2015 50th Reunion Memory Book (Class of 1965)

Remember When . . .

Class of 1965 • 50th Reunion Otterbein University • April 24-26, 2015

As we celebrate the Golden Reunion of our Otterbein College graduation, we hope these biographical updates will help us

“Remember When!�

Thank you to all the 1965 graduates who participated in this memory book.

Association Building

Cochran Hall

Memories Created here. . .

Student Union

Saum Hall

Class of 1965 Mrs. Van B. Anderson † Mr. Nicholas A. Anspach † Miss Hisako Aoki Rev. Deanna Appelget Merritt Mr. Frederick J. Badger Mr. Theodore Baranet Mrs. Ann Barnes Packer Mrs. Jane Barnes Page Mr. Robert M. Barnett Mr. Paul S. Beal Mr. Larry J. Beck † Mrs. Elizabeth Beezley Nelson Mrs. Sharon Bell Pieper † Mr. Roderick L. Bell Mr. Lee R. Bennett Mr. William D. Bennett Mrs. Susan Berger Brown † Dr. Harold H. Biddle Mrs. Kay Blackledge Bowes Dr. Mary Blair Fields † Mr. Roger S. Blair † Miss Sue Carol Blum Dr. Frederick H. Bohse Mrs. Barbara Bojanowski Matejcik Dr. Joseph Booth Mrs. Connie Boren Fletcher Mr. David L. Bouslog Mr. Paul A. Bowen Mr. Craig W. Brand Mr. Robert J. Brown Mrs. Judy Buckle Airhart Mrs. Arlene Buckley Swihart Mrs. Paula Bushong Rennich Mr. Larry P. Buttermore Mr. Glen R. Calihan Mrs. Beth Camp Donaldson Mr. Gene V. Cavalier Dr. Larry E. Chase Mrs. Barbara Cheney Buttermore Mr. George E. Christ, Jr. Mrs. Amy Christensen Fox Dr. Edward W. Clark Mr. R. Gerald Cleaver Mrs. Judith Cline Thomas Mrs. Ann Clymer Peat Mrs. Susan Collins Fitzgerald Mrs. Janet Cook Daxon Col. Gordon L. Cook † Ms. Dolores Cooley Frintrup Mrs. Betty Copas Smith Mrs. Mary Ann Crawford Cobb Ms. Joaline Crow Mathias Mrs. Joyce Curmode Fastow Mr. Geoffrey A. Custer Mrs. Rebecca Daily Viers Mr. James L. Danhoff Mrs. Carol Darling Carter Miss Babette L. Davis Mrs. Karen Dean Schnorrenberg

Mr. Arthur J. Deeks Miss Linda S. Diller Mr. Perry W. Doran Mrs. Marjory Drew Rhoades Mr. Charles R. Easter, III Mrs. Judith Eckner Kintigh Mrs. Miriam Edgerley Long Dr. Stephen P. Ellis † Mrs. Nancy Ertel Sween Mr. David W. Fais Mr. James P. Ferguson Mr. Albert M. Fields Mr. William W. Fleming Mr. Paul R. Freese Ms. Esther Frye Shultz † Mrs. Vera Garrabrant Hall Mr. David A. Gates Mrs. Sarah Gauch Barker † Mrs. Shawnee Geeting Klein Mrs. Blanche Geho Conarroe Mrs. Linda Gillespie Morris Mr. Charles R. Gilmore Mrs. Joan Goedeking Kohlhausen Mrs. Marilyn Goembel Prindle Mrs. Rosemary Gorman McTygue Mr. John C. Gould † Mr. Jack R. Graham Mrs. Sharon L. Grandstaff Rev. Jerry L. Gray Mr. Jon M. Green Mrs. Heidi Haberman Cross Dr. Richard A. Hamilton † Mr. Douglas P. Hammond Mrs. Sally Handel Penrose Mrs. Margaret Haneke Taylor Mrs. Mary Hayes Mackley Mrs. Nancy Haywood McCurdy Mr. Thomas C. Heisey Mr. Mark C. Heister Mrs. Gayle Henning Gotts Mr. Michael D. Hershey Mr. Earl Higgs † Mrs. Sylvia Hodgson Peters Mrs. Karen Hoerath Meyer Mrs. Sandra Hoesel Middleton Mrs. Jean Hollis Roshon Mr. Robert B. Holycross † Mr. Victor A. Hood Mr. Ronald L. Hopper † Lt. Col. Douglas R. Houser Mrs. Mary Hull Earles Mr. William D. Hunter Mr. Joseph N. Ignat Mr. Richard L. Innis Mr. Martin A. Irmler † Mrs. Jeanne Jacobs Fodor Mr. Lawrence W. Jacobs † Mrs. Judith James Weaver Mrs. Roberta Jones Meeks

Dr. Robert E. Kaderly Mr. Krishan K. Kapur † Mr. Stephen C. Kennedy Mr. Patrick K. King Mr. Robert R. Kintigh Miss Roberta F. Kolyno Mr. Erwin H. Koriath Miss Miatta A. Koroma Mr. Herbert G. Kusterer † Mr. Roger A. Lamb Ms. Suzan Kaye Lang Mr. Joseph F. Laubie Mrs. Virginia Leader Zech Mrs. Rose Leibolt Huff Miss Judith I. Leibrook Mrs. Marjorie Lengyel Olson Mrs. Jill Limbach Morrison Mrs. Susan Lindley Starkey Mrs. Jeanette Litsey Westerfield Mrs. Margaret Lloyd Trent Mr. William C. Long † Dr. Nancy Loudenslager Cassell Mrs. Sharon Lutz Keeler Ms. Suzanne C. MacDonald Mr. Robert L. Malhame Mr. Roy E. Manley † Mr. G Lee Mannon Mr. Ronald H. Marks Mrs. Sue Marshall Kunze Mrs. Eileen Marty Mignerey Ms. Naomi Black Paeth Mrs. Linda Matthews Tetor Mr. Gary W. McClary † Mrs. Nancy McClure Robbins Ms. Sally McCoy Wallace Dr. James C. McFeeley Ms. Carol McGee Duchamp Mrs. Sharon McKee Cox † Mr. Carroll E. Meadows Mr. Earl T. Merrick Mr. Jean-Michel Mertz Mr. Walter S. Metka Mr. Robert A. Meyer Mr. Gerald R. Michael Mr. Terry L. Mickey Dr. Thomas G. Mignerey Mrs. Eleanor Miller Pristash Mrs. Beverly Miller Wince Mr. Dan P. Miller Mr. Porter G. Miller Mr. Ronald E. Miller Miss Sharon G. Milligan Mrs. Ruth Moody Grass Lt. Col. Vasken W. Moomjian † Mr. Jack W. Moreland Mrs. Marilyn Moritz Fugate Mr. Richard E. Morrow Mr. Donald L. Mowrey Miss Carolyn Sue Mullins

Class of 1965 Mrs. Marcia Munz Nordbruch Mrs. Susan Murley Barton Mr. Thomas E. Myers † Dr. James B. Nagle Mrs. Joyce Neal Zimmerly Mrs. Meredith Nealy Pretorius Mrs. Lois Nelson Nies Mr. Marvin W. Nevans Mrs. Kay Newhouse Bauer Mrs. Katherine Newman Dalrymple Mrs. Thalia Nikides Becak Mr. Frederick E. Noah Mr. David C. O'Connor † Mrs. Heidemarie Olbrich Dewey Rev. Charles F. Olson Mr. William A. O'Neil Mr. Richard H. Orndorff Mrs. Carolyn Osborn Oakley Mr. William A. Ottewill Mrs. Judith Padfield D'Angelo Mrs. Linda Painter Love Mr. George P. Parthemos Mr. Harry G. Peat Judge Lee G. Peglow Mrs. Jill Phillips Cervantes Mrs. Alma Phillips Higgs Ms. Ronda Plessinger Warren Mrs. Jane Porter Strickland Mrs. Evonne Potts McFarland Mrs. Elizabeth Powers Messmer † Mr. Larry S. Powers Mr. Thomas R. Pringle † Mrs. Carolyn Pulsing Sargent Mrs. Lynne Puterbaugh Apple Mr. Richard E. Reynolds Mrs. Janet Richards Sager Mr. William G. Rivers † Mr. Donald B. Robertson Mr. John T. Roman Mr. Marc W. Rone † Mr. W. Dow Ruch Mr. John A. Rudolph † Mrs. Joyce Rugh Miller Lt. Col. William E. Rush Mr. John A. Rusk Rev. Howard G. Russell, Jr. Mr. David R. Samson Ms. Jane Schoepke Stolzenburg Mr. Kenneth W. Schultz † Ms. Lynn Schwabacher Norman † Rev. Jane Scott Jones Mr. Don Scott Dr. Herbert G. Seto † Col. Charles W. Shackson Mrs. Marcia Shaffer Weidner Col. Robert O. Shapiro Mrs. Diana Shawd Ball Ms. Mary Ann Sheaffer Martin Mr. Allen S. Shepherd, III

Mr. Tom L. Shoemaker † Dr. and Mrs. David M. Short Mrs. Mary Alice Showalter Smith Mrs. Mary Shuck Sautter Rev. Bernard L. Shuey † Mrs. Nancy Siegfried Bryant Mrs. Bette Smith Amelung † Mrs. Barbara Smith Day † Ms. Emily A. Smith Dr. Kenneth E. Smith Ms. Rosemary Snyder Harper Dr. Linda Snyder Rea Mrs. Ella Snyder Thurston Mr. Jan W. Sorgenfrei Mrs. Joan Souder Morrow Mr. Clifford C. Spohn Maj. Robert E. Spory Mrs. Patricia Staby-Rogers † Mrs. Katheleen Stanley Russell Mr. Gary M. Steffens † Mrs. Pat Stein Botdorf † Mrs. Lydia Steinmetz Hershey Mr. Lewis W. Steinmetz Mrs. Sandra Stemshorn Fais Ms. Nancy Stewart Mr. Daniel C. Stone Mr. Jim Stott Lt. Col. David W. Stricker Mr. James C. Studer Mr. Stephen W. Surface Mr. Ralph W. Swick, Jr. Mr. Jerry Swisher † Mrs. Florann Taggart Ayers Mr. John D. Taylor Rev. O Douglas Taylor Ms. Constance Thomas Augenstein † Dr. Paul E. Thomas Mrs. Jean Thorndike Gould Mr. Joe M. Toeller † Mr. J. Donald Tompkin Maj. Douglas C. Topping † Mrs. Nancy Torbush Shipley Dr. Harold S. Toy † Mr. Edwin M. Tuttle, Jr. Dr. William P. Varga † Mrs. Carol Varner Kinzer Mr. M. Allan Viers, Jr. Mrs. Cynthia Vokes Brand Mr. Daniel L. Vollmar Mr. James E. Wacker Mrs. Rebecca Wagner Hutchins Mrs. Ellen Wagner Mork † Mr. Marvin R. Wagner Mr. James H. Walsh Mr. Jerry L. Wassem Mr. Ronald B. Waters Mrs. Judy Watkinson Snider Mr. David B. Webster † Mrs. Waneta White Petty

Col. Raymond C. White Mr. William D. Wilkin Mrs. Carolyn Williams Ulrich Mr. Charles B. Williams, III Mr. J. Mills Williams Mrs. Barbara Wilson Shadle Dr. Charles L. Wilson Mr. J. Brent Wilson Dr. J. Holton Wilson Mr. Jerry S. Wilson Mr. Samuel B. Wolfe Dr. Jack B. Wright Dr. Bonne Wurgler Hill Mrs. Judith Wyatt Ertel † Mrs. Barbara Wylie Rossino Ms. Darlene Yarian Lantz Ms. Lallie Yarman Coy Mr. Nathaniel G. Yavana Mrs. Joyce Zagray Vermilion Mr. Roger L. Vickers † Mr. Nicholas A. Zaras Mrs. Nancy Zimmer Antonio Mr. Lawrence O. Zimmerman † Mrs. Marion Zunk Wilson

† Deceased

Nicholas Anspach

Larry Beck

Sharon Bell Pieper

Susan Berger Brown

Mary Blair Fields

Roger Blair

Gordon Cook

Stephen Ellis

Judith Ertel Wyatt

Sarah Gauch Barker

Earl Higgs

Martin Imler

Class of 1965

Deceased

John Gould

Richard Hamilton

Lawrence Jacobs

Herbert Kusterer

William Long

Roy Manley

Sharon McKee Cox

Vasken Moomjian

Thomas Myers

Betty Powers Messmer

Thomas Pringle

William Rivers

Marc Rone

Kenneth Schultz

Lynn Schwabacher Norman

Herbert Seto

Bernard Shuey

Bette Smith Amelung

Barbara Smith Day

Gary Steffens

Pat Stein Botdorf

Constance Thomas Augenstein

Class of 1965

Deceased

Douglas Topping

William Varga

Roger L. Vickers

Harold Toy

Ellen Wagner Mork

David Webster

No photo available Mrs. Van B. Anderson

John A. Rudolph

Robert B. Holycross

Tom L. Shoemaker

Ronald Hopper

Esther Frye Shultz

Krishan K. Kapur

Patricia Staby-Rogers

Gary W. McClary

Jerry Swisher

Lawrence Zimmerman

1961 to 1965 Otterbein Faculty President Lynn W. Turner Deans Marion C. Chase Hannah Frank James V. Miller John Taylor Joanne Van Sant David Waas Business Office Sanders A. Frye Albert Sanders Treasurer Albert V. Horn Development Wade S. Miller, VP Registrar Floyd Vance Peter Baker Virgil Raver Admission Counselors Michael Kish Richard Pflieger Elsley Witt Public Relations Craig Gifford Arthur L. Schultz Art Lillian Frank Albert Germanson Earl Hassenpflug Business/Economics Bert Glaze Stanley Hart George Hogue Young Koo Joseph Miles Herbert Parnes

English Norm Chaney John Coulter J. Raymond Derby Cleora Fuller William Hamilton Ada Haylor Elizabeth Lee Mildred Munday Marguerite Nelson Elizabeth O’Bear Velma Ogg Robert Price John Ramsey James Ray Mr. Thackery

Air Science Maj. Comstock Sgt. Cromer Maj. Robert Fawley Sgt. Arnold Page Capt. Phillip Rice Capt. Hamer Spence

Science Phillip Barnhart Don Bulthaup Charles Botts Keith Crane Albert J. Esselstyn Mr. Grodner Michael Herschler Arnold Leonard Mr. Matthews Lyle Michael Donald Molyneaux Stephen Morton Mr. Norvel Rexford Ogle George Phinney Thomas Tegenkamp Roy Turley Mr. Weber Jean Willis

Foreign Language Charles Buffington Dorothy Cameron Janet Cristy Marjorie Hopkins Robert Howell Paulette Loop Gilbert Mills Donald Molyneaux Roger Neff Elizabeth O’Bear Jean Poulard Mr. Rosales Lavelle Rosselot Anita Stoll Sylvia Vance Lucia Villalon Lena Wilson

History/Government Harold Hancock Ursula Holtermann Thomas Kerr Richard Kestler John Laubach Mr. Richardson Mrs. Thurston Speech & Drama Charles Dodrill James Grissinger Joel Swabb Fred Thayer Jack White

Education Chester Addington Evelyn Anderson Helen Clymer Nell Pagean Mildred Stauffer Nicholas Vigilante Franklin Young

Mathematics Mr. Bamforth David Deever Mr. Estes Mr. McCloy Roger Tremaine Roger Wiley

Sociology/Psychology William Combs Robert Harrison Deanne Knapp Albert Lovejoy David Ruth Barbara Settles

Home Economics Margaret Gill Mary Alyce Holmes Emily Ingram Mabel Joyce Physical Education Robert Agler Marilyn Day Judith Jensen Mike Kish Larry Lintner Richard Pflieger Terry Parsons Joanne Van Sant Curt Tong JoAnn Tyler Elmer (Bud) Yoest Kenneth Zarbaugh Music Alan Bradley Richard Chamberlain Robert Daugherty Louise Dibble Lawrence Frank Paul Frank Karl Glenn Robert Hohn Elizabeth Johnston Arthur Motycka Frieda Myers L. Lee Shackson Eika SmitVanrotte Glenn Spring Robert Westrich Religion/Philosophy Paul Ackert William Amy Phillip Deever Rev. Kenneth Pohly Albert Suthers Chaplain Rev. James B. Recob Library John H. Becker

We Remember When. . . .

Hisako (Chako) Aoki 9-1-515 Sanban-cho Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 102-0075 Japan 81-3-3261-7197 Thank you for remembering me, though I spent only two years at Otterbein (1961-1963).

These two years are unforgettable, filled with wonderful memories. The bonfire, beanies, Cochran Hall, kind and helpful junior counselors, Spring Fever Day, Christmas carols, Otterbein Love Song—canoeing on the creek-oh, what fun it was!

I belonged to Theta Nu--Greenwich, the YWCA and the Women’s Glee Club. Being chosen a candidate for 1962 Homecoming Queen was most surprising to me. To tell you the truth, I did not wish to become the Queen. Being shy, the worst thing that could happen would be to be kissed on the football field by the team captain. Fortunately, I ended up being First Attendant.

Beforehand, I was made to sit on stage and my sorority sisters sang, “Some enchanted evening, you may see our Chako. You may hear her call you across a crowded room…”which is one of the good remembrances.

One time walking on a street, I was asked to speak at an elementary school about Japan. I did and they gave me a baby rabbit. I named him Chibi, meaning a little one in Japanese, and he lived with me in my dorm room. Chibi’s best friend was Sharon Milligan, my sorority sister who lived on the same floor of the dorm and used to bring bits of carrots and other of Chibi’s favorites from Barlow. Chibi often visited her, running to her room! I am still in touch with Sharon, who is doing wonderful things with children in South Africa. Before coming back to Japan, I gave Chibi to my roommate, who took him to a farm. Later, I received a letter from her that Chibi had many, many babies! To my surprise, Chibi was a female!

At mealtimes, I worked at Barlow Hall serving food. I often was told not to put too much on each plate. I just wanted every student to eat enough!

I have countless such funny (?!), delightful memories. Among the faculty, I remember Mrs. Frank, Mrs. Nelson, Miss Day, Miss Van Sant and Dr. Lovejoy well.

In 1963, I transferred to International Christian University in Tokyo. In October 1964, I worked as an interpreter in the royal box at the main stadium during the Tokyo Olympics. I graduated in 1965, majoring in linguistics (general semantics).

Sharon with some of her fifth graders May 2014

Starting in 1972, my work was connected to children’s picture books, editing, writing, translating, publishing, coordinating exhibits, selling foreign language rights, etc. In 1978-79, I worked in Salzburg, Austria, doing similar things. 1984-88, I served as the vice president of International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY). In 1986, IBBY World Congress on Children’s Books was held in Toyko with over 800 participants from different countries around the world. I attended IBBY World Congress in Oslo and Williamsburg, taking part at the IBBY Executive Committee meetings, also in Bologna during the annual spring Children’s Book Fair and Bratislava Biennial of World Children’s Picture Book Original Artwork Exhibition. Thanks to all this, I met incredibly wonderful persons involved with children’s books in different ways and in many countries, some of whom became my good friends. Work and such service was a joy to me as I love children, picture books and people.

During this time, I got married, divorced, and had a miscarriage (a boy). Apart from this, I fell in love twice, at age 22 and 52. No happy endings, but unforgettable precious memories which warm my heart still to this day. In 1999, I was hospitalized with acute leukemia. I overcame this in 2002. In 2010, I broke my right hip and thigh bone. Being helped by many persons, I am still alive and can walk, which is a miracle! I am thankful. Good memories and friends, my treasure in life! I smile, feeling “all in all, life is beautiful.”

P.S. I am now a “stone-age” person, no fax, no portable telephone, no personal computer, no microwave. I do have a telephone, radio, TV, CD player and a mailbox. It is a pity that I cannot attend the great celebration of our Golden Reunion in April. On this happy occasion, I send everyone who can attend and those who cannot, ALL GOOD WISHES!

My 71st birthday

Catherine Ann Barnes Packer 11946 Yankeetown Pike Mount Sterling, OH 43143 740-869-0110/740-398-4893 (cell) capacker@hotmail.com Spouse:

Walter A. Packer, Lt. U.S. Navy, Vietnam, retired psychiatric social worker, therapist and administrator

Children:

Sharon Lynn, David Allan ‘94, Michelle Marie

Grandchildren:

Adah (10), Marianna (8), Julia (7), Gavin (6)

It all began in 1877 when my great-grandmother, Mary Ann Funk (Gaut) ‘1881, left Pennsylvania to attend Otterbein University. My grandmother, Adah Catherine Gaut (Barnes), followed her mother 27 years later, graduating in 1908.

My father graduated in 1938 and then began a long line of Barnes siblings who came to Otterbein. Virginia ‘63, Tom ‘64, Ann ‘65, Ruth ‘66, Sarah ‘69, Paul ‘71 and Bob ‘73. Many more uncles, aunts and cousins graduated from Otterbein. Needless to say, Otterbein is in our DNA. After graduation, I headed west to teach physical education, health and lead recreational activities at Fort Wingate High School. This was a Bureau of Indian Affairs school for Navajo children. In 1967, I came back to Ohio and married Walt. He entered OSU to get his master’s in social work. I taught P.E. and health at Royal Manor Elementary in Gahanna, Ohio.

We moved to Mount Vernon in 1969. Walt was hired by Mound Builders Guidance Center. I was lucky enough to become a stay-at-home mother to Sharon, David and Michelle. I loved it!

From1978 to 1993, I ran a childcare/preschool business for six weeks to six-year old children.

What fun! From 1993-1995, I became the manager of the Gambier House B & B. Lots of fun and work.

In 1993, my father, who had become bed ridden with Parkinson’s disease, needed more help. I became his primary caregiver for the next two and one-half years. Because there were seven siblings and their spouses, we all pitched in to help. Later, when mother needed help, we were again able to keep her at home. We were so blessed to be able to do that. They were wonderful parents.

I loved being a caregiver and was a Hospice volunteer for many years. I also volunteered for the Salvation Army. I was active in our church. I especially enjoyed volunteering for Appalachian service projects with the youth of our church.

We enjoyed all of our children’s activities, sports, dance, etc. Now we are enjoying our grandchildren’s activities. In 2010, we moved back to our hometown area. We are closer to David and Lisa and the grandchildren.

David is a 1994 graduate of Otterbein. He is the manager of the family golf course, Crown Hill Golf Club. His wife, Lisa, is an engineer for PACCAR/Kenworth. They have two children, Marianna and Gavin.

Our daughter, Sharon and her husband, Chris Vanella, live in Charlotte, NC. She teaches at Charlotte Montessori Prep School and he is a chef at a golf course. They have two children, Adah and Julia.

Daughter, Michelle, and Steve Burdine, live in Dayton, Ohio.

She teaches photography at Kaplan University and he works for the Dayton Metro Parks.

We are blessed to be living near many of our family members and we enjoy traveling to Charlotte to see our granddaughters and their Mom and Dad. We have enjoyed traveling throughout the mainland U.S., Alaska and Puerto Rico. We hope to do more on our bucket list.

I loved being at Otterbein. It was the place for me. I made many life-long friends and we have kept in contact throughout the years.

Well, that’s enough!

LIVE WELL, LAUGH OFTEN, LOVE MUCH!

Jane Barnes Page 356 Waterbury Drive Eastlake, OH 44095 440-951-5535 rjpage@ameritech.net Spouse:

Roy Allen Page

Children:

Jennifer married to Robert P. Withington Jessica married to Christopher Bergin

Grandchildren:

Joshua (14), Jacob (11), Preston (11), Wyndam (8)

After graduating from Otterbein, I began teaching health and physical education at Brush High School in Lyndhurst, Ohio. A faculty member in my department, introduced me to Roy Page who had just finished his tour of duty with the Coast Guard. We were married in June of 1968.

When the girls were born I became a stay at home mom. PTA, Girl Scout leader, swim team mom, swim team official—I stayed busy while Roy worked for the phone company.

When the girls started junior high, I started teaching at The Cleveland Health Education Museum and began renewing my teaching certificate. In 1986, I was hired by a local Catholic school to teach elementary physical education. I stayed for five years and decided to change my profession. I enrolled in massage school and passed the Ohio State Boards in 1995. I then went to school in Austria at the Vodder School of Lymphatic Therapy and became a lymphatic therapist. I loved helping persons with swollen areas of their body. Decreasing edemas was a challenge that I welcomed. I also worked a while for the University Hospitals of Cleveland in their clinic.

In 1989, I became a lifeguard at our local YMCA. Over the next 25 years I taught lifeguarding, CPR, AED (automatic external defibrillator), oxygen, first aid, and various aquatic exercise classes. I retired from guarding after 18 years, but I still teach the water classes and the CPR. For the past two years, I have been president of the Women’s Welsh Clubs of America. The clubs own the Welsh Home, a rehabilitation, skilled nursing, and assisted living facility located in Rocky River, Ohio.

Roy and I are now volunteers with The Hospice of the Western Reserve in the Greater Cleveland area. He visits homes and works maintenance for the hospice building, and I visit nursing homes and persons at the Hospice House. We also deliver Meals On Wheels for the Lake County area.

We enjoy taking bus trips and have traveled to New Orleans, LA; Savannah, GA; and shortly, to Holland, MI, for the tulip festival. We also enjoy watching the grandsons and their sport activities.

I cannot believe that our Golden Reunion is this year. The time has passed quickly. I am looking forward to seeing everyone.

Roy and me with our four grandsons

My daughters with their grandmother

Paul Stephen Beal 1853 Third Street Cuyahoga Falls, OH 44221 330-794-5381/330-807-5192 (cell) Paulbeal38@msn.com

Spouse:

Linda Baldinger Hess

Children:

five

Grandchildren:

four

Following graduation in 1965, I entered United Theological Seminary in Dayton, Ohio. After three years of classes and an intern year in Terre Haute, Indiana, I received a master’s of divinity degree and was ordained an elder of the East Ohio Conference of the United Methodist Church in June of 1969. During the next 32 1/2 years, I served pastorates in Magnolia, Mount Vernon, Mansfield, Ashtabula and Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio. I retired from the active ministry December 31, 2001. Since then, I have continued to work part time as an interim pastor and chaplain. Currently, I am part-time minister of congregational care at the Hudson United Methodist Church in Hudson, Ohio.

While living in Mount Vernon, I met and married Linda Baldinger Hess (1981) from Toledo, Ohio. Since we were married, Linda has gone back to college. She received her B.A. from Capital University in 1991 and her master’s in counseling from Ashland Theological Seminary in 1995. She currently works part time as a self-employed trainer, consultant and counselor for women’s health and self development. Together we have five adult children who are married or have significant others and we have four grandchildren. We have lived in Cuyahoga Falls since 1994.

I arrived on the campus of Otterbein in 1961 as a second semester transfer from the University of Akron. I attended classes during the school years 1961-62 and 1962-63. These were wonderful years which I treasure and fondly remember: Kings Fraternity, Davis Hall; studies under Drs. Philip Deever, Paul Ackert, Jim Recob, Harold Hancock, John Laubach, David Waas, Virginia O’Bear, Frank Turley, Tom Tegenkamp and others made an impact and lasting impression on my life. With the encouragement of Dr. David Waas, I was the sole representative from Otterbein to participate in the Junior Year Abroad program in 1963-64 at Phillip’s University in Marburg, Germany.

During my career as a pastor, I was privileged to officiate at numerous baptisms, weddings and funerals. I participated in and gave leadership to ministerial associations wherever I lived. I participated at various times in Kiwanis, Lions and Ruritan Service Clubs.

My hobbies have included love of music, classical and popular, singing in church choirs and community choruses. I have been a lifelong fan of the Cleveland Browns, Indians, Cavaliers and Ohio State Buckeyes, as well as other colleges and local high school sports. While actively participating in softball and tennis in my younger years, today I regularly walk and exercise for personal health maintenance and enjoyment. I love to read non-fiction, in particular biographies. I also like to keep up on politics, entertainment, personalities and people in general.

My wife, Linda, and I are blessed to spend 2-4 weeks each winter in sunny Florida.

Looking back, I feel that my life has been richly blessed by my family, friends, parishioners, professional career and faith in a loving God. My purpose in life is to be a blessing to others in whatever way I can.

Col. (Dr.) Harold H. Biddle, DC DDS, MA, FAGD, FICD, FADI, FACD

4870 E. Calle Barril Tucson, AZ 85718 520-615-6722

Spouse:

Linda L. Biddle

Children:

Kristen L. Biddle

My parents were Ohioans and I grew up in Covington and Columbus before moving to Westerville in late 1954. At that time we lived at the northwest corner of Schrock Road and Cleveland Avenue. My family were faithful members of the E.U.B. church, later the Church of the Master Methodist Church. I graduated from Westerville High School in 1961 and the small campus of Otterbein College was quite familiar to me by that time.

As a “townie,” the natural course of events was to enroll at Otterbein. During my years at Otterbein, I pursued course prerequisites for entrance into dental college. Also, I enrolled in the Air Force ROTC program and was active on the Cardinals football and baseball teams, lettering in baseball.

My application for acceptance to the Ohio State University College of Dentistry was approved and my studies continued there. In the spring of 1969, I graduated with a doctor of dental surgery degree and spent the summer quarter as a clinical instructor in the Department of Periodontics. Also, I worked part time in a local dentist’s office.

This was the time when the Vietnam conflict was in full force. Many of my classmates, as did I, elected to serve in the military, as opposed to immediately opening a private dental practice.

I was approved for and sworn in as an officer in the U.S. Air Force Dental Corps. So in the fall of 1969, I reported to the first of my many duty stations at Blytheville Air Force Base, Blytheville, AR. In short order, other assignments followed: the Republic of South Korea, Turkey and Alabama.

On Oct. 1, 1973, while stationed in Alabama, my dear Linda and I were married at my parents’ home on Sunbury Road overlooking Hoover Reservoir. My uncle, (an Otterbein graduate) and Methodist minister, Rev. Glen Biddle ‘33, performed the ceremony with close family members in attendance. Later, Linda and I returned to Alabama to continue my military duties.

Other duty assignments came our way: Washington, D.C., Arizona, Texas, Alaska, Nebraska, Hawaii and Dayton, Ohio. In Washington, I was assigned as a staff officer in the office of the Air Force Surgeon General. I worked on many early, medical and dental, data automation programs along with Army and Navy personnel and the Department of Defense Health Affairs Office. So, after 28 years on active duty, we retired to Tucson, Arizona, in October 1997. Looking back, my initial two-year active duty military obligation stretched into a long career in service to our military members. But, my dentistry career continued for another seven years, as I filled a contract position to provide dental care at Davis Monthan Air Force Base, Tucson.

My military medals, awards and ribbons included among many others: the Legion of Merit with one device and the Meritorious Service Medal with five devices. In addition, I completed a master’s of art degree in health administration from Central Michigan University. Also, I completed three master degree equivalents: the Industrial College of the Armed Forces, the Air Command and Staff College and the Air War College. During my tour of duty in Texas, I was appointed as an adjunct professor at Midwestern University, Wichita Falls, Texas.

In retrospect, my youth and early years in Westerville and the influence of my time at Otterbein College, provided the strong grounding and moral basis and guidance for my life and unto these days.

Naomi Black Paeth 2079 Barkeley Lane Condo #15 Fort Myers, FL 33907

Spouse:

Jerry Black (deceased), Ernie Paeth (deceased)

Children:

Sheila, Jerry Jr. and Jimmy and three stepchildren

Grandchildren:

13 grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren

Naomi’s Timeline 1965 to 2015 ‘65-’70 married to Jerry Black, as I was all my Otterbein years. I taught school in Gahanna, Whitehall and Columbus Public Schools. We had three children in four years: Sheila, Jerry Jr. and Jimmy. In 1970, we moved to Ft. Myers, Florida, when Jimmy was just six weeks old and, happily, I’m still here! Y’all can have Ohio winters—I prefer Florida!

I’ve been teaching in Lee County Florida Public Schools since 1970. I’ve taught specialty subjects from Pre-K (taught Kindergarten for 15 years) to eighth grade, and I still sub one or two days a week “when the spirit moves me,” and that’s not too often these days. This is my 49th year of public school teaching...WOW! I love the Otterbein Cardinal Migration trips and more of y’all need to come along—talk to Marge Trent!

From 1980-1985, husband, Jerry, battled leukemia, we spent much time at M.D. Anderson Hospital where all five of us were October 1980 to January 1981. Jerry lost the battle in 1985 and I had three teenagers to raise, one in college and two in high school. In December 1986, I married a widower, Ernie Paeth, whose three children were just older than mine. Three boys and three girls! In December 2001, we buried Ernie and now I had enough sense not to remarry.

