CLASS NEWS 1962
Marion Aiken Luckey is currently vice president of the Superiorland Library Cooperative, which includes 69 member libraries in northern Michigan and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.
1963
Jim Perkins will publish his 20th book, Black Jack Burden?—Night Thoughts on the Genetics of Race in Robert Penn Warren’s All the King’s Men (Dawn Valley Press, August 2021), exactly 75 years after the release of Warren’s classic novel. Perkins’ book centers around the parentage of Jack Burden—the book’s narrator and, arguably, its main character—bringing into question Burden’s racial identity and, in doing so, opening the door to entirely new interpretations of this classic of American literature. Perkins is a leading Warren scholar and professor emeritus of English at Westminster College in New Wilmington, Pa.
1 1 Deke brothers gathered at the Juniper Club in
Florida for some bass fishing: (from left) John Moremen ’85, Kevin Trimble ’94, Ray Hundley ’85, Stan Kimmel ’63, and Tony Kurlas ’93. 2 A seascape by Rick Bennett ’80 featured in Painting the Ocean with Light and Color: A Demo on the website Artists Network.
1970
Jay van Arsdale reports that Kezurou-kai USA, a group dedicated to traditional Japanese hand tool carpentry techniques, was invited by the Japan Society of New York and the Takanaka Tool Museum of Kobe, Japan, to build architectural pieces for an exhibit of joinery tools and construction in the Japan Society’s gallery. The invitation was extended due to the inability of the Japanese daiku (carpenter) to travel because of COVID. Jay shot videos showing these tools in action for their social media and the exhibit itself. Jay lists his address as 3537 69th Ave., Oakland, CA 94605.
1971
Kent Masterson Brown published Meade at Gettysburg: A Study in Command (University of North Carolina Press, 2021). The Class News Details Submit class news and address changes at alumni.centre.edu/centrepiece or email them to alumnews@centre.edu. Digital photos MUST be at least 300 DPI when sized to four inches wide. Low-resolution photos taken with a phone are too small to run in print. Alumni names will continue to be in bold type in the Class News and In Memoriam sections of the magazine. Alumni names elsewhere will continue to include class years but will not be in bold type. This issue reflects information received as of April 1, 2021.
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2 book explores Gen. George Gordon Meade’s decision-making and actions for failing to pursue and deliver the final blow to Gen. Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia after the victory at Gettysburg. Robin Jennings published the second book in a series, The Door to Renewal: Spiritual Growth Through the Mind of St. Paul (Emerge Publishing, 2020). The series is designed to inspire readers in their personal journey toward spiritual growth and renewal. His wife is Mary Moore Jennings. Their sons are Rob Jennings ’00 and John Jennings ’04. George Ella Hoskins Lyon published two new poetry collections: Back to the Light (University Press of Kentucky, 2021), and Voices of Justice: Poems for People Working for a Better World (Holt Books for Young Readers, 2020). Her husband is Stephen Lyon ’72.
1973
Garrett Colmorgen received the Tilton Award for Medical Achievement from the Medical Society of Delaware in
October 2020. He is director of obstetrics and maternal-fetal medicine for Bayhealth Medical Center in Dover. He is also president of the Delaware Board of Medical Licensure and Discipline, chair of the Delaware Child Death Review Commission, chair of the Maternal Mortality Committee, and medical director of the Delaware Perinatal Quality Collaborative. Teri Keeler Vanore has written two more books in her historical fiction series, Donovan Family Saga, under the pen name Gifford MacShane. The Winds of Morning (Gifford MacShane, 2020) is a prequel exploring the family's life in Ireland, and The Woodsman’s Rose (Gifford MacShane, 2020) is a romance set in 1880s Arizona Territory, continuing the tale of the Donovan family in America.
1975
Linda Bargo Radford reports that she hosts a Facebook page for the women from her class called Centre Girls 75. “It is a closed group but we would welcome others who were a part of that class, including those who matriculated in 1971, transferred into the class, or graduated in 1975,” she writes. Centrepiece Spring/Summer 2021
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