Fall 2010 AAUS Newsletter

ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY SCHOOL LATE FALL 2010 NEWSLETTER ANNUAL MEETING REPORT

Without a functioning website we needed another way to communicate with each other, store pictures, and gather materials for this project. We have created an e-mail address for all of us to have access to with the intent to store and organize these types of items.

After trying several variations of AAUS or University School (all of which were already taken in some form), we came up with uschool3567@yahoo.com.

The 3567 stands for the years of graduating classes. The password is “littlebucks”. Here is what we request of you! Use our new e-mail address: uschool3567@yahoo.com.

Steps to read & use the e-mail: 1) If you already use yahoo.com as an email address you will have to sign out as yourself and re-sign in at the new address and use the new password. The inbox screen will be familiar to you.

2) If you don’t use yahoo.com then you will have to use your favorite browser to go to www.yahoo.com. Once at that site, on the right hand side of your screen you will see an envelope with the word mail. Click on that and then on the right hand side of the new screen you will find a place to put your Yahoo ID. There is where you type uschool3567.

Then go the line for password and type in littlebucks. Occasionally it will ask for you to repeat the password but not always.

To read any e-mails go to inbox. To add yourself to the contact list(we would like you to do this) find the word contacts in

At our very well-attended Annual meeting in July, the following officers were re-elected by acclamation: President: Skip Woodruff Vice-President: Ralph Wilson Membership Secretary/Treasurer: Steffanie Woodruff Haueisen Recording Secretary: Julie Rains Nusken

The annual meeting discussion revolved around our next project: To leave a record of ourselves beyond academic records and paper ephemera.

The OSU archives basically houses research materials for anyone researching what we were as a school.

But who we were as people, our physical accomplishments is something much more difficult to make accessible. For example, they don’t archive sports uniforms, the trophies, cheerleading sweaters, BUG pins, our art projects, the dress you made in 7th grade. Many of these experiences in a sport, in shop, in Home Ec., in music, in art, affected our later lives; some of us to the extent of developing a career or lifelong hobby.

So the big question: how can these items & events become part of the archival record? How can those of us who were part of such a unique educational experience leave for the future a deeper understanding of what we have accomplished in areas other than the “academics,” while at school and after graduation.

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gladly receive these as a record of what you have done after life at University School.

3) Submit an article with your autobiography, or stories about you and University school experiences. If you know stories about anyone in your class who is deceased, tell us about them.

These e-mail submissions will be filed into folders at the uschool3569 email address, probably by class year, maybe by category, but all available for everyone to browse through.

(If you wish to donate original photos, they are most certainly a valuable resource for the Archives, however, please identify as many of the people in the pictures as possible and the event or circumstances of the photo.

These may be snail mailed to AAUS, 587 Fox Lane, Worthington, OH 43085.

These materials will be organized and taken to the AAUS archives.)

This e-mail address is not to be used for any political or religious conversations. It is strictly for gathering personal memories, photos, experiences or comments related to University School. Dick Baker, ’62, has volunteered to “manage” the e-mail site.

He will be the one organizing the folders with your submissions.

Another purpose of this e-mail site is if you change your e-mail address you can send that change to all. Also class announcements of class get-togethers could be quickly achieved. AAUS will send out a reminder about the Annual Meeting via this e-mail address. We will need to have as many of your individual e-mail addresses entered as possible, so please do put yourself in the contact list.

It will be a good way to keep up communications with each other.

We are also hoping to get at least one person from each class and faculty to be

a light blue tab above the word inbox.

Select it and then find the- add contact tab next to it. Then please follow the pattern of the other contacts listed there: first name, put your maiden name in for middle name, then last name. Under nickname, put in Class of 19xx.

When you are through using this e-mail for the day, be sure to click on signout(located above the hoo of Yahoo at the top of the page.)

Why do we want you to use this?

The intent of all this gathering is to eventually put together a series of CDs to document these less academic aspects to life at University School and beyond.

What did our art projects look like?

Which sports did we participate in?

What did our uniforms look like? (All our yearbook, and most other photos are in black and white.)

What to do: 1) Look through your University School related stuff to see if there is anything you could take digital pictures of (like a cheerleading uniform (maybe with you posing in it), sports uniform/trophy, art/home ec project) or scan (like newspaper articles, photographs). Please make sure that all photos or scans have a complete description such as, your name, the year, posing with table made in 7th grade shop, Vic Hoffman, teacher.

If you do this with a sports picture, please identify everyone(or at least as many as possible) in the picture, the year, the occasion and any awards the team may have earned that year.

(Eventually we will be scanning some of the pictures from yearbooks but would like to see what you all have first.)

2) If you have produced something audio or print (a CD or book, pamphlet) please consider sending us a copy (many have already done so). The archives will

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ALL MEMBERS have the option of receiving their newsletters by e-mail.