This is my verse and my wish for all my ‘65 50th anniversary grads. Come to southwest Florida to visit.

“But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength: they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.” Isaiah 40:31 May we all “mount with eagle wings,” Naomi

Kay Blackledge Vickers Bowes 2620 Deepwood Drive Wilmington, DE 19810 302-479-0795/302-547-0773 (cell) kaybowes14@yahoo.com Spouse:

Roger Lee Vickers ‘65 (deceased) Ronald A. Bowes

Children:

Kimberly Vickers Bowes Pridemore Alexandra Kay Bowes Grulke James Ronald Bowes

Grandchildren:

Amanda (22) and Michael (19) Pridemore Emily (16), Molly (10), Abbey (9) and Tommy (7) Grulke Tyler (20) and Emma (11) Betts, Evangeline (3), Harley (2) and Quinn (2) Bowes

The first thing I did after graduation was marry Roger Lee Vickers, president of Pi Beta Sigma.

We moved to Columbus where Roger worked at the Columbus Mental Hospital and I got my first teaching job. I had majored in English, speech and education at Otterbein and became the sixth, seventh and eighth grade English teacher at Mount Sterling Middle School. I taught there for two years. The second year of teaching, Roger was drafted into the U. S. Army. I followed him to Officer Candidate School at Fort Benning, Georgia, and then to Ford Ord, California, where he was a trainer. Born to us was Kimberley (Kim) in the spring of 1968. He was stationed with the 9th Infantry Division in South Vietnam in the fall of 1968. January 25, 1969, he was killed in combat. He earned the Distinguished Service Cross posthumously, as well as other medals. Kim was eight months old at the time.

I then taught at New Albany High School in New Albany, Ohio, where the home economics teacher introduced me to her brother from Cleveland, Ron Bowes. We married in the fall of 1971. Ron is a railroader, working several management positions to his life now, as a railroad consultant. His latest acquisition is a short line railroad in Big Spring, Texas. Our life has been blessed by experiences of moving from Cleveland to Wilmington, Delaware, when he worked at Conrail in Philadelphia, then to Orchard Park, New York, and onto Wilbraham, Massachusetts, and then back to Wilmington. We welcomed two more children into our marriage — Alexandra (Sandie) and Jim. We have lived in Wilmington since 1987. I decided to go back to school in 1990 (at age 50!) to earn my M.S. at Drexel University, and become a librarian in our local county library. I was fortunate enough to become a youth services librarian, hosting story times, programs, doing literacy activities, and generally getting to be with children all day at work. That was a very rewarding time!

Our children have been the delight of our lives. Kim earned her master’s degree in early childhood education and is the director of the Children’s Resource Center at Delaware Technical and Community College, where she also is an adjunct instructor. Her daughter, Amanda, is following in her footsteps. Sandie is a podiatric surgeon in West Chester, Pennsylvania. Jim is finishing his master’s degree in library science.

I retired in the spring of 2011 and have since become very involved with volunteering for literacy and library related activities. I serve on several boards related to libraries in the state of Delaware and a year ago revived the defunct Friends of Delaware Libraries (we are a very small state — only three counties). We are a small group but becoming mighty!

My newest endeavor is learning to be a Biblical storyteller for our Presbyterian church. There is a small team of us who learn the “Bible by heart” and tell the stories to the congregation. It is a more meaningful way to hear the Scriptures.

I must admit that my biggest passion is being with my eleven grandchildren, especially the identical twin two-year old girls that keep us all entertained and their three-year old sister. When we have the family at our house, it is lively!

I am a voracious reader, love to travel — although as my husband Ron goes to work four days a week, we don’t seem to travel as much as I would like — and I love to go to the library!

Living away from Ohio, it will be a real treat to come back to Westerville and relive some of the happiest days of my youth with some of the best friends I ever had. My brother, Marden Blackledge, was a 1961 graduate of Otterbein so it has always seemed like home to me.

Memorial for

Mary Blair Fields 1943-2013

Spouse:

Albert Fields ‘65

Children:

Susan and Steven

Grandchildren:

Amelia Hendricks, Baby Fields on the way in June

Mary M. Blair Fields loved Otterbein College. An active and enthusiastic student, she was a biology and secondary education major with a minor in chemistry. She was on Student Senate and the PanHellenic Council, Sibyl staff and the T & C staff. A member of Tau Delta sorority, Alpha Epsilon Delta and Sigma Zeta, she served as dorm president her junior year and president of the Women’s Student Government Board her senior year.

Upon graduation, Mary attended Wake Forest University for a year and then taught at Olmsted Falls High School. Subsequently, she earned her master’s of science degree in genetics at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio in 1969 and a doctor of philosophy degree in genetics in 1977, also at Miami. While in Oxford, she became reacquainted with Al (Bert) Fields ‘65. Mary and Al were married in June 1973 in Steam Corners, Ohio. Bridal attendants were Janet Blair Roll ‘67 and Suzan Lang ‘65.

After teaching in Middletown High School, Middletown, Ohio, for two years, she became a faculty member at Ursinus College in Collegeville, Pennsylvania. She was a biology professor there for 33 years, serving as chairwoman of the biology department from 2002-2005. One of her favorite experiences as a faculty member was teaching in Florence, Italy, during the fall semester of 2005. Al was able to go to Florence with Mary, and both Janet and Suzan joined them for a visit Thanksgiving week of that year.

Mary and Al have two children. Daughter, Susan, and her husband, Andrew Hendricks, are parents of Amelia. Son, Steven, and his wife, Jennifer, are expecting their first child in June 2015.

Mary fought a valiant battle with cancer for 17 years. She lived every moment of her almost 70 years. She never stopped learning, serving her church and family, and keeping in touch with family and friends. She loved to travel and had her bags packed to come to Florida when she died on February 20, 2013. Mary was truly an inspiration!

Respectfully submitted by her sister, Janet Blair Roll ‘67 rollj@roadrunner.com

Mary, Janet and Suzan in Florence, Italy 2005

The family together for Mia’s baptism.

Son, Steve, and Jen Fields; Mary; daughter, Susan; Mia and Andrew Hendricks; husband, Al Fields.

Frederick Herman Bohse 447 N. Broadway Street New Philadelphia, OH 44663 bohsefherman@roadrunner.com

Spouse:

Charloette Harker Bohse (deceased)

Children:

David and Elizabeth Bohse Getz ‘90

Graduated from Ohio Northern University School of Law in 1968 with a J.D. degree.

Married in 1971. I have been a widower since 2009.

I have served on numerous church and civic boards. I retired from practicing law on June 13, 2008 having practiced for 37 years in New Philadelphia, OH. I am an Otterbein traveler: Phoenix ‘12, Orlando ‘13 and Charleston ‘15 Cardinal Migrations and Alaska Cruise in ‘14.

My Otterbein family legacy includes:

Daughter, Elizabeth Anne Bohse Getz ‘90 1st cousin, Dr. Arthur Bohse Fulton ‘51 1st cousin, Rev. Robert Spencer Fulton ‘57 1st cousin, Dr. Gilbert M. Burkel ‘60 2nd cousin, Dr. Anthony Fulton ‘00 I was forever impacted by Dr. John Laubach and longlasting memories of Dr. Ursula Holtermann’s anecdotal stories in modern European history.

Cardinal Migration ‘15 Charleston, SC

Barbara Bojanowski Matejcik 2933 Meadow Lawn Lane The Villages, FL 32162 352-259-4574/352-643-1599 (cell) lightlakebreezes@yahoo.com Spouse:

John Matejcik

Children:

Lisa and Christopher

Grandchildren:

Noelle, Colten and Max

WOW! Can you believe that it’s been 50 years since we were altogether “in a quiet, peaceful village” of Westerville! After graduating from Otterbein with a music education degree, I started my teaching career of 25 years in Lorain, Ohio, with the Lorain City Schools. I taught elementary and junior high vocal music for several years; then, I decided that I would like to teach regular elementary classroom students. So, I took classes to convert my degree to elementary education.

I taught fifth grade for a number of years in an inner-city school in Lorain, and then I was given the opportunity to teach gifted education to fifth graders. We were very proud of our gifted education program because we were one of the few areas in Ohio that had self-contained classrooms for gifted students (grades 3-6) rather than a pull-out program. While teaching in Lorain, I was privileged to attend many workshops throughout Ohio and out of state that would help our students. This presented me with the opportunity to conduct workshops in Lorain as well as other northeastern Ohio area schools. I retired from teaching in 2000. My greatest rewards in teaching were when I saw smiles on the students’ faces that showed that they “got it,” as well as the thank yous, and parents asking for me to be their child’s teacher. Quite rewarding is the fact than many of my students have become lawyers, doctors, dentists, successful business people, firemen and policemen, as well as outstanding members of the community. I still keep in contact with some of my former students.

While I took a break from teaching to stay home with our children, I gave piano lessons to children, worked part time in a counted cross stitch store and directed the choirs at church.

In 1969, I married the love of my life, John Matejcik. We’ve been married for more than 45 years. John is a graduate of the University of Dayton and a former elementary school teacher as well as an elementary school principal. We have two children, Lisa and Christopher, and three grandchildren, Noelle (10), Colten (7) and Max (8).

Lisa, our daughter, attended the University of Dayton and graduated summa cum laude from the University of Central Florida. She was a broadcasting major, and has been a sports broadcaster and sports anchor in West Palm Beach and Miami, Florida. At the present time, Lisa has two young children so she does a lot of freelance work in sports broadcasting. She has been fortunate to work at two Olympic games with NBC. Her husband, Curt, is a former Major League Baseball player, ending his career with the Los Angeles Angels. He’s now the baseball coach at Gallaudet University in Washington, D.C. Christopher is a graduate of Baldwin Wallace College, where he had a successful baseball career playing on the varsity squad for four years. He received various honors for his outstanding college baseball years. Chris was a business major and is presently employed at the Avon Lake Ford plant as a human resources associate (salaried personnel supervisor).

John, Lisa and Chris were very active in sports: fast-pitch softball, baseball, volleyball, cheerleading, baton and basketball...so, I was the cheerleader for all of them. What wonderful memories we created through these sports activities, even managing to travel to different parts of the U.S. for local, state, regional and national competitions!

After I retired, we decided to go south to find a retirement place. We finally found the perfect place for us...The Villages, Florida! We’ve been residents here for 11 years, and every day is better than the day before! John is still involved in softball as well as golf. At one point, I was involved in four performing groups, but now I’ve narrowed it down to two groups: a line dance performing group and The Villages Twirlers, which is a baton group of over 100 members!

Our dance group has performed at many events in The Villages as well as various line dance workshops throughout Florida. The Villages Twirlers have been invited to march in the Citrus Bowl Parade, the Gator Bowl Parade, the Plant City Strawberry Festival as well as in the Disney World Parade. We’ve also competed at the baton competitions at Disney World. Not bad!

We loved our vacation in Hawaii, and this past Christmas, we took our family on a Disney Cruise. I like to spend some time on scrapbooking and card making. Living in The Villages has been a wonderful experience! Where else could you be in a community of over 100,000 senior citizens and drive your golf cart to every place you need to go...doctors, banks, grocery stores, department stores, restaurants...the list is endless.

Needless to say, this is the ideal place for us.

Thank you to all of the friends and experiences at Otterbein that have shaped my life and career. “In a quiet, peaceful village.”

David L. Bouslog 1200 E. Peppertree Lane #506 Sarasota, FL 34242 941-349-3022 bouslogjd@juno.com Spouse:

Jolene Bouslog

Children:

two

Grandchildren:

two

My years at Otterbein were some of the best of my life. I think about the people and events of those years often. Life since then has also blessed me.

In June of 1965, I joined the Montgomery County Sheriff's Department in my hometown of Dayton, Ohio. During the summers of my Otterbein years, I worked for WHIO-TV as a photographer and reporter. In doing that job, I learned a great deal about law enforcement and the men and women who served. So during my junior year, I decided to pursue that career. My 26 years with the department were very rewarding. I progressed from road patrol to detective (burglary, sex crimes, then robbery & homicide.) After promotion, I served as patrol watch commander, then tactical commander of the SWAT team, then commander of the violent crimes investigation unit. Retirement in 1991 lead us to new adventures.

In 1988, I began work on writing a nonfiction book of WW II naval history. In 1997, Maru Killer: The War Patrols of the USS Seahorse was published. The Seahorse was one of America's most successful submarines. She sank 24 Japanese merchant and war ships. Her commanding officer, Slade Cutter, was in the top three of highest scoring skippers.

In 1983, God blessed me with my wife, Jolene. We have two children and two grandchildren.

Upon retirement in 1991, we moved to Sarasota, Florida, and love it. We feel we are in paradise. We love spending lots of time with the grandkids. Traveling is one of our great joys. Jolene is an former legal secretary turned outstanding, and still active, interior decorator who loves her work. Life is great!

My friends, Pi Sig frat brothers, professors, teammates, and that beautiful campus in the “quiet, peaceful village� will always hold a warm place in my heart.

Judy Buckle Airhart 65 Millard Court Springboro, OH 45066 937-825-0233 judyairhart@msn.com

Spouse:

Robert E. Airhart II ‘66

Children:

Robert III (1969) and Matthew (1971)

Grandchildren:

Vivienne (10), Beatrix (8), April (7) and Fiona (4)

My “since Otterbein” experiences actually began before leaving Otterbein. Having attended summer school for three summers, I was able to complete all my classwork at Otterbein by the end of the first semester of my senior year. I continued to live in the dorm, however, while beginning my professional teaching career in Westerville City Schools. I was engaged to Bob Airhart, and our wedding and my graduation took place in the same weekend. I taught on Friday; our wedding rehearsal was Friday night; our wedding was on Saturday, followed by baccalaureate and commencement on Sunday. Monday, I went back to teach the last week of school, then we were off to Cleveland to begin a summer job. How’s that for the beginning of life after Otterbein?

During Bob’s senior year at Otterbein, I continued to teach in Westerville. While Bob was in seminary, I taught in Dayton Public Schools and earned a master’s degree in guidance and counseling from Miami University. During his intern year, I taught in Ybor City, Tampa, Florida. We moved to Cleveland in 1970, where Bob was appointed pastor of an inner city church.

For six years, I stayed home with our two sons and volunteered at the YWCA working on issues of racial justice. In part because of my volunteer experience, in 1976, I was hired by the Cuyahoga Plan of Ohio, a non-profit agency whose mission was to eliminate discrimination in housing and reduce patterns of housing segregation. I worked there for twelve years, first as associate director and then as executive director. It was an exciting, meaningful, and challenging time that included physical threats to me and my family by people who did not want to see changes in housing patterns.

In 1988, Bob and I moved to the Columbus area so he could work on a second master’s degree, this time in chemical dependency counseling. I was employed by the Ohio Department of Education (ODE) to develop a statewide parent education program. Later responsibilities at ODE included dropout prevention, safe and drug-free schools, health education and regional school improvement services.

We moved to Springboro, Ohio (south of Dayton), in 2000 to be near our parents, all four of whom were living at Otterbein Retirement Community in Lebanon. During our entire married life, Bob’s and my parents had come to our house for holidays, birthdays, and “just because” days. Recognizing how fortunate we were to have all four parents living in the same community, we decided to move from

Worthington to Springboro which was 10 miles from the Otterbein Community. We wanted to be near them to enjoy the good days and not spend a lot of time commuting in the more difficult days. It was a a beautiful time and we feel blessed to have been there to walk with them through the last years of their lives. The last of our parents passed in 2012.

After moving to Springboro, still employed by the Ohio Department of Education and later by Montgomery County Educational Service Center, I worked on school improvement issues with districts that were struggling to meet state standards. In 2008, I retired and then worked part time until 2012.

Bob and I are thoroughly enjoying retirement and spend a great deal of time traveling. Some of our favorite trips have included a Mediterranean cruise, China (including Tibet), Antarctica, Iceland, the Baltic countries, a Grand European river cruise on the Danube and Rhine Rivers, Portugal, and five weeks in France. For every place we cross off our “Bucket List,” we add at least three more. We feel fortunate to be in good health and to have the means to travel. When someone asks us how we can travel so much, my response is, “You just have to get old.”

We have two boys— Bob III born in 1969 and Matthew born in 1971. Both sons graduated from Ohio Wesleyan University. Bob lives in Stone Ridge, New York and has two daughters—Vivienne, age 10 and Beatrix, age 8. Matt lives in Oakville (near Toronto), Ontario, and has two daughters—April, age 7 and Fiona, age 4.

Reading and learning new things are priorities for me. Last year, I built a dollhouse for our two oldest granddaughters and plan to build one for the two youngest next year. What fun I had learning how to cut baseboard and crown molding and roof a house—all in miniature!

I am grateful for my years at Otterbein—the friendships that developed and the opportunities to expand my thinking and my horizons. Most of all I am grateful for having met Bob Airhart, the love of my life. In June we will have been married 50 years.

Arlene Buckley Swihart 5266 Fredericks Stand South Lebanon, OH 45065 513-288-2638 arleneswihart@gmail.com

Spouse:

Daniel Swihart

Children:

Kathleen Swihart Edwards ‘92 Jennifer Swihart Long

Grandchildren:

Jordan, Benjamin, Gabriel, Ben and Mia

During the spring of my senior year in 1965, I was recruited to teach kindergarten by two administrators from Garden Grove, California. They came to Otterbein looking for teachers because of Otterbein's reputation. I had grown up in the small town of Belpre, Ohio, and then attended tiny Otterbein. I was anxious for travel and adventure. I drove to California with a pal of a high school friend in her 1957 baby-blue Thunderbird convertible. It was so exciting to be in California in the sixties!!

Once in California, I looked up Jeannie Pfleger Sutton ‘64 and Carol Clark DeLano ‘64, who had been hired the year before. Through them and a Methodist group, I met my husband, Daniel. He had been hired at Ball State University, by the same pair of recruiters who hired me, to teach biology and coach swimming and water polo.

As part of our recruitment contract, we were required to get our master’s degrees after three years of teaching. When Dan received a National Science Foundation Grant to pay for his master’s at Miami University, we decided to move back to Ohio. I taught second grade in the Princeton School District and Dan taught biology and coached track, cross country and swimming nearby while attending Miami.

After two more years of teaching, I took a break to stay home with our daughters, Kathleen, born in 1970, and Jennifer, born in 1972. We spent summers exploring the United States in our travel trailer. Dan’s interest in the Civil War led us to many historic battlefield sites. Jenny had her first birthday in Zion National Park and Katie had her third on Bainbridge Island, near Seattle.

When both girls were in school all day, I decided to return to teaching. I was lucky enough to be hired in the same Fairfield elementary school my girls attended. Over the next thirteen years, I taught kindergarten, first, second and fourth grades, and earned my master’s degree in educational administration. I was honored as Fairfield’s first recipient of the Teacher of the Year award. As Kathleen was getting ready to go off to Otterbein, I accepted a position as assistant principal in my district. Luckily, my salary increase matched Otterbein’s tuition!

A highlight during those years was being part of a group attending a workshop by Howard Gardner discussing his research on multiple intelligences. Using this research, we implemented a program in our building of teaching to the learning style of the child. Additionally, we received an Arts in Education Grant from the State of Ohio to fund artists in residence at our school. The artists encouraged the talents of those children who learn best through visual, musical or bodily kinesthetic modes. They were wonderful role models of new approaches to teaching.

I ended my career as the principal of the Fairfield Kindergarten Center where we had 500 fiveyear-old children and eight classes of special-needs preschoolers. The teachers and I were able to choose the design and environment of the building which was renovated for us. Additionally, I helped form a peer group with the principals of four other early childhood buildings in nearby districts. We developed a relationship with the Ohio Department of Education and were accepted into a Principal’s Learning Academy at Ohio State where we received innovative tutoring in leadership skills.

Through a partnership with the University of Cincinnati, the teachers at my school participated in a study group learning about the philosophy and practices of the Reggio Emilia Schools in Italy. With funding from the state, many of my teachers were able to travel to Italy to visit the Reggio Emilia Early Childhood Schools. These schools are based on the work of Piaget, who felt scientific investigation was the best tool for teaching. Each school is centered around a studio with an art teacher. Children learn to express their thoughts and learning using many art mediums. We worked hard to emulate that philosophy at the Kindergarten Center. I am proud that our school was a wonderful place full of happy children and innovative teachers.

Our oldest daughter, Katie, graduated from NKU with a degree in computer science and a minor in business. Jenny graduated from BGSU with a major in creative writing and a minor in art. Both were married the year I took over leadership of the Kindergarten Center. Our first grandson, Jordan Samuel, was born the year I retired. Grandsons Benjamin and Gabriel followed, and we will soon be adding ten-year-old twins Ben and Mia. We feel blessed that both of our daughters’ families live nearby, so we can be part of their lives.

Dan and I have become snowbirds, retreating to our cottage in Grove City, Florida for three months every winter, and we still enjoy traveling and bicycling. We had a wonderful trip to Ireland last year and are hoping to visit Italy this year. We have so much for which to be thankful.

George E. Christ 483 Oakmoor Avenue Bay Village OH 44140 440.871-3980 gchrist44140@yahoo.com

Spouse:

Betty

Children:

Ryan, Andrew and Ellen

In 1965, as we all graduated from our studies at Otterbein College, I was very fortunate to be hired by the Westlake City Schools as a junior high school social studies and English teacher.

Westlake is a suburb of Cleveland and close to my hometown of Parma. I taught in the junior high for six years and began coaching a new sport of cross country at the high school in my second year. In addition, I was hired as an assistant track coach in the spring. In my third year of coaching cross country, my team won the league championship. I became a registered track official in 1973 and have maintained my duties to the present time.

In 1971, I was assigned to teach social studies at the high school level and taught there until 1977 when I was hired as the assistant principal. At this point, I was required to resign the coaching duties. I attended Cleveland State University and obtained my master’s degree in school administration in 1977. After seven years as the assistant, I was hired as the principal at the junior high where I had been a teacher. While I was principal, I lead several committees to make the change to a middle school philosophy as the ninth grade moved to the high school and the sixth grade ascended to the middle school. In 1990, I was selected to lead a strategic planning committee for the school district and was involved in this for several years. By 1991, I had completed my second master’s degree as an educational specialist and was hired as the assistant superintendent. In 1999, I retired after 34 years in the same district.

My family was very supportive of my professional career. I met my wife Betty during my second year teaching as she was a fellow teacher across the hall. Our superintendent noted that this was one of the advantages of team teaching. Betty was a graduate of Miami University and taught English. In 1972, our first child, Ryan, was born and soon after she retired from teaching to become a full-time mother. Our second child, Andrew, was born in 1975 and our daughter, Ellen, was born in 1977. They were all great students and participated in many sports in school and in the community. Ryan and Ellen graduated from Ohio University and Andrew from the University of Chicago. Ryan is a Major in the Marine Corps, Andrew is a defensive coordinator at a Division I university and Ellen is a speech pathologist in a local school district. Just had to brag a little about my family!

Betty and I still live in the first home we purchased in Bay Village and have been married for 48 years.

We enjoy of kids and their families and travel to Hilton Head Island and Florida for vacations in the spring and fall. I am involved the local YMCA,

Received an award from the ODNR for Outstanding Boating Educator

Kiwanis, our local Methodist Church, boating activities, volunteering at the Cuyahoga Valley National Park, Boy Scout leader, and at Mohican Outdoor School. I don’t know how I had time to work!

I served as president of the board at a non-profit environmental education residential education facility named Mohican School in the Out-of-Doors in Richland County near Mansfield. I became involved in this organization because my junior high sent students there for a residential outdoor education experience. Although computers, iPads and other technology had not yet become the rage, I saw kids needed to learn about and appreciate the natural world. When I retired from Westlake in 1999, I accepted a job at Mohican as a development coordinator and drove back and forth from the school each week and stayed at the school on work days. In 2005, I became the executive director of the school until I again retired in 2010. I really enjoyed my years at Mohican and watching students learn to live away from their parents and learn about the environment. I am still running a one-week summer boating camp for the school.

Since 2010, I have been doing some volunteer work and enjoying my time away from work. I am president of the North Central Ohio Safe Boating Council and coordinator of a safe boating festival each summer at Pleasant Hill Lake near Mansfield, Ohio. I am president elect of the Westlake Kiwanis Club and will lead the club next year. I volunteer on the Polar Express a program run on the Cuyahoga Valley Scenic Railroad in November and December taking families on a train ride like the movie depicts. I am a volunteer for the ODNR –Division of Watercraft and have helped with classes, worked events and do safety inspections and I am a certified instructor. I also am coordinator of a youth safe boating program using the Spirit of America curriculum. Students take a class I teach to learn safe boating known as the Ohio Boating Education Class and then learn hands-on boating on Lake Erie with paddle craft, power boats, sail boats and personal watercraft. I enjoy boating, golf, college football On the Polar Express games, bike riding and cross county skiing.

My children are all married and have families. Ryan, the oldest, is a Major in the Marine Corps and has served in Iraq, Afghanistan, and is currently on his 6th deployment in Europe. He has a master’s degree in strategic intelligence from the National Intelligence University and spent time in the CIA and State Department. Andrew, the middle child, is a Division I football coach and has coached at University of Pennsylvania, Rochester, Albany and is currently defensive coordinator at Central Connecticut State University. Ellen, our daughter, is a speech pathologist in the North Olmsted Schools.

Welcoming Ryan home from his 3rd deployment

If I have not put you to sleep yet, I do want to thank Coach Bud Yoest ‘53 for seeing some potential in me as a distance runner at Otterbein.

I spent many hours running for Otterbein and always felt I needed to repay the benefits I gained from the sport. I have coached track and cross country for about 10 years, I have been director of the Westlake Relays and worked every meet for 48 years and have been a registered official for 44 years. The last two years I was selected to help as an official at the state cross country meet. I have run a few marathons, a mini ironman, and many local runs over the years.

Memorial for

Gordon Lee Cook 1943-2011

Dear Otterbein Friends in the Class of ’65, Cookie and I shared many wonderful memories of our college days. I met him after convocation, outside Cowan Hall in the fall of ’62. He asked me out, and we had our first date which wasn’t one of our wonderful memories—in fact, all we could remember about the event was that it was after a football game and neither one of us wanted a second date! One year later, we were cast opposite each other in Gigi, and the onstage chemistry did not transfer to real life at all. Then came the USO Tour of The Boyfriend. Cookie and I were both in the show, and after watching a rehearsal, my Mother thought I should date that tall blond-haired boy. Who knew, Mother really does know best!

In addition to Otterbein Theater: Pi Kappa Phi Fraternity, Men’s Glee Club, and AFROTC brought many memorable times with unforgettable friends and professors. (Gus Shackson, you probably know much more about these memorable experiences than I do!)

After graduating from Otterbein, Cookie was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant and went on to have a very fulfilling career in the United States Air Force. His 26 years as an Air Force pilot began in 1966 when he went to Undergraduate Pilot Training at Laughlin AFB in Del Rio, Texas. Gordon and I were married over Labor Day weekend in 1966, and the years truly began to fly by.

After pilot training, Cookie was off to Vietnam in March of 1967. During his year in Vietnam, he flew over 1,000 sorties in the C-123 Provider delivering supplies to the Marines at Khe Sanh and to soldiers at numerous locations throughout the country. When he returned from Vietnam, he was assigned to Norton AFB in San Bernadino, CA, where he flew the C-141 Starlifter.

One of Cookie’s most memorable missions in the C-141 was flying the final leg home to the U.S. for the Apollo astronauts after their return from space. It was also during this assignment that our beautiful daughters, Kristin and Laura, were born. (And at some point during this assignment, “Cookie” became “Gordy”.) Also, our Disney adventures began. Gordy loved taking us to Disneyland, and later, Disney World. This grew into a family vacation ritual that was shared throughout our kids’ adulthood. (Our daughter, Laura was even married in Disney World.) And when the grandchildren came, this joyful tradition continued.

During our time in California, Gordy was selected to attend Squadron Officer School (SOS) at Maxwell AFB, Alabama, where he was recognized as a Distinguished Graduate. Following SOS, we moved to Minot, North Dakota, where Gordon worked in missiles with the Strategic Air Command. He returned to flying in a “big way” as a C-5 Galaxy pilot at Dover AFB, DE. During this assignment, Gordy flew extensive missions all over the world.

Gordy’s worldwide aviation experience served him well during his next assignment at Headquarters Military Airlift Command at Scott AFB, IL, where he served as the Chief Pilot of Standardization and Evaluation for the command. While at Scott AFB, Gordy was also selected as the Executive Officer to the Vice Commander of Military Airlift Command. During this time, Gordy and I were very active members of the base community and spent countless hours entertaining, playing many rounds of golf, supporting our local musical theater, and cheering on Kristin and Laura’s softball, volleyball, basketball, and swim teams.

After four years at Scott AFB, Gordy was assigned to the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., where he served on the Headquarters Air Force Staff and attended the National War College. Gordy gained a world-class education at National War College and was also promoted to Colonel.

Following his year at school, Gordy returned to the Pentagon and served in various staff positions within the Office of the Secretary of Defense where among other responsibilities, he was in charge of overseeing and safeguarding technology transfer between the Department of Defense and the Chinese telecommunications satellite program. During one of his trips to China, he was a first-hand witness of the first student uprising on Tiananmen Square.

After 26 years in the Air Force, Gordy retired in 1991 and embarked on a new career working for a small company in northern Virginia which established cellular phone systems throughout Africa. One of the true highlights of Gordy’s second career was that it provided him the chance to work side-by-side with his daughter Kristin, while his younger daughter Laura (now also an Air Force Colonel) followed his example and joined the Air Force as an air mobility pilot. Sharing these career experiences with his two adult daughters was indeed a special and unique opportunity.

After working in telecommunications for 10 years, Gordy and I were able to retire to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, in 2002. Retiring in the south was one of our best decisions and enabled us to enjoy golfing, traveling, and spending time with our family. During this time of our lives, Gordy and I were also blessed with three beautiful, talented, amazing grandchildren— Alyssa, Andrew, and Matthew. Gordy absolutely adored being a Grandpa and cherished his time with them. He truly was a wonderful Grandpa. Gordy encouraged and attended all of Alyssa’s performances - onstage and in our living room. He helped design and build Andrew’s Lego creations, and much to my surprise a treehouse in our front yard. Little Matthew and Grandpa had such special times together too - including Matt’s first movie at a theater!

Gordy and I enjoyed a wonderful life together—filled with a lot of laughter! He was a most loving husband, father, grandfather, and friend. I am grateful to have known and loved such an honorable man.

Sincerely, Marilou Holford Cook 8250 Forest Lake Dr. Conway, SC 29526 (843) 421- 9751 grannylulu@sc.rr.com

Mary Ann Crawford Cobb 4323 Waynesboro Drive Houston, TX 77035-3639 713-729-6697/713-703-7750 (cell) macobb@hotmail.com

Spouse:

Thomas E. Cobb (deceased 2012)

Children:

Jennifer Elizabeth Cobb (1977), David Stuart Cobb (1981) married to Lauren Elizabeth Patterson in 2011, Andrew Lloyd Cobb (1985)

Grandchildren:

Avery Elizabeth Cobb born April 13, 2013

My early school years were in Connecticut, so moving to the Midwest to attend Otterbein was a big change for me. After graduating from Otterbein in June of 1965 I joined the Peace Corps heading off to the Philippines. Our training was held in San Jose, California, that summer and we headed to the Philippines in September 1965. I taught school in the small town of Damulaan Albuera on the island of Leyte. The warm Philippine climate prepared me for my return to the states to my parents’ new home in Houston, Texas. I began my teaching career in Houston at Marshall Junior High moving on to Hartman Junior High and then to Pershing Middle School. Over the next 42 years, I taught English, Texas History (my first year teaching in Texas) and then taught an introductory computer class when computers were first introduced in the public schools. Those first years we had to program the computers (our first ones were the Franklin computers) and when I retired in 2008 we were using HP computers. I recall having students draw on graph paper and then writing the program to put a simple drawing on the computer.

Tom Cobb and I married on July 29, 1972, and had 40 years together before cancer took his life in October 2012. He was gone within six months of his diagnosis, while I am fortunate to be a 26 year stage four breast cancer survivor. We have three wonderful children and a granddaughter who arrived six months after Tom passed away.

