Talbot Miller<br />
Christina Moustakis<br />
Mary Barnard O’Connell<br />
Madelaine Cohen O’Shea<br />
Marjorie Saleh<br />
Page Poinier Sanders<br />
Helen Birdsall Shepherd<br />
Karen Gold Sokol<br />
Nancy Tolman Stass<br />
Nancy Clarke Steinberger<br />
Elizabeth Earle Stevenson<br />
Heidi Snow Stowe<br />
Nancy Symmes Sweeney<br />
Ruth Tilghman<br />
Joan Tulis Trisko<br />
Susan Wells Vogel<br />
Joan Anderson Watts<br />
Susan Hilsinger Weiner<br />
Daphne Hastings Wilcox<br />
Gwen Lloyd Wirtalla<br />
1966<br />
Patricia Roh Aldrich<br />
Lynne Wyluda Beasley<br />
Patricia Miller Callard<br />
Laurie Knowles Carter<br />
Sarah Carter<br />
Barbara Walker Collamore<br />
Madeleine Tufts Cormier<br />
Nancy Wise Cutler<br />
Nancy Wicke Demarest<br />
Pamela Chesley Dennett<br />
Genevieve Ebbert<br />
Hope Binner Esparolini<br />
Susan Leeb Fuhrer<br />
Linda Crocker Genest<br />
Thordis Burdett Gulden<br />
Diana Truesdale Haywood<br />
Martha Somers Henderson<br />
Susan McKee Kessler<br />
Karen Kitfield Koeppl<br />
Linda Filley Laguerre<br />
Marka Truesdale Larrabee<br />
Ruth McLean Lizotte<br />
Patricia Lewars Lucy<br />
Margery Conley Mars<br />
Jane Martin McMackin<br />
Andrea Price Morse<br />
Anne Hallowell Newton<br />
Nedra Michel Nobleman<br />
Phoebe O’Mara<br />
Susan Lodge Peck<br />
Isota Epes Potter<br />
Jane Wolcott Ready<br />
Heather Robinson Reimann<br />
Marcia Carlson Rintoul<br />
Ruth Ann Welsh Rooney<br />
Elizabeth Zwirner Ruggiero<br />
Katharine duPont Sanger<br />
Marcia Beehler Shankle<br />
Sylvia Thorndike Sheriff<br />
Natalie Palmer Stafford<br />
Marian Harden Staples<br />
Wendy Stuek Voit<br />
Elizabeth Marks Voss<br />
Nancy Clay Webster<br />
Patricia Wild<br />
Carole Hayes Williams<br />
Joan Austin Yocum<br />
1967<br />
Tracey Ober Anderson<br />
Elizabeth Edwards Bell<br />
Ruth Rupkey Bell<br />
Bonnie Lafean Bivins<br />
Virginia Stout Burau<br />
Jane McIntyre Carlisle<br />
Ingrid Hasskarl Chalufour<br />
Tina Feldman Crosby<br />
Susan Sharp Dorrance<br />
Charlotte Gignoux Dwyer<br />
Donna Pulk Elliott<br />
Susan Wells Ferrante<br />
Judith Lambert Foster<br />
Julia Devereux Glynn<br />
Susan Burtch Hyde<br />
Donna Johnson<br />
Linda Moritz Katz<br />
Sally Desmond Kensel<br />
Dee Lewis<br />
Susan Kircheis Long<br />
Kathryn Weinland Lordan<br />
Jeanne Doyle Marinelli<br />
Carole Knaust Meehan<br />
Barbara Jenkins Milos<br />
Linda Hoe Palmer<br />
Heather Kateley Pettengill<br />
Betsy Simmonds Pollock<br />
Jeannette Stone Reynolds
Doryl Lloyd Rourke<br />
Jennifer Stevens Senger<br />
Margaret Smith Smith<br />
Eleanor Labosky Stanwood<br />
Katharine Lancaster Thompson<br />
Laura Shapero Thomson<br />
Margery Peirce Thurber<br />
Nancy Sullivan Tryzelaar<br />
Ann Fisher Tuteur<br />
Carolyn Wright Unger<br />
Kathryn Clark Valleau<br />
Elizabeth Griswold Vershay<br />
Sara Wolf<br />
Susan Todd Wolfe<br />
Joan Blackman Youngman<br />
1968<br />
Susanne Hall Alford<br />
Susan Stein Backer<br />
Jane Carpentier Batchelder<br />
Sandra Gustavsen Batten<br />
Melanie Waszkiewicz<br />
Chadwick<br />
Keena Dunn Clifford<br />
Ellen McLellan Collins<br />
Phyllis Croce<br />
Monica Freese Eppinger<br />
Sherri Ades Falchuk<br />
Penelope Ferenbach Franchot<br />
Francine Gitnick Franke<br />
Sarah Purrington Fujiwara<br />
Janice Gannon Gamber<br />
Leslie Smith Gill<br />
Susan Terragni Howe<br />
Sarah Jarvis<br />
Gretchen Burleigh Johnson<br />
Ellen Hilcoff Kerstein<br />
Margery Linn Kirsch<br />
Carol Tonseth Konz<br />
Cynthia Blum Kramer<br />
Carol Hamel Long<br />
Margaret Merrill Loutrel<br />
Katherine Sayford Lucibello<br />
Susan Ordway Lyons<br />
Ann Knowles MacKay<br />
Kathryn de Sano Mahoney<br />
Rose Kurkjian Margosian<br />
Deborah Harpending<br />
McConnell<br />
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Lynn Grearson McWilliams<br />
Lynne Brown Moores<br />
Lou Ann Colonnese Mulcahy<br />
Martha Mulcahy<br />
Faith Schultz Perkins<br />
Herrika Williams Poor<br />
Cynthia Carpenter Sheehan<br />
Marjorie Moss Shekarchi<br />
Janice McLean Simpson<br />
Sally Clark Sloop<br />
Judith Velho-Baker<br />
Rosemary Douglass Vena<br />
Candace Erickson Weiler<br />
Carlotta Dyer Zilliax<br />
Susan Ackerman Zwick<br />
1969<br />
Linda Minker Abramson<br />
Sara Burns Adams<br />
Charlotte Lowell Allan<br />
V. Bonnie Blick Benedict<br />
Juliet Silverman Besser<br />
Janice Bevan<br />
Cheri Breeman<br />
Susan Kilbourn Burkhard<br />
Margaret Graham Caswell<br />
Deborah Melia Clark<br />
Patricia Cook<br />
Molly Day<br />
Hope Dean<br />
Aliisa Leino DiMartinis<br />
Nancy Grant<br />
Daphne Hunsaker Hall<br />
Judith Hall<br />
Roberta Petitmaire Harnisch<br />
Suzanne Hayden<br />
Nancy Kelly Hershey<br />
Jane Luke Hill<br />
Gay White Hitchcock<br />
Cynthia Lockett Hooks<br />
Anne Harrison Howell<br />
Lyn Peck Kenyon<br />
Robin Kuhn<br />
Susan Hadden Lawrence<br />
Priscilla Phelan Lentowski<br />
Mary Pescatello Lewis<br />
Sara Fish Longenecker<br />
Joan Birkenstock May<br />
Elizabeth Paine McClendon<br />
Jane McDonough<br />
Catherine Wells Milton<br />
Margrete Miner<br />
Constance Goehring Mitchell<br />
Martha-Reed Ennis Murphy<br />
Linda Bullock Owens<br />
Dell Redington<br />
Elizabeth Webster Saba<br />
Elaine Isserlis Sheftel<br />
Margaret Snyder<br />
Rita Sladen Sosa<br />
Linda Gordon Wurzel<br />
1970<br />
Anonymous (1)<br />
Susan Costello Bryant<br />
Jill Hastings Cane<br />
Grace Coffey Clark<br />
Mary Ann Allen Cowherd<br />
Daphne Voyatzis Damplo<br />
Barbara Dugan Doggett<br />
Terry Davidow Epstein<br />
Maureen Heisler Garber<br />
Renee Fox Gould<br />
Jane Kellogg<br />
Julie Sinclair Kingsley<br />
Suzanne Salter Krautmann<br />
Jane Kromm<br />
Denise Chateauneuf Macey<br />
Susan Kelley Markowski<br />
Toby Congleton Milner<br />
Deborah Weinberg Mizrahi<br />
Candace Kuhn Niznik<br />
Deborah Mayo Rockwell<br />
Janet Frost Russell<br />
Mary Curtis Skelton<br />
Kluane Baier Snyder<br />
Susan Ormsby Stoehr<br />
Mary Barber Stone<br />
Barbara Peterson Sweeney<br />
Denise Desrosiers Trinceri<br />
Dona Fusselmann Vaccaro<br />
Deborah Glickman Waldman<br />
Pamela Wong<br />
1971<br />
Ann Bachini Aghababian<br />
Phoebe Hemenway Armstrong<br />
Karen Srulowitz Berman<br />
Laura Bewick Brines<br />
Morgan Shannon Butler<br />
Valentine Callahan<br />
Christine Chase<br />
Nancy Liberman Cohen<br />
Jane Boyle Cohn<br />
Kathleen Kiniry Cookson<br />
Julia-Ellen Davis<br />
Cynthia Knowles Denault<br />
Felice Shapiro Friedman<br />
Pamela Wright Grossman<br />
Elizabeth Hirsch<br />
Priscilla Jeffery<br />
Judith Millstein Langer<br />
Roxana Tibbals Leeson<br />
Sheryl Berman Lovit<br />
Ruth Hughes McGee<br />
Geraldine Robinson<br />
Nancy Millican Rogers<br />
Donna Van Stone Schmidt<br />
Marilyn Goodwin Soper<br />
Shirley Meier Vautin<br />
Patricia O’Shea Vonnegut<br />
Ruth Steinhausen Wachterman<br />
1972<br />
Lynn Geronemus Bigelman<br />
Anne Bridge<br />
Carol Carriuolo<br />
Margaret Taylor DeAgazio<br />
Barbara Tarr Drauschke<br />
Alice Liberman Eberhardt<br />
Priscilla Hedge Evilsizer<br />
Susan Whiting Finan<br />
Diane Tomaino Fisher<br />
Alexena Thun Frazee<br />
Cynthia Johnson GaNun<br />
Susan Alenier Gosline<br />
Karen Gottlieb Harris<br />
Linda Jeter Harris<br />
Mary Barbour Hatvany<br />
Janice Pearson Hildreth<br />
Louisa Miller Hoar<br />
Helena Marshall Keiser<br />
Linda Carlson Kiley<br />
Ronni Zuckerman Kirsch<br />
Susan Knight<br />
Jill Rosing Landel<br />
Joanne Glickman Lewis<br />
Elizabeth Hile Lindsay<br />
Beverly Tarr Mattatall<br />
Bonnie Paulsen Michael<br />
Vicki Caplan Milstein<br />
Susan Rowe Morison<br />
Barbara Zimmermann Murphy<br />
Barbara Pinto Napoleone<br />
Raylene Davidson Newbury<br />
Anne Bagley Nielsen<br />
Karen Lundquist Peterson<br />
Mary Dickerson Pierson<br />
Pamela Goering Pierson<br />
Carol Myers Pressman<br />
Kimberly Cross Reichert<br />
Sharon Flavell Rickard<br />
Linda Schofield<br />
Diane Palmer Soderland<br />
Marjorie Taft<br />
Sally Van Zandt Turk<br />
Gayle Ziegler Vonasek<br />
Nancy McClement Waage<br />
Betsey Greenwald Zimmering<br />
1973<br />
Christine Appert<br />
Andrea Newmark Baker<br />
Lynn Emerson Brownell<br />
Joyce Pettoruto Butler<br />
Jeannette Byers<br />
Ginny Holmes Carroll<br />
MaryFrances Shanahan Corso<br />
Nancy Cottrill<br />
Kathleen Cullion Daigle<br />
Deborah D’Amico<br />
Susan Eblen<br />
Lynne Siegal Fox<br />
Marilyn Levick Fyfe<br />
Jean Burrill Gailun<br />
Pamela Pappas Goode<br />
Dana Brewer Hahn<br />
Laurel Bravman Kaplan<br />
Diane Ellicott Kwiatek<br />
Jane Mackintosh Lasdow<br />
Ann Bradford Ligums<br />
Elizabeth Clarke Magruder<br />
Ellen Luckenbach Moomaw<br />
Diane Yeterian Moore<br />
Catherine Cuetara Nichols<br />
Diana Stiehl Palmer<br />
Priscilla Paquette<br />
Abby Squires Perelman<br />
Carol Bigelow Riggs<br />
Jane Hertig Roberts<br />
Sally Bechert Robinson<br />
Susan Mahoney Segar<br />
Mildred Shelton<br />
Susan Bruml Simon<br />
Cathy Bill Steer<br />
Cynthia Coggeshall Trask<br />
Marion Brigham Williams<br />
Robin Young<br />
Elizabeth Henry Zoba<br />
1974<br />
Karyn Brotman<br />
Nancy Bailin Careskey<br />
Paula Davison<br />
Rita Abrams Draper<br />
Kay Eng<br />
Susan Blaine Gilbert<br />
Nancy Lamb Handler<br />
Stephanie Kavanagh Hoff<br />
Margot Jackler<br />
Rebecca Kaminsky<br />
Debra Crossman Kwiatek<br />
Linda Look<br />
Alice Stasio Macfarland<br />
Mary Ellen Piantedosi<br />
Margosian<br />
Leslie McDonald<br />
Julie Moffatt<br />
Betsy Kinney Morgan<br />
Dana Nelson<br />
Jessie Norton-Lazenby<br />
Jill Schunick Putnam<br />
Diane Rothauser<br />
Susan Palmason Ruggiero<br />
Naomi Resnick Schwartz<br />
Sandra Smith<br />
Dayl Walker<br />
Linda Mayo-Perez Williams<br />
1975<br />
Carol Bryce Bibeau<br />
Harriet Blanchard<br />
Cathie Brown<br />
Julia Challinor<br />
Donna Stacy Draeger<br />
Joanna Miles Griffith<br />
Nancy Gurney<br />
Christine Mellor Hebert<br />
Patricia Gardiner Hill<br />
Amanda Carey Hogan<br />
Carol White Jones<br />
Rachel Henowitz Levine<br />
Helen Hymerling Liberatore<br />
Audrey Liberman Matson<br />
Susan Crispen Miller<br />
Mila Moschella<br />
Dorothy Currier Payne<br />
Judith Rosenbaum<br />
Barbara Stevens Rowe<br />
Patricia Gontrum Sare<br />
Karen Buckley Shorr<br />
Nancy Smalzel<br />
Kathy Witt Sturges<br />
Amy Svirsky<br />
Harriet Romeiser Thomas<br />
Nancy Drummond Tindal<br />
Nancy Toole<br />
Mary Ainslie Tracy<br />
Barbara Carnright Tyng<br />
Patricia Ward<br />
1976<br />
Regina Bachini<br />
Alison Tischer Brown<br />
Cheryl Zalk Chandler<br />
Marianne Daly Chellgren<br />
Lisa Milanese Evans<br />
Carolee Fucigna<br />
Nadine Heim<br />
Brita Josephson<br />
Amy Kitzen<br />
Madeline Berry Lasley<br />
Lucy Rand MacDonald<br />
Patricia McGowan McManus<br />
Constance Bell Moser<br />
Ruth Murphy<br />
Daria Lyons O’Connor<br />
Bonnie Page<br />
Dale Zabriskie Pomerantz<br />
Sherri Perk Reider<br />
Kathy Richter-Sand<br />
Patricia Grief Sammataro<br />
Geraldine Small<br />
Marghretta Gilbane Smithers<br />
Dolores Testa<br />
Margaret Kernan Webb<br />
1977<br />
Patricia Kimball Bragg<br />
Hollis Brooks<br />
Judith Birofka Brown<br />
Victoria Ash Christian<br />
Louise Close<br />
Margo Pelias Coffey<br />
Patricia Boers Henry<br />
Andree Howard<br />
Jill Schoenfeld Ikens<br />
Kathryn Morton Ivory<br />
Margaret Smith Lee<br />
Margaret McCarthy<br />
Dale Sillan Morris<br />
Elsa Whitmore Morse<br />
Peter Rawitsch<br />
Sheila Stewart<br />
Wendy Carter Taylor<br />
Nancy Pike Tooker<br />
Cynthia Lauriat Vaughan<br />
Susan Cook Vaughn<br />
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Susan West<br />
Lita Kochakian Zuchero<br />
1978<br />
Anonymous (1)<br />
Jane Anderson<br />
Rosemary Anderson<br />
Steven Aveson<br />
Rhoda Madeson Ben-Gai<br />
Susan Boyce-Cormier<br />
Jane Sleamaker Costello<br />
Louisa Esser<br />
Mary Deegan Hare<br />
Susan Flaherty King<br />
Janet Bell Matlock<br />
Karen Nuzzo<br />
Jerry Parr<br />
Gail Rosewater<br />
Brooke Stark<br />
Patricia Mucci Tayco<br />
Nancy Martinelli Waiculonis<br />
Janet Welz-Kavanagh<br />
1979<br />
Marcia Alevizos<br />
Sherrill Holland Batson<br />
Brenda Stone Clover<br />
Maura Houlihan German<br />
Kristine Sheathelm Gerson<br />
Christine Bassick La Forest<br />
Donna LaRoche<br />
Sari King Lindauer<br />
June Carpenter Natola<br />
Rebecca Sakshaug Pagano<br />
Julie Hyde Pooler<br />
Rosemary Rehm-Schantz<br />
Cornelia Conyngham<br />
Romanowski<br />
Elizabeth Plourde Steinkamp<br />
Molly Thompson<br />
1980<br />
Lisa McCabe Biagetti<br />
Michaela Penny Cole<br />
Holly McAlpine Dulac<br />
Jane Aldrich Furr<br />
Heather Rodts Garland<br />
Cynthia Garvin<br />
Kathleen Formica Harris<br />
Laureen Dillon Hart<br />
Bobbie Van Suetendael Helbig<br />
Susan Sullivan Jones<br />
Theresa Flaherty McCarthy<br />
Maxine Jones McNair<br />
Gail Southard Murphy<br />
Karin Patton<br />
Cheryl Scarsciotti<br />
Edward Schantz<br />
1981<br />
Linda Lievi Abdu<br />
Dawn Lawlor Brown<br />
Virginia Connor<br />
Marion Ferguson Newton<br />
Ava Lowe-Boampong<br />
Alexis Foster Reed<br />
Jean Ricciardelli<br />
Cynthia Dill Rosenthal<br />
Colleen Miller Rumsey<br />
Catherine Barry Smith<br />
Anne Marie Bergeron Tavares<br />
Sarah French Wilkins<br />
Christine Winchester<br />
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W h e e l o c k c o l l e g e • A n n u A l R e p o R t o f g i v i n g 2 0 1 1 - 2 0 1 2<br />
1982<br />
Laura Asseng Bachinski<br />
Cheryl Joyal Bramhall<br />
Deborah Moir Buehler<br />
Susan O’Halloran Constable<br />
Robin Dauwalter-Harmon<br />
Jennifer Moffett Delaney*<br />
Kathleen Mello Friedrichsen<br />
Catherine Ley Lawler<br />
Karen Mutch-Jones<br />
Barbara Madison Ripps<br />
Lisa Nord Zack<br />
1983<br />
Zoraida Correia Bohn<br />
Lisa Jurman Cedergren<br />
Karen Mello Diamond<br />
Evelina Ecker<br />
Gail Rothstein Forstater<br />
Pamela Lee Kania<br />
Susan Marr<br />
Mary Sienkiewicz Minalga<br />
Deborah Wurgler<br />
1984<br />
Katherine Bliss<br />
Lee Block<br />
Joan Cycenas<br />
Carole Wilgren Gonzales<br />
Martha McNulty<br />
Marlene Ross<br />
Elizabeth Stobart<br />
Susan Potter Sweeney<br />
Jacqueline Trudel<br />
Jody Mount Vorenberg<br />
Jill Weiner<br />
1985<br />
Linda Banks-Santilli<br />
Michele Yefsky Charm<br />
Nora Broughton Jestus<br />
JoAnn Chambers Meehan<br />
Michelle Porter<br />
Elyse Blank Smith<br />
Kimberly Rice Thompson<br />
Stephanie Poly Zapatka<br />
1986<br />
Lori MacKinnon Churchill<br />
Roberta Press Fraser<br />
Mary Midura Joncas<br />
Margaret Sturges McDermott<br />
Marlene Ross<br />
Pamela Senese<br />
Susan Clark Shaw<br />
Julie Simon<br />
1987<br />
Laura DeNucci Crosby<br />
Kathleen Hurley DeVarennes<br />
Kathleen Kenney Donnellan<br />
Jean Norman-Clancy<br />
Elisabeth Hubbard<br />
VanDerMaelen<br />
Luanne Peters Wilson<br />
1988<br />
Rebecca Johnson Alexander<br />
Arlene Cromwell Mendock<br />
Deborah Nevins-Geswell<br />
Kristen Pihlaja<br />
1989<br />
Krista Aslanian<br />
Kolleen DeCarolis Callaghan<br />
Debbi Masson Harte<br />
Mary McCormack<br />
Athena Pappaconstantine<br />
Maureen Griffin Reen<br />
Nanci King Shepardson<br />
Sonya Strange Wich<br />
1990<br />
Marlee Miller Gildehaus<br />
Susan Hackett Hegarty<br />
Melissa Kanzinger Ingerson<br />
Michelle Pine Lemme<br />
Eleanor Cannon Smith<br />
Lisa Wojtowicz Wood<br />
1991<br />
Meredith McArdle<br />
Betsy Levy Sachs<br />
1992<br />
Kelly Willis Dumas<br />
Karen Delaney O’Neil<br />
Heather Bogli Zilora<br />
1993<br />
Golden Bryant<br />
Patricia Bys Carando<br />
Rachel Archambault Conti<br />
Deborah Cooper Crane<br />
Elizabeth Bigham Dilts<br />
Robin Weissman Heard<br />
Sara Hosmer<br />
Nina Mortensen LaPlante<br />
Brenda Noel<br />
Kate Martin Noel<br />
Rochelle Perry-Craft<br />
Renee Minotti Rhoads<br />
Elizabeth Goldentyer Roberts<br />
Leandra Poliquin Sargent<br />
Amy Hambleton Signore<br />
Cheri Vercellone Smith<br />
Kerriann Kreitner Tavzel<br />
Tara Daniels Wider<br />
Mary Kirrane Worster<br />
1994<br />
Jacqueline O’Neil Boutin<br />
Amy Goldstein Brin<br />
Vivian Carr<br />
Rene Assetta Guilbeau<br />
Sonja Swanson Holbrook<br />
Kyla McSweeney<br />
Michael Niewiecki<br />
Shannon Browne Snaer<br />
Lisa Ann Strolin-Smith<br />
Valerie Gorlin Tarbell<br />
1995<br />
Julie Collins Burke<br />
Alicia Montross Dorment<br />
Jennifer Haddad Williams<br />
1996<br />
Amanda Cunningham<br />
Joel Ludington<br />
1997<br />
Jenny Fogel Miller<br />
1998<br />
Melissa Gautot Harris<br />
Margaret McCorkle<br />
Sally Kokernak Millwood<br />
Stacy Hogan Watts<br />
Stephanie Werner<br />
Pattyann Zotz<br />
1999<br />
Winnie Chan<br />
Catherine Marciello<br />
Katherine McKibbens<br />
Laurel Simonini Schnitman<br />
Emily Studebaker Valentine<br />
Amy Darling Wood<br />
2000<br />
Danielle Halwick<br />
2001<br />
Holly Evans<br />
Renee Poindexter Polonsky<br />
Nicole Slamin-Rivera<br />
2004<br />
Colleen Pierce Brown<br />
Kiley Noonan DiGloria<br />
2005<br />
Caroline Brzozowy<br />
Gregory Cass<br />
Christina Cox<br />
Aimee Glassick Dill<br />
Heather Gianatassio<br />
Jennifer Provoost<br />
LaTanya Steele<br />
Amy Turner<br />
2006<br />
Kristina Howell<br />
Jennifer Vogl<br />
2007<br />
Michelle Herbert Brunetti<br />
Sarah Guarino<br />
Kendra Mrozek<br />
Rachael Thames<br />
2008<br />
Chelsea Schreiber Beckett<br />
Lauren McLachlan Maiurano<br />
Shannon Pittman<br />
2009<br />
Rebecca Gould<br />
Amy McKenna<br />
2010<br />
Lindsay Garofalo<br />
Lianna Marciniec<br />
2011<br />
Gabrieal Babin<br />
Evelyn O’Connor<br />
Lindsay Sullivan<br />
Graduate<br />
Degree Donors<br />
1955<br />
Louise Butts<br />
Elizabeth McHenry<br />
1956<br />
Velma McEvoy Lindberg<br />
1958<br />
Eleanor Holsman<br />
1960<br />
Barbara Mead Anthony<br />
Susan Hunt Raasch<br />
1961<br />
Margaret Danforth Kacerek<br />
1962<br />
Virginia Gleason Crocker<br />
Deborah Carlson Jacklin<br />
Dorothy Ulf Mayer<br />
Barbara Sturgis<br />
Sally Stearns Wagner<br />
1963<br />
Sally Nichols McGucken<br />
Katherine Lanning Winters<br />
1964<br />
Helen Martin<br />
Ellen Smith<br />
1965<br />
Lucy Faulkner Davison<br />
Susan Vetter Shoff<br />
Margaret Reynard Vidale<br />
Georgia Bradley Zabrowski<br />
1966<br />
Carol Liu King*<br />
Carolyn Woodhead<br />
1967<br />
Sara MacGilvra Angus<br />
Elizabeth Horton Ingraham<br />
Ann Faude Newbury<br />
Carol Stuart Wenmark<br />
1968<br />
Peter Abuisi<br />
Alice Turner Elliott<br />
Barbara Shafran Greenglass<br />
Nancy Wilde Hahn<br />
Joan Packer Isenberg<br />
Nancy Blum Levin<br />
Helga Lieberg Lustig<br />
Madelyn Krest Nash<br />
Marcia Mitchell Soden<br />
Virginia Austin Watkins<br />
1969<br />
Anonymous (1)<br />
Shirley Yett Chodin<br />
Elizabeth Coates<br />
Diane Blumsack Korelitz<br />
Diane Levin<br />
Suzan Mauer Noonan<br />
Karen Tilbor<br />
Phyllis Gottfried Walt<br />
1970<br />
Joan Wolfers Belkin<br />
Barbara Walker Collamore<br />
Katherine Reardon Currier<br />
Signe Burk Ferguson<br />
Julia Devereux Glynn<br />
Ruth Harlow<br />
Barbara Kelley<br />
Martha Brown McGandy<br />
Merle Gallager Thompson<br />
Deborah Brown Tifft<br />
Judith Schwarz Weinstock<br />
1971<br />
Susan Eisenhart Alexander<br />
Janet Osborn Davis<br />
Sarah Leach Jackal<br />
Susan London Killip<br />
Betsye Petersen Sargent<br />
James Wood<br />
1972<br />
Sandra Tavares Augustinho<br />
Virginia Clark<br />
Susan Fife Davis<br />
Diana Truesdale Haywood<br />
Joyce Wells<br />
1973<br />
Louisa Lehmann Birch<br />
Kathryn Smith Conrad<br />
Renee Fox Gould<br />
Margaret Neville Holmes<br />
Judith Hawkins Johnson<br />
Sara Avery Kelley<br />
Joanna Phinney<br />
Susan Sanborn Twombly
1974<br />
Sally Pease<br />
Steven Silvestri<br />
1975<br />
Beth Reiter Blanchard<br />
Aliisa Leino DiMartinis<br />
Zelinda Makepeace Douhan<br />
Gail Egan Eddy<br />
Carol Dunkel Freidinger<br />
Nancy Fuller<br />
Dody Phinny Gates<br />
Nicholas Haddad<br />
Marilyn Idyll Hamly<br />
Susan Kosoff<br />
Robert McCorkle<br />
Barbara Zimmermann Murphy<br />
Pamela Paul<br />
Marjorie Moss Shekarchi<br />
Deborah Imri Tully<br />
Wendy Warnecke<br />
Cynthia Mahler White<br />
Joan Blackman Youngman<br />
1976<br />
Bess Emanuel<br />
Marilyn Grimes Fraktman<br />
John Magnani<br />
Mark Roberts<br />
Virginia Beth Sauer<br />
Judith Scott Stolp<br />
Lois Strother<br />
Ann Wanetik<br />
1977<br />
Maureen Riley Acorn<br />
Maureen Rooney Brentrup<br />
Joyce Calogero<br />
Deborah Litman Keefe<br />
Elizabeth Paine McClendon<br />
Julie Ledoux Nolan<br />
Lorraine Damaduk Parmelee<br />
Ramona Patterson<br />
Susan Raymo<br />
Pat Yingling<br />
1978<br />
Linda Minker Abramson<br />
Sharon Jackson Clark<br />
Karen McKeever Eichenlaub<br />
Annie Hale<br />
Jane Mackintosh Lasdow<br />
Wendy McLeish<br />
Mary Ann Anthony Nee<br />
Marilyn Nutting<br />
Jerry Parr<br />
Dell Redington<br />
Geraldine Robinson<br />
Margaret Morgan Sutphin<br />
Mary Beth Claus Tobin<br />
Gayle Ziegler Vonasek<br />
1979<br />
Susan Blandy<br />
Susan Moyer Breed<br />
Deborah D’Amico<br />
Lisa Diamant<br />
Paula Shapiro Gopin<br />
Dorothy Lifka<br />
Martha Ludwick Litle<br />
Mary Mitchell<br />
Mildred Paden<br />
Virginia Franks Seegel<br />
Holy Seplocha<br />
* Deceased<br />
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1980<br />
Betty Beach<br />
Nancy Bigelow<br />
Elizabeth Culick Bowman<br />
Ellen Foley<br />
Elizabeth Neavitt Frank<br />
Carol Tonseth Konz<br />
Michael McCormick<br />
Jolene Christoff Pearson<br />
Anne Stair Rosenbloom<br />
Barbara Silverstein<br />
Phyllis Haffenreffer Stetson<br />
Nancy Pennypacker Temple<br />
Margaret Kernan Webb<br />
1981<br />
Paula Fredericks<br />
Beverly Kopka Haug<br />
Sandra Heidemann<br />
Marion Ferguson Newton<br />
Kelly Richards<br />
Diane Rothauser<br />
Susan Hooper Welch<br />
Nancy Wild<br />
1982<br />
Anonymous (1)<br />
Alison Wrenn Baclig<br />
Jean McIntyre Hodgkins<br />
Stephanie Kavanagh Hoff<br />
Patricia Hertel Kemp<br />
Laura Knight<br />
Sandra Barreiro Ledvina<br />
Joyce Adachi Morimoto<br />
Maria-Matilde Pieters-Gray<br />
Susan Selya Rosen<br />
Christina Larson Sabella<br />
Louise Anderson Tarver<br />
Betsy Reed Wilson<br />
1983<br />
Christine Hudson Abrams<br />
Idie Benjamin<br />
Heidi Gunther Carlin<br />
Roberta Cox Cornish<br />
Susan Wells Ferrante<br />
Darlene Howland<br />
Mary C. Kloppenberg<br />
Robin Kren<br />
Nancy Pettitt<br />
Nancy Sullivan Tryzelaar<br />
Joan Anderson Watts<br />
1984<br />
Elinor Worley Beatty<br />
Laura Gaynard<br />
Christine Hammond<br />
Alan LaRue<br />
Sally Mazur<br />
Cathy-Anne Hughes Morrison<br />
Jill Schunick Putnam<br />
Phyllis Springer<br />
Emily Quigley Welch<br />
1985<br />
Jane Anderson<br />
Laurel Waiksnoris Bongiorno<br />
Michele Corley<br />
Mary D’Addario<br />
Lisa Fitzgerald<br />
Mary Garvey Gronski<br />
Lucy Rand MacDonald<br />
Benjamin Mardell<br />
Elizabeth Merrill<br />
Sarah Parker<br />
1986<br />
Carolyn Nickerson Betz<br />
Carol Ridgley Campbell<br />
Lisa Allard DiBrigida<br />
Cynthia Nelson Donahue<br />
Martha Sullivan Kuszek<br />
Patricia McGowan McManus<br />
Susan Montrone-Cobleigh<br />
Robert Quinn<br />
1987<br />
Giovonne Calenda<br />
Cynthia Cole Lawrence<br />
Karen S. Sturges<br />
Silvana Vollero<br />
Cheryl Whipple<br />
1988<br />
Rosaly Aiello<br />
Maureen Donovan-Kelly<br />
Suzanne Harkness-Wood<br />
Dina Mardell<br />
Adelaide Duffy Queeney<br />
Karen Zucker Smith<br />
Sally Van Zandt Turk<br />
Barbara Wilson<br />
Susan Wolff<br />
1989<br />
Katherine Bliss<br />
Amy Hurley Kapinos<br />
Jill Kelber Leibowitz<br />
Marlene Ross<br />
Priscilla Janeway Sherwood<br />
Margaret Franck Sparks<br />
Barbara Peterson Sweeney<br />
Candace Erickson Weiler<br />
1990<br />
Jean Bayless-Albrecht<br />
Linda Bruce<br />
Barbara Corey<br />
Patricia Conzelman Greeley<br />
Marie Morrison<br />
Patricia O’Shea Vonnegut<br />
1991<br />
Anonymous (1)<br />
Charlotte Lowell Allan<br />
Eleanor Almond<br />
Sally Butler<br />
Nancy Fredericks<br />
Diane Hembree<br />
Sharon Howard<br />
Michelle Pine Lemme<br />
