Class Notes

1958 Alex Stoesen (MA) writes that he was recognized as an Exemplary Educator in a special convocation last September by the Guilford College Alumni Association. Alex taught American history at the Greensboro, North Carolina, college for 30 years, from 1969 to 1999.

1980 Jacqueline Stemmler Adams (MS) (see ’11 School of Medicine and Dentistry).

1981 Sanford Strenger (MS) (see ’12 College).

1986 Ian Walmsley (PhD) has been elected vice president of the Optical Society. Ian is the Hooke Professor of Experimental Physics at Oxford University in the United Kingdom.

1990 Richard Kronick (PhD) (see ’73 College).

1992 Jenny Lloyd (PhD) has written a memoir, In My Mind’s Eye: A Cornish Girlhood (CreateSpace), of her childhood and adolescence in England in the 1940s and 1950s. Jenny is an associate professor emerita of history at SUNY College at Brockport.

1995 Grace (Sid) Ray (PhD) (see ’97).

1997 Catherine Loomis (PhD) writes that she and Grace (Sid) Ray ’95 (PhD) are coeditors of a collection of essays, Shaping Shakespeare for Performance: The Bear Stage (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press). The book brings together work presented at the 2013 Blackfriars Conference. The conference, sponsored by the American Shakespeare Center, is a major gathering of Shakespeare scholars, performers, and directors. Catherine is a professor of English and women’s studies at the University of New Orleans, and Sid is a professor of English and women’s and gender studies at Pace University.

2001 Valery Chirkov (PhD) is the author of the textbook Fundamentals of Research on Culture and Psychology: Theory and Method (Routledge). He’s a professor of psychology at the University of Saskatchewan.

2002 Warren Zanes (PhD) has published a book, Petty: The Biography (Henry Holt & Co.), a biography of the rock musician Tom Petty. Warren, a former member of the band the Del Fuegos, which toured with Petty in 1987, is the executive director of the Little Steve Van Zandt’s Rock and Roll Forever Foundation.

2003 Gonzalo Guirado López (Flw) writes that he and Elisabeth welcomed their first daughter, Mireia, in May 2015. They live near Barcelona, Spain, where Gonzalo is an associate professor of chemistry at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. “We couldn’t have asked for a better present than Mireia, and we hope that someday she will join the U of R!” Gonzalo writes.

2007 Angela Gibson (PhD) has been named associate director of scholarly communication with the Modern Language Association.

2013 Emily Morry (PhD) (see ’72 College).