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Class Correspondent
Kenneth Hubel
2562 Oak Circle N.E.
North Liberty, IA 52317
(319) 626-6562
E-mail: khubel@inav.net
In case you missed the article in the winter 2002 issue of Rochester Review, two classmates were inducted into the University's Athletics Hall of Fame, jarring a few memories. Neil Alexander was co-captain and most outstanding player on the basketball team for two seasons. He is now retired after a long career in the food industry as an account executive with Alliance Associates (321 Marshall St. #21, Coldwater, MI 49036). Carl Wren played football on offense and defense and had a 17-10 four-year record as baseball pitcher. He retired from teaching after 32 years and after having served as chair of the social studies department at Churchville-Chili (N.Y.) High School, where he also coached golf. Earlier he coached football, baseball, and basketball at Newark Valley (N.Y.) High School and at John Marshall High School in Rochester. Carl's wife, Lesta Collins '54, has also retired after 31 years of teaching at Monroe Community College, where she especially enjoyed her work with women's studies. They have four children (47 Kirklees Rd., Pittsford, NY 14534; lcwren@frontiernet.net).

Carol Lendrim Willems '49 wrote to tell me of the death of her husband, Pete Willems, in June 2001. Pete was business manager of Quilting Club, and after graduating, he worked for Sibley, Lindsey, and Curr in the era when downtown department stores flourished. He and Carol married in 1951. They had two girls and a boy by 1960, when Pete was recruited to be vice president of Halle Bros. Department Store in Cleveland, Ohio. In that position, he traveled extensively in the United States and Europe. They had another son by 1972, when they moved to Kailua, Hawaii, where Pete was merchandising manager for Liberty House Department Store. When he retired in 1982, they settled in Columbus, Ohio, and opened a small specialty store in Dublin, Ohio. Pete's stroke in 1996 curtailed many of their activities that had included six European Elderhostel programs at nearby Ohio State and working with the Arthritis Foundation. They have seven grandchildren. Carol, a retired preschool director and teacher, lives at 8748 Eastbrook Circle, Chagrin Falls, OH 44023; cpwillems@webtv.net.

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Charles Meadow, professor emeritus on the faculty of information studies at the University of Toronto, has published his latest book, Making Connections: Communication through the Ages. The book explores the history of communication technologies and how the various methods are connected.

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50TH REUNION
OCTOBER 11-13, 2002

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Ann Hurlbut Prentice sends an update. She retired in June 2001 from her position as dean of the College of Information Studies at the University of Maryland, married, and built a house in Dominica. She plans to write, sail, and enjoy her new home.

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45TH REUNION
OCTOBER 11-13, 2002

Robert (Bob) Mumford Jr. writes that three weeks short of his 67th birthday, he climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro, Africa's highest peak at 19,340 feet. "Suffered no ill effects and followed the climb with a seven-day safari to the Serengeti and Ngorongoro Crater," he writes.

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Class Correspondent
John Rathbone
RD 2 Box 55
Hamilton, NY 13346
E-mail: jrathbon@dreamscape.com
Marg Taylor Adams writes that she loves it in southwest Florida and continues to play a lot of golf and tennis. She got together with Judy Frank Pearson and Charlene Dorwald Drotning for lunch.

Dick and Margaret Vidale were gracious hosts for a pair of weary travelers this past April at their home in Wellesley, Mass. After some e-mail prodding from Dayton Vincent earlier this year, the Vidales and the Rathbones discussed a small reunion of Theta Delt fraternity brothers at Rochester in August 2002.

According to notes from Dick DeBrine, Walter Sy '62M (MD) participated in the Nathan E. Cohen Memorial Lecture Series in Keene, N.H. Walter has traded his green hospital scrubs for a uniform of Civil War-era Union blues as a historian and re-enactor of the Civil War, serving as president of the 6th New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry Historical Association. His presentation, delivered on the anniversary of President Lincoln's assassination, treated the subject of whether we can know "history," why the war was fought, what motivated men to volunteer and risk their lives in that struggle, and humanizing the men whom we know only by reputation or, if related, through their names and, possibly, their photographs. Dick reported that Walter delivered a great presentation.