Tom was a middle school librarian for 35 years and then retired to work in a train hobby shop. He had loved trains from the time he was a small child, which inspired him to build prototype model trains. We have a train building in our backyard where he could run his models and our son David painted the background scenery for his layout. When our children were young we would travel by train to Cape Cod to visit my parents who had retired there.

Our daughter Jennifer, a graduate of The University of Texas, is now living in Concord, North Carolina, where she works in the hospital as an Integrative Chaplain doing massage therapy, healing touch and aromatherapy. She is also attending Hood Theological Seminary pursuing board certification as a chaplain.

Son, David, a graduate of The University of Houston, is an artist creating murals for The Goddard Schools in Texas, Maryland and hopefully in North Carolina this year. He now resides in Durham, North Carolina, with his wife Lauren, who is doing a gynecologic oncology fellowship at Duke University, and their daughter Avery. He also paints pet portraits and has been doing some woodworking. He is looking forward to running in the Boston Marathon this April.

Son, Andrew, also a graduate of The University of Texas, creates websites with his company, HioWeb. He is a bike rider and has ridden the California coast. This past summer, he rode from Baltimore to Vermont. He has taken a great interest in permaculture farming and took a two-week course in Missouri last fall to become a certified permaculture designer. Currently, growing food and living small are feeding his passion here in Houston, but he has been invited to return to Missouri this spring to live and work on the farm for three months.

Since my retirement, I have enjoyed volunteering at my Episcopal church helping with Altar Guild duties, weddings, funerals and Evensong receptions. I enjoy knitting prayer shawls and scarves for my church’s Prayer Shawl Ministry, sewing, working in my garden, spending time with friends, attending Delta Kappa Gamma and Houston Association of Retired Teachers meetings, reading, baking goodies for meetings and church receptions and traveling. During the summer my family enjoys spending a week at Chautauqua Park in Boulder, Colorado, and I also try to make a trip to Cape Cod to visit my brother and to Maine to visit my sister. One of my most memorable vacations was spending three weeks traveling around beautiful scenic New Zealand with my youngest son, Andrew, in 2011. Another wonderful trip, back in 1990, was with my daughter when we went to Paris for a week to visit my brother and his wife and to celebrate finishing my ten months of chemo and radiation treatments for my breast cancer.

After that trip the travel bug caught my daughter who has traveled extensively over the years from Costa Rica to New Zealand, even spending her junior year in high school is Sweden.

One class at Otterbein I particularly remember was Humanities taught by Mrs. Frank. I was really impressed with the photos of Fallingwater designed by the architect Frank Lloyd Wright that she showed in class during one lecture. When I married Tom, I began to learn a lot more about The Mr. Wright.

On my husband’s bucket list was the dream of living in a Frank Lloyd Wright designed home, and so two months before Tom died we went to Two Rivers, Wisconsin, where we stayed in the Bernard Schwartz home, (it’s now available for rental) “Still Bend,” for four days before boarding the train to Boston to attend my niece’s wedding.

A very memorable trip for my family where Tom thoroughly enjoyed every minute at “Still Bend” reading more books and watching videos about Frank Lloyd Wright, followed by the train ride to Boston and even a beautiful day in Chicago enjoying the many sights there.

How quickly these last 50 years have flown by since I graduated from the “quiet peaceful village” in 1965

Joaline Crow Mathias 4575 Teton Court Columbus, OH 43230 614-476-3547 Joaline@att.net

Children:

Lana, and husband, Scott Patterson

Grandchildren:

Brady Patterson (13)

As with so many of us, June 1965 marked the beginning of many firsts! Just a few days after graduation, I was married. I had already been hired as a fourth grade teacher in the Brecksville/ Broadview Heights School System south of Cleveland. And, of course, we moved immediately to that area. Unlike the young women of today, after seven years of teaching, I actually quit my job to raise my daughter!

After many years of volunteer work while “staying home,” I found the challenge of reentering the teaching job market quite different from 1965. Because there were no teaching positions for those of us with experience and numerous college credits, I then moved to Westerville to obtain my master’s in social work at The Ohio State University. I was hired right out of graduate school to work at The Ohio State University Medical Center with their neurosurgical physicians and patients. What an amazing learning environment! I worked with patients who had experienced head trauma, brain tumors, aneurysms and spinal cord injuries. I also covered the Burn Unit for a period of time.

Never in a million years did I believe that in my lifetime I would have had three careers. After leaving the medical field, I worked in marketing at a Columbus Continuing Care Retirement Community until my retirement in 2008. I reflect on how one career built upon the previous one, and how all three were built upon the strong liberal arts base of Otterbein’s education and experiences.

I’m very much enjoying retirement which has afforded me time to travel, enjoy hobbies and time with family who also live in Westerville. This past year alone I have traveled to Germany with church members, to Florida with my longtime Otterbein friend Jane Schoepke Stolzenburg ’65, to Alaska and the Yukon with my family and to Ireland with the Otterbein Concert Choir!

Managing a home provides time for my love of gardening and exercise in the maintenance of the lawn and landscape areas! I have lived in three homes in Ohio. It has been interesting to note how this one state can have such different climates and growing conditions.

My love for music began in high school, continued at Otterbein as a member of the Women’s Glee Club and today with our church choir. The Westerville Community United Church of Christ is proud to have as our director a former member of Otterbein’s A Capella Choir (now known as the Otterbein Concert Choir). The current director of this group is also a member of our church choir. It’s great to live in the community with such strong ties to Otterbein!

At Denali National Park

Rebecca Daily Viers 335 Katydid Street Sumter, SC 29154 803-469-8380/803-236-6582 (cell) beckyv@ftc-l.net

Spouse:

Allen Viers

Children:

Cindy and Jason

Grandchildren:

Zachary and Joshua

After graduating from Otterbein I married Allan Viers, high school sweetheart and fellow Otterbein student from ’61-’62. I taught school in Delaware County while he finished his education at OSU. Upon his graduation, he was commissioned into the United States Air Force and we spent the next 21 years moving from one adventure to the next. First to Texas, and on to Arizona, and then to California in 1969 where our first child, a daughter, Cindy was born. Cindy and I soon went back to Ohio to spend time with family while Allan spent the next year in Vietnam. After Allan’s return, we were headed west once again landing in Texas, where our second child, Jason was born in 1972. We went back to California and then on to Kansas where we spent the next three years. In 1979, we packed up stateside and headed on to our next assignment, Madrid, Spain. We took advantage of our new location and traveled (and shopped) extensively. We took in the bustling sights of Portugal, the breath taking countryside of France and ate our way through Italy. We left with a deep appreciation for other cultures but an even deeper appreciation for home.

Our next address and last tour was in Miami, Florida. With Cindy in high school, and Jason in junior high I turned my love of reading into a full-time job and worked at B. Dalton Books for the next 10 years. Allan retired from the Air Force and Cindy went off to explore college life as an Ohio State Buckeye. Jason stayed a little closer to home and enjoyed college life as a University of Florida Gator. As fate would have it, our home in Miami suffered an almost direct hit from Hurricane Andrew. After evacuating for three days we returned to find a skeleton of a house and not much else. Allan’s job relocated him to South Carolina where I have lived for the past 22 years.

The first 11 years I spent my days as a substitute teacher before I moved on to the next phase of my life. In 1997, Allan and I separated and officially divorced in 2007. I now spend my free time playing bridge and traveling to Florida where my daughter and two grandsons (Zachary and Joshua) live, and to New York City where my son lives. I still consider Ohio my home and spend as much time as possible visiting my sister, Diane Daily Cox ’59 (fellow Otterbein grad) and the many remaining friends that I have there.

Carol Darling Carter 85 S. West Street Waynesburg, PA 15370 724-627-4627 cartercandg@windstream.net

Spouse:

George R. Carter, Jr.

Children:

Wesley Michael Carter and Cheryl D. C. Kern

Grandchildren:

Nathaniel Wesley and Samantha Elizabeth Carter

I spent my early childhood (grades K through 7) in Wickliff, Ohio, moving to Kirtland, Ohio, as I was entering eighth grade, graduating from Kirtland High School. I next attended Otterbein, which was a wonderful four years. After graduation, I attended Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI (in the Upper Peninsula). There I met and married my husband and our son was born. I graduated in 1969 with a master’s of science degree in mathematical analysis.

We moved to Uniontown, Pennsylvnia, where my husband worked for U.S. Steel Mining Co., as a mining engineer. I taught math for Pennsylvania State University, Fayette Campus, for a total of three years—taking several off for the birth of our daughter. In 1980, we moved to Jefferson, Pennsylvania, into a 200+ year-old log home—three stories—in the center of 28 acres.

While there, we raised beef and I taught part time at Waynesburg College, a Presbyterian college—now University—that reminds me a lot of Otterbein.

After leaving the College, I programmed computers for U.S. Steel Mining in Fortran IV for three years. When the district I was working for was combined with an adjacent one, I started substitute teaching in Greene County schools in whatever field they called me for. I mostly worked at Central Greene (Waynesburg), Carmichaels and the local Vo Tech.

In 1989, George and I started our own mining and environmental engineering consulting business, MineVironment, Inc. George does the engineering and I do the accounting and taxes. He has tried to retire several times, but has clients that won’t go away, so we’re still working. In 1998, I quit subbing due to health reasons.

In September 2014, we moved into a one-story house in Waynesburg, Pennsylvania. Downsizing has been trying at times, but we are getting used to living on .14 acres and hearing the mine fan (down the hill from our “backyard”) and the trains that go by almost constantly. There is a freight station about three blocks down the hill in another direction.

Having had two knee replacements and back surgery since January 2008 has slowed me down, but I keep busy with my church’s women’s group and the bell choir. We are both involved with doing some ‘fixing up” of the house—installing a fireproof wall in the basement to divide the garage from the rest of the basement—replacing the toilets and fixing a leak in the roof, just for starters! Our son has been over several times to help out with some of the construction projects.

Life is good.

Marge Drew Rhoades 67 Woodlake Trail Mount Vernon, OH 43050 740-397-3673 lrhoade@columbus.rr.com

Spouse:

Lee Rhoades ‘63

Children:

Stephen, Christy and Andy

Grandchildren:

Levi, Carson, Wyatt, Jonah, Ava, Daniel and Lydia

After graduating with a B.S. in Education, and a home economics major, I discovered a wide open job market for young teachers. Fellow grad Margaret Lloyd Trent ‘65 and I headed to Euclid, Ohio, to share an apartment and first year teaching experiences. After having a wonderful experience teaching Foods to seventh graders, I discovered that the best was yet to come when I married Lee Rhoades, and took a position in Lapeer, Michigan. I found myself teaching juniors and seniors in high school semester-long courses in family living and sociology. There was no curriculum available, but thanks to a generous budget, we were afforded the opportunity to enjoy marvelous guest speakers and field trips.

After four years of teaching, Lee and I were ready to start our own family, and headed back to settle in our hometown of Mount Vernon, Ohio. While Lee spent a year teaching, and then took a position as an elementary principal, I had the luxury and privilege of staying home with our children for nearly 20 years.

Interspersed in those years at home, I had the opportunity to teach Infant Stimulation classes in the community. My child development classes at Otterbein were a huge asset!

As the demand for home economics teachers decreased, I turned my attention to special education. After some time as a one-on-one tutor with middle school and elementary students, an opportunity arose for me to work with preschool children with special needs. The state was now requiring that all children identified with special needs must be served by a licensed teacher, starting at age three. As the program was in its infancy, so to speak, I had the opportunity to be hired as the first itinerant special needs preschool teacher in Knox County. I traveled to children’s homes, daycare centers, babysitters, and classrooms to provide one-on-one instruction. It was often a challenge, but was ultimately the perfect fit for me.

Now that Lee and I are both retired, we have enjoyed spending time with our grandchildren, volunteering, and traveling.

Our son, Stephen, lives in Mount Vernon with his wife, Amy, and three boys. They met at the University of Dayton, where he majored in business and had an ROTC scholarship. After several years of active duty in the Army, he returned to his hometown as well. He is employed by Siemens and continues his military service as a colonel in the Ohio National Guard.

Our daughter, Christy, also lives in Mount Vernon with her husband, Todd, and three children.

They met at Ohio Wesleyan University, and Todd is employed by Kenyon College. After teaching for six years, Christy has been home with their children.

Son, Andy, and his wife, Tina, live in Okinawa with their daughter. After meeting at Miami University, their journey around the world began. They have lived in England, Texas, Florida, and now Japan. Andy is a major in the Air Force, currently serving as a navigator.

All of our children were married in our home church, Gay Street United Methodist, and six of our seven grandchildren were baptized there and are active in the life of the church.

I appreciate my time at Otterbein. A liberal arts education provides such a variety of experiences, one can not help but become a lifelong learner.

Nancy Ertel Sween 11307 W. 65th Street #101 Shawnee, KS 66203 913-904-4690 sftrail@aol.com

No one had heard of the Internet yet in Dayton, Ohio, when I was born, or near West Carrollton, Ohio, where I grew up and graduated. I'm not sure we even HAD computers at Otterbein College in Westerville, Ohio, in the early '60s when I was there, learning my way to a B.A. degree in order to teach.

There were no Macs or PCs in the junior high schools where I taught, or in the Black Hills and Pine Ridge area of South Dakota while I was a case worker for Child Welfare in Rapid City.

When I married, we raised our daughter with postal, not e-mail.

Moving to Kansas in the early '70s opened new horizons for me. Not only was our daughter born, but my husband, Don, and I discovered some Kansas history for ourselves on the nearby remnants of the Santa Fe Trail. We got our first PC partially so I could record and reorganize family history information after re-discovering some long "lost" relatives in Missouri and Kansas, then finding the grave of a 37 year-old distant cousin buried in 1867 with her last baby, near the Trail. In 1976, our daughter started school and I started working at the University of Kansas School of Medicine registrar's office.

In 1989, our daughter married, our first grandson was born, and Tim Berners-Lee conceived the World Wide Web. By the time our grandson was 5, he had exchanged some letters (like "zxcv") with someone in Croatia via on-line chat. By then (1994), WWW pioneer Lynn Nelson had already set up the first history site on the WWW from the University of Kansas. Dr. Nelson's "Kansas Heritage" site on Kansas history and genealogy had gathered volunteers and attracted readers. I joined in, learning how to set up those early HTML web sites. On December 12, 1994, I created the "Interactive Medical Student Lounge" which grew in content and readership until 1999, when it merged to become a charter member of the Student Doctor Network (SDN).

Among many other web sites (Christianity, Bible reading, family history, travel photos, local tourism, book stores, etc.), I also created perhaps the first Otterbein website, now called "(Historic) Otterbein On-Line" at http:// freepages.history.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ ~vlwest/otterbein2/index.html.

By the time I retired from the registrar's office in 1997, Don and I had explored Kansas, the Black Hills of South Dakota, Civil War sites around Kansas, Missouri, and Arkansas, the Santa Fe Trail from New Franklin, Missouri to Santa Fe, New Mexico, and beyond.

In 2005, with both of us retired, Don and I downsized, moved to Shawnee, Kansas, and kept returning to favorite travel spots. We gained a granddaughter in 2008 by marriage, and the family joined Facebook, where I rediscovered a few Otterbein classmates. In 2013, we were blessed with our first GREAT-grandson. We thank the Lord for this continuing journey.

Vera Garrabrant Hall 823 108th Ave. N. Naples, FL 34108

Spouse:

Phillip Hall

Children:

Jim, Brent and Karen (deceased)

Grandchildren:

Jake, Brendan and Connor

After graduation, I married a Westerville native, Phillip Hall. He had just completed his service in the Air Force. We honeymooned at the World's Fair in New York City.

The first two years of marriage, we lived in Gahanna, Ohio. I taught second grade at Lincoln Elementary.

We bought our first home in rural Pataskala, near Summit Station, Ohio. We raised our family and lived in that home for 35 years. We were involved in various church and community activities. I was a substitute teacher for many of those years. We had a pop-up camper and enjoyed camping at a great many of the Ohio State Parks. We also vacationed in several different states. We found camping to be a wonderful way for our family to experience the USA. In 1978, our daughter was born with a rare muscle disease. Karen lived almost 2 1/2 years.

She was in Children's Hospital in Columbus most of that time. During Karen's life, God taught me many things. Our boys were 8 and 10 years old. Friends and neighbors helped by taking the boys to scouts, ball practice, caring for them after school, if I stayed at the hospital, or whatever was needed. There was no way to "pay them back". I learned to allow others to serve the Lord by serving my family. It was a difficult season but I grew in my faith and know God can carry us through whatever challenges He allows in our lives.

Our son Jim, and his family live in Gahanna. He graduated from Findlay College and has recently started seminary courses at Ashland. Some day he would like to work in a church as a small group minister. His wife, Amy, is a CPA and works for the State of Ohio. Their son, Jake, is a junior at Gahanna Lincoln. Our son Brent, and his family live in Clearwater, Florida. He graduated from the University of Tampa and works for Pinellas County. His wife, Danielle, is now back in school working on a biology degree. They have two sons, Brendan is 11 and Connor is 9.

Phil retired from Lucent Technology in 2000. We moved to Naples in 2003. We enjoy hiking, bike riding, kayaking, and walking on the beach, I never tire of watching the pelicans dive for fish and consider it a special treat when we see the dolphins.

I tutor one afternoon a week at Kid's Club. This is a program for at-risk children whose families do not speak English and therefore are not able to help them with their homework. When homework is finished, they have available a computer lab and a Christian lesson is given each day. The children do appreciate the help, so it is very rewarding. I also volunteer my time to facilitate a women's Bible study, a prayer ministry, and other little jobs that need done around the church.

Phil and I no longer have a camper, but we do enjoy traveling. We have taken a couple of Caribbean cruises and have traveled to Nova Scotia, Alaska, Australia, New Zealand, Hawaii, and last year took some spectacular hikes in the Banff area of the Canadian Rockies.

I have enjoyed many visits with friends and classmates at Otterbein and look forward to seeing many of you during our 50th.

Blanche Geho Conarroe 214 Fairgrounds St. Pataskala, OH 43062

Spouse:

John Conarroe (deceased)

Children:

Jill Conarroe Kramer ‘93 and Matthew Conarroe

Grandchildren:

Luke, Sydney, and Katie

My journey to Otterbein started after graduating from Watkins Memorial in Pataskala, Ohio, in 1960. I worked a year before enrolling at Otterbein and spent four and one half years in Westerville. I returned in the fall of 1965 to do my student teaching at Westerville Junior and Senior High Schools. I did not receive my degree until January 1966. The alumni office declared that my class would be ‘65.

In February 1966, I was hired to teach vocal music in the Carlisle schools in southwest Ohio. I followed two other Otterbein alumni in that position. I taught there for five years, until babies came along.

That summer of 1966, I traveled with the A Capella Choir on a European concert tour with Prof. Chamberlain. Six countries in 30 days...what an exciting experience!

I continued my teaching and directed church choirs, where I met my future husband. John had been in the Navy and was home to attend Miami University. He was a member of my church choir and sparks flew...and the rest is history. We were married in Middletown, Ohio, in December of 1968 and spent 43 years together.

Daughter, Jill ‘93, and her husband, Chris Kramer ‘94, live in Reynoldsburg, Ohio. Son, Matthew, and his fiancé, Alysia, live in Los Angeles, California. Jill and Chris have given me three delicious grandchildren: Luke (18), Sydney (16) and Katie (12). Hopefully, one of them will choose Otterbein and be the fifth generation of my family to attend.

During the years in Middletown, I taught vocal music in the city schools. For 12 years, I was an instructor in the gifted and talented enrichment program. It was also fun to be the vocal director for several productions for the Lyric Theatre, Summer Youth Theatre and sing in choruses with the Sorg Opera. During this time, I continued to direct hand bells and church choirs.

After retiring, John and I moved to Pataskala, Ohio, to be near Jill’s family and my sisters. We enjoyed many activities in the area and participating in the grandchildren’s lives. Sadly, John passed away in 2009 of Alzheimer’s after a two-year battle with the disease.

One of the many joys through the years has been the “Otterbein Group”. We would get together once or twice a year to camp, travel, vacation and attend weddings and graduations. The group consisted of Carl ‘68 and Judy James Weaver ‘65, Paul and Evonne Potts McFarland ‘65

Hilda McIntyre x67 and Mike Pate x68. What lovely times we had in fellowship and friendship. Our nine children learned the Otterbein serenade and love songs around the campfire.

Reflecting back on 50 years, so many memories come to mind: many hours in dusty, creaky Lambert Hall...Dr. Paul Frank, Prof. Shackson and Prof. Dodrill in Cowan Hall...the concert tours to Florida, New York and Washington...fun in the dorms...basketball games and making lasting friendships. “...our memories ‘round thee linger in a sweet and mystic way...dear Otterbein.”

Sydney, Luke, me and Katie

Linda Gillespie Morris 270 Prospect Street Berea, OH 44017 440-234-0628/440-781-9340 (cell) gammamorris@gmail.com

Spouse:

M. Kenneth Morris

Children:

Charity, Heather, Holly, Hunter

Grandchildren:

William (12), Erika (11) , Hunter (10), Ainsley (9), Hannah (8), Eleanor (8), Holden (6), Harrison (3)

I came to Otterbein from Massillon, Ohio, on the recommendation of my high school speech and debate coach, William Nagel ‘35, an Otterbein graduate. This proved to be one of my best decisions. Otterbein was a perfect fit for me. I grew in ways I could have never believed. The instructors were challenging; the leadership opportunities through Kappa sorority, YWCA, and many others were numerous; the travel and challenges from the debate team under Jim Grissinger were incredible; the friends I made through Kappa Phi Omega sorority and dorm life were priceless; the campus life was nurturing. What a way to launch into adulthood!

With my B.S.Ed. in hand, I accepted my first teaching job at Ontario Local Schools. My high school sweetheart had started to gain my attention my senior year at Otterbein, while he was a student at Methodist Theological School in Delaware. It worked. We were married in June 1966. His work in the ministry took us to many places and numerous moves over the years.

Our first daughter was born in Elyria, Ohio. In 1971, we packed up a few belongings and our nine-month old daughter and moved to Montreal, Quebec, for my husband to do graduate work at McGill University. He later accepted a pastoral position in the townships east of Montreal.

We were there for four years and had two more daughters during that time. Feeling the call to return to the States and the beauty of nearby Vermont, Ken accepted a position with the United Church of Christ in Burlington. We lived in Vermont for 16 years. Our son was born there.

We raised our family in these beautiful surroundings, moved to the countryside for several years, hiked, cross-country skied, raised sheep and traveled with our four children and a tent all over the United States, Canada and Great Britain.

I worked at the University of Vermont in the iometry Department, helping to carry out health-related research, primarily related to breast cancer and to smoking cessation in Montana, Florida, New York and Vermont.

We eventually returned to the Youngstown area of Ohio where my husband served a United Church of Christ congregation. I worked with foreign exchange students, did research interviewing for a research project on Alzheimer’s patients for Kent State University and did work placement in the community for persons with mental illness. During this time, I obtained my master’s degree in community counseling and then, licensure as a professional clinical counselor. I worked

for 19 years with a community mental health agency serving Mahoning and Trumbull counties, commuting for 13 of those years from Berea, Ohio, via the Turnpike. I retired in 2011 after working first as a clinical counselor, and then as program director, managing a twelve-bed in-patient crisis facility serving the chronically mentally ill and persons with addictions. It was challenging, fulfilling, and sometimes, dangerous work.

My husband, while retired from full-time ministry, continues to do interim work, which is meaningful to both of us. Retirement has allowed me time to enjoy hobbies of gardening, reading, genealogy and scrapbooking our heritage and travels.

In addition, we continue to love travel, often still with a tent. We have enjoyed trips to the Greek Isles, the great rivers of Europe and Hawaii. We walked a marathon in Anchorage, Alaska. This past fall, we went on a three-week “jaunt” around Ireland and Northern Ireland, staying in B & Bs, exploring the nooks and crannies of small towns, and yes, driving on the left side of the road.

We travel to see our daughters and families who live in Burlington, Vermont; Albany, New York; and Reston, Virginia; and our son and family in Kent, Ohio. Our daughter, Heather, in Burlington, is executive director of Green Mountain Performing Arts Council. Daughter, Charity, is an exercise physiologist working with cardiac patients following surgery in Albany. Holly, who lives in Reston, has a master’s degree in social work, but currently has a photography business. Our son, Hunter, who lives in Kent, Ohio, is product design manager at Kent Displays which produces the “Boogie Board,” a paperless writing system using liquid crystals.

Our eight grandchildren are a joy!

We are blessed.

Jerry L. Gray 5420 Hillwood Drive Erie, PA 16509

Spouse:

Cheryl

Children:

Steven ‘94 married to Lori Southward Gray ‘94, Jennifer ‘97 married to Ben Douce ‘98

Grandchildren:

Darrick and Hayden Gray, Wyatt and Charlie Gray-Douce

I came to Otterbein in 1961 fresh from rural Pennsylvania. My first roommate left for Thanksgiving break and never came back; had I thought it an option, I might not have returned myself. I was pretty ill - prepared academically (and probably socially) for college life. Finally, however, I began to ease into the campus—joining Kings fraternity, the Chancel Drama Troup (under Fred Thayer), the Men’s Glee Club and serving as a resident advisor. Otterbein was good for me; it gave me some experience, some self-confidence and some knowledge to take with me into my future and the world.

The year after graduation, I became an ambassador for the EUB church-at-large (Dayton, Ohio), traveling by train all over the country holding youth rallies and services. I went through Chicago numerous times and chose Evangelical Theological Seminary (now ETS/Garrett) to attend. There, on a shared campus with North Central College, I met and married Cheryl, who was a student and also the campus nurse. This was one of my better moves!

In the successive forty years, I served as pastor to United Methodist Churches in western Pennsylvania: Riverview/Beaver Falls, Trinity/DuBois and Penfield, Bethany/Johnstown (where we all survived the ’77 flood), and Glenwood/Erie. Over the years, I have had many great experiences on mission work trips following natural disasters to such places as: Haiti, Dominican Republic, St. Croix, Louisiana (Katrina), Puerto Rico, South Carolina and Mississippi. I retired in 2004 after being privileged to spend the last eight years serving the 94 churches and 68 pastors of the Erie/Meadville District as their District Superintendent and guiding the Erie United Methodist Alliance (outreach ministries to the poor, the homeless, and disenfranchised veterans). In my retirement I serve two little country churches, Bethel and White Oak/Titusville; enjoy fly fishing with my family and friends in Wyoming, Montana and Pennsylvania; play basketball and occasionally try my hand at sketching and painting. Through Otterbein connections (both during my time on campus and throughout the years) I met Chuck ’65 and Marge Lengel Olson ‘65, Bernie ‘65 and Carol Hoffman Shuey ‘66, Dick ‘67 and Virginia Markle, Ralph Ciampa ’63, Frank Ciampa ’59, John ’70 and Patsy Schar Ciampa ’69, Alan ‘69 and Julie Gauch Harris ‘69, Howard ‘65 and Kathy Stanley Russell ’65—all who became life-long friends and/or associates in ministry.

Along the way, Cheryl and I became the proud parents of Steven ’94 (Lora Southward ’94) and Jennifer ’97 (Ben Douce ’98). Most importantly, we are the grandparents of Darrick Gray, Hayden Gray, Wyatt Gray-Douce, and Charlie Gray-Douce.

God is Good!

Heidi Haberman Marks Cross 208 Nicolet Court Little River, SC 29566 843-399-1771/910-690-6412 (cell) hcross1944@gmail.com

Spouse:

Ronald H. Marks ‘65 (divorced), James E. Cross (deceased)

Children:

Jeffrey L. Marks (1965) and Ryan C. Marks (1978)

Grandchildren:

Emily Marks (13) and Lauren Marks (9)

Otterbein was the perfect place for me to earn my college diploma. Coming from a small town in northern New Jersey, where everyone was friends, to a college campus that was inviting and encouraging was just perfect. Upon reflection, I have discovered that life is many presents and unwrapping them provides one meaningful adventure after another.

Getting married senior year, graduating and then moving to Lexington, Virginia (another small town), and having an infant were huge events, but the adjustment was made. The three years spent there as a law wife (Ron was enrolled at Washington and Lee Law School), raising a toddler and working at Effinger Elementary School with other law wives was a challenge, but one that I enjoyed and accepted. There was little money, but the housing was cheap…$38/month in student housing…basically living in a Quonset hut!

The next move in 1968 to Virginia Beach, Virginia, lasted longer…thirty-one years. This was the third move in my life where I did not know anyone and another new beginning was dawning. I was fortunate enough to gain a position in an elementary school in Virginia Beach and thus began my 28 years of employment with the school system, initially as an elementary school teacher and one year as a seventh grade teacher. Since I had envisioned being a guidance counselor, I enrolled at Old Dominion University for two years, taking courses at night and during the summer while still working full time. After earning a master’s degree in 1972, I finally landed a position in guidance in 1974, entering the world of secondary education. During my tenure, I worked at a number of middle and high schools, and then in 1989, just when I needed the boost the most, I was asked to be a director of guidance at Cox High School in Virginia Beach. Professionally, I was involved in the PTA, Virginia Guidance Association, Hampton Roads Guidance Association, Virginia Education Association and Virginia Beach Education Association and served a variety of offices in a number of these organizations.

I have been blessed with two great sons. My oldest son, Jeffrey, graduated from Washington and Lee University (1987) and William and Mary Law School (1996). He is currently a partner with Kaufman and Canoles Law Firm in Virginia Beach, practicing law. Ryan graduated from College of Charleston in 2001 and is currently working for Florida DOT in DeLand, Florida.

Being a single mom from 1987-1998, was a challenge especially trying to integrate work, raising and keeping tabs on a preteen who grew into a teen, involvement in professional organizations and attempts at having a social life, but one I would not have given up. It was the best of times, and once in a while, the worst! I remarried in 1998. Upon retiring in 1999, my husband and I moved to Pinehurst, North Carolina, leaving behind all the friends we had in Virginia Beach. One of the things we enjoyed doing was dancing. Jim was from the South originally and had grown up going to Myrtle Beach as a teen, shag dancing at the Pavilion. We introduced members of the newcomers to the dance and some have continued dancing to this day.

I decided to expand my horizons and became involved in many activities in Pinehurst including the Pinehurst Garden Club, serving as secretary and president; the Pinehurst Civic Group, serving as secretary for six years; Village of Pinehurst Community Appearance Commission for six years and other committees, boards and commissions serving at the discretion of the mayor or city manager of Pinehurst.

I currently reside in Little River, South Carolina, which is north of North Myrtle Beach, once again I moved to a location which was new to me and the only connection to it was shag dancing, SOS parties, and a number of friends from Pinehurst who had second homes in the area. I love the South and seem to be moving further into it! And to think I am a “damn Yankee�!

One of my passions is traveling and I have been fortunate enough to have had the opportunity to travel to Europe a number of times; South America with my mother for six weeks in 2003; Lucca, Italy (part of Tuscany) for two weeks with my brother and his family; cruising in the Caribbean and the Eastern Mediterranean which included Turkey, Greece and Italy, and visits to Mexico. My parents moved to Aspen, Colorado, in 1970, so while my boys were growing up, there were many treks west.

My other interests include cooking, entertaining, dancing, gardening (but now on a small scale), reading, movies, and lifetime learning. I have just begun to work on my genealogy and I shall see where that takes me, especially since my parents are from Germany. I must say that at this stage of my life I am still trying to determine what and where I want to be when I grow up with so little time left!

Sylvia K. Hodgson Peters 1024 Keystone Lane Clemson, SC 29631 864-654-0180/864-885-2115 (cell) jspeters1@bellsouth.net

Spouse:

John Corwin Peters ‘64

Children:

Jim and Kevin

Grandchildren:

Jacob, Ross, Victoria, Maria, Angelina, William, Seth, Lydia

After graduation from Centerville High School, I had big plans to go to the Ohio State School of Nursing, but at the last minute I decided I wanted to go to a small college. The plan changed to, "I'll go to Otterbein for two years, then transfer to OSU." Well, plans changed again when I met a fellow from Michigan who convinced me to get a degree from Otterbein as an elementary education major. Teaching school and being married to an Air Force officer was a perfect fit!

So, I did just that....finished student teaching in December 1964, got married a week later and began my first career as a 2nd grade teacher the following week! John had taken an educational delay from the Air Force to get his M.B.A. from the University of Michigan. From there we entered active duty and for 25 years we lived around the world. I taught for four years until I decided to stay home and raise our two sons, Jim and Kevin.

I often volunteered at the base hospitals and I never quite gave up my desire to someday work in the medical field. So, at age 43, while living in Virginia, I went back to school to become a physical therapist assistant (PTA). This career filled that desire in my soul to work with folks who needed advice, counseling, empathy and support.

