CLASS OF ’61
In the Winter 2020-21 issue of the Bulletin, we stated that the Class of ’61 would have a combined 60th reunion with the classes of ’59 and ’60 in October 2021. However, the ’61 Tigers have decided to hold off and combine with another class in October 2022. See p. 44 for more information regarding Homecoming 2021.
CLASS OF ’81
The Class of ’81 has decided to postpone its reunion until 2022. See p. 44 for more information regarding Homecoming 2021.
1986 1971
Frieda Massopo Ekotto has been named second vice president of the Modern Language Association of America. Ekotto heads the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies at the University of Michigan, the first African woman to do so. She also is a current member of CC’s Board of Trustees.
Mark Pankoff says hello to his fellow Tigers! Headquartered in New York City, Mark and his wife, Rebecca, helm a busy slate of activities for themselves and their quartet of 5- to 10-year-old children. In 2020, Mark chopped four cords of firewood, coached his son’s squirt hockey team to a championship, lowered his golf handicap, and more-or-less mastered the fine art of French braids. Off the rink and away from his axe and hairbraiding duties, Mark was recently promoted to executive vice president at Wellington Shields & Company, a prominent financial firm with a storied 95-year history.
1990
Leanne E. Winner was selected as executive director for the North Carolina School Boards Association, which represents all 115 local boards of education in North Carolina and the Cherokee Central Schools Board of Education. Leanne is the first woman to hold the position. Previously, Leanne worked for NCSBA as its director of governmental relations. Prior to that she worked for the law firm of Everett, Gaskins, Hancock and Stevens as a lobbyist, and in Governor Hunt’s policy office as the assistant director for the strategic economic development plan.
1991
William “Bill” Oman and his husband, Larry Crummer, are staying healthy during the pandemic by sheltering in place. They were in the middle of another world cruise in late March 2020 when the cruise was abruptly terminated in Western Australia. They had to scramble to make their own arrangements to get home. Fortunately, their ship had departed from Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, on Jan. 4 before the pandemic began. Everyone on their ship remained healthy and they spent most of their time in Antarctica or visiting remote islands in the South Pacific before everything came crashing down.
1976
Patricia Crown, a graduate of CC’s education program, was awarded the University Medal by the University of Colorado Boulder Board of Regents for her dedication to the health and well-being of children and families.
Susan McKee Tachau recently received an AARP Purpose Prize, which provides $50,000 to support her organization — the Pennsylvania Assistive Technology Foundation — and a year of technical support to expand its mission. Susan was awarded an honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters from CC in 2013.
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1992
1996
Iora Health announced that Gillian Munson would become chief financial officer. Gillian has spent her career building and investing in technology companies. Most recently, she was a partner at Union Square Ventures and CFO of XO Group, parent company of The Knot.
Stewart J. “S.J.” Breier is developing the second edition of “Orcish Poetry,” which begins, but does not end, with an anthropological parody of modern life. It’s the first in a series of “Poetry of the Fantasy Races.” For work, he’s still doing jobs like driving for Instacart, while looking to begin a career as a medical massage therapist. He says he is still a fan of Star Wars, though less of a purist, and questions the necessity of Leia’s slave girl outfit — it could be edited down for a re-release, he says, and we’d still have the original in the Hollywood vault for our history.