John and Val Evans Rathbone '60W (Mas) took an April trip to Vienna followed by a memorable cruise up the Danube River, through the Main-Danube Canal, and down the Main and the Rhine Rivers from Vienna to Amsterdam. And, no, unless the atmospheric conditions are absolutely perfect, the Danube is not "blue." Still, sorting through the 1,100 photos, John is glad that more than half of them are digital, otherwise they would surely have exceeded their luggage allowance!

Sid and Rebecca Shaw sailed in the summer of 2000 from the Chesapeake Bay to the Mediterranean via Bermuda, the Azores, and Portugal. They found the Azores, both the people and the land, to be wonderful and stayed a month, visiting five of the nine islands in the group. In September, the Shaws left the boat in Spain and returned home to Falls Church, Va., for the winter. In the summer of 2001, they hoped to cruise as far as Malta or Croatia before heading home in October.

Harry '59 and Joan Coombs McKinley '57 have moved to South Dartmouth, Mass., after 40 years in Southampton, Mass. Harry is still active with McKinley Optics Inc., where he started in 1967 as a lens design consultant. Joan hopes to continue her choral singing with a new group in this area. Two of their four boys live in the area where they spent summers on the Westport River.

Maude (Mickey) Feist Ackerman wrote last autumn that the Ackermans are alive, well, and still on Long Island. Phil and Mickey were trying to sell their home of 38 years and move permanently to their Florida home in Ballen Isles, Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., where they welcome all to visit and enjoy a round of golf with them. Mickey writes that their son, Kurt '89M (MS), '90M (PhD), '91M (MD), received his degrees from the School of Medicine and Dentistry, and his field is Psycho-Neuro Immunology (the study of the brain on the immune system). His research work is with all auto-immune diseases, but specifically MS. Their daughter, Azriela Jaffe, is an author of how-to books, with 10 books published. One has been translated into German, another into Japanese. Their other son, Joel, is a CPA living on Long Island. Mickey sends her regards to all.

Joe Steinman '59 was still settling into new digs in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla., and, at last report, was suffering a bit of culture shock, having lived the past 13 years in Switzerland.

We heard from Bob and Pat Wood Christensen '56N last autumn that Bob is still in the business of managing homeowner and condominium associations. In the summer of 2000, they finally sold their big house and moved down to Fredericksburg, Va., to be closer to their youngest grandson. Bob wrote, "I think Pat said this was our 22nd (and last) move." Bob finds that living to the point of drawing Social Security is kind of scary, and we tend to agree with him.

We heard from Jane Allyn Piliavin of Madison, Wis., who wrote last summer that she had just been awarded a departmental named professorship, which carried a healthy stipend for research. As a result, Jane has "put off thoughts of retirement for a few years." Jane has also, "at this late date," become a grandmother. Jane already had two step-grandkids, who are post-teenagers, and now has a 1-year-old step-grandson, Isaac Piliavin.

Barbara Willsea Harper wrote some time ago that she had taken a University-sponsored trip to Sorrento, Italy. Barbara found it very enjoyable and highly recommended these Alumni College trips. (Apologies, Barbara, I thought I had lost your note when the 'puter crashed, but just found it again.-JR)

Maureen McGuigan Baldwin '60 writes that her husband, Benjamin Baldwin Jr., has published his latest book, The New life Insurance Investment Advisor. She describes the book as an authoritative resource on types of insurance with tips for choosing the right type. "We have worked together for the last 30 years, traveling around the country and to Europe as Ben shares his incredible knowledge with other financial professionals," Maureen writes. "I met Ben when I was a freshman at Rochester, 17 years old, and I have loved him and loved sharing life with him ever since. Thanks, Rochester!"

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Noal Cohen is the coauthor of Rat Race Blues: The Musical Life of Gigi Gryce, with Michael Fitzgerald. It depicts the life of alto saxophonist Gryce (1925-83), a luminary in the hard bop movement.

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