I retired from full-time work as a clinician in 2005, then worked as a substitute PTA until 2013. Since then I find volunteering as a Hospice respite caregiver to be equally as rewarding. I also volunteer in our retirement community as the "Welcome Lady", and am very involved in our church.

My interests seem to center around cooking, entertaining, playing MahJongg, and traveling. John and I just celebrated our 50th wedding anniversary. We celebrated last August in Ireland with Otterbein friends, Dave ’63 & Carol Schweitzer Cheek ‘64.

We have lived in Clemson, South Carolina for 24 years, where John still works part time at Clemson University. We love this little college town nestled in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Being with college students make for a full, vibrant

lifestyle. We attend most sporting and cultural events and we are very active with the Adult Chapter of FCA (Fellowship of Christian Athletes).

Our oldest son, Jim, is married, and has one son, Jacob. They live in Columbus, Ohio, where Jim works at a physical therapy clinic and is an athletic trainer at a local high school.

Jacob

Kevin is married, and has seven (expecting #8) children, Ross, Victoria, Maria, Angelina, William, Seth and Lydia. They live in Pittsburgh where Kevin is vice president in charge of manufacturing for IDL Worldwide. Watching our grandchildren become productive citizens is our best reward!

When I think back to my days at Otterbein, I have so many memories: The serenades, Mrs. Anthony at King Hall, the panty raids ("unnecessary demonstrations"), Scrap Day, TEM sisterhood, sunbathing on the rooftop of Barlow Hall, maypole dancing, wearing those silly beanies, having a Coke at the old student union building, the Homecoming floats, etc. It all seems a little hoky now but those traditions were the glue that bound us together. It was a wonderfully unique college experience that helped shape my life in so many ways. It's hard to believe that fifty years have passed. The tune of "The Quiet, Peaceful Village" will remain forever in our hearts.

Kevin’s family

Victor “Al ” Hood 4213 Lookout Road Virginia Beach, VA 23455

Spouse:

Patricia Larson Hood

Children:

Lisa (1969) and Michael (1971)

Grandchildren:

Kathleen (16) and Colette (12)

The day after I graduated, I drove straight to Newport, Rhode Island, for training at U.S. Naval Officer Candidate School. After 18 weeks, I was commissioned an Ensign in the U.S. Naval Reserve and assigned to Naval Communications School, also in Newport. After two months there, I was ordered to the ship USS Randolph CVS-15, home ported in Norfolk, Virginia. It was an old World War II Essex class aircraft carrier commissioned, coincidentally, on my actual birthday June 28, 1943.

I served as signals officer and communications/cryptographics officer while we steamed many, many miles around the world. Some of the ports we visited in my two years aboard were: Jamaica; Virgin Islands; Bermuda; Guantanamo, Cuba; Portsmouth, England; Edinburgh, Scotland; Belfast, Northern Ireland; Bergen, Norway; Malmo, Sweden; Copenhagen, Denmark; Barcelona, Spain; Toulon, France; Naples, Italy; Gibraltar and Athens, Greece.

I then spent two years as an instructor in cryptographic systems back at Naval Communications School. In one of my classes was the son of the Chief of Naval Operations. It was a little disconcerting knowing his dad was the highest ranking officer in the Navy, but he turned out to be a fine young officer who was an excellent student. I spent several more years in the Reserves finally mustering out as a Lieutenant Commander.

During this time I met my beautiful wife Patty at an officer’s club dance. We had a whirlwind eight month romance (four months of which I spent at sea in the Mediterranean) and were married on April 7th, 1968. Again, in keeping with my penchant for being overseen by high ranking officers, her father was a Navy Captain. To boot, he was a hero from Pearl Harbor, being one of the few pilots to get his plane airborne that day. But for some reason, he liked me and accepted me into the family.

After the service, I spent 25 years in sales and sales management with a packaging company, originally called Container Corporation of America, though it was bought and sold a couple of times while I was there. After my kids finished college, I decided I wanted to do something completely different. I retired early, and went to the local community

college to become certified as a paralegal. Fifteen years later, I retired (again) from a large law firm in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

Life since then has been wonderful. Patty retired as an elementary school teacher and we moved to Charlottesville, Virginia, to be close to our daughter and granddaughters. After four years of helping cart the girls to and from sports and performances, we decided to really retire.

We moved to Virginia Beach, Virginia, in 2012 and now live in the house Patty’s parents owned for years. We have a fresh water lake adjoining our property in the back and a Chesapeake Bay beach one block over from our front door. Truly the best of both worlds. Needless to say, we don’t have any problem getting the girls to visit.

Our daughter is human resources director and special assistant to the COO of Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. She also has her own human resources consulting business.

Our son was diagnosed with Tourette’s syndrome at age nine and had a difficult childhood as a result. However, he has worked very hard to overcome that affliction and lives in WinstonSalem, North Carolina, doing year-round refereeing of high school and recreational sports teams.

I’ve kept quite busy in retirement with volunteer activities. At one time or another I have worked at Volunteers for Literacy, Computers for Kids, The Veterans Administration Clinic in Charlottesville, the Veterans Administration Hospital in Richmond, VA, and designing and keeping up the website for our church. Currently, here in Virginia Beach, I work in the Adult Education Department of the Norfolk Botanical Garden and as a trail guide for First Landing State Park, where the first settlers landed before going over to Jamestown. I continue to walk daily and play pickleball 3-4 times a week. I also write a blog at thecvillean.wordpress.com.

Fortunately, I didn’t cut any of those English composition classes.

I recall fondly my days at Otterbein and fortunately, through the auspices of Facebook and other social media, I am now able to stay connected with former college friends.

Jeanne Jacobs Fodor 334 Coe Street Tiffin, OH 44883 jeannefodor334@sbcglobal.net

Spouse:

David Fodor ‘64

Children:

Todd and Nicole

Grandchildren:

Lexi, Drew, Owen, Mara and Jacob

Putting 50 years of one’s life on paper is a daunting task. After graduating from Otterbein in 1965, David Fodor and I married a couple of weeks later. He was already teaching in northwest Ohio so that’s where we went “temporarily.” I taught third grade and he taught biology and coached in two of the smallest systems in Ohio. We moved a couple of years later to the Lancaster, Ohio, area where the coaching prospects looked better. We returned to northwest Ohio, Tiffin Public, after two years and have never left.

Our two children, Todd and Nicole, were reared in idyllic Tiffin. Todd graduated from Kent State in architecture. He lives on Catawba with his wife, Danielle, and their three amazing children. Lexi (19) is at Kent, Drew (16) is a junior in high school and Owen is 10. Nicole graduated from The Ohio State University in pharmacy. She works and lives in Dublin with her two precious children, Mara (12) and Jacob (9).

I did graduate work at Bowling Green and Heidelberg, but have not published an inspiring novel or led a great reform. I supposed I have helped our society by guiding young children. I have taught in a nursery school for handicapped children and served on its board. But predominately, I’ve spent over 30 years in first grade in the public schools. I have hugged many little people, wiped away many tears, bandaged hundreds of scraped knees, and have a “hot line” to the tooth fairy. I am spending my retirement returning to our system to evaluate incoming kindergartners and to check reading progress for K, 1, 2, and 3 grades in Tiffin.

One interesting phenomenon linked to being settled in one spot for so long is that as I walk around town and greet a veterinarian, college professor, teachers, librarian, landscaper, insurance agent, funeral director, restaurant owner, doctor or therapist, I am speaking to my former first graders!

Dave and I have had some wonderful get-aways, different cruises, including going through the Panama Canal. We’ve investigated Alaska, visited many of our fantastic national parks, and appreciated the beautiful, varied states in our special country. I love the Northeast—Nantucket, especially Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island. We have a cabin in Ontario on a serene lake which beckons each summer—the lapping

water on the shore and the haunting call of the loon, are embedded in my thoughts. The grandchildren have fond memories and are ready to load kayaks and take off each summer.

Dave and I volunteer at our Ritz Theater and have enjoyed many productions. I still play Mah Jongg—some of my friends and I have been playing together for 40 years. We would never join the Mah Jongg cruises the league has each year, but we have advice for family problems and can help with weddings and parties!

We feel blessed to be involved with our children and grandchildren. We can be found at many of their sporting events or oohing and aahing at their school productions and concerts.

Our children and grandchildren are our treasures.

Judy James Weaver 270 Acton Road Columbus, OH 43214 614-263-4905 cweaver22@columbus.rr.com

Spouse:

Carl Weaver ‘67

Children:

Tiffany (1968) Nathan (1973)

Grandchildren:

Kaitlyn (19), Sarah (16), Madison (11) and Megan (7)

My journey after graduation seems to always involve children. After graduation from Otterbein with a B.A. degree, I was employed by Franklin County Children’s Services as a caseworker. I served under the Protective Services section, where I worked primarily towards keeping the child in their home. At any one time, I was responsible for the welfare of 64 children. I learned very quickly about a whole different world from which I was accustomed. I had a degree and I thought I was going to save the world, but I quickly learned the reality of life.

In June of 1966, I married my best friend, Carl Weaver ‘67. After his graduation, we moved to Athens and Ohio University for Carl to attend graduate school.

In September of 1968, we moved to Columbus and our daughter, Tiffany, was born. I then started an 11 year job as a mom, homemaker, taxi driver and volunteer. In October 1973, our son, Nathan, was born. When Nathan started kindergarten in 1979, I went back to work as a preschool teacher two mornings a week. The following year, I added a three-day class to my schedule. I learned so much about the little ones. After ten years of teaching preschool, I became a director of a child care center. I was very involved in organization to ensure the welfare of young children in Columbus.

In the spring of 2004, I went into early retirement in order to care for my aging parents. The journey of caring for ill parents and saying goodbye was very painful.

The arrival of our grandchildren made life perfect. We have four beautiful granddaughters, Kaitlyn (19 and missing from the photo), Sarah (16), Madison (11) and Megan (7). Our daughter and son and their families live close and we are blessed to be part of their lives. When Sarah was in the first grade, I became part of Worthington’s Grandparent Program. Monthly, I visited her classroom to read stories and visit with the children. I was a

part of this program until Sarah was in the seventh grade. I then continued my “Grandma Weaver” visits to the classes of the younger girls. I am currently still visiting in Megan’s first grade class.

I am also very involved in our church’s drama ministry. We perform skits at church functions as well as visit retirement centers.

My life has been very blessed since my graduation in 1965.

Stephen C. Kennedy Amelia Island, FL 904-206-0311 (cell) steve.kennedy2@att.net

Spouse:

Betsy

Children:

two

Grandchildren:

two

After graduation in 1965, I went to summer camp at Otis Air Force Base, Massachusetts, where I was commissioned as a second lieutenant. I was then assigned to Homestead Air Force Base, Florida, where I served until 1969.

I then attended the University of Maryland under the G.I. Bill and received another degree in business administration. Following graduation, I accepted an appointment to the F.B.I. special agent. I was assigned to Charlotte, Washington Field Office, F.B.I. Headquarters, F.B.I. Inspection Staff and New Haven, CT. I retired from the F.B.I. in 1998 and went to work for 21st Century Communications in Columbus, Ohio. After working for 14 years, the company was sold and I retired again.

I currently spend winters in Florida and summers in Connecticut. I’ve been married to Betsy for 48 years and we have two children and two grandchildren.

Suzan Kaye Lang 1881 Rosina Drive Miamisburg, OH 45342 937-866-1409/419-302-1509 (cell) suzanlang@woh.rr.com

After four happy, safe and secure years at Otterbein, I moved to Alpena, Michigan, to accept a position as an English teacher. That move began a forty-year career in education.

During my years with Alpena Public Schools, I taught briefly at the junior high school, but transferred to the high school when an English position opened. Alpena High School is the only high school in the county-wide district and regularly graduates over 500 students annually.

My teaching responsibilities through the years included advising the student newspaper and yearbook, and until a more qualified teacher was hired, advising the Maqueers Club that performed the student plays and annual musical. My life-long love of horses qualified me to sponsor and coach the Alpena High School equestrian team. The state of Michigan has an interscholastic equestrian competition, divided into districts with a state championship meet at the conclusion of the season. Alpena High won our district championship three consecutive years and became first runner-up in the all-state competition two of those three years. Being named district coach of the year and chosen teacher of the year by the senior class are two honors I cherish. During the last five years at Alpena Public Schools, I served as chairman of the district-wide English department.

After 32 years at Alpena High School and part time at Alpena Community College, I retired.

But not for long! I packed my belongings and left the frozen north to accept a position with the technology management department at the University of Findlay in Ohio. I always described my responsibilities as “the English instructor in the tech management department”. During my five years at UF, I also taught in the English department, the freshman experience program and advised the college student newspaper. I lived in Ada, Ohio, and also taught freshman English at Ohio Northern University. I really enjoyed teaching at the college level and advising college students.

Finally, after another retirement, I moved again, back to my hometown of Miamisburg, Ohio. My life outside of education has been filled with friends, travel, pets and Arabian horses.

Although I no longer compete in the show ring, I still own two Arabian geldings and ride regularly.

Mary Blair ‘65 Fields, my first Otterbein roommate, and I remained close friends and visited often. Mary married Al Fields ‘65, our classmate. Her sister, Janet Blair Roll ‘67, and I traveled to Florence, Italy, to spend time with Al and Mary while she was teaching there.

Other memorable events since graduation from Otterbein include the following: horseback riding in the Canadian Rockies for a week, crewing on a 65foot yacht delivery from Florida through the inland waterways to northern Michigan and completing my master’s degree in secondary school administration from Central Michigan University.

After years of snow and frigid Michigan temperatures and gray, gloomy Ohio winters, I am now an official snowbird and enjoy the warm sunshine at my winter home in Leesburg, Florida.

China Doll SCA won a Top Ten place in Purebred Arabian Open English Pleasure and we were celebrating her win.

Someone once said that life is what happens while we are making other plans. This has certainly been true for me, and for many of us, I suspect. But I’ve had a great 50 years since leaving the QPV and I am looking forward to being back on campus to see many of you.

With Al and Mary Fields

Rose Marie Leibolt Huff 609 Longstreet Summerville, SC 29483 843-873-2870 rosemariehuff@gmail.com

Spouse:

Dan Huff, Airman, Civil Service worker, business owner, 1966-1988 (deceased) Michael Wentzell, Luthier and musician 1990-2012 (deceased)

Children:

Heather (1968-1992 deceased) Chris (1971)

The fall following graduation, I started teaching in Ventura County, California. Living in California was a good experience. I especially enjoyed traveling up the Pacific Coast Highway to Monterey, stopping at Solvang (little Danish replica village), San Simeon (Hearst Castle), and the Seventeen-Mile Drive to Carmel. I always thought that when I was old and rich, Carmel was the ideal place to retire. The old happened, but the rich did not, I remain in South Carolina.

I also taught school in Michigan and South Carolina. It was during this time I started taking undergraduate courses in library science. That background led me to my true career.

In 1974, I accepted a job as a library technical assistant at Trident Technical College in Charleston, South Carolina. A year later, I started a master’s program in librarianship at the University of South Carolina. My degree allowed me to be promoted to technical services librarian. In 2002, I retired after 28 years. In retirement, I volunteer at my neighborhood library branch.

I’ve been lucky enough to tour Europe and cruise around the Hawaiian Islands. Places I never dreamed I would ever be able to visit. I was especially glad to have taken Dr. Frank’s humanities course because in Europe I saw much of the art and architecture that we studied in her class. I also have been to New York several times for the U.S. Open Tennis, all over the U.S. to airshows, and skiing; but mostly following the Grateful Dead, Phish and other jambands. A friend and I have made the required retirement trip out West to visit some of the beautiful national parks.

Judy Leibrook 2258 Los Misioneros Las Cruces, NM 88011 575-644-7843 jileibrook@aol.com

Otterbein truly changed the course of my life. In the fall of 1961, here I was, a sheltered young woman from Cincinnati who was first exposed to liberal arts and the humanities. Our country was in the midst of turbulent times – The Cuban Missile Crisis, Civil Rights, and the assassination of President Kennedy. Through caring staff and professors my values were further developed. I learned to think for myself while being influenced by the best. Had it not been for the widening of my vision at Otterbein, I would probably still be living in Cincinnati and never attempting the many moves I made throughout my career. COURAGE, CHANGE, NEW, and DISCOVERY ar e wor ds that guided me and continue to guide me.

1965-1970 - Teacher Teacher (1st and 2nd grades) Cincinnati, Ohio and Seymour, Indiana 1971-2003 – Girl Scouts of the USA

Local Affiliates in Bloomington, Indiana; the Detroit Area, and Sacramento, California National Field Center in Washington DC and New York City National Headquarters in New York City With the national organization, I served in several capacities – program, membership and management consulting to local affiliates across the country.

During the last 11 years of my career, I was appointed regional director for eight states in the mountains, deserts, cities, towns, and colonias of the southwest and mountain states (LA, OK, TX, NM, AZ, CO, WY, and UT). A Border Initiative was the highlight of this period, further expanding Girl Scouting to girls and women from the Gulf Coast of Texas to Southern California, attracting over 10,000 new girl members along the way).

Awards/Recognition Two that I am most proud of: Leadership Award from Girl Scouts of the USA for contributions toward eliminating institutional racism and developing a pluralistic membership throughout the organization.

(2002) Woman of Distinction – Las Cruces, New, Mexico (2013) by Desert Southwest for development of a variety of programs for girls and young women.

In Retirement (2003-Present) Adoption Counselor at local animal shelter Boards of Directors - Dona Ana County Humane Society; Soroptimist; Girl Scouts of the Desert Southwest; SCORE (Senior Corp of Retired Executives) Chair, Staff/Parish Relations Committee, Morning Star United Methodist Church in Las Cruces Healthy Church Initiative – Morning Star United Methodist Church and also for the New Mexico Conference of the United Methodist Church As a volunteer I provide consulting services such as governance, management, finance, and fund development to non-profit organizations

Marjorie Lengyel Olson 550 W. Garrett Street Somerset, PA 15501 814-445-2698/814-233-0809 (cell) margeolson@verizon.net

Spouse:

Charles Olson ‘65

Children:

Joanne (45), Andrew (43), Stephen (38) and Julie (31)

Grandchildren:

Anna (18), Alexis (17), Jack (14), Cameron (12), Eli (10) Marlee (6), Tabitha (18 months) and Sadie (10 months)

The first time I learned about Otterbein College was in church. Growing up in Akron, Ohio, and Calvary EUB Church, I learned early on that Otterbein would probably be my destination for college. Things were different then. I never visited Otterbein. I saw it for the first time when I arrived on campus, freshman year. I didn’t know anyone who went there and was nervous and excited at the same time. There are so many wonderful things I remember from my four years at Otterbein, but the most precious are the friendships that have lasted over 50 years.

Chuck and I graduated and three weeks later were married on June 26, 1965. We moved to a two-room apartment on the campus of United Seminary. I taught home economics at Vandalia Junior High for the three years we were in Dayton, Ohio.

After Chuck graduated from seminary, he was ordained and appointed to the Laughlintown Charge (three churches) near Ligonier, Pennsylvania. When the EUBs merged with the Methodists, the charge was changed to the Stahlstown Charge. In 1973, we moved to Derry, Pennsylvania serving Derry First United Methodist Church for 12 years and then to Somerset, Pennsylvania, serving Grace United Methodist Church for 20 years.

I was a stay-at-home mom for 17 years. There are 14 years between our oldest and youngest children and I enjoyed helping with all their activities. I was involved in many church programs, choirs, teaching Sunday school, Bible school and helping where needed.

When we moved to Somerset in 1985, there were openings for substitute teachers and I really enjoyed getting back to the classroom. It was good preparation for me, as three years later, I was hired to teach home economics full time in the junior high. We are very thankful that all four of our children graduated from Somerset High School and we didn’t have to uproot them to move to a new appointment. They all graduated from college. Joanne from the University of Pittsburgh, Andy from Waynesburg College, Steve and Julie from Grove City College.

Chuck and I both retired in June 2005. Since three of our children, and all of our grandchildren at that time, lived in Somerset, it was natural that we would want to stay in Somerset. Julie was still in college then, but now she and her family live in Canonsburg, which is near Pittsburgh. Our home is within walking distance of the soccer and

football fields where we spend a lot of time cheering for our grandchildren’s sports teams.

During the winter months, we enjoy going to their ice hockey, basketball and indoor soccer games. During the school year, there are dance and music recitals along with school programs.

Since retiring, we have tried to do more traveling. While the children were growing up, we went camping in our travel trailer. We have many fun memories of going to places that we all enjoyed. After retiring, we purchased a motor home and have spent at least a month in Florida during the winters. We like spending time in Daytona and Bradenton, where we check out spring training and the Pirates. We were able to take all of our children and grandchildren to Disney World. We still take them weekend camping as time permits during the summer.

In 2010, we went to Hawaii and in 2013, we went with our bishop to England on the John Wesley tour. Both trips were wonderful and we were so grateful to share the experiences with new friends.

Chuck and I continue to stay very active as volunteers in church and community functions. We have lived in Somerset for 30 years and it has been a joy to work with friends and neighbors.

Memories are such a blessing as I think back to all that has happened in 50 years, not only in the world in which we live, but in the lives of those we love and cherish. Memories of freshman beanies, choir tours, chapel services, walking to class and everyone saying, “Hi,” dorm curfews and trips to the Dairy Queen, are all part of my Otterbein experience. I am looking forward to spending time in the “quiet, peaceful village” once again.

Margaret “Marge” Lloyd Trent 5301 Hollister Street Columbus, OH 43235 614-442-1782 Margaret-Trent@columbus.rr.com

Spouse:

E. Roger Trent

Children:

Stephanie and Stacy

Grandchildren:

Katie, Christopher, Cameron, Michael, Carson and Corbin

I arrived at Otterbein fr om a small subur ban Pittsbur gh high school. I loved the Otter bein campus and the feel of a small community: the Westerville Community and the Otterbein Community/ Family. I knew that I wanted to teach third grade and Otterbein seemed like the perfect spot for me to study elementary education and also to participate in many, and varied, activities. I especially enjoyed: singing in, and touring with, the A Cappella choir; marching in the band; and belonging to Theta Nu Sorority.

Following graduation in 1965, I taught thir d gr ade for five year s in Euclid, Ohio. Dur ing that time, besides using teaching skills, I used my Otterbein-honed skills to participate in little theatre musical productions, direct the third grade choir (and flute-o-phones – my ears still hurt), and become active in both the Ohio and the Euclid Reading Association. I loved every minute of teaching in Euclid!

In 1970-71 I was a graduate assistant in the Reading Center at Bowling Green State University. What a great opportunity to study reading instruction and intervention; practice administrative skills working in the reading clinic; and visit schools to work with students of all ages. After graduation from BGSU, I became Director of the Reading & Study Skills Center at Otterbein. I worked with students on a variety of reading and study skill areas and also taught reading instruction to English education majors. Later in that decade I taught graduate-level reading instruction in the Otterbein/Ashland Graduate Program.

I was hired at the Ohio Department of Education (ODE) in 1973 as a Right to Read Consultant. I worked as a team member to spread the Ohio Right to Read Program throughout Ohio. We developed and distributed the Teaching Teen Reading Series beginning in 1974-75. Many teachers of our era may remember our Ohio Right to Read Week, which is still celebr ated today in many school districts. During this decade we spent much time developing materials to encourage children of all ages “to read more than ever before.”

Later the ODE reading focus spread to an instructional emphasis on basic skills: mathematics, reading and writing skills. We developed a lot of curriculum-related materials sent to Ohio teachers and administrators. Again, many Ohio educators might remember the “Year of the Child” and the “Year of the ABC’s – Accountability, Basics, and Citizenship,” etc. Year ly we developed monthly newsletters with ideas and activities to do within the schools to involve the students, teachers/staff, and community in improving the basic skills.

After more than a decade at the ODE, we moved to Iowa wher e my husband, Roger , had accepted an administrative job in test development in Iowa City. A highlight of that move for me was to work in College Community School District in Cedar Rapids as the Coordinator of Curriculum and Staff Development. I had the opportunity to put into practice the materials and skills I had developed in Ohio. The tasks included developing a K-12 seamless system of education and staff development. The folks in the Iowa communities were very welcoming to us.

We moved back to Ohio in 1986 and Roger and I r etur ned to wor k at the ODE. He headed up the state’s student-testing programs. Over the next few years, I worked with curriculum, intervention, and then communications. In 1992, as Director of Board Relations, I served as the link between the Ohio Superintendent of Public Instruction and the President of the State Board of Education. I loved the challenges of this task and the logistical management for board meetings, communications, and followup. Roger and I retired from ODE in December 2000. Since graduating in 1965 I was blessed to have a variety of jobs and to love each one!

Speaking of being blessed, when I married Roger in 1978, he already had two young daughters so I had a ready-made family. Now Stephanie and Stacy are happily married, and living close by, and we are doubly blessed with six grandchildren (one girl and five boys), ages eight to 17.

Roger and I love to travel and have participated in the yearly Otterbein Cardinal Migrations as often as possible since they began in 1994. (I recommend Migrations to all of the Otterbein Family!) We also enjoy visiting Colonial Williamsburg; participating in Road Scholar travel and learning programs; and cruising. We have traveled to all 50 states.

Each summer we take our six grandchildren on “field trips.” They select, from a “menu,” where they want to visit, so on some trips we have one or two kids and sometimes five. We have visited places (some many times) such as: Columbus Zoo & Aquarium; The Wilds; Ohio History Center; General Grant’s Home and School in Georgetown; General Sherman’s Home in Lancaster; Wright Brothers’ Bike Shop and Flight Museum in Dayton; Neil Armstrong’s Moon Museum in Wapakoneta; National Football Hall of Fame in Canton; and the outdoor drama “Tecumseh.” During the last three summers we have taken the older kids on longer trips to places such as: Gettysbur g; Colonial Williamsburg, Jamestown, and Yorktown; Richmond, Petersburg, and Appomattox; museums in Cincinnati and Pittsburgh; and “The Living Word” in Cambridge, Ohio.

In addition to traveling and attending school music/sports activities with our grandchildren, Roger and I are able to be active in church work and at Otterbein. I have served as: President of the Otterbein College Alumni Council (1990-1992); Member of the Otterbein Alumni Council (2006-2011); President of the Otterbein Friends of the Library (2003-2011); and Member of the Planning Teams for Cardinal Migrations and Alumni Reunions. Roger and I attend Otterbein Theatre productions and various Alumni events.

I am looking forward to our 50-Year Golden Reunion at Otterbein.

Whether or not you have visited since 1965 you will notice that, while the look of the college/university is “new and improved,” the “heart” of Otterbein is the same!

Nancy Loudenslager Cassell 2744 New Port Royal Road Thompson’s Station, TN 37179 615-595-8144/615-525-3288 (cell) n_cassell@yahoo.com

Spouse:

James Cassell

Children:

Dayna and Clay

Grandchildren:

three

The summer after I graduated, my mother took me to Camp Farthest Out where I made a personal commitment to follow Jesus. That fall, I attended University of Kentucky to pursue a PhD in French, with a minor in English. I also played basketball my first year there, and attended Campus Crusade and Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship meetings.

After 4 months in France doing research and traveling, I married and moved to Tennessee, working as secretary for Vanderbilt University’s legal officer while writing my dissertation on The Life and Works of Emile Gaboriau. Upon receiving my Ph.D., I taught French at Fisk University for six years. During that time I had two children, Dayna and Clay Curry, but left the university due to their tenure rules. After earning education credits, I taught French in the afternoon for two years to grades K-8 at the private Christian school my kids attended, along with teaching in the morning at Tennessee State University. To increase my income, I took programming classes, and was subsequently employed by GE Information Services for nine years. During that time I divorced and remarried.

For six years during the week before Christmas, my second husband and I helped deliver truckloads of presents for Mexican children to Faith Mission on the border in Del Rio, Texas, worked in their warehouse, and crossed the border into Ciudad Acuna. During her first year at Baylor University in Waco, my daughter joined us. That year Ricky Skaggs, the Whites, Barbara Fairchild, and Lulu Roman from Hee Haw, went along to do a concert in Mexico. My husband drove Ricky’s tractor trailer.

After my mother died, I left GE and worked as our church administrator for a year, followed by a year serving a missions organization that focused on leadership conferences for Nigerian pastors. Once I organized a US tour for a Christian drama troupe from Uganda, providing a 15-passenger van and finding housing for them. Another time we traveled to orphanages in Romania.

Then I began volunteering with World Relief, resettling refugees from Vietnam, Russia, Somalia, Ethiopia, Iraqi Kurdistan and one from Afghanistan.

When an opportunity arose to teach ESL to Kurds, I started several classes for illiterate women in their homes with Servant Group International, a newly created organization to minister to the Kurdish population in Nashville. After class, I stayed to help with paperwork, phone calls, filling out school cards, doing taxes, or other requests, sometimes until 10 p.m. After about a year, Campus Crusade asked SGI to help complete a Kurdish version of the Jesus film. The recording and dubbing for it was done in the downstairs rec room of my home. That Christmas, a local church showed the film to about 100 Kurdish families.

After three years, my ESL students received notices to move, so I purchased five duplexes for the larger families who had nowhere to go, and became a landlady, even until now. The days of taking them to doctors are past, but I continue to fill immigration applications for citizenship or for bringing relatives to America, who then need permanent resident cards. Nashville now has over 10,000 Kurds, the largest population in the US.

I’ve now been in all 50 states, the last being Alaska two years ago. I’ve visited over 35 countries, including most of Europe, Iraq (twice), Haiti, South Africa, Uzbekistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the Bahamas. Mission trips included Croatia, Romania, Turkey, Mozambique, and Egypt. I’ve traveled multiple times to Morocco, where my daughter has lived for 11 years, and my three grandchildren reside. My son, who is a certified financial advisor, is married and resides in Roswell, Georgia. I hope for some stateside grandchildren.

My most unusual experience was the 17 days I spent in Afghanistan in 2001 when my daughter was one of the two Americans held hostage by the Taliban. We visited them in prison, went to the first day of their trial, and had to leave two days after 9/11. I waited in Pakistan until their rescue by our military on November 15. Parents are mentioned in Prisoners of Hope, a book telling about their captivity.

I help set up and volunteer once a month at a clinic just for giving vaccines to those going on mission trips. For a while I volunteered at a food pantry. I keep in touch with some former Kurdish students. I hope to sell my properties soon, so I can travel to new places and perhaps write a book or two.

Eileen Marty Mignerey 9649 N. Eight Mile Creek Road Cantonment, FL 32533 850-478-3685/850-291-8484 temignerey@aol.com

Spouse:

Thomas Mignerey ‘65

Children:

Andrew and Todd ‘92

Grandchildren:

Ryan, Scott, Logan, Kendall and Tyler

I began my teaching career at Circleville High School, living in Circleville the first year and commuting from Columbus for a year after Tom and I married. The following two years, I taught at Grove City High School while Tom finished medical school. We headed to Grand Rapids for his internship the summer of 1969. Our first son was born in Michigan in 1970.

Residency for Tom followed and we moved back to Columbus. This was followed by our move to Philadelphia a year later. Our second son was born at the Philadelphia Naval Hospital in 1972.

With internship and residency completed, we moved to Pensacola for Tom to fulfill his military commitment at the Naval Air Station—the home of the Blue Angels. The opportunity to join a local medical group opened at just the right time, so we have remained here since. (Although my heart is still in Ohio). We cheer for OSU which is sometimes a dangerous thing as the area is full of rabid Alabama/Auburn-Florida/FSU fans who all hate Ohio State. Pensacola is a beautiful place with white beaches, blue skies and seas and long hot summers and short cool winters. As one of the first settlements in Florida, there are a lot of historical sites to enjoy including the Naval Air Museum.

As a stay-at-home mom, I did the PTO, VBS, music lessons, ball practices, car pooling, etc. things. I, too, played tennis and served as president of the Intercity Tennis League as well as the USTA Regional Representative for our area. I went back to teaching part time at a private Christian school in 1984. As our school grew and a high school was added, my job expanded into full time. In many private schools, staff members fulfill a variety of positions and in my 20 year tenure, I served as athletic director, dean of students, guidance counselor and interim principal (not all at the same time, although there was some overlapping). I coached tennis, basketball, and volleyball as needed. I became the high school volleyball coach and our team won a number of conference championships and two NACA national championships. I received the “Coach of the Year” award from NACA in 1999. I retired in 2003 with many wonderful memories and continuing relationships with our students and my fellow teachers.