Meredith Huxtable MacNeill<br />
Ruthann Sneider<br />
Phyllis Wendorff<br />
Louisa Wilking<br />
1992<br />
Cheryl Zalk Chandler<br />
Dianne Chase<br />
Sandra Christison<br />
Randi Shneider Epstein<br />
Catherine Gaffey Everett<br />
Leah Fechtmann<br />
Carol Derby Kuo<br />
Laura Long<br />
Jessi MacLeod<br />
Bonnie Page<br />
Ted Scheu<br />
Judith Omansky Weinberg<br />
1993<br />
Susan Bohn<br />
Karen Borchert<br />
Jennifer Christensen<br />
Camille Dante<br />
Robin Dauwalter-Harmon<br />
Diane DiMaina<br />
Jane Aldrich Furr<br />
Clare Birch Harrington<br />
Deborah Gilmore Hartline<br />
Patricia Hnatiuk<br />
Melissa Liley<br />
Susan Ludden<br />
Robyn Geogan Noble<br />
Cheryl Scarsciotti<br />
Vivian Swoboda<br />
Patricia Mucci Tayco<br />
1994<br />
Jean Bouton<br />
Sarah Brown Bramble<br />
Catherine Bronnert<br />
Lisa Davis<br />
Susan DeLuca<br />
Gail Coppins Gettens<br />
Jill Hatch<br />
Robin Weissman Heard<br />
Susan Hackett Hegarty<br />
Jennifer Wieland Knowles<br />
Rochelle Perry-Craft<br />
Nancy Smalzel<br />
Olivia Wood Smith<br />
Martin Uchendu<br />
Andrea Weaver<br />
1995<br />
Mary Casey<br />
Carolyn Cohen Corliss<br />
Susan DeAngelis<br />
Lynn Policano Howard<br />
Ellen Hilcoff Kerstein<br />
Suzanne Taylor King<br />
Jennifer Matteson<br />
Maxine Jones McNair<br />
Susan Priore<br />
1996<br />
Carol Berlin<br />
Kristen Langdon Cohen<br />
Margaret Taylor DeAgazio<br />
Kathryn Jones<br />
Karen Glantz Miel<br />
Heather Peach<br />
Sylvia Micka Smith<br />
Rebecca Merrill Thompson<br />
1997<br />
Helen McGah<br />
Kyla McSweeney<br />
Amy Lieberman Melisi<br />
Karen Moore<br />
Kate Martin Noel<br />
Pamela Senese<br />
Debra LaFrance Smith<br />
Debra Sullivan<br />
1998<br />
Donna Bent<br />
Christina Morris Helm<br />
Margaret Mullen Hurder<br />
Michael Niewiecki<br />
Maryann Mylott O’Rourke<br />
Sondra Rudofsky<br />
Elizabeth Edwards Tufankjian<br />
Amanda Gauthier Vanderlan<br />
President Obama’s Higher<br />
Education Community<br />
Service Honor Roll<br />
Placed <strong>Wheelock</strong> <strong>College</strong><br />
on Its <strong>2012</strong> Honor Roll<br />
with Distinction<br />
<strong>Wheelock</strong> <strong>College</strong> is a member<br />
of the President’s <strong>2012</strong> Higher<br />
Education Community Service<br />
Honor Roll with Distinction. The <strong>College</strong><br />
was recognized with the award for its commitment<br />
to community service and civic<br />
engagement. <strong>Wheelock</strong> is among 110 national<br />
colleges, including six Massachusetts<br />
colleges, named with the Honor Roll with<br />
Distinction award. This is the second year<br />
<strong>Wheelock</strong> has been placed on the Honor<br />
Roll and the first time it has been recognized<br />
on the Honor Roll with Distinction.<br />
1999<br />
Martha Bakken<br />
Sharon Febo<br />
Maureen Jutras<br />
2000<br />
Kellie Donahue Carey<br />
Julia Van Trees Coelho<br />
Lissa Fernandez<br />
Nancy Freeman<br />
Areti Liapi<br />
Susan Crispen Miller<br />
Piper Padillia<br />
2001<br />
Kimberly Delaney<br />
Danielle Halwick<br />
2002<br />
Yue-Li Lim<br />
Katherine McKibbens<br />
Michael Nappo<br />
2003<br />
Phanenca Babio-James<br />
Keavy Hennessey Smith<br />
2004<br />
Catherine Marciello<br />
Francis Ng Kok Liang<br />
2005<br />
Colleen Pierce Brown<br />
2006<br />
Caroline Brzozowy<br />
Jennifer Provoost<br />
2007<br />
Zoey O’Sullivan Murphy<br />
2008<br />
Kristina Howell<br />
Angie Rinehart<br />
Rachael Thames<br />
2011<br />
Lauren A. Marquis<br />
<strong>2012</strong><br />
Rebecca Smokowski<br />
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passion for action<br />
Anonymous (2)<br />
Admissions Advantage<br />
Albert Risk Management<br />
Consultants<br />
Judith Parks Anderson ‘62 and<br />
Robert Anderson<br />
Karen and James Ansara<br />
Bank of New York Mellon<br />
Stephanie Bennett-Smith and<br />
Orin R. Smith<br />
Lisa McCabe Biagetti ‘80<br />
Blue Cross Blue Shield of<br />
Massachusetts<br />
Natalie M. Branden<br />
Bright Horizons Family Solutions<br />
Agnes Bundy Scanlan<br />
The Ronald G. Casty Family<br />
Foundation<br />
CBIZ Tofias<br />
Century Bank<br />
Children’s Hospital Boston<br />
Keena Dunn Clifford ‘68 and<br />
Chris Clifford<br />
Brigitte Cazalis-Collins and<br />
Joseph H. Collins<br />
Community Development<br />
Corporation of Boston<br />
Patricia S. Cook ‘69<br />
Christina Cox ‘05<br />
Tina Feldman Crosby ‘67 and<br />
Harvey Crosby<br />
CSL Consulting, LLC<br />
Delta Dental<br />
DiMella Shaffer<br />
Educators Serving Educators<br />
Enoch C. Shaw Co., Inc.<br />
Barbara Elliott Fargo ‘52<br />
Atsuko and Larry Fish<br />
Graceann and Fred Foulkes<br />
Weezie and Bink Garrison<br />
Deborah and Frank Giso<br />
Sandra and Philip Gordon<br />
Grossman Marketing Group<br />
Tina Morris Helm ‘64/’98MS and<br />
Bill Helm<br />
Hirsch Roberts Weinstein LLP<br />
IBM Corporation<br />
Jackie Jenkins-Scott and Jim Scott<br />
The Jenzabar Foundation<br />
Roberta and Tom Kelly<br />
Phyllis Forbes Kerr ‘64<br />
Judy and John Knutson<br />
Beedee and Ted Ladd<br />
Lee Kennedy Co., Inc.<br />
Mary and Orlando Lightfoot<br />
Carol and Robert Lincoln<br />
John Lowell*<br />
Angela Lowell and<br />
William A. Lowell, Esq.<br />
Marian F. Mandell<br />
Lauren A. Marquis ‘11MS<br />
Anne Marie Martorana<br />
Mattapan Community Health<br />
Center, Inc.<br />
Donna and Tom McKibbens<br />
Gary Melton<br />
Vicki Caplan Milstein ‘72<br />
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Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris,<br />
Glovsky and Popeo, P.C.<br />
Barbara A. Morgan<br />
Robin Mount and Mark Szpak<br />
The Nellie Mae Education<br />
Foundation, Inc.<br />
OCE Business Services, Inc.<br />
Philip W. Johnston Associates<br />
The Plymouth Rock Foundation<br />
Suzanne Pucker<br />
William Rawn<br />
Jane Hertig Roberts ‘73 and<br />
Mark E. Roberts ‘76MS<br />
Barbara Grogins Sallick ‘61 and<br />
Robert Sallick<br />
Margaret Weinheimer Sherwin ‘58<br />
Susan Bruml Simon ‘73 and<br />
Peter Simon<br />
Sally Clark Sloop ‘68<br />
Sodexo, Inc. and Affiliates<br />
Sonesta International Hotel<br />
Corporation<br />
Sovereign Bank<br />
Carol and Kenneth Spritz<br />
State Street Corporation<br />
Cathleen and James Stone<br />
Karen S. Sturges ‘87MS<br />
Kate and Ben Taylor<br />
TD Bank, N. A.<br />
TD Insurance<br />
Thomas G. Gallagher<br />
Mechanical Contractors<br />
Lisa and Rex Thors<br />
TJX Foundation<br />
Tufts Health Plan<br />
University Health Plans<br />
Vertec Corp.<br />
Amaryllis Morris Volk ‘55<br />
Alice Parke Watson ‘63<br />
Constance and Preston Williams<br />
Elizabeth Bassett Wolf ‘54<br />
Julie Wollman<br />
u <strong>Wheelock</strong> Chair of<br />
the Board of Trustees<br />
Ranch Kimball and<br />
President Jenkins-<br />
Scott (with him at<br />
center) welcomed<br />
Passion for Action Leadership<br />
Award recipients<br />
Dr. Carol Johnson, superintendent<br />
of Boston<br />
Public Schools (left), and<br />
Dr. Linda Nathan, founder<br />
and co-headmaster<br />
of Boston Arts Academy,<br />
at the reception.<br />
2011 Passion for Action Celebration<br />
<strong>Wheelock</strong>’s third Passion for Action Leadership Award Dinner, held on Nov. 16,<br />
2011, at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston,<br />
was another great success—an inspiring demonstration of college-bound<br />
students determined to make the world a better place and a fruitful fundraiser bringing in<br />
$216,000 for Passion for Action scholarships.<br />
Each Passion for Action Leadership Award Dinner, held every other year, also honors<br />
Boston-area leaders who exemplify <strong>Wheelock</strong>’s mission to improve the lives of children<br />
and families and its values promoting quality education, civic engagement, and service.<br />
This year, the <strong>College</strong> celebrated the achievements of Dr. Carol Johnson, superintendent<br />
of Boston Public Schools, and Dr. Linda Nathan, founder and co-headmaster of Boston<br />
Arts Academy, Boston’s first and only high school for the visual and performing arts, and<br />
presented each of them with a 2011 Passion for Action Leadership Award.<br />
Karen Keating Ansara, co-founder of The Haiti Fund and the Ansara Family Fund<br />
at the Boston Foundation, which focus on longer-term human rights and reconstruction<br />
issues in Haiti, was the keynote speaker. She passionately shared her perspective on service,<br />
its benefits to others, and the transformative rewards it offers to those who serve, while<br />
also recognizing the achievements of the 18 Passion for Action scholars who were in the<br />
spotlight at the event.<br />
Previous Passion for Action Leadership Award Dinners have honored Chris Gabrieli, a<br />
national leader in educational reform and co-founder of Massachusetts 2020, a nonprofit<br />
organization with the mission to expand economic and educational opportunities for<br />
children and families across Massachusetts; and the Lowell Family, for its generations-long<br />
history of civic engagement and leadership in Boston education both individually and<br />
through the Lowell Institute.<br />
Funds raised through each of the Passion for Action events provide four-year scholarships<br />
for five incoming <strong>Wheelock</strong> students from Greater Boston. President Jenkins-Scott<br />
noted that 2011 marked the first year that <strong>Wheelock</strong> had Passion for Action scholars<br />
enrolled at the <strong>College</strong> at every class level. In May <strong>2012</strong>, <strong>Wheelock</strong> celebrated the graduation<br />
of the first five Passion Scholars, who entered <strong>Wheelock</strong> in 2008!<br />
Thank you to the nearly 400 individuals who participated in this special event that has<br />
become an inspiring tradition and makes a <strong>Wheelock</strong> education possible for outstanding<br />
students who will have a positive impact on the lives of thousands of children and families<br />
wherever in the world their educations take them.<br />
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Bill Lowell, 2009 Passion for Action<br />
honoree and Keena Clifford, Campaign<br />
for <strong>Wheelock</strong> co-chair<br />
Karen Keating<br />
Ansara, co-founder<br />
of The Haiti Fund<br />
and Ansara Family<br />
Fund at the Boston<br />
Foundation, inspired<br />
the nearly 400<br />
guests in attendance<br />
with her moving<br />
keynote.<br />
To the Passion for Action<br />
Leadership Award Dinner Co-Chairs,<br />
Sandra and Philip Gordon,<br />
Rev. Gregory Groover Sr.,<br />
Ranch C. Kimball,<br />
and Robert A. Maginn Jr.<br />
Congratulations<br />
and thank you for supporting<br />
<strong>Wheelock</strong>’s mission!<br />
Emerging Leader Awards<br />
The Passion for Action Leadership Award Dinner provided another<br />
wonderful opportunity to spotlight outstanding contributions to<br />
their communities by five Greater Boston-area high school students.<br />
Each student was nominated for recognition by a guidance counselor or<br />
other community leader who was familiar with the student’s developing<br />
leadership abilities, and each received a $1,000 scholarship toward costs of<br />
attending a college of<br />
their choice, thanks to<br />
the Jenzabar Foundation’s<br />
sponsorship.<br />
Student Emerging<br />
Leaders with Robert A.<br />
Maginn Jr., chairman<br />
and CEO of Jenzabar, Inc.<br />
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Board of<br />
Trustees and<br />
members of the<br />
Corporation<br />
Judith Parks Anderson ‘62<br />
Barbara Mead Anthony ‘60MS<br />
Steven Aveson ‘78<br />
Lynne Wyluda Beasley ‘66<br />
Stephanie Bennett-Smith<br />
Gary Bergstrom<br />
Lisa McCabe Biagetti ‘80<br />
Grace Macomber Bird<br />
Margaret G. Blakelock<br />
Joyce Pettoruto Butler ‘73<br />
Julia Challinor ‘75<br />
Keena Dunn Clifford ‘68<br />
Louise Close ‘77<br />
Kathryn Smith Conrad ‘73MS<br />
Susan O’Halloran Constable ‘82<br />
Patricia Cook ‘69<br />
Christina Cox ‘05<br />
Barbara Tarr Drauschke ‘72<br />
Ellen Tague Dwinell ‘61<br />
Sally Reeves Edmonds ‘55<br />
Barbara Elliott Fargo ‘52<br />
Fred K. Foulkes<br />
Betty Fuchs<br />
Maria Furman<br />
William R. Hall<br />
Mitchell Harris<br />
Tina Morris Helm ‘64/’98MS<br />
Annette Hill Green<br />
Sara Hosmer ‘93<br />
John Jackson<br />
Kathryn D. Jones ‘96MS<br />
Thomas Kelly<br />
Lyn Peck Kenyon ‘45/’69BS<br />
Ranch C. Kimball<br />
John F. Knutson<br />
Edward H. Ladd<br />
Elizabeth Wheeler L’Hommedieu ‘54<br />
Robert A. Lincoln<br />
William A. Lowell, Esq.<br />
Lauren McLachlan Maiurano ‘08<br />
Eliane Markoff<br />
Vicki Caplan Milstein ‘72<br />
Lois Barnett Mirsky ‘54<br />
Juan Carlos Morales<br />
Alan Morse<br />
Mila Moschella ‘75<br />
Valerie Mosley<br />
Robin Mount<br />
Martha-Reed Ennis Murphy ‘69<br />
Maryann Mylott O’Rourke ‘60/’98MS<br />
Heather Peach ‘96MS<br />
Linda Port<br />
Nancy Fowle Purinton ‘64<br />
Paul Reville<br />
Jane Hertig Roberts ‘73<br />
Mark E. Roberts ‘76MS<br />
Doryl Lloyd Rourke ‘67<br />
Barbara Grogins Sallick ‘61<br />
Thekla Reese Shackelford ‘56<br />
Susan Bruml Simon ‘73<br />
Ellen Haebler Skove ‘49<br />
Karen Steffensen Sturges ‘87MS<br />
Kate Taylor<br />
Daniel S. Terris<br />
Geneva S. Thorndike<br />
Joan I. Thorndike<br />
Lisa Thors<br />
Barry Wanger<br />
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Kahris D. White-McLaughlin<br />
Leverett Wing<br />
Elizabeth Bassett Wolf ‘54<br />
Faculty/staff<br />
Joelle Auguste<br />
George Bacher<br />
Charles G. Baldwin<br />
Linda A. Banks-Santilli ’85<br />
Mary Battenfeld<br />
Deborah Beck<br />
Debra Borkovitz<br />
Gregory Cass ’05<br />
Judith A. Ceven<br />
Stephanie Cox Suarez<br />
Catherine Donahue<br />
Ellen Faszewski<br />
David and Susan Fedo<br />
Marcia McClintock Folsom<br />
Christina Hadges<br />
Marjorie Hall<br />
Susan Harris-Sharples<br />
Kate Hendrix<br />
Patricia Hnatiuk ’93MS<br />
Peter N. Holden<br />
Maya Honda<br />
Terri Houston<br />
Nancy Hutchins<br />
Jackie Jenkins-Scott<br />
Deborah Litman Keefe ’77MS<br />
Susan Kosoff ’65/’75MS<br />
Diane Levin ’69MS<br />
Lauren A. Marquis ’11MS<br />
Anne Marie Martorana<br />
Mary McCormack ’89<br />
Donna McKibbens<br />
Barbara A. Morgan<br />
Irwin Nesoff<br />
Brenda Noel ’93<br />
Barbara Rosenquest<br />
Stefi Rubin<br />
Lori Ann Saslav<br />
Roy Schifilliti<br />
Ivy Schram<br />
Keavy Hennessey Smith ’03MSW<br />
Rebecca Smokowski ’12MS<br />
Kenneth P. Spritz<br />
Hope Haslam Straughan<br />
Phillip M. Weiss<br />
Linda A. Welter<br />
Lee and Stephen Whitfield<br />
Julie Wollman<br />
Karen Worth<br />
parents<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Steve Abuisi<br />
Susan Alnes<br />
Mr. and Mrs. George L. Bernazani<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Blanchard<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Buccheri<br />
Mr. and Mrs. William Chevett<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Merritt Clark<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Albert Creighton<br />
Mr. and Mrs. George Goldman<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Greeley<br />
Brian Hawthorne<br />
Mr. and Mrs. John D. Link<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Andrew F. Mackey<br />
Gary Melton<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Andrew O’Shea<br />
Stanley Schertzer<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Allan L. Schwartz<br />
Hadley Smith and Nancy C. Siegele<br />
Ellen-Marie Stowers<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Waldron<br />
Judith A. Williams<br />
Michael Zellman<br />
Friends<br />
Anonymous (2)<br />
Michael W. Andrews<br />
Karen and James Ansara<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Patrick M. Bailey<br />
Cara L. Baker<br />
Marjorie Bakken<br />
Sandra Barnes Weiss<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Barrett<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Bates<br />
Gayl L. Belcher<br />
Ann Birmingham<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Warren A. Bishop<br />
M. Gregory Bohnsack<br />
Jean Borden<br />
Karen E. Boucher<br />
Mr. and Mrs. David Bowen<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Alfred G. Boylan<br />
Doris Frame Braine<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Ed Brakeman<br />
Natalie M. Branden<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Jim Briggs<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Briggs<br />
Dennis S. Buchan<br />
Peter Buhl<br />
Agnes Bundy Scanlan<br />
Michael Burke<br />
Mr. and Mrs. C. Terence Butwid<br />
Roldah N. Cameron<br />
Nancy J. Camp<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Peter B. Campstrom<br />
Sally H. Castle<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Larry E. Cate<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Teh-sheng Chan<br />
Eleanor Chasdi<br />
Kam-Hoi Cheng<br />
Susan P. Chern<br />
Ann E. Christmann<br />
Mr. and Mrs. William H. Christmann<br />
Doris Chriswell<br />
May Chu<br />
Christine Colacino<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph H. Collins<br />
John J. Colony III<br />
Patricia Comeau<br />
James P. Comer<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Edward B. Comerford<br />
Karen A. Coronas<br />
Cleta M. Cotter<br />
William P. Cowgill<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Edward P. Curtis Jr.<br />
J. Allis D’Amanda<br />
France Demmons<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Dever<br />
Walter Douglass<br />
Jeff Druck<br />
Mr. and Mrs. James C. Duffus<br />
Cheryl Eastman<br />
Walter Einstein<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Roy Ettlinger<br />
Monique C. Fafard<br />
Carol Faulb<br />
Lucia Santini Field<br />
Janet E. Fine<br />
Larry and Atsuko Fish<br />
Ruth Forrest<br />
Mr. and Mrs. C. Benn Forsyth<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Bud Frame<br />
Leslie T. Gardier<br />
Weezie and Bink Garrison<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Michael Geylin<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Robert V. Gianniny<br />
Deborah and Frank Giso<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Mark Goodrich<br />
Philip and Sandra Gordon<br />
Georgia P. Gosnell<br />
Frank S. Grosso<br />
Paul M. Grueter<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Alfred M. Hallenbeck<br />
Wayne Hardy<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Mark Hargrave<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Robert T. Hargrave<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Hargrave<br />
Mary S. Harris<br />
Mitchell Harris<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Healy<br />
Mr. and Mrs. James T. Henderson<br />
Joanne E. Hinds<br />
Alison Hinson<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Donald J. Hoeffel<br />
Andrea Hoffman<br />
Roger S. Hoffman<br />
Bertha N. Holmes<br />
Betsy Anne Holmes<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Peter Hotra<br />
Virginia M. Howard<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Hutchins<br />
Marypat Imlah<br />
Charles E. Jackson<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Roger A. Jackson<br />
Timothy C. Jackson<br />
Rosa Jarvais<br />
Mr. and Mrs. David Kady<br />
Mr. and Mrs. David T. Kearns<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Warren Keller<br />
Linda King<br />
Tony King<br />
Jane W. Kitchen<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Harold Koch<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Anthony P. Latino<br />
Nancy H. Lee<br />
Jeanne S. Leinen<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Donald D. Lennox<br />
Betsy Lewis<br />
Mary and Orlando Lightfoot<br />
Robert and Marguerite Loheed<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Brad Long<br />
Pamela Long<br />
Ann Longfellow<br />
Barbara S. Longfellow<br />
John Lowell*<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Frank E. Luellen<br />
Donna Lutton<br />
John C. Lynd<br />
Arthur MacEwan and Margery Davies<br />
Susan R. Mackenzie<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Andrew W. Mackey<br />
Rena Mackey<br />
Herbert C. MacKinnon<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Michael Maida<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Anthony J. Malone<br />
Marian F. Mandell<br />
Mary Michele Mariscalco<br />
Dr. and Mrs. Gordon Marshall<br />
William McGahie<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Mercurio<br />
Barbara J. Michaud<br />
Nancy S. Middleton<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Lee T. Mikkola<br />
Jennifer Morrison and Richard Marks<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Wesley Murphy<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Richard P. Myers<br />
Charlotte W. Neinas<br />
Suzanne Newton<br />
Robert Y. Ning<br />
Helen S. Nycum<br />
Gretchen Ohrenberger<br />
Nancy Olins<br />
Irena Parhiala<br />
Lorraine J. Patterson<br />
Jeannette Pelletier<br />
Judith Pfankuch<br />
Lois A. Phelps<br />
Winthrop D. Piper<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Peter Tin-Yau Poon<br />
Suzanne Pucker<br />
John H. Rae Jr.<br />
Robert R. Rae<br />
Betsy Rainbow Morse<br />
William Rawn<br />
Deborah S. Reid<br />
Cheryl Rhoda<br />
Norman E. Rice<br />
Theresa M. Richards<br />
Ilyse Robbins and Glen Mohr<br />
Kristine B. Robison<br />
Roberta M. Roop<br />
Joan K. Ryan<br />
Susan G. Simon<br />
Sau-Fong Siu and Yum-Tong Siu<br />
Clifford W. Smith and<br />
Bernie Todd Smith<br />
Joseph C. Smith<br />
Stephanie Sonnabend<br />
Mary H. Spitz<br />
Edward C. Steele<br />
Jon E. Steffensen and<br />
Elizabeth K. Frantz<br />
Jane W. Steinhausen<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Stokes<br />
John E. Stokes<br />
Cathleen and James M. Stone<br />
Mr. and Mrs. David M. Strasenburgh<br />
Walter Swap<br />
Robert F. Sykes<br />
William C. Sykes<br />
Robert M. Tatum Jr.<br />
Mr. and Mrs. John W. Thoman<br />
Yenche Tioanda<br />
Ann K. Townson<br />
Pamela K. Turan<br />
D. Lawrence Van Dorn<br />
Mr. and Mrs. John Vancor<br />
Gretchen A. Voss<br />
Seth H. Washburn<br />
David W. Weiss<br />
William Wenrich<br />
Jerry L. <strong>Wheelock</strong><br />
Mr. and Mrs. Edward N. White<br />
Shirley Wiik<br />
Constance and Preston Williams<br />
Shirley B. Winslow<br />
L. Carmen Wyman<br />
Marjorie H. Wystrach<br />
alumni<br />
Organizations<br />
Thank you, <strong>2012</strong> Senior Class,<br />
for your gift!<br />
Class of 1960<br />
The Alumni Association<br />
<strong>Wheelock</strong> <strong>College</strong> Alumni Club<br />
of Cape Cod
<strong>Wheelock</strong><br />
Family Theatre<br />
Donors<br />
Anonymous (14)<br />
Jennifer Abbott<br />
Actors’ Equity Foundation<br />
Detris and Olivia Adelabu<br />
Carol and Mike Akillian<br />
Jacquelyn Alexander<br />
Matthew Alexander<br />
Monica and Eric R. Allon<br />
Amy Almeida<br />
Minnie Ames<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Robert G.<br />
Anderson<br />
Barbara Anthony<br />
Cynthia Appleton<br />
Nina Aronoff<br />
Lori G. Ashline<br />
Atlantic Philanthropies<br />
Director/Employee<br />
Designated Gift Fund<br />
Ann-Josephine and<br />
Matthew Auguste<br />
Carolyn Auwers Tatarian<br />
Steve Aveson<br />
Jane Awad<br />
June Baboian<br />
Clifford Baden<br />
Janet Bailey<br />
Marjorie, Martha, and<br />
Maggie Bakken<br />
Charles G. Baldwin<br />
Sherill Baldwin and<br />
Kimball Cartwright, Jr.<br />
Kimberly Ballard<br />
Karl Bandtel<br />
Bank of America Charitable<br />
Foundation<br />
Sanjay Banker and Sejal Patel<br />
Linda Banks-Santilli<br />
Nancy P. Barber<br />
Arthur Barlas<br />
Anamaria and James Barron<br />
Mary Battenfeld<br />
John P. Bay<br />
Lynne Beasley<br />
Diana Brigham Beaudoin<br />
Deborah Beck<br />
Margaret Bergstrand<br />
Gary Bergstrom<br />
Judy Berk<br />
Mindy Berman and Family<br />
Teresa Betit and Haley Medea<br />
Marilyn Rea Beyer<br />
Alan and Debbie Bieri<br />
Susan Bigger and<br />
Kevin Belanger<br />
Gay Bird<br />
Ann Bitetti and Doug Lober<br />
Linda Cabot Black Foundation<br />
