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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 />

2 <strong>Fall</strong> <strong>2012</strong><br />

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 />

<strong>Wheelock</strong> Magazine 7


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 />

8 <strong>Fall</strong> <strong>2012</strong><br />

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 />

<strong>Wheelock</strong> Magazine 9


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 />

10 <strong>Fall</strong> <strong>2012</strong><br />

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 />

<strong>Wheelock</strong> Magazine 11


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 />

<strong>Wheelock</strong> Magazine 23


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 />

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 />

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 />

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 />

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 />

26 <strong>Fall</strong> <strong>2012</strong><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 />

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 />

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 />

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 />

* Deceased <strong>Wheelock</strong> Magazine 31


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 />

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 />

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 />

<strong>Wheelock</strong> Magazine 33


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 />

<strong>Wheelock</strong> Magazine 35


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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Class nOTes<br />

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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Class nOTes<br />

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 />

40 <strong>Fall</strong> <strong>2012</strong><br />

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 />

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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 />

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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 />

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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 />

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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 />

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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 />

<strong>Wheelock</strong> Magazine 49


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 />

<strong>Wheelock</strong> Magazine 51


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 />

Non-Profit Org.<br />

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PERMIT NO. 421<br />

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!

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