Since retiring I have volunteered as a mentor and as an ally in the Bridges to Circles out of poverty program. I continue to work with the youth at our church and have served several terms as an elder on the church session.

I make several trips a year to Ohio to check on my only remaining sister and visit with family.

These trips almost always continue to Michigan to visit our son and his family. Todd and Kristy are both school teachers and their sons, Ryan (12) and Scott (10) are active boys, playing baseball and tennis. Our son, Andy, and his wife, Robin, have two girls, Logan (13) and Kendall (11). In August, they welcomed a baby boy, Tyler.

Volleyball has continued to be the major sport in our family with everyone playing or coaching in some venue---beach, indoor, club. We travel as often as we can to keep current with the grandkids and share in their lives.

We have been blessed in our life together and I am grateful for all the professors, classmates and friends at Otterbein who helped to shape our lives.

Gerald (Jerry) Michael 930 McBurney Drive Lebanon, OH 45036 513-933-9049/513-320-5614 (cell) grm@go-concepts.com

Spouse:

Phyllis Laver Michael

Children:

Steve, Brenda and Debbie

Grandchildren:

Katie, David, Colby and Brooke

After my sophomore year at OC, I moved to New York City and took a position in the registrar’s office at Columbia University which entitled me to enroll in Columbia, six hours tuition free. After NYC residency requirements were met, I transferred to City College New York.

While living in NYC, I recognized David Chan sitting across from me on the subway; David engineered at the OC radio station while I announced on the Ron Miller show and did the color on the OC baseball broadcasts.

I left NYC in December of 1965 to join the Indiana National Guard (infantry) and got a job at Avco Corp., eventually becoming a technician in an engineering services lab. In 1967, after serving my active duty at Fort Dix, NJ, I met Phyllis Laver of Gordon, OH. We had our first date Oct. 31, engaged Dec. 7 and married the following May 11—no point in wasting time.

During 1968, I resigned the Indiana National Guard to re-enlist in the Ohio National Guard (anti-aircraft) for four more years. Later that year, I accepted a position as an x-ray technician in a powder diffraction lab in the chemical research department of Armco Steel Corporation, Middletown, Ohio, so I could finish college at Miami University Middletown (MUM).

Our son, Steve, was born December 1969 and I enrolled in MUM taking physics to refresh my math skills. Next, I chose to carpool to UC instead of Oxford. Daughter, Brenda, was born October 1971. I graduated from University of Cincinnati in 1976 summa cum laude majoring in math with a minor in computer science. Debbie came along in May 1977 and we moved to Monroe. In 1993, we moved to Lebanon where we still reside.

In September 1985, I left Armco and accepted a position in development at Mead Data Central, Miamisburg, Ohio, now know as Lexis-Nexis. While at Armco, I enjoyed playing industrial league softball, golf and basketball. I coached all three kids in baseball/softball for many years. I became a USSF and high school referee. Later, I earned my Class D coaching license from USSF. I coached high school and select soccer teams for over 10 years and started the soccer club in Lebanon that now has over 75 teams. I retired from coaching to watch Debbie play soccer for Capital University.

Steve graduated University of Cincinnati, the girls both graduated Miami University. Steve and Debbie are both registered nurses, while Brenda subs in Miamisburg City Schools. Grandchildren are Katie, David, Colby and Brooke.

We have visited Great Britain twice, Alaska and Hawaii, three caravan tours, four cruises and take trips in our travel trailer.

Since retiring in 2006, I amused myself as a substitute teacher and the financial secretary for Monroe United Methodist Church. I am a member of the National Model Railroad Association (NMRA) and a member of the Western Ohio Woodworkers.

I fondly remember the days in the QPV, nodding off during Chapel, the smell of the Towers building and singing in the Men’s Glee Club. In town: the DQ, the movies and Renaldo’s would deliver to campus if the order was at least a dollar!—Awesome! A sub, plus a meatball sandwich and a Coke came to just a dollar, can you imagine? Columbus was 17 miles away from Westerville.

I visited Dr. Price in his final years when he resided at the Otterbein Home in Lebanon—the only English teacher I ever liked. I got feedback from my mother who also lived at Otterbein Home that my visit really meant a lot to Dr. Price; glad I did it. Apparently, former students don’t often visit elderly faculty and thank them for what they did and meant to us.

Terry L. Mickey 127 Dragonfly Lane Wellsboro, PA 16901

Spouse:

Carol (Cari) Arnold Mickey ‘64

Children:

Tracie, Tara, Joseph

Grandchildren:

Nick (Amy), Taylor, Isabelle, Justin, Emma, Silas, Aiden, Elia, Jillaian, Mattie (deceased) and Nora Great-grandchild due in May: Mildred Elisabeth

After four wonderful years at Otterbein College, I graduated with a bachelor of science degree in physical education and biology. That summer, I married my Otterbein College sweetheart, Carol (Cari) Arnold '64. Twelve months after our wedding, I graduated from Bowling Green State University with a master’s in health, physical education and recreation. My formal education was then followed by teaching physical education in Xenia, Ohio; Centerville, Ohio; and Wellsboro, Pennsylvania.

Following a 14-year career of teaching physical education and coaching football and track in the public schools, our lives took a change of directions. In 1972, Carol and I met Jesus Christ, and received Him as our Lord and Savior. With that, our lives and our interests changed dramatically. In 1979, I retired from public school teaching, and became the assistant to the pastor in an Assembly of God church in Mansfield, PA. We coupled our new found faith and our educational preparation to be part of a group that founded New Covenant Academy, one of the first Christian schools in north central Pennsylvania.

Carol and I both began to teach at New Covenant Academy (NCA). From teaching, I became the headmaster of NCA in 1990, and held that position for a total of 20 years. I retired from NCA in 2012. Carol still enjoys teaching first grade at NCA. In addition to teaching and school administration, I have enjoyed many other hobbies and areas of work over the years. We have owned and trained horses, and instructed riders. We have enjoyed growing some of our own food as “gentleman farmers.” I avidly love hunting and fishing. I have been a blacksmith, carpenter, school bus driver, small business owner, ski area operations manager, ski instructor, and a member of the National Ski Patrol. I have had a lot of fun and I have enjoyed life and good health.

Carol and I will have been married 50 years, this coming August 28. We have two daughters, one son and 12 grandchildren. We are expecting our first great -grandchild in May. That's exciting! All three of our children have married wonderful, Christian spouses and are serving the Lord. For that, we are very grateful and blessed.

We live in Wellsboro, Pennsylvania, a beautiful, small town in the north central mountains of the state. If any of you are ever traveling through our area, we would love to get together with you. We are just north of Williamsport, Pennsylvania, the home and the host of the annual Little League World Series.

Carol and I look forward to reuniting with you at our 50th reunion.

Thomas G. Mignerey 9649 N. Eight Mile Creek Road Cantonment, FL 32533 850-478-3685/850-291-8676 (cell) TEMignerey@aol.com

Spouse:

Eileen Marty Mignerey ‘65

Children:

Andrew and Todd ‘92

Grandchildren:

Ryan, Scott, Logan, Kendall and Tyler

After my first year of medical school at OSU, I married my first and only love of my life, Eileen Marty, at Central College Presbyterian Church. We will be celebrating our 49th wedding anniversary this June 18th. Our family has been blessed in never imaginable ways; and our latest grandchild was just baptized on February 8th at Palms Presbyterian Church at Jacksonville Beach.

After medical school we were in Grand Rapids for my internship year at Butterworth Hospital, then back to Columbus for my second year of pediatrics at what is now Nationwide Children’s Hospital. I then began my three years of active duty in the Navy and finished my pediatric training at Philadelphia Naval Hospital.

My assigned duty station after becoming a fully trained pediatrician was Pensacola Naval Hospital and we…well I...fell in love with this city. Actually the Lord had to speak to Eileen by making it snow for the first time in 20 years here just after she told our minister “when I see it snow in Pensacola I may consider staying.” I was in my first SCUBA class 8 days after we arrived and am still diving. I play tennis two to three times per week year around and stay very busy gardening and growing palms on our five acres.

I have been very blessed also in my professional life. I joined Pediatric Associates in Pensacola in 1974 and finally retired in January 2011 after two years of half-time work. During my active years in pediatrics I was department chairman of Sacred Heart Children’s Hospital, Region 1 representative to The Florida Chapter of AAP, then secretary for two additional years. The community pediatricians were the instructors for our pediatric residency program in the 70s and 80s and I very much enjoyed my teaching role with them. One year I actually received the Golden Apple award for my time spent with the residents.

I did try to fully retire in January of 2011, but by June realized that I had lost my sense of self worth.

With my eyes open the Lord presented opportunities to again be of service to His children. I am now in my fourth year of providing mental health services to children one half day/week at our local health department and nearly two years into the same services one day per week at Children’s Medical Services Behavioral Clinic. I also volunteer at the Health and Hope Clinic seeing patients 18 to 25 years of age, many of whom have unmet mental health needs. While working at the CMS behavioral clinic, I am again enjoying teaching pediatric residents about this so often neglected part of our health.

Yes, we have been truly blessed over the years. We have been members of Trinity Presbyterian Church for over 40 years. We both sing in the choir of about 30 members and I have continued to play my violin, though only at church. Our kids and grandkids are also very active in their own Presbyterian Churches in Flint, Michigan and Jacksonville Beach, FL and we all enjoy excellent health. Hope to see you all soon.

Beverly Miller Wince 929 Shaw Court Newark, OH 43055 740-344-6713 bwince@roadrunner.com

Spouse:

Greg Wince ‘67

Children:

Matt, Susannah and Amanda

Grandchildren:

Olivia, Elijah, Isaiah, Evelyn, Emma, Abby, Xaverie, Liam

Otterbein has been in my blood most of my life. My grandmother, Mom Priest, ran a boarding club and housed students in her home right where Hanby Hall is now. My parents both graduated from Otterbein. So from the time I was just little, I was around the campus. When it came time to choosing a college, for me there was no other option!

I met my husband (Greg Wince, ’67) at Otterbein. We have shared forty-seven years of marriage and have lived nearby in Newark and Granville. Although we don’t come to a lot of Otterbein events, we often find ourselves driving through the campus sharing happy memories of our time there.

In addition to Greg’s vocation of job training and development, he was a basketball coach for over 30 years, so I spent much of that time being “a coach’s wife,” something announcers always point to in sympathy for all the stress it can produce. We have had lots of good times and formed many lasting relationships.

Greg and I have three children, all of whom live near Newark.

None of them went on to Otterbein but are products of Miami, Ohio University and Holy Cross in Massachusetts.. We are in and out of each other’s houses often and are able to enjoy watching our eight grandchildren grow. They range in age from 17 to 3. We spend a lot of time now watching volleyball, hockey, ballet, soccer and figure skating – not a basketball player among them!

We don’t seem to influence either our children’s or grandchildren’s choices.

Most of my career, besides family and homemaker, has been teaching at nearby Central Ohio Technical College. I have taught part time for over 35 years and am still at it! There is something about teaching people who have had less than successful backgrounds in learning and watching them catch on and grow that never gets old. I have also tried my hand at writing and was able to get a story and some articles and puzzles published in children’s magazines.

Teaching, however, is more of a passion than writing for me.

In the spring and summer time, my love of gardening takes over. Thank you, Dr. Willis, for all you taught me in those botany classes I wasn’t too excited about at the time!

I am looking forward to seeing you at the reunion!

Porter Miller 304 S. 48th Street Richmond, IN 47374 765-962-5257 porter.miller@comcast.net

Spouse:

Priscilla Miller

Children:

Tracy ‘89, Amy and Joshua

Looking back over the past 50 years has been an interesting experience for me. This has made me realize how blessed I’ve been throughout my life. In 1966, I married Priscilla and for the last 49 years, she has been my best friend. Now those of you who know me are probably wondering how anyone could put up with me that long. She says she has never thought about divorce, but has considered murder. We have three children, Tracy (Otterbein 1989), Amy (Earlham College 1996) and Josh (Earlham College 2000). They have blessed us with eight grandchildren. In January, our oldest granddaughter married and that gave us number nine. In May, our son Josh, and his wife, will be having their second son which will be number 10.

My career consisted of 31 years in college athletics. Fourteen years at Otterbein as the assistant football coach and nine years as head track coach. Those were great years and I had the opportunity to coach many Otterbein athletes. I am still friends with many of these athletes today. In 1973, while I was coaching at Otterbein, I accepted Jesus Christ as my personal Savior and my life has never been the same. God has blessed me and my family more than I could ever imagine.

After Otterbein, I was director of athletics at Earlham College in Richmond, Indiana, for 17 years. After six months of retirement, Priscilla said, “Aren’t you going to get a job?”, and I have been working ever since. I sold motor homes for Tom Raper, had a grant from Homeland Security working in bio-terrorism, was in charge of adjunct professors at Ivy Tech Community College, and am now selling for Lingle Real Estate and having a great time.

As I look back at my Otterbein experience, the most important part of it has been people, coaches, professors, teammates, fraternity brothers and friends. I would not trade those four years participating in athletics and the 17 years of coaching at Otterbein for anything. I am who I am today because of my Otterbein experiences. If you are reading this, I would like to leave you with this: Philippians 4:8. Look it up in the King James Version Bible.

The Porter Miller Family

Sharon Milligan P O Box 226, 301 Boston Avenue Fostoria, OH 44830 419-435-6503 milligan@findlay.edu

After 44 years of teaching at The University of Findlay in the Colleges of Education and Health Professions, I accepted a two-year appointment in the Peace Corps. Since July 2013, I have been teaching English to grade five learners at Matsepe Primary School in Tafelkop, Limpopo Province, South Africa. Fortunately, I live outside the Malaria Belt and there are no cases of Ebola in South Africa. My “close of service” date is September 5, 2015, so I regret that I will not be able to attend our “Golden” Class of 1965 reunion this coming April. But my heart will be there in Westerville with you and I look forward to receiving the memory book.

Immediately after graduation from Otterbein, I served as a graduate assistant at Ohio University for two years and received my master’s degree in 1967. That fall, I accepted a full-time teaching and coaching position at then Findlay College in Findlay, Ohio. I only planned to stay there for two years, but after 44 years, I finally decided to retire. While there, I wore many hats ---teaching health and physical education, coaching volleyball, basketball, softball, and tennis, as well as later serving as wellness director, and supervising student teachers.

While teaching at The University of Findlay I received the following awards: Founders Faculty Award for Teaching Excellence Induction into The University of Findlay Athletic Hall of Fame for coaching College of Health Professions Faculty Award for Teaching Excellence The Arch Award, recognition for contributions as a non University of Findlay Graduate.

During my free summers, I completed backpacking The Appalachian Trail from Maine to Georgia, bicycled the Trans America Bicycle Trail from Oregon to Virginia, and backpacked the entire Pacific Crest Trail from Mexico to Canada.

Now I enjoy traveling and volunteering. I have been on a mission trip to Haiti, right after their big earthquake, volunteer when home at our local hospital, and this September, immediately after my close of service with Peace Corps, you will be able to find me working in Yosemite National Park in California, as an visitor information assistant with Yosemite Conservancy.

Best Wishes to all 1965 Otterbein Alumni, and special greetings to my Theta Nu sisters.

Lion Sanctuary Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe 2014.

With teacher, Monica Kwete, Matsepe Primary School.

With Mabarwa, second grader at Matsepe, at a hospital in South Africa just before her eye surgery to correct strabismus 2014.

Donald L. Mowrey 49 Circle Drive West Newton, PA 15089

Spouse:

Linda Mowrey

Children:

Jody, Mark, Kelly

Having majored in English, social studies, washing dishes in the cafeteria and education, what else have I done besides drive a truck, dock work, sell sweepers, clothing and cars? I taught school.

I started teaching in the slums of Columbus for $3,900 a year. Those 14-18 year old junior high kids chased me out in only five months. The principal said, “Be tough.” I was not tough enough.

I quit there and returned to my rural Pennsylvania background at Hempfield Area Schools— one-half year at high school; five years at the junior high. I left Hempfield the first day my fifth year looking at my schedule and then throwing a half-cup of coffee at my principal and walking out. My big mistake: I missed him.

Since I had been driving a truck during the past few summers, I went back to that job for a year.

I tried trucking operation office work for half a year and then back to driving.

Fortunately for me, my neighbor was the president of my local school board and got me hired.

27 great years later, my wife, Linda, and I retired from Yough School District at the age of 55.

We got to spend ten years having fun and traveling.

Speaking of my wife, we were married the summer before my senior year. I made the dean’s list both semesters. She improved my grades by editing and typing my papers without mistakes.

May 2009, Lindy developed an inoperable tumor on her spine which had metastasized into her liver and lungs. While sitting at home that evening, God told me to shape up. The thought He put into my head was, “She babysat you for 45 years. It is your turn to babysit her.” Chemo and radiation, good doctors and nurses, a great God, one healing service and four hard years got rid of her cancer.

God is my One Boss who never thought of firing me.

MY LIFE: a great God, a great wife, three great kids, five wonderful grandkids, lots of friends, a few people who don’t like me and tons of great memories.

Luv, Don

I’m the fat old guy in the front row.

Marv Nevans 85 Greentree Road Moreland Hills, OH 44022-2422 440-247-1926 mwnevans@hotmail.com

Spouse:

Charlene Zundel ‘66

I probably decided in the fifth grade that I wanted to be a chemist. While I did very well in high school chemistry, I wasn’t as excited about my other subjects and finished in the lowest quarter of my class.

Amazingly, I was still accepted to Otterbein! I started in September 1960, and as a freshman was photographer for the Sibyl and the T&C. While, this and other photographic work didn’t pay much, it did help with expenses. I’d had a job since I was 11, and had saved up a little, and with the help of my parents, I got through my first college year.

By the end of the summer of 1961, I didn’t have the funds to return, so I got a full-time job as a lab technician at Union Carbide’s Parma Research Center. I worked there during the week, at a gas station on weekends, and took some courses at Western Reserve at night. When fall 1962 came, I had saved enough to return to Otterbein as a sophomore, while my sister Kathy enrolled as a freshman. In the meantime, the photographer’s job had been taken, so I used my gas station experience to get a job as a mechanic for Kiner’s Garage. The shop was in the old Kilgore ordinance factory where we repaired VW, Mercedes, and Porsche cars as well as the occasional Rolls Royce, Ferrari and even Bugatti! I worked on the VW’s. I got pretty good at it, and after a year could remove a VW engine, renew the clutch, and replace the engine in 90 minutes. The standard VW dealer charged for 3 hours of labor.

I worked almost full time for John Kiner during the school year, and worked summers at Union Carbide in Parma. I also fixed up cars to sell them and bought wrecked Porsches that I sold for parts. Somehow I made enough money to get through Otterbein with only $1,500 in loans. In June of 1965, Union Carbide informed me I didn’t have a job, in fact, they were laying people off. My advisor, Dr. Turley, put me in touch with an alumnus, Don Martin Sr., who helped me get a job at Harshaw Chemical Co. in Cleveland working for a world class electrochemist, Dr. Wolfgang Vogel.

At that time, I shared an apartment with George Christ ‘65, a fellow Jonda alumnus in Berea, Ohio. We discovered that Mary Blair ‘65, lived nearby and I took her to see, Fiddler on the Roof, where we ran into two more Otterbein grads, Sharon ’64 and Charlene Zundel ’66. I invited them to a party George and I were having after an Otterbein/Baldwin Wallace basketball game. Charlene was in Tau Delta sorority with my sister Kathy, and we knew of each other, but never met at Otterbein! Fortunately, there was good chemistry between us and we’ll celebrate 47 years together in June.

Just before Charlene and I got married, I was laid off from Harshaw. I quickly found work at Clevite Aerospace where I worked on fuel cells for the Apollo project and zinc-air batteries for

Marine Corps radios. After a year these contracts ended, and I transferred to Clevite Bearing Div. This cycle was getting tiring, I decided chemistry was not as stable as it could be, so I went evenings to Case Western Reserve University and earned an M.B.A. in marketing in 1971. Charlene was teaching

kindergarten in Shaker Heights, and got her master’s in education from Cleveland State at the same time. To celebrate we went off on our first trip to Europe with cheap student fares!

Clevite was acquired by Gould and I moved to the graphics division, which then made the world’s fastest computer printer. I added marketing responsibility to my job when the division moved to Newton, Massachusetts. Gould’s printer was selected to provide barcode labels for the world’s first automated warehouse in Mansfield, Massachusetts, and I was the one who had to make it work. I developed a new electrostatic paper, found a new toner, and souped up the printer to make readable labels. Since Charlene wasn’t able to find a job in the Boston area, I left Gould and we returned to Shaker Heights. I tried consulting, and my first job was developing a high-coercivity magnetic toll ticket for the Ohio Turnpike. This technology is now used worldwide. Consulting business slowed and I found work at Predicasts, an economics and information resource company. They needed an engineer to research and write chemical industry studies. It sounded like a good fit for me, but it wasn’t. I wrote five industry studies and then moved on to Keithley Instruments, a company I knew from my days as an electrochemist, as market research manager.

At Keithley, my role changed as I soon added product manager, and ultimately, marketing communications responsibilities. We had a number of very successful new products, and sales grew.

Unfortunately, although sales and responsibilities grew, my pay didn’t. When I found that the local Gould Instruments Division was looking for a product manager, I got the job. Again my responsibility grew as I added more product lines and once again added marketing communications. While Gould Instruments Division did okay, Gould as a company did not. When a publisher that I had known since my Keithley days mentioned she needed an advertising sales manager, I talked to Charlene and took the job.

As regional sales manager for Test & Measurement W orld, I had 17 states and all of Canada as my territory. I worked for the number one magazine in a field I knew well, selling to people who had the same job I had just held. Although it was a lot of travel, I had great flexibility on how and when it was done, and since Charlene liked to travel she often joined me. After 12 great years and two Presidents Club trips I retired in 2000 to deal with my parent’s end-of-life issues. Charlene retired from the Shaker schools in 1997, and continued teaching part time at Carol Nursery School until 2007.

Charlene and I have enjoyed traveling to all 50 states, Europe, Asia and Australia. We continue to travel as we still have a lot of places on our bucket list. I keep busy with photography, home projects, some woodworking, and helping my family with projects.

We have no children of our own, but do enjoy gatherings with my two brothers’ and two sisters’ families and watching our nieces and nephews sports activities. Charlene and I stay active in Cleveland area cultural activities, and I recently helped put together a fundraiser for a local dance company. I still work on cars and last year my experience as an electrochemist and mechanic came in handy to rebuild the 207 volt traction battery in Charlene’s Prius. It’s hard to believe that’s it’s been 50 years since I left Otterbein, but it’s been an interesting and rewarding time.

Kitty Newman Dalrymple 78 Buckeye Street Westerville, OH 43081 kittydalrymple8@gmail.com

Spouse:

Jim Dalrymple

Children:

Jeff Dalrymple, Kate Dalrymple Mantenieks, Lindsey Dalrymple Webster

Grandchildren:

Abbie (16), Noah (13) and Chloe (11) Dalrymple Drew (15), Mackie (15), Aidan (12) and Ben (12) Mantenieks Gwyneth (7) Webster

After graduation, I taught home economics in Euclid, Ohio, and Westerville, then elementary school in Westerville. I earned a master’s degree from Ashland University. I retired from education in 2004. My husband, Jim, is a retired school administrator. Our most daring adventures have been skydiving (once) and parasailing (twice).

Jim and I have three children and they all graduated from Ohio University. Jeff is a pilot for Delta Airlines. He and his family live in the Atlanta area. Kate has a master’s degree from Ashland University. She and her husband are both Westerville teachers. Lindsey has a master’s degree in public health from Boston University. She works for the American Cancer Society. Lindsey and her family live in Columbus.

Jim and I have enjoyed traveling. Some of our favorite trips have been European tours the last three falls with Lynne Puterbaugh Apple ‘65 and Keith Apple.

The “quiet, peaceful village” has had many changes over the last 50 years and it’s still a great place to live!

The Dalrymple Family

Frederick Emmanuel A. Noah 6816 Ingraham Street Riverdale, MD 20737 301-459-7981/240-281-7004 (cell) frederickean@aol.com

As I look forward to the Otterbein Class of 1965 Golden Reunion on April 24-26, 2015, I cannot help but reflect on leaving Freetown, Sierra Leone, 53 years ago by cargo steamer for New York City. The voyage lasted about 12 days. After landing, I took a train to Columbus, Ohio, where I was met by Rev. James Recob who was the chaplain and foreign student advisor. He drove me to the Otterbein campus in Westerville, which became my home for the next four years. During my first year, I roomed in Davis Hall with another Sierra Leonean who presumably would help me adjust to campus life. However, this was not difficult, as I found almost everyone quite friendly. I later spent the next three years at the Jonda Fraternity house.

Campus life as a foreign student had its complications, but the presence of a few other foreign students from Sierra Leone and South America helped. Since “the quiet, peaceful village” practically became my home for four years, I was grateful to the few friends and alumni families that invited me to their homes during some of the holidays. I still have lingering memories of the friendships and bonds formed at that time. I was also grateful to Nick Nerney ‘63, a fraternity brother, who suggested and allowed me to use his car so that I could obtain an Ohio driver’s license, which served me well for identification purposes.

During the summer months, I exposed myself to various jobs including cleaning dormitories on campus, working on an assembly line at the Columbus Stove Factory and a sales job at Lazarus department store in Columbus.

Following graduation in June 1965, with a B.S. in chemistry, I spent nine months working in the quality control laboratory at Westinghouse Electric Company in Columbus before moving to Washington, D.C. There I embarked on graduate studies at Howard University. I later transferred to the Catholic University of America in 1969, where I obtained a master’s degree in chemistry and cell biology.

During my graduate studies, I tried several jobs including receptionist/switchboard operator at an apartment building and research technician in the renal department of Georgetown University Hospital.

In August 1969, I started working at D.C. General Hospital in Washington, D.C. as a medical technologist. This became my career until the hospital was closed in 2001. Over the years, I worked in varied and different shifts, including eight and 16 hour shifts. The work entailed the performance of biochemical tests on blood and other body fluids, the use of SMA-6 and SMA-12 analyzers and also doing manual tests for toxicology, total protein, calcium, B.S.P. and bilirubin.

August 15, 1975, I was registered with the American Society of Clinical Pathologists (A.S.C.P.) as a chemist. In 1993, I was appointed supervisory medical technologist with supervision over three to five employees on weekdays, nights and weekends. I relished the opportunities afforded me to travel to Delaware and California for training on different chemical analyzers, which not only enhanced my knowledge of them, but also gave me opportunities to see other parts of the U.S. With closure of the D.C. General Hospital in 2001, I was able to retire from the District of Columbia government. I, however, seamlessly continued working with Greater Southeast Community Hospital, which for a while, operated partly out of the premises of the former D.C. General building. I continued doing almost the same duties until December 2002, when my position was realigned due to bankruptcy protection.

My life has not been all work. Over the years, I made several trips to Freetown, Sierra Leone, my home town, to see my parents, sister and other relatives. Other trips were made at the passing of my parents at different times. On my way home to Freetown, at the death of my father in 1972, it finally occurred to me that even though I had thought of myself as having come to the U.S. for educational purposes with the intention of returning to Sierra Leone, I had secured no real prospects for returning, but instead had made America my home. I eventually became a U.S. citizen in 1994.

From my Otterbein days with the Men’s Glee Club, I have continued my dedication to singing with the St. Christopher’s Episcopal Church choir in New Carrollton, Maryland, where I have been a member for about 20 years.

Heidimarie Olbrich Dewey 208 Rimrock Way Missoula, MT 59803 406-549-1078 hodewey@gmail.com

Spouse:

Richard C. Dewey, M.D.

Children:

Christopher and Timothy

Grandchildren:

Jack and Eleni

Fifty years! Such an awesome number of years and yet, when I look back, it happened in the blink of an eye‌ When I came to Otterbein in 1961, I had been in the States four years and I was still an Austrian citizen.

My family and I had little understanding about college, so a small college like Otterbein was a perfect fit, where I did not get lost in the shuffle and received a great education in a more intimate environment.

Four years later, I was ready for the big scene. I went to Pennsylvania State University on a teaching assistantship in the French department and in 1967 graduated with an master’s degree in French.

My teaching career started in the Columbus Public Schools as the French resource teacher for the system. It was challenging since I worked with all French teachers and taught in-service classes as well.

That year I met a young senior medical student, Richard Dewey, at Ohio State and one year later we were married.

The next nine months I joined my husband in Chicago during his internship. I substitute taught virtually daily during the worst race riots. This was the year Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy were killed and nearly all my students were African American. We left Chicago in the fall of '68 at the beginning of the Democratic National Convention. Our new home for the next three months was San Antonio, Texas, for flight surgery school in the US Air Force. I taught German at Sam Huston High School. In January 1969, my newly-trained husband was sent to the war in Southeast Asia and I moved to Rocky River, OH, where my parents lived and I found shelter in their home during a very difficult time. This time I found a position teaching German in Lakewood, Ohio. After eight months, my husband received his next orders for Ent Air Force Base in Colorado Springs and I packed my bags to set up living quarters there. I got my teaching certificate and taught French at a new community college and also was a substitute teacher when possible. I never thought I would have such a strange teaching career but with medical training and a war.....

In 1970 we moved back to Columbus, Ohio, where Dick started a five year neurosurgery residency. We also started our family and just when I was offered a dream teaching position, two years later, we awaited the birth of our second son. In 1975, we moved to Missoula, Montana, for the beginning of 'the rest of our life'. We never wanted to move again. We settled down, the neurosurgery practice was demanding with just one surgery partner and one neurologist for a 50,000 square mile referral area and heavy tourism the three summer months. I devoted my time to community volunteer activities and above all, our children. Together we were very active in a national neurosurgery society chairing two meetings in Oregon. My dream had been to start

a home where family members of out-of-town patients could stay for a minimal fee. This I realized with the help of very dedicated members of our community nearly fifteen years ago.

Our St. Patrick House has fifteen lovely bedrooms with baths and is directly behind the hospital. It is an historic building with lots of charm and was purchased for one million dollars.

It is full all of the time. Nineteen years ago, before retirement, we built a second home in Scottsdale, Arizona, and now spend about six months in Missoula and six months enjoying the sunny Arizona weather. We enjoy playing golf and the cultural offerings of a large city. Also my mother lives within 30 minutes of our home, still active and sharp.

Last year in March, I fulfilled a dream to visit some of our ancestors' cities which had been under Communism until twenty years ago. My brother and I met in Frankfurt and drove via Dresden, where seventy years ago my mother and I barely missed the massive air attack by the Allies and the destruction The sign to the city of my birth, 69 of this beautiful city. From there we drove to Wroclaw, Poyears after fleeing from land, and explored the hometown of my maternal grandRussian troops in 1945. mother's family. We went to the archives at the university.

Our next destination was the city of my birth in the Czech Republic and finally to my father's grave in Salzburg, Austria, and relatives in Munich, Frankfurt and Bad Homburg, Germany.

With the current situation in Eastern Europe, we are glad we went then. Amazing cities and, especially the Czech Republic, was quite beautiful.

These days we spend most of our time keeping up with our “spread out� family. They are in Minneapolis and Rhode Island. Our children and grandchildren are our greatest pride and joy. We pray for a safe and peaceful world for them!

To Otterbein's professors and my classmates I owe much: the great four years there formed the basis for a successful and happy life. Special fond memories of friends who have sadly passed: Betty Powers Messmer, my roommate during freshman and sophomore years, and Ken Newill, with whom I shared so much during those years.

Jack and Eleni

Charles (Chuck) Olson 550 W. Garrett Street Somerset, PA 15501 814-445-2698/814-442-6340 revolson@verizon.net

Spouse:

Marjorie Lengyel Olson ‘65

Children:

Joanne (45), Andrew (43), Stephen (38) and Julie (31)

Grandchildren:

Anna (18), Alexis (17), Jack (14), Cameron (12), Eli (10), Marlee (6), Tabitha (18 months) and Sadie (10 months)

My first experience with Otterbein was in 1959 when my pastor, who attended Otterbein, took three young people from our church to visit Otterbein during homecoming. After he dropped me off where I was to spend the night, I decided to walk uptown to Isalys. Some students came along and said “hi,” and that impressed me. I decided then that if I ever went to college, Otterbein would be my choice. Two years later at the age of 21, I became a student at Otterbein.