George and Michelle Blaisdell<br />
Nancy and Jacob Bloom<br />
Blue Cross Blue Shield of<br />
Massachusetts<br />
Danny Bolton<br />
Debra Borkovitz<br />
Boston Cultural Council<br />
Larry Bouthiette<br />
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Margaret Ann Brady<br />
Amy and Ed Brakeman<br />
The Greenfield Brandt Family<br />
Deane and Ken Brasfield<br />
Linda Braun<br />
Mrs. F. Elwood Bray<br />
Susan Moyer Breed<br />
Cheryl and Leonard Brown<br />
Monique McIntyre Brown<br />
Carola Cadley<br />
Maura Campbell<br />
Richard Charlton<br />
Carole Charnow<br />
Jodi and Michael Chase<br />
Daniel S. Cheever, Jr.<br />
Christopher Chew<br />
Eleanor Chin and Kevin Gillespie<br />
Valerie C.M. Ching<br />
Marla Choslovsky and<br />
Paul Greenberg<br />
Hilary Cipullo<br />
Keena Clifford<br />
Edward F. Coakley*<br />
Catherine and Jeff Coburn<br />
Larry Coen<br />
Sue and Ron Cohen<br />
Peter Colao<br />
Ellen Colton<br />
Margaret Leitch Copeland<br />
Sue Costello and Jeff Keffer<br />
Helen Cotton<br />
Stephanie Cox Suarez<br />
Robert Crabtree<br />
Debbie Crane<br />
Tina and Harvey Crosby<br />
Amanda Cunningham<br />
Stephanie D’Alessandro<br />
Ceronne Daly<br />
Deborah D’Amico<br />
Marjorie V. Danford<br />
Mindy d’Arbeloff<br />
Daughters Fund, a Donor<br />
Advised Fund of Combined<br />
Jewish Philanthropies, at the<br />
recommendation of Sharon L.<br />
Rich and Nancy E. Reed<br />
John Davin<br />
Susan DeColaines and<br />
Bill Swanson<br />
Sarah and Richard deLima<br />
Dean K. Denniston, Jr.<br />
Andrea E. Doane<br />
Bob Doane<br />
Lauren and George Doherty<br />
Catherine Donahue<br />
Zelinda and John Douhan<br />
Tina Durand<br />
Christie Dustman and Patti Ryan<br />
Sally Reeves Edmonds<br />
Joyce and Larry Eldridge<br />
Natalie Eldridge and<br />
Libba Ingram<br />
Kay Arden Elliott<br />
Kimberly Elliott<br />
Raymond Fahrner<br />
Priscilla Fales<br />
Barbara Elliott Fargo<br />
Ellen Faszewski<br />
Nicole Faulkner<br />
Ed Feather<br />
Imogene Fish<br />
Fish Family Foundation<br />
JaneAnn Fisher<br />
Judith L. Fleischman<br />
Donna Folan<br />
Susan Foscaldo<br />
Bobbi Fox<br />
Margaret E. Francis<br />
David Frank<br />
Lauren and Jonathan Freed<br />
Josephine and Amy A.<br />
Freedman<br />
Ellie Friedland<br />
Hilary and Chris Gabrieli<br />
Laura and Michael Garand<br />
Leslie T. Gardier<br />
Andrea Genser<br />
Jenn and Ben Gerber<br />
Nancy Gertner<br />
Virginia Gettings<br />
Betsy and Ed Giles<br />
Erin Gilligan and Hoil Kim<br />
Joseph W. Glannon<br />
Charlotte and Hy Glick<br />
Susan Gochenour and<br />
Steven Rosen<br />
Lisa Korak Goldberg<br />
Kippy Goldfarb<br />
Gregory Gómez<br />
Kathleen Gomperts<br />
Gonzalez & Associates, P.C.<br />
Debbie Goodman<br />
Adria Goodson<br />
Leslie E. and Charles B. Gordon<br />
Mary Beth Gordon<br />
Dot Gorenflo<br />
Nicolette and Scott Greb<br />
Sara Gronim<br />
Marjorie J. Hall<br />
Persis G. Hamilton<br />
Hope Haslam Straughan<br />
Jeanne W. Hatch<br />
Evelyn Bullitt Hausslein<br />
Stephanie and Kevin Hawkinson<br />
Bernice Healy<br />
Bobbi Helbig<br />
Tina Helm<br />
Patty Hnatiuk<br />
Yvette Hochberg<br />
Andrea C. Hoffman<br />
Emily Wright Holt<br />
Diane Hopkins<br />
Elizabeth Hoskins ‘56<br />
Fiora M. Houghteling<br />
Anne and Jim Howard<br />
Chobee Hoy<br />
Mary C. Huntington<br />
Hannah Intille<br />
Douglas Jabara<br />
Pat Jehlen<br />
The Joanis Family<br />
Jesse Jolly<br />
Dhonyale and Cheyenne Jones<br />
Jennifer Jones<br />
Maureen F. Jones<br />
Joeritta Jones de Almeida<br />
Timothy Jozwick<br />
Jeanne and Norton Juster<br />
Ruth C. Kahn<br />
The Kaim Family<br />
Mieko Kamii and Donald Hafner<br />
Louis Kampf<br />
Helen Kass<br />
Mimi Katano and Phil Smith<br />
Debby Keefe<br />
Sara A. Kelley<br />
Judith H. Kidd<br />
Meaghan Kilian<br />
Sally Kindleberger<br />
Andrew Klein<br />
Sarah Klein<br />
Edgar Klugman<br />
Deborah Knowlton<br />
Carol Knox<br />
Judy and John Knutson<br />
Florence Koplow<br />
Susan Kosoff<br />
Virginia and Michael Kosoff<br />
Danny LaChance<br />
Jeanette Lake<br />
Nina and T.J. LaPlante<br />
Diane LaRocque<br />
Susan Lawrence<br />
Matthew T. Lazure<br />
Wendy Lement<br />
Diane Levin<br />
June Lewin<br />
Al Lewis<br />
Nicky and Paige L’Hommedieu<br />
Erica Licea-Kane<br />
Robert Lincoln<br />
Blair MacInnes<br />
Valerie Maio<br />
Tracey Malins<br />
Elizabeth Malkin<br />
Ulla C. Malkus<br />
The Mardell Sandberg Family<br />
Carol and Gordon Marshall<br />
Allan and Anne Marie<br />
Martorana<br />
Linda Maslin and<br />
Daniel Moshief<br />
Massachusetts Cultural Council<br />
Kevin Masso<br />
Brian L. Masters<br />
MathWorks<br />
David E. Matz<br />
Ethel McConaghy<br />
John McCormack<br />
Kyla McSweeney<br />
Terry Meier<br />
Franklin N. Meissner, Jr.<br />
James W. Meyer<br />
Beth Miller<br />
Melissa Miller<br />
Ruth Mineo<br />
Mark Minton<br />
Lois Mirsky<br />
Wendy Mitchell<br />
C.L. Monrose<br />
Elizabeth A. Moore<br />
Elizabeth Moriarty<br />
Jennifer Morrison and<br />
Richard Marks<br />
Deanne Morse<br />
Mila J. Moschella ‘75<br />
Robin Mount<br />
Mr. John’s Cleaners<br />
“I have had the extraordinary<br />
good fortune to be able to do the<br />
kind of work I value, with people<br />
I care about, in an environment<br />
where creativity, ethical behavior,<br />
loyalty, imagination, passion,<br />
and compassion are prized.<br />
My gratitude knows no bounds.”<br />
—Susan Kosoff, Co-Founder and Producer,<br />
<strong>Wheelock</strong> Family Theatre, and<br />
Professor of Theatre Arts and Education<br />
Susan Kosoff Legacy Fund<br />
On June 6, <strong>2012</strong>, more than 300<br />
friends gathered at <strong>Wheelock</strong><br />
to celebrate the achievements<br />
of Susan Kosoff ’65/’75MS, Ed.D. (hon)<br />
’90 and to wish her well as the curtain rose<br />
on her retirement from <strong>Wheelock</strong> Family<br />
Theatre (WFT) and the <strong>College</strong>. The event<br />
culminated with “The Sue Kosoff Follies,”<br />
an unforgettable musical revue written and<br />
directed by WFT co-founder Jane Staab.<br />
(Sue’s daughter, Emily Kosoff ’12, was<br />
among the performers.) Proceeds from the<br />
event totaled more than $145,000 and will<br />
help to establish the Susan Kosoff Legacy<br />
Fund, an endowed fund for new initiatives<br />
that will continue Sue’s long-standing<br />
commitment to making theater experiences<br />
accessible to all people.<br />
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The Mussafer Family<br />
Grace Napier and<br />
William Monnen<br />
Greg Nash<br />
Donald Neiberg<br />
Charlotte W. Neinas<br />
Anne H. and John W. Newton<br />
Suzanne R. Newton<br />
Tricia Norton<br />
Elsa Nunez<br />
Sky Olander<br />
Valerie and Victor Ostrower<br />
Firoza Panthaki<br />
Peabody Foundation<br />
Charlotte and Ed Peed<br />
The Perry Family<br />
Mary ElizaBeth Peters<br />
Catherine Peterson<br />
Joel C. Peterson<br />
Gamalia Pharms<br />
Alfreda Piecuch<br />
Martha and Joel Pierce<br />
Lynne Potts<br />
Cynthia Price Taylor<br />
Nancy and Bill Purinton<br />
Purple Ink Insurance<br />
Thecla Ree<br />
Donna M. Reulbach<br />
Wendy Riordan<br />
Harriet and Jordan Robbins<br />
Liz and Fred Robbins<br />
Pamela Roberts<br />
Robert Rogers<br />
Annabella Roig<br />
Mary Ann and Ed Rooney<br />
Lynne and Victor Rosansky<br />
Bonnie Rosenberg<br />
Judith H. Rosenberg<br />
David Rothauser<br />
The Rowell Foster<br />
Children’s Fund<br />
Stefi Rubin<br />
Nancy Sadecki<br />
Anne and David Salant<br />
Deborah Samuels-Peretz<br />
Brooke and Neal Sandford<br />
Lori Ann Saslav<br />
Ginger Sauer<br />
Beth and Eric Schlager<br />
Johanna Schneider<br />
Nina Schuessler<br />
Jenna Lea Scott<br />
Joyce Hope Scott<br />
Michelle Seligson<br />
Alane K. Shanks<br />
Shapiro Foundation<br />
Chip and Elizabeth Sheeran<br />
Susan Shuman<br />
Spring Sirkin<br />
Ellen H. and Philip W. Skove<br />
and Families<br />
Barbara B. Slater<br />
Adelaide Smith<br />
Anita Smith<br />
Fran Smith<br />
Judy Smith<br />
Ruthann Sneider<br />
Kate Snodgrass<br />
Sarah and John Soboleski<br />
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Victoria Solomon<br />
Phyllis Sonnenschein<br />
Donna Sorbello<br />
Linda Lopez Spencer<br />
Mr. and Mrs. George R.<br />
Sprague<br />
Jane Staab<br />
William duPont Staab, Jr.<br />
Martha Stearns<br />
Bobbie and Bob Steinbach<br />
Jody Steiner<br />
Thomas Stemberg<br />
Chris Stokes<br />
Martha E. Stone<br />
Dorothy Stoneman<br />
Alan Strauss<br />
Karen and Hale Sturges<br />
Deirdre Sullivan<br />
Julie Sutherland<br />
Katherine and<br />
Benjamin B. Taylor<br />
Wesley L. Taylor, Jr.<br />
Sandra Thompson<br />
Susan and William Thompson<br />
Joan I. Thorndike<br />
Joyce Todd<br />
Judy Ulman<br />
Susan Vaughn<br />
Eleonora Villegas-Reimers<br />
Donna and James Viola<br />
Charles Walker, Jr.<br />
Laura Walters<br />
Barry, Wendy, and<br />
Sarah Wanger<br />
J. Warners<br />
Joan Watts<br />
Cheryl Weber<br />
Suzanne Weinstein<br />
Susan Weir<br />
Phil Weiss<br />
Jack Welch<br />
Penelope Wells<br />
Linda Welter<br />
Jessie Wenning<br />
Susan Werbe<br />
Joan F. Wexler<br />
Jerry <strong>Wheelock</strong><br />
Alan White<br />
Claire White<br />
Donna White<br />
Lee and Steve Whitfield<br />
Tony Williams<br />
Leverett Wing<br />
Martha and Jeff Winokur<br />
Margaret Witham<br />
Elizabeth B. Wolf<br />
Richard Wood<br />
Christine Hamel Woodberry<br />
and Shelley Bolman<br />
Woodberry<br />
Linda Chin Workman<br />
Russell Woron-Simons<br />
Karen Worth<br />
Susan and Lance Yamakawa<br />
Yawkey Foundation<br />
Nancy Zechausen<br />
in Honor of<br />
Joan Sullivan Buchanan ’53<br />
Betsy Lewis<br />
Gaile Callo ’93MS<br />
Karen Borchert ’93MS<br />
Walter Einstein<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Roy Ettlinger<br />
Annette Hill Green, Esq.<br />
Elyse Blank Smith ’85<br />
Jackie Jenkins-Scott<br />
Marian F. Mandell<br />
Sue Kosoff ’65/’75MS<br />
Barbara Elliott Fargo ’52<br />
Jean McGuire<br />
Ruthann Sneider ’91MS<br />
Susan Bruml Simon ’73<br />
Susan G. Simon<br />
Karen S. Sturges ’87MS<br />
Jon E. Steffensen and<br />
Elizabeth K. Frantz<br />
Helen Roberts Thomas ’42-’43<br />
Lori Ann Saslav<br />
Hannah Zellman ’05<br />
Michael Zellman<br />
in memory of<br />
Jennifer Wystrach<br />
Bohnsack ’73<br />
M. Gregory Bohnsack<br />
Marjorie H. Wystrach<br />
Diane Schmelter Buhl ’63<br />
Peter Buhl<br />
James Christmann<br />
Ann E. Christmann<br />
Mr. and Mrs. William H.<br />
Christmann<br />
Ruth Clapp ’34<br />
Mary Hartwell Truesdell ’57<br />
Edward F. Coakley<br />
Judith Parks Anderson ’62<br />
Katherine Wendell<br />
Creighton ’92<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Albert Creighton<br />
Creighton Narada Foundation<br />
Elizabeth Weitz Faulb ’39<br />
Estelle Levy Dine ’39<br />
Carol Faulb<br />
Susan Faulb ’70<br />
Carol Faulb<br />
Patricia Davis Ferguson ’52<br />
Doris Chriswell<br />
Virginia Bell Libhart ’52<br />
Harriet Hoffman Frost ’48<br />
Joanne E. Hinds<br />
Alison Hinson<br />
Roger S. Hoffman<br />
Bertha N. Holmes<br />
Betsy Anne Holmes<br />
Robert and Marguerite Loheed<br />
Deborah S. Reid<br />
Mary Ellen Neely Gurry ’70<br />
Maureen Heisler Garber ’70<br />
Carol Liu King ’66MS<br />
Anonymous (1)<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Teh-sheng Chan<br />
Kam-Hoi Cheng<br />
Susan P. Chern<br />
May Chu<br />
Jeff Druck<br />
Tony King<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Brad Long<br />
Mary Michele Mariscalco<br />
Robert Y. Ning<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Stokes<br />
John E. Stokes<br />
Robert M. Tatum Jr.<br />
Yenche Tioanda<br />
Jane Burrell Lacy ’66MS<br />
Elizabeth Earle Stevenson ’65<br />
Harriet Faris Long ’33<br />
Pamela Long<br />
Cynthia Longfellow<br />
Ann Longfellow<br />
Barbara S. Longfellow<br />
Joy Kelton MacIntyre ’63<br />
Jan Vary Kutten ’63<br />
Susan M. Mackey ’94<br />
Abekam<br />
Judith Parks Anderson ’62<br />
Joelle Auguste<br />
Regina Bachini ’76<br />
Cara L. Baker<br />
Marjorie Bakken<br />
Martha C. Bakken ’99MS<br />
Linda A. Banks-Santilli ’85<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Barrett<br />
Mary Battenfeld<br />
Alan and Deborah Beck<br />
Debra Borkovitz<br />
Jacqueline O’Neil Boutin ’94<br />
Amy Goldstein Brin ’94<br />
Brookline Arts Center, Inc.<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Peter B.<br />
Campstrom<br />
CardSmith, LLC<br />
Vivian Carr ’94<br />
Cast & Brass Antique<br />
Machinery Club<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Larry E. Cate<br />
Judith A. Ceven<br />
Sandra Christison ’92MS<br />
Christine Colacino<br />
John J. Colony III<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Edward B.<br />
Comerford<br />
Cleta M. Cotter<br />
Stephanie Cox Suarez<br />
Cross Insurance<br />
France Demmons<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Dever<br />
Catherine Donahue<br />
Alicia Montross Dorment ’95<br />
Walter Douglass<br />
Cheryl Eastman<br />
Monique C. Fafard<br />
Barbara Elliott Fargo ’52<br />
Ellen Faszewski<br />
Susan and David Fedo<br />
Janet E. Fine<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Mark Goodrich<br />
Granite State Gas & Steam<br />
Engine Assn.<br />
Paul M. Grueter<br />
Christina Hadges<br />
Marjorie Hall<br />
Wayne Hardy<br />
Susan Harris-Sharples<br />
Tina Morris Helm ’64/’98MS<br />
Kate Hendrix<br />
Peter N. Holden<br />
Virginia M. Howard<br />
Nancy Hutchins<br />
Rosa Jarvais<br />
Mr. and Mrs. David Kady<br />
Deborah Litman Keefe ’77MS<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Warren Keller<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Anthony P. Latino<br />
Diane Levin ’69MS<br />
Arthur MacEwan and<br />
Margery Davies<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Andrew F. Mackey<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Andrew W.<br />
Mackey<br />
Rena Mackey<br />
Anne Marie Martorana<br />
Mary McCormack ’89<br />
William McGahie<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Mercurio<br />
Barbara J. Michaud<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Lee T. Mikkola<br />
Lois Barnett Mirsky ’54<br />
Deanne Williams Morse ’60<br />
Mila Moschella ’75<br />
Charlotte W. Neinas<br />
Gretchen Ohrenberger<br />
Irena Parhiala<br />
Lorraine J. Patterson<br />
Jeannette Pelletier<br />
Judith Pfankuch<br />
Lois A. Phelps<br />
Nancy Fowle Purinton ’64<br />
Ilyse Robbins and Glen Mohr<br />
Kristine B. Robison<br />
Lori Ann Saslav<br />
Sau-Fong Siu and Yum-Tong Siu<br />
Keavy Hennessey Smith ’03MSW<br />
Rebecca Smokowski ’12MS<br />
Sodexo, Inc. and Affiliates<br />
Sueben Family Trust<br />
Debra M. Sullivan ’97MS<br />
Mr. and Mrs. John Vancor<br />
Phillip M. Weiss<br />
Linda A. Welter<br />
William Wenrich<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Edward N. White<br />
Lee and Stephen Whitfield<br />
Shirley Wiik<br />
Shirley B. Winslow<br />
Karen Worth<br />
L. Carmen Wyman<br />
Barbara Burrows<br />
MacKinnon ’52<br />
Herbert C. MacKinnon<br />
Pauline McAllister<br />
Ruth Forrest<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Michael Geylin<br />
Marypat Imlah<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Michael Maida<br />
Janice Porosky Olins ’33<br />
Nancy Olins<br />
Janne Ritzenberg Piper ’79MS<br />
Winthrop D. Piper<br />
Jane Munroe Rice ’50<br />
Norman E. Rice<br />
Roberta M. Roop<br />
Helen Hoyt Smith ’50<br />
Joseph C. Smith<br />
Susan Swap<br />
Walter Swap<br />
Catherine Hargrave Sykes ’50<br />
Michael W. Andrews<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Patrick M. Bailey<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Bates<br />
Gayl L. Belcher<br />
Ann Birmingham<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Warren A. Bishop<br />
Jean Borden<br />
Karen E. Boucher<br />
Mr. and Mrs. David Bowen<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Alfred G. Boylan<br />
Doris Frame Braine<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Jim Briggs<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Briggs<br />
Dennis S. Buchan<br />
Mr. and Mrs. C. Terence Butwid<br />
Roldah N. Cameron<br />
Nancy J. Camp<br />
Sally H. Castle<br />
Karen A. Coronas
William P. Cowgill<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Edward P. Curtis Jr.<br />
J. Allis D’Amanda<br />
Mr. and Mrs. James C. Duffus<br />
Selby Brown Ehrlich ’52<br />
Everflow Eastern Partners, L.P.<br />
Barbara Moog Finlay ’50<br />
Mr. and Mrs. C. Benn Forsyth<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Bud Frame<br />
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Mr. and Mrs. Robert V.<br />
Gianniny<br />
Georgia P. Gosnell<br />
Frank S. Grosso<br />
Mary Bloomer Gulick ’57<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Alfred M.<br />
Hallenbeck<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Mark Hargrave<br />
Friends of Carol Liu King ’66MS<br />
Honor Her Memory with a<br />
Student Scholarship Endowment<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Robert T.<br />
Hargrave<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J.<br />
Hargrave<br />
Mary S. Harris<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Healy<br />
Mr. and Mrs. James T.<br />
Henderson<br />
Ruth Falvey Hill ’50<br />
Carol Liu King lived a full life, growing up in China, Taiwan, and<br />
Pakistan; dedicating her career to early childhood education after<br />
graduating with a master’s degree in the field from <strong>Wheelock</strong>;<br />
sharing 42 years of marriage with her spouse, Willis; and gathering<br />
around her a vibrant and diverse group of friends—a community that<br />
celebrates culture, ideas, compassion, and service to others, as did Carol.<br />
During her life, Carol credited <strong>Wheelock</strong> for much of the education<br />
and training that prepared her for her long and purposeful career. For<br />
many years, she gave consistently and generously to the Annual Fund,<br />
helping students to have the same formative <strong>Wheelock</strong> experience that<br />
she had. Now, Carol’s commitment to <strong>Wheelock</strong> students is being carried<br />
forward by her friends who established the Carol Liu King ’66MS<br />
Endowed Scholarship Fund this year in her memory. The fund will<br />
provide financial assistance to students in the undergraduate or graduate<br />
degree program, preferably to undergraduates in the field of early childhood<br />
education.<br />
Carol generously dedicated herself to enriching the lives of young<br />
children and families. Her first jobs were teaching at a special-needs<br />
preschool in Amherst, MA, and at a preschool in Washington, D.C. For<br />
more than 25 years, she was associated with the Head Start Program in<br />
Houston as a teacher/trainer and as a consultant designing educational<br />
programs. She also taught and served as director of a cooperative nursery<br />
school and served as a volunteer evaluator with the National Association<br />
for the Education of Young Children, accrediting preschools nationwide.<br />
The <strong>College</strong> is grateful for this meaningful legacy that friends of Carol’s<br />
have created in her name. It will touch the lives of many individual<br />
scholarship recipients who, in turn, will make a positive difference in<br />
the lives of children and families throughout their long careers.<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Donald J. Hoeffel<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Peter Hotra<br />
Hunt Hollow Village<br />
Association<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Hutchins<br />
Charles E. Jackson<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Roger A. Jackson<br />
Timothy C. Jackson<br />
J.P. Morgan<br />
Mr. and Mrs. David T. Kearns<br />
Jane W. Kitchen<br />
Nancy H. Lee<br />
Jeanne S. Leinen<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Donald D. Lennox<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Frank E. Luellen<br />
Donna Lutton<br />
John C. Lynd<br />
Susan R. Mackenzie<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Anthony J.<br />
Malone<br />
Members of Rochester Female<br />
Charitable Society<br />
Nancy S. Middleton<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Wesley Murphy<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Richard P. Myers<br />
Helen S. Nycum<br />
John H. Rae Jr.<br />
Robert R. Rae<br />
Betsy Rainbow Morse<br />
R.H. Clements Revocable Trust<br />
Cheryl Rhoda<br />
Theresa M. Richards<br />
Joan K. Ryan<br />
Katharine duPont Sanger ’66<br />
Dorothy Hutchens Seelow ’50<br />
Clifford W. Smith and<br />
Bernie Todd Smith<br />
Mary H. Spitz<br />
Edward C. Steele<br />
Jane W. Steinhausen<br />
Mr. and Mrs. David M.<br />
Strasenburgh<br />
Robert F. Sykes<br />
William C. Sykes<br />
Mr. and Mrs. John W. Thoman<br />
Ann K. Townson<br />
Trillium Group, LLC<br />
Pamela K. Turan<br />
D. Lawrence Van Dorn<br />
Gretchen A. Voss<br />
Jeri Traub<br />
Walter Einstein<br />
John N. Walsh Jr.<br />
Sally Keating Walsh ’44<br />
Janet Higginbotham<br />
Washburn ’42-’43<br />
Seth H. Washburn<br />
Dorothy Weiss ’56<br />
David W. Weiss<br />
Corporations<br />
Admissions Advantage<br />
Aetna Foundation, Inc.<br />
Albert Risk Management<br />
Consultants<br />
Bank of New York Mellon<br />
Biogen Idec, Inc.<br />
Blue Cross Blue Shield of<br />
Massachusetts<br />
Bright Horizons Family Solutions<br />
Bristol-Myers Squibb Company<br />
CBIZ Tofias<br />
Community Development<br />
Corporation of Boston<br />
CSL Consulting, LLC<br />
Delta Dental<br />
DiMella Shaffer<br />
Educators Serving Educators<br />
Enoch C. Shaw Co., Inc.<br />
General Electric Foundation<br />
Goldman Sachs Philanthropy<br />
Fund<br />
Grossman Marketing Group<br />
Hirsch Roberts Weinstein LLP<br />
IBM Corporation<br />
The Jenzabar Foundation<br />
Lee Kennedy Co., Inc.<br />
Morgan-Worcester Inc.<br />
OCE Business Services, Inc.<br />
The Pfizer Foundation Matching<br />
Gifts Program<br />
The Plymouth Rock Foundation<br />
The Procter & Gamble Fund<br />
Schwab Charitable Fund<br />
Sodexo, Inc. and Affiliates<br />
Sovereign Bank<br />
State Street Corporation<br />
Susquehanna International<br />
Group, LLP<br />
Vertec Corp.<br />
Wellington Management<br />
Company Matching<br />
Gift Program<br />
Wells Fargo Foundation<br />
The Williams Companies Inc.<br />
Foundations<br />
Anonymous (1)<br />
Thomas & Joann Adler Family<br />
Foundation<br />
The James E. & Constance L. Bell<br />
Foundation<br />
The Boston Foundation<br />
Bromley Family Fund of the<br />
Princeton Area Community<br />
Foundation<br />
The Ronald G. Casty Family<br />
Foundation<br />
Clover Clark Memorial<br />
Trust Fund<br />
The Clifford Family Foundation<br />
Olin J. Cochran Trust<br />
The Columbus Foundation<br />
Community Foundation for the<br />
Greater Capital Region<br />
Community Foundation for<br />
Southeast Michigan<br />
Community Foundation of<br />
Sarasota County<br />
Community Foundation of<br />
Western North Carolina, Inc.<br />
Creighton Narada Foundation<br />
Fidelity Investments Charitable<br />
Gift Fund<br />
Fife Family Foundation, Inc.<br />
Fish Family Foundation<br />
Perpetual Trust Graves<br />
Charitable Fund<br />
The Helena Foundation<br />
The Hottle Family Foundation<br />
Kenwood Foundation<br />
Agnes M. Lindsay Trust<br />
Lortz Family Foundation<br />
Ralph A. Loveys Family<br />
Charitable Foundation<br />
Meek Foundation<br />
The Nichols Trust<br />
The Parker Foundation<br />
Rochester Area Community<br />
Foundation<br />
The Schott Foundation for Public<br />
Education<br />
The William E. and Bertha F.<br />
Schrafft Charitable Trust<br />
Silicon Valley Community<br />
Foundation<br />
Sondik Foundation<br />
Ben & Kate Taylor Foundation<br />
Alan D. and Judith Tobin<br />
Charitable Foundation<br />
TJX Foundation<br />
Vanguard Charitable<br />
Endowment Program<br />
Webster Family Foundation<br />
The Winston-Salem Foundation<br />
The Hans & Elizabeth Wolf<br />
Foundation<br />
Zurs Foundation<br />
Organizations<br />
JustGive<br />