This has become a very popular option.

If you prefer to receive your newsletters via e-mail, please let me know at jswhaueisen@yahoo.com and I will put you on the list. (All newsletters are written in Microsoft Word.)

a liaison/contact person to work with their own class members to provide any help needed in thinking through what to submit, helping them find ways to electronically copy items if they don’t have computers. This person could help coordinate and report, the “member searches” which are so helpful to AAUS and to the rest of us in keeping an up-todate data base.

So far we have had a volunteer for a class coordinator for the Class of ’65, Alan Stickney; Hal Pepinsky ’62 to help organize the 50th reunion for his class in 2012; Harvey Minton, ’52 volunteered to coordinate the sports aspect of this project for his class and Gary Page, ’66 and coach Jim Stahl have volunteered to work on the sports aspect of the project to span Coach Stahl’s tenure. How can you help? We need you to use uschool3567@yahoo.com and get involved. Enter your contact name and e-mail in the contact section and check the e-mail frequently to see what’s new.

Please do not make any changes or deletions. Dick Baker will remove spam and move your submissions to a folder of some kind. Hopefully, any questions posed will be answered quickly by someone reading it.

FAREWELLS The Fall newsletter always recaps the names of those University School “family” who have passed away during the past year or whose passing we only found out about this past year. Sadly our ranks continue to dwindle significantly.

Once again we wish to recognize the passing of: *Herb Coon, fac, father of Cynthia Coon Lambarth, ‘61 *Richard Riesenberger, ‘37 *James P. Schuler, ‘51 *Janet Baker Auld, ‘37 *Hugh (Hal) Setterfield, ’43, brother of Suzy Setterfield Bidlake, ‘62 *Carol Bretschneider Miller, ‘41 *Ann Dones Purtz, ‘41 *Roberta Porter Smith, ‘53 *Thomas M. Fort, ‘54 *Evelyn Cahoon Evans, ‘46 *Everett Dakan, ‘37 *Jeanne Loney Riesen, ‘50 *Virgilia Dabell de Mesquita, ’52 sister of Madeleine Dabell Carritt, ‘54 *Betty Jean Morris Karki, ‘46 *Maurice Brooks, ‘50 *Merle Jean Swineford Dilley, ‘35 sister of Glen L. Swineford, ‘42 *Jay Cribb, ’55 husband of Judy Ohlemacher Cribb, ’56 and brother-inlaw of Jack Ohlemacher, ‘52 *Warren Suter, ‘36 *Mildred Schiff Lee, ‘37 *Buckley Pierstorff, ‘45 *Anne Fiala Sellke, ‘50

ANNUAL MEMBERSHIP DRIVE 2011 Yes it is that time again: the kick-off of the annual membership drive of AAUS. Our yearly membership period runs a calendar year. Please read the enclosure for more membership details. LIFE members will not have an enclosure nor will those whose membership is currently up-to-date and who don’t have to renew their membership this year. If you are not currently a member, please consider becoming one now.

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Now, our deepest sympathies to the family and friends of the following new members of our “friends now gone” list: *Ann Koebel Weast ’38 sister of Frank Koebel, ‘41 *Frances Arant Wilhelm ‘39 *Marcy Heaton Masoner, ‘39 *Ruth Dickerson Jones, ‘45 *Diane Lee D’Annessa, ‘54 *L. Jane Stewart, fac.

ing a brief illness. She was a long-time resident of Willow Brook Christian Village (Delaware, OH), where she leaves many friends and Willow Brook Staff who valued her thoughtful and caring companionship. Jane was born on February 13, 1917 in Jackson, MI and is survived by two nieces, Susan Jane Stewart and Patricia Ann Stewart Reynolds (Frank), all of East Lansing, MI. She was the daughter of the late Dr. Lewis Leonard Stewart Sr. and Vena Belle Perry Stewart of Jackson, MI, and was also preceded in death by a brother Dr. Lewis Leonard Stewart Jr. formerly of Jackson, MI. Two lifetime friends, Lucille Burkett and Ellen Stepanian of Chagrin Falls, OH survive as well. She will be especially missed by these friends who saw her both as an asset to her teaching profession, but as much so as an energetic and positive friend to many. Jane Stewart is foremost survived by the numerous students and teachers she taught at The Ohio State University in the College of Education and principally in the College's University School over her thirty-year career at Ohio State. Prior to World War II, she received her Bachelor of Arts (1940) and Master of Arts (1942) degrees from the University of Michigan and began her teaching career in the Harbor Springs and Battle Creek, MI school systems where she taught both Junior and Senior high school classes in English, Drama and Speech. Following World War II, she developed classroom study in the new field of "radio" arts which was designed to acquaint students with advancing technologies in communication following World War II. She received her appointment at The Ohio State University in the Department of Education's University School in 1947 where she remained until 1967 when the

Also, our heartfelt condolences to these University School members who lost loved ones during the past few months.