After graduation, Marge and I were married and we went to United Theological Seminary in Dayton to continue my studies for the ordained ministry in the Evangelical United Brethren Church. While in seminary, I worked as a youth director and co-janitor at the Wayne Avenue E.U.B. Church in Dayton. After graduation in 1968, I was appointed to three rural churches near Ligonier, Pennsylvania, known as the Laughlintown E.U.B. Charge. While there, the E.U.B.s merged with the Methodists to form the United Methodist Church. While serving in Ligonier, I was district youth director and advisor on the Conference Youth Council as well as on the Conference Board of Ordained Ministry.

In 1973, the district superintendent asked me to move to the First U.M.C. in Derry, Pennsylvania. While serving in Derry, the congregation built an educational unit to their church building.

I was also on a board that organized and had an 18-unit senior apartment complex built. I served on the Camp Allegheny board for many years and as it’s chairperson for two years. I was on the Zoning Hearing Board and served as a volunteer fireman. After 12 years in Derry, the conference appointed me to Somerset, Pennsylvania.

In 1985, we moved to the Grace United Methodist Church in Somerset, Pennsylvania. This proved to be our last move because we served the congregation for 20 years and decided to retire here to be close to our married children and grandchildren.

While serving in Somerset, I served on the Keystone United Methodist Federal Credit Union board, the Connellsville District Committee on Superintendency and the committee on church location. I got my commercial driver’s license so I could be a substitute school bus driver. That enabled me to rent a bus for church use and not have to pay a driver. We took the youth on many trips and to a yearly Christian music festival.

The Grace congregation sold their old church property and built

a totally new church under my leadership. It was amazing to see how the congregation worked together to see a dream finally come true. When I was treasurer of the local ministerium, they started a van ministry that departed from Grace Church to take people to medical appointments out of the area, like Pittsburgh, which is 65 miles one way. This became my ministry in retirement because no one wanted to be the coordinator and dispatcher. It is known as the SAM VAN (Somerset Area Ministries). All of our drivers, including me, are volunteers.

On September 11, 2001, the ministers of Somerset were summoned to the hospital to assist the medical staff with the injured from a plane crash that went down in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, nine miles from Somerset. That plane was Flight 93, and as you know, there were no survivors.

Our community responded with love and support of the many family members that came to the area for memorial services.

July 24, 2002, I was called in the middle of the night to go to the Sipesville Fire Hall to comfort and supply support for the family members of nine miners trapped 200 feet underground. For 77 hours we prayed, hugged and cried together with the up and down emotions of drills working and then drills breaking. About 60 hours later, we learned that all nine miners were alive.

They continued to work to drill a 20-inch hole to bring the miners to the surface and after 77 hours, all nine miners were safe and out of the mine. The last man out was a member of Grace Church.

I have many memories of my four years at Otterbein. As a mechanic, I helped students with problems with their cars and kept the King’s Ottermobile running. I was also King’s Boarding Club manager and I hired Marge to be one of the waitresses. After over 50 years, we are still sharing meals.

George P. Parthemos 4 Gilder Street, Suite 2 Larchmont, NY 10538

Spouse:

Cynthia O’Donnell Parthemos

Children:

Anna– graduate of Boston University, graduate degree Northeastern University, high school mathematics teacher Trevor School, New York City.

Laurin--graduate of the University of Maryland, business/marketing, Employed by BB & T Bank, Winston Salem, in Arlington, VA.

Born: Youngstown, Ohio Education after Otterbein: Ohio State University Graduate School of Biology. Concentration in Histology and Physiology. Found lab animals don’t talk and it was a one way conversation Washington and Lee University School of Law. Degree: J.D. 1969 New York University Graduate School of Business. Degree: M.B.A. 1971 Career: First Life: Assistant Attorney General, State of Ohio Chief Investment Officer. Ohio Police and Firemen’s Disability and Pension Fund, Columbus, Ohio Head of Fixed Income Department, Trust Division, Chemical Bank, New York Director of Taxable Fixed Income Research, Shearson Lehman Brothers,

New York. 1980s Second Life: Owner/Operator of a coal mining operation in Montana, from late 1990s. Sold in mid 2005 Third Life, Part A: Partner, Tri-Focus Capital, LLC., Advisory and private investment management organization

Third Life, Part B:

Water.

Sailing, Boating, Race Management of same Chair, Race Management Committee, Summer. Larchmont Yacht Club Chair, Winter Sailing Committee – 20 Years Involvement. Frostbiting clears the cobwebs during the cold weather. Larchmont Yacht Club Cruising Long Island Sound, North to New England and South to the Chesapeake Things: Former member of Conductor’s Committee. Columbus Symphony Orchestra Former Treasurer and board member, Yacht Racing Association of Long Island Sound Former member of Board of Trustees, Larchmont Yacht Club Former Chair of Yachting Committee, Larchmont Yacht Club Member of The New York Yacht Club, New York, NY and Newport, RI

Harry Gerald Peat 86 E. Broadway Avenue Westerville, OH 43081 614-890-3802 hgpeat@columbus.rr.com

Spouse:

Marie Ann Clymer ‘65

Children:

David ‘90 (1967) and Brian (1970)

Grandchildren:

Isabella Grace (6)

Following graduation in late August (on Thursday), commissioning as a second lieutenant in the United States Air Force (also on that Thursday), Ann graduating from The Ohio State University (on Friday), and getting married at the then First E.U.B. Church (now it’s Church of the Master U.M.C.) on Saturday, we began life together after Otterbein.

I reported to Lockbourne Air Force Base to begin processing into the Air Force. From there we traveled to St. Louis University for a year’s training as a meteorologist while Ann worked as an occupational therapist at the University hospital. After completing training as a weather forecaster, our first actual taste of Air Force life came when I reported for duty at Pine Castle Air Force Base, Orlando, Florida. You can still see remnants of the old runways as part of Orlando International Airport! I forecasted the weather and briefed pilots and Ann worked as an OT at Florida Sanitarium and Hospital.

David, our first son, was born there.

Following the Air Force’s North-South policy (?), next I was assigned to a year-long isolated tour in Sondrestrom, Greenland, and Ann and David returned to Westerville to be close to her folks. Next came three years in Omaha, Nebraska, at the Air Force Global Weather Central where I analyzed and forecasted weather for most of the globe, but especially for Southeast Asia. Our second son, Brian, was born at the base hospital. I spent my last year there as a systems duty officer, overseeing the operation of the three large room sized Univac 1108 computers that “crunched the numbers” for the forecasters.

Looking back I now realize that my current cell phone has more computing power and storage than those did!

After Omaha, our family was off to Chanute Air Force Base, Rantoul, IL, where I was first an instructor in the weather school, and then later the branch chief of the Electronics Principles Branch, where we taught basic electronics to basic airmen.

Campus Center dedication 1964

It was at Chanute that my life took a dramatic turn.

Ann and I were active members of the local United Methodist Church and became youth leaders.

Between that and some new neighbors that moved into base housing two doors down from us, God began moving in our lives. The new neighbors, Chris and Laura, were at Chanute while Chris studied for his master’s. He was an F-4 pilot that had bailed out of his plane and his parachute failed to open. He hit the ground and broke most of the bones in his body. After a very long convalescence and several miraculous healings, Chris was not only able to walk, but stay in the Air Force. He was now getting his master’s so that he could return to flying duty and be an instructor at the Air Force Academy. Our involvement with Chris and Laura was instrumental in deepening our relationship with God and being filled with His Holy Spirit.

In 1976, after ten and a half years in the Air Force we found ourselves leaving the security of service life and returning to the ”Quiet, Peaceful Village” of Westerville and joining Ann’s father as part of his business, Clymer Overhead Door Service.

In 1981, Ann’s mom and dad retired and moved to Florida and I became sole owner of the door business. I retired from the business in March of 2013. Since returning to Westerville, we have been active at Church of the Master U.M.C. on the local level and in Aldersgate Renewal Ministries, the charismatic arm of the United Methodist Church, on the national level.

I have been Conference On-Site Coordinator for the National Aldersgate Conference for about 25 years. The Aldersgate Conference is the largest United Methodist family conference in the U.S. Ann and I also coordinate several of their team led, local church renewal events that deal with the Holy Spirit, worship and prayer. In my spare time, I have been renovating our home, built in 1911, and working on my HO gauge model train setup.

Both of our sons own their own business. David (’90) is a PeopleSoft payroll specialist and lives in Gahanna, Ohio. Brian graduated from Belmont University in Nashville and is a web designer and MAC guru. He and his wife, Jennifer and our granddaughter, Isabella (Bella), live in Hendersonville, Tennessee.

Jane Porter Strickland 2409 Rocky Cross Road Zebulon, NC 27597 919-269-7518/919-325-6977 (cell) jpstrick07@att.net

Spouse:

Herbert Strickland (deceased)

Children:

Lisa, Sarah, Jason and stepchildren Rhonda and Mike (deceased)

Grandchildren:

Brayden, Elliot, Tucker, Beckett and Kingsley

After graduation, I left campus with my destination Lorain, Ohio, had a new apartment, two new roommates and would be teaching kindergarten in the fall. During the two years in Lorain, I met my future husband (a Navy man), Herbert Strickland. We were married June 10, 1968.

After Herbert retired from the Navy, we moved to Zebulon, North Carolina, where I became a southerner and a part-time tobacco farmer. I lasted for one summer, sneezed too much and could not set tobacco plants on a setter, then broke out in a rash from handling the tobacco.

They tried to make me a gardener, but I couldn’t tell the difference between good plants and weeds. My family kindly asked me not to help with the tobacco or work in the garden any more.

Teaching was my love and not farming. I started my 32 years of teaching in the Wake County Public Schools. My first job was at Riley Hill Elementary School, where they had teachers to integrate the school. I taught there until they closed the school and moved the students to other schools. This was a wonderful and rewarding time. My next school was Zebulon Elementary, just down the road. I retired from that school with 30 years of teaching in 2004.

Mixed with teaching, we enjoyed our family. We had two stepchildren, Mike and Rhonda.

Also, we had our own three children, Lisa, Sarah and Jason. It was a busy time in our life. The children were in sports and the band. For 12 years, I traveled up and down the roads of North Carolina following the kids in sports and being a band parent. During this time, with the help of Herbert, my mother was able to live with us until her death in 1999.

I started a new phase in my life, when the children started college on scholarship funds from Dad and Mother. It took 12 years. I now have stock in Appalachian State University, North Carolina State University (where Sarah ran track for four years) and East Carolina University for their undergraduate work. My children received help for their graduate work at East Carolina University, Duke and Georgia; this was great news for mom and dad.

With God’s help, I was able to get through the year of 1991.

While teaching, I battled cancer with chemo treatments from February through June. Now, I am cancer free. At that same time, my stepson was battling cancer, which took his life.

June 2004 was a day I had anticipated with mixed feelings. It was the day I retired from teaching! Kids were on their own, husband had retired and we were going to travel. But, on that day my husband was diagnosed with cancer. Our travel now was to doctors, chemo treatments, radiation treatments and trips to different hospitals. I also had the wonderful help of Hospice during this time. Cancer took his life in October 2008.

With God’s help, I am having a wonderful life. Rocky Cross Baptist Church was my lifeline. I was very active, went on a mission trip, the clerk and a cook for the NC Baptist Men Disaster Relief Team. While working at 911, I met my freshman first semester religion professor. We were on our way to Ground Zero. In September 2013, I went back to my roots and became an active member of the Zebulon United Methodist Church.

My life today is filled with playing hand bells, knitting prayer shawls, subbing, swimming at the gym, playing bridge, civic and educational club work and visiting my grandchildren in Atlanta.

The neighbors say that I am gone all the time, I am, because every year for the past ten years, I have traveled with the Educational Foundation Tours. With the group, I have visited almost all of Europe, including Russia, New Zealand, Australia and Peru. In 2011, I lived in India for two months. During October/January 2013/2014, I lived in London with my daughter helping her family make a business move. This year I will be doing a World War II trip.

If you can find me at home, you are welcome to visit. YOU ALL COME!

Evonne Potts McFarland 2501 Devon Place Winter Haven, FL 33881 863-293-2419 pmcfarland3@tampabay.rr.com

Spouse:

Paul McFarland

Children:

Jodie Paul and Jamie Lee

Grandchildren:

Jacob, Nicholas, Everett and Ian

Since my memorable days at Otterbein, I have seen lots of changes in my life. I started my teaching career in third grade in Hamilton, Ohio. In 1967, Paul and I were married and had two wonderful sons, Jodie and Jamie. I quit teaching after the birth of our second son, but subbed for many years.

In 1989, we were privileged to take a tour to the Holy Lands of Jordan and Israel. It was an amazing adventure to see and walk where Jesus ministered. Paul served United Methodist churches in southwest Ohio until his retirement in 2005.

In 1990, I began teaching GED classes and taught for 15 years, both in Hamilton and Middletown City Schools. In 2001, I was honored by being named Southwestern Ohio Adult Education Teacher of the Year in ABE/GED by the Ohio Association of Adult and Continuing Education. In 2005, we decided we would both retire and make a permanent move to a home in Winter Haven, Florida, that we had purchased in 2001.

After many years of pain and gamma knife surgeries, I was fortunate to have found an excellent neurosurgeon in Tampa who specializes in trigeminal neuralgia. In 2006, I had microvascular decompression surgery and have been pain free ever since. We continue to enjoy our days in Florida, where I teach ABE/GED, and Paul continues his ministry in our community at Four Lakes Golf Club. We do miss our family and have four fantastic grandsons. Jacob and Nick, the twins, are now 15; Everett is six and Ian is four.

For many years following graduation, we were fortunate to reunite four couples, most of them graduates of Otterbein: Carl ‘67 and Judy James Weaver ‘65, John and Blanche Geho Conarroe ’65, Hilda McIntyre and Mike Pate, Paul and myself. We would all sing the Otterbein serenade songs and the Love Song. What a wonderful time we had. To this group, we added nine children and enjoyed getting together three times a year with dinner, overnights and camping trips.

Otterbein was one of my most treasured memories—I will cherish them always as I do my lifelong friends.

I am truly looking forward to our 50th class reunion at our beloved Otterbein.

Memorial for

Elizabeth Powers Messmer 1943-1974

Thank you for the opportunity to share a few thoughts about Elizabeth Powers Messmer, better known to you as Betty Powers. I think her years at Otterbein were the happiest of her life.

Some things she was most proud of: being president of Tau Epsilon Mu Sorority, being the first student director of the brand new Campus Center, being runner-up to the 1964 Homecoming Queen, and having a role in The Boyfriend, the musical production that traveled to several USO military bases.

We were married in 1966. We had a daughter, Shari, and a son, Eric, in the early 1970s. They are all grown up now, of course, and have children of their own. One can see Betty in all of them. Betty died in 1974.

We will always remember what a beautiful, loving and talented woman she was.

Chuck Messmer ‘66

Lynne Puterbaugh Apple 2440 Forest Glen Court Bluffton, IN 46714 260-565-4543/260-433-5230 (cell) klapple07@adamswells.com

Spouse:

Keith S. Apple

Children:

Robert, Kristen and Heather

Grandchildren:

Maren and Hadley

After four wonderful years at Otterbein, I wanted to continue studying English literature so I went to Purdue University with a graduate assistantship, studying and teaching freshman composition. But I got distracted by a young man, Keith Apple, and left at the end of the first semester. When Keith graduated with a degree in pharmacy and accepted a position in Fort Wayne, Indiana, I went also. We married June 18, 1966, so are now approaching our fiftieth anniversary!

Keith then received a commission with the Public Health Service to work as a Food and Drug Inspector in Chicago, so we spent three years there exploring the city. I worked in the Loop for the just-retired superintendent of Chicago schools then as an English teacher for students working below the remedial level. I think I learned more than they did!

Our first child, Robert was born in 1969 in Chicago just before we moved to Bluffton, in northeast Indiana, near Fort Wayne. Keith was hired as a pharmacist in the specialty clinic and hospital there. Who thought we’d still be here!

I was lucky to stay home when the children were little, enjoying Rob, then Kristen, born in 1972, and Heather, born in 1977. I was busy in the church and community during this period but became interested in breastfeeding when I saw the great disappointment women had from their bad experiences. So I started a breastfeeding support program at our hospital in 1982 and worked there until 2006, moving on to a large hospital in Fort Wayne until I retired in 2011.

An Otterbein education taught me how to learn, because I should have been a nurse to become an International Board Certified Lactation Consultation, as I did it in 1989. Certification, which was pretty new then but is the standard now, required I learn so much of that science I had avoided at Otterbein.

In 1990, I also became certified to teach Redirecting Children’s Behavior, a wonderful 15-hour course that I taught through the hospital to maybe a thousand parents and professionals. Then I went to Florida to be certified to train other teachers and hosted the four day trainings at our hospital for about 90 people from all over the U.S.

For a few years, I also worked in the marketing department at the hospital, writing newsletters for our parents and a quarterly slick, sixteen-page magazine. Now, that’s what I learned at Otterbein with my degree in English literature! And I did like the creativity.

But my passion has been to help with breastfeeding and parenting. I’ve been lucky the YMCA picked up the mothers’ meetings we started in 1982 when the hospital could no longer sustain them, and I continue to love being with the mothers each week.

My greatest joy – and grief - however has come from our family! All three kids graduated from Purdue University, despite my encouraging Otterbein. Rob achieved his dream to become an FBI agent in 1998 but he died from melanoma in 2000. Last summer we toured the new FBI building in Indianapolis to see the memorial Apple Conference Room. Kristen has loved living in Chicago since she graduated, working in the Loop in graphic design and now in management for Whole Foods. We have fun with her and Chicago. Heather became a mechanical engineer with GE aircraft engines in Cincinnati. She and Mary Kay Koehler, who has a master’s degree in opera performance and is the executive director of the Cincinnati Children’s Choir, are partners. They have given us two incredible granddaughters, Maren (4 years) and Hadley (2 years)!

Travel has always been a special pleasure for us. We traveled within the U.S. when the children where young, then to Europe after they were grown. Our last three European trips have been especially fun with Jim and Kitty Newman Dalrymple ’65. This past fall we journeyed with them to Prague then down the Danube on a riverboat to Budapest, then back to Munich. However, we think Italy is our favorite - and Croatia is wonderful!

Retirement is all good, with time for family, friends, book club, church, travel, theatre, concerts, dining out and bridge. I’m currently chairman of the Staff Parish Relations Team at church.

However, we’ve decided seeing our grandchildren every month is good but not good enough, so we’re planning to move near them later this year to our own home in a senior living community. Heather’s family now lives in Mason, which is 15-20 minutes from our choice – Otterbein in Lebanon, Ohio. Is that a full circle or what?

Richard Eugene Reynolds 239 Alumwood Drive Westerville, OH 43081

Spouse:

Ellen Dawn Trout Reynolds ‘68

Children:

Chad ‘90 and Amanda ‘93

Grandchildren:

Ric and Olivia (Chad’s), Randi, Sami and Tori (Amanda’s)

After graduation, I took a years delay from the Air Force to teach 7th grade science and serve as assistant football, basketball and track coach at my hometown high school of London, Ohio.

Ellen and I got married during that year and in June of 1966 we went to Battle Creek Michigan where I reported to Custer Air Force Base as Personnel Services Officer. We spent two years and three months there before I received orders for Vietnam. While at Custer, I started my master’s degree at Western Michigan University. Our son, Chad, was born during this time also.

While at Phu Cat AFB, Vietnam, I served as the Base Athletic / Recreation Director, Personnel Services Officer. Christmas Day 1968, I served as Project Officer for the Bob Hope Christmas Show. I organized and administered his show for the base from the time he landed until he left.

Like many, I was awarded the Air Force Medal of Commendation for my time in Vietnam.

Returning to the States, I was assigned to Richards Gebaur AFB in Kansas City, Missouri. After serving 3.5 years in the Air Force, I separated in December 1969 and returned to Westerville.

Being a civilian and teacher again, I taught elementary physical education in Columbus for a year, and then health education and physical education at Westerville High School. During this time, I served as a part-time assistant football/ basketball and track coach at Otterbein. Our daughter, Amanda, was born during this time. I also finished my master’s degree at Xavier University.

In the fall of 1972, I was excited to be hired as an instructor in health education, assistant football coach/assistant track coach and head men’s basketball coach at Otterbein. Ellen finished her degree at Otterbein and began a 30-year teaching career at the elementary level. For the next 40 years, I enjoyed teaching / coaching at Otterbein and was pleased to have my family grow up in the community where I attended college and had so many fond memories. For those who have followed the Towers Magazine, you might have seen we had some good years and some not so good years in basketball. Becoming athletic director, in addition to already being the head men’s basketball coach in 1990, was a realization of my career goal. Little did I know it would be at Otterbein College.

While working at Otterbein, many undergraduate experiences would come back to me as I walked across campus. Many of the things we did, especially Porter Miller ‘65, Jack Moore ’66, Doug Hammond ’65, Dick Morrow ‘65, and yes, me, always would bring a smile when remembered. I enjoyed seeing many of you return to campus for visits during those years.

Your visits would spark more memories of class activities and experiences. Many times the flash backs were so vivid, so real, and seemingly not so long ago. It was great to see some of your children attend Otterbein and carry on the legacy that is so important to the ‘Bein. The changes in the institution over the forty years that most of you only heard about, I lived them. I consider myself extremely blessed to have served Otterbein College, sorry, not University, but College, for so long.

As we know, we can change and overcome a lot of things, but we can’t change or overcome TIME. Our son, Chad, graduated from Otterbein, played and coached for me. Our daughter, Amanda, cheered for my teams, graduated and worked several years at Otterbein. Ellen attended most all games and events and, after 40 years, it was time to do something else. Since retirement in 2012, Ellen and I have traveled the country in a motor coach and no longer concern ourselves with being on a schedule. After all is said and done, after all the great changes at Otterbein, after all the awards, after the failures, after the passing of the youth years, I now have four years of college memories and an additional 40 years of memories from working at Otterbein. Who would have thought this year, the 50th year alumni class watching the 2015 graduating class march to graduation, would be US…………………….. and so soon…….

On a closing note, having worked at Otterbein for as long as I did, I want my classmates to know how important you all are to the institution we love. Over the years your visits, support, concerns, understandings of changes, your legacies of family and many other things, all make Otterbein what it is. All those memories we share revolve around people. People made Otterbein special to us in the 60s and people make it special now. As a retired Professor Emeritus of Health and Sports Sciences, Athletic Director and Basketball Coach, please allow me to say thank you for your love and devotion to Otterbein College.

Joyce Rugh Miller 752 Laura Drive Marion, OH 43302 740-389-5035 joejoycemiller@frontier.com

Spouse:

Joe Miller ‘64

Children:

Timothy and David

Grandchildren:

Alesha (17), twins Breanna and Brittany (9), Isaac (13) and Emma (10)

I, a farm girl from Creston, Ohio, entered Otterbein in the fall of 1961 with a sense of purpose, aspiring to become a teacher. I walked down the sidewalk to Towers Hall while looking up at its ivy-covered brick and pointed spires, and felt a sense of awe and excitement. I would make the most of my educational opportunity as new worlds opened to me. One of my favorite courses was Mrs. Frank’s humanities class where my “culturally deprived” mind opened to the world of art in painting, sculpture and architecture. I shared in the music of the Women’s Glee Club as we sang under Prof. Lee Shackson’s direction. Our efforts were rewarded on memorable tours to Florida and Colorado as we sang concerts and filled the bus with song along the way.

Graduation meant my dream of being a teacher was coming true. At Otterbein, I also met my sweetheart, Joe Miller ‘64. We married in August 1965, and lived in Dayton the next two years. There, Joe finished his studies at United Theological Seminary, and I taught first grade in the Dayton City Schools. In 1967, Joe graduated and we moved to his first church appointment at Mount Carmel, near Bellevue, Ohio. I taught both primary music and kindergarten in the Bellevue Schools. I left teaching when our first child, David, was born, and returned later as a substitute when our two boys entered school.

We have lived in several communities within the United Methodist West Ohio Conference over the years. Substitute teaching enabled me to be more active within our churches, helping at times with teaching Sunday school or Bible studies, assisting the women’s group, working on mission projects and other events. I was always involved in music, my first love, playing piano or organ, participating in vocal and bell choirs, sometimes directing adult or children’s choirs. I also sang in and later accompanied the conference-wide Singing Wives of Ministers Choir.

Volunteering helped us connect to the community as well. Over the years, I helped with PTA and Band Boosters projects as well as being a den leader in Cub Scouts, and at some point, a member of a women’s volleyball team, a local barbershop group and the Convoy Research Club. I always served as a substitute teacher, giving me connections with local schools.

We enjoy traveling and have covered most of the states over the years. In 1999, we enjoyed our first international trip to the Holy

Land. It was so exciting to walk in the footsteps of Jesus! Later, we followed Paul’s journey to Rome which included Greece, Malta, Sicily and Italy. Three years ago, we traveled to Alaska and hopefully will complete a trip to Hawaii this year. Closer to home, we enjoy our cottage at Lakeside on Marblehead Peninsula.

Our son, Timothy, lives in Ocala, Florida, with his wife, Denise, and their children, Alesha (17), and twins Breanna and Brittany (9). He manages two Arby restaurants which are franchises within Denise’s family.

Our son, David, is also a United Methodist pastor. He lives with his wife, Krista, and their children, Isaac (13) and Emma (10) in Edon, Ohio, in the extreme northwest corner of the state.

Joe retired in 2010, and I followed in 2011.

We live in Marion, Ohio, and find time to work out at the Y. He calls on church shut-ins and volunteers at the hospital. I am active in adult music groups at church and direct the elementary age children in singing and playing color-coded bells. I have also discovered a new interest in writing, inspired by an OSU senior citizens writing seminar from which some of us started a writer’s club. I have written on different topics, but am trying to zero in on stories from my life experiences, traditions and changing ways of living with a bit of early generation history. I hope it will become a legacy to my family.

Howard G. Russell 1213 Cambridge Street Natrona Heights, PA 15065

Spouse:

Kathy Stanley Russell ‘65

Children:

Kristin ‘91 (1969) married to Eric Rinehart Allison (1971) married to Matthew Kindler

Grandchildren:

Jacob (19), Christopher (16), Rachel (13) and Joshua (10)

Otterbein College was my first choice early in high school. I knew about OC from my church and also one of the ministers graduated from Otterbein. In the summer after graduation, I was invited to an Otterbein party for students from Pennsylvania at the home of Marge Lloyd Trent ’65 near Pittsburgh. I met my wife at the party and some lifelong friends. I knew this was the right choice.

After graduation, I joined the Army and went to Officer’s Candidate School in Kentucky. I was commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant. In the summer of 1966 after graduation, Kathy and I were married and moved to Fort Jackson, South Carolina, where I began my tour of duty. In July 1967, I was deployed to Vietnam for one year.

After the Army, I entered Pittsburgh Theological Seminary to begin studies for the ministry.

Our first child, Kristin, was born in 1969 and Allison was born in 1971. I graduated from seminary in 1972 and was called to the Methodist Church in Bradford, Pennsylvania, as an associate pastor. We loved Bradford even though it snowed from October until April. I was a member of the minister’s chorus which sang at different Methodist churches in the conference. I was ordained in 1973.

In 1975, I was called to Johnstown, Pennsylvania, to the Ferndale United Methodist Church.

We stayed there five years. We enjoyed getting together with our minister friends because many of them went to Otterbein. In 1980, we moved to Brackenridge U.M.C., near Pittsburgh, and stayed there for seven years. While there, I was chairman of the Christian Union Concerns Commission. My wife and I started an after-school program with supper at the church for the children of the community. My interest in pastoral care led to beginning classes for chaplain certification. My first class was led by Ralph Ciampa ‘63 in Cumberland, Maryland. I took another C.P.E. class at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and also the VA hospital in Pittsburgh.

In 1987, I was called to Baldwin Community U.M.C., Pittsburgh, to be the associate of pastoral care and education. At Baldwin, I started a support group for wives of servicemen who were deployed to Iraq. In 1993, I was called to Springdale U.M.C., Springdale, Pennsylvania.

After two years, I decided to pursue more training in pastoral work and chaplaincy. I attended classes at Pittsburgh Seminary and Pittsburgh Pastoral Institute. During that time, I helped out at Ingomar U.M.C. for a year and Irwin U.M.C. for a year. We moved to Natrona Heights and I became the chaplain coordinator for the Association of Churches at Allegheny Valley Hospital. I also volunteered in a head and neck cancer unit at University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, I took an early retirement in 2003 from the Methodist Church due to an auto accident which left me with critical injuries and much rehabilitation. I still continued working as the chaplain coordinator and in 2006 was hired as a chaplain at the Family Hospice and Palliative Care. I worked there until 2013. I continue to volunteer at the local hospital, am active in Grace U.M.C., on committees as well as singing in the choir.

My favorite thing about retirement is our grandchildren. It is the joy of my life to see them grow into wonderful children and teens. I am so proud of them. I have learned about wrestling, and have enjoyed all the games of football, soccer and softball. Recently, I attended a pinewood derby event for our Cub Scout, Joshua, and a high school robotics competition in which Christopher participated. Our oldest, Jacob, is a freshman at the University of Toledo, majoring in chemical engineering and Rachel loves music. She sings, dances, composes, plays the sax and guitar and loves to be in musicals.

Our daughter, Kristin, graduated from Otterbein with a degree in psychology and earned her master’s in social work from the University of Pittsburgh. She is the director of behavioral health services at Muskingum Health Centers. She lives in Zanesville with her husband, Eric, and family.

Our daughter, Allison, attended Carlow College and has an associate’s degree in psychology as a psychology technician and is a certified nurse’s aide. She volunteers at the local school and is a stay-at-home mom. Her husband, Matthew, is an engineer and they live in Lower Burrell, Pennsylvania.

We are looking forward to the reunion and to be back with our friends at Otterbein.

David Ralph Samson 1336 Astoria Parkway Catawba, NC 28609 828-478-9696/774-287-1014 (cell) drsamson@aol.com

Spouse:

Colleen Graff Samson

Children:

Mark, Gregory, Megan, Carl, David II

Grandchildren:

Zachary, Tim, Ryan, Reaghan, Kylie, Anna, Tristan, Ava, Mia, Ian and Isa

Today: I’ve been married to Rev. Colleen Graff Samson for 33 years. We live on a beautiful lake north of Charlotte, North Carolina, and as a licensed minister, I serve with my wife in the United Church of Christ. Our adult children are all married and live in Boston, various parts of Connecticut, and Jacksonville Florida. I recently underwent a bone marrow (stem cell) transplant at the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, and am still regaining my stamina.

Yesteryear: Graduating from Otterbein and receiving a commission in the Air Force were dreams come true! A week after graduation, I received news that I had been accepted to the Syracuse University Graduate School and was awarded a teaching fellowship that would pay full tuition and a stipend to cover room and board. I graduated from Syracuse with a master’s in interpersonal and organizational communication and was accepted into their Ph.D. program. I started course work toward my doctorate, but the Air Force had other ideas.

I was called to active duty in December 1967. As a junior officer, I served in various personnel, training, and tactical planning positions at Lackland AFB Texas, Phan Rang AB RVN, and Upper Heyford AB England. I was promoted through U.S. Air Force middle management positions at Ramstein AB Germany, Offutt AFB Nebraska, F.E. Warren AFB Wyoming, and March AFB California. I served as chief personnel planner for tactical and contingency operations of U.S. Air Forces in Europe, served as aide-de-camp to the 4-star Commander of U.S.A.F. in Europe and moved with him when he was reassigned as Commander Strategic Air Command. As a senior officer, I served as 15th Air Force Director of Inspections where I formulated policy and procedures for six air divisions with 21 bases. I was privileged to command Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) units at squadron, group, and wing levels. I commanded our nation's ICBM university and my last assignment was director of combat operations for 20th Air Force at Vandenberg AFB California. I retired in September 1992 in the grade of Colonel.

Military awards earned included the Legion of Merit, Bronze Star, Meritorious Service Medal (3 OLC), and the Air Force Commendation Medal.

Upon retirement from the Air Force, we moved to Powell, Ohio, where I founded Samson Consulting Service, Inc. We specialized

in leadership and management alignment, organizational structure, senior management development, succession planning, and provided management consultation to restructuring and growing organizations. In 1997, I joined a large computer consulting firm to lead their education line of business. We provided high-level technical training to mid and large size enterprises. I founded a Corporate Learning Center serving companies such as Wendy’s International, The Limited, Bank One and Nationwide Insurance.

Quite honestly, I didn’t care for the corporate environment, even though the compensation was amazing. So in 2001, when we moved to Claremont, California, for Colleen to complete her master of divinity degree, I entered the non-profit social service arena. I was hired to be the founding director of the Pomona Access to Social Services which served the homeless population of the greater Pomona, California, area. We established a unified service delivery system to provide client assessment; mental, substance abuse and domestic violence counseling; as well as medical assessments and shelter/housing placement through five non-profit agencies under one roof.