Mattapan Community<br />
Health Center<br />
TRUiST<br />
United Way of Greater<br />
Rochester<br />
United Way of Rhode Island<br />
Gifts in Kind<br />
Lisa McCabe Biagetti ’80<br />
Louise Butts ’51/’55MS<br />
Julia Challinor ’75<br />
Keena Dunn Clifford ‘68<br />
Kathryn Smith Conrad ’73MS<br />
Paula Davison ’74<br />
Gwynneth DeLong ’71<br />
Barbara Tarr Drauschke ’72<br />
Ellen Tague Dwinell ’61<br />
Patricia Gindele Guild ’51<br />
Corinne Hamwey<br />
Harriet Weil Hodgson ’57<br />
Derreth Montgomery<br />
Kavanagh ’62<br />
Lyn Peck Kenyon ’45/’69BS<br />
Virginia Bell Libhart ’52<br />
Helen Martin ’64MS<br />
Beverly Tarr Mattatall ’72<br />
Mila Moschella ’75<br />
Peter Rawitsch ’77<br />
The Red Sox Foundation<br />
Margaret Weinheimer<br />
Sherwin ’58<br />
Rita Sladen Sosa ’69<br />
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Heritage society<br />
Current Members<br />
Anonymous (7)<br />
Anonymous Lead Trust (1)<br />
Lois Abbott<br />
Judy McMurray Achre ‘58<br />
Ruth Flink Ades ‘53<br />
Virginia Pratt Agar ‘64<br />
Nancy Wilson Ainslie ‘44<br />
Judith Parks Anderson ‘62<br />
Margaret Benisch Anderson ‘53<br />
Barbara Mead Anthony ‘60MS<br />
Christine Hollands Ashton ‘33<br />
Margaret Boethelt Barratt ‘52<br />
Deborah Devaney Barton ‘70<br />
Ginger Mercer Bates ‘54<br />
V. Bonnie Blick Benedict ‘69<br />
Joanne Bobrink Bennett ‘49<br />
Joan Chiappetta Benson ‘69<br />
Charlotte Braverman Blonder ‘63MS<br />
Elizabeth Palmer Bradley ‘64<br />
Lorian Brown ‘68MS<br />
Mary Turnbull Burnight ‘66<br />
Louise Butts ‘51/’55MS<br />
Carol Sinnamon Carpenter ‘70<br />
Sarah Carter ‘66<br />
Mary Lou Center ‘56<br />
Melanie Waszkiewicz Chadwick ‘68<br />
Daniel S. Cheever Jr.<br />
Clover Clark Memorial Trust<br />
Louise Close ‘77<br />
Olin J. Cochran Trust<br />
Mary H. Corcoran<br />
Christina Cox ‘05<br />
Harriet Spring Critchlow ‘44<br />
Lora Erhard Crouss ‘37<br />
W h e e l o c k c o l l e g e • A n n u A l R e p o R t o f g i v i n g 2 0 1 1 - 2 0 1 2<br />
The Heritage Society recognizes individuals who have<br />
included <strong>Wheelock</strong> <strong>College</strong> in their estate or trust plans.<br />
The <strong>College</strong> gratefully acknowledges the following individuals<br />
for leaving a special legacy that will perpetuate<br />
our mission to improve the lives of children and families:<br />
“From one generation<br />
to the next, the legacy<br />
continues.”<br />
34 <strong>Fall</strong> <strong>2012</strong><br />
Sarah Beebe Davis ‘64<br />
Elizabeth Townsend Dearstyne ‘62<br />
and William Dearstyne<br />
Nancy Wicke Demarest ‘66<br />
Jeannette Milligan Doane ‘42<br />
Robert L. Duven<br />
Evelyn Jenney Eaton ‘56<br />
Barbara Tutschek Ells ‘60<br />
Hope Binner Esparolini ‘66<br />
Barbara Elliott Fargo ‘52<br />
Katrina Buckelmueller Gale ‘57<br />
Natalie Smith Garland ‘53<br />
Elizabeth Dewey Giles ‘53 and<br />
Edwin Giles<br />
Frances Graves Perpetual Trust<br />
Alyssa Greeley ‘91<br />
Patricia Conzelman Greeley ‘52/’90MS<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Paul M. Greeley<br />
Beverly Simon Green ‘50<br />
Mary Bloomer Gulick ‘57 and<br />
Bob Gulick<br />
Cynthia Hallowell ‘58<br />
Mary Barbour Hatvany ‘72<br />
Anne Mulholland Heger ‘49<br />
Priscilla Chase Heindel ‘47<br />
Tina Morris Helm ‘64/’98MS and<br />
Bill Helm<br />
Emily Hewitt<br />
Elizabeth Berry Horner ‘47<br />
Elizabeth Grimm Hoskins ‘56<br />
Jane Hanna Houck ‘57<br />
Anne Wingle Howard ‘57<br />
Robert C. Howe<br />
Susan Terragni Howe ‘68 and<br />
John B. Howe<br />
Edith Hall Huck ‘48<br />
Jeanette McIntosh Ingersoll ‘67MS<br />
Josepha Loskill Jenks ‘53<br />
Maria Lind Johnson ‘68<br />
Carol White Jones ‘75<br />
Christine Jones ‘71<br />
Lyn Peck Kenyon ‘45/’69BS<br />
Mildred Griffith Kohler ‘36<br />
Robin A. Kren ‘83MS<br />
Edward H. Ladd<br />
Gloria Williams Ladd ‘65<br />
Laura Lehrman ‘58<br />
Lauren Loeb Lerner ‘70<br />
Susan Cahn Levine ‘67<br />
Elizabeth Wheeler L’Hommedieu ‘54<br />
Robert A. Lincoln<br />
Donald M. Lippoth<br />
Sonia Loizeaux ‘57<br />
Pamela Long<br />
Persis Luke Loveys ‘54<br />
Louise Baldridge Lytle ‘55<br />
Margaret Ryan MacIntyre ‘38<br />
Meredith Huxtable MacNeill ‘91MS<br />
Ann MacVicar ‘65<br />
Kathryn de Sano Mahoney ‘68<br />
Trisha Henderson Margeson ‘65 and<br />
Kenneth Margeson<br />
Dr. and Mrs. Gordon Marshall<br />
Olivia Hutchins Meek ‘52<br />
Carolyn Humphrey Miller ‘64<br />
Carol Moore ‘48<br />
Deanne Williams Morse ‘60<br />
Katharine Crosby Nasser ‘48<br />
Anne Hallowell Newton ‘66 and<br />
John Newton<br />
Frances Nichols ‘63<br />
Mary Nisula ‘70<br />
Mary Runyon Obaidy ‘59<br />
Lynn Odell ‘66<br />
Penny Power Odiorne ‘54<br />
Phoebe O’Mara ‘66<br />
Maryann Mylott O’Rourke ‘60/’98MS<br />
Patricia Knowlton Paine-Dougherty ‘50<br />
Elizabeth Buckstaff Paterson ‘56<br />
Carol Drew Penfield ‘52<br />
Jean Ingalls Perkins ‘52<br />
Elizabeth Gerow Peterson ‘53<br />
Priscilla Harper Porter ‘64<br />
Thekla Polley Putnam ‘53<br />
Marylin Quint-Rose ‘48<br />
Jeanne Girard Quinzani ‘48<br />
Judith Haskell Rosenberg ‘55<br />
Stanley and Marcia Rumbaugh<br />
Sarah Lippincott Sakols ‘55<br />
Ruth Angier Salinger ‘53<br />
Valessia Samaras ‘83<br />
Page Poinier Sanders ‘65<br />
Katharine duPont Sanger ‘66<br />
Carlile Lowery Schneider ‘78/’79MS<br />
Dorothy Hutchens Seelow ‘50<br />
Susan Waters Shaeffer ‘56<br />
Margaret Weinheimer Sherwin ‘58<br />
Barbara Silverstein ‘56<br />
Sally Clark Sloop ‘68<br />
Inez Gianfranchi Snowdon ‘40<br />
Phyllis Cokin Sonnenschein ‘65/’75MS<br />
Ann Emerson Spaulding ‘53<br />
Renae Ross Starker ‘71<br />
Martha Stearns ‘72MS<br />
Sylvia Buffinton Tompkins ‘55<br />
Grace Viard Ward ‘51<br />
Joan Bradish Waters ‘48<br />
Joann Bridgman Webster ‘48<br />
Edith Nowers White ‘50<br />
Joan Wiggin ‘51<br />
Daphne Hastings Wilcox ‘65<br />
Carole Hayes Williams ‘66<br />
Winifred Little Williams ‘41<br />
Annette Stevens Wilton ‘56<br />
Priscilla Plant Wing ‘62 and Paul Wing<br />
Harold E. Wyer<br />
Former Members<br />
Anonymous (1)<br />
Elizabeth Abbott<br />
Frank C. Abbott<br />
Margaret Wilson Alexander ‘14<br />
Stephen H. Anthony<br />
Beth Atwood ‘57<br />
Bronwyn Baird ‘64<br />
Marion Baker<br />
Francis F. Bartlett<br />
Laura Smith Bemis ‘28<br />
Suzanne Baker Bethke ‘59<br />
Catherine Bose ‘75<br />
Evelyn Burr Caldwell ‘24<br />
Charles Rendell Calkins Jr.<br />
Edith Macnaughtan Cather ‘40<br />
Maureen Murphy Coakley ‘58<br />
Katharine Hosmer Connor ‘33<br />
Janet Woodbury Cooper ‘31<br />
Ruth Corney Trust<br />
Wilhelmina Scheuer Cottone ‘36<br />
Eleanor Day Cottrell ‘34<br />
Rebecca Berry Cramer ‘36<br />
D. Clifford Crummey<br />
Lois Hardy Daloz ‘32<br />
Anne Walker Davis ‘43<br />
Elizabeth Brayton Dawson ‘51<br />
Helen McMullin Dimock ‘33<br />
Frances Dogherty ‘24<br />
Jean Rogers Duval ‘50<br />
Alice Dwinell ‘34<br />
Jane Parkman England ‘40<br />
Ellen Brewer Flood ‘34<br />
Edith Steere Floyd ‘30<br />
Joan Crane Freeman ‘54<br />
Betty C. Fuchs<br />
Yumiko Furuhata ‘58<br />
Lois Anne Gilbert Galbraith ‘49<br />
Dorothy Mercer Gilbert ‘24<br />
Elizabeth Bartlett Gilbert ‘37<br />
Nancy Corwin Gordon ‘67<br />
Dorothy Greene ‘27<br />
George A. Hall<br />
Helen Coots Hall ‘32<br />
Eva Neumann Hartman ‘67<br />
Helen Ruslander Haskell ‘28<br />
Jeanne Wilson Hatch ‘59<br />
Edna Charlton Hays ‘27<br />
Colby Hewitt Jr.<br />
Muriel Hirt<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Myron Hoffman<br />
Holly Horton ‘76MS<br />
Myrl Crocker Howe ‘34<br />
Rodney Huck<br />
Marian Clifton Hurlin ‘22<br />
Barbara Jack ‘30<br />
Louise Steele Jackson ‘28<br />
Betty Jane Jalley ‘50<br />
David S. Johnson<br />
Margery Hall Johnson ‘38<br />
Stella Barnes Johnson ‘55<br />
Chester Jones<br />
Dorothy Kano ‘71<br />
Marcia Rudd Keil ‘34<br />
Alice Keith ‘39<br />
Jeannette Vannah Kemp ‘38<br />
Mary Neal Kendall ‘33<br />
Jane Ann Hartzell Knebel ‘51<br />
Frances Tedesco Lathrop ‘54<br />
Virginia Lincoln ‘31<br />
Wilma Dodge Marshall ‘23<br />
Rhoda LeFavour Martin ‘31<br />
Nancy Merryman Mattox ‘46<br />
John F. McAllister Jr.<br />
Margaret Merry<br />
Ann Porter Mullen ‘49<br />
Adeline Little Murray ‘38<br />
Janice Porosky Olins ‘33<br />
Jean A. Osmond ‘34<br />
Janet La Foy Otto ‘26<br />
Edith Rizer Paffard ‘38<br />
Sandra Gewinner Perry ‘64<br />
Suzanne Pierce ‘41<br />
Elizabeth Pursel<br />
Robert N. Pursel Trust per the will of<br />
Catherine Pursel ‘25<br />
Constance Putnam ‘29<br />
Mary Quirk ‘18<br />
Mary Barnhardt Ridenhour ‘40<br />
Elizabeth Cox Robbins ‘33<br />
Elizabeth Sylvester Robinson ‘40<br />
Libby Walker Schroeder ‘65<br />
Jessie Hahn Shaffer ‘38<br />
Diana Holland Shafroth ‘50<br />
Lucile Edson Smith ‘44<br />
Wilma Roberts Sowerby ‘34<br />
Charles Spaulding<br />
Ellen G. Sullivan ‘58MS<br />
Catherine Hargrave Sykes ‘50<br />
Patricia Blackmer Thibodeau ‘49<br />
Ruth Baker Ursul ‘60<br />
Margaret Cahill Vogel ‘33<br />
Katharine Pulis Waldron ‘28<br />
Judith Clark Weaver ‘47 Trust<br />
Dorothy Weiss ‘56<br />
Katharine Lewars Weymouth ‘42-’43<br />
Marjorie Ferris Wilcock ‘37<br />
Charles Wintermeyer and Nancy Jane<br />
Carroll Wintermeyer ‘45<br />
Faith Butterfield Wyer ‘40
This <strong>Wheelock</strong> Magazine includes Class Notes news<br />
that was received before Aug. 31, <strong>2012</strong>.<br />
1938<br />
1941<br />
Lucy Parton Miller<br />
reUnion 2013<br />
May 31–June 2<br />
“I have to confess to playing and reading most<br />
of the time!” Bobbie Munson Carpenter writes,<br />
but, in addition to enjoying large-print books and<br />
playing Scrabble and Mexican Train, she attends<br />
Bible studies, goes to exercise classes at the local<br />
recreational center, and tries to walk at least two<br />
miles most days. Bobbie spent Christmas 2011 in<br />
Phoenix with her oldest daughter and her family,<br />
and in the spring one of her granddaughters and a<br />
great-granddaughter spent a few days with her in<br />
California. Bobbie Finkel Jacobs fondly remembers<br />
her days keeping track of her three active boys<br />
and volunteering—with the Washington National<br />
Symphony Orchestra and the Kennedy Center<br />
for the Performing Arts, at an outpatient surgery<br />
clinic at a local hospital, and providing various<br />
services as needed at posts where her former Air<br />
Force husband was stationed. “Now, at 91, I’m<br />
living comfortably in Arlington, VA, remembering<br />
those happy years at <strong>Wheelock</strong>,” she writes.<br />
“They truly were special, and a special <strong>Wheelock</strong><br />
friend, Winnie Williams, and I still share those<br />
memories.” Winnie Little Williams is still enjoying<br />
the best of both worlds—Bonita Springs, FL,<br />
in the winter months and New London, NH, in<br />
the summer. She kindly added that she is happy<br />
to see me (Lucy) and my husband at Naples, FL,<br />
<strong>Wheelock</strong> luncheons. Winnie occasionally talks on<br />
the phone with Bobbie Finkel Jacobs about the<br />
“good old <strong>Wheelock</strong> days.”<br />
reUnion 2013<br />
May 31–June 2<br />
1943-’44<br />
Jean Sullivan Riley<br />
At 90 years old, Lois Smith Haley is living comfortably<br />
at a small assisted-living facility in Salem,<br />
MA. She enjoys taking rides in the car to scenic<br />
areas on the North Shore and going out to dinner<br />
when the opportunity arises. Lois has a daughter<br />
and sons living close by and several grandchildren<br />
who visit regularly.<br />
1945<br />
Jean Reilly Cushing<br />
Nadene Nichols Lane wrote in May: “Just<br />
back from my winter schedule to see my three<br />
great-grandchildren—a girl, 9, and a boy, 7,<br />
in Islamabad, Pakistan, and another girl, 2, in<br />
“ Wherever you are, the bond<br />
which binds you to the<br />
<strong>Wheelock</strong> School and its<br />
teachers is one of the things<br />
that endures. Neither time<br />
nor distance can break it.”<br />
—Lucy <strong>Wheelock</strong>,<br />
to the Class of 1933<br />
Class nOTes<br />
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Class nOTes<br />
Dubai. I visit with the families for a few months<br />
and then stop in London to see my youngest<br />
daughter and family. I’m blessed to be able to<br />
keep in touch as it’s a long trip over and back!”<br />
Nadene’s summers are busy with friends and<br />
family at home west of Boston.<br />
“All the big hints I’ve dropped for the past<br />
six months about my 90th birthday on May 20<br />
certainly paid off!” Janet Champney Poss wrote<br />
later that month. “I’m off to another ‘surprise’<br />
gathering in a few minutes, having already<br />
glowed in the recognition by three organizations<br />
I’ve been involved in over the past 40 years<br />
(Shoreline Unitarian Universalist Society, the<br />
Democratic Town Committee, and Behavioral<br />
Health Care), to say nothing of family and<br />
friends! May all of you be so blessed at 90!”<br />
1948<br />
Carol Moore<br />
36 <strong>Fall</strong> <strong>2012</strong><br />
Ann-Penn Stearns<br />
Holton ‘47<br />
Distinguished Service Award<br />
Established in 1975, this award<br />
honors alumni celebrating a 25th<br />
or higher Reunion for their service to the <strong>College</strong>,<br />
service to alumni, or service to their class.<br />
reUnion 2013<br />
May 31–June 2<br />
1949<br />
Anne Mulholland Heger<br />
I (Anne) was so saddened with the news about<br />
Lois Anne Gilbert Galbraith. She lived in<br />
what was then Pilgrim House, and I lived there<br />
my senior year. Her husband, Arnie, and my<br />
husband, Frank, got to know each other when<br />
they waited for their dates, Lois Anne and me,<br />
in the dorm sitting room. (That is the way it<br />
was done way back then: No men on the second<br />
floor.) Later when they lived in Little Silver, NJ,<br />
my husband and I lived in Long Branch (my<br />
hometown), about six miles away. The two men<br />
often rode the commuter train to New York City<br />
together. We eventually moved to Ohio and then<br />
Massachusetts. After that, I saw Lois Anne only at<br />
<strong>Wheelock</strong> Reunions. She was a wonderful person.<br />
1950<br />
Edith “Anne” Runk Wright<br />
Nancy Spencer Adams continues to see old<br />
<strong>Wheelock</strong> friends. She and Barbara Thompson<br />
Trainor still have lunch at least once a year and<br />
have much fun reminiscing. She is happy to<br />
Katie Hargrave Sykes ’50 Served <strong>Wheelock</strong> with Enthusiasm and Love<br />
As you may have read in the Spring/Summer <strong>2012</strong> issue, Katie Hargrave Sykes passed away earlier this<br />
year (April 20, <strong>2012</strong>). Katie was a dedicated supporter of the <strong>College</strong> and a leader in the Rochester-area<br />
alumni club for many years. She was class scribe for Carlton House in the mid-1990s when alumni used<br />
to submit news reports by dorm; a Heritage Society member; and an enthusiastic participant in <strong>Wheelock</strong> events<br />
and projects. Many in the extended <strong>College</strong> community will miss her and her special commitment to <strong>Wheelock</strong> and<br />
its mission, along with her warm and lively spirit, which was especially in evidence when rounding up her sister<br />
alumnae for Reunion!<br />
Katie was a retired kindergarten and grade 2 teacher and was devoted to her extended family, which<br />
was the primary interest in her life. A recent high point for her was a 60th anniversary trip to Alaska with 25<br />
members of her “family court.” Active all her life, Katie also had a creative side which was on display in her<br />
passion for combining gardening with cooking. A lifelong gardener, she tended 150 different types of daylily, a<br />
wildflower garden, and a vegetable garden that contributed to her family table from summer through winter.<br />
She lived a full and rich life.<br />
report that Barbara doesn’t change. Nancy has<br />
also talked with Kent Wright Holt and Beverly<br />
Maurath Newell and learned that all three have<br />
sold their homes and now watch someone else<br />
mow the lawn and shovel snow. Nancy, however,<br />
still lives on the waterfront and enjoys the pair of<br />
swans that nest on her lawn every year. (I [Anne]<br />
have seen her photographs of the swan family,<br />
which are gorgeous!) Dr. Hill would have been<br />
delighted to know that Nancy is learning a lot<br />
about seabird life. Polly Page Cobb has a very<br />
busy life keeping up with active, athletic children<br />
as well as 16 grandchildren and eight greatgrandchildren.<br />
She attended the weddings of two<br />
grandchildren during the summer, and another<br />
is now a full-fledged doctor! Her whole family<br />
went camping for a week at the Glen Ellis Family<br />
Campground in Glen, NH, in August. “What<br />
fun!” says Polly. Deborah Woodworth Edgar is<br />
at the Concord Health Care Center in Concord,<br />
MA, which has become her home. She arrived<br />
there on her birthday about three years ago,<br />
unable to walk. Daughter Annie; Annie’s son,<br />
David, 9; and David’s father all live in Debbie’s<br />
former home. Debbie hopes that anyone visiting<br />
in the Concord area will come and visit her.<br />
Barbara “Buzz” Moog Finlay and her husband<br />
are doing well. The Finlays were terribly<br />
shaken by the news of Katie Hargrave Sykes’<br />
death on April 20 from a massive stroke [see story<br />
about Katie], which hit her during a family vacation<br />
on Hilton Head. Buzzy wished to write this<br />
beautiful and moving tribute to Katie as her contribution:<br />
“Katie was loyal to <strong>Wheelock</strong> and (probably)<br />
never missed a Reunion. She and her husband,<br />
Bob, attended Florida meetings as well. There are<br />
four Sykes children and numerous grandchildren,<br />
many of whom live in the Rochester, NY, area.<br />
Katie and Bob took all 25 family members on an<br />
Alaskan cruise for their 60th wedding anniversary.<br />
Needless to say, it was a fabulous trip, and Katie<br />
had commented, ‘That ship was really hopping!’<br />
Katie was passionate about her garden (flowers,<br />
vegetables, and herbs) and also was an excellent<br />
cook for her expansive family. I was most fortunate<br />
to be Katie’s roommate for three years at Carlton<br />
House and the following year in a Brookline apartment<br />
as ‘neophyte kindergarten professionals.’ She<br />
was a dear girl, and I doubt anyone has a bad word<br />
to say about Katie! She will live in the hearts of all<br />
who knew her.”<br />
Patricia Knowlton Paine-Dougherty<br />
responded to my (Anne’s) Ode with one of<br />
her own:<br />
I love the Class of ’50 Ode<br />
It sets the tone in just right “mode.”<br />
Putting down positive thoughts,<br />
Things which never can be bought!<br />
I share my tale with Classmates all,<br />
Along with Cheers for a lovely fall!<br />
Can we hold Dr. Harvey responsible for this<br />
burst of poetry? I’d like to think so. Pat realized<br />
she has been remiss in writing before and sent a<br />
wealth of news to “sum up years of living.” After<br />
decades of volunteer work on many committees<br />
and boards (she was a trustee of <strong>Wheelock</strong><br />
for more than 20 years and felt it one of her<br />
best experiences), she and husband Robert have<br />
lived a fairly insular life in her historic home,<br />
“Wynden,” in Princeton, NJ, where she has<br />
lived for 47 years. Sons Thos. (Princeton), John<br />
(Upper Montclair), and Rod (Manhattan) all<br />
come home often. Her five grandchildren are<br />
Sarah, a teacher in a charter school; Laura, an<br />
assistant at Barnard; Jack, studying for a Ph.D.<br />
at California, Berkeley; Emily, a senior at Tufts;<br />
and Evan, a sophomore at American University.<br />
All love to visit their grandparents and keep the<br />
house buzzing with lively and loud conversations.<br />
That doesn’t sound very “insular” to me (Anne)<br />
but does sounds lots of fun!<br />
Dot Hutchens Seelow still spends time as a<br />
social member of the Jacaranda Country Club,<br />
but, alas, her golf days are over. However, she<br />
keeps busy with both contract and duplicate<br />
bridge and reads a lot. Unfortunately, she sees
a lot of doctors, too! While in Connecticut last<br />
November, she did see Buzzy and Janie Cohen<br />
Sackett. She adds her condolences to Buzzy’s<br />
tribute for the loss of Katie Sykes, whom she<br />
last saw at a <strong>Wheelock</strong> meeting in Florida last<br />
winter. Edith Nowers White writes from Venice,<br />
FL, that all is well with Russell and her in their<br />
independent assisted-living facility. They moved<br />
there in the fall of 2011 from their home of 12<br />
years in Massachusetts. The Whites did get to<br />
Massachusetts in September 2011 to attend their<br />
65th reunion from Sharon High School with<br />
daughter Carol White Jones ’75 and husband<br />
Bill. Over Memorial Day ’12 they celebrated<br />
the high school graduation of twin grandsons<br />
and had a family reunion in Atlanta with all<br />
four children, their spouses, and five of their six<br />
grandchildren. They will be meeting grandson<br />
Sidney for the first time although they know him<br />
via Skype.<br />
I (Anne) had a quiet and very pleasant winter<br />
[of 2011-<strong>2012</strong>] despite cataract operations on<br />
both eyes. Now I can see without any glasses<br />
except for reading, which has made quite a difference.<br />
I continue to volunteer in the children’s<br />
room at Poets House by helping with school<br />
groups and reading children’s poetry to them. I’ve<br />
had some rewarding experiences with children<br />
and poetry, met some outstanding teachers, and<br />
had time to grouse about testing vs. creative<br />
teaching, and the perils of No Child Left Behind.<br />
I’m hoping Jackie will write an article for The<br />
New York Times that will inspire those in government<br />
who are in charge of education to seriously<br />
regard the <strong>Wheelock</strong> philosophy and incorporate<br />
it as a goal for all USA elementary schools.<br />
I’ve had my usual fun in the city, especially<br />
with Mary Hathaway Hayter. Nancy Sayles-<br />
Evarts and I get together for hours of conversation<br />
and laughs whenever we can and, as always,<br />
I paid my annual visit to Caroline Livingston<br />
Epes, now in her new Buffalo home, where she<br />
and Morgan have a snug apartment in their son<br />
Charlie’s house. I continue to value my friendships<br />
more and more. It makes up for gray hair, wrinkles,<br />
and limbs that are no longer so limber. Peace!<br />
1951<br />
Louise Butts<br />
Greetings! Time to catch up and share the news<br />
gleaned from notes and messages sent to our<br />
Alumni Office.<br />
Beverly Boardman Brekke-Bailey reports<br />
feeling settled now in Springfield, IL, after moving<br />
from Madison, WI, last year. She is closer to<br />
her physician daughter and other family. Beverly<br />
continues to enjoy and expand her interests and<br />
skills in the creative arts, is in her fourth silversmithing<br />
course, is casting pewter jewelry, and<br />
has work on exhibit in art galleries. Take a look<br />
at her website: prairiefusedglassjewelry.com. As<br />
she says, it is stimulating to be with others with<br />
similar enjoyment of the creative arts rather than<br />
being bound to any age considerations. Georgie<br />
Hale Dana lets us know that she’s still hanging<br />
in there “above the grass, as they say” and<br />
that she is still beating a little golf ball around<br />
in that grass. In fact, she had an experience of a<br />
lifetime this year as she and her daughter (who<br />
made her go!) went to the Masters and spent a<br />
month at Hilton Head. Lots of golf and they<br />
even improved, before a second great experience<br />
with VIP tickets to the Heritage tournament<br />
in Harbour Town. “Guess I’ll never grow up<br />
but sure am enjoying life as best I know how,”<br />
Georgie writes.<br />
“There is a book in each of us!” are the true<br />
words spoken by Sue Post Day, who is very<br />
interested in writing her Life Stories. This is an<br />
