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Pi Beta Phi graduates Nancy Ford Charles, Suzanne DeCosted Breckenridge, Margaret “Peg” Steffen Sant’Ambrogio and Judie Roser Smith celebrated 68 years of friendship during their 14th off-campus reunion. Judie Roser Smith hosted the group at Batchelor’s Gulch, Colorado, for five days of sightseeing and reminiscing.
David L. Callies’s eighth edition of “Cases and Materials on Land Use” was published in August by West Academic publishers. David retired from the University of Hawaii law faculty May 31 after 43 years of teaching and 10 years of law practice in Chicago. He is now professor emeritus at the William S. Richardson School of Law.
The Sandhills/Moore Coalition for Human Care in Southern Pines, North Carolina, held its annual golf classic in honor of Donald L. Hamilton. His son, Mark B. Hamilton ’88, was a member of Don’s foursome for the event, which raised more than $30,000. Don has twice served on the coalition’s board, chaired several departments and worked as a screener for 15 years.
Hampton Scott Tonk is listed in “Who’s Who in America” for 2020 on page 1,272.
1958 Carolyn Hancock Cleland’s husband Arthur “Art” Cleland died Sept. 5, 2020, at 91. They were married 65 years.
1959 Larry L. Smiley has self-published a book, “Images in the Rearview Mirror: A Glance Back.” He lives in a 55+ community in Banning, California.
1964 The gourd art of Nancy Lyon Miller was on exhibit for a month in the fall at the 1920 Gallery at Indiana Wesleyan University in Marion.
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Barrie A. Peterson lives in Pawling, New York, and leads efforts to honor his hometown LaPorte, Indiana, for its nurturing of young Isamu Noguchi into a world-renowned sculptor. A mural was hung at the local library, books on Noguchi have been donated and “Noguchi November” events are planned. James R. Williamson retired last Nov. 30 as circuit judge in the First Judicial Circuit Court of Johnson County, Illinois. He was first elected in 1978 and subsequently retained for six six-year terms. He was chief judge for the last 6½ years of his tenure. At the time of his retirement, he was the longest serving circuit judge in Illinois. He previously practiced law and was elected Johnson County state’s attorney in 1976. He resides in Vienna, Illinois, with his wife, Debbie.
1970 Edward V. Lauing Jr. was reappointed by the Palo Alto, California, City Council to a second four-year term on the Planning
and Transportation Commission. The council also appointed him to the Housing Element Working Group to create the state-required housing plan for 2023-31; he is co-chair. Edward is managing partner of executive recruiting firm Equity Search Partners.
1971 Scott S. Brinkmeyer has written his first novel, “Mark of the White Rabbit,” a thriller-mystery available on Amazon under his pen name, Lincoln Cooper. Scott has worked as a trial lawyer, certified arbitrator, mediator and adjunct law professor. David L. Wann has written and published “Tickling the Bear: How to Stay Safe in the Universe,” his first novel after nine nonfiction books and five TV documentaries. He says his book has a mission “to present self-guided champions of social and cultural change.”
1973 The Alpha Chi Omega class gathered at The Greenbrier resort in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, for a reunion. A highlight was seeing SHOUT, a musical that featured songs from the members’ youth. Penny Leitner Lisi modeled an outfit that Ruth Fraley Evans ’17 wore at DePauw in 1916 (Marilyn Shultz Evans’s husband’s grandmother). (See photos.)
1974 John K. Burke retired as a school superintendent in Kansas after 36 years.
1975 Kathleen S. Jagger was installed Oct. 7 as the 12th president of Newman University in Wichita, Kansas.
1976 Nancy Gibson Prowitt was appointed by Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam to the Board of Visitors of George Mason University for a second four-year term.
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1978 Janet Hayes Nice retired from Indiana University April 30. She spent more than 18 years at the IU School of Nursing, achieving the top rank of clinical professor. She was director of IU’s statewide RN to BSN online degree completion option for 11 years. Her scholarship has been recognized nationally and internationally. She is a fellow in the National League for Nursing’s Academy for Nursing Education. She was co-leader of the International QSEN RN to BSN Task Force. She served as a member of the Indiana Hospital Association’s Council on Quality and Patient Safety to reduce patient harms. She has been awarded the clinical professor emeritus rank by IU and the 2021 innovation award for QSEN, and declared a “university treasure” from IUSON for her teaching excellence and numerous national and international publications.
1979 N. Peter Rasmussen retired from Bloomberg Law. Peter, a senior legal analyst, covered corporate and securities law and was a frequent author, speaker and panelist on corporate law matters. He lives in Fredericksburg, Virginia, with his wife, Peggy Mathias Rasmussen ’80, who retired as a director of international IT for AbbVie Inc. in 2017. Their daughter, Katie Rasmussen, graduated from DePauw in 2008. (See photo.)