When Colleen graduated, we felt called to the Boston, Massachusetts, area. While there I was a senior project manager with the South Middlesex Non-Profit Housing Corporation in Framingham, Massachusetts. We purchased “distressed” (read old, run down) homes and totally rehabbed them to provide housing for low income single persons and small families. I secured federal, state and private funding for the projects then negotiated with, hired and oversaw architects and general contractors to complete the projects.

In 2009, we moved to North Carolina when Colleen was called to pastor a church in Claremont, North Carolina. I started a course of theological studies with a desire to answer a life-long call of possible ordained ministry. I was accepted into the United Church of Christ (UCC) Pastoral Leadership Development Program and completed half the required courses.

Then I was diagnosed with myelodysplastic syndrome, a blood cancer. I started low dose chemo in March 2014 to prepare me for a blood marrow transplant. I entered the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida and received my transplant October 29th. As of this writing, I’m at day +100 post-transplant and hope to be headed back home to North Carolina in a couple of weeks.

Jane Schoepke Stolzenburg 5144 Cavalier Drive Hilliard, OH 43026 614-771-9827 jstolzen@earthlink.net

Children:

Mark (1972) and Kristine (1978)

Grandchildren:

Sasha (2013)

In August, 1965, I married and began my primary teaching career with a first and second grade combined class in Springfield, Illinois. I then taught a second grade class inner city Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and a first grade back in Springfield. Moving to St. Charles, Missouri, I taught a first, second, third combined class at a Lutheran school for one year and second grade for two years at a public school.

I was very fortunate to be home for 15 years in Missouri raising our two adopted children.

Unlike the mid 60s, returning to Columbus in the late 80s was not a good time to look for a teaching job due to an abundance of teachers.

However, after substitute teaching for ten years, along with the privilege of teaching a Lutheran kindergarten class three days a week for seven years in Milford Center, Ohio, I ended up with a kindergarten class in Columbus Schools for eight years. I retired and then tutored for Columbus three more years.

My son is a mechanic and lives north of Marysville, Ohio, with his two Jack Russell terriers.

My daughter, a social worker, is now married and raising their son in Denver, Colorado.

I have enjoyed an Otterbein travel buddy, Joaline Crow Mathias ’65, to tour several states, Vancouver and Quebec, Canada and two cruises. I also enjoy numerous volunteer opportunities at my church.

I am indebted to Otterbein for allowing me to enter Otterbein two years after high school. I graduated from Columbus Business University after a oneyear course and worked for a year at an insurance company in Columbus. I thought there had to be more to life, so applied to Otterbein where my brother had graduated in 1957.

Diana Shawd Ball 6010 Hickory Grove Lane Port Orange, FL 32128

Spouse:

Nick Ball

Children:

Jessica and Abigail

Grandchildren:

Luke, Xia, Sam and Alice

Otterbein prepared me well for a productive life. It started in Ohio where I taught music, grades K-12, at South Amherst Schools. There I met and married a teacher/basketball coach.

We had two girls before moving to Florida.

Most of my teaching was done in Daytona Beach, Florida, where I taught junior high chorus and hand bells. Besides teaching, I also worked for mostly Methodist churches, directing chancel choirs, youth choirs, hand bell choirs and playing piano for church services. I also sang with the Daytona Beach Choral Society an Bel Canto Singers.

I was privileged to attend the Methodist annual conferences and participated in two mission trips. One trip was to Panama Viejo, Panama, the other to Belize City.

God carried me through this exciting life, but He had more to attend to. In 1991, I was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. I lost sight in my right eye and what was left of my hearing. As a result of the MS, I suffered continued problems with my balance. As a result of these health issues, I retired from public school teaching in 1993.

Thankfully, I’ve been blessed with bilateral cochlear implants that brought my hearing close to normal. I also use a rollator which I call “Ellie,” and my doctors feel I’m doing well.

My family, besides my husband, Nick, includes daughter, Jessica, who just received a master’s degree in occupational therapy. She has a 16 year-old son named Luke and a ten year-old daughter, adopted from China, named Xia. Our younger daughter, Abigail, and her husband, Mike, have a six year-old son named Sam and a four year-old daughter, Alice. Abbi has a master’s degree in computer library science and is currently studying to be a nurse.

My life has been full and rewarding thanks to my fond memories and experiences at Otterbein.

Mary Alice Showalter Smith 1415 Edinburgh Drive Troy, OH 45373 937-552-7392/937-829-6675 (cell) drma07@woh.rr.com

Spouse:

Dale Smith ‘64

Children:

Greg and Alicia

Grandchildren:

Mya, Aidan, Max

Although I only attended Otterbein for one year, I value that year especially because that is where I met my husband, Dale. We met freshman orientation week. He was helping as Student Senate president and I was checking health records of incoming students. I had previously received my associate’s degree in nursing at the University of Indianapolis, and was employed as an R.N. in Otterbein’s student health center. I roomed in the dorm, but every other night worked the night shift at the health center. During the day, I took psychology/sociology classes that could be credited toward a B.S. in nursing that I intended to obtain the next year at Indiana University. Otterbein did not offer a nursing program at that time.

Dale and I found ourselves in the same sociology class and he asked if I would be his partner in a project to determine the feasibility of a health clinic in the town of Westerville. We spent many hours working on this “most worthy” project and grew to know and enjoy each other more and more.

Our first two dates were to the Wittenberg football game and a concert by The Lettermen. Because I wouldn’t even hold his hand, he felt I wasn’t interested and we drifted apart for a few weeks. But because I knew he was someone special, I became quite assertive and asked him to the upcoming Panhellenic dance. I knew he was already going with someone else, but I wanted to show him that I was indeed interested. Can’t believe I chased him! I went to the dance with another date, but the night after that, we became a steady couple. It paid off to “CHASE”.

And...we received an “A” on our project.

During my year at Otterbein, I enjoyed Talisman sorority and met delightful friends. Last year, Dale and I attended his 1964 Otterbein reunion and it was a treasure to see “old” friends and relive college days.

After graduation, Dale entered United Theological Seminary in Dayton, Ohio, and the following June 1965, we were married in my home in Indianapolis, Indiana. It was fun to spend three years with him in seminary (one year internship in Lemoyne, Pennsylvania) in apartment/dormlike living. At least two couples in this Otterbein Class of 1965 were special friends in seminary.

During Dale’s 41 years in ministry, we raised two children and I returned to finally complete my B.S. in nursing at Penn State University. I acquired a master’s in nursing with an emphasis in community nursing at LaRoche College, north of Pittsburgh. I have loved my nursing

career and have appreciated many diverse areas including hospital, pediatric office, teaching and public health nursing. Never boring, and mainly stimulating, work.

In 2005, Dale and I both retired and moved from western Pennsylvania to Troy, Ohio, to be closer to our grandchildren (and our kids). Our son, daughter and son-in-law are employed in the undergraduate teaching field. We feel blessed to be close enough to family to attend many of their activities and to enjoy their ever-changing growth and development.

Dale and I value traveling, serving in our church and striving to leave a legacy to our family and world. Like many of you, this June will be our 50th wedding anniversary. We are excited to be planning a Disney Park and cruise celebration with our family.

Emily Ann Smith 2078 Northcliff Drive Columbus, OH 43229 614-436-8699 easmith65@aol.com

Just ten days after our graduation, I was back in school, this time on a large university campus two states away. One year later, I had completed my master’s degree in library science from the University of Illinois. My job with the Columbus Public Schools brought me back to Ohio and the Westerville area. The first three years were in the inner city, a real education for a small-towner. Next came 14 years at a junior high on the edge of Worthington and Upper Arlington with economically-advantaged students. When the system switched to middle schools, I soon decided I would prefer high school for my final thirteen years.

Having summers off allowed me to relax and continue to travel as my parents and I had on our annual vacations. I visited school friends and family as well as fun and educational sites. Trips with Otterbein included Switzerland and 10 Cardinal Migrations. Also, I enjoyed many Otterbein Summer Theatre productions and several years of Alumni College.

The past 19 years of retirement brought experiences I never imagined. The first few years were filled with travel, but then came a trying 18 months—discovering my boyfriend dead of a heart attack, a fistula implant, cataract surgeries and kidney dialysis. On March 10, 2001, I got “the call” that a kidney was available. Just four days in the hospital and before long I was ready to have a normal life. Within a couple of years, I began volunteering at Lifeline of Ohio, the local organ procurement organization, working health fairs and doing office work plus being an active member of their transplant support group. Two years ago, Lifeline began Shawls of Support which provides knitted and crocheted shawls to the families of organ donors. My knitting skills, learned from my college roommate Kay Armstrong Miller, have been put to good use.

Since my transplant, I have played organ for a retirement home and been a substitute organist at several churches. One year of lessons with Jack Wright’s ‘65 dad, a couple semesters of non-credit lessons at Otterbein, and a lifetime of church services led to my present position as organist for a very small Presbyterian church whose members are mostly in their 80s.

Over the years, I’ve tried many types of needlework, but knitting is my favorite. I’ve collected tote bags, baskets and paperweights with sheep as the current frontrunner.

I never could have imagined how many ways my days at Otterbein would help prepare a small town preacher’s kid for a career chosen as a ninth-grader as well as open the door to so many other experiences.

Ella Snyder Thurston 2026 Micanopy Trail Nokomis, FL 34275 941-488-5710 Wash12325@yahoo.com

Spouse:

John A. Thurston ‘66

Children:

Barbara (1968) and Jack (1972)

Grandchildren:

Paul (19), Sam (14), Michael (13) Catherine (10) and Alex (10) Ella’s Travels

The middle of January1965, I finished student teaching on Friday and the following Monday, I started teaching home economics at Fort Frye School in Beverly, Ohio. I taught there for two and one half years. In 1967, I married John A. Thurston ‘66. We moved to Austin, Texas, for a year where John studied meteorology, thanks to the Air Force, and I did substitute teaching, especially on days when the roads were icy.

From Texas we moved to Alconbury, England, where John was chief weather officer. Five Otterbein graduates were there at the same time.

On free days in England, we traveled or did brass rubbings. The brasses were on old estates that had private churches or chapels. Other brasses were found in the town churches. We came back to the U.S. with over 100 mounted and framed rubbings.

Our travels were mainly done in a VW Beetle. Short trips took us to Scotland, Wales, and around England. Longer vacations took us to Netherlands, Germany, Italy, Austria and France.

Our daughter, Barbara, was born in England in 1968.

Her college degrees include a B.S. in animal science from the University of Illinois, an M.A. from University of Kentucky in bovine nutrition and a Ph.D. from Virginia Tech in bio-chemistry.

After four years in England, we moved back to the United States ending up north of Chicago where John took a job working as a meteorologist.

Our son, Jack, was born in 1972. He has a degree from Southern Illinois University in aviation flight management.

John changed jobs in 1975 and I returned to the work force working for Marshall Field’s Restaurant Division

first in downtown Chicago as a food production manager and then as a restaurant manager in Field’s Hawthorn Center Store. I worked for Fields for five years.

Wanting to get back into the schools, I took a job as an aid in the library media center at Carl Sandburg Middle School in Mundelein, Illinois. There were no home economics jobs available at this time. In fact, most schools in the area had eliminated home economics and industrial arts. After a few years, the school district offered to send me to Northern Illinois University to have my certificate endorsed in library science. I was given the job of library media director at Carl Sandburg Middle School in Mundelein. In 2003, I retired after 25 years in education. By this time our children were married and moved to different ends of the country. We moved to Florida.

In 1984 we purchased our first of four Winnebago motor homes. Since that time, we have been in every state in the United States and most of the providences of Canada including a six-hour, one-way ferry ride to Newfoundland. The grandchildren loved some of the trips. .

Our grandchildren: Paul (19), Sam (14), Michael (13), Catherine (10), and Alex (10)

Rosemary Snyder Harper 312 Mendenhall Drive Wilmington, NC 28411 910-686-5554/440-241-0204 (cell) paulandrosemary@yahoo.com

Spouse:

Paul F. Olehoeft

Children:

Darryl, Byron and Kevin Harper, Jeffrey and Debra Olhoeft ‘91

I grew up in Euclid, Ohio during the 1950s with a younger sister and brother. After working and saving, and with student loans, I was fortunate to attend Otterbein College, getting a B.S. degree in elementary education. My experience at Otterbein was one of the best times in my life, where I learned to become a more outgoing individual, less shy.

I married a teacher shortly after graduation and taught sixth grade in Mentor, Ohio, for two years. When the first of three baby boys arrived, I chose to become a homemaker and stay-athome mom, keeping busy gardening, preserving food, making the family clothes and church activities. I also joined a PanHellenic group for sorority women. We raised money for scholarships for high school girls in Chardon, Ohio. It was a privilege to be president one year.

(Un)fortunately, after the in-laws moved in, the marriage did not survive. Around this time I suffered a hearing loss, my teaching certificate expired and there were no available teaching positions. Luckily, the state of Ohio had a program for “hearing-impaired displaced homemakers” which enabled me to get a master’s degree in biology at Kent State University. The summer of graduation, I worked on my degree at Argonne National Laboratory near Chicago, and wrote a paper on the environmental impact of oil drilling on American Indian lands.

Being single was both fun and challenging and I worked in some interesting jobs as well as meeting many interesting people. During these seven years, I was instrumental in forming a singles group for those interested in cultural activities.

In Akron, I obtained a position as an interpreter at an 1850s historical farm, demonstrating gardening, candle-making and soap-making. Next was a summer research position at Cuyahoga Valley National Park, mapping the endangered species within the park. I continued as a researcher at Women’s Network in Akron, and at Davey Tree Service, in Kent, mapping a tree identification project for Los Angeles County, California.

I met Paul Olhoeft in 1982, we married in 1985 and I became a member of a large, wonderful family.

Switching from biology to chemistry, I took a position as senior lab technician at Mac Tac Morgan Adhesive Co in Stow Ohio, formulating and testing new pressure-sensitive adhesives.

Paul’s employer B.F. Goodrich transferred us to Wilmington, North Carolina, in 1991. The Cooperative Extension Service of New Hanover County provided classes on gardening in the South and was encouraging and supportive when I started a nursery business. I found owning and operating The Picket Fence Garden to be challenging and rewarding. I sold the business and retired in 2002 after 10 years.

I became a member of the Wilmington Newcomers Club and later the FAN club, serving as president one year.

Wilmington is a great place to live. It includes beaches, flowers blooming all year, (especially the azaleas in the spring), many good restaurants, great people and no snow. (We don’t mention the hurricanes or summer heat.)

We are both retired now and do some traveling especially to visit the children and grandkids.

Meanwhile I work out three days a week, enjoy reading, gardening, sewing, photography and scrapbooking and, foremost, playing bridge with Paul.

Kathy Stanley Russell 1213 Cambridge Street Natrona Heights, PA 15065

Spouse:

Howard Russell ‘65

Children:

Kristin A. Russell Rinehart ‘91 and Allison L. Russell Kindler

Grandchildren:

Jacob (19), Christopher (16) and Rachel (13) Rinehart Joshua (10) Kindler

In 1961, I arrived at Otterbein College, excited as well as being scared.

But having two great roommates and great new friends in Cochran Hall, it became like home. I had heard that OC was a very friendly campus, and it was true. I started my studies at Lambert Hall to pursue my music degree.

The professors were outstanding and supportive. I majored in organ and minored in piano with a music education degree. Dr. Paul Frank was my piano professor and taught me not only music, but about life and learning.

When I graduated, I taught elementary music in the Churchill School District in Pittsburgh, PA. Howard was in the Army that year, and we got married in August 1966. We moved to South Carolina where Howard was stationed and I pursued substitute teaching in Columbia, South Carolina.

In June 1967, Howard was deployed to Vietnam for a year. I moved home to Pennsylvania and taught middle and high school music at Apollo School District as well as teaching private piano lessons.

In April of 1969, Kristin was born and in September, Howard began seminary at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary. I taught piano and was a substitute organist.

In 1972, we moved to Bradford, Pennsylvania, where Howard began his ministry. I again started a piano studio, as well as directing a cherub choir in the church. Moving to Johnstown, Pennsylvania, in 1975, I did long-term subbing, as well as piano and organ lessons, and had a job playing the organ.

I belonged to the Johnstown Music Club and became president of the group. I accompanied a voice soloist at many programs and presented recitals with her and other musicians.

In 1980, we moved to Brackenridge, Pennsylvania, and again I opened a piano studio. I did long-term subbing at a private school. I became the organist and choir director at the church, as well as starting a children’s choir. Howard and I also started a children’s after-school program. Our church was given a special award for our community program. In 1987, we moved to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. There I opened a piano studio, directed the children’s choir and was hired as a music teacher at Winchester Thurston School. I was also the music director of the high school musicals for 14 years and the middle school for 11 years. I directed the elementary choir as well as the orchestra.

Both performed at many area organizations, as well as The School for the Blind on their concert series.

While teaching at WT, I was chosen to serve on the Pittsburgh Symphony Education Committee. Selected teachers from the Pittsburgh area helped develop lesson plans and themes for school time concerts. The plans were sent to the schools who attended the concerts.

I retired after 21 years at Winchester Thurston School, and a graduate from Otterbein, Janna Lettan ‘03, was hired to take my place.

I work at a local music day camp in June teaching Orff instruments. It’s a wonderful experience teaching such talented musicians ages 6 to 17 years. Two of my grandchildren, Rachel and Joshua, attend every summer.

Retirement led me to join the Tuesday Musical Club in Pittsburgh and I am the membership chairman. I am a member of the piano division and the choral division which entertains at different homes for the aged in the Pittsburgh area. I will be playing a piano solo for the piano group this April.

Our oldest daughter, Kristin, graduated from Otterbein in 1991 with a degree in psychology and graduated from the University of Pittsburgh with a master’s in social work. She if the director of behavioral health services at Muskingum Valley Health Centers and her husband, Eric, works at the Six County Psychology Corp. They reside in Zanesville, Ohio.

Our daughter, Allison, attended Carlow University and has an associate’s degree as a psychology technician and a certified nurse’s aide. She lives in Lower Burrell, Pennsylvania, and volunteers at the local school. Her husband is an engineer at Acutron Corp.

Although retired, I am the organist/choir director at Grace U.M.C. and have been there for 16 years. I volunteer at the Agape Thrift Shop at the church. But my favorite activity is spending time with our grandchildren. We love attending their Scout activities, music concerts, football, soccer, softball games and award assemblies. The oldest, Jacob, is a freshman at the University of Toledo. Our grandchildren are a real joy and blessing.

Jim Stott 9055 Erle Blunden Way Fair Oaks, CA 95628 916-988-5505/916-539-9738 (cell) jcs9055@comcast.net

Spouse:

Charlotte Stott Following graduation I spent the next six months doing odd jobs waiting go on active duty in the Air Force. In January 1966, I entered navigator training at Mather Air Force Base in Sacramento, California. My first operational assignment sent me to Vietnam for twelve months.

I was very fortunate as I got to see parts of Southeast Asia and gain experience. Returning to the States, I was assigned to Louisiana, where I met the girl of my dreams and soon to be wife, Charlotte. Following my Air Force career, we retired and settled in Sacramento, California.

I worked for several years as an Apple Macintosh computer consultant. Macs in an IBM environment mix like oil and water, so it proved to be very interesting. Funny how things turn out in the long run.

Charlotte got me interested in her hobby of scale miniature dollhouses. This led to our building a scale model San Francisco Victorian dollhouse, which covered a desktop. This process took close to ten years, but as an artisan one can only work when the spirit moves you. We sold this house several years ago at auction for close to five thousand dollars. We were very proud of our efforts.

We moved Charlotte’s mother to Sacramento after the death of her husband where she lived happily in assisted living. Charlotte was traveling a great deal for her job, so I became the prime caregiver for the next ten years. During this period, I gained great insight into the American healthcare system.

I also found I really enjoyed cooking and continue that pursuit today.

Charlotte was the chief marketing officer for an insurance company, which used travel to incentivize sales. This resulted in some wonderful international trips that served as the basis for our current travel adventures. We have sailed the Seven Seas more than once and visited countries from Iceland to Antarctica. The bucket list is far from empty and the adventures continue as we set sail for Russia in August.

David Stricker 12000 Turnmeyer Drive Apt. 1120 Huntsville, AL 35803 ddavstr@hotmail.com

Spouse:

Gaye Rowswell Stricker (deceased)

Children:

Christine, Rundlett, Karen Manspeaker and Jeffrey (deceased)

Grandchildren:

Noah, Macki, Sayler, Gunter and Gavin

I started at Otterbein in the fall of 1958. Not sure where I was going in life. I dropped out and joined the Army in 1962. I served three years as a medic, then returned in the fall of 1964 to graduate in the spring of 1965.

I then went to seminary at Philadelphia Divinity School and graduated with a master’s of divinity degree in 1968. I was ordained that year as an Episcopal priest and served two churches in the diocese of Pittsburgh. After seven years, I accepted a call to a rural ministry in Delaware. I was recruited and commissioned as a chaplain in the Delaware Guard in 1975.

I accepted a call to serve a three-year tour as active duty Army in 1982. I was first assigned to Fort Rucker, AL. I loved it as did my wife, Gaye, and our three children. We then changed to regular Army serving an extended tour. We served in Bamberg, Germany, attended Command and General Staff College at Fort Levenworth, then on to the First Division at Fort Riley. I deployed with them to Desert Storm.

In 1992, I was called to the Military Academy at West Point for five years, then assigned to 7th ATC in Germany. My last assignment was Fort Jackson, South Carolina. I retired from the Army the summer of 2001 as Chaplain LTC, and returned to parish ministry in Dillon, South Carolina. I retired again in 2007, due to my wife’s health. She died in 2014.

Awards and decorations include the Legion of Merit, Bronze Star, Msm(5) ARCOM, plus. I was selected as Veteran of the Year in Dillon County, SC, in 2007.

I am, and have been, serving as volunteer clergy at a local church in Huntsville.

Stephen W. Surface 17610 Deweys Run Lane Dumfries, VA 22026-4546 703-221-7189 sinfteve@outlook.com

Spouse:

Sinfrosa Garay

Children:

two daughters

Grandchildren:

four

Prior to my senior year at Otterbein, I married Suzanne MacDonald ‘65, also a student at Otterbein in 1964. We had one daughter and divorced in 1978. Following graduation in June 1965 with a B.S. in chemistry, I went to graduate school at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. Although my intent was to earn a Ph.D. in chemistry, events led to a M.A. degree five years later. From there I moved to Hawaii in 1970 because I had vacationed there and loved the environment and people. Hawaii was my home for the next 31 years.

I went to the University of Hawaii and earned a certificate to teach secondary school in mathematics and sciences, since technical jobs were largely unavailable there. I did start out teaching on the leeward coast, but soon landed another position as a federal employee working with the Navy in 1971. My federal career concluded 41 years later in my current location near Washington, D.C. Folks said the Navy was an adventure and not a job and my experiences verified that. Originally my efforts developed an environmental baseline for Pearl Harbor as a part of the emerging environmental interest in the U.S., and subsequent career paths crossed different technical areas. I wrote a manual for Naval shore facilities world-wide on how to produce a steam quality for ships while in port that would allow a rapid departure if needed. I then became involved in potable water development on an (then remote) atoll in the Indian Ocean, Diego Garcia, that resulted in a sustainable water supply for the population there and also publications in several journals and magazines. In the meantime in Hawaii, I married Sinfrosa Garay from the Philippines in 1978 and we have two daughters, now both married with two children each.

I accepted a promotion at the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA), the defense agency that buys nearly all the consumable supplies for the Services, as a chief for environmental in 1990. After reorganizations, I became a chief for installation services providing support services in several technical areas to Pacific locations. I travelled to more than 25 countries and was more familiar with many Asian cities than with US cities. Perhaps the highlight of this period was I became the lead to establish facilities in foreign areas where Navy ships could offload their hazardous wastes after the U.S. bases closed in the Philippines due to the Pinatubo volcanic eruption, and did establish facilities in Hong Kong and

Thailand. But the Hawaiian adventures came to an end when I came back to the Washington, D.C. area on a one year assignment to the Potomac Electric Power Company and to the Pentagon in 2000.

After this assignment was completed, my career continued at Ft. Belvoir, Virginia, with the Defense National Stockpile Center, part of the Defense Logistics Agency, which ensures supplies of critical and strategic materials are available for construction of platforms for defense needs. Notable accomplishments included development of environmental management systems for DLA activities leading efforts for the entire Department of Defense, and participation with NATO’s Science and Technology Group. My work with NATO was as a co-chair of a technical working group studying similar material requirements for NATO. I also was on the U.S. team to negotiate a world-wide convention to control mercury, a very toxic element. I presented before this audience of about 147 nations, the work my organization was doing with perhaps the largest stockpile of mercury in the world. But all things come to an end and I retired in May 2013.

My career with the federal government resulted in extensive traveling with over 325 trips, logging more than 2.5 million miles of flights, and being away almost 7.5 years. I credit my wife for providing the stability and ability to make our everyday life a very happy one.

I have received numerous awards throughout my career, but perhaps my most valued is the Distinguished Career Award given at my retirement.

Reflecting back on my life, the experiences I had at Otterbein gave me the core values as well as an excellent educational background that enabled me to adjust, adapt, perform, but more importantly, manage and work with people in a wide variety of experiences. Those values cannot be replaced. I really enjoyed everyday of my 41 years with the Department of Defense, but more importantly my family life.

John D. Taylor 113 E. 2nd Street Port Angeles, WA 98362 360-477-4062 threetaylors@wavecable.com

Spouse:

Rosalyn McRevey Taylor

Children:

Lori

I graduated from Otterbein with a B.S. in physics and math and no clear idea of what work I would undertake. By today’s standards, I sent out very few applications for employment, maybe a dozen, and waited for responses. Most of the applications went to aerospace firms and research labs. My first response came toward the end of summer, and this Ohio farm boy flew to California for an interview. I accepted the position with the Lawrence Berkeley Lab, Operated by the University of California. I arrived in Berkeley at the peak of the protests against the Vietnam War. Often my commute to work passed through the streets being featured on the evening news.

At first I worked with a crew that operated the liquid hydrogen bubble chamber at the lab’s big accelerator, the Bevatron. In my spare time, I took a sailing class and met Rosalyn McRevey.

We were married in Sept of 1966 and bought a house within walking distance of the lab. We enjoyed tent camping and explored much of the California coast near San Francisco Bay. By this time, I was working with a much smaller sub-group of physicists at the lab. My work had shifted from a rotating shift to daytime M-F. We were developing a detector for an elementary particle which we hoped would be found in the soil samples soon to be brought back from the moon by the Apollo astronauts. Still working for the Berkeley Lab, I commuted to Houston and spent about 6 months at the NASA facility there over about two years.

Rosalyn and I bought a wooded property near the ocean in Mendocino County, visiting there every couple weeks. At first we slept in our truck, then in a garden shed when it was raining, later we built a one room cabin; but listening to the sounds of nature at night in the great outdoors is one of my fond memories of that time. Around 1983 we began exploring adoption and our family grew by one 12 year old girl a year later.

Raising a pre-adolescent daughter made quite a dramatic shift in our lifestyle.

Up to that point, our social group included many antique collectors. I had edited a few newsletters for a merry-go -round group and we had worked on a national convention for music box collectors. We had moved once to a larger house to allow our collections to fit.

Those activities moved aside to make way for church and family.

Time moved on! I was involved in several interesting projects at work, working on teams that developed particle detectors for use at Stanford University and nearby SLAC, and at Fermi National Lab outside Chicago. My final project before retirement contributed to the Atlas detector at the LHC where the Higgs particle was identified. I served on the Physics Division’s safety committee and knew several Noble Prize winners on first name basis. After 35 years working for one employer, it was time to move on.

In 2001, we sold our house in Berkeley and “downsized” to a 40’ motor home. Escaping traffic jams and work schedules was a very pleasant result of retirement. During the next three years, we traveled through 42 states, 6 Canadian provinces, and the length of Baja California. In 2006, we moved to Port Angeles Washington, Rosalyn’s childhood hometown. Her mom was still living on her own and we wanted to be near her. Port Angeles is one of the gateways to Olympic National Park. We look out the living room window and see the Olympic Mountains.

Our dining room window overlooks the harbor where we see a variety of ships coming and going. That horizon spreads from Vancouver Island to Mount Baker. In the summer, we enjoy watching many cruise ships with their festive lighting, headed to or from Alaska.

Since the 1980s, my wife and I have both been actively involved in our local Presbyterian churches. For me, that has meant singing in choir and being on the governing board (Session).

I’ve been on a pastor search committee and chaired a search for interim pastor. Currently, I am coordinating lay worship services at a local retirement facility, occasionally giving sermons and presiding over The Lord’s Supper. Being in my early seventies, I am trying to imagine what the next decades hold in store for me.

Jean Thorndike Gould 3296 Norfolk Court Shelby Township, MI 48316

Spouse:

Todd Gould ‘64 (deceased)

Children:

Andrew, Stephanie, Christopher, Gregory

Grandchildren:

ten

Otterbein!!!!! I have many fond memories from the four years spent at Otterbein. The first would be the Zeta Phi guy, Todd Gould, that I met. We were married at the end of my junior year. We had four children and are blessed with ten grandchildren. For most of the 46 years we lived in the Rochester, Michigan area where Todd practiced internal medicine and rheumatology. He practiced for 35 years, but due to an illness, progressive supranuclear palsy, he was forced to retired in 2006. He passed away in 2010 at the age of 69, much too young. We were robbed of the golden years.

My second most treasured memories are the girls that I met. We have remained close friends for all of these years. We were sisters, Owls, on campus and are still hooting to this day. I also live close to Denny Daily ‘62 and Pam McIlroy ’64 Daily who have become like family. So here's to Becky, Becky, Jill, Lallie, Cindy, Bobbie, Heidi and Sue. Great friends!!!

Thirdly, my trip to Europe in 1962 with 20-22 students and Dr. and Mrs. Frank. We had a fantastic time. We learned a lot. We ate well, especially in the Normandy area. Dr. and Mrs. Frank were one of a kind, very special people.

Now I'm enjoying being a grandma. I play some tennis, golf, bridge, cook, and travel. I can't complain. Life is good---Thanks Otterbein!

Andy and his fiance

Chris and family

Greg and family

Stephanie and Katie

Nancy Torbush Shipley 264 Lehman Drive Cogan Station, PA 17728 570-326-4363 rnshipley@gmail.com

Spouse:

Roger Douglas Shipley ‘64

Children:

Jennifer, Jason, Bryan

Grandchildren:

Amelia, Ariana, Tyler

I have loved every part of my life. After growing up 20 miles from New York City, I traveled to Ohio in 1961 to the QPV. I learned so much those four years about myself as well as academics.

My teaching career was varied in locations and in students, starting in a large metropolitan area (Fairfax, VA) to a small blue-collar town (Pontiac, MI), a mid-sized rural city (Williamsport, PA), a tiny four-room country school, and culminating at an ungraded parent-run alternative school. You really do learn by doing.

Simultaneously, I lived an adventurous life with my husband, Roger. After his graduating in 1964 and doing graduate studies in art, he came back to Otterbein for a May Day Blind Date – me.

We’ve lived in north central Pennsylvania, Williamsport, as Roger has been a professor of art at Lycoming College for 43 years. We moved into a farmhouse with 10 acres surrounded by fields and woodland. Here our daughter and twin sons were born. We immersed ourselves in organic gardening and environmental awareness. We swam and skated on our pond and had to plow ourselves out in the winter. Eminent domain landlocked us for a highway and we became suburbanites. I worked at a regional bank and then a county library. Kids graduated from college. With Roger’s art, we all grew up at art exhibitions and galleries and traveling abroad and in the U.S. We now have four acres of woods and gardens to tend and still travel a lot. Ironically, all three children live back on the East Coast along the I-95 corridor, D.C., Virginia, and Florida, and lifetimes begin again. Perhaps the grandchildren will move to the country.

Carol Varner Kinzer 1963 N. 100 E North Logan, UT 84341 3100 S. Kinney Rd. #257 (Nov-April only) Tucson, AZ 85713 435-757-8051 harold.carol.kinzer@gmail.com Spouse:

Harold Kinzer

Children:

Jeff (1969) and Greg (1972)

After graduation I began M.A. studies in Spanish at Kent State University. I shared an apartment with Linda Snyder, another 1965 Otterbein graduate, who was in the Kent State speech master’s program. She introduced me to Harold Kinzer, a speech master’s student. I gained both an M.A. in Spanish and a husband.