outgrowth of a weekly study group of people who<br />
share stories, support, and always positive critiques.<br />
In addition, Sue is active in water<br />
aerobics, a chorus, and never-ending bridge games,<br />
including duplicate. She is doing all this at the<br />
retirement community (Thirwood Place, South<br />
Yarmouth on Cape Cod) where she has lived for<br />
three years—not far from the Dennis homestead<br />
now home to daughter Jennifer. Sue’s three children,<br />
six grandchildren, two great-grandchildren,<br />
spouses, and others happily come and go. News<br />
from Shirley Stevens French tells of a big family<br />
reunion of 39 relatives (in Charlottesville, VA) for<br />
husband Bob’s 85th. There were three generations,<br />
all 10 grandchildren, all finding and making new<br />
connections. Shirley keeps up with her art museum<br />
experience from Boston’s MFA by serving on the<br />
University of Virginia’s art museum advisory board<br />
and taking posters of famous paintings into two<br />
public schools. She is also a volunteer with 3- to<br />
4-year-olds at a day care learning center working<br />
Class nOTes<br />
Louise Baldridge Lytle ’55 and Jean Ingalls Perkins ’52, both residents of Longwood at Oakmont, in Verona, PA,<br />
and contributors to The Long View, the community’s quarterly paper<br />
to stimulate language development. “Two book<br />
clubs keep my mind alert and lots of tennis keeps<br />
my body going,” she writes. Sydney Snell Fulford<br />
enjoyed seeing the photo of the ’51 classmates who<br />
attended Reunion 2011 and the one of the Carlton<br />
girls with “Muggy,” the beloved housemistress.<br />
“Perhaps we should start exchanging photos!” she<br />
writes. “What fun that would be!”<br />
Sally McKey Pieksen sent word that<br />
memories of last year’s 60th reunion were flooding<br />
back! As she said, it was most special and<br />
impressive. The only flaw was missing those of<br />
our class who couldn’t be there. Wonderful to<br />
see those who were! Maybe we should try for<br />
a 62nd Reunion? Sally keeps up with several<br />
<strong>Wheelock</strong> grads: She sees Janie Steele Milchen<br />
’51/’69MS frequently, they both had lunch with<br />
Prue Smith Giffin, and she was soon to meet<br />
with Buzz Moog Finlay ’50, who joined us for<br />
our Reunion luncheon. Sally is grateful to be<br />
still swinging the tennis racket and digging in<br />
the garden, and she is active in church and with<br />
family. It’s the time of life to keep all the good<br />
memories on the front burners!<br />
I (Louise) was delighted to see news from<br />
Carol “Flea” Pounds Wales all the way from<br />
Seattle! Retired in 1996 from 23 years of teaching,<br />
she has done a fair amount of kayaking<br />
and river rafting, even after having both knees<br />
replaced, but now has to settle for walking the<br />
dog! She is still involved with CASA (Court<br />
Appointed Special Advocate) cases, advocating for<br />
abused and neglected children. Flea lost her oldest<br />
daughter to cancer two years ago, but her other<br />
three live nearby and five grandkids keep tabs on<br />
“Grandma.” Occasionally she meets with Kathy<br />
Buck Larkin, who recently had knee surgery.<br />
I am always amazed at the diversity of classmates’<br />
interests, careers, volunteer activities,<br />
etc., over the years. There seems to be an unseen<br />
common denominator we share, and that is our<br />
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Congratulations to Class of 1952 alumni, winners of two coveted prizes<br />
at Reunion <strong>2012</strong>: the Gertrude Abbihl Prize for Reunion Attendance and<br />
the Beulah Angell Wetherbee Prize for Highest Percentage of Donors.<br />
Your enthusiasm and support for <strong>Wheelock</strong> are wonderful!<br />
Rosemary Fettinger Worth ’52 had a great time catching up with classmates at the 60th Reunion luncheon in<br />
June. “I marvel at the dedication so many from the Class of ’52 have shown for <strong>Wheelock</strong>,” she writes.<br />
<strong>Wheelock</strong> education, experiences, connections—<br />
and yes, the aging process! As Sally suggested,<br />
how about a 62nd Reunion? Next year<br />
is <strong>Wheelock</strong>’s 125th Anniversary. Many events<br />
are being planned. Stay tuned, stay in touch . . .<br />
and just maybe the Class of ’51 can make something<br />
happen!<br />
1952<br />
Martha Brown McGandy<br />
For those of you who weren’t able to see for yourselves<br />
at Reunion <strong>2012</strong>, Pat Conzelman Greeley’s<br />
(’52/’90MS) double fusion surgery in November<br />
2010 was a huge success, “keeping [her] out of a<br />
wheelchair,” she says. She now goes to the YMCA<br />
several times a week and finds Water Walking and<br />
Senior Zumba fun and great exercise. In May, Pat<br />
and Tony attended both his 65th Harvard reunion<br />
and their granddaughter’s graduation from Baylor.<br />
They also celebrated their grandson’s wedding in<br />
Albuquerque, NM, in August. Anne DeLamater<br />
Hansen has spent a good bit of time since 2010 in<br />
and out of the hospital, but she reported in May<br />
that she was then “up and about to some extent”<br />
38 <strong>Fall</strong> <strong>2012</strong><br />
and very involved in therapy. Her family is doing<br />
well and has been very helpful to her. She and<br />
John are considering going to live with their son<br />
and daughter-in-law in Brevard, NC (where they<br />
have a fantastic bakery).<br />
“We have matured and mellowed; learned and<br />
loved; appreciated and accepted our differences;<br />
forgiven and forged forward,” Connie Krull<br />
Hutt writes of herself and husband Earl and their<br />
extended family, with whom they recently took<br />
a cruise to celebrate Earl’s 85th birthday. Their<br />
children plus their spouses/friends joined them in<br />
Boston for a one-week cruise to Bermuda and back<br />
aboard the Norwegian Cruise Line’s ship Dawn.<br />
“As a family, we had not spent as much time<br />
together since 1973 when we took a round-trip<br />
motor home junket across our country and back,”<br />
Connie writes. “It was a powerful and wonderful<br />
experience getting to know each other at this point<br />
in time. It was work, but well worth the doing.”<br />
The <strong>College</strong> was sorry to hear from Austin<br />
“Wes” Weston about Mary Ellen “Mel” Cannon<br />
Weston’s passing on March 30. “Although we have<br />
lived on the West Coast since her college days, she<br />
had fond memories of her days at <strong>Wheelock</strong>,” he<br />
wrote. “We were in the Boston area several years<br />
ago and she toured the campus.”<br />
Rosemary Fettinger Worth had a great time<br />
catching up with classmates at the 60th Reunion<br />
luncheon in June. “I marvel at the dedication<br />
so many from the Class of ’52 have shown for<br />
<strong>Wheelock</strong>,” she writes. Due to bad weather,<br />
Joanna Smith Virden wasn’t able to attend the<br />
luncheon, but Rosemary was happy to get a<br />
visit from her in Maine in July. While visiting<br />
her daughter in California recently, Rosemary<br />
saw Elaine Barnes Downing for lunch, and she<br />
reports that she is well and happy in her retirement<br />
home.<br />
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May 31–June 2<br />
1953<br />
Libby Gerow Peterson<br />
1954<br />
Ginger Mercer Bates<br />
Elizabeth Bassett Wolf<br />
Our class was so sorry to hear that Frances Levine<br />
Rogovin’s husband, Hugh, passed away in May.<br />
1955<br />
Penny Kickham Reilly<br />
Nancy Cerruti Humphreys<br />
“Always using my <strong>Wheelock</strong> education,” writes<br />
Nancy Merry Bergere. “It has been good through-
out all my endeavors: raising six children, teaching<br />
nursery and kindergarten, caring for 23 grandchildren,<br />
and volunteering at a historical museum. To<br />
all these special opportunities another has come to<br />
me: I am now the Pennsylvania state president for<br />
Questers. We have 80 chapters and 1,700 members<br />
across the state. We learn about our history with<br />
speakers and visits to historical places. We raise<br />
funds to preserve and restore for the next generation.<br />
Any Questers among you? If no, why not?<br />
We are all over the country.” Jo Smith Howard<br />
reports having had a “wonderful, warm, happy<br />
time” when Betsy Reed Wilson ’55/’82MS visited<br />
her this past April. “How much we’ve shared<br />
together and still do!” Jo writes. Jo and husband<br />
Bob are active and enjoy lots of time together,<br />
including time in Maine in the summer. Having<br />
seven grandchildren also keeps them busy, and they<br />
especially enjoy visiting the two in college on their<br />
campuses. “I continue to be amazed with the great<br />
things happening at <strong>Wheelock</strong>,” Jo adds.<br />
“Life seems to be going along smoothly, considering<br />
the aging process!” Judy Treat Jacobson<br />
writes. She still goes to Maine during the summer<br />
and, since her retirement, is able to stay at her<br />
cottage in Boothbay—a family gathering spot<br />
for 77 years!—from June through mid-October.<br />
Judy’s daughter and family live close by, and her<br />
son and family live in Foxboro, MA, so she can<br />
still keep in touch with the Boston area, which<br />
she misses a lot.<br />
We were so sorry to hear from Charlotte<br />
Cooper Lopoten about husband Gene’s passing in<br />
April. She is now “living on wonderful memories<br />
of [their] 25 years together,” she writes. “He was a<br />
fantastic man!”<br />
Louise Baldridge Lytle has enjoyed being<br />
editor for three years now of The Long View, a<br />
quarterly paper written by residents of her community,<br />
Longwood at Oakmont, in Verona, PA.<br />
She thinks maybe her service as a <strong>Wheelock</strong> class<br />
scribe years ago helped prepare her for this work!<br />
The June <strong>2012</strong> issue featured one short article<br />
written by Louise and two by fellow Longwood<br />
resident Jean Ingalls Perkins ’52. In the spring<br />
Louise spent 10 days with her daughter and<br />
her puppy in North Carolina. Judy Haskell<br />
Rosenberg is still loving her retirement community.<br />
Her oldest grandchild graduated from<br />
Virginia Tech and now works at Ford Motor<br />
Co., two other grandchildren are in college, and<br />
one is a fourth-grader. Judy keeps in touch with<br />
Barry Barrett Theroux, Marilyn Dow Byrne,<br />
and Kathy Law Walker, all of whom seem to be<br />
doing well, she says.<br />
Betsy Reed Wilson ’55/’82MS also wrote<br />
about the visit she and Jo Smith Howard and<br />
husband Bob had in the spring. She also reminisced<br />
about the cookbook the class put together a couple<br />
of decades ago. Oh, dear! And she wants everyone<br />
who still uses the cookbook to know that her “Jean<br />
Tyng’s Bread” recipe has the wrong oven temp—<br />
use 375, not 350!<br />
1957<br />
Barbara Stagis Kelliher<br />
Harriet Weil Hodgson talked about being a<br />
“GRG,” a grandparent raising grandchildren,<br />
as a guest on The Frankie Boyer Show on the<br />
Lifestyle TalkRadio Network in Boston in July.<br />
The author of Help! I’m Raising My Grandkids,<br />
Harriet told the story of her and husband John’s<br />
multiple family losses and talked about some of<br />
the challenges GRGs face. Later that month, she<br />
and her “grandfamily” were featured in an article<br />
on PostBulletin.com, where she talked about the<br />
need for GRGs to “lose [their] mobility” (freedom)<br />
but also about most grandparents’ willingness<br />
to do that—to do whatever it takes to help<br />
their grandchildren be happy. Harriet’s grandson<br />
and granddaughter, now college juniors who<br />
make their respective colleges’ dean’s lists and<br />
have strong career paths, say that having mutual<br />
respect, being a good listener, and being willing<br />
to compromise and adapt are all important for<br />
kids living in their situation. Harriet says she<br />
never expected to use her <strong>Wheelock</strong> training “at<br />
this age and stage of life” but has found herself<br />
turning to it often.<br />
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May 31–June 2<br />
1958<br />
Margaret “Maggie” Weinheimer Sherwin<br />
We are a group on the move! If anyone out there<br />
would like a nice home in Stonington, ME, Molly<br />
McBride Felton would like to hear from you. She<br />
has already located to Falmouth, ME, but the house<br />
in Stonington remains on the market. Molly is well,<br />
and I enjoyed having a nice phone chat with her.<br />
Jane Bowler Pickering is also relocating within<br />
Maine. Her house in Jefferson has been sold, and<br />
they will be residing in Bath, ME, with their son<br />
Nathan and his family. They will still be spending<br />
winters in Florida. Nancy Alexander Anderson’s<br />
Sweet Adelines group won the mid-Atlantic championship<br />
and will be competing in Hawaii in<br />
2013. Nancy, who still works three days a week for<br />
the Girl Scouts, is planning a trip to Disneyland<br />
with one of her granddaughters. Mannie Cook<br />
Houston has no new news but is managing to<br />
contend with the heat, the humidity, and the daddy<br />
longlegs spiders who call her garage home.<br />
Liz Sturtz Stern and hubby Murray had a<br />
weeklong vacation in Lake Tahoe. They arrived<br />
in the snow in late May, but it did get gradually<br />
warmer and they had fun exploring an area that<br />
was new to them. When she wrote, Liz was preparing<br />
for a quilt show. The wall hanging that she<br />
Class nOTes<br />
was going to enter was made from kimono fabrics<br />
that were given to her by Micky Hattori when Liz<br />
visited Japan in 2004. (<strong>Wheelock</strong> people NEVER<br />
throw anything away. Could that be the reason my<br />
house looks the way it does? MWS) Sandy Meyers<br />
Chaiken and husband Lionel are still the prime<br />
movers for the Race for Hope in the Washington,<br />
D.C., area. This will be the 15th year, and the event<br />
continues to grow.<br />
Sally Beckwith Novak is still teaching aquasize,<br />
painting with a watercolor group, and singing with<br />
three vocal groups, and she belongs to two book<br />
clubs. Thus fall she, along with a travel group of<br />
her high school friends, will go on a cruise titled<br />
The Great Rivers of Europe. She will end up in<br />
Switzerland for a visit with her brother.<br />
Arlene Keizer Lovenvirth, still pursuing her<br />
acting career, is currently taking cold-reading<br />
coaching sessions. It’s a multifaceted endeavor,<br />
and as soon as she thinks something is mastered,<br />
another aspect crops up. Sounds like a good way<br />
to enjoy retirement. Daughter Wendi is a physician<br />
in geriatrics at Beth Israel Medical Center in<br />
New York City and director of their Home Visit<br />
Program. Arlene had a recent get-together with<br />
Laura Lehrman and keeps in touch with Julie<br />
Russell as well. Pommy Pomeroy Hatfield will<br />
probably pass on attending our Reunion in favor<br />
of Jim’s Princeton reunion. They are enjoying<br />
living on the mainland of Maine after years of<br />
island habitation. Carole LeClerc Barry spent<br />
five summer weeks in Marblehead, MA, catching<br />
up with friends and colleagues from her days at<br />
Tower School. In June, she and Dave had a visit<br />
from Hugh and Mardy O’Neil. In November,<br />
she and Dave will be going on a wine cruise<br />
through France starting in Lyon. Carole continues<br />
with her volunteer work and says life is good.<br />
Laura Lehrman still loves her “urbanistic” life<br />
in New York City, with Central Park as her backyard.<br />
She loves hanging out with her grandkids,<br />
Jonathan, 15, and Millie, 7. Her trip to Yellowstone<br />
has made her want to do a lot more traveling since<br />
there is so much more of the world to see. At some<br />
point, she had a bad fall and was hospitalized for<br />
three days, but she seems to be fully recovered and<br />
back to enjoying all that NYC has to offer. Carol<br />
Yudis Stein always answers my call for news. She<br />
and Jim have been traveling—for example, on a<br />
tour from San Francisco to Los Angeles, where<br />
they were hoping there would be enough time to<br />
connect with some of our California classmates.<br />
In November they will be on a Caribbean cruise<br />
and another cruise to celebrate Jim’s 80th birthday—this<br />
one with members of their active adult<br />
community in Florida. Carol has many volunteer<br />
activities and notes that retirement is much too<br />
busy. Martha Newton Roberts writes from her<br />
vacation home in New Hampshire, where she and<br />
her husband were celebrating their 50th wedding<br />
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anniversary. Martha left <strong>Wheelock</strong> after two years<br />
to pursue a degree in art teaching and has had some<br />
nifty adventures along the way, especially time spent<br />
in Mexico and Hawaii.<br />
1959<br />
Sally Schwabacher Hottle<br />
“A beer was 12 bucks!” wrote a stunned Alice<br />
Thompson Brew about the “modern, clean<br />
[but] expensive” city-state of Singapore, where<br />
she spent three weeks in February. It was her first<br />
adventure in Asia, and she had a glorious time.<br />
This summer Alice was the local farmers market<br />
manager, and in August she returned to Ukraine,<br />
where she’d served in the Peace Corps, to attend<br />
a wedding. In her spare time, she is learning to<br />
“replay” bass viola: She played for eight years as a<br />
girl but then didn’t pick up a bow for more than<br />
50 years!<br />
1960<br />
Deanne Williams Morse<br />
“I’m still singing!” Sara Thompson Orton<br />
writes. This past May and June, Sara journeyed<br />
to Rome with the New Mexico State University<br />
Choir (of which she has been a member for 14<br />
years) to sing the “Bach B-Minor Mass” at an<br />
Episcopal church, St. Paul’s Within the Walls.<br />
“The thrilling thing was that we were joined by<br />
a professional Italian chorus, Coro da Camera<br />
Italiano, and a professional orchestra, Nova<br />
Amadeus—a marvelous collaboration that<br />
worked so successfully,” she writes. “Although I<br />
am no longer teaching, I am certainly still learning,<br />
and choral singing is the best!”<br />
Janet Burt Slaton has had a fun- and familyfilled<br />
<strong>2012</strong>! In the spring she attended a lot<br />
of Clemson baseball games to watch grandson<br />
Tyler, who has a scholarship to play there, and<br />
accompanied her 13-year-old granddaughter to<br />
a cheerleading competition at Disney World. In<br />
late May, she and Paul spent a week on a “family<br />
ritual vacation”—15 years in a row!—on Fripp<br />
Island, SC. The following month Janet attended<br />
the 8th annual “Cousins Reunion” in Rhode<br />
Island—something she put together for her cousins<br />
when she realized they would only keep meeting<br />
up at funerals from year to year if they didn’t<br />
make it a point to plan some fun get-togethers.<br />
After the Reunion, Janet went to Maine to spend<br />
a few days with Margie “Mugs” Washburne<br />
Miller, her first roommate at <strong>Wheelock</strong>. Dee<br />
Golden Trasen writes of having worked at<br />
Time-Life, married and had three children, and<br />
returned to school to earn her A.A., B.A., and<br />
M.S.W. She is still working and enjoying it. Her<br />
five grandchildren are ages 1 to 11.<br />
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Gail Spivack Sandler ’61 and husband Gene whalewatching<br />
in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico<br />
1961<br />
Ginnie Colquitt Schroder<br />
The months since our Reunion have literally<br />
zoomed by! Many of you wrote to share the most<br />
recent events of your lives, and for that I (Ginnie)<br />
thank you so very much.<br />
Norma Brawley Dugger regards <strong>2012</strong> as a<br />
banner year, having successfully recovered from<br />
total knee replacement surgery, greeted her first<br />
grandchild (who arrived on her birthday), and<br />
experienced a “Rocky Mountaineer” tour of the<br />
Canadian Rockies from Calgary to Victoria via car,<br />
train, and bus! Moreover, the Duggers enjoyed a<br />
10-day cruise of the Kimberly region of Australia,<br />
complete with naturalists and zodiac tours of the<br />
coastline. (Norma, you are a tough one to keep up<br />
with, for sure!)<br />
Kudos go out to the <strong>Wheelock</strong> Family<br />
Theatre from Linda Shemwick Lindquist!<br />
Linda witnessed an “outstanding” production<br />
of The Miracle Worker there in May. She reports<br />
that this was a performance she will never<br />
forget. The 8-year-old who played Helen Keller<br />
was “unbelievable,” as was the young woman<br />
who played Annie Sullivan, Helen’s teacher.<br />
We can all be proud of this wonderful facility<br />
on our campus.<br />
Following our June Reunion last year, Diana<br />
Cobb Mead and husband John took a sevenweek<br />
trip across the United States and parts of<br />
Mexico. They also spent 10 days in Cuba—with<br />
mixed reviews! Diana said they came home with<br />
a host of vivid memories to think about. Over<br />
the summer, the Meads spent four months in<br />
Waiheke Island (off the New Zealand coast, not<br />
far from Auckland) with family and friends—an<br />
annual event. To add to the year’s excitement,<br />
grandson number four arrived. Diana and John<br />
have also been busy with home renovations.<br />
Whenever time permits, Diana is working to<br />
improve her spoken Italian enough to warrant<br />
another LONG stay in Italy!<br />
From Chapel Hill, NC, Gail Spivack<br />
Sandler writes that she and Gene are proud<br />
grandparents to John (20) and Sarah (15), children<br />
of son Frank, and soon-to-be grandparents<br />
of a little girl, child of son Stephen. Gail has had<br />
some health issues over the past five years, but<br />
she happily reports that both bouts with cancer<br />
are things of the past and she’s feeling fine. She<br />
and Gene are retired now and enjoy lots of travel<br />
during the winter and summer months. This<br />
summer, they’d planned to visit the Maritimes—<br />
mostly Newfoundland and Nova Scotia. This<br />
winter, they expect to be in Key West for half the<br />
time and Miami Beach, visiting that new granddaughter,<br />
for the rest of the time.<br />
I was so pleased to have Sara Jane Goldstein<br />
Drescher and Jaye Kwok come to St. Simons<br />
Island for a visit in early June. For Jaye, this was<br />
a “makeup” meeting, since she’d been unable to<br />
join us at our 50th last year! Picking up right<br />
where we left off, we talked endlessly and caught<br />
up with each other as we experienced some of<br />
the barrier islands’ beauty and history. We have<br />
promised each other that we’ll make time for<br />
other “mini reunions” before our next big one<br />
in Boston/Brookline.<br />
Again, my thanks to those of you who contributed<br />
to this issue. June ’11 doesn’t seem so<br />
long ago when reading your news! Although the<br />
<strong>Wheelock</strong> Magazine comes out only twice yearly,<br />
please know that I welcome your emails and<br />
notes at any time!<br />
1962<br />
Dorothy Loofbourow Nichols<br />
Sabra Brown Johnston<br />
Jenny Tincher Cleaves wanted to share again<br />
her response to the 50th Reunion memory book<br />
question about influences <strong>Wheelock</strong> had on her:<br />
Judith Bohnen<br />
Levitt ’62<br />
Making a Difference Award<br />
The Making a Difference Award<br />
is given to two alumni from<br />
Reunion classes, usually one from a younger<br />
class (5th to 20th Reunion) and one from an<br />
older class (25th Reunion or higher), whose<br />
professional or volunteer work exemplifies the<br />
mission of <strong>Wheelock</strong> <strong>College</strong>. Congratulations<br />
and thank you for living the <strong>Wheelock</strong> mission,<br />
Judith, and Robyne Newman Hockett<br />
’92, who also received an award.