--Stacey Contakis, daughter of Noula Sardelis Contakis, ’63.

--Charles Billings, father of Lee Ellen Billings Kreinbihl, ‘64 --Robert Vandervort, father of Lucinda Vandervort, ‘64 --Lois Arend, wife of Tom Arend, ‘68

WE REMEMBER… Mike Moss (’63), along with Lucille Burkett and Ellen Stepanian, wrote this obituary which appeared in the Columbus Dispatch. Many of us knew and loved Jane, greatly respected her teaching and character, and will deeply miss her in many, many ways. I certainly am one of those people.

Lura Jane Stewart age 93, of Delaware, OH, passed away Augus t 30, 2010 peacef ully at Grady Memo rial Hospit al follow

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remember Jane may do so by contributing to the Ohio State School for the Blind, Marching Band, 5220 N. High St., Columbus, OH 43214.

University School closed. She then moved to The Ohio State University's Department of Educational Theory and Practice in the College of Education until the time of her retirement in 1978 where she worked with numerous teachers at the graduate level to further develop their teaching skills. Recipient of honors and teaching awards, she notably received the College of Education's Alumni Excellence in Teaching Award in 1968-1969 for her outstanding service to both the field of education and service to its educators. In the mid-1960's, she participated in the Harvard Summer School for Arts and Science and Education and had a lead role with their Summer Institute for Teachers of English. Participants in this program were drawn from a national pool and these symposia enhanced her reputation as an inspired "educator among educators". Jane Stewart's legacy as an expert in the field of teaching English stretched from helping proteges to select the appropriate book for beginning a reader, to encouraging reading as a key to lifetime learning for all. Jane Stewart traveled whenever possible, and visited six of seven continents from 1951 until 2002. Careful to record her impressions, she documented her 50-years of travel adventures in diaries which over several decades reminded her and friends of her visits to the major world cities, as well as the wide global variety over countrysides to be seen and appreciated in Europe, Eastern Asia and parts of Africa. Friends have recalled that one did not visit Jane without leaving in an uplifted state. Her determined and positive attitudes were indeed at the core of her success and she will be greatly missed. Private services have been arranged and friends wishing to

MEMORIES… From Ruth Hyde Paine, ‘49 I enjoy reading the Alumni Association news very much. The Summer issue referred to Lucille Burkett being present at the annual meeting in July (2009).

I remember “Burkie” very well, and wish to write about her influence on my life. Please share this with her, and with alums, as you see fit.

In Tenth grade (1946-47) Nancy Zoppel and I were trained by Burkie to assist with the Physical Education program in the lower school. We learned class management (which I very much needed to learn), games to play, and how to move from one activity to another. The skills teaching games led to Nancy and me being chosen to teach in a traveling summer Quaker Bible School at Friends Meetings in Ohio and Indiana. Neither one of us knew much about Quakers and equally little about the Bible, but we could do games, stories and songs, and that served very well.

The summer resulted in my beginning to attend Quaker Meeting in Columbus and joining in 1951. I've been a Quaker ever since.

The skills learned from Burkie helped me on several of my “co-op” jobs when I was at Antioch. They led to my first and second jobs after college: first, Group Social Work at the YM & YWHA , and then lower school P.E. teacher at Germantown Friends School, both in Philadelphia.

Burkie taught us to be good hosts and good sports when we played other high

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school teams. Since we were one of the smallest schools, we often lost, but we became very generous and gracious losers, providing smiles, handshakes and refreshments to the visiting teams.

Burkie came to mind recently when I was at a conference. The basket of paper towels was overflowing in the ladies room. A well-placed foot on top of the towels pressed them down to make room for many more. Burkie modeled that behavior for me, and I was delighted to remember her as I squashed the towels down and picked up the few that had overflowed. Thanks, Burkie, for everything. Of all my teachers, in high school or college, you had the greatest influence on my career in education and on my life.

BE A CONTRIBUTOR Please send in stories or memories of U-Hi, favorite and/or most influential teachers, interesting experiences, or autobiographical information, etc. We depend on you as a source of information for our newsletters. Keep in touch either in print (send stories to AAUS, 587 Fox Lane, Worthington, OH 43085) or via e-mail (submissions for the newsletters – jswhaueisen@yahoo.com.), or photos or anything else for our new project sent to uschool3567@yahoo.com. Share!!!

Below is a picture taken at the Class of 1955 55th dinner reunion. The details were in the Summer edition of this newsletter.

Front Row: Mary Kersting Davidson, Jane Littlefield Harding, Millicent Ramey Back Row: Charles Minshall, Julie Rains Nusken, David (Clark) Barnard, June Renken, Jane Bitterman Chapman and Richard Patterson.

HAPPY HOLIDAYS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR! 6

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