In fall 1966, I began teaching Spanish at Lexington, Ohio, and Harold began service at Ft. Knox as an Army officer. We planned to marry in 1967, but planning is difficult in the Army.

Harold was transferred to Germany so we married in 1966. I joined him in Germany after completing a semester of teaching. We lived nearly two years in Schweinfurt, Germany.

After the Army we lived in Yankton, South Dakota, where Harold taught high school. Jeff was born there. Greg, our second son, was born in Columbus, Ohio, where Harold completed his Ph.D. at The Ohio State University.

For three years after OSU Harold taught at Trenton State, now College of New Jersey, where we lived across the river in Pennsylvania.

In 1975, we moved to North Logan, Utah. Harold was a department head at Utah State University. We raised our two sons in this high mountain valley and have lived there ever since. We enjoy our hobbies of hiking, camping, traveling, and cross country skiing.

When both sons were in elementary school I returned to teaching at Mt. Logan Middle School. I was head of the Title I program for two years. Then I began teaching 8th grade Spanish and chaired the foreign language department. I taught for 28 years. I co-authored a 6th grade language exploratory textbook. Twice I was recognized as district teacher of the year.

Jeff, our oldest son, has a Ph.D. from The Ohio State University and works as a pharmaceutical researcher for Janssen Pharmaceutical, a division of Johnson and Johnson.

His wife, Sharon, has an M.S.W. from Ohio State and an M.B.A. from George Washington University.

She is clinical director of a large mental health system in Pennsylvania. Both have B.A. degrees from Gonzaga University.

Greg, our other son, has a B.A. from Oberlin, an M.F.A. from Utah, and a Ph.D. from SUNYBuffalo and is head of the English Department at Austin College in Texas. His wife, Jiyoon, has an M.F.A. from Notre Dame and is a published poet and Korean language translator.

Since our 2008 retirement, we split our year between our Utah home and a small home in Tucson, Arizona. Obviously, we spend summers in our cool high mountain home in Utah and winters in our home in Tucson.

In retirement we continue our hobbies of travel, hiking, camping, and attending concerts and plays. We travel extensively with our RV and prefer camping in National Park and National Forest campgrounds. Each year we schedule a major trip to another country. We have traveled to Mexico, Central America, Canada, Turkey, and 18 European nations. A favorite trip was a 30-day river cruise from the North Sea to the Black Sea. We also loved our winter crosscountry skiing trip into Yellowstone National Park. For more than 20 years we made an annual climb to Angel’s Landing in Zion National Park, but decided that last year’s climb will be the last. We have attended two Cardinal Migrations. I enjoyed helping plan the Salt Lake Cardinal Migration in 2008.

Because of bad planning we will miss the reunion. We had booked a trip to Morocco and Spain before we realized that it conflicted with the reunion. We wish that we could join the reunion, but will have fun in Morocco.

Rebecca Wagner Hutchins 35 Messmer Road Sunapee, NH 03782 rwhutchins1@yahoo.com

Children:

Scott ‘90, Sean, Kathryn and Pete

Grandchildren:

Sydney, Lucas, Rebecca, Kelsey and Casey

50 years! Thanks, Otterbein, for my excellent French studies and my junior year spent in Strasbourg, France! I enjoyed 33 years teaching predominately French in Ohio, California, Alaska and New Hampshire. Although retired from teaching, I have resumed my passion for piano, playing and accompanying, on Sundays and holidays at my local church.

My most rewarding love through the years, however, has been enjoying my children and grandchildren. Son, Scott Kull ’90, a fifth generation-graduation of Otterbein, is presently athletic director at TCU in Fort Worth, Texas. Son, Sean Kull, is an optometrist in private practice in Bangor, Maine. Daughter, Kathryn Kull is the immigration specialist in human resources at Dartmouth Hitchcock Hospital in Lebanon, New Hampshire. Son, Pete Hutchins, is assistant director of admissions and head basketball coach at New Hampton School in New Hampton, New Hampshire.

Grandchildren, Sydney and Lucas, children of Kathryn and her husband, Brian, live minutes away. Rebecca, Kelsey and Casey, children of Sean and his wife, Paola, are in Bangor, Maine.

Being a French teacher gave me many opportunities to travel to Quebec, Canada,; New Orleans and France. I counted some 30 trips to Quebec with my students and could write a book on those experiences taking mostly 8th graders on those three to four day trips.

Although I still have the travel bug, I have been happy to travel within the U.S. of late. Living in rural Sunapee, New Hampshire, gardening, hiking, yoga and enjoying my two dogs and cat keep me happily entertained. Winters are great for snowshoeing and quilting and, living seven minutes from Lake Sunapee and the mountains, provide more than enough activities all year ‘round.

Jerry Lee Wassem 2715 Tara Trail Beavercreek, OH 45434 11 N. Esplanade St. Englewood, FL 34223 937-429-0347 (OH)/941-460-8929 (FL) jwassem@woh.rr.com

Spouse:

Suellen Cochrane Wassem ‘66

Children:

Heath and Heather

Grandchildren:

Carolyn, Paige, Shane

WOW!!!

It sure does not feel like it has been 50 years nor does it feel like we are that old!!

But the reality shows up every day in the form of aches and pains; and the realization we can no longer do many of the things we used to do and do them all day long as well! The ‘Remember When’ theme brings back memories of when we were at Otterbein…..…along with the freshmen beanies, tug of war, chapel twice a week, Greek activities, hay rides, ‘All Campus’ events, the Otter Mobile, Ken Ott Enterprises, ya da, ya da………Those were the days!!!!

After graduation, I petitioned the Air Force for a 12-month delay in entering active duty which was granted. I taught school for a year, took grad courses, and saved enough money to accumulate a marriage nest egg. In 1966, on Memorial Day weekend, I married my college sweetheart Suellen Cochrane ‘66. The next week we left for New England and the Boston area to begin our Air Force career. And what an experience it was as we remain very good friends with many colleagues we met along the way. Major assignments included special duty in Southern California, Washington D.C. and the Pentagon, Andrews AFB in the Maryland suburbs, graduate school at West Virginia University, student and staff duty at Maxwell AFB, Alabama; and we concluded our Air Force Active Duty career with a seven-year stay at Wright Patterson AFB, Ohio. My first assignment was on the faculty and staff at the Air Force Institute of Technology which is a fully accredited graduate school; followed by an assignment as a program manager at the Aeronautical Systems Center of the Air Force Systems Command. Career duties included experience in computer programming and systems analysis; developing, installing, and working with intelligence systems, acquisition and logistics program management, academia, and directorate level management. I retired from active service in 1986 after 20 years and we elected to remain in the Dayton area to educate and rear our children with midwestern values.

Upon retirement from active duty, I accepted a sales executive position with Digital Equipment Corp. in their Federal Systems sector with responsibility for Air Force acquisition and logistics business world wide.

After my tenure with Digital, I opened my own consulting practice representing and assisting companies in their quest to win defense department business. I concluded my professional activities with

Intermec Technologies Corp., a worldwide leader in bar coding technologies, as their Air Force account representative responsible for business worldwide. I effectively “retired” in 2007, but continued to do some part-time consulting for small companies.

In 2008, tired of Ohio winters, we ventured south to Florida for six weeks to try the ‘Snow Bird’ experience. We liked it so well; we tried 3 months in 2009 and concluded the winter season with the purchase of a home in Englewood, Florida, which is just south of Venice and Sarasota on the Gulf of Mexico. We now spend six months in Ohio and six months here in Florida.

I might add, the weather here is great and our community is filled with activities for all tastes.

For our Otterbein classmates, many ‘Baby Boomers’ are moving south every month. Try it and you might like it………

Judy Watkinson Snider 364 Bald Cypress Drive Vass, NC 28394

Spouse:

Donald (deceased)

Children:

Chris and Eric

I attended Otterbein 1961-63, then became part of the workforce, working for a dentist. I married and we had our first son, Chris. I re-entered the workforce, filling vacancies, hiring and training replacements for dental offices. I continued my education at Wright State University, and finally, at The Ohio State University.

In 1969, I was hired as a dental assisting instructor at Springfield Clark Vocational School. I remained there for 31 years. I enjoyed my teaching experience very much. I was pleased to have the opportunity to travel with students to many contests through VICA, both within the state and out-of-state. We enjoyed many state winners and a few national winners.

My husband of 43 years, Donald “Duke� Snider and two sons, Chris (married to Jeannette) and Eric (married to Megan), and I shared a wonderful life. We also have two granddaughters.

After retirement, we moved to Vass, North Carolina. It is a beautiful spot with great weather.

In 2013, Duke passed away. I remain in North Carolina and stay busy volunteering for several organizations.

Raymond White 1655 Winchester Southern Road Canal Winchester, OH 43110 614-837-2627 rwhite06@gmail.com

Spouse:

Gail

Children:

Amy, Wendy, Colin

Military Service: Air Force 1966 – 1992 (26 Years - 7 years overseas) Aviation History: Command Pilot, 12 years 6 months, 4200 hours, (combat 890 hours Vietnam) Education: BS Mathematics, Otterbein College 1965; MS in Management University of Arkansas 1973, Defense Institute for Security Assistance Management 1984, Air War College 1982, Air Command and Staff College 1979, Squadron Officers School 1975.

Professional: Military Officers Association of America, life member; Air Force Association, life member; Daedalians, American Legion.

Awards: Legion of Merit 1992, Joint Services Medal 1985, Meritorious Service Medal 1981.

OLC 1984, AF Commendation Medal 1976, Air Medal, three OLC 1968.

Assignments: Director of Reliability Chief, Aeromechanical & Electronics Division AF Logistics TAFT Cmdr Chief, Avionics Plans & Policy Division Asst Chief Wing Training Minuteman Missile Reliability Engineering Mgr Airlift Controller HQ USAFE Chief, Aircrew Standardization Base Operations & Training Officer

Rome Laboratory, Rome, NY HQ Air Force Logistics Command, WPAFB OH American Embassy, Khartoum Sudan AF Acquisition Logistics Division, WPAFB Charleston AFB, SC Ogden Air Logistics Center, UT

1967-1968

Squadron Pilot

Cam Rahn Bay, Republic of Vietnam

1966-1967

Student Pilot

Reese AF, Lubbock TX

1987-1992 1985-1987 1984-1985 1981-1984 1976-1981 1973-1976

1973 1970-1973 1968-1970

HQ USAFE, Ramstein, Germany 7th Special Operations Squadron Ramstein, Germany 10th Tactical Reconnaissance Wing RAF Alconbury, England

Instead of the boring details of how much in dollars and responsibility that came with positions held, our nation was served with pride. A military career is fraught with many highs, lows and challenges. In the Air Force, one bad annual appraisal can end a career. No second chances.

I flew several of the best aircraft ever built. As the poem High Flight states, I did slip “the surly bonds of Earth” and have been literally around the world. Supporting the Green Berets in Vietnam especially during Tet in 1968 was both challenging and rewarding. I would relate Special Operations missions but then I’d have to hunt you down or leave the country. Actually, I have lots of stories to tell. The staff work was all analyzing, writing and gaining agreements or enforcing standards on those flaunting them. All was done to make our aircraft safer and better with the armament ready and dependable. Otterbein provided the analyzing skills (math department) and writing skills (English department) to hold my own in the never-ending briefings and conferences. There is much I would do differently, but I would do it again.

Honor those serving in your military. They endure hardships that go beyond easy explanation.

Fortunately, today the country is more aware than when, on return from Vietnam, I was called a baby killer and spit at. Thankfully times have changed. Retirement also brings change.

Clinton, New York was home after the Air Force. Time was spent as chairman of the Village Planning Board, writing a zoning law, president of the Kiwanis Club then Lt. Governor of the Central Division recognized by a Hixson Award. A small business was formed to support an Air Force contract. Adirondack travel, skiing and hockey filled leisure time. Returned to Ohio in 2003.

Live life to the fullest, tomorrow is not guaranteed.

Raymond

New Aircraft Commanders, Vietnam

With George Bush, Khartoum Sudan

J. Mills Williams 18904 Old Baltimore Road Brookeville, MD 20833 301-570-0518/301-275-7787(cell) 301-570-3421(business)

Spouse:

Ann Louise Williams

Children:

Kirsten Louise Williams and Joseph Mills Williams III

I had completed my major at Otterbein by the end of my junior year, so Dr. Laubach suggested a year abroad. I spent my senior year at the Institute for European Studies in Vienna, Austria, returning in September after working during the summer of 1965 at a manufacturing company in the Austrian Alps. My studies at IES included German and history/government. Upon returning to the U.S., I began law school at the University of Iowa where I earned a J.D. I married my wife the day after we graduated. She is a medical technologist, and we remained in Iowa until June before taking a honeymoon in Europe. While in Iowa, I worked as a law clerk for a Justice of the Iowa Supreme Court.

We then moved to Philadelphia where I matriculated at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania and earned a M.B.A. degree. After graduation, we took another couple of months in Scandinavia and England. I then began work in the law department of Cummins Engine Company in Columbus, Indiana. Our daughter was born shortly thereafter. Cummins transferred me to their Swiss bank as an investment analyst in Geneva, Switzerland, but Cummins decided that converting an investment bank into a commercial bank was not practical, so I was transferred back to Columbus. We purchased a house and I settled into being a pension legal expert. Six years later I took a position as the in-house counsel and secretary for Jenn-Air Corporation in Indianapolis. Our son was born while we lived in Indianapolis. This was followed by a short stint with Inland Container Corporation, also in Indianapolis.

My next position was in a small high-tech company, Alpha Industries, in Woburn, Massachusetts, where I was both a lawyer and security officer for DOD information. I then joined the law department of Royal Insurance Company in Charlotte, North Carolina. When that law department was abolished, I sought a position in the Legal Division at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System in Washington, D.C. I retired after sixteen years in 2008, joined the D.C. Bar and began doing work as an attorney and business consultant for our church, The National Presbyterian Church, a position that I currently hold.

Upon moving to the D.C. area in 1994, my wife obtained a position at the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute at the National Institutes of Health, a position that she currently holds helping researchers with experiments using laser flow cytometers.

We have not returned to Europe since we returned from Geneva in 1993; however, we did travel to Malawi and Zambia when our son was in the Peace Corps. We have taken many

trips to Iowa to visit my wife’s relatives, and to attend law school reunions and Iowa Hawkeye football games. We also travel often in the summer to Maine to spend time at our cottage in Boothbay on the ocean. We also have traveled to Florida and Charlotte, North Carolina, to visit our daughter.

I enjoyed singing in the glee clubs at my prep school, and in the Men’s Glee Club at Otterbein.

When we lived in Indianapolis, I sang in the choir at Second Presbyterian Church, and I now sing in the Sanctuary and Festival choirs at National Presbyterian Church. I have served on the board of directors, and as vice president, of our homeowners association for nearly twenty years. I also taught business law and American history through a community college work program, and judged moot court competitions for U.S. and foreign law students.

I am proud that my undergraduate degree is from such a fine college as Otterbein that prepared me for graduate studies and a career that I found both challenging and interesting.

Darlene Yarian Lantz 106 Canterbury Drive Wilmington, DE 19803 (302) 478-8419 dylantz@verizon.net

Children:

Laura (1968), John (1970) and Karen (1976)

Grandchildren:

Sam (19), Jenifer (16), Timothy (15), Matthew (13), Ethan (12), Zachary (2 1/2) and Alice (14 months)

My career after college meandered for a while. Following a short stint as an English teacher for middle and high school students, for several years I taught pre-school while my children were small. Then, after earning an M. Div. degree, I was an associate minister at a downtown United Methodist church for a time.

Finally, I found my calling as a social worker with an M.S.W. degree. Starting with some challenging years as a child protective caseworker, I ended with many rewarding years as a foster care administrator with responsibility for training and supporting foster parents.

I was divorced in 2002 after a 37-year marriage---lots of good memories, especially of family times, and some not-so-good ones, too.

Now, I am loving retirement with more time to spend with children and grandchildren in Virginia and Michigan. And, finally, I get to be the nearby grandma to Delaware grandchildren.

The great joy of my life is taking care of Zach (2 ½) and Alice (14 months) while their mother is an attorney for the Democrats in the Delaware House. I am the official babysitter on the days the legislature is in session (three days a week for six months a year - Delaware is small!).

But, on almost any other weekday we are off to the Natural History Museum, Longwood Gardens, a nearby farm or a favorite playground.

I am also grateful for more time with siblings and friends. My sisters and I enjoy time together often and our annual Christmas in July weekend with the whole clan at a 4-H Center in Virginia. Friends and I have season tickets for the amazing Philadelphia Orchestra. My neighborhood has come to feel like a close-knit community, especially after we formed a book club that meets monthly. I volunteer as an educational surrogate parent (for a couple years I trained educational surrogates). And...I appreciate my membership at First Unitarian Church of Wilmington.

Preface The 1960’s were a time of challenge and change. The cold war between the United States and Russia would have dominated the headlines were it not for the undeclared war in Vietnam. The draft was instituted and numbers were drawn to fill the ranks of the military for the Vietnam conflict. Protest to the war grew daily which was evidenced by the burning of draft cards and all was recorded by the music of many singers and groups.

Air Force ROTC was in place at Denison, Ohio Wesleyan, and Otterbein. Supported by

the administration, the Otterbein Detachment was led by Major Comstock. Activities performed by the ROTC included daily raising and lowering the flag, drill team, rifle team, pep band and the auxiliary, Angel Flight. In addition, there was a Future Wives Club hosted by Mrs. Comstock. Some of us chose ROTC to serve.

Others chose to wait for their draft results or elected to serve in the Army, Navy, Marines, Air Force or the Reserves. Regardless, the class of 1965 knew what was asked and the need to serve the nation’s calling. We met the call to duty.

In many ways, Vietnam defined our generation. Military service was not popular nor well received. Vietnam returnees were often met with derision and open hostility.

Those who served did so knowing this.

It can be said, “All gave some, but some gave all”. In closing, we honor with reverence those who perished in combat. Our classmate, Roger Vickers died in combat January 25, 1969, while serving in the 9th Infantry Division in Vietnam. Other classmates who served and are now deceased are Gordon Cook, Wayne Moomjian and Douglas Topping. We honor their commitment, service and sacrifice.

Raymond White Colonel, USAF (ret)

The following men were members of AFROTC during their years at Otterbein: Mr. R. Gerald Cleaver Lt. Col. Douglas R. Houser Mr. Robert R. Kintigh Maj. William A. Ottewill Mr. W. Dow Ruch Col. Charles “Gus” Shackson Mr. Daniel C. Stone Maj. Douglas C. Topping

Col. Gordon L. Cook Mr. William D. Hunter Mr. Robert A. Meyer Mr. Harry G. Peat Lt.. Col. William E. Rush Col. Robert O. Shapiro Maj. James H. Stott Mr. James H. Walsh Col. Raymond C. White

Mr. Arthur J. Deeks Capt. Stephen Kennedy Lt. Col. Vasken W. Moomjian Mr. Richard E. Reynolds Col. David R. Samson Maj. Robert E. Spory Lt. Col. Ralph W. Swick, Jr. Mr. Jerry L. Wassem

The following women were members of Angel Flight during their years at Otterbein: Ms. Constance Thomas Augenstein Mrs. Kay Newhouse Bauer Mrs. Cynthia Vokes Brand Mrs. Heidi Haberman Cross Mrs. Heidimarie Olbrich Dewey Ms. Carol McGee Duchamp Mrs. Mary Hull Earles Mrs. Joyce Curmode Fastow Mrs. Lydia Steinmetz Hershey Mrs. Judith Eckner Kintigh Mrs. Shawnee Geeting Klein Ms. Suzan Kaye Lang Mrs. Beverly Miller Wince

A Summary of Classmates’ Service Al Hood U. S. Navy Signal officer and communications/cryptographics officer Captain Stephen Kennedy U. S. Air Force After graduating, I was sent to Otis AFB for summer camp and commissioning. I was assigned to Homestead AFB. After lots of computer training, I became a supply officer in charge of the base computer. Four great years 1965-1969. Got my Captain’s bars and got out. I was accepted by the FBI as a Special Agent, where I spent 28 years.

Jerry Michael Indiana and Ohio National Guard Thomas Mignerey U. S. Navy Doctor Harry Peat U. S. Air Force Meteorologist, Pine Castle AFB, Orlando, FL Sondrestrom, Greenland Omaha, NE, Air Force Global Weather Central forecasting especially for Southeast Asia Chanute AFB, Rantoul, IL instructor in the weather school and branch chief of the Electronics Principles Branch Dick Reynolds U. S. Air Force Custer AFB Personnel Services Officer Phu Cat AFB, Vietnam Base Athletic/Recreation Director, Personnel Services Officer Richards Gebaur AFB, Kansas City, MO

Colonel David Samson U. S. Air Force Lackland AFB various personnel, training and tactical positions Phan Rang AFB RVN Upper Heyford AB England Ramstein AB Germany Offutt AFB Nebraska Warren AFB Wyoming March AFB California Vandenberg AFB California Roger Vickers U. S. Army Fort Benning, Georgia for Officer’s Candidate School Ford Ord, California, Trainer 9th Infantry Division, South Vietnam, killed in action, Jan. 25, 1969 Earned the Distinguished Service Cross, posthumously Corporal Ronald B. Waters U. S. Air Force From 1955 to 1961, I served in the U.S. Air Force, Strategic Air Command, 8th reconnaissance technical squadron, Westover AFB,MA, in intelligence with top secret clearance. It was after my service that I enrolled and graduated from Otterbein.

Colonel (Dr.) Howard Biddle, (Ret.) USAF, DC DDS, MA, FACD, FICD, FADI, FACD

4870 E. Calle Barril Tucson, AZ 85718

During my Otterbein College days, I was enrolled in the Air Force ROTC unit. I liked this experience and thought of an Air Force career, but was compelled to pursue my desire for a career in dentistry. Little did I know at that time that I was going to accomplish both. I was accepted to The Ohio State University College of Dentistry, completed all requirements and graduated in the spring of 1969. in the fall of 1969, with the Vietnam conflict ablaze, I entered active duty as a dental officer with the United States Air Force Dental Corps.

My intention was to serve two years and return to Westerville and enter into a private dental practice. This did not happen as I had thought. I retired from active duty in October 1997 with 28 years active service.

My first assignment was to Blytheville AFB, AR, and was quickly followed by duty at Kunsan Air Base, Republic of South Korea. These assignments were followed by moves to Incirlik Common Defense Installation, Adana, Turkey; Gunter Air Force Station, Montgomery, AL; HQ USAF/SG Washington, D.C. and Bolling AFB. After my staff officer duty for the Air Force Surgeon General was completed, Williams AFB, Mesa, AZ, was my next assignment followed by moves to Sheppard AFB, Wichita Falls, TX; Elmendorf AFB, Anchorage, AK; Offutt AFB, Omaha, NC; Hickam AFB, Honolulu, HI; and I completed my career at WrightPatterson AFB, Dayton, OH. During my career, I completed Squadron Officers School, the Industrial College of the Armed Forces, the Air Command and Staff College and the Air War College. Also, I completed a M.A. program in health administration from Central Michigan University. These were in addition to hundreds of hours of continuing dental education and programs.

Other highlights of my career include: Clinical instructor, Dept. of Periodontics, College of Dentistry Early promotions to Lt. Col and Col First dental officer to command the School of Health Care Sciences, USAF Command Dental Surgeon for the Alaskan Air Command, the Pacific Forces Command and the Air Force Material Command Adjunct professor, the Midwestern University, Wichita Falls, TX Graduate of the Interagency Institute for Health Care Executives

Served as vice president, then National Trustee of Region 17 of the Academy of General Dentistry representing all service members from the Federal Services— Air Force, Army, Navy, Dept. of Veterans Affairs and the U.S. Public Health Officers Licensed dentist: Ohio (inactive) and Arizona (retired) Member, Federal Health Care Resource Sharing Committee, Health Care Information Systems Subcommittee Decorations, Medals, Badges and Ribbons: Legion of Merit with one device Meritorious Service Medal with five devices Air Force Commendation Medal National Defense Service Medal with one device Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal Republic of Vietnam Gallantry Cross with device Air Force Training Ribbon Air Force Overseas Short Tour Ribbon with one device Air Force Overseas Long Tour Ribbon with one device Air Force Longevity Award with six devices Small Arms Expert Marksman Ribbon/Pistol Air Force Outstanding Unit Award with five devices Air Force Organizational Excellence Award with two devices Commanders Badge Chief Dental Badge

1LT Howard G. Russell, Jr. 1213 Cambridge Street Natrona Heights, PA 15065 chpcoord@aol.com

Joined Oct. 22, 1965 Basic Training at Fort Gordon, GA. January 1, 1966 entered Officers Candidate School at Fort Knox, KY. I graduated as 2nd Lieutenant on August 13, 1966 From Fort Knox.

September 1, 1966 served as basic training officer, Second Training Brigade at Fort Jackson, SC. July 12, 1967 was deployed to Vietnam to fight in the 11th Armor Cavalry. I was wounded there and received a purple heart. I also received a Unit Commendation medal.

Second part of deployment moved up to 1st Lieutenant and sent to 64th Armor as Civil Affairs Officer at Pleiku. I commanded a platoon to distribute medicines and supplies to the montagnards in the Highlands of Vietnam.

I spent my R&R in Hawaii in March of 1968 with my wife, Kathy.

Returned to Vietnam and finished my deployment and returned to US in July 1968.

Major James H. Stott 9055 Erle Blunden Way Fair Oaks, CA 95628 jcs9055@comcast.net

USAF 1966-1986 (20 years) Viet Nam 1967-68 Pleiku Air Base flying EC-47s 208 missions, 15 out of country Duties: Air Operations Officer Chief, Operations Plans Division Air Division, Executive Officer Other Items: Master Navigator 5800 flying hours T-29, T-43, EC-47, AC-130, AC-119, RC-135 Flying RC-135s during the Cold War was most interesting, unfortunately can’t post details Awards: Distinguished Flying Cross Meritorious Service Medal with two Oak Leaf Clusters Air Medal with eleven Oak Leaf Clusters Commendation Medal with four Oak Leaf Clusters Master Instructor-Air Training Command

Lt. Colonel David Stricker 12000Turnmeyer Dr. Apt. 1102 Huntsville, AL 35803 ddavstr@hotmail.com

I started at Otterbein in the fall of 1958. Not sure where I was going in life. I dropped out and joined the Army in 1962. I served three years as a medic. I returned to Otterbein in the fall of 1964 to graduate the spring of 1965. I then went to seminary at Philadelphia Divinity School and graduated with an M.Div. in 1968.

I was ordained that year as an Episcopal priest and served two churches in the Diocese of Pittsburgh. After seven years, I accepted a call to a rural ministry in Delaware. I was recruited and commissioned as a chaplain in the Delaware Guard in 1975. I accepted a call to serve a three year tour as active duty Army in 1982.

I was first assigned to Ft. Rucker, Alabama; I loved it as did my wife Gaye Rowswell Stricker and our three children. We then changed to regular Army serving an extended tour. We served in Bamberg, Germany, attended Command and General Staff College at Ft. Levenworth then on to the First Division at Ft. Riley. I deployed with them to Desert Storm.

In 1992, I was called to the Military Academy at West Point for five years. Then assigned to 7th ATC in Germany. My last assignment was Ft. Jackson, SC. I retired from the Army the summer of 2001 as Chaplain LTC and returned to parish ministry in Dillon, SC. I retired again in 2007 due to my wife's health. She died in 2014.

Awards and decorations include Legion of Merit, Bronze Star, Msm (5), ARCOM, plus.

Selected Veteran of the Year in Dillon County, SC, 2007.

I am still serving as a volunteer clergy at a local church in Huntsville, AL.

Colonel Raymond White 1655 Winchester Southern Rd Canal Winchester, Ohio 43110 (614) 837-2627 rwhite06@gmail.com

Spouse: Gail Children: Amy, Wendy, Colin Military Service: Air Force 1966 – 1992 (26 Years - 7 years overseas) Aviation History: Command Pilot, 12 years 6 months, 4200 hours, (combat 890 hours Vietnam) Education: BS Mathematics, Otterbein College 1965; MS in Management University of Arkansas 1973, Defense Institute for Security Assistance Management 1984, Air War College 1982, Air Command and Staff College 1979, Squadron Officers School 1975.

Professional: Military Officers Association of America, life member; Air Force Association, life member; Daedalians, American Legion.

Awards: Legion of Merit 1992, Joint Services Medal 1985, Meritorious Service Medal 1981.

OLC 1984, AF Commendation Medal 1976, Air Medal, three OLC 1968.

Assignments: 1987-1992

Director of Reliability

Rome Laboratory, Rome, NY

1985-1987

Chief, Aeromechanical & Electronics Division

HQ Air Force Logistics Command, WPAFB OH

1984-1985

AF Logistics TAFT Cmdr

American Embassy, Khartoum Sudan

1981-1984

Chief, Avionics Plans & Policy Division

AF Acquisition Logistics Division, WPAFB

1976-1981

Asst Chief Wing Training

Charleston AFB, SC

1973-1976

Minuteman Missile Ogden Air Logistics Center, UT Reliability Engineering Mgr

1973

Airlift Controller HQ USAFE

HQ USAFE, Ramstein, Germany

1973

Airlift Controller HQ USAFE

HQ USAFE, Ramstein, Germany

1970-1973

Chief, Aircrew Standardization

7th Special Operations Squadron Ramstein, Germany

1968-1970

Base Operations & Training Officer

10th Tactical Reconnaissance Wing RAF Alconbury, England

1967-1968

Squadron Pilot

Cam Rahn Bay, Republic of Vietnam

1966-1967

Student Pilot

Reese AF, Lubbock TX

Instead of the boring details of how much in dollars and responsibility that came with positions held, our nation was served with pride and honor. A military career is fraught with many highs, lows and challenges. In the Air Force, one bad annual appraisal can end a career. No second chances.

I flew several of the best aircraft ever built. As the poem High Flight states, I did slip the surly bonds of earth and have been literally around the world. Supporting the Green Berets in Vietnam especially during Tet in 1968 was both challenging and rewarding. I would relate Special Operations missions but then I’d have to hunt you down or leave the country. It was fun and scary. Actually, I have lots of stories to tell but don’t want to bore you. The staff work was all analyzing, writing and gaining agreements or enforcing standards on those flaunting them.

All was done to make our aircraft safer and better with the armament ready and dependable.

Otterbein provided the analyzing skills (Math department) and writing skills (English department) to hold my own in the never-ending briefings and conferences. There is much I’d do differently but I’d do it again.

Honor those serving in your military. They endure hardships that go beyond easy explanation.

Fortunately, today the country is more aware than when, on return from Vietnam, I was called a baby killer and spit at. Thankfully times have changed.

It was an honor to serve you and the country.

New Aircraft Commanders, Vietnam

With George Bush, Khartoum, Sudan

Memory Book Acknowledgements The Class of 1965 Golden Reunion Planning Committee

Seated Left to Right:

Suzan Lang, Judy James Weaver, Jeanne Jacobs Fodor, Arlene Buckley Swihart, Marge Lloyd Trent

Standing Left to Right:

Joaline Crow Mathias, Jane Schoepke Stolzenburg, Linda Gillespie Morris, Judy Buckle Airhart, Richard Reynolds, Porter Miller, Raymond White

Missing from photo:

Vera Garrabrant Hall, Rev. Charles Olson, Marjorie Lengyel Olson, J. Mills Williams

Many thanks go out to the following people, for without them, these memories would not be captured.

Becky Fickel Smith `81 Executive Director of Alumni Relations

Laurie Draper Administrative Assistant Office of Alumni Relations

Candace Brady

Stephen Grinch `98

Director of Development for Planned Giving

University Archivist

Lucy Henderson Cryan `86 Executive Director, Organizational Planning and Events

Becky Hill May `78 Memory Book Editor

Roger Routson Director of Publications

Otterbein Love Song Words by Celia Ihrig Grabill `1900 • Music by Glenn Grant Grabill `1900

In a quiet peaceful village, There’s one we love so true; She ever gives a welcome To her friends both old and new.

She stands serene ‘mid tree-tops green, She’s our dear Otterbein.

Chorus: Old Otterbein, our college, We sing of thee today; Our mem’ries ‘round thee linger In a sweet and mystic way.

O, Otterbein, we love thee!

Our hearts are only thine; We pledge anew, we will be true,

Dear Otterbein.