Huge appreciation goes out along with congratulations to the Class<br />
of 1962 alumni, winners of the Frances Graves Prize for the Largest<br />
Class Gift at Reunion <strong>2012</strong>!<br />
Jenny Tincher Cleaves ’62 wanted to share again her response to the 50th Reunion memory book question<br />
about influences <strong>Wheelock</strong> had on her: “Music class influenced me and my children without being aware of it. At<br />
<strong>Wheelock</strong>, I learned about American folk music, Woody Guthrie, Leadbelly, etc. I bought the old Vanguard Records<br />
and played them in my classroom and at home—a lot! (Remember the ‘Play Party Songs’?) Fifty years later, one of<br />
my sons tours the country with other Texas musicians performing a tribute to Woody. Like other musicians, he puts<br />
Woody’s words to music and records the songs. That’s a good influence!”<br />
“Music class influenced me and my children<br />
without being aware of it. At <strong>Wheelock</strong>, I learned<br />
about American folk music, Woody Guthrie,<br />
Leadbelly, etc. I bought the old Vanguard Records<br />
and played them in my classroom and at home—<br />
a lot! (Remember the ‘Play Party Songs’?) Fifty<br />
years later, one of my sons tours the country with<br />
other Texas musicians performing a tribute to<br />
Woody. Like other musicians, he puts Woody’s<br />
words to music and records the songs. That’s a<br />
good influence!”<br />
After spending a couple of years organizing<br />
and getting rid of stuff, Sally Bradley Foshay<br />
sold her house with a pool on the golf course and<br />
was looking forward to a smaller, “more ‘turnkey’<br />
place,” she wrote in May. “By the time you read<br />
this, I will have fallen in love with one special<br />
little house.” She still volunteers at the Valley<br />
View Food Bank, packing emergency food boxes<br />
for people in need, and she does fundraising and<br />
makes tied quilts for women and their children<br />
who flee to the New Life Center from abusive<br />
situations. “Often the quilt they pick out is the<br />
only thing they call their own since they come to<br />
the center in the middle of the night,” she added.<br />
“A Phoenix policeman told us that he still has his<br />
quilt from 29 years ago!”<br />
Cynthia Pender Robbins writes: “Although I<br />
left <strong>Wheelock</strong> at the age of 18, the people I met<br />
and the experience I had in that one freshman<br />
year are vivid in my heart and mind. My career<br />
path followed <strong>Wheelock</strong>’s values as I worked for<br />
44 years with children and families in educational<br />
and social service settings. My husband<br />
and I moved to Vermont in 2007 to live in the<br />
home he built. We have a daughter and a son<br />
and their wonderful spouses and three grandchildren.<br />
Our beloved granddaughter, Madeline,<br />
died at age 5 of a rare cancer. She has had a<br />
profound influence on all of our lives and guides<br />
our current choices. The miracle and beauty of<br />
children which is so much a part of <strong>Wheelock</strong>’s<br />
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philosophy has always been a guiding force in<br />
my life. My love to all as you travel your life’s<br />
journeys.” Mary Schubert Stearns teaches at the<br />
Adult Learning Center in Milwaukee. She lost<br />
her husband, Bill, in April 2010.<br />
“Yes, we were one of those couples who married<br />
even before graduation!” Donna Herland<br />
Ticehurst wrote in May of her 51 years with<br />
husband Chuck. Both still have employment from<br />
home, and their lives also stay busy with lots of<br />
activity with church, family (three children and<br />
10 grandchildren), and a kitchen ministry feeding<br />
more than 200 each week. They are generally<br />
blessed with good health and “keep the old bones<br />
working” by participating in 5K walks, aerobic<br />
walking, and yoga classes weekly.<br />
1963<br />
reUnion 2013<br />
May 31–June 2<br />
Jane Kuehn Kittredge<br />
“It is a fantastic opportunity with a world-class<br />
firm!” Marjorie Sanek Platzker wrote during<br />
the summer of her new job as interior design<br />
director in the Los Angeles office of the architecture<br />
firm NBBJ. According to an announcement<br />
from the firm: “Her experience spans more than<br />
25 years and includes a wide variety of corporate<br />
and commercial design projects from financial<br />
services, law, and high-tech companies to hospitality<br />
and entertainment campuses. . . . NBBJ<br />
is the third largest pure architecture firm in the<br />
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p Taffy Hastings Wilcox ’65 with the Volunteer of<br />
the Year award she received from McLean Hospice in July<br />
for contributing more than 100 hours of care, supporting<br />
patients with pet therapy interventions, and chairing the<br />
McLean Hospice holiday gift project<br />
uMary Barnard O’Connell ’65 playing her steel drum<br />
at the 10th New England Pan Festival in May<br />
Patty Phillips Fraser’s (back row, right) Boxborough, MA, home was the setting in May for a mini reunion she had with<br />
other 1966 alumnae: Thordis “Toodie” Burdett Gulden (also in back row) and (front row, L-R) Sylvia Thorndike<br />
Sheriff, Margery Conley Mars, and Anne Hallowell Newton.<br />
United States, with an international practice. . . .<br />
The Los Angeles office is leading the way with<br />
parametric design software, corporate workplace<br />
strategy, and architectural design for organizations<br />
like Samsung, UCLA, and Microsoft.”<br />
1965<br />
Daphne “Taffy” Hastings Wilcox<br />
I (Taffy) had a wonderful dream the other night<br />
that I was surrounded by all of my <strong>Wheelock</strong> classmates,<br />
hearing each of their interesting stories. As<br />
you may remember, I had asked you to relate how<br />
your <strong>Wheelock</strong> experience had influenced your<br />
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personal and professional lives. Sadly, I awoke to<br />
realize it was all a dream. To the contrary, I heard<br />
from only a handful of you. Thanks to Mary<br />
Barnard O’Connell, Ann MacVicar, and Barbara<br />
Prior McCulloch for sending their news!<br />
Mary continues to follow her passion for steel<br />
drumming. In May, she participated in her 10th<br />
New England Pan Festival, where 15 steel drum<br />
bands met to play for each other. You can check<br />
her band out at www.steelinthunder.com. Mary<br />
also introduced her 6-year-old grandchild to a<br />
special paintbrush that holds water in a tube.<br />
Charlotte loved the results and enjoys adding<br />
paintings to her portfolio. I bet Miss Abbihl<br />
would have enjoyed knowing about that!<br />
Ann, who lives in Santa Fe, NM, is officially<br />
retired, but she has a great part-time job at the<br />
Toy Lending Center at the community college.<br />
The lending center, which is funded by the state,<br />
has toys, games, and some gross motor equipment<br />
available for borrowing. That is a concept<br />
I have often thought of developing in my own<br />
community.<br />
It was great to hear from Barbara, who<br />
wrote of her many living situations, accomplishments,<br />
professional activities, and grandchildren.<br />
Thanks, Barbara! After <strong>Wheelock</strong>, Barbara<br />
earned a Master of Arts degree and a Bachelor of<br />
Theology degree. She lived in Crete, where she<br />
developed a kindergarten on an air base. She has<br />
also taught in a variety of other settings and had<br />
three children before working 11 years in interior<br />
design and 10 in the printing business. Like Ann,<br />
Barbara is retired but still working in a variety of<br />
school-related settings. Barbara’s three children<br />
have produced three grandchildren.<br />
Now, I guess you will have to hear my news<br />
again. During the summer I was awarded Volunteer<br />
of the Year for the hospice program where I volunteer.<br />
I, along with my two dogs, provided more<br />
than 100 hours of pet therapy, and I was the chair<br />
of our holiday project, which provides 60 patients<br />
and families with a basket of goodies.<br />
I remember how much fun it was to connect<br />
at our 45th Reunion. Make my dream come<br />
true. Let me hear from more of you before we<br />
convene at our 50th. Please take a few minutes<br />
to email me anytime—not just when the letter<br />
comes from the <strong>College</strong>: dhwilcox@snet.net.<br />
1966<br />
Margery Conley Mars<br />
In May I (Margery) had a mini reunion at Patty<br />
Phillips Fraser’s lovely home in Boxborough,<br />
MA. Sylvia Thorndike Sheriff had come east<br />
for her 50th reunion at Beaver Country Day<br />
School, so Patty entertained a group of us<br />
(Sylvia, Thordis “Toodie” Burdett Gulden,<br />
Anne Hallowell Newton, and me) for lunch,<br />
including spouses. Anne was particularly glad<br />
to be included as she was in Europe [in the<br />
spring of 2011] and missed our Reunion. Anne<br />
was funny: She later wrote me and said that she<br />
thought we all had good taste and had chosen<br />
quality men! I agreed with her good observation.<br />
We had a grand time and I was so glad that Peter<br />
and I could make the journey down from Maine<br />
for the afternoon.<br />
1968<br />
Marilyn Rupinski Rotondo<br />
Cynthia Carpenter Sheehan<br />
reUnion 2013<br />
May 31–June 2
Cathy Wells Milton ’69 retired last year<br />
from the Wayland (MA) Public Schools.<br />
In July, she wrote: “With the support of<br />
<strong>Wheelock</strong>’s instructors Karen Worth and Sue<br />
Abrams; Wayland’s director of special education,<br />
Marlene Dodyk; and my school principal,<br />
Debbie Bearse, we are in the third year of<br />
having special education teacher assistants in<br />
<strong>Wheelock</strong> master’s programs. In fact, one of our<br />
first interns, Michelle Fiske, was just hired to be<br />
a special education resource teacher at Claypit<br />
Hill School. I am thrilled to have her joining the<br />
team that I have had the honor of collaborating<br />
with for 24 years.”<br />
1970<br />
Leigh Nickerson Beatty is delighted to write that<br />
she and her husband have moved to East Hampton,<br />
CT, to be closer to their first grandchild. “Our<br />
retirement on the coast of Maine was wonderful,”<br />
she writes, “but family comes first!”<br />
“We are living our dream!” writes Jane Shattler<br />
Brown, after giving her secret away with her opening<br />
“Aloha!” After spending a 22-year career in<br />
preschool special education in New Hampshire, she<br />
had “had enough”—of both the stress of special ed<br />
and New England weather—and moved with her<br />
husband and daughter to Maui! Jane does tutor a<br />
bit, but her schedule allows them to travel to see<br />
Jackie Hanifl Carnevali ’70 is building schools in India<br />
their “beloved Red Sox” from time to time and to<br />
visit their two grandsons in Austin, TX, a couple<br />
of times a year. “We have a saying here, ‘Lucky We<br />
Live Hawaii,’” she writes.<br />
“That <strong>Wheelock</strong> training is useful as always” to<br />
Grace Coffey Clark, the district reading teacher in<br />
the Orange County (NC) Schools, especially now<br />
that she has begun working with pre-K teachers on<br />
the issues of language and learning in addition to<br />
teachers of older students on the teaching of reading<br />
and writing. Husband Bobby retired before he<br />
was “really ready” and took on a half-time writing<br />
job. Their three children live in Washington, D.C.:<br />
Ben works with digital and social media, Lily’s at<br />
the Department of Education, and Jon is a graphic<br />
designer. Debby Devaney Barton visited Grace for<br />
a few days this past spring, and Grace says it was<br />
fun to see her again.<br />
“Big doings” for Mary Ann Allen Cowherd<br />
during the summer included her area’s (Culpeper<br />
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Giuseppe and Jackie, fourth<br />
and sixth from left, with<br />
school colleagues in India<br />
Jackie is working as director of Navionics Foundation, building schools in India, and writes: “A recent Rotary<br />
Partnership enabled us to build the Maktha Campus School, which we inaugurated last January. Right now<br />
we are implementing a grant which will give us reverse osmosis systems for pure water, a school library,<br />
and an early childhood center. Yes, the early childhood center has been my special wish for a long time.<br />
“We will be adding four more students to our postsecondary scholarship program. Our school at Yellamabanda<br />
now has 850 students, and our school at Siddiquenagar just got a much-needed face-lift. Check out www.<br />
navionicsfoundation.org, or contact me if you are interested in the project.” Jackie and her husband,<br />
Giuseppe, are still splitting their time between the U.S. and Italy, and, in May, they met up with their son, Ben<br />
(recently married and now teaching in New York), and daughter, Anna (a photographer and jewelry designer<br />
living on Cape Cod), in Rome.<br />
County, VA’s) big celebration of the 150th<br />
anniversary of the Battle of Cedar Mountain in<br />
August. She still enjoys working in the schools,<br />
especially through Master Gardeners. “We reached<br />
all first-graders in the county with a program<br />
called Ready, Set, Grow,” she writes. She also mentioned<br />
that grandson Leo, now 1, is also enjoying<br />
“reading” these days, and she sent a mini movie—<br />
aren’t we high-tech?—showing him opening<br />
and closing one of his board books, turning its<br />
pages, covering his eyes with it, kicking it, etc.!<br />
Suzanne Moon Dykhuizen teaches and is director<br />
of tutorials at Hillside School in Marlborough,<br />
MA, a junior boarding school for boys in grades<br />
5 to 9. She has found her work there a wonderful<br />
opportunity to put her <strong>Wheelock</strong> education<br />
to use. She adds, “We have two granddaughters<br />
ages 3 and 4—another opportunity to practice<br />
ideals from <strong>Wheelock</strong>!” Sandy Cragg Heise is<br />
busy September through June taking care of her<br />
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4-year-old grandson. “He is a blessing!” she writes.<br />
She went to Bangkok this year for the Rotary<br />
International Conference—her first trip outside<br />
North America!<br />
Betsey Cushman Hughes is the senior<br />
vice president of human resources for a communications<br />
consulting firm, Feinstein Kean<br />
Healthcare—a “very exciting place to work, that<br />
is for sure.” They work in the area of genomics<br />
and personalized medicine in support of biotechnology,<br />
pharmaceutical companies, research<br />
centers, nonprofit organizations, and the National<br />
Cancer Institute. She would love to slow down a<br />
bit but thinks retirement will have to wait for a<br />
while. Betsey is still “extremely happily married”<br />
to David Hughes, whom she met junior year at<br />
<strong>Wheelock</strong>. Their daughter and son and five grandchildren<br />
between the ages of 1 and 4 “make [their]<br />
hearts sing,” and they feel very lucky indeed. Patty<br />
Powers Lawrence has “pretty much retired from<br />
paid work” but works at the Women’s Lunch Place<br />
in Boston, a day shelter for women and children,<br />
and was looking to add another volunteer job this<br />
fall. She and her husband of 41 years have lived in<br />
Weston for 31, and she still loves the Boston area.<br />
Her daughter owns an art consulting business and<br />
lives with her husband in Washington, D.C.; her<br />
son, a baritone opera singer, works at the Zurich<br />
Opera in Switzerland—and married another opera<br />
singer in July!<br />
Lauren Loeb Lerner has taught for 30<br />
years—the last 15 with the Memphis (TN) City<br />
Schools—and has been a children’s librarian for<br />
13, seeing all of her school’s 650 children every<br />
week! Her large (110,000-student) urban system<br />
was recently consolidated with the Shelby<br />
County School System, and she hopes to teach<br />
at least two more years so she can participate in<br />
the consolidation. “I still have a lot of energy,<br />
teach full time, and have time to volunteer, to<br />
cook, to exercise, and to read one or two books a<br />
week,” she writes. Husband Syd, retired from his<br />
family business, is now the executive director of<br />
the Greater Memphis Greenline, which is “committed<br />
to making trails and protected walkways<br />
available to Memphians.” They are lucky to have<br />
daughter Dory living just a mile from them, and<br />
they have a one-bedroom apartment in downtown<br />
Vancouver, B.C., Canada, so they can visit<br />
son Adam and his family a few times a year.<br />
In the spring, Nancy Noyes Monro wrote<br />
of her plans to retire from teaching on June 8.<br />
“What a wonderful run this last job was as a<br />
gifted intervention specialist and math teacher<br />
for sixth-, seventh-, and eighth-graders,” she<br />
wrote. “I feel so fortunate to have been able<br />
to teach after graduating, stay home when the<br />
babies came, go back to teaching when our<br />
youngest got to seventh grade, and now retire<br />
to be ‘Grandma’ while Bill finishes up his work-<br />
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ing career.” She is now enjoying time with Bill,<br />
their three children and their spouses, their five<br />
grandchildren, and her father. Jan Frost Russell<br />
is now retired after 27 years of teaching in New<br />
Hampshire and is living in Naples, FL. “It has<br />
taken me the past three years to get acclimated<br />
to the area,” she writes, “but I have found some<br />
projects to become involved with that continue<br />
the passions <strong>Wheelock</strong> instills in its students.<br />
This past winter I was involved with the Harry<br />
Chapin Empty Bowls project, raising money to<br />
provide families with food. I am also tutoring<br />
after-school second- and third-graders at Grace<br />
Place in Naples, which is a truly rewarding experience.”<br />
Jan’s roommate Mary Barber Stone<br />
purchased a home down the street from her in<br />
Naples and is there for the winter months. This<br />
year the two of them drove over to visit Carolyn<br />
Bail Miller ’71 in Coconut Grove, and last winter<br />
all three enjoyed the <strong>Wheelock</strong> luncheon at<br />
the Port Royal Club.<br />
“I’m a three-time grandmother, and I’m wearing<br />
it well!” Mary Curtis Skelton is happy to<br />
report. “When I’m not bragging about their brilliance<br />
and good looks, I manage a plumbing supply<br />
showroom. I even had ‘just for fun’ business<br />
cards made that have my title as ‘Toilet Queen.’ I<br />
also live with and manage the full-time care staff<br />
for my parents in Stowe, VT, ages 99 and 102.<br />
Additionally, I took up skiing again last winter<br />
after a 20-year hiatus. I’m happily restoring the<br />
gardens at the house where I grew up. Never a<br />
dull moment!” Susanne Bowen Toothaker, still<br />
teaching kindergarten at The Gordon School in<br />
East Providence, RI, writes: “I continue to be<br />
challenged to improve my practice and guide<br />
children and their families as they embark on<br />
their journey to be lifelong learners.” Her husband<br />
recently retired, and they enjoy spending<br />
time with their daughter and her family in New<br />
Jersey and their son and his wife in Virginia.<br />
They often see Debby Devaney Barton and her<br />
husband, Ned. Eloise Dale Welz and husband<br />
Bryan moved from their home in Cohasset,<br />
MA—which they sold to son Nick and his<br />
wife—to a new apartment complex. She is still<br />
teaching a morning pre-K class and is happy to<br />
report that her school completed NAEYC accreditation<br />
last spring—“quite an accomplishment.”<br />
Eloise and Bryan love being grandparents and are<br />
enjoying having their granddaughter close by.<br />
1971<br />
Gwynne DeLong<br />
“We’re happy as clams!” Margaret Vinton<br />
Cole says of her and her husband’s new life in<br />
Philadelphia, where they recently renovated<br />
and moved into an apartment. She admits she<br />
initially found their move there from Vermont<br />
three years ago “a radical change after 20 years in<br />
a wonderful rural setting.” Margie retired from<br />
her job of 18 years as breast care coordinator at<br />
Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center when<br />
they moved.<br />
Priscilla Jeffery lives in Connecticut. Her son<br />
was married there in October 2011 and lives in<br />
New York City. Her daughter and her husband<br />
and two children live nearby. She retired from<br />
teaching in Denver in 2009. Priscilla met a few<br />
classmates in New York City at a <strong>Wheelock</strong> luncheon<br />
in April, and she writes: “It was great to<br />
reconnect after (yikes!) 41 years. We discussed<br />
how much our education at <strong>Wheelock</strong> helped<br />
us no matter what field we went into during our<br />
careers.” Priscilla sent me (Gwynne) this note this<br />
from Nsawam, Ghana, in July: “In 2011, I founded<br />
CPASGhana, an NGO working to improve<br />
the lives of women and girls. This June, President<br />
Jackie Jenkins-Scott and [Associate Professor] Dr.<br />
Joyce Hope Scott were in Ghana, and we were<br />
very fortunate that they were able to visit us in<br />
Nsawam. They came to the two schools where<br />
CPAS sponsors bright, needy girl students so that<br />
they are able to stay in school. Jackie and Joyce<br />
spoke to the students at both schools, stressing the<br />
importance of an education and encouraging the<br />
students to aspire to do great things as adults. It<br />
was truly a <strong>Wheelock</strong> moment.”<br />
(L-R) Linda Mayo-Perez Williams ’74 and Julia-Ellen<br />
Davis ’71 participated in the annual Cooper River Bridge<br />
Run (in Charleston, SC) in March.
<strong>Wheelock</strong> Associate Professor of American Studies Joyce Hope Scott (far left) and President Jackie Jenkins-Scott<br />
(far right) with (L-R) Augusta Babanawo, CPAS program director; Stella Kwammaa Nanor, Nsawam (Ghana) Municipality<br />
director of education; and Mark Dompreh, municipal chief executive officer, during their June visit to two of the schools<br />
in Nsawam where Priscilla Jeffery ’71’s NGO, CPASGhana, is working to improve the lives of women and girls<br />
Sylvia Birnbaum Yasner and Ellen Isaacman<br />
Albertson met in New York City in the fall of<br />
2011 and enjoyed walking and talking for hours.<br />
Sylvia is still working as a school library media<br />
specialist at a boys private school in Fairfield, CT.<br />
Ginger Neaher Pape is writing more Repotting<br />
books this year. On the home front, son Sam<br />
graduated from Northwestern University, Medill<br />
School of Journalism, and daughter Sarah is a<br />
sophomore in high school. Ginger was planning<br />
a reunion with Gretchen Wagner and Phoebe<br />
Hemenway for sometime this fall.<br />
Karen Srulowitz Berman is keeping busy<br />
training for marathons. She is very active with<br />
Team in Training, which raises funds for blood<br />
diseases. Earlier this year, she wrote, “I am off<br />
to Australia in two days for a three-week vacation.<br />
When I come back, I will have a new<br />
teaching position as a fifth-grade teacher.” Val<br />
Callahan has been elected district governor of<br />
District 7910 of Rotary International for 2014-<br />
2015. That journey will take her to San Diego,<br />
Vancouver, and Sydney. As a retired administrator,<br />
she does volunteer work for her church, is on<br />
the board of directors for the Music Guild, and<br />
sometimes substitute teaches. Marilyn Goodwin<br />
Soper writes that, as of July, both she and husband<br />
Bruce were retired, which has meant more<br />
time for gardening, genealogy research, grandchildren,<br />
and travel.<br />
Anne Brower DuBosque still lives in<br />
Huntington, NY. She writes: “My daughter has<br />
been thoughtful enough to give me very cute<br />
grandchildren. I have grown-up kids and step-<br />
kids in Colorado, Montana, and Vermont. I also<br />
adopted two boys from Siberia, Russia, six years<br />
ago, and they are now 17 and 13 and making<br />
strides toward happiness and successful lives. I<br />
also have two other teenagers living with me—<br />
one from St. Maarten and one from Siberia. My<br />
school, Anne Brower’s School, is in its 35th year.<br />
I usually have around 100 kids ages 2 to 6 and<br />
about 12 teachers. I also have a summer camp<br />
at my school and just retired, after 30 years,<br />
from my job as director of a large summer camp<br />
in Cold Spring Harbor, NY. I have started the<br />
replacement body parts program and have a new<br />
knee (too many years of skiing and soccer). I’m<br />
doing great and love skiing, kayaking, gardening,<br />
coaching travel soccer, reading, and being outdoors.<br />
I am constantly reading and learning and<br />
still head teach my 3-year-old class. Just when<br />
you think you really know something about<br />
child psychology, a child astounds you with a<br />
new approach to life. It is so great to be doing<br />
what I love. I have bought a house in Jamaica,<br />
VT, where my daughter lives. It is also the<br />
town where my favorite <strong>Wheelock</strong> teacher, Ilse<br />
Mattick, retired to. She passed away last summer,<br />
but her son still comes up each summer. I so<br />
enjoyed our last Reunion although my appearance<br />
was brief. I look forward to the next.”<br />
Donna Van Stone Schmidt retired from<br />
Alexandria City (VA) Public Schools as of July<br />
1. She spent the last 12 years teaching at Tucker<br />
Elementary, which she helped open in 2000. In<br />
May, she and Dale attended their daughter’s Ph.D.<br />
graduation in New Haven. Donna is going to take<br />
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care of her 4-year-old twin granddaughters and<br />
tutor at Tucker during the next school year. She and<br />
Dale hope to do some traveling.<br />
I (Gwynne) enjoy spending time with grandchildren<br />
Samantha and Matt, both preschoolers.<br />
I continue to co-lead the Schenectady Working<br />
Group on Girls, a volunteer organization that<br />
facilitates support programming for our innercity<br />
middle school girls. We host a conference<br />
day each fall for 150 seventh-grade girls who<br />
enjoy breakfast, lunch, a motivational speaker,<br />
and three workshops designed to build skills<br />
in making good choices, create and maintain<br />
healthy relationships, and help the girls find their<br />
personal strengths. We also train women from<br />
the community to facilitate Girls’ Circles Groups<br />
that meet in the schools twice monthly using<br />
materials we develop that continue the positive<br />
messages begun at the conference day. We have<br />
received several community service awards for<br />
our efforts this year. Next year is our fourth year<br />
of following this model. Dave and I still enjoy<br />
traveling and this year took a wonderful trip to<br />
South America, the highlight being our time at<br />
Machu Picchu. I enjoyed a nice visit with Tina<br />
Leydon this spring on a trip to Arizona. She was<br />
soon to be taking a cruise to Alaska with friends.<br />
1972<br />
Bonnie Paulsen Michael<br />
Our 40th Reunion was magical, with many people<br />
staying in <strong>Wheelock</strong>’s beautiful new dorm. We<br />
gathered in hallways, sharing stories and songs with<br />
dear friends; we toured Fenway Park in this, its<br />
100th, anniversary year; and we roamed about the<br />
campus, exploring all that is new and all that is still<br />
familiar at <strong>Wheelock</strong>.<br />
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Our class has been busy with families and<br />
careers. Some of us have retired, many are still<br />
working in and out of the classroom, some are<br />
working hard on traveling, some became grandparents,<br />
and many are thinking of their bucket<br />
lists and pondering the possibilities for the<br />
future. Here’s the news!<br />
Sarah McGann Stoll Peters has lived a roller<br />
coaster life during the past years. After losing<br />
husband Dave to liver disease, she and her two<br />
children rebuilt their lives. Having retired to<br />
care for Dave, Sarah threw herself into part-time<br />
work and volunteer jobs. A year ago, she met<br />
Peter Peters, an Episcopal priest from England<br />
and Australia. We missed Sarah at the Reunion<br />
but wished her well when we learned she and<br />
Peter were married that weekend! And Shannon<br />
and Mike (her daughter and son-in-law) were<br />
expecting twins in September! Sarah Otis is leaving<br />
the Caribbean after 40 years of teaching and<br />
administration to put her talents to work in the<br />
International School of Kigali in Rwanda! Her<br />
three daughters and two grandchildren will miss<br />
her sorely! Cat Austin Franks will also miss her<br />
longtime friend. Cat has been in St. Croix for the<br />
past 20 years. Her three sons have all returned<br />
to New England while Cat takes her next step<br />
in her career. She’s been a clown, a storyteller, an<br />
educator, a mother, and a librarian. I (Bonnie)<br />
am looking forward to the next update!<br />
Since graduation, Helena Marshall Keiser<br />
has taught third grade, worked at a child development<br />
center, and raised four sons, and most<br />
recently she works as a volunteer at a children’s<br />
hospital. It’s her pleasure to snuggle infants in<br />
the NICU as her 1-year-old granddaughter is out<br />
of town! Lynn Geronemus Bigelman is amazed<br />
at how fast her family is now growing. Three of<br />
her four children have had five baby boys, and<br />
a granddaughter was born in early fall. Lynn<br />
has been the president of the Michigan Reading<br />
Association and has completed her 12th year as<br />
an elementary principal in a national blue ribbon<br />
school! Barbara Tarr Drauschke continues to<br />
honor <strong>Wheelock</strong> by serving as an alumni trustee.<br />
Her daily job takes her to Harvard, where<br />
she works for several members of the Physics<br />
Department (including a Nobel Prize winner!).<br />
She and Fred celebrated their 40th anniversary<br />
enjoying proximity with their three grown sons.<br />
Alice Liberman Eberhardt is retiring after 33<br />
years of teaching at the Bernice A. Ray School in<br />
Hanover, NH. She’s looking forward to spending<br />
more time with her two daughters and her<br />
husband. The White Mountains continue to call<br />
her to bike and hike, and Alice would like to<br />
spend more time traveling. Betsey Greenwald<br />
Zimmering moved from Barrington, RI, to New<br />
Orleans, LA, where she and husband Paul raised<br />
their children and Betsey worked as a reading<br />
46 <strong>Fall</strong> <strong>2012</strong><br />
(L-R) 1972 alumnae Cat Austin Franks and Sarah Otis on<br />
one of their last visits to the beach (in St. Croix) together<br />
before Sarah headed to a job teaching second grade at the<br />
International School of Kigali in Rwanda earlier this year<br />
specialist. More recently, she has been a literacy<br />
coach in Cheshire, CT, for grades 1 to 3. In her<br />
spare time, Betsey took up golf, traveled, tutored,<br />
and stayed in touch with old friends from<br />
<strong>Wheelock</strong>.<br />
Wendy Flink Levey has spent most of the<br />
last 40 years nurturing her two children and her<br />
school, Epiphany Community Nursery School.<br />
The school has grown from five children to<br />
more than 160 children. In her limited free<br />
time, Wendy served on several boards, including<br />
the Hewitt School, the Browning School, and<br />
Phoenix House. She frequently speaks on panels<br />
and networks in the world of education. Liz Hile<br />
Lindsay and husband Durwood have eased into<br />
retirement by traveling to Maui! After teaching<br />
for 35 years, Liz thankfully reminisced about the<br />
lessons she learned at <strong>Wheelock</strong> and how she<br />
incorporated them in her work as a teacher, a<br />
child advocate, and a guide to parents.<br />
Barbara Carter Thoms reports that life<br />
in New Mexico is good and she and husband<br />
Andrew are enjoying the sunshine! She is currently<br />
a principal at a K-6 elementary school<br />
in Belen. Daughter Heler works nearby, and<br />
her son, daughter-in-law, and new grandson<br />
make life full of blessings. Mary Dickerson<br />
Pierson continues to enjoy living in the quiet<br />
woods of Grafton, NY. She loves teaching early<br />
childhood music at the Pine Cobble School in<br />
Williamstown, MA, while husband Peter works<br />
at the Cathedral of All Saints in Albany. They<br />
love seeing their granddaughters, 12 and 3, and<br />
were looking forward to welcoming one more<br />
baby in November. Pam Goering Pierson has<br />
had a varied career in education—teaching,<br />
earning a master’s degree, supervising student<br />
teachers, and serving as the director of education<br />
at Planned Parenthood. More recently, Pam has<br />
been a marketing director for retirement communities<br />
and has published a book on the topic<br />
of senior housing. She and husband Richard currently<br />
live in Spokane, WA.<br />
Kim Cross Reichert has lived and worked in<br />
Westport, CT, for the past 40 years. She continues<br />
to teach at her original school, although she’s<br />
recently moved from first grade to third. She and<br />
husband Lee are making plans for the traveling<br />
they want to do after retirement! Wendy Petker<br />
Sprattler is now living with, and taking care of,<br />
her 89-year-old father in Wilmington, NC, and<br />
teaching in a Jewish supplementary school. “The<br />
weather is great, and the beach is five minutes<br />
away!” she writes. Her kids are doing well but<br />
live far away in Massachusetts and California.<br />
I (Bonnie) happily continue to teach fourth<br />
grade at Westtown School (a pre-K to 12th grade<br />
Quaker School near Philadelphia). This year, we<br />
moved to a great apartment on campus where<br />
I’ll be a dorm parent for freshman girls. Each of<br />
our four children now has one child, so our time<br />
together has become a flurry of reading books,<br />
singing songs, and enjoying the variety of developmental<br />
milestones only a <strong>Wheelock</strong> graduate<br />
can truly appreciate!<br />
reUnion 2013<br />
May 31–June 2<br />
1973<br />
Jaci Fowle Holmes<br />
Regina Frisch Lobree<br />
Christine Appert is an educational consultant<br />
and assistive technology specialist in the Hospital<br />
Education Department at the University of<br />
Virginia and also an adjunct faculty member<br />
in the university’s Curry School of Education.<br />
During the summer, she wrote: “After my<br />
guide dog retired in April, I returned to The<br />
Seeing Eye in Morristown, NJ. I was matched<br />
with an adorable, 2-year-old, black lab named<br />
Jewel. She is a wonderful travel partner and we<br />
look forward to attending the Reunion next<br />
spring!” Christine also mentioned that Amanda<br />
Simas ’11MS, a child life specialist that her<br />
department hired earlier this year, is doing a<br />
great job in her efforts to establish a child life<br />
program at the hospital. “It is particularly challenging<br />
as the pediatric units are in the midst<br />
of renovation,” Christine wrote. “She tackles<br />
her hurdles with <strong>Wheelock</strong> spirit!”<br />
Jane Davis White’s May <strong>2012</strong> had two big<br />
highlights: the birth of her third grandchild and<br />
then, two days later, her retirement from the
DeKalb County (GA) School District! “I am thoroughly<br />
enjoying being Grandmumma and being<br />
retired!” she writes. “Praise the Lord!”<br />
1974<br />
Laura Keyes Jaynes<br />
Linda Mayo-Perez Williams and Julia-Ellen<br />
Davis ’71 participated in the annual Cooper River<br />
Bridge Run (in Charleston, SC) in March.<br />
1975<br />
Leslie Hayter Maxfield<br />
Cathie Brown lives in Northampton, MA,<br />
with husband Greg and is a sales manager for<br />
a national media company that helps small to<br />
medium-sized businesses market themselves<br />
locally. She and Matthew Porter have two children<br />
in their 30s: Ben lives in Shrewsbury, MA,<br />
with his wife and their two children, and Aurora<br />
lives in Seattle with husband Ryan and a new<br />
baby who just arrived this fall.<br />
“It’s been an awesome journey and a wonderful<br />
career,” writes Dorothy Cresswell, who retired<br />
last spring after 30 years of teaching. She still<br />
mentors younger teachers, serves on a preschool<br />
ministry team for affordable child care, and hopes<br />
to publish some of the children’s music she’s written<br />
over the years. She adds: “Meanwhile, my wife<br />
[Dusty] and I (Go, Obama!) will work toward the<br />
closing of the aging and dangerous nuclear power<br />
plants. Also, if you want to read a great mystery<br />
novel about older citizens making a difference,<br />
Dusty has written Danger in the Air to remind<br />
us what we can do if we use our imaginations.<br />
And we’re never too old to do that!” Dorothy<br />
stopped by <strong>Wheelock</strong>—even wandered over to<br />
the Brookline Campus and found the Alumni<br />
Relations Office—while in Boston for a day during<br />
the summer.<br />
Debbie Cann Westcott is still selling advertising<br />
for 1430 WNAV-AM/99.9 FM (and now<br />
“streaming across the land”). She says classmates<br />
can check them out at www.wnav.com. She has<br />
a new weekend job at the Wild Bird Center of<br />
Annapolis, MD, where she works with a great<br />
team of people selling supplies to feed and care<br />
for wild birds. She still runs her “<strong>Wheelock</strong><br />
B&B” but says it’s mostly filled with Navy families<br />
and sailors in town for boat shows.<br />
1976<br />
Angela Barresi Yakovleff<br />
A hand (occupational) therapist in Atlanta for<br />
more than 30 years, Louisa Lothrop Affleck<br />
recently started working at Emory Healthcare<br />
with a new hand surgeon. She and her husband<br />
have been busy helping their elderly parents,<br />
who live nearby. Daughter Allison is a graduate<br />
of the University of Richmond and is in her<br />
second year at Georgia State Law School, and<br />
daughter Sarah, a junior at Wofford <strong>College</strong> in<br />
Spartanburg, SC, is studying in London for the<br />
fall semester.<br />
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May 31–June 2<br />
1978<br />
Pat Mucci Tayco<br />
Kimberly Kern English writes that she and Eppy<br />
Roman Stevens are having a great time together:<br />
“She’s talking retirement and I’m talking work (as<br />
an RN).” They would love to hear from <strong>Wheelock</strong><br />
friends who might want to get together west of<br />
Boston for lunch or dinner. Kimberly says married<br />
life with Rick is wonderful and being a “gramma”<br />
for the third time is still as special as the first, but<br />
Class nOTes<br />
she wishes her kids lived nearby. Their two huge<br />
dogs “keep the empty nest active.” Linda Kaeding<br />
Hoyesen has retired from Fairfax County Public<br />
Schools in Virginia, where she’d been a learning<br />
disabilities specialist since moving there from<br />
Massachusetts in 1995. “<strong>Wheelock</strong> has had a major<br />
impact on the professional I have become,” she<br />
writes. “I feel extremely fortunate to have had that<br />
experience, an opportunity second to none.” Linda<br />
also wrote to congratulate Sue Kosoff ’65/’75MS<br />
on her retirement from <strong>Wheelock</strong>: “Sue directed a<br />
gang of us in Peter Pan back when she first arrived<br />
at <strong>Wheelock</strong>. It was a GREAT experience, and I<br />
believe one of her first productions at <strong>Wheelock</strong>.<br />
She was an inspiration back then and has given<br />
me some terrific memories of that production<br />
(along with a remarkable shoulder bruise [I fell off<br />
the sets as one of the lost boys])—probably the<br />
first-ever African-American Captain Hook and a<br />
WHOLE cast of characters (both literally AND<br />
Peter Rawitsch ’77 (seated, far left) had some <strong>Wheelock</strong> friends at his house in Delmar, NY, in the summer of 2011.<br />
Standing: Nora Ray Richards ’76 and Joe Richards ’75; Seated: Peter, Tracy Weinberg ’77, and Cathie Brown ’75;<br />
On laptop (via Skype): Mary Grant Altshuler ’77 and Randy Altshuler ’77<br />
<strong>Wheelock</strong> Magazine 47
Class nOTes<br />
(L-R) Eppy Roman Stevens ’78, Kim Kern English ’78, and Dolly Roman Alvarez ’77 at Eppy’s son’s recent wedding<br />
figuratively) to boot. Happy Trails, Sue!” Jerry Parr<br />
’78/’78MS writes: “It’s wonderful to be back in the<br />
New England area [NH], where I can stumble on<br />
so many <strong>Wheelock</strong> faculty and alumni. As I reach<br />
those golden years, I am spending a lot of my professional<br />
time helping get more men into ECE. Our<br />
slogan: Men who change diapers change the world!”<br />
1980<br />
Kathy Formica Harris<br />
Ann Marie Christian Dargon, assistant superintendent<br />
in Westport, MA, also is an associate<br />
professor teaching in the Master’s Core Education<br />
Program at Bridgewater State University and<br />
teaches a course called Assessment and Analysis to<br />
undergraduates at Stonehill <strong>College</strong>. She lives in<br />
Wareham, MA, and has four grown children. Ann<br />
Marie’s husband, JF Dargon, just published his<br />
third novel, Josiah Ironknife.<br />
“What memories it brought back!” Bobbie<br />
Helbig Van Suetendael wrote in May of her<br />
experience bringing her eighth-grade class to see<br />
<strong>Wheelock</strong> Family Theatre’s The Miracle Worker. The<br />
students truly enjoyed the show, and Bobbie got a<br />
kick out of seeing the changes on campus: “Ruby’s<br />
is a tanning salon!” In June she finished her 11th<br />
year of teaching seventh- and eighth-grade reading<br />
in Sturbridge, MA, and she says she is starting to<br />
think about retirement. Although she doesn’t “feel<br />
like a grandmother,” Bobbie recently became a<br />
grandmother for the first time and looks forward to<br />
spending time with her grandson, even though he<br />
lives in the South!<br />
1982<br />
Jo-Anne DeGiacomo-Petrie of Barrington, RI,<br />
is working at the Wheeler School in Providence<br />
48 <strong>Fall</strong> <strong>2012</strong><br />
as a pre-K teacher with Dana Brewer Hahn ’73<br />
and Peggy Gilbane Smithers ’76, and she is<br />
finishing up a master’s in curriculum and instruction<br />
at Western New England University. Seven<br />
years ago she married Adrian Petrie, and they<br />
have added a cat, Muffin, and her stepson, Frank,<br />
17, to their family. She writes: “Mallory, my oldest,<br />
is [a junior] at <strong>Wheelock</strong> and loves it! It is a<br />
pleasure to pop to <strong>Wheelock</strong>—I have such fond<br />
memories.” Jo-Anne has published her first book<br />
(illustrated by Adrian), The Mystery of the Land of<br />
Letters, and started a small educational company<br />
called Spot and Freckles Learn (www.spotandfreckleslearn.com).<br />
In addition, there are “alphabet flash<br />
cards, alphabet wall cards, a DVD of the book,<br />
an audio of the book, Spot and Freckles finger<br />
puppets for visual/kinesthetic skywriting, a CD<br />
of directions for letter writing, and workbooks for<br />
uppercase and lowercase letter writing.”<br />
For the last 11 years, Lisa Nord Zack has<br />
worked as an employment support counselor<br />
for the state of New Hampshire. “I work with<br />
individuals on TANF [Temporary Assistance<br />
for Needy Families], helping them overcome<br />
significant barriers so that they may return to or<br />
enter the workforce,” she writes. “It is great to see<br />
folks move forward and gain or regain their selfesteem.”<br />
Her daughter graduated from Plymouth<br />
State University last year and has been working for<br />
Nature’s Classroom as an environmental educator.<br />
1983<br />
reUnion 2013<br />
May 31–June 2<br />
Carol Rubin Fishman<br />
Mary Alice Anderson Heuschel, superintendent<br />
of the Renton, WA, School District since<br />
2006, was named the 2011 Washington State<br />
Superintendent of the Year and received the<br />
Renton Rotary Outstanding and Dedicated<br />
Service Award. A long-standing member of<br />
several state and national educational research<br />
and leadership associations, she currently serves<br />
on the boards of the organizations Washington<br />
STEM, a statewide nonprofit advancing equity,<br />
excellence, and innovation in STEM education,<br />
and Education Northwest, which conducts projects<br />
to help solve challenges faced by schools,<br />
districts, and communities across the country.<br />
1985<br />
Linda Edwards Beal<br />
Over the last couple of years, Alison Abbott<br />
Quackenbush has been working her way back<br />
into teaching by working part time in four different<br />
preschool settings, and she is really looking<br />
forward to settling down into one local preschool<br />
soon. Daughter Katie is a senior at Tufts, daughter<br />
Maggie is a senior at Framingham (MA) High<br />
School, and son Danny is a sixth-grader at the<br />
local charter middle school. Alison and Steve are<br />
“looking ahead SEVERAL(!) years” and recently<br />
bought a house on Cape Cod (in Orleans) that<br />
will eventually be their retirement place. During<br />
the summer they did lots of projects on it and<br />
enjoyed their first summer owning a summer<br />
house! Alison still sees Sally Weibel Myers ’86<br />
once or twice a year and saw Rebecca Meridy<br />
Winters this spring. Karen Mankowski Lund<br />
still loves teaching first grade in Easton, MA, but<br />
really appreciates her “downtime” with husband<br />
Rick and their two sons. She and Rick travel to<br />
Maine a lot to watch their older son play college<br />
lacrosse. As a family, they all go to local sporting<br />
events and ski in Colorado every February. “It’s<br />
not glamorous, but we love it!” Karen writes. She<br />
and Rick will celebrate their silver anniversary in<br />
May of 2013.<br />
Mary Snow writes: “This year I have been<br />
working at Russell Cooperative Preschool, where<br />
my 6-year-old attended a few years ago. It has<br />
been wonderful to work with such dedicated<br />
families and talented teachers. Every day feels like<br />
a privilege. I see Amanda Worcester Swinkoski<br />
’86 quite often, and I still have a photograph<br />
in my kitchen of Jane Cruickshank, Lisa<br />
Cutrona, and Jemma Wellen. I miss many of<br />
the <strong>Wheelock</strong> crew and invite anyone to look me<br />
up in Watertown, MA.”<br />
1987<br />
Libby Hubbard VanDerMaelen<br />
Since retiring in 2008, Stephanie Johnson has<br />
been enjoying her time with her children and her<br />
partner on the Cape. She loved her career as an<br />
executive director and developer in the assisted
living field but also loves her life now. Her partner<br />
works long hours, so they enjoy their family<br />
time on the water when she’s off. Stephanie<br />
adopted her children as babies, and they are now<br />
20, 18 (just started college), and 13.<br />
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May 31–June 2<br />
1988<br />
Carol Ann McCusker Petruccelli<br />
Cheryl Longwell-Townsend lives in Clayville,<br />
NY, with her husband, 9-year-old twin boys, and<br />
8-year-old daughter. An audiologist in a hospital<br />
setting, she writes: “I graduated <strong>Wheelock</strong>, continued<br />
on to get my master’s, and then got my<br />
doctorate in audiology. Even though I landed in<br />
the world of audiology instead of teaching, my<br />
life is still imbedded in the world of children! I<br />
love the kids I test and work with at the hospital<br />
and get to see newborns through teens. My<br />
youngest son has cerebral palsy and a seizure<br />
disorder, which ultimately involves me in the<br />
community a lot (he is an extremely sociable,<br />
lovable child who has a very magnetic personality!).<br />
My background and education from <strong>Wheelock</strong><br />
have helped guide us through a lot of issues with<br />
my son and helped me advocate for him in ways<br />
I don’t think would have happened without my<br />
education background from <strong>Wheelock</strong>.”<br />
“Time certainly does fly,” Jennie Nelson<br />
Morrell writes. “I can’t believe it’s our 25th<br />
Reunion this year. It seems like I was just with all<br />
my Longwood <strong>Wheelock</strong> friends.” After 11 years<br />
of being a divorced single mom to two children,<br />
Jennie found a wonderful man and got married last<br />
summer, adding two young girls to her family. This<br />
fall she’s been adjusting to the reality of having a<br />
child in college. Jennie is still teaching full-day<br />
kindergarten in Andover, CT, and loves her job—<br />
and her summer vacations!<br />
Congratulations to<br />
Judith Steinbergh ’89!<br />
In April, Judith, who has served in various<br />
capacities as educator, poet, and writer in<br />
Brookline, MA, for more 40 years, was selected<br />
as the town’s first poet laureate! According to an<br />
announcement by the arts commission, the poet<br />
laureate’s activities will focus on “celebrating poetry<br />
in town, energizing citizens about the art and pleasures<br />
of poetry, and serving as a poet for significant<br />
town occasions and events.” Candidates for the<br />
position were required to be residents of Brookline<br />
and have “a demonstrated commitment to the<br />
community; a substantial body of work, including<br />
published work; and the ability and enthusiasm to<br />
fulfill the duties of the poet laureate.” Judith will<br />
serve for two years.<br />
“ Dubai is a safe city to live in with a mix<br />
of old and new, and it is a liberal place<br />
to live, unlike its neighbor Saudi Arabia.<br />
Women here walk around freely and<br />
do not have to cover up. We spend our<br />
weekends in the desert, sand dune-ing<br />
and camping, or at the beach, swimming<br />
and water-skiing.”<br />
Katie Kitchen McNeil ’90 reports in from Dubai<br />
I<br />
am writing to you from Dubai in the Middle East.<br />
This is my sixth year living here with my husband<br />
and three children. I teach at the American School<br />
of Dubai, and I am a full-day kindergarten teacher.<br />
<strong>Wheelock</strong> <strong>College</strong> is known all the way here in<br />
Dubai, you know!<br />
Most of the students I teach are either American<br />
or Canadian or have strong ties to America or Canada.<br />
Looking at a class picture of my students, though, you<br />
would see they are from all over the world; just a few of<br />
the countries they come from are Jordan, Pakistan, India,<br />
and South Africa. It is so interesting teaching in an international<br />
school—and let me tell you, there are always<br />
jobs out here if anyone is looking for a new adventure!<br />
Dubai is a safe city to live in with a mix of old and<br />
new, and it is a liberal place to live, unlike its neighbor<br />
Saudi Arabia. Women here walk around freely and do<br />
not have to cover up. We spend our weekends in the<br />
desert, sand dune-ing and camping, or at the beach,<br />
swimming and water-skiing. It is so easy to travel<br />
anywhere from Dubai; our travels take us to London<br />
regularly, to Paris, Bali, Singapore, and Thailand, just to<br />
name a few. Flights are cheap and everything is just a<br />
hop, skip, and jump away.<br />
Class nOTes<br />
I love teaching at the American School of Dubai.<br />
This year I was the literacy lead teacher for the<br />
early years, which I very much enjoyed. My school is<br />
flying me to New York this summer to attend Columbia<br />
University so that I can take the Reading Workshop<br />
there and become more solid as a literacy lead for my<br />
colleagues. I will also reconnect with my best friend,<br />
Amy Worsh Cohn, in July—can’t wait for that!<br />
Twenty years later, I still look back on my education<br />
at <strong>Wheelock</strong> with nothing but fond memories!<br />
It seems like yesterday that I was graduating from<br />
<strong>Wheelock</strong>—time flies when you are having fun. Next<br />
year my son will be graduating from high school to<br />
go to university. I just can’t get my head around how<br />
that happened!<br />
A big hello to all my fellow 1990 <strong>Wheelock</strong> graduates!<br />
I hope each and every one of you has had a fun<br />
and an amazing adventure since leaving <strong>Wheelock</strong><br />
and that you were able to spread your wings and fly to<br />
pursue your dreams!<br />
Come visit me in Dubai! The door is ALWAYS open.<br />
Katie Kitchen McNeil ’90<br />
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Class nOTes<br />
1990<br />
Lori Ann Langlais Hickey finds it hard to believe<br />
that her “babies” are now 13, 11, and 11.<br />
“I remember life in the simple days on<br />
<strong>Wheelock</strong> campus when the only thing to worry<br />
about was, Does my hair look OK? or Should I<br />
go to the party this weekend?” she writes. “Now I<br />
pray that one day my three children will like each<br />
other and not be so busy needing things to do.<br />
Remembering the lazy days!” She misses Katie<br />
Longo ’90/’98MS and Julie Williams and wonders<br />
how Fran Hubner and Tara Kelley are doing.<br />
Pam McInnis Schappler is teaching second<br />
grade in Bedford, NH, and enjoying it tremendously.<br />
She is very excited for her oldest son, who began<br />
his college journey at Clemson University this fall.<br />
“I am anticipating that he will find some lifelong<br />
friends just as I did during my years at <strong>Wheelock</strong>,”<br />
she writes. “My time at <strong>Wheelock</strong> continues to<br />
be some of the best and fondly remembered years<br />
of my life!”<br />
1991<br />
Alyssa Greeley writes: “I’m excited to report that<br />
I recently fulfilled my dream of traveling to Spain,<br />
with Portugal thrown in as a pleasant bonus. I had<br />
a ball exploring the wonderful smaller towns, sampling<br />
many types of tapas, and, best of all, finally<br />
putting my junior high and high school Spanish to<br />
good use!” Amy Lindstedt Kelly has been enjoying<br />
keeping up with <strong>Wheelock</strong> friends virtually<br />
(on Facebook) but still hasn’t found everyone she’d<br />
like, so she asks classmates to look for her. She has<br />
started to think about what to do once both of her<br />
children are in school all day, every day. She and<br />
her husband had a lot of fun watching Evan flourish<br />
in kindergarten and were hoping Amelie would<br />
get his teacher.<br />
Patty Lynch, a unit organizer with Princess<br />
House Giftware, writes: “I have been helping<br />
people with new lifetime warranty cookware, dining,<br />
and everyday items. I have earned two free trips<br />
with them and am working on my third. I choose<br />
my own schedule, which is good, because I work<br />
full time, teach Sunday school, and have a disabled<br />
daughter.” Julie Roscoe Orkiolla and Greg<br />
Orkiolla ’89 are still living in beautiful Utah. Julie<br />
taught third grade last year and really enjoyed the<br />
extra bit of maturity that third-graders have. Greg<br />
continues to teach kindergarten so that he can be<br />
that first introduction to education for many of the<br />
students. Julie’s father passed away in April, so they<br />
had the opportunity to return to Boston for a few<br />
days. Greg enjoyed wandering around town since<br />
he hadn’t been back in many years. They enjoyed<br />
spending time with Craig Sussman ’93 and<br />
missed seeing Eliza Oliver ’92, who passed away in<br />
September 2010.<br />
50 <strong>Fall</strong> <strong>2012</strong><br />
(L-R) Amy Armstrong ’95, Nicole Tangney Radulski ’95/’98MS, and Cheri Piscetello ’95 celebrating after Nicole<br />
completed her first Boston Marathon this past April<br />
Congratulations to Sarah Rice Patt, who<br />
graduated from Simmons with a master’s in special<br />
education in May. “It was an awesome day,”<br />
she writes, “especially hearing my kids in the<br />
audience shouting, ‘Go Mom!’” She is now in<br />
her fifth year teaching at the Landmark School—<br />
on the elementary/middle school campus. She<br />
teaches social studies and tutorials that focus on<br />
reading, writing, and spelling. Sarah and Michael<br />
have been married for 17 years, and their three<br />
kids are doing well in the public schools of<br />
Hamilton/Wenham, MA. She finds it hard to<br />
believe that her firstborn will be driving soon!<br />
1992<br />
Heather Bowes Ezzy has been enjoying “relearning<br />
things,” especially history, as she homeschools<br />
her 11-year-old son and 8-year-old daughter.<br />
“They have both chosen to get baptized to show<br />
their family and friends how much they love<br />
Jesus,” she writes. Heather and Steve celebrated<br />
their 14th anniversary in June. Heather enjoys<br />
scrapbooking in her spare time.<br />
Alice Hasbrouck is now working as a psychologist<br />
in early intervention, doing evaluations<br />
to determine the special education needs of 3- to<br />
5-year-olds. “I love working with the team of<br />
special educators, speech therapists, occupational<br />
therapists, and physical therapists, and I love<br />
the professional consultation and discussion<br />
that flow in our building,” she writes. Alice also<br />
moonlights with the organization Family Support<br />
Line, which works to prevent and heal the harm<br />
caused by childhood sexual abuse. “I co-lead a<br />
non-offending parents group, facilitating the discussion<br />
among parents, grandparents, and foster<br />
parents who are raising kids who have survived<br />
sexual abuse,” Alice writes. She recently presented<br />
a very well-received workshop on detecting<br />
and reporting suspected childhood sexual abuse<br />
to the service coordinators in her countywide<br />
early intervention agency, and now she’s getting<br />
requests to present it to the Head Start and special<br />
education classroom teachers in the county.<br />
After running a family child care program<br />
from her home for seven years, Jennifer Roscoe<br />
Repeta closed it at the end of the last school<br />
year in order to devote more time to her busy<br />
family. She now also works part time as a preschool<br />
teacher at A Child’s Place Pre-School in<br />
Whitman, MA. Faith Burlingham Lafayette<br />
can’t believe 20 years have passed since graduation<br />
and feels she’s been blessed with an amazing<br />
family and an incredible job. She and Dale<br />
have been married for 11 years, and their three<br />
children keep them on their toes! They renewed<br />
their vows for their 10th anniversary, and Faith<br />
says it was wonderful sharing that day with their<br />
children and other family and friends. Employed<br />
by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts with the<br />
Department of Public Health as regional clinical<br />
coordinator, Faith oversees the provision of outreach<br />
services to homeless families in the western,<br />
central, and southeastern parts of the state. “I<br />
have visited <strong>Wheelock</strong> with my family a couple<br />
of times over the years and have been following<br />
Robyne Newman<br />
Hockett ’92<br />
Making a Difference Award<br />
The Making a Difference Award<br />
is given to two alumni from<br />
Reunion classes, usually one from a younger<br />
class (5th to 20th Reunion) and one from an<br />
older class (25th Reunion or higher), whose<br />
professional or volunteer work exemplifies the<br />
mission of <strong>Wheelock</strong> <strong>College</strong>. Congratulations<br />
and thank you for living the <strong>Wheelock</strong> mission,<br />
Robyne, and Judith Bohnen Levitt ’62, who<br />
also received an award.
the changes/growth of the campus,” she writes.<br />
“How exciting that our <strong>Wheelock</strong> community<br />
continues to grow!”<br />
reUnion 2013<br />
May 31–June 2<br />
1993<br />
“Huge changes in my world!” writes Kim<br />
Sherman Boit. She and her family have moved<br />
from Iowa after five years there and are now<br />
living in Connecticut due to her husband’s<br />
retirement from the Navy. She’s hoping they are<br />
there “for the long haul,” and she looks forward<br />
to seeing some of her old classmates now that<br />
she’s back in their neck of the woods. Patricia<br />
Bys Carando is married and has three young<br />
children.<br />
1995<br />
Julie Price Barber and husband James welcomed<br />
their first child, Nathaniel, in January.<br />
Julie is working as a 1:1 aide for an autistic<br />
child in Buffalo, NY. Lisa Feucht Kavanagh<br />
has her M.S. in science education from Walden<br />
University, but after two years of looking for a<br />
job, she decided upon the best and most important<br />
job, staying home with her three beautiful<br />
girls! They are finishing kindergarten, second,<br />
and fifth grades. Her husband is in college now.<br />
She is grateful for this time spent with her family.<br />
Nicole Tangney Radulski ’95/’98MS is<br />
teaching first grade in the North Andover (MA)<br />
Public Schools. She gets together with two good<br />
friends from <strong>Wheelock</strong>, Amy Armstrong and<br />
Cheri Piscetello. She writes: “I ran the Boston<br />
Marathon this past April, and . . . the three of<br />
us [celebrated] my completing my first and one<br />
of the hottest marathons on record. I ran for the<br />
Dana Farber team and raised over $10,000.”<br />
1996<br />
Lesley Turner Szabo, her husband of 13 years, and<br />
their 10-year-old twins live in West Simsbury, CT,<br />
where Lesley teaches fourth grade. “Besides being<br />
mom, teacher and wife, I also enjoy taking exercise<br />
classes at the Y, reading, and following education<br />
blogs,” she writes.<br />
reUnion 2013<br />
May 31–June 2<br />
1998<br />
1999<br />
“It feels great to finally have a town and house<br />
to call home,” writes Amy Darling Wood. In<br />
June, she and husband Tim purchased a home<br />
in Wilmington, MA. Jane Sanders Wuestkamp<br />
and husband Tom welcomed their son Alexander<br />
Ingrid Ordonez-Street ’01 with husband Andrew and their children, Kailyn and Justyn<br />
Dennis on June 18. “We are all doing well, and<br />
Kyle is enjoying being a big brother,” she writes.<br />
2001<br />
Since graduating from <strong>Wheelock</strong>, Ingrid Ordonez-<br />
Street has married her high school sweetheart; had<br />
two kids, Justyn, 8, and Kailyn, 2; and earned a<br />
dual master’s in education and special education.<br />
She is currently working as a child life coordinator<br />
at St. Luke’s Roosevelt Hospital’s Pediatric Intensive<br />
Care Unit in Manhattan, NY. “I keep in touch with<br />
many of my <strong>Wheelock</strong> classmates, many of whom<br />
I reconnected with at the most recent Reunion,”<br />
she writes. “I hope to see many of you at the next<br />
Reunion!” Katie Mailhot Machuca and her husband<br />
welcomed their second child in August 2011,<br />
a son named Everett Anderson Machuca. Racheal<br />
Spicer-Ness and husband Stew celebrated their<br />
ninth anniversary (and 16 years as a couple) this<br />
past April.<br />
2003<br />
Laurie Fraga Corbett<br />
’02/’04MS<br />
The Lucy <strong>Wheelock</strong> Award<br />
This award honors a younger<br />
alumna/us, who is celebrating a 5th<br />
to 20th Reunion, for their service to the <strong>College</strong> and<br />
to the Alumni Association. Thank you, Laurie!<br />
reUnion 2013<br />
May 31–June 2<br />
2004<br />
Gina Tarquini and Josh Lamoureux were married<br />
this summer in front of close family and friends in<br />
the backyard of their new home. Last year marked<br />
her eighth year of teaching and her third year at<br />
her current school in Springfield, MA, as a firstgrade<br />
teacher.<br />
2005<br />
Aimee Glassick Dill announces the birth of son<br />
Brayden Evan on April 17. Megan Johnson and<br />
Michael Medur were married in June 2011 and<br />
bought a house in Lynn, MA, in November. Alison<br />
Cook Nogueira and husband Scott got married in<br />
July 2010. She has a Master of Education degree<br />
in administration of higher education and has been<br />
working as associate faculty co-op coordinator at<br />
Northeastern University since 2008.<br />
Congratulations to Kimberly LaJoie Tissot<br />
and husband Chris. In April they finalized the<br />
adoption of their 2-year-old little boy, Carter<br />
Alan Tissot. “We have had Carter in our home<br />
since he was born, so we were thrilled to have<br />
him become legally ours,” Kimberly writes.<br />
Also in April, she was promoted from interim<br />
executive director to executive director of the<br />
Disability Action Center Inc., “a private, nonprofit<br />
organization that empowers individuals<br />
with disabilities in reaching their highest level of<br />
independence.”<br />
reUnion 2013<br />
May 31–June 2<br />
2008<br />
Rachael Thames<br />
’07/’08MS<br />
Class nOTes<br />
The Lucy <strong>Wheelock</strong> Award<br />
This award honors a younger<br />
alumna/us, who is celebrating a 5th<br />
to 20th Reunion, for their service to the <strong>College</strong> and<br />
to the Alumni Association. Thank you, Rachael!<br />
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Class nOTes<br />
Master’s Degrees<br />
Having retired from the MSPCC in 2004 and<br />
from her career in early intervention in 2006,<br />
Darcy Jones Fuguet ’73MS says she’s now “an<br />
enthusiastic grandparent, volunteer, and world<br />
traveler.” Nancy Heden Clayman ’86MS founded<br />
a networking group called Adoption Professionals<br />
of Massachusetts and now does consulting work<br />
and is affiliated with Adoption Resources, a<br />
division of Jewish Family & Children’s Service<br />
(Boston). David Siedlar ’91MS has retired from<br />
the college where he used to teach, Huaiyin<br />
Institute of Technology in the People’s Republic<br />
of China, after six years there. He still has his own<br />
school, which enrolls 70 students, and he does<br />
some nursery school teaching and helps older students<br />
who want to go to school overseas. He says a<br />
lot of his work is basically “shoring up self-esteem,”<br />
but he adds that math is the most important subject<br />
that Chinese high school students are expected<br />
to master, and he has started teaching second- and<br />
third-graders basic math in English—and using<br />
the American flag to teach numbers (50 stars, 13<br />
bars, etc.)! “I think I’ve helped many of all ages,”<br />
he writes. “Now it’s time to enjoy the culture and<br />
be Chinese, too.” Jennifer Fisher Henry ’97MS<br />
teaches in a bilingual school in Paris, France, where<br />
she has worked for the past 14 years. She has<br />
taught all grades from kindergarten through fifth<br />
grade. She and her husband, a French man she met<br />
18 years ago on vacation in Paris, have two bilingual<br />
children—soccer-playing son Alexi, 12, and<br />
gymnast daughter Julia, 9.<br />
Erlor Dean ’98MS of Somerset, Bermuda,<br />
published a poetry collection called Mother’s<br />
Whispers in 2011. The book, inspired by Erlor’s<br />
mother, Inez, who loved poetry and language and<br />
helped her to “better appreciate life’s wonders,”<br />
contains poetic pieces that pay tribute to mothers<br />
and motherhood but are more generally about<br />
“celebrating life and all its beauty,” according to<br />
an October 2011 Bernews.com story. Born and<br />
raised in Bermuda, Erlor now teaches English<br />
at a correctional facility there. For 25 years, she<br />
taught at West End Primary School (in Sandys,<br />
Bermuda) and at Sandys Secondary Middle<br />
School. She is also the author of the books The<br />
Ocean and A Tribute to Mothers. Anne Hemmer<br />
’02MS is a family community coordination<br />
specialist for the Massachusetts Department<br />
of Early Education & Care and works in the<br />
Southeast and Cape Regional Office in Taunton.<br />
In October she presented on “Healthy Eating<br />
and Physical Activity for Children & Families” at<br />
<strong>Wheelock</strong>’s <strong>Fall</strong> Alumni Symposium.<br />
In August, Kathleen A. Hunter ’05MS let<br />
the <strong>College</strong> know about an article she’d written<br />
for the International Reading Association’s<br />
Teacher-to-Teacher Blog on “Using Music to<br />
52 <strong>Fall</strong> <strong>2012</strong><br />
Where has your<br />
<strong>Wheelock</strong> education<br />
taken you?<br />
It has been 125 years since the first<br />
students began kindergarten teaching<br />
classes to prepare to carry out Lucy<br />
<strong>Wheelock</strong>’s mission of improving the lives<br />
of children and families. As we celebrate the<br />
<strong>College</strong>’s 125th anniversary year, we want<br />
to honor the work of our alumni, many of<br />
whom have maintained the ideals of the<br />
<strong>College</strong> throughout their lives, regardless of<br />
their individual career paths.<br />
Let us know what your <strong>Wheelock</strong> education<br />
means to you and on what paths<br />
it has taken you. What work are you currently<br />
doing? Have you committed yourself<br />
to volunteering, family, or philanthropy?<br />
This milestone year is an excellent time<br />
to share your story with your <strong>Wheelock</strong><br />
community! Email Lori Ann Saslav at<br />
lsaslav@wheelock.edu. Include ”<strong>Wheelock</strong><br />
has taken me . . . “ in your subject line.<br />
Communication Makes<br />
the World Go ’Round.<br />
Keep the communication in flow.<br />
Send us your current email address,<br />
and we promise to send<br />
you <strong>Wheelock</strong>’s monthly E-Newsletter<br />
so you can be up-to-date on late-breaking<br />
news, alumni spotlights, resources and<br />
events, and much more! Email Lori Ann<br />
Saslav at lsaslav@wheelock.edu.<br />
Inspire Young Writers.” Kathleen often uses<br />
music to jump-start her own writing, she says,<br />
and she has seen it help students with writer’s<br />
block a great deal, too, so she encourages<br />
teachers to bring music into their writing lessons.<br />
Lisa Irving ’10MSW works closely with<br />
Massachusetts residents and community agencies<br />
as the program specialist for CeltiCare Health<br />
Plan of Massachusetts. This year she got engaged<br />
to James Harrington, and they are planning a<br />
wedding for fall 2015.<br />
Arrivals<br />
95 Julie Price Barber, a son, Nathaniel<br />
99 Jane Sanders Wuestkamp, a son,<br />
Alexander Dennis<br />
01 Katie Mailhot Machuca, a son,<br />
Everett Anderson Machuca<br />
05 Aimee Glassick Dill, a son, Brayden Evan<br />
Unions<br />
04 Gina Tarquini to Josh Lamoureux<br />
05 Megan Johnson to Michael Medur<br />
In Memoriam<br />
23 Alice Rieg<br />
29 Constance Putnam<br />
32 Bernice Hayes Hunt<br />
32 Marguerite Hatch Vaughan<br />
36 Grace Gilmore Vallante<br />
40 C. Janet Alper Berry<br />
40 Lois Burns<br />
40 Dorothy Rokes Garland<br />
40 Sally Murphy Young<br />
41 Grace Knotts Bean<br />
42 Frances Benedict Graham<br />
44 Jean Ormiston Holloway Brown<br />
49 Patricia Chapin Campbell<br />
49 Sarah Parker Fowler<br />
50 Doris Hurwitch Gurland<br />
51 Elizabeth Brayton Dawson<br />
51 Beverly Perkins Friend<br />
52 Elizabeth Covington Irby<br />
52 Ann Locke<br />
52 Edith Winter Sperber<br />
52 Mary Ellen “Mel” Cannon Weston<br />
60 Gail Gulbranson Frost<br />
60 Mary “Betsy” Bunting Loughlin<br />
66MS Carol Liu King<br />
67 Nancy Talboys Munkittrick<br />
79MS Janne Ritzenberg Piper<br />
82 Jennifer Moffett Delaney
“ Student financial aid and scholarships are an integral part of the Campaign<br />
for <strong>Wheelock</strong>. Indeed, we have set a goal to raise $8 million in Annual Fund<br />
contributions over the life of the Campaign. With your continued support<br />
and participation, we are on track to meet, and we hope exceed, that goal.”<br />
• Robert A. Lincoln, Trustee, Campaign Co-Chair<br />
“ I can’t imagine my life without <strong>Wheelock</strong>. Since <strong>Wheelock</strong> gives back to<br />
me every day, I am motivated to pay it forward.” • Joan Anderson Watts<br />
’65/’83MS, Alumni Association Past President, Adjunct Faculty Member<br />
“ I donate because there are students like myself who deserve to go to a<br />
four-year college. I personally did not receive any financial aid, but I do know<br />
that any amount helps when you are struggling.” • Rebecca Gould ’09<br />
“ I am incredibly grateful for the support I received more than 20 years ago<br />
and want to ensure that <strong>Wheelock</strong> students have the same opportunities<br />
that were afforded me.” • Brenda Noel ’93, Alumni Association, Social<br />
Work Faculty Member<br />
“ If it were not for my scholarship, I would not have been able to pursue<br />
higher education, and I would not be the first in my family to graduate<br />
with a bachelor’s degree. I am grateful every day to the members of the<br />
<strong>Wheelock</strong> community who helped make college a reality for me so that I<br />
have the chance to make a difference in the world. I am proof positive that<br />
support makes a difference.” • Laylin Chong ’12, Passion for Action Scholar<br />
“ I have chosen to contribute at the highest level of financial support I can to<br />
<strong>Wheelock</strong> students each year. My membership in the Cornerstone Society<br />
for leadership giving helps to ensure that <strong>Wheelock</strong> is able to respond to the<br />
needs of every student.” • Ellen Cluett Burnham ’60, Former Corporator<br />
There are many reasons why those who care about <strong>Wheelock</strong> support<br />
student scholarships through the Annual Fund. What’s YOUR why?<br />
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It’s tradition! Lucy <strong>Wheelock</strong> started it by helping to support<br />
students in need, and for generations, alumni have given to<br />
make it possible for <strong>Wheelock</strong> students to pursue an exceptional<br />
education. Contributing to this year’s Annual Fund does<br />
double duty, helping the <strong>College</strong> to meet its current scholarship<br />
needs and to reach its $80 million Campaign for <strong>Wheelock</strong> goal.<br />
Make your gift and then keep current on the largest capital campaign<br />
in <strong>Wheelock</strong>’s history by going to the “Giving” tab on the<br />
Campaign web page at www.wheelock.edu.<br />
Calendar of Events<br />
WHEELOCK FAMILY THEATRE<br />
Anne of Green Gables Oliver!<br />
Oct. 19 – Nov. 18 Jan. 25 – Feb. 24<br />
ALUMNI LUNCHEONS—Save the dates!<br />
Sarasota, FL Naples, FL<br />
Feb. 7 Feb. 8<br />
For more information and event updates as they are<br />
scheduled, watch your monthly E-Newsletter, check<br />
the <strong>College</strong> website at www.wheelock.edu, or email<br />
alumnirelations@wheelock.edu.<br />
Their Paw Prints<br />
Are Everywhere<br />
Make some of your own by<br />
going to the Wildcats website at<br />
http://www.wheelockwildcats.com.<br />
200 The Riverway<br />
Boston, MA<br />
02215-4176<br />
(617) 879-2123<br />
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A 125TH ANNIVERSARY EVENT<br />
Reunion 2013 • May 31–June 2<br />
Lucky are the alumni with class years ending in “3” or “8,”<br />
because—in addition to the usual good times and catching<br />
up with classmates—Reunion 2013 will include <strong>Wheelock</strong><br />
<strong>College</strong> 125th anniversary festivities . . . and tours of the new<br />
Center for Learning and Innovation . . . and a children’s book fair<br />
featuring alumni authors . . . and a special Founder’s Luncheon on<br />
Sunday . . . and on and on it goes!<br />
Save the Date—it’S going to be